Katie Vida is an American interdisciplinary artist, curator and arts educator based in

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, New York. She is best known for her

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installation art Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called ...

, film, and

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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. In 2010 she graduated from

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with her Master of Fine Arts in painting. Often Vida's work references artists that have come before her, such as

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and

Marina Abramović Marina Abramović ( sr-Cyrl, Марина Абрамовић, ; born November 30, 1946) is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, feminist art, the relationship between the performer and audi ...

. 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 (

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); Galveston Artist Residency Gallery ( Galveston, Texas); ALLGOLD

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;

Creative Time Creative Time is a New York-based nonprofit arts organization. It was founded in 1974 to support the creation of innovative, site-specific, socially engaged artworks in the public realm, particularly in vacant spaces of historical and architectura ...

; Torrance Shipman Gallery (Brooklyn, New York); For Your Art (Los Angeles); Primetime (Brooklyn, New York);

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; and the Luggage Store Gallery (San Francisco). In 2013, she was a visiting artist at the Fanoon: Center for Printmedia Research at Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar (VCUQ). Vida participated in the ''(en) Gendered (in) Equity-The Gallery Poster Project'', a traveling art exhibition curated by

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. Her experimental film shot entirely on the Snapchat application, ''Shelly'' (2019) and won the award for Best Experimental Film at the 2020

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and the award for Best Underground Film from the 2020 Obskuur Ghent Film Festival. Her curation experiences includes ''The Greek Play'' with Elastic Future (an experimental theatre company) at

Root Division Root Division is an American arts nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2002, and located in the Mid-Market/South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco, California. They offer a gallery space, exhibition opportunities for emerging and ...

, San Francisco, ''Collision'' part of the 11th anniversary Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival at

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, ''Cut-Up: Contemporary Collage and Cut-Up Histories Through a Feminist Lens'' at Franklin Street Works and others. Vida is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the MFA program in Studio Art at Maine College of Art (MECA).

References

External links

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Examples of Katie Vida's sound work
on

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Video of Katie Vida's performances
on

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