Janet Echelman

Janet Echelman creates monumental aerial sculptures at the scale of buildings that billow and shift with wind and light. She graduated from Harvard College and has held teaching positions at MIT, Harvard, and Princeton. Her practice combines ancient hand-craft with aeronautical engineering and computational design to build works from unlikely materials, including fishnet and engineered fiber stronger than steel. Major installations include She Changes in Porto (2005), the 1.26 series in Denver and Sydney, and Pulse in Philadelphia (2018). Echelman holds a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award.