mandy machine

Bio

A New York based interdisciplinary artist, Morrison's themes often involve interaction, group participation or a core of performers. Playful as well as aggressive, her ideas evolve from notions of space in the personal, corporal and mediated realm; in particular, how the body projects itself within varying contexts. She has used archetypes –as well as stereotypes– of gender as a springboard to present the physical and psychological world of conditioning. By examining, as well as expanding notions of 'self' and physicality, her process invites deviation and transformation from prescribed norms.

She has created videos, site-specific installations and performances as well as a documentary film (Potential Partners, 2006). Her work has been exhibited internationally in galleries, museums, and festivals including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Kunstlerhaus Hamburg, and CINESONIKA in Vancouver. She has been visiting faculty at Pratt Institute, and Rutgers University, and a Visiting Artist at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The University of Minnesota, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, among others. Additionally she has been the recipient of grants and honors, including fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council, and the Council on the Arts and Humanities on Staten Island as well as residencies from the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Ohio's Wexner Center. Recent projects have involved utopian and military architecture, rural youth, and urban break dance artists.
An independent producer she has also generated educational videos for youth audiences.

Contact: mandymorrison@mandymachine.com

Curriculum Vitae

MANDY MORRISON C.V.
(abbreviated)

GRANTS

2010-11

Council on the Arts & Humanities on Staten Island Premier Grant and Excellence Award

2002 New York Foundation for the Arts, Artists' Fund

2000 University of Wisconsin, Visiting Artist Fellowship

1999 Artists Space, New York, NY,
Independent Projects Grant

1997 Illinois Arts Council, Artist Fellowship, Video

1995-97 Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL
Community Artists' Assistance Program

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1999 Courtroom Gallery, Brooklyn, Padded Room

1996 Automatic Gallery, Chicago, IL, Os

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 Starline Gallery, Harvard, IL, Blue Sky Resident Artists

2002 Cuchifritos Gallery, New York, NY, Social Spaces

2001 Untitled (space) Gallery, New Haven, CT, Grrrls!

2000 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY,
2000 Whitney Biennial

1999 GAle Gates Gallery, Brooklyn NY, Size Matters

1996        University Galleries, Illinois State University,
       Normal, IL, Dollhouse

       Kunstlerhaus, e.V., Hamburg, Germany,
       Mandy Morrison, Tom Denlinger

       Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI, Station Wagon

       Radius Group, Chicago, IL, Space Gallery,
       Feigen Gallery, Thomas Blackman Associates,

SCREENINGS & PERFORMANCES

2011        Brooklyn Museum, Teen Night Open House:
       Stomp and Step Playing Defense with NYC Arts Cypher

       SUMMERFEST, Staten Island, NY Playing Defense:
        Video and Performance with NYCArts Cypher

2010 CINESONIKA, Film and Video Festival, Vancouver, BC

2009 San Luis Obispo International Film Festival, S.L.O., CA

2008 Movement Research, New York NY
Short Form Performances

2005-06 Dallas Video Festival, Dallas TX

2004 Dixon Place, at Chasama, New York NY,
Performance: Cake

2002 Cuchifritos Gallery, New York, NY,
Performance: mandymachine, Initial Public Offering

2001 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, Performance: mandymachine: Initial Public Offering

2000 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA, Screenings of Selected Work from the
2000 Whitney Biennial

1999 New York Gay and Lesbian Film/Video Festival,
New York, NY

1998 MIX Film/Video Festival, New York, NY;
Act Like a Man Series

1996 Offener Canal TV, Hamburg, Germany;
A Selection of Videos by Mandy Morrison

1995 State of Illinois Building, Chicago, IL
Performance: For Immediate Release

REVIEWS & PRESS

2008 Northwest Herald, June 30, p.1, McHenry County, IL
Teens Explore 'Space' with N.Y. Performance Artist at MCC, Kellie Doyle

2001 Catalogue Essay, grrrls, gurls, gyrls, Lucy Souter

2000 Art New England Online, Report from New York; Conceptual Curiosity Shop, The Whitney’s Biennial, Donald Kuspit

2000        Whitney Biennial 2000, exhibition catalogue, p.166

       Artforum, March p. 113, 115, The Max Factor; Whitney        Biennial 2000

       Talk, March, p. 59, 63, Talking Pictures, Faces of Art        2000

1997 Art Papers, July-August. p. 51, Mandy Morrison at Automatic Gallery, Chicago, IL, Olga Zdanovics

Frieze, January, Mandy Morrison at Automatic Gallery, Chicago, IL, Michelle Grabner

1996 New Art Examiner, November, p. 39, Dollhouse at University Galleries, Kevin Marzahls

Szene Hamburg, August, p.82, Dark Laughter, Mandy Morrison and Tom Denlinger, Kunstlerhaus e.V., Hamburg Germany, Julia Mummenhoff

1995 The Madison Times, October, p. 7, Station Wagon Explores the Riddles of Childhood, Ian Atalla

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2011 Wagner College, SI, NY, with Sundog Theater
Project Director: Video Production Workshop

2007-10        Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY,
       Visiting Assistant Professor, 4-D Design
       Introduction to Time-Arts and Digital Technology

2004 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Lecturer
Intermediate/Advanced Digital Video Editing

2000 University of Wisconsin, Madison WI, Seminar:
Culture and Capitalism

1992-93 St. Xavier University, Chicago IL, Lecturer,
Foundations Design

1989-91 Illinois State University, Normal, IL, Lecturer, Foundations Design

2006 Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ

2002 School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2000 University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

2001 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

1997 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

RESIDENCIES

2009 Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH,
Artist’s Technical Residency

2008 Blue Sky Project, Woodstock IL, Residency Artist

2004-05 Cuts and Burns Residency, Brooklyn, NY with Momenta Gallery and Outpost: Video Editing Residency

2000 University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI,
Artist in Residence Fellow

1999 Center for Metamedia, Hermit Foundation,
Plasy, Czech Republic, Residency Artist

1996 Kunstlerhaus e.V., Hamburg, Germany, Residency Artist

EDUCATION

MFA, Video, University of Illinois, Chicago
BFA, Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI