Saya Woolfalk

Saya Woolfalk
Notable work	No Place, The Empathics, ChimaTEK
Website	http://www.sayawoolfalk.com/

Saya Woolfalk (born 1979, Gifu City, Japan) is a New York based artist known for her multimedia exploration of hybridity, science, race, and sex. Woolfalk uses science fiction and fantasy to reimagine the world in multiple dimensions.

Woolfalk was born in Gifu City, Japan, to a Japanese mother and a mixed-race African American and white father. She grew up in Scarsdale, NY, and has an art studio in Manhattan. Woolfalk was educated at Brown University (B.A. Visual Art and Economics 2001) and earned her M.F.A. in Sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004. Woolfalk moved to New York in the 2006, to participate in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, and was an artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem from 2007-2008. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her husband, the anthropologist, Sean T. Mitchell, and their daughter Aya Woolfalk Mitchell.

Woolfalk’s work has exhibited at galleries and museums around the United States and abroad, including PS1/MoMA in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Studio Museum in Harlem, Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville,Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. She participated in PERFORMA 09.

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