Ilana Harris-Babou’s work spans, video, sculpture, and installation, adopting the aesthetics of aspirational media. She uses the tropes of advertising and popular culture as a trojan horse to get into the viewer's line of sight. In this talk, she will explore the way these themes have manifested in her most recent work.
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Ilana Harris-Babou’s work is interdisciplinary, spanning sculpture and installation, and grounded in video. She speaks the aspirational language of consumer culture and uses humor as a means to digest painful realities.
She has exhibited throughout the U.S. and Europe, with recent survey exhibitions at Kunsthaus Hamburg and the ICA at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. Other venues include The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA; SculptureCenter, New York, USA; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA; The Queens Museum; New York, USA; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark; West Space, Melbourne, Australia; Gallery Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb, Croatia; and Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
She holds an MFA from Columbia University and a BA from Yale University.
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