AUDRA WIST b. 1990
EDUCATION
2019 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison ME
2015 MFA, New Genres, UCLA, Los Angeles CA
2012 BFA, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA
2011 Yale University Summer School of Art, Norfolk CT
EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
2022 Untitled (performance), Singers, Brooklyn NY
LODESTAR, Iris Project, Venice CA
2021 The Ansonia Survey Part II, Gattopardo, Los Angeles CA
2020 TRUNK SHOW, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles CA
Fail Safe #3, online performance via Fail Safe, Pittsburgh PA
SIX VIDEOS, online exhibition, audrawist.com, Detroit MI
2019 Power Pose, DĄĄB, Brooklyn NY
Power Pose, Stoboskop, Warsaw, Poland
A Dynamic Texture of Mud Spots and Smears Over a White Background; Composite This Over Your Footage or Use For Transitions to Give Your
Footage A Grunge Style, Home Alone, Los Angeles CA
2018 REVOLT/RESTRAINT, LUNA Experimental Film + Media Series, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh PA
Summer Camp: À Rebours , Home Alone, Los Angeles CA
Daddy's Books, Life Lessons, Far Rockaway NY
TOOL Shirt, performance by Oscar David Alvarez with Taylor Sommer, The Broad Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
Keyword: International MAP, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA
2017 STUPID AND VICIOUS, 56 HENRY, New York NY
Sparkling, Still, or Spirit, The Ansonia Survey, Los Angeles CA
When Queens Collide: Conquest of the Universe with Tyler Matthew Oyer, Human Resources, Los Angeles CA
PPSA, Institute for New Feeling at LAABF, MOCA/Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles CA
2016 SEXAHOL, performance with Nate Zeidman, High Art, Paris, France
Audra Wist, The Definition of Sexiness, Autre Magazine LOVE issue launch party, Ace Hotel, Los Angeles CA
2015 Women In Sound, VIA, Pittsburgh PA
MFA #1, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles CA
If I Turn My Back On You, Warner Studios, Los Angeles CA
2014 Pardon My Condition, Raymond Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena CA
MFA Show, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles CA
At Land, curated by Dana Eitches, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles CA
When Queens Collide: Conquest of the Universe, PAM, Los Angeles CA
2013 CJE x MD 1-6 collaboration with Casey Jane Ellison, VIA, Pittsburgh PA
Light Asylum (live visuals), 6119, Pittsburgh PA
24K Filth: Pop Cabaret, 6119, Pittsburgh PA
2012 All Visual Boston, Aviary Gallery, Boston MA
LE1F with Kevin Ramser (live visuals), 6119, Pittsburgh PA
Ordinary Excess, curated by Zev Rector, private home, New York NY
Terms & Conditions, Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh PA
10th Anniversary Benefit at Bakery Square, Future Tenant, Pittsburgh PA
The Journal of the Plague Year, Ellis Gallery, Pittsburgh PA
2011 Why Don’t You Feel Me, artspace105, Homestead PA
Under New Management, Melwood Drug Store, Pittsburgh PA
Yale/Norfolk Final Show, Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate, Norfolk CT
Works on Paper, Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate, Norfolk CT
vitaminwater uncapped:LIVE with Kevin Ramser (live visuals), pop-up, Pittsburgh PA
Blow Your Video Box, Brillobox, Pittsburgh PA
WRITING
2018 Column, Financial Domination And Consensual Blackmail: Why People Get Off On Extortion, Salty
2017 Book, STUPID AND VICIOUS, self-published
Feature, Migos, Flaunt Magazine
Feature, Bebe Rexha, Flaunt Magazine
Feature, Betony Vernon, Flaunt Magazine
Column, Scammers, Flaunt Magazine
Feature, Thomas Linder, Flaunt Magazine
Event, Hermes, Flaunt Magazine
2016 Interview with Aiden Starr, Autre
Interview with Ed Piskor, Autre
Interview with Sally Spitz and Christine Wang, tir journal
Interview with Tessa Kuragi, Autre
Editorial, The Anatomy of a Session, MATH
Column, On Sweetness, Autre
Column, Sex in a Vacuum, Autre
Editorial, On Hands, BRKFST
2015 Column, Why Erotica, The B-Word
Interview with Lex Brown, Autre
Interview with Sheree Rose, Autre
Column, Men Need to be Touched, Autre
Column, Being A Witness, Autre
Column, The Joy of Facesitting, Autre
PRESS
2018 Tool Shirt by Oscar David Alvarez with Audra Wist and Taylor Sommer, Riting LA
Audra Wist, The Definition of Sexiness, SEXINESS: Rituals, Revisions, and Reconstructions, Discipline Press
2016 Interview with Tamara Santibañez, Sang Bleu
2015 Interview with Oliver Kupper, Autre
AWARDS, GRANTS, AND RESIDENCIES
2021 The Iris Project Residency
2020 Culture Source Creators of Culture Grant
2019 Skowhegan Fellowship Grant
2018 Flaherty Film Seminar, The Necessary Image, Anonymous Scholarship
LUNA Experimental Film & Media Series Grant, Pittsburgh Filmmakers
2014 Webster Scholarship, UCLA
2013 D’arcy Hayman Award, UCLA
Resnick Scholarship, UCLA
Art Council Award, UCLA
2012 Andrew Carnegie Society Scholar, Carnegie Mellon University
Samuel Rosenberg Senior Award, Carnegie Mellon University
2011 Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship, Yale University
Student Undergraduate Research Grant (SURG), Carnegie Mellon University
Individual Project Art Grant, School of Art, Carnegie Mellon University
Douglas Pickering Award, School of Art, Carnegie Mellon University
Student Undergraduate Research Grant (SURG), Carnegie Mellon University