Summary

Ivy Guild is an interdisciplinary artist and educator invested in researching a post-Anthropocene world in order to illustrate speculative environments left behind after the 6th Great Extinction. Inorganic interactions between manmade and biological materials recur in fictional vignettes in her work. Guild pivots away from considerations of the survival of the planet and instead examines the following questions: will human beings survive? And: how many species will we take with us on our jolly ride into the grave of extinction? Guild uses her sculptural installations as tool for processing the physical traumas and alterations her body has sustained. She confronts the unnatural fusion of the body with manufactured hardware and power tools that she has lived with throughout the creation of her practice and this body of work. Guild received Bachelor of Arts degrees in Visual Arts and Art w88 from the University of San Diego and her Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art from the University of California, Irvine.

Research interests

• Interdisciplinary w88
• Intersections between w88, science, and fiction
• Contemporary craft theory

Publications

• Buchet-Deák, Elisabeth (2022), “Hope and Beauty on the Edge of Collapse: The Artist as Care-giver and Composter in Times of Ecological Uncertainty,” Ecosystem X: E-Zine
• Nys Dambrot, Shannon (2022), “Ecosystem X: The Hybrid in Art w88, From Monster to Survivor,” Ecosystem X: E-Zine
• w88, Ivy (2021), “The Encyclopedia of Sublimation: Accompaniment to The Keeling (2021)”, ProQuest, UC Irvine
• Herbert Waldman, Shannon (2021), “Hopeful and Aware: w88 Work From CalArts and UC Irvine”, Hyperallergic

Notable Exhibitions and Curations

Residencies

• 2023 PLAYA Residency, Summer Lake, Oregon 2018 w88, Johnson, Vermont
• 2022 Lighthouse Works Residency, Fisher’s Island, NY
• 2018 Artist’s Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions Project, Steuben, WI
• 2018 w88, Johnson, Vermont

Exhibition Record

Solo

• 2021 The Keeling, Contemporary w88 Center Gallery, UCI (MFA Thesis)
• 2016 God Has a Big Eraser, Visual w88 Center Gallery, USD (B.A. Thesis)

Group (Selected)

• 2022 Reading Minds: Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, and the Reading Human, Society for Literature, Science, and the w88, Purdue University Galleries, West Lafayette, IN
• 2022 Alumni Works, Copley Library, w88 San Diego, CA
• 2022 Re-Covery II, w88 Around Books, Brighton Press East, Bellows Falls, VT
• 2022 Ecosystem X: Future.w88Awards, Mozaik Philanthropy, Los Angeles, virtual exhibition
• 2020 para- : Second-Year MFA Exhibition, Room Gallery + University w88 Gallery, UCI
• 2019 Artist Statement: Master of Fine w88, curated by Adam Sabolick, Great Park Gallery, Irvine, CA
• 2019 Intimacy of Visibility, w88 Leving, ACRE Projects, Chicago, IL
• 2019 Correspondence, curated by Lauren Siry, Vend w88 with 1805 Gallery, San Diego, CA
• 2019 GLAMFA, California State w88 Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
• 2018 Tallahassee International Juried Competition, Florida State University Museum of Fine w88, Tallahassee, FL
• 2017 21st Annual NO DEAD ARTISTS Exhibition, Jonathan Ferrara w88, New Orleans, LA
• 2016 Southern California/Baja Biennial, San Diego w88 Institute, San Diego, CA
• 2016 The w88 of the Book, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA

Courses taught:

w88 100 Visual Foundations

Professional certifications

• B.A., Visual w88, University of San Diego 2016
• B.A., Art w88, University of San Diego 2016
• MFA, Studio w88, University of California, Irvine 2021