Saya Woolfalk: Feb 11

66 Fifth Ave. , Kellen Auditorium
Wednesday, February 11, 3:15- 5:15pm

Saya Woolfalk is a New York based artist. She was an Artist-in-Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and completed the Whitney Independent Study Program. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from Brown University. She has exhibited at PS1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center in LIC, NY; the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati and many more. She received an Art Matters grant to Japan, a NYFA grant, a Fulbright Fellowship to Brazil, a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA grant and was a participant at Skowhegan, Yaddo and Sculpture Space. Her current project No Place is a series of short videos with anthropologist/filmmaker Rachel Lears. The name No Place is derived from the English word, “utopia,” coined by Sir Thomas More from the Greek “no” (ou) and “place” (topos). Constructed from household materials, the characters and narratives evoke traveler narratives, science fiction and academic anthropology to rework tropes of sexuality, gender and race.

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