Ulrike Müller | Artist

Ulrike Müller studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria, and participated in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York. She was a co-editor of the queer feminist journal LTTR and from 2009-2012 organized the collaborative project Herstory Inventory. 100 Feminist Drawings by 100 Artists. Her interest in archives and collections has led to curatorial projects such as The Animal Within, a meditation on animal presence in a modern art museum (mumok, Vienna, 2021-22). 

Working from an expanded notion of painting, Müller mobilizes vocabularies of color and shape that are politically and emotionally charged and encourage figurative readings. Alongside small-scale paintings in vitreous enamel, she also produces expansive wall paintings, textiles, and prints.

Müllers work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation (mumok, Vienna, 2015), in the Whitney Biennial (New York, 2017), the 57th Carnegie International (Pittsburgh, 2018), in the international exhibition of the 58th Venice Biennale (2019), at the Los Angeles County Museum (2023) and at the Ludwigforum in Aachen (2023-24). It is included in numerous collections, among them the Museum of Modern Art in New York.