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JOHN CARR
Artist, designer and curator John Carr lives and works in downtown Los Angeles. His political poster art has appeared on streets and in galleries, magazines and books internationally. He is the curator of Yo! What Happened to Peace? a traveling peace/antiwar poster exhibition, and editor of a poster art book by the same name. He maintains a blog on art for peace and related issues at yopeace.org.
Carr is also co-founder (with partner Karen Fiorito) of Hard Pressed
Studios, a printmaking operation focusing mainly on social issue
themed works, and printing with artists such as Robbie Conal and Mear One.
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OFELIA ESPARZA
Ofelia Esparza is an artist and an educator. She was born and still resides in ELA, was graduated from ELA College and Cal-State University Los Angeles, and is a retired teacher from the Los Angeles School District. She recounts that honoring her cultural heritage and family traditions have long been a driving force in her lifestyle, in her teaching, and in all her creative endeavors.
Although Ofelia is widely known for the more than 25 years of Day of the Dead Altar installations at Self Help Graphics & Art, she has also created a large body of work in printmaking there. Ofelia’s work reflects her spirituality and the honor she holds for her Mexican indigena heritage, especially rooted in the Mayan culture. She credits her mother as the greatest influence in Ofelia’s appreciation for the spiritual beauty of the natural world, and in the dignity of the people around her. This is what inspires not only her ofrendas but all of her artwork, in all its diversity. Her prints and paintings are in several private and institutional collections.
Ofelia’s work has been exhibited throughout Southern California and has been shown at several prominent national and international museums and galleries. Among these are: The Latino Museum of History, Art & Culture; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Latino Art at Long Beach; Orange Center of Contemporary Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; San Jose Heritage Plaza Art Center; The Mexican Museum San Francisco; The Mexican Museum of Chicago; Centro Cultural de Tijuana Mexico; The Glasgow Print Studio, in Glasgow, Scotland, and at many local galleries and art centers.
The artist continues to teach art, conducts workshops and she lectures in schools, colleges, and community venues. Her work has been documented in several publications and archives, and on television. A complete resume is available upon request. You can view more of her work at www.zanlovesela.com, or go to Ofelia Esparza at Google in the internet.
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RUBEN ESPARZA
Born 1962, El Paso, Texas.
1982, The Art Institute, Houston, Texas.
Lives in Los Angeles, California
"Ruben Esparza is the outsider using the visual language of the marketing/advertising aesthetic. The corporate insider who makes incisive, subversive and witty comments about our 'consumerist world gone amok! His work is pointedly subversive, using prepackaged text and highly stylized and simplified images to create 'readable stop signs'. In the juxtapositions of seemingly very simple elements, Esparza creates highly complex ideas that undermine each other. He customizes his modular images to satisfy our ever-changing psychic demographics. In Esparza's world, where the institutions of consumerism exist to fulfill all our desires, his work exists, custom-fit, to swing on the pendulum between joy and terror. Consumers no longer need to fritter their time away with the process of trauma when they can acquire Esparza's prepackaged angst." -- Richard Alexander Lou
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2002-03: In Residence, Damron Residence, Beverly Hills, California
1999-00: New Paintings, Mostly Diptychs, Beyond Baroque, Venice, California
1998: Blue LA/NY, The Doyle/Logan Gallery, West Hollywood, California
1997: Mascots, Logos and Trademarks, Beyond Baroque, Venice, California
1996: Small Baby Logos, Infinity Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
ED ED E, Beyond Baroque, Venice, California
Ruben Esparza Installation, Poodle Lounge at Zen, Los Angeles, California.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2001: The T-shirt Show, Spiral Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
Hecho en Califas: The Last Decade, Plaza de la Raza, Los Angeles, California. (Tour: Mexican Heritage Plaza, San Jose; Richmond Art Center, Richmond; La Raza Galeria, Sacramento; Arte Americas, Fresno; Centro Cultural, San Diego
2000 East of the River: Chicano Art Collectors, Santa Monica Museum of Art, SM, California.
I.Q. Pop, Soolip Gallery, West Hollywood, California.
Iconoclash, Circle Elephant Art Gallery, Hollywood, California.
L.A. National Juried Art Exhibition 4, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
Show 2000, Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
1998 Erotica," The Advocate Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
Salon du Petit," Gallery 825, Los Angeles, California.
1997 New Identities LA," Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, California. (Tour: Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles; La Casa de La Raza, Santa Barbara; Beyond Baroque, Venice; Watts Towers Art Center, Los Angeles)
1995 Rust, The Onyx Gallery, Hollywood, California.
Sex is, Allen Raz Studio, Hollywood, California.
Salad Daze 2, The Onyx Gallery, Hollywood, California.
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Gilbert, Rick: Conceptual Pop, Artweek, September 2000.
Lou, Richard: Ruben Esparza, Hecho en Califas Exhibition Catalog, January 2000
Chavez, Luiz: Ruben Esparza, Tentaciones, July 1. 2000, p.14
Frank, Peter: Hecho en Califas, Pick of the Week, LA Weekly, March 24-30
2000, p. 154.
Muchnic, Suzanne: LA's Boathouse Resurfaces, Los Angeles Times, January 28 2000, p. F37
Barron, Rachel: H.E.C. ...a new Chicano Landscape, El Andar, Winter 1999, Vol. 10, no. 3 p.17
Lemons, Stephen: Art Attack, Salon du Petit, Entertainment Today, September 5-8 1998 p. 26
Woodard, Josef: Visions of L.A., Exhibit Gives Form..., Los Angeles Times, July 3 1997, p. AS57
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Galeria del Gallo, Madrid, Spain
Galeria Sin Fronteras, Austin, Texas
Huntington Museum, UT Austin, Texas
Instituto Cultural de Baja California, Baja California, Mexico
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, Illinois
Orange County Museum of Art, Laguna, California
Santa Barbara Caridad Archive, Santa Barbara, California
Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, California
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BRANDY FLOWER
Brandy Flower is abuzz with graphic flashes. Shapes swirl, colors curl and lines get electric when Flower flips the switch. Whether freaking fresh album covers, chaotic collages, satiric stickers or tornado touched textiles Brandy is a champion of the creative and always cruising with an awesome, altered outlook. MARK OF THE BEAST exposes, in a tongue-in-cheek fashion, current issues of corporate manipulation in our society. Along with the Labrats he created a world touring art experience called UP OUR SLEEVE: the dublab covers project and, together with partner Mike Crivello, has launched an innovative initiative called
HIT+RUN. Their mobile silkscreen studio brings one-of-a-kind clothing creation to
the people. Brandy Flower is helping emblazon the world with wild sights to keep
people shining bright. www.brandyflower.com
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JOSE RAMIREZ
Jose Ramirez is an artist, author, teacher and the father of 3 girls, Tonantzin (13), Luna (7) and Sol(1).
He received a BFA (1990) and an MFA (1993) in art from UC Berkeley. In 2001 he received the Brody Award/Getty Visual Arts Fellowship.
He has taught in LAUSD for over 14 years and is currently teaching 3rd grade at Esperanza Elementary in the Pico-Union neighborhood of Los Angeles.
He has illustrated 6 children's books including Quinito's Neighborhood (2005), Frog and Friends Save Humanity(2005), Zapata para los Niños (2004) and is currently working on Papito Dios (2007).
Among his commissions he has worked for several non-profit organizations, hospitals, cities, film and television companies and cultural centers across the country. In addition, he has lectured and exhibited his work in museums, universities, galleries and cultural centers in New York, Washington DC, San Francisco, San Diego, Texas, Japan and Mexico.
For more info please visit: www.ramirezart.com
MARYCARMEN ARROYO MACIAS
PREMIOS, RECONOCIMIENTOS Y/O PUBLICACIONES
2008 Bienal MIRADAS 2008: Premio de adquisición. Fundación CODET. Tijuana, Baja California.
2006 Magna Cum Laude: Reconocimiento por excelencia en promedio durante la licenciatura en artes plásticas. Universidad de las Américas Puebla, San Andrés Cholula, Puebla.
2005 5ta Bienal Puebla de los Ángeles. Migración: reconfiguración transnacional y flujos de población 2: do Premio de adquisición. Universidad Iberoamericana Golfo-Centro. Puebla, Puebla.
2004 La virgen de Guadalupe: Concurso Nacional para publicación dentro de la revista Cuarto Oscuro. Publicación fotográfica de la obra Mano negra.
EXPOSICIONES INDIVIDUALES
2008
Encuentros Transdimensionales. Fracc. La Rivera I, Momoxpan. Muestra del proyecto, Jonuta organizado por CazaMovil. San Andrés Cholula, Puebla.
EXPOSICIONES COLECTIVAS
2008
EnTijuanarte 2008. Centro Cultural Tijuana. Tijuana, Baja California.
Bienal MIRADAS2008. Instituto de Cultura de Baja California. Tijuana, Baja California.
Sonda. Proyecto realizado por el colectivo Ediciones PlanB. Muestra dentro de diferentes puntos de la ciudad. Oaxaca, Oaxaca.
IDENTIDAD-BUS, CAMIÓN, PECERO, COMBI, ETC”. Muestra dentro de la web de 19 artistas de diferentes ciudades del globo, bajo la reflexión del tema de identidad dentro-fuera-alrededor de los transportes colectivos. Se genera en la ciudad de Tijuana, Baja California.
Exposición Colectiva. Casa de Cultura. Guadalajara, Jalisco.
Exposición Colectiva Casa de Cultura. Casitas, Veracruz.
2007
Exposición Colectiva Tlaxcala-Puebla. Casa de Cultura. San Pablo del Monte, Tlaxcala.
2005
V Encuentro Estatal de Arte Contemporáneo de Puebla 2005. Galería de Arte Contemporáneo y Diseño. Puebla, Puebla.
Sillas. Proyecto de CazaMovil. Llevado a cabo dentro del
V Encuentro Estatal de Arte Contemporáneo de Puebla 2005”. Galería de Arte Contemporáneo y Diseño. Puebla, Puebla.
5ta Bienal Puebla de los Ángeles. Migración: reconfiguración transnacional y flujos de población Universidad Iberoamericana Golfo-Centro. Puebla, Puebla.
Remolque. Proyecto de CazaMovil. Junta Auxiliar La Resurrección, Col. El Carmen y Col. Bugambilias. Puebla, Puebla.
Exposición de alumnos de artes plásticas de la UDLA-P. Centro Comercial Angelópolis. Puebla, Puebla
2004
La virgen de Guadalupe. Revista fotográfica Cuartoscuro. Museo Nacional de Antropología e Historia. México, D.F
IV Encuentro Estatal de Arte Contemporáneo Puebla 2004. Galería de Arte Contemporáneo y Diseño. Puebla, Puebla.
Taller de Litografía de la UDLA-P. Taller Erasto Cortes, Puebla, Pue.
Percepciones Impresas. Colegio Ignacio Bernal, Universidad de las Américas Puebla.
Prostitución en el arte. Colegio Ignacio Bernal, Universidad de las Américas Puebla.
2003
El Tianguis 1er Expo-Venta de Arte Universitario. Biblioteca de la Universidad de las Américas, Puebla.
2002
Veryveryver”. Sala José Luis Cuevas, Universidad de las Américas, Puebla.
2001
1ª Bienal de la Feria de Mayo”. Exposición colectiva. Recinto Ferial de la ciudad de Puebla, Puebla.
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MELY BARRAGÁN
Exposiciones Individuales
2007 Dream Catcher, Centro Estatal de las Artes (CEART), Mexicali, B.C
2005 Casi Perfectas, Galería H&H, Tijuana, B.C.,México.
2003 Los Guerreros, Palacio Municipal de Tijuana B.C. México.
2002 Más que gente, galería Benjamín Serrano, Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana B.C., México.
- Mi gente, galería juvenil del Centro Causa Joven, Tijuana B.C., México.
Premios y Becas
2005 Becaria Desarrollo Artístico Individual en artes visuales del Fondo Estatal para La Cultura y Las Artes de Baja California.
2001 Becaria JÓVENES CREADORES en artes visuales del Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes de Baja California.
- Anual de los Nuevos Valores en la Plástica, Tercer lugar en pintura, galería de la Biblioteca Benito Juárez, Tijuana B.C., México.
Foros Y Conferencias
2006 Strange New World/ Extraño Nuevo Mundo, Mueso de arte Contemporáneo de San Diego, MCASD, San Diego CA.
2005 Gendered Expressions Mujeres en las Artes y su visión del mundo, Donald Wright Auditorium, Los Angeles CA.
2001 Tertulia, Pintura Fresca, Luckman Art Gallery (Luckman Art Complex), Cal State LA, Los Angeles CA, EE.UU.
Charla con los Alumnos de la pintura en Tijuana, Colegio Instituto México, Tijuana B.C.
Muestra de portafolio, Universidad de las Californias en Playas de Tijuana, B.C. México.
Artistas de Tijuana Baja California, presentación de portafolio en SDMA´S Copley Auditorium, San Diego Museum of Balboa Park, San Diego CA, EEUU.
La oportunidad de la mujer dentro de las artes, Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana B.C. México.
2000 Las artes plásticas como forma de vida, Colegio Instituto México, Tijuana B.C. México.
Exposiciones Colectivas
2008 Signos/señales, Palacio de la cultura IMAC, Tijuana B.C.
Lives at the intersection, Avenue 50 studio, L.A.
Army Of Icons, New Children´s Museum, San Diego CA.
Viva México, Zacheta Nacional Gallery of Art, Varsovia, Polonia.
2007 Obra Nueva, Galeria 256, Tijuana B.B. México.
Mi Tema, Centro Cultural Tijuana B.C. México.
Tijuana Crude, Ex/convento del Carmen, Guadalajara jalisco
Strange New World/Extraño Nuevo Mundo, Museo de Arte Santa Monica,
LA. CA, EE.UU.A
2006
Tijuana Crude, L.A. Municipal Art Gallery, L.A. CA, EE.UU.A
Contemporary Art from México, Mukenteller Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA,EE.UU.A
Strange New World/Extraño Nuevo Mundo, Cultural Institute of México, Washington D.C.
Ofrendas, Galería Trópico de Nopal, LA. CA, EE.UU.A
Strange New World/Extraño Nuevo Mundo, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de San Diego, MCASD, San Diego, CA, EEUU.
Tijuana Organic, Centro Cultural Tijuana, B.C. México.
Tijuana Organic/Women Expressions, Space Galleries, Londres Gran Bretaña.
Tijuana Organic/Women Expressions, Corner House, Manchester, U.K.
Grito Creativo/ Tijuana La Tercera Nación, Programa complementario de Arco, Madrid España.
2005 Tijuana Organic/Women Expressions, Bronx River Art Center, New York, N.Y. EE.UU,A
Colectiva Posada II, Galería H&H, Tijuana, B.C., México.
Art Fair 05, con Galería H&H, Colonia, Alemania.
2004 III Bienal Internacional de Estandartes, Cecut, Tijuana, B.C., Guanajuato
LARVA, Cecut ,Tijuana, B.C., Centro de las Artes Monterrey NL , Cervantino Guanajuato Gto.México.
Múltiple, Estampa en Tijuana, Cecut, Tijuana, B.C., México.
Mujeres de Juárez, Arte contra el crimen/ binacional, Museo Estatal de Nevada, Las Vegas, EE.UU
Bienal de la UABC 2003-2004, Sala de arte de la UABC Tijuana B.C., México.
ArtWalk, Consulado mexicano de San Diego,CA, EE.UU.
Posada I: Arte sin Dogma, Galería H&H, Tijuana, B.C., México.
2003 Las Californias Mexicanas, Galería H&H, Tijuana B.C., México.
Open Studios, Artists from Baja, Galería de Arte Internacional, Solana Beach CA.
Obra Plástica de Jaime Otis, Franco Méndez y Mely Barragán, Centura, Tijuana B.C.
México.
Bienal universitaria UABC, Tijuana B.C.México
Cuatro +cuatro=mujeres en el arte,Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana, B.C.Mexico
Mujeres del Norte, ICBC galería Multiforo, Tijuana B.C., Mexico
Primer aniversario de BULBO, explanada del Cecut, Tijuana B.C. México
2002 Bienal universitaria UABC, Mexicali, Tijuana B.C.
Obra de Dos, Saverios Tijuana B.C., México.
2001 Pintura Fresca, Luckman Art Gallery ( Luckman Art complex), Cal State LA, Los Angeles, California, EE.UU.
Egosum, Autoretratos, Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana, B.C. México.
Amnistía Internacional, M.artes, San Francisco, CA.
Amnistía Internacional, M.artes, El Museo Latino de Historia y Cultura, Los Angeles California, EE.UU.
Ando-Grabando, Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana, B.C. México.
Tapetes 01, Centro Cultural Tijuana, B.C. México.
Terra-art, Latin-american contemporary art gallery, La Jolla CA, E.U.A.
Día de la Mujer, CUT Universidad, Tijuana B.C. México.
1999 Imágenes del más allá, galería del Multiforo del ICBC, M.artes, Tijuana B.C. México.
Zona Libre, Amnistía Internacional, M.artes, Tijuana B.C. México.
La Huella del Caimán, CECUTEC, Tecate, Tijuana B.C. México.
Exposición de pintura y escultura de artistas regionales, inauguración del festival,
Parque Miguel Hidalgo, Tecate, Tijuana B.C. México.
Todos somos otro, Galería de la Ciudad, Tijuana B.C. México.
Tijuana en tarjetas postales, Galería de la Ciudad, Tijuana B.C. México.
Exhibición Anual del 2000, Galería Nina Moreno, Tijuana B.C. México.
Configuraciones, Galería de la Casa de la Juventud, Tijuana B.C. México.
Sony Art Walk, Consulado Mexicano de San Diego, CA, EE.UU.
Mi gente nocturna, Discoteca ZKA (mural), Tijuana B.C. México.
De lo eterno femenino, Casa de la Cultura, Tijuana B.C. México.
1998 Art-der, Pueblo Café (revista Lumbre), Tijuana B.C. México.
México Siglo 20 (Editorial Clyo), a cargo de Enrique Krauze, como representante de los pintores jóvenes de Tijuana; Tijuana B.C. México.
Exhibición permanente, Discoteca ZKA, Tijuana B.C. México.
Diversos y semejantes, Galería de la Ciudad, Tijuana B.C. México.
Muestra de los Talleres, Galería de la UABC, Tecate, Tijuana B.C. México.
Personajes de Tijuana, Galería de la Ciudad, Tijuana B.C. México.
XVII Feria del Libro LiberArte, Palacio del Ayuntamiento de la Ciudad de Tijuana B.C. México.
Mujeres a la Octava, Galería de la Ciudad, Tijuana B.C. México.
Sony Art Walk, Consulado Mexicano de San Diego, CA, EE.UU.
Jóvenes y diversas, Galería Juvenil del Centro Causa Joven, Tijuana B.C. México.
Mujeres a la Octava, Esquina de Bodegas de Ensenada, Tijuana B.C. México.
1997 Cuenta Final, Hotel Camino Real, Tijuana B.C. México.
El Alma, M.artes, Video-instalación Casa de la Cultura, Tijuana B.C. México.
Somos los mismos, Tecate-Tijuana, Tijuana B.C. México.
Insite 97 colaboración (artista Rosangela Reno), San Diego, CA, EE.UU.
Swenga Fest, (mural) Mexitlán, Tijuana B.C. México.
Primera Exhibición de Taller, del maestro José Hugo Sánchez, Galería de la Ciudad, Tijuana B.C. México.
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Alvaro Blancarte
Nace el 27 de marzo de 1934 en la ciudad de Culiacán, Sinaloa, México. Sus padres fueron Amado Blancarte, químico farmacobiólogo, y Laura Osuna Lafarga.
Estudios
La primera en la escuela privada de la orden católica de los maristas Colegio Cervantes y en la escuela pública Álvaro Obregón en Culiacán, Sinaloa.
Secundaria y preparatoria en la escuela integrada a la Universidad de Sinaloa, antes Universidad Socialista de Occidente y aún antes el Colegio Civil-Rosales.
Cursa en el Taller de Artes Plásticas de la Universidad de Sinaloa, clases de escultura con el maestro El Diablo Bermúdez, grabado y pintura con Erasto Cortés Juárez y posteriormente con el maestro Arturo Moyers, con el cual trabaja óleo, encáustica y diferentes técnicas.
Estudia cerámica en el taller de Agustín Airola en Marbella, España.
Actividad Profesional
• Maestro de cerámica y escultura del Taller de Artes Plásticas de la Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, 1967-1972.
• Director del Taller de Artes Plásticas -1970- al que en 1971 transforma en la Escuela de Artes y Oficios de la Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa. Se mantiene como su director hasta 1972.
• Viaja a Europa becado por la Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa para investigar los sistemas de las Escuelas de Artes de España, Inglaterra y Francia, 1971-1972.
• Asesor cultural del Departamento del Distrito Federal en la Delegación Álvaro Obregón y posteriormente de la Delegación Xochimilco en la ciudad de México, 1973- 1985.
• Fundador de la Casa de la Cultura de Tepepan en la Delegación Xochimilco, 1974.
• Maestro de pintura del reclusorio femenil de Tepepan, 1984.
• Profesor de artes plásticas del Centro de Extensión Universitaria, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California-Campus Tecate, 1988-2003.
• Maestro residente de pintura, escultura e instalación en el Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Baja California, a partir de 1991.
• Miembro de la Comisión de Planeación del Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes de Baja California, 1994-1999.
• Coordinación del Diplomado en Artes Visuales efectuado en la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California-Campus Tecate, Tecate, Baja California, 1999.
• Cofundador y promotor del Festival de la Cultura y las Artes de Tecate, Baja California 1996-2001.
Exposiciones individuales
1979 Galería José María Velasco – Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, ciudad de México.
1980 Centro Cultural José Martí, ciudad de México.
Galería Arte en el Tiempo, ciudad de México.
1981 Galería Pedro Gerson, Centro Deportivo Israelita, ciudad de México.
1984 Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros, ciudad de México.
1986 Museo de Arte Moderno de Sinaloa, Culiacán, Sinaloa, México.
1988 Galería la Casa del Arte, La Jolla, California, EUA.
1989 Orígenes, Galería de la Ciudad, Mexicali, Baja California, México.
1990 Orígenes y más, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Baja California, México.
Orígenes y más, Museo de Arte Moderno de Sinaloa, Culiacán, Sinaloa, México.
En mi ventana, Iturralde Gallery, La Jolla, California, EUA.
1998 Diez de Blancarte, Galería Espacio Norte de la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tecate, Baja California, México.
1999 Las argucias del caimán, Casa de la Cultura, Tijuana, Baja California, México.
2002 Las argucias del caimán, Casa de la Cultura, Tijuana, Baja California, México.
Exposiciones Colectivas
1964 Colectiva de pintores sinaloenses, Instituto Mexicano-Norteamericano de Relaciones Culturales, ciudad de México.
1976 El árbol en el arte, Museo de Palacio de Bellas Artes, ciudad de México.
1977 Instituto Politécnico Nacional, ciudad de México.
1980 Museo de la ciudad de México.
Salón Anual de Pintura, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, ciudad de México.
Homenaje a Simón Bolivar, Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros, ciudad de México.
Centro Cultural José Martí, ciudad de México.
Galería Gloria Mandell, Malibú, California, EUA.
1981 Sahagún, Segundo Concurso Nacional de Pintura, Galería de Auditorio Nacional – Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, ciudad de México.
1982 Polyforum Cultural Sequeiros, ciudad de México.
1983 Fine Arts Gallery, La Jolla, California, EUA.
1984 Jornadas Carlos Pellicer, Casa de la Cultura, Cárdenas, Tabasco, México.
1985 Colectiva. Galerías de la Dirección de Investigación y Fomento de Cultura Regional, Sinaloa, México.
1986 Galería la Casa del Arte, La Jolla, California, EUA.
1987 Joy Tach Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, EUA.
1988 Iturralde Gallery, La Jolla, California, EUA.
1992 San Diego Contemporany Art Exhibition, Yokohama Citizens Gallery, Yokohama, Japón.
1994 La tumba, InSITE 94, Tijuana, Baja California, México.
1996 Primer Salón Internacional de Estandartes, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Baja California, México.
2000 Tijuaneros, Casa de México Benito Juárez, La Habana, Cuba.
2002 ES2002 Segunda Bienal Internacional de Estandartes, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Baja California, México.
Obra mural
• Multiplicación del Espíritu Zapatista, en el edificio de la Comisión del Lago de Texcoco ubicado en San Juan de Aragón, ciudad de México, 1980.
• Homenaje a Nabor Carrillo, en el edificio de la Comisión del Lago de Texcoco en San Juan de Aragón, ciudad de México, 1980.
• Los Hombres Rojos del Cuchumá, en el Centro de Extensión Universitaria de la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California – Campus Tecate, Baja California, México, 1990.
• Orígenes, en la Sala de Espectáculos del Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Baja California, México, 1992.
• América Unida por el Arte, realizado colectivamente por artistas de países de América en el Parque Omar Torrijos de la Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá, 1993.
• Medicina Azteca, se encuentra en un hospital para discapacitados en Gaza, Palestina, 1994.
• El Diálogo de los Coyotes, se encuentra en la planta de tratamiento de agua Peñasquitos Pump Station de Poway, San Diego, California, EUA, 1998.
Premios y Distinciones
• Primer lugar en la categoría de pintura en la VII Bienal Plástica de Baja California, 1989.
• Tercer lugar en pintura en la II Bienal del Noroeste, 1991.
• El Mérito Académico en el Área de Artística otorgado por la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, 1996.
• Creador Emérito en el Área de Artes Visuales otorgado por el Programa de Fomento a la Creación y el Desarrollo Artístico del Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes de Baja California, promoción 2001.
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LUIS GARZÓN MASABÓ
1983 Egresa de la Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Nivel Medio, José J. Tejadas, Santiago de Cuba. 1989 Estudió en el Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), en La Habana
2008 XVIBienal de Artes Plásticas de Baja California: ía del ICBC, Tijuana, B.C.
2007 Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo de la UABC: 50 Aniversario, México.
Tijuana Firmes: Colectiva Galería de la Ciudad. Palacio de la Cultura, Tijuana, B.C.
Trenza Trazo, 50 Aniversario UAS, Colectiva Escuela de Artes Plásticas, Sinaloa, Espana-México-Taiwan.
2006 1ra Bienal de Dibujo de las Américas Rafael Cauduro, 2006. Colectiva Galería de la Ciudad, Palacio de la Cultura, Tijuana, B.C.
Entijuanarte, de arte, Tijuana, BC.
Vanity Hair, projects. D’arte Salón. Colectiva,Tijuana, B.C.
Arte Cubano, con la participación de Eduardo Roca (El Choco), en el II Festival Internacional de Cultura. Centro Municipal de Cultura de Rosarito (CMAC), B.C.
Expo, en el marco del Latino Film Festival.Personal, Arts Center San Diego, California, .U.
2005 Plástica bajacaliforniana.Colectiva, en el marco del XI Festival Internacional de Guitarra de Tijuana. CECUT, Tijuana, B.C.
Arte Contemporáneo del Caribe. Colectiva,Galerie D’Art Internacional. Solana Beach, California, E.U.
Homenaje a José Martí.Colectiva,Casa de la Cultura de Playas. Tijuana, B.C.
Bienal Internacional de Arad.Colectivade Artes Plásticas, Arad Rumania.
Arte Contemporáneo Cubano. Personal,Instituto de Las Américas. La Jolla, California, E.U.
2004 Plástica bajacaliforniana.Colectiva, en el XI Festival Internacional de Guitarra,CECUT, Tijuana, B.C.
Primera Edición. Colectiva,Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, CA, E.U.
2003 Variaciones místicas. Personal, Lugar del Nopal, Tijuana, B.C.
Muestra de arte en el Concierto de Pavarotti en México.Laguna Salada, B.C.
2002 Paisaje tóxico.Colectiva,Galería El reino de este mudo.Biblioteca Nacional José
Martí. Exposición Binacional de Artistas Visuales Norteamericanos y Cubanos. La Habana.
Relevo. Colectiva,II Bienal de Artes Plásticas. La Habana,Ciudad de La Habana.
Jóvenes Creadores. Colectiva, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba.
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José Alfredo Gutierrez Jimenez
(Tijuana BC., 20 January 1982)
A self taught painter who majored in architecture from the Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana, 2007. Among his most important shows there’s Banner Contest in the San Diego international airport where he was a selected winner; Bienal Nacional Miradas, with an honorable mention gained in both 2004 and 2006; and selected for the Bienal de las Americas Rafael Cauduro Tijuana BC Mexico. He is represented by the gallery Masquerade in the San Diego Art Walk, 2005; Tijuana Crude in the Ex-Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara, Jal. and Palacio de la Cultura of Tijuana, 2007; Publico/Privado in La Caja Galería, Tijuana, 2008; and San Diego Art Walk, San Diego, CA. 2008.
He has participated in several courses that include: sculpture, art installation and architecture perspective, in the studio of the teacher Eduardo Cooley, 1993; drawing with Mtra. Martha Álvarez, 1995; photography with Architect Francisco Cuevas, 1999; Perspective with Architect Lopez Lopez, 2000; Art installation course “INSITU” with Maestra Betsabeé Romero, 2003. Additionally, course of “Promocion y gestion Cultural” being given by the Centro de Humanidades Tijuana, approved by CONACULTA. The artist received a grant from the Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes in the program Jóvenes Creadores, FOECA 2007, with the project Landscapes of War.
Represented in Tijuana by: www.lacajagaleria.com
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NONI OLABISI
Free Spirit, if I must say, choosing not to go with the traditional format of talking about the history of the artist. All for the love of our creator. i take know praise for I am only an instrument for Divine Creativity, so let your eyes take you on a journey into the depths of your heart, as you seek not what the artist is trying to convey, but what message the creator (the most High) has delivered.
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ROBERTO ROSIQUE
Cárdenas, Tabasco, México, 1956. Radica en Tijuana, B. C., desde 1987. Estudió en la Escuela de Artes Plásticas de la Universidad Veracruzana. Workshop Silkscreen. Southwestern Collage, San Diego, Ca. USA. Taller de Neográfica. INBA/ICBC. Tijuana, B. C., Méx. Taller de Serigrafía Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana y el ICBC. Tijuana, B. C. 1997. Seminario ARTE INSTALACIÓN por Felipe Ehrenberg. inSITE 97. Tijuana, B.C. Seminario / Taller de ESCULTURA EN PIEDRA por Antonio Nava. UABC/CNCA, Tecate, B. C. México. Simposium Internacional de Escultura, Tijuana, B. C., 2004.: Simposio Internacional de Teoría de Arte Contemporáneo SITAC 2004, 05,06, 07 y 08. Ha realizado desde 1970 más de 100 exposiciones colectivas y una centena de individuales en el país y el extranjero. Entre las que destacan OutSITE 97½ (arte instalación) En LA Live, 97, Downtown Artists Development Asociation (DADA), en Los Ángeles, CA. 1998. Master of Baja California, Instituto Latinoamericano de la Universidad de La Jolla, CA. 2000. Tijuaneros, Casa del Benemérito de las Américas Benito Juárez, en la Habana, Cuba. 2000. Diagnósticos Urbanos, CECUT, 2003, Entre la Necesidad y el escarnio en el Instituto Cultural Mexicano de Los Ángeles, Ca. 2003 y Tijuana, La Tercera Nación 2004, en la ciudad de Tijuana, B. C. y en la Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo (ARCO 05), Madrid. Seis de América, PetroPerú, Lima Perú, 2006, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, Tex., 2007 Tijuana Crude, Los Ángeles, CA., 2006. I Bienal Latinoamericana Rafael Cauduro de Dibujo, IMAC, Tijuana, B. C., 2006. Beyond the Border, Metro Gallery, LA, Ca. 2006, Transiciones (Escultura Contemporánea de Tijuana) Sala de Arte Contemporáneo de Sinaloa, DIFOCUR, 2007. Trenza-Trazo, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Taiwán y Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Es. 2007. Rojo (esculturas), Centro Cultural Tijuana y Centro Estatal de las Artes Mexicali, 2007. No Border Art Show, Centro Cultural La Raza, San Diego, CA; 2008, Basta, Casa de la Cultura Tijuana, 2008. A Declaration of Immigration, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, Il. 2008. Ha incursionado en el Arte instalación y la escultura. Realiza para la ciudad de Tijuana In Memoriam escultura urbana. Obtiene Primer Premio en dibujo anatómico en Medellín, Colombia en 1984, Menciones Honoríficas en Bienales de Baja California 1997 y Regionales 1999, Primer Premio en Plástica del Norte 2000. Primer premio en gráfica en la Bienal Plástica de Baja California, 2003. Tercer premio dibujo Bienal Plástica de Baja California, 2008. En 1995 la UNICEF, Houston Texas, USA le otorga un reconocimiento por su participación con obras a favor de la niñez del mundo. Mérito Académico en Artes por la UABC, 2008. Ha realizado portadas e ilustraciones para una veintena de libros y revistas nacionales. El Instituto de Cultura de Baja California realiza dos videos uno sobre su trayectoria artística 1970-2001 y un segundo sobre su serie Entre la necesidad y el escarnio. Es autor de La otra realidad, fotoplástica, editado por CNCA/CECUT, 1997. Compilador de Letras para un amigo, textos sobre la obra del Dr. Jorge Raúl López Hidalgo (escritor), editado por IMAC, 1998. Es autor de 30 Artistas Plásticos de Baja California, editado por CNCA/CECUT, 1998, El Ultimo Instante (Cuento y dibujos) CECUT/IMAC, 2000 y Los Rostros del Oficio, (dibujos de 60 artistas del estado) editado por ICBC/FOECABC, 2001. Hacedores de Imágenes (Plástica bajacaliforniana contemporánea), imágenes y textos críticos, CECUT, ICBC, IMAC, UABC, 2004. Catedrático fundador de la Licenciatura en Artes en la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California.
http://robertorosique.blogspot.com
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DANIEL RUANOVA
“Daniel Ruanova works with a variety of materials, often transforming canvases and found objects into unexpected forms. Despite his interest in drawing from popular culture, Ruanova is keenly aware of the formal concerns in painting and sculpture, and works to push the traditional boundaries of these media through his unconventional use of materials. Sometimes his sculptures take form of abstracted guns, at other times Ruanova builds his three dimensional works out of an assemblage of colorful plastic guns, tanks, and toy soldiers. He uses the fictitious worlds of children´s toys, videogames, and comic books to create an ironic take on the current realities of war and violence. Whether paying a tongue-in-cheek homage to the power and might of fictional American superheroes, or producing intensely layered paintings whose abstract compositions are built from hyper-graphic images of targets, explosions, gunshot holes, and camouflage, Ruanova presents a political commentary that is informed by the direct relationship of living at the border with the Unites States, but is global rather than local in its scope.”
(text from Catalogue: Strange New World / Art and Deign from Tijuana, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego)
2006 NOW PL@YIÑ, Galería H&H, Tijuana, B. C., México.
El Balón: el placer de la violencia, UABC, Tijuana, B. C., México
2004 GAME OVER, Tropico de Nopal Art Space, Los Angeles, CA, E.U.A.
Solo 1 Click, Galería H&H, Tijuana, B. C., México.
2003 GAME OVER, Museo de la Ciudad de Santiago de Querétaro, Qro., México.
2001 Rutas Nuevas, Centro Cultural Tijuana, B. C., Mexico.
Del 0 al 1, PINTURA/DESPINTURA, Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana, B. C., México.
2000 Procesos, Cetys Universidad, Campus Tijuana, B. C., México.
Misucesión1976, Instituto de Cultura de Baja California, Tijuana, B. C., México.
1999 SIENTATE 3, El Perro Azul, Tijuana, B. C., México.
Objeto/Sujeto/SIENTATE, Esquina de Bodegas, Mexicali, B. C., México.
1998 GLYFO URBANO, Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana, B. C., México
EXHIBICIONES COLECTIVAS
2008 Creación en movimiento, Jóvenes Creadores 2007-2008 FONCA
PROYECTO CÍVICO, EL CUBO / Centro Cultural Tijuana, B.C., México
WAR AS A WAY OF LIFE, 18th Street Art Center, Santa Mónica, CA, E.U.A.
EHRENBERG / SIGNOS Y SEÑALES, Palacio de la Cultura, Tijuana, B. C., México
Transmedios, LeDrugStrore, Tijuana, B.C., México
CIGE 2008, China Internacional Gallery Exposition, Beijing, China.
Arcaute arte contemporaneo, Monterrey, México.
2007 CIRCUS YEAR, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, EUA.
OBRA NUEVA, Arte 256, Tijuana, B. C., México.
VIVA MEXICO, Zacheta Nacional Gallery of Art, Varsovia, Polonia.
SIZE, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, E.U.A
Melbourne/Tijuana, MultiKulti, Tijuana, B. C., México.
ArtDC 07, Galería H&H, Washington DC, E.U.A.
Strange New World/Extraño Nuevo Mundo, Perspectivas de Tijuana,
Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, E.U.A.
ART MIAMI 07, Galería H&H, Miami, FL, E.U.A.
2006 Strange New World/Extraño Nuevo Mundo, Perspectivas de Tijuana,
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, E.U.A.
Tijuana CRUDE, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, E.U.A.
artLA 06, Galería H&H, Los Angeles, CA, E.U.A.
2005 art.fair05, Galería H&H, Colonia, Alemania
Perro No Come Perro, Proyecto La Máquina, Monterrey, México.
Las Fronteras de la Narco-cultura, Museo de la UABC, Mexicali, B. C., México.
Centro Estatal de las Artes, Exposición Inaugural, Mexicali, B. C., México
Grito Creativo Tijuana la Tercera Nación, Madrid, España.
2004 ColectivoContemporáneoTIJUANA2004, Tijuana, B. C., México.
Múltiple, Centro Cultural Tijuana, B.C., México.
LARVA, Centro de las Artes, Monterrey, México.
RedBall, Sushi Perfomance and Visual Art, San Diego, CA, E.U.A.
Tijuana, LA TERCERA NACIÓN, Frontera Internacional México-E.U.A. y
canalización del Rio Tijuana, B. C., México
LARVA, Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT), Tijuana, B. C., México.
2003 Las Californias Mexicanas, Galería H&H, Tijuana, B. C., México.
Galerie D´Art International, Artistas de Baja COVA, Solana Beach, CA, E. U. A.
Experimento X, Nuc´them (proyección de video), Cesar´s, Tijuana, B. C, México.
2002 Daniel Ruanova, Enrique Minjares, Esquina de Bodegas, Ensenada, B. C., México.
Estudios Abiertos/Open Studios 2002, Cova alternative Gallery, SD, CA, E. U. A..
Obra de 2, Villa Saverios, Tijuana, B. C.,México.
Bienal Internacional de Estandartes, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Curadora: Marta Palau, Tijuana, B. C., México.
Encuentro Nacional de Arte Jóven, Instituto Cultural de Aguascalientes, México.
Ando-Grabando, Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, California, E. U. A.
Across the Border, COVA Gallery at ACI, San Diego CA, E.U.A.
2001 Los Novísimos, Muca Roma (Museo Universitario de Ciencia y Arte UNAM),
Curador: Carlos Aranda Marquez, Ciudad de México.
Pintura Fresca, Luckman Art Gallery (Luckman Art Complex), CalState LA,
Organizador: Luis Ituarte, Los Angeles, California, E. U. A.
Ando-Grabando, Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana, B. C., México.
Terra-art, Latin-american contemporary art gallery, La Jolla, CA, E.U.A.
Grabados Cruzando Fronteras, Exposición Binacional de Grabadores
Norteamericanos y Mexicanos, Galería 23 y 12, Vedado, La Habana, Cuba.
2000 6ta. Bienal Universitaria (1er Lugar/Pintura), Sala de Arte de la
Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana, B. C., México.
La Huella del Caimán, Festival de la Cultura de Tecate, B. C., México.
Todos Somos Otro, Galería de la Ciudad de Tijuana, B. C., México.
Exhibición Anual 2000, Galería Nina Moreno, Tijuana, B. C., México.
CONFIGURACIONES, Galería de la Casa de la Juventud, Tijuana, B. C., México.
Exilios del Polvo, Centro Cultural de Tijuana (CECUT), B. C., México.
Collage de FONDO, Galería del Multiforo del ICBC, Tijuana, B. C., México.
1999 INDEPENDENCE, Centro Cultural de la Raza (Parque Balboa), San Diego, CA, E.U.A.
REFLEJO: El Cuerpo Erótico y Místico Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana, B. C., México.
NUCLEOARTE, Exposición Inaugural, El Perro Azul, Tijuana, B. C., México.
SonyARTWALK, Consulado de México, San Diego, CA, E.U.A.
1998 VARIACIONES, Inauguración de Galería Causa Joven de Tijuana, B. C., México.
Taller de Encáustica de Alberto Castro Leñero, Galería Extensión Universitaria UABC, Tecate, B. C., México.
Festival de la Cultura de Tecate, Exposición Anual, Tecate, B. C., México.
CONTACT-O, UIA Noroeste, Tijuana, B. C., México. MCASD, San Diego, CA. E.U.A.
De lo Conceptual a lo Retinal y Viceversa, Galería de la Ciudad Tijuana, B. C., Mx.
Salón Anual Nuevos Valores de la Plástica Bajacaliforniana, Instituto de Cultura de Baja California, Mexicali~Tijuana~Ensenada, B. C., México.
1997 Primera muestra de Talleres del CEHU, Centro de Humanidades de
Baja California A.C., Galería de la Ciudad de Tijuana, B. C., México.
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SANDOW BIRK
Los Angeles artist Sandow Birk is a graduate of the Otis/Parson's Art Institute whose work has dealt with contemporary life in its entirety. His themes have included inner city violence, graffiti, various political issues, travel, prisons, surfing, and skateboarding. He was a recipient of an NEA International Travel Grant to Mexico City in 1995, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996, and a Fulbright Fellowship to Rio de Janeiro for 1997. In 1999 he was awarded a Getty Fellowship for painting, followed by a City of Los Angeles (COLA) Fellowship in 2001. His series of idyllic landscape paintings of prisons was exhibited at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum in 2001 and in New York in 2002. Most recently, he has completed a project involving the rewriting and illustrating of the entire Divine Comedy into contemporary American English. The resulting exhibition Sandow Birk’s Divine Comedy was shown at the San Jose Museum of Art in 2005 and traveled to several institutions. He has just completed a feature film, Dante’s Inferno. He was awarded an Artist Research Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. in 2007, and he was an Artist in Residence at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2008.
Sandow is represented by the Koplin del Rio Gallery in Los Angeles, Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco, and P.P.O.W. Gallery in New York City.
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LAUREN BON
BORN 1962 NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT
CURRENTLY LIVES AND WORKS IN LOS ANGELES, CA
EDUCATION
1989 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BOSTON, MASTERS OF
ARCHITECTURE
1985 ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION, LONDON
1984 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, PRINCETON, BACHELOR OF ARTS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 BEES AND MEAT, ACE GALLERY LOS ANGELES
2003 PROJECT ROOM: HAND HELD OBJECTS, SANTA MONICA MUSEUM OF ART,
SANTA MONICA
2001 INVISIBLE AND FREE: CONJURING WORLDS IN THE MIND’S EYE, MILLER
BLOCK GALLERY, BOSTON
2001 INVISIBLE AND FREE: CONJURING WORLDS IN THE MIND’S EYE, ROBERT
BERMAN GALLERY, LOS ANGELES
1999 RELEASING FEAR PROJECT, MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, BELFAST
DIAGRAMS OF CHORA, MILLER BLOCK GALLERY, BOSTON
1998 SCULPTURE, HEREFORD SALON, LONDON
1997 FROM A DISTANCE, FREUD MUSEUM, LONDON
1996 BUILT ON SILENCE, DANIELLE ARNAUD CONTEMPORARY ART, LONDON
THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE, MAIDESTONE LIBRARY GALLERY, KENT
1995 STUDIES FROM MY PREGNANCY, HEREFORD SALON, LONDON
1994 BECKETT PIECES, OXFORD UNIVERSITY, OXFORD
1993 TOTEMS, HEREFORD SALON, LONDON
1991 ARTIST IN RESIDENCY EXHIBITION, FOREST SCHOOL, BERKSHIRE
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 QUEEN BEES: ECO-ACTIONS AND COLLECTIVE ORGANIZING, IRENE CARLSON GALLERY, UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE, LA VERNE
INCOGNITO, SANTA MONICA MUSEUM OF ART, SANTA MONICA
100 GOOD IDEAS TO CHANGE THE WORLD, HAYWARD GALLERY, LONDON
2005 THING: NEW SCULPTURES FROM LOS ANGELES, UCLA HAMMER ART MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES
2003 L.A. “UNPLUGGED”, L.A. INTERNATIONAL, CHINATOWN
2000 BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE, HEREFORD SALON, LONDON
1997 GALLERY ARTISTS’ DRAWINGS, DANIELLE ARNAUD CONTEMPORARY ART,
LONDON
SCULPTURE AND THE NOMADIC AESTHETIC IN CONTEMPORARY ART, HEREFORD SALON, LONDON
1996 THE GLASS BORDER, DANIELLE ARNAUD CONTEMPORARY ART, LONDON
1995 NEW SCULPTURE, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND PAINTINGS, HEREFORD SALON, LONDON
1994 THE LANGUAGE OF MAKING, THE ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION, LONDON
1987 PRO-PEACE EXHIBITION, L.A. LOUVER, LOS ANGELES
COMMISSIONS
1998 A PIECE OF A MONOLOGUE, AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE, CAMBRIDGE
1997 HAZE SOLE CERTITUDE, THE OLD MUSEUM, BELFAST
1992 TOTEM, FOREST SCHOOL, BERKSHIRE
1989 WINING ENTRY FOR BERKLEY FREEDOM OF SPEECH PUBLIC MONUMENT
1988 PASSAGES, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BOSTON
URBAN AND PUBLIC PROJECTS
2007 FARMLAB, LOS ANGELES
GARDEN OF BROKENNESS, LOS ANGELES
SOUTH CENTRAL TREE MEMORIAL, LOS ANGELES
2005 NOT A CORNFIELD, LOS ANGELES
1999 RELEASING FEAR, BELFAST
1993 THAT MIGHTY SCULPTOR TIME, HONG KONG AND LOS ANGELES
LANDMARK SITE, IN COLLABORATION WITH TAO HO ARCHITECTS, HONG KONG
1992 ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIVE BRIDGE, EDINBURGH
1991 ANATOMY, BELGRADE
SIGNING, BELGRADE
URBAN EXCAVATIONS, BELGRADE
1989 OFFERING, BOSTON
SYMPOSIA
2007 CEASEFIRE! BRIDGING THE POLITICAL DIVIDE: PROBLEM SOLVERS; PANELISTS: LAUREN BON, SHERRY LANSING, KEVIN WALL; MODERATOR: JUDY WOODRUFF, JUNE 19, 2007
1997 FIRST HEREFORD SALON SYMPOSIUM, ILLUSION OF FREEDOM; SPEAKERS: RANKO BON, GORAN DJORDJEVIC, JUDITH SCHONEVELD AND GUISEPPE MASTRUZZO; PARTICIPANTS: SELCUK AVCI, LUTZ BECKER, LAUREN AND MARKO BON, SUE MALVERN, GEORGE PERENDIA, GEOFFREY POWIS, GILES, SIMON RAE-SCOTT, PAUL RHYS, AND HELEN WILKS, JUNE 27-28, 1997
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MARK BRADFORD
1961 Born in Los Angeles
Lives and works in Los Angeles
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005
Grace and Measure, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, New York
2004
Bounce: Mark Bradford and Glenn Kaino, REDCAT, Los Angeles
2003
Very Powerful Lords, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York,
New York
Tainted, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York, New York
2002
Caught Up, Suzanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles
Mark Bradford, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica
That Wasn’t My Car You Saw, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Project Series 16: Mark Bradford, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont
2001
I Don't Think You Ready For This Jelly, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York
2000
Color Theory, Luggage Store, San Francisco
1999
European Wavy, Two Rivers Gallery, Pittsburgh
1998
Distribution, Deep River, Los Angeles
Floss, Walter McLean Gallery, San Francisco
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005
Cut, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects,
Los Angeles
inSite: Art Practices in the Public Domain, San Diego, CA and Tijuana, Mexico
Farsites, San Diego Museum of Art, CA and the Centro Cultural de Tijuana, Mexico
Rogue Wave ’05: Nineteen Artists from Los Angeles, L.A. Louver, Venice
African Queen, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
2004
California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
Perspectives @25: A Quarter-Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
New Balance Frontier, Soap Factory, Minneapolis
Broad Territories, UCR/California Museum of Photography, Riverside
Fade (1990-2003), Luckman Gallery and University Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, and Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles
2003
ARCO 2003, Madrid, Spain
Lean To, Real Art Ways, Hartford
Black Belt, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
2002
Mirror Image, UCLA Hammer Museum; travels to Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
Pertaining to Painting, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; travels to Austin Museum of Art, Austin
Painting as Paradox, Artists Space, New York
Mixed Feelings, USC Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles
Ghetto Fabulous, Watts Tower Art Center, Los Angeles
2001
Freestyle, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; travels to Santa Monica Museum of Art,
Santa Monica
Snapshots: New Art from Los Angeles, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; travels to Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami Beach
Capital Art, 2001, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica
2000
Contemporary Art by African American Artists, The Art Museum of Princeton
Fresh Cut Afros, Watts Towers Gallery, Los Angeles
Black Male, Reginald Ingraham Gallery, Los Angeles
1999
A Place Called Lovely, Greene Naftali, New York
Biennale Internazionale 1999, Palazzo degli Affari, Florence, Italy
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GEORGE HERMS
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1957 Secret Exhibition, Hermosa Beach, CA
1959 Jubilee, Toulumne, CA
1960 Semina Gallery, Larkspur, CA
1961 Batman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1962 Aura Gallery, Pasadena, CA
1963 Nativity ‘63, Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1965 Spring Visions, Stryke Gallery, New York, NY
1966 Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1969 Faithquake, Molly Barnes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Foggy Wagons, Laguna Beach, CA
1970 Holiday Exhibition, Molly Barnes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1972 George Herms Selected Works 1960-1972, California State University, Los Angeles
1973 George Herms Selected Works 1960-1973, Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California, Davis
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1975 California State University, San Jose, CA
Pseudonymphia, TJB Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1976 Sets and Related Works, Pasadena Artists Co-op, Pasadena, CA
L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
Session, 80 Langton Street, San Francisco, CA
1977 Unbeknownst, Manitoba Museum of Finds Art, San Francisco, CA
1978 Arco Center for the Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA
1979 The Prometheus Archives: A Retrospective Exhibition of the Works of George Herms, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA; The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
1980 Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
Stage One Gallery, Orange, CA
1981 Score, University of Denver Art Gallery, Denver, CO
Time Reliefs and Ringers, Schaffner Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
1982 Eight Etudes, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA
Pre-Rome Sacraments and/or Rawtracks, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
1984 George Herms: Rome Poem, Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, CA
1985 Jacaranda Project, Junior Arts Center, Barnsdall Municipal Park, Los Angeles, CA
1986 Recent Sculpture, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
Oscarsson/Siegeltuch Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Salute to Paul Beattie, California Museum of Fine Art, Santa Rosa, CA
Rome Poem Revisited, Tyler Gallery, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1989 L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
1990 George Herms, Cypress College, Cypress, CA
1991 George Herms, d.p. Fong Gallery, San Jose, CA
1991-92 Alley Art and Urban Archaeology, Pasadena, CA
1992 Secret Archives: A Retrospective, LA Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993 The Twentieth Century, a theater piece by George Herms, Diverse Works, Houston, TX
1994 Project X, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
George Herms: Taking Another Look–The Art of Assemblage: Part I, Fred Spratt Gallery, San Jose, CA
Worlds in a Box, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, University of East Anglia, UK
1995 George Herms: From Then and there to Here and Now, With a Little Help From His Friends, Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner and Dennis Hopper, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
Beat Epiphanies and Home Runs, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SAM RAM, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1996 George Herms: Works Saluting San Francisco 1962-1996, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Beat Bar, Track 16 and Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Crossings, Fred Spratt Gallery, San Jose, CA
1998 Parade of Sculpture, First Street Bridge Project, Los Angeles, CA, with laser installation by Hiro Yamagata
Office of the Future, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1999 Poet Heroes of My Youth, Fred Spratt Gallery in association with Evans/Willis Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 Bed of Roses..., Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 Then and Now: Fifty Years of Assemblage, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Teagrams and Roses, Mesa Nights: A Romance of the Old Southwest, Redbud Gallery, Houston, TX
2005 George Herms: Hot Set (Walter Hopps, curator), Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
George Herms: From George Herms with LOVE Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
1960 Gangbang, Batman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1961 The Art of Assemblage, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
Object Makers, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
1962 California Collage Show, Pasadena Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
Fifty California Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
1964 Arthur Richer Benefit, San Francisco, CA
Sterling Holloway Collection, University of California, Los Angeles
1967 Selection 1967: Recent Acquisitions in Modern Art, Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
1968 Assemblage in California, University of California, Irvine
1969 Recent Acquisitions 1969, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA
The Diana Zlotnick Collection: A Collector/Point of View, California State University, Los Angeles
1970 The 60s, Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Assemblage of Assemblage, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
1971 Tableaux d’Aujourd’hui, Maitre Binoche, Paris, France
1972 Westcoast 1972, Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Cup Show, David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Surrealism is Alive and Well in the West, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
1973 Kurt Schwitters and Related Developments, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
The Betty and Monte Factor Family Collection, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA
1974 Word Works, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA
Poets of the Cities New York and San Francisco, 1950-1965, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
University of Las Vegas, NV
Giancarlo Bocchi Gallery, Milan, Italy
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Otis Library, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Mixed Media, Art Sales and Rental Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
1975 Other Voices, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
Assemblage, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Crucifixes, Betty Gold Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
3 Los Angeles Sculptors, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Environment and the New Art, University of California, Davis
1976 Realism–Points of View, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA
Great Egg Sale, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
What’s Happening in L.A. Art?, Comsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Collection without Walls, California State University, Fullerton
December Drawing, Floating Wall Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
1976-77 Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; The National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC
1977 The Artist’s Book, Mandeville Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego
Photographs by Southern California Painters and Sculptors, University of California, Santa Barbara
Hieronymous Zones, Pierce College Art Gallery, Los Angles, CA
1978 Artistry in Dining: The Perfect Meal, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
A Painting Show, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA
The Subject is the Object, Jan Baum-Iris Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Center, Anhalt-Barnes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Californians for Brown ‘78, Santa Monica, CA
3 Generations–Studies in Collage, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Sculpture ‘78, Downtown Mall, Los Angeles, CA
Southern Exposure, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Realism–Points of View, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA
From the Sublime to the Ridiculous, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Gray Matter Mail Art Show, California State University, San Diego
100 + Current Directions in Southern California Art, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, CA
Metamagic, California State University, Dominguez Hills
L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
Deja Vu: Masterpieces Updated, Downey Museum of Art and Citrus Community College, Downey, CA
1979 10 Sculptors Outdoors–15 Works, California State College, San Bernardino
1980 Furnishings by Artists, Art Gallery, Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA
Benefit for ERA, Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA
Sculpture in California 1975-80, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Major Works, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
Recent Acquisitions, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
1981 California: The State of Landscape 1972-1981, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
California: A Sense of Individualism, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
Humor in Art, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Hunger Benefit, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Collage and Assemblage, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS; Tampa Museum, Tampa, FL; Alexandria Museum, Visual Art Center, Alexandria, VA; Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts, Roanoke, VA; Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson AZ; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
Southern California Artists 1940-1980, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
Art of Assemblage, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
1982 Contemporary Triptychs, Galleries of the Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA
The West as Art, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
1983 Contemporary Collage: Extensions, Galleries of the Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA
Collage: The Americans, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Annual Exhibition, American Academy in Rome, Italy; Naples, Italy
Opening Exhibition, Functional Art, Beverly Hills, CA
The Edge Gallery, Fullerton, CA
Sight/Vision/The Urban Milieu, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Boxed Art, Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
American/European Painting and Sculpture, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
1984 To the Astonishing Horizon, Los Angeles Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA
American/European: Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
San Francisco and Los Angeles Artists, Gille Mansillon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Narrative Sculpture, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
1985 San Francisco 1945-1965, Oakland Museum of California Art, Oakland, CA
American/European: Painting and Sculpture, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
Group Show, Gille Mansillon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
MacArthur Park Public Art, Los Angeles, CA
Gala, Gala, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Anniversary Exhibition, Edge Gallery, Fullerton, CA
1986 The Continuing Magic of California Assemblage, California State University, Dominguez Hills, CA
Shrines and Altars, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Sculpture and Sculptor’s Drawings, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
1987 Assemblage, Kent Fine Art, Inc., New York, NY
Recent Acquisitions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1988 Assemblage: Poetry and Narration, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA
Lost and Found in California: Four Decades of Assemblage Art, James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Loans from the Norton Simon Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Artists Against AIDS, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
1988-89 Poetic Objects, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX (traveling)
1989 Forty Years of California Assemblage, Wight Art Gallery/UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
The ‘Junk’ Aesthetic: Assemblage of the 1950s and Early 1960s, Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County Branch, Stanford, CT
Artists Against AIDS, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
Inside the L.A. Artists, Boritzer Gray Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Rezoning (Bill Bissett, George Herms, Jess and Al Neil), Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
1990 Artist’s Artists, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Crossing the Line: Word and Image in Art, Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Pomona, CA
Novel Ideas, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Spirit of Our Time, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
The Denim Jacket Show, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Artists Unite for Big Green, Santa Monica, CA
1991 California Artist’s Books, The Armory Center, Pasadena, CA
Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, Jay deFeo, George Herms and Jess, Nicole Klagsburn Gallery, New York, NY
Art for Milk, Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1992 Sight Vision: The Urban Milieu #3 (Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, Jay deFeo, Wally Hendrick, George Herms and Jess), Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Poem Makers: Wallace Berman, George Herms and Jess, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
Telephone, Security Pacific Bank, Costa Mesa, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art Benefit Auction, Los Angeles, CA
1993 The Elegant, Irreverent and Obsessive: Drawing in Southern California, California State University, Fullerton, CA
1994 Eyeful, George Herms and Pixie Guerin, Herms/Pix Studios, Los Angeles, CA
World in a Box, South Bank Center, London, England (traveling)
Old Glory: The American Flag in Contemporary Art, Cleveland Museum of the Arts, OH
1995 Spring Treat, Spring Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1995-6 Beat Culture and the New America, 1950-1965, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
1997 Sunshine and Noir: Art in Los Angeles, 1960-1997, Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Further Explanations: Selections From a Collaboration, George Herms and James Fee, Cypress College, CA
Robert Branaman/George Herms, The Drawing Room Studios, Santa Monica, CA
The Age of Recycling, Junior Arts Center, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
Hello Again!, Oakland Art Museum, CA; Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Interconnections (Richard Akrom, Karen Finley, Mat Gleason and Pixie Guerin), SITE, The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA
1998 Coming Attractions: James Fee and George Herms, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1964, Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1999 Corroborations, A two person exhibit with James Fee, SF Cameraworks, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco International Art Exposition, with Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 Made in California: Art, Image and Identity 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
7th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI
2001 Rupture & Revision: Collage in America, Pavel Zoubok, Inc., New York, NY
2003 Cut, Copy, Paste: The Art of Contemporary Collage, De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
2004 George Herms, William Dole, Basil Langton: Collage, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004-05 Lost but Found: Assemblage, Collage and Sculpture, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
HONORS and AWARDS
1962 Servant of Holy Beauty Award
1968 National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Fellowship
1977 National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Fellowship
1982 Prix de Rome, Fellowship in Sculpture, American Academy in Rome, Italy
1983-84 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Sculpture
1984 National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Fellowship
1987 Working Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation
1989 Finalist in “Pico Seagate” competition
1998 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Award
2005 Fellowship, Getty Research Institute
PUBLIC ART
1987 Clock Tower Monument to Unknown, MacArthur Park Public Art Program, Los Angeles, CA
1988 Moon Dial, Beverly Hills, CA
1989 Portals to Poetry, Citicorp Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
THEATER
1964 Sets for Blossom or Billy the Kid, a play by Michael McClure, Poets Theater, New York, NY
1967 Environment for the lobby of The Beard, a play by Michael McClure, Warners Theater, New York, NY
1970 Egg of Nite, a theater piece by George Herms, Topanga, CA
1971 Sets for Showdown at Fork Tongue Canyon, Topanga, CA
1992 Secret Archives, a theater piece by George Herms, Municipal Art Gallery Theater, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Panel of Experts, a theater piece by George Herms, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA
1995 Asphalt Fountain Pen, a theater piece by George Herms, M.H. deYoung Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
2000 Concoction Box, a theater piece by George Herms, Museum of Contemporary Art, Angeles, CA
A Rose for the Church of Art, a theater piece by George Herms, Church of Art, The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Iris and Gerald B. Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Menil Collection, Houston, TX
M.H. deYoung Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NB
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
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HANNAH KRUT-POWELL
Hannah Krut-Powell lives and works in London, U.K.
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QINGYUN MA
Qingyun Ma was named dean of the USC School of Architecture and holder of USC’s Della and Harry MacDonald Dean’s Chair in Architecture effective January 2007.
After practicing architecture with Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates in New York City, Qingyun Ma founded the Shanghai architectural firm MADA s.p.a.m. (for strategy, planning, architecture and media) in 1996, creating award-winning projects such as the Longyang Residential complex in Shanghai and the Silk Tower in Xian.
Ma also coordinated Rem Koolhaas’s first Harvard Project on Cities, which yielded the 1993 book The Great Leap Forward. The two collaborated on the Central China TV headquarters in Beijing and the Stock Exchange Building in Shenzhen as well.
Ma’s other buildings include Qingpu Community Island in Shanghai, Centennial TV and Radio Center in Xian and Tianyi City Plaza in Ningpo. His work has been exhibited around the world, and his honors include a Design Vanguard award from Architectural Record, Phaidon’s Emerging Design Talents designation and a New Trends of Architecture designation by the Euro-Asia Foundation.
Ma has served as a visiting professor and critic at Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University as well as at ETH in Zurich, Switzerland; Berlage Institute in the Netherlands; Universität Karlsruhe and Berlin Technical University in Germany; and the École Speciale d’Architecture in Paris.
Ma earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in architecture from Tsinghua University in 1988 and holds a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts, where he also won the Frank Miles Day Memorial Prize.
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RICH NIELSEN
EDUCATION 1984-88 Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver BC, Canada Graduated with honors SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2007 Amazed, Phantom Galleries Beverly Hills, CA 'show' curated Heather Cantrell, Jail Los Angeles, CA 2006 Small Works, Berlin, Germany 2005 Figuring the Image, Washington Projects, LA, CA 2001 Drawing Show, Black Dragon Arts, Chinatown LA, CA Bloodlines, Roberts and Tilton , Los Angeles, CA 2000 For Example, Acuna Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1998 The Gramercy International Fair With Stefan, Stux Gallery ,West Hollywood ,CA Invitational ’98, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY 1995 New Painters, William Turner Gallery, Venice, CA 1991 Fresh Art, Catriona Jefferies Gallery, Vancouver, BC Headache, Catriona Jefferies Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1990 Dance Art, Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, BC 163 Gallery, Vancouver, BC Ism Ism, Smash Gallery Vancouver, BC 1989 Fax Show, Burnaby Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1988 High Rollers, Pitt International Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1988 Young Artist’88, Station Art Center, Vancouver, BC 1988 Educate, Perei Gallery, Vancouver, BC SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2005 Matrushka Construction,Los Angeles,CA 1999 Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY 1993 Cateriona Jefferies, Gallery Vancouver, BC 1992 Cateriona Jefferies, Gallery Vancouver, BC 1990 Cateriona Jefferies, Gallery Vancouver, BC SELECTED REVIEWS AND CATALOGS 2007 Beyond Baroque, Truth etc, sorry, illustrations. 2006 Figuring the Image, Catalog by Washington Projects. 2001 Doug Harvey, Snap Shots, LA Weekly 1992 Ann Rosenburge, Saturday Review, The Vancouver Sun 1992 Archie Graham, Art Now, North Shore News 1991 Archie Graham, Deciding Authority, North Shore News AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES 2007 Anderson Ranch, 2-month residency + scholarship The Vermont Studio, February 2008 The Association of Icelandic Artists (SIM), residency program Reykjavik (deferred).
FELICITY POWELL
Felicity Powell is a London-based artist whose work in various media has been exhibited in the UK and internationally and is represented in the collections of major museums.
She is also an acclaimed medalist and winner of the Millennium Medal competition organized by the Royal Mint and the British art Medal society in 1998. She has been a member of the British Art Medal Society council since 2002.
She undertook the first contemporary art commission for the V&A Department of Sculpture in 2001. This commission can currently be seen in the new sculpture gallery. Other work acquired for the V&A in 2004 can be seen in the new Glass Gallery.
She received an Arts and Humanities Research Board award for collaborative research with the department of sculpture at the V&A Museum, London, in 2002, resulting in the site-specific installation “Drawn from the Well”, sited in the main sculpture courts. It proved to be highly regarded by visitors in an independent survey carried out by the Museum. It was exhibited 2002 – 2004 until their closure for current renovation. Her photographs of the transitional sculpture spaces in the V&A are currently being used for publicity for the new Medieval and Renaissance Galleries opening in 2009.
In 2006 she was commissioned to produce a medal for the Linnaean Society in London to celebrate the Tercentenary of the birth of Carl Linnaeus, founder of the internationally recognized system of the binomial nomenclature. The medal is to be awarded for outstanding contributions in biological science.
In 2007 she was commissioned by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation to make the award for Achievement in African Leadership.
Her work has been acquired by both the Department of Prints and Drawings and the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum. She is the co-curator of the exhibition ‘Medals of Dishonour’ to be held at the British Museum, 2009.
Her work has been shown at Domo Baal Gallery in London and other work, including the animation “Anima”, was shown at David Krut Projects in New York in 2006.
She has a First class BA (hons) in Fine Art from University College Falmouth and an MA in Sculpture from the Royal Academy in London. She won the Gulbenkian Rome Scolarship in Sculpture to the British School in Rome in 1986.
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