Ginevra Shay is an artist, writer, and curator.

Ginevra received their MFA from Bard in 2023 and lives in New York City.





Centering an engagement with space, their artistic practice pushes the limits of the visual plane to become experiential beyond its two-dimensionality. While maintaining an interest in the construction and deconstruction of images, they think about performativity as the body’s relationship to language and response to site, which is addressed through a conceptual, research-, and process-based practice.

The ephemerality of recollection are called into relation through techniques such photography, sculpture, video, performance, and writing. Ginevra is interested in an emergent sociality at the interse(x)tion of the perceptual to open up observation as a complex process to be uprooted from imposed systems.

In 2021 Ginevra received a Creativity Award from the State of Maryland for Phone Call, a participatory dialogue-based work that brought a dozen artists and poets to hundreds of listeners through one-to-one readings and conversations over the phone. Phone Call was conceived to combat isolation brought about by COVID-19 shut downs and was presented by the Baltimore Museum of Art.


Ginevra’s engagement with site and interest in emergent sociality extends into curation. From 2013-2018 they were the Artistic Director of the nomadic museum The Contemporary and curated solo exhibitions with artists Abigail DeVille, Victoria Fu, and Michael Jones McKean which received favorable reviews in Art Forum, Art in America, Artnet, Momus, Paris Review, Washington Post, Hyperallergic, and Temporary Art Review. In 2022 Ginevra received a National Endowment for the Arts, Our Town Award for Baltimore Living Archives which created a residency program between the Enoch Pratt Free Library and indie movie theater the SNF Parkway with artist Shan Wallace and writer Lawrence Burney.

Ginevra has lectured and participated in panels at the Queens Museum, the Oakland Museum, the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, the College Art Association's National Conference, and the Society For Photographic Education's National Conference.



Select interviews: in PHROOM, Post Office Journal, and LVL3





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