Faith Wilding
Faith Wilding emigrated to the United States in 1961 from Paraguay. She received her MFA at CalArts where she was a founding member of the Feminist Art Program. Wilding is a multi-disciplinary artist, whose media include but are not limited to water color, performance, art, writing, crocheting, knitting, and weaving. Wilding received her MFA from the University of Iowa in 1969. She was a member of Students for a Democratic Society, participating in anti-Vietnam War activism and becoming involved with the feminist movement as well. In 1970, Wilding began working as a teaching at the California State University, Fresno's Feminist Art Program, founded by Judy Chicago, where she participated in the iconic feminist exhibition Womanhouse, held in an empty house. She also cofounded and collaborates with subRosa, a reproducible cyberfeminist cell of cultural researchers using BioArt and participatory performance in the public sphere to explore the intersections of information and biotechnologies in women’s bodies, lives, and work.
Recent publications, lectures, exhibitions and performances focus on issues of cyberfeminist (women and technology) theory and practice, with particular emphasis on biotechnology. Wilding has exhibited and lectured widely in the USA and Europe. Her audio work has been commissioned and broadcast by RIAS Berlin; WDR …
Faith Wilding emigrated to the United States in 1961 from Paraguay. She received her MFA at CalArts where she was a founding member of the Feminist Art Program. Wilding is a multi-disciplinary artist, whose media include but are not limited to water color, performance, art, writing, crocheting, knitting, and weaving. Wilding received her MFA from the University of Iowa in 1969. She was a member of Students for a Democratic Society, participating in anti-Vietnam War activism and becoming involved with the feminist movement as well. In 1970, Wilding began working as a teaching at the California State University, Fresno's Feminist Art Program, founded by Judy Chicago, where she participated in the iconic feminist exhibition Womanhouse, held in an empty house. She also cofounded and collaborates with subRosa, a reproducible cyberfeminist cell of cultural researchers using BioArt and participatory performance in the public sphere to explore the intersections of information and biotechnologies in women’s bodies, lives, and work.
Recent publications, lectures, exhibitions and performances focus on issues of cyberfeminist (women and technology) theory and practice, with particular emphasis on biotechnology. Wilding has exhibited and lectured widely in the USA and Europe. Her audio work has been commissioned and broadcast by RIAS Berlin; WDR Cologne; and National Public Radio, USA. Wilding has published in MEANING, Heresies, Ms. Magazine, The Power of Feminist Art, and other books and magazines. She is the recipient of two individual media grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Currently, Wilding is a faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the MFA in Visual Art Program at Vermont College of the Union Institute and University.
Courtesy of www.faithwilding.refugia.net and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
