Matt Mullican is a American

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 artist

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 and son of artists Lee Mullican

Lee Mullican

Lee Mullican was a painter and art teacher, and an influential member of the Dynaton Movement. He was a member of the UCLA art faculty from 1962 to 1990. He married Luchita Hurtado; their son Matt Mullican is a New York City based artist; their son John Mullican is a Los Angeles based writer and...

 He received his BFA

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 from CalArts in 1974, and rose to prominence as a member of the "Pictures Generation" along with such artists as Troy Brauntuch

Troy Brauntuch

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, Jack Goldstein

Jack Goldstein

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, David Salle

David Salle

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, Jim Welling, Sherri Levine, Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman

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, Louise Lawler

Louise Lawler

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, Richard Prince

Richard Prince

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 and Robert Longo

Robert Longo

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. Mullican's 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.

His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally since the early 1970s at venues including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

New York

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, Haus Der Kunst

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, Munich

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, Germany

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, The National Galerie, Berlin

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, Germany, the Stedelijk Museum

Stedelijk Museum

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, Schiedam

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, the Netherlands, Museum of Contemporary Art

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, Los Angeles

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, CA, and The Museum of Modern Art, NY. Mullican's work has been reviewed in Artforum

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, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

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, The New York Times

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, and Modern Painters

Modern Painters

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, among others.

Mullican has taught and lectured at Columbia University

Columbia University

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, New York, The Rijksakademie

Rijksakademie

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, Amsterdam

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, The London Institute, Chelsea College of Art and Design

Chelsea College of Art and Design

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, England

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, The School of Visual Arts, New York amongst several others.

External links

• http://brooklynrail.org/2006/6/artseen/matt-mullican The Brooklyn Rail, "Matt Mullican"
• http://mai36.com/matt-mullican-selected-works.html Mai 36 Gallery, artist's page
• http://whitney.org/www/2008biennial/www/?section=artists&page=artist_mullican Whitney Biennial 2008, Matt Mullican
• http://artforum.com/video/mode=large&id=21779 Artforum, interview with the artist