(b. 1987, USA) Lives and works in New York
Avery Singer engaged in performance art, video making, as well as sculpture utilizing carpentry, metal casting and welding. After graduation, she discovered her chosen art form from an unanticipated experiment with SketchUp, a program used by her peers to design exhibition spaces, and airbrushed a black-and-white painting based on a digital illustration. Since then, Singer has employed the binary language of computer programs and industrial materials in order to remove the trace of the artist’s hand while engaging the tradition of painting and the legacy of modernism.
Deepfake Rachel (study) (2023) was part of Singer solo exhibition ‘Free Fall’, a reflection upon her personal experience of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and explores the wider societal impact of collective trauma and proliferating image culture and media dissemination. Based entirely upon Singer’s childhood memories, the works and architectural intervention in the exhibition are a testament to the power of memory—and a memorial to a moment of terror and survival.
Avery Singer has previously exhibited internationally in galleries and institutions including Hauser & Wirth (London), ICA Miami (Miami); Museum Ludwig (Cologne); Marta Herford/Kunsthalle Bielefeld (Bielefeld); Gavin Brown’s enterprise (New York); Hammer Museum (Los Angeles); LACMA (Los Angeles); 58th Venice Biennale (Venice) among others.