Matt Mullican - performance Under Hypnosis - 2007

Matt Mullican

Conceptual Art

January 31, 2015

An American-Venezuelan visual artist, Matt Mullican works in drawing, collage, video, sculpture, performance, and installation, dealing with systems of knowledge, meaning, and language.

Born in 1951 in Santa Monica, California, Mullican received his BFA from CalArts in 1974, and rose to prominence as a member of the Pictures Generation. He has exhibited world wide, including venues such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany, the National Galerie, Berlin, Germany, the Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, Netherlands, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, and The Museum of Modern Art, NY. He has taught and lectured at Columbia University, The School of Visual Arts, New York, The Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, The London Institute, Chelsea College of Art and Design, England and Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, Germany amongst several others.

Oscillating between various antagonisms — reality and fiction, subject and object, the conscious and the unconscious — the artist works on our perception, defined by the projection of subjective experiences. He often creates his artworks before an audience while under hypnosis, creating a unique hybrid of performance art and drawing. His symmetrical works can be described as part schematic, part cosmological chart.

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