Working across video and performance, Wynne Greenwood explores constructions of the self, tracing how subjectivities are formed in public and private spaces and always in relation to others—be they imagined or real-life personae. Greenwood is widely known for her work as Tracy + the Plastics, in which she played all three parts in an all-girl band. As Tracy + the Plastics, Greenwood performed live as vocalist Tracy, accompanied by videos of herself portraying backup singers Nikki and Cola, and toured across the country from 1999 until the project’s end in 2006.
In 2015-16, Greenwood had a solo exhibition and residency at the New Museum, “Kelly,” for which she premiered the complete, recently re-performed and newly mastered archive of Tracy + the Plastics’ performances. Bringing this archive into dialogue with more recent work exploring the artist’s interest in what she has called “culture healing,” “Kelly” considered the poetics of the pause while mining electric gaps of meaning in conversation and offering possibilities for feminist, queer, and other experimental models of collaboration and dialogue.
Greenwood has exhibited, performed, and screened her work internationally including at the New Museum, New York; Participant, New York; Hayward Gallery, London; The Kitchen, New York; Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin, Germany; Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia; Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany; The Tate, London; Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
