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The Vanishing Image
The Vanishing Image is a series of increasingly abstract digital works exploring the figure through abstraction.
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Buy My Life
These works were created in 2018 and 2019 as Ona Artist entered the gallery. They include installation views, participatory works, and projects that brought the
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Manifestations
Manifestations (2019) is a series of photographs digitally painted on an iPad. Created as part of The Acceptable Woman, the works were exhibited at
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Numbers
Numbers (2017) is a series of works created from data generated by Ona Artist. Follower counts, comments, likes, screenshots, and other records of the project
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#ToysOnAPeach
Toys on a Peach (2017) is a series of photographs in which miniature objects are placed on my “peach” before being photographed. The images were
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Duets
These images were commissioned by Glamour magazine for their Summer of Sex 2017 series in 2017. I photographed myself alongside friends in a New York
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Nu Matrearchs
This essay was originally published as part of the online art show “Nu Matrearchs” as part of The Wrong Biennial. The Instagram Model as Art
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Almost Famous
These works were created as part of Ona Artist, primarily in 2017. They include promotional images, album artwork, digital experiments, and standalone artworks
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Under Erasure
Under Erasure (2017) is a series of digitally manipulated self-portraits exploring censorship and visibility. Faces and bodies are erased, mirrored, fragmented, and obscured until
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Self-Made Supermodels
On Being an Instagram Model as a New Form of DIY, Digital, Feminized Performance September 8, 2016 Click here to read the essay on Rhizome
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Painted
The works on this page were created in 2016 and 2017. They use photographs of myself originally created as part of the Ona Artist celebrity
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Infinity Selfie
Infinity Selfie (2016) is a series of recursive self-portraits created during Ona Artist. By repeating a single image onto itself, photographs that would not
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Ona Artist, 2015-2020
In 2015, I set out to create a celebrity as an art practice. The celebrity reached millions of followers on Instagram. She produced music, artworks,
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The Female Painter
Body Anxiety is an online exhibition that opened January 24, 2015. It made an unexpectedly strong impact and was highly discussed. See below for “The
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OnaGen
Essay on identity, authorship, and the emergence of the social media artist Introduction Written in the early years of Instagram—before I was even on the