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Maggie Mullin O'Hara is a multidisciplinary artist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, currently based in Columbia, South Carolina. Her work exists as a hybrid form, borrowing from the traditions of the mediums of video, photography, performance and installation. It explores ideas of interconnectedness between the physical body and experiences of psychological balance and imbalance while proposing the possibility of fulfillment through the indeterminate. Further, it challenges the trans-subjective nature of our roles in the experience of the work, as well as the potentiality for indetermination as change.

The body finds its place in the work as a vital material; her own bodily presence becoming both an object and the object of her art. Her works and the media she uses function in a way so that the performances are directed at a disembodied viewer, the camera lens, which function as surrogate audience(s). The camera is a performer too, acting as a third eye. The work collapses any distinction between documentation, art object and art act. Art and the artist are inextricably interconnected, even when the audience sees only an artifact; a relic, of the performance itself.

Maggie received her Masters of Fine Arts in Photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2015 and her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Photography from Point Park University in 2013. She currently serves as Assistant Professor of Art in Photography within the Visual and Performing Arts Department at South Carolina State University. She has exhibited work both nationally and internationally.