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Helina Metaferia
Helina Metaferia is an interdisciplinary artist working across collage, assemblage, video, performance and social engagement. Her work integrates archives, somatic studies and dialogical practices, creating overlooked narratives that amplify BIPOC/femme bodies. Metaferia received her MFA from Tufts University’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Recent solo exhibitions include Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco and New York University’s The Gallatin Galleries. Group exhibitions include Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit; CF Hill, Stockholm and Modern Art Museum, Addis Ababa. Metaferia’s work has been supported by several residencies including MacDowell, Yaddo, Bemis and MASS MoCA. She is currently an artist in residence at Silver Art Projects at the World Trade Center in New York City. Metaferia’s work has been written about in several publications, including New York Times, Financial Times, Artnet News, Hyperallergic and The Washington Post. Metaferia is an assistant professor at Brown University in the Visual Art Department.
Contact: Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA), Brown University, Box 2032, 96 Waterman Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA.