Anika Todd’s work investigates Western principles of property that authorize human control of earth and sky. Reaching into the air and below the ground, Todd uses sculpture and video to reconfigure materials and imaging techniques historically used for surveillance and control of public space, repurposing them for collective/playful use.
Anika Todd (b.1992, Boston MA) earned her BFA from MassArt followed by an MFA from The University of Texas at Austin. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Flux Factory NYC, VisArts Center VA and Co-Lab Gallery in Austin TX, the last two shows reviewed by the Washington Post (2018) and Glasstire (2019) respectively. Todd has held residencies at Stove Works (2021), NARS Foundation (2020), and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2019). In 2019, she received the Austin Cultural Art Council Award and in 2022 was a finalist for the NYFA Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design Award.She is currently based in Saint Louis, MO teaching sculpture as the Beamont Artist-in-Residence for Sam Fox School of Art and Design.
To Hold Water, Exhibition still, Water traveling on rope, a pump, three-channel video installation, Flux Factory, NY, 2021
GoneDaddyGone/Stimulus, Still from Digital Video, 4:00 minutes, 2020, teia.art
Cave Part A, Drop ceiling tiles, steel, 2x4s, drywall, molding, vent, electric heater, 8x8x2 feet, 2018
Common Ground, Used wood, marine foam, anchors, 8’ x 8’ x 4’10’’, 2019
OPEN, Performance still, Video, 11:49, Flag erected in fenced-in abandoned lot, 2018
Two Cedar Waxing, Inkjet Prints, 10x12 inches each, 2022
EDUCATION
2020 MFA, University of Texas at Austin, Sculpture and Extended Media
2019 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
2015 BFA, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Sculpture, Departmental Honors
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 To Hold Water, Flux Factory, New York, NY
2019 Grounded in Culver, CoLab Gallery, Austin, TX
2018 The Wild, VisArts Gallery, Rockville, MD
2016 Ladle, Salem Art Works, Salem, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
The Fall, The Show, Lydian Stater, New York, NY
Visions for a New Normal, Payne Gallery, Bethlehem, PA
Pandemic Projections, Guardianship Artspace, Kearny, NJ
Site-specific Installation, Chrysalis, I-Park, East Haddam, CT
2020
______:Revisited, Thesis Exhibition, Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX
Ontology and the Ontic, NOW INSTANT Image Hall, Los Angeles, CA
Inner Out, Moonmist Gallery, virtual exhibition, Houston, TX
Circular Score, four-artist collaborative exhibition, CoLab Gallery, Austin, TX
Tove & Melton & Lisa & Gareth & Charles & &c., Jonathan Hopson Gallery, Houston, TX
Sightlines, outdoor interactive installation, Facebook for South by Southwest, Austin, TX, cancelled
2019
Tin Ceilings and Other Specifics, The Magenta Suite, Exeter, NY
Flag, Bone in Throat Project Space, Tehran, Iran
A Witness Made Whole, European Gallery, Boston, MA
Saint Something, West Austin Studio Tour, Austin, TX
2018
Sounds Like Cher, Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX
2017
North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show, Bennington, VT
Inherent Narratives, Kingsborough Community College Art Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Arquetopia street installation, Puebla, MX
2016
Benefit Show at Vermont Conservation Corps, Richmond, VT
Art of Stewardship, Howard Conservancy, Woodstock, MD
2015
Artists In Residence Exhibition, Salem Art Works, Salem, NY
2014
Haystack, Bakalar Gallery, Boston, MA
2013
All School Show: Awards Show, Presidents Gallery, Massart, Boston, MA
RESIDENCIES
2022 Artist in Residence, Stoveworks, Chattanooga, TN
2021 Artist in Residence, I-Park, East Haddam, CT
Artist in Residence, Flux Factory, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Studio Relief program at NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Artist in Residence at Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2018 Artist in Residence at Monson Art Residency, Monson, ME
2018Artist in Residence at Haystack School of Crafts, Haystack, ME
2017 Artist in Residence at Arquetopia, Puebla, MX
2015 Artist in Residence at Salem Art Works, Salem, NY
AWARDS
2021 City Artist Corps Grant, Foundation of Contemporary Arts, New York
2020 Artist Emergency Grant, Foundation of Contemporary Arts, New York
2019 Development funds for photogrammetry research, Capacity Building Award, City of Austin Arts Council
2019Graduate School Continuing Fellowship, College of Fine Arts
2018 Robert Levers Endowed Graduate Scholarship in Studio Art
2018Kelly Fearing Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Art
2018 Faculty Award, Alumni Monson Fellowship, Massachusetts College of Art & Design
2015 Morton Godine Fellowship, Travel Award, Massachusetts College of Art & Design
2015Academic Honors: Sculpture at Massachusetts College of Art & Design
2014 Student excellence award: Art Schools Collaborative at Haystack School of Crafts,
Massachusetts College of Art & Design
PRESS/INTERVIEWS
Glasstire Review, 2019
Glasstire Feature, 2018
Washington Post Review, 2018
VisArts Interview, 2018
Arranging Tangerines Episode 30 - A Conversation with Anika Todd
Arranging Tangerines Episode 2 - A Conversation with Anika Todd
WEBSITE: www.anikatodd.com