Kerry Tribe

Artist’s Statement

Most of my work touches on issues of consciousness and language and often memory. I make film and video installations, sound pieces, pictures and recently sculpture, moving between media and formats as the projects dictate. In recent years I’ve been particularly interested in the connection between the physical structures of the brain and the more ephemeral structures of subjectivity. The fact that the human body can house an unfathomably complex and contingent set of experiences never ceases to amaze me.

Carefully researched and produced, my large-scale cinematic projects often combine fictional and documentary approaches, and take shape through formal structures that underscore each work’s subject. I generally try to make work whose material, structural and conceptual bases together suggest that works of art may be capable of mirroring cognitive processes in expansive and generative ways.

Website: kerrytribe.com

Biography

Select Solo Exhibitions and Performances

2015
The Loste Note, 356 S. Mission Rd., Los Angeles, USA

2014
There Will Be ________, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia

2013
Critical Mass, performance at Modern Mondays, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

2012
Speak, Memory, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada

Select Group Exhibitions

2015
Exhibition Under Construction, Paramo, Guadalajara, Mexico

2014
Catalyst: Contemporary Art and War, Imperial War Museum North, Manchester, England

2013
Images of an Infinite Film, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

2012
True Stories: Scripted Realities, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

Select Fellowships and Awards 

2013
Artadia Fund for Art and Dialogue Awardee 

2012
United States Artists Fellow
Creative Capital Grantee

2005-2006
Guna S. Mundheim Fellow, American Academy in Berlin

EDUCATION

2002
M.F.A. University of California, Los Angeles

1998
Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York

1997
B.A. Brown University, Providence, BA