{{Short description|American artist (born 1985)}} '''Trisha Baga''' (born 1985 Venice, Florida) is an American artist living and working in New York City. Her work is installation based and incorporates video, performance, and found objects.
==Career== Beginning in 2012 Baga began to use 3D projectors and 3D glasses <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.textezurkunst.de/89/attitude-becomes-dorm/|title=TEXTE ZUR KUNST|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}}</ref> for a more immersive effect as exhibited at West Street Gallery. In 2015 she added clay sculptures<ref name="NYT1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/25/arts/design/review-trisha-baga-mixes-orlando-fla-with-orlando.html|title=Review: Trisha Baga Mixes Orlando, Fla., With 'Orlando'|last=Smith|first=Roberta|date=2015-09-24|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-03-06}}</ref> to her exhibitions, an outgrowth of her involvement with the ceramics club,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.greenwichhouse.org/gh_pottery/teen-glazed-or-cc-pop-up|title="teen glazed" or "cc pop up" Exhibition Archives - Greenwich House|website=www.greenwichhouse.org|access-date=2016-03-05}}</ref> a loosely gathered group of artists who meet at Greenwich House Pottery. Some of her earlier works, such as ''Madonna y El Niño'' (2010–2011) involved Baga performing in front of and along with her projections, but by her 2012-13 solo exhibition ''Plymouth Rock 2'' at the Whitney Museum of American Art, she began using found objects (sometimes altered—as with a boom box painted with textured paint<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/trisha-baga/|title=Frieze Magazine {{!}} Archive {{!}} Case Study: Trisha Baga|last=Design|first=Erskine|website=www.frieze.com|access-date=2016-03-05}}</ref>) in front of her projections in installations where she viewed "all things in the projection as bodies," preferring the "natural frequency" and one-sided/directional qualities of existing objects over the self-contained nature of sculpture.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.momaps1.org/calendar/view/198|title=MoMA PS1: Sept 18: GNY Cinema, Performance by Trisha Baga: Saturday, September 18, 2010|website=www.momaps1.org|access-date=2016-03-05}}</ref> Her Solo exhibitions include: ''Orlando'' at Greene Naftali, New York (2015);<ref name="NYT1"/> ''Gravity'' at Peep-Hole,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://moussemagazine.it/trisha-baga-peephole/|title=Trisha Baga "Gravity" at Peep-Hole, Milan / MOUSSE CONTEMPORARY ART MAGAZINE|website=moussemagazine.it|date=10 October 2013 |access-date=2016-03-05}}</ref> Milan (2013);<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.peep-hole.org/ph/trisha-baga/|title=Project Name|last=site.|first=Who made this|website=www.peep-hole.org|access-date=2016-03-05}}</ref> ''Florida'' at Société, Berlin <ref name="AF1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.artnews.com/2014/10/16/trisha-baga/|title=Where the Moving Image Meets the Still Life {{!}} ARTnews|website=www.artnews.com|date=16 October 2014 |access-date=2016-03-05}}</ref>(2013); ''Plymouth Rock 2'' at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2012); and ''The Biggest Circle'' at Greene Naftali, New York (2011).<ref name="AF1"/> Her work is collected internationally<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.zabludowiczcollection.com/collection/artists/view/trisha-baga|title=Trisha Baga - Artists - Collection - Zabludowicz Collection|last=Collection|first=Zabludowicz|website=Zabludowicz Collection|access-date=2016-03-06}}</ref> and is in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://whitney.org/Collection/AllArtists?name=A|title=All Artists {{!}} Whitney Museum of American Art|website=whitney.org|access-date=2016-03-06}}</ref> She has received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/news/tiffany-louis-comfort/|title=Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Awards 30 Artist Grants - News - Art in America|website=www.artinamericamagazine.com|date=23 February 2012 |access-date=2016-03-06}}</ref> (2012).
== Education == Trisha Baga attended Cooper Union, receiving her Bachelor of Fine arts in 2007. She received her MFA from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College in 2010.<ref name="AF1"/>
== Work == Baga's videos and installations are non-linear in nature, often rejecting overt narratives <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://moussemagazine.it/trisha-baga-whitney/|title=Trisha Baga "Plymouth Rock 2" at the Whitney Museum, New York / MOUSSE CONTEMPORARY ART MAGAZINE|website=moussemagazine.it|date=5 December 2012 |access-date=2016-03-06}}</ref> and using a visually cacophonous, arguably psychedelic,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://friezeprojectsny.org/sounds/trisha-baga/|title=Trisha Baga - Sounds {{!}} Frieze Projects NY|last=Design|first=Erskine|website=friezeprojectsny.org|access-date=2016-03-06}}</ref> aesthetic and humor<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/david-ebonys-top-10-memorable-artworks-2015-396762|title=Top 10 Memorable Artworks of 2015 -artnet News|website=artnet News|date=23 December 2015 |language=en-US|access-date=2016-03-06}}</ref> to explore pathos,<ref name="Johnson">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/28/arts/design/trisha-baga-at-the-whitney-greene-naftali-and-moma-ps1.html|title=Trisha Baga at the Whitney, Greene Naftali and MoMA PS1|last=Johnson|first=Ken|date=2012-12-27|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-03-06}}</ref> gender identity, environmental issues, pop culture,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fruitoftheforest.com/trisha-baga/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170121083350/http://www.fruitoftheforest.com/trisha-baga/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=January 21, 2017|title=Trisha Baga: Body Looking / Looking Embodied|website=Fruit of the Forest|access-date=2016-03-06}}</ref> and more. Art critic Roberta Smith touches on themes in Baga's work in her review of the exhibition ''Orlando'' in the ''New York Times,'' writing, ''"''Here Ms. Baga crosses Orlando, Fla., with 'Orlando,' Virginia Woolf’s novel of same-sex love and gender fluidity; people on a cruise ship; and, according to the gallery news release, at least, catastrophic global warming."<ref name="NYT1"/> Baga sees her distancing from narrative as being related to her attitude toward progress, "I have issues with progress – the concept of it, the stretch towards it, the motivations behind it, and its psychological implications, especially in regard to America and American history and ideals. It seems like an insatiable hunger, or an excuse to take things away from other people. I think it is also related to how I’ve been stepping away from narrative video, or at least making an attempt to curve an abstraction of the arc, back into a circle. A straight line is often the least efficient way to get anywhere." While topics and imagery shift depending on the work, this meandering approach to storytelling and layered approach to installation<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/trisha-baga/|title=Trisha Baga - Reviews - Art in America|website=www.artinamericamagazine.com|date=16 October 2014 |access-date=2016-03-06}}</ref> weave through the artist's oeuvre to date.
== Exhibitions ==
=== Selected solo exhibitions === * 2015 ''Orlando'', Greene Naftali, New York, NY<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.brooklynrail.org/2015/10/artseen/trisha-baga-orlando|title=TRISHA BAGA Orlando|website=www.brooklynrail.org|date=5 October 2015 |access-date=2016-03-06}}</ref> * 2014 ''Trisha Baga'', Zabludowicz Collection, London<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/solo-exhibition-trisha-baga-zabludowicz-collection-london/|title=Aesthetica Magazine – Solo exhibition by Trisha Baga at Zabludowicz Collection, London|website=Aesthetica|language=en-GB|access-date=2016-03-06}}</ref> * 2014 ''FREE INTERNET'', Gio Marconi, Milan<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.art-agenda.com/reviews/trisha-baga%25E2%2580%2599s-%25E2%2580%259Cfree-internet%25E2%2580%259D/|title=Trisha Baga's "Free Internet" {{!}} Art Agenda|website=www.art-agenda.com|access-date=2016-03-06}}</ref> * 2013 ''Gravity'', Peep-Hole at Fonderia Battaglia, Milan<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://moussemagazine.it/trisha-baga-peephole/|title=Trisha Baga "Gravity" at Peep-Hole, Milan / MOUSSE CONTEMPORARY ART MAGAZINE|website=moussemagazine.it|date=10 October 2013 |access-date=2016-03-06}}</ref> * 2013 ''Florida'', Société Berlin<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://artnews.org/societe/?exi=38266&Soci_t_&Trisha_Baga|title=Artnews.org: Trisha Baga at Société Berlin|website=artnews.org|access-date=2016-03-06}}</ref> * 2012 ''The Biggest Circle'', Greene Naftali, New York<ref name="Johnson"/> * 2012 ''Plymouth Rock 2'', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://observer.com/2013/01/trisha-baga-plymouth-rock-2-at-the-whitney-museum-of-american-art/|title='Trisha Baga: Plymouth Rock 2' at the Whitney Museum of American Art|website=Observer|date=January 2013 |language=en-US|access-date=2016-03-06}}</ref> * 2012 ''World Peace'', Kunstverein Munich, Munich<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.zerodeux.fr/reviews/trisha-baga-world-peace/|title=Trisha Baga : World Peace {{!}} Zérodeux {{!}} Revue d'art contemporain|last=Helsens|first=Emmanuelle|website=www.zerodeux.fr|access-date=2016-03-06}}</ref>
=== Selected group exhibitions === * ''2015 Co-Workers The Network as Artist'', Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France * 2015 ''Strange Pilgrims'', The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mystatesman.com/news/entertainment/arts-theater/the-contemporarys-strange-pilgrims-draws-viewers-i/nn4sH/|title=The Contemporary's 'Strange Pilgrims' draws viewers into art...|website=www.mystatesman.com|access-date=2016-03-06}}</ref> * 2015 ''The New Human: You and I in Global Wonderland'', Moderna Museet, Malmö<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://artdaily.com/news/77166/The-New-Human--Moderna-Museet-in-Malmo-opens-a-video-based-project-exhibition#.Vtyl65MrKi4|title=The New Human: Moderna Museet in Malmo opens a video-based project exhibition|last=Villarreal|first=Ignacio|website=artdaily.com|access-date=2016-03-06}}</ref> * 2014 Private Settings: Art After the Internet, Museum of Modern Art, Poland, Warsaw<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/private-settings-art-after-the-internet/|title=Frieze Magazine {{!}} Archive {{!}} Archive {{!}} Private Settings, Art after the Internet|last=Design|first=Erskine|website=www.frieze.com|access-date=2016-03-06}}</ref> * 2014 ''Dark Velocity'', CCS Bard, Annondale-on-Hudson, New York<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://dismagazine.com/blog/60999/exhibition-opening-dark-velocity/|title=Exhibition Opening {{!}} Dark Velocity1|last=Toro|first=Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, Nick Scholl, David|website=DIS Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=2016-03-06}}</ref> * 2013 ''Freak Out'', Greene Naftali, New York, NY<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2013/08/freak-out-at-greene-naftali/diptych/|title="Freak Out" at Greene Naftali (Contemporary Art Daily)|website=www.contemporaryartdaily.com|access-date=2016-03-06}}</ref> * 2013 ''Meanwhile... Suddenly and Then'', Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/12th-lyon-biennial/|title=Frieze Magazine {{!}} Archive {{!}} Archive {{!}} 12th Lyon Biennial|last=Design|first=Erskine|website=www.frieze.com|access-date=2016-03-06}}</ref> * 2012 N''ew Pictures of Common Objects,'' MOMA PS1, New York, NY<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://momaps1.org/exhibitions/view/359|title=MoMA PS1: Exhibitions: New Pictures of Common Objects|website=momaps1.org|access-date=2016-03-06}}</ref> * 2011 ''The Great White Way Goes Black'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://moussemagazine.it/the-great-white-way-goes-black-at-vilma-gold-london/|title="The Great White Way Goes Black" at Vilma Gold, London / MOUSSE CONTEMPORARY ART MAGAZINE|website=moussemagazine.it|date=28 April 2011 |access-date=2016-03-06}}</ref> Vilma Gold, London, England * 2011 ''Fernando'', Franklin Street Works, Stamford, Connecticut<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.artesmagazine.com/2011/11/contemporary-art-space-in-connecticut-with-innovative-vision-for-artists-exhibitions/|title=Contemporary Art Space in Connecticut with Innovative Vision for Artists, Exhibitions - ARTES MAGAZINE|website=ARTES MAGAZINE|language=en-US|access-date=2016-03-06}}</ref> * 2010 Beside Himself, Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cargocollective.com/prototype/following/prototype/Beside-Himself|title=prototype - Personal network|website=cargocollective.com|access-date=2016-03-06}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Feminist art movement in the United States}} {{authority control}}
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