Artist: Ilana Harris-Babou
Title: Finishing a Raw Basement
Curated by: Ana Iwataki and Marion Vasseur Raluy
Screening: April 12 – May 3, 2017
Year: 2017
Duration: 6’40”
All images copyright and courtesy of the artist
Ilana Yacine Harris-Babou (b. 1991, Brooklyn, NY, lives and works in Richmond, VA)
She has recently participated in group exhibitions at Sculpture Center, NY, NY; Jewish Museum, NY, NY; Judith Charles Gallery, NY, NY; FJORD, Philadelphia, PA; Artspace, New Haven, CT and Le Doc, Paris, FR, among others. She has had solo exhibitions at Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia, PA and Broad Street Gallery in Hartford, CT. A solo show at Reynolds Gallery in Richmond, VA is forthcoming. She is currently a fellow at Virginia Commonwealth University and will be a Visiting Artist in Video at Williams College, MA in 2018. She will be an artist-in-residence at the Museum of Arts and Design, NY, NY this summer. Harris-Babou received a BA in Art from Yale University in 2013 and an MFA from Columbia University in 2016.
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