Tess Bilhartz
Tess Bilhartz is an artist and writer who grew up in Dallas, Texas and is currently based in New York City. Recent solo shows include Follow Me Down at Rubber Factory in 2022 and What On Earth at Super Dutchess in 2020. Residencies include the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2017) and the Sharpe Walentas Space Program (2013). She teaches art at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York.
For Social Forms: Art as Global Citizenship, the third iteration of the Converge 45 Biennial, curator Christian Viveros-Fauné sought out art that engages with the pressing questions of its time and that might intervene, somehow, in a reimagining of Portland and other places. Many of the biennial artists seek to give a place form and direction, either as a witness to devastation and change or a conjurer of sometimes hopeful visions.
