Marilyn Minter : Pleasure, Beauty Standards, and Social Change

In the inaugural episode of The Art Career, Emily McElwreath interviews world renowned artist and activist, Marilyn Minter.

Marilyn Minter’s paintings, photographs, prints, and videos investigate how the beauty industry expertly creates and manipulates desire, beauty standards, and pleasure through images. In our inaugural episode, Marilyn shares how she paved various roads in the arts that instill social change.

Marilyn Minter (born 1948) is an American artist currently living and working in New York City. Minter's work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions and has been included in group exhibitions in museums all over the world. In 2006, Marilyn Minter was included in the Whitney Biennial, and installed several billboards in Chelsea, New York City in collaboration with Creative Time. Her video Green Pink Caviar was exhibited in the lobby of the MoMA from 2010-2011. It was also shown on digital billboards on Sunset Boulevard in L.A. and on the Creative Time MTV billboard in Times Square, New York. In 2013, Minter was featured in “Riotous Baroque,” an exhibition that originated at the Kunsthaus Zürich and traveled to the Guggenheim Bilbao. In 2015, Minter’s retrospective Pretty/Dirty opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, TX. Pretty/Dirty traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, the Orange Country Museum of Art, and finally the Brooklyn Museum in November 2016. Minter is represented by Salon 94, New York, Regen Projects, Los Angeles and Baldwin Gallery, Aspen.

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Sound editing: Aaron Stoner

Music: Chase Johnson

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