Carla Gannis (born 1970)[1] is an American transmedia artist based in New York and professor at the Pratt Institute in the Department of Digital Arts until 2019 when she joined New York University. Her works combine digital imagery with well-known works of art such as paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.[2] She received widespread attention in 2013 for her emoji version of Hieronymus Bosch's painting The Garden of Earthly Delights.[3][4]
Carla Gannis | |
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Born | 1970 (age 53–54) |
Education | University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Boston University |
Known for | Transmedia art, Digital art, Contemporary art |
Notable work | The Garden of Emoji Delights (2013) |
Website | carlagannis.com |
Carla Gannis was born and raised in Oxford, North Carolina, United States. Always having a strong draw to art, Gannis began to pursue her artistic goals throughout her early education. Gannis attended the University of North Carolina Greensboro, where she received her BFA degree in painting. She then continued her education at Boston University, moving north to a much larger city in the hope of expanding her horizons and technical skills.[citation needed] It was at Boston University that she received her MFA degree in painting.[5]
In the early 1990s, Gannis began shifting her focus from painting and began to implement digital aspects into her works. Since 2003, she has had 20 solo exhibits, many of which carry her common conceptual elements of power, sexuality, and storytelling.[6] Throughout her artistic career, Gannis has used new concepts and media with the changes in surrounding technologies. Gannis lives in Brooklyn, New York and worked as a professor and assistant chairperson at The Department of Digital Arts at the Pratt Institute,[7] when she joined New York University. In 2019, she contributed to produce a chapter based on an interview about her work in the book Museums and Digital Culture.[8]