Constantina Zavitsanos

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Constantina Zavitsano
NationalityAmerican
AwardsWynn Newhouse Award (2015)

Constantina Zavitsanos is a conceptual artist. [1] Their works are organized around themes of planning, contingency, debt, dependency and care. [2] Zavitsanos is a part of disability community as a care provider and recipient. They live in New York City and teach at The New School.

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Education

Zavitsanos is a graduate of Millersville University, where they received a B.F.A., and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where they received an M.F.A. [3]

Career

Zavitsanos has had many exhibitions [4] [5] including:

Zavitsanos has participated in several artist residencies. In March–September 2015, Zavitsanos held a residency at The New Museum, where they curated a series of collaborative events with artists Reina Gossett, Park McArthur, Caroline Key, and Soyoung Yoon, and academics Stefano Harney, Fred Moten, and Denise Ferreira da Silva. [7] In 2017, they and collaborator Amalle Dubon participated in the Engaged Social Justice Residency Program at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. [8]

They are a recipient of the 2015 Wynn Newhouse Award presented to disabled artists. [9] They received the 2021 Roy Lichtenstein Award. [10] Zavitsanos was also the 2021-22 Keith Haring Fellow. [11] [12]

Notable works

Partial Bibliography

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  8. ↑ "In-Residence @ UBC - Engaged Social Justice Residency Program". The Social Justice Institute. University of British Columbia. Archived from the original on 19 July 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2019. Previous Residents: Amalle Dubon & Constantina Zavitsanos (Winter 2017)
  9. ↑ "Constantina Zavitsanos". Wynn Newhouse Award . Archived from the original on 4 January 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  10. ↑ "Constantina Zavitsanos | FCA Grant Recipient". Foundation for Contemporary Arts. 2021. Archived from the original on 5 December 2023. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
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  15. ↑ McArthur, Park; Zavitsanos, Constantina (March 2013). "Other forms of conviviality: The best and least of which is our daily care and the host of which is our collaborative work". Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory. 23 (1): 126–132. doi:10.1080/0740770X.2013.827376. ISSN   0740-770X. OCLC   5149560918.
  16. ↑ McArthur, Park; Zavitsanos, Constantina (2018). "The Guild of the Brave Poor Things". In Tourmaline; Stanley, Eric A.; Burton, Johanna (eds.). Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. pp. 235–254. ISBN   9780262036603. OCLC   1408114984.
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