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Whitney Vangrin is an artist working across mediums with an emphasis in performance and video. Equal parts physical and psychological, her performances question perceptions of authenticity, creating works that hinge upon reality and simulation while making allusions to film, ritual, and folk traditions.
In Vangrin's performances there is a confrontation with the self and rupturing of wholeness and one’s configuration in space.
The doubling of the body can be seen as contemplation on the multiple personas one presents to the world and that media distorts. Her performances contained nods to highly stylized cinematic forms and channel the performances of the iconic heroines found in the genres of science fiction,thriller, drama and horror. Each performance wavers between sincerity and melodrama, pursuing a desire to blur the lines between representation and life. Vangrin seeks to embrace the ambiguities that exist between being and wanting to be, and the rich production of myth and image that comes from that.
In 2012-13 she ran the collaborative exhibition space 1:1 (pronounced "one to one") with Jarrett Earnest, Leigha Mason, and Alex Sloane at 121 Essex Street, NYC. She has presented performance work at MoMa PS1, The Swiss Institute, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, and ICA, Philadelphia, PA. She has exhibited throughout the United States and in Switzerland, Germany and Taiwan.
Whitney Vangrin is currently a MFA Candidate The University of California, Davis, CA and recipient of the Povost’s Fellowships in the Arts, Humanities and Social Science University of California, Davis.
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