NEWS

◓ Something between knowing and not, Curated by Lauren Hirshfield, ADS Warehouse,
Aug. 15th - Sept. 13th 2025

◓ Meet Me in the Trees, Curated by Jacqueline Cedar, The Clearing,
July 19th - 20th 2025

◓ Nepo Maybe, Curated by Grayson Cox, Peep Space Gallery,
July 17th – August 20th 2025

◓ 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 2024

STATEMENT

Angela Conant’s practice encompasses hand-carved stone sculpture, painting and drawing, as well as curatorial and collaborative projects.

Conant considers the human body’s knowability through the mind’s eye versus medical wisdom; a tension sharpened by experiences of childbirth, loss and neurodivergence. Her paintings and drawings reorient the viewer to look out from inside the body, proposing imagined internal systems that tease technical representation while coaxing hypochondrial unease. Hand-carved stone elements seep and poke through orifices, interrupting a trompe-l'œil yet fantastical pictorial space of tubes and arteries.

She uses materials like Tyvek as poetic parallels for corporeal membranes and organs, while stone protrusions evoke the looseness of our bodily containers. In her sculpture, rock is rendered illusorily tender: penetrated by latex tubing, emerging from wooden figure-like pedestals, or draped over medical grab-bars to reference the interdependence of flesh with assistive objects.

Conant’s works approach the bodily experience with humility, curiosity and imagination, in sardonic contrast with the paternalistic western tendencies of fear, shelter and control.

BIO

Angela Conant (b. 1982) is an artist, curator, and educator in Brooklyn, NY.

Her work has been shown at Good Naked (Brooklyn, NY), 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. She 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.