Amina Ross — Ruptures — Film Screening

Ruptures gathers short films by Amina Ross that linger at the edge of collapse. Moving between video, sound, and digital space, the works explore moments when systems strain, bodies speak, and structures begin to crack open. For Ross, rupture is not simply destruction. It is a threshold where the pressure of the present splits something apart and makes space for new forms of relation, perception, and possibility.

Amina Ross is an artist whose practice scrutinizes the subtle workings of systems of power and their influence on sense perception and behavior. Ross's creative output spans video, sound, sculpture, and installation, emphasizing nonlinear storytelling, free association, and plural meaning. Their work has recently been exhibited at MoMA PS1 (Queens, NY), Museum of Contemporary Art, (Chicago, IL), Ruffin Gallery (University of Virginia), Someday (New York, NY), the Hessel Museum of Art (Hudson, NY), the Tang Teaching Museum (Saratoga Springs, NY), and Sentiment (Zurich, CH). Ross's films have been screened internationally, including at MIXNYC Festival, Tate Modern, The New Museum, and The Walker Art Center. In the summer of 2023, they were a featured artist at the 68th annual Flaherty Film Seminar: Queer World Mending, and in 2024, they were a MacDowell Fellow. Ross was the 2023-2024 Estelle Lebowitz Artist in Residence at Rutgers University. They have recently completed residencies at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Denniston Hill, Fire Island Artist Residency, Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting, Wave Hill, Abrons Art Center, and Harvestworks. They hold a BFA from SAIC and an MFA from Yale School of Art, where they received the Fannie B. Pardee Prize in sculpture. Ross's work has been featured in critical writings, including an essay by scholar Kelly Chung in Liquid Blackness, Vol. 8, Issue 1 (Duke University Press). Other discussions of their work can be found in The Echoing Ida Collection (Feminist Press at CUNY), Where the Future Came From by Meg Duguid (Soberscove Press), and Support Networks by Abigail Satinsky (University of Chicago Press). An interview with Ross can also be found in BOMB Magazine.

Admission is free.

On Thursday, April 9 at 7 p.m, please join us for a lecture by the artist.