11-22 44th Rd Long Island City, NY www.false-flag.org [email protected]

VIRGIN IA LEE MONTGOMERY

Born in Houston, TX and lives in TX Work s between T X and NY , USA

EDUCATION 2016 Yale Universit y, Scul pture, MFA 2008 The Univ ersity of Texas at Aust in, BFA

EXHIBITIO NS 2020 DREAM C OCOON, Hesse Flato w, New York, NY — SOLO up c om ing After Carolee, Curat or Anne tte DiMeo Carloz zi, Art pa ce , San Antonio, TX upcoming WITCH HUN T, Curato rs Alison Kar asyk & Jeppe Ugel vig, Kunsth al Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark upcoming Exquis ite Corp se of the Surrea l: Bring Your Own Beam er, Cu rator Mary Magsamen, Menil Collection, Houston, TX upcoming In Union, Re motely, The Sha ke r Museum, Mount Leb anon, N Y — upcoming VLM: SK Y LOOP , Lawndale Art Cente r, Houst on, TX — SOLO Oxford Film Festiv al, Expe rim ental Short Films, 2019, O xford, MI Virtual D ream Cen ter: P reC og Screening, Queens Muse um, Queens, NY BAIT BALL, Curated by Like A Little Disaster Gallery, Palazzo Sa n Giuseppe, Polignano a Mare, Italy 2019 HONEY MOON , Mi d night Mom ent at Times S quare, Times S quare A rt Alliance, New York, NY — SOLO PONY COC OON, False F lag Projects, Queens, NY — SOLO Screen Series: V irginia Le e Mont gomery , Curator Ka te W iener, New Museum, New York, NY — SOLO THE PONY HO TEL: VLM & Geor ge Minne, Mus eum Folk wang, Essen, Germany — SOLO An unb ound knot in the wind, Curator Alison Karasyk, Berrie Center, Ramapo, Mahwah, NJ CYFE ST12 Internati ona l: Perso nal Ident ity, Curator Victoria Ilyushkina, St. Petersburg, Russia Exchan ge Rate, Cur ator De nnis Nance, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX The 2019 Film and Video Poetry Symposi um, Cinema Cosmos, Moscow, Russia Athens Inte rnati onal Film and V ideo Festival 2019, Athens, OH NYC Indepen dent F ilm Festival 2019, New York, NY New Orlea ns Film Fest ival, 2019, New Orleans, LA Moscow Sho rts, 20 19, Cosm os Cinema, Moscow, Russia Ann Arb or Film F estival - 57th Annual, Ann Arb o r, MI May Show: Looms, Sweetpass Sculptu re Park, Dallas, TX Vanishing Act , Hals ey McK ay Galle ry, East H amp ton, NY Proposition , H esse Flatow, New York, NY Positi ve Futur es, Orga nized by Chloé Rossetti & Lora ine Wible , Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA Me aning Mak ing M a chin es, O rganized by Yolan dé Gouws, Mitte Media Festival, Berlin, Germany Towards the Last Unico rn, C urator Catarina Vaz, A rt Res earch M ap, 55SP , São Paulo, Brazil Cos mic Rays Film Fe stival, University of North Caro lina at C hapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 2018 The Socrates Annual, Socrate s Sculptu re Park 2018 , Curator J ess Wilcox, Socrates Sculptu re Park, LIC, Queens, NY An unb ound knot in the wind: A nna Betbeze, Louise Bou rgeois, Yo umna Chlala, V irginia Lee Montgome ry, David Wojna rowicz, Curator Alison Karasyk, CC S Bard, Hess el Museum of Art, Hudson, NY A kiss und er the tail , Cura ted by Loreta Lamar gese , Ar senal Co ntemporar y , New York, NY CRASH TES T: The Molecular Turn, Curator Nic olas Bou rriaud, La Panacée, Cen tre d'art contempor ain, Montpellier, France OPEN MIN D: Selva Apa ricio & V irginia Lee Montg omery, CRUS H, New York, NY — 2 PERSON SHOW Sometimes however, Curators Arlene Berceliot Courtin and Thibault Vanco, FURIOSA, Marseille, France The 2018 Film and Video Poetry Symposium, The Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA Personal Identity, Curator Victoria Ilyushkina, Made In New York Media Center, Brooklyn, NY Dangerous Professors, Curator Ruslana Lichtzier, Flatland Gallery, Houston, TX Out There, Organized by Bianca Boragi, 254 Broome Street, New York, NY MOONMIST: Alex Goss, Ryan Hawk, Shana Hoehn, Yue Nakayama, Virginia Lee Montgomery, Moonmist, Houston, TX 11-22 44th Rd Long Island City, NY www.false-flag.org [email protected]

2017 PORTAL, Particle Accelerator Memorial Project, Wright Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, CT — SOLO

In Practice: Material Deviance, Curator Alexis Wilkinson, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY Redirecting: Sam Ekwurtzel, Bill Jenkins, Virginia Lee Montgomery, Em Rooney, Valerie Snobeck, Simone Subal, NY, NY

Screening, Curator Kiyoto Koseki, Harvard Film Archive, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

VIRGINIA LEE MONTGOMERY: BEYOND MEANS, Plymouth Rock, Zürich, Switzerland — SOLO

Freshly Painted Beige Walls, July, Video! Video! Zine, LVL3 Gallery, Chicago, IL Twenty/20!, Edward Cella Gallery, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA

RETREAT, Organized by Maggie Goldstone and Peter LaBier, Mom’s Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Cabinet, Organized by Adam Milner, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO

The way you look at me, Organized by Nico Mazza, Gallery Protocol, Gainesville, FL

Screening - The Boneyard, Organized by Shana Hoehn, Blank Check Gallery, Houston, TX

2016 VIRGINIA LEE MONTGOMERY: SOS ONSHORE OFFSHORE, MEYOHAS, New York, NY — SOLO

things you can’t unthink, Curator Peta Rake, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada

ALL BYTE: Feminist Intersections in Video Art, Curator Terri C. Smith, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT

All My Friends Are Rocks: Anissa Mack & Virginia Lee Montgomery, 67Ludlow, New York,NY — 2 PERSON SHOW

BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS, Curators Isabelle Lynch and Sophie Lynch, Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

PARTNERS, Organized by Michael Queensland and Anoka Faruqee, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY

ONSITE OFFSITE PARASITE, Yale Sculpture MFA Exhibition, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT — THESIS

Drawing for Sculpture, Organized by Courtney Puckett, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY

ST(f)EM Gallery 456, Chinese American Arts Council, New York, NY

2015 IDEATION ACCELERATOR, Wright Laboratory, Yale Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT — SOLO

Business as Usual, TURF PROJECTS, Croydon, United Kingdom

VideoMixer, Green Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

2014 Roving Room, Inaugural Exhibition at Habersham Mills, Habersham Mills, Atlanta, GA

First Call, MFA 1st Year Exhibition, Green Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

2008 Rose Colored Glasses, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise at Passerby, New York, NY

DAUGHTER PLANET, Texas Memorial Museum, Austin, TX — SOLO

2006 Digital Showcase 36: SXSW, Austin Museum of Digital Art, Austin, TX

Heydays 2006, Creative Research Lab, University of Texas, Austin, TX

VIDEOTIME A/V Swap, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX

PERFORMA NCES 2019 STONE PONY CA GE, Soft Opening, Curated by Partial Shade, Co-Lab Projects, Austin, TX 2018 DUST DEVIL DRILL, CRASH TEST, Curators No am Seg al and Nicolas Bourriaud, La Panacé e, Montpellier, France EGG ROCK S, Earworm x3, Organized by Nate F lagg, Se cret P roject Robot, B rooklyn, NY 2017 BUSINESS WI TCH BALANCES COINS IN NO-PRO FIT ZONE , DAMA, Curator Domenico de Chirico, Turin, Italy ORAL ECON OM ICS: I dr eam of the elections, Organiz ed by Ruth Pati r, Danspace Project, New York, NY CHEESE DAN ISH SP EAKS, Earworm x1, Organiz ed b y Nate Flagg, Sec ret Project Robot, B rooklyn, N Y 2016 HA PTIC MA PP ING , Curator Peta Rake, Eric Harvie Theatre, The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada INNOPROV IZE: T eam Building Balle t, Digital Desi gn L ab, Wesleyan Universit y, Middletown, CT 2015 COLLA BIGUITY D RAWING WORKSHO P, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT LIVE-SKETCH ING LABOR, ArtHandler Magazine with ALL GOLD at MOMAPS1, MOMAPS1, Queens, NY IDEA TION ACC EL ERATOR: DRAWING DARK MATTER , Yale Physics, Yale Universit y, New Haven, CT 2014 INNOPROV IZE: Ya le School of Management, Yale Un iver sity, New Haven, CT

AWARDS & RESI DENC IES 2020 MRSEC, Artist in Resi dence, Center for Dynam ics and C ontrol o f Materials at The University of Texas 2019 Crit Group, The Contemporary Austin, TX 2018 Socrates Sculpture Park, Artist in Residence, NY Socrates Artist Fellowship 2018 - 2019, Socrates Sculpture Park, NY The Carving Studio and Sculpture Studio, Artist in Residence, VT 2017 Coast Time, Artist in Residence, OR Wright Laboratory, Artist in Residence, Yale Physics Department, CT 11-22 44th Rd Long Island City, NY www.false-flag.org [email protected]

2016 Susa n H. W edon A w ard; Y ale Unive r sity

Toby Dev a n Lew is F ello wshi p ; 2 0 16 No minee in Sculptu re, Yale University 2015 Vermo nt Studio Cente r, Ar tist in Re sidence, VT Artists Supporting Artists F e llows h ip; V er mont Studio Cent er 2014 The Sh andaken P roject at S torm King, Artist in Residence, NY

SELE CTED BIB LIOGRA PHY 2020 Artist Finds the zen in Hurri cane Harvey at Lawndale show, M olly Glentz er, Featu re, Houston Chronicl e, February 6, 20 20 Virginia L ee Mont gomery R econciles with Hurr i ca ne Harvey , Caitlin Greenwood, Feat ure, Sightlines, January 30, 2020 Houston Artist C reates Art Ins t a llation Inspired by Memo ries of Hurricane Harvey, Catherine Lu, Feature, Hou sto n Public Med ia, Jan 29, 2020 The But te rfl y Eff e ct, SK Y LOOP exhibition publicat ion, W endy V o gel, Lawndale Art Cente r, 2020 A Chat w ith the Busine s s Witch: Face to Face wi th Vir ginia Lee Mo ntgome ry , Hall Rockefell er, Feature, Less Than Half, 2020 2019 Virgin ia Lee Mont gomery: Ponytails, Power drills, and P olitical Acti on, Laura Demers, Feature, Femme Art Review, 2019 V irginia L ee Montg omer y’s Abj ect Whim s y, E ilee n G’Selll, Feat ure, Hyperallergic, 2019 7 Artis ts to Watch in Ma rch 2019 , Artspace , 2019 THE PONY HOT EL: Virg inia Lee Montgomer y , Exh ibiti on publ icati on, Curator Antonina K r ezdorn, Museum Folkwan g, 2019 Alumna Vi rginia Lee Montg omery p resents new work at Soc rates S culptu re Park, New Museum and Times Square, Feature, University of Texas A ustin Al m uni N ew s, 2019 Co-lab Projects and Pa rtial Shade’s Soft Ope ning , The Austin Ch ro nicle, 2019 2018 First Look: Virgin ia L ee M on tgo mery , Wendy Vogel, F eatu re, Art in America Magazin e, October 2018 AN UNB OUND KNOT IN THE WIND, Exhibit i on catalog , Cura to r Alison Karaysk, The Hessel Museum of Art, 2018 CRASH TEST - The Molecular Tu rn, Exhibiti on cata log, Cur ator Nicolas Bourriaud, La Panacée, 2018 The Molec u lar T urn: Whi le Social Media Flo urishes Eco systems Coll apse, Max Andrews, Frieze Magazine, February 2018 2017 In P ra ctic e: Mat erial De viance, Ex hibition cata log, b y C urato r Al exis Wilkinson, SculptureCenter, 2017 Ruth Pa tir’s “I dream of the ele ctions” at Dansp ace P ro ject , dance enthusia st, 2017 Flash back: DAMA, Paratis sima : ap rono la se ttim ana di Torino le tre fiere collaterali, Art Tribune, November 2, 2017 Spec ial Fea tu re: D AMA 201 7, Art View er, November 5, 2017 Virginia L e e Mont gomer y: The “P ortal” at Wright Lab orato ry, New Haven Registe r, May 5, 2017 2016 Bytes and B iting Satire: Fe mini st Video at F rankli n Street Works , artc ritical, 2016 Things yo u can’t un think , Exhibition publication, Curato r Peta R ake, W alter Phillips, Banff Cent re, 2016 Katherine Bradf ord and D rawing fo r Sculpt ure: Sw imm ers and Gender Politics, ARTFCITY, 2016 Draw ing for Sculp tu re @ T S A Ne w Yor k, Painting is Dead, 2016 2015 10th Annual N ew York Art B ook Fa ir: Installat ion in Drawin gs, Ar t Handler Magazi ne, 2015 2014 Roving R oo m Re view, Art P ape rs Magazi n e, 2014 Habersham Mills Brings High Art to the Hinter lan ds of Georgia , Burnaw ay, 2014

INTE RVIEWS 2020 “Sky Loo p” Heals M em ories of Hurr icane Har vey, Catherine Lu, Houston Public Media, NPR, Radio 88.7 FM, Unwr a p Your Cand ie s Now, Podcast, 2020 Ilana H a rris-Bab o u & Virginia Lee Mont g o mery in Int ervie w, Bubbles Edition, Published by Precog Magazine, 2020 Virginia Lee Mon tgo mery, I ntervi ew ed by Br ained Ca rey, Y ale Radio WYBCx, July 2, 2020 2019 Midnig ht Mo men t: V irginia Le e Montg o m er y, Inte rviewed by Times Squ are Arts Alliance, Times Square Arts, 2019 Virginia Lee Montgom ery, Intervi ew ed by William Jess Lai rd, Image Cultu re, Podcast, 2019 Virginia Lee Mon tgo mery: Epi sode 26, Interviewed by A my Beeche r, The Amy Beecher Sh ow, Podcast, 2019 THE PONY HOTEL: Vir ginia Lee M ont gomery , Museum Folkwang, 2019 2018 Artist Talk: V irginia Lee M ontgo m ery, Inte rvie wed by Nic ol e Kaack, Published by CRUSH Curatori al, 2018 2017 Artist In terv iew: Virginia Le e Montg ome ry, Interviewed by Nico Mazz a, Published by SH E/FOLK Magazin e, 2017 Virginia Lee Montgom ery: Episode 11, Inte rviewed by A my Beeche r, The Amy Beecher Show, Podcast, 2017 ALL BYT E: Interview wit h Nicole Mal oof, Sar ah Lasley , and Virginia Lee Montgome ry, Interviewed by Curator Terri C. Smith, UCONN De partment of Women and Gender Studies, Pu blished by Franklin Street Wor ks, 2016 IT’S OK TO BE MANY TH INGS AT ONC E, Artist V irginia Lee Montg omery, Interviewed by Curatorial Assistant Jacqueline Bell, Walter Phillips Gallery, Published by Banff Centre, 2016 11-22 44th Rd Long Island City, NY www.false-flag.org [email protected]

PANELS, PRESENTATIONS & WORKSHOPS

2020 Panel Talk: A conversation between Catalina Ouyang & Virginia Lee Montgomery facilitated by Xingyang Cai, New York, NY

Metaphysical Video Art Workshop, Department of Graphic Design, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RD

The Power of Dreams: Public Dream Workshop, Facilitated by VLM & Jungian Analyst Rodney Waters, Lawndale, Houston, TX 2016 All Byte: Feminist Intersections in Video Art, Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies Program, UConn, Stamford, CT

Assembling Bodies: Exchanges in Collaboration, New England Graduate Media Symposium, Emerson College, Boston, MA

2015 Ideation Accelerator: Collaborative Making, Wright Laboratory, Yale Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Trauma, Anxiety, and Humor Symposium, Yale Art Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

TEACHING & INSTITUTIONAL ROLES

2020 Visiting Artist, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinatti, OH

Visiting Artist, Department of Graphic Design, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RD

Visiting Artist, Department of Photography, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

Visiting Artist, Department of Theatre, Dance & Media, Video Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Visiting Artist, Department of Art and Art History, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

Visiting Artist, Department of Art, Video Art, Williams College, Willamstown, MA

2019 Visiting Artist, Education Department, Dia Teens, Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY

2018 Visiting Artist, Department of Graphic Design, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RD

Visiting Artist, Department of Art, Transmedia, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

2017 Visiting Artist, Department of Visual and Studio Arts, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY Visiting

2016 Artist, Department of Art and Art History, The College of St. Rose, Albany, NY

Visiting Artist, Design Lab, Department of Art, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

Visiting Artist Instructor, Drawn to Nature, Banff Park Museum, Banff, Canada

2015 Teaching Assistant, Dean Robert Storr, Senior Studio Seminar, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Teaching Assistant, Barbara London, Video and Beyond, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Assistant, Visiting Artist Lecture Series, MFA Sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Visiting Artist Liaison, MFA Sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2009 Art Educator, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY

2008 Museum Intern, Blanton Museum, Austin, TX

2007 Museum Intern, The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX

2006 Museum Intern, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX