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Faith Wilding
Born1943
Paraguay
NationalityParaguayan American
Known forPerformance art, installation, multimedia art, arts education
Websitehttp://faithwilding.refugia.net/

Faith Wilding is a Paraguayan-American multidisciplinary artist, writer and educator, widely known for her contribution to the progressive development of feminist art.

Personal Life and Education

Faith Wilding was born on a commune in a remote part of Paraguay and emigrated to the United States in 1961.[1][2] She holds a degree in English from the University of Iowa and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Performance/Installation/Feminist Art from California Institute of the Arts.[3]

Career

Wilding first became involved in art making through her participation in the Feminist Art Program Judy Chicago founded at California State University, Fresno, in 1970.[4] Interested in feminist issues and activism, she had little art training prior to her involvement with the Feminist Art Program.[5] When Chicago teamed with fellow artist Miriam Schapiro and moved the Feminist Art Program to Cal Arts in Valencia,CA the following year, Wilding remained in the relocated program as a graduate student.[6] While there, she created work for the month-long, ground-breaking feminist exhibition Womanhouse, held in an empty house in Los Angeles in 1972. Wilding's work Waiting, performed at Womanhouse, was an important contribution to feminist performance.

Wilding's work within the Feminist Art Movement in Southern California is chronicled in her book By Our Own Hands (Los Angeles, 1976). For thirty years, Wilding has exhibited in solo and group shows worldwide, and her work has been widely recognized. Her work addresses the recombinant and distributed bio-tech body in various media including 2-D, video, digital media, installations, and performances.[7] Her work has been exhibited widely, including at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Whitney Museum of Art, and the Drawing Center, all in New York City; in Los Angeles at the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Hammer Museum; the Riverside Art Museum; Ars Electronica Center, Linz; documenta X, Kassel; and The Next Five Minutes Festival, Amsterdam.[8] Her audio work has been commissioned and broadcast by RIAS Berlin; WDR Cologne; and National Public Radio.[9]

Wilding is currently the Associate Professor of Performance, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago since 2002.[10] She has worked as a Research Fellow at the Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University,[11] and a faculty member of the Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art Program at Vermont College, Norwich University.[12] She has received several grants and awards in art, including a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship.[13]

Wilding cofounded and collaborates with subRosa, a reproducible cyberfeminist cell of cultural researchers using BioArt and tactical performance in the public sphere to explore and critique the intersections of information and biotechnologies in women’s bodies, lives, and work.[14] subRosa has performed, exhibited, lectured and published in the USA, Spain, Britain, Holland, Germany, Croatia, Macedonia, Mexico, Canada, Slovenia, and Singapore.[15] Recent Wilding/subRosa performances/exhibitions include: “The Interventionists”, MASSMoCA; “BioDifference” Biennial of Electronic Arts, Perth, Australia; Performance International, Mexico City, and Merida, Yucatan; “Cloning Cultures,” National University, Singapore; Welcome to the Revolution, Zurich; Art of Maintenance, Kunstakademie, Vienna.[16] In 2013, the Women's Caucus for Art announced that Wilding will be a 2014 recipient of the organization's Lifetime Achievement Award.[17]

Publications

  • Domain Errors! Cyberfeminist Practices. Autonomedia, 2003
  • The Power of Feminist Art, Abrams,1995.
  • Knowing Bodies - Feminist issues in health care, medicine, and biotechnology
  • Stolen Rhetoric: The Appropriation of Choice by ART Industries
  • "Where is Feminism in Cyberfeminism?". Neme. 28 March 2006. Retrieved September 18, 2010.; also published as Faith Wilding, 'Where is the Feminism in Cyberfeminism?' n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal vol.2 (1998) pp. 6–13
  • "Monstrous Domesticy". M/E/A/N/I/N/G, #18. November, l995. Retrieved May 31, 2007. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  • Laura Meyer with Faith Wilding, 'Collaboration and Conflict in the Fresno Feminist Art Program: An Experiment in Feminist Pedagogy' n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal vol. 26, July 2010 pp. 40–51
  • subRosa / Faith Wilding 'Bodies Unlimited A decade of subRosa's art practice' vol.28 July 2012 n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal pp. 16–25

References

  1. ^ "Faith Wilding". About Faith Wilding. Retrieved October 31, 2011.
  2. ^ Smith, Beryl; et al. (1996). Lives and Works: Talks with Women Artists, Volume 2. Lanham, MD and London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. ISBN 0-8108-3153-8. {{cite book}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |first= (help)
  3. ^ "Faith Wilding". CV. Retrieved October 31, 2011.
  4. ^ Wilding, Faith (1977). By Our Own Hands. Santa Monica, CA: Double X. p. 10.
  5. ^ Wilding, Faith (1977). By Our Own Hands. Santa Monica, CA: Double X. p. 10.
  6. ^ Wilding, Faith (1977). By Our Own Hands. Santa Monica, CA: Double X. pp. 13, 105.
  7. ^ "Resume". Retrieved 2013-03-07.
  8. ^ "Resume". Retrieved 2013-03-07.
  9. ^ "Faith Wilding". Korepress.org. Retrieved 2010-09-18.
  10. ^ "Resume". Retrieved 2013-03-07.
  11. ^ "New Observations /113: Faith Wilding". Plexus.org. Retrieved 2010-09-18.
  12. ^ "Faith Wilding | Vermont College of Fine Arts". Vermontcollege.edu. Retrieved 2010-09-18.
  13. ^ "Faith Wilding - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Gf.org. Retrieved 2010-09-18.
  14. ^ "Biography". Retrieved 2013-03-07.
  15. ^ "subRosa". Retrieved 2013-03-07.
  16. ^ "kabul reconstructions". accessdate=2013-03-07. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Missing pipe in: |date= (help)
  17. ^ "Women's Caucus for Art". Women's Caucus for Art. Retrieved June 3, 103. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  • Interview with Faith Wilding and Brett Stalbaum from M/E/A/N/I/N/G
  • Waiting
  • Resume Faith Wilding's list of all publications/awards/grants etc.

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