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MARY BILLYOU
marybillyou@yahoo.com
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.