E. V. Day is a New York based installation art

Installation art

Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...

ist and sculptor. Day’s work explores themes of feminism

Feminism

Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...

 and sexuality

Human sexuality

Human sexuality is the awareness of gender differences, and the capacity to have erotic experiences and responses. Human sexuality can also be described as the way someone is sexually attracted to another person whether it is to opposite sexes , to the same sex , to either sexes , or not being...

, while employing various suspension techniques and reflecting upon popular culture

Popular culture

Popular culture is the totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images and other phenomena that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the...

. Day received her MFA in Sculpture from Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 in 1995, and began her “Exploding Couture” series in 1999, the first installment of which, “Bombshell,” was included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial

Whitney Biennial

The Whitney Biennial is a biennale exhibition of contemporary American art, typically by young and lesser known artists, on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, USA. The event began as an annual exhibition in 1932, the first biennial was in 1973...

 and is now in the museum’s permanent collection.

For “G-Force,” her 2001 solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum at Altria, Day suspended hundreds of resin-coated pairs of thong underwear from the ceiling in fighter-jet formations. In 2004, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University

Cornell University

Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

 mounted a ten-year survey of her work. More recently, in 2006, Day exhibited “Bride Fight”, a site-specific installation of two bridal gowns in mid-explosion, in the lobby of the Lever House

Lever House

Lever House, designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and located at 390 Park Avenue in New York City, is the quintessential and seminal glass-box skyscraper built in the International style according to the design principles of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Completed in 1952, it was...

 on Park Avenue. That same year, the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum exhibited “Intergalactic Installations”, a solo exhibit of 3-D drawings in black light, which was reprised later that year at Art Basel

Art Basel

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 Miami with Deitch Projects

Deitch Projects

Deitch Projects was a contemporary art gallery in New York City founded by Jeffrey Deitch.-History:Since opening with a performance by Vanessa Beecroft in February 1996, the gallery has presented nearly one hundred and eighteen solo exhibitions and projects, ten thematic exhibitions, and a few...

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E.V. Day has recently exhibited her works with Carolina Nitsch Contemporary, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Salomon Contemporary and at public venues such as Lincoln Center in New York and The Kentucky Center for Performing Arts in Louisville. Her work is in numerous collections, including the [Museum of Modern Art], the Whitney Museum of American Art, NASA

NASA

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, The Lever House

Lever House

Lever House, designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and located at 390 Park Avenue in New York City, is the quintessential and seminal glass-box skyscraper built in the International style according to the design principles of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Completed in 1952, it was...

 Art Collection, San Francisco MOMA, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, The New York Public Library

New York Public Library

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, The New Museum of Contemporary Art

New Museum of Contemporary Art

The New Museum, founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, is the only museum in New York City exclusively devoted to presenting contemporary art from around the world...

, The Peter Norton

Peter Norton

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 Collection, The Progressive Corporation, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University

Cornell University

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2011

• "Flamenco Tornado," Sephora Meatpacking Store, New York, NY.
• "Butterfly," Salomon Contemporary, New York, NY.
• "Catfight," ArtPace, San Antonio, TX.
• "Ascending Divas," The Kentucky Center for Performing Arts, Louisville, KY.
• "The Seducers," Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art, New York, NY.

2009

• "Ascending Divas," New York CIty Opera at Lincoln Center, New York, NY
• "E.V. Day," Otero/Plassart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
• "E.V. Day," Dieu Donne Paper Mill, New York, NY.

2006

• "Intergalactic Installations", Deitch Projects, Design District-Buena Vista Building, Miami/Basel
• "Sweet Heat", site specific sound installation in the Boiler Room, PS1, Queens, NY.
• "Bride Fight", May–August, Lever House, 390 Park Ave, New York, Deitch Projects.
• "E.V. Day; Intergalactic Installations", Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA.

2004

• "E.V.Day ", 10 year survey exhibition, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

2003

• "Galaxy" Henry Urbach Architecture New York, NY.
• "G-Force Forum" Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA.

2011

• "Intersection: Photography/Painting/Document," Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY.
• "Works on Paper," Amy Simon Gallery, Westport, CT.
• "Contemporary Magic," The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA.
• "Alice Aycock and E.V. Day," James Salomon Contemporary, New York, NY.
• "January White Sale," Curated by Beth Rudin Dewoody, at Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY.
• "Legal Tender," Martha Otero Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

2010

• "Emerging Images: The Creative Process in Prints," International Print Center, New York, NY.
• "Contemplating the Void," Guggenheim Museum of Art, NY.
• "Ways of Looking: E.V. Day, Richard Dupont and Alyson Shotz," Carolina Contemporary Art, New York, NY.
• "10 Years of Editions and Multiples," Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art, New York, NY.
• "Pictures and Statues," Country Club Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
• "In Stitches," curated by Beth De Woody, LTMH Gallery, New York.

2009

• "Sensate: Bodies and Design," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.
• "Collections Exhibition: Henry Gallery of Art," University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
• "Dress Codes," Katonah Museum of Art; Katonah, NY.
• "Evading Customs," Brown Gallery, London, England.

2008

• "I Won't Grow Up," curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody and Donald Baechler, Cheim and Read
• "Good Doll Bad Doll," Curated by Michael Duncan, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California
• "Wedded Bliss: The Marriage of Art and Ceremony," Peabody Essex Museum, Essex, MA
• "Blown Away," Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL

2007

• "Multiple Interpretations," The New York Public Library, New York
• "Contemporary and Cutting Edge: Pleasures of Collecting, Part III," Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
• "What's Your Hobby," The Fire Place Project, East Hampton, New York
• "Crash, Pause, Rewind," Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT
• "Fashion, Accidentally," Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
• "Dangerous Beauty," Home of the Miotte Foundation, Naples, Italy
• "Womanizer," Deitch Projects, New York

2005

• "Crash, Pause, Rewind," Western Bridge; Seattle, WA.
• "Marilyn," Sean Kelly Gallery; New York, NY.

2004

• "Whitney Museum of American Art Gala - Stealth" (commissioned installation)
• "Open House: Working in Brooklyn", Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY.
• "Needful Things, Recent Multiples", Cleveland Museum of Art; Cleveland, Ohio.
• "Airborn", Henry Urbach Architecture Gallery, NY.

2003

• "Paper Sculpture Show" Sculpture Center; Long Island City, NY, (traveled nationally)
• "Doublures," Musée Nationale des Beaux-Arts du Quebec, Quebec, Canada

Fellowships, awards and commissions

• ArtPace Foundation 11.1 International Artist-in-Residence Program, San Antonio, TX, 2011.
• Munn Artist-in-Residence, Versailles Foundation/Fondation Claude Monet, Giverny, France, 2010.
• Dieu Donne Papermill Lab Grant Residency, New York, NY, 2009.
• NYFA Sculpture Fellow, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY, 2007.
• NASA Commission, "Project Mars", 2005.
• Susan Whedon Award for Outstanding Student in Sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1995.

External links

• P.S.1 Museum Interview
• Frieze Magazine Review
• Cornell University Interview