Ginger Brooks Takahashi

Ginger Brooks Takahashi is a transdisciplinary artist and educator. Her performance, installation, and site responsive works examine our relationships to the mediums that connect us. These public projects are platforms for intimate interaction, an extension of feminist and queer praxis. She received her BA from Oberlin College, 1999; and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program, 2007. She has exhibited at institutions including Carnegie Museum of Art, 2020; Oakland Museum of California, 2019; Jewish Museum, 2016; Tensta Konsthall, 2015; Brooklyn Museum, 2013; Museo Tamayo, 2010; New Museum, 2009; among others. She is currently developing a permanent public artwork for Schenley Park in Pittsburgh and a collaboration with Dana Bishop-Root for Counterpublic, St Louis 2023.

Artist statement:

Since 2013, I have lived and worked in Pittsburgh, PA, teaching and learning from the cultural contexts of this region, ranging from the relationship of the steel industry to environmental racism and food justice. Working with spaces, language, people and plants, I create ephemeral, yet life-changing experiences that ask questions about our surroundings, our resources, and how we might creatively co-exist. From a formal lens, my work is site responsive sculpture, writing, and performance. I examine histories and folk traditions, grounding my experimental practice. I am a project-based artist who launches large-scale public projects that are platforms for intimate interaction.

Photo by Lindsay Dill