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Heidi Kumao is an interdisciplinary artist who creates video and machine art to explore ordinary social interactions and their psychological undercurrents. Emerging from the intersection of sculpture, theater and engineering, her “performative technologies” generate artistic spectacle in order to visualize the unseen: psychological states, emotions, compulsions, thinking patterns, and dreams. These works are designed to re-enact an event, perform a task for the viewer, or mediate her roles as a woman. Using a range of tools, she creates kinetic and electronic sculpture, interactive installations and digital animations. She is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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Audio-activated dress at the Bell Tower,
University of Michigan
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She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally in group and solo exhibitions including one-person exhibitions at the Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, and Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco and the Arizona State University Art Museum, to name a few. Group exhibitions include “ZeroOne San Jose and ISEA 2006: A global Festival of Art on the Edge” in San Jose, California, “Brides of Frankenstein” at the San Jose Museum of Art, and shows at the National Academy Museum (NYC), Galeria Vermelho (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Exit Art (NYC), and the International Center for Photography (NYC).
She has been awarded numerous national fellowships, grants, residencies and awards including: Guggenheim Fellowship (2009), Michigan Governor’s Award for Arts and Culture for Innovative Artist (2008), an AAUW (American Association of University Women) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2007-08), the Malvina Hoffman Award for Sculpture at the 181st Annual exhibition at the National Academy (2006), a Creative Capital Grant in Emerging Fields/Robotics (2002), a Sculpture Space funded residency (2002), New York Foundation for the Arts Artist’s Fellowship in Sculpture (2001, 1997).
She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan
School of Art and Design where she teaches digital video and animation,
experimental tv production, electronic and conceptual art. She has
taught intermedia studio courses, photography studio courses, and
lecture classes on the history of photography at Syracuse University,
City College of NY, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, University
of Michigan, and RISD.
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HEIDI
KUMAO
c/o University of Michigan School of Art and Design
2000 Bonisteel Blvd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
hkumao (AT) U M I C H (DOT) E D U
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| EDUCATION |
The
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Master of Fine Arts, Photography,
1991
University of California, Davis, B.A., Art Studio and B.S., Chemistry
(with Honors),
1988
University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Chemistry
Studies, 1985-86 |
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| FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS and AWARDS |
| 2009 |
Guggenheim Fellowship, Creative Arts: Video & Audio |
| 2008 |
Governor’s Award for Arts and Culture for Michigan Innovative Artist |
| 2007-08 |
American Association of University Women Educational Foundation, Post Doctoral Research Fellowship |
| 2007-08 |
Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Michigan |
| 2007 |
Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, Faculty Development Grant, University of Michigan |
| 2006 |
The National Academy, New York City
Malvina Hoffmann Award for Finest Sculpture (The 181st Annual) |
| 2004-05 |
Office
of the Vice President for Research, University of Michigan |
| 2002 |
Creative
Capital Foundation, Emerging Fields, New York City |
| 2002-03 |
Rackham Graduate School, Interdisciplinary Faculty Grant, University of Michigan |
| 2001 |
New
York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship in Sculpture
The Bakken Museum and Library, Research Fellowship, Minneapolis, MN |
| 1999-2000 |
Carnegie Mellon University, Microsoft
Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, Studio for Creative Inquiry
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| 1997 |
New
York Foundation for the Arts, Artist's Fellowship, Sculpture |
| 1996-97 |
Marie
Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Studio Grant, New York City |
| 1996 |
Art
Matters, Artist's Fellowship |
| 1995-96 |
University
of Michigan School of Art and Design, Research
Fellowship in the Arts |
| 1994 |
Artists'
Projects: The New York State Regional Initiative Grant (funded by
the Andy Warhol Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation)
Art Matters, Artist's Fellowship |
| 1993 |
Mid-Atlantic
Arts Foundation, Artist-In-Residence Grant, Washington Project for
the Arts
Light
Work, Light Work Grant in Photography, Syracuse, NY |
| 1992 |
National
Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Fellowship, Photography
Maryland State Arts Council, Visual Arts Grant, New Genres |
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| SOLO
EXHIBITIONS |
| 2008 |
Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan |
| 2005 |
Mott Community College Art Gallery, Flint, Michigan |
| 2004 |
Safety-Kleen
Gallery, Elgin Community College, Elgin, Illinois |
| 2001 |
Three
Rivers Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, (Int'l Sculpture Conference) |
| 1999 |
Lisa
Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
Museu de Imagem
e do Som, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| 1998 |
Center
for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco
Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
Braunstein-Quay Gallery, San Francisco
Centro Cultural Light, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| 1997 |
The
Alternative Museum, New York City
The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas |
| 1996 |
Arizona
State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Houston Center for Photography. Funded by the Museum Program of
the NEA.
Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| 1994 |
Hallwalls
Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY |
| 1993 |
Washington
Project for the Arts, D.C., Funded by the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation
Art In General, New York City |
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| SELECTED
GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
| 2009 |
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI, "Women’s Ware" |
| 2008 |
Pixilerations [v.5]: Fragments & (W)holes, Providence, RI
College Art Assn. Conference, Dallas, TX, “Social Fabrics,” Runway show
Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI, “Gender Agenda” |
| 2007 |
Galeria Vermelho, Sao Paulo, Brazil, “Noema: Galeria de Arte Digital”
College Art Assn. Conference, Dallas, TX, “Social Fabrics,” Runway show
Roberts Wesleyan College, Davison Gallery, Rochester, NY, “Dwelling”
Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI, “Signs, Symbols, and Gestures”
Arizona State University Art Museum Tempe, AZ, “Carnaval da Oba!”
Work Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, “The Studio and the Lab” |
| 2006 |
“ZeroOne
San Jose and ISEA 2006: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge,”
San Jose, CA
“The 181st Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary
American Art,” National Academy, New York City (catalog and
award)
“Active/Inactive: Performative Sculpture,” Glass Curtain
Gallery, Columbia Coll., Chicago
“Sartorial Flux: Wearable Media,” A&D Gallery, Columbia
College, Chicago (brochure)
“Video-rama: Expanded Formats for the Moving Image,” Colgate
Univ., Hamilton, NY
”Sonar: 13th Barcelona International Festival of Advanced Music
and Multimedia Art,” June 2006. (Exhibition of Zapped! with
Preemptive Media) |
| 2005 |
“Database
Imaginary,” Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto, Mississauga
(with Preemptive Media, exhibit of Zapped!)
“Break 2.3: New Species,” (8th Int’l Festival
of Independent Artists) Slovenia, (with Preemptive Media, exhibit
of Zapped! as an installation, including video)
“Traffic,” Exit Art, New York City (with Preemptive
Media)
“Brides of Frankenstein,” San Jose Museum of Art, San
Jose, CA
“Thought Crimes: The Art of Subversion”, Diverseworks,
Houston (Exhibited Zapped!) |
| 2004 |
"Only
Skin Deep:Changing Visions of the American Self," International
Center for Photography, New York City
"Tart," Klein Gallery, Chicago |
| 2002 |
"Arrested
Development," Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle,
NY
"Big Orbit Gallery 10-Year Anniversary,” Anderson Gallery
of the Univ. of Buffalo, NY
Houston Center for Photography, Fotofest Anniversary Exhibition
Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation at Ace Gallery, New York City
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| 2000 |
Museu
del Cinema, Collection Tomas Mallol, Girona, Spain
"Womentek," Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA
"Site Specifics 2000," Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY |
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| ACADEMIC
POSITIONS |
University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, School of Art & Design, Associate Professor,
2008-present.
Assistant Professor, 2003-2008,
Roman J. Witt Visiting Assistant Professor, 2001-2003.
Digital video and animation, web and electronic art, graduate advising. |
Rhode
Island School of Design, Instructor, Sculpture Department,
1997.
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| City College of New York, Adjunct Faculty, Department
of Art and Art History, 19Tropico,
"Zapped Tookit para as massas,"97. |
| Syracuse
University, Visiting Assistant Professor, Photography, Art
Media Studies Department, 1992-1995, 1997-98. Undergraduate and graduate
level studio and lecture courses in photography, history, criticism. |
| University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Research Fellow in the Arts, 1995-96. |
| University
of Maryland, Baltimore County, Visiting Assistant Professor,
Photography, Department of Visual Art, 1991-92. |
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| SELECTED REVIEWS, ARTICLES, MEDIA COVERAGE |
| Sculpture Magazine, Review of Heidi Kumao at the Urban Institute, Roger Green, Jan/Feb 2009 |
| We-Make-Money-Not-Art.com, “Interview with Heidi Kumao,” May 2008 |
| The Grand Rapids Press, “Art: Science adds to visual drama at UICA,” Gail Philbin, Feb. 17, 2008 |
| The
New York Times, “For
a Broad Landscape, An Equally Wide Survey,” Ken Johnson,
May 31, 2006. |
Ann
Arbor News, “Where
Computer Technology Intersects Art,” Roger Green,
Sunday, May 28, 2006. |
| TheDetroiter.com, “Technology
and Imagination,” Nick Sousanis, May 18, 2006. |
| San
Jose Mercury News, “Female artists ponder the meaning of life
in the age of genetic engineering,” Jack Fischer, August 7,
2005. |
| MetroActive.com, “We
Can Build You,” Richard von Busack, Aug. 10, 2005. |
| Wired
Magazine, “Personal Space Invaders,” July 2005 |
| Witi.com (Women in Technology International), “Here Come the Brides,”
Marcia Tanner, July 2005. |
| Artdaily.com, “Brides
of Frankenstein at San Jose Museum of Art,” July 2005 |
| HoustonPress.com, “Brave
New Art,” May 12, 2005 (review of Diverseworks show) |
| Chicago
Journal, (April 29, 2004), Rosenfeld, Kathryn. “End of an Epicenter.”
(Review of “Tart” at Klein Artworks). |
| Radio
WBEZ-91.5 FM:, "Klein
Art Works' Last Hurrah," Eight Forty-Eight show, April 28,
2004, coverage of “Tart” exhibit, at Klein Artworks in
Chicago, discussion of my kinetic sculptures. |
| IEEE
Computer Society, (July-August 2001), Skogerson, Gretchan. “Embodying
Robotic Art: Cybernetic Cinematics.” |
| The
New York Times, (Sunday June 4, 2000): p. 16 (Arts Section, Long Island
Edition). Harrison, Helen A. "Site Specifics 2000." |
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| SELECTED PUBLICATIONS, CATALOGS, BROCHURES |
Make Magazine, “Our 6,000 Volt Wedding Cake”, Heidi Kumao and Michael Flynn, March 2007
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The Art Disk: A DVD Magazine (Inaugural issue released at Art Basel Miami Beach), Chicago, 2006
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The 181st Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, Nancy Malloy,National Academy Museum, New York, NY, 2006
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Columbia College, Sartorial Flux: Artist as Techno Fashion Designer, V. Lamontagne. A+D Gallery, Chicago: 2006
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Video-Rama: Expanded Formats for the Moving Image, John Knecht, Hamilton, NY: Colgate University, 2005
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Brides of Frankenstein, Marcia Tanner, San Jose Museum of Art, 2005
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Illuminating Projections, Ed Krantz, Elgin, Safety-Kleen Gallery One, 2004
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Artists to Artists: Ten Years of the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Marie WalshSharpe Art Fndn., 2002
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Heidi Kumao: Hidden Mechanisms, Houston: Pan-American Cultural Exchange, 1999
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Cercles Invisibles: “Systemas Nervios”, Ferran Barenblit, Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, 1998
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| Immersed in Technology: Art and Virtual Environments, ed. by Mary Ann Moser, “Time Traveling in the Gallery: An Archeological Approach in Media Art”, E. Huhtamo, MIT Press, 1996 |
| Hidden
Mechanisms. Pan-American Cultural Exchange, 1998. |
| Exploring Color Photography (Third Edition, 1996): p. 242.
Hirsch, Robert. |
| Hidden
Mechanisms. Zeitlin, Marilyn. Arizona State Univ. Art Museum, 1996. Exhibition
brochure. |
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| COLLECTIONS |
The
Exploratorium: Museum of Art and Perception, San Francisco, CA
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Light Work, Syracuse, NY
Ann Hatch, San Francisco
Tony Shao, Oakland, CA |
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| RESIDENCIES |
Virginia
Center for the Creative Arts, 2006, 2007, 2008 (funded residency)
Blue
Mountain Center, 2003
MacDowell
Colony, 2002, 2008
Sculpture
Space, Utica, NY 2002 (funded residency)
Yaddo
Art Colony, 2001
Studio
for Creative Inquiry, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University,
1999-2000
Marie
Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program, New York City, 1996-97
MacDowell
Colony, 1994
Mid-Atlantic Artist-in-Residence, Washington Project for the Arts,
1993 |
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| LECTURES
AND PRESENTATIONS |
School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, “Performative Technologies”
A+D
Gallery, Columbia College, Panel: "Wearable Media
and the Site of the Body," Sept. 2006
FILE
Symposium, (Electronic Language International Festival) Sao Paolo,
Brazil, Nov. 2005
University
of California, Irvine, Arts Computations Engineering Graduate Program,
2005
Northwestern University, Dept. of Art, Theory, and Practice, 2003
International Photography Institute, National Graduate Seminar,
NYU, 2002
Alfred University, Alfred, NY 2002
Ohio State University, Wexner Center, (Photography, Art and Technology),
2001
Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Museum of Art, 2001
New School for Social Research (Film/Animation), 1999
Rochester Institute of Technology (Photographic Arts), 1998
Rhode Island School of Design (Photography Dept.), 1997
Sarah Lawrence College (Film/Animation Dept.), Bronxville, NY, 1997
State University of New York at Albany (Sculpture), 1997
Arizona State University Art Museum, 1996
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Photography Dept.),
1996
University of Michigan School of Art, Ann Arbor, 1995
State University of New York, Fredonia, 1995
Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, 1994
Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY, 1994
Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, 1994 |
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| CURATORIAL
AND JURY EXPERIENCE |
| 2003-09 |
Member, Various Screening Committees, Ann Arbor Film Festival
Screening Committee: 2008-09, 2006-07, 2003-04
Pre-screening Committee: 2005-06,
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| 2005 |
Juror, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts New, Genres Panel |
| 2002 |
Panelist, Computer Art Individual Artists’ Fellowships, Illinois Arts Council |
| 1999 |
Juror, “New Genres” Fellowships, New York Foundation for the Arts |
| 1998 |
Installation Arts Panelist, International Computer Music Conference,
School of Music, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| 1995 |
Panelist, “New Genres” Category Individual Artists’ Fellowships, National Endowment for the Arts |
| 1996 |
Juror, curator, essay writer, Detroit Artists’ Market for “Light Sensitive”, a group exhibition of contemporary photography, film, and video |
| 1993-95 |
Member, Organizing Committee, Matrilineage Symposium, Syracuse University |
| 1994 |
Installation Panel Member, Art In General, NYC |
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