Pamela Council
Pamela Council is an American multidisciplinary artist and educator. They work to produce sculpture, textiles, print-based media and performance art. Their work addresses Black American culture, and often features humor.
Early life and education
Pamela Council was born in 1986 in Southampton, New York; into a Black family. She completed her secondary education at Stuyvesant High School, from 2000 to 2003.Council attended Williams College, from 2003 to 2007, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree and majored in Studio Art and minored in Mathematics. She attended Columbia University, from 2012 to 2014, where she received a Master of Fine Arts, and graduated with honors. She was a teaching assistant for the majority of her time at Columbia, teaching both graduate and undergraduate classes in sculpture and 3D building.
Art work
Council works primarily in sculpture, textiles, print-based media and performance art. Her work has been commissioned and exhibited through the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Studio Museum in Harlem, Williams College Museum of Art, Southampton Historical Museum and Kianga Ellis Projects among others. She completed a residency at MANA BSMT in 2016, and recently participated in the collective, Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter.Council's art reflects the complex relationships of cultural and individual identities by immersing the viewer in a "sensory experience". She draws on inspiration from Americana, physical beauty, and consumerism, juxtaposing her own materials with mass-produced objects.