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PREMA MURTHY
American b. 1969
 
EDUCATION
 
MFA Goldsmith's College, London
BA University of Texas, Austin
 
EXHIBITIONS
   
2007 AFX FESTIVAL. Het Ketelhuis, Amsterdam.
  BON VOYAGE: RECONSIDERING LANDSCAPE. Threshold Gallery, Perth, Scotland. Curated by Iliyana Nedkova.
  FUZZY LOGIC. PS1/MOMA Contemporary Art Center, New York. Curated by Alanna Heiss.
  BORDERLINE Video Festival. Platform Gallery, Beijing, China.
  FRESH NY. Threshold Art Gallery, Perth, Scotland. Curated by Anne Barlow.
  SOUTH BRONX CONTEMPORARY: THEN & NOW. Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY.
2006 FEMINISMS IN THE ELECTRONIC LANDSCAPE. Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castello, Castellon, Spain.
  TURNING BACK THE LENS. Georgia State University Museum of Art, Athen, GA.
2005 FILE. ELECTRONIC LANGUAGE INT'L FESTIVAL. SESI Art Gallery, Sao Paulo.
  deSTRUCTURES. Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta. Solo Show.
  RHIZOME ARTBASE 101. New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.
  VIOLENCE WITHOUT BODIES. Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid.
  FATAL LOVE: SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN ART NOW. Queens Museum, New York.
2004  T(HERE). India Habitat Centre. New Delhi. 
  SPACE INVADERS. The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta. Solo show.
  A PLACE CALLED HOME. NSA Gallery, Durban; The National Gallery, Johannesburg.
2003 ONLY SKIN DEEP. The International Center for Photography, New York.
  PREMIER. 450 Hudson Street in conjunction with The Armory Show, New York.
  ATLANTA BIENNIAL. The Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta.
2002 BLOOMBERG NEW CONTEMPORARIES. Shortlisted. The Barbican, London.
  MYTHIC HYBRID. Online exhibition. www.turbulence.org.
  RACE AND DIGITAL SPACE. MIT List Center of Visual Art, Cambridge; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC; Spelman College Museum of Fine Arts, Atlanta.
2001 NET.EPHEMERA. Chapman Gallery, Manchester; Project Arts Center, Dublin; Moving Image Gallery, New York.
  CROSSING THE LINE. Queens Museum, New York.
  DOUBLE LIFE. Generali Foundation, Vienna.
  FAKESHOP 2001-1997: Installations/events. Fakeshop Warehouse, Brooklyn.
2000 WHITNEY BIENNIAL. The Whitney Museum, New York (w/ Fakeshop).
  HUHB. Eyebeam's Museum for Art and Technology, New York (w/ Fakeshop).
  SIGGRAPH 2000. SIGGRAPH Art Gallery. New Orleans (w/ Fakeshop).
  UN(SUITABLE) GIRLS. Paisley Gallery, New York.
  LET'S ENTERTAIN. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
1999 TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTIONS. Hamilton Gallery, Toronto.
  LIFESCIENCE. Ars Electronica Festival, Brucknerhaus, Linz, Austria (w/ Fakeshop).
  NEXT FIVE MINUTES. De Waag, Center for Old and New Media, Amsterdam (w/ Fakeshop).
  BINDIGIRL. Online exhibition. bbs.thing.net.
  SLANT.ORG. Asian American Artists on Censorship. Online exhibition.
  ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL. WKCR Radio, New York (w/ Fakeshop).
  FUTURE MEMORIES. Live performance. Tonic, New York (w/ Fakeshop).
  SINGLE-MIND PROGRAMMING. Gavin Brown Gallery, New York (w/ Fakeshop).
1998 DESCENDING 2.0. Asian American Arts Alliance, CitiCorp Building, New York.
  20 INT’L DIGITAL ARTISTS. Bianca Pilat Contemporary Art Gallery, Milan.
  CURCUITS@NYS. Governor's Conference on Arts & Technology, New York.
  IMMEDIA 98: HYBRID DIGITAL MEDIA. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
  FLOATING. Thing.net, New York and Tokyo.
  ZENATECH. AIR Gallery, New York (with Janene Higgins & Zeena Parkins).
  CLOSING THE LOOP, Time’s Up Organization. Linz, Austria.
  SOLARIS. Streaming media performance. Walker Hill Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea (w/ Fakeshop).
1997 TERRA BOMBA. Exit Art, New York.
  AMORPH/BURNINGS. Sandra Gering Gallery, New York (w/ Diane Ludin).
  PORT. MIT List Center of Visual Art, Cambridge.
  EXPANSION ART ARTISTS OF OUR TIMES. Alternative Museum, New York.
  WHAT'S COOL? Arte Fiera '97, Associazione di Cultura, Bologna, Italy.
  UNDER THE ANCHORAGE. Creative Time, New York (w/ Floating Point Unit).
  CU-SeeMe TV. MNN Public Access Cable TV (w/ Floating Point Unit).
  TIMEBOMB. PS1 Clocktower Gallery, New York (w/ Brad Kahlhammer & Janene Higgins)
1996 OBSERVATION PLATFORM. Here Theater, New York (w/ Floating Point Unit).
  MECHANICAL BRIDE. Here Theater, New York.
  COMA. Roseland Ballroom, New York (with Floating Point Unit).
  SEAMING. Here Gallery, New York.
  SEXSPEC.001/002. Pseudo Studios, New York.
  NATIONAL SHOWCASE V. Alternative Museum, New York.
1995 GROUP SHOW. Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York.
  THE MEAT SHOW. Gansevoort Street, New York (w/ Floating Point Unit).
  THE BARDO. Here Theater, New York and NTT, Tokyo, Japan (with Floating Point Unit, Tokyo Butoh Dance Group, Elliot Sharp & Ned Rothenberg).
   
GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS
   
2004 Visual Artists Grant, Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs
2003 Finishing Fund Grant, Experimental Television Center, New York.
2002 Commission, The Greenwall Foundation, New York, and Turbulence.org.
1999 Creative Capital Foundation Grant, New York.
1997 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Digital Art.
   
RESIDENCIES
   
2004  GAEA Foundation, Provincetown.
2003 Wesley Center for New Media, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.
2000 CICV Pierre Schaeffer, Belfort, France.
  Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York.
1999 Harvestworks Digital Media Space, New York.
1998 Time's Up Organization, Linz, Austria.
   
ARTIST TALKS/CONFERENCES
   
2004 Panelist. “Power and Representation in a Media-Saturated Age.” Scholar and Feminist Conference, Barnard College.
2003 Wesley Center for New Media, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.
2001 Jindal Arts Center, Mumbai.
2000 Sony Wonderlab, New York.
  “Digital Happy Hour,” The Kitchen, New York.
  New School for Social Research, New York.
  Panelist. “Net.congestion: Bandwidth Aesthetics.” First International Conference for Streaming Media, Amsterdam.
1998 Intermedia Department, University of Iowa.
  “Zenatech: Talks by Women in Art & Technology,” AIR Gallery, New York.
   
PUBLICATIONS
   
Murthy, Prema. “Ito Ai Panaginip…(this is a dream not of a common language).” Cyberfeminism: Next Protocols. Eds. Verena Kuni, Claudia Reiche, Yvonne Volkart. Brooklyn: Autonomedia, October 2004.

----. “Experiments with Prema Murthy” (with lab reports). Closing the Loop. Ed. T.H.H. Boykett, and J.A. Merit. Linz, Austria: Time’s Up, 1999.

----. “Centerfold” (images). Time Capsule: A Concise Encyclopedia of Women Artists, Performers, and Writers. Ed. Robin Kahn. New York: Creative Time and S.O.S. International, 1995.

----. “Saints” (images). Promotional Copy. Ed. Robin Kahn. New York: Mimi Somerby, S.O.S. International, and BRAT, 1993.