1. Mary Lucier married the composer Alvin Lucier in 1964 and then toured with him as a member of the Sonic Arts Union from 1966 to the mid-1970s.
10 Facts About Mary Lucier
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Mary Lucier lived with him in Middletown, Connecticut after he secured a position at Wesleyan University until their divorce in '74, when she moved to New York City.
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Mary Lucier was invested in performance and photography during her time in the Sonic Arts Union, creating works such as the Polaroid Image Series, which accompanied Alvin Mary Lucier's work I am sitting in a room.
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Mary Lucier performed a piece Fire Writing in 1975 at The Kitchen where she used laser beams to burn text onto the Vidicon tube of her hand-held camera, which can be seen in the resulting video image.
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Mary Lucier's work continued to investigate various aspects of the landscape and its diverse peoples into the 21st century including works such as The Plains of Sweet Regret, a 5-channel video installation examining the Great Plains at a time of depopulation.
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Mary Lucier has been an adjunct professor in Video Art at SUNY Purchase, a Visiting Regent's Professor in Art and Art History at UC Davis, a Visiting Lecturer in Video Art at Harvard University, and a visiting professor of Film and Video at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
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Mary Lucier has taught at the Cleveland Institute of Art, at New York University, at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, at the San Francisco Art Institute, and at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
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Mary Lucier has been the recipient of many awards and fellowships, including the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1985, the Rockefeller Foundation in 2001, Creative Capital in 2001, Anonymous Was a Woman in 1998, the Nancy Graves Foundation in 2003, USA Artists in 2010, the American Film Institute Independent Filmmaker Grant, the Jerome Foundation in 1982, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Japan-US Friendship Commission in 2010.
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Mary Lucier has presented solo exhibitions at venues such as:.
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Mary Lucier has participated in many international group exhibitions as well, such as:.