Ilana Harris-Babou

Ilana Harris-Babou (born 1991) is an American sculptor and installation artist.[1] Harris-Babou was born in Brooklyn, New York,[2] and currently lives and works in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where her studio is located.[3] Her upbringing was discussed in an interview on the Amy Beecher Show in August 2019.[4]

Ilana Harris-Babou
Born
Ilana Yacine Harris-Babou

1991 (age 29–30)
Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
EducationYale University
BA – 2013
Columbia University
MFA – 2016
Websiteilanahb.com

Artistic practice

Harris-Babou often uses music videos, cooking shows, and home improvement television as material in her practice, often dissecting notions of the American Dream. Her practices engages ideas about intimacy, violence, and consumption.[1] Harris-Babou speaks to her audience through humor and reconstructed consumer culture.[5] She describes her work more in an interview with PIN-UP.[6]

In 2018, she created a fake hardware store at the Larrie Gallery in New York City. This project, titled "Reparation Hardware", features reclaimed furniture to create sculptures that reflect the notion of making the old new again.[7] Her work on "Reparation Hardware" critiques double standards and the modern American ideals of life within the home. She also features political messages reflecting the emancipation and equality of African-Americans in the United States.[8]

Her most recent exhibition is titled "Decision Fatigue" and was featured at Hesse Flatow in New York City from February 20 to March 21, 2020. This exhibit features a video of Harris-Babou's mother, Sheila Harris conducting a makeup tutorial. The artist's mother reflects on her choices to appear youthful and healthy, questioning the reality of her youth. Harris-Babou uses this video to examine how structural problems are sometimes concealed as personal choices. The exhibit also features sculptures that are similar to items found in a boutique but altered to appear abnormal.[5]

Selected exhibitions

Awards
  • 2017 Artist Community Engagement Grant, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York City[17]
  • 2017 Van Lier Fellow, Museum of Arts and Design, New York City[10]
  • 2018 Session, Recess Art, New York City
  • 2020 National YoungArts Foundation’s Jorge M. Pérez Award[18]

References
  1. "Ilana Harris-Babou". madmuseum.org.
  2. Hockley, Rujeko 19XX- HerausgeberIn. Panetta, Jane. HerausgeberIn. WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2019. p. 84. ISBN 0-300-24275-1. OCLC 1080896026.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. Hockley, Rujeko 19XX- HerausgeberIn. Panetta, Jane. HerausgeberIn. WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2019. p. 172. ISBN 0-300-24275-1. OCLC 1080896026.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. "Episode 30 : Ilana Harris-Babou — The Amy Beecher Show - Podcast". amybeecher.show. Retrieved February 29, 2020.
  5. "Ilana Harris-Babou: Decision Fatigue | February 20 - March 21, 2020". Hesse Flatow. Retrieved February 29, 2020.
  6. Entertainment, The only biannual Magazine for Architectural. "INTERVIEW: Artist Ilana Harris-Babou On Power Dynamics Of Domestic Aspirations". pinupmagazine.org. Retrieved February 29, 2020.
  7. "Ilana Harris-Babou and the Narrative of the Anomaly". Cultured Magazine. November 29, 2018. Retrieved February 29, 2020.
  8. Schroeder, Katja. "Further Thoughts on Earthy Materials." (2018). https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e548/b5410cbc61e6ceb5bc6198a57fff16601a92.pdf
  9. "March 2016 Programs at the Jewish Museum Feature Albert Einstein, Artists Responding to Unorthodox, Artist Omer Fast, and More". The Jewish Museum. Retrieved March 5, 2019.
  10. "Fellow Focus: Ilana Harris-Babou: One Bad Recipe". madmuseum.org.
  11. Entertainment, The only biannual Magazine for Architectural. "REPARATION HARDWARE: ILANA HARRIS-BABOU'S TAKE ON THE AMERICAN DREAM". pinupmagazine.org. Retrieved March 5, 2019.
  12. "Ilana Harris-Babou". The New Yorker. Retrieved March 5, 2019.
  13. Steinhauer, Jillian (February 25, 2019). "The Whitney Biennial: 75 Artists Are In, and One Dissenter Steps Out". The New York Times.
  14. Hockley, Rujeko 19XX- HerausgeberIn. Panetta, Jane. HerausgeberIn. WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2019. p. 173. ISBN 0-300-24275-1. OCLC 1080896026.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  15. https://artspacenewhaven.org/exhibitions/strange-loops/
  16. "Ilana Harris-Babou: Decision Fatigue | February 20 - May 16, 2020 - Overview". Hesse Flatow. Retrieved September 29, 2020.
  17. "Ilana Harris-Babou – Rema Hort Mann Foundation".
  18. ARTnews, The Editors of (January 13, 2020). "ARTnews in Brief: Kohn Gallery Now Represents Sophia Narrett—and More from January 14, 2020". ARTnews.com. Retrieved January 14, 2020.
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