| | Catherine Sullivan's medium is the ensemble. She has produced several performances, films, theater works and installations wherein the performers cope with written texts, stylistic economies, re-enactments of historic performances, gestural and choreographic regimes, and conceptual orthodoxies. The works animate a spectrum of historical and cultural reference and often involve multiple collaborators such as composer Sean Griffin. Her work is often staged and shot on sets for unrelated productions and in settings that project social function beyond the mise en scène Sullivan builds within them. These works have been performed and exhibited nationally and internationally at a variety of venues such as the UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Secession, Vienna; Tate Modern, London; Opéra de Lyon, Lyon; Volksbühne, Berlin and The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. She is represented by Metro Pictures, New York, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels and Galerie Christian Nagel, Antwerp/Berlin. Her work is held in public and private collections including Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna; Rubell Family Foundation, Miami and Geotz Collection, Munich. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. - https://dova.uchicago.edu/faculty/sullivan |