Maureen Connor
| Maureen Connor | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1947 Baltimore, MD |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Pratt Institute, 1973, MFA; College of New Rochelle, BA |
| Known for | Installation, Video, Performance |
| Awards | New York Foundation for the Arts, Smithsonian Research Fellow, Anonymous Was a Woman, National Endowment for the Arts, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |
| Website | www |
Maureen Connor (born 1947) creates installations and videos dealing with human resources and social justice. She is known internationally for her work from the 1980s to the present, which focuses on gender and its modes of representation. Her work has been shown at MAK, Vienna; Portikus, Frankfurt; ICA, Philadelphia; and the Whitney Biennial among other venues. She has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts and Professional Staff Congress of the City University of New York. She is Emeritus Professor of Art at Queens College, City University of New York (1990-2014), and a co-founder of Social Practice Queens, an experimental art program sponsored by Queens College and the Queens Museum of Art.
Since 2000, Connor has been developing Personnel, a series of interventions concerned with the art institution as a workplace, which explore the attitudes, needs and desires of the staff at various institutions.Personnel and related projects have been produced for a diverse group of venues that include, among others, Periferic 8 Biennial for Contemporary Art, Romania; the Department of Art and Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2008; Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY, 2006; Wyspa Art Institute, Gdańsk, Poland, 2004-7; Tapies Foundation, Barcelona, 2003; and the Queens Museum of Art, New York, 2001. She is currently working on an installation of Personnel for the Centre de Recherche en Droit Public, a think tank at the University of Montreal, as well as a book on Personnel to be published jointly by Wyspa Art Institute, Gdańsk, Poland, and Revolver Press, Frankfurt, Germany.
Connor's film, Appetites and Desires, was screened at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1996. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions in the U.S. at the Queens Museum, New York (2000–01); Alternative Museum, New York (1994-5); Wave Hill, Bronx, NY (2006); Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (1997); and other venues. International solo shows include Contradictions at the Akbank Sanat in Istanbul, Turkey (2012); Evidence, at the Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina (1998); Maureen Connor at Galerie Sima in Nuremberg, Germany (1996); and others. Connor has had solo exhibitions at Acquavella Galleries, New York, NY; Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY; and PPOW Gallery, New York, NY.
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