Isadora Dannin performs close readings on the disordered and discarded. She is interested in the nature of looking and the value, meaning, and memory that places, objects, and images absorb. Her work takes the form of sculptural and video installations, performances, artists’ books, and writing. Since 2020, she has maintained a collaboration with Strat Coffman investigating the influence of capital on institutionalized practices of design thinking, producing visual and written work from their findings. In 2024, she was a writer-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center. From 2018-2020 she was a member of the design and planning collective Group Project, which collaborated with a non-profit in Wagram, NC to transform a decommissioned work camp prison into a community center and museum. Her work has been presented at The Hudson Guild Gallery, MIT’s List Visual Art Center, the Keller Gallery, the Wiesner Gallery, the Architectural League of New York, and the Multimedia Anthropology Lab at University College London. She grew up in New York, holds an M.Arch from MIT and a B.A. in Art History from Wesleyan University. She has previously taught art and design courses at Northeastern University, Wentworth Institute of Technology, and Montserrat College of Art. She currently lectures in architectural studies at Tufts University, is designing a small cabin on a lake, and is writing about orbs.
Some work: Homework (2024) Report Concerning the Fabrication of Four Orbs (2021) Seven Ways of Reading The House of the Seven Gables (2021) Proof of Concept (2020) Group Project Collaborative (2018-2020)
Orb: peach