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Portrait by Sarah Huny Young

Sidney Mullis is a sculptor living and working in Pittsburgh, PA. She is building a make-believe forest to find where childhood selves retreat in adulthood and if it is possible to bring them back. Before that, she made work about puberty, the intimacy of forgetting, and performance of gender


Her work has been exhibited in a number of locations including Berlin, Tokyo, England, Croatia, and the Netherlands. Solo shows include the Leslie Lohman Museum (NYC), Wick Gallery (NYC), Bunker Projects (PA), Neon Heater Gallery (OH), ​Bucknell University (PA), Rowan University (NJ), University of Mary Washington (VA), and more. She has been an artist-in-residence at The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, The Wassaic Project, Women’s Studio Workshop, MASS MoCA, Ox-Bow School of Art, among others. Her work has been featured in publications such as Hyperallergic, Young Space, Maake Magazine, De:Formal, and Sculpture Magazine. 

 

Mullis is currently a reading tutor for kids with learning disabilities.

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b. 1992

Lives in Pittsburgh, PA

AWARDS

2024     Mentor, Brewhouse Art’s Distillery Emerging Artists Program, Pittsburgh, PA

2024     April MyMA Artist Grant Finalist, juried by Andrew Woolbright, artist and Editor-at-Large for Brooklyn Rail 

2022 - 2023  Artist-in-residence, The University School, Pittsburgh, PA

2021     Artist-in-residence, Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

2020     Artist-in-residence, Bunker Projects, Pittsburgh, PA

2019     Artist-in-residence, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY

2019     Artist-in-residence, Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY

2018     Artist-in-residence, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ

2017     Artist-in-residence, Borland Project Space, State College, PA

2017     Artist-in-residence, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA

2017     Best-In-Show for Sleepover, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Trust Arts Education Center, Pittsburgh, PA

2016     Artist-in-residence, Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI

2016     Creative Achievement Award, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA

2016 - 2014  Graduate Fellowship Tuition Waiver, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 

2014     Graham Fellowship, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 

2014     Melchers Gray Purchase Award, duPont Gallery, juried by Desiree Holman, Fredericksburg, VA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025     (upcoming) Black Forest, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH

2023     Purple Forest, Olin Art Gallery, Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA

2020     Sand murmurs/Tongue pockets/Thumb secrets (Yellow Forest), Bunker Projects, Pittsburgh, PA

2020     Of Ash and Ice (White Forest), Wick Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2018     Preservation of Forgetting, Neon Heater Gallery, Findlay, OH

2018     Legs Together, Rowan University Art Gallery, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ

2018     Who is Puberty and how does she hit?, Downtown Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

2017     Who is Puberty and how does she hit?, Downtown Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

2017     Preservation of Forgetting, Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX

2017     A Hot Smidge, duPont Gallery, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA

2016     inti.mate in.timate, John Sloan Gallery, Lock Haven University, Lock Haven, PA 

2016     What Mom Don't Know, Zoller Gallery, State College, PA 

2016     inti.mate, Wooster St. Window Gallery, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY 

2015     inti.mate, Future Tenant Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024     SPRING/BREAK NYC with Testudo, Kelsey Tynik, and curator Lexi Bishop, NY, NY

2024     Short Film Festival, part of Community Festival, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA

2024     Take Me Somewhere Nice, LVL3 Gallery, Chicago, IL  

2024     Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Dave Barber Cinematheque, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 

2024     X on the line, Dream Clinic, Columbus, OH  

2024     Garden Party Silent Art Auction, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA  

2024     phone, wallet, KEYS, Coco Hunday, Tampa, FL  

2023     For the camera, for the screen, for the audience, Folio Gallery, Landmark Arts, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 

2023     Seeking Ourselves in Each Other, Muskingum University, New Concord, OH 

2023     Six in an Open Field, University Museum, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA

2023     Inward and Beyond, Ice House Studios, Pittsburgh, PA 

2023     What the swans are twittering about in the riverbed, Trixie, The Hague, Netherlands, curated by Elena Apostolovski 

2023     Friend of the Artist: 15th A.I.R. Biennial, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Eriola Pira 

2022     All Game No Play, STIFF Film Festival, Palach Cultural Centre, Rijeka, Croatia, curated by Elena Apostolovski

2022     Object Lounge, Collarworks, Troy, NY

2022     Full Spectrum, Brew House Association, Pittsburgh, PA

2022     Soft Play, Collarworks, Troy, NY

2022     Vitrine, Brew House Association, Pittsburgh, PA

2022     Frills: Glories, Excess, and Getting Weird, SPACE, Pittsburgh, PA, curated by Hannah Turpin and Dave Zak

 

2021     Frills: Glories, Excess, and Getting Weird, SPACE, Pittsburgh, PA, curated by Hannah Turpin and Dave Zak

2021     To Get To The Other Side, Elephant Gallery, Nashville, TN

2021     Art-n-Stuff IV, Ejecta Projects, Carlisle, PA

2021     Mating Rituals, Third Floor Window Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, curated by Carolina Alamilla

2021     The Point of Oversight, Tavan PIKa, European Capital of Culture program, Rijeka, Croatia, curated by Elena Apostolovski

2021     Transcendental States, Project Gallery V, projectgalleryv.com, juried by Adam Liam Rose (online exhibition)

2021     New Contemporaries, dodomu gallery, dodomugallery.com (online exhibition)

2020     Zip City, Left Field, curated by Emily Burns, Los Osos, CA

2020     Now, more than ever, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY (online exhibition)

2020     Keep for Old Memoirs, Young Space, curated by Kate Mothes and Celine Mo (online exhibition)

2020     Staying Relevant, Keystone College, La Plume, PA

2020     Congruence, I Like Your Work, curated by Bridgette Mayer (online exhibition)

2020     me irl, Dalton Gallery at Agnes Scott College, curated by Melissa Huang, Decatur, GA

2019     Moving Pictures, Pavilion Theatre, State College, PA 

2019     At Once, Gallery SKC, STIFF Film Festival, Rijeka, Croatia

2019     Meet & Greet, Zoller Gallery, State College, PA

2019     Terra not so Firma, FJORD Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2019     Gender, Prism Contemporary, Blackburn, England

2019     Our Bodies Ourselves, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT

2019     Transcendence, IA&A at Hillyer, Washington, D.C.

2019     That's What She Said (traveling), Zoller Gallery, State College, PA

2018     Spaghetti Paradise, J.O. Station, Brooklyn, NY

2018     That's What She Said (traveling), AFA Gallery, 8th International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art, Scranton, PA

2018     Contemporary Renaissance Women, Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA 

2018     Artwalk, Neon Heater Gallery, presented by The Arts Partnership, Findlay, OH

2018     No Place Like Home, Zoller Gallery, State College, PA 

2017     Fresh Legs, Galleri Heike Arndt DK, Berlin, Germany

2017     The Gift Edit, Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX 

2017     Three River Arts Festival, Trust Arts Education Center, Pittsburgh, PA

2017     Skinny Dipping, Woskob Family Gallery, State College, PA 

2017     About the Body, Humpday Gallery, State College, PA 

2017     Nasty Women Art Exhibition, The Knockdown Center, Queens, NY

2017     Nasty Women Art Exhibition, Grand Arthaus, Phoenix, AZ

2016     Please Do Not Touch, Carpetland Studios, State College, PA

2016     Group Show, Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX

2016     XXChange, Area 405, Baltimore, MD 

2016     I'm Feelin' Myself, Downtown Player’s Club, curated by Miranda Kyle, Atlanta, GA

2016     Small Works, Trestle Gallery, juried by Heather Darcy Bhandari, Brooklyn, NY

2016     Luxe, Slayer Gallery (online exhibition)

2016     Girls Just Wanna...,Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX

2016     The Female Complex, Medici Gallery, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE

2016     Borders, Walter E. Terhune Gallery, juried by Sarah Rose Sharp, Owens Center for Fine and Performing Art, Toledo, OH 

2016     Odd Couples, Zoller Gallery, State College, PA

2016     One In Herself, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL 

2016     Being Her Now, Salisbury University Art Galleries, Salisbury, MD

2015     Back to the Future, pehrspace, juried by Sarah Zucker and Brian Griffith, Los Angeles, CA

2015     Badass, Black Sun Studio, State College, PA 

2015     Repeat, Hump Day Gallery, State College, PA 

2015     What Are You Doing Now? Zoller Gallery, State College, PA

2015     Certain Critical Operations, Found in Fred, Fredericksburg, VA

2015     30th Annual Graduate Research Exhibition, HUB Gallery, State College, PA

2015     Set in Motion: Green, Fountain Gallery, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN

2015     All My Work Sucks Show, KRAP Collective, Philadelphia, PA

2015     Why Are You Here? Zoller Gallery, State College, PA

PERFORMANCES

 

2016     Scrub - a - Phub, Wild Goose Creative, Columbus, OH

2014     BodyCare, Rinaldo's Barber Shop, State College, PA

2014     Painting the Town Pussy, Tokyo, Japan

2013     Straight, Andy Boyd Gallery, Fredericksburg, VA

COLLECTIONS

Fidelity Investments Corporate Art Collection

Powerhouse Arts, Brooklyn, NY

University of Mary Washington Permanent Collection, Fredericksburg, VA

Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY

ARTIST TALKS & PRESENTATIONS

Brewhouse Arts, Distillery Emerging Artists Program, Pittsburgh, PA

Ohio State University, Graduate Seminar taught by Dani Restack and Jared Thorne, Columbus, OH

SAIC, Senior Capstone taught by Barbarita Polster, Chicago, IL

Trixie, The Hague, Netherlands

Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA

Collarworks, Troy, NY

SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh, PA

Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA

Paradise Palace, Brooklyn, NY

Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME

Alfred University, Alfred, NY 

MSS, St. Paul, MN

Penn State University, State College, PA

Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY

Keystone College, La Plume, PA

Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ

Bucknell University, Downtown Gallery, Lewisburg, PA 

Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX

University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA 

Lock Haven University, Lock Haven, PA

Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatauk, MI

PRESS & PUBLICATIONS

Two Coats of Paint, Scene + liked: Spring/Break Art Show NYC, twocoatsofpaint.com, September 2024.

Testudo, Essay about Sidney Mullis by Curator Lexi Bishop, testudomkt.com, May 2024. 

Testudo, Corporeal Creativity by Associate Curator Emily Edwards of Dallas Contemporary, testudomkt.com, April 2023. 

Pep Talk for Artists, Podcast about Soft Play, hosted by Amy Talluto, anchor.fm, November 2022. 

Bunker Projects, Exhibition Review written by Sidney Mullis, bunkerprojects.org/helpharm, April 2022. 

Femme Art Review, Sidney Mullis is Your Long-Lost Imaginary Friend, femmeartreview.com, September 2021.

Project Gallery V, Interview with Sidney Mullis, projectgalleryv.com, September 2021. 

Bunker Projects, Exhibition Review written by Sidney Mullisbunkerprojects.org/reverieAugust 2021. 

LVL3 Gallery, Interview with Sidney Mullis, lvl3official.com/sidney-mullis/, July 2021. 

Maake Magazine, Interview with Sidney Mullis, maakemagazine.com, September 2020.

Artnet News, Editors' Picks: Keep for Old Memoirs, news.artnet.com, May 2020.

DE:FORMAL, Interview with Sidney Mullis, deformal.com, February 2020.

Friend of the Artist, Volume 11, friendoftheartist.com, January 2020.

Wassaic Project, Interview with Sidney Mullis by Joe Brommel, wassaicproject.org, January 2020.

Women's Studio Workshop, Sid-the-Kid: Sidney Mullis in the Studio, wsworkshop.org, June 2019.

Art Uncovered with Sidney Mullis, produced by Kimberly Ruth, btrtoday.com, November 2018.

That's What She Said Exhibition Catalogue, August 2018.

Hyperallergic, Interview with Sidney Mullis, hyperallergic.com/sidney-mullis-who-is-puberty/, June 2018.

Sarah Rose Sharp, Be the Beacon with Sidney Mullis, sarahrosesharp.com, February 2018.

Art Daily, Solo Exhibition at Rowan University Art Gallery, January 2018.

Penn State News, Sidney Mullis on Trust, Humor, and Gender, news.psu.edu/story/, December 2017. 

Sculpture Magazine, pg 21, ed., November 2017.

The Bucknellian, bucknellian.net, November 2017.

Hiss Mag, Issue #1 Juicy, October 2017.

Young Space, Interview with Sidney Mullis, young-space.com/blog, October 2017.

Slayer Gallery, Interview with Sidney Mullis, May 2016.

inti.mate, Helm de Laat, GLIMP! (Netherland queer art e-bulletin), pg 12, March 2016. 

Sarah Rose Sharp, Sidney Mullis @ Wooster St. Window Gallery, sarahrosesharp.com, February 2016.

EDUCATION

 

2016     Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, MFA Sculpture, Summa Cum Laude

2014     University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA, BA in Studio Art with Honors, Summa Cum Laude

2013     Berlin Weissensee School of Art and University of Cincinnati, Studio-based Inquiry, Berlin, Germany

EMPLOYMENT

2023 - now             Program Manager, Learning Disabilities Association of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, PA

2021 - now             Reading Tutor, Learning Disabilities Association of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, PA

2018 - 2021            Assistant Teaching Professor, Penn State University, State College, PA

2018 - 2019            Interim Communications Coordinator, School of Visual Arts, Penn State University, State College, PA

2018                       Visiting Artist-In-Residence & 3D Design Instructor, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ

2016 - 2021            Program Coordinator, Anderson Lecture Series (visiting artist program), Penn State University, State College, PA

2016                       Instructor, Beginning Sculpture, Penn State University, State College, PA

2015                       Instructor, Ideas as Objects, Penn State University, State College, PA

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