Studies:

- 1990/1996: Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, 1995 Royal College of Art, London
- 2004/2005: Ma Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2008:
- Nought to Sixty, ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

2007:
- The Crystals of Time, Lentos, Museum of Modern Art, Linz
- Ursula Mayer, Centraal Museum, Impakt Fest. Utrecht
- Ursula Mayer, Monitor, video&contemporary art, Rome

2003:
- Fallen Imperial, Contemporary Art Collection Essl, Klosterneuburg, Vienna

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2009:
- EAST international, Norwich School of Art and Design

2008:
- Rooms look back, Basel Kunsthalle, Basel
- Pierotting, Gallery Juliètte Jongma, Amsterdam
- Modern Ruin, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
- Modern shorts, New Museum, New York
- Cabinet of Imaginations, Network, Aalst, Belgium
- Module Play & Box Promenade, Cell projects, London
- True Romance, Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
- The Unfair Fair, 1:1 projects, Ines Musumeci Greco, Loto Arte, Rome

2007:
- Venetian, Atmospheric, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice
- True Romance, Kunsthalle Vienna, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel
- Boston Consulting & Belvedere Contemporary art award, Augarten Contemporary, Vienna
- Invisible Mend, Lux for Lounge Gallery, London
- Held together with water, Art from the Verbund Collection, Mak Museum, Vienna
- MUSA, Museum on Demand - Austrian contemporary art in Vienna
- Frauhaus, Agency Gallery, London
- Double A Side, Stedelijk Museum, Hertognebosch and Artis den Bosch
- Depiction, perversion, repulsion, obsession, subversion, Witte de With, Rotterdam

2006:
- Facts and Fictions, RCM Art Museum, Nanjing, China
- Mise en scène, Mama, showroom for media, Rotterdam
- No space is Innocent, steirischer herbst, Forum Stadtpark, Graz
- Everybody comes to Hollyrood, Atticsalt, Edinburgh Art Festival
- Props & Prostheses, Reverberations of the Body in Contemporary Austrian Art
- Schloss Kodeljevo, Ljubljana
- Video- and photo wall, Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna
- Videotheka, Ursula-Blickle Lounge, Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna
- EuroPart. 25 peaces - contemporary art from europe, Vienna
- Videos Viennoise, Main Library, Vienna

2005:
- Faites vos jeux, Shedhalle, Zurich
- Videos Viennoise, Betonsalon, Paris
- Videotheka, Ex macelli, Prato, Italy

2004:
- * a room of one's own, 3. Berlin Biennale at Kunstwerke Berlin
- Breaking the Visual, Pavelhaus, Laafeld, Graz
- Instruction for actions, permanent Installation, Kunsthalle Vienna
- Born to be a star, k-haus, Vienna
- Vienna Lines, Wienmuseum, Vienna

2003:
- * Mothers of Invention, with a room of one's own, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna
- Love/Hate, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal, Germany
- Go Johnny Go!, Kunsthalle, Vienna
- * 21er, with fem text rapid, 20erhaus, Vienna
- Fallen Imperial, emerging artists, Contemporary Art Collection Essl, Klosterneuburg
- Out to grass, Koch & Kesslau, Berlin
- Come in, International Apartment, Vienna
- Where is the tree, which separated us, offspace Gallery, Vienna

2002:
- Das Experiment, 2b, a room of one's own, Secession, Vienna
- Let's twist again, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
- * fem text rapid, for Earworm, Audio contribution for Candice Breitz, Künstlerhaus, Bethanien, Berlin

2001:
- Das Experiment 2a: a room of one's own, Secession, Vienna
- We are a rock group, Oskar von Millerstraße, Frankfurth/Main

1999:
- With the Sound of Music, with Susi Schneider und DJ Kahn, Austrian Cultural Institute, New York

1996:
- Young art in Luxemburg, Casino Luxemburg

1995:
- Position, Neue Galerie, Linz

(*) Member of aroomofonesown 2001-2006
(*) Collaboration with Justin Hoffmann and Nina Stuhldreher

Scholarships, Awards:

- 2007: Mrsg. Otto Mauer Preis for Fine Arts
- 2005: Scholarship/Residency for London of the Federal Ministry of Art, Vienna
- 2003: State scholarship of the Federal Ministry of Art, Vienna
- 1999: Scholarship for New York of the Federal Ministry of Art, Vienna

Selected Bibliography:

- Coline Milliard, London Artist Dictionary, Flash Art 262, October 2008
- Ken Pratt, Crystal Cycle, Wound magazine 4, October 2008
- Stief, Angela, Crystalline Structures and Temporal Images, 2008, Eikon, international magazine for photography and media art #61, Vienna 2008
- Spiegler, Almut, In Schönheit verschwinden, die presse, Vienna, 2007
- Scheyerer, Nicole, Sprechende Wände, Falter, 46/07, Vienna, 2007
- White, Ian, Crystal Gazes, for Lentos Museum of Modern Art, Linz, 2007
- Trummer, Thomas, Ursula Mayer, Interiors, Boston Consulting & Belvedere Contemporary art award, Augarten Contompary, Vienna, (Hrsg.) Agnes Husslein-Arco, 2007
- Nicolaus, Schafhausen, Janssen, Renske, Changing Roles, Catalogue, Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2007
- Clark, Robert, Frauhaus, The guardian 04/07, London
- Serino Angela, Ursula Mayer, catalogue Impakt, 2007, Centraal Museum Utrecht
- Walter Seidl, Held together with water, Art from the Collection Verbund; Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern
- Farinati, Lucia, Architectures/Fictions/Re-enactments, Interview with Ursula Mayer, June 2006, published in MALMOE n.34, Graz, 2006
- Walter Seidl, International emerging artist, Annual 2006, Contemporary Magazine, London
- Nina Schedlmayer, Characteristic interrelationship of rooms, RCM Museum, Nanjing, China
- Ursula Maria Probst, Zoom, W-art 007, magazine, 2006
- Jutta Koether, Acoustic Mirror, catalogue, born to be a star, 2006 k-haus, Vienna
- Karin Pernegger, Glamour was may first sexy therapy, catalogue, born to be a star, 2006, k-haus, Vienna
- Angela Stief, Love/Hate, catalogue, Triton Verlag, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, 2003
- Justin Hoffmann, Go Johnny Go!, catalogue, Steidl Verlag, Kunsthalle 2003
- Ursula Probst, Go Johnny Go! Kunstforum international 2003, Bd.168
- Nina Schedlmayer, Goldflames out in the Sky, Fieber 2003
- Springerin, Let's twist again, Dec. 2002
- Sönke Gau, Let's twist again, Flash Art, Nov. 2002
- Nicole Scheyerer, Vienna is burning, Falter, Oct. 2002