Mathilda LaZelle (she, her) is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in video, installation and live performance. Mathilda studied Studio Art at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Mills College in Oakland, CA. She graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art with her MFA in 2021.
In 2023, Mathilda’s work was featured by Wassaic Project, Folsen Projects, The Torrence Art Museum and the deYoung Museum. In prior years she has collaborated in various capacities with Mills College, The Legion of Honor Museum, The DeYoung Museum, the Maryland Institute College of Art and Eastern Illinois University, as well as many alternative locations.
She is evangelical about her favorite unit of measurement, the Util, and would probably love to meet you!
Mathilda’s multidisciplinary work is a strip-tease between unsettling intimacy and extrapolative critique. In a somatic fathoming of glitch, she is connecting with the contemporary crisis of scale through glittering absurdity and a porosity of selfhood.
Mathilda’s new-media alter-ego The Trans-Dimensional Switchboard-Operator (TDSO) is a quasi-omnipotent connection-driven entity performing a glamorous tech spectacle.