About

Aislinn Pentecost-Farren is an artist, curator, and public historian.

She uses museum collections, historic buildings, and landscapes as the starting points for sculpture, installation, writing, printed media, and public interventions. Her practice infiltrates existing systems of cultural reproduction to reveal overlooked narratives within established histories.

Her current body of work explores how the climate crisis recasts history and affects the meaning of historic artifacts. She sites the psychic weight of the climate crisis in objects from the origins of the catastrophe, and explores hindsight, responsibility, and time.

Aislinn’s art practice draws on over 15 years of experience with museums, parks, heritage groups and public art organizations. As a public historian and curator, she conducts research, writes for public and academic audiences, and leads interdisciplinary projects that convene communities to create collaborative, site-specific interventions at historic places and green spaces.

Aislinn has an MFA and a Masters of Science in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BA in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She lives and works in Philadelphia.