Background
Ulrike Müller was born in 1971 in Brixlegg, Austria.
Ulrike Müller was born in 1971 in Brixlegg, Austria.
From 1991-1996 Müller studied Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, in Austria. She also studied Painting at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New New York
She is also currently a professor and Company-Chair of Painting at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New New York Mülller"s practice has been described as addressing contemporary feminist and Genderqueer concerns, extending from the feminist movements of the 1970s and onward. She has used text, sculpture, video, performance, painting, and drawing among other mediums in her work.
Foreign instance, for her exhibition Raw/Cooked at the Brooklyn Museum in 2012, Müller invited a range of feminist and queer artists, including Nicole Eisenman, A.L. Steiner and Amy Sillman to create two-dimensional renderings of t-shirt quotes taken from the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn.
Ulrike Müller currently teaches painting at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, is on the faculty for the Vermont College of Fine Arts’ low-residency Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts program, and has lectured in painting/printmaking at Yale University since 2013. Select solo exhibitions Raw/Cooked: Ulrike Müller, Brooklyn Museum (2012) Select group exhibitions Unmonumental Audio, New Museum (2008) Sonic Episodes, Dia Art Foundation (2009) Herstory Inventory: 100 Feminist Drawings by 100 Artists, Kunsthaus Bregenz (2012).
Müller is a member of the New York-based feminist genderqueer group LTTR as well as an editor of its eponymous journal. She is a member of the feminist genderqueer collective LTTR.