Alyssa Taylor Wendt

Alyssa Taylor Wendt works as a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker and curator that works in Austin, Texas and Detroit, Michigan. Her recent projects reference themes of ritual, animism, interactivity, monuments, mysticism, the primordial, architecture and the palimpsestic nature of history using video, sculpture, staged photographs, sound and performance. Earning her BA from NYU and MFA from Bard College, she has shown and performed internationally since 2004. Her recent three-channel video installation H A I N T premiered at the Visual Arts Center at UT Austin and she is currently working on a new video piece about inherited memory. Transplanted to Texas from NYC, she has shown in numerous national and international exhibitions including: Women and Their Work, Austin (2015); Co-Lab Projects, Austin (2012, 2010); Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia (2011); and Babel Gallery, Norway (2009). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles (2018); Wassaic Project, New York (2018); DEMO Gallery, Austin (2017); Third Man Records, Detroit (2016); Northern-Southern Gallery, Austin (2015); New Museum for Contemporary Art, NY (2011); and Miami Art Basel (2008), among others. She has performed at The Museum of Art and Design, NY (2013), Deitch Projects, NY (2005) and Fusebox Festival, Austin (2012). She is also a recipient of numerous awards, including Official Winner of the International Istanbul Film Festival Award for H A I N T (2018) and the City of Austin Cultural Council Grant (2015-2020). She currently serves on the board of two non-profit arts organizations, works as a curator for numerous exhibitions and is a member of the ICOSA art collective in Austin.