Alumni Highlights — Archive
Summer 2009
Solo Exhibitions
| July 2-Aug 14: | Benjamin Britton, MFA '08—The Error Chain: Works on paper by Benjamin Britton—Frederieke Taylor Gallery in New York. |
| June 20-July 18: | Heather Cantrell, MFA '01—A Study in Portraiture: Act 1—Kinkead Contemporary, Culver City. |
| June 20-Aug 15: | Ruby Neri, MFA '98—This is me, is that you?—David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles. |
| May 31-Sept 20: | Annie Lapin, MFA '07—Parallel Deliria Iteration—Pasadena Museum of California Art. |
Group Exhibitions
| Aug 31-Sept 9: | Eben Goff, MFA '09; Michael van Straaten, MFA '09; Gala Porras-Kim, BA '07; Arnoldo Vargas, BA '99; and current students Matthias Merkel Hess and Ian Pines—GLAMFA '09, the Greater Los Angeles Master of Fine Arts Exhibition—Cal State Long Beach. |
| Aug 26-Oct 2: | Khiang H. Hei, MFA '96—Group exhibition at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY. |
| Aug 22-29: | Daniel Cummings, MFA '07; Michael Dopp, MFA '09; Anne McCaddon, MFA '09; RJ Messineo, MFA '09; and current students Rowan Wood (BA) and Caitlin Lonegan (MFA)—Wet Paint: Ten Young LA Painters—Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles. |
| July 16-Sept 13: | Anne Collier, MFA '01—New Works: 09.2—Artpace San Antonio. |
| July 16-Sept 19: | Micol Hebron, MFA '00, BA '05; Erin Cosgrove, MFA '01; Tia Pulitzer, MFA '06; and Annie Lapin, MFA '07—Rogue Wave '09: 10 Artists from Los Angeles—LA Louver, Venice, CA. |
| July 25-Sept 5: | Eben Goff, MFA '09—MFA Graduates 2009—Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica. |
| July 11-Aug 29: | Pearl C. Hsuing, BA '97; Ruby Neri, MFA '98; Krysten Cunningham, MFA '03; Shana Lutker, MFA '05; Annie Lapin, MFA '07; and Professor Catherine Opie—Bitch is the New Black—Honor Fraser, Los Angeles. |
| July 11-Aug 15: | Mimi Lauter, BA '05—Group exhibition at Cottage Home gallery. |
| July 2-Aug 14: | Amir H. Fallah, MFA '05—Almost Home—Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York. |
| July 1-Aug 7: | Katie Grinnan, MFA '99; Allison Miller, MFA '01; Lauren Lavitt, MFA '05; and Vishal Jugdeo, MFA '07—Tables and Chairs—curated by Jedediah Caesar, MFA '01 and Shana Lutker, MFA '05—D'Amelio Terras, New York. |
| June 27-Sept 12: | Amy Adler, MFA '95; Kurt Kauper, MFA '95; Salomon Huerta, MFA '98; Marcelino Goncalves, MFA '99; Lia Halloran, BA '99; Rebecca Campbell, MFA '01; Elliott Hundley, MFA '05; and Tia Pulitzer, MFA '06—Superficiality and Superexcrescence—Otis College of Art and Design. |
| June 27-July 9: | Arielle Bivas, BA '05; Dong Hoon Jun, BA '05; and Morgan Wells, BA '06—Monster Mongers and Retailers of Other Strange Satellites—by University of California, Irvine 2009 MFA graduates in Studio Art. Part 1 at LA><ART. Part 2 at compactspace, July 9-23, 2009. |
| June 27-Aug 15: | Amir H. Fallah, MFA '05—Remix—Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco. |
Other News
| June-Aug 2009: | Justin Cole, MFA '05; Eamon Ore-Giron, MFA '06; Brenna Youngblood, MFA '06; and Joshua Aster, MFA '07, as members of the collective, OJO, were the resident artist group at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. |
Spring 2009
Solo Exhibitions
| May 30-July 11: | Whitney Bedford, MFA '03—Solo exhibition at Suzanne Vielmetter Projects Los Angeles. |
| May 23-June 27: | Antonio Puleo, MFA '03—I Am a Bird Now—Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles. |
| May 16-July 3: | Frank Ryan, MFA '03—Circadian Rhythm—Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles. |
| May 15-July 3: | Ben Jackel, MFA '05—Compliance Solutions—L.A. Louver, Venice, CA. |
| May 8-July 24: | Tim Hawkinson, MFA '89—Solo exhibition at PaceWildenstein, New York. |
| April 23-May 21: | Amir H. Fallah, MFA '05—Make It Believe—The Third Line Gallery in Dubai. |
| April 18-May 23: | Matthew Brandt, MFA '08—Chocolate, Bees, Dust, Sperm, & Sprinkles—Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art, Culver City. |
| Apr 4-May 9: | Carolyn Castaño, MFA '01—It's Complicated—Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles. |
| Mar 21-Apr 18: | Joshua Aster, MFA '07—makeBelieve—Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles. |
| Mar 14-May 16: | Kim McCarty, MFA '88—New Work—Kim Light/Lightbox, Los Angeles. |
| Mar 14-Apr 25: | Kerry Tribe, MFA '02—H.M.—1301PE, Los Angeles |
Group Exhibitions
Awards & Honors
| May 2009: | Bia Gayotto, MFA '96 was awarded a 2009 City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Individual Artist Fellowship. An exhibition by award recipients took place at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park, May 14-July 12, 2009. |
| Jacob Yanes, MFA '08 was awarded a 2009-2010 Visual Arts Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. |
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| April 2009: | Brian Dick, BA '91 received the San Diego Art Prize and his work was featured in Discombobulated at the L-Street Fine Art Gallery at the Omni Hotel in San Diego, April 25-July 20, 2009. |
Other News
| April 2009: | Ajean Lee Ryan, BA '93 is a tenure-track faculty member in Drawing at Colorado State University. She is currently exhibiting in Seoul, South Korea, and New York City. |
Winter 2009
Solo Exhibitions
| Mar 7-Apr 4: | Elliott Hundley, MFA '05—Hekabe—Regen Projects II, Los Angeles. |
| Feb 28-Apr 4: | Sky Burchard, BA '00—All Year Round Falling in Love—Circus Gallery, Los Angeles. |
| Feb 26-Mar 28: | Rebecca Campbell, MFA '01—Poltergeist—LA Louver, Venice, CA. |
| Feb 26-Apr 4: | Juliana Romano, MFA '08—Keep the Dark Out of Your Mind—Marvelli Gallery, New York. |
| Feb 14-Mar 14: | Erin Cosgrove, MFA '01—What Manner of Person Art Thou?—Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles. |
| Feb 13-Mar 28: | Jeffrey Wells, MFA '06—Murals from the Eye to the Sky—De Soto Gallery, Culver City. |
| Feb 7-28: | John Kilduff, MFA '08—Solo exhibition at Jancar Gallery in Chinatown, Los Angeles. |
| Jan 24-Feb 14: | Farrah Karapetian, MFA '08—Tragic Muse—Sandroni.Rey, Los Angeles. |
| Jan 17-Mar 14: | Charlotte F. Smith, MFA '08—THE UNTITLED SCRIPT OF The Janes' childhood semidetached suburban nuclear family home pantry under the stairs, Acts I and II—Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles. |
| Jan 16-Feb 14: | Brenna Youngblood, MFA '06—Solo exhibition at Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects. |
| Jan 10-Mar 7: | Uri Nir, MFA '08—Mommy—LA><ART. |
Group Exhibitions
| March 12-30: | Kerianne Connor, BA '05—2-person exhibition at The Landing Party gallery. She was also part of Create:Fixate's March 7, 2009 show. |
| Jan 30-Feb 22: | Kora Manheimer, MFA '03—2-person exhibition at PS 122, New York. |
Awards & Honors
| Jan 2009: | Michael Queenland, MFA '02 and Emily Roysdon, MFA '06 were Art Matters grantees for fall 2008. |
Other News
| Jan 2009: | Dianna Cohen, BA '89 had a solo exhibition at Elizabeth Budia gallery in Barcelona in March and work in a group show at CottageHome in Chinatown, Los Angeles, April 2009. Since graduating from UCLA, she has shown work in solo and group exhibitions at galleries in the USA, Europe, Australia, and Africa. |
| Jack Gould's BA '92 project, People and Things: A Photographic Meditation and Exploration, has been touring LA County since Feb 2008, where it launched at the Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA HIllel. It was at the El Segundo Main Library through Jan 30, 2009. |
Fall 2008
Solo Exhibitions
| Dec 9-Mar 15: | Erin Cosgrove, MFA '01—Animation project–What Manner of Person Art Thou?–Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. |
| Oct 27-Nov 23: | Naotaka Hiro, BA '97—Wrong Person—Misako & Rosen in Tokyo, Japan. |
| Oct 15-Nov 26: | Doug Harvey, MFA '94—Untidy: The Worlds of Doug Harvey—Los Angeles Valley College Art Gallery. |
| Sept 18-Nov 1: | David Korty, MFA '98—Solo exhibition at Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles. |
| Sept 13-Dec 13: | Martin Kersels, MFA '95, BA '92—Retrospective at the Santa Monica Museum of Art. |
| Sept 13-Oct 11: | Brenna Youngblood, MFA '06—Solo exhibition at Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles. |
| Sept 6-Oct 4: | Tanya Batura, MFA '03—Monochroma—Western Project, Culver City. |
| Aug 28-Oct 4: | Joshua Callaghan, MFA '05—Solo exhibition at Haas & Fischer in Zurich, Switzerland. |
Group Exhibitions
| Nov 15: | Christie King Lyons, MFA '04 and Garrett Hayes, MFA '07—Something Like Change–Chime & Co., Silverlake, CA. |
| Nov 15-Dec 15: | Tia Pulitzer, MFA '06 and Pearl C. Hsiung, BA '97—The View—Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles. |
| Nov 6-Dec 20: | Michael Rashkow, BA '00; Anne Collier, MFA '01; Michael Queenland, MFA '02; Nancy de Holl, MFA '03; Alex Klein, MFA '07; Professor James Welling; and Visiting Faculty Phil Chang—The World is All That is the Case—Hudson Franklin, New York. |
| Nov 1-25: | Paul Sietsema, MFA '99; Professor Jim Welling; and Visiting Faculty Phil Chang—When It's a Photograph—Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles. |
| Oct 29-Mar 1: | Shana Lutker, MFA '05; Brenna Youngblood, MFA '06; and Visiting Faculty Anna Sew Hoy—CB08, The California Biennial—at the University Art Museum at UC Santa Barbara. |
| Oct 26-Mar 15: | Evan Holloway, MFA '97; Jedediah Caesar, MFA '01; Karl Haendel, MFA '03; Skylar Haskard, MFA '05; Shana Lutker, MFA '05; Eamon Ore-Giron, MFA '06; and Brenna Youngblood, MFA '06—2008 California Biennial—at the Orange County Museum of Art, which included off-site projects at collaborating venues from Tijuana to Northern California. |
| Oct 19-Jan 25: | Amir H. Fallah, MFA '05—40th Anniversary Art on Paper 2008—Weatherspoon Museum of Arts, Greensboro, NC. |
| Oct 10-Nov 22: | Brian Bress, MFA '06 and Joe Deutch, MFA '07—Surface Sounding—See Line Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. |
| Oct 2008: | Jesse Aron Green, MFA '08 installed work in the previously inaccessible oil tanks at Tate Modern, London, to coincide with the Frieze Art Fair. |
| Sept 27-Oct 25: | Matthew Thompson, MFA '05 curated Psychogeometry, a group exhibition at Monte Vista, Los Angeles, which included work by David Hatcher, MFA '06. |
| Sept 14-Oct 26: | Tia Pulitzer, MFA '06—A Seer Out of Season—On Stellar Rays gallery, Lower East Side, New York. |
| Sept 12-Oct 4: | JP Munro, BA '97; Jon Pylypchuk, MFA '01; Tia Pulitzer, MFA '06—Emerson vs. Nietzsche—China Art Objects Galleries, Cottage Home, Los Angeles. |
| Sept 13-Oct 11: | Paul Cherwick MFA '01; Jon Pylypchuk, MFA '01; and Annie Lapin, MFA '07—The Unruly and the Humorous—Angles Gallery, Santa Monica. |
| Sept 13-Nov 30: | Trisha Donnelly, BA '96 and Sharon Hayes, MFA '03—Yokohama Triennale 2008: Time Crevasse—in Yokohama, Japan. |
| Sept 12-Oct 4: | JP Munro, BA '97; Jon Pylypchuk, MFA '01; and Tia Pulitzer, MFA '06—Emerson vs. Nietzsche—China Art Objects Galleries, Cottage Home Space. |
| Sept 9-Oct 21: | Mungo Thomson, MFA '00—8th Panama Art Biennial–The Sweet Burnt Smell of History. |
| Sept 6-Oct 19: | Doug Harvey, MFA '94 curated Aspects of Mel's Hole: Artists Respond to a Paranormal Land Event Occurring in Radiospace at Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana. |
| Sept 5-Oct 18: | Amir H. Fallah, MFA '05—site specific installation–Post Stagecraft–at Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston, South Carolina. |
| Sept 2-Oct 10: | Kerianne Connor, BA '05 exhibited at DAC Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles. Her work was also on view at Satsuma Gallery in North Hollywood. |
| Sept 2-Oct 6: | Micol Hebron, MFA '00, BA '95 co-curated Documental: Contemporary Video Art from Europe, a video exchange project between Los Angeles and German artists, at the Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University, Orange, CA. |
Awards & Honors
| Oct 2008: | Avigail Moss, BA '05 was granted a research position for 2009-2010 at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, The Netherlands. |
| Sept 2008: | David Thorne, MFA '04 with Julia Meltzer for the Speculative Archive, were among five artists and artists groups selected for the 4th International Nam June Paik Award donated by the Kunststiftung NRW (Arts Foundation North-Rhine Westphalia), Düsseldorf. The works selected for the award were exhibited in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud in Cologne, Germany, Sept 26-Nov 16, 2008. |
Other News
| Dec 2008: | Alejandro Acosta, BA '89 was admitted to the Single Subject Credential Program at CSULB and plans to teach Social Studies at the high school level. |
| Roberto Delgado, MFA '76 was awarded a commission for the public art in three stations at the Minneapolis to St. Paul Central Corridor Light Rail Transit Project. He is currently finishing a public art project for the City of Los Angeles Valley Blvd viaduct in El Sereno. His public artwork in LA can be seen at the East Los Angeles Civic Center, the LAMTA Gold Line Heritage Square Station, and the LAPD North Valley Area Police Station. |
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| Kristin Reiber Harris, BA '68 is teaching in the Art Department at Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, VA. She has a design/animation business and is back in the studio working on a series of large botanical drawings. |
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| Karen Wight, MA '72 is living in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico where she creates her work celebrating the movement of the human form in contemporary bronze and resin sculpture, painting, and fine jewelry. She exhibits and is collected internationally. |