Mary Lucier
Mary Lucier (born 1944, in Bucyrus, Ohio) is an American video artist.[1] Concentrating primarily on video and installation since 1973, she has produced numerous multiple- and single-channel pieces. Lucier began working in film in the 1970s after receiving her B.A. from Brandeis University.[2] Her work is held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Modern Art, NY, ZKM Museum fur Neue Kunst in Karlsruhe, Germany, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, and the Milwaukee Art Museum in Milwaukee, WI.
In the 1960s Lucier was married to composer Alvin Lucier and toured with him as a member of the Sonic Arts Union. She is currently married to the painter and arts writer Robert Berlind, with whom she resides in New York.[2]
She has taught at the Cleveland Institute of Art, at New York University, at the Minnesota College of Art and Design, at the San Francisco Art Institute, and at the School of Visual Arts in New York.[2]
Recognition
In the past 30 years, Lucier has been the recipient of grants, awards, and commissions from public and private foundations including Creative Capital, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Film Institute, the Jerome Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, Anonymous Was A Woman, and the Nancy Graves Foundation. In 2007 she received the Skowhegan Medal for Video for outstanding work in the field. In 2010 she won a United States Artists Fellow award.[3]
References
- ↑ Jules Heller, Nancy G. Heller (1997). North American women artists of the twentieth century: a biographical dictionary. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. ISBN 0824060490
- 1 2 3 Mary Lucier. Electronic Arts Intermix. Archived 27 November 2010.
- ↑ United States Artists Official Website Archived 2010-11-10 at the Wayback Machine.
