ARTIST STATEMENT |
My art focuses on individual vulnerability and the struggle for social justice. These concerns have always been at the core of my social practice and are the subject of my current documentaries, experimental videos and photography projects.
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BIO |
Denise Marika is an artist whose work ranges from installation and performance videos to art projects and documentary work in the field of social practice. Her exhibitions include solos shows at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and MassMoCA as well as international galleries and screenings. Marika is currently Artist in Residence at the Massachusetts College of Art where she was Associate Professor in the Studio for Interrelated Media, Graduate Program. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the LEF Foundation among others and is a Fulbright Specialist. Her recent work includes documentaries for non-profit organizations in South Asia as well as experimental video and soundwave photography projects focused on vulnerable populations, disability and human rights. |
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EDUCATION | |
1984 | MFA, University of California, Los Angeles |
1977 | BA, Pomona College, Claremont, California |
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
2018 |
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA |
2015 |
University of Visual and Performing Arts, Colombo, Sri Lanka |
2014 |
Shilpee Theater, Nepal video screening and presentation “Performing Change” |
2013 |
Nepal National Television, Hamra Kura premiere of “Denied: A Life Confined” |
2012 |
Columbia University New York, NY screening of “Denied: The |
2011 |
Howard Yezerski Gallery,“EFFACED 1”, Boston, MA |
2010 |
Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, Cambodia (live perfomance) |
2009 |
Theatre for a New Audience, New York City, NY, “Orpheus X”, collaboration with Robert Woodruff, Rinde Eckert, David Zinn (set design and video projections) |
2007 |
Laurie Theater, Brandeis University/CyberArts Festival Waltham, MA. “Puzzle Master” (video projections and set design for composer Eric Chasalow) |
2006 | American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge MA, “Orpheus X”, collaboration with Robert Woodruff, Rinde Eckert, David Zinn (set design and video projections) |
2005 | Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA Schiltkamp Gallery, Traina Center for the Arts, Clark University, Worcester, MA |
2003 |
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA |
2002 | Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA |
2001 | Worcester Art Museum -The Wall at WAM, Worcester, MA (catalog) |
2000 | Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA (catalog) |
1999-00 | MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA |
1999 | DeCordova Museum, Video Space, Lincoln, MA Montserrat Gallery, Beverly, MA (two-person, catalog) Howard Yezerski Gallery, Installation, Boston, MA |
1996 | Museum of Modern Art, Barbara London, Curator, New York, NY Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA |
1994 | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA (catalog) |
1992 | Arthur Roger Gallery, New York & Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans Akin Gallery, Boston, MA |
1990 | Stux Gallery, New York, NY |
1989 | Artists Foundation Gallery, Boston, MA |
1986 | SPARC Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1985 | The Western Front, Vancouver, British Columbia Open Studio, Los Angeles, CA |
1983 | Galerie Ars Viva, Berlin, Germany The Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
2015 |
Joseloff Gallery, “+/- (Plus/Minus)”, Hartford, CT |
2014 |
Shemer Art Center, “Materialize”, Phoenix, AZ |
2012 |
Longcount Fesitval, Harvard, MA |
2011 |
Howard Yezerski Gallery, “Naked”, Boston, MA |
2010 |
The Pozen Center, “Modulations”, Boston, MA |
2009 |
New England Conservatory, “Multimedia Showcase”, Cyber Arts Festival, Boston, MA |
2008 | Massachusetts College of Art’s Pozen Center,”Exchange”, Boston, MA |
2007 |
AXIOM,“Witnesses”, Boston, MA |
2006 | The Art Students League, “Why the nude”, New York, NY |
Pomona College Museum of Art, “The senses: Selection from the permanent collection” Claremont, CA |
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Caprice Horn Gallery, “Refraction”, Berlin, Germany | |
2005 | AXIOM, “MASS MEDIA”, Boston, MA |
Godine Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, “Phenomena”, Boston, MA | |
2004
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Howard Yezerski Gallery, “Some of Their Parts”, Boston, MA |
2003 | Arthur Roger Gallery, “25th Anniversary Exhibition”, New Orleans, LA |
2002 | Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, “Fictions: New Narratives in Contemporary Photography & Video”, Waltham, MA |
2001 | CyberArts Festival, Boston, MA |
2000 |
DeCordova Museum, “Celebrating Contemporary Art in New England: Recent Acquisitions”, Lincoln, MA |
1999 |
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, “The Nude in Contemporary Art”, Ridgefield, CT (catalog) |
1998 |
Real Art Ways, “No England No Amsterdam III”, Hartford, CT |
1997 |
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, “Subject(s): A Collective Portrait”, Waltham, MA |
1996 |
Howard Yezerski Gallery, “Industrial Strength”, Boston, MA |
1995 | Real Art Ways, “Human Presence in its Absence”, Hartford, CT |
1994 |
The Institute of Contemporary Art, “Milena Dopitov In Context”, Boston, MA (catalog) |
1993 |
Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA |
1992 |
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, “Naked in a Time of Censorship”, North Dartmouth, MA |
1991 |
Howard Yezerski Gallery, “Mystery and Ritual”, Boston, MA |
1990 | Boston Center for the Arts, “MassachusArts”, Boston, MA |
1988 | Montgomery Gallery, “Centennial” Claremont, CA (catalog) |
1986 | ABC, “California Artists”, Tokyo, Japan |
1985 | Los Angeles Visual Arts Festival, “Testimony of the Human Spirit”, Los Angeles, CA |
1984 | Frederick S. Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, “Emerging Artists”, UCLA, CA (catalog) “In the Uncertain: Two Women in Conceptual Art”, Berlin, Germany |
1983-84 | “Neue Kunst In Der Philharmonie“, Berlin, Germany |
COMMISSIONS / INSTALLATIONS | |
2006 | Outside/Inside Public Art, Delta Terminal A (finalist), Logan International Airport, Boston, MA |
2000-01 | “Crossing Paths” (photo projections on street site), New England Foundation for the Arts & Boston Parks Department Commission, Roxbury, MA |
1998-99 | Framingham Downtown Common (finalist, public art project), Framingham, MA |
1994 | “Crossing” (photographic projections), Brookline Arts Council, Brookline, MA |
1991 | “Andrew Station” (finalist, site-specific installation), MBTA, Boston, MA |
1984 | “Wheels” (finalist, sculpture/playground) Cityarts, Inc./New York City Arts Commission, New York, NY |
1983 | “Stream” (environmental installation), Scottish Arts Council, Mellerstain House, Scotland |
1982 | “Water Split” (environmental sculpture), Dr. Kade Pharmazeutische Fabrik, Berlin, Germany |
1981 | “Our Interventions/Our Interventions/Our Interventions” (environmental installation/performance), Pomona College, Claremont, CA “Our Interventions IV” (environmental sculpture), School of Theology, Claremont, CA |
AWARDS AND GRANTS | |
2016 | Eleanor Briggs Fellow |
2015 | Fulbright Specialist, United States Education Foundation, Sri Lanka |
2013 | Art Technology New England Panel, “Video in Art Installation” |
2012 | & 2013 Fulbright Specialist, United States Education Foundation, Nepal |
2009 | Fullbright Specialists Program Faculty Fellowship Grant from MassArt Foundation, Inc. |
2006 | AICA, International Critics Award |
2005 | LEF Foundation Individual Artist Grant |
1999-00 | Visible Republic Grant, funding from NEFA, the LEF Foundation, the Boston Foundation and the Fund for the Arts |
1995-96 | New England Foundation for the Arts, Artists’; Projects: New Forms Funding from the NEA, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation and Massachusetts Cultural Council New England Film/Video Fellowship, Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant |
1994 | Artist in Residence, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA |
1992-93 | Fellow, Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, Cambridge, MA Massachusetts Arts Lottery/Brookline Council on the Arts and Humanities – New Works Grant |
1991 | New England Foundation for the Arts – New Works Grant New England Film/Video Fellowship Program – Project Grant Boston Society of Architects/American Institute of Architects – Award for Design Collaboration |
1990 |
Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities – New Works Grant |
1989 | National Endowment for the Arts, Inter-Arts Program, Artists’ Projects: New Forms Massachusetts Artists’ Fellowship – Fellow in Interarts |
1986 | Just Above Midtown, Inc. New York, NY – New Works Grant |
1983 | Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, Scotland – New Works Grant |
1978-79 | Fleming Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, Fleming Environmental Fellowship (study in Japan) |
1975-76 | Pomona College, Claremont, CA, President’s Prizes in Women’s Studies for Sculpture |
SELECTED REVIEWS AND ARTICLES | |
2014 |
PHOENIX NEW TIMES November 14, “‘Materialize”‘ Exhibit at Shemer Art Center Explores Art, 3D Technology Intersection” |
2013 |
KANTIPUR DAILY September 2, “Marika with Milan” |
2012 |
KANTIPUR DAILY August 12, “I Capture/Shoot Society in Films” |
2011 |
THE BOSTON GLOBE, January 19, Cate McQuaid, “Shock and Raw ” |
2009 |
THE NEW YORK TIMES, December 5, Charles Isherwood, “Orpheus X” |
2007 |
THE BOSTON GLOBE, December 27, Cate McQuaid, “Art brought to the edge” |
2006 |
SCULPTURE MAGAZINE, October, Christine Temin, “Zero Arrow Theater, American Repertory Theater, Harvard University” ART NEW ENGLAND, February/March, Mary Bucci McCoy “Denise Marika: Body Actions” |
2005 |
THE BOSTON GLOBE, December 30, Cate McQuaid, “Year brought prolific creativity, cultivated and raw” |
2004 |
THE BOSTON HERALD, February 13, Joanne Silver, “Contemporary self-portraits echo life views at DeCordova” |
2003 |
THE BOSTON GLOBE, February 28, Cate McQuaid, “Artist’s Inner Turmoil Projected on Two Sides” |
2002 |
THE BOSTON GLOBE, October 11, Cate McQuaid, “Pictures tell a story” |
2001 | ARTBYTE, Digital Arts & Culture, July/August 2001, Alexandra Hall, “The Boston T1 Party” BOSTON GLOBE, April 25, 2001, Christine Temin, “Video artist projects bare essence of creativity” TIMEOUT TELEGRAM AND GAZETTE, April 5, 200, Frank Magieri, “Artist unearths a first for Worcester Art Museum” BOSTON PHOENIX, April 29, 2001, Randi Hopkins, “Beam me up projected images” ART NEW ENGLAND, April/May 2001, Susan Mulski, “Danforth Museum of Art/Framingham” BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE, January 7, Cate McQuaid, “Video artist Marika gets physical” BIKES NOT BOMBS/SPOKE & WORD NEWSLETTER, Winter 00-01, Corey Tatarczuk, “Crossing Paths-Pubic Art Project for the Southwest Corridor Park” |
2000 | WORCESTER PHOENIX, December 15, Leon Nigrosh, “Slow emotion – an encounter with art at the Danforth” MISSION HILL GAZETTE, October 13, Seth Daniels, “From everyday to magical” THE BOSTON GLOBE, March 22, Christine Temin, “Tossing back the brickbats pelting Marika’s work” SCULPTURE, April, Marty Carlock, Lincoln, MA ART NEW ENGLAND, April/May, Michael Rush, “Denise Marika Video Works” THE BOSTON GLOBE, APRIL 27, Cate McQuaid, “Digital art takes wing” WGBH-TV, May 24, “Greater Boston Arts: New England Foundation for the Arts’ Visible Republic” |
1999 | WGBH-TV, April 14, “Greater Boston Arts: The Work of Denise Marika”, documentary THE BOSTON HERALD, April 30, Joanne Silver “Cyberartists Mold ëMind into Matterí” THE BOSTON HERALD, May 4, Annette Cardwell “Future Takes Shape” BOSTON GLOBE, June 23, Christine Temin”A New Push for Public Art ” THE SEATTLE TIMES, September 14, Robin Updike ” ‘The Self, Absorbedí: Artist Looking Inward” JAMAICA PLAIN ARTS NEWS, September 15, “Public art grants from Visible Republic” THE SEATTLE TIMES, September, Regina Hackett, “íSelf, Absorbedí explores old subject in new ways” THE BROOKLINE TAB, September 16, Gary Duehr, “Computers spur change in visual arts scene” THE SALEM EVENING NEWS, October, Julia Fairclough, “Spying eyes look at real life” THE BOSTON GLOBE, October 20, Christine Temin, “From comforting images to mesmerizing danger; Peaceful realism; explosive video” SCULPTURE, October, Denise Carvalho, “Cyberarts Festival” BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE, December 26, Christine Temin, “Best Art of 1999” |
1998 | THE BOSTON GLOBE, May 7, Cate McQuaid “Face Value: Reflections on Identity” |
1997 | THE BOSTON GLOBE, January 16, Cate McQuaid, “The Portrait as Object/The Figure as Ground” BOSTON HERALD, January 19, Mary Sherman, “Photos stripped of color evoke pain, poignancy” ART NEW ENGLAND, April/May, George Fifield, “Sculpting with Light: Denise Marika” THE INDEPENDENT FILM AND VIDEO MONTHLY, April, George Fifield “More Weight” |
1996 | THE BOSTON GLOBE, February 22, Cate McQuaid, “Turning a Worldly Eye on Innocence” BAY WINDOWS, July 25, Shawn Hill “Casa Metallica” BOSTON HERALD, August 2, Joanne Silver, “Grittiness gives ëStrengthí its Power” ARTNEWS, October, Nancy Stapen, “Industrial Strength” SCULPTURE, November, Anne Wilson Lloyd, “Focus: Denise Marika” THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, December 2, Taylor Holliday |
1995 | BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE, January 1, Christine Temin, “Much of the best art didn’t hang on a wall” ARTFORUM, March, Francine Koslow Miller, “Denise Marika: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum” SCULPTURE, March/April, Anne Wilson Lloyd, “Boston: Denise Marika” ART NEW ENGLAND, April/May, Joyce Cohen,”Denise Marika: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum |
1994 | THE BOSTON GLOBE, January 19, Christine Temin, “Exploring Identity, Internationally” THE BOSTON GLOBE, March 30, Christine Temin, “Our Art, Ourselves” THE BOSTON PHOENIX, April 22, Beth Wolfensberger, “Getting Personal (and Political) at the Fogg” BOSTON HERALD, May 25, Jason B. Johnson, “Flashing Lights! Residents Bare Their Anger Over Nude Signs”; “Brookline Art Honcho Defends Flashy Sign” THE BOSTON GLOBE, May 27, Christine Temin, “Mother and Child Stir Up Trouble” THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 3, Carol Vogel, “A Difficult ‘Crossing'” NEWSWEEK, June 6, Mary Mann, “Stop and Go” DER SPIEGEL, June 13, “Kreuzung” SCULPTURE, September-October, Anne Wilson Lloyd, “Boston, Massachusetts” THE BOSTON GLOBE, September 23,Christine Temin, “Wellesleyís Body Also has a Brain” THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE, November 13, Christine Temin, “Marika’s Multiple Exposures” BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE, November 13, Christine Temin, “Marika’s Ephemeral Images an Antithesis” |
1992 | BOSTON GLOBE, May 22, Nancy Stapen, “Two Bunting Artists’ Searing Explorations of Self and Society” ART NEW ENGLAND, Aug./Sept., Catherine Mays,”Akin Gallery/Boston, Denise Marika: Projections” THE NEW ORLEANS ART REVIEW, Sept./Oct., Jesse W. Nash,”Denise Marika’s Video Sculptures” ARTFORUM, October, Francine Koslow Miller, “Denise Marika: Akin Gallery” |
1991 | ART IN AMERICA, February, Richard Kalina, ” Stux” THE BOSTON GLOBE, June 28, Christine Temin, “DeCordova has Nine Artists but no Unifying Concept” BOSTON HERALD, June 28, Mary Sherman, “‘Nine’ Reflects Pros, Cons of Contemporary Art” THE BOSTON PHOENIX, July 5, Rebecca Nemser, “Dead Reckoning: The DeCordovaís ‘9 Artists/9 Visions’ Offers Some Grave Reflections” ART NEW ENGLAND, November, Ron Platt, “DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln: 9 Artists/9 Visions” |
1990 | ART NEW ENGLAND, May, Peter Walsh, “A Delicate Balance” THE BOSTON GLOBE, May 3, Christine Temin, “Making Room for Artworks” SCULPTURE, September/October, Anne Wilson Lloyd, “Installation and Place” CONTEMPORANEA, October, Anne Wilson Lloyd, “Installation and Place” THE VILLAGE VOICE, November 6 |
1989 | THE BOSTON GLOBE, November 10, Michael Blowen, “Sculptor Sheds New Light on Images” SOUTH END NEWS , November 16, Cate McQuaid, “Screening the Senses”, Boston, MA |
1988 | STUDIO INTERNATIONAL ,April, Michael Spens, “Portraits of Reality – Denise Marika: New Video Sculpture”, London, England |
1987 | THE SUNDAY LOS ANGELES TIMES, October 18, Don Snowden, “And Now a Word from Your Local Video Artist” |
1985 | THE VANCOUVER COURIER, October 23, Ina Lee, “Camera Angle” |
1984 | THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, June 6, John Dreyfuss, “Emerging Artists/UCLA 1984” DER TAGESSPIEGEL, November 4, Heinz Ohff, “In the Uncertain: Two Women in Conceptual Art”, Berlin, Germany |
1983 | STUDIO INTERNATIONAL, “Denise Marika’s multicoloured gesture: Stream at Mellerstain”, Cordelia Oliver, UK, [article found here] THE SCOTSMAN MAGAZINE, September, R.W. ,”Art from rags is tons of fun”, Scotland [article found here] |
PUBLICATIONS | ||
2004 | Aspect: The Chronicle of New Media Art, Volume 3: Artist as Content DeCordova Museum, “Self-Evidence in Contemporary Art” |
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2003 | Nan Levinson, “Outspoken: Free Speech Stories” | |
2002 | Pomona College Museum of Art, “Body Projections: New Video Sculpture by Denise Marika.” | |
1998 | Anne Higonnet, “Pictures of Innocence: The History and Crisis of Ideal Childhood“ | |
1994 | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, “New Works by Denise Marika” | |
ARTIST RESIDENCIES |
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2017 | Open Studio Residency, Haystack, ME |
2015 | Artist’s Residency, The MacDowell Colony, MA |
2003 | Artist’s Residency, The MacDowell Colony, MA |
2001 | Artist’s Residency, The MacDowell Colony, MA |
1994 | Artist in Residence, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA. |
1994 | The ICA, Boston & the Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA |
1981 | The School of Theology Claremont, CA, The School of Theology, Claremont, CA |
POSITIONS HELD |
Associate Professor, Studio for Interrelated Media, Graduate Program, Mass College of Art, Boston, MA |
Adjunct Faculty, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI |
Adjunct Faculty, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
Adjunct Faculty, Visual Arts Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA |
Member, Board of Directors, Foundation for Arts Resources, Los Angeles, CA |
Writer, “A Sense of Place,” documentary on the art of created environments and Isamu Noguchi |
LECTURESHIPS |
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA |
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI |
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA |
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA |
Massachusetts Women’s Caucus, Cambridge, MA |
University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA |
College Holy Cross, Worcester, MA |
Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA |