Deborah Wing-Sproul, Assistant Professor

Deborah Wing-Sproul works across the disciplines of performance art, video, photography, installation, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. Co-founder of pfvac (Portland Film and Video Artists Collective). Performer for Marina Abramovic's 2010 retrospective at MoMA: "The Artist Is Present". Recent solo exhibition: "Water, Algae, Ice: Works from Tidal Culture I, II, III and IV (Maine, Newfoundland, Greenland and Iceland)", Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT. Recent group exhibitions: "Rehearse, Rewind, Repeat", Seigfred Gallery, Ohio University, Athens; "H2O: Film on Water", Curator Denise Markonish (Mass MoCA); "Overlap" a performance collaboration with Ling-Wen Tsai, The Month of May performance series, NYC; "one/another", video collaboration with Ling-Wen Tsai, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME, Tampopo Art Space, Tainan County Taiwan and Festival Images Contre Nature, Marseilles, France; "Beyond Printmaking", Landmark Arts, Texas Tech University School of Art, Lubbock, TX. Wing-Sproul has received numerous awards and grants for her ongoing, itinerant, cross-disciplinary work: Tidal Culture (2004-).

 

Publications

• Performing Remains: Art and War in an Age of Theatrical Reproduction, Rebecca Schneider,  Routledge, pub., forthcoming
  Movement Research Performance Journal #37 (September 2010), forthcoming
• Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present, Klaus Biesenbach; Essays by Klaus Biesenbach, Arthur C. Danto, Chrissie Iles, Nancy Spector, and Jovana Stokic; The Museum of Modern Art, pub., Exhibition Catalog, 2010
• Water, Algae, Ice: works from Tidal Culture I, II, III and IV; Exhibition Catalogue, Housatonic Museum, 2009
• "Drift, Patricia C. Phillips", catalogue essay for water, algae, ice, Housatonic Museum, 2009
• "On the Beach", Kay Larson, catalogue essay for water, algae, ice, Housatonic Museum, 2009
• "Tidal Culture", Drain Magazine, Issue: “Cold”, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2009
• Here, There and Everywhere: Anticipating the Art for the Future, TransCultural Exchange, Exhibition Catalogue, 2008
• Crossing of Time and Environment: Micro Installations, Toshei Village, Tainan, Taiwan, Exhibition Catalog, 2008
• Beyond Printmaking, Landmark Arts, Texas Tech University School of Art, Lubbock, TX, Exhibition Catalog, 2007

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Education

MFA, State University of New York at New Paltz
The International Film & Television Workshop, Rockport, ME
Film Video Arts, NYC
School of Visual Arts, NYC

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Printmaking Faculty-Deborah Wing-Sproul