Jill Downen
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Jill Downen ('89 Painting)
Integrity (Brick)
concrete, pyrite
4" x 2" x 8"
2004
Jill Downen, a non-binary American artist based in Kansas City, works in site-responsive installations, sculpture, and drawing. A critical event in their formative years, a lightning strike to the family home, imprinted a heightened awareness of the body, architecture, and temporality that would, in time, inform the core of their artistic practice.
Awards include the Guggenheim Fellowship, Stone and DeGuire Contemporary Art Award, and the Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Artists Award. Downen has created installations at The Momentary/Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (State of the Art 2020), Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, The Oklahoma City Museum of Art, and "Open Spaces: The Exhibition." Their residencies include Art Omi, MASS MoCA, MacDowell Colony National Endowment for the Arts residency, and Cité International des Arts residency in Paris, France.
The Bruno David Gallery in St. Louis represents Downen and they are the Chair of Sculpture at the Kansas City Art Institute.
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