Bio
Addison Namnoum (b. 1992) is an artist, educator, and curator based in Philadelphia, PA. She received her BA in Human Ecology at College of the Atlantic in 2014 and her MFA in Studio Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2019. Her artwork has been shown in New York, NY, Bern, Switzerland, Portland, ME, Philadelphia, PA, and Kansas City, KS. She has taught and made speaking and guest critic appointments at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Moore College of Art and Design, and Rowan University. She is a curator with AUTOMAT Collective, where she serves as the Grants Manager.
Artist statement
“Place...is the locus of desire.”
- Lucy Lippard
Possibly our hopes spring from there – our language, our bank of images. The nourishment of a life. I try in my work to approach questions of longing and of loneliness, of being a part and apart, through the conduit of landscape, drawing on the languages of weather, waterways, and wind. I use the narrative structures of artist books and textile-based installations to look at pattern and explore the ways we understand time as it relates to place. I’m interested in pattern as a sequence we make meaning from, but also as a decorative form and an important element of craft.
Instagram: @addison.namnoum
