Catherine Sullivan on ‘Fictions of Display’
Sunday, June 29, 2025
1 p.m.
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Join us on the opening day of our new exhibition Fictions of Display, as exhibiting artist Catherine Sullivan talks about her work in relation to the themes of the exhibition. 

Born in Los Angeles (1968) and currently based in Chicago, Catherine Sullivan works in film, theatre and installation. The ensembles she works with are her true medium, and her highly collaborative productions are often concerned with forces that instrumentalize the body in historically conditioned contexts. Solo exhibitions include Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Metro Pictures, New York; Tate Modern, London and participation in the Lyon, Whitney, Moscow and Gwang Ju biennials. Screenings include the Berlin International Film Festival and International Film Festival Rotterdam and theatre works have been staged at venues including Opéra de Lyon; Volksbühne, Berlin; Cricoteka, Krakow and Trap Door Theatre, Chicago. Her work is held in collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Castello di Rivoli, Turin and Sammlung Goetz, Munich. Awards include a Herb Alpert Award in the Arts; DAAD Artists-in-Berlin residency; a United States Artists Walker Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She holds a BFA in Acting from California Institute of the Arts an MFA in Fine Art from Art Center College of Design and is a professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago.

This program is organized by Justen Leroy, Director of Public Programs and Community Outreach, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.