J O H N S T U R G E O N
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E D U C A T I O N:
1970 Master of Fine Arts Painting Cornell University
1968 Bachelor of Fine Art Painting University of Illinois
1967 Yale-Norfolk Fellowship Painting Yale University Fellow
A R T S R E S U M E – s e l e c t e d
G R A N T S, F E L L O W S H I P S & A W A R D S :
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, in Video, 1981
US-UK Fulbright Scholar, University of the Arts London Scholar Award,
London, England, 2012-13
Fulbright Scholar Abroad Award, Argentina, Uruguay & Brazil, 1988-89
National Endowment for the Arts, Media Production Grant, 1984-86
National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artists Fellowship Grant, 1980
National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artists Fellowship Grant, 1977
National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artists Fellowship Grant, 1975
American Film Institute-N.E.A. Western States Media Arts Fellowship, 1982
N.E.A./Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Mid-Atlantic Media Arts Fellowship 1994
N.E.A./Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Mid-Atlantic Media Arts Fellowship 1992
Arts International, The Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals and
Exhibitions - (USIA, NEA, Rockefeller & Pew), 1992
American Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist Fellow, Rome, Italy, 1998
Maryland State Arts Council, Individual Artist Award “New Genre”, 2002
Hallwalls-N.E.A., Inter-Disciplinary Arts Grant, 1988
Checkerboard Foundation - NYC, Video Post-Production Grant, 1990
New York Foundation for the Arts Individual Artists Fellowship (Video), 1986
C.A.P.S. Grant in Video, New York State, (Creative Artists Public Service), 1984
L.A. County Museum of Art, Young Talent Award Fellowship Grant, 1978
Experimental Television Center, Finishing Funds Grant, 1990
New York State Council on the Arts, Production Grant, 1985
New York State Council on the Arts, Production Grant, 1984
Lipitz Professorship in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2008-09
S O L O E X H I B I T I O N S / I N S T A L L A T I O N S / P E R F O R M A N C E S
TRAP/bat, The Museum of Modern Art (Commission: multi-channel
interactive video sculptural installation), New York, NY, 1993
Narkose, (2-channel video, sculptural installation), The Contemporary
Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1994
John Sturgeon-Prime Time, (Video Retrospective) Institute of
Contemporary Art, Boston, 1983
The Museum of Modern Art, solo exhibition-Video Projects, NYC, 1978
Two Video Installations: [I Will Take You & As Above, As Below], Long Beach
Museum of Art, 1978
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (solo exhibition) L.A., CA 1978
Dissolving, (CD-ROM installation) Pittsburgh Biennial, Pittsburgh Center
for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, 2000
of the father, 2 channel video sculptural installation, Regina Gouger Miller
Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, 2000
Symposium Moor 92, (site specific performance & video works on the
Witte-Moor), Germany, 1992
More Moor, Symposium Moor 92 retrospective, Stadtmuseum Oldenburg,
Germany (+ collaborative performance event-Haaren River), 1993
Confessions of Addiction, Love & Surgical Musings, (performance) ISEA97 (International Symposium on Electronic Arts), School Art Institute
of Chicago, 1997
I Will Take You, Video Installation, Video: Retrospective, Long Beach
Museum of Art, 1974-1984 (Part II), LBMA, Long Beach, CA, 1984
Retrospective Exhibit, State University of NY, College at Purchase NY, 1989
Anthology Film Archives (solo screenings), New York, NY, 1981
Saturn Return, (video/performance), Castle of Imagination-6th
international meeting of performance artists, Bytów, Poland-1998
& InterAzioni, Teatro ARKA, Cagliari, Sardinia, 1998
No Earth/No Earth Station, (commission; video/performance with
A.Quinn), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Bing Theater, LA,
CA, 1983
Cake & Eat It, Too, video performance, Kulturetage, Oldenburg, Germany,
2002
Shared Fear-the dance denial, (video/performance), World Image,
Metzingen, Germany, 1998
Brood-X, (Bradley/Sturgeon) & Esperanto, (Bradley/Payens/Sturgeon),
(collaborative video/sound performances) InterAzoni, Teatro
ARKA, Assemini, Sardinia, 2004
Uroboros, 1979, live perf. & pre-recorded color video, Krannert Art
Museum, with PBS Television Simulcast, WILL Champaign, Illinois
Uroboros, solo exhibition, video/Installation; photos & drawings, L.A.
Louver Gallery, Venice, CA, 1978
Conjunction/Opposition II, Video/Perf., L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA,
1977
Conjuction/Opposition, video/performance & solo video exhibition, SITE,
San Francisco, CA, 1976
Spinning Dream, Video/Performance & video exhibition; AND/OR Gallery,
Seattle – 1977
Atari is the New Parent, (collabortive Interactive Satellite Video
Performance, Sturgeon/Quinn/Lloyd), Iowa City-Los Angeles Link
Up), Artists in Television Conference, National Cablecast-
Learning Channel, University of Iowa, 1982
Fragments, (Collaborative Video & Computer Graphics/Performance with
A.Quinn), UC Video/Medium West Gallery, Minneapolis, Minn. &
Performance Series, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, 1986 & School
of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1985
Anthology Film Archives, (solo+collab.) Video/Performances, Millennium
Theater, NYC, 1985
Spin 411, (Video Environment-installation, collaborative, N. Sobel), Mark
Taper Forum Experimental Lab Theater, Hollywood, CA, 1974
G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S •
2017-18 Radical Software: The Raindance Foundation, Media Ecology and
Video Art, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany;
section: “Night Light TV”
2011 Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-81, MOCA, Geffen
Contemporary at MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art Los
Angeles, CA (exhibition Oct. 2011 Feb. 2012), in conjunction with
PST (Pacific Standard Time, Getty/MOCA)
2011 Maryland Film Festival, Charles Theatre, Baltimore, MD [premiere:
“Archivist”, 2010]
2011 VIDET: Video, Idea Art Festival, La Palma Dotze Gallery, Barcelona,
Spain
2009 das Wattenmeer, Artotek, Oldenburg, Germany, in conjunction
with: the German National City of Science, Social Land Art Project
and Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Ocean,
Wilhelmshaven, Germany
2008 California VIDEO, J. Paul Getty Museum & The Getty Institute, Getty
Center, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Into the Light, Into the Dark-low & lapsed technologies, School 33
Art Center, Baltimore, Maryland
2003 InterAzioni 2003, “Inside Out” (video program), “Dotted Lines” &
“the Gnaw” (audio program, collaboration Bradley/Sturgeon),
Cagliari, Italy
2002 ARS Electronica, “art@radio”, 4 hrs. streaming poetic and sound
work - live mix/performance, (collaboration with Steve Bradley),
Linz, Austria, in conjunction with Radiotopia and broadcast on RadioFRO/Kunstradio, Wien, Austria
2002 ROOT-X Festival, 1 hr. streaming poetic and sound work - live
mix/performance, (collaboration with Steve Bradley), Hull Time
Based Arts, Hull, England
2000 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Made in California, L.A., CA
2000 InterAzioni 2000, Cagliari, Italy
1997 The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, Selections from the Video
Collection
1997 Chrome/Osome, Art-Design-Technology 1945-2000, AAP,
Pittsburgh, PA
1995 Second Biennale of Video and Electronic Art, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
1994 L.A. Video: Scratching the Surface, (Scratching the Belly of the
Beast: Cutting-Edge Media/Los Angeles 1922-94), Filmforum, LA
1993 2nd European Film & Video Festival, Folkwang Museum, Essen,
Germany
1993 More Moor, International Artists Symposium, Stadtmuseum,
Oldenburg, Germany
1992 Choice Encounters, Long Beach Museum of Art, LB, CA
Erde-Zeichen-Erde, International Society-Fine Arts, Bonn (traveling)
1991 Fact/Fiction, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
1991 GraphiCon'91, Engineering Center, Moscow, USSR
1991 High & Low Tech, Videotheque, Center for Contemporary Arts,
Santa Fe, NM
1991 Video Meetings '91, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
1991 The Kitchen, NYC
1991 Brooklyn Museum, Native Amer. Film & Video: A Walk in Two
Worlds
1990 Selections from the Video-Collection, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
1990 Computer Art in Context, International Computer Arts Exhibition,
Barcelona & Salamanca, Spain
1990 Adelaide Festival, Adelaide, Australia
1990 New Music America 1990, Montreal, Quebec
1989 Salso Film & TV Festival, Salsomaggiore, Italy
1989 Siggraph '89 Art Show, Computer Museum, Boston, MA (traveling)
1988 Institute of Contemporary Art - Boston, Histories: New Video Art,
Boston, Massachusetts
1988 Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
1988 Videobrasil, Festival Fotoptica, Museu da Imagem e do Som, Sao
Paulo, Brazil
1988 Third Videonale, Bonn, West Germany (touring)
Degrees of Reality, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1987 28th American Film & Video Festival, New York, NY
1986 American Film Institute, 1986 AFI Video Festival, NEA Regional
Fellowships, Los Angeles, CA
1985 The Museum of Modern Art, Spatial Relationships in Video, NYC
1985 The Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
1985 1st International Video Week, Geneve, Switzerland
1985 1st Annual Biennal of Video, TV Man Union, Tokyo, Japan
1984 The Museum of Modern Art, Video & Ritual, New York, NY
1984 Long Beach Museum of Art, Video: A Retrospective, LBMA 1974-84
(Part I), Long Beach, CA
1984 1984 Olympics American Film Institute Video Exhibition, Los
Angeles, CA
1983 The Museum of Modern Art, Video Art: A History, New York, NY
The Second Link-Video in the 80's, (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam;
Institute of Contemporary Art, London; National Gallery of
Ontario, Canada; Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Long Beach
Museum of Art, LB; Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada)
1983 The Museum of Modern Art, Performance Video, NYC
1983 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, (winner-video) Young Talent
Awards: 1963-83, Los Angeles, CA
1983 7th Annual Independent Film & Video Festival, Atlanta, GA
1983 United States Film & Video Festival, Park City, Utah
1982 The Museum of Modern Art, Performance Video, NYC
1982 U.S. Film & Video Festival, Park City, UT (Invitational)
1980 Video: New York, Seattle, & Los Angeles, Museum of Modern Art,
NYC (Traveling: '80-'81, Japanese Museums)
1980 22nd Annual American Film Festival, New York, NY
1979 The Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Sculpture Selections, NYC
1978 Airwaves & Stars, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
1978 Neuberger Museum, Self Portrait to Autobiography, Purchase, NY
1976 1976 Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney,
Australia
1976 Southland Video Anthology, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long
Beach, CA
1976 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Video Art: An Overview, San
Francisco, CA
1976 Video International, Arhus Kunst Museum, Denmark
1975 1975 Biennal of Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York, NY
1975 Arts Council of Great Britain, The Video Show, Serpentine Gallery,
London, England
1975 Camel Awards, Milan & Florence, Italy
1975 Southland Video Anthology, Long Beach Museum of Art, L.B., CA
1973 American Center, Tokyo, Japan
S T R E A M I N G M E D I A , C D s , C A B L E C A S T S ,
B R O A D C A S T S •
2019 Muted Stories, at - and/OAR, Tuning Fork © 2018
Bradley/Sturgeon (5-min. version), sound poetry collaboration
Steve Bradley/John Sturgeon, included in Muted Stories CD
publication, Dale Lloyd, curator, owner-publisher, label, Seattle,
WA, www.and-oar.org/
Pendle Hill Library collection, romain ©, Bradley/Sturgeon audio CD
booklet collaboration, Wallingford, PA
2017 Ljudbio IV, In the Neighborhood © Bradley/Sturgeon, sound art and
poetry collaboration: Steve Bradley & John Sturgeon,
electroacoustic concert, Curator Girilal Baars, Slottsbiografen
cincema house, Uppsala, Sweden.
2013 MOCAtv, youtube.com, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles,
“Artist current Video Projects” (curated by Peter Kirby, MediaArts),
John Sturgeon Interview & video “The House of Influence” ©1985
John Sturgeon <youtube.com/MOCAtv> premiered: 1/21/13,
archived selection
2004 Crawl/Knot, Timothy Nohe & John Sturgeon, (1 hr. streaming text
and sound work – live mix/performance), ARS Electronica, via
art@radio, Linz, Austria, in conjunction with Long Night of Radio
and broadcast on Radio FRO/ Kunstradio, Wien, Austria
2003 Aether Festival, “Dotted Lines” CD (collaborative Bradley/Sturgeon),
Albuquerque, New Mexico, with NPR (National Public Radio)
2002 From the Attic & From the Basement, Steve Bradley & John
Sturgeon, 4 hrs. streaming poetic & sound work over 2 days - live mix/performance), Linz, Austria, ARS Electronica, “art@radio”, in
conjunction with Radiotopia and broadcast on Radio
FRO/Kunstradio, Wien, Austria
2002 Dots Between Spaces, Steve Bradley & John Sturgeon, (1 hr.
streaming poetic and sound work - live mix/performance),
ROOT-X Festival, Hull Time Based Arts, Hull, England
1988-90 New Television Series, PBS (NYC - Boston - Los Angeles)
1988 TV MIX, (Interview) & tape broadcast, Ch. 11, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Long Beach Museum of Art, Video Viewpoints Cable Series
1987 Melting Pot, © PBS - WMHT
1987 Night Light TV, Manhattan Cable, NYC
1985 Night Flight, USA CABLE (national)
1985 VPRO (Dutch Television), The Netherlands
1985 Not TV, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
1983 Night Flight, USA CABLE (national)
1982 Artists in Television Conference, Atari is the New Parent, Satellite
Video Performance, The Learning Channel
1980 SOHO Television, Manhattan Cable, NYC
1979 Uroboros, WILL, Live Performance Simulcast & solo tape broadcasts,
University of Illinois, Champaign, IL.
D V D , C D , O N - L I N E P U B L I C A T I O N S •
2019 The Wrap, © 2019 Bradley/Sturgeon, sound art collaboration
2002-2003, 4 poetic & sound works: the Gnaw, Best of Times,
Turn Again in the Wrap, Dotted Lines, produced and published by
Steve Bradley & John Sturgeon – streaming collection on
Bandcamp app & via Urbantells:
https://urbantells.bandcamp.com/album/the-wrap, release date
12.29.19.
2018 roamin, © 2017 Bradley/Sturgeon audio CD, with booklet,
photographs and 3 sound art works; In the Neighborhood, Ghost
and Tucumcari. Produced and published by Steve Bradley,
Baltimore, MD & John Sturgeon, Las Vegas, NV.
2008 John Sturgeon, Black & White Tapes (1974-1978) & John Sturgeon,
Color Selected Videos (1982-1990), ©2008 j.sturgeon, booklets –
photos and text: for California VIDEO, J. Paul Getty Museum & The
Getty Institute, Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
2003 When Video Came (Andres Tapia-Urzua, Ralph Vituccio, ©2003, 42
mins.) curated historical compilation of the early history of video
art, from the critical standpoint of seminal media artists.
J.Sturgeon interview with excerpted video works: TRAP/bat,
M.o.M.A., NYC; Narkose, The Contemporary Art Center,
Cincinnati, Ohio
P U B L I C A T I O N S
contributions to published books, catalogues, periodicals •
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-81, (JS catalogue photo “Conjunct”
1976) Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles,
CA (Oct.’11-Feb.’12), in conjunction with PST (Pacific Standard Time,
Getty/MOCA), published MOCA 2011
Soil & Culture, Chapter Merging Horizons – Soil Science and Soil Art, Edited:
Edward Landa and Christian Feller, author: Alexandra Toland, Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media, New York, NY & Heidelberg, Germany (publication
2009), 2 page review of "Narkose" 1992 (with b&w photo) and “Moor Battery” performance works for Symposium Moor 1992, Wittemoor, Germany.
California Video: Artists and Histories, John Sturgeon, introduction by Pauline Stakelon, with interview text of John Sturgeon (interviewee) by Glenn Phillips
(curator CA Video), with contributing b&w still composition from exhibition videos
by John Sturgeon: NOR/MAL CONVERSE; (waterpiece) 1974; Porky 1974 with b&w photos Conjunction/Opposition (performance), 1976, pp. 218-221; Edited by
Glenn Phillips, published by The Getty Research Institute, The J. Paul Getty
Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 2008
Still Moving, The Film and Media Collections of The Museum of Modern Art, by
Steven Higgins, Published M.o.M.A. 2006, Chapter: The 1970s, photo 2 Aspects,
video John Sturgeon 1976, p. 274
Future Cinema – The Cinematic Imagery after Film, Jeffery Shaw and Peter Weibel, published by Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany,
©2003, (3) J.Sturgeon photos ["Curtain," "Face Mask," & "Head Wand" ©1990] Illustrating “Cinema and the Code” by Gene Youngblood, pp. 156-57
De houdbaarheid van videokunst, (The sustainability of video art) Preservation of Dutch video art collections, published by: Foundation for the Conservation of Modern Art,
© 2003, Amsterdam, the Netherlands [JS inclusion: “2 Aspects”, 1976; “Nomads”, 1986]
Confessions of Addiction, Love & Surgical Musings, ISEA97 - conference
presentation catalogue and abstract - conference web site, ©1997
Chrome/Osome - Convergence Art-Design-Technology 1945-2000, catalogue, contributing article & photo pp. 28-29, published Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 1997
Populism - Report from the Field, contributing author, ART COM, #20, Spring
1983, pp. 40-45.
SITE, CITE, SIGHT, contributing author/photographer - one of 32 artists selected,
an edited compilation of art works. Pub. by Site and National Endowment for the
Arts ©1982, p. 16-17.
Spinning Dream, by John Sturgeon, DREAMWORKS, 3rd Vol., © Fall 1980, pp. 206- 207.
I Will Take You, (photo & poetry) by: John Sturgeon, JOURNAL (Los Angeles Institute
of Contemporary Art), #20, © October/November 1978, p. 66
John Sturgeon / TWO VIDEO INSTALLATIONS, a one-person exhibition, catalogue
on John Sturgeon's video, installation and performance work, with contributing
articles by: John Sturgeon, David Ross, Peter Goulds & David James. Published by:
Long Beach Museum of Art and L.A. Louver Gallery, Gemini Graphics, © 1978.
Southland Video Anthology 1976-77, contributing author to an edited anthology
of video works. Published by the Long Beach Museum of Art, © 1977, pp. 28-31.
VIDEO ART, Schneider/Korot, editors, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ©1976.
Contributing author to an edited compilation, photos & text, pp. 124-125.
C O L L E C T I O N S • numerous, including:
Getty Archive, J. Paul Getty Trust, Department of Contemporary
Programs, Getty Research Center, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles,
CA (California VIDEO archive + J.Sturgeon complete open-reel masters
1970-1980 selected for the archive)
The Museum of Modern Art, NYC (numerous works)
British Artist’s Film & Video Collection – London
L.A. County Museum of Art
The Long Beach Museum of Art
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Franklin Furnace, NYC
Banff Centre, Canada
Anthology Film Archives, NYC
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Raindance Foundation, New York / Berlin
Johnson Museum, Cornell University
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American Art, NEA
Archive, Washington, D.C.
Biennale of Venice (Art-22 collection)
R E F E R E N C E S • numerous Critical Reviews of John Sturgeon’s art
work, including:
AFTERIMAGE
ART-COM
HI PERFORMANCE
LBMA VIDEO
ARTWEEK
ARTFORUM
ART NEWS
L.A.I.C.A. JOURAL
LOS ANGELES TIMES
New York Times
Postmodern Currents, Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media
(1st & 2nd Edition)
Art Speak, a Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1945 to
the Present
Elektronishches Gestalten In Kunst und Design
Performance Art, source book, a decade of California Performance Art
VIDEO ART
Who's Who in American Art
[complete listings, upon request]
V I S I T I N G A R T I S T / L E C T U R E S * & V I E W I N G S •
2013 Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland [Rennie Mackintosh Auditorium]
2012 TRANSLATE: analog/DREAMS, DIGITAL/maps, Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, London, England
2009 2nd Annual Liptiz Professor Award Lecture, “Poetic Narrative: non-linear strategies for digital cinema, Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, University of Maryland, B.C., Baltimore, MD [broadcast UMBC Research Channel www.researchchannel.org]
2008 Activate: Short Film & Video Works, screening series, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD
2007 Three Films: Broadcast (introductory lecture), The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
2002 Hull Time Based Arts, Hull, England
2001 School of Fine Arts - San Carlos, University Polytechnic, Valencia, Spain
2001 College of Arts and Media, at the University of Applied Sciences, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
1998 Künstseminar, Metzingen, Germany
1995 Städtische Galerie im Buntentor, Bremen, Germany*
1994 Hochschule für bildende Künste - Hamburg, Germany *
1994 Kunst Akadamie, Düsseldorf, Germany*
1994 2.Oldenburger Filmtage, Oldenburg, Germany*
1993 Video View Points, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY*
1993 Conversations with Contemporary Artists, The Museum of Modern
Art, New York, NY*
1993 University of Oldenburg, Germany*
1993 Art in the Age of Information, panel, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust*
1992 der Zufall im Einfall, School of Visual Arts, Kiel, Germany*
1992 University of Copenhagen, Denmark
1992 Danish Royal Academy of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
1991 2nd Biannual-Arts & Technology Symp., Connecticut College, New
London, CT
1991 Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
1991 Electronic Art at Rensselaer, The Kitchen, NYC
1991 20th Anniversary, the Raindance Foundation, panel, Kitchen, NYC*
1990 Video Art Dialogue, Cafh Foundation Center, NYC
1990 Savannah College of Art/ Design, Savannah, Georgia
1990 Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1989 New Angle Series, Dia Art Foundation, NYC
1989 Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
1988 Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina*
1998 International Conference, Latin America & USA, Universidad del Mar
Del Plata, Argentina*
1988 Museo Nacional de Artes Plasticas y Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay*
1988 Museo de Arte Contemporania, Universitaria de Sao Paulo, Brazil*
1988 Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina*
1988 Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)
1988 Western Front, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1988 Network for New Music, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
1988 N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1988 Real Art Ways, Hartford, Conn.
1988 Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
1988 Music Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1988 Apollohuis, Eindhoven, Netherlands
1988 Ericcson Computer Art Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
1988 LOGOS Foundation, Ghent, Belgium
1988 Video Art Series, Oakland Museum of Art, CA
1988 Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
1987 L.A. Louver Gallery, premiere: NOMADS, Venice, California*
1987 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA*
1987 Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Harbor, CA
1987 University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
1987 SUNY-Buffalo, New York
1987 Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1987 Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA
1987 Bosgarren Kolectiboa, Tolosa, Spain
1985 School of the Art Institute of Chicago*
1985 Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY*
1985 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA*
1984 Boston Film/Video Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts*
1985 Brown Univ. Providence, R.I.*
1983 School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1982 Univ. of Iowa, Colloquium, Iowa City, Iowa*
1982 Corroboree Gallery, U. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA*
1982 Aorta Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
1982 Montevideo Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
1982 U.S. Film and Video Festival, Video Art Panel, Park City, Utah*
1981 Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma*
1981 Utah Media Center, Visiting Critic California Video, Salt Lake City, UT*
1980 Museum of Modern Art, Video: Art As Alchemy, Video View Points
lecture series, NYC*
1980 The Salt Lake Art Center, SLC, UT*
1980 Corroboree Gallery, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA*
1980 Occidental College, Image Dissector, LA, CA*
1979 Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, CA*
1980 Videotapes Uit Los Angeles, California, De Appel, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
1978 Anthology Film Archives, NYC*
1978 Chicago Editing Center, Chicago, Illinois*
1978 Festival Dei Popli, Firenze, Italy
1978 The School of the Art Institue of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois*
1978 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Studio Tour, Venice, CA*
1977 Vancouver School of Art, Vancouver, British Columbia*
1978 University of California/Santa Barbara*
1976 University of California at Los Angeles - Extention, Long Beach
Museum of Art, Abstract Art in the 20th Century, Long Beach, CA*
1978 Claremont College Graduate School, Claremont, California*
1978 University of California at Riverside*
1975 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California*
1978 Immaculate Heart College, L.A. Lab, Los Angeles, CA*
1974 San Francisco State College, San Francisco, California*
1974 2nd Annual Southern California Video Festival, Santa Monica, CA*
1974 Univ. of California at LA, Concord Video Lab*
1973 Suffolk Community College, Selden, New York
1971 McGill University, Videolibre, Montreal, Quebec*
D I S T R I B U T I O N •
MonteVideo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA (1975-1983) – archive & referrals
Raindance Foundation, NYC & Berlin
Listings: THE DATA BANK, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1978-1988)
& – the Artist
F A C U L T Y & A R T I S T - I N - R E S I D E N C E P O S I T I O N S •
2016-present
Emeritus Professor of Cinematic Arts, University of Maryland,
Baltimore County.
2000-2015
Professor of Cinematic Arts, Department of Visual Arts, University
of Maryland, Baltimore County (Department Chair 2000-03)
1991-2000
Professor of Art, School of Art, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA (Associate Head of the School of Art 1994-96)
1994 fall Guest Professor, Hochschule für Künste, Bremen, Germany
1983-1991
Associate Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department
of Art, Troy, NY
1979-1980
Guest Professor, University of California Los Angeles, Department
of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1975-2007
Numerous visiting faculties & Artist in Residence positions