Artist Statement
Pohan Amanda Turner
b. 1985, New Jersey. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
EDUCATION
2013
M.F.A Combined Media, Hunter College, New York
2008
B.F.A Fine Arts with Honors, School of Visual Arts, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
Maize Meditation, McCarthy Art Gallery at St. Michael’s College, Colchester, Vermont, curated by Abbey Meaker of Overnight Projects, September 6 – October 8
You’re not empty. Space is divine., Custom Program, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY, March 18 – April 30
2017
Linqox Criss on the River Ilissus, SOHO20 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, October 13 – November 16
2016
The Living Body Archive of Linqox Criss, City Limits Gallery, Oakland, CA, October 14 – November 19
Desiring To Be Data For Others, Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, January 23 – February 21
2015
The Signals Are Caressing Us, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, January 8 – February 1
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2017
Surface Tensions, with Russell Perkins, Abrons Art Center, NYC, September 21 – 30
Slow Lick, collaborative work with Mira Dayal, Abrons Art Center, NYC, September 9 – 20
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
Bleeding Edge, curated by Michael Baracco, Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, March 4 – May 15
Speculative Skins, co-curated by Rachel Steinberg and Ben Crothers, Naughton Gallery, Belfast, Ireland, February 15 – April 16
Strings: Data and The Self, co-curated by Joel Kuennen and Riccardo Zagorodnev, California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks, CA, January 20 – April 18
2017
Volley, Abrons Art Center, New York, September 8 – November 21
Whitney Houston Biennial, 325 Broadway, NY, NY, March 19-29
You can tell I’m alive and well because I weep continuously., curated by Alison Burstein, Knockdown Center, Queens, NY, January 14 – Feburary 11
2016
Sister Outsider, curated by Dani Orchard, Underdonk Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, December 9 – January 29
Residues, curated by Mira Dayal, Barnard College Gallery, NY, November 5 – December 2
Life Force, curated by Kelsey and Remy Bennett, Untitled Space, NY, NY, July 25-August 13
2015
Enduring Ephemera, AIR Gallery, Governors Island, NY, July 23- August 23
Immediate Female, Judith Charles Gallery, New York, January 25 – March 8
Sing’s Millennium Mart, curated by Seung-Min Lee, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, NY, December 13, 2014 – February 4, 2015
2014
Sex Without Bodies, Temporary Agency, Queens, NY, September 5 – 18
New Visions: Crown Heights, organized by Carl E.Hazlewood, Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, September 6 – October 5
Pure Product, curated by Isaac Lyles, 247365 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, July 18 – August 18
Currency As Space, HDLU Treasury and Mint, Zagreb, Croatia, March 5 – 27
Constructed, Collaged, Combined & Congruent, Galerie Protégé, 197 Ninth Ave, New York, Feb 6 – March 8
2013
Newly Minted, Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery, Connecticut, September 12 – October 16
-0 to 1, Hunter College MFA Spring Thesis Exhibition, Times Square Gallery, New York, May 15 – June 16
Social Studies, La Conservera Centro Arte Contemporaneo, Murcia, Spain
PERFORMANCES
Maize Meditation, Fall 2018, curated by Overnight Projects, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, VT, September 22, 2018
Linqox Criss on The River Ilissus: Six Voices in Three Parts, SOHO20 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, November 9, 2017
Hands, collaboration with Camilo Godoy, Knockdown Center, Maspeth, Queens, September 17, 2017
Proximities, with Camilo Godoy, co-organized by Mira Dayal and Josie Heston, Helena Anrather Gallery, New York, July 18, 2017
Maize Meditation/Meditacion Del Maiz, SOMA, Mexico City, MX, August 24, 2016
Fuck, Marry Kill, performance with Marissa Bluestone, Present Company, Brooklyn, October 30, 2015
Care Readings, presented by Dana Kopel & Marian Tubbs for Minerva, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, NY, July 12, 2015
Essence of The Intimate, in conjunction with Sing’s Millennium Mart, curated by Seung-Min Lee, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, NY, January 31, 2015
Ecosexual Poetry Reading, Temporary Agency, September 18, 2014
RESIDENCIES
SOMA Summer with support by the Hunter College Cisneros Scholarship, Mexico City, 2016
A.I.R Fellow, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2015
Distributed Intimacies, The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada, May 26 – June 13, 2014
COLLECTIVES
Founder of TWOFORTY, 2017-present
Co-founder of Temporary Agency, 2014-present
PUBLICATIONS
Digital Remnants: Sex Without Bodies?, GUTS Magazine, Issue 3: Sex, December, 2014
ARTIST TALKS
Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, VT, 2018
California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2018
Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2016
AIR Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2015