E. V. Day (born 1967,
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) is a New York based
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ist and sculptor. Day’s work explores themes of
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, while employing various suspension techniques and reflecting upon
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. Day received her MFA in Sculpture from
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in 1995, and began her “Exploding Couture” series in 1999, the first installment of which, “Bombshell,” was included in the 2000
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and is now in the museum’s permanent collection.
For “G-Force,” her 2001 solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum at Altria, Day suspended hundreds of resin-coated pairs of thong underwear from the ceiling in fighter-jet formations. In 2004, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at
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mounted a ten-year survey of her work. More recently, in 2006, Day exhibited “Bride Fight”, a site-specific installation of two bridal gowns in mid-explosion, in the lobby of the
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on Park Avenue. That same year, the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum exhibited “Intergalactic Installations”, a solo exhibit of 3-D drawings in black light, which was reprised later that year at
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Miami with
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.
E.V. Day is represented by
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, Carolina Nitsch, and Rhona Hoffman, and is in numerous collections, including the [Museum of Modern Art], the Whitney Museum of American Art,
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Art Collection, San Francisco MOMA, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, The
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Collection, The Progressive Corporation, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at
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.
2006
- "Intergalactic Installations", Deitch Projects, Design District-Buena Vista Building, Miami/Basel
- "Sweet Heat", site specific sound installation in the Boiler Room, PS1, New York.
- "Bride Fight", May-August, Lever House, 390 Park Ave, New York, Deitch Projects.
- "E.V. Day; Intergalactic Installations", Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, California.
2004
- "E.V.Day ", 10 year survey exhibition, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
2003
- "Galaxy" Henry Urbach Architecture New York, NY
- "G-Force Forum" Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
2008
- "I Won't Grow Up", curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody and Donald Baechler, Cheim and Read
- "Good Doll Bad Doll", Curated by Michael Duncan, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California
- "Wedded Bliss, The Marriage of Art and Ceremony", Peabody Essex Museum, Essex, MA
- "Blown Away", Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
2007
- "Multiple Interpretations", The New York Public Library, New York
- "Contemporary and Cutting Edge: Pleasures of Collecting, Part III", Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
- "What's Your Hobby", The Fire Place Project, East Hampton, New York
- "Crash, Pause, Rewind"; Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT
- "Fashion, Accidentally", Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
- "Dangerous Beauty": Home of the Miotte Foundation, Naples, Italy
- "Womanizer", Deitch Projects, New York
2005
- "Crash, Pause, Rewind"; Western Bridge; Seattle, WA.
- "Marilyn"; Sean Kelly Gallery; New York, NY.
2004
- "Whitney Museum of American Art Gala - Stealth" (commissioned installation)
- "Open House: Working in Brooklyn", Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY.
- "Needful Things, Recent Multiples", Cleveland Museum of Art; Cleveland, Ohio.
- "Airborn", Henry Urbach Architecture Gallery, NY.
2003
- "Paper Sculpture Show" Sculpture Center; Long Island City, NY, (traveled nationally)
- "Doublures" Musée Nationale des Beaux-Arts du Quebec; Canada
Fellowships, awards and commissions
- NYFA Sculpture Fellow, 2007
- NASA Commission, "Project Mars", 2005
- Susan Whedon Award for Outstanding Student in Sculpture, 1995
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