Trisha Baga is a young artist working mainly in video and performance. Her approach is open and intuitive, with a homespun aesthetic that might incorporate screen effects, recordings of herself singing layered over soundtracks, scenes spliced together and improvised props. Picking up on chance constellations of objects in her bedroom, or familiar images cast in a new light, she is interested in the “common things” that surround us, using these to guide phenomenological compositions about the act of looking and recognising, and the potentiality that might lie in the gap between. Her work could be said to foreground distraction as a methodology: With an approach to narrative that recalls the logic of browsing online and hyperlinks, she allows herself the space to drift, notice and find.

Text from Claire Bishop, ArtForum January 2013

Born 1985, Venice, FL.
Lives and works in New York, NY.

2007 – 2010Milton Avery School of Art at Bard College, MFA

2008Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL

2003 – 2007The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY, BFA

Solo Exhibitions

2017Biologue, A New "Musical" by Trisha Baga, Los Angeles

2016Loaf, Société, Berlin, Germany

2015Orlando, Greene Naftali, New York

2014Zabludowicz Collection, London
Fish Love Music 2000 (with Jessie Stead), Old Room, 675 Hudson St. Apt. 4S
Gio Marconi, Milan

2013Peep Hole, Milan

2012Rock, Vilma Gold, London
Plymouth Rock 2, Whitney Museum, New York
Dundee Contemporary Arts in Scotland, Dundee
The Biggest Circle, Greene Naftali, New York
World Peace, Kunstverein Munchen

Group Exhibitions

2016Biennale of Moving Image 2016, Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, Genève, Switzerland (upcoming)
Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (upcoming)
Development, curated by Liam Gillick, Okayama Art Summit, Japan
Nam June Paik Award, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
Art Basel Parcours, Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland
Perfect Lives, Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Nothing Conceptual: la Meme Era, La Barra de Paquito, San Juan, Puerto Rico
What People Do For Money: Some Joint Ventures, Manifesta 11, Zurich, Switzerland
Seven on Seven, New Museum, New York
Overseas BF, curated by Signe Rose, Glovebox, Auckland
Onion By The Ocean, organized by Essye Klempner and Elisa Soliven Underdonk, Brooklyn, New York
default, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2015Co-Workers, Musee D’art Moderne Paris, Paris, France
Strange Pilgrims, The Contemporary Austin, Austin
Concentration 59: Mirror Stage–visualising the self after the internet, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
DIDING An interior that remains an exterior, Künstlerhaus KM, Graz
Yes We’re Open, Gio Marconi, Milan
Jane Hartsook Gallery, Greenwich House Pottery, New York
Cadence Exits, Proxy Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island

2014Forget Amnesia (with Jessica Stead) Volcano Extravaganza festival, Fiorucci Art Trust, Stromboli, Italy
Intimate Strangers, Museum Of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
Abscess, Rectum, Septum, Cave, Puerta Rico

2013The Magnificient Obsession(La Magnifica Ossessione), The MART, Rovereto, Italy
Screening selected by Helen Marten, Chisenhale, London
12th Lyon Biennal, various venues, France

2012New Pictures of Common Objects, curated by Christopher Y. Lew, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY
Troubling Space: The Summer Sessions, curated by Helga Just Christoffersen and Natasha Marie Llorens, Zabludowicz Collection, London
With the Tip of a Hat, The Artist’s Institute, New York City
entrance, curated by Isobel Harbison, Temple Bar, Gallery & Studios, Dublin

2011The Great White Way Goes Black, Vilma Gold, London
Performative Screening, Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York, NY
Hasta Manana, Greene Naftali, New York, NY
Rectangle with the Sound of Its Own Making, The Fourth Wall at Vox Populi, curated by Cecilia Dougherty, Philadelphia, PA

2010En el Barrio de Gavin Black through evas arche un der feminist in the back room of Gavin Brown Enterprise; curated by Pati Hertling, New York, NY
In the Company of; Housatonic Museum, curated by Terri Smith, Bridgeport, CT
The Pursuer; Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY
Greater New York Cinema Program; PS1, Long Island City, NY
Beside Himself; curated by Terri Smith, Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR
Hardcorps: Movement Research Festival 2010; Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY Alphabet Soup; The Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD
A Failed Entertainment: Selections from the Filmography of James O. Incandenza; The Leroy
Neiman Gallery at Columbia University, New York, NY

2009Adventures Close to Home; curated by Peggy Ahwesh, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
Los Solos II; curated by Bonnie Jones, The Load of Fun Theater, Baltimore, MD
The Fuzzy Set; curated by Pilar Conde, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
Then and Now, curated by Marlene McCarty, LGBT Community Center, New York, NY

2008Our Bodies, Our Selves; curated by A.L. Steiner, El Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Monte hermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Betweeen Us... curated by Meghan Dellacrosse, Leo Koenig Gallery, Andes, NY Salad Days 3, Artist’s Space, New York, NY
Intermission, Art-In-General’s Audio in the Elevator Program, New York, NY

2007Thank God for My Beautiful Black Locks of Golden Black Hair, Cooper Union’s Houghton Gallery, NewYork, NY

Performances

2012Pedestrian Mysticism, Cornerhouse, Manchester

Commissions

2009Love Affair of the Painter Balla and a Chair, Futurist Life: Redux for Performa09, Anthology Film Archives and SFMoMA
iShowU09, Alexander McQueen for Target Launch Event, curated by Sofia Hernandez

Awards

2008Joan Mitchell Foundation Scholarship, Atlantic Center for the Arts

2007MFA Fellowship, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY

2007Burckhardt Foundation Award, The Cooper Union, NY, NY

2003Cooper Union Full Tuition Scholarship, The Cooper Union, NY, NY

Bibliography

2016Osborne, Oliver, Trisha Baga: LOAF, Mousse Magazine, October - November
Sauerlaender, Tina, LOAF – A Blurry Eye Exam, or the Sourdough Hippocampus, Berlin, ARTE FUSE, Online, posted 27th September
Decline, Yves, trisha baga @ société reviewed, AQNB, Online, posted 16th September

2015Greenberger, Alex, Trisha Baga at Greene Naftali, ARTnews, Online, posted 18th December
Adams, Abraham, Trisha Baga, Greene Naftali, ARTFORUM, Online, posted 9th Novemeber
Smith, Roberta, Review: Trisha Baga Mixes Orlando, Fla., With ‘Orlando’, New York Times Online, posted 24th September
Sherman, Elisabeth, Ghost Writers, Elisabeth Sherman on Trisha Baga’s The Great Pam, Artforum, April, p.

2014Nathan, Emily, Where the moving image meets the still life, online essay, ARTnews 10th October 2014

2013Stern, Sara, Frieze d/e no. 10, June - August 2013
Lew, Christopher, Y. Swiping at Pictures, online essays, Aperture, 7th March 2013
Teasdale, Paul, Net Gains, Frieze, no.153, March 2013, p. 15

2012Vying for Fluency in Many Languages, Trisha Baga at the Whitney, Greene Naftali and MoMA
PS1, The New York Times, 27 December 2012
Trisha Baga interviewed by Jenny Jaskey on the occasion of “Plymouth Rock 2 at Whitney Museum, New York, Mousse Magazine, moussemagazine.it/trisha-baga-whitney/, 5 Dec. 2012. Dundee goes Pop: Trisha Baga, Holiday, at Dundee Contemporary Art, The Herald, 8 Dec. 2012 Fite-Wassilak, Chris, “Review: Trisha Baga: Rock”, Art Review, No. 61, Sept 2012, p. 124 – 125 Mclean-Ferris, Laura, “Trisha Baga: Rock”, Art Monthly, No. 356, May 2012, p. 24 – 25.
Piper Marshall, Case Study: Trisha Baga - The New York based artist’s latest video installation, Plymouth Rock, in: Frieze No. 147, May 2012, p. 178 – 179.
McMillan, Sian, “A Hard Place”, aqnb.com, 23 May, 2012
Reinhardt, Kathleen, “MEET New York-based artists Trisha Baga”, Kaleidoscope, March 2012

2011Rosales, Espranza, “Hands On”, Mousse, Vol. 31, December 2011, p. 110 – 111
Herbert, Martin, “Trisha Baga”, Time Out, 13-29 April, 2011, p. 43
“The Great White Way Goes Black”, Guardian Guide, 13 – 29 April, 2011, p. 34
Rutland, Beau, “Hast Manana”, Artforum, Vol. 50, No. 2, 2011, pp. 313 – 314. http://fourthwallatvox.blogspot.com/2011/01/patricia-baga.html, Patricia Baga, Fourth Wall, January 2011

2007Allen Strousse, Viral Video, http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/26142/viral-video/ 26 November 2007