Catherine Sullivan
Filmmaker
Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Catherine Sullivan’s work integrates performance and theater with film, video and photography. She refers to her conceptually and formally dynamic work as “second order drama.” In using extremes of performance techniques Sullivan exposes the conventions and processes inherent in dramaturgical activity by way of diverse cultural references.

Her multi-channel video installations include Five Economies: big hunt/little hunt, which was presented at the Hammer Museum at UCLA and The Renaissance Society, Chicago and The Chittendens presented at Tate Modern, London; Metro Pictures, NY; Secession, Vienna; and Catherine Bastide, Brussels. Originally trained as an actor, Sullivan received her BFA from Cal Arts in 1992 and in 1997 obtained her MFA from the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA. She was recently appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago.