Teen Council Interview | Mariah Garnett

CAMH’s Teen Council sits down and interviews Los Angeles-based artist and filmmaker Mariah Garnett. In this interview, Garnett speaks with the Council members about her experiences as a teenager, how she got into art and filmmaking, and her collaborative approach to storytelling.
About the Artist
Mariah Garnett holds an MFA from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Santa Clarita, California and a BA from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. A 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in Film & Video, her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally at institutions including the Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst College, Massachusetts; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery; Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast, UK; New Museum, New York, New York; SFMoMA, California; REDCAT, Los Angeles, California; the 2014 Made in LA Hammer Biennial, Los Angeles, California, and the Brooklyn Museum, New York, among many others. Garnett has received numerous awards and honors, including a 2016 Artadia Los Angeles Award. In 2021, her film collaboration with Dynasty Handbag, Weirdo Night, was featured in Sundance Film Festival New Frontiers. She currently teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
This program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition, Mariah Garnett: Dreamed This Gateway. For more information, visit CAMH’s website.
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