CONTACT
amconant@gmail.com
UPCOMING
>>> 2024 The Sum of Our Parts, Swivel Gallery, opening Saturday, May 4th, 6-9pm
RECENT
>>> 2024 NeuroQueering the Drawing Studio, Pratt Institute Dekalb Gallery, Feb. 1st - 29th
>>> 2023 Autonomous Line Society, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Sept. 6th - 10th TICKETS
>>> 2023 Hunter College Advanced Certificate in Curatorial Studies
>>> 2023 Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency
>>> 2023 Cill Rialaig Arts Center Artist Residency in Ballinskelligs, Ireland
>>> 2022 NO FATE, Sept. 17 - Oct. 30, Solo Exhibition at Swivel Gallery, Saugerties NY
Angela Conant is an artist, curator, and educator in Brooklyn, NY. Her practice encompasses curatorial and artist-run projects.
Conant’s experiences of childbirth, loss, neurodivergence, and medicalization, have deepened her sense of the body as fluid and unknowable outside of the mind’s eye. She presents alternate imaginings of internal bodily structures to undo, transition and reclaim human physicality in the name of bodily autonomy.
Her paintings and drawings reorient the viewer to look out from inside the body. Hand-carved stone elements seep and poke through orifices, interrupting a pictorial space of trompe-l'œil tubes and arteries. In her stone sculpture, rock is rendered illusorily soft, and penetrated by latex tubing or draped over medical grab bars to reference flesh and its relationship to assistive objects.
These works approach the human experience of being in a body with humility, curiosity and imagination, in sardonic contrast with the paternalistic western tendency to shelter and control.
Conant’s work has been shown at Swivel Gallery (Saugerties, NY), Electronic Arts Intermix (New York City), EFA Project Space (New York City), Planthouse (New York City), SPRING/BREAK art show (New York City); Glasshouse Projects (Brooklyn, NY), Interstate Projects (Brooklyn, NY); the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art (Wilmington, DE), Neter (Mexico City, MX), The Sunview Luncheonette (Brooklyn, NY), ICA Baltimore (Baltimore, MD), La Mama Gallery (New York City), SARDINE (Brooklyn, NY), Galerie René Blouin (Montreal, QC), Agency (Brooklyn, NY) and Assembly Room (New York City).
She has spoken at Boston University's School of Fine Art and at New York Foundation for the Arts, and was awarded a Critical Writing residency at Recess (New York City) in 2013, an Artist Residency at the Millay Colony (Austerlitz, NY) in 2014, and was a 2019 Home School Hudson participant. In 2007, she co-founded The Gowanus Studio Space, an artist-run collaborative in Brooklyn where she served as Artistic Director until 2014. She earned a BFA in Painting from Boston University in 2004, and an MFA in Art Practice from School of Visual Arts in 2013. She was a 2020 Shandaken Paint School Fellow, and has an Advanced Certificate in Curatorial Studies from Hunter College as of 2023. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Fine Art at Pratt Institute.
SOLO and TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022
NO FATE
Swivel Gallery, Saugerties, NY
2020
The Shape of
Steuben Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018
Angela Conant and Langdon Graves
President’s Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2016
Make Do
Sardine, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Angela Conant: Deuteranope
ICA Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
The Sum of Our Parts
Swivel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
NeuroQueering the Drawing Studio
Pratt Institute Dekalb Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2023
Autonomous Line Society
SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY
2023 outdoor sculpture & installation exhibition
Glenlily Grounds, Newburgh, NY
2022
After Fall, Comes Love; or The Shadow Society
Bushel Collective, Delhi, NY
Shandaken Benefit Exhibition
Shandaken Projects, Governors Island, NY
2021
BOY BOX
EFA Project Space, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
2019
MAD
Assembly Room, New York, NY
Freehand
SARDINE, Brooklyn, NY
2018
Endless Biennial
EFA Project Space, New York, NY
The Goods
Planthouse Gallery, New York, NY
Angela Conant
Planthouse Gallery Flatfiles
Kelly Lloyd: Up like a sun, down like a pancake.
ICA Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
MIDNIGHT
Paradice Palase, Brooklyn, NY
2017
2017 sculpture & installation exhibition
Glenlily Grounds, Newburgh, NY
Published by the Artist
International Print Center, New York, NY
How to Draw the Human Figure
AGENCY, Brooklyn, NY
Nasty Women Exhibition
Knockdown Center, Queens, New York, NY
2016
Material Polyphony
Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Group Exhibition curated by Geneviève Cadieux and Kiki Smith
Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, Québec, Canada
2016 sculpture & installation exhibition
Glenlily Grounds, Newburgh, NY
Introductions
La MaMa Galleria, New York, NY
2015
2015 sculpture & installation exhibition
Glenlily Grounds, Newburgh, NY
Future Fossils
Dutton, New York, NY
Beg Borrow or Steal
Recess, New York, NY
Passages in Current Practice
SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY
2014
Ready-to-hand (screening)
Sunview Luncheonette, Brooklyn, NY
LUNCH
Bushwick Cooperative, Brooklyn, NY
Maspeth’s World of Wheels
Knockdown Center, Queens, NY
Discrete Geometry
The Gowanus Studio Space, Brooklyn, NY
SPRING/BREAK Art Show
Old School, New York, NY
Pyramid Scheme
204 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY
Homesickness
Glasshouse, Brooklyn, NY
2013
The Marienbad Sessions
Jessamyn Fiore, a reading
EFA Project Space, New York, NY
Another, fourfold
Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Ideas Gap (writing)
in response to work by Nancy Nowacek
Recess, New York, NY
Frequency Response (screening)
Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, NY
Merkx & Gwynne, King Arthur Green Room
NADA New York, NY
Collective Show
Neter, Mexico City, MEXICO
SPRING/BREAK Art Show
Old School, New York, NY
2012
Can’t Stop Rock Lobster, Merkx & Gwynne, Martos Gallery, New York, NY
MISSINGLINKS (screening), Electronic Arts Intemix, NY, NY
Art Practice in Situ, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY
2011
Sea Worthy Heterotopias, School Nite, The New Museum's Festival of Ideas for the New City, New York, NY
DEEP/SHALLOW, The Gowanus Studio Space, Brooklyn, NY
2010
HOT HARVEST, The Gowanus Studio Space, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Johee Kim, Rachel Ostrow and Maggie Wright
Collective Show, Participant Gallery, New York, NY, curated by The Metric System
2009
Ephemera Swap, EFA Project Space, New York, NY, organized by Michelle Levy
Mare Liberum, City of Water Day, Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
2023 Advanced Certificate in Curatorial Studies, Hunter College, New York, NY
2013 MFA in Art Practice, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2004 BFA in Painting, Boston University, Boston, MA
AWARDS/TALKS
2023 Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency
2023 Cill Rialaig Arts Center Artist Residency
2020 Shandaken Projects Paint School Fellowship
2014 Millay Colony Visual Artist Residency
2013 Recess Critical Writing Residency
2013 SVA Art Practice Award
2007 NYFA Conference Fall Panelist
2005 SVA Summer Residency in Painting and Mixed Media
2003 Boston University Dean’s Scholar Award for Artistic Merit
PROJECTS
2022 Sustainable Care in the Arts
with support from Pratt Institute, Hunter College and Denniston Hill Projects
Founder
2007-2014 The Gowanus Studio Space, Inc.
www.gowanusstudio.org
Co-Founder / Artistic Director
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Hess, Erika, host. “Angela Conant: Curiosity as Necessity.” I Like Your Work, 8 Dec. 2018. https://www.erikabhess.com/ilikeyourworkpodcast/artist-angela-conant-curosity-as-necessity
Clément, Éric, “Geneviève Cadieux et Kiki Smith: étoffer le paysage.” La Presse. 30 October 2016. Web.
Shaikewitz, Joseph. “Deuteranope @ Gallery CA/ICA Baltimore (Angela Conant).” Post Office Arts Journal. 17 June 2015. Web.
Callahan, Maura. “Mixed-media work by Angela Conant explores the subjectivity and tactility of color.” City Paper. 9 June 2015. Baltimore, MD.
O’Regan, Kirsten. “Join These Ladies Who LUNCH For Some Colorful Punch.” Bedford & Bowery. New York Magazine. 5 September 2014. Web.
De Chirico, Domenico. “Angela Conant.” Dust Magazine. 23 February 2014. Web.
Meier, Allison. “Back to School with the New Mysticism at SPRING/BREAK.” Hyperallergic. 5 March 2013. Web.
Sutton, Benjamin. “Armory Week Show SPRING/BREAK Announces Artists and Curators for Second Edition.” Artinfo. 22 February 2013. Web.
n.a. “Angela Conant.” The 22 Magazine. 1 February 2012. Web.