Ilana Harris-Babou
Bio: Ilana Harris-Babou was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She creates videos and sculptures in an abject exploration of the American Dream. Her work confronts the increasingly shaky notion that hard work, entrepreneurialism, and ingenuity will amount to upward mobility in the always uncertain future.
She has shown her work throughout the US & Europe, with solo exhibitions at The Museum of Arts and Design & Larrie in New York City. Other venues include the De Young Museum, the Jewish Museum, SculptureCenter, Abrons Art Center, the Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen, La Casa Encendida in Madrid, and Le Doc in Paris. Her work has been written about in The New Yorker, Vice, Artforum, Frieze, and The Village Voice, among others.
She received a BA from Yale University in 2013, and an MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University in 2016. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Williams College in Williamstown, MA.
Thesis Exhibition
Stills from Cooking with the Erotic (Dimensions variable, Video, color, sound, 2016)