About
I am an artist living and working in Providence RI. Throughout my career my medium of focus has been painting. However, since 2014 I have started to incorporate new media and technology into my art making practice. When I was little, I used to take apart old stereos, turntables, speakers, computers, and basically anything else that had some kind of electronic component. Sometimes I would conduct experiments by dropping paperclips onto live circuit boards. More than a handful of times, I blew the lights out in the whole house. My curiosity persists, so it is with great enthusiasm that I find myself participating in the 2017 FAB Academy. I anticipate that the topics covered in the program and the skillsets we learn will completely revolutionize the material possibilities of my art making.
Biography
Eddie Villanueva (b.1983, Milwaukee) received his B.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His work has been featured at the SCOPE Art Fair, Miami, and in Global Positioning System at the School of Visual Arts, New York, the North American Graduate Art Survey at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, and the Wisconsin Triennial at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. He received a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant in 2012, and a Mary L. Nohl Emerging Artist Fellowship in 2013. He has taught at UW-Madison, UW-Milwaukee and UW-Richland. Villanueva is currently teaching at Brown University.