Matt Mullican
{{Short description|American visual artist}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2016}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Matt Mullican
| image = Matt Mullican a Radio Web MACBA.jpg
| caption = Mullican being interviewed by Radio Web MACBA
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1951|09|18}}
| birth_place = Santa Monica, California, U.S.
| alma_mater = California Institute of the Arts
| occupation = Artist, teacher
| mother = Luchita Hurtado
| father = Lee Mullican
}}
Matt Mullican (born September 18, 1951) is an American artist and educator. He is the child of artists Lee Mullican and Luchita Hurtado.{{Cite web|last=Rea|first=Naomi|date=2020-08-14|title='Her Legacy Has Only Just Begun': Luchita Hurtado, the Protean Artist Who Gained Renown in Her Final Decade, Has Died at 99|url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/luchita-hurtado-obituary-1901946|access-date=2022-01-19|website=Artnet News|language=en-US}} Mullican lives and works in both Berlin and New York City.{{Cite web|title=Matt Mullican: Between Sign and Subject - Announcements|url=https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/252223/matt-mullicanbetween-sign-and-subject/|access-date=2022-01-19|website=www.e-flux.com|language=en}}
Early life and education
Matt Mullican was born on September 18, 1951, in Santa Monica, California, to parents Lee Mullican and Luchita Hurtado.{{Cite news|last=Spears|first=Dorothy|date=2008-11-14|title=Mapping an Imagined Order, Page by Page|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/arts/design/16spea.html|access-date=2022-01-19|issn=0362-4331}} His mother was Venezuelan-born.{{Cite web|last=Miranda|first=Carolina A.|date=2020-08-14|title=Painter Luchita Hurtado, who became an art star in her late 90s, has died at 99|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-08-14/painter-luchita-hurtado-dies-at-at-99-obituary|access-date=2022-01-19|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}} In childhood he lived in Caracas, Venezuela for one year.
Mullican received his BFA degree from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in 1974.
Career
He rose to prominence as a member of The Pictures Generation along with such artists as Troy Brauntuch, Jack Goldstein, David Salle, James Welling, Sherrie Levine, Cindy Sherman, Louise Lawler, Richard Prince and Robert Longo. His work is concerned with systems of knowledge, meaning, language, and signification. Mullican also works with the relationship between perception and reality, between the ability to see something and the ability to represent it.{{Cite web|last=Bigman|first=Alexander R.|date=2019-11-29|title=The World According to Matt Mullican|url=https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/matt-mullican-de-young-museum-between-sign-and-subject-silicon-valley-1202669629/|access-date=2022-01-19|website=ARTnews.com|language=en-US}}
Since the 1970s, Mullican has been known for his performances done while under hypnosis.{{Cite web|last=Hinojosa|first=Lola|title=Untitled (Matt Mullican Under Hypnosis: Zurich)|url=https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/collection/artwork/untitled-matt-mullican-under-hypnosis-zurich|website=Museo de Reina Sofia}}{{Cite web|last=White|first=Roger|date=2006-06-12|title=Matt Mullican|url=https://brooklynrail.org/2006/06/artseen/matt-mullican|access-date=2022-01-19|website=The Brooklyn Rail|language=en-US}} During these performances, Mullican channels an alter ego known as 'That Person', who displays extreme and erratic behavior. Drawings made by Mullican while hypnotized are frequently exhibited and attributed to 'That Person'.{{Cite web|last=Pasori|first=Cedar|date=April 12, 2018|title=Virtual reality and hypnosis are Matt Mullican's choice art tools|url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/virtual-reality-hypnosis-matt-mullicans-choice-art-tools|website=Interview Magazine}}
Mullican's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally since the early 1970s at venues including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany, the National Galerie, Berlin, Germany, the Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, Netherlands, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, and The Museum of Modern Art, NY. Mullican's work has been reviewed in Artforum,Artforum "[http://artforum.com/archive/id=28772]" the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The New York Times, and Modern Painters, among others. Mullican has been exhibited in 2017 on the Petit Palais' facade in Paris during the FIAC art fair with his giant piece of art "For Worlds Between Five".
= Teaching =
Mullican was a professor at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg (German: Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg) in Hamburg, Germany, from 2009 to 2018. He has also taught and lectured at Columbia University; The School of Visual Arts; the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam; The London Institute; and the Chelsea College of Art and Design.
References
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Further reading
- {{Cite book|last1=Tenconi|first1=Roberta|title=Matt Mullican: Photographs: Catalogue 1971–2018|last2=Ryan|first2=Tina Rivers|publisher=Skira and Hangar Bicocca|others=James Welling (photographer), Matt Mullican (artist), Anne Rorimer (contributor), Marie-Luise Angerer (contributor)|year=2020|isbn=978-8857241173|location=Milan, Italy|type=art exhibition|author-link2=Tina Rivers Ryan}}
External links
- [http://www.tracywilliamsltd.com/matt-mullican/matt-mullican.html] Tracy Williams, LTD. Artist's page
- [http://artforum.com/video/mode=large&id=21779] Artforum, interview with the artist
- [http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/matt-mullican/capsula] Podcast with Matt Mullican, 2015
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Category:Artists from Santa Monica, California
Category:Academic staff of the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg