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MARY BILLYOU
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EXHIBITION HISTORY

November 2010  

SanctionedArray, White Box Gallery, New York, NY

March 2010        

Double-Bill, group show, Art in General, New York, NY

Ecstatic, group show, The Round Robin Collective, at the Former Convent of St. Cecilia's, Brooklyn, NY

September 2009    

The Watchful Eye, The 16th Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL

April 2009        

A Human Drawing Blood from a Bound Prisoner: An Anthropomorphic Cat Doing the Same, The 22nd Images Festival, Toronto, Canada

The Free Translators, Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, NY, The Nightingale Theater, Chicago, IL

March 2009        

On the Contrary: Recent Artists' Videos Concerning War in the Middle East, SCOPE Art Fair, NY, NY

Unmasked: A Marathon of Artists' Videos and Films Contesting Systems of Rule, Atti Democratici, Turin, Italy

February 2009    

Hysteria: Past Yet Present, The Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ

The Art of the Image, Takoma Park Film Festival, Takoma Park, MD

October 2008    

Hollyweird: Queered Movies, MIX 21: New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, New York, NY

March 2008        

The Free Translators, Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY; Time and Space Limited, Hudson, NY; Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD; Small Change Screenings, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA

Charged in the Name of Terror, The Council on Middle East Studies and the Schnell Center for Human Rights, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT

February 2008    

Unmasked: A Marathon of Artists' Videos and Films Contesting Systems of Rule, The New Museum, New York, NY

September 2007    

Aftershocks: Unexpected Consequences of the War on Terror, Festival of Women's Film and Media Arts, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC

April 2007        

Interim Isles and Ur-Beings: On the Collective for Living Cinema, Orchard Street Gallery, New York, NY

Liar Lies: Contemporary Performance for the Camera, DePaul University Museum, Chicago, IL

February 2007    

Charged in the Name of Terror: Paul Chan Connects, Sundance International Film Festival, Park City, UT; PDX Film Festival, Portland, OR; Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA; Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL

January 2007    

Spectral Evidence, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

September 2005    

Media Remix, The 9th MadCat Women's International Film Festival, San Francisco, CA

June 2005        

The 17th Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago, IL

March 2005        

Collective Memory, The 24th Women in the Director's Chair Film Festival, Chicago, IL    

January 2005    

Get as Much of Noon as You Can Take, Robert(a) Beck Memorial Cinema, Participant, Inc., New York, NY

December 2004    

The New Early Cinema Show, Magic Lantern Cinema, Providence, RI

October 2004    

Invisibilities, D.U.M.B.O. Short Film and Video Festival, Brooklyn, NY

September 2004    

The 16th Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago, IL

March 2004        

Mediation: The Virtual Body in Motion, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Homegirls, The 23rd Women in the Director's Chair Film Festival, Chicago, IL

January 2004    

Chicago's Own: Memory Pieces, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL

November 2003    

International Exchange Series: New York – Czech Republic, Anthology Film Archives, NY, NY and CESTA, Tabor, Czech Republic

October 2003    

On the Line, D.U.M.B.O. Short Film and Video Festival, Brooklyn, NY

January 2001    

The 20th Annual Black Maria Film and Video Festival

September 1999    

Optical Options, Washington Project for the Arts, Corcoran Museum, Washington, DC

July 1998        

Big Miss Moviola Chainletter Tapes, A Distribution Project by Miranda July

 

PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS          

October 2010    Whole Heart Mind Body, Video Project of Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution, Produced by Sara Marcus and Cat Tyc
            
March 2010        On the Alternative Art Space Movement in NYC, A Panel Discussion with The Round Robin Collective, at the group show Ecstatic, at the Former Convent of St.Cecilia's, Brooklyn, NY

September 2009    Not The River But The Sea, An Outdoor Film Screening by the East River, celebrating Greenpoint Open Studios, Transmitter Park, Brooklyn, NY

March 2009        Shifting Alliances, A Panel Discussion co-organized with Meredith Drum, for the program On the Contrary: Recent Artists' Videos Concerning War in the Middle East, SCOPE Art Fair, NY, NY

October 2008    Conversations on the Contemporary: Artists and the Election, with artists Shelley Silver, Dara Greenwald, and Emily Kunstler, Art in General, NY, NY  

June 2008        The Audacity of Desperation, Demo Space 122, PS 122, NY, NY

April 2008        High Risk Citizen, Video Marathon Installation, co-organized with Eva Diaz, Art in General, NY, NY

June 2007        Future Yonder, Group Show co-curated with Martin Esteves, Nicole Francis and Christopher Rose, Hudson Franklin Gallery, NY, NY

May 2007        Interim Isles and Ur-Beings: On The Collective for Living Cinema, co-organized with Sabine Gruffat, Orchard Street Gallery, NY, NY

January 2005    Get as Much of Noon as You Can Take, Robert(a) Beck Memorial Cinema, Participant, Inc., NY, NY

AWARDS AND GRANTS

The Jerome Foundation, Filmmaking Grant 2010  

BRIC Media Arts Residency 2007

Swing Space Program, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Residency 2006

Experimental Television Center, Finishing Funds 2006

The Black Maria Film Festival, Director's Citation 2001

 

EDUCATION

The Whitney Independent Study Program, Studio Fellowship, 2003-2004       

 
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago   

MFA Spring 2003    Film, Video, and New Media; Graduate Colloquium Speaker

 
The University of Rochester

BA Spring 1991    Art History, Film Studies, French

Graduated with Distinction, Nominated for NEH Award in Film Studies



BIBLIOGRAPHY

"Right Round Robin," Rachel Rakes, Brooklyn Based, May 2010.

"Gotham Art and Theater," Elisabeth Kley, artnet, March 2010.

"Ecstatic at St. Cecilia's," Daniel Pearce, Idiom, March 2010.

"Pie with Dignity," Melissa Anderson, Artforum.com, April 2009.

"Four Dimensional Films Over Toronto," Michael Sicinski, Academic Hack, April 2009.

"Mary Billyou," Anonda Bell, Hysteria: Past Yet Present, Exhibition Catalog Artist Page, Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, February 2009.

"Breach Birth: The Hygiene of Screen Skins," A. Lee Laskin, Octopus Journal, Vol. 4: Surface, University of California Irvine, Fall 2008.

"...and Afterwards? Martin Arnold's Phantom Cinema," James Leo Cahill, Deaths of Cinema: Special Graduate Conference Issue, Spectator 27: Supplement, 2007.

“Charged in the Name of Terror: Portraits by Contemporary Artists,” Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader, May 18, 2007.

“Spectral Evidence,” Holland Cotter, Art in Review, The New York Times, February 23, 2007.

“Watch This…Our Comprehensive Guide to the Maryland Film Festival 2004,” Baltimore City Paper: Film Fest Frenzy Special Issue, May 5, 2004.

“Maryland Film Festival 2001: More Feature and Short Filmmakers,” Kent Bye, Film Threat, May 25, 2001.

“Grrrls on Film,” Tina Spangler, Femme Flicke, Issue no. 5, 1999.




 

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