Biography

Born in 1960 in Sunny Valley, Connecticut, Wight received her B.F.A. in 1988 from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, and an M.F.A. from San Francisco Art Institute in 1994.  After teaching at Mills College, Oakland, she became an associate professor and director of graduate studies in art practice at Stanford University in 2003. Wight teaches classes in emerging media and experimental media art.  She was drawn to Stanford because of the opportunity to work with scientists. Wight has won multiple awards, held several residencies, and exhibited internationally.  She also worked on a research project on cognition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and participated in the Exploratorium’s performance program.

(SJMA Collections Committee, 2010)

Lives and works in Berkeley, CA.

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