Pamela Council is best known for her elaborate, inventive sculptures using acrylic fingernails, acid-burned velvet, sneaker rubber, and other unexpected materials that relate to the body. Council’s sculptures, prints, products, and performances re-animate materials and dance with themes of self-soothing, legacy-building, Americana, and how marginalized people live exuberant lives with humor, style and grace. Council has created commissions for the Studio Museum in Harlem and Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture. Her work has also been featured in the Williams College Museum of Art, MoCADA, Five Myles, For Gansevoort, and Recees. Council has been Artist-in-Residence at MANA Contemporary, Wassaic Project, and Catwalk, and was recently Visiting Artist at the School of Visual Arts. She earned a B.A. from Williams College and an M.F.A. from Columbia University. Pamela Council was born in The Hamptons but lives in The Bronx.
