Emily Roysdon

Education University of California Los Angeles, MFA, Interdisciplinary Studio, 2006 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, , NY 2001 Hampshire College, BA, Amherst, MA 1999

Solo Projects 2012 not yet titled, Tate Live Performance Room, Tate Modern (London) not yet titled, Tramway (Glasgow) not yet titled, Visual Art Center, University of Texas (Austin) 2011 POSITIONS, New Commissions, Art in General (New York) (catalog forthcoming) A Gay Bar Called Everywhere (with costumes and No Practice), The Kitchen (New York) 2010 If Donʼt Move Can You Hear Me?, Matrix 235, Berkeley Art Museum Sense and Sense, Konsthall C (Stockholm) 2008 Work, Why, Why not, Weld (Stockholm)

Select Exhibitions 2012 Abstract Possible; The Stockholm Synergies, Tensta Konsthall (Stockholm) Coming After, The Power Plant (Toronto) Photography Is, Higher Pictures (New York) Nothing is forgotten, some things considered, UKS (Oslo) Social Choreography, Gallery TPW (Toronto) In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955, ICA London Read, Look, We promise itʼs not dangerous, Emily Harvey Foundation (New York) Millennium Magazines, Museum of Modern Art Library (New York)

2011 Abstract Possible, Museo Tamayo (Mexico City) (catalog) Time Again, Sculpture Center (New York) (catalog) Dance/ Draw, ICA Boston (catalog) Untold Stories, Kunsthalle Talinn NY Temporary, Center for Photography and the Moving Image (New York) Always The Young Stranger, Higher Pictures (New York) Through Symbolic Worlds, International Project Space (Birmingham, UK) Symposion, The Event, (Birmingham, UK) Ribbonhood, Movement Research 20th Anniversary Festival commission (New York)

2010 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York) (catalog) Manifesta 8 (Murcia, Spain) (catalog) Bucharest Biennial, Pavilion UniCredit (Bucharest) Mixed Use: Manhattan, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid) (catalog) Greater NY, MoMA PS1 (New York) (catalog) Undercurrents, The Kitchen (New York) (catalog) Interim, Chisenhale Gallery (London)

2009 The Generation Show; Younger Than Jesus, New Museum (New York) (catalog) Character Generator, Eleven Rivington (New York) Queer Gaze, Fontanelle Gallery, (Portland, OR) Artistsʼ Books as (Sub)Culture, Center for Book Arts (New York)

2008 If We Can't Get It Together, The Power Plant (Toronto) History Keeps Me Awake at Night, PPOW (New York) Radical Drag: Transformative Performance, Galerie SAW Gallery (Ottawa) The Way That We Rhyme, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco) Body Fluids, Conflict Room (Antwerp) LTTR at WACK!, one day event at PS1 Contemporary Art Center (New York) "Small Things Fail, Great Things Endure," New Langton Arts (San Francisco)

2007 Read Me, Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena, CA) Act Out, Studio Voltaire (London) documenta 12 magazines, Documenta (Kassel, Germany) Blow Both of Us, Participant Inc. (New York) Exile of the Imaginary: Politics/Aesthetics/Love, Generali Foundation (Vienna) Locally Localized Gravity, Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia) Shared Women, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, (Los Angeles) Failure Ridiculous Terrible Wonderful, Park Projects, (Los Angeles)

2006 Bunker o no Bunker: por una profiláxis del sujeto, Galeria Ramis Barquet (Monterry) Eat the Market, LACMA Lab (Sam Durant), Los Angeles County Museum of Art this talk we have, this talk we have had, this talk we have/have had, David Kordansky Gallery (Los Angeles) Hot Topic, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY) When Artists Say We, Artists Space (New York) Paperwall: Analyzing Images, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse (Montreal) Hello Forever, Jack Hanley Gallery (Los Angeles) Flex Your Textiles, John Connelly Presents (New York) The Searchers, EFA Gallery (New York) Supersonic, Barnsdall Art Park (Los Angeles) Flex Your Textiles, one day show in (New York) From mini-FM to hacktivists, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (New Zealand)

2005 I Beg Your Pardon, or The Re-establishing of Cordial Relations, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, curated by Andrea Geyer (New York) Wear Me Out, ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives (Los Angeles) A Wave of New Rage Thinking, Printed Matter (New York) Can I Get a Witness, Longwood Arts Project, Bronx Museum of Art, (Bronx, NY) Letʼs Take The Role, The Kitchen (New York) “Gay Power,” GLBT Center, University California Irvine (Irvine, CA) “Do You Wish to Direct Me?” Daniel Reich Gallery at the Hotel Chelsea (New York)

2004 Dance Dance Revolution, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, (New York) Freedom Salon, Deitch Projects (New York) Experimental Media for Feminist Tresspass, Pilot Television (Chicago) Publish and be Damned, Cubitt Gallery (London, traveled to Casco Projects, Utrecht, Netherlands) Lesbians to the Rescue, New Image Art (Los Angeles) 24/7: Wilno - Nueva York (visa para), Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius, Lithuania) Art in General presents LTTR, The Armory (New York) Explosion LTTR, Art in General (New York) Inside the Inside, The Lab (San Francisco)

2003 Influence, Anxiety, and Gratitude, MIT List Visual Art Center (Cambridge, MA) Listen Translate Translate Record, Andrew Kreps Gallery (New York) Man, I Feel Like a Woman, Space 1026 (Philadelphia)

2002 Lesbians to the Rescue, Bellwether Gallery (Brooklyn, NY) Curatorial Projects Illegitimate and Herstorical, AiR Gallery, Brooklyn, 2012 "Into the body or into the medium," video program, Tate Modern, London, February 25, 2012 Protest, guest editor of Capricious Magazine, November 2011 Ecstatic Resistance, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO, 2009 Ecstatic Resistance, X Initiative, , 2009 Shared Women (with A.L. Steiner, Eve Fowler), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 2007

Other Collaborations The Knife, songwriter (2012) JD Samson & MEN, songwriter, band member (2008- )

Costume Design Youʼre Me, choreographer Faye Driscoll, The Kitchen, April 12-21, 2012 Armed Guard Garden, choreographer Vanessa Anspaugh, New York Live Arts, Feb 15-18 2012 Counterfeit Scenario, choreographer Levi Gonzalez, The Kitchen, Feb 9-11 2012

Select Screenings 2010 Berlinale, Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin Images Festival (Toronto) 2009 Nostalgia Isn't What It Used to Be, Light Industry (New York) Subject in Process, Center for Contemporary Art (Glasgow) Six Tuesdays After Film as a Critical Practice, LUX 28 (London) Art, Cinema, and Context Now, Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V. (Berlin) Together Alone, Power Plant (Toronto) 2008 Whose History?, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Germany) The Young and the Evil, Tank.tv Performance on Film, FLACC Casino Modern (Gent, Belgium) And To That I Say This, Samson Projects, (Boston) 2007 Film as a Critical Practice, Office for Contemporary Art, (Oslo, Norway) Put the Light Out, Erase a Line, Studio 44, (Stockholm) The Dead, Absent, and Fictitious, Documenta Halle, Documenta 12 (Kassel, Germany) Learning behaviour, learnt action, unlearning knowledge: A weekend of work from the Cinenova collection, Whitechapel Gallery (London) Setting in Motion, Left Forum Film Festival, (New York) Shared Women, LACE (Los Angeles) 2006 Feminist Legacies and Potentials in Contemporary Art Practice, symposium of “If I Canʼt Dance I Donʼt Want to be a Part of Your Revolution”, with by Helena Rickett, De Appel (Amsterdam) “the fantasy of failed utopias and a girls daydream,” Stedelijk Museum CS (Amsterdam) “the fantasy of failed utopias and a girls daydream,” National Center Contemporary Art (Moscow) Every Body Moves Against Control, MIX 2006 (New York, NY) “the fantasy of failed utopias and a girls daydream,” Kuenstlerhaus Stuttgart (Stuttgart, Germany) The Dead, Absent, and Fictitious, Outfest 2006 (Los Angeles) End of Gays, curated by Jose Munoz, Outfest 2006, (Los Angeles) “the fantasy of failed utopias and a girls daydream,” Galerie Meerrettich (Berlin) 2005 Multitudinario, Sala de Art Publico Siqueiros (Mexico City) Pilot Television: New Ground, and UP!, Care Of Gallery (Milan) Normal Has Left Us Long Ago, Clip Club (Berlin) Pilot Television: New Ground, and UP!, Artmosphere (Vienna) Pilot Television: New Ground, and UP!, Gallerie 5020 (Salzburg) F- (The Failures of Queerness), Outfest 2005 (Los Angeles) Transgressing Gender Conference (Zagreb, Croatia) Publications by the artist Protest, Capricious Magazine, guest editor, 2011 West Street, artists book commissioned by Printed Matter NY Artists Book Fair, 2010 Talking Back, Zehar #65, Performance Edition, p 55-68 Ecstatic Resistance, C Magazine, #104 Winter 2009, p14-25 From “social movement” to “Ecstatic Resistance,” New Communities, Public #39, edited by Nina Montmann, p 94-101 The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive, Fritz Haeg (Evil Twin Publications) New Feminism: Worlds of Feminism, Queer and Network Conditions; edited by Marina Grzinic and Rosa Reitsamer, Locker, “Art as a Proposition,” p 233-243 Cabinet, ”Opal”, March 2008, p 6-7 Journal of Aesthetics & Protest, vol. 2 issue 1, 2007, p 98 make/shift, issue 2, 2007, p 42-45 Exile de Imaginaren, edited by Juli Carson, Generali Foundation, p153-163 LTTR #5, Positively Nasty, editor and artist multiple, 2006 ANP Quarterly, Issue 5, Fall 2006, cover and 8 page conversation with JD Samson High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting, 1967-75, Distributed Art Press, 2006 ed. Katy Siegel, interview on her piece Body Collage, p137 Rethinking Marxism, Volume 18, Number 3 (Fall 2006), contributor Corpus, Spring 2006, untitled (David Wojnaorwicz project), cover and pages 74-81 LTTR #4, “Do You Wish to Direct Me?” 2005, editor Women & Performance: a Journal of Feminist Theory, Volume 14:2, #28, 2005 Democracy, Invisibility, and the Dramatic Arts, pages 123-126 Gay and Lesbian Quarterly, Volume 10, Number 4 2004 Radiant Spaces (interviewed by Jean Carlomusto), pages 671-679 LTTR #3, Practice More Failure, 2004 editor and essay: Anus Rhymes with Famous/The Constituative Affect, pages 2-3 Kutt Magazine, No. 3, Winter 2003 You Are My Status Rose, A Song for Mary Fallon and a Few Others, pages 40-41 LTTR #2, Listen Translate Translate Record, 2004, editor Torch Magazine, Issue 2, Spring 2004, Honest Mountain, pages 1-4 LTTR #1, Lesbians to the Rescue, 2002 editor and essay: Democracy, Invisibility, and the Dramatic Arts, pages 4-5

Public Presentations Choreography Under the Influence, (with Avital Ronell), Danspace, December 4, 2011 7 on 7, New Museum, May 14, 2011 (New York) In Conversation with Tom Burr, Sculpture Center, May 12, 2011 (New York) Gender and Photography Symposium, Princeton University, April 23, 2011 (New York) In Conversation with Maria Lind, Art in General, April 10, 2011 (New York) Modern Women, (with Connie Butler, Ruth Noack, Ivet Curlin) Museum of Modern Art, May 21, 2010 (New York) Shelf Life, University of Southern California, April 18, 2009 (Los Angeles) We, Ourselves, Us (with Simon Critchley, Nina Montmann), Power Plant (Toronto) New Art from the American Election, ABF-huset (Stockholm) Multiple Ideas (with Matt Keegan, Dexter Sinister), Museum of Modern Art (New York) Tracing the Index, (organized by Chitra Ganesh + ) Bronx Museum of the Arts (New York) From the Salon to the Moshpit: Creating Spaces of Assembly (with Jill Dawsey, JD Samson) Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco) Local Operations (with Emma Hedditch, Jimmy Roberts) Serpentine Gallery (London) Exquisite Acts & Everyday Rebellions (with Faith Wilding, Chitra Ganesh) CalArts (Valencia) Feminism: Legacies and Reinventions (with Yvonne Rainer, Mary Kelly, Suzanne Lacy, Andrea Bowers, Taisha Paggett) Rosamund Felsen Gallery (Santa Monica) Impunities: Experimental Writing Conference; Collectivity, Community, Control (with Ishmael Reed, Lewis MacAdams) REDCAT (Los Angeles) Necessary Positions: A Conversation about Then and Now organized by Suzanne Lacy,REDCAT (Los Angeles) Visiting Artist, California College of Art, Winter 2006 Ecstatic Resistance, Sundown Schoolhouse (Los Angeles) Ultra-Red: Encuentro, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (Los Angeles) Gender and Safety, Civic Matters, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Collective Resistance, London Lesbian Gay Film Festival, National Film Theatre Queer Failure (with Jose Munoz, Catherine Lord, Penny Arcade, Judith Halberstam, Nao Bustamante), Directorʼs Guild of America (Los Angeles)

Publications about the artist Artforum, May 2011, If I Donʼt Move Can You Hear Me?, Gwen Allen, p. 238-241 The L Magazine, April, 2011, 5 Art Stars You Need to Know, Paddy Johnson Art Review, March 2011, Emily Roysdon, “If I Donʼt Move Can you Hear Me?” Tyler Colburn, p120 Modern Women; at the Museum of Modern Art, edited by Cornelia Butler and Alexandra Schwartz, MoMA , 2010, p. 20, 26, 67-68 Mixed Use; Manhattan, edited by Douglas Crimp, Lynne Cooke and Kristin Poor, MIT Press, 2010, cover, p 172-175, 199-202, 227 Artforum, May 2010, Whitney Biennial, Chus Martinez, p. 238-241 Art Review, March 2010, Reclaim the Street (Theatre), Tyler Coburn, p 104-107 The New Yorker, Jan 25, 2010, Ecstatic Resistance, page 21 New York Times, Dec 18, 2009, Ecstatic Resistance, Holland Cotter, page C32 Art in America, March 2010, Ecstatic Resistance, Lyra Kilston, p 147 The Kansas City Star, Dec 20, 2009, Seeing A World That Could Be, Alice Thorson, pF3 The Pitch (Kansas City), Dec 10-16, 2009, Irresistible Sincerity, Chris Packham, p20 Art Monthly, July/Aug 2009, Reel to Real, Colin Perry, p1-4 Artforum, November 2009, Character Generator, Lauren ONeill-Butler, page XX Reading Room, March 2009, Opening a Closing Door: Feminist and Queer Artists as Historians, Helena Rickett, page 88-103 New York Times, April 9, 2009, Young Artists; Caught in the Act, Holland Cotter, page C23 Modern Painters, December 2008, eMerging Artists, Quinn Latimer New York Times, July 25, 2008, Art in Review, Holland Cotter, page E4 S.F. Chronicle, Jan 18, 2008, ʻSmall Things End, Great Things Endureʼ: New Look for Feminism, Reyhan Harmanci, G-18 Artforum, December 2007, Best of 2007, On The Ground: Los Angeles, Michael Ned Holte, pg 289 Art US, issue 19, Summer 2007, page 52-53 Artforum, May 2007, Worldʼs Apart, Helen Molesworth, page 101-102 Artillery, May 2007, Donʼt Look Back, Christopher Russell, page 17-20 New York Times, March 21, 2007, Collective Creation, In Philadelphia and Beyond, Holland Cotter, page E5 LA Weekly, March 7, 2007, Must See Art, Amra Brooks Los Angeles Times, March 12, 2007, Feminism Looks to the Horizons, Suzanne Muchnic, pg E2 Time Out New York, January 25-31, 2007, Blow Both of Us, Lauren Cornell, page 60 Art Review, October 2006, this talk we have/ this talk we have had/ this talk we have/have had, Chris Balaschak page 152 LA Weekly, July 26, 2006, Must See Art, Amra Brooks Artforum, June 2006, Repetition and Difference: LTTR, Julia Bryan-Wilson, page 109-110 Artforum, March 2006, Top Ten (Strategic Form), Brendon Fowler, page 114 The Uncertain States of America Reader, edited by Noah Horowitz and Brian Sholis, Sternberg Press New York Times, March 03, 2005, A Different Kind of Never-Never Land, Holland Cotter, page B5 NYFA Current, August 2005, Setting A Pace: Andrea Geyer and LTTR, Amoreen Armetta, Vol. 14, No. 16 Time Out New York, August 18-24, 2005, Recommended Reading, Emily Weiner, Issue 416, p 64 New York Times, August 27, 2004, Caution: Angry Artists at Work, Roberta Smith, page E23 New York Times, December 26, 2004, Art: The Missed Opportunities, Holland Cotter, page B44 Artforum, December 2004, Best of 2004, On The Ground: New York, John Kelsey, page 65 New York Times, August 06, 2004, Explosion LTTR, Holland Cotter, page E35 Boston Globe, May 30, 2003, Something Borrowed, Cate McQuaid, page C15 Boston Phoenix, May 2-8, 2003, Whoʼs Your Daddy?, Randi Hopkins Venus, No. 15 Spring 2003, Send Me a LTTR, Sara Marcus, page 9 New York Press, June 27-July 3, 2003, Transformed Vocabulary, Kate Crane

Grants, Awards, Residencies Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant, 2010 Franklin Furnace, 2009 Art Matters, 2008 Wexner Center for the Arts, Winter 2009 International Artists Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS), 2008 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Swing Space, 2008 Public Art Fund- In the Public Realm, Finalist, 2007 Hoyt Award, UCLA, 2006 Visiting Scholar, New York University, Spring 2006 Emerging Artist Book Grant, Printed Matter Inc., 2005 Edward J. and Alice Mae Smith Merit Scholarship, 2005-6 DʼArcy Hayman Award, 2004-5, 2005-6 UCLA Regents Stipend, 2004-5, 2005-6 University Fellowship 2004-5