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The
collaborative husband/wife team of Mary Magsamen and Stephan Hillerbrand
have been working together over the past several years after meeting at
the Cranbrook Academy of Art where they received their MFAs.
Their work has been included in group exhibitions and screenings nationally
and internationally including solo exhibitions at the Butler Institute
of American Art and the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia. Their work
has recently been in group exhibitions/screenings at LA Freewaves Film
and Video Festival, SF Camerawork, Houston Center for Photography, the
Boston Center for the Arts and the Ann Arbor Film Festival. They were
awarded the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Residency in New
York City at The Woolworth Building, a residency at the Experimental Television
Center and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Creativity Award. Most recently,
they received a Carol Crow Fellowship from the Houston Center for Photography.
Mary Magsamen’s past exhibitions include shows at Momenta Art, Anna
Kustera Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, and White Columns. In addition,
she has been awarded a residency from the Longwood Cyber Residency Program
and a Finishing Fund from the Experimental Television Center. Mary is
currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Houston’s
Photo/Digital Media Program and the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for
the Arts.
Stephan Hillerbrand’s exhibitions include Nexus Contemporary Art
in Atlanta, Artspace in New Haven and the Mississippi Museum of Art. Hillerbrand
is a National Endowment for the Arts and Art Matters Grant recipient and
a MacDowell Colony Fellow. He was a Fulbright Fellow for the German Technology
and Education seminar and also received a second Fulbright Fellowship
in 2006 to do research in Berlin. Stephan is an Assistant Professor and
the Program Coordinator for the Photo/Digital Media Program at the University
of Houston.
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Mary
Magsamen + Stephan Hillerbrand 