Katie Vida Explained

Katie Vida
Nationality:American
Known For:performance art, sound art, installation art
Website:http://katievida.com/

Katie Vida is an American interdisciplinary artist, curator and arts educator based in Brooklyn, New York.[1] She is best known for her performance art, installation art, film, and sound art but also known to create paintings and sculptures.

Biography

Vida attended Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), graduating in 2004 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting.[2] In 2010 she graduated from Yale University with her Master of Fine Arts in painting.[3]

Often Vida's work references artists that have come before her, such as Judy Garland and Marina Abramović. Some of the work is humorous and other work is more personal in nature. Much of her sound work involves creating sound collages with cut up recordings of songs, films, interviews and personal recordings.

Vida has exhibited work at venues including: Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA); Dalhousie Art Gallery (Nova Scotia); Galveston Artist Residency Gallery (Galveston, Texas); ALLGOLD MoMA PS1; Creative Time; Torrance Shipman Gallery (Brooklyn, New York); For Your Art (Los Angeles); Primetime (Brooklyn, New York); Yale University Art Gallery; and the Luggage Store Gallery (San Francisco).[4] [5] [6] [7] In 2013, she was a visiting artist at the Fanoon: Center for Printmedia Research at Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar (VCUQ).[8] Vida participated in the (en) Gendered (in) Equity-The Gallery Poster Project, a traveling art exhibition curated by Micol Hebron.[9] [10]

Her experimental film shot entirely on the Snapchat application, Shelly (2019) and won the award for Best Experimental Film at the 2020 Brussels Independent Film Festival and the award for Best Underground Film from the 2020 Obskuur Ghent Film Festival.[11] [12] [13]

Her curation experiences includes The Greek Play with Elastic Future (an experimental theatre company) at Root Division, San Francisco,[14] Collision part of the 11th anniversary Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival at The LAB,[15] Cut-Up: Contemporary Collage and Cut-Up Histories Through a Feminist Lens at Franklin Street Works[16] [17] and others.

Vida is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the MFA program in Studio Art at Maine College of Art (MECA).

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Notes and References

  1. News: Katie Vida - Adjunct Assistant Professor of MFA in Studio Art . en-US . . live . 14 February 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231006230405/https://www.meca.edu/people/katie-vida/ . 6 October 2023.
  2. Web site: 2007 . Katie Vida at Tartine Bakery . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071028095006/https://www.sfstation.com/katie-vida-e129811 . 28 October 2007 . 27 March 2016 . SFstation.com.
  3. Web site: Zwirner . Lucas . 20 April 2010 . Review: At painting exhibit, sculpture . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231007005142/https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2010/04/20/review-at-painting-exhibit-sculpture/ . 7 October 2023 . 27 March 2016 . Yale Daily News.
  4. News: 3 March 2016 . Andy Slemenda and Katie Vida . en-US . Glasstire Texas Visual Art . live . 25 November 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231007005201/https://glasstire.com/events/2016/03/03/andy-slemenda-and-katie-vida/ . 7 October 2023.
  5. Web site: 2016 . Current Events, Andy Slemenda and Katie Vida . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160320080137/http://galvestonartistresidency.org/events . 20 March 2016 . 27 March 2016 . Galveston Artist Residency.
  6. Web site: Higgins . Kathleen . 17 March 2016 . The Future is Now . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220627154323/http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/the-future-is-now/Content?oid=5276048 . 27 June 2022 . 27 March 2016 . Coast Halifax News.
  7. Web site: 2 March 2016 . Our critics pick the best entertainment events this week . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20170510085514/http://www.chron.com/entertainment/article/Our-critics-pick-the-best-entertainment-events-6865869.php . 10 May 2017 . 27 March 2016 . Houston Chronicle.
  8. Web site: 2013 . Visiting Artist Katie Vida . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20170511001252/https://vcuq-papr.tumblr.com/post/47937852916/visiting-artist-katie-vida . 11 May 2017 . 27 March 2016 . Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar.
  9. Web site: Katie Vida . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170511080029/http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/22227-katie-vida . 11 May 2017 . 27 March 2016 . ArtSlant.
  10. Web site: Steinhauer . Jillian . 27 March 2014 . Tallying Art World Inequality, One Gallery at a Time . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230318101238/https://hyperallergic.com/117065/tallying-art-world-inequality-one-gallery-at-a-time/ . 18 March 2023 . 27 March 2016 . . en-US.
  11. Web site: 2020 . Brussels Independent Film Festival announces winners of 2020 Atomium Film Awards . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230328043029/https://www.brusselsfilmfestival.org/2020-edition . 28 March 2023 . 7 October 2023 . Brussels Independent . en.
  12. Web site: Brussels Independent Film Festival kondigt winnaars van Atomium Film Awards aan . 2020-08-04 . Kortfilm.be . nl.
  13. Web site: 2020 . Shelly . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231006230358/https://filmfreeway.com/Shelly376 . 6 October 2023 . 28 November 2020 . . en . Obskuur Ghent Film Festival, Ghent, Belgium, July 12, 2020, Best Underground Film.
  14. Web site: Harmanci . Reyhan . 18 January 2007 . A Bigger Tent / 'The Greek Play' / Elastic Future synthesizes disparate art forms in bid to expand stage's appeal . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220628215154/https://www.sfgate.com/thingstodo/article/a-bigger-tent-the-greek-play-elastic-future-2655883.php . 28 June 2022 . 27 March 2016 . SFGate.
  15. Web site: 15 May 2007 . Collision, Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival at The LAB . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160414215836/http://plus1plus1plus.org/pipermail/intermetatrans_plus1plus1plus.org/2007-May/001798.html . 14 April 2016 . 27 March 2016 . plus1plus1plus1.org.
  16. Web site: Villarreal . Ignacio . 18 January 2016 . Franklin Street Works exhibition explores feminist histories of cut-up and collage . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231006231515/https://artdaily.cc/news/84427/Franklin-Street-Works-exhibition-explores-feminist-histories-of-cut-up-and-collage- . 6 October 2023 . 27 March 2016 . artdaily.
  17. Web site: Dillon . Noah . 6 March 2016 . 'Cut-Up: Contemporary Collage and Cut-Up Histories Through a Feminist Lens' at Franklin Street Works . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180915024658/http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1346626/cut-up-contemporary-collage-and-cut-up-histories-through-a . 15 September 2018 . 1 April 2016 . . Modern Painters.