Jody Borhani-D’Amico
“My visual art has been exhibited across the United States in venues including the Samuel Dorsky Museum, the Spiva Center for the Arts and the
Schweinfurth Art Center. Currently I am directing a feature documentary film, “The Improvements”, that illuminates how Urban Renewal and real estate reshaped a community.
In the 2010s, I began exhibiting assemblage work while I was also teaching art to incarcerated teenagers. I showed 3D work in libraries and 2D work in uptown NYC art spaces.
In the 2020s, I taught filmmaking to children of immigrants and migrants, and visual art to girls in secluded religious sects. I also founded a non-profit organization.
As a project-based artist, I pursue a visual style that merges brutality and lyricism, harsh realities and swelling dreams. I grew up as a newcomer in the Deep South. I came from a wider family fractured between three religions and a nuclear family moving forward in tandem with tragedy. The layers of the Southern land and people, and the layers of familial stories, half-truths and lies, pushed me to the documentation that is photography and the fantasy that is painting. Just as I exist across a trio of cultures, my work exists across a trio of media.”

