Studio Residency: 2022
Ghislaine Sabiti is an interdisciplinary French/American Congolese-born artist, painter, ceramist sculptor, costume designer, and glass artist who was raised on the outskirts of Paris and is now based in New York. She makes sculptural mixed-media paintings and glass that combine canvas, paper, flameworking glass beads, and deconstructed embroidery, ceramic, and glass sculpture. Her surfaces are built by collaging varied elements from her Congolese heritage, French upbringing, Western art history. She studied fine art at Atelier Chantier du Coq, Académie de la Grande Chaumière and graduated with honors in fashion design from Atelier Chardon Savard in Paris, France. She studies glass lamp-work and photo decals at Urban Glass. Sabiti completed a fellowship at the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute Cycle VIII of the Spring ICA, and Digital Evolution Artists Retention (DEARCohort III) and New York foundation of the Arts Immigrant Artist Program: Visual and Multidisciplinary Arts. Sabiti was also an award winner for the Dupont De Nemours hosiery design competition for DIM Company. Her work has been exhibited and commissioned nationally and internationally in France and the U.S. in group and solo shows including galleries and museums.
