vanessa german

vanessa german (1976, Milwaukee, US) is a self-taught artist working across sculpture, performance, communal rituals, immersive installation, and photography to repair and reshape disrupted systems, spaces, and connections. The artist’s practice proposes new models for social healing, utilizing creativity and tenderness as vital forces to reckon with the historical and ongoing catastrophes of structural racism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, resource extraction, and misogynoir. Recent exhibitions include: vanessa german: …please imagine all the things i cannot say…, Montclair Art Museum, 2023; vanessa german: Sad Rapper, Kasmin, New York, 2022; vanessa german: THE RAREST BLACK WOMAN ON THE PLANET EARTH, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, 2022; and Reckoning: Grief and Light, The Frick Pittsburgh, 2021.