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