PREMA MURTHY

Born:  Washington

Resides:  NYC, New York

 

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Prema Murthy was born 1969 in Seattle, Washington.

Education:

2002   MFA, Goldsmith's College, University of London, London

1994   BA, Art History        University of Texas, Austin, USA.

Solo Exhibitions:

2008   Tamarind Art Gallery, New York, USA.

2007   PS1. New York, USA

2005   Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, USA

2004   The Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, USA

Group Exhibitions:

2009   “Breaking Space”, Delavski Dom Trbovlje, Slovenia.

“Art in the Global South”, Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, S. Africa.

“All Small”, Dalton Gallery, Atlanta, USA.

 

2008   “Firewalkers”, Stux Gallery,  New York, USA.

“Exploding the Lotus”, Art and Culture Center , Hollywood, USA.

 

2007   “AFX Festival”, Het Ketelhuis, Amsterdam.

“Bon Voyage: Reconsidering Landscape”, Threshold Artspace, Perth, Scotland.

“Borderline Video Festival”, Platform Gallery, Beijing, China.

“Fresh NY”, Threshold Artspace, Perth, Scotland.

 

2006   “S. Bronx Contemporary: Then and Now,” Longwood Art Gallery, New York, USA.

“Feminisms in the Electronic Landscape,” Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castellon, Spain.

“Turning Back the Lens” Georgia State University Museum, Athens, USA.

 

2005   “FILE”, SESI Gallery, Sao Paulo; Telemar Cultural Center, Rio de Janiero, Brazil.

“Rhizome 101”, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA.

“Violence Without Bodies”, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain.

“Fatal Love”, Queens Museum, New York, USA.

         

2004   “T(here)”, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India.

“ A Place Called Home”, The National Gallery, Capetown; The Joburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg; NSA Gallery, Durban.

 

2003   “Only Skin Deep”, International Center for Photography, NY; Seattle Art Museum, USA.

“Premier”, The Armory Show (450 Hudson), New York, USA.

          “Atlanta Biennial”, The Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, USA.

 

2002   “Bloomberg New Contemporaries”, The Barbican, London,  UK.

“Race in Digital Space”, MIT List Center of Visual Art, Cambridge; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Spelman College Museum of Fine Arts, Atlanta, USA.

 

2001   “Net.Ephemera”, Chapman Gallery, Manchester; Project Arts Center,  Dublin; Moving Image Gallery, New York.

“Crossing the Line”, The Queens Museum, New York, USA.

“Double Life”, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria.

Fakeshop 2001-1997: Installations/events. Fakeshop Warehouse, Brooklyn, USA.

 

2000   “The Whitney Biennial” (w/ Fakeshop), The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA.

“HUHB”, (w/ Fakeshop), Eyebeam's Museum for Art and Technology, New York USA.

Siggraph 2000, (w/ Fakeshop), Siggraph Art Gallery - New Orleans, USA.

“Un(Suit)able Girls”, Paisley Gallery, New York, USA.

“Let’s Entertain”, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA. 

 

1999   “Technological Revolutions”, The Hamilton Gallery, Toronto, Canada.

“Lifescience”, Ars Electronica Festival, Brucknerhaus, Linz, Austria.

“Next 5 Minutes”, De Waag, Center for Old and New Media. Amsterdam, The Netherlans.

“Asian American Artists on Censorship”, Slant.Org, online exhibition.

Electronic Music Festival, (w/ Fakeshop), WKCR Radio, New York, USA.

“Future Memories”, Tonic, (w/ Fakeshop), Live performance, New York, USA

“Single-Mind Programming”, Gavin Brown Enterprises, (w/ Fakeshop), New York, USA.

Grants and Fellowships:

2006   Urban Artist Initiative Grant, Asian American Arts Alliance

2004   Visual Artists Grant, Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs.

2003   Finishing Fund Grant, Experimental Television Center, New York.

2002   Commission, The Greenwall Foundation, New York, and Turbulence.org.

1999   Creative Capital Foundation Grant in Emerging Fields, New York.

1997   New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Digital Art.

Artist Residencies:

2005   Digital Matrix CyberResidency, Longwood Arts Gallery, Bronx, USA.

2004   GAEA Foundation, Provincetown, USA.

2003   Wesley Center for New Media, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA.

2000   CICV Pierre Schaeffer, Belfort, France.

2000   Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, USA.

1999   Harvestworks Digital Media Space, New York, USA.

1998   Time's Up Organization, Linz, Austria. 

ARTIST TALKS/PANELS:

2008   Tamarind Art Gallery, “In Conversation with Tom Finklepearl, Director, Queens Museum.”

2006   MidAtlantic Arts Foundation, Creative Fellowship for Emerging Forms, Baltimore.    

2005   New York Foundation for the Arts-Computer Arts Fellowship, New York

2005   The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.      

2004   Invited panelist. “Power and Representation in a Media-Saturated Age.” Scholar and Feminist 2004  Conference, Barnard College.

2003   Wesley Center for New Media, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.

2001   Jindal Arts Center, Mumbai.

2000   Sony Wonderlab, New York.

2000   “Digital Happy Hour,” The Kitchen, New York.

2000   New School for Social Research, New York.

2000   “Net.congestion: Bandwidth Aesthetics.” First International Conference for Streaming Media,     Amsterdam.

1998   Intermedia Department, University of Iowa. Invited by Hans Breder.

1998   “Zenatech: Talks by Women in Art & Technology,” AIR Gallery, New York.

Publication:

Adajania, Nancy. “Between Static and Ghost Iimage: Art as Transmission.” Folio Magazine (April 2001).

Arte Arts News. (Featurette on Fakeshop and Ars Electronica Festival.) Arte, French TV (Spring 2000).

Bainbridge, Richard. “Charting New Territory in Cyberspace.” Brooklyn Bridge Magazine (March 1999).

Baudelaire, Eric. “Bindigirl: An Interview with Prema Murthy.” Rhizome Digest (3 June 1999):    http://www.rhizome.org.

Bernard, Catherine. “Bodies and Digital Utopia.” Art Journal 59.4 (Winter 2000).

Bolter, Jay David, and Diane Gromala. “Fakeshop: The Diversity of New Media.” In Windows and Mirrors:         Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency. Cambridge: MIT, 2003.

Chalmers, Jessica. “The Screens: All the World’s a Cyber Stage.” The Village Voice (2-8 December          1998).

CNNdotCOM. (Feature on Fakeshop, Internet art, and the Whitney Biennial.) CNN (national TV, 4-5 June         2000).

Crosby, David. “Prema Murthy.” ZOOM Magazine (Digital Artists Issue; November/December 1998).

Dominguez, Ricardo. “Diogenes Online: Gestures Against the Virtual Republic.” Switch 4.2 (1999):    http://switch.sjsu.edu.

“Prema Murthy / A-morph.” Thing.net Reviews (Winter 1997).

Feaster, Felicia. “Science Fact or Fiction?” Creative Loafing Atlanta (1 July 2004).

Greene, Rachel. Internet Art (World of Art series). London: Thames and Hudson, 2004.

“eBay Watch.” Artforum (November 1999).

Gray, Rebecca. “www.xxx.not” Print Magazine (July/August 2004).

Griffiths, Ryan. “Review of Prema Murthy’s Mythic Hybrid.” Rhizome Digest (22 November 2002):      http://www.rhizome.org.

Hamilton, Anita. “Clicking on the Canvas.” TIME (10 April 2000).

Hickman, Jennifer. "Consuming:  Multimedia, Gender and Identity, An Interview with Patty Chang and Prema Murthy." FYI: New York Foundation for the Arts Publication, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Fall 1999).

Howell, George. “Life on the Net: Consuming and Producing Culture on the Web.” Art Papers Magazine (January/February 2001).

Hyman, Peter. “The Disembodied Body.” Interzone (February 1996).

Kim, Jungwon. “Bindigirl.” A Magazine: Inside Asian America (August 1999).

Kleiner, Carolyn. “What’s the Whitney’s Next Best Thing?” U.S. News & World Report (27 March 2000).

Lifescience: Ars Electronica 99. Ed. Gerfried Stocker. Linz: Springer, 1999.

Ludin, Diane. “Interview with Prema Murthy.” Thing.net Reviews (Winter 2003): http://bbs.thing.net. Also     posted on Nettime.(16 Janurary 2003): http://www.nettime.org.

Melwani, Levina. “A Place for Unsuitable Girls.” Little India (May 2000):           http://www.littleindia.com/India/May2k/girls.htm.

Miller, Paul. “Floating Point Unit: Artists of the Floating World.” Paper Magazine (February 1996).

Miller-Lewis, Karin. “No Place Like Home.” Art India, Vol. 5, Issue 1 (2000).

Mirapaul, Matthew. “Digital Artists Draw Support From A New Foundation." New York Times (The Arts          Section;1 January 2000).

Paul, Christiane. Digital Art (World of Art series). London: Thames and Hudson, 2002.

Penney, Margaret. “Exposé: Women Net Artists Are All About Sex.” NYARTS Magazine (March      2002):http://nyartsmagazine.com/63/expose.htm.

Randolph, Karin. “Planet Who-Am-I: Artists of Our Times.” The Resident (March 1997).

Reckitt, Helena. “Artist Profile: Prema Murthy.” Art Asia Pacific Magazine, Issue 38 (Winter 2004).

Schilcher, Michael. “An Interview with Prema Murthy.” Ars Electronica ’98: InfoWar webzine (1998):      http://www.aec.at/infowar/webzin/1.html.

SIGGRAPH Electronic Art and Animation Catalogue. New York: ACM SIGGRAPH, 2000.

Thacker, Eugene. “Fakeshop: SF, Future Memory, and the Technoscientific Imaginary.” CTHEORY (15   March 2000): http://www.ctheory.net.

Wallis, Brian and Coco Fusco, eds. Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self. New York:    ICP/Abrams, 2003.

Whitney Biennial 2000 Catalogue. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2000.

Wortzel, Adrianne. “Blast5Drama: Art: Is It Stranger Than Diction?” Intelligent Agent (March 1997).