Audra Wolowiec is an interdisciplinary artist from Detroit, MI, currently based in Brooklyn, NY, whose work mines themes of communication and modes of exchange. Through sculpture, sound, text and performance, she explores the idea of a fading connection to allow experiences that merge the sensory with the conceptual.

CONTACT audra(dot)wolo(at)gmail(dot)com

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EDUCATION
2007 MFA, Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design (honors)
2002 BFA, University of Michigan

SOLO
2011 Concrete Sound, Norte Maar, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Private Space in a Public Time, A/V Elevator Project, Art in General, New York, NY
2005 Telomere, Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI



PERFORMANCES / SCREENINGS
2013 Language Loops: a performance in the round, CAROUSEL, Brooklyn, NY
2012 The Broadmann Areas (collaboration with Margo Wolowiec and Julia Gleich), Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013
Rock Street (curated by Leslie Heller and Deborah Brown), Arts in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Words to be Seen and the Sound of Speech, Reverse, Brooklyn, NY
Text, Studio 10, Brooklyn, NY
Stones, Bones and Relics, Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, NY
First Contact, Field Projects, New York, NY
Reveal/Hidden, Guest Spot, Baltimore, MD
Plein Air, AIRPLANE, Brooklyn, NY
Migrations, Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
2011
Experimental Notations, Royal Nonesuch Gallery, Oakland, CA
Eraser, Magnan-Metz, New York, NY
Superposition, Hypertopia Projects, Seattle, WA
Detroit: A Brooklyn Case Study (curated by Chloe Bass and Mitch McEwen), Superfront LA, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
Twice Removed: A Survey of Take Away Work (curated by Karly Wildenhaus), Golden Age, Chicago, IL
In the Use of Others for the Change (collaboration with choreographer Julia K. Gleich), Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY
2010 

Sub Terrain, Work Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Science Fair, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY

Ecstatic, St. Cecilia’s, Brooklyn, NY

2009 

Impermanent Collections (curated by Christine Hou), Art in General, New York, NY

Urban Geological Expedition, Conflux City Festival, New York, NY

If/Else, Detroit Industrial Projects, Detroit, MI

2008 

Artists in Residence, Pocket Utopia, Brooklyn, NY
Penned (traveling exhibition), Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, Lump Gallery Projects, Raleigh, NC

The Audacity of Desperation, PS122 Gallery, New York, NY
2007

High Res, Industrial Design Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Then and Now: Fluxus and Happenings, Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of Design, RI

Rain or Shine, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI

2005 

Today Your Love Tomorrow the World, Commonwealth Gallery, Detroit, MI
Plexus, 4731 Gallery, Detroit, MI

CURATORIAL
2013 re/spond/re/peat, Soapbox Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (for more information click HERE)
2007 Instruction Sites: Dialogs in Public Space (text based work by: Patrick Killoran, Ben Kinmont, Learning to Love You More,        MBC: Melanie Manos and Sarah Buckius, Austin Thomas, Lisa Young), Arts in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY

RESIDENCIES
2013 (upcoming) University of Oregon, Physics Department, Eugene, OR
2010 The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2010 chashama, New York, NY

TEACHING / LECTURES
2013
Lecturer, Parsons the New School for Design, Undergraduate Art, Media & Technology, New York, NY
Guest Critic, Parsons The New School for Design, Graduate Thesis Review, New York NY
2012
Artist Lecture, Empty Words, Cage Transmitted Series, Dumbo Art Center, Brooklyn, NY
Guest Artist, Norte Maar Artists and Authors Series, Bushwick Public Library, Brooklyn, NY

Visiting Artist, Children's Museum of Manhattan, New York, NY
Art and Ecology for Teens, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY
Urban Geology Workshop, Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
2011
Artist Talk, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Art Instructor, Little Red School House, New York, NY
2010
Guest Artist, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY

Urban Geology Workshop, School of the Future, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Guest Artist, Art in General Teaching Artist Program, MS131, New York, NY
2008 Guest Critic, Glass Department, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2007 Guest Speaker, Public Arts Symposium, Lafayette College, Easton, PA

HONORS
2012 BRIC Rotunda Gallery Artist of the Month: June, Brooklyn, NY
2006 Awards of Excellence, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

2005 Graduate Endowment Fund, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

2002 Arthur Tagge Scholarship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2013
Sunday Feature: CONCRETE SOUND, Gwarlingo, April 21
2012
( ) and [ ] or we lean on the voices of others, word servents, Dec 12
Issue 13: Huffing and Puffing, textsound, July 1
Elana Mann, The People’s Microphony Songbook, July 1
Juliet Helmke, A Conversation with Artist of the Month Audra Wolowiec, BRIC Contemporary Art, June 19
Cara Ober, Information Interrupted, Urbanite Baltimore, June 5
Benjamin Sutton, New Ballet Explores Brain Maps Against Backdrop of Art, Blouin ArtInfo, April 13
Issue 6: Sound, Requited Journal, Jan 5
James Panero, Gallery Chronicle: "Concrete Sound" at Norte Maar, The New Criterion, Jan 1
2011
Issue 38: Futures, Thresholds Magazine, MIT Department of Architecture, Winter/Spring
Vince Contarino, Audra Wolowiec at Norte Maar, KCLOG, Dec 8
Thomas Micchelli, In the Use of Others for the Change, Brooklyn Rail, May 1
Hrag Vartanian, Julia K Gleich on Bushwick's New Collaborative Ballet, Hyperallergic, April 15
Katarina Hybenova, Sound and Space of Audra Wolowiec, Bushwick Daily, April 5
Artist in Residence, 491 Magazine, January 1
2010
Daniel Wentworth, The Fine Art Adoption Network, New York Foundation for the Arts, Dec 1
Brad Sanders, 'Sub Terrain' explores states of being at Work Gallery, The Michigan Daily, Sept 27
Eliza Strickland, When Artist’s Take Over the Science Fair, Discover Magazine Online, June 11
Daniel Pearce, Ecstatic at St. Cecilia’s, Idiom Magazine, March 17

2009
Christine Hou, Notes on an Impermanent Collection, Art in General, May 9
2008
Aaron Short, Fabric Art at Pocket Utopia, Bushwick Courier, May 2
2007
High Res: Ideas and Innovation for a Sustainable Future, Rhode Island School of Design, April 20
Michael Oatman, Esthetic Surplus, RISD MFA Thesis Essay, March 30

2005
Nick Sousanis, Plexus, The Detroiter, August 2