Gretchen Faust (born 1961 in Stoneham, Massachusetts, USA) is an American contemporary artist, performer, art historian, and yoga instructor who lives and works in Totnes, Devon, United Kingdom.
[1] In the early 1990s she became known for using the tip of an ice pick to write text fragments from lectures on art history into gallery walls.
[2] In her more recent works, she produced mandala-like paper cutouts, engraved plinths made of Portland stone, photographs of paired handguns, or pairs of large, rug-like circles made of rabbit skins, and camouflage material laid out on the floor.
In 2013, Martin Herbert wrote in Frieze magazine: "there are consistently continuities: symmetry and asymmetry, sophistication and violence and a variable and explicit focus on cutting, punching, firing - penetrating the surface of things".
[3] Her work has been shown in group exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt,[4] the New Museum, New York (with Kevin Warren),[5] wellwellwell, Vienna,[4] MAGASIN - Centre National d’art Contemporain, Grenoble;[6] Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal;[7] Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, (with Kevin Warren),[8] the CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux,[9] among others.