Whit Forrester
New Orleans, LA, United States
Forrester is an artist based in the United States between Chicago and New Orleans. They have a BA in...
About the artist
Whit Forrester
Joined In 2017
(8 Followers)
About the artist
Whit Forrester
Joined In 2017
(8 Followers)
ABOUT
EDUCATION
EXHIBITIONS
Forrester is an artist based in the United States between Chicago and New Orleans. They have a BA in Environmental Studies from Oberlin College and an MFA in Photography from Columbia College. Born in American Samoa to white parents, raised in Louisville until 18 at which point he lived in a car for a year while making pictures. He has worked in landscape design, in ecological restoration, community organizing and entrepreneurial efforts around regenerative design of communities. His work seeks to bring nature within the realm of the Divine, taking nods from Transcendentalists and conversations around Scientific Materialism and Decolonization. Exhibited widely, in both national and international contexts, and with a range of aesthetic interests that include: practices of accumulation, manifestations of power, diaspora, noetic science, new materialisms, discourses around the transcendent and the material relationship between self and world.
2017 MFA Photography, Columbia College
2007 B.A. Environmental Studies, Oberlin College
2006 School for International Training Semester Abroad in Belém, Brasil
GRANTS + RESIDENCIES + AWARDS
2018 Advisory Council, Museum of Contemporary Photography
The Chicago Project of Catherine Edelman Gallery
2017 HATCH Projects Residency
Midwest Photographers Project of the Museum of Contemporary Photography
2016 Artist-In-Residence, Have Company
2015 Albert P. Weisman Award
2014 Dwight W. Follett Graduate Merit Scholarship
2010 Artist-In-Residence, Idyll Dandy Acres
2002 National Scholastics Gold Key Award
SOLO SHOWS
2019
Basis of Improvement, Antenna, New Orleans, LA
Domesticating the Numinous, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018
The Sympathetic Vibratory Principle, Heuser Gallery, Peoria, IL
Photosynthetic Transfigurations: A Work in Progress, Quappi Projects, Louisville, KY
2017
Autopoesis, Terrain Biennial, Oak Park, IL
2016
Domesticating the Numinous, C.C. McKee, Satellite Art Show, Miami, FL
GROUP SHOWS
2020
(Forthcoming) Very Well, Thank You, Jack Olson Gallery, Dekalb, IL
(Forthcoming) Artists Run Chicago 2.0, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2019
Coning, Aspect/Ratio, Chicago, IL
New Age, New Age, Depaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
Inaugural Show for Siblings Collective, Chicago, IL
Chicago Artist Schowcase, Willis Tower, Chicago, IL
Form Without Plan, Chicago...