Anika Todd’s work investigates Western principles of property that authorize human control of earth and sky. Reaching into the air and below the ground, Todd uses sculpture and video to reconfigure materials and imaging techniques historically used for surveillance and control of public space, repurposing them for collective and playful use. Todd earned a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an MFA from The University of Texas at Austin. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Flux Factory, VisArts Center, and Co-Lab Gallery. She has participated in residencies at Stove Works, NARS Foundation, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and was a finalist for the 2022 NYFA Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design Award.
Sun Economy, Lydian Stater, 2023
To Hold Water, Exhibition still, water traveling on rope, a pump, three-channel video installation, Flux Factory, NY, 2021
GoneDaddyGone/Stimulus, Still from Digital Video, 4:00 minutes, 2020, teia.art
Cave Part A, Drop ceiling tiles, steel, 2x4s, drywall, molding, vent, electric heater, 8 x 8 x 2 feet, 2018
Common Ground, Used wood, marine foam, anchors, 8’ x 8’ x 4’10’’, 2019
OPEN, Performance still, Video, 11:49, flag erected in fenced-in abandoned lot, 2018
Two Cedar Waxing, Inkjet Prints, 10 x 12 inches each, 2022
EDUCATION
2020 MFA, University of Texas at Austin, Sculpture and Extended Media
2019 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
2015 BFA, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Sculpture, Departmental Honors
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
How to Hold, Cluley Projects, Dallas, TX
Dark Study, Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Dallas, TX
2023
Sun Economy, Lydian Stater, New York, NY
2021
To Hold Water, Flux Factory, New York, NY
2019
Grounded in Culver, Co-Lab Gallery, Austin, TX
2018
The Wild, VisArts Gallery, Rockville, MD
2016
Ladle, Salem Art Works, Salem, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Looking Back, Cluley Projects, Dallas, TX
ArtPrize, DeVos Convention Center, Grand Rapids, MI
Portmanteau, Lydian Stater, Queens, NY
2023
Faculty Exhibition, Des Lee Gallery, Saint Louis, MO
2022
SSSSSS, But Also Gallery, Washington, DC
In Good Company, Lydian Stater, New York, NY
Solstice, Flux Factory, Governors Island, New York, NY
Birds of a Feather, Stove Works Arts Center, Chattanooga, TN
2021
Borderwalls IV, The Border Project, New York, NY
The Fall, The Show, Lydian Stater, New York, NY
Visions for a New Normal, Payne Gallery, Bethlehem, PA
Pandemic Projections, Guardianship Artspace, Kearny, NJ
2020
______:Revisited, Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX
Ontology and the Ontic, NOW INSTANT Image Hall, Los Angeles, CA
Inner Out, Moonmist Gallery, Houston, TX
2019
Tin Ceilings and Other Specifics, The Magenta Suite, Exeter, NY
Flag, Bone in Throat Project Space, Tehran, Iran
A Witness Made Whole, European Gallery, Boston, MA
RESIDENCIES
2022 Artist in Residence, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
2021 Artist in Residence, I-Park, East Haddam, CT
2021 Artist in Residence, Flux Factory, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Studio Relief Program, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2018 Monson Art Residency, Monson, ME
2018 Haystack School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
2017 Arquetopia, Puebla, Mexico
2015 Salem Art Works, Salem, NY
AWARDS
2022 Finalist, NYFA Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design Fellowship
2021 City Artist Corps Grant, New York
2020 Artist Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts
2019 Capacity Building Award, City of Austin Arts Council
2019 Graduate School Continuing Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin
2018 Robert Levers Graduate Scholarship in Studio Art
2018 Kelly Fearing Presidential Scholarship in Art
2015 Morton Godine Fellowship, Massachusetts College of Art & Design
PRESS / INTERVIEWS
Glasstire Review, 2019
Glasstire Feature
Washington Post Review, 2018
Arranging Tangerines Episode 30 - A Conversation with Anika Todd
Arranging Tangerines Episode 2 - A Conversation with Anika Todd
WEBSITE: www.anikatodd.com