Matt Mullican (born September 18, 1951 in Santa Monica, California) is an American-Venezuelan artist and son of artists Lee Mullican and Luchita Hurtado. Mullican received his BFA from CalArts in 1974, and rose to prominence as a member of the \u00abPictures Generation\u00bb along with such artists as Troy Brauntuch, Jack Goldstein, David Salle, James Welling, Sherrie Levine, Cindy Sherman, Louise Lawler, Richard Prince and Robert Longo. His work is concerned with systems of knowledge, meaning, language, and signification. Mullican also works with the relationship between perception and reality, between the ability to see something and the ability to represent it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mullican\u2019s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally since the early 1970s at venues including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany, the National Galerie, Berlin, Germany, the Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, Netherlands, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, and The Museum of Modern Art, NY. Mullican\u2019s work has been reviewed in Artforum,[1] the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The New York Times, and Modern Painters, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mullican has taught and lectured at Columbia University, The School of Visual Arts, New York, The Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, The London Institute, Chelsea College of Art and Design, England and Hochschule f\u00fcr bildende K\u00fcnste Hamburg, Germany amongst several others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mullican has been exhibited in 2017 on the Petit Palais\u2019 facade in Paris during the FIAC with his giant piece of art \u00abFor Worlds Between Five\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mullican is represented by Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art Lisbon, Portugal, Brooke Alexander Gallery, Peter Freeman, Inc. and Tracy Williams, LTD., Manhattan, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna Galerie Johann Widauer, Innsbruck and Galerie Nelson, Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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