Bio
Educaiton: BFA, 2008, University of Wisconsin-Madison; MFA, 2015, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 2015. Exhibitions/Screenings: Comfort Station, Chicago; Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal; Donnelly Foundation, Chicago; Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago; Randy Alexander Gallery, Chicago; Triumph, Chicago; SCI-Arc Gallery, Los Angeles; Pavillon Carré Baudouin, Paris; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Step Gallery, Phoenix; International Sculpture Center, Trenton, NJ; Fjord, Philadelphia. Bibliography: Hyperallergic; Sculpture Magazine; New City Art; The Seen; Chicago Gallery News; Back of the Head, Issue No. 1, China. Awards: HATCH Residency 2016; China Taiyuan International Metal Sculpture Symposium 2014.
Personal Statement
Jeff Prokash’s work navigates the territories of architecture, design, archival practices, materiality, and contextual histories through the lens of sculpture. As a collector and orchestrator of material based information, his work draws upon the conventions of preservation, appropriation, and the historical archive to produce sculptural installations and interventions that embody the connectivity between people, places, objects, and events while embracing the freedom of reinterpretation in order to suggest new relationships and potentialities within the built environment.
Disclaimer: All work represents the views of the INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS & AUTHORS who created them, and are not those of the school or museum of the Art Institute.
