Faith WILDING immigrated to the United States in l961 from Paraguay. She received her MFA at CalArts where she was a member of the Feminist Art Program that produced "Womanhouse" and other groundbreaking feminist projects. As a founder of the feminist art movement in Los Angeles she published By Our Own Hands in l977. Wilding is a recognized authority on the history of feminist art, feminist theory, and cyberfeminism.
Teaching appointments have included Art Institute of Chicago, California Institute of the Arts; Scripps College; Claremont Graduate School; Cooper Union School of Art; Carnegie Mellon University.
Wilding is a multi-disciplinary artist who has exhibited widely (individually and collectively) for forty years throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. Her work addresses issues of the "recombinant body” -re-combining traditional media such as watercolor painting and meticulous ink drawing, collage and montage, with new media, video, Websites, installation, and performance. Her work addresses the psycho/somatic state of the body today as the bio-genetically recombined body, violently cobbled together from nomadic social, cultural, technological and political fragments. The recombinant body is an uneasy, monstrous depository of melancholic historical fragments expressed as animal, human, organic, and machine parts.
Wilding also has collaborated with collectives such as SubRosa, Critical Art Ensemble and Old Boys Network, performing internationally. In recent years, her installations, performative lectures, mixed media works, and works on paper, have been featured in London, Chicago, Houston, Pasadena, Bronx Museum of Art (NY); The Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles); The Whitney Museum of Art (NY); the Armand Hammer Museum (Los Angeles); the Riverside Museum of Art (Riverside); the Art Gallery at the University of Maryland; The Drawing Center (NY); Cooper Union Gallery (NY); Ars Electronica center (Linz); Documenta X (Kassel) and the Next Five Minutes Festival (Amsterdam). Her retrospective “Fearful Symmetries” traveled to Chicago, Memphis, Los Angeles, Houston, and Pittsburgh. An illustrated monograph is forthcoming from Intellect Books in 2018. She is also working on a memoir.
Wilding's work has been widely written about and reproduced. A biographical interview appeared in Lives and Works: Women Artists at Rutgers (Scarecrow Press, l997). Her work has been anthologized in such publications as Sexual Politics (University of California, l996); The Power of Feminist Art (Abrams,l995),The Triumph of American Art (Abrams, l996) and reviewed in Art Forum, Art in America, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and many other journals and periodicals.
She has published many essays on feminist art, cyberfeminism. and contemporary art in MEANING, nparadoxa, Heresies, Ms. Magazine, CAA Art Journal, Documents and other publications. Her chapter on the Feminist Art Program is included in the Abrams volume The Power of Feminist Art. She is preparing to edit an anthology of cyberfeminist texts to be published by Autonomedia Books.
Wilding's audio work, including sound art and radio drama, has been commissioned and broadcast by RIAS Berlin; WDR Cologne and National Public Radio, USA.
Wilding lectures internationally on her work, feminist art and cyberfeminism. Recent lectures include Goldsmiths and ICA, London; Universities in Vienna, Zagreb and Frankfurt; the CUNY Graduate Center; New York University; the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; UCLA; MOCA (Los Angeles); Documenta X, Kassel; Ars Electronica Center (Linz).
Teaching appointments have included Art Institute of Chicago; California Institute of the Arts; Scripps College; Claremont Graduate School; Cooper Union School of Art; Carnegie Mellon University.
Faith Wilding is the recipient of two media grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (l986, l989) grants for Works on Paper from Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (1998) and the New York Foundation for the Arts (1986). Wilding received a Guggenheim grant in 1998 and an Art Matters Grant, 2015.
Teaching appointments have included Art Institute of Chicago, California Institute of the Arts; Scripps College; Claremont Graduate School; Cooper Union School of Art; Carnegie Mellon University.
Wilding is a multi-disciplinary artist who has exhibited widely (individually and collectively) for forty years throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. Her work addresses issues of the "recombinant body” -re-combining traditional media such as watercolor painting and meticulous ink drawing, collage and montage, with new media, video, Websites, installation, and performance. Her work addresses the psycho/somatic state of the body today as the bio-genetically recombined body, violently cobbled together from nomadic social, cultural, technological and political fragments. The recombinant body is an uneasy, monstrous depository of melancholic historical fragments expressed as animal, human, organic, and machine parts.
Wilding also has collaborated with collectives such as SubRosa, Critical Art Ensemble and Old Boys Network, performing internationally. In recent years, her installations, performative lectures, mixed media works, and works on paper, have been featured in London, Chicago, Houston, Pasadena, Bronx Museum of Art (NY); The Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles); The Whitney Museum of Art (NY); the Armand Hammer Museum (Los Angeles); the Riverside Museum of Art (Riverside); the Art Gallery at the University of Maryland; The Drawing Center (NY); Cooper Union Gallery (NY); Ars Electronica center (Linz); Documenta X (Kassel) and the Next Five Minutes Festival (Amsterdam). Her retrospective “Fearful Symmetries” traveled to Chicago, Memphis, Los Angeles, Houston, and Pittsburgh. An illustrated monograph is forthcoming from Intellect Books in 2018. She is also working on a memoir.
Wilding's work has been widely written about and reproduced. A biographical interview appeared in Lives and Works: Women Artists at Rutgers (Scarecrow Press, l997). Her work has been anthologized in such publications as Sexual Politics (University of California, l996); The Power of Feminist Art (Abrams,l995),The Triumph of American Art (Abrams, l996) and reviewed in Art Forum, Art in America, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and many other journals and periodicals.
She has published many essays on feminist art, cyberfeminism. and contemporary art in MEANING, nparadoxa, Heresies, Ms. Magazine, CAA Art Journal, Documents and other publications. Her chapter on the Feminist Art Program is included in the Abrams volume The Power of Feminist Art. She is preparing to edit an anthology of cyberfeminist texts to be published by Autonomedia Books.
Wilding's audio work, including sound art and radio drama, has been commissioned and broadcast by RIAS Berlin; WDR Cologne and National Public Radio, USA.
Wilding lectures internationally on her work, feminist art and cyberfeminism. Recent lectures include Goldsmiths and ICA, London; Universities in Vienna, Zagreb and Frankfurt; the CUNY Graduate Center; New York University; the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; UCLA; MOCA (Los Angeles); Documenta X, Kassel; Ars Electronica Center (Linz).
Teaching appointments have included Art Institute of Chicago; California Institute of the Arts; Scripps College; Claremont Graduate School; Cooper Union School of Art; Carnegie Mellon University.
Faith Wilding is the recipient of two media grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (l986, l989) grants for Works on Paper from Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (1998) and the New York Foundation for the Arts (1986). Wilding received a Guggenheim grant in 1998 and an Art Matters Grant, 2015.