Foundation for Contemporary Arts

Kate Millett

Lives in New York, NY

Born 1934, St. Paul, MN

Artist, Writer, Teacher

My early work was very happy-rather Mozartian-a suite of furniture. I was living in the Bowery in New York City with the sculptor, Fumio Yoshimura.

Then one day I read about a murder in Indianapolis, Indiana, about a girl killed. She was tortured and confined in a basement. Thereafter, my sculptures were all about entrapment, impotence and incarceration. They are about people and things in cages. It is how I view capital, housing for the aged and the poor. I've lived on the old Bowery-skid row-all my adult life. In other countries-that in itself speaks volumes.

I am trying to get out of cages now and into happier things like "Bureaucracy."

2002 Post-Doctorate Degree, Hunter College of CUNY

1970 Ph.D., Columbia University

1958 1st Class Degree, St. Hilda's College, Oxford University, UK

1956 B.A., University of Minnesota

Founder/Director, Women's Art Colony, LaGrange, NY

1964 - 1970 Director, Barnard Experimental College; Columbia University

1964 - 1970 Instructor, Barnard College; Columbia University

SELECTED WORKS

2001 Mother Millett, London: Verso

1994 The Politics of Cruelty, New York, NY: Norton

1990 The Loony-Bin Trip, New York, NY: Simon and Schuster

1982 Going to Iran, New York, NY: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan

1979 The Baesment, New York, NY: Simon and Schuster

1977 Sita, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

1974 Flying, New York, NY: Knopf

1973 The Prostitution Papers, New York, NY: Avon

1970 Sexual Politics, Garden City, New York, NY: Doubleday

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009 Pleasure and Danger, Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA

2002 The Artist Contemplates the Loss of Her Studio, NOHO Gallery, New York, NY

1997 Kate Millett, Sculptor: The First 38 Years, University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD; also shown at Hunter College, New York, NY; Smith College, Northampton, MA

1995 Flux Sculpture, NOHO Gallery, New York, NY

1980 Lesbian Erotica, Galerie DeVille, New Orleans, LA; also shown at Galerie Andere Zeichen, Berlin, Germany; Galerie Amazone, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Galerie des Femmes, Paris, France

1978 The Trial of Sylvia Likens, NOHO Gallery, New York, NY; also shown at Gallery 28, Brooklyn, NY

1967 Furniture Suite, Judson Gallery, New York, NY

1963 Things, Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

SELECTED GRANTS, HONORS AND AWARDS

2011 Lifetime Achievement Award, Veteran Feminists Of America

1994 Uncommon Legacy Foundation Award