David Brooks (2020 Fellow in Visual Arts) is an artist whose work considers the relationship between the individual and the built and natural environment. His work investigates how cultural concerns cannot be divorced from the natural world, while also questioning the terms under which nature is perceived and utilized. In this talk, he will delve into the liveliness and diversity of ecological systems, emphasizing our interdependence with the natural world. Through past and recent works, alongside ongoing research, Brooks will trace evolving notions of nature and consider how art might, at times, contribute directly to the ecosystems it engages. 

Brooks has exhibited nationally and internationally at several museums and galleries including Storm King Art Center; MoMA/PS1; Nouveau Musée National de Monaco; Ballroom Marfa; the Sculpture Center, NYC; The Visual Arts Center, Austin; Cass Sculpture Foundation, UK; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha; and Crystal Bridges, AR. In 2011, he showed his critically acclaimed Desert Rooftops in Times Square; and, in 2020, his Budding Bird Blind was the inaugural commission of the Planting Fields Foundation in Oyster Bay, NY. Brooks has received numerous research grants to the Amazon from the Coypu Foundation, and a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. Brooks lives and works in New York, where he teaches at NYU Gallatin. 

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