Solo Exhibitions
2026 Domestic Archaeology: Excavations of Memories, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, Texas.
Assembly Required, Wright Gallery, University of Texas A&M, College Station, Texas.
2025 nothing is precious, everything is game, FotoFest, Houston, Texas.
Curated by Steven Evans and Madi Murphy.
Mountains, Performance at Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas.
Baking Soda, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, Texas.
2024 Baking Soda, ION Building, Houston, Texas.
Expand, Providence College Reilly Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island.
Curated by Carol Stakenas.
2022 Electrically, Heidi Vaughan Fine Art, Houston, Texas.
2021 147 Devices for Integrated Principles, Big Medium Gallery, Austin, Texas.
The Devices Project, Bailey Contemporary Arts, Pompano Beach, Florida.
Curated by Juliana Forero.
2020 The Devices Project, The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, New Jersey.
Curated by Mary Birmingham.
Devices for Education, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Curated by Anne Massoni.
Devices: Then & Now, The Gallery at UTA, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington,TX.
Curated by Benito Huerta.
Devices: Then & Now, Heidi Vaughan Fine Art, Houston, Texas.
2019 Devices for Extra Ordinary, Art In Buildings, New York, New York.
Curated by Eliana Blechman
The Devices Project, Heidi Vaughan Fine Art, Houston, Texas.
Higher Ground: Relics of a Mission, FotoFest, Houston, Texas. Curated by Max Fields.
2018 147 Devices for Integrated Principles, MATCH, Houston, Texas.
2016 Gift Shop, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas.
2015 Looking For America, Diffusion: Cardiff International Festival of Photography, Wales, England. Curated by David Drake.
Higher Ground, Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York. Curated by Elizabeth Dunbar
Playing House, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2014 Mandala, Central Features Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Mandalas, GGallery, Houston, Texas.
Home Improvement, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas. Curated by Clint Willour
2013 Family Portrait, Center for Photography Woodstock, Woodstock, New York
Sample Sale, Auxiliary Projects, Brooklyn, New York
Stuffed, Brand 10 Art Space, Ft. Worth, Texas
House/Hold, Blue Sky, the Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland, Oregon
Family Politics, Camara Oscura Galeria, Madrid, Spain
House/Hold, Darke Gallery, Houston, Texas
e-State Sale, Houston Art League, Houston, Texas
BEAM Me Up… Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, Florida
Hillerbrand+Magsamen, Real Art Ways Video Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut
Selected Group Exhibitions, Festivals and Screenings
2026 Night Light, Aurora Picture Show and Buffalo Bayou Partnership, Houston, TX. Curated by Sarah Stauder.
Video Art Night Denton, Dallas Aurora, Denton, TX.
Sculpture Month Silos, Houston, TX.
2025 Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL.
Video Art Night, Dallas Aurora, Dallas, TX.
Conversation Pieces, Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery, Providence College, Providence, RI.
Expand and Contract, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Dr. Rotem Rozental
Vision(ary) 2025, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA.
15th Annual Photobook Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA. Curated by Karen Davis.
2024 Denver Underground Film Festival, Denver, CO.
2023 {Re}HAPPENING, Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, NC.
Care & Collaboration, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX.
Curated by Sarah Sudhoff
2022 Synaptic Response, Silos at Sawyer, Houston, Texas. Curated by Sculpture Month.
Ten by Ten: Ten Reviewers Select Ten Portfolios from the Meeting Place 2020-21,
FotoFest Biennial, Houston, Texas. Curated by Teona Gogichaishvili.
Exquisite Moving Corpse, Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, NM.
Organized by Jack Massing.
2021 Inaugural Exhibition, Kinder Building, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX.
In Residence, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX.
Curated by María-Elisa Heg.
Creation/Creativity, The Front Room, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Stephen Mallon.
Prague International Indie Film Festival, Prague, Czech Republic.
FlickFair Film Festival, Los Angeles, California.
Video Art and Experimental Film Festival, New York, New York.
2020 Films In Corona, GRRL HAUS Cinema, Berlin, Germany
From the Collection (Air Hunger) 601 Artspace & 601TV, New York, New York.
Curated by Sara Shaoul
Devices for Preparation and Comfort, Fusebox Festival and Big Medium Gallery, Austin, Texas. Curated by Anna Gallagher-Ross.
Home Tour, Houston Cinema Arts Society, Houston, TX. Curated by Jessica Green.
Time Being, The Momentary, Bentonville, Arkansas. Curated by Pia Agrawal.
More is More, Contemporary Art Museum of Plainview, Plainview, Texas.
Curated by Kelly Allison
2019 Seen/Unseen, Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, Oklahoma City, OK.
Curated by Kim Voynar.
Flower Show, Splendora Gardens, Splendora, TX. Curated by Alton Dulaney.
Plus One, Mt. Airy Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA.
2018 Peak Shift, Silos at Sawyer, Houston, Texas. Curated by Sculpture Month.
S.T.E.P., Flux Factory, Queens, New York. (exhibition and performance)
The Future of Everything, Form & Concept, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2017 Home Balance, Fusebox Festival, Austin, Texas.
Brand of Choice, Rudolphe Blume Gallery, Houston, Texas. Curated by Tommy Gregory
Home Bodies, Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, Texas.
Leiden Shorts Film Festival, Leiden, Netherlands.
2016 Seeing the Stars, Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, Delaware.
CounterCurrent 16 Festival, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, Houston,TX.
Curated by Karen Farber.
Past/Present/Future, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Curated by Ron Platt
2015 CineSpace, Houston Cinema Arts Festival, Houston, Texas.
Kaunas Photo Art Festival, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Monkey Town 6, Austin, Texas. Curated by Montgomery Knott.
And, 601 Artspace, New York, New York. Curated by Jennifer Dalton.
Dreams of Riley’s Friends, Fusebox Festival, Austin, Texas.
Collaboration with Kirk Lynn and Steve Moore.
Dream Home, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pinyao, China.
Curated by Alasdair Foster.
The Banlieue! (The Suburbs!), Maison de Arts de Laval, Quebec, Canada.
Curated by Jasmine Colliza.
Play, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Vermont. Curated by Matt Neckers.
2014 Blue Sky: The Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts at 40, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon. Curated by Julia Dolan.
Family Matters, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
Curated by Elizabeth Allen
Tooth and Nail, Vanity Projects, New York, New York. Curated by Darrin Martin.
PhotoTXCetera, Invitational Exhibition, Dallas, Texas.
2013 Brooklyn Film Festival, Brooklyn, New York.
Texas Biennial, Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas.
WPA's Experimental Media Video Screening Series, Washington DC.
Juried by Jason Eppink
Consumption, Central Michigan University Gallery, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.
Curated by Anne Gochenour.
Moving Pictures, Brand 10 Art Space, Ft. Worth, Texas.
2012 Art Prize, Kendall Galleries, Ferris State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Currents 2012 International New Media Festival (Installation and Film Screening)
Presented by Parallel Studios, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
March 2012, Online exhibition, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Curated by Janet Dees.
Optic Nerve Film Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida.
2011 Texas Biennial, Big Medium, Austin, Texas. Curated by Virginia Rutledge.
State Fair, DiverseWorks Artspace, Houston, Texas. Curated by Diane Barber.
FestArte VideoArt Festival, Triennale di Milano (Museum of Design), Milan, Italy.
Down Stairs, Up Stairs, Athens Video Art Festival, Athens Greece.
2010 Currents 2010, El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, Parallel Studios, Santa Fe, NM.
Curated Invitational, VAD International Festival of Video and Digital Arts, Casa de Cultura of Girona, Madrid, Spain
Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Hong Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Blender Love (collaboration with Kirk Lynn), FuseBox Festival, Austin, Texas.
Un..Sharpness of the Documentary, The Kunstfilmtag, Düsseldorf, Germany.
A Light at the End of the Tunnel, Scope Basel, Perpetual Art Machine, Basel, Switzerland.
Curated by Lee Wells.
ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, Literaturwerkstatt Berlin, Berlin Germany.
Videoholica Special Selection 2010, International Festival of Experimental Art, Bilbao-
Vitoria- Gasteiz, Spain.
Home Sweet Home - International Videoart and Performance Festival, Werkstatt der
Kulturen, Neukölln, Berlin, Germany.
Boston Underground Film Festival, Boston, Massachusetts.
Film Festival, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Down Stairs, Up Stairs, Gyeonggi Creation Center, Gyeonggi-do, Korea.
2009 Re-Generate Re-Image Re-Focus, Payne Gallery of Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA; Curated by Krista Steinke
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Boston Underground Film Festival, Boston, Massachusetts.
Accessibility 2009, Public Art Film & Video Installations, Sumter, South Carolina;
Curated by Frank McCauley and Bivouac Projects
Experiments in Cinema v4.2, Southwest Film Center, Albuquerque, NM
2008 Food for Thought, Light Factory Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film, Charlotte,North Carolina; Curated by Ariel Shanberg
21st Annual Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, Texas.
Optica Festival Madrid 2008, Madrid, Spain
Moving Image Film Festival, Toronto, Ontario
The Big Screen, Urban Screens Melbourne 08, Melbourne, Australia
LA Freewaves New Media Art Festival, Los Angeles, California
Wand 5 e.V. 21. Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
Come Out and Play, Apex Art, New York, New York
2007 There is Always a Machine Between Us, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, California; Curated by Chuck Mobley
Antennae, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX; curated by Madeline Yale
Reality Bytes, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX; curated by John Pomara, Joan
Davidow, and Dean Terry
Awards
2026 Houston Arts Alliance Individual Artist Grant, Houston, Texas.
Houston Endowment Jones Award, Houston, Texas.
2024 Houston Arts Alliance Let Creativity Happen Grant, Houston, Texas.
2020 Houston Arts Alliance Let Creativity Happen Grant, Houston, Texas.
2019 Wassaic Projects Residency Fellowship, Wassaic, New York.
2018 Rauschenberg Residency Award, Photo Lucida/Critical Mass, Portland, OR.
2017 Mid America Arts Alliance Artistic Innovations Grant, Kansas City, Missouri.
Innovation Grant, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center, Houston, Texas.
Houston Arts Alliance Individual Artists Grant, Houston, Texas.
Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Johnson, Vermont.
2015 Sustainable Arts Foundation, San Francisco, California.
2014 Southern Constellations Fellow, Greensboro, North Carolina.
2013 Houston Arts Alliance/Houston Airport System Video Art Commission, Houston, TX
Houston Arts Alliance Individual Artists Grant, Houston, Texas.
Austin Film Society Grant, Austin Film Society, Austin, Texas.
2010 Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund grant, Austin Film Society, Austin, Texas
2009 Houston Arts Alliance Individual Artists Grant, Houston, Texas.
2008 Carol Crow Memorial Fellowship, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX.
Residencies
2026 Robert Rauschenberg Residency, Captiva, Florida.
Bemis Center, Omaha, Nebraska.
2025 Aurora Photo Center, Indianapolis, Indiana
2022 Atelier Artists, Boutonvilliers, France
2021 Houston Center for Photography & Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, Texas.
2019 Wassaic Projects, Wassaic, New York.
2018 Vermont Studio Residency, Johnson, Vermont.
2017 Santa Fe Art Institute, Water Rights Residency, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2016 iPark Family Residency, East Haddam, Connecticut.
2014 Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Elsewhere, Greensboro, North Carolina.
2010 Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas.
2008 Fuse Box Collaboration Series, Refraction Arts, Austin, Texas.
Publications
Southwest Contemporary Magazine, “Bodies/Boundaries”, Featured photographs, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2021.
GEO Wissen Magazine, No. 73 / 2021, “Issue on Green Living”, Featured photographs. Hamburg, Germany, 2021.
Boketto The Moment Magazine, Issue 004, Featured photograph. Published by Boketto, Richmond, Virginia, June 2021. Edited by Jennifer Elsner.
Arts Collection, Elementary I, print and digital, Featured photograph. Inae Coutinho de Carvalho, Editora FTD S/A, San Paolo, Brazil, 2021.
147 Devices for Integrated Principles, Self-Published, Houston, Texas, 2020.
Die Zeit magazine, “Familie”, Featured photograph. Berlin, Germany, July, 2020.
Causette Magazine, “House/hold” Featured photograph. Paris, France, September 11, 2019.
Constructed: The Contemporary History of The Constructed Image in Photography Since 1990, Published by Routledge Press, 2017. Edited by Marni Shindelman and Anne Massoni.
The Reflexive Self: Participant as Observer, Published by Taylor and Francis Group, 2016. Edited by Lenscratch.
EXU Magazine, Houston, Texas, 2015. Edited by Robert Boyd.
Blue Sky: The Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts at 40, Portland, Oregon, 2014. Edited by Julia Dolan.
Blue Sky Books, Edited by Christopher Rauschenberg, Portland, Oregon, 2014.
Literal Magazine, “Artist Profile”, Interview with Rose Mary Salum, Houston, Texas, May, 2014.
Creative Quarterly, Issue 36, “Artist Profile”, New York, New York, Fall 2014.
FotoMAGAZIN, “Kinder” (Portfolio), Essay by Manfred Zollner, #5, Germany, May 2013.
ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art, V.20: Cinematic, Commentary by Ariel Shanberg, September, 2012.
Madeline Schwartzman, “See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception”, Black Dog Publishing, June 28, 2011.
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Colette Copeland, “Mary Magsamen and Stephan Hillerbrand,” Arteodolia, May 2020.
Molly Glentzer, “A Houston family makes art of sheltering in place,” Houston Chronicle, July 13,2020.
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Kelly Klaasmeyer, “Real eState”, Houston Press, Houston, TX, January 25, 2012.
Beth Secor, “eState Sale”, Glasstire.com, January 24, 2012.
Charles Fox, “Review: House/hold”, Nuvo News, Indianapolis, IN, December 12, 2011.
Amy White, “Time Based Media Invitational,” Independent Weekly, Raleigh, NC, Oct, 24, 2007.
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Educations
Mary Magsamen: BFA, University of Denver; MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art
Stephan Hillerbrand: BFA, Southern Methodist University; MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art