Born
1972
Hometown
Ventura, Ca..
Education
2010 MFA Otis College of Art and Design
1997
B.A. Art History, U.C.L.A.
1997 University of Georgia Archaeological Field Excavation, Carthage,
Tunisia.
1993 Churchill College of the Arts, Cambridge University, England.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010
A Place Without A Place, MFA Thesis Installation, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles
2007 Bloom, Elizabeth Paige
Smith, Venice CA.
2005 Ground, William Turner Gallery, Bergamot Station, Los Angeles.
2003
New Paintings, Highways Upstairs Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
The Bigger Picture, Curated by Shana Nys Dambrot at Edgar Varela Projects, Downtown Los Angeles
2010
Women Of Uncertain Age, Samuel Freeman Gallery, Bergamot Station, Los Angeles
2010 All Together Now, Bolsky
Gallery Los Angeles
2010 High Noon, Video Installation, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles
2009
Mid Residency Exhibition, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles
2008 GLAMFA, CSULB
2008 Best in Show, ISM Long
Beach, CA.
2007 Family Garden, Elizabeth Paige Smith Atelier, Venice CA.
2006 Flow, curated by Peter
Frank, Riverside Art Museum
2005 Flow, Curated by Peter Frank, Berman Turner Projects,
Bergamot
Station
Art Fairs
2007
Art Fiera, Bologna, Italy. Galerie Davide Gallo
2006 Preview Berlin, Emerging Art Fair, Berlin Germany.
Galerie Davide Gallo
Scholarships and Awards
2009 Anderson Ranch Brooks Scholarship
2008-2010 Otis Institutional
Grant
1997 UCLA Department of Classics Travel Grant for fieldwork in Classical Archaeology.
Teaching
Assistant Positions
Educational Associate- Foundation Department at Otis
College of Art and Design with Kiki Sammercelli Spring 2010. Job responsibilities include assistant to professor in foundation design
concepts, color theory, Adobe Illustrator Module Assistant, Photoshop responsibilities and critique of student work.
Painting
Dialogues with Judie Bamber 2007-2009. Job responsibilities include managing weekly readings for class discussion, organizing studio visits
with select artists and organizing and presenting images utilizing the Otis DID image Database.
In Context with Renee Petropoulos 2009. Job responsibilities include managing weekly readings for class
discussion and managing image presentation for class discussion.
Fall 2009 Graduate Studios
Lecture Series.
Job responsibilities include scheduling and negotiation of all aspects of the fall lecture series. Each week features
a different presentation by a professional artist. My job was to facilitate whatever the artist may need to present.
Payment, transportation, planning ahead and technological assistance are all aspects of the job.
Special Projects
Westernicity,
Perceptions of the West. A curated project produced at the grad studios for Open Studios in El Segundo 2009.
Sole proprietor of the sandbox an alternative gallery space in Venice CA. 1997-2003. This included
curation, sales, business management, advertising, writing of press releases etc…
Lectures
Guest lecturer at the undergrad art dept, UCSB 2006
Bibliography
Peter Frank, "Going With
The Flow"
ART LTD, March 2008
Shana Nys-Dambrot, “Made
in Los Angeles”
Tema Celeste, January/February 2006.
Peter
Frank, “Ground at William Turner Gallery,”
Art Week, December/January, 2004-2005
Shana
Nys-Dambrot, “What if Vermeer Were an Abstract Expressionist,”
Coagula Art Journal, Spring,
2003
