Name Wendy Jacob | Role Artist | |
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Education School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Williams College | ||
Interview with wendy jacobs
Wendy W. Jacob (born 1958) is an multidisciplinary artist. She is best known for works in the areas of sculpture, public art and urban intervention.
Contents
- Interview with wendy jacobs
- Wendy jacob disart performance feat aj paschka christian vanduinen and brandon copeland
- Life
- Art career
- Exhibitions
- Collections
- Awards
- References
Wendy jacob disart performance feat aj paschka christian vanduinen and brandon copeland
Life
Jacob was born in Rochester, New York in 1958. She received her bachelor's degree from Williams College in 1980, and her Master of Fine Arts degree from the Art Institute of Chicago.
Art career
She has created installations and interventions in social spaces since 1989, and has developed a distinct body of sculptural works which investigate the interface between architecture and the bodies of the people and animals who inhabit the built environment. Jacob is also a member of the Chicago-based collaborative Haha, whose work focuses on the exploration of social positions relative to a particular site, and which has produced over two dozen influential projects since the late 1980s.
One of Jacob's collaborations has been the creation of the Squeeze Chair, inspired by Temple Grandin's hug machine. For several years in the 1990s, Jacob has worked with Grandin in developing furniture that squeezes or 'hugs' users.
She is as an associate professor of visual arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Exhibitions
Jacob has had solo exhibitions at
Collections
Jacob's work resides in the collections of Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris, France; Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain (fr), Poitou-Charentre, Poitier, France; Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain, Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California; and the MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, Illinois.
Awards
She received the Creative Capital Visual Arts Award in the year 2000. In 2011 she received the Maud Morgan Prize from the Boston Museum of Fine Art.