The MFA Fine Arts program at Otis College of Art and Design is pleased to have Ohan Brieding join its Visiting Artist Lecture Series for Spring 2023. Join us for this special artist presentation, followed by Q&A on Thursday, April 13th, 11:00 a.m. via Zoom.
Ohan Breiding works in photography, video, drawing, and varying forms of collaboration to depict the importance of kinship via active listening, historical events, and the landscape as witness. They employ a queer-feminist lens to the discussion of ecological care, and invite viewers to feel how resistance might move our bodies and to pay attention to the places that hold us as we persist.
Ohan Breiding has exhibited their work nationally and internationally. They are the 2022-2023 Amherst College Artist-in-Residence; the 2021 TBA (Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary) Academy Ocean Space Fellow in Venice, Italy; a 2019 Millay Colony Resident; and a 2018 Shandaken: Storm King Resident. They have received numerous awards, including the 2022 Hellman Award, the 2019 SIFF (Swiss International Film Festival) Award for The Rebel Body, a short film made with Shoghig Halajian and the participation of Silvia Federici (author of Caliban and the Witch); the 2017 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Award; and the 2012 DAAD Award. Their practice has been written about in Artforum, Art in America, Hyperallergic, and Whitewall, among others. Ohan Breiding is an Assistant Professor in the Art and Art History Department at Williams College in Massachusetts and is represented by Ochi Projects in Los Angeles.
