Mary Patten

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Mary Patten (* 1951 in Evanston ) is an artist and activist from Chicago . Her works combine writing, video installation, performance, artist books, drawing, photography, collaboration and activism. Her texts, lectures, videos and works of art deal with the relationship between art and politics, visual culture, queer theory, terrorism, prisons and torture. She studied at the University of Illinois at Chicago (1992) and the Kansas City Art Institute . She teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a professor in the Department of Film, Video, New Media and Animation and in the Department of Visual and Critical Studies.

activism

Mary Patten was a member of DAGMAR (Dykes and Gay Men Against Racism and Repression), which was founded in 1984 and developed into CFAR (Chicago for AIDS Rights), an activist group that deals with HIV / AIDS. Patten was one of the founders of Act Up / Chicago. She is the organizer of the Chicago Torture Justice Memorials (CTJM), which aims to bring justice to Chicago police torture survivors and their families. In addition to her work in LGBTQ communities, Patten is also active as a feminist artist and curator, for example with the exhibition "Bad Girls: Video Program: She Laughed When She Saw It" at the New Museum in New York City. Other Patten projects are the Madame Binh Graphics Collective, WhiteWalls, RIOT GRRRANDMAS !!!! and bad girls. She is a member of the arts / activist group Feel Tank Chicago .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements, Averill and Bernard Leviton Gallery, 2016
  • Mary Patten: Panel, Threewalls Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2013
  • Whitewalls: Writings by Artists 1978–2008, Golden Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2012
  • Opening the Blackbox: The Charge is Torture, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL, 2012
  • The Archival Impulse, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL, 2011

Prices

  • Maker Grant, 2013
  • Illinois Arts Council Individual Project Grant, 2013
  • Propeller Fund, 2013
  • SAIC Faculty Enrichment Grant, 2010-11
  • Artadia Grant, 2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chicago Gay History. Accessed July 21, 2018 (English).
  2. ↑ ACT UP Panel Discusses Feelings . March 14, 2007. Accessed July 21, 2018. 
  3. ^ Debbie Gould: AIDS The Pleasures and Intensities of AIDS Activism . Retrieved July 21, 2018.
  4. ^ Chicago Torture Justice Memorial . Retrieved July 21, 2018.
  5. ↑ Bad Girls: Video Program: She Laughed When She Saw It . Retrieved July 21, 2018.
  6. ^ Chicago Gay History. Accessed July 21, 2018 (English).
  7. ↑ Feel Tank Chicago . Retrieved July 21, 2018.
  8. ^ Organize your own exhibition . Retrieved July 21, 2018.
  9. ^ Mary Patten: Panel . Retrieved July 21, 2018.
  10. ^ Whitewalls at Golden Gallery . Retrieved July 21, 2018.
  11. ^ The Charge is Torture Sullivan Galleries . Retrieved July 21, 2018.
  12. ↑ Gallery400 Archival impulses . Retrieved July 21, 2018.
  13. ^ Maker Grant . Retrieved July 21, 2018.
  14. ^ Chicago Torture Justice Memorial Project Grant . Retrieved July 21, 2018.
  15. ↑ Artadia Awardees . Retrieved July 21, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Patten, Mary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Evanston , USA