Pia Lindman, Lecturer

Internationally known for her interactive performance and installation Public Sauna at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in 2000, Ms. Lindman explores how our bodies become the loci of interaction between private and public. Born in Espoo, Finland, Lindman received her MFA in 1996 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Finland and in 1999 as a Fulbright Scholar her Master of Science in Visual Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She now lives in New York. Currently artist-in-residence at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, in 2008 she will be artist in residence at Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Germany. She has exhibited widely, among other in New York at Storefront for Art and Architecture Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, the Sculpture Center, Artists Space; and internationally in Mexico City, Tokyo, London, Berlin, Paris, Vilnius, Warsaw, Vienna, and Helsinki. Her video series Thisplace is in the collection of MoMA, New York and Establishing Shots in the Queens Museum of Art. Ms. Lindman was appointed lecturer in 2007.