Catherine Mulligan

Overview
Alternately precious and abject, Mulligan’s work draws equally from Western art history and the mediated or vernacular digital image. In her figurative work specifically, Mulligan distorts the typically feminine form in ways that draw from plastic surgery, pornography, and horror films. The end result has a complicated relationship to issues of sexuality, taste politics, and the unconscious.

Catherine Mulligan (b. 1987, Nutley NJ) is a painter based in Brooklyn, NY. She has exhibited internationally, showing at Kunst im Tunnel (Dusseldorf) Hans Gallery (Chicago), Envy6011 (New Zealand), Downs & Ross (NYC), M+B (LA) and Queer Thoughts (NYC), along with participating in the Bonner Kunstverein Jahresgaben in 2021. She is the recipient of two Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grants. Mulligan earned her BFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (2009) and University of Pennsylvania (2010) and holds an MFA from Indiana University, Bloomington (2019).

 

Alternately precious and abject, Mulligan’s work draws equally from Western art history and the mediated or vernacular digital image. In her figurative work specifically, Mulligan distorts the typically feminine form in ways that draw from plastic surgery, pornography, and horror films. The end result has a complicated relationship to issues of sexuality, taste politics, and the unconscious.

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B. 1987

 

Education:

2019, Indiana University-Bloomington MFA

2010, University of Pennsylvania, Bachelor of Fine Arts

2009, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Certificate

 

Solo Exhibitions:

2022 Vanitas, Queer Thoughts, New York, NY

2021 Security, M+B, Los Angeles CA

2021 Recent History, Hans Gallery, Chicago IL -Solo show

2020 Knock Off, Paradice Palase, Brooklyn NY Solo Show

 

Group Exhibitions:

2022  The Art that Be, 11 Newel, Brooklyn NY

2022 A Somewhat Thin Line, In Lieu, Los Angeles CA

2022 Apple in the Dark, Harkawik, New York NY

2022 Legally Blonde, Downs and Ross, New York NY

2022 The Sexy Show, curated by Anna Frost, Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas NV 2022 Salon, Amor Corp, Venice CA

2021 Devastation, Queer Thoughts, New York NY

2021 Jahresgaben 2021, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn Germany

2021 Nightcore, Envy6011, Wellington New Zealand

2021 Timely, 11 Newel, Brooklyn NY

2021 Boyses Death, in Cooperation with La Cienega, Estrella Gallery, Brooklyn 2021 NY Uncoiling, Gern en Regalia, New York NY

2021 As the World Turns, Geary Contemporary, Millerton NY

2020 Fade Into You, A.D.Gallery, New York NY

2020 Be Yourself with Everyone, Good Mother Gallery, Oakland CA

2019 Taking Root, Kunst im Tunnel, Dusseldorf Germany

 

Awards:

2019 Baker Tilly Grant, KiT Dusseldorf

2018 Friends of Art Award

2017 Grant-in-Aid, Indiana University

2014 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant

2012 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant