Ja'Tovia Gary
Bio
Ja’Tovia Gary is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist working across documentary, avant-garde video art, sculpture, and installation. The artist has exhibited at the Hammer Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, MoMA PS1, Dallas Museum of Art, Centre Pompidou, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Locarno Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Anthology Film Archives, Film at Lincoln Center, and Harvard Film Archives, among other spaces. She has received generous support from the Ford Foundation, Cinereach, Sundance Documentary Institute, and Field of Vision. Gary has received fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Creative Capital, and Field of Vision, and is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow.
Artwork details
Quiet as its kept
, 2023Single channel video installation, 16:9 aspect ratio, stereo sound, admiral refrigerator with dried marigolds, 16 diner chairs26 minutes, dimensions variable
The Giverny Suite
, 2019Film, three-channel installation, stereo sound, HD and SD video footage, color/black & white, 1920 x 1080, 16:9 aspect ratio39:56 minutes, dimensions variable
In my mother's house there are many, many...
, 2023HD video, sound, speakers, 4 projectors, projection mapping, cotton bolls, steel144 × 108 × 108 inches
As you yield her your body and soul
, 2022Mixed media, cotton bolls, dried flowers, hand woven yoruba oja cloth cushions, sound, HD & SD video projection mapping145 5/8 × 192 7/8 × 192 7/8 inches
Quiet as its kept, 2023. Single channel video installation, 16:9 aspect ratio, stereo sound, admiral refrigerator with dried marigolds, 16 diner chairs. 26 minutes, dimensions variable.
