Born in New York, NY
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

CV

• Education

• California Institute for the Arts, School of Art
    Valencia, CA, MFA: 2001


• California State University Long Beach
    Long Beach, CA, 1997-1999


• School of the Museum of Fine Arts
    Studio Art, Boston, MA, 1995-1997


• University of Vermont
    Environmental Studies, Burlington, VT, BA: 1990

• Exhibitions

• Wall Works: CART-What Do We Need to Get By and How Do We Get There?
    Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA 5/2011


• Poor Pension Math
    Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA 4/2011


• Accumulation of Mondays
    Project Row Houses Round #33, Houston, TX 10/2010


• Hard Times: Owed to Studs Terkel
    Rogue Wave Project, LA Louver, Venice, CA 4/2010


• Demand Management
    REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA June 2009


• The Unreposed
    Adamski Gallery for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany 9/2008


• Great Expectations and the Wreck of the Hope
    Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA 5/2008


• A Roof Upended
    Open Satellite, Bellevue. WA 8/2007


• Thieves Vinegar
    Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany 9/2006


• More Yellow Wallpaper
    Mullin Gallery, Occidental College, Los Angeles 10/2005


• Designated Hitters at the Spider Hole
    Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany 9/2004


• #9
    Olga Koumoundouros & Rodney McMillian, Unit #9, 5301 Sunset Blvd.
    Los Angeles, CA 4/2002


• Just in Case
    INMO Gallery, Chung King Road, Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA 4/1999

• Selected Group Exhibitions

• Crescent City Opera
    set design, directed by Yuval Sharon, Los Angeles, CA 5/2012


• Transformer Display for Community Education
    collaboration with Andrea Bowers, curated by Christine Kim,
    Art/Public and Bass Museum, Miami Beach, FL 11/2011


• Objects for the Living
    POST, curated by Karen Lofgren, Los Angeles, CA 8/2011


• Transformer Display for Community Fundraising
    Outpost for Contemporary Art, collaboration with Andrea Bowers,
    Los Angeles, CA 8/2011


• Greater LA
    curated by Benjamin Godsill, Eleaonor Cayre and Joel Mesler,
    New York, NY 5/2011


• Site as Symbol
    curated by Survey West Collaborative, FOCA, Los Angeles, CA 6/2011


• Inaugural Group Exhibition
    Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA 1/2011


• Go West
    Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, curated by Jill Dawsey
    10/2010


• Permissions
    Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA 9/2010


• Love in a Cemetery
    curated by Bob Sain & Andrea Bowers, 18th Street Arts Center,
    Santa Monica, CA 1/2010


• “That’s All Folks: The Endless Clash Between Reason and Destiny”
    curated by Michel Dewilde and Jerome Jacobs, Stadshallen Belfort,
    Bruges, Belgium 12/2009


• Rogue Wave Projects
    LA Louver, Venice, CA 7/2009


• LA 2019: Cults, Collectives & Cocooning
    curated by Ciara Ennis, 18th St. Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA 5/2009


• The Whole World is Watching
    curated by Irene Tsatsos, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
    9/2008


• Democracy in America
    performance documentation, curated by Creative Time, Park Avenue
    Armory, New York, NY 9/2008


• News from a Mime’s Thud
    performance collaboration with Rodney McMillian, curated by Creative
    Time and Blanton Museum of Art, Austin TX 6/2008


• Ohio
    w/ Andrea Bowers, David Hullfish Baily, Sam Durant, & Rodney
    McMillian, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
    11/2007


• Informal Architecture
    The Banff Centre - Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, AB, Canada 6/2007


• Touched: Artist’s and Social Engagement
    Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA 6/2007


• The Secretariat
    w/ Walead Beshty & Yoshua Okon, Aftermodern, San Francisco, CA 5/2007


• Philosophy of Time Travel
    collaboration w/ Edgar Arceneaux, Vincent Johnson, Rodney McMillian
    & Matthew Sloly, curated by Christine Kim, Studio Museum of Harlem,
    New York, NY 4/07


• On a Porch
    collaborative performance w/Rodney McMillian, LAX-Art, Los Angeles,
    CA 3/2007


• Capitol Punishment
    collaborative project w/ Pia Ronicke, Glassell School of Art,
    Houston, TX 11/2006


• Sculpture
    Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 10/2006


• Affair
    Tart,San Francisco, CA 4/2006


• A Front Porch: Concurrent and Not Opposing
    performance collaboration w/Rodney McMillian, The Suburban, Chicago,
    Illinois 3/2006


• Thing
    curated by Aimee Chang, James Elaine, Chris Myles, Armand Hammer
    Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2/2005


• New Balance Frontier
    Soap Factory, curated by Aimee Chang, Minneapolis, MN 7/2004


• Poster Project
    organized by Pia Ronicke, Coppenhagen, DN 5/2004


• Journal of Aesthetics and Protest 3 Day Extravaganza
    Machine Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 3/2004


• Rent-a-Bench
    Kunstmuseet Trapholt, Kolding, Denmark 9/2003


• Works on Paper
    Stephan Adamski Gallerie, Aachen, Germany 9/2003


• Sculpture Invitational
    Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA 8/2003


• Journal of Aesthetics and Protest
    poster collaboration, Los Angeles, CA, 1/2003


• Schindler House Reenactment
    collaboration w/MAK residents at Schindler House, Los Angeles, CA
    12/2002


• Rent-a-Bench
    site specific installation, Los Angeles, CA 12/2002


• All You Can Eat Karaoke
    C-level, Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA 11/2002


• Ars Moralis
    Gallerie Für Gegenwartskunst, Barbara Claassen-Schmal, Bremen,
    Germany 3/2001

• Catalogs

• Rogue Wave Projects
    LA Louver, Venice, CA 9/2010


• Democracy in America
    curated by Nato Thompson, Creative Time 9/2008


• Informal Architecture
    curated by Anthony Kiendel, Banff, distributed 12/2007


• Ohio
    curated by Brad Killam, Gahlberg Gallery, distributed 12/2007


• A Roof Upended
    Open Satellite, distributed 11/2007


• Philosophy of Time Travel
    curated by Christine Kim, Studio Museum of Harlem, distributed 4/2007


• Thing
    curated by James Elaine, Chris Myles, Aimee Chang, Armand Hammer
    Museum, distributed 2/2005


• Rent-a-Bench
    curated by Jacob Fabricius with artists: Olafur Elliason and Sam
    Durant, distributed 9/2003

• Grants and Commissions

• Calfund Mid-career Fellowship
    California Community Foundation, Los Angeles, CA 2012


• Foundation for Contemporary Art
    Emergency Grant, for exhibition at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles
    Projects 4/2011


• Durfee Foundation
    for exhibition to be held at REDCAT 6/2009


• Creative Capital Grantee
    for exhibition held at Studio Museum of Harlem 6/2007


• Creative Time
    for exhibition Democracy in America, Park Avenue Armory 9/2008

• Residencies/Workshops

• Open Satellite
    curated by Lead Pencil Studio, Bellevue, WA 8/2007


• Atlantic Center for the Arts
    w/ Charles Ray, Jennifer Pastor, New Smyrna Beach, FL 8/2000


• California State University Long Beach
    workshop w/ Sue Coe, Long Beach, CA 7/1999


• Frogman’s Press
    affiliated w/ University of South Dakota, Beresford, SD 8/1996

• Internships

• Center for Land Use Interpretation
    Culver City, CA 9/2000-12/2000


• Sagamore Institute
    conducted research on American Great Camps, Adirondack State Park,
    NY 6/2000-8/2000

• Public Collections

• Albright Knox Gallery
    Buffalo, NY


• The Whitney Museum of American Art
    New York, NY