Catherine Sullivan (born 1968
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/ref> whose work combines

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and

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. She was educated at the

California Institute of Arts The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a private art university in Santa Clarita, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the US created specifically for students of b ...

and the

Art Center College of Design Art Center College of Design (stylized as ArtCenter College of Design) is a private art college in Pasadena, California. History ArtCenter College of Design was founded in 1930 in downtown Los Angeles as the Art Center School. In 1935, Fred R. ...

. She is a former actor, and studied as a graduate student under Mike Kelley. She currently teaches at the University of Chicago. ''Triangle of Need'' was a multi-channel video instillation at the Walker Art Center, on view from August 23-November 18, 2007. This project was a collaboration with Sean Griffin, Dylan Skybrook, and Kunle Afolayan. ''Five Economies (big hunt/little hunt)'' (2002) restages scenes from films including ''

The Miracle Worker ''The Miracle Worker'' refers to a broadcast, a play and various other adaptations of Helen Keller's 1903 autobiography '' The Story of My Life''. The first of these works was a 1957 ''Playhouse 90'' broadcast written by William Gibson and st ...

'', ''

Marat/Sade ''The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade'' (german: Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats dargestellt durch die Schauspielgrupp ...

'', ''

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'' and '' Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?''.''Frieze'', Issue 95, October-November 2005.
Tis Pity She's a Fluxus Whore'' (2003) combines filmed re-enactments of a 1953 production of John Ford's play and a 1964

Fluxus Fluxus was an international, interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, designers and poets during the 1960s and 1970s who engaged in experimental art performances which emphasized the artistic process over the finished product. Fluxus ...

performance. Her works ''D-Pattern'' and ''The Chittendens'' were made in collaboration with the composer

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. She won an Alpert award in 2004 and her works are held in the collections of the

Whitney Museum of American Art The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is an art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), ...

, the

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and the

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. Sullivan has been featured on Art 21.

References

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/09/arts/art-in-review-catherine-sullivan.html

External links

Richard Dorment, telegraph.co.uk, Oct 30, 2007.Catherine Sullivan's page at Galerie Catherine Bastide2008 ''Bomb Magazine'' discussion with Catherine Sullivan & Meg StuartWalker Art Center

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