American artist
Angela Ellsworth is a multidisciplinary American artist traversing disciplines of drawing, sculpture, installation, video, and performance. 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. She is a descendant of LDS prophet Lorenzo Snow and was raised as a Mormon ; some of her work relates to her religious upbringing.[ 1] [ 2] queer and married to writer/ performer Tania Katan .[ 3]
Ellsworth is a professor in the School of Art at ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University .[ 4] 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.[ 3] Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture on a fellowship.
Ellsworth has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney , Australia, and at the Arizona State University Art Museum in Tempe, Arizona .[ 3] Museum of Walking (MoW) which is the only museum of its kind in the United States. [ 5]
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.
For exhibitions before 2008, check out her Curriculum Vitae
Year
Title
Gallery/Museum
Location
Notes
2018
Angela Ellsworth: Holding Pattern
Lisa Sette Gallery
Phoenix, Arizona
Angela Ellsworth: Leaving Loves Company
University of Illinois
Springfield, Illinois
Angela Ellsworth: Between Them
Western New Mexico University
Silver City, New Mexico
2015
Angela Ellsworth: Volume I
Joseph Gross Gallery
Tucson, Arizona
2014
Stand Back
Crystal Bridges
Bentonville, Arkansas
Action/Interaction, (performance)
Angela Ellsworth: Volume
Lisa Sette Gallery
Scottsdale, Arizona
Soundproofed Laboratory
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Scottsdale, Arizona
Promiscuous Code/ Plural Wife Project
Julius Caesar Gallery
Chicago, Illinois
(Two-person with ATOM-r: Mark Jeffrey & Judd Morrissey)
2012-11
Seeing Is Believing: Rebecca Campbell and Angela Ellsworth
Phoenix Art Museum
Phoenix, Arizona
(Installation, Sculpture, and Performance)
2011
Training, Walking, and Drawing
Fehily Contemporary
Melbourne, Australia
They May Appear in Alone, in Lines, or in Clusters
Lisa Sette Gallery
Scottsdale, Arizona
Where The Skies Are Blue
Arizona State University Art Museum
Tempe, Arizona
(Performance)
2010
Angela Ellsworth: Seer Bonnets: A Continuing Offense
Snow College Gallery
Ephraim, Utah
Meanwhile, Back At The Ranch
Museum of Contemporary Art
17th Biennale of Sydney, Australia
(Performance)
Another Women’s Movement
IN>TIME, Chicago Cultural Center
Chicago, Illinois
(Performance)
Another Women’s Movement
Murphy Hall Fine Arts Building, Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, California
(Performance)
2009
Underpinnings
Lisa Sette Gallery
Scottsdale, Arizona
Compounded
Lisa Sette Gallery
Scottsdale, Arizona
(Performance)
Arte Gigante Variety Hour
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art , Stage 2 Theatre,
Scottsdale, Arizona
Artist on Artist Series, Collaboration with Rico Reyes
(Performance)
2008
Overflow
The Getty Center
Los Angeles, California
Reinvention of Allan Kaprow ’s Fluids, Collaboration with LA Art Girls (Performance)
Is This The Place II
University of California
Santa Cruz, California
Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking art as Social Practice (Performance)
Pace Yourself II: Flexible Detection of Sound
Glendale Temporary Public Art Project
Glendale, Arizona
(Performance)
Drawing on Site ,
National Review of Live Art
Glasgow, Scotland
Depicting Action (Performance)
[ 6]
References
^ "Intriguing Art with Social Commentary at Art Miami" . Artsy Editorial . Artsy. November 25, 2013. Retrieved February 26, 2016 .^ Sativa Peterson. "Hero Worship (2010) Angela Ellsworth" . Phoenix New Times . Retrieved February 26, 2016 . ^ a b c Kathleen Vanesian. "Angela Ellsworth on Being Gay, the Mormon Church, and Her Increasing Artistic Success" . Phoenix New Times . Retrieved February 26, 2016 . ^ ASUHerberger (October 29, 2018), Meet Angela Ellsworth, School of Art Professor , retrieved March 2, 2019 ^ Sarah Ventre (November 6, 2015). "Museum of Walking Wishes You Would Take a Hike" . KJZZ . Rio Salado College and Maricopa Community Colleges. Retrieved February 26, 2016 . ^ "CV" . Angela Ellsworth . Retrieved March 2, 2019 .
