Anthea Behm is a visual artist working with performance, video, and photography to question how forms from high and popular culture affect society and subjectivity. Her most recent video work, filmed in the gallery and public spaces of the Art Institute of Chicago, dramatizes and destabilizes the categorical divisions that continue to inform and delineate our conceptions of social, cultural and artistic production.
Anthea Behm recently participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program and will be a 2011-12 fellow at the Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She completed her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009, and received her BFA from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. The artist has been the recipient of numerous awards including the 2007 Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship, and the Dean of Graduate Studies Tuition Scholarship, School of the Art Institute. Her work has been reviewed in publications including X-TRA, EXIT BOOK, Chicago Art Review, and Art and Australia. The artist’s 2005 project, The Chrissy Diaries, which culminated in a four channel video work and chapter published in Feminism Reframed: Reflections on Art and Difference (ed. A. Kokoli, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, London, 2009), has received international recognition, and her first international solo exhibition will be held at Golden Gallery, Chicago in September 2011.
How you can help
Anthea is seeking donations to assist her with completing a highly selective residency at the Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, USA.