Ginger Brooks Takahashi (b. 1977, West Virginia; lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA) a transdisciplinary artist and educator based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her performance, installation, and site-responsive works examine our relationships to the mediums that connect us. These public projects are platforms for intimate interaction, an extension of feminist and queer praxis. Currently an MFA candidate at School of the Art Institute Chicago, she received her BA from Oberlin College, 1999; and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program, 2007. Her work has been supported by Carnegie Mellon University’s Frank-Ratchye Further Fund, Cooper Union’s Ida Applebroog Grant, and the Office of Public Art’s Environment, Health, and Public Art Initiative. She has exhibited at institutions including Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2020); Oakland Museum of California (2019); Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm (2015); Brooklyn Museum (2013); Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2010); and New Museum, New York (2009), among others. In 2023, she installed Drip, Seep, Run, a permanent public artwork for Schenley Park in Pittsburgh.
