Institute of Empathy, 2011. Mixed Media installation and performance, 1 hour.
Institute of Empathy: Ritual of the Empathics, 2009. Performance, 30 min.
The Anthropologist (left) and The Artist (right), 2008. 8 × 10 inches each, Two color photographs. Monika Jamak, photographer, Olan Mills Portrait Studio, Kmart.
Ethnography of No Place, 2008. Video, 30 minutes. Collaboration with filmmaker and anthropologist Rachel Lears.
No Place (pre)Constructed: Self (ancestor), Self (female/male), Self (female), Self (adolescent blue and pink), 2008. 17.5 × 25 × 9 feet, Mixed media installation.
No Place (pre)Constructed: The Ideal City and the Love Machine, 2008. 15 × 17 × 12 feet, Mixed media installation.
In the Biodome (social life and the four energies), 2008. 30 × 40 feet, Gouache on paper.
Cartography of No Place, 2008. 30 × 40 inches, Gouache on paper.
No Placean Anatomy, 2008. 20 × 26 inches, Silkscreen, digital print, and gouache on paper.
Utopia Vendor, 2007. Variable dimensions, Performance.
Winter Garden: Hybrid Love Objects, 2005. Mixed media installation, 14 × 26 × 10 feet. Performance and video, 7.5 min.
Jumble Patch: Transitional Love Objects, 2006. Mixed media installation, 24 × 36 × 10 feet. Performance and Video, 7 min.
Paradise Imagined, 2004. Mixed media installation, 24 × 24 × 10 feet. Performance and video, 30 min.
Sweethearts, 2004. Performance 30 minutes and video 7 minutes.
Love Monster, 2003. Performance 30 min and video 5 min.
Saya Woolfalk is a New York artist who re-imagines the world in multiple dimensions (sculpture, installation, painting, performance and video). She has exhibited at PS1/MoMA; Deitch Projects; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Studio Museum in Harlem; Momenta Art; Performa09; and has been written about in Sculpture Magazine and on Art21’s blog. With funding from the NEA, her solo exhibition, The Institute of Empathy, ran at Real Art Ways from the Fall of 2010 to the Spring of 2011. She is currently an artist-in-residence at the Newark Museum and is working on a solo project for the Montclair Art Museum (2012).
exhibitions: Saya Woolfalk: _Hybrid Cosmology_