Angela Ellsworth is a multidisciplinary American artist traversing disciplines of drawing, sculpture, installation, video, and performance.
Education Ellsworth studied at Hampshire College, in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she received a bachelor's degree in fine art, and graduated from the Mason Gross School of the Arts of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, with a Master of Fine Arts degree in performance and painting. She attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture on a fellowship. Ellsworth is a professor in the School of Art at ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University.
Career Her solo and collaborative works have addressed wide-ranging subjects such as physical fitness, endurance, illness, social ritual, and religious tradition. She is interested in art merging with everyday life and public and private experiences colliding in unexpected places.
Ellsworth has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia, and at the Arizona State University Art Museum in Tempe, Arizona. She is one of the founders of the Museum of Walking (MoW) which is the only museum of its kind in the United States. Her work can be found in Art News, Fiber Arts, Landscape Architecture Magazine, Canadian Art, Frieze Art, Artforum.com, and Performance Research.
She has presented work nationally and internationally including the Getty Center (Los Angeles), Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney), Australia), Zacheta National Gallery of Art (Warsaw, Poland), National Review of Live Art (Glasgow, Scotland), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (Los Angeles, California), Crystal Bridges (Bentonville, Arkansas), Arizona State University Art Museum (Tempe, Arizona), Museum of Contemporary Art (Denver), Colorado), Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (Scottsdale, Arizona), and Phoenix Art Museum (Phoenix, Arizona.)
Awards and grants include Art Matters, Franklin Furnace, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, The Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, New Forms Regional Initiative Grant, from Mexic-Arte Museum, and DiverseWorks, funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation. She is represented by Lisa Sette Gallery in Phoenix Arizona and Modern West Fine Art, Salt Lake City.
Personal life Ellsworth is a descendant of LDS prophet Lorenzo Snow and was raised as a Mormon; some of her work relates to her religious upbringing. She is openly queer and married to writer/ performer Tania Katan.
Selected solo exhibitions and performance (2018–2008) +For exhibitions before 2008, check out her Curriculum VitaeYearTitleGallery/MuseumLocationNotes2018Angela Ellsworth: Holding PatternLisa Sette GalleryPhoenix, ArizonaAngela Ellsworth: Leaving Loves CompanyUniversity of IllinoisSpringfield, IllinoisAngela Ellsworth: Between ThemWestern New Mexico UniversitySilver City, New Mexico2015Angela Ellsworth: Volume IJoseph Gross GalleryTucson, Arizona2014Stand BackCrystal BridgesBentonville, Arkansas Action/Interaction, (performance)Angela Ellsworth: VolumeLisa Sette GalleryScottsdale, ArizonaSoundproofed LaboratoryScottsdale Museum of Contemporary ArtScottsdale, ArizonaPromiscuous Code/ Plural Wife ProjectJulius Caesar GalleryChicago, Illinois(Two-person with ATOM-r: Mark Jeffrey & Judd Morrissey)2012-11 Seeing Is Believing: Rebecca Campbell and Angela EllsworthPhoenix Art MuseumPhoenix, Arizona(Installation, Sculpture, and Performance)2011Training, Walking, and DrawingFehily ContemporaryMelbourne, AustraliaThey May Appear in Alone, in Lines, or in ClustersLisa Sette GalleryScottsdale, ArizonaWhere The Skies Are BlueArizona State University Art MuseumTempe, Arizona(Performance)2010Angela Ellsworth: Seer Bonnets: A Continuing OffenseSnow College GalleryEphraim, UtahMeanwhile, Back At The RanchMuseum of Contemporary Art17th Biennale of Sydney, Australia(Performance)Another Women’s MovementIN>TIME, Chicago Cultural CenterChicago, Illinois(Performance)Another Women’s MovementMurphy Hall Fine Arts Building, Loyola Marymount UniversityLos Angeles, California(Performance)2009UnderpinningsLisa Sette GalleryScottsdale, ArizonaCompoundedLisa Sette GalleryScottsdale, Arizona(Performance)Arte Gigante Variety HourScottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Stage 2 Theatre,Scottsdale, ArizonaArtist on Artist Series, Collaboration with Rico Reyes
(Performance)2008OverflowThe Getty CenterLos Angeles, CaliforniaReinvention of Allan Kaprow’s Fluids, Collaboration with LA Art Girls (Performance)Is This The Place IIUniversity of CaliforniaSanta Cruz, CaliforniaIntervene! Interrupt! Rethinking art as Social Practice (Performance)Pace Yourself II: Flexible Detection of SoundGlendale Temporary Public Art ProjectGlendale, Arizona(Performance)Drawing on Site, National Review of Live ArtGlasgow, ScotlandDepicting Action (Performance)
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