Felice Grodin is a visual artist and cultural agent who creates the real from the virtual through experimental and trans-disciplinary projects. Her practice focuses on the speculative integration of art by modeling present conditions and creating meaningful imprints upon them.
An artist with a background in architecture, her show “Felice Grodin: Invasive Species” (2018-2021) at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), curated by Jennifer Inacio, was the first AR (augmented reality) only contemporary art exhibition in the United States. Her work hovers between the digital and analog realms, creating immersive experiences that have an impact on reality. Since then, she has teamed up with PAMM in the creation of new AR artworks for collaborations with UNTITLED Art Fair, The Deering Estate and IM/Movable Assets at Miami International Airport.
Grodin is also a founding member of the collaborative A.S.T. (Alliance of the Southern Triangle), which explores artistic and cultural possibilities re-imagined in an era of climate change and political volatility. A.S.T. has been awarded the Artists in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE) in 2020. In addition, she has contributed essays to various publications including The Miami Rail and the book Everglades by Daniel H. Dugas and Valerie LeBlanc. Recently, she and AdrienneRose Gionta collaborated on a residency with Foreign Objekt Posthuman Art Laboratory.
She states: "I explore processes that merge the physical and mental landscape. My work is a fusion of my architectural background and the unique cities in which I have lived. San Francisco's earthquakes, Miami's hurricanes, New Orleans' weakened levees, Venice's rising lagoon and New York during 9/11, have left indelible impressions on me in terms of the vulnerability and resiliency of life in the big city. In turn, I portray an interpretation of the space that we live in today - a contradictory world that is simultaneously global, territorial and essentially vulnerable."
Grodin lives and works in Miami Beach, where she has just completed a residency at Oolite Arts. She holds a Master of Architecture with Distinction from Harvard University School of Design, Cambridge, MA, awarded in 1997, and a Bachelor of Architecture from Tulane University School of Architecture, New Orleans, LA, awarded in 1992, where her thesis was a recipient of the Thomas J. Lupo Award for Metropolitan Studies. She is completing the first semester of the Doctor of Design (DDes) program through Florida International University, and says she is “interested in reality-based technologies (AR/VR/MR) and their socio-political ramifications” .
Grodin is represented by Diana Lowenstein Gallery | Miami, FL .
