AUDRA WIST b. 1990 Butler, Pennsylvania U.S.A.

 

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

2024 McDazzler’s Chest, PRACTICE Gallery, Philadelphia PA

2022 Untitled (performance), Singers, Brooklyn NY

ULTIMATE POWER reading, DELI, New York 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