Oona Bruss (b.2001, San Francisco) is an interdisciplinary lens-based artist working primarily in the intersection of photography and printmaking. She graduated with a B.A. in Design with Honors and a Studio Art minor from Tulane University in May 2023. Oona began exhibiting during her senior year at Tulane with two fall shows and winning a Juror’s award. Since graduating, she has moved to the Los Angeles area and continues to expand her personal art practice alongside her teaching practice through her role as a Teaching Artist at the Print Shop LA. She is currently teaching Silkscreen, Risograph, and Cyanotype at PSLA.

Statement:

My art practice began in response to a disintegrating sense of personhood after multiple experiences of sexual violence in college. The events completely redefined my understanding of womanhood and my relationship with my body. My work explores the residual echoes of violence and lies at the intersection of societal attitudes and interpersonal violence against women . Through the convergence of physical processes of printmaking and photographic self-portraiture, I am reminded of my presence in my body as I work to reclaim it as my own domain. My work weaves together the healing and hardships of living as a survivor.