Britta Wheeler

b. 1963 in Kansas City, MO

lives and works in New York City and Sullivan County, NY.

Education

  • 2012 — M.F.A. Goddard College, Plainfield, VT

  • 2000 — Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara

  • 1992 — M.A. University of California, Santa Barbara

  • 1984 — B.S. University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Group Exhibitions

  • 2015 — Performancy Forum Quincuennial: A Performance Conference, Grace Performance Space, Brooklyn

  • 2015 — Martha Wilson: Downtown, NYU Fales Library, New York

  • 2015 — Performing Franklin Furnace, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York

  • 2014 — Cavellini 1914–2014: A Survey, Events and Mail Art Show, White Box Gallery, NYC

  • 2014 — Identity Performance Night, 594Gallery, Bushwick

  • 2005 — History of Disappearance, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK.

  • 1996 — Performare: Conference curated by Alexander Del Re, Santiago, Chile

Press

  • 2015 — “The Radical Art of Archiving Performance, as Practiced by Martha Wilson,” Alexis Clements, April 8, 2015, Hyperallergic.

  • 2011 — Martha Wilson, Bombsite, October 2011, by Britta Wheeler

Awards

  • 2022 — New York State Council on the Arts Grant