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BIO

Nora Chellew is a multidisciplinary artist born and based in Brooklyn. She received her B.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Sculpture with a Concentration in Sustainability & Social Practice from The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore. Chellew's work is primarily sculptural, with interventions of text and passive performance. She has shown her work at Spencer Brownstone, NYC; FiveMyles, Brooklyn; Spillway Collective, Philadelphia; and Phoenix Athens, Greece. In 2021, Chellew was the recipient of a N.Y.F.A. City Artist Corps Grant. Outside of her practice, Nora produces live performance and moonlights as a fabricator for other artists.


 
STATEMENT
“My work combines sculpture, installation, and original text. My aim is to create a space of displaced vestiges, where humor and decay are welcome. I conserve my pieces in accordance with their material ingredients and researched references. Drawing on the aesthetics of archiving, I treat titles and medium lists as integral parts of my work. I am inspired by: cataloging practices, worlding theory, set design, SFX craft, camp horror, chimeric folklore, queer history, Catholic mysticism, object power, carbon dating, ecological processes, climate catastrophe, and therapeutic tactics.” /NC-2024



MISCELLANEOUS

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NORA CHELLEW




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Notable PRODUCTION Experience


AS A PRODUCTION COORDINATOR

2024
Studio Sound: Sable Elyse Smith
Joan Jonas and Jason Moran: A Lecture Demonstration

2021
Performa 2021 Biennial



AS A PRODUCTION ASSISTANT

2019-2020
Haegu Yang: Handles
Dressing Up for Civil Rights
Eating the Wall Street Journal (Flag Version)
Allora & Calzadilla’s Fault Lines

2022
The Shed: Headless: The Demonstration

2023
JAM Performance Festival
Preservation and Conservation



AS A PRODUCTION INTERN

2015
Yvonne Rainer: The Concept of Dust, or How do you look when there’s nothing left to move?


Notable FABRICATION Experience


AS AN ARTIST ASSISTANT

2018
Assisted Jude Tallichet in casting her sculptural work Heat Map [2018]

2023
Assisted Yve Laris Cohen in the creation of his sculptural work Studio/Theater [2023]

2024
Assisted Peter Born with the creation of a mylar backdrop for Okwui Okpokwasili’s opera adaku, part 1: the road opens [2024]



COMMISSIONS

2018
Created a custom resin replacement for a wooden stair spindle in a historic Brooklyn home [2018, resin spindle pictured below] 

2019
Modifying original ketchup and milk props for Pope.L’s Eating the Wall Street Journal (Flag Version) [2019]