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Maureen Connor

Maureen Connor

Maureen Connor

Roles in Archive: Speaker

Maureen Connor’s work combines installation, video, interior design, ethnography, human resources, feminism, and social justice. Recent work includes collaborations with Winter Holiday Camp and Occupy Museums, with whom she continues the work begun with “Personnel,” her project about the workplace (initiated in 2000), and the collective she cofounded in 2008, the Institute for Wishful Thinking (IWT), producing interventions that explore the attitudes and needs of individuals and institutions. Her feminist work from the ’80s and ’90s has been included in numerous publications and exhibited in venues including Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Mass MOCA, Museo Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Museum of Modern Art, New York, MAK, Vienna, Portikus, Frankfurt, ICA, Philadelphia, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and the Whitney Biennial, among many others. She has been Professor of Art at Queens College, CUNY, since 1990 and is now Codirector of Social Practice Queens (SPQ) in partnership with the Queens Museum.