Speakers
- Helina Metaferia
- Mellon Fellow/ Assistant Professor, Brown University
Helina Metaferia is an interdisciplinary artist working in performance, video, collage, and assemblage. Her work examines the role of the body as object and subject in art, as well as its relationships to the politics of space. Helina has exhibited her work at venues including Museum of African Diaspora (San Francisco), Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (Detroit), Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), and New Museum (New York). Her work has been supported by organizations including Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and MASS MoCA. Helina completed her MFA in 2015 at Tufts University’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has taught at San Francisco Art Institute, Michigan State University, and Parsons Fine Arts / The New School. Helina is currently an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow / Assistant Professor at Brown University. She lives and works in New York City.