Spanning video, sculpture, drawing, writing, performance, and the podcast 1-800-POWERS, Lex Brown’s incisive artworks confront pressing social conditions of our time, from gentrification and greenwashing to police violence, but do so through an irreverent and...
Rodrigo Valenzuela and The Print Center Philadelphia
The Print Center Philadelphia will host a solo exhibition of newly commissioned and recent two- and three-dimensional work by the Chilean-born, Los Angeles-based artist Rodrigo Valenzuela. Centered around his past experience as a construction day laborer, the works...
Baseera Khan and Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
For their first solo exhibition in the Midwest, Texas-born artist Baseera Khan will present new and recent collages, sculptures, and video that raise questions about the commoditization of identity, privacy, and intimacy. The exhibition includes a major new...
Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio and Art Omi
Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio examines local histories of materials linked to pre-Hispanic cultures in Central America, particularly his family’s homeland of El Salvador. Tracing the cultural and technological knowledge embedded in historical uses of rubber, amber, and clay,...
Aziz Hazara and Smack Mellon
Smack Mellon will present Aziz Hazara’s first major solo exhibition in NYC, It’s Only Sound That Remains, curated by Muheb Esmat. Bringing together two large-scale video installations by the artist, the exhibition explores sound as a powerful repository for memory,...
Eric-Paul Riege and Prospect New Orleans
For Prospect.5, Eric-Paul Riege will show a 20x20’ installation of weavings, regalia, oversized beads, and a new body of sculpture he has developed for this presentation. The entire installation hangs from the ceiling, hovering just above the ground. The sculptures...
Martine Gutierrez and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
Martine Gutierrez produces elaborate, pop-culture-based, narrative scenes exploring the nuances of identity in terms of race, gender, and indigeneity. Using a variety of media that melds dance, photography, video, set, and costume design, Gutierrez plays all roles in...
Tony Bingham and Alabama Contemporary Art Center
In conjunction with the Alabama Contemporary Art Center (ACAC), Tony Bingham's project will focus on engaging the people of Africa Town and the surrounding Mobile Bay community to reflect on its heritage through sculpture, photography, oral history, and animation...
Lydia Ourahmane and SculptureCenter
Lydia Ourahmane’s work often initiates large, open-ended propositions that obliquely register the longings and limitations incited by colonial occupation, civil war, and the paradoxes of belief. For her first institutional solo exhibition in New York, Ourahmane and a...
Didier William and MOCA North Miami
Didier William's sculptures build on the themes and style of his paintings, which incorporate elements of printmaking, low-relief sculpture, and collage. Born in Port-au-Prince and raised in North Miami, William’s work is packed with symbolism from Haitian culture and...
Rindon Johnson and Sculpture Center
Berlin-based artist Rindon Johnson’s work cuts through the membrane of assumed realities and shows how the virtual and actual are always and increasingly integrated. Law of Large Numbers: Our Bodies, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition, features newly...
Ronny Quevedo and University Art Museum, State University at New York, University at Albany
Multi-media artist Ronny Quevedo will create a major site-specific commission addressing his bicultural upbringing and effects of relocation and displacement on groups and individuals. Emigrating from Ecuador to New York City as a child, Quevedo...
Cosmo Whyte and Prospect New Orleans
For Prospect.5, Cosmo Whyte will create five new large-scale charcoal drawings and a hand painted bead curtain, interrogating the Western gaze on Black performativity and spectacle. The drawings, based on the artist’s personal as well as archival images of dance,...
Cannupa Hanska Luger and SITE Santa Fe
At Site Santa Fe, Cannupa Hanska Luger will present “Future Ancestral Technologies” (FAT), an immersive mixed-media installation that articulates a futuristic science-fiction narrative in which human migration is essential for survival. FAT utilizes science fiction...
Athena LaTocha and BRIC
Athena LaTocha’s practice is rooted in her native heritage; it involves abandoning manufactured materials rooted in Western culture in favor of paint brushes made from branches or shredded tires, and pigments devised from organic substances. As an Indigenous American...
Harold Mendez and Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA)
Working between sculpture and photography, Harold Mendez explores the tension between fiction and truth, with an interest in how constructions of history shape our sense of reality and self. A first-generation American of Mexican-Columbian descent, his work often...
Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere and UNO St. Claude Gallery, University of New Orleans
Brooklyn-based collaborators, Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere's project will harness the musical talents of the residents of New Orleans Musicians’ Village—a 2006 housing initiative in the 9th Ward which provided financial assistance to bring musicians back to New...
Raven Chacon
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
Raven Chacon is a composer, performer and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. He will be the first Artist-in-Residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in its new track dedicated to the field of sound art, experimental music, and music...
Aimée Siegel
The Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans
With a practice that began in sculpture and evolved into collage on canvas, Aimée Siegel sustains a sensitivity to depth and dimensionality, particularly to the viewer’s phenomenological relationship to the work. Seigel’s new work will be presented at The Contemporary...
Diamond Stingily
Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Chicago-born, New York-based artist and poet Diamond Stingily’s work considers issues regarding racial and gender identity, as seen through the lens of her own life, family, and childhood memories. Working with objects and images from her immediate surroundings, such...
Mike Cloud and Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
Evolving a unique painterly language that often comprises a mash-up of cutout photographs, thick paint, and handmade patchwork, Brooklyn-based Mike Cloud’s work challenges notions of abstraction in art. For this exhibition, Cloud will create large-scale,...
Mauricio Edgardo Esquivel
Virgin Studio at La Casa Tomada
Brooklyn-based Mauricio Edgardo Esquivel in collaboration with Virgin Studio at La Casa Tomada will present a temporary site-specific installation at Marte Museum in San Salvador, El Salvador as part of Marte Contemporáneo. Esquivel has studied the US-Mexico border...
B. Wurtz and Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
B. Wurtz’s new work in his first U.S. museum survey will reflect the artist's cumulative approach to production. While increasingly experimental with materials, he is consistent in his exploration of marking time, place, and subjectivity through everyday activities....
Raphael Montañez Ortiz and LAXART
Harpo Foundation is pleased to provide project support for an exhibition of historical works—sculpture, film, and video—and a new performance by Raphael Montanez Ortiz (b. New York, 1934). The exhibition will revisit the artist’s dynamic practice—which is drawn from...
Fritzia Irízar and Headlands Center for the Arts
Harpo Foundation is pleased to provide support for the residency of Mexico City-based artist Fritzia Irízar , who looks at the emotional, economic, and cultural values assumed by objects, interrogating the systems that propagate, authenticate, and sustain such...
Abigail DeVille and Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
Harpo Foundation is pleased to provide project support for a new site-responsive installation by Abigail DeVille that will premiere as part of "Urban Planning: Contemporary Art and the City 1966–2017," a group exhibition organized by Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis...
Park McArthur and Chisenhale Gallery
Harpo Foundation is pleased to provide project support for a new commission by Park McArthur that will premiere at Chisenhale Gallery as part of the artist's first solo exhibition in the U.K. Working in sculpture, sound and text, Ms. McArthur addresses the formal and...
Ibrahim Mahama Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University
Harpo Foundation is pleased to provide project support for an ambitious new site-specific installation by Ibrahim Mahama, entitled "Post No Bill," at the Broad MSU. This presentation will be Mahama’s first major work in a US museum. In his home country of Ghana, the...
Chris Larson and the Walker Art Center
Harpo Foundation is pleased to provide project support for a new video installation by Chris Larson at the Walker Art Center's Medtronic Gallery in 2016. Chris Larson creates ambitious sculptural installations and films with unique narrative structures, often in...
Silvia Gruner and The Americas Society
Harpo Foundation is pleased to provide project support toward the production of a new video work by Silvia Gruner called 'Hemisphere.' This two-channel video will premiere at The Americas Society in conjunction with the exhibition, “Hemispheres: A Labyrinth Sketchbook...
Julie Schenkelberg and The Mattress Factory
Harpo Foundation is pleased to provide project support for a residency and exhibition by Julie Schenkelberg at The Mattress Factory. Born and raised in Cleveland, Julie Schenkelberg states that she learned about the beauty of objects and buildings by observing her...
M. Lamar and Participant Inc.
Harpo Foundation is pleased to provide project support for “NEGROGOTHIC, a Manifesto" a solo exhibition of video, film stills, and props by artist, countertenor, and composer M. Lamar at Participant Inc.. The centerpiece is a film adapted from Lamar’s music theater...
Nathaniel Donnett and Contemporary Art Museum Houston
Harpo Foundation is pleased to provide project support for Nathaniel Donnett’s “Nothing to See Hear” for Contemporary Art Museum Houston’s exhibition “Right Here, Right Now: Houston." “Nothing to See Hear” is an investigation into how sound and light can create a...
Nora Schultz and The Renaissance Society
Harpo Foundation is pleased to provide project support for an exhibition by Nora Schultz at The Renaissance Society. Nora Schultz produces sculptural arrangements that double as analog printing studios. Her primary materials are discarded objects scavenged from around...
Dawn Kasper and Cannonball Miami
Harpo Foundation will help support Dawn Kasper's 3-month residency at Cannonball Miami in 2014. During her time in Miami, Ms. Kasper plans to transform her live/work environment into an evolving sculptural space that is open to the public and reflective of her time,...
Jim Skuldt & New York Foundation for the Arts
Inspired by a fusion of standardized quarters seen in deployable tactical shelters, luxury cruise ship environments and the Hotel Corbusier, Jim Skuldt plans to construct a lodging unit from a standard shipping container in order to transport himself internationally...
Wandering Mill & Retextil Foundation
Wandering Mill is a Hungarian art collective that creates experimental works directly with community members using artistic methods that improve communication, change attitudes, and help solve social problems. Harpo will support a new performance and direct community...
Peter Sutherland & Printed Matter
Harpo funding is supporting a new artist book by Peter Sutherland. Printed Matter is working with the artist on the publication, which will be a physical aggregation of all of the artist's posts to his Tumblr Blog. Beginning in October 2009,...
Jillian Mayer & Locust Projects
Harpo Foundation is providing support for Jillian Mayer’s performance and exhibition 'We Are Talking' at Locust Projects. A sound stage for a televised talk show will be installed inside the gallery, creating a set for the artist to perform the role of host to gallery...
Markus Kåhre & Liverpool Biennial
Harpo funding will be used to support a new commission by Markus Kåhre for the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art. Kåhre will transform the first floor of a 1746 public house into a site-specific installation that will reference the communal linguistic root of...
Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford & Hyde Park Art Center
Harpo Foundation is supporting Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford's residency and exhibition opportunity at Hyde Park Art Center, where the artist will develop and present the project, “Hall of Khan,” a large-scale multi-media installation that will address the human...
Jose Antonio Vega Macotela & The Rubin Center
Harpo funds will help support the research and production of a new piece called 'The Equivalence of Silver' by Jose Antonio Vega-Macotela and an exhibition of this new work and other recent time-based work by the artist at The University of Texas at El Paso Gerald and...
Emma Wilcox and The Print Center
Emma Wilcox will use Harpo support for Where it Falls, a residency, exhibition and publication project at The Print Center that will expand on the artist's roof-top interjections of large-scale, text-based work. These interjections reach unexpected viewers on Google...
Jeffrey Gibson and Participant Inc.
Harpo Foundation is pleased to have provided support for Jeffrey Gibson's solo exhibition, "one becomes the other," at PARTICIPANT INC (February 19 - March 25, 2012). The exhibition was comprised of sculpture and video work that utilizes the 1941 MoMA exhibition,...
Ali Momeni and Elsewhere Collaborative
Ali Momeni will use Harpo funding to design and advance real-time technologies for Elsewhere, a living museum. Applied media for in-process storytelling and archiving will enable virtual communication between on-site artists and participants. ...
Romy Achituv and Arteam Interdisciplinary Art
Harpo provided funding to support Romy Achituv and Arteam's development of The Garden Library Database Visualization Project . The Garden Library is an outdoor, open-air library, located in a public park in the center of Tel Aviv. Established in 2009 to serve the...
Deborah Stratman and Images Festival
Harpo is pleased to have provided support for Deborah Stratman's Tactical Uses of a Belief in the Unseen (2), an exhibition that was presented by Mercer Union in collaboration with the 25th Images Festival in Toronto (April 14 - May 19, 2012). [gallery link="file"...
Bundith Phunsombatlert and NY Foundation for the Arts
Bundith Phunsombatlert will use Harpo support to develop his project, T|r|a|n|s|t|r|a|c|k, a sound installation that combines the metaphorical meanings and functions of trains and sound tracks as well as the concept of transformative space in telling the stories of...
Will Wilson and Earth Care International
Will Wilson is using Harpo funds to support his ongoing project, "Auto Immune Response Laboratory," which presents and promotes the cultivation of physical and social ecologies related to Indigenous food species of the US Southwest. For more...
Stephanie Rothenberg and 516 Arts
Stephanie Rothenberg will use Harpo fundsto support, LAPUTA, INC.: THE SECRET OF ETERNAL LEVITATION, an installation and workshop created for ISEA2012, taking place at 516 ARTS in September 2012 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. "Laputa, Inc." is a mixed reality, public art...
Aram Bartholl and Museum of the Moving Image
Harpo Foundation is pleased to support "DVD Dead Drop," a project that will turn the Museum of the Moving Image into a free digital vending machine. Visitors will insert a blank disc into a slot embedded in the surface of the Museum building and receive a surprise...
Mary Mattingly and Eyebeam Atelier
Mary Mattingly is using Harpo funding to develop her current project, "Flock House," which mimics the pattern and shape of current global human migration. Intended as a series of houses, "Flock House" living systems will be completely movable and constructed of...
Deborah Brevoort and Virginia Stage Company
Typically, the foundation supports visual artists but Deborah Brevoort's play, The Comfort Team, created as part of Virginia Stage Company's American Soil Series, was such a good fit with the foundation's thematic focus in 2011, an exception was made. Premiering in...
Theaster Gates and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
Theaster Gates and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts have applied Harpo's support toward the planning and early development phases of the Town Hall project, an expansive effort to develop a new cultural infrastructure in North Omaha, Nebraska. Omaha is a segregated...
Swoon and The Transformazium
Harpo Foundation is pleased to support The Transformazium, an art installation and participatory community space in a once-abandoned church building in Braddock, Pennsylvania. Its purpose is to value and activate local relationships, ideas and resources in a...
Nick Tobier and Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit
Nick Tobier in conjunction with Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit is applying Harpo funding to develop New News Detroit , a mobile kiosk that provides a local beacon with a global reach through workshops that provoke and disseminate local observations of the...
Cindy Bernard and Foundation for Artists Resources
Harpo was pleased to support Cindy Bernard's project, The Inquisitive Musician, an adaptation of a 17th century satire attributed to Johann Kuhnau, Bach's predecessor as cantor of Leipzig, Germany. The satire pits itinerant "beer fiddlers" against the official city...
Postcommodity and Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
Harpo Foundation was pleased to support It Wasn't the Dream of Golden Cities, on view August 1, 2010 to January 3, 2011 at The Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA). This series of site-specific installations, exhibition, and related programming was developed by...
Lara Schnitger and Sculpture Center
Harpo Foundation was pleased to support the production of new work by Lara Schnitger, on view at Sculpture Center from September 12 - November 29, 2010. Lara Schnitger's sculptures and installations draw from the polyglot of the contemporary urban landscape,...
Michael Mercil and Stratford Ecological Center
The Virtual Pasture is an "agri/cultural" experiment making relation between a flock of sheep; a small grazing meadow; an outdoor video monitor; a public land-grant university; a non-profit farm and nature preserve, and the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State...
Donna Conlon and Jonathan Harker and TEOR/éTica
Donna Conlon and Jonathan Harker live and work in Panama and have been making collaborative work since 2006. Conlon has a background in science and sculpture and Harker in film and media studies. Their work merges Conlon's use of ordinary objects and investigations of...
Ernesto Oroza and Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
Harpo Foundation funding provided support for a site-specific project by Ernesto Oroza, a Cuban interdisciplinary artist and designer based in Miami whose work focuses on conceptual design and architecture. Ernesto Oroza's project took place at Vizcaya Museum and...
Spectres of Liberty and Franklin Furnace
Spectres of Liberty is an artist collaborative made up of Dara Greenwald, Josh MacPhee and Olivia Robinson. Their hybrid work combines moving images, situated and community practices, and historical research as well as digital animation, video, sculpture, web, text,...
Michel De Broin and The Third of May Arts
Harpo Foundation is pleased to have supported Majestic, a major public sculpture by Michel de Broin, commissioned by The Third of May Arts. This sculpture is a satellite-shaped structure constructed from decommissioned New Orleans street lamps that is illuminated at...
James Benning and A.R.T. Press
Harpo Foundation is pleased to have supported the publication James Benning / Two Cabins, a project-based book that documents, frames, and analyses a body of work that James Benning has been researching and developing for the past three years. Edited by Julie Ault,...
Aldwyth and Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
Aldwyth: Work v. / Work n. Collage and Assemblage 1991- 2009 Presented by Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC October 23, 2009 - January 9, 2010 This exhibition marked the first major retrospective of the collage and...
Alejandro Almanza Pereda and Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
Alejandro Almanza Pereda Ideational Architectures, with Alexandre Arrechea Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA January 28 - April 18, 2010 For more information about the artist, visit here.
David Beattie and Mattress Factory
DAVID BEATTIE: OLD LIGHT, NEW DARKNESS Presented by The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA May 8, 2010 - August 8, 2010 David Beattie assembles sound-based installations from repurposed machines, their parts, and other found objects. By...
J.J. McCracken and Arlington Arts Center
J.J. McCracken Hunger, Philadelphia installation, with live activity Calling attention to need as an under-discussed issue in society, the HUNGER project juxtaposes plenty with quality, immediate gratification with sustainability. Hunger,...
Janelle Iglesias and Vermont Studio Center
Janelle Iglesias Artist-in-residence at Vermont Studio Center May - June 2010 "While I work in a variety of media, my practice has always been grounded in using found and familiar objects. I’m interested in their life span, the...
Jennet Thomas and Matt’s Gallery
Jennet Thomas: All Suffering SOON TO END! Presented by Matt's Gallery, London, U.K. April 14 - June 6, 2010 Comprised of narrative film, sculpture, sound, and performance, Thomas reconstructed the gallery into two interconnecting chambers. The...
Josh Beckman and Machine Project
New Work Project Grant
Josh Beckman's Sea Nymph Presented by Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA September 5 - October 22, 2010 A shipwrecked boat inside the space was host to a series of nautical-themed events, performances, lectures, and workshops. For more...
Kalup Linzy and Art International Radio (A.I.R)
THE KALUP LINZY VARIETY SHOW Presented by Art International Radio (AIR) Hosted by Kalup Linzy. The Kalup Linzy Variety Show features original material by Kalup Linzy based on characters and themes from his video and performance work. The show is hosted by Labisha (the...
Matt Bua and New York Foundation for the Arts
Mat Bua's "Catamount Museum" West Bridge Street in Catskill, New York The Catamount Museum resembles a lounging bobcat. Described as a "people's museum," it celebrates the history of the Catskills and explore the various theories as...
R.H. Quaytman and ICA Boston
R.H Quaytman Presented by the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston (ICA) November 18, 2009 - March 28, 2010 Harpo funding helped support the first solo museum presentation of R.H. Quaytman, a Boston-born/New York-based painter, who...
Sarah Oppenheimer and Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Sarah Oppenheimer Presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego September 26, 2009 - January 31, 2010 As part of the exhibition, Automatic Cities: The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art, which uses notions of...
Stephanie Syjuco and Artadia
Stephanie Syjuco 2010 Summer Artadia Artists-in-Residence Harpo funding provided support toward Stephanie Syjuco's three-month stay in New York at Artadia's partner organization, the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP)...
SuttonBeresCuller and the Henry Art Gallery
SuttonBeresCuller Presented by the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA October 2, 2010 - February 13, 2011 Henry Art Gallery Installation from SuttonBeresCuller on Vimeo. For the Henry Art Gallery, artist collective SuttonBeresCuller created an interactive installation...
Max Goldfarb and free103point9
Deep Cycle Presented by free103point9 Events occurred on June 12 and 13, 2010 in Hudson Valley, NY. Harpo Foundation funding was used to further customize the artist's retrofitted emergency vehicle called Mobile 49 with solar and...
Richie Budd and Artpace San Antonio
Absorbing Liminal Homeostasis November 06, 2008 - January 11, 2009 Artpace San Antonio Richie Budd's installation for Artpace, Absorbing Liminal Homeostasis, is a new chapter in the artist's investigation of heightened sensory...
Jennifer Angus and Newark Museum
Insecta Fantasia November 5, 2008 - June 14, 2009 Newark Museum For Insecta Fantasia, artist Jennifer Angus creates installations composed of thousands of preserved insects pinned directly to the gallery walls in repeating patterns...
Leonardo Drew and Blaffer Art Museum
Existed: Leonardo Drew May 16 - August 15, 2009 Blaffer Art Museum Existed presented sculptures and works on paper created over the last twenty years by New York- and San Antonio-based artist Leonardo Drew. Throughout his career, Drew...
Ann Carlson & Mary Ellen Strom and DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
Carlson/Strom: New Performance Video Jan 24 - May 17, 2009 DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park Choreographer and performer Ann Carlson and video installation artist Mary Ellen Strom draw on the disciplines of dance and video art and public and...
Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler and The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
No Room to Answer: Teresa Hubbard /Alexander Birchler September 14, 2008 - January 4, 2009 Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth The Swiss/American artist duo Teresa Hubbard (born 1965 in Dublin, Ireland) and Alexander Birchler (born 1962...
Tony Martin and free103point9
Wave Farm Light Pendulum, 2009 at free103point9 A founder of art works using light, Tony Martin has, since the 1960's, created seminal new media works. As early as 1968, Howard Wise called his work "cybernetic" for the way he applied...
Jennifer & Kevin McCoy and Headlands Center for the Arts
Residency at Headlands Center for the Arts Sausalito, CA, 2009 Jennifer and Kevin McCoy are a collaborative team working with interactive media, performance and installation. Their work examines the relationships between new technology, mass...
Joshua Mosley and Institute of Contemporary Art, Penn
Dread January 16 - March 29, 2009 Institute of Contemporary Art, Penn Joshua Mosley titled his installation Dread after photographer Eadweard Muybridge's motion study sequences of a dog named Dread. Made over a two-year period,...
Juan Carlos Macias and National Museum of Mexican Art
MILAGROS Y SANTOS DE TODOS LOS DIOS Juan Carlos Macias National Museum of Mexican Art October 19, 2008 - January 9, 2009
Jedediah Caesar, Julio Cesar Morales, Kara Tanaka and Orange County Museum of Art
2008 California Biennial: Three Residencies Jedediah Caesar, Julio Cesar Morales, and Kara Tanaka May 16 - August 15, 2009 Orange County Museum of Art Jedediah Caesar employed his 1992 Toyota pick-up truck to serve as the vessel for...
Walid Raad and RedCat (CalArts)
Scratching on Things I Could Disavow April 10 - June 14, 2009 RedCat (CalArts) In 2007, Walid Raad initiated a research and art project about the history of contemporary and modern art in the Arab world. On the one hand, Raad's...
Tomás Saracenon and Walker Art Center
Tomás Saraceno: Lighter than Air May 14 - August 30, 2009 The Walker Art Center Tomás Saraceno pushes the conventions of art and architecture and their capacities to invoke inventive solutions to complex questions about how we inhabit...
Stephen Hilyard and Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
Stephen Hilyard: The Beautiful Lie, on view at Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, December 1, 2007 - February 17, 2008, presented videos and photographic works to explore the power and reliability of the image in contemporary culture. Works in the exhibition included...
Mike Nelson and Creative Time
In his first major American installation, two-time Turner Prize nominee Mike Nelson transformed the cavernous, derelict Essex Street Market into an epic maze of constructed rooms, passageways and trick doors, in which the visitors’ cautious exploration becomes itself...
Kianga K. Ford and the Contemporary Museum
For her exhibition at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, Kianga Ford created a new audio walking tour called Charm City Remix. Charm City Remix is part of a series of site-specific narratives created by Ford that offer portable audio soundtracks to guide listeners...
Marie Lorenz and Artpace San Antonio
Marie Lorenz's 2007 installation, "Narrative/Memory/Navigation," at Artpace San Antonio was a personal account of her journey in her kayak on the San Antonio River following the River Walk. She recorded her navigation of the river in various forms. Her kayak became...
Rachel Owens and Socrates Sculpture Park
As a recipient of the 2007 Emerging Artist Fellowship from Socrates Sculpture Park, Rachel Owens created Groundswell, a piece that both remembers the site's history as a landfill and illegal dumping grounds as well as addresses larger issues of failed cultural...
Santiago Cucullu and Milwaukee Art Museum
For his Milwaukee Art Museum's On Site commission, titled MF Ziggurat, Santiago Cucullu mined Milwaukee’s cityscape, works of fiction, television, and his imagination to create a large-scale multimedia intervention that included monumental wall drawings, videos, and...
Cristina Lei Rodriguez and Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
Struggling for Grandeur is a site specific sculpture designed for the Tea Room at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in Miami, Florida. The artist spent over one year investigating the history of Vizcaya and was influenced by the aesthetic richness of this baroque mansion....
Jenny Wu & Dwayne Oyler and Materials and Applications (M&A)
An “extreme cantilever” built from aluminum and polypropylene rope was built to hover over the courtyard of Materials & Applications (M&A) in Silver Lake, Los Angeles. Created by Sci-Arc professors Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu, Density Fields...
Phil Collins and Carnegie Museum of Art
Phil Collins presented, The World Won't Listen, from March 31, 2007 - July 2, 2007 at the Carnegie Museum of Art. Filmed on location in Bogota, Colombia, in 2004, and in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2005, this piece offers a series of tragicomic portraits of fans performing...
Trisha Donnelly and Institute of Contemporary Art
For her 2008 solo exhibition at Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art, Trisha Donnelly included twenty-four artworks made between 1998 and 2007. The works on display, which included sculpture, drawing, photographs, text, sound, video, and painting, were closely...
Oleksander Gnilitsky & Lesia Zajac and Outpost for Contemporary Art
Based in Kyiv, Ukraine, Olexander Gnilitsky and Lesja Zajac were Outpost's resident artists for seven weeks from February 18 - April 6, 2008. Gnilitsky incorporates painting, video, poetry, drawing, photography, kinetics, and many other available means and...