ArtPrize September 19 - October 7, 2012 | Grand Rapids, MI
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Heidi Kumao
Ann Arbor, MI
Education
MFA
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After Hours
After Hours
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Heidi Kumao

Artist bio

Heidi Kumao is an interdisciplinary artist who creates video and machine art to explore ordinary social interactions and their psychological undercurrents. Emerging from the intersection of sculpture, theater and engineering, her “performative technologies” generate artistic spectacle in order to visualize the unseen: psychological states, emotions, compulsions, thinking patterns, and dreams. She has exhibited her work in one-person exhibitions at the Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, and Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco. Group exhibitions include “Petit Mal,” at Museo Universtario Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City (2009), and “ZeroOne San Jose 2006: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge.” Fellowships include: 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship, 2008 Governor’s Award for Arts and Culture for Michigan Innovative Artist, and a Creative Capital Grant. She is currently an Assoc. Prof. at the Univ. of Michigan.
About the work
Title: After Hours: Live/Work

Art form: 3-D, Film / Video

Medium: Video, projector, buidling.

Year created: 2011

Description of work: Designed as a response to the architecture of the UICA, “After Hours” uses video projection to create
the illusion of a room in which stories unfold.

Viewers will watch a movie playing in the Black Box Window of the UICA building by standing across the street. Visible mostly at night, the glowing window space will highlight the odd activities of the building’s imaginary occupants, making private gestures publicly available.

Height: 12 feet
Width: 6 feet
Depth: 40 feet
Heidi Kumao is showing at:

UICA UICA
2 West Fulton SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49503

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