Inga Bard

I believe that civil discourse can be engaged with through public art and am currently running a kickstarter campaign for a community painting project that raised 75% in the first 48 hours. Check it out:

I am interested in painting not only because of its versatility as a medium but also because of its rich historical repository of images and ideas. By tracing the history of the figure in art I have learned and understood better the history of political events, shifts in spiritual beliefs and the tides of intellectual thought. Over the years of working with the body in drawing and painting, investigating the opportunities and revelations that arise, I have begun to understand myself and my place in society as a female, immigrant and artist.

My current paintings explore seemingly anachronistic means of representation to depict historically significant events in the present, especially in relation to the depiction of the figure.

I have been interested in the global wave of civil unrest as represented by TV and journalistic news media for some time. However, it was only when I saw an image of a 19th century looking barricade in the center of Kiev that I decided to go to the country of my birth and investigate the Ukrainia...

MFA 2015 Central St Martin's, London, UK
BFA 2009 New World School of Arts, Miami, Fl