Artist Statement/ Biography

Todd is a sculptor/media artist investigating landscape and ownership; Todd’s work functions through acts of trespass -- simultaneously enacting and challenging systems that oppress, compartmentalize, and own in order to control. Todd interrogates her relationship to place by actively capturing interventions into sites and materials-- noting her dissection, her trespass, her mending, her labor in producing the works. She then uses photo, video, and sculpture to record and transfer the metaphors embodied in her actions into the gallery space. In addition to these self-reflexive works, Todd creates architectural works and installations that focus the viewer on their own lens -- inviting them, through participation, to consider how their access and position within the built infrastructure curates their vantage point, shaping their relationship to other viewers and the landscape.

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Anika Todd (b.1992, Boston, MA) received her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and her MFA from The University of Texas at Austin. She has created site-specific installations in the US and abroad. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at VisArts Center, Richmond, VA and Co-Lab Gallery, Austin, TX featured in the Washington Post (2018) and Glasstire (2019) respectively. She was the recipient of a City of Austin Cultural Art Council Award (2019) and the Godine Travel Award (2017). She has been selected to participate in numerous residencies including Salem Art Works (2017), Haystack School of Craft and Design (2018), and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2019).