Heidi Kumao (born 1964) is a video and machine artist, and professor at the University of Michigan.[1] She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship[2][3] and a Creative Capital Emerging Fields Award.[4]
Work
editIn her work, Kumao projects video, often stop-motion animation, onto various surfaces, including machines.[5] Her 1994 work, Feed, projected animations from zoetrope machines onto surfaces such as "a player-piano scroll, a paper screen, blank photograph frames, and the interior of a cardboard box."[6]
In 2005, Kumao created a series of machines suggesting women's legs for the piece Misbehaving: Media Machines Act Out. The legs were named "Protest," "Resist," and "Translator." With videos embedded into the legs' torsos, the machines acted out "tableaus of protest" such as stomping on the floor, writhing on the ground or dance.[7]
Kumao broke her back in 2011. Her work has since incorporated aspects of the body. Other works explore human constraint, such as human trafficking and Japanese-American internment camps.[8]
Awards
edit- 2009: Guggenheim Fellowship[9][10][11]
- 2008: Governor's Award for Michigan Innovative Artist [9][12]
- 2007: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation[9][13]
- 2006: Malvina Hoffmann Award for Finest Sculpture from the National Academy[9]
- 2002: Creative Capital Emerging Fields Award [4]
References
edit- ^ "Faculty: Heidi Kumao". Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. University of Michigan. Archived from the original on 21 June 2024. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
- ^ McGovern, Judy (10 April 2009). "U-M's Laura Kasischke and Heidi Kumao win Guggenheim Fellowships". The Ann Arbor News. Michigan Live. Archived from the original on 19 July 2018. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
- ^ "Untitled - 1990 - Heidi Kumao". Art Institute of Chicago. Archived from the original on 11 May 2021. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
- ^ a b "Projects: Misbehaving: Media Machines Act Out". Creative Capital. Archived from the original on 18 January 2017.
- ^ Hirsch, Robert; Erf, Greg (2014). Exploring Color Photography: From Film to Pixels. Burlington, MA: Focal Press. p. 85. ISBN 9781317911142. OCLC 898770983. Retrieved 3 November 2024 – via Google Books.
- ^ Licata, Elizabeth (December 1994). "Buffalo - Heidi Kumao - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center". Artforum. 33 (4): 87. ProQuest 214357757. Archived from the original on 10 November 2023. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ Wosk, Julie (2015). My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813563398. OCLC 913556754.
- ^ Chase, Alisia (November–December 2014). "Review: Surviving Confinement: Video Sculpture by Heidi Kumao" (PDF). Afterimage. 42 (3): 36. doi:10.1525/aft.2014.42.3.36. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 November 2024. Retrieved 4 March 2016 – via heidikumao.net.
- ^ a b c d "Grantees: Heidi Kumao: Emerging Fields, 2002". Creative Capital. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
- ^ Green, Roger (January–February 2009). "Heidi Kumao: Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts". Sculpture. 28 (1): 73. ISSN 0889-728X.
- ^ "Guggenheim Fellows Awarded to Two University of Michigan Faculty". US Fed News Service. 10 April 2009. ProQuest 470217816.
- ^ "Accolades - Awards". The University Record - University of Michigan. 10 November 2008. Archived from the original on 4 November 2024. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "First Robert Johnson Fellow in Residence". Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. 10 March 2008. Archived from the original on 4 November 2024. Retrieved 3 November 2024.