Biography

Glesta’s work spans both private and public contexts, with solo and group exhibitions at major institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (MOCAK), Poland; the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology in Beijing, China; the New Museum, New York; Hudson River Museum, New York; White Columns, New York; Parrish Art Museum, New York; the Venice Biennale and the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, among other museums and galleries worldwide.

She has completed two permanent public art commissions: Yurong Water Gardens (1999) a three tiered water garden in the center of Sydney, commissioned by the City of Sydney, Australia, and a large-scale installation for the Federal Census Bureau Building (2010) in Suitland, Maryland, an integrated 7 acre landscape on the campus of the Census Bureau commissioned by the U.S. General Services Administration’s Art in Architecture program.

Glesta has received numerous awards and fellowships, including those from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts (New Media), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the Puffin Foundation, among others. In 2020, she was awarded a prestigious Laureate Research Fellowship in New Media and Neuroscience by the UNSW National Institute for Experimental Arts, supporting her research on the corresponding synapses of the vagus nerve through digital and multimedia works.