Catherine Sullivan was born in 1968 in Los Angeles and lives and works in Chicago. In 2015, along with George Lewis and Sean Griffin, she presented Afterword, an Opera at the MCA Chicago. She has had solo or collaborative exhibitions at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago; STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Tate Modern, London; Secession, Vienna; and Kunsthalle Zurich. Additionally, her work has been featured in group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Sullivan participated in the 2014 and 2004 Whitney Biennials, the 11th BALTIC Triennial of International Art, and the 7th Gwangju Biennale.
Text courtesy Metro Pictures.
Catherine Sullivan is a Chicago-based artist whose films and installations have been shown only spottily in New York, and we're the poorer for it. The last piece of hers I saw was Triangle of Need (2007) at Metro Pictures, and that was more than 10 years ago. (Somehow, her 2016 collaboration with the composers George Lewis and Sean Griffin...
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