Catherine Sullivan

Born 1968 in Los Angeles, California. Attended California Institute of Arts, Valencia (BFA 1992). Attended Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California (MFA 1997). Lives and works in Chicago, IL.

Selected One-person Exhibitions:

2007
"Triangle of Need," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; A Foundation, Liverpool; The Vizcaya Museum, Miami; Metro Pictures, New York; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago; Galerie Christian Nagel, Köln; GSK Contemporary, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2007-2008) (cat.)
2006
"The Chittendens," The Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York; Gio Marconi, Milan; Catherine Bastide, Brussels
"'Tis a Pity She's a Fluxus Whore," The Gallery Sketch, London, England
2005
"The Chittendens," The Tate Modern, London; Metro Pictures, New York; Secession, Vienna (cat.)
Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland
Richard Telles, L.A
2004
Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Germany
Gió Marconi, Milan
Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany
2003
"Five Economies (big hunt/little hunt)," Metro Pictures, New York; Centre D' Art Contemporain Fri-Art Kunsthalle, Fribourg, Switzlerand
"'Tis Pity She's a Fluxus Whore," Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford (brochure)
"The Chironomic Remedy," MATRIX 201d, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California (cat.)
2002
"Five Economies (big hunt/little hunt)," The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago; Armand Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles (catalogue)
2001
Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2010
"Scene Shifts," Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (2010-2011)
"Entr'acte," Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels
2009
"Superficiality and Superexcrescence," 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
"Molten States," GSK Contemporary; Royal Academy of Arts, London
"Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angles (cat.)
"7th Gwangju Biennale," Gwangju, Korea (cat.)
"Four Thursday Nights: Creative Imagination," Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
2007
"Stop & Go," Fondazione 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 Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Tabacalera International Contemporary Culture Centre of San Sebastian, Spain
2006
"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
"Ice Floes of Franz Joseph Land," Prague Biennial, Prague
Metro Pictures, New York
2004
"Ice Floes of Franz Joseph Land," Whitney Biennial, New York (cat.)
"Playlist," Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2003
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
"C'est Arrivé Demain," Biennale D'Art Contemporain de Lyon, France (cat.)
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada
KZM, Karlsruhe, Germany (cat.)
2002
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
2001
Kunstverein Hamburg
2000
"L.A.-ex," Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
1999
Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne
1998
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
1996
"SuperIntellectuals," Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles
California State University, Los Angeles
1995
"Gander Mountain High," Room 10, Pasadena

Selected Screenings:
2010
"The Last Days of British Honduras," Cannes Film Festival
"The Last Days of British Honduras," Tate Modern, London
2009
"The Chirologic Remedy," Tate Modern, London
2008
"Triangle of Need," Centre Pompidou, Paris
2006
"Ice Floes," CCA Laznia, Gdansk
"Ice Floes," CCA Glasgow
"A Short History of Performance – Part IV" & "The Ice Floes of Franz Joseph Land," Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
2004
"Ice Floes of Franz Joseph Land," Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York; S.W.A.P. Polish Army Veterans Association, Chicago
2003
"'Tis Pity She's a Fluxus Whore," Wadsworth Antheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
"Ice Floes of Franz Joseph Land," Biennale D'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Amphitheatre of the Opéra National Opera of Lyon, France
2002
"Gold Standard," The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago; Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles
2001
"Evil III – Rites of Ascension and Obscurity," Presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Cosima von Bonin", Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
"Gold Standard (hysteric, melancholic, degraded, refined)," Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles
"Grisly Notes and Tones," Le Consortium Art Center, Dijon, France
1999
"The Chirologic Remedy," Presented by Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany; Secession, Vienna, Austria (42 mins.)
1996
"Unspoken Evil II," Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles

Selected Performances:
2005
"The Chittendens," 104 mins.
2004
"Ice Floes of Franz Joseph Land," 120 mins.
2003
"'Tis Pity She's a Fluxus Whore," 20 mins.
2001
"Unspoken Evil III – Rites of Ascension and Obscurity," 38 mins.
"Gold Standard (hysteric, melancholic, degraded, refined)," 12 mins.
"Big Hunt," 22 mins.
"Little Hunt," 15 mins.
1999
"The Chirologic Remedy," 42 mins.

Selected Bibliography:

2010
Rosa Olivares, 100 Video Artists, Exit Publications, Madrid, pp. 386-389
2009
Marie Bonnet and Fabrice Bousteau, Qu'est-ce que L'Art Aujourd'hui?, Beaux Arts Editions, Paris, pp. 38-39
Elizabeth Thomas, Matrix/Berkeley: A Changing Exhibition of Contemporary Art, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, pp. 433
Superficiality and Superexcrescence, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, pp. 90-92
Alice Savorelli, "Americans in Milan," Artnet.com, March 18
2008
Judy Radul, "I Come to Bury Ceasar: The Image of Theatre in the Imagination of Visual Art," Art Lies, No. 60, Winter, pp. 66-71
This is Not To Be Looked At: Highlights from the Permanent Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, pp. 294-295
Okwui Enwezor (ed.), The 7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju Biennale Foundation and BOM Publishing, Gwangju, Korea, pp. 248-251
"Meg Stuart & Catherine Sullivan," Bomb, Summer #104, pp. 28-35
Frances Richard, "Reviews: Catherine Sullivan," Artforum, May, pp. 376
Thomas Micchelli, "Catherine Sullivan: Triangle of Need," The Brooklyn Rail, April, pp. 52-53
Barbara Casavecchia, "I'm Not There," Mousse, Issue #12, January, pp. 68-70
Doryun Chong, "Catherine Sullivan: Triangle of Need," Pluk, Issue #35, Spring, pp. 27-29
Skye Sherwin, "Menage A Trois: Catherine Sullivan," Art Review, February, pp. 22
2007
Jessica Morgan, Catherine Wood, The World as a Stage, Tate Publishing, London, pp. 64-67
Marybeth Sollins (ed.), Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century Abrams, New York, pp. 154-164
Triangle of Need, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, pp. 33
Melanie Gilligan, "The Beggar's Pantomime," Artforum, Summer, pp. 426-433
Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, pp. 116-117
2006
Catherine Sullivan and Co: Film and Theater Works, JRP Ringier, Zurich, Switzerland, pp. 188
Benjamin Cook, Gary Thomas (ed.), The animate! Book: rethinking animation, LUX, London, pp. 127-131
Cynthia Nadelman, "Reviews: Catherine Sullivan," ARTnews, April, pp. 142
Katy Deepwell, "n.paradoxa," International Feminist Art Journal, Vol. 17, KT Press, London, pp. 12-13
Catherine Sullivan, "1,000 Words," Artforum, February, pp. 174-177
Uta Grosenick, ed., Art Now, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, pp. 504-507
2005
Catherine Sullivan, Beatrix Ruf, Sebastian Egenhofer, Catherine Sullivan, JRP Ringier
2004
Jocko Weyland, "American Splendor," Time Out New York, 4-11 March, pp. 12-15
Reena Jana, "The Ambiguity of Vision," Tema Celeste, Milan, March/April, pp. 52-57
Mark Stevens, "Antithesis," New York Magazine, 22 March, pp. 122-124
Melissa Dunn, "Whitney Biennial 2004: A Good-Looking Corpse," Flash Art, Milan, May/June, pp. 63, 80
Merrily Kerr, "Recuperating Revolt," Flash Art, Milan, May/June, pp. 106-109
RoseLee Goldberg, "Catherine Sullivan – angel Orensanz Foundation/Whitney Museum of American Art," Artforum, Summer, p. 251
Rubell Family Collection – Not Afraid, forward by Mark Coetzee, Phaidon Press Limited, New York, p. 213
2003
Domenick Amirati, "New York Critics' Picks – Catherine Sullivan," Artforum.com, March
Johanna Burton, "Catherine Sullivan, 'Five Economies (big hunt/little hunt)'," Time Out New York, 13-20 March, p. 73
Samuele Menin and Valentina Sansone, "Focus Video and Film, Contemporary Video Art (Part II)," Flash Art, Milan, March/April, p. 98
Roberta Smith, "Art in Review – Catherine Sullivan," New York Times, 21 March, p. E40
Christopher Chambers, "Reviews: New York," Flash Art, Milan, May/June, p. 149
Margaret Sundell, "Repeat Performance," Artforum, October, pp. 136-39
Chrissie Iles, "Top Ten of 2003," Artforum, December, p. 122
2002
Five Economies (big hunt/little hunt), The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago
Meghan Dailey, "Preview – Catherine Sullivan," Artforum, May, p. 75
Alice Epstein, "Human Touch Reaches the Post-Baroque," Chicago Weekly News, 1 May, pp. 9, 11
Lisa Stein, "Director Merges Theater and Movies," Chicago Tribune, 17 May
James Yood, "Catherine Sullivan," Artforum, September, p. 208
2001
Sebastian Egenhofer,"Theater und Gewalt Oder: Was Wird Hier Eigentlich Gespielt?," Texte Zur Kunst, Berlin, September, pp. 171-175
2000
"Through the Scattered Glances," Spring Journal, Quality Press
1999
"A Spectacle of Ruin and Doubt," Fama Fortune Bulletin, Vienna, Verlag Pakesch & Schlebrugge, December
1998
Albert Williams, "Alien Hand, Or Let The Right Be A Vision Of The Left," Chicago Reader, 12 June
Asteroid Impaired: Righteous American Fiction, edited by Benjamin Weissman and Alexis Hall, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
"Grisly Notes and Tones," Spring Journal, Quality Press
1997
Justin Hayford, "Dad\'s Ham," Chicago Reader, 30 May

Collections:

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Rivoli
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Miami Art Museum
Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon
Musée d'Art Contemporain, Marseille
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Rubell familly collection, Miami
Samlung Goetz, Munich
Tate modern, London
Thyssen Bornemisza, Vienna
Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Wardworth Atheneum, Hartford
Whitney Museum, New York