Ilana Harris-Babou

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Ilana Harris-Babou
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Born
Ilana Yacine Harris-Babou

1991 (age 32–33)
Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
Education Yale University
BA – 2013
Columbia University
MFA – 2016
Website ilanahb.com

Ilana Harris-Babou (born 1991) is an American sculptor and installation artist. [1] Harris-Babou was born in Brooklyn, New York. [2] [3] Her upbringing was discussed in an interview on the Amy Beecher Show in August 2019. [4] She is currently assistant professor of art and the Luther Gregg Sullivan Fellow in Art at Wesleyan University. [5]

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Artistic practice

Harris-Babou often uses music videos, cooking shows, and home improvement television as material in her practice, often dissecting notions of the American Dream. Her practices engages ideas about intimacy, violence, and consumption. [1] Harris-Babou speaks to her audience through humor and reconstructed consumer culture. [6] She describes her work more in an interview with PIN-UP . [7]

In 2018, she created a fake hardware store at the Larrie Gallery in New York City. This project, titled "Reparation Hardware", features reclaimed furniture to create sculptures that reflect the notion of making the old new again. [8] Her work on "Reparation Hardware" critiques double standards and the modern American ideals of life within the home. She also features political messages reflecting the emancipation and equality of African-Americans in the United States. [9]

Harris-Babou has exhibited throughout the US and Europe, with solo exhibitions at The Museum of Arts & Design in New York and Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She also exhibited at the de Young museum in San Francisco, Abrons Art Center in New York, the Zuckerman Museum of Art in Kennesaw, Georgia, Le Doc in Paris, France, the Jewish Museum in New York, & SculptureCenter in Long Island City. [10]

Her most recent exhibition is titled "Decision Fatigue" and was featured at Hesse Flatow in New York City from February 20 to March 21, 2020. This exhibit features a video of Harris-Babou's mother, Sheila Harris conducting a makeup tutorial. The artist's mother reflects on her choices to appear youthful and healthy, questioning the reality of her youth. Harris-Babou uses this video to examine how structural problems are sometimes concealed as personal choices. The exhibit also features sculptures that are similar to items found in a boutique but altered to appear abnormal. [6]

Selected exhibitions

Awards

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References

  1. 1 2 "Ilana Harris-Babou". madmuseum.org.
  2. ↑ Hockley, Rujeko; Panetta, Jane, eds. (January 2019). Whitney Biennial 2019. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art. p. 84. ISBN   978-0-300-24275-1. OCLC   1080896026.
  3. ↑ Hockley, Rujeko; Panetta, Jane, eds. (January 2019). Whitney Biennial 2019. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art. p. 172. ISBN   978-0-300-24275-1. OCLC   1080896026.
  4. ↑ "Episode 30: Ilana Harris-Babou — The Amy Beecher Show - Podcast". amybeecher.show. Retrieved February 29, 2020.
  5. ↑ "Ilana Yacine Harris-Babou". wesleyan.edu. Retrieved April 10, 2023.
  6. 1 2 "Ilana Harris-Babou: Decision Fatigue | February 20 - March 21, 2020". Hesse Flatow. Retrieved February 29, 2020.
  7. ↑ Entertainment, The only biannual Magazine for Architectural. "INTERVIEW: Artist Ilana Harris-Babou On Power Dynamics Of Domestic Aspirations". pinupmagazine.org. Retrieved February 29, 2020.
  8. ↑ "Ilana Harris-Babou and the Narrative of the Anomaly". Cultured Magazine. November 29, 2018. Retrieved February 29, 2020.
  9. 1 2 Bauer, S.; Bock, Katinka; Brownsword, Neil; Cobbing, William; Grau, A.; Harris-Babou, Ilana; Hart, E.; Hopf, Judith; Hüner, Emre; Masduraud, Lou; Bellini, Antoine; Nagel, J.; Newby, Kate; Osorno, Nicolás; Schlumberger, Pablo; Stoll, Kerstin; Tee, J.; Vetter, I.; Windolf, Franziska; Wine, Jesse; Zhou, Xiaopeng (2018). "Further Thoughts on Earthy Materials 11 September – 25 November 2018" (PDF). Kunsthaus Hamburg. S2CID   201693760.
  10. ↑ "Ilana Harris-Babou | Bennington College". www.bennington.edu. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
  11. ↑ "March 2016 Programs at the Jewish Museum Feature Albert Einstein, Artists Responding to Unorthodox, Artist Omer Fast, and More". The Jewish Museum. Retrieved March 5, 2019.
  12. 1 2 "Fellow Focus: Ilana Harris-Babou: One Bad Recipe". madmuseum.org.
  13. ↑ Entertainment, The only biannual Magazine for Architectural. "REPARATION HARDWARE: ILANA HARRIS-BABOU'S TAKE ON THE AMERICAN DREAM". pinupmagazine.org. Retrieved March 5, 2019.
  14. ↑ "Ilana Harris-Babou". The New Yorker. Retrieved March 5, 2019.
  15. ↑ Steinhauer, Jillian (February 25, 2019). "The Whitney Biennial: 75 Artists Are In, and One Dissenter Steps Out". The New York Times.
  16. ↑ Hockley, Rujeko; Panetta, Jane, eds. (January 2019). Whitney Biennial 2019. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art. p. 173. ISBN   978-0-300-24275-1. OCLC   1080896026.
  17. ↑ "Strange Loops".
  18. ↑ "Ilana Harris-Babou: Decision Fatigue | February 20 - May 16, 2020 - Overview". Hesse Flatow. Retrieved September 29, 2020.
  19. ↑ "Ilana Harris-Babou – Rema Hort Mann Foundation".
  20. ↑ "Kohn Gallery Now Represents Sophia Narrett—and More from January 14, 2020". ARTnews. January 13, 2020. Retrieved January 14, 2020.
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