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RESUME
Mary Patten
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
2023 Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines, Brooklyn Museum
2022 SAIC Faculty Sabbatical Triennial, SAIC Galleries, Chicago
“Remaking the Exceptional: Tea, Torture, & Reparations,” DePaul University Art Museum, curated by Aaron Hughes and Amber Ginsburg (with Chicago Torture Justice Memorials)
2020 “Mary Patten: Collaboration for a better world,” window installation, Uri-Eichen, Chicago
Walls Turned Sideways, Tufts University Art Galleries / Aidekman Arts Center, Jan-March 2020
2019 Organize your own: The Politics and Culture of Self-Determination Movements Center for Contemporary Art & Culture/PNCA, Portland, November - December 2019
2018 Walls Turned Sideways, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, curator: Risa Puleo
"WE DISSENT... Design of the Women’s Movement in New York,” Cooper Union, co-curated by Stéphanie Jeanjean and Alexander Tochilovsky
Poor People’s Campaign Portfolio, Just Seeds Art Collective
2017-2019 Organize your own: The Politics and Culture of Self-Determination Movements: Augustana Teaching Museum of Art, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL, summer-fall 2017; Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI, Nov-Dec. 2017; Cuesta College, San Luis Obisbo, CA, Jan-Feb. 2018; Texas State Galleries, San Marcos TX, March-May 2018; Kalamazoo (MI) College/Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, Aug-Oct. 2018; Hite Gallery, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
2017 Black Power! Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Curated by Dr. Sylviane A. Diouf
MBGC poster here: https://blacknewyorkers-nypl.org/01234-2/
Finally Got The News: The Printed Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left, 1970–1979, Interference Archive, NY
2016 Organize your own: The Politics and Culture of Self-Determination Movements, Kelly Writers House, Philadelphia, Jan. 14-Feb. 15 2016
2016 Organize your own: The Politics and Culture of Self-Determination Movements, A+D Gallery, Columbia College Chicago, March 3-April 9 2016
2015-2016 PANEL, Vox Populi, Philadelphia
2014 The Alphabet of Feeling Bad/Unhappy Archive, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
Surrealism and War: The Exquisite Corpse Project, National Veterans Art Museum, Chicago
Semiotext(e): The Return of Schizo-Culture, Artists Space Books & Talks, NYC
2013 Panel, threewalls SOLO, Chicago
Not only this, but ‘New language beckons us,’ Visual AIDS 25th anniversary exhibition, Fales Special Collections, NYU
An Unhappy Archive, Les Complices, Zürich (with Feel Tank Chicago), Andrea Thal, organizer
2012 Opening the Black Box: the charge is torture, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago
WhiteWalls, Golden Gallery, NYC
2011 The Archival Impulse, Gallery 400, UIC, Chicago
Our Demons, DOVA Temporary, Univ. of Chicago
2010 Signs of Change, Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA), Portland OR
2009 Not Fade Away, relational performance project, at Experiments in Living, Bildwechsel/Glasgow
Not Fade Away, relational performance, installation, + poster project, Mess Hall+I-Space, Chicago (part of The Glue Factory, organized by The Museum of Contemporary Phenomena)
Signs of Change, Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy NY
Signs of Change, Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA
2008 Signs of Change, Exit Art, NYC
Democracy in America: the National Campaign, Creative Time/NYC, Park Avenue Armory, NYC (with Feel Tank Chicago)
Feeling Friedman (with Feel Tank Chicago), The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, University of Chicago
High Risk Citizen, Art in General, NYC, curated by Mary Billyou
TERROR IST…? arthouse Tacheles & Bethanien, Berlin
Unvermittelt and doing by doing/Einladung zur “Videokundgebung,” Bildwechsel + NGBK, Berlin
The Audacity of Desperation (with Feel Tank Chicago), Sea and Space, Los Angeles; PS 122 Gallery/DEMO Space, NYC; Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, curated by Sarah Ross + Jessica Lawless
2007 Pathogeographies, Gallery 400, Chicago
Captive Audience, Gallery 400, Chicago
Spatial Justice (w/Feel Tank Chicago), L.A.C.E. Los Angeles, curated Ava Bromberg + Nick Brown
2006-7 Chicago/Berlin: Location Uncertain, Northern Illinois University Art Museum; Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest College; Beacon St. Gallery, Chicago
2005-6 Chicago/Berlin: Location Matters, Art Mbassy, Berlin, Germany
2004 Neoqueer, C.O.C.A (Center for Contemporary Art), Seattle, WA
2003 Operation Human Intelligence, Art Museum, Univ. of Memphis; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
2003 Art in General, NYC, NY (July-October, window installation)
2002 The Art Council Show, Gallery 312, Chicago
Project Enduring Look, 1926 Exhibition Studies Space, Chicago
Sidewalk Cinema, video installation organized by Chicago Underground Film Festival
2000 The Colour of Friendship (Kritische Koalitionen, empfindsame Freundschaften, quere Verbindungen), Shedhalle, Zurich
Time Warp, Anthology Film Archives, NYC (video installation, MIX Festival)
Citizenship Imagined, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest IL
Site Works, Gallery 312, Chicago
Agitator, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago
1998 Reality Bites, international sculpture exhibition, Chicago Cultural Center
1997 Techno-Seduction, Cooper Union, NYC
Discord/sabotage of realities, Kunstverein and Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany
1996 Moving In, Randolph St. Gallery, Chicago
Gender, fucked, Center of Contemporary Art (C.O.C.A.), Seattle WA
1995 Fag•o•sites, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago
Public/Private: Women artists negotiate the terrain, Northern Illinois Univ. Gallery, Chicago
1994 GLOM, Randolph St. Gallery, Chicago
Absence, activism, and the body politic, Fischbach Gallery, NYC
Bad Girls, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC
Bad Girls West, UCLA Wight Art Gallery, Los Angeles
1993 Artist-in-Residence Biennial, Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
My Courbet... or, a beaver’s tale, Memorial Union Gallery, U. of Wisconsin, Madison
Mixed Messages, Forum Center for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri
Artists Book Works: A Decade in Illinois, Illinois State Gallery, Chicago
Profiles 3, Randolph St. Gallery, Chicago: video-based installation
1992 Chicago-area M.F.A. Exhibition, Gallery 2, Chicago
1991 Who’s Caring? Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies (L.A.C.P.S.)
1990 Conspired, N.A.M.E., Chicago (multimedia installation)
Your Message Here, Randolph St. Gallery, Chicago: Designed three billboards with Women’s Caucus of ACT UP/Chicago for exhibition at city sites and gallery
1985-1989 Mad Love, Axe Street Arena, Chicago: Group shows of lesbian/gay artists
Madwoman on the Premises, Axe Street Arena, Chicago
1985-1989 Instituto de Bellas Artes, Managua, Nicaragua: exchange shows with Artists’ Call against U.S. Intervention in Central America
1984 Artists’ Call against U.S. Intervention in Central America (Chicago): collaborative installations at Artemisia, Beacon St. Gallery, Puerto Rican Cultural Center
1981 ATLANTA: an emergency exhibit, Group Material, NYC: Collaborative installation with Madame Binh Graphics Collective
1980 Art for Zimbabwe, Just Above Midtown Gallery, NYC: Co-curated and exhibited in show
1979 National Poster Show, Local 1734 Gallery, Washington, DC
SELECTED SCREENINGS, FILM & VIDEO FESTIVALS
2024 Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
Hokey Sapp Does SPEW, Rathaus Studio, Rochester NY
2023 Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines, Brooklyn Museum
“Video Data Bank Presents: Roundabout,” Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL
2022 SAIC Faculty Sabbatical Triennial, SAIC Galleries, Chicago
2018 “ACT UP: The Outtakes,” Visual AIDS & QUEER, ILL + OKAY present “Documents: Art, AIDS & Activism in Chicago,” Pride Arts Center https://vimeo.com/297755355
2014 The Return of Schizo Culture (screening of Panel), Pro qm and Merve Verlag, Berlin, Germany
Semiotext(e): The Return of Schizo Culture, Artists Space Books & Talks, NYC
2012 feminism: still work to do, Rapidas, Hamburg, Germany
2011 Cinenova/Bildwechsel, Globale Film Festival, Berlin
Our Demons, DOVA Temporary, U of Chicago
2009 On the Contrary: Recent Artists’ Videos Concerning War in the Middle East/Cheap, Fast, and Out of Control, Scope Art Fair, Lincoln Center Plaza, NYC
feminism: still work to do, Bildwechsel/Glasgow screening, Center for Contemporary Art Glasgow
Bildwechsel-videoprogramm, Nürnberg, Germany; Illinois Women Video Artists, Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery
2008 doing by doing/Einladung zur Videokundgebung, NGBK, Berlin
Hope in America/Democracy in America short film contest (“Twenty Reasons to pay attention to emotion”), sponsored by Public Square & Illinois Humanities Council, Columbia College Chicago
Democracy in America: the National Campaign/Democracy Convergence Center, Creative Time, Park Avenue Armory, NYC, NY
Bildwechsel program, Queer Feminist Days, Vienna
Bildwechsel video club night, Hamburg, Germany
Unvermittelt/Bildwechsel screening, NBGK, Berlin
High Risk Citizen, Art in General, NYC
TERROR IST…? arthouse Tacheles & Bethanien, Berlin
2007 Art, AIDS and Activism, Out at CHM Program, WBEZ and CAN-TV
A Night at Pathogeographies, Gallery 400 and University of Chicago
2004-5 Power Point to the People, Berkeley Museum/Pacifica Film Archive
2004 International Film Festival, Rotterdam
Pilot TV: Experimental media for feminist trespass, Chicago
Flaming Film Festival, Minneapolis MN
2003 10th Chicago Underground Film Festival (C.U.F.F.)
Downtown Community TV (DCTV) Presents: cablecast, Manhattan Neighborhood Network Channel 34, NYC, August, 2003
Women in the Director’s Chair 22nd International Film & Video Festival, Chicago
Art in General, New York NY
2001 VIDEOEX, Zürich, Switzerland
Experimental Documentary class (Cecilia Dougherty, Instructor), New School NYC
Women in the Director’s Chair National Touring Program: Washington University, St. Louis; Bradley College; Northwestern University; Vanderbilt University; Southern Illinois University
2000 MIX/The 14th New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival
Seattle Shorts (audience prize)
Women in the Director’s Chair 19th International Film & Video Festival, Chicago
U-TURN prison issue, Letter to a Missing Woman
1999 Kino im SCHULZ: Made in Chicago: Lesbische Kurzfilme aus Chicago, Cologne, Germany
The New Festival, New York NY
1998 Dyke Media to watch out for, Women in the Director’s Chair, Chicago
Lesben Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
Quand les lesbiennes se font du cinéma, Paris
Pervoplanet: International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, Turku, Finland
Reeling, Chicago International Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival
Image & Nation Gaie et Lesbienne: Festival Internat’l de Cinéma et de Vidéo de Montréal
The Speed Art Museum, Louisville (Kentucky) Film and Video Festival
11th Annual Milwaukee Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Festival
ImageOut, Rochester Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival
Out on Screen, Vancouver 10th Annual Queer Film and Video Festival
Frameline, San Francisco, CA
1998 Houston (TX) Women’s Festival
Women in the Director’s Chair, 17th Annual Film & Video Festival, Chicago
Twinkie Museum, Memphis, Tennessee
London (U.K.) International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Inside Out (Lesbian and Gay Film & Video Festival of Toronto)
1997 MIX/The 11th New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival, NYC
1996 Bildwechsel/Dachverband, Hamburg, Germany
Depot, Vienna, Austria
Lesbian Artists Transform Copenhagen, Retinal Circus, Copenhagen
Reeling Spinsters, London, Ontario Lesbian Film & Video Festival
MWMWM & Space at Allgirls, Allgirls Gallery, Berlin
1994 Wild Things, London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Wild Things on tour, London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival traveling program
Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
1993 Image & Nation Gaie et Lesbienne: Festival Internat’l de Cinéma et de Vidéo de Montréal
Baltimore Film Forum, Baltimore Museum of Art
The 11th Annual Los Angeles International Gay & Lesbian Film & Video Festival
Frameline: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Philadelphia Festival for World Cinema, Philadelphia PA
Olympia Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival, Olympia WA
1992 Downtown Community TV (DCTV) Lesbian and Gay Video Festival, NYC
The 12th Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film & Video Festival
Women in the Director’s Chair 11th Annual Film & Video Festival, Chicago
1991 Look Out, DCTV annual lesbian & gay media festival, New York NY
WRITING/PUBLICATIONS
2021 “The present is what we are doing together” (with Feel Tank Chicago: Lauren Berlant; Romi N. Crawford; Mary Patten; Matthias Regan), for Re/Imagining Depression: Creative Approaches to “Feeling Bad,” Eds. Julie Hollenbach and Robin Alex McDonald, Palgrave Macmillan Press, pp. 194-214
2019 “Pictures from an Epidemic,” Art AIDS America Chicago, ed. Staci Boris, Alphawood Foundation, p. 91-101
2018 “From the Speculative to the Living: Chicago Torture Justice Memorials,” Walls Turned Sideways, ed. Risa Puleo, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston [NAME], pp. 266-279
2016 “Unpacking my library: Black books and the ways of white folks,” Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements, Anthony Romero, Ed., Soberscove Press, 2016, pp. 200-203
2015 Invited chapter for Art Against the Law, ed. Rebecca Zorach, University of Chicago Press, Chicago Social Practice History Series, Ed. Mary Jane Jacob
2014 What Is Revolutionary Art Today? Broadside, “The Left Front,” p. 21, Block Museum, Northwestern U.
2012 Cables from the Future, collaborative zine with Matthias Regan, R. Borcila, M. Muindi, Rebecca Zorach
2011 Revolution as an Eternal Dream: the Exemplary Failure of the Madame Binh Graphics Collective
“What is to be undone: notes on teaching art and terrorism,” invited essay for Radical Teacher
2009 “Eyes in the Back of My Head,” AREA Chicago: Peripheral Visions, December 2009
What We Know of Our Past, What We Demand of Our Future, YNKB and the Library of Radiant Optimism, Copenhagen and Chicago
“Experiments in Living,” Glasgow, Hamburg, Berlin, Basel, Warsaw: qunstmag5
2008 “Primary Sources,” Prompt, Chicago Artists’ Coalition, Chicago, pp. 52-55
A Guide to Democracy in America, Nato Thompson, Editor, Creative Time, NYC, artists’ pages with Feel Tank Chicago, pp. 80-81; Chicago Town Hall meeting, pp. 152-165
2008 “The Madame Binh Graphics Collective: art during wartime,” Signs of Change, Josh MacPhee and Dara Greenwald, curators, Exit Art, NYC
Reproduce & Revolt: A Graphic Toolbox for the 21st Century Activist, eds. Josh MacPhee + Favianna Rodriguez
2006 “Thoughts on Solidarity (with broken synapses),” “Six Fragments from ‘The Thrill is Gone’,”AREA Chicago: The Solidarity Issue, September 2006
2002 “Project Enduring Look,” catalogue essay, Exhibition Studies book & CD-ROM
2001 “Artists respond to 9/11,” New Art Examiner, November-December 2001
“More Reasons for Knocking: or, Why I can’t get out from under the shadow of Bill Viola,” WhiteWalls #42
2000 Yours Truly, Jacob Fabricius, Editor, Pork Salad Press/Recent Works, Copenhagen
“ACT UP/Chicago “Honored,” Artery: The AIDS Forum
POZ tribute to Robert Blanchon
1998 “The Thrill is Gone: an ACT UP post-mortem (confessions of a former AIDS activist)”, The Passionate Camera, Deborah Bright, ed., Routledge, 1998, pp. 385-406
1991 WhiteWalls #28 (Identity and self-definition), artist’s pages
1989 Your LIFE Story by someone else, visual/poetry book, collaboration with Ferd Eggan
1983 Das Andere Amerika: artist’s pages, Elefanten Press, Berlin, pp. 418-419
1976 Amazon Poetry, Long Haul Press, New York NY
AWARDS, GRANTS, PRIZES, RESIDENCIES
2021 Art for Justice Fund ($500,000) awarded to Chicago Torture Justice Memorials
2019 Illinois Arts Council Visual Artist Fellowship (Finalist award)
2017-2019 Robert Rauschenberg “Artist as Activist” Fellowship (with Chicago Torture Justice Memorials)
2018 Mitchell Enhancement Fund Award, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2016-17 Shapiro Center for Research and Collaboration Fellowship (with Greg Ruffing) to support Ferd Eggan Archives Project
2014 AIR (artist in residence), Kunstmeile Krems, Krems, Austria
2013 Chicago Artist’s Coalition and Other People’s Pixels Inaugural Maker Grant
Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist Project Grant
“On our Radar,” Creative Capital
2012-2013 Crossroads Fund, for Chicago Torture Justice Memorial Project
2011 Propeller Fund, for Chicago Torture Justice Memorial Project
2010 The Fire this Time (with Half Letter Press, for printing Revolution is an Eternal Dream)
Nominee, Art Matters Fellowship
2008 Prizewinner, Democracy in America short film contest, for “Twenty Reasons to pay attention to emotion,” The Public Square and the Illinois Humanities Council
2007-8 Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist’s Fellowship, Interdisciplinary Category
2007 At The Edge Projects, Gallery 400 (with Feel Tank Chicago)
2003 Nominee, Louis Comfort Tiffany Award
2002 Artadia Individual Artist’s Fellowship
Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist’s Fellowship, Interdisciplinary Category
UCROSS Foundation, artist’s residency
Seattle Shorts audience prize
1998 Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist’s fellowship, Interdisciplinary Category
UCROSS Foundation, artist’s residency
1996 Chicago Artists’ International Program, for artist’s residency in Hamburg, Germany
1995 Nominee, Rockefeller Fellowship, multimedia installation category
1994 National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists’ Fellowship, “Other Genres”
1993 Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs: C.A.A.P.S. grant
Center for New Television, Chicago, IL: new television grant
1992 Arts Midwest NEA Regional Visual Arts Fellowship Award
1991-1992 Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund: for graduate studies
1991 Center for New Television, Chicago, IL: new television grant
1st Prize, Experimental Category, Moving Image I: Chicago Filmmakers, for this war’s not over (co- created/produced with R. Troché and J. Vidal)
1990 Illinois Arts Council: Special Assistance Grant, for N.A.M.E. installation
Resist Foundation, Boston MA: for poster series by ACT UP/Chicago Women’s Caucus
1989 Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund: individual artist’s grant
1980 Resist Foundation: for feminist art projects with Mme Binh Graphics Collective
COLLABORATIVE and CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Chicago Torture Justice Memorials (2011 – present)
Feel Tank Chicago (2000 – Present)
“Feeling in Real time: Fictions and Re-Enactments,” Film Studies Center, University of Chicago
“Pathogeographies” (with Feel Tank Chicago), Gallery 400, 2007
“Depression: What is it Good For?” Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago (with Dara Greenwald), 2004
Pleasure and Danger: Sexuality, Gender, and their futures, 2000-2002
“Project Enduring Look,” 1926 Exhibition Studies Space, Chicago, 2002
Editor/Curator, WhiteWalls, 1993-96
ACT UP/Chicago and ACT UP/Chicago Women’s Caucus, 1987-1993
Bildwechsel, Hamburg, Germany: curated collection of 25 independent video works
by women artists from Chicago, donated to the Videokollektion
Q.U.A.S.H. guerrilla art collective, 1991-1994
Q.U.I.S.P. prisoners’ support and advocacy group, 1988-1992
Friends of Elizam Escobar, 1985-1988
Artists’ Call against Intervention in Central America, 1983-1986
Madame Binh Graphics Collective, NYC and Chicago, 1975-1985
“Art for Zimbabwe,” Just Above Midtown, NYC (with Madame Binh Graphics Collective), 1980
Action against Racism in the Arts, NYC, 1978-1981
Cityarts Workshop community murals group, NYC, 1973-1977
Seven Women Poets, Brooklyn, 1974-1977
New York Women’s School, Brooklyn, 1973-1977
Distributors/VIDEO COLLECTIONS/ARCHIVES
Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles, CA (MBGC and my prints)
The Fales Library and Special Collections at New York University Library: “Not Only This, But New Language Beckons Us" Exhibition Archive, 2013; the MIX Collection (video archive); Kelly Marie Martin Riot GRRRL collections
Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY (P.A.D.D. Archive: posters/ephemera, Mme. Binh Graphics Collective–MBGC)
National Endowment for the Arts Artists Archive, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Never the Same, Chicago Ephemera Archives
Oakland Museum of Art, Madame Binh Graphics Collective prints
The Randolph Street Gallery Archives Project, Flaxman Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
RF Kampfer revolutionary literature archive
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (poster, Madame Binh Graphics Collective)
Video Data Bank, Chicago, Illinois
Videokollektion & Kunstlerinnen Archiv, Bildwechsel, Hamburg, Germany
Mr. Lady Records & Videos Archive, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Women in the Director’s Chair (video archive)
Frameline, San Francisco, CA (video archive)
Inside Out, Toronto, Canada (video archive)
Lesbian Herstory Archives, Brooklyn, NY (video archive)
Allegheny College Library (video collection)
MICA (Maryland Institute of Art) archives (video collection)
Rhode Island School of Design Museum (MBGC prints)
Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture at Duke University (MBGC prints)
Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College (MBGC prints)
Stanford University Library (video collection)
University of Chicago Library (video collection)
University of Michigan (video collection)
“AIDS: The Plague years,” Windy City Times photo archives
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books and Journal Articles
A Blade of Grass, Landscapes: Another Way, inaugural issue, conversation with Ashley Hunt, Summer 2024
Gemma Rolls-Bentley, Queer Art - From canvas to club, and the spaces between, Frances Lincoln / the Quarto Group, Spring 2024
Toussaint Losier, War for the City: Black Liberation, Street Organizations, and the Consolidation of the Carceral State, University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming, 2024 (poster by Madame Binh Graphics Collective)
Branden Joseph and Drew Sawyer, Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines, Phaidon Press with the Brooklyn Museum, 2023
Erina Duganne and Abigail Satinsky, Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities, Inventory Press and Tufts University Art Galleries, 2022
David Xu Borgonjon, “Defending the Right to Live: Political Prints in Providence, 1971,” Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum website, May 2022
Aggie Toppins, “Collective Authorship and Shared Process: The Madame Binh Graphics Collective,” Baseline Shift: Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design History, ed. Briar Levit, Princeton Architectural Press, 2021
Briar Levit, “Designer, Educator, and Filmmaker Briar Levit on Uncovering Untold Stories From Design History,” AIGA eye on design, February 2021
Rachel Pagones, Acupuncture as Revolution: Suffering, Liberation, and Love, Brevis Press, 2021
Risa Puleo, “Evaluate,” Fabric, Issue 1, Summer 2020 (pp. 13-19)
Gregory Sholette, The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art, Lund Humphries, 2022 (pp. 53-4, 106)
Angelina Lippert, “A Century of Posters Protesting Violence Against Black Americans: Designs from a long history of outrage,” Muse by CLIO, June 10, 2020
Decentering Whiteness in Design History Resources, p.119 (Madame Binh Graphics Collective)
Susan M. Reverby, Co-conspirator for Justice: The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman, UNC Press, 2020
Risa Puleo, Editor, Walls Turned Sideways, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston [NAME], 2018, “Introduction: Opening The Door,” p. 19; “Evaluate,” pp. 93-109; “Arrest,” p. 222-3 and p. 229
Gean Moreno, “Case Study: Abolition Formats and Incompliance Aesthetics,” p. 386, Walls Turned Sideways, ed. Risa Puleo, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston [NAME], 2018
Jenni Sorkin, “Alterity Rocks: 1973-1993” – Chapter 6, Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now, pp. 274-276, eds. Maggie Taft and Robert Cozzolino, University of Chicago Press, 2018
Black Power 50, Eds. Sylviane A. Diouf + Komozi Woodward, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New Press, NY+London 2016, illus. print designed with Madame Binh Graphics Collective (p. 46)
Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements, Anthony Romero, Ed., Soberscove Press, 2016 (pp. 200-203 and pp. 152-159)
Lien-Hang Nguyen, “Revolutionary Circuits: Toward Internationalizing America in the World,” Diplomatic History, Volume 39, Issue 3, June 2015, Pages 411–422
Daniel Tucker, “Struggles for Life: Art and Activism take on Survival,” pp. 138-141, Immersive Life Practices, University of Chicago Press, 2014 (Chicago Social Practice History Series, Ed. Mary Jane Jacob)
Gregory Sholette, Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism, Pluto Press, 2017 (pp. 28-29)
Brian Holmes, “Cross the Threshold: Art into Precarious Life,” Immersive Life Practices, ed. Daniel Tucker, p. 45-55, U. Chicago, 2014 (essay on Temporary Services’ “Free for All” and Feel Tank Chicago’s “Pathogeographies”)
Abigail Satinsky, “Applied Knowledge,” pp. 163-165, Support Networks, University of Chicago Press, 2014 (Chicago Social Practice History Series, Ed. Mary Jane Jacob)
“Making sexuality sensible,” Dana Seitler, Feeling Photography, Duke University Press, 2014, p. 66 note 21
Tommaso Speretta, Rebels Rebel: AIDS, Art and Activism in New York, 1979–1989, AsaMER, 2014
Love Letters to our Friends, Hate Mail to our Frenemies, Eds. Kelly Gallagher, Becky Nasadowski & Heath Schultz, “Exuberant Politics,” Iowa City+Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 2014
Daniel Orendorff, “Mary Patten Remembers ‘Schizo Culture,’ Art in America, Feb. 2, 2013
Ryan Ramin Hayes, “Dynamic Collectivity: Artistic Direct Action, Economic Sustainability, and the Punchclock Printing Collective,” 2013
Ann Cvetkovich, Depression: a public feeling (Introduction), Duke University Press, 2012
Susan M. Reverby, “Enemy of the People/Enemy of the State: Two Great(ly Infamous) Doctors, Passions, and the Judgment of History,” Garrison Lecture, American Association for the History of Medicine, April 27, 2012
Gregory Sholette, Dark Matter, London, UK: Pluto Press, 2011 (pp. 54, 197n26)
Therese Quinn and Erica Meiners, Sexualities in Education: a Reader, New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2011
Gregory Sholette, “Not Cool Enough to Catalog,” essay for Peace Press Graphics 1967-1987: Art in the Pursuit of Social Change, eds. Carol Wells and Ilee Kaplan, University Art Museum, California State University and Los Angeles: Center for the Study of Political Graphics, 2011 (p. 90)
Elaine Martin, “Issues in teaching terrorism as cultural artifact,” Critical Studies on Terrorism, December 2011
Julie Ault, Show & Tell: A Chronicle of Group Material, Four Corners Books, 2010
Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee, Signs of Change, AK Press, 2010
Janet Braun-Reinitz & Jane Weissman, On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in NYC, University of Mississippi Press, 2009
Deborah Gould, Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight against AIDS, University of Chicago Press, 2009
Roger Hallas, Reframing Bodies: AIDS, Bearing Witness, and the Queer Moving Image, Duke University Press, 2009 (p. 302, in Bibliography)
“One Question About Critical Art in Chicago,” Town Hall Talks, Proximity #3, Winter 2008-09, pp. 72-73
Todd Carmody and Heather K. Love, “Try Anything,” Criticism, Volume 50, Number 1, Winter 2008, pp. 133-146
Daniel Tucker, “Critical Culture in Chicago,” Kunst(h)art #44, ART, Belgium, p. 16, Spring 2008
Nato Thompson, “Exhausted? It might be democracy in America,” A Guide to Democracy in America, Creative Time Books, NYC, September 2008
Bert Stabler, “Death to Law: Progressive Public Art in Chicago,” Proximity #1, Spring 2008, pp. 46 + 49
Imogen Tyler, “Commentary and Criticism: Methodological Fatigue and the Politics of the Affective Turn,” Feminist Media Studies, Volume 8, Issue 1, 2008, pp. 85-99 (references Feel Tank Chicago)
Out and Proud in Chicago: An Overview of the City’s Gay Movement, ed. Tracy Baim, Agate/Surrey Books, 2008
Cecilia Dougherty, “Stories from a Generation: Video Art at the Woman’s Building,” From Site to Vision: the Woman’s Building in Contemporary Culture, Eds. Sondra Hale + Terry Wolverton, pp 285-306, 2007
Group Work, Temporary Services, New York: Printed Matter, 2007
Maria Elena Buszek, Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture, Duke University Press, 2006
Queer Encyclopedia of Visual Arts, ed. Claude Summers, p. 33, Cleis Press, GLBTQ Inc., 2004
Carla Williams, “American Art: Lesbian, Post-Stonewall,” glbtq: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture, 2003
Margo Thompson, “Finding the Phallus in Female Body Imagery,” n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal, vol. 11, January, 2003, “Identities/Identification Mechanisms,” pp. 49-60
John Ricco, The Logic of the Lure, p. 141, pp. 150-152, University of Chicago Press, 2002
Lucia Sommer, “In/Visible Body: Notes on Biotechnologies’ Vision,” Domain Errors, Autonomedia, 2002
Harmony Hammond, Lesbian Art in America, p.117, pp. 129-131, p.176, pp. 180-181, Rizzoli International, 2000
Erin Valentino, Book Review, The Passionate Camera: Photography and Bodies of Desire, Ed. Deborah Bright, International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies, Volume 5, Number 3, 2000, pp. 289-293
ArtLesBibilio, Lesbians in the Arts: a Bibliography and Research Guide, ©2002 Sandra Scheck and Tanya Powell
Jeff Edwards, “AIDS, Race, and the Rise and Decline of a Militant Oppositional Lesbian and Gay Politics in the US,” New Political Science (2000) Volume: 22, Issue: 4, pp. 485-506
David Deitcher, “What does silence equal now?” Art matters: how the culture wars changed America, pp. 92-125. Wallis, Weems, and Yenawine, eds., New York University Press, 1999
Alexandra Juhasz, “Bad girls come and go, but a lying girl can never be fenced in,” Feminism and Documentary, Diane Waldman and Janet Walker, eds., University of Minnesota Press, 1999
Deborah Bright, Introduction, The Passionate Camera, Deborah Bright, ed., Routledge, 1998
Erica Rand, Barbie’s Queer Accessories, Duke University Press, 1995, p. 150
Alison Bechdel, Calendar, 1993 (illustration of “power breakfast” t-shirt)
The Question of Equality: Lesbian and Gay Politics in America since Stonewall, David Deitcher, ed., Scribner: NYC+London, pp. 136-137
Lucy Lippard, Get the Message? Dutton, NYC, 1984: “A Child’s Garden of Horrors,” p. 252
Alan W. Barnett, Community Murals: the People’s Art, pp. 318-319 (color plate pp. 384-385), The Art Alliance Press/Cornwall Books, 1984
Exhibition catalogues
Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines, eds. Branden Joseph and Drew Sawyer, Phaidon Press / Brooklyn Museum, 2023
an unhappy archive, edition fink, Zürich, 2016 + feeling bad fanzine (with Feel Tank Chicago)
Institution/Panel, Rebecca Zorach, threewalls, Chicago, IL, 2013
Greg Sholette, “Not Cool Enough to Catalogue: Social Movement Culture and the Phantom Archive,” for Art in the Pursuit of Social Change: 1967–1987, Peace Press Graphics, Los Angeles, CA, August 2011
Marc Fischer, Captive Audience, Half Letter Press, Chicago, January 2007
Location Uncertain, NIU Art Museum, Northern Illinois University, 2006
Operation Human Intelligence, Hyde Park Art Center/Contemporary Arts Council, Chicago, May 2003
It’s March, 2003, and We Are Tense, Women in the Director’s Chair 22nd International Film & Video Festival, March 2003
kollektive/arbeit, Shedhalle, Zürich (Shedhalle Programm 2000), p. 100-101 (4.10-12), Zürich, Switzerland, 2001
Billboard: Art on the Road – A Retrospective Exhibition of Artists’s Billboards, MASS MoCA, 1999 (pp. 84-85)
Techno Seduction exhibition catalog, Art Journal, Spring 1997, Vol. 56 – No. 1 (appendix. p. 26)
Deborah Willis and Robert Rindler, Techno-Seduction, Cooper Union, New York, 1997
Inke Arns and Ute Vorkoeper, Un-Frieden.sabotage von wirklichkeiten/Discord.sabotage of realities, Kunstverein and Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany, 1997
Harmony Hammond and Catherine Lord, Gender, fucked, COCA, Seattle, WA, 1996
Bertha Husband & Hamza Walker, Glom, Randolph St. Gallery, Fall, 1994
Jenni Olson, POPCORN Q (online film/video catalogue)
High Visibility, publication of Arts Midwest, artists’ pages of award recipients, 1992
Interviews
Rebecca Makkai, “They Were Warriors,” Chicago Magazine, April 2020
Bad at Sports, Episode 453, “Art and Politics Panel at CAA,” Duncan MacKenzie with Susy Bielak, Mary Patten, Daniel Tucker <https://soundcloud.com/redmaryp/bad-at-sports-453-art-and-politics>
JC Steinbrunner, “Mary Patten on Winning the Maker Grant” 2013
Cate Levinson, “Queer as Fuck,” Punk Planet 64 (interview), November/December 2004
Reviews / citations
Sukhdev Sandhu, “Copy Machine Manifestos,” 4columns.org, Dec. 15, 2023
House of THING, Interviews from SPEW, 2023
Micco Caporale, Kerry Reid and Salem Collo-Julin, “Black Arts Movement School, Looking for Jean-Luc, and more: Things to do in Chicago,” Chicago READER, November 29, 2022
Paul Soulellis, What is Queer Typography? 2021
Lisa Hughes, review, “Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements,” Ruckus (Louisville, KY), Jan. 2019
Contemporary Art Daily, Houston, “‘Walls Turned Sideways’ at Contemporary Art Museum Houston,” Oct. 7, 2018
Susie Tommaney, Houston Press, “Artists Critique the Horrors of Mass Incarceration in CAMH’s Group Show” (preview of “Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System”) August 3, 2018
'The Gallery Gap' Ep. 15: Organize Your Own, Claire Kovacs & Melissa Mohr • Sep 6, 2017
Antislavery Usable Past: Douglass Street Mural, Mary Patten, 1976, accessed summer 2017
Daniel Tucker, “Poetic Responses to OYO,” March 20, 2017
Marcelo Roncatti, “Armamento Gráfico!” Linha de Frente (on Madame Binh Graphics Collective), Sao Paulo, 2017
Zachary Cahill, “Eye Exam: A Reflection on the Art of Threewalls and the Importance of Alternative Spaces,” New City, March 31, 2016
Forrest Olivo, “Not only this, but ‘New language beckons us’” at Fales Library and Special Collections, Mar 22, 2016
Talia Lavin, “A Feminist Edit-a-Thon Seeks to Reshape Wikipedia,” The New Yorker, March 11, 2016
Deanna Isaacs, “Arc Gallery’s ‘I Can’t Breathe’ tackles police violence with art,” The Bleader (Chicago Reader blog), Dec. 2015
Tanya Paperny, “A New Way to Commemorate Atrocity: Lessons from Chicago and beyond,” Pacific Standard, April 14, 2015
Ericka Walker, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, “Let us now praise famous women: The feminine legacy of Socially active print practices,” SGC International Conference, Knoxville, TN, unpublished paper, 2015
Caroline Picker, Revolution as an Eternal Dream Review, Make / Shift, Spring-Summer 2013
Ben Sachs, “Pasolini’s Salo: A film that bleeds onto other films,” The Bleader (Chicago Reader blog), April 15, 2013
Mary Jane Jacob, “Tamms to Tokyo,” Bad at Sports blog, Feb. 12, 2013
Annette Elliot, “Portrait of the Artist,” New City, Feb. 11, 2013
Daniel Orendorff, “Mary Patten Remembers ‘Schizo Culture,’” Art in America, Feb. 2, 2013
Caroline Picard, “The Garden of Productive Memory,” Bad at Sports blog, January 19, 2013
Joanna Gardner-Huggett, “Revolution as an Eternal Dream: The Exemplary Failure of the Madame Binh Graphics Collective,” CAA Reviews, November 20, 2012
Caroline Picard, “An Exploration in Three parts: Prisons past and present at the Sullivan Galleries,” Bad at Sports, Nov. 2012
“Best critical art project in Chicago this year,” New City, Nov. 7, 2012
William Ruggiero, “Peering Inside,” FNews, November 2012
Brian Holmes and Daniel Tucker, “Problems from the Past (9/7): Exemplary Failure,” Oct. 16, 2012
Annette Elliot-Hogg, “A Public Reckoning,” FNews, April 2012
Eric Triantafillou, “Graphic Uprising,” Brooklyn Rail, May 2012
Daniel Tucker, “Media Noted,” review of Revolution as an Eternal Dream, Afterimage V. 39, No. 5, March-April 2012
Erica Demarest, “Chicago lesbian gets ‘Graphic’ with latest book,” Windy City Times, Chicago, IL, March 3, 2012
Michelle Weidman, “Of Dreams and Failures,” FNews, December 2, 2011
Dan S. Wang, “thinking about a button,” propositions press, Sept. 14, 2011
Elizabeth Lewin, “Art for the Lothario in You”
Nabila Abdelnabi, “Close Encounters,” Chicago Weekly: Independent Voice of the University of Chicago
“The Pleasures and Intensities of AIDS Activism,” Debbie Gould, Windy City Times, June 6, 2011
Tracy Baim, “AIDS@30,” Windy City Times, April 6, 2011
Marc Herbst, “Public Space and Prop 8,” art21, Nov. 2008
“Peace is Not a Dream in Storage,” Save the Slope, October 13, 2009
“Mary Patten’s First Street Mural,” Save the Slope, October 6, 2009
“Mary Patten’s Douglass Street Mural,” Save the Slope, September 13, 2009
Jason Foumberg, “Don’t Fear the Reaper,” Chicago Reader, Sept. 2009
“Mary Patten, Park Slope Muralist,” Save the Slope, March 14, 2009
Eleanor Bader, “Art on the Wall Inspires Duo,” The Brooklyn Rail, March 2009, pp. 1-2
Kurt Shaw, “Exhibit highlights political posters’ role in social upheaval,” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Jan. 28, 2009
Cindy Cooper, “Political Posters Offer Inspired Activism,” words of choice, review of “Signs of Change,” Nov. 2008
Ryan Griffis, “Pathogeographies: a review,” ArtUS, Summer, 2007 and Rhizome Digest, Jun 23, 2007
Cine-File Chicago, capsule review of “The Patho-Political World,” June 2007
Cine-File Chicago, capsule review of “Pathogeographies: Microcinema Programs 2 & 3,” July 2007
Bert Stabler, review of “Captive Audience,” Chicago Reader, Jan 26, 2007
Amy Wooten, “ACT UP Panel Discusses Feelings,” Windy City Times, March 14, 2007
Daniel Tucker and Emily Forman, Trashing the Neoliberal City: Autonomous Cultural Practices in Chicago, 2000-5
Rebecca Zorach, “Version>04:invisibleNetworks,” Rhizome, May 2004
Greg Sholette, “Fidelity, Betrayal, Autonomy: In and Beyond the Post Cold-War Art Museum,” April 2004
F News (SAIC student newspaper), “Serving up art and responsibility,” March 2004
JR Jones, “Recommended: Depression: What Is It Good For?” Chicago Reader, March 5, 2004, Section 2, p. 12
Fred Camper, “Women in the Director’s Chair 22nd Int’l Film & Video Festival,” Chicago Reader, March 14, 2003
Cindy Loehr, “Site Works,” New Art Examiner, p. 43, July-August 2000
Dominique Von Burg, “Hommage an die Freundschaft,” Zürichsee-Zeitung, 17 mai 2000
Susan Snodgrass, “Agitator: Contemporary Art of Propaganda,” p. 40, C, Toronto, February-May 2000
Fred Camper, “Women in the Director’s Chair International Film & Video Festival,” Chicago Reader, Mar. 17, 2000
“Documenting the Struggle,” Curve Magazine, review of “Riot Grrrandmas!!! a videozine,” June 2000, p. 17
Grant Kester, “Seeing Things Differently,” review of The Passionate Camera, Art Journal, Winter, 1999, p. 101-3
Susan Snodgrass, “Staying Alive” (Report from Chicago), Art in America, April, 1999, p. 81
Eloy J. Hernandez, “Lens of Desire,” Afterimage, March-April, 1999, pp. 19-20
Alan Artner, “‘Reality Bites’ focuses on concepts, social issues,” Chicago Tribune, May 8, 1998, p. 70
Michael Bulka, CACA (Chicago Art Critics’Association Newsletter), Spring, 1998, v. 1, no. 1
Dominique Nahas, Review, February 1997, New York, NY, review of “Techno-Seduction”
Horace Brockington, Review, February 1997, New York, NY, review of “Techno-Seduction”
Esther Grisham, Dialogue, Sept.-Oct. 1996, p. 23, review of “Moving In” at Randolph St. Gallery
Michelle Grabner and Brad Killam, “The Friendly Village,” Art Muscle, Oct.-Nov. 1995 (pp. 14-15)
Art in America 1995 Annual Guide, “1994 in Review: Alternative Spaces / Randolph St. Gallery” (p. 37)
Jennie Klein, “Transgressive Tapes,” Afterimage, January 1995, p. 12-13
Susan Otto, “Bad Girls West: the Video Program,” ArtPapers, July-August 1994, p. 42
Robert Atkins, “Queer for You,” Village Voice, June 28, 1994 (p. 101)
Christian Lange, “Understanding Anger,” Metro Pulse, Knoxville, TN, Nov. 5-19, 1993
Kevin Lynch, “2 art shows at UW pull no punches,” The Capital Times, Madison, WI, October 21, 1993
Robert W. Duffy, “Getting the Message: Knowledge Distilled,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sept. 19, 1993
Darrell Moore, Afterimage, Jan. 1993, p. 5, review of “My Courbet...or, a beaver’s tale,” in “Vital Signs in Chicago,” on the 12th Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film & Video Festival
Zbigniew Banas, New City, November 12, 1992, p. 17, preview of “My Courbet...or, a beaver’s tale,” in feature on 12th Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film & Video Festival
Darrell Moore, Afterimage, review of “this war’s not over,” in article on Women in the Director’s Chair’s 11th Film & Video Festival, April 1992
Mark Alice Durant, New Art Examiner, review of Conspired exhibition, March, 1990
Michael Bulka, Sculpture Magazine, review of Conspired exhibition, January 1990, p. 64
Carole Tormollan, High Performance, Fall 1990: “Keep Your Fly Buttoned,” review, “All My Partners: A Safe Sex Soap Opera”
The Baltimore Alternative, Gay Community News, Outlines, L.A. Weekly, San Francisco Sentinel, Washington Blade, Windy City Times: reviews and notices of “Your Message Here,” Spring 1990
Gabor/Painter, Windy City Times, “Mad Love IV: the last of Mad Love?” June 15, 1989
David Schlapbach, Windy City Times, “Your Life Story by someone else,” April 27, 1989
Gabor/Painter, Windy City Times, “A review of Mad Love,” July 3, 1986
Larry Steger, Pform, Review of “Cabaret Genet,” Summer 1986
Eva Cockcroft, “Graffiti Guerrillas,” Seven Days, April 1977