education
2000 MFA, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA. Drawing and Painting.
1995 BA, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA. History and Studio Art.
solo exhibitions
2008 A.D.D.G. (Aux Dehors des Guillemets), Honor Fraser Gallery, Culver City, CA, September 13 – October 25
2007 “FOCUS: Alexandra Grant," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, April 26 – August 13. Curated by Alma Ruiz
2004 Homecoming, Gallery Sixteen:One, Santa Monica, CA, March 20 – April 18
ongoing projects
Creator of The Love House and The Love Necklace for Watts House Project. Watts, CA.
selected group exhibitions
2009 Not Los Angeles, curated by Zachary Kaplan & Aandrea Stang, FOCA, Los Angeles, CA. September 26 - November 28.
OVER/FLOW, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Cerritos, CA, September 15 - November 5.
Fantastic LA, Illinois State University, University Galleries, September 22 through November 8.
2008 From and About Place: Art from Los Angeles, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv. Opens September 18.
Microwave 6, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York. July 10 - September 13.
Argument de la Diagonale, Betonsalon, Paris, France. May 31 - July 27.
2007 READ ME! TEXT IN ART, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, December 9, 2007 – February 24, 2008
Double-Take: The Poetics of Illusion and Light, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD, December 20, 2007 - May 11, 2008
Text Messages, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY, June 14 – August 15.
Drawn In: Drawing in Residence Phase III, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, January 13 – March 10.
2006 Draw A Line, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA, June 21 – September 1.
Flourish, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, June 2 – July 29.
Labirinti, Amelia: la Fiber Art al Centro, Biennale di Arte Tessile Contemporanea, Museo Archeologico di Amelia, Italy, July 1 – 17.
Painting fiction, fiction painting, the Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA, May 20 – June 17.
2005 Paper Magazine, Los Angeles, December 6 – 11.
Conceptual Writing, Van Ackeren Gallery, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, KS. March 4 – April 4.
2004 Northwest Territories, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, August 8 – October 14.
Freewall, Kellog Gallery, CalPoly Pomona, Pomona, CA, March 11 – April 10. http://www.csupomona.edu/~jzellen/freewall
“page space,” Machine Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, opening February 28.
http://www.superbunker.com/machinepoetics/page_space/show_machine.html
Encoded, Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, January 10 – February 14.
2003 Painting by Letters, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, November 15 – January 10, 2004.
http://www.cirrusgallery.com/exhibitions/painting%20by%20letters.html
Open Haus, Haus Gallery, Pasadena, CA, September 7 – October 4.
Mind’s Eye, SolwayJones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, August 9 – September 7.
CCAC Alumni Exhibition, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA, July 9 – 25.
LA Black and White: Beauty Stripped Bare, BGH Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, April 26 – May 25.
2002 unDRAWN, unusual approaches to drawing, at the Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA, November 16 – December 21.
http://www.oversight.com/brewery/undrawn/
Reading Room, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA, August 30 – December 14.
Wall Space 2, Miller Durazo Contemporary Artists Projects, Los Angeles, CA, April 13 – May 4.
irrational propositions, POST Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, March - April.
maps & charts, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, January. http://davidfrackman.org/maps_and_charts_tyler_Q12002.html#
2001 Drawing in Residence, Wintergarten Gallery, Vienna, Austria, September.
2000 evictions,160 Minna Street, San Francisco, CA, June.
MFA Show, CCAC, San Francisco, CA, April 13 -23.
1999 Index, with Anthony Discenza and Adrian van Allen, CCAC Graduate Gallery, San Francisco, CA, September.
curatorial projects
2009 5 Senses/107th Street, for "Not Los Angeles," FOCA, Los Angeles, CA. www.5senses107thstreet.com
2004 Lucid/Ludic, Mt. Saint Mary’s College Gallery, Brentwood, CA, September 12 – October 9.
2003 Domesticity, at the Snivling Sibbling, Los Angeles, CA, April 11 – May 17, 2003.
2002 unDRAWN, unusual approaches to drawing, at the Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA, November 16 – December 21.
2000 invisible ccac, San Francisco, CA, June. (A critical investigation of the new “beta” space of CCAC’s San Francisco campus.)
conferences/lectures
2009 Mesa Redonda/Round Table, 4 Women Artists Discuss Text, University of Barcelona, November 11. www.ub.edu/cdona/actos/artistes09.pdf
Santa Monica Museum of Art, A Collection of Ideas: Building the Love House: Using Art for Social Change in Watts. Tuesday, September 29.
www.smmoa.org/index.php/programs/group/0
Alexandra Grant and Dan Rothenberg in conversation. Moderated by Michael Joyce. Symposium: “Are We Talking To Anyone But Ourselves?” PlayPenn, new play development.
Philadelphia, Friday July 24.
2008 THE WORD IN LA: Panel Discussion with Artists Robbie Conal, Alexandra Grant and Lezley Saar: Fowler Museum at UCLA, February 3.
2007 Visiting lecturer, Swarthmore College, PA, November 11. Visiting artist, Cal State Long Beach, CA, October.
2006 Visiting lecturer, Otis College of Art, March 13 + 27. 2005 Visiting lecturer, Otis College of Art, Theory and Practice 4 class, October 27.
2004 Visiting lecturer, Otis College of Art, Theory and Practice 5 class, October 11.
“The Wordlessnessless of the Meiteneinander,” with Michael Joyce, &NOW Conference, Notre Dame University, April 5-6.
“The Wordlessnessless of the Meiteneinander,” with Michael Joyce, CalArts Graduate Program in Writing, Valencia, CA, February 25.
grants
2007 Durfee Foundation, ARC Grant for project at Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD.
Support from the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, for "Wallpaper (la escalera al cielo)," 2007, a digitally-printed wallpaper to be installed at MOCA, April - August.
awards received
California Community Foundation, Artists' Cover Award, 2007. Richard K. Price Scholar, California College of Arts and Crafts, 1999.
slide registries
The Drawing Center, New York.
catalogs
2008 From and About Place: Art from Los Angeles, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2007 Alexandra Grant, MOCA Focus Series Exhibition Catalog, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
selected bibliography
2009 SHOPTALK, Side Street Projects Podcast, hosted by Bari Zipperstein. sidestreet.org/podcast-shop-talk-2-alexandra-grant/
2008 Modern Painters
Modern Edition, Alexandra Grant: A Way With Words, www.modernedition.com/art-articles/artist-interviews/alexandra-grant.html
Interview with Ed Schad, ArtSlant, www.artslant.com/global/artists/rackroom
Ed Schad, I call it ORANGES blog, Alexandra Grant and Synesthesia, September 26, 2008, www.icallitoranges.blogspot.com/
Edward Goldman, on KCRW's Art Talk, Spooky, Unsettling, Mad, September 16, 2008, www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/at/at080916spooky_unsettling_ma
Sharon Mizota, Los Angeles Times, Around the Galleries; "Communication can be so abstract", September 12, 2008
www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-galleries12-2008sep12,0,4064558.story
Christopher Miles, LA Weekly, Opening Week at L.A. Galleries; The fall art season begins, September 11, 2008
www.laweekly.com/2008-09-11/art-books/opening-week-at-l-a-galleries/
2007 "5 Iterations," Artist Project, X-Tra Magazine, Volume 10 Issue 1. www.x-traonline.org/
C Magazine, September.
“Brushes All Sticky With Words,” Swarthmore College Bulletin, September.
"Words, and Worlds, Gone Mad," by Peter Frank, LA Weekly, August 8. www.laweekly.com/art+books/art-pick/words-and-worlds-gone-mad/16964/
ArtReview, Review by Andrew Berardini, Issue 13, July & August 2007, p. 126.
Art Papers, Review by Jody Zellen, July/August 2007, p. 62-3.
ArtForum.com, Critics’ Picks by Christopher Bedford, artforum.com/picks/section=la#picks15512
2006 Paper Magazine, February.
2005 “Five Artists to Buy NOW,” C Magazine, October.
“What is conceptual writing?” A project organized by Debra di Blasi, Kansas City Review, #61, Vol. 7, No. 4, March, p. 34. www.ereview.org
“Indecretions,” p. 106-7, Notre Dame Review, No. 19.
“Homecomings: Alexandra Grant at Sixteen:One,” by Jody Zellen, d’Art International, Winter 2004/05, p. 34.
2004 “Words, Words, Words, Rising Aloft,” by Holly Myers, Los Angeles Times, March 23.
“Page_Space Intoduction,” by Braxton Soderman, www.superbunker.com/machinepoetics/page_space/show_machine.html
"page_space in L.A. Saturday opening," by Jim Andrews, www.rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=12179&text=23447
"L.A. Confidential," by Alex Worman, January 13, artnet.com Magazine Reviews, www.artnet.com/magazine/reviews/worman/worman12-2-03.asp
"Painting by Letters," by Mario Cutajar, artscenecal.com/ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles2003/Articles1103/PaintingsByLettersA.html
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