Carla Gannis


Carla Gannis is an American transmedia artist based in New York and professor at the Pratt Institute in the Department of Digital Arts until 2019 when she joined New York University. Her works combine digital imagery with well-known works of art such as paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. She received widespread attention in 2013 for her emoji version of Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights.

Personal life

Carla Gannis was born and raised in Oxford, North Carolina, United States. Always having a strong draw to art, Gannis began to pursue her artistic goals throughout her early education. Gannis attended the University of North Carolina Greensboro, where she received her BFA degree in painting. She then continued her education at Boston University, moving north to a much larger city in hope of expanding her horizons and technical skills. It was at Boston University that she received her MFA degree in painting.
In the early 1990s, Gannis began shifting her focus from painting and began to implement digital aspects into her works. Since 2003, she has had 20 solo exhibits, many of which carrying her common conceptual elements of power, sexuality, and storytelling. Throughout her artistic journey thus far, we can see Gannis assuming new and exciting concepts and media with the rise in surrounding technologies.Today, Gannis lives in Brooklyn, New York and works as a professor and assistant chairperson at The Department of Digital Arts at the Pratt Institute.

Works

;Smart Device/Multiple Exposures- 2011, digital pigment prints
;Non-Facial Recognition- 2011-ongoing, digital pigment prints and editions of 5
;The Garden of Emoji Delights, 2013–2014, digital pigment prints, videos, and 3D
;A Subject Self-Defined- 2015–2016, video installations and book

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions