Catherine Sullivan

Installation view of Big Hunt, 2002, at the Renaissance Society, Chicago.
Five-channel video projection transferred from 16 mm black-and-white film, no sound, running time 22 minutes.

BIOGRAPHY

Born: Los Angeles, 1968
Resides: Los Angeles
Education: Art Center College of Design (M.F.A., 1997); California Institute of the Arts (B.F.A., 1992)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2003
“Speech Model from ‘The Flies’, Fruits of Crime, Goose Fair” (with Lisa Lapinski), Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna.
“’Tis Pity She’s a Fluxus Whore,” with performance: “Wadsworth Manifestation,” Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut. Traveled.

2002
“Five Economies (Big Hunt/Little Hunt),” with performance: “Gold Standard (Canetti/Gibson Infusion),” Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. Traveled. Catalogue.

2001
“Unspoken Evil III—Rites of Ascension and Obscurity,” Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels.
“Gestus Maximus (Gold Standard),” Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany.

Selected Theater Work

2003
“Lyon Manifestation,” Le Biennale d’art Contemporain de Lyon, Opera de Lyon, France.

2001
“Grisly Notes and Tones,” Nouvelles Scènes Festival, Le Consortium, Dijon.

1998
“Let the Right Be a Vision of the Left,” Trapdoor Theatre, Chicago.

1997
“Dad’s Ham,” Trapdoor Theatre, Chicago.

1995
“Unspoken Evil I,” Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California.

1994
“Lights First, Then Water,” Proto Theatre, Tokyo.

Selected Screenings

2001
“‘Gold Standard (hysteric, melancholic, degraded, refined)’, ‘Date Palm Dance’, ‘Unspoken Evil III—Rites of Ascension and Obscurity’,” Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

1999
“The Chirologic Remedy,” Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany. Traveled.

1996
“Unspoken Evil II,” Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2003
“Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon,” Lyon, France.
“Baja to Vancouver,” Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
“Silver,” Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, Canada.
“Works on Paper,” Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles.
“Thyssen-Bornemisza Foundation for Contemporary Art,” Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, Croatia.

2002
“Crisp,” Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York.

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

1998
“Still and Otherwise,” Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles.
“Lines of Sight,” The California Aqueduct, Lancaster, California.

1995
“Gander Mountain High,” Room 10, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California.

Selected Bibliography

2003
Sundell, Margaret. “Repeat Performance: the Art of Catherine Sullivan,” Artforum (October).

2002
Yood, James. “Catherine Sullivan/Renaissance Society,” Artforum (September).

2001
Egenhofer, Sebastian. “Theater und Gewalt Oder: Was wird hier eigentlich gespielt?” Texte zur Kunst (Germany, September).
Pichelin, Stephane. “L’ours montre qui montre,” L’Humanité (December 10).

2000
Sullivan, Catherine. “Through the Scattered Glances,” Spring Journal, Volume 2. Los Angeles: Quality Press.

1999
—–. “A Spectacle of Ruin and Doubt,” Fama & Fortune Bulletin (Austria, December).

1998
—–. “Grisly Notes and Tones (A Strawman’s Excerpt),” Spring Journal, Volume 1. Los Angeles: Quality Press.
Williams, Albert. “Alien Hand or Let the Right be a Vision of the Left,” Chicago Reader (June 12).

1997
Hayford, Justin. “Dad’s Ham,” Chicago Reader (May).