Kate Gilmore

In her video performances, Kate Gilmore creates uncomfortable situations for herself and the viewer. These are real predicaments—sometimes painful and even potentially dangerous—but ones that she has created for herself. Gilmore’s video works force you to squirm in a strange empathetic reaction to her predicaments. Included in this exhibition will be two new works: “Main Squeeze” and “Anything....” “Main Squeeze” is a two-channel video, showing the artist both coming and going as she attempts to pull herself through an ever-smaller tunnel. Her feminine, turquoise satin top becomes caught on screws and she appears to suffer bouts of claustrophobia before she finally reaches the end of the tunnel. In “Anything...” Gilmore sets up a particularly resonant scenario for the viewer. Filmed from above, she appears to reach toward you, attempting to reach ever higher, as she builds a precarious assemblage of tables, chairs, and stools, strung together with a delicate pink twine, upon which to climb. “Her carefully constructed performances belie the impression of futility and hopelessness one might take away from her work. Rather, her meticulous control of both sets and costumes hints at the elaborate farce the artist is trying to create in her humorous video performances.” (Katharine C. Ebner, 2005)

Kate Gilmore’s work has been exhibited at PS1 “Greater New York 2005,” The J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Haifa Museum of Art, and is currently on view in a two-person exhibition at the CAC, Cincinnati and in a group show at Mary Boone Gallery, curated by Amy Smith-Stewart.

Currently on view at the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, through January 21, 2007

RESUME

Born: Washington D.C, 1975 Live/Work: New York

EDUCATION 2002 School of Visual Arts, Master of Fine Arts, New York, New York 1997 Bates College, Bachelor of Arts, Lewiston, Maine

SOLO and TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2006 "Hopelessly Devoted," Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, New York “Experimental Personalities: Kate Gilmore and Angie Reed,” Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH (November 17, 2006–January 21, 2007) 2005 "Kate Gilmore", Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut 2004 "On My Way to the Prom the World Collapsed on My Head", White Columns, New York, NY "If My Shoes Matched My Dress I Could Destroy You", Plus Ultra Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2007 “What F Word?” Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY “Alter Ego,” Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany 2006 “Heartbreaker,” Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY. Curated by Amy Smith-Stewart "Factitious," Pierogi Brooklyn, New York "Reckless Behavior", J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California “Twist it Twice”, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, New York "Factitious", Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, New York "Wild Girls", Exit Art, New York, New York "Mixed Emotions", Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel "Open Network", Ampersand International Arts, San Francisco, California "Love", Ferragamo Gallery/Project Space, New York, New York "Ionesco's Friends", Franco Soffiantino Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy "The Studio Visit", Exit Art, New York, New York 2005 "Greater New York 2005", PS1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York "Video Screening", Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York "Pierogi in Miami", Pierogi 2000, Miami, Florida "Codependent", The Living Room, Miami, Florida "Holiday Windows", Exit Art, New York, New York "It Is The Same Outside", Drake Hotel, Toronto, Canada "Me, Myself and My Emotions", Tastes Like Chicken Art Space, Brooklyn, New York "The Expression of Elemental Passions...(or, Damn Everything by the Circus)", Plus Ultra Gallery, Brooklyn, New York "Video 2005", Art in General, New York, New York 2004 "Open House: Working in Brooklyn", Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York "Beginning Here: 101 Ways", Curator: Jerry Saltz, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, New York "Tokyo- Chicago-New York", Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music, Tokyo, Japan "Sympathetic Nerve", Capsule Gallery, New York, New York " The Truck Stops Here", Plus Ultra Gallery, Brooklyn, New York "Six Outdoor Projects", Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York "Slice and Dice", Visual Arts Gallery, New York, New York "Transmotion", Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, New York "Mail Art", Union Works Gallery, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado "1800 Frames 2004", City Without Walls, Newark, New Jersey 2003 "AIM 23", Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, New York "The Reconstruction Biennial", Exit Art, New York, New York "Site-Specifics", The Islip Art Museum: The Carriage House, East Islip, New York "Video 825", Gallery 825 LAAA, Los Angeles, California "Vending Project", Gallery J4, Tokyo, Japan "Campsite", US Arts, Beacon, New York "Kalamazoo Shorts", Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan 2002 "ARTNEW YORK", Kunstraume auf Zeit, Linz, Austria "Lost Dog Found", Studio #308, New York, New York "Extra Virgin", The Visual Arts Gallery, New York, New York "Well-Bred", The Westside Gallery, New York, New York

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Kate Gilmore
Hopelessly Devoted