Gretchen Faust

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. She is known for her visual art and performance work at galleries in New York, Pittsburgh and Zürich.

Education Faust earned a BA at Smith College ( 1983)and an MFA (1986) at Hunter College.

Work 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. Faust has described her artwork as similar to yoga: "I’d say the personal process is the same. Cultivating presence and intimacy. And the outcome can result in different forms, depending on the circumstances of intention". , Vienna, MAGASIN - Centre National d’art Contemporain, Grenoble; Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal; Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, (with Kevin Warren), the CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, among others.

In 1988, Faust had a solo installation at the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh. In 1991, she had a solo show at Pat Hearn gallery in New York. 1992, Faust had a one-person show at Marc Jancou Gallery, Zurich. In 2003, Faust had a solo show at greengrassi, London. During the 1990s, she had several two person collaborative shows with Kevin Warren.

Faust has created performances that have been presented at Pat Hearn Gallery and the Mattress Factory, Faust has been represented by greengrassi gallery in London since 2003.