Mireille Schellhorn
born 1971 in Hanau, Germany
currently lives and works in Houston, TX

 
EDUCATION
2010-2011 MRes in Art & Design - magna cum laude -  
Sint Lucas University College of Art & Design, Antwerp, Belgium
Advisor/Course leader: Wesley Meuris
 
2002-2003 Media Design Production 
ifs, international filmschool Cologne, Germany 
 
1993-1998 MA in Textil Design 
HS Niederrhein, University of Applied Science, Faculty of Design, Krefeld, Germany  
Master thesis: Film, 7 min., S-VHS,  Frankfurt - Textur einer Stadt (Texture of a city)  
Advisor: Prof. Rolf Sachsse, Ph.D.
 

GRANT
2006 Young Talent
Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia (Kunststiftung NRW), Düsseldorf, Germany

 
ARTIST TALKS
2014/07 A Lady's Walk
The Big Slide Show, Lawndale Art Center Houston, TX USA  
 
2011/11 A Park Story
Sint Lucas University College of Art & Design, Antwerp, Belgium  
 
2011/05 About places: the impenetrability of space
SLAC Academy of Fine Arts, Leuven, Belgium 
 
2010/04 About places: disappearance of places
FotoSalon, Cologne, Germany



PUBLICATION (online)

 
PHOTO BOOK - unpublished
2014 A Hope of Relief and Cure
Book № 3 of "The Cure Project - A Proposal for a Healing Projection"  
Color, digital print, 30 p, 13 photos, hardcover  
 
Shortlisted for INTERNATIONAL PHOTOBOOK DUMMY AWARD 2014 
 
With exhibitions in 2014 at:  
MIA Milano, 22.-25.5./ Fotoleggendo Rome, 6.6.-28.6./ IED Madrid, 4.6.-25.6./  
Photoireland Dublin, 3.7.-6.7./ The PhotoBookMuseum Cologne, 20.8.-20.9./  
Le Bal Paris, 28.-31.8./ Fotobokfestival Oslo, 4.9.-15.9./ Foto Istanbul, 18.10.-24.10./  
In 2015 at: Photobook Melbourne, 12.-22.02./ Format Festival Derby UK , 13.3.-12.4./