Martine Syms is one of the artists in the 2015 Biennial ‘Surround Audience’ in the New Museum in New York. From February 25 until May 24.
Banner Triennial (not a work of Martine Syms)
About:
I am a conceptual entrepreneur based in Los Angeles, California. My work examines the assumptions of contemporary America, particularly the way that identity and memory are transformed by the shifting boundaries of business and culture.
From 2007–11, I directed Golden Age, a project space focused on printed matter that I founded. I currently run DOMINICA, an imprint dedicated to exploring blackness as a topic, reference, marker and audience in visual culture. I have lectured at Yale University, REDCAT, SXSW, Light Industry, Project Row Houses, the Houston Museum of African American Art, California Institute of the Arts, University of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland Institute College of Art, and MoMA P.S.1, among other venues. My artwork has been exhibited and screened extensively, including presentations at the New Museum (New York), Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia), MCA Chicago, Young Art (Los Angeles), The Green Gallery (Milwaukee), and White Flag Projects (St. Louis).
Email:
syms@dominicapublishing.com
About her projects:
The Queen’s English
The Queen’s English is an exhibition and reading room inspired by the distribution of information within black feminist communities in the 1970s. Through researching, collecting, archiving, and remembering, the project enacts the ways that knowledge circulates within subcultures, forging an intergenerational dialogue about language and representation.
Black Vernacular:
A talk that asks whether or not new media provide more opportunities for Black artists than conventional modes of distribution. Presented at SXSW Interactive 2013.
New Guards:
New Guards is an artist book that collects found scans from a water damaged copy of Stephen Shames’ seminal monograph The Black Panthers. Images by Bert Stabler.
About the Triennial:
The New Museum today announced the 2015 New Museum Triennial.’Surround Audience’, the only recurring museum exhibition in New York devoted to presenting works by early-career artists from around the world. The Triennial provides an important platform for an emergent generation of artists that is shaping the discourse of contemporary art. “The Triennial’s predictive, rather than retrospective, model embodies the institution’s thirty-seven year commitment to exploring the future of culture through the art of today,” said Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director.
This third iteration of the Triennial is titled “Surround Audience” and is co-curated by New Museum Curator Lauren Cornell and artist Ryan Trecartin. The building-wide exhibition will be on view from February 25 to May 24, 2015. It will feature fifty-one artists and artist collectives from over twenty-five
countries; for many of the participants, this will be their first inclusion in a museum exhibition in the United States.