Helina Metaferia is an interdisciplinary artist, working in the areas of performance, video, and new genres. Her work investigates the role of the body as both subject and object in art, as well as the impacts of transnational identity and cultural hybridity within the African Diaspora. Solo and group exhibitions include venues such as the Museum of African Diaspora (San Francisco, CA), Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA), Museum of Modern Art (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia), CUNY’s Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (New York, NY), and Hamiltonian Gallery (Washington, DC).
While at MacDowell, she completed several large scale collages that will be exhibited in her upcoming solo exhibition at Hamiltonian Gallery in Washington, DC, titled "Refiguring the Canon." She also edited video footage from her recent performances at the National Gallery of Art and Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, which will also be featured in the exhibition.
