The Department of Sculpture + Extended Media presents a visiting artist lecture by Clarissa Tossin on Monday, September 11 at 12:15pm at the Institute for Contemporary Art’s auditorium (601 W Broad St, Richmond, VA 23220).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Clarissa Tossin is a visual artist who uses moving-image, installation, sculpture, and collaborative research to engage the suppressed counter-narratives implicit in the built and natural environments of extractive economies.
She has had solo exhibitions at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle (2023); Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (2022); La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, France (2021); Moody Center for the Arts, Brochstein Pavilion, Rice University, Houston (2021); Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge (2019); and Blanton Museum of Art, Austin (2018); and featured in notable group exhibitions including the 14th Shanghai Biennial (2023); the 5th Chicago Architecture Biennial (2023); Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh (2020); Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2018); 12th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2018); Made in L.A. at the Hammer Museum (2014).
Tossin is the recipient of grants from Graham Foundation (2020); Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2019); Artadia Los Angeles (2018); Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship (2017-18), among others. Her work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge; The Art Institute of Chicago; Fundação Inhotim, Brazil; Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco; and others.
Image: Clarissa Tossin, Vulnerably Human, 2022 (detail), Silicone, pigment and meteorite powder