About the artist:
Oona Stern is a visual artist working with a range of materials including advertising posters, carpeting, neon, drawing, photography, and video. Some works break into the daily experience of urban and private spaces - art into life. Other projects focus on the natural environment, offering a portal on characteristics of often remote regions.
Stern has a BA from Cornell University and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts. Public installations include a carpet and sound piece, the sound of grass growing, at Bloomberg NY, and meander, a landscaped 'drawing' carved into lawns on both the East and West Coasts. deDomination, a poster project, was installed in the NYC subway. Stern's solo show, the reluctant naturalist at Westchester Community College, presented a survey of her work based on Antarctica. She is the recipient of grants from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, Artists' Space, Manhattan Community Arts Fund, and The Puffin Foundation. Residencies include the Edward Albee Foundation, Dieu Donné Papermill, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the Paul Drescher Ensemble's Artist Residency. A recipient of the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artists and Writers Residency and The Arctic Circle residency, she has projects based on both polar environments.
Oona lives and works in Brooklyn.