Baker Artist Portfolios

MJ Neuberger explores decolonial embodiment, the ground as witness, and human connection to the natural world through sculpture, installation, photography, public engagement, and interactive works.

Founder of the Great Wide Open and co-founder of the Meeting Ground series of collaborative projects and interdisciplinary dialogues, Neuberger engages diverse communities in collective experience through art installations, workshops, invitations to shared gesture, and cross-cultural discussion, encouraging viewer/participants to arrive in physical presence and consider vulnerability shared with perceived internal and external human and nonhuman others. Active in the multicultural salon A Gathering of the Tribes in New York, Neuberger solicited work as an editor and founding member of the minority caucus at the Village Voice that earned mention in bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress. 

Neuberger has presented work internationally and nationally at Washington University in St. Louis and George Mason University, as well as at Art Resources Transfer, Tribes, and the Farmhouse in New York, at the Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art and the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture. Her work has been recognized with grant funding from the Washington Project for the Arts and residencies at SWALE House in New York, Radford University, Creative Alliance, and St. Mary’s College in Maryland and she has presented research at multinational symposia, the Media Architecture Biennale, and Florida State University’s Festival of Creative Arts.