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Catherine Sullivan
Born in Los Angeles, California, 1968

Education
1992
Bachelor of Fine Arts - Acting, California Institute of the Arts,

1997
Master of Fine Arts - Post Studio Art, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California.

2004
" Artists-in-residence programme" DAAD Berlin

Solo Exhibitions

2010
American Aegis, Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI

2009
Seascapes, Museo de la Ciudad, Queretaro, Mexcio

2008
Body Electric Remix, University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN

2007
The Snake Pit: A Metamorphoses of Form, Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Saugatuck , MI
“The Chittendens,”,nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo
“Triangle of Need” Walker Art Center, Menneapolis
“Triangle of Need” A Foundation, Liverpool, UK

2006
"The Chittendens,” Whitney Altria, New York
"The Chittendens," Gio Marconi, Milan
"Catherine Sullivan: 'Tis a Pity She's a Fluxus Whore," The Gallery Sketch, London, England
"The Chittendens," Catherine Bastide, Brussels

2005
"Ice Floes of Franz Joseph Land," Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland
"The Chittendens," Secession, Vienna (cat.)
"D-Pattern," Richard Telles, L.A
"The Chittendens," Metro Pictures, New York
Kunsthalle de Zurich, Suisse

2004
Braunshweig Kunstverein, Germany
NAK, Aachen Manifestation, Germany
Gio Marconi, Milan

2003
" 'Tis Pity She's a Fluxus Whore" Galerie Catherine Bastide, Art Statement, Basel
" Speech Model (from The Flies), Fruits of Crime, Goose Fair." Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna, with Lisa Lapinski
" 'Tis Pity She1s a Fluxus Whore." Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
Metro Pictures, New York
Five Economies (big hunt/little hunt), Metro Pictures, NY; Center D’Art Contemporain Fri-Art Kunsthalle, Fribourg, Switzerland
The Chironomic Rememdy, MATRIX 201d, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California (cat.)

2002
" Five Economies (big hunt/little hunt)." Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, Rubell Family Foundation, Miami.
" Unspoken Evil III - Rites of Ascension and Obscurity." - Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium

2001
" Gestus Maximus (Gold Standard)." Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany

Group Exhibitions

2009
Imagining the Universe, Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Superficiality and Superexcresence, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles (cat.)
Metro Pictures, New York
New Acquisitions, Miami Art Museum, Miami
Entr’acte, The Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

2008
Electoral Collage, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, Oregon
Midyear Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio Interpretations of the Figure, University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana
Social Discourse, Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, Michigan
Molten States, GSK Contemporary, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (cat.)
7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea (cat.)
Four Thursday Nights: Creative Imagination, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen

2007
Metro 25, City Without Walls, Crawford St. Gallery, Newark, New Jersey
Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York , New York
Reconnecting, Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
The Body Sublime, Parkland Art Gallery, Parkland College, Champaign, Illinois
The Nude, juror: Vincent Desidereo, Lexington Art League, Lexington, Kentucky
Stop & Go, Fondazine Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino
The World as a Stage, Tate Modern, London; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2007-2008) (cat.)
Centro Andaluz de Arte, Seville
Talking Pictures, K21 Kunstsammlung, Nordhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Tabacalera International Contemporary Culture of San Sebastian, Spain

2006
Anonymous Drawings, Bluetenweiss Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Cooper Union Summer Residency Exhibition, Cooper Union, New York, New York
Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2006-2007) (cat.)
Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
Whitechapel, London
La Maison Rouge, Paris

2005
" Life, once more ", Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Hollande
Ice Floes of Franz Joseph Land, Prague Biennial, Prague
Metro Pictutes, New York

2004
" Videodream, between the cinematic and the theatrical " , Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
Whitney Biennale, New-York
Ice Floes of Franz Joseph Land, Whitney Biennial, New York (cat.)
Playlist, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

2003
" C'' est arrive demain " Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France
-Thyssen-Bornemisza Foundation in Contemporary Art at the Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Fribourg, Switzerland
Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna (two person show with Lisa Lapinski)
Brightness, Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, Croatia
Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada
KZM, Karlsruhe, Germany (cat.)

2002
Crisp, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York

2001
Kunstverein, Hamburg

2000
" L.A.-ex." Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany

1998
" Still and Otherwise."Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
" Lines of Sight." Site specific project at the California aqueduct,Lancaster, California

1996
" Video Povera."California State University, Los Angeles
SuperIntellectuals." Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, California

1995
" Gander Mountain High." Room 10, Pasadena, California

Performances/ Theatre, Works
Program :
Berlin manifestation : Saturday 18th of September 2004, 7PM and 10PM
Volksbrune an Rosa-Luxembourg-Platz, Berlin.
Aachen Manisfestation, 12 of September 2004, 8PM, Audimax, RWTH Aachen, germany.

ICE FLOES OF FRANZ JOSEPH LAND : Orensanz/S.W.A.P. Manifestations April 2004
Chicago : S.W.A.P. Polish Army Veteran's Association
New York : Angel Orensanz Center
Wadsworth Manifestation -Presented in conjunction with the exhibition "'Tis Pity She's a Fluxus Whore." Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, 2003.
Gold Standard (Canetti/Gibson Infusion) - Presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Catherine Sullivan: Five Economies (big hunt/little hunt)" , UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California, and The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 2002.
Grisly Notes and Tones - Presented by Le Consortium Art Center, Dijon, France as part of the annual festival "Nouvelles Scenes", 2001.
Gold Standard (hysteric, melancholic, degraded, refined) - Presented in conjunction with "New Writing From Los Angeles", organized by Benjamin Weissman, UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California, 2001.
The Chironomic Remedy - Presented in conjunction with the "LA Edge Festival", Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, CA 1999, and as part of "New Music Forum", University of Southern California San Diego, 2000, Berkeley Art Museum, 2003.
Let the Right Be a Vision of the Left - Trapdoor Theatre, Chicago Illinois, 1998.
Dad's Ham - Trapdoor Theatre, Chicago Illinois, 1997.
Unspoken Evil I - Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, 1995.
Lights First, Then Water - Proto Theatre, Tokyo, Japan, 1994.

Screenings
The Chirologic Remedy, Tate Modern, London, 2009
Triangle of Need, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2008
Ice Floes, CCA Laznia, Gdansk, 2006
Ice Floes, CCA Glasgow, 2006
A Short History of Performance – Part IV & The Ice Floes of Franz Joseph Land, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 2006
Ice Floes of Franz Joseph Land, Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York; S.W.A.P. Polish Army Veterans Association, Chicago, 2004
Tis Pity She’s a Fluxus Whore, Wadsworth Antheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, 2003
Ice Floes of Franz Joseph Land, Biennale D’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Amphitheatre of the Opéra National Opera of Lyon, France, 2003
Gold Standard, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago; Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, 2002
'Tis Pity She's A Fluxus Whore : Casa Encendida, Madrid, june 04.
'Tis Pity she's a fluxus whore : playlist, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Gold Standard (hysteric, melancholic, degraded, refined), Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, 2001
Unspoken Evil III - Rites of Ascension and Obscurity - Presented in
conjunction with the exhibition "Cosima von Bonin", Kunstverein Hamburg,
Hamburg, Germany, 2001
Grisly Notes and Tones, Le Consortium Art Center, Dijon, France, 2001
The Chirologic Remedy - Presented by Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne,
Germany and the Secession, Vienna, Austria, 1999.
Unspoken Evil II - Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, California, 1996.

Publications

Catherine Sullivan, Five Economies (exhibition catalogue). With essay by Hamza Walker, and interview with Russell Ferguson. Los Angeles: UCLA Hammer
Museum and Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 2002.
Through the Scattered Glances. Spring Journal Vol. II, Quality Press, 2000.
A Spectacle of Ruin and Doubt. Fama & Fortune Bulletin, Verlag Pakesch & Schlebrugge, December, 1999.
Grisly Notes and Tones (A Strawman's Excerpt). Spring Journal Vol. I, Quality Press, 1998.
The Red Perils of Voluminous Green Asteroid Impaired: Righteous American Fiction Vol. I. Art Center College of Design, 1998. Co-edited with Benjamin Weissman and Alexis Hall.