Deborah Wing-Sproul

Deborah Wing-Sproul works in and across the media of video, performance, sculpture, installation and printmaking. She has a background as a modern dancer and choreographer, having studied under Merce Cunningham and other significant choreographers, including voice/movement performer Meredith Monk.

Wing-Sproul exhibits both nationally and internationally and is the recipient of several film festival awards. Her short, Cycles of Repetition, has been selected by the Sundance Shorts Program Director for Extremely Shorts 8 in Houston and has been shown alongside other films premiered at Sundance. Her videos and films have been screened at many international film and video festivals across the U.S. and abroad.

In addition, her work has exhibited in numerous gallery and museum venues including the Corcoron Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Smithsonian, National Museum of American History, Washington D.C.; Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY; Arts + Literature Laboratory, New Haven, CT; Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport; Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Queens, NY; and Sundog Media, UK. Curator Bill Arning, MIT List Visual Arts Center, has awarded a 2008 solo exhibition at the Housatonic Museum in Bridgeport, CT to Wing-Sproul.

Her prints and videos have been included in the collections of Volgograd Museum, Russia; Phatspace, Australia; Dinnerware Contemporary Art Gallery, Tucson as well as in college and university special collections including Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany. Her current long-term nomadic, performance-based work, Tidal Culture, takes her to the North Atlantic shorelines of Maine, Newfoundland, Greenland, Iceland and The Hebrides. Tidal Culture: Part III (Greenland) is supported in part by a grant by the Visual Arts Sea Grant, University of Rhode Island.

Wing-Sproul holds an MFA from the State University of New York at New Paltz. She has also studied at the School of Visual Arts, NYC; Film/Video Arts, NYC; and the International Film + Television Workshops, Rockport, ME. She is currently on the sculpture faculty at the Maine College of Art.