• Force Majeure, 2017• Plexiglas, aluminum, agar, bacteria, refrigeration system, LED lights, glass, epoxy resin, powder coated stainless steel, light bulbs, digital clocks, silicone, and silk flowers• dimensions variableInstallation View: The Hugo Boss Prize 2016: Anicka Yi, Life Is Cheap, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, April 21–July 5, 2017• Image courtesy of the artist, 47 Canal, New York, and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.• Photo: Joerg Lohse
• Force Majeure, 2017• Plexiglas, aluminum, agar, bacteria, refrigeration system, LED lights, glass, epoxy resin, powder coated stainless steel, light bulbs, digital clocks, silicone, and silk flowers• dimensions variableInstallation View: The Hugo Boss Prize 2016: Anicka Yi, Life Is Cheap, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, April 21–July 5, 2017• Image courtesy of the artist, 47 Canal, New York, and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.• Photo: Joerg Lohse
Lifestyle Wars, 2017• Ants, mirrored Plexiglas, Plexiglas, two-way mirrored glass, LED lights, epoxy resin, glitter, aluminum racks with rackmount server cases and Ethernet cables, metal wire, foam, acrylic, aquarium gravel, and imitation pearls• dimensions variable• Installation View: The Hugo Boss Prize 2016: Anicka Yi, Life Is Cheap, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, April 21–July 5, 2017• Image courtesy of the artist, 47 Canal, New York, and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.• Photo: Joerg Lohse
Anicka Yi (Postponed)
Thursday, November 2, 2017
6:30 pm
Institute of Contemporary Art 118 S. 36th Street Philadelphia, PA 19104
This event has been postponed to the spring 2018 semester.
Anicka Yi lives and works in New York City. Recent institutional solo exhibitions of her work include the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Fridericianum, Kassel; Kunsthalle Basel; List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts; The Kitchen, New York; and The Cleveland Museum of Art. Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at the 2016 Okayama Art Summit, Japan; the National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; the 11th Gwangju Biennale; the 13th Fellbach Triennial, Germany; Fundação de Serralves, Portugal; Taipei Biennial 2014; 12th Biennale de Lyon; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel; and Sculpture Center, New York, among other galleries and institutions. In 2011, she received The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. In October she was awarded the 2016 Hugo Boss Prize and will present a solo exhibition at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York in April 2017. Yi’s work is included in several public collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Aïshti Foundation, Jal el Dib, Lebanon; the Dikeou Collection, Denver; the Cleveland Museum of Art; Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Paris; the Julia Stoscheck Collection, Düsseldorf; the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art; the Rubell Family Collection; and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Yi has screened her film, The Flavor Genome, at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam in 2017. She is represented by 47 Canal, New York.