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Biography
Muriel Magenta is a visual artist working in new media genres of computer art, installation, multimedia performance as well as video and sculpture. Her installations involve the interface between electronic media and the audience, creating visual/perceptual experiences within actual spaces, transforming them into hybrids between virtual environments and lived space. Magenta has had solo exhibitions at the University of Southern California, Kansas City Art Institute, LACE Los Angeles, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, among others. Her work has been exhibited internationally in group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Brussels International Film Festival, European Media Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival, among others. Magenta served as the National President of the Women's Caucus for Art, and has been involved in the women's art movement for decades in leadership positions. She has also curated exhibitions, such as Push Comes to Shove: Women and Power, in collaboration with the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and Arizona State University.
Magenta is Professor of Art at Arizona State University. She received a BA from Queens College, in New York City, an MA from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, and an MFA and PhD from Arizona State University.
Videography
Bride (Tempe, Arizona: Muriel Magenta, 2000?).
Club M (Tempe, Arizona: Muriel Magenta, 2009?).
Coiffure Carnival Trilogy (Tempe, Ariz.: Muriel Magenta, 2000?). Includes: Coiffure Carnival: A Permanent Wave of Hair—Salon Doo—In Defense of a Hairdo.
The World's Women On-line!: Videowall. 1995
Times Square: 3D Animation (Arizona: Magenta Productions, 2002).
Token City (Tempe, Ariz.: Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona State University, 1997).
28 Women: A Chance for Independence: Documentary (Tempe, AZ: M. Magenta, 2005).
Virtual Justice (Ariz.: Magenta Productions, 1993).
Exhibitions
Muriel Magenta Coiffure Carnival, Video/Sculpture: Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, Arizona, March 29-May 30, 1990. Curated by Robert E. Knight; exhibition catalog essays by J. Gray Sweeney.