llana Harris-Babou: Revelations, an artist lecture

Join Artspace New Haven and Wesleyan University’s Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery for a lecture with artist Ilana Harris-Babou. Harris-Babou’s practice is interdisciplinary; spanning video installation, ceramics, and collages. She uses humor as a means to digest painful realities. She will discuss her recent work, including Human Design, Decision Fatigue, and Leaf of Life, on view at Artspace New Haven. 

This in-person, free public program is held in conjunction with the exhibition, Ilana Harris-Babou: Revelations, on view September 17–December 3, 2022. For in-person programs, Artspace encourages mask-wearing and social distancing to prevent the spread of COVID-19 within our community. This program will be live-streamed.

Ilana Harris-Babou (b. 1991, Brooklyn, New York) lives and works in Brooklyn. She has presented solo exhibitions of her work at institutions including Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (2021); Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland (2021); Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle (2020); and The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York (2017). Her work has been featured in group exhibitions including Contact Traces, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, California (2021); Care Box, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut (2021); and After the Plaster Foundation, Queens Museum, Corona, New York (2020). She has participated in major exhibitions including the Istanbul Design Biennial, Turkey (2020); and the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York (2019).