Photo Credit: Aaron Rosenblum 2022
ALYSSA TAYLOR WENDT (b. 1969, New York City) is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker and curator working in Detroit and Austin, Texas. Her recent projects address mysticism, architecture of memory, and decodified strata of history using video, ceramics, sculpture, painting, staged photographs and installation. Earning her MFA from Bard College, she has shown and performed internationally since 2004. Select exhibitions include: The Last Sky, Texas Biennial (2024); Skeletal Hand on the Glass Harmonica, Snow Gallery (2024); Oh Gods of Dust and Rainbows, FRONT Triennial, Ohio (2022); Wasserman Projects, Detroit (2022); Women and Their Work, Austin (2015); Co-Lab Projects, Austin (2010, 2012, 2017); Vox Populi, Philadelphia (2011); and Babel, Norway (2009); TSA, Los Angeles (2018); Wassaic Project, New York (2018); DEMO Gallery, Austin (2017); Third Man Records, Detroit (2016); New Museum for Contemporary Art, NY (2011); Miami Art Basel (2008); Museum of Art and Design, NY (2013), Deitch Projects, NY (2005) and Fusebox Festival, Austin (2012). She is the recipient of several awards including Official Winner of the International Istanbul Film Festival Award for her film H A I N T (2018) and for TMI at the Sigues du Nuit festival in Paris (2021). She recently completed a second master’s degree in museum studies from Harvard and plans to open a small non-profit museum of cultural artifacts in the near future.