Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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STATEMENT OF WORK
Cha Tori lives and works in the area currently described as Los Angeles, ancestral land of the Tongva and Chumash peoples. Tori’s work utilizes materials and strategies to create friction with traditional Western forms of art making and representation. Their work is frequently presented as sculptural installations, and recently has used culturally and historically charged objects and materials such as a railroad spike, chain link fencing, and varieties of lawn grasses. Their practice engages conversations around landscape, capitalism, American identity, Whiteness, epistemology, and apocalypse/survivance. They are interested in thinking through landscape as sets of proximal relationships—relationships that in the past have centered the creation and depiction of landscape as remote, pristine, and untouched. Tori’s work considers how such depictions and fantasies of landscape extend into textual expressions, which in turn have been strategically deployed to sustain settler colonialism, national security, and extractive industry.
Tori holds an MFA in Art from California Institute of the Arts and a BFA in Literary Studies from Middlebury College. Tori works as an artist and arts organizer. Their work has been exhibited at Flux Factory, Salem Art Works, The Floating Library, and Other Places Art Fair.