bio

Wendy Babcox is a British interdisciplinary artist who received her BFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder and her MFA from the University of Florida where she received a Presidential Fellowship. She now teaches at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

Her work exists in a wide variety of media including photography, video, installation and performance and has received two public art commissions. She draws upon interrelatedness of site, place and contemporary in her recent works, calling upon the imagery of animals, tourist attractions and acts of female transgression.

Projects bave been exhibited and performed nationally and internationally in places such as the Bronx Museum the Kitchen and Exit Art in New York, The Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College in Chicago, the Transmodern Age Festival in Baltimore, the Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, Miami Beach Cinematheque, Miami the International Center of Bethlehem, Al Hoash Gallery, Jerusalem and in Russia, New Zealand, Mexico, Columbia and Peru.

Wendy has worked in a number of collective projects and is a founding member of the 6+ collective, which, amongst its projects has curated a traveling exhibition titled “Secrets”.

“Secrets” is an exhibition that includes work by members of the collective together with the work of eight Palestinian artists. “Secrets” has been exhibited both in the West Bank and here in the US. The collective has recently published a catalog with essays by Lucy Lippard and Maymanah Farhat.