Amy Hauft creates installations that reorient our experience of the landscape and of planetary living. Hauft’s exhibition at MASS MoCA, 700,000:1 | Terra + Luna + Sol, will make visitors palpably aware of their relationship to the curve of the earth and our distance from the moon. The centerpiece of the exhibition is 700,000:1, which takes its title from the mathematical odds of a person on Earth being hit by a meteor. Constructed from two enormous spheres on the floor and the ceiling, viewers are invited to ascend the lower sphere and place their heads in the upper sphere, invoking the feeling of being simultaneously on the ground and in the sky. Accompanying 700,000:1 will be a new installation commissioned by MASS MoCA and created in residency at the museum about the unfathomability and allure of the moon.

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Download a pdf version of the 700,000:1 | Terra + Luna + Sol gallery guide here.

Learn more about Amy Hauft: 700,000:1 | Terra + Luna + Sol on MASS MoCA’s YouTube channel.

About the Artist
Amy Hauft has exhibited her large-scale architectural installations in museums and galleries worldwide including the Brooklyn Museum (NYC), the New Museum (NYC), the International Artists Museum (Poland), The American Academy in Rome (Italy), and MoMA PS1 (NYC), among many others. She has been the recipient of significant grants including the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, PEW Foundation Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, the Howard Foundation Fellowship, and an NYC Public Art Fund Grant, among others. She has been awarded residencies to work abroad, including at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship in Umbria, Italy, and the International Artists Residency Fellowship in Łódź, Poland. She has taught at the Tyler School of Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the University of Texas at Austin, and is currently based in St. Louis, Missouri, directing the College of Art in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University.

The artist would like to thank Sculpture Space, the University of Texas at Austin, and Washington University in St. Louis.

Amy Hauft
Period Room
Beaver College Art Gallery, Philadelphia PA
Caning, plywood, florescent fixtures, hardware
Courtesy of the artist