Maureen Connor was born on 1947 and is an American artist who creates installations and videos dealing with human resources and social justice.
17 Facts About Maureen Connor
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Maureen Connor is known internationally for her work from the 1980s to the present, which focuses on gender and its modes of representation.
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Maureen Connor's work has been shown at MAK, Vienna; Portikus, Frankfurt; ICA, Philadelphia; and the Whitney Biennial among other venues.
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Maureen Connor has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts and Professional Staff Congress of the City University of New York.
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Maureen Connor is Emeritus Professor of Art at Queens College, City University of New York, and a co-founder of Social Practice Queens, an experimental art program sponsored by Queens College and the Queens Museum of Art.
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Since 2000, Connor has been developing Personnel, a series of interventions concerned with the art institution as a workplace, which explore the attitudes, needs and desires of the staff at various institutions.
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Maureen Connor is currently working on an installation of Personnel for the Centre de Recherche en Droit Public, a think tank at the University of Montreal, as well as a book on Personnel to be published jointly by Wyspa Art Institute, Gdansk, Poland, and Revolver Press, Frankfurt, Germany.
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In 2022 along with artist Landon Newton and architect Kadambari Baxi, Maureen Connor created Trigger Planting, a site-specific installation exhibited at Frieze NY, in May of 2022.
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Maureen Connor's work has been presented in solo exhibitions in the US at the Queens Museum, New York ; Alternative Museum, New York ; Wave Hill, Bronx, NY ; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia ; and other venues.
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Maureen Connor has had solo exhibitions at Acquavella Galleries, New York, NY; Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY; and PPOW Gallery, New York, NY.
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Artworks and films by Maureen Connor have been shown in venues across the US and Europe.
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In 2010, Maureen Connor showed The Visible Vagina at David Noland Gallery and Wellington Collaboratorium: Imaginary Archive at Enjoy Gallery in Wellington, New Zealand.
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Also in 2008, Maureen Connor had videos screened in the Orebro International Video Art Festival, Orebro Lans Museum, Orebro, Sweden.
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In 2007, Maureen Connor participated in the Disonancifas: Artists Collaborations with Industry, a project in San Sebastian, Spain.
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Maureen Connor has received numerous honors and awards for her work.
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Maureen Connor was awarded a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, and an Anonymous Was a Woman Award.
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In 1988, Maureen Connor was a visiting artist in residence at the New York Experimental Glass Workshop.