OPHELIA ARC
2001 BORN IN NEW YORK
LIVES AND WORKS IN NEW YORK
Ophelia Arc is a research-based multidisciplinary artist based in Queens, NY. Working across sculpture, video, and installation, Arc explores psychoanalytic themes rooted in personal experiences and memory. She earned her BFA from Hunter College and received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Arc’s work has been featured in publications such as Artspiel, ArtNews, ArtNews China, Textiel Plus, Tique and Visionary Magazine. Her work is included in private collections and has been exhibited in galleries in New York and beyond, including 81 Leonard, Kates-Ferri Projects, No Gallery, Marinaro, and Collarworks. Arc’s solo show at Lyle’s & King opens June 26th in New York City. She held a solo exhibition in Tube Booth (project by Tube Culture Hall).
A series of almost grotesque and deeply corporeal objects, suspended between a girly-punk aesthetic
and a visceral tension, give shape to the artistic universe of Ophelia Arc, a young multidisciplinary artist
based in New York. The exhibition presents three-dimensional sculptures made with crochet, through
which the artist explores themes of gender, motherhood, birth, intimate moments, and traumatic
transitions between childhood and adulthood.
The home, a recurring and symbolic element, is understood not only as an architectural space, but
rather as a psychic space. Her work investigates the concept of wound dwelling, the “dwelling of the
wound,” inviting the viewer to confront the persistence of pain, memory, and lived experiences.
Exhibitions
