Artist Wendy Jacob's work includes sculpture and installation that explores the relationships between architecture and animate bodies. These projects include breathing walls and ceilings, tightropes through living rooms and chairs that embrace.
Since 1989, Jacob has been a part of the artists' collaborative Haha, whose site-based projects and public interventions have been shown internationally. Jacob's work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in the United States and Europe, including the Centre Georges Pompidou, Mass MoCA, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Jacob is currently a fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and an instructor in the Visual Arts Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Crredit: Haha Collaborative, Nana, 1992. Installation: vinyl, lipstick, helium. Courtesy of Wendy Jacob and Haha.
