Profile
Caroline Woolard graduated from the only tuition-free art school in the country (Cooper Union, BFA 2006) with a strong commitment to the solidarity economy movement and conceptual art. In 2009, Woolard cofounded three systems for cultural production: a studio space, a barter network, and Trade School. These experimental systems of mutual aid inform and enable her short term projects, including: Exchange Cafe for Artists Experiment at the Museum of Modern Art (2013), The Economy of We at The University of Massachusetts Amherst (2012), and a Barricade to Bed toolkit for a cyberfeminist event at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center (2013). Woolard is a resident in the Queens Museum Studio Program, teaches at The New School, coordinates Trade School, and is currently working towards a community land trust for a new coalition of artists, internet activists, and community organizers. For up to date information, lectures, and events, please visit: http://carolinewoolard.com/.
Recent Publications
see http://CarolineWoolard.com
Research Interests
conceptual art, participation, collaboration, reciprocity, solidarity economy, barter, social practice, socially engaged art, relational aesthetics, social sculpture, critical exchange
Awards And Honors
2013
Queens Museum Studio Program
MoMA Education Department Residency: Artists Experiment
Museum of Art and Design Praxis Fellowship
Eyebeam: Art and Technology Fellowship
Rockefeller Brothers Foundation (OurGoods.org)
2012
Rockefeller Cultural Innovation Fund (OurGoods.org)
Eyebeam: Art and Technology Fellowship
smART Power, Bronx Museum and U.S. Department of Cultural Affairs (we declined)
2011
National Endowment for the Arts (OurGoods.org)
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (OurGoods.org)
The Field, ERPA Grant (OurGoods.org)
Rockefeller Cultural Innovation Fund (OurGoods.org)
2010
The Field, ERPA Grant (OurGoods.org)
Rockefeller Cultural Innovation Fund finalist (OurGoods.org)
2009
iLAB Fellowship (with Strataspore)
The Field, ERPA Grant (OurGoods.org)
Sculpture Center finalist
2008
Leon Levy Foundation Fellowship
2007
Elliot Lash Award for Excellence in Sculpture
2006
Four-Year Full Tuition Scholarship to Cooper Union
4-10 YEAR PROJECTS
OurGoods.org is a resource sharing network for cultural producers. Co-founded by Woolard in 2009, OurGoods has been recognized by the Rockefeller Cultural Innovation Fund, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a community of active users.
2012 Venice Architecture Biennale, US Pavilion, curated by the Institute for Urban Design, Italy
2011 Living As Form, curated by Nato Thompson, Creative Time, New York, NY
2010 Alternative Histories, curated by Herb Tam, Exit Art, New York, NY
2009 to present: monthly workshops at the Queens Museum, A Blade of Grass, and Eyebeam
Trade School is a self-organized learning experiment that runs on barter. Co-founded by Woolard in New York in 2010, Trade School is now a global network of barter-based schools, with 30+ chapters.
2015
Trade School Everywhere, Queens Museum of Art
2013
A Venn Diagram of Security, Woman, and Not Art, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Silent University, curated by Ahmet Ogut, Tate Modern, London, UK
Art, Action, Environment!, curated by Radhika Subramaniam, SJDC Gallery, New York, NY
Trade School, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
2011
Trade School, Cuchifritos, New York, NY
Coincidence of Wants, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2010 Trade School, The Former Catholic School, New York, NY
2009 Trade School, GrandOpening, New York, NY
1-6 MONTH PROJECTS
The exhibitions listed below represent site-specific, research-based work produced within the short term exhibition structure common to contemporary art institutions. For long-term commitments to socially engaged projects, see “4-10 year projects,” below.
2013
Exchange Studio, MoMA, Cullman Research Center, New York, NY
Added Value, curated by Betsy Alwin, TCNJ Art Gallery, NJ
TBA, EFA Project Space, New York, NY
2012
The Economy of We, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
How Much Do I Owe?, curated by Manon Sloane, No Longer Empty, Queens, NY
Ruilen, curated by Katayoun Arian, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, Netherlands
re/spond/re/peat, curated by Audra Wolowiec, Soapbox Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
To Have and To Owe, curated by Laurel Ptak, EFA Project Space, New York, NY
2011
Dancing in Your Bedroom, Chazan Gallery, Providence, RI
2010
Materia, curated by Suzanne Stroebe, Cabinet Magazine, Brooklyn, NY
Table for Two, curated by Esterni, Milan Furniture Fair, Milan, Italy
2009
Was that You or the House?, Watermill Center, Long Island, NY
Work Dress, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
Swing Bag, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
Portfolio
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