Brittney Chantele Aston

SAIC SHOWS 2026 GRADUATE EXHIBITIONS

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SAIC SHOWS 2026 GRADUATE EXHIBITIONS

Master of Fine Arts in Studio, Film, Video, New Media, and Animation

Brittney Chantele Aston is a multidisciplinary artist working across film, painting, ceramics, music, and performance. Their work comes out of lived experience as a U.S. Army veteran and a disabled artist navigating fibromyalgia and PTSD.

They use endurance, repetition, and material transformation to explore what the body carries, what it’s forced to carry, and what it refuses. Their work pushes against ideas of strength, control, and productivity, tracing how institutional systems stay in the body long after you leave them.

Brittney Chantele Aston - Through the Wound III (Muscle)

Through the Wound III (Muscle), 2026, Ceramic

Brittney Chantele Aston - KEEP GOING! (work in progress)

KEEP GOING! (work in progress), 2024-present, Video still from performance

Across ceramics, film, performance, and painting, I’m thinking about what the body carries, what it’s been forced to carry, and what it remembers. A lot of that comes from my experience in the military and from living with chronic pain. Endurance, repetition, and control show up again and again. It is something lived and felt.

The ceramic works in my ‘Through the Wound’ series treat the body as both form and site. Each piece holds a different relationship to injury, sensation, and memory.

‘KEEP GOING!’ comes from a similar place. It’s an endurance performance where I do push-ups in uniform until failure. It pulls from military training, but also from the reality of living in a body that doesn’t always cooperate. The piece sits somewhere between discipline and breakdown.

Across all of this, I keep coming back to the same question: what does it mean to keep going, and at what cost.

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