Hope Ginsburg

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ABOUT HOPE GINSBURG

Hope Ginsburg makes collaborative projects where art, environment and spirituality meet. Since the late 1990s, her work has spanned video, installation, performance, and pedagogy. She is the artist/director of Meditation Ocean (2023–ongoing), an iterative project focused on human and more-than-human thriving, realized by an evolving team of collaborators called the Meditation Ocean Constellation. Land Dive Team (2014–2021) proposes practicing present-moment awareness with equanimity to attune to the climate crisis. Sponge (2006–2016) is a knowledge exchange project inspired by sea sponge biology. Earlier works involved kinships with honeybees, sheep, composting redworms, and Atlantic hard corals.Ginsburg has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as MoMA PS1, MASS MoCA, Wexner Center for the Arts, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU, Baltimore Museum of Art, SculptureCenter, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Center Vilnius and the Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brazil. She is the recipient of a Wexner Center for the Arts Artist Residency Award in Film/Video, a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in Film and Video, and an Art Matters Foundation Grant. Her exhibitions have received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and Women & Philanthropy at Ohio State University. Residencies such as the Robert Rauschenberg Residency, Skowhegan, the Wexner Center Film/Video Studio Program, The Harbor at Beta-Local, Montello Foundation and a sustained involvement with Mildred\'s Lane have played an important role in incubating ideas. Writing about her work has appeared in Artforum, Hyperallergic, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Ginsburg holds a Master of Science in Visual Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Tyler School of Art. She lives and works in Richmond, Virginia (Tsenacomoco land), with her partner and frequent collaborator, Joshua Quarles. Ginsburg is a professor of Kinetic Imaging in the School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University.