Alyssa Taylor Wendt

ALYSSA TAYLOR WENDT (b. 1969) is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker and curator who works in Austin, Texas and Detroit, Michigan. Her recent projects reference themes of ritual, animism, monuments, mysticism, the primordial, architecture, gender and mortality using video, sculpture, staged photographs, sound and performance. The work tends to provoke questions in the viewer with dark and evocative aesthetics and multiple layers of concurrent truths. She earned her BA from NYU and her MFA from Bard College. Transplanted from New York City, she has shown in numerous national and international exhibitions and performed at The Museum of Art and Design in New York, The Fusebox Festival and Deitch Projects and completed residencies in Iceland and Norway.