Artists Bios for ADOLESCENT BOYS, AND LIVING ROOMS
curated by Astria Suparak
for Museo Tamayo Arte Contemoraneo

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ARTISTS BIOS

messieurs delmotte (born in 1967) est un artiste belge, pluridisciplinaire. His video productions, photographs and installations have been shown in solo and group exhibitions throughout Holland, England, Germany, Spain and Belgium, where he is further more known for his mixed media parties. Comic, shocking, charming or crude, this work leaves nobody untouched. In 1995 he had an artist in residency at the Goethe Institut, Lomé, Togo (West Africa). Last year delmotte spent some months at the Rijksacademie Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, where he was invited as a guest teacher to set up a workshop. Upcoming exhibitions will take place in Brugge, Paris, and Tokyo.
Courtesy of argos.

Harrell Fletcher (born in Santa Maria, California, 1967). For over ten years Fletcher has worked collaboratively and individually on interdisciplinary, site-specific projects exploring the dynamics of social spaces and communities. Along with this work he has developed a series of more personal and idiosyncratic pieces that take various forms- drawings, prints, writings, events, videos, and sculptural objects. He has been commissioned to produce public art projects for the San Francisco Art Commission, The University of Minnesota, the City of Fairfield, CA, and Portland, Oregon¹s Regional Art and Culture Council.

Jess Hilliard.

Miranda July (born in Barre, Vermont, 1974) makes performances, movies, recordings and combinations of these things. Her work has been presented globally in spaces such as the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, the Guggenheim Museum, International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2002 Whitney Biennial. In 1995 she founded Joanie 4 Jackie, a movie distribution network for independent women moviemakers. She recently launched two on-going web-based collaborations. She is currently working on a feature-length movie, short stories, and a new performance. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Jon Leone (born in Chicago, Illinois in 1977) is a video artist who primarily shoots documentaries and short experimental videos. He graduated in spring 2002 from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA degree.

Mike Long. After a brief stint working for NASA, Mike Long is currently employed by the Walt Disney Corporation.

Jennifer Reeder (born in Ohio, in the '70s) is a movie maker and visual artist who constructs very personal scenarios that explore, among other situations, formal approaches toward narrative, architecture, feminism and the post-politics of class/race identity. She is currently producing a series of both single and multi-channel video works, which suggest an idiosyncratic dialogue between sentimentality and cynicism specific to the landscape and gesture, as well as a series of small paintings and sculptures about language and emotion. She is also currently shooting her first feature length movie called Tiny Plastic Rainbow. Jennifer currently lives in Chicago.

Jon Rubin's solo and collaborative work has been exhibited at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The de Young Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and Seattle's Center on Contemporary Art. He has received public art commissions from the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Washington Arts Commission, the University of California San Francisco, and the City of Oakland. Rubin's awards include the Art Matters Foundation Fellowship, Phyllis Wattis Artist Residence, the Creative Work Fund Grant, and most recently a California Arts Council Artist Fellowship. He is currently teaching in The New Genres department at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Jesse Sugarmann is a drama teacher at a small boarding school in Westchester County, NY.

Alex Villar. Born in Brazil in 1962, Villar later moved to New York where he received an MFA from Hunter College. He was a studio fellow at the Whitney Independent Studies Program. The focus of his photo and video work is the social use of space. He intervenes with his body in those areas of outdoor urban spaces that, while remaining visible, retain a marginal status. He is the recipient of the Community Arts Fund Grant by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Villar's work has been shown abroad at Galleri Tommy Lund and Overgaden in Copenhagen, the Goteborg Konstmuseum in Sweeden, Galerie Joanna Kamm in Berlin, Galeria Arsenal in Poland, the Center for Metamedia/Hermit Foundation in Plasy/Czech Republic. Past US exhibitions include presentations at the Art Container, Highbridge Park and Vacancy Gallery in New York, Bona Fide Gallery in Chicago, the New Art Center in Boston and the Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art.

Curator: Astria Suparak (born in Los Angeles, CA, 1978) curates site-specific film, video, and audio shows for international art museums and galleries, experimental film festivals, music venues and bands. After the shows play to their particular audiences Suparak then brings the work to different settings and a wider public, with locations including schools, sports bars, artist collectives, living rooms, churches and micro-cinemas.
During bus rides and air flights between shows Suparak makes paper and cloth drawings for streets and for bedrooms. She is based in Brooklyn, New York and Montreal, Quebec.






Artists included in previous versions of this show:
Animal Charm dives into the dumpsters of film and video production companies and scraps through countless hours of industrial documentary and corporate footage, often editing the tapes in a live mix session before an audience. They do live video scratching and film looping performances in environments ranging from private parties and nightclubs to media arts centers and museums.

Pierre Yves Clouin's digital works have been broadcast on ARTE; recently exhibited in venues such as the São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound, British Film Institute, Oxford Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Art 32 Basel, Guggenheim Bilbao, and Paula Cooper Gallery NYC; and selected in recent festivals worldwide including the Pandæmonium Biennial of Moving Images, Ars Electronica, Cinematexas, San Francisco International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Videobrazil Biennial, Thaw, Biennial of Moving Images St. Gervais-Geneva, and the Chicago International Film Festival.

Jim Finn (b. 1968, St. Louis) lives in Chicago and makes videos using 16mm film, mini dv and vhs. His films have screened at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, New York Underground Film Festival, Cinematexas, and the European Media Arts Festival. His work has also appeared on the PBS show "EGG the Arts", on the Spanish TV show, "Metropolis", and in Harper's magazine. In Spring 2003, he toured the US with his films for the first time.

Ted Passon, an undergraduate student at Temple University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), is the programming director for the Unamerican Film Festival, which premiered at the 55th Cannes Film Festival, and is currently in pre-production for his senior thesis film, "Robot Boy."

Jennifer Sullivan, Born May 17, 1978 in Albany, New York. Graduate of Pratt Institute with BFA in sculpture. Multi media artist . Turn ons include: Nick Drake, disco dancing, old school jewish deli food, hip hop.

Ann Weathersby was born in 1970 in New Orleans, Louisiana, and lives and works in New York City. She received a BA from The University of Texas at Austin and is currently a 2003 MFA candidate at Yale University.
Her work has been published by Issue, The New York Times Magazine, Nylon and Tank and exhibited internationally at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris.

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