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Visiting Artists Research Guide : Anna Kipervaser, 11/6/24

Lecture Details

Title: "Terrain Ahead" film screening with directors Anna Kipervaser + Majd Alloush

Date: Wednesday, November 6 at 1:30 PM

Location: 36 Edgewood Ave., Room 204

Additional Details:  This event is open to Yale community members only.

Artist Biography

Anna Kipervaser — The Movie Database (TMDB)Anna Kipervaser is a Ukrainian-born artist who currently resides in upstate New York. Kipervaser's family moved the United States 1989. She earned her BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 2003 and her MFA from Duke University in 2015. Kipervaser's career path and artistic practice were strongly impacted by witnessing the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The attack occurred on the first day of an arts residency she held in New York City. Kipervaser's works explore topics such as human and animal bodies, ethnicity, religion, colonialism, and the environment. Her pieces span various disciplines including experimental and documentary moving image works in 16mm film and digital video, paintings, and prints. Kipervaser currently serves as a lecturer at Binghamton University.

Artist's Website

Articles and Written Interviews

Podcasts

Sample Artworks

Artwork titled Semaphores - A Hoarding

Semaphores - A Hoarding, Collaboration with Majd Alloush, Shot on 35mm Ektachrome film stock, 49.7cm x 44cm

Artwork titled Kurdish Nightjar

Kurdish Nightjar, oil on panel, 2010, 6 in x 6 in

Artwork titled Night Spring

Night Spring, Light box

Videos

Innerview #57 Anna Kipervaser

The Call of Cairo: An Artist Talk