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Hillary Mushkin lives and works in Los Angeles. Her projects have been exhibited at the Freud Museum (London), the Getty Museum (Los Angeles), and White Columns (New York). Her videos have been screened in the European Media Arts Festival (Osnabrück) and Ludwig Museum (Cologne) in the KunstFilm Biennale. She received her BFA in painting from Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA in interdisciplinary visual art from Universtiy of California, Irvine. She recently received a $25,000 fellowship from the Brown University based Howard Foundation.

Selected Exhibitions and Screenings

2008
Hotbed: Video Cultivation beside the Getty Gardens, in conjunction with California Video, The Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Oog (eye), online version of de Volkskrant (nationally distributed Dutch daily newspaper)

2007
Paranoia, Freud Museum, London (catalog)
Our Distance From Things, Telic Arts Exchange, Los Angeles

2006
Paranoia, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, and Focal Point Gallery, Southend, England (catalog)
Mario’s Furniture: A Mushkin-Barnet Game 2, Telic Arts Exchange, Los Angeles, CA (collaboration with S.E. Barnet)
Viper International Festival for Film, Video And New Media, Kunsthalle Basel
Under Fire, I Space Gallery (the Chicago gallery of University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Chicago
Decoys and Destructions, Overtones Gallery, Los Angeles (catalog)

2005
KunstFilmBiennale Köln, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (catalog)
Conspiracy, Prog:ME Festival, Centro Cultural Telemar, Rio de Janeiro (catalog)
Intersections, site-specific works in street level small businesses, Los Angeles

2004
Blue Sky: Visionaries, Romantics and Dreamers, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA (catalog)
Kasseler Dokumentarfilm-und Videofest, Kassel (catalog)
Biennial Bucharest – Identities and Visual Codes. Images of Violence /Violence of Images, Goethe Institute Bucharest and META Cultural Foundation, Bucharest (catalog)
Ultrachrome, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles

2003
Cinemania(c), MMC Multimedia Centre Luka, Pula, Croatia
Pastoral, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal, Canada
Pastoral, Sweeney Art Gallery, U.C. Riverside, Riverside, CA

2002
LA Freewaves Festival, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2+2, 2211/Solway Jones Gallery, Los Angele

2001
Film Stills, White Columns, New York
European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück (catalog)
Kasseler Dokumentarfilm-und Videofest, Kassel (catalog)
VideoLisboa, Lisbon

Selected Bibliography

2008
Hotbed: Video Cultivation beside the Getty Gardens, Holly Willis and Anne Bray, Getty Museum program essay, 2008.
“Political Lansdscapes”, Peter Frank, LA Weekly, March 19, 2008.
“With ‘Patriot Acts’ Artists Show, The Law Really Is Open To Interpretation”, Leah Lion, Los Angeles Times, Jan. 26, 2008.

2007
“Velocity and the Body in Mario’s Furniture”, M.A. Greenstein, Videogames and Art, eds. Grethe Mitchell and Andy Clarke, London: Intellect Books, and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
“Making Art a Team Sport”, Holly Myers, Los Angeles Times, Sept. 30, 2007.
“S.E. Barnet and Hillary Mushkin: ‘Mario’s Furniture 2’ at Telic”, Shana Nys Dambrot, Art ltd., January 2007.

2006
“The Social Deconstruction of Pictures”, Griffis, Ryan, and “Conversation”, Nancy Buchanan, Mara De Luca and Hillary Mushkin, Decoys and Disruptions, Overtones Gallery (catalog), 2006.
“Generational Differences”, Holly Myers, Los Angeles Times, Dec. 8, 2006
“Mario’s Furniture – Version 2”, Holly Willis, LA Weekly, Oct. 27-Nov. 2, 2006.
“Reviews”, Alan Artner, Chicago Tribune, Sept. 22, 2006.

2004
“Seven Versions of Heaven”, Amy Gerstler, and “Blue Yonder”, Kristina Newhouse, Blue Sky: Visionaries, Romantics, Dreamers, Pomona College Museum of Art (catalog), 2003.
“In Search of the Golden California”, Jennie Klein, Art Papers, Jan/Feb 2004.
“The Stage is Everywhere: A Multimedia Musing on Distributed Online Performance”, Sylvie Parent, HorizonZero, Issue 13, http://www.horizonzero.ca/.
“A Print-off in One Kind of Ink”, Holly Myers, Los Angeles Times, Aug. 20, 2004.

2003
“IF YOU LIVED HERE YOU’D BE HOME NOW: Performance in Los Angeles”, Jennie Klein, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Sept. 2003.
“Sewing and Leisure Time”, Christine Redfern, Montreal Mirror, October 17, 2003.
“Threading Technology”, Holly Willis, LA Weekly, Sept. 19-25, 2003.

Selected Grants, Public Commissions

2007
Howard Foundation Fellowship
City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Public Art Commission

2004
Werkleitz Projektstipendium Nomination

2000
Durfee Foundation Grant

Selected Lectures

2007
Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Germany
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Valencia, CA