NEWS

>>> 2024 Form of Light, Keepsake Gallery, Sept. 14th - 28th

>>> 2024 The Sum of Our Parts, Swivel Gallery, May 4th - June 4th

>>> 2024 NeuroQueering the Drawing Studio, Pratt Institute Dekalb Gallery, Feb. 1st - 29th

>>> 2023 Autonomous Line Society, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Sept. 6th - 10th

>>> 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, (Solo Exhibition), Swivel Gallery, Sept. 17th - Oct. 30th

Angela Conant (b. 1982) is an artist, curator, and educator in Brooklyn, NY. Her practice encompasses sculpture, painting and drawing, as well as curatorial and collaborative projects.

For Conant, experiences of childbirth, loss, neurodivergence, and medicalization confirm the human body’s unknowability outside of the mind’s eye. Her paintings and drawings reorient the viewer to look out from inside the body, proposing imagined internal systems to tease conventional wisdom.

In her paintings, hand-carved stone elements seep and poke through orifices, interrupting a pictorial space made of trompe-l'œil yet fantastical tubes and arteries. In her stone sculpture, rock is rendered illusorily soft, penetrated by latex tubing, or draped over medical grab-bars to reference flesh and its relation to assistive objects.

Conant’s 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, NY), EFA Project Space (New York, NY), Planthouse (New York, NY), SPRING/BREAK art show (New York, NY); 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, NY).

She was awarded a Critical Writing residency at Recess (New York, NY) in 2013, and Artist Residencies at Millay Arts (Austerlitz, NY), The Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency (Granville, NY), Cill Rialaig Arts Center (Ballinskelligs, Ireland), and the School of Visual Arts (New York, NY). She was a 2019 Home School Hudson participant and a 2020 Shandaken Paint School Fellow,

In 2007, she co-founded The Gowanus Studio Space, an artist-run organization 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. and has an Advanced Certificate in Curatorial Studies from Hunter College as of 2023. Conant is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Fine Art at Pratt Institute.