Madison Hager grew up in rural Wisconsin and spent her youth active in the local 4-H club, which is where she learned to sew, cook and garden, and participated in the county fair. Madison received her bachelor’s degree in Art from the Universityt UW-La Crosse and is currently pursuing her Master's in Fine Arts in Sculpture and Expanded Practice at Ohio University. Her current research investigates the gendering of work in the home as well as her own relationship to domestic space using performance art, sewing and installations. Madison has exhibited at institutions such as the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and The Esther Allen Greer Museum Gallery. At Ohio University she is teaching for the Art Foundations and Sculpture Departments.
Artist Statement
To enjoy and be knowledgeable of the systematic socialization of behaviors and interests can bring forth tension in the psyche. . I enjoy cooking, I take refuge in cleaning and pride in the cleanliness of my home. At the same time, I am aware of the systematic undervaluing of woman’s labor in the home and how the cleanliness of the home reflects unproportionally on the woman living there. I’m aware of that I was taught how to be a ”good girl” and a “Lady”. . Through education we become aware and intellectual sees the incongruence of our beliefs and actions.
Through alteration and transformation, I reveal and heighten the absurdities of the gendering of labor and the expectations put on woman. I use repetition to move actions beyond the repetition of the quotidian. I use found objects and everyday domestic objects to root my work. I manipulate, repeat, change scale to slip out of reality into the surreal.
Madison M Hager
(715) 965-0732 • madison_m_hager@live.com
Education
Master of Fine Arts, Ohio University- Athens, OH, Fall 2016- Spring 2019
Concentration: Sculpture + Expanded Practice
Performance Master Class, Carrie Mae Weems - Athens, Oh January 2019
Participant and Performer
Bachelor of Science, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, WI Fall 2010- Spring 2014
Major:Art Concentration: Drawing Minor: Liberal Studies – Focus in Education
Dean’s List 2010-2014
Teaching Experience
Intro-Sculpture, Instructor of Recorded Ohio University Spring 2019
Structure, Art Foundations Instructor of Record Ohio University Fall 2018
Function, Art Foundations Teaching Assistant Ohio University Spring 2018
Structure, Art Foundations Teaching Assistant Ohio University Fall 2017
Guest Lecture-Performance Art, Seeing and Knowing Art Class Ohio University Fall 2017
Guest Demonstrator-Plastic Bags, Structure Art Foundation, Ohio University Fall 2016
Intro-Sculpture, Co-Taught Ohio University Fall 2016
Exhibitions
The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens OH 2019
Athens Voices Juried show
Seigfred Gallery Ohio University, Athens OH 2019
Irreconcilable Differences: MFA Thesis Exhibition
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN 2018
Show: Artist and Instagram
Seigfred Gallery Ohio University, Athens OH 2017
Novum: MFA Second Year Show
The Ridges, Athens OH 2018
Open Studios: Giant Kroger Bag Interactive Exhibition
The Ridges, Athens OH 2017
Open Studios
The Ridges, Athens OH 2017
Open Studios: Ephemeral Installation of ice
Trisolini Gallery, Baker Center Ohio University, Athens OH 2017
From There to Here
The Esther Allen Greer Museum Gallery, Rio Grande OH 2016
Sculpture and Ceramics Exhibition
University Gallery UWL, La Crosse WI 2014
You Sunk My Ball Park Frank, Senior Show
University Gallery UWL, La Crosse WI 2014
UW-La Crosse Juried Show
Murphy Library, La Crosse WI 2014
Junior award Show
UWL Student Gallery, La Crosse WI 2013
Junior Show
Performance
Forum Theater, Ohio University- Athens OH 2019
Wade in the Water
Weld House Studios, Athens OH 2018-2019
Sleep On it
Seigfred Gallery Ohio University, Athens OH 2018
Flattening: Rolling self-Flat with Rolling Pin
Seigfred Gallery Ohio University Athens OH 2018
Taciturn: Ironing the Floor
The Ridges and Montrose Place, Athens OH 2017
Cut Ink: Performing the Stamp
Athens OH 2017
Burden of Change: 8+ hours holding ball of ice
Baker University Center, Ohio University, Athens OH 2017
Ownership: wearing ice neckless till it melts apart
Awards
Graduate Assistantship, Ohio University 2017-2019
School of Art Full Tuition Scholarship, Ohio University 2016-2019
Bill Fiorini Award, UW-La Crosse Juried Art Show 2014
Carol Hutchins Winther Award, UW-La Crosse Juried Art Show 2014
Junior Show Award Show Recipient, UW-La Crosse 2013
Additional Professional Experience
Administrative and Management Experience
Publicity Assistant: Social Media coordinator, Ohio University Collage of Fine Arts and 2018-2019
Kennedy Museum of Art, Carrie Mae Weems Visiting Artist, Athens, OH
Social Media Management, Ohio University Sculpture + Expanded Practice, Athens OH, 2016-2019
Publicity Assistant: Social Media coordinator, Temporal and Corporal Art Show, Athens OH 2017-2018
Water Front Coordinator, Fortune Lake Lutheran Camp, Crystal Falls MI 2013-2014
Student Advisor, UW-La Crosse Residence Life, La Crosse WI 2012-2013
Student Advisor for Activity’s and Relations Committee
Public Relations Coordinator, UW-La Crosse Residence Life, La Crosse, WI 2012-2013
Vagabond Councilor Coordinator, Fortune Lake Lutheran Camp, Crystal Falls MI 2012
Public Relations Chair, UW-L Hutchison Hall, La Crosse, WI 2011-2012
Additional Teaching Experience
Art Instructor, 4-H Day Workshop, Green Lake County WI 2016
Teacher, Christian Chapel Preschool, Onalaska, WI 2013-2015
Art Instructor, 4-H Day Workshop, Green Lake County WI 2014
Lifeguard Instructor, Fortune Lake Lutheran Camp, Crystal Falls MI 2013-2016
Arts and Crafts Coordinator, Fortune Lake Lutheran Camp, Crystal Falls MI 2011
Conferences
International Sculpture Conference, Pittsburgh PA 2016
National Conference on Education for the Ceramic Arts, Pittsburgh PA 2018
Women in Graduate School Conference, Athens OH 2019
Curatorial Experience
Juror, Temporal and Corporal Art Show, Athens, OH 2017- 2018
Artist Talks
Mitchel Auditorium Ohio University Athens, OH Performance and Artist Talk Taciturn 2017