Ava Burke
Photo by Tyler Swanner
Artist Fellow
Ava Burke (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and researcher operating at the collision of the personal and the petrochemical-industrial, using each as a lens through which to view the other. Her work engages the theoretical-poetic possibilities of plasticity to render, refract, and metabolize life at the crest and looming trough of the Anthropocene through a bricolage of image-making, personal archive, and written narrative. A native of Charlottesville, Virginia, Ava holds an undergraduate degree in American Studies from the University of Virginia and a masters in Design and Technology from the Parsons School of Design in New York.
Website: www.infiniteregress.net
Instagram: @infiniteregress.world
Ava is a 2025 New City Arts Fellow. During her Fellowship, Ava will further an ongoing body of work about the grief, joy, monotony—and indeed joy-in-monotony—of transformation, as told through the setting and figure of Houston's 610 Loop freeway.
