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Heidi Kumao

Projects: Cinema Machines

  • Adore

    Adore

  • Offerings: A Division of Labor

    Offerings: A Division of Labor

  • Defense Mechanisms: A Marriage

    Defense Mechanisms: A Marriage

  • Kept

    Kept

  • Making Progress

    Making Progress

  • Childhood Rituals: Consumption

    Childhood Rituals: Consumption

  • Decoy

    Decoy

  • Holding Pattern

    Holding Pattern

  • Duel

    Duel

  • Tied: A Duet

    Tied: A Duet

  • Recital

    Recital

  • Remote

    Remote

  • Learning to Swim

    Learning to Swim

  • Making Conversation

    Making Conversation

  • Silenced

    Silenced

  • Two Chairs: The Decay of Trust

    Two Chairs: The Decay of Trust

  • Remains

    Remains

About

Heidi Kumao creates video, machine art, and installations to explore ordinary social interactions and their psychological undercurrents. Emerging from the intersection of sculpture, theater and engineering, her work demonstrates how small gestures, even the most private and poetic, can become political acts. Her work has been exhibited at Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, San Jose Museum of Art, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires and numerous other venues worldwide. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Creative Capital grant and others. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Recent News + Events

  • CEPA Auction-April 21 Duel

      My photograph, “Duel,” will be auctioned off at CEPA’s 11th Biennial Art Auction in ...

  • Back Brace Photos in exhibit in Detroit "Getting Well?" cards, 2011

    CARDS $5 each A selection of my back brace self-portraits will be featured in the ...

  • After Hours: Public Projection UICA public projection

    I have created a movie for the large 4th story window of the new Urban ...

Project types

  • Video
  • Kinetic sculpture
  • Video Sculpture
  • Animation
  • Cinema Machines
  • Timed Release
  • Wearables
  • Performative
  • Technology/Intervention
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