Affiliations:
College Art Association
National Council of Arts Administrators
New Media Caucus
Penn State University’s School of Visual Arts
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Vagner Mendonça-Whitehead’s practice encompasses traditional and newer media artmaking, curatorial projects and creative writings on visual culture. His artworks display accidental and forced intersections of personal experiences, histories, current events, geo-locations, languages, and found artifacts, and manifest themselves through traditional and new media pieces, presented in group and solo exhibitions in galleries and museums, as well as film and video festivals, nationally and internationally (Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Cuba, Cyprus, England, Germany, India, Mexico, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, Russia, and the United Arab Emirates). His writings unravel similar media/visual encounters in the form of critical and poetic essays. Recent art projects have dealt with metaphorical representations and interpretations of fear and violence, aging and technological obsolescence, and imprisoned young brown bodies.