Ulrike Müller

Ulrike Mülller
Born	1971 Brixlegg, Austria
Website	um.encore.at

Ulrike Müller (born 1971 in Brixlegg, Austria) is a contemporary visual artist.^[1] Müller is a member of the New York-based feminist genderqueer group LTTR as well as an editor of its eponymous journal.^[2] She is also currently a professor and Co-Chair of Painting at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.^[3]

Early life

Ulrike Müller was born in 1971 in Brixlegg, Austria.^[1] From 1991-1996 Müller studied Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, in Austria.^[4] She also studied Painting at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York.^[5]

Career

Mülller's practice has been described as addressing contemporary feminist and Genderqueer concerns, extending from the feminist movements of the 1970s and onward. She is a member of the feminist genderqueer collective LTTR.^[6] She has used text, sculpture, video, performance, painting, and drawing among other mediums in her work. For instance, for her exhibition Raw/Cooked at the Brooklyn Museum in 2012, Müller invited a range of feminist and queer artists, including Nicole Eisenman, A.L. Steiner and Amy Sillman to create two-dimensional renderings of t-shirt quotes taken from the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn.^[2]

Ulrike Müller currently teaches painting at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, is on the faculty for the Vermont College of Fine Arts’ low-residency MFA in Visual Arts program, and has lectured in painting/printmaking at Yale University since 2013.^[7]

Select solo exhibitions

• Raw/Cooked: Ulrike Müller, Brooklyn Museum (2012)^[8]

Select group exhibitions

• Unmonumental Audio, New Museum (2008)^[9]
• Sonic Episodes, Dia Art Foundation (2009)^[10]
• Herstory Inventory: 100 Feminist Drawings by 100 Artists, Kunsthaus Bregenz (2012)^[11]

Select publications

• Work the Room. A Handbook on Performance Strategies. OE/b_books, 2006. (editor)
• An Idea-Driven Social Space. Ulriker Muller and Andrea Geyer. Grey Room 35, MIT Press. Cambridge. 2009.
• Fever 103, Franza, and Quilts. Dancing Foxes Press, 2012.
• Herstory Inventory. Dancing Foxes Press, 2014.

See also

• Feminist art movement in the United States

References

1. "Ulrike Müller Biography", Callicoon Fine Arts, Retrieved 1 October 2014.
2. Schwendener, Martha. "Raw/Cooked - Ulrike Müller", The New York Times, Retrieved 1 October 2014.
3. "Ulrike Müller", Bard College, Retrieved 1 October 2014.
4. "CV", Ulrike Müller, Retrieved 1 October 2014.
5. Mak Center Archive. Artist Bio
6. Ammer, Manuela. "K8 Hardy and Ulrike Müller", Frieze Magazine, Retrieved 1 October 2014.
7. Yale.edu bio on Ulrike Müller
8. "Raw/Cooked", The Brooklyn Museum, Retrieved 1 October 2014.
9. "Unmonumental Audio", The New Museum, Retrieved 1 October 2014.
10. "Sonic Episodes", Dia Art Foundation, Retrieved 1 October 2014.
11. "Ulrike Müller at Kunsthaus Bregenz", Artnews.org, Retrieved 1 October 2014.