Learning, Unlearning, Relearning: Meditating on America’s Past and Present

American multidisciplinary artist. Conceptually driven work is fueled by a critical exploration of how race and language interact. Her Contronym series transposes definitions from Webster’s New World Dictionary of American Language onto American Masters paper, then aggressively obscures much of the entries with an eraser. What remain are specific snippets of meaning that are poetically charged through their isolation, as well as the crumbled paper bits left behind by her erasing. Her works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions nationwide, including the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Drawing Center, the High Museum of Art, Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College, and the Birmingham Museum of Art. Collins has been recognized as an Artist-in-Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the MacDowell Colony, the Bemis Center and the Hyde Park Art Center, among others. In 2015, she was awarded the Hudgens Prize. She is currently represented by Patron Gallery, Chicago, and Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago & New York.