Conversation between Artist Stephanie Gervais and Curator Stephanie Snyder, January–May 2019, Portland, Oregon

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Gulalhi installation documentation: https://rdc.reed.edu/c/cooley/s?s=12337aeee6c024397e88a4c84a368aa29792e999&p=1&pp=20

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Notes on contributors

Stephanie Gervais

Stephanie Gervais is an artist whose individual works and installations incorporate photography, textiles, sculpture, and sound. She completed her BA at Reed College (2009) and her MFA at Goldsmiths University, London (2016). Her one-person exhibition, Gulalhi, was shown at Reed College’s academic museum, the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, in 2018, while she was a teaching artist-in-residence at the Oregon College of Art and Craft. Living and working for nearly a decade in Brazil, the UK, and France, Gervais has made her recent work within and in relation to refugee camps and communities in Calais, France. The work is a conceptual portrait focused on the daily life of transitional border spaces. She has shown her work in the United States, France, the UK, and Brazil. She has published her writing in the Oregon Visual Arts Ecology Project (Ford Family Foundation), and in Archipelago Magazine, Goldsmiths University. www.stephaniegervais.com

Stephanie Snyder

Stephanie Snyder is the Anne and John Hauberg Director and Curator of the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, a position she has held since 2003. A graduate of Reed College (1991) and Columbia University (1998), Snyder has been the curator of numerous exhibitions, including: Gregg Bordowitz, I Wanna Be Well (2018, Reed College; 2019, Art Institute of Chicago); Wynne Greenwood, Stacy (2014, Reed College; 2016, New Museum, New York); Jamie Isenstein: Will Return (2013); Kara Walker, More & Less (2012); Bruce Nauman, Basements (2012); Terry Winters: Linking Graphics (2010); David Reed, Lives of Paintings (2008); and Sutapa Biswas: Birdsong (2006). Snyder has received two fellowships from the Getty Foundation – for curation and museum leadership – and in 2013 she received a commission award from the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and the CUE Foundation, New York. She is a regular contributor to Artforum.com [email protected]