Neil Gravander

Education

MFA, UW-Milwaukee

Biography

Neil Gravander is an educator, multi-media/performance artist, and musician based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As a self-taught artist he was a recipient of a Mary L. Nohl Fellowship (2010) where he began working with video in sculptural-installation form using modified analog monitors, and hacking early media-technologies into performative instrumentation. Through the resulting exhibition he went on to attend the Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres graduate program at UW Milwaukee where he received his MFA and continues to teach. He has participated in residencies through The Great Poor Farm Experiment (2015) and Funhouse (2017) where his practice took a further turn towards narrative media installation. His monitor-based sculptures, inter-arts installations, live and recorded video & sound work have been screened, exhibited, and curated in group shows and platforms across the Midwest and beyond.  His current research and creative practice explores the intersection between speculative poetry, personal mythology, and the psychodynamic narratives of family.

Recent Work