MARIAH GARNETT
Education
2008-2011: California Institute of the Arts, MFA, Film/Video.
1998-2003: Brown University, BA, American Civilization.
Awards, Grants and Residencies
2024: City of Los Angeles Independent Master Artist Project Grant, Los Angeles, CA.
2022: The Industry LAB, Los Angeles, CA.
2021: Surf Point Residency, York, ME.
2019: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in Film/Video, New York, NY.
2017: Macdowell Colony: Artist in Residence, Peterborough, NH.
Harpo Emerging Artist Grant, Los Angeles, CA.
2016: Artadia Award, Los Angeles, CA.
2015: Sarah Jacobson Film Grant.
Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant, Los Angeles, CA.
Digital Arts Studio: International Artist in Residence, Belfast, UK.
Studio das weisse haus: Artist in Residence, Vienna, AT.
2014: Headlands Center for the Arts: Artist in Residence, Marin, CA.
California Community Fund Atlass Fellowship: Emerging Artist, LA, CA.
2013: \aut\FILM Award for Best LGBT Film at Ann Arbor Film Festival.
Echo Park Film Center: September Artist in Residence.
Filmography
2024: Songbook, 4K video, 55min.
2023: Titanic Depression HD video, interactive video for Dynasty Handbag performance, 70min.
2022: Dreamed This Gateway, 16mm converted to 4k, 5-channel installation, 25min.
2021: The Pow’r Of Life Is Love, 4k video, 13min.
2020: Weirdo Night, HD video, 43min.
2019: Trouble. HD video, 82min.
2016: Other & Father. 16mm double projection, 11min.
Open Letter. HD video, 8min.
2014: Full Burn. HD video, 20 min.
2013: Mexercize (collaboration with Guillermo Gómez-Peña). HD Video, 20 min.
Life Is Torture (collaboration with Eve Fowler). Video, 16mm, 8min.
2012: Signal. 16mm, 7min.
Untitled (Eclipse). HD video, 11min.
Encounters I May Or May Not Have Had With Peter Berlin. 16mm, 14min.
2011: Picaresques. HD video, 20 min.
2010: Garbage, The City, And Death. DV, 8min.
2008: You Will Never Ever Be A Woman. You Must Live The Rest Of Your Days Entirely As A Man And Only Grow More Masculine With Every Passing Year. There Is No Way Out. (collaboration with Zackary Drucker, A.L. Steiner, and Van Barnes). DV, 9min.
One and Two Person Exhibitions
2022: “Dreamed This Gateway” at Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX.
“Exhaustion Laments” at The Industry LAB, Los Angeles, CA.
2021: “A Heart of Opal Fire” at Commonwealth + Council, Los Angeles.
2020: Mariah Garnett at Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst College, Amherst, MA.
Mariah Garnett: PanelLA, Online, Los Angeles.
2019: “Mariah Garnett: Trouble” Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
“Rent Strike” 8410 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles.
2018: “Mariah Garnett & Johann Grimonprez” ArteBA, ltd los angeles booth.
2016: “Other & Father” Metropolitan Center for the Arts, Belfast, UK.
“Other & Father” ltd los angeles, Los Angeles.
“The Long Take: Mariah Garnett & William E. Jones” Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, LA.
2015: “Full Burn” Louis B. James, New York, NY.
2014: “Mariah Garnett’s Picaresques” Buenos Tiempos Int., Brussels, BE.
2013: “Mariah Garnett and Kevin Killian” 2nd Floor Projects, San Francisco.
2012: “Common Era: Mariah Garnett and Anton Lieberman” ltd los angeles, Los Angeles.
2011: “G.L.O.W. (Grab Lunch Or Whatever)” with Math Bass. Commonwealth & Council, LA.
2010: “Encounters I May Or May Not Have Had With Peter Berlin” Human Resources, LA.
Group Exhibitions
2024: “COLA Master Artists Exhibition” Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2023: “Are We Not Drawn Onward To New Era” Mandeville Art Gallery, UCSD, La Jolla, CA,.
"Full Burn: Videos from the Collection” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
2021: “there’s nothing here but flesh and bone” TULCA Festival of the Arts, Galway.
2019: “Circus of Books” Fierman Gallery, New York, NY.
“Every Woman Biennial” Bendix Building, Los Angeles, CA.
2018: “The Magic Hour No. 2” Magic Hour, Joshua Tree, CA.
“Queer Biennial” Navel, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Stuart Sandford.
2017: “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon” New Museum, New York, NY.
“Mariah Garnett, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Neal Tait” Vamiali, Athens.
“Seasick in Paradise”, >Depart, Malibu, CA.
“Conflicted Bodies: Feminist and Queer Responses to Militarism and Violence since 1900” Goldsmiths, London, UK.
“Post-Election” September Gallery, Hudson, NY.
2016: “forward” ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
“MAC International” Metropolitan Center for the Arts, Belfast, UK.
“WACKing The Piñata” ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
“An Ocean Trapped Behind A Wall” New Mexico State University Art Gallery, Las Cruces, NM
“Night Transmissions: Electronic Intimacy” Icelandic National Broadcast, Iceland.
“Circling History: Screenings from Mariah Garnett and Werner Herzog” The MAC, Belfast, UK.
2015: “The Border Again” Curated by Kelman Duran, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
“Queer Fantasy” OH WOW, LA, CA
“Was die Wangen röthet, kann nicht übel seyn” Kerstin Engholm Gallery, Vienna.
2014: “Hammer Biennial: Made In L.A. 2014” The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
“Murder, She Wrote” curated by Alberto García del Castillo, Nosbaum Reding Projects, Luxembourg
“TL;DR” ARTSPACE, Auckland, NZ
“Artist Theater Program” EMPAC, Troy, NY
2013: "Within" Cypress College, Cypress, CA.
2012: “Fuel For The Fire” A Temporary Space, New York, NY.
“Herstory Inventory” Brooklyn Museum, NY. Participant in Ulrike Müller's Project.
“Once Emerging Now Emerging: Open Network” Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles.
“PST Reset 00:00” Online and at Human Resources.
2011: “Herstory Inventory” by Ulrike Müller, Kunsthaus Bregenz, AT.
2009: “You Will Never Be A Woman” Acuna Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles.
Screenings
2025: Songbook CPH:DOX New:Vision Competion, Copenhagen.
Songbook Mumok cinema, Vienna.
2024: Transmissions Shorts Program, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. Curated by Jon Davies.
2023: Mimesis Magazine, Bbooks, Berlin, DE.
Mimesis Magazine, Poetic Research Bureau, Los Angeles, CA.
Trouble, “True To Life” curated by Triple Canopy, Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY, NY.
2022: “Mariah Garnett Shorts” Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, DE.
“Detouring With Traction”, Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, DE.
Trouble Austin Film Society, Austin TX.
Trouble Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX.
2021: Sundance Film Festival, New Frontiers, Park City, UT.
“Premierentage”, Galerie Der Stadt, Schwatz, AT.
Queertactics, Vienna, AT.
“Trouble” at REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA.
“Barbed Wire Love”, Glasgow International Short Film Festival, Glasgow, UK.
Document Human Rights Film Festival, Scotland, UK.
2020: Mariah Garnett Shorts, Maryland Film Festival, The Parkway Theater, Baltimore, MD.
“Screen Series,” New Museum, New York, NY.
Commonwealth + Council Online.
“Makers and Founders,” The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
“Conversations at the Edge” School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
CPH:DOX, in NEXT:WAVE competition, Copenhagen, DEN.
Olhar de Cinema, Curitiba, BRZ.
HOTDOCS, Toronto, CAN. Online.
2019: Outburst, Belfast, UK/IE
BFI London – Experimenta, London, UK
NYFF – Projections, New York, NY
“Borders and Boundaries” Barbican Centre, London, UK
“Screening Series” Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA.
“Conversion Therapy” Dirty Looks traveling program.
“Cinematheque 108” University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
2018: “Lesbian Not Erotica: Dynasty Handbag & Mariah Garnett” performative screenings school, Vienna, Austria.
“Canyon Cinema 50 Film Tour – Decodings,” .
2017: “Fronteras Destruidas” Festival de Cine Lima Independiente, Lima, Peru.
“Canyon Cinema 50 Film Tour – Decodings,”.
“Mariah Garnett: Retrospective” Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA.
“The Cinema of Gender Transgression: Trans Film” Anthology Film Archive, New York, NY.
2016: Rencontres Internationales, Gaîte Lyrique, Paris, FR, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, GE
“THINGS – A Queer Legacy” Anthology Film Archive, New York, NY.
2015: “Mariah Garnett & Judy Fiskin” Laurel Doody, Los Angeles, CA
“Different Every Time,” MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
“Patrick Staff’s The Foundation,” Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
“Projections, Portraits, and Picaresques: Works by Mary Helena Clark, Mariah Garnett, and Latham Zearfoss,” SAIC CATE Series, Chicago, IL
“Your Words Give Me A Headache” , Dirty Looks On Location, New York, NY
“Print Screen: Maggie Nelson” Lincoln Center, NY
“&Now 2015: Blast Radius” Curated by Maggie Nelson, Calarts, CA
2014: “Moving Situations: Motion Pictures by Emily Mast, Mariah Garnett and Danielle Dean”, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
“A Club Called Animals” , Model Projects Vancouver, CAN
“Cinéphémère”, FIAC, Paris, FR
“Old Spaghetti Factory” MoCAP, Chicago,
“Lorraine 26 Release” wellwellwell, Vienna,
2013: “Out Night” Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor.
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago.
“Dirty Looks” SFMOMA, San Francisco.
2012: “Curing Normalty: BREAK OUT – Beyond Boundaries (FRANK), Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo.
"UpStream" , NADA Hudson..
“Rencontres Internationales Video Library” Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR.
“MIX NYC 25” New York, NY.
“Dirty Looks”. White Columns, NYC.
“Long Distance Love Affairs” Dirty Looks, Hammer Museum & Yale University.
2011: Venice Biennale, Swiss Offsite Pavilion.
PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany.
Outfest, Platinum Series, Los Angeles.
Rencontres Internationales, Paris, London, Madrid, Beiruit, Berlin.
2010: “Broken Sleep” Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN.
2005: Fruit Farm Film Festival, Portland, OR.
Slamdance, Park City, UT.
2004: Coney Island Film Festival, New York, NY.
Bibliography
2024: Mackler, Lauren. COLA IMAP 2024 Catalog, LA Department of Cultural Affairs.
2023: Brody, Richard. “Goings On About Town: Trouble” New Yorker Magazine, February 13.
Shamriz, Lior & Trakal, Elbe. “A Conversation With Mariah Garnett” Mimesis Magazine.
2022: Glentzer, Molly. “Cool off at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston with a Hallucinatory Indoor Experience,” Houston Chronicle, July 7.
Block, Jenny. “Mending Trauma Through Art.” Outsmart Magazine, August 11.
2021: Taft, Catherine. “Mariah Garnett at Commonwealth + Council,” Artforum, October.
Muhammed, Ismael. “Maggie Nelson Wants to Redefine Freedom,” New York Times, Septebmer 2.
Capaldi, Eleanor. “Mariah Garnett on Trouble,” The Skinny, January 27.
2020: Jones, William E.; O’Keefe, Sara. OSMOS, Winter Issue.
Shaw, Shelby. “Mariah Garnett with Shelby Shaw,” Brooklyn Rail, March.
2019: McCarthy, Ruth. El Alto, Volume 1. Nov, 2019.
Cardamenis, Forrest. “Healing A Father-Daughter Bond Against The Backdrop Of
The Troubles” Hyperallergic, October 4.
O’Shea, Naomi Keenan. “Trouble” Reverse Shot, October 4.
Cooper, Ashton. “Criticks Pick” Artforum, March.
Jones, William E. Dirty Looks Volume 4.
Simmons, William J. “21st Century Queer and Trans Video Art in the United States” Oxford Companion to Queer Cinema.
2017: Burton, Johanna. Trigger: Gender As A Tool and a Weapon New Museum exhibition catalog. 23 January.
Cotter, Holland. “When It Comes To Gender, Let Confusion Reign” New York Times, 28 September.
Coomasaru, Edwin. “Performing Sexuality and Sectarianism: Mariah Garnett’s Other & Father” Photoworks annual issue 24.
Halajian, Suzy. “The Long Take with Mariah Garnett and William E. Jones” X-TRA Quarterly, Spring 2017.
2016: Tumlir, Jan. “Mariah Garnett: ltd los angeles” Artforum, September.
Puelo, Risa. “Mariah Garnett” Bomb Magazine, 3 March.
Garnett, Mariah. “Untitled on David Bowie” Columbia Journal.
Piejko, Jennifer. “Critics Picks” Artforum.com, April.
Wagley, Catherine. “Mariah Garnett at ltd los angeles” 20 April.
2015: Menéndez, Clara López. “Mariah Garnett” Girls Like Us, Issue No 7.
Stromberg, Matt. “Tijuana, LA, and Border Crossings with
Contemporary Art” Hyperallergic, 3 March.
Duran, Kelman. “The Border Again” Terremoto, 7 March.
Moffitt, Evan. “The Border Again” Frieze, 22 April.
Laden, Tanja M. “The Border Again” KCET, 5 March.
2014: Guthrey, Summer. “ Made in LA.” Frieze, Issue No 167, November-December
Knight, Christopher. “‘Made in L.A.’ biennial art survey taps a social undercurrent,” LA Times, 19 June.
Miranda, Carolina A. “‘Made in L.A.’ best in show: 5 must-see pieces at the Hammer Biennial,” The Los Angeles Times, 16 June
Wagley, Catherine. “Hammer Museum’s “Made in L.A.” Biennial 2014: Our Preview,” LA Weekly, 5 June.
2013: Tramposch, Emma, "Mariah Garnett: Review" Art Papers. May 2013.
2010: Wagley, Catherine, "When I Say Image, That’s Different Than Me", Daily Serving. Oct 29.
Teaching & Curating
2022-present: UCSD - Assistant Professor in Media, Visual Arts Department.
2022: UCLA - Beginning New Genres, Video Production. Part-time Lecturer.
2021: UCLA - Advanced New Genres, Video Production. Part-time Lecturer.
2020: Dirty Looks: On Location film curator.
All The Reasons, REDCAT, film curator.
2019: UCLA - Beginning New Genres. Part-time Lecturer.
YoungArts Prize - Visual Arts Director, West Coast.
2018: UCLA - Beginning New Genres. Part-time Lecturer.
i am no bird film screening, ltd los angeles, film curator.
YoungArts Prize - Visual Arts Director, West Coast.
2017: UCLA - Beginning New Genres. Part-time Lecturer.
CSU Bakersfield - Animation. Part-time Lecturer.
YoungArts Prize - Visual Arts Director, West Coast.
2016: CSU Bakersfield - Time Based Art. Part-time Lecturer.
Guest Lectures & Panels
2023: UC Riverside Visiting Artist Lecture Series.
2022: Otis College Visiting Artist Lecture Series.
2021: UC San Diego: Visiting Artist Lecture Series.
Galway Mayo Institute of Technology: Visiting Artist Lecture.
2020: UCLA: Visiting Artist Lecture Series.
MICA guest artist.
2019: UC Santa Cruz: Visiting Artist Lecture Series.
California Institute of the Arts: Cinematic Voices.
SAIC guest artist.
2018: Cranbrook MFA: Visiting Artist Lecture Series.
Pepperdine University: Guest Lecturer
MoCA: Real Worlds, Fake News. Panel organized by Amanda Hunt.
Household Belfast: Clio Barnard in Conversation with Mariah Garnett and Ed Webb
Ingall. Organized by Household Belfast, Artangel and Belfast Film Festival.
2016: Bennington College: Visual Artist Lecture Series.
Bowdoin College: Guest Lecturer
Pacific Northwest College of the Arts: Guest Critiques
School of Visual Art: Guest Critiques
Cal State Bakersfield: Visiting Artist Lecture Series.
2015: School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Guest Critiques
Academy of Fine Art, Vienna AT: Guest lecturer
Films Distributed by Canyon Cinema and VDB,
Gallery Representation: Commonwealth + Council.