Pippa Garner

Duwawisioma (Victor Masayesva Jr.) and Pippa Garner were selected as 2025–2027 CARA Fellows for the enduring influence of their unconventional experimentation across mediums. Pippa Garner’s body of work spans classified ads, drawings, garments, custom cars, sculptures, tattoos, and performances. Throughout her five-plus decades of artmaking, she continuously examined American culture, identity, and consumerism, reimagining everyday objects to interrogate the contradictions and absurdities of societal norms. Born of an unending curiosity, her often humorous interventions—engaging with ideas about gender, autonomy, climate, fetish, technology, kink, and desire—revealed the potentials of art as an exercise in cultural critique.

About Pippa Garner
Pippa Garner (b. 1942; d. 2024) was a transdisciplinary artist. For more than five decades, she pushed against systems of consumerism, marketing, and waste, creating a dense body of work including drawing, performance, sculpture, video, and installation. Her uncompromising approach to life and practice allowed her to interact with the worlds of illustration, editorial, television, and art without ever quite becoming beholden to them.

Portrait by Reynaldo Rivera, 2021