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'@@ -1,29 +1,15 @@ {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2013}} {{Use Jamaican English|date=June 2013}} -'''Nari Ward''' (born 1963 in [[St. Andrews, Jamaica|St. Andrew, Jamaica]]) is an artist based in New York City. Nari Ward received a BA from [[Hunter College]], [[City University of New York|CUNY]] in 1991 and a MFA from [[Brooklyn College]], CUNY in 1992. His work is often composed of [[found object]]s from his neighborhood, and "address issues related to [[consumer culture]], poverty, and [[Race (classification of human beings)|race]]".<ref>http://www.whitney.org/www/2006biennial/artists.php?artist=Ward_Nari/ Whitney Biennial</ref> - -Ward was included in the 1995 and 2006 [[Whitney Biennial]]s in New York and [[Documenta]] XI in Kassel (2003), and his works have been exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the [[Walker Art Center]] in Minneapolis, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit. His recent solo exhibitions include ''Episodes'' at the [[Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum]] in Boston, ''The Refinery X: A Small Twist of Fate'' at the Palazzo delle Papesse-Centro Arte Contemporanea in Siena, Italy, ''Sun Splashed'' at the [[Pérez Art Museum Miami]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pamm.org/exhibitions/nari-ward-sun-splashed|title = Nari Ward: Sun Splashed}}</ref> and ''Rites of Way'' at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Ward received commissions from the United Nations and the World Health Organization, and Awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, [[John Simon Guggenheim Foundation]], and the Pollock Krasner Foundation. +'''Nari Ward''' (born 1963 in [[St. Andrews, Jamaica|St. Andrew, Jamaica]]) is an artist based in New York City. He received a BA from [[Hunter College]], [[City University of New York|CUNY]] in 1991 and a MFA from [[Brooklyn College]], CUNY in 1992. His work is often composed of [[found object]]s from his neighborhood, and "address[es] issues related to [[consumer culture]], poverty, and [[Race (classification of human beings)|race]]".<ref>http://www.whitney.org/www/2006biennial/artists.php?artist=Ward_Nari/ Whitney Biennial</ref> ==Career== -Nari Ward has shown in solo and group exhibitions around the globe. In 2011, he had a solo exhibition at the [[Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art]] entitled ''Nari Ward: Sub Mirage Lignum''. His installation filled all of the museum's second floor and investigated transformative spaces that straddle the division between leisure and work.<ref name=Massmoca>[http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=623 MASS MoCA – Nari Ward: Sub Mirage Lignum]</ref> In the previous year he exhibited in a solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin Gallery<ref>[http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/#/exhibitions/2010-02-25_nari-ward/ Nari Ward: LIVESupport at Lehmann Maupin]</ref> and was part of ''Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Rotunda'' curated by Nancy Spector and held at the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum|Guggenheim Museum]].<ref>[http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/past/exhibit/3361 Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum'] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100605034545/http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/past/exhibit/3361 |date=5 June 2010 }}</ref> Other notable exhibitions include -''Prospect.1'', New Orleans (2009); ''Whitney Biennial'' at the [[Whitney Museum of American Art]], New York (2006); ''Documenta XI'', Kassel, Germany (2002); a solo exhibition entitled ''Nari Ward's Rites-of-Way in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden'', [[Walker Art Center]], Minneapolis, MN; a solo exhibition entitled ''Episodes'' at the [[Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum]] in Boston (2002); and a solo exhibition entitled ''The Refinery X: A small twist of fate'' at the Palazzo delle Papesse-Centro Arte Contemporanea in Siena, Italy (2006).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nariwardstudio.com/main.html|title=Nari Ward|website=nariwardstudio.com|access-date=11 March 2017}}</ref> - -Nari Ward is the recipient of numerous awards including the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]]' Willard L. Metcalf Award (1998),<ref>[http://www.artsandletters.org/awards2_popup.php?abbrev=Metcalf Willard L. Metcalf Award Winners] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303225957/http://www.artsandletters.org/awards2_popup.php?abbrev=Metcalf |date=3 March 2016 }}</ref> Pollock Krasner Foundation grant<ref name=Massmoca/> (1996), The [[National Endowment for the Arts]] (1994),<ref>The National Endowment for the Arts, [http://www.nea.gov/about/AnnualReports/NEA-Annual-Report-1994.pdf ''Listing of Grants and Financial Report''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615080315/http://www.nea.gov/about/AnnualReports/NEA-Annual-Report-1994.pdf |date=15 June 2013 }}, 1994</ref> and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (1992).<ref>[http://www.gf.org/fellows/15378-nari-ward Nari Ward – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]</ref> He has also participated in the [[Studio Museum in Harlem]]'s Artist-in-Residence program<ref name=Massmoca/> - -== Installations == -{{BLP unsourced section|date=April 2019}} -{{Advert|section|date=January 2019}} - -===Amazing Grace, 1993=== -Nari Ward's First exhibition and creative installation, Amazing Grace, at the New Museum (located in the Museum's Annex) is part of a larger multi-level exhibition at the Museum entitled NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and No Star. The exhibition is composed mostly of found objects, trash, discarded objects, and other mixed media amalgamations.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Schwendener|first=Martha|date=2019-03-14|title=Nari Ward Shows the Power of Objects at the New Museum|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/arts/design/nari-ward-review-new-museum.html|access-date=2020-05-03|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Ward fits into this exhibition, and the discourse surrounding it perfectly as a New York Based, mixed media artist who typically uses locally found objects to approach issues such as consumer culture, poverty, and race. For this installation Ward collected a myriad of disposed, or otherwise abject children's strollers in Harlem as well as other neighborhoods in Manhattan. There might have been 100–150 strollers involved in the installation, all of which had seem to have aged and dated to match the theme of the exhibition. Ward sets up an oval path through these strollers in a kind of nostalgic lap through these long-forgotten remnants of every American raised individual's childhood. Ward uses fire hoses connected by knots as the path and has a rendition of "Amazing Grace" sung by gospel singer Mahalia Jackson playing on repeat. The bluesy version of this national anthem sets the mood for what can only be described as a nostalgically thought-provoking stroll through strollers. +Ward's first exhibition and creative installation, ''Amazing Grace'', at the New Museum (located in the Museum's Annex) is part of a larger multi-level exhibition at the Museum entitled NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and No Star. The exhibition is composed mostly of found objects, trash, discarded objects, and other mixed media amalgamations.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Schwendener|first=Martha|date=2019-03-14|title=Nari Ward Shows the Power of Objects at the New Museum|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/arts/design/nari-ward-review-new-museum.html|access-date=2020-05-03|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> -=== Hunger Cradle, 1996 === -In 1996 Nari Ward participated in the entirely artist-run exhibition 3 Legged Race, organised by two friends of Ward, the artists Janine Antoni and Marcel Odenbach. For the show, which took place in an abandoned firehouse in Harlem, one of the works he produced was Hunger Cradle: a web-like structure made from rope and colourful yarn throughout which he wove a myriad of items, including a cradle. The structure gave them a magical quality suspending them in mid-air.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ocula.com/artists/nari-ward/|title=Nari Ward|last=Paik|first=Sherry|date=2020|website=Ocula|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> +In 1996 Nari Ward participated in the entirely artist-run exhibition ''3 Legged Race'', organised by his friends Janine Antoni and Marcel Odenbach. For the show, he produced ''Hunger Cradle'', a web-like structure made from rope and colourful yarn throughout which he wove a myriad of items, including a cradle.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Paik|first=Sherry|date=2020|title=Nari Ward|url=https://ocula.com/artists/nari-ward/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=Ocula}}</ref> -===Mango Tourist, 2011=== -Using found objects and materials collected from his urban neighborhood, Nari Ward creates sculptural installations that subvert the original purpose of the items shown. From previous works such as Palace LiquorsouL (2010), Ward rearranges the letters of the title in a neon liquor store sign, illuminating only "S-O-U-L", leaving the remaining letters unlit and upside down. Though there were unexpected compositional arrangements, Ward enacts a transformation of everyday objects into visual markers rich with symbolic and narrative implications. +In 2011, he had a solo exhibition at the [[Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art]] entitled ''Nari Ward: Sub Mirage Lignum''. His installation filled all of the museum's second floor and investigated transformative spaces that straddle the division between leisure and work.<ref name="Massmoca">[http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=623 MASS MoCA – Nari Ward: Sub Mirage Lignum]</ref> In the previous year he exhibited in a solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin Gallery<ref>[http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/#/exhibitions/2010-02-25_nari-ward/ Nari Ward: LIVESupport at Lehmann Maupin]</ref> and was part of ''Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Rotunda'' curated by Nancy Spector and held at the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum|Guggenheim Museum]].<ref>[http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/past/exhibit/3361 Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum'] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100605034545/http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/past/exhibit/3361 |date=5 June 2010 }}</ref> Other notable exhibitions include +''Prospect.1'', New Orleans (2009); ''Whitney Biennial'' at the [[Whitney Museum of American Art]], New York (2006); ''Documenta XI'', Kassel, Germany (2002); a solo exhibition entitled ''Nari Ward's Rites-of-Way in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden'', [[Walker Art Center]], Minneapolis, MN; a solo exhibition entitled ''Episodes'' at the [[Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum]] in Boston (2002); and a solo exhibition entitled ''The Refinery X: A small twist of fate'' at the Palazzo delle Papesse-Centro Arte Contemporanea in Siena, Italy (2006).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nariwardstudio.com/main.html|title=Nari Ward|website=nariwardstudio.com|access-date=11 March 2017}}</ref> In 2015, Ward created ''Sun Splashed'' at the [[Pérez Art Museum Miami]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nari Ward: Sun Splashed|url=https://www.pamm.org/exhibitions/nari-ward-sun-splashed}}</ref> -===Breathing Directions=== -Nari ward in November 2015 created his most impacting exhibit, Breathing Directions. Breathing Directions was created from a trip Nari had taken recently to a church known as "The First African Baptist Church" located in Savannah, Georgia. The church itself was part of the many stops during the Underground Railroads peak in history. The floorboards of the church show a symbol known as the " BaKongo Cosmogram" this symbol would be made out of large holes to help slaves underneath the church breath safely without being found. Although, no one has found the exact tunnels to the underneath of the floorboards it is a powerful story of African slaves escaping death itself. In Nari's paintings he uses this symbol to communicate what he had felt while being in the church surrounded by ancient artifacts of the 1850s and 60s. +Ward is the recipient of numerous awards including the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]]' Willard L. Metcalf Award (1998),<ref>[http://www.artsandletters.org/awards2_popup.php?abbrev=Metcalf Willard L. Metcalf Award Winners] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303225957/http://www.artsandletters.org/awards2_popup.php?abbrev=Metcalf |date=3 March 2016 }}</ref> Pollock Krasner Foundation grant<ref name="Massmoca" /> (1996), The [[National Endowment for the Arts]] (1994),<ref>The National Endowment for the Arts, [http://www.nea.gov/about/AnnualReports/NEA-Annual-Report-1994.pdf ''Listing of Grants and Financial Report''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615080315/http://www.nea.gov/about/AnnualReports/NEA-Annual-Report-1994.pdf |date=15 June 2013 }}, 1994</ref> and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (1992).<ref>[http://www.gf.org/fellows/15378-nari-ward Nari Ward – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]</ref> He has also participated in the [[Studio Museum in Harlem]]'s Artist-in-Residence program<ref name="Massmoca" /> == References == '