Park McArthur (born 1984, North Carolina, USA) is an artist living in
New York City
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who works in
sculpture
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,
installation
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,
text
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, and
sound
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. McArthur is a wheelchair user whose work uses this position to inform her art.
Early life and education
McArthur graduated with a Masters in Fine Art from the
University of Miami
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in 2009 and studied at the
Whitney Museum of American Art
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's Independent Study Program, 2011–2012.
Work
About McArthur's 2014 exhibition ''Ramps'', wherein the artist exhibited the wheelchair ramps of institutions with which she had previously worked, writer Andrew Blackley said, "The exhibition displayed the means by which institutions both produce and deny access. Each ramp challenged reappraisal and reinforced a set of past and future foreclosures. ‘Ramps’ enlisted generative, generous responses to the negativity of the institution, to the point of engendering the reproduction of those very negative characteristics (by removing the objects’ previously assumed ‘function’). By extension, at stake and always under threat are the threaded relationships between queerness and disability, the breakdown of their concomitant binaries and the temporality of care."
In 2015, McArthur addressed
Felix Gonzalez-Torrez's ''"Untitled" (Love Letter From the War Front)'' in
Whitney Museum of American Art
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, Lower Manhattan, New York.
McArthur's work has been described as questioning of "care alongside questions of autonomy and dependency" in regards to the daily experience of disabled individuals. McArthur uses her work to challenge the status quo and give those who are usually marginalized by societal structures a voice. Her choice of medium are sculptures and installations that "conceptually driven and often composed of utilitarian materials such as blocks of foam or a Wikipedia entry."
Her works elicit an “experience of activism and jerry-built ingenuity.”
Other activitie
In 2016, McArthur was a member of the jury that selected
LaToya Ruby Frazier
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as recipient of the
Carnegie Prize
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History
The Carnegie Prize was established in 1896, to ...
.
Recognition
In 2014, McArthur won the
Wynn Newhouse Award, an annual prize given to disabled artists in recognition of their artistic merit.
In 2015, McArthur was an
Artadia Awardee.
Art market
McArthur is represented by Essex Street Gallery in New York.
Notable solo exhibitions
* "Projects 195: Park MacArthur",
MoMA
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* Moma Clarke (1869–1958), British journalist
* Moma Marković (1912–1992), Serbian politician
* Momčilo Rajin (born 1954), Serbian art and music critic, theorist and historian, artist and publisher
Places
; Ang ...
, New York, New York (2018)
*"New Work: Park MacArthur",
SFMOMA, San Francisco (2017)
*"Poly",
Chisenhale Gallery
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Background
The organisation focuses on a programme of commissioned exhibitions, events, performances and talks.
The gallery occupies the ground level of a ...
, London (2016)
*
Yale Union, Portland, Oregon (2014)
* "Passive Vibration Isolation", Lars Friedrich, Berlin, Germany (2014)
* "Ramps", Essex Street, New York, New York (2014)
Selected group exhibitions
* "2017 Whitney Biennial," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2017)
* "Incerteza viva: 32nd Bienal de São Paulo", São Paulo, Brazil (2016)
* "Greater New York", MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York (2015)
References
External links
Essex Street GalleryJennifer Burris, "Park McArthur", ''Bomb Magazine'', 2014Park McArthur, ''99 Objects: "Untitled" (Love Letter From The War Front), 1988 by Félix Gonzalez-Torres'', Whitney Museum of American Art, 2015Michele Robecchi, "Park McArthur 'Poly' at Chisenhale Gallery, London", ''Mousse Magazine'', 2016''Projects 195: Park McArthur'', The Museum of Modern Art, 2019Colby Chamberlain, "On the Art of Park McArthur", ''Artforum'', 2020
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Living people
1984 births
21st-century American artists
Artists with disabilities
American people with disabilities
21st-century American women artists
Artists from North Carolina