b. 1992​​

Based in Virginia and Pittsburgh

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AWARDS

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2025     Grant, Supplemental Faculty Development Fund, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA 

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 

22-23   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

14-16     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

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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2025     Caught Skies & Pillowed Pines (Black Forest), McDonough Museum of Art, 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

17-18     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

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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2026     (UPCOMING) Almost Gallery, curated by Alli Lemon, Pittsburgh, PA

2026     (UPCOMING) Smallish Season 2, Gallery Ondo, curated by Jeju Island Artist Collective, Seoul, South Korea

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2025     Heirlooms: Strange Logics of Inheritance, Wavelength Space, Chattanooga, TN

2025     Faculty Show, Brompton House (UMW's President Residence), Fredericksburg, VA

2025     That's Baloney, Holzman Gallery, Towson University, Towson, MD

2025     Melcher’s Gray Purchase Award Retrospective, duPont Gallery, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA

2025     Squirting Flowers, Beverly's, curated by Peer Review, Chinatown, NYC 

2025     The Class, duPont Gallery, University of Mary Washington, curated by Carole Garmon, Fredericksburg, VA

 

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  

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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, curated by Elena Apostolovski, The Hague, Netherlands

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

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

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, curated by Hannah Turpin and Dave Zak, Pittsburgh, PA

 

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

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, curated by Carolina Alamilla, Pittsburgh, PA

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

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

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

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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

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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

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

2018      That's What She Said (traveling), AFA Gallery, 8th Intl. 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 

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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

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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 & 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

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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

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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

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COLLECTIONS

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Fidelity Investments Corporate Art Collection

Powerhouse Arts, Brooklyn, NY

University of Mary Washington Permanent Collection, Fredericksburg, VA

Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY

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ARTIST TALKS & PRESENTATIONS

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McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH

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

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PRESS & PUBLICATIONS

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Petrichor, Audio Interview with Sidney Mullis, petrichorpittsburgh.com, June 2025. 

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 Mullis, bunkerprojects.org/reverie, August 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.

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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

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EMPLOYMENT

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2025 - now     Assistant Professor of Sculpture, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA

2025 - now     Structured Literacy Dyslexia Interventionist (C-SLDI), freelance tutor (remote and in-person)

2023 - 2025    Program Manager, Learning Disabilities Association of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, PA

2021 - 2025     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, 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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