Nationality American Website sabinaott.com | Name Sabina Ott | |
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Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada | ||
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Sabina Ott is an American painter, sculptor, installation and video artist known for her broad range of work and her central role in the art world as teacher, administrator, and recently as the founder of the exhibition space Terrain, which invites artists to create installations and performances using the exterior of her Oak Park, Illinois home.
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She earned both her BFA and MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.
Recognition
Exhibiting since 1985, Ott has participated in over 100 solo and group exhibitions at institutions in São Paulo, Brazil; Auckland, New Zealand; Melbourne, Australia; and many cities across the US. Her work is in numerous museum collections including The Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Oakland Museum of Art. She has been reviewed in Art in America, Art Forum, New Art Examiner, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times, among other publications. She is Professor of Art at Columbia College in Chicago.
Ott has received a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artists Grant in 1990 and a Howard Foundation Grant from Brown University for research combining digital media and painting in 2001. Ott was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2015. Ott was recognized by The Chicago Tribune as the 2015 Chicagoan of the Year in Art and was awarded Distinguished Teaching of Art Award by the College Art Association in 2016.
Exhibitions
- who cares for the sky? Hyde Park Art Center February 21 - May 1, 2016
- here and there pink melon joy Chicago Cultural Center August 30, 2014 – January 4, 2015
- Sabina Ott: Ornament Riverside Arts Center November 23 - January 11, 2014 http://www.riversideartscenter.com/sabina-ott-ornament/
- Scape "The Franklin", Chicago, IL with artists Alison Ruttan, Joe Jeffers, Assaf Evron and Alex Tam
- to perceive the invisible in you St. Xavier University, Chicago, IL: (catalog essay by Dr. Alison Fraunhar), 2012
- Frequently the Woods are Pink "Sabina Ott and Michelle Wasson," What It Is, Oak Park, IL May 2 - June 5, 2010
- What Is Always Is Sub –City Projects, Chicago, IL, 2010
- what’s not here is nowhere University of Texas, San Antonio, TX: (catalog essays by Christopher Miles and Sue Spaid), 2006
Terrain Exhibitions
In 2011 Sabina Ott co-founded Terrain Exhibitions with writer John Paulett. Terrain Exhibitions is an artist run project space in Oak Park, Illinois. Terrain Exhibitions differs from most artist run or "apartment spaces" insofar as the artists works are exhibited outdoors in the front yard and are accessible 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. Ott and Paulett invite artists to create interventions into the conventional or traditional idea of what a front yard should be and how it might function. Ott and Paulett ask artists to consider the differences between private and public space and explore intersections between decoration and utility. Terrain Exhibitions is located across from Longfellow School in Oak Park, at the intersection of Highland and Jackson Avenues. Exhibiting artists have included Claire Ashley, Lise Haller Baggesen, Leslie Baum, Judith Brotman, (f)utility Projects, Michelle Grabner, Brad Killam, Anna Kunz, Jeroen Nelemans, Melissa Potter, Mat Rappaport, Judy Rushin, Alison Ruttan and Edra Soto. In addition to Terrain Exhibitions, Ott and Paulett also organize the Terrain Biennial, a monthlong exhibition that asks the local community to adopt an artist for the duration of the project and work with them to create an installation or artwork situated in their front yard or garden space. The Terrain Exhibitions Biennial first occurred in 2013 and will take place once more in 2015, expanding to include other artist run spaces in the Oak Park area.
Terrain Exhibitions has also participated in the annual Oak Park July 4 parade on two occasions with Claire Ashley in 2012 and Lise Haller Baggesen in 2014.