Ligia Bouton is based in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her work combines sculpture and photography with performance and digital video to recreate appropriated narratives and research drawn from science and literature.
While at SVFK Bouton also held a simultaneous residency with Yonder Art:Science at the Niels Bohr Institute where she has been working with scientists for the past two years.
Bouton’s recent projects have been shown at museums such as the Copenhagen Contemporary (Denmark), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (USA), the National Museum of Women in the Arts (USA), Guildhall Art Gallery (UK), Minneapolis Institute of Art (USA), and SITE Santa Fe (USA).
