Cozette Russell

Cozette Russell’s (b. 1978, Exeter, NH) interdisciplinary practice uses photography, video, installation, sculpture, and text to explore poetic themes of transformation across motherhood, disability, memory, and translation. Russell’s short films have screened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Wexner Center for the Arts, and her writing and photography were recently included in A.I.R Gallery’s 15th Biennial as part of the inaugural issue of Peer Review. Her film “‘X’ and the Woman” is in the permanent collection of the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. She divides her time between New Hampshire and Cambridge, MA, where she works at the Film Study Center at Harvard University.

Cozette’s work was featured in ‘Critical Mass,’ on view August 12-27, 2023.

“My work suggests a subtle narrative of code and language building, and I make work influenced by a sensory desire to connect with my son, who is Deafblind. I am interested in communication through gesture, touch, and texture. In the studio, through process-driven experimentation, I use banal utilitarian materials such as string, nails, bricks, and paper to engage this tactual intuition.”

Cozette Russell