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Hyla Willis is a founding member of subRosa, a feminist art collective.

Career

Willis has exhibited, performed and held workshops in Europe, Asia, Australia and throughout North America. She received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University, her BFA from Cornish College of the Arts and teaches media arts at Robert Morris University. In her work and teaching, Willis uses the cultural and political economies of graphic design, creative experimentation, and acoustic ecology. Along with Faith Wilding, Willis has been a core member of subRosa. While subRosa started with a feminist critique of art and marketing it's performative and transdisciplinary practice has expanded to include biotech and bio-political feminist issues.[1] In 2002, they won a Creative Capital grant in Emerging Fields.[2] In 2014, she was named Artist of the Year by Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Her show, titled “America’s Least Livable City and Other Works" referenced the famous ranking in 1985 when Pittsburgh was named America’s most livable city by Rand McNally, while her hometown, Yuba City, Calif., was ranked least livable city on the same list.[3][4] In 2014, she was a participant in Sites of Passage: Borders, Walls & Citizenship, a cultural exchange between artists from Israel, Palestine and the U.S.[5]

Awards

Hyla Willis has been the recipient of fellowships and awards from:

References

  1. ^ "The Body Politic of subRosa | www.furtherfield.org". www.furtherfield.org. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
  2. ^ "Creative Capital - Investing in Artists who Shape the Future". www.creative-capital.org. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
  3. ^ "Let's talk about art: Hyla Willis". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
  4. ^ Shaw, Kurt. "Point Breeze artist shows another side of least-livable town". TribLIVE.com. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
  5. ^ "Museum cancels exhibit featuring Israeli and Palestinian artists". Pittsburgh City Paper. Retrieved 2016-02-27.


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