Mae Howard

Mae Howard is a visual artist whose interdisciplinary approach extends across research-based, participatory, and collaborative projects. Calling upon lineages of disabled labor economies, Mae is interested in the embodied, fleshly, and material enmeshment of BDSM, the medical industrial complex, leather histories, biopolitics, and debilitation. Howard received an MFA and Certificate in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies from The University of Pennsylvania. They are an alumna of the Whitney Independent Study Program and have recently completed residencies at BricLab (Brooklyn, NY), ACRE (Steuben, WI), Picture Berlin (Berlin, DE), Activation Residency (Woodridge, NY), Pocoapoco (Oaxaca, MX), BAX Arts (Brooklyn, NY). Their work has been screened and exhibited at Dia Chelsea (New York, NY), GHOSTMACHINE (New York, NY), Westbeth Gallery (New York, NY), Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA), Atelier Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), Automat Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), Ingrown Gallery (Chicago, IL), and gr__und (Berlin, DE). Howard has taught, given lectures and participated on panels at the Migros Museum (Zurich, CH), Max Planck Institute (Berlin, DE), KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin, DE), Pratt University (New York, NY), Dia Art Foundation (New York, NY), Brown University (Providence, RI), Smith College (Northhampton, MA), and Abrons Arts Center (New York, NY). They currently teach at the University of Pennsylvania.