Tramaine de Senna is a contemporary artist whose artwork bears witness to her intense relation with materials in a contest between subjects and their plastic forms with interests in the construction of appearances, the "migrations of forms," material and popular culture, internalized violence, exuberance, and the ambiguous presence - "ghosts" - of histories. She has developed an iconography of vivacity with a practice that traverses a variety of fields, mainly sculpture, while employing materials such as ceramics, textiles, paper, foam, and bronze.
Born in San Francisco, de Senna lives and works between Antwerp, Belgium, and California (US). She earned two simultaneous Bachelor degrees in Architecture and Art from the University of California at Berkeley, and graduated with an MFA from the Sint Joost Academie voor Kunst en Vormgeving/Academy for Art and Design, the Netherlands. She has completed several residencies including the HISK - Hoger Instituut Voor Schone Kunsten Vlaanderen/Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Belgium. Tramaine has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including a solo booth at Art Antwerp (Belgium), Fred & Ferry Gallery (Antwerp, BE); the Middelheim Museum (Antwerp, BE); the Flemish Parliament (Brussels, BE); M HKA - Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen/Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (BE); Kunstinstituut Melly fka Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam, the Netherlands); the Permeke Museum/Mu.ZEE (Jabeeke, BE); the Torrance Art Museum (California, US); the Moscow Biennale (Russia); and the Sonoma County Museum (Santa Rosa, California) among others. She has received fellowships and awards from the HISK, Sint Joost, the Flemish Department of Culture, Sonoma County, the University of California at Berkeley, the Society of Professional Journalists, and ArtsBridge America.
Tramaine's art belongs in the permanent collections of the Flemish Parliament, the Middelheim Museum/Kunst in de Stad (Antwerp, BE); M HKA- Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp/The Flemish Community; Mu.ZEE - Kunstmuseum aan Zee (Ostend), as well as in several private collections in Belgium, the Netherlands, the US, Switzerland, Sweden, and Berlin.
