AMERICAN ARTIST
Wavelength Lecture Series
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Wavelength is an online lecture series that is a new collaboration between VCUarts, the ICA, and VCUarts Qatar. A dynamic group of artists, designers, curators and scholars have been invited to share their work with the VCU communities in Richmond and Doha as well as the general public throughout the 2020–21 academic year.
Biography
American Artist
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@ivorytower_headass
americanartist.us
AMERICAN ARTIST is an artist whose work considers black labor and visibility within networked life. Their practice makes use of video, installation, new media, and writing.
Artist is a resident at Red Bull Arts Detroit and a 2018–2019 recipient of the Queens Museum Jerome Foundation Fellowship. They are a former resident of EYEBEAM and completed the Whitney Independent Study program as an artist in 2017.
They have exhibited at the Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco; the Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and Koenig & Clinton, New York. Their work has been featured in the New York Times, Artforum, and Huffington Post. They have published writing in The New Inquiry and Art21. A
Artist is a part-time faculty at Parsons The New School and teaches at the School for
Poetic Computation.
Public Programming
Video
AMERICAN ARTIST: A screen recording of a user experiencing "Looted" as it unfolds on the Whitney.org website
AMERICAN ARTIST: 'Blue Life" seminar, 2019
