Mary Lucier

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'''Mary Lucier''' (born 1944, in Bucyrus, Ohio) is an American visual artist and pioneer in video art.<ref name=jules>Jules Heller, Nancy G. Heller (1997). [https://books.google.com/books?id=AYxmAgAAQBAJ ''North American women artists of the twentieth century: a biographical dictionary'']. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. {{isbn|0824060490}}</ref> Concentrating primarily on video and installation since 1973, she has produced numerous multiple- and single-channel pieces that have had a significant impact on the medium.

== Life and education == Lucier grew up in Bucyrus, Ohio, before receiving her B.A. from Brandeis University in literature and sculpture.<ref name="EAI">[https://web.archive.org/web/20101127023517/http://eai.org/artistBio.htm?id=417 Mary Lucier]. Electronic Arts Intermix. Archived 27 November 2010.</ref> She married the composer Alvin Lucier in 1964 and then toured with him as a member of the Sonic Arts Union from 1966 to the mid-1970s. She lived with him in Middletown, Connecticut after he secured a position at Wesleyan University until their divorce in ‘74,<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kozinn|first=Allan|date=2021-12-01|title=Alvin Lucier, Probing Composer of Soundscapes, Is Dead at 90|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/01/arts/music/alvin-lucier-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-24|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> when she moved to New York City. She would later marry the painter [https://robertberlind.net Robert Berlind], who died in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Wolkoff|first=Julia|date=2016-01-08|title=Robert Berlind (1938–2015)|url=https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/robert-berlind-1938-2015-59959/|access-date=2021-12-24|website=ARTnews.com|language=en-US}}</ref> She currently lives in both New York City and Cochecton, New York, where she has established a studio and archive for video art.<ref name=":8" />

== Work == Lucier was invested in performance and photography during her time in the Sonic Arts Union, creating works such as the ''Polaroid Image Series'', which accompanied Alvin Lucier's work ''I am sitting in a room'' (1969). During this performance she projected slides transferred from Polaroids which were degraded in a process similar to Alvin Lucier's recorded voice.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Mary Lucier by Alex Klein – BOMB Magazine|url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/mary-lucier/|access-date=2021-12-24|website=bombmagazine.org}}</ref>

Her movement into video in the early 1970s connected to her interest in the manipulation of the image as well as her fascination with the illuminated television box and its architectural space.<ref name=":0" /> In the 1970s, Lucier started to burn the internal recording tube of her camera by focusing on the sun which can be seen in her multi-channel video works ''Dawn Burn'' (1975), ''Paris Dawn Burn'' (1977) and ''Equinox'' (1979).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Barlow|first=Melinda|title=Mary Lucier|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|year=2000|isbn=0801863791|location=Baltimore, MD|language=English}}</ref> She also performed a piece ''Fire Writing'' in 1975 at The Kitchen where she used laser beams to burn text onto the Vidicon tube of her hand-held camera, which can be seen in the resulting video image.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|date=2017-01-18|title=The Renegade Video Artist|url=https://aperture.org/editorial/mary-lucier-video-artist/|access-date=2021-12-24|website=Aperture|language=en-US}}</ref>

In the 1980s, Lucier moved into greater aesthetic and sculptural concerns with her work, reflecting a clear shift in video art sensibilities of the time period. Her 2-channel, 7-monitor installation ''Ohio at Giverny'' (1983) both removes the television box from view in its installation and provides a translation to video of Claude Monet’s technique of rendering light palpable.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=NAD|url=https://nationalacademy.org/perspectives/mary-lucier-archives|access-date=2021-12-24|website=nationalacademy.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Electronic Arts Intermix: Selected Works 1975–2000: Program 2, Mary Lucier|url=https://www.eai.org/titles/selected-works-1975-2000-program-2|access-date=2019-03-14|website=www.eai.org|archive-date=2017-07-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170725224648/http://eai.org/titles/selected-works-1975-2000-program-2|url-status=dead}}</ref> ''Wilderness'' (1986) furthered Lucier's experimentation with installation and landscape by placing three channels of video on seven monitors mounted on faux classical pedestals in a stepped colonnade and focusing on American landscape motifs.<ref>{{Citation|title=Mary Lucier: Video Installations (excerpts, ART/new york no. 33)|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMlYe5F-9Bw|language=en|access-date=2021-12-24}}</ref>

In the 1990s, Lucier would investigate the more devastating aspects of the earth's landscapes by comparing the ecological precarity of the Brazilian Amazon and Alaskan wildlife with the cancerous human body in ''Noah’s Raven'' (1993)<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Installations|url=https://www.marylucier.net/installations|access-date=2021-12-24|website=Mary Lucier|language=en-US}}</ref> and examining the tragedy of flooding through recollections and ruined interiors in ''Floodsongs'' (1998).<ref name=":1" />

Her work continued to investigate various aspects of the landscape and its diverse peoples into the 21st century including works such as ''The Plains of Sweet Regret'' (2004), a 5-channel video installation examining the Great Plains at a time of depopulation.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mary Lucier Plains of Sweet Regret {{!}} Art Museum {{!}} University of Wyoming|url=https://www.uwyo.edu/artmuseum/exhibitions/archives/2006/mary-lucier-plains-of-sweet-regret/|access-date=2021-12-24|website=www.uwyo.edu}}</ref> In ''Drum Songs'' (2013) and ''(Untitled) Spirit Lake'' (2017) she examines Native American song and dance from the Cankdeska Cikana Singers and Drummers.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2013-05-24|title=Collaboration brings Spirit Lake culture to East Coast art world|url=https://www.grandforksherald.com/lifestyle/arts-and-entertainment/collaboration-brings-spirit-lake-culture-to-east-coast-art-world|access-date=2021-12-24|website=Grand Forks Herald|language=en}}</ref>

Lucier's art can be found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://whitney.org/collection/works/5472|title=Ohio at Giverny|website=whitney.org|language=en|access-date=2019-03-23}}</ref> the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/Mary_Lucier/|title=Mary Lucier · SFMOMA|website=www.sfmoma.org|access-date=2019-03-23}}</ref> the Museum of Modern Art<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/artists/32312|title=Mary Lucier {{!}} MoMA|website=The Museum of Modern Art|language=en|access-date=2019-03-23}}</ref> in New York City, ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://zkm.de/en/person/mary-lucier|title=Mary Lucier {{!}} ZKM|website=zkm.de|language=en|access-date=2019-03-23}}</ref> in Karlsruhe, Germany, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Milwaukee Art Museum<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://collection.mam.org/artist.php?id=3304|title=Mary Lucier {{!}} Milwaukee Art Museum|website=collection.mam.org|access-date=2019-03-23}}</ref> in Milwaukee, WI, the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio,<ref name=":2" /> the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mary Lucier {{!}} Albright-Knox|url=https://www.albrightknox.org/person/mary-lucier|access-date=2021-12-26|website=www.albrightknox.org}}</ref> and the Munson-Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=Mary Lucier|url=https://www.marylucier.net/|access-date=2021-12-26|website=Mary Lucier|language=en-US}}</ref>

She is currently represented by [https://www.cristintierney.com Cristin Tierney Gallery].

== Teaching == Lucier has been an adjunct professor in Video Art at SUNY Purchase, a Visiting Regent's Professor in Art and Art History at UC Davis, a Visiting Lecturer in Video Art at Harvard University, and a visiting professor of Film and Video at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She has also taught at the Cleveland Institute of Art, at New York University, at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, at the San Francisco Art Institute, and at the School of Visual Arts in New York.<ref name="EAI" />

== Grants and fellowships == Lucier has been the recipient of many awards and fellowships, including the National Endowment for the Arts,<ref>''National Endowment for the Arts: A History 1965 - 2008,'' Ed. by Mark Bauerline with Ellen Grantham, (Washington, D.C.: National Endowment for the Arts, 2009), 210.</ref> the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1985,<ref>{{Cite web|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} All Fellows|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/|access-date=2022-01-04|language=en-US|archive-date=2019-07-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190705224855/https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/|url-status=dead}}</ref> the Rockefeller Foundation in 2001,<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-06-30|title=Rockefeller Foundation – 2001 Film, Video and Multimedia Fellowship Awards|url=https://indexarticles.com/arts/art-in-america/rockefeller-foundation-2001-film-video-and-multimedia-fellowship-awards/|access-date=2022-01-04|website=IndexArticles|language=en-US}}</ref> Creative Capital in 2001,<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Plains of Sweet Regret|url=https://creative-capital.org/projects/the-plains-of-sweet-regret/|access-date=2022-01-04|website=Creative Capital|language=en}}</ref> Anonymous Was a Woman in 1998,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Recipients to Date|url=https://www.anonymouswasawoman.org/previous-recipients|access-date=2022-01-04|website=Anonymous Was A Woman|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Hershenson|first=Roberta|date=1998-03-22|title=2 Women Receive Art Grants From Unknown Female Donor|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/22/nyregion/2-women-receive-art-grants-from-unknown-female-donor.html|access-date=2022-01-04|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> the [https://www.nancygravesfoundation.org Nancy Graves Foundation] in 2003,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nancy Graves Foundation grant program|url=https://www.nancygravesfoundation.org/grants|access-date=2022-01-04|website=Nancy Graves Foundation|language=en-US}}</ref> [https://www.unitedstatesartists.org USA Artists] in 2010,<ref>{{Cite web|title=United States Artists » Mary Lucier|url=https://www.unitedstatesartists.org/fellow/mary-lucier/|access-date=2022-01-04|language=en-US}}</ref> the American Film Institute Independent Filmmaker Grant,<ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-04-24|title=Mary Lucier: Arabesque (2004)|url=https://listart.mit.edu/exhibitions/mary-lucier-arabesque-2004|access-date=2022-01-04|website=MIT List Visual Arts Center|language=en}}</ref> the Jerome Foundation in 1982,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Past Grantees {{!}} Jerome Foundation|url=https://www.jeromefdn.org/past-grantees|access-date=2022-01-04|website=www.jeromefdn.org|language=en}}</ref> the New York State Council on the Arts,<ref name=":8">{{Cite web|title=Biography|url=https://www.marylucier.net/biography|access-date=2022-01-04|website=Mary Lucier|language=en-US}}</ref> and the Japan-US Friendship Commission in 2010.<ref>''Japan-US Friendship Commission & CULCON'', 2011, ''"''Grant and Financial Information. FY2011: October 1, 2010 – September 30, 2011."</ref>

== Exhibitions ==

=== Select solo exhibitions === Mary Lucier has presented solo exhibitions at venues such as:

Catskill Art Space (2024)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mary Lucier| url=https://www.catskillartspace.org/events/davidson-nolen-jex3r-gr5a8-htrfp-j9n7t }}</ref>

The Phoenix Art Museum (2018)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Video Crossings Series: Mary Lucier|url=https://phxart.org/exhibition/video-crossings-mary-lucier/|access-date=2021-12-24|website=Phoenix Art Museum|language=en-US}}</ref>

The Kitchen (2016)<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Kitchen: From Minimalism into Algorithm|url=https://thekitchen.org/event/from-minimalism-into-algorithm|access-date=2021-12-24|website=thekitchen.org|archive-date=2021-12-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211224215125/https://thekitchen.org/event/from-minimalism-into-algorithm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Tacoma Art Museum (2014–2015)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mary Lucier: The Plains of Sweet Regret|url=https://www.tacomaartmuseum.org/exhibit/mary-lucier-plains-sweet-regret/|access-date=2021-12-24|website=Tacoma Art Museum|language=en-US}}</ref>

Amon Carter Museum (2008)<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|title=Amon Carter Museum Presents Video Installation by Artist Mary Lucier|url=https://www.cartermuseum.org/press-release/carter-museum-presents-video-installation-artist-mary-lucier|access-date=2022-01-04|website=www.cartermuseum.org|language=en}}</ref>

Huntington Museum of Art (2007)<ref>{{Cite web|last=Herald-Dispatch|first=DAVE LAVENDERThe|title=Well-known video artist comes to Huntington|url=https://www.herald-dispatch.com/features_entertainment/well-known-video-artist-comes-to-huntington/article_b66d89ec-4d11-5264-bc33-c76c38abd9a4.html|access-date=2022-01-04|website=The Herald-Dispatch|language=en}}</ref>

North Dakota Museum of Art (2004)<ref>{{Cite web|title=North Dakota Museum Of Art {{!}} past 2004 mary lucier|url=https://www.ndmoa.com/past-2004-mary-lucier|access-date=2021-12-24|website=www.ndmoa.com}}</ref>

Emerson Gallery at Hamilton College (2002)<ref name=":6" />

Museum of Modern Art (1999)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mary Lucier: Floodsongs {{!}} MoMA|url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/184|access-date=2021-12-24|website=The Museum of Modern Art|language=en}}</ref>

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1995)<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|title=Exhibitions|url=https://www.marylucier.net/exhibitions|access-date=2021-12-24|website=Mary Lucier|language=en-US}}</ref>

Toledo Museum of Art (1993)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Finding aid for the Toledo Museum of Art Exhibition Archives|url=http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view?docId=ead/OTM0002.xml;chunk.id=c02_1HK;brand=default|access-date=2022-01-04|website=ead.ohiolink.edu}}</ref>

City Gallery of Contemporary Art (1991)<ref name="jules" />

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1988)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mary Lucier's Wilderness|url=https://www.moca.org/exhibition/mary-luciers-wilderness|access-date=2022-01-04|website=www.moca.org}}</ref>

Dallas Museum of Art (1987)<ref name=":7">{{Cite web|title=Concentrations 16: Mary Lucier, Wilderness {{!}} Dallas Museum of Art|url=https://dma.org/art/exhibition-archive/concentrations-16-mary-lucier-wilderness|access-date=2022-01-04|website=dma.org}}</ref>

Capp Street Project (1986)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Asylum (A Romance) {{!}} VAULT|url=https://vault.cca.edu/items/075410dd-16fe-4fa0-bbb0-da1e35e39511/1/|access-date=2022-01-04|website=vault.cca.edu}}</ref>

Rose Art Museum (1986)<ref name=":7" />

Carnegie Museum of Art (1983)

Hudson River Museum (1980)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Independent Video: The First Fifteen Years|url=https://www.artforum.com/print/198007/independent-video-the-first-fifteen-years-37723|access-date=2022-01-04|website=www.artforum.com|language=en-US}}</ref>

City University Graduate Center (1979)<ref name=":4" />

Everson Museum of Art (1976)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Exhibitions|url=https://www.marylucier.net/exhibitions|access-date=2022-01-04|website=Mary Lucier|language=en-US}}</ref>

The Kitchen (1975)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Air Writing/Video (1973 – 1975) + Fire Writing/Video {{!}} The Kitchen Archive|url=http://archive.thekitchen.org/?p=2713|access-date=2022-01-04|language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Select group exhibitions === Lucier has participated in many international group exhibitions as well, such as:

''Media Relay: An Exhibition in Two Parts'' presented by the National Academy of Design at PS122 (2022)<ref>{{Cite web|title=NAD|url=https://nationalacademy.org/calendar/media-relay|access-date=2021-12-24|website=nationalacademy.org}}</ref>

''Partially Buried: Land-Based Art in Ohio, 1970 to Now'' at the Columbus Museum of Art (2021)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Anna Talarico – The Hoosac Institute|url=https://hoosacinstitute.com/Anna-Talarico|access-date=2022-01-04|website=hoosacinstitute.com|language=en}}</ref>

''How Can We Think of Art At A Time Like This'' at [https://artatatimelikethis.com Art At A Time Like This] (2020)<ref>{{Cite web|title=HCWTOAATLT|url=https://artatatimelikethis.com/hcwtoaatlt|access-date=2022-01-04|website=Art At A Time Like This|language=en-US}}</ref>

''Videotapes: Early Video Art (1965–1976)'' at Zachęta National Gallery of Art (2020)<ref>{{Cite web|last=Huncwot.com|title=Videotapes Early video art (1965–1976) – Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki|url=https://zacheta.art.pl/en/wystawy/wideotasmy|access-date=2022-01-04|website=zacheta.art.pl|language=en}}</ref>

''Before Projection: Video Sculpture, 1974 – 1995'' at MIT/List Visual Arts Center (2018)<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-07-11|title=Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974–1995|url=https://listart.mit.edu/exhibitions/projection-video-sculpture-1974-1995|access-date=2021-12-24|website=MIT List Visual Arts Center|language=en}}</ref> and at SculptureCenter (2018)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974–1995|url=https://www.sculpture-center.org/exhibitions/10507/before-projection-video-sculpture-1974-1995|access-date=2021-12-24|website=www.sculpture-center.org|language=en}}</ref>

''Citings/Sightings'' at [http://www.lennonweinberg.com/contact.html Lennon, Weinburg, Inc.] (2017)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Citings / Sightings|url=https://www.citingssightings.com/|access-date=2022-01-04|website=Citings / Sightings|language=en-US}}</ref>

''Songs for Spirit Lake'' at the Rauschenberg Foundation Project Space, the North Dakota Museum of Art and the Cankdeska Cikana Community College (2013–2014)<ref>{{Cite web|title=North Dakota Museum Of Art {{!}} past 2013 Songs for Spirit Lake|url=https://www.ndmoa.com/past-2013-songs-for-spirit-lake|access-date=2022-01-04|website=www.ndmoa.com}}</ref>

''Playing House'' at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (2012)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Brooklyn Museum: Playing House|url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/playing_house|access-date=2022-01-04|website=www.brooklynmuseum.org}}</ref>

''September 11'' at MoMA PS1 (2011)<ref>{{Cite web|title=September 11 {{!}} MoMA|url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1218|access-date=2022-01-04|website=The Museum of Modern Art|language=en}}</ref>

''Two Monzeki Spaces'' at [https://osaka-chushin.jp/en/spot/4791 Takashimaya Exhibition Hall] (2011)<ref name=":6" />

''Recasting Site'' at CCS Bard (2008)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Recasting Site|url=https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/45-recasting-site|access-date=2022-01-04|website=CCS Bard|language=en}}</ref>

''Primera generacion. Arte e imagén en movimiento (1963–1986)'' at the Museo Reina Sofia (2006–2007)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Primera generación. Arte e imagen en movimiento (1963–1986) {{!}} Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía|url=https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/exhibitions/primera-generacion-arte-e-imagen-movimiento-1963-1986|access-date=2022-01-04|website=www.museoreinasofia.es|language=en}}</ref>

''Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art, 1964–1977'' at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2001–2002)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Into the Light: the Projected Image in American Art, 1964–1977|url=https://whitney.org/exhibitions/into-the-light|access-date=2021-12-24|website=whitney.org|language=en}}</ref>

''Illusions of Eden: Visions of the American Heartland'' at Museum of Modern Art/Ludwig Foundation, Ludwig Museum Budapest, Museum the Columbus Museum of Art and Madison Art Center (2000–2001)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Illusions of Eden: Visions of the American Heartland|url=http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/1aa/1aa315.htm|access-date=2022-01-04|website=www.tfaoi.com}}</ref>

''Video Cult/ures'' at ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst (1999)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Video Cult/ures {{!}} 06.05.1999 (All day) to 29.08.1999 (All day) {{!}} ZKM|url=https://zkm.de/en/event/1999/05/video-cult-ures|access-date=2021-12-24|website=zkm.de|language=en}}</ref>

''Landscape: Mediated Views'' at the Visual Studies Workshop (1998)<ref>{{Cite web|last=etc_admin_1|date=2011-05-16|title=Landscape: Mediated Views|url=https://www.videohistoryproject.org/landscape-mediated-views-0|access-date=2022-01-04|website=www.videohistoryproject.org}}</ref>

''Living With Contemporary Art'' at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (1995–1996)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Living with Contemporary Art|url=https://thealdrich.org/exhibitions/living-with-contemporary-art|access-date=2022-01-04|website=The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum|language=en}}</ref>

''Gazing Back: Shigeko Kubota and Mary Lucier'' at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1995)<ref>{{Cite news|last=Karmel|first=Pepe|date=1995-08-25|title=Art in Review|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/25/arts/art-in-review-262395.html|access-date=2022-01-04|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

''Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area'' at the De Young Museum (1994)<ref name=":6" />

''The First Generation: Women and Video, 1970–75'' by Independent Curators International (1993)<ref>{{Cite web|title=The First Generation: Women and Video, 1970–75 – Exhibitions – Independent Curators International|url=https://curatorsintl.org/exhibitions/the-first-generation-women-and-video-1970-75|access-date=2022-01-04|website=curatorsintl.org}}</ref>

''Video Skulptur: retrospektiv und aktuell, 1963 – 1989'' at the Kölnischer Kunstverein (1989)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Video Skulptur retrospektiv und aktuell 1963–1989, 1989 – Kölnischer Kunstverein|url=https://koelnischerkunstverein.de/en/artikel/video-skulptur-retrospektiv-und-aktuell-1963-1989/video-skulptur-retrospektiv-und-aktuell-1963-1989-1989-2/|access-date=2022-01-04|website=koelnischerkunstverein.de}}</ref>

''Femmes Cathodiques'' at the Palais de tokyo, Musee d'art moderne de Paris (1989)<ref name=":6" />

''The Luminous Image'' at the Stedelijk Museum (1984)<ref>{{Cite web|last=Grrr.nl|title=The Luminous Image / Het lumineuze beeld. 22 video-installaties van Europese en Amerikaanse kunstenaars. – Wim Crouwel|url=https://www.stedelijk.nl/en/collection/56051-wim-crouwel-the-luminous-image-het-lumineuze-beeld.-22-video-installaties-van-europese-en-amerikaanse-kunstenaars.|access-date=2021-12-24|website=www.stedelijk.nl|language=en}}</ref>

Whitney Biennial 1983 at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1983)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Whitney Biennial 1983|url=https://whitney.org/exhibitions/biennial-1983|access-date=2021-12-24|website=whitney.org|language=en}}</ref>

''The Second Link: Viewpoints on Video in the Eighties'' at the Walter Philips Gallery, travelled internationally (1983)<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Second Link: Viewpoints on Video in the Eighties {{!}} MoMA|url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/2227|access-date=2022-01-04|website=The Museum of Modern Art|language=en}}</ref>

''10e Biennale de Paris'' at the Musee d'art moderne de Paris (1977)<ref>10e Biennale de Paris. Exhibition catalogue, Musee d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris. 1977.</ref>

Sonic Arts Union performance at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1970)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Press and Print|url=http://sonicartsunion.org/press-and-print/pressandprint.html|access-date=2022-01-04|website=sonicartsunion.org}}</ref>

== Selected Artworks == Source:<ref name=":3" /> * '''''Leaving Earth''''' (2024) Nine-channel video and sound installation * '''''(Untitled) Spirit Lake''''' (2017) Single-channel video/installation * '''''Drum Songs''''' (2013) Three-channel video installation * '''''Wisconsin Arc''''' (2012) Single-channel video installation * '''''Four Mandalas''''' (2010) Four single-channel videos or four-channel installation * '''''The Plains of Sweet Regret''''' (2004) Five-channel video installation * '''''Floodsongs''''' (1998) Seven-channel video installation * '''''Summer, or Grief''''' (1998) Single-channel video/installation * '''''House by the Water''''' (1997) Four-channel video installation * '''''Last Rites (Positano)''''' (1995) Eight-channel video installation * '''''Oblique House (Valdez)''''' (1993) Six-channel video installation * '''''Noah's Raven''''' (1993) Four-channel video installation * '''''MASS''''' (1990) with Elizabeth Streb. 3-channel video installation * '''''Asylum (A Romance)''''' (1986) Mixed Media installation * '''''Wilderness''''' (1986) Three-channel video installation * '''''Amphibian''''' (1985) with Elizabeth Streb. Performance with two-channels of video * '''''Ohio at Giverny''''' (1983) Two-channel video installation * '''''Ohio to Giverny: Memory of Light''''' (1983) Single-channel video * '''''Equinox''''' (1979/2016) Seven-channel video installation * '''''Bird's Eye''''' (1978) Single-channel video * '''''Paris Dawn Burn''''' (1977) Seven-channel video installation * '''''Dawn Burn''''' (1975) Seven-channel video installation with color slide projection * '''''Fire Writing''''' (1975) Performance or single-channel video * '''''Air Writing''''' (1974) Three-channel video * '''''Polaroid Image Series''''' (1969–1974/2006) Black & white slides and videos with Alvin Lucier's ''I am sitting in a room''

== External links ==

=== Websites === * [https://www.marylucier.net Artist's Website] * [https://www.cristintierney.com/artists/129-mary-lucier/cover/ Mary Lucier at Cristin Tierney] * [https://www.eai.org/artists/mary-lucier/biography Mary Lucier at EAI] * [https://secure.flickr.com/photos/marlucart/ Mary Lucier at Flickr]

=== Interviews === * [https://hoosacinstitute.com/Anna-Talarico Interview with Lucier, Anna Talarico and Brian Harnetty from 2021] * [https://nationalacademy.org/perspectives/mary-lucier-archives Conversation with Lucier, her archivist and National Academy from 2021] * [https://bombmagazine.org/articles/mary-lucier/ Interview from Bomb Magazine 2019] * [https://journal.voca.network/sun-cycles/ Interview with Lucier and Tanya Zimbardo from 2019] * [https://aperture.org/editorial/mary-lucier-video-artist/ Interview with Aperture from 2017] * [https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-mary-lucier-16007#overview Oral History Interview with Mary Lucier, 2011 Sept. 27 - 30, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, by Judith Olch Richards] * [https://brooklynrail.org/2007/3/art/mary-lucier Interview with Brooklyn Rail from 2007] * [https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-mary-lucier-12867 Oral History Interview with Mary Lucier, 1990 Apr. - Nov., Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, by Cynthia Nadelman]

=== Select Exhibition Reviews === * [https://www.cristintierney.com/press/619-perfect.-immersed-in-a-limitless-world-by-rachel-hutcheson-millennium-film-journal/ Millennium Film Journal review of ''Leaving Earth'' in 2024] * [https://brooklynrail.org/2024/02/artseen/Mary-Lucier-Leaving-Earth/ Brooklyn Rail review of ''Leaving Earth'' in 2024] * [https://brooklynrail.org/2020/06/artseen/How-Can-We-Think-of-Art-at-a-Time-Like-This Brooklyn Rail review of ''Art at a Time Like This'' in 2020] * [https://artcritical.com/2016/02/13/hearne-pardee-on-mary-lucier/ Artcritical Review of Solo Exhibition at The Kitchen in 2016] * [https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/arts/design/mary-lucier-new-installation-works.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/arts/design/mary-lucier-new-installation-works.html NY Times Review of Mary Lucier Exhibition at Lennon Weinberg, Inc. in 2013] * [https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/catherine-murphy-2021 New Yorker Review of Lucier at Lennon Weinberg, Inc. from 2013] * [https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/201201/september-11-29803 Hal Foster at Artforum on ''September 11'' at MoMA PS1 in 2011]

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