Landon Newton

Artist Statement

Landon Newton is an artist, gardener, and independent researcher whose practice explores the reciprocal relationships between plants and people. Landon incorporates installation, photography, and site-specific works to explore themes of permanence, historical distortion, custodianship, care, and maintenance using living plants as materials. Her ongoing project The Abortion Herb Garden, considers the marginalization of plant knowledge and investigates the pluralist identities of plants and the historical amnesia surrounding the use of plants for contraception, birth control, abortion, and plant medicine.

Landon Newton, FEMM HORTUS, 2021, multimedia installation. An interactive installation and animation documenting herbariums in the year 2121 focusing on the biennial Daucus carota, (Wild Carrot) encompassing medicinal use, abortifacient and contraceptive use, wild cultivation, plant migration, and communication exploring speculative plant futures.

Bio

Landon's work has been exhibited at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Frieze NY, WIENWOCHE, Vienna, Austria, CICA Museum, South Korea, EcoFutures: Deep Trash, London, UK, Open Engagement, Queens Museum, Queens, NY, and Gagosian Quarterly. Recent recognitions include an Emergency Artist Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and On Our Radar 2021, Creative Capital. Fellowships and residencies include Denniston Hill, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Studios at MASS MoCA, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Landon received her MFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and her BA in History from Smith College.

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