Set in Motion is the Henry’s first city-wide public art exhibition, organized by Shamim M. Momin, Director of Curatorial Affairs. This multi-artist project asks what it looks like to mobilize art and encourage community engagement under lockdown and while socially distanced. How do creative communities respond or adapt to shifting or exacerbated spatial and financial constraints? What is the role of public art now? Joined in conversation are four of the ten
Set in Motion artists, Marin Burnett, Amir H. Fallah, Genevieve Gaignard, and Nina Vichayapai, who will discuss their work within and beyond the exhibition. UW Bothell Artist-in-Residence, Anida Yoeu Ali, will provide moderation and guide the conversation from her experience making and performing critical works for public space.
ARTIST BIOS
Anida Yoeu Ali is an artist, educator, and global agitator born in Cambodia, raised in Chicago and transplanted to Tacoma. Ali’s multi-disciplinary practices include performance, installation, videos, images, public encounters, and political agitation. Her installation and performance works investigate the artistic, spiritual and political collisions of a hybrid transnational identity. Ali has performed and exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo, Musée d'art Contemporain Lyon, Malay Heritage Centre, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Shangri-La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture and Design, and Queensland Art Gallery.
She has received grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, Art Matters Foundation and the U.S. Fulbright Fellowship. Ali earned her M.F.A. from School of the Art Institute Chicago. Currently, Ali serves as an Artist-in-Residence at the University of Washington, Bothell where she teaches art, performance and global studies courses. Ali, a founding partner of Studio Revolt, spends much of her time traveling and working between the Asia-Pacific region and the US.
Marin Burnett (b. 1980 in New York, New York; lives and works in Renton, Washington) earned her BA from Williams College and MA from George Washington University. Her work earned an award from the Benhaus Prairie Art Gallery’s 2019 juried show Text and Pictures, and was featured on the VH1 television series The Breaks. Burnett has exhibited at the Maryland State House of Representatives, Annapolis; Hillman City Collaboratory, Seattle; and Gallery Onyx, Seattle, among others.
Amir H. Fallah (b. 1979 in Tehran, Iran; lives and works in Los Angeles, California) holds a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has earned several awards and grants, including the Artadia Award, Los Angeles; Northern Trust Purchase Prize, Expo Chicago; and Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. Fallah has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson; Palo Alto Art Center; and Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, among others. His work is included in the collections of the Plattsburg State Art Museum; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago; and Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park.
Genevieve Gaignard (b. 1981 in Orange, Massachusetts; lives and works in Los Angeles, California) received a BA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a MFA from Yale University. Solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara; Houston Center for Photography; and California African American Museum, Los Angeles. She has also participated in group exhibitions at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams; and Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C, among others. Gaignard’s work can be found in the collections of the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Pérez Art Museum, Miami; and Seattle Art Museum, among others.
Nina Vichayapai (b. 1993 in Bangkok, Thailand; lives and works in Kirkland, Washington) holds a BFA from the California College of Art. She received an award from Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco, and attended several residencies, including Caldera Arts, Sisters; Rockland Arts, Seattle; and Inscape Arts and Cultural Center, Seattle. Vichayapai recently participated in exhibitions at the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, Seattle; Tacoma Art Museum; and Shunpike Arts, Seattle.