Saya Woolfalk

Saya Woolfalk is a New York based artist who uses a craft-based approach to create all-encompassing imaginary spaces where she playfully reworks naturalized forms of race, gender, sexuality, and power. She completed the Whitney Independent Study Program in Studio 2007, holds an MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from Brown University. She has exhibited at PS1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, NY; the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, IN; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, IL; and Momenta Art in Williamsburg, NY.

She received an Art Matters grant to Japan and a NYFA grant (2007), a Fulbright Fellowship to Brazil (2005), a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA grant (2004), was a participant at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yaddo, and Sculpture Space.

Woolfalk will be a resident artist at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2008.