Helina Metaferia
Collaborating Artist, National Gallery of Art Performance
Helina Metaferia is an interdisciplinary artist working across collage, assemblage, video, performance, and social engagement. Metaferia received her MFA from Tufts University’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Recent solo exhibitions include Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA; and New York University's The Gallatin Galleries, New York, NY. Group exhibitions include Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI; CF Hill, Stockholm Sweden; and Modern Art Museum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Metaferia's work has been commissioned as public art projects for the RISD Museum in Providence, RI; Artbridge in New York, NY; and For Freedoms in Los Angeles, CA. She will be presenting her art in the 2023 Sharjah Biennial in the United Arab Emirates. Metaferia has also performed with her mentor, artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, NY; Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; and 12th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
Metaferia’s work has been supported by several residencies including MacDowell, Yaddo, Bemis, MASS MoCA and currently Silver Art Projects at the World Trade Center. Her work has been written about in publications including The New York Times, Financial Times, Artnet News, Artsy, Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and The San Francisco Chronicle. She currently serves as Assistant Professor at Brown University in the Visual Art department, and lives and works in New York City.