Artists and Loss

Artists (alphabetical order by last name) 

• Janine Antoni 
  • http://www.janineantoni.net/

• Ghada Amer 
  • Outdoor sculpture titled “Love Grave”: https://www.ghadaamer.com/gardens

• Mimi Bai 
  • https://mimibiyaobai.com/

• Brianna Baurichter 
  • Video, installation, death, caregiver
  • https://www.briannabaurichter.com
  • https://www.instagram.com/briannabaurichter

• Sierra Berry 
  • https://www.siaraberry.com/

• Kim Brandt 
  • https://www.kimbrandt.net/

• Nikesha Breeze
  • Black, female, queer Sculptor 
  • https://www.nikeshabreeze.com/
  • Death Masks 
    • https://www.nikeshabreeze.com/108-death-masks
    • https://www.instagram.com/p/CA5XzUrFQ6l/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

• Noa Charuvi 
  • https://www.noacharuvi.com/ruins-1

• Lu Colby 
  • https://www.lucolby.com/#/who-put-baby-in-the-corner/

• Leslie Condon
  • https://www.leslieannecondon.com/

• Leigh Davis
  • http://www.leighdavisprojects.com/
  • “Vigil” at BRIC/Green-Wood Cemetery: https://www.bricartsmedia.org/offering?utm_source=BRIC+Master+Email+List&utm_campaign=f3abab7960-BRIC_HAPPENINGS_5_9_2019_COPY_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9587a10210-f3abab7960-270076640&mc_cid=f3abab7960&mc_eid=159298b5c5

• Jane Edberg 
  • Artist and memoir writer 
  • https://www.thefineartofgrieving.com

• Jennifer Ewing 
  • Paintings and spirit boat workshops
  • https://letsreimagine.org/3780/tour-of-spirit-boat-paintings
  • https://jenniferewing.com/
  • https://www.ewinggermano.com/
  • https://howtonavigatechange.com/
  • https://howtonavigatechange.com/meditation-drawing/

• Nona Faustine 
  • https://www.smackmellon.org/artist/nona-faustine/

• Shaina Garfield
  • Artist website: http://www.shainagarfield.com/
  • Founder of Leaves with You (macrame biodegradable coffins) https://www.leaveswithyou.com/

• Langdon Graves
  • https://cargocollective.com/langdongraves
  • https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/interviews/langdon-graves-months-mind-victori-mo-1202674935/

• Felix Gonzalez-Torres
  • https://www.felixgonzalez-torresfoundation.org/

• Rachel Grobstein 
  • https://rachelgrobstein.com/

• Mona Hatoum
  • https://whitecube.com/artists/artist/mona_hatoum
  • https://www.cobosocial.com/dossiers/mona-hatoums-remains-of-the-day-at-white-cube-hong-kong/

• Heide Hatry  
  • Portraits made from the ashes of the deceased. “Hatry found a contemporary formulation of the memento mori that has pervaded art since the very beginning of culture.”
  • https://www.heidehatry.com/
  • https://www.heidehatry.com/

• Gyun Hur 
  • http://www.gyunhur.com/

• Pia Interlandi – clothing,dressing the dead
  • http://www.piainterlandi.com/adressing-death/
  • http://www.piainterlandi.com/garments-for-the-grave/
  • http://www.piainterlandi.com/abc-soul-documentary/
  • http://www.piainterlandi.com/funeral-celebrancy-dressing/
  • http://www.piainterlandi.com/dissolvable-garments/

• Sun Young Kang 
  • https://www.sunyoungkang.com/in-between-presence-and-absence2

• McKendree Key 
  • https://mckendreekey.wixsite.com/mysite

• Heidi Lau
  • http://www.heidilau.org/

• Mark Mitchell – burial shrouds and sculptures
  • http://mark-mitchell-9vfm.squarespace.com/
  • Instagram live talk 

• Catalina Ouyang 
  • https://catalinaouyang.com/

• Kat Ovsak 
  • http://www.katovsak.com/bio

• Amanda Palmer 
  • https://modernloss.com/the-art-of-the-public-deathbed/

• Freya Powell 
  • http://www.freyapowell.com/
  • Freya Powell’s performance project, Only Remains Remain, draws from the Greek tragedy, Antigone, to create an elegy for the hundreds of unidentified migrants buried in mass graves in Sacred Heart Cemetery in Brooks County, Texas. Working with an ensemble of 15 performers, Powell explores the mournful potential of the voice. Through a collaborative process, the work utilizes pitch, intonation, breath, movement, and silence to embody a contemporary tragedy through the structure of a Sophoclean chorus.

• Patria Soli Project (homeland soil)
  • https://www.patriasoli.com/
  • a socially engaged art project for people who are not able to go back to their homeland at the end of their life. This project delivers soil from one’s homeland to a person.

• Doris Salcedo
  • https://whitecube.com/artists/artist/doris_salcedo

• Keisha Scarville 
  • https://keishascarville.com/home.html

• Taryn Simon 
  • http://tarynsimon.com/
  • Occupation of Loss book: https://www.artbook.com/9783775743197.html 

• Rosalie Smith
  • https://www.artworkarchive.com/profile/brandnolaart/artwork/aeternum-i-iv?artist=rosalie-smith
  • https://www.instagram.com/rosalieglsmith/
  • https://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/lifestyle/exploring-grief-death-and-life-rosalie-smith-explores-the-ephemeral-through-her-art/article_5caeaffa-b08f-5fc9-ad68-5ad634ad0d58.html

• Kazumi Tanaka
  • http://www.kazumitanaka.com/

• Elizabeth Velazquez
  • https://elizabethvelazquez.com/
  • She creates and performs rituals to honor the dead, specifically those whose deaths have historically been ignored or unacknowledged.

• Kathleen White 
  • https://hyperallergic.com/422060/nan-goldin-kathleen-white-pioneer-works/
  • https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/how-are-you-nan-goldin-kathleen-white/?utm_source=Pioneer+Works&utm_campaign=27e5edfc03-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_05_01_04_51_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d930633402-27e5edfc03-417244734&mc_cid=27e5edfc03&mc_eid=2e8f6d3746

• April Wright 
  • https://www.apriljwright.org/about – themes of loss, home, domestic, ruin

• Cecila Yang 
  • https://modernloss.com/after-a-mothers-death-drawing-all-the-things/