Art Department Faculty Quadrennial Exhibition 2016 January 2016 | Page 58

Meg
Mitchell
Assistant Professor
UW–Madison Department of Art,
since 2011
Digital Media

2008 Master of Fine Arts, University of Maryland, College Park
2004 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of South Florida
Recent achievements
2016 Rooting (India)–The Knowledge Project, group show, Collateral
Project, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kerala, India
2016 Meg Mitchell: Threaded in a voice, solo show, Evergreen Museum
& Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
2015 Rain/fall, artist’s book and mobile application written in collaboration with Denise Bookwalter, Center for Paper and Book
Arts, Columbia College, Chicago
2014 Curiosity Cabinet, part of EXEMPLARY: 150 Years of the MAK –
from Arts and Crafts to Design, group show, Austrian Museum of
Applied Arts/Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria

Artist’s statement
Born in 1979 when Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” was at the top of the
pop charts, Mitchell’s early childhood years were spent listening to
the operatic and choral performances of family and playing video
games with rowdy teenage boys.
Mitchell’s work has been featured in group and solo exhibitions at
venues such as the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Conner Contemporary Art, the DC Art Center and the Internationalen Waldkunst
Zentrum in Germany. Her work has been featured in publications
such as Art Papers, Art in America and The Washington Post.
In 2011, Mitchell was awarded a Expanded Artists’ Books grant from
Columbia College Chicago in collaboration with Denise Bookwalter
for Rain/fall, a weather-data driven artist’s book and mobile application, which was released in June of 2015. Mitchell currently teaches
courses in digital media and frequently wonders about the impact of
technology on art production and consumption.
Work in the show
Meg Mitchell (American, b. 1979)
Careless Whispers for Plants: winter solace, 2015
Installation
180 x 180 x 180 in.

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