Fawn Krieger

Adjunct Instructor

Fawn Krieger is an artist based in New York City, whose multi-genre works examine how memory, rupture, and transference are embedded from the body into matter, and can be used as grounds for recovery and re-imagination.  Her work has been exhibited at The Kitchen, Art in General, The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Human Resources, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Soloway Gallery, and SE Cooper Contemporary. She earned her BFA from Parsons School of Design, and her MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. Her work has been written about in the New York TimesArtforumArt in America, Sculpture Magazine, NY Arts, Flash Art, BOMB, and Texte zur Kunst.  Krieger is a 2019 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award Fellow.

 

Image of Fawn Krieger's work.

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