Artist Name: Kara Springer
Residency Dates: July – December 2022
Born: 1980, Bridgetown Barbados
Lives & Works: New York & Toronto
URL: http://www.karaspringer.ca
Education: University of Toronto / ENSCI les Ateliers, Paris / Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia
Bio/Statement:
Kara Springer is particularly concerned with armature—the underlying structure that holds the flesh of a body in place. She works with photography, sculpture, and site-specific interventions to explore systems of structural support through engagement with architecture, urban infrastructure, and systems of institutional and political power. Her practice is fundamentally rooted in processes of care and tending – in being attune to the specificities of a given context and environment in order to better understand how a structure might live sustainably in relationship to the world around itself. She often uses macro-focus alongside shifts in scale, frame, and repetition, as a way of asking a viewer to look closely and regard with reverence something otherwise easily mistaken as unremarkable. She is fundamentally interested in the question of how one might at times agitate a broken system, and at others endeavor to heal, to reconstitute new forms out of the broken pieces of a structure, a system, a body, a place.
Springer holds degrees from the University of Toronto, ENSCI les Ateliers in Paris, and the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Toronto, the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art, the National Gallery of the Bahamas, the National Gallery of Jamaica, and the Frankfurt Museum of Applied Arts. She is an alum of the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art and recently held a fellowship with the Museum of Fine Arts Houston Core Program.
