Bio
Ilana Savdie was raised in Barranquilla, Colombia and is now based in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2018 and her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2008. Savdie’s work deals with intimacy in the body’s mediation of power and its relationship to home, history and heritage. Ilana had her first solo show with ltd los angeles in 2019 and has an upcoming solo show at Deli Gallery in Brooklyn. She has been included in numerous group exhibitions nationally and internationally including recent shows at the Museum aan de Stroom and CASSTL gallery in Antwerp, Belgium; Golestani Gallery in Düsseldorf, Germany; Jack Barett gallery in New York; Essex Flowers in New York, and Diane Rosenstein in Los Angeles. Ilana was awarded the 2020 NXTHVN studio fellowship and is currently an artist in residence until May of 2021.