Molly Burt-Westvig is a visual artist working in moving image, installation, and painting to challenge paradigms of power, landscape, and the sublime. Through the use of salvaged automotive debris like glass and steel, she constructs video sculptures and installations that explore the poetics of refusal, dismantling symbols of American progress, masculinity, and acceleration. Her work reintroduces the natural world to industrial scrap using illusion and light to create false breezes, sunlight, water, and shadows, forming immersive environments that stretch time into infinite loops. In repurposing materials tied to speed and destruction, Burt-Westvig proposes an alternative potential that unravels imposed structures and reconfigures fragments into a vision beyond the known.

She received her MFA in 2024 from the Tyler School of Art and was featured in New American Paintings #165 the same year. In 2025 she received the American Austrian Foundation Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts. She has been awarded international and national residencies, including at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA, and PILOTENKUECHE in Leipzig, Germany. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and project spaces across the U.S. and abroad including The Schick, James Oliver Gallery, Vox Populi, Co-Re Haus Der Statistik, WESTWERK Hamburg, and The Figge Art Museum.