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HEIDI
KUMAO
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| EDUCATION | ||
| The
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Master of Fine Arts, Photography,
1991 |
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| FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS and AWARDS | ||
| 2007-08 | American Association of University Women Educational Foundation American Fellowship | |
| 2007-08 | Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Michigan | |
| 2007 | Faculty Development Grant, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan | |
| 2006 | Teaching
with Technology Institute, Grant to develop online video distribution
channels, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan |
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| 2006 | The National Academy, New York City Malvina Hoffmann Award for Finest Sculpture (The 181st Annual) |
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| 2004-05 | Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Michigan, (Grant for Artistic Production) | |
| 2002 | Creative Capital Foundation, Emerging Fields, New York City | |
| 2002-03 | Interdisciplinary Faculty Grant, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan | |
| 2001 | New
York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship in Sculpture Research Fellowship, The Bakken Museum and Library, Minneapolis, MN |
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| 2000 | Pittsburgh Filmmakers First Works Grant (for Digital Video project) | |
| 1999-2000 | 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 | Research Fellowship in the Arts, University of Michigan School of Art and Design, Ann Arbor | |
| 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 |
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| 1993 | Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Artist-In-Residence Grant, Washington Project for the Arts Light Work Grant in Photography, Light Work, 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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| 1991 | James Nelson Raymond Traveling Fellowship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago | |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2008 | "Misbehaving," Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan | |
| 2005 | “Wired Wear”, 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 |
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| 1998 | Center
for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain "Introductions," Braunstein-Quay Gallery, San Francisco Centro Cultural Light, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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| 1997 | The
Alternative Museum, New York City The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas |
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| 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 |
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| 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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| 1992 | The Print Club, Philadelphia | |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 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” |
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| 2006 | “ZeroOne
San Jose and ISEA 2006: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge,”
San Jose, CA (exhibition of CNNplusplus) “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 College, 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) |
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| 2005 | “Database
Imaginary,” Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto, Mississauga
(with Preemptive Media, exhibit of Zapped!) |
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| 2004 | "Only
Skin Deep:Changing Visions of the American Self," International
Center for Photography, New York City "Tart," Klein Gallery, Chicago |
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| 2003 | “Double-Clicks
to DPI: Digital Media in Contemporary Art,” Dowd Fine Arts Gallery,
State Univ. of NY, Cortland, NY “Still,” Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI “Listen to Me,” Detroit, MI |
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| 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 "Hopeful Monster,” Alfred University, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation at Ace Gallery, New York City |
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| 2000 | Museu
del Cinema, Collection Tomas Mallol, Girona, Spain "Fusion! Artists in a Research Setting," Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA "Womentek," Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA "Site Specifics 2000," Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY |
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| 1999 | "Zoetropia,"
Zeum, San Francisco "Motion," Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Museum of Art Utica, NY Jenn Joy Gallery, San Francisco |
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| 1998 | "Womentek," Rosemont College, PA (organized by Art & Science Collab. Inc.) | |
| 1997 | "Open Studios," Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, New York | |
| 1996 | "Chambers,"
Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art (CEPA), Buffalo, NY "Luminous Image," The Alternative Museum, New York City |
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| 1995 | "Kumao/Euen,"
Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto (catalog) "X-Sightings," Installation, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY "Hallwalls 20th Anniversary Show", Birchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY "Sum of the Parts", University of Hawaii at Manoa Art Gallery "Faculty Exhibition", Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY |
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| 1993 | "Happy Hour," Installation and Performance, The Kitchen, NYC "Light Work Grants," Photographs, Light Work Gallery,Syracuse, NY "Faculty Exhibition," Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY | |
| 1992 | "W.P.A. in the Hemicycle," Installation, Corcoran Gallery of Art, D.C. | |
| 1991-1993 |
"Motion
and Document - Sequence and Time: Eadward Muybridge and Contemporary American Photography," Traveling Exhibition orginating from The Addison Gallery of American Art, Massachusetts (catalog) National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA International Center of Photography, Midtown, New York City Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Presentation House, Vancouver, B.C. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY |
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| 1991 | "Embodiment"
Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago "Body and Object," The 66th International Competition: Photography, The Print Club, Philadelphia "Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition," The School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
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ACADEMIC POSITIONS |
| University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, School of Art, Assistant Professor,
2003-present Roman J. Witt Visiting Assistant Professor, 2001-2003. Digital video and animation, web and electronic art, graduate advising. |
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| Rhode
Island School of Design, Instructor, Sculpture Department,
1997. City College of New York, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Art and Art History, 1997. |
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| 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. | |
| SELECTED PRESS, REVIEWS, AND ARTICLES | |
| 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. |
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| TheDetroiter.com, “Technology and Imagination,” Nick Sousanis, May 18, 2006. | |
| Tropico, "Zapped Tookit para as massas," Giselle Beiguelmann, Dec. 2005 | |
| 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. | |
| Philadelphia Museum of Art Education Department, video to encourage visitorship, includes my work, broadcast on both cable and network television stations June-Sept. 2004. | |
| 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." | |
| Foto Mundo, (June 1999): pp. 48-42. Casaballe, A. Becquer. "Mecanismos Ocultos de Heidi Kumao." | |
| Sculpture (November 1998): p.67. Schumacher, Donna. "Heidi Kumao at Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens." |
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| El Mundo Catalunya (July 7, 1998). Uberquoi, Marie-Claire. "Apuesta por las nuevas tecnologías." | |
| San Francisco Examiner (April 3, 1998): p. C-9. Bonetti, David. "'Judgment' time at Yerba Buena Center." | |
| Asianweek (March 19, 1998): p. 19. Green, Stephanie. "Magic and Science Intersect." | |
| Review (October 15, 1997): pp. 31-32. Harris, Jane. Review of Nervous Systems at The Alternative Museum. | |
| Dallas Star-Telegram (August 10, 1997): Section G, p. 3. Akhtar, Suzanne. Review of Hidden Mechanisms at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary. | |
| The Dallas Morning News (June 20, 1997): Guide Section, p. 44. Daniel, Mike. Preview of Hidden Mechanisms at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary. | |
| Exposure (Vol.31 1/2, 1997): pp. 24-33. Brush, AnJanette. "Virtual Selves and Historical Bodies or the Ongoing Experience of Inhabiting Technology." | |
| Spot (Spring 1997): p. 13. Harvey, Peter. "Precursor to Light." Review of Hidden Mechanisms at The Houston Center for Photography. | |
| ARTnews (January 1997): p. 43. Vanesian, Kathleen. "City Focus: Phoenix and Scottsdale." | |
| The Buffalo News. (July 6, 1995). Huntington, Richard. "The Expected and Unexpected." Review of X-Sightings Exhibition at the Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY. | |
| Artvoice. ( June 7, 1995). Green, Natalie. "In Orbit." Review of Body/Machine at Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, NY. | |
| Artforum (December 1994): p. 87. Licata, Elizabeth. Review of Feed at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. | |
| Artpapers. (May-June, 1994). Morgan, Anne Barclay. Review of Heidi Kumao:Tied at the Washington Project for the Arts. | |
| Afterimage (February, 1994): pp. 6-9. "Hidden Mechanisms: Interview with Heidi Kumao." Love, Lynn. | |
| Washington City Paper. (October 22, 1993). McWilliams, Martha. “Transformers.” Review of Tied at Washington Project for the Arts. | |
| New Art Examiner. (April, 1992): p. 36. Otto, Susan. Review of Embodiment at Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago. | |
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PUBLICATIONS AND CATALOGS | |
| 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:National Academy Museum, Nancy Malloy, New York, NY, 2006 |
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| Sartorial Flux: Artist as Techno Fashion Designer, V. Lamontagne. Chicago: A+D Gallery, Columbia College, 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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| Hidden Mechanisms, Houston Center for Photography, 1996 |
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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. The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, 1997. |
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| Hidden Mechanisms. Zeitlin, Marilyn. Arizona State Univ. Art Museum, 1996. Exhibition brochure. | ||
| The Luminous Image. The Alternative Museum, 1996. CD ROM Exhibition Catalog. | ||
| Chain
3 : Hybrid Genres/Mixed Media (Vol. 2, Fall 1996), ed. by J.
Osman and J. Spahr. Kumao, Heidi. "Cinema Machines." University of Buffalo, New York. |
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| Heidi Kumao and Euen Macdonald. Pruesse, Kym. Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto, 1995. | ||
| Body / Machine. (1995). Licata, Elizabeth. "The Seduced and Abandoned Cycle: Reflections of an Amateur Technophile." Exhibition Catalog, Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, NY. | ||
| Contact Sheet 77 (1994). "Light Work Grants." Light Work, Syracuse, NY | ||
| Motion and Document -Sequence and Time: Eadward Muybridge and Contemporary American Photography. Reynolds, Jock and James Sheldon. Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, 1991 | ||
| 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 Barbara Metcalf, Chicago 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 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 Discussion: "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 | ||
| 2006-07 | Member, Screening Committee, Ann Arbor Film Festival | |
| 2005-06 | Member, Pre-screening Committee, Ann Arbor Film Festival | |
| 2005 | Juror, New Media Grants, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Baltimore | |
| 2003 | Member, Screening and Programming Committees, Ann Arbor Film Festival | |
| 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 |
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| 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 | |
