Hillerbrand+Magsamen

Who is Hillerbrand+Magsamen?

Hillerbrand+Magsamen are a collabortive husband and wife visual artist team made up of Stephan Hillerbrand and Mary Magsamen. Based in Houston, Texas thier work draws upon the rich Fluxus practice of incorporating humor, performance, video and everyday objects. Expanding their personal family life into a contemporary art conversation about family dynamics, suburban life and American consumer excess. Hillerbrand+Magsamen have presented their videos in international film and media festivals including SCOPE Basel, WAND V Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, New York Underground Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Boston Underground Film Festival, LA Freewaves New Media Art Festival and Currents Media Festival. Their cinematic based installations have been seen in Hong Gah Museum in Taiwan, the Hudson River Museum, Woodstock Center for Photography, Museum of Fine Art Houston, Light Factory Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film, and Houston Center for Photography. They have been awarded a Fulbright Junior Scholar Fellowship in Germany and grants from Austin Film Society’s Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund, Ohio Arts Council, Houston Arts Alliance and a Carol Crow Fellowship from the Houston Center for Photography. Mentions about their work have appeared in The New York Times, Glasstire, The Houston Press, culturemap.com. Hillerbrand+Magsamen have worked together since meeting in graduate school at the Cranbook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan where they both received their MFAs. They live and work in Houston, TX with their two children Madeleine and Emmett. Mary Magsamen is the Curator of the micro-cinema, The Aurora Picture Show and Stephan Hillerbrand is an Associate Professor in the Digital Media Program at The University of Houston and a Honors College Fellow.