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Lives in Los Angeles
| Education |
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University of California, Los Angeles, MFA |
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| 1996 |
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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Summa Cum Laude, BFA |
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| Solo Exhibitions |
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| 2009 |
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What Manner Of Person Art Thou?, installation, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 2008 |
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What Manner Of Person Art Thou?, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
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A Heart Lies Beneath, Espace Croisé Centre d'art Contemporain, Roubaix, France |
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| 2004 |
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Erin Cosgrove, Capitalism Must Fund Its Own Demise!, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue) |
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A Heart Lies Beneath, video screening, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 2003 |
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The Baader-Meinhof Affair, Installation, Printed Matter Inc., New York, NY |
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| Video Screenings, Festivals, and Television |
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| 2010 |
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Creative Capital Film Screening, Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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What Manner of Person Art Thou?, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Canada |
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What Manner of Person Art Thou?, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas |
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What Manner of Person Art Thou?, Smuda Studio, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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34 Degrees North: A Selection of Artist Videos from Los Angeles, Young Project, Art Los Angeles Contemporary |
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Pulse Miami 2010, with Catharine Clark Gallery |
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The Program: An Evening of Shorts, curated by Bart Weiss, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texa |
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What Manner of Person Art Thou?, and video shorts, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio |
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Dallas VideoFest, Dallas, Texas |
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| 2009 |
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Migrating Forms Film Festival, New York, NY |
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| 2008 |
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How to... & Film Noir, Chinatown, Los Angeles, California |
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Saison Video; École Regionale Superieure D’expression Plastique, Epace Croisé
Centre d'art Contemporain, Tourcoing, France |
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City Beat, Internet Video Exhibition, Espace Croisé Centre d'art Contemporain, Roubaix, France |
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| 2006 |
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Videoformes 2006 XXIe, Videoformes, Auvergne, France |
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| 2005 |
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Bommen en Granaten: Nacht Podium, VPRO (Netherlands TV), November 6, Amsterdam |
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Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands |
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| 2004 |
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A Heart Lies Beneath, video screening, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 2003 |
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Nocturnal Video: stuff from LA and other places, Christine Koenig Gallery, Vienna, Austria |
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| 2000 |
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The Cube, The Cone and the Three Minute Egg, LA Edge Festival, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 1997 |
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Viewing the Body; Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN |
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| 1996 |
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The Body Erotic, video night; Bryant Lake Bowl, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Group Exhibitions and Performances |
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| 2010 |
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Happy Am I, Catharine Clark Gallery (media room), San Francisco, CA |
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Decalogue: Films You Can Count on Two Hands, Winkleman Gallery (curated by Eve Sussman), New York |
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Group Show, Carl Berg Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
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Three Person Show, Gallery 400 University of Illinois, Chicago |
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What Manner of Person Art Thou?, Gallery 400 University of Illinois, Chicago, (three person) |
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Happy Am I, Catharine Clark Gallery (media room), San Francisco, CA, (two person) |
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Stranger Than Fiction, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA |
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Terrain Error: Animations from the ATP Collection, Apartment 6/L40, Berlin, Germany |
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| 2009 |
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Rogue Wave ’09, LA Louver, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue) |
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Learn to Read Art: The History of Printed Matter, Artspeak, Vancouver, Canada |
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Learn To Read Art: A History of Printed Matter (1976-2009), Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany |
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Learn To Read Art: A History of Printed Matter (1976-2009), P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island |
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| 2008 |
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Cola Fellowship Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, California |
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Divas, Musée Hector-Berlioz, La Côte-Saint-André, France, presented by MAGASIN Centre National d’Art Contemporain |
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Learn to Read Art: The History of Printed Matter, Artspeak, Vancouver, Canada |
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| 2007 |
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Electrosthetic, Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA |
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Big Secret Cache, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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Corpus Humorous, Shatford Library, Pasadena, CA |
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| 2006 |
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Los Angeles Art Now, Galleri S.E International Contemporary Art, Bergen, Norway |
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The Armory Show, Specific Object/Susan Inglett, NY, NY |
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Drawings from L.A., Carl Berg Projects, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
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Pardners, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA |
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Car:turally, Arden2, Costa Mesa, CA |
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| 2005 |
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Life. A User’s Manuel, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany |
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van RAF tot Hofstad, Kunste en Terrorisme, Impakt, Utrecht, The Netherlands |
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Group, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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Six City Book Reading/Lecture Tour of Germany for German release of Die Baader-Meinhof-Affäre: Ein romantisches Manifest: Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), Besuch der Buchmesse/bookfaire and Blauer Salon (Leipzig), Münchner Kammerspiele (Munich), Thalia Theater (Hamburg), Schauspielhaus (Frankfurt), Mascotte (Zürich) |
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On Imagining Terror: The RAF. An Exhibition, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Landesmuseum Joanneum in Graz, Austria (catalogue) |
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100 Artists See God, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA, Albright College Freedman Art Gallery, Reading, Pennsylvania (catalogue) |
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| 2004 |
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Recorded Matter, a scripted one hour radio show performance with David Platzker, WPS1 radio associated with PS1, New York |
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Auto-repeat, group video show,Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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Author Reading, Sculpture Center, collaborative reading with John Baldessari, New York |
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DRIFT, a collaboration with John Baldessari, Centro de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal (catalogue) |
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Author Reading, Art Speak Gallery, collaborative reading with John Baldessari for Heartways, Vancouver, Canada |
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Carpet Bag, Cozy Space, curated by Kristin Calabrese, New York |
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100 Artists See God, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, and The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England |
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| 2003 |
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Author Reading and Book Signing, Fact and Fiction, book reading/ performance, Missoula, MT |
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From the Flat Files, Ramp Gallery, Hamilton, New Zealand |
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Pulp Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY |
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The Baader-Meinhof Affair, performance, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY |
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An Interest in Life, Apexart Gallery, New York, NY |
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| 2002 |
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Ghost Stories, collaboration with John Baldessari Hammer Museum, Los Angeles,CA |
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Erotic Night, collaboration with Hirsch Perlman, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles,CA |
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| 2001 |
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Snapshot New Art from Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles,CA |
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Seven Romance Novels, installation and performance, UCLA Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 1999 |
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CAA Art Show; video, Barnsdale Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 1997 |
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Sauna Hut, installation; Famine Chorus Gallery, Minneapolis, MN |
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| 1996 |
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Kiki's Secret, Jerome Installation Commissions; Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN |
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Centerfold and Big Dick Contest installations; No Name SoapFactory, Minneapolis, MN |
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| 1995 |
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Bed Rock, allgirls Gallery, Berlin, Germany |
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| 1994 |
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Beating the Bounds, Walker Art Center’s Out There Series, Southern Theater, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Grants and Awards |
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| 2010 |
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Contemporary Collectors Artist Fellowship |
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| 2009 |
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2009 Muriel Pollia Award (Creative Capital) |
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| 2008 |
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Creative Capital Film and Video Grant |
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Center for Cultural Innovation Investing in Artists Grant |
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| 2007 |
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City of Los Angeles (COLA) Fellowship |
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| 2006 |
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Teacher’s Excellence Award, West Los Angeles Community College |
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| 2005 |
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Special Jury Selection from Impakt Film Festival |
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| 2004 |
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John
Simon Guggenheim Fellowship |
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| 2003 |
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TVLab, Sundance Channel’s production of 7-minute animation and live action production of A Heart Lies Beneath |
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Teacher’s Excellence Award, West Los Angeles Community College |
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| 2002 |
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Durfee
Foundation, ARC Grant, Los Angeles, CA |
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Printed Matter support for publishing The Baader-Meinhof Affair: New York City’s Department of Cultural Affairs, The Andy Warhol Foundation, the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation and the Heyday Foundation |
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| 1997 |
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Artist Fellowship; State Arts Board, St. Paul, MN; individual artist grant |
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| 1996 |
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Jerome
Installation Grant; Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN |
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| 1994 |
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Katherine E. Sullivan Study Abroad Scholarship, scholarship for one year travel and study abroad |
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Travel Grant for 1994 College Art Association and Woman's Caucus for Art; New York, New York |
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| Publications |
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| 2010 |
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Rogue Wave 07/09 Catalogue, L.A. Louver, 64 pp |
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| 2009 |
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Nail V, Curatorial Practice Class Publication, CCA |
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Hammer Projects (1999-2009), Hammer Museum, 432 pp |
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| 2008 |
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Blood and Irony, Hammer Museum exhibition brochure essay, by Julian Gough |
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| 2006 |
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Myways, (pp88-96), Printed Matter, Arsenal Press and The Whitney Museum of American Art |
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| 2005 |
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Die romantischen Revoltuionare, Suddeutche Zeitung, Koln, 4/4/05 |
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Die Baader-Meinhof-Affäre, German translation of The Baader-Meinhof Affair, Blumenbar publishing, Munich, Germany |
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| 2004 |
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Co-editor and contributor to Heartways: The Exploits of Genny O, Printed Matter, Arsenal Press and The Whitney Museum |
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Baader-Meinhof Affair Legends, X-Tra Contemporary Art Quarterly, Los Angles, CA, Volume 6, Number 1, 2004, pg 20-23 |
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In My Abandoned State of Mind, Journal for Homeless Ideas, 2004 |
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| 2003 |
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A Hundred Flowers Have Bloomed: A Reader’s Guide to The Baader-Meinhof Affair, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, exhibition catalogue |
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Baader-Meinhof Legends, Fanzine No 1, issue 6, Berlin, Germany |
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The Baader-Meinhof Affair, Printed Matter Inc., New York, NY |
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Night Nurse, collaboration with John Baldessari in Naked Came the ****, apublication for
Rita McBride, Germany |
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| Bibliography |
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| 2010 |
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Art Review, KQED Arts, March 4, by Danielle Sommer |
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Pleasure Dome Presents Canadian Premiere of Erin Cosgrove’s “What Manner of Person Art Thou?”, Toronto Film Scene, February 27, by Jovana Jankovic |
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Danielle Sommer, Art Review, KQED Arts, March 4 |
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Roxanne Samer, Video Art in Chicago During Summer 2010, Chicago Art Magazine, June 03, 2010 |
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This week’s picks, Chicago Time Out, April 27 |
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| 2009 |
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Erin Cosgrove at UCLA Hammer Museum and Carl Berg Gallery, LA Times, Feb 26, by Holly Myers |
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'Rogue Wave '09’ at L.A. Louver Gallery, Los Angeles Times, July 24, by David Pagel |
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What Manner of Artist Art Thou?, KCET.Org, Blur + Sharpen, February 16, by Holly Willis |
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Erin Cosgrove, Artforum Picks, Artforum.com, January, 2009, by Micol Hebron |
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Hammer Projects: 1999 – 2009, Hammer Museum Publication, James Elaine, Ann Philbin, (essay by Julian Gough) 432 pp |
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Erin Cosgrove at Carl Berg Gallery, Artweek, May 2009, Volume 40, pg 18, by Mary Anna Pomonis |
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Film examines modern evil, Daily Bruin, January 12, 2009, by Jake Ayers |
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Erin Cosgrove, DailyServing.com, an international forum for the contemporary visual arts, February 10, by Catherine Wagley |
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Continuing and Recommended, Art Scene Magazine, March 09 |
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Erin Cosgrove, 3R1N |<()56R0V3, Leap into the Void- imoralist.blogspot.com, Feb 20, 09, by Michael Buitron |
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Erin Cosgrove’s Exhibit "What Manner of Person Art Thou?", UCLA Radio, March 8, By Hannah Lee |
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Erin Cosgrove “What Manner of Person Art Thou?”, Art Blog Comments, Feb 27, 09 By Bill Gusky (artblogcomments.blogspot.com) |
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The Art of Philosophy: Erin Cosgrove's What Manner of Person Art Thou, Pareidoliac, February 22, 09, by (pareidoliac.blogspot.com- London, England) |
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Gallery Guide, Larchmont Chronicle, March 09, by Joe Ward |
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Vom Eindruck Zum Ausdruck, Artnet.de Magazine, August 25, by Astrid Mania |
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What Manner of Artist Art Thou? Review, Student Committee for the Arts at UCLA Blog, March 7, 09, by Mary Collins |
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Migrating Forms Film Festival, The L Magazine, New York, April 15, by Michael Joshua Rowin |
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Migrating Forms at Anthology Film Archives, The Village Voice, New York, April 15, by Anthony Kaufman |
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What Manner of Person Art Thou?, Art Contexto 21 pg 96-97, by Micol Hebron |
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Rogue Wave: 10 Artists from Los Angeles, Flavorpill.com, July, by Tanja Laden |
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Top 10 Summer Shows in LA, Saachi Online TV and Magazine, July 23, by Catherine Taft |
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'Rogue Wave '09’, ArtScene September, by Eleanore Welles |
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Baader to the Bone, San Francisco Bay Guardian, September 2, by Kimberly Chun |
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| 2008 |
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Continuing and Recommended Exhibitions, ArtScene, July/August, 2008 |
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C.O.L.A. Individual Artist Fellowship Catalogue, DCA, by Rosanna Albertini |
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Looking for art? It's in the book, Vancouver Sun, September 17th, by Kevin Griffin |
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Artwork for the printed page at Artspeak, Vancouver Sun, September 18th, by Kevin Griffin |
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Mid-career artists are just middling, Los Angeles Times, June 7th, by David Pagel |
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Looping the RAF: pop-cultural memory strategies in the work of John Wohnseifer and Erin Cosgrove, literatur für leser 2/2008 Special Issue: Closing Borders, Bridging Gaps, by Anke S. Biendarra, p. 111-124 |
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| 2007 |
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Last Week to Browse Kiosk’s 6,000 Indy Press Works, Minneapolis Observer Quarterly, 11. 08 |
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| 2006 |
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God Only Knows, Nashville Scene, February 9, by Jim Ridley |
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Art Pick: Pardners, LA Weekly, February 7, by Peter Frank |
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| 2005 |
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Panarama Interviews: Impakt Festival, Meer TV, December 10, Utrecht Netherlands |
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"Regarding Terror" at Kunst-Werke, Art in America, June-July, by Mark Gisbourne |
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Impakt: van RAF tot Hofstad, Cut Up, Issue 22, October 3, Amsterdam |
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Übers Spiel zum Kampf, Das Poesiealbum der Guerrilla: Erin Cosgroves RAF-Liebesroman, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 08.07, by Martin Halter |
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Terror als Pose, der Spiegel Magazin, Germany, 4/05, by Silja Ukena |
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Der Blick durch die Sonnenbrille: Die Amerikanerin Erin Cosgrove hat einen Roman über die RAF geschrieben, Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, pg 3. 21/03/2005, by Annabel Wahba |
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Die Waffe der Herzen, fluter, Germany, 5/22/05, by Claudia Kramatsche |
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Eine gewagte Wiederauferstehung der R.A.F., Deutscheslandradio Kulture, 16/6/05, by Claudia Kramatschek |
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Kurz und knapp, Die Welt, Germany, 5/5/05, Nina Apin |
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“You Guys are Kinda Like Treckies” Film und Videokunst in der RAF Austellung” (essay), zeitgeschiscte-online.de, by Annette Vowinckel |
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Regarding Terror, NY Arts Magazine, May/June/05, Emma Pearse |
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Radikale Pose in Auflösung, Die Presse.com, Germany, 28/06/2005, by Thomas Kramar |
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Eine sehr amerikanische Version deutscher Geschichte, Die Tageszeitung, Germany, 17/3/05, NIM |
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Erin Cosgrove - Die Baader-Meinhof Affäre, Pep!Portal, 04/13/05 |
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A terror és ami belole látszik, A RAF és mítosza, Kon Textus, Hungary, by Fogarasi Ilona |
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Woodstock = RAF, Textem, Germany, Hannes Loichinger |
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Die Revolution bleibt heut’ im Bett, Erin Cosgrove’s Manifest “Die Baader-Meinhof-Affäre“, Die Berliner Literaturkritik, 28/04/05, by Stephanie Hardick |
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“Eine satirische Idealistin” Erin Cosgrove und “Die Baader-Meinhof-Affare, Szenemagazin, 22/03/05, by Roderich Fabian |
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Gefasst, 20 Minuten, Zurich, 20/03/05, by Jurg Zentner |
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Terrortraume, Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, 3/16/05, pg 35, by Annabel Wahba |
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The Art of Terror, The Boston Globe, 2/13, by Jefferson Chase |
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Zur Vorstellung des Terrors: Die RAF-Ausstellung, (Regarding Terror: The RAF-Exhibition) exhibition catalogue |
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Romancing the ruins of romance, by Lisa Foad,The Woman’s Post, Canada, link |
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Die großangekündigte »RAF-Ausstellung« in den Berliner Kunstwerken ist postmodern und staatskompatibel, by Matthias Reichelt, link /04 |
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Sie sitzen nackt mit dem Autor in der Sauna, by Sven Boedecker, Sonntags Zeitung, link |
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Als ich anfing zu kämpfen, Freitag, Germany, 28/01/05, byJoachim Feldmann Romantisch Verkklart, Erin Cosgrove liest aus ihrem RAF-Manifesto, Munchener Merkur, 21/03/05, by Philipp Catterfeld |
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Terroristenliebe, Neon Magazin, Germany, 05/05, by Verena Lugert |
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Schnelle Autos, Drogen, Junge Madchen, Journal Frankfurt, 06/05,by Christoph Schroder |
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Verknallt in Baader, Woman Magazin, Germany, 08/03/05 |
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Wystawa RAF w berlińskich Kunst Werke i kolejny problem niemieckiej historii, Sekcja magazyn artystyczny, 05, by Agata Lorkowska |
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| 2004 |
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DRIFT, a collaboration with John Baldessari, Centro de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal, exhibition catalogue |
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Sex with Fabio, The Globe and Mail, Vancouver, Canada, March 14, 2004, by Alexandra Gill |
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Contemporary Art is Sex, C Magazine International Contemporary Art, Canada, by Kathy Slade |
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The Story of O, The Eye Weekly, Toronto, Canada, April, 22, 2004, by Brian Joseph Davis |
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| 2003 |
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What We Think Of When We Think About Germany, Heise Zeitschriften, June 16, 2003, by David Hudson |
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Young Would-Be Terrorist in Love, Arthur Magazine, September page 46, excerpt from The Baader-Meinhof Affair |
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From the Flat Files, New Zealand Listener, September 6-12, 2003, by Jon Bywater |
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When Baader Met Meinhof, feature, Village Voice, June 11- 17, 2003, pg 48, New York, feature by R.C. Baker |
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Book Review, Umbrella Magazine, May, pg 18, Southern California, by Judith Hoffberg |
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Talk of the Town, Fanzine No 1, issue 3, Berlin, Germany, by Jona Piehl |
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Booty Call/ You’ve Gotta Have It!, Paper Magazine, June-July, pg 117, New York, NY, by Kim Hasteiter |
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The Gang’s All Here, Time Out, New York, April 10-17, pg 57, NY, Sarah Schmereler |
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Artnet News, 3/27/03, link |
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| 2002 |
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Writer’s Picks, NY Arts Volume 8 number 3 pg 44 & 47, New York |
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An Interest in Life, Apexart Gallery, New York, NY, exhibition brochure, essay by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston |
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| 2001 |
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She’s Got Brains and Beauty; MAKE Magazine, Issue 91, pg 25-27, London, England, article by Christina Valentine |
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| 1999 |
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The Cube, The Cone and the Three Minute Egg, Los Angeles, California, essay by Denise Spampinato |
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First LA Edge Festival is All Over Town, Santa Monica Mirror, September 16, 1999, by Sasha Stone |
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| 1996 |
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Art in Space, Intermedia Arts, Minnesota, essay by Bob Booker |
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| 1995 |
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Critic’s Picks, The City Pages, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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A List, The Reader, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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| Selected Public Collections |
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The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles |
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The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles |
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