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HEATHER CARSON
BORN
Los Angeles, California (1960) Lives and works in Los Angeles
EDUCATION
1997 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 light/WHITE, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2012 Heather Carson, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 New Installation: Light Action: light/ALBERS, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Light Action: light/ALBERS, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Light Action: light/CONCENTRIC, Phantom Galleries LA, Beverly Hills, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 Elemental | Seeing the Light, Sturt Haaga Gallery, Descanso Gardens, La Cañada Flintridge, CA
2014 light/LINES: Gold/Green, Black Cat Pop-up Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Size Really Does Matter, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
In Direct Light, Nan Rae Gallery, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA
2011 COLA 2011 Individual Artist Fellowships Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA ACE GALLERY LOS ANGELES 5514 WILSHIRE BLVD · LOS ANGELES · CALIFORNIA · 90036 TEL 323.935.4411 · [email protected]
Blink! Light, Sound and the Moving Image, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Kiss the Band With Your Eyes, The Armory Show, Nyehaus, New York, NY
2010 12 Gauge: Rapid-Fire Study of Art in Los Angeles Today, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2009 High Strangeness, Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, CA
2008 Curtain Call Celebrating a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, NY
2007 Downtown Artist Project Grant Winners, Dangerous Curve, L.A.
Light Action: light/CONCENTRIC, Brewery Artwalk, L.A.
2006 Light Sensitive, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica
2005 Light Action: light/CUBED, Brewery Artwalk, L.A.
2003 FAAR OUT, 6 Months in Rome: Celebrating Design Fellows of The American Academy in Rome , The ADC Gallery, NYC
1999 Hallowed Halls: A Hybrid Halloween, Tenement Museum, NYC
Annual Exhibition 1999, American Academy in Rome, Italy
1998 Light Action: light/House, Smallwood, NY
1997 Light Action: Lightfall, The L. C. Bates Museum Hinckley, Maine
Light Action: push/Pull, Skowhegan, Maine
Light Action: Octagonal Plane, Skowhegan, Maine
1996 Light Action: stop/GO! (for Elizabeth Streb), permanent installation, NYC ACE GALLERY LOS ANGELES 5514 WILSHIRE BLVD · LOS ANGELES · CALIFORNIA · 90036 TEL 323.935.4411 · [email protected]
1995 Action Occupation: Streb/Ringside, The Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
PUBLIC ART
2012-2014 Prequalified Art + Technology Artist Pool, Norman Y. Mineta International Airport, City of San José Public Art Program 2012-2013 Prequalified public artist roster, Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, City of Seattle 2007-2013 light/RAILS, Vine Street Parking Garage - light installation commissioned by the Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, CA 2013 Finalist University Avenue Tunnels, City of Palo Alto Public Art Commission (currently under consideration) 2013 Finalist, NEA Arts A LOT Initiative, Arts Council for Long Beach2011 commission from the Arts Council for Long Beach for a temporary Public Art Project Mobile Exhibit in downtown Long Beach, CA 2008 Finalist, Playa Vista Library, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, CA 2007 Selected for pre-qualified pool of artists, Bridge Improvement Program projects, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, CA 2007 Finalist, Los Angeles Street and Main Street (101 Overcrossing) bridge project, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, CA
AWARDS
2011 City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, CA 2008 Falstaff Award, Best Lighting Design, The RSC History Cycle, RSC, London 2007 Downtown Artist Grant 2006 The Durfee Foundation 2004 New York Foundation for the Arts Artists Fellowship in Architecture/Environmental Structures 1999 Graham Foundation for the Advancement of the Fine Arts 1999 Rome Prize in Design Arts 1998 New York Foundation for the Arts Artists Fellowship in Architecture/Environmental Structures 1997 Fellowship, Skowhegan Art Program
ACE GALLERY LOS ANGELES 5514 WILSHIRE BLVD · LOS ANGELES · CALIFORNIA · 90036 TEL 323.935.4411 · [email protected]
COLLECTIONS The Denver Art Museum
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Donoff, Elizabeth “Heather Carson: light/White”, Architectural Lighting. [Accessed 9/27/2016 http://www.archlighting.com/industry/heather-carson-light-white_o] Knight, Christopher "Art review: 'COLA 2011: Individual Artist Fellowship' at Municipal Art Gallery", Los Angeles Times, June 9th Nys Dambrot, Shana "COLA 2011", online exhibition catalogue, http://cola2011.lamag.org/carson/essay1.html, May Barbour, David “Inside the Enigma: Heather Carson on Richard Foreman’s Idiot Savant”, Lighting and Sound America, December 2009 Barbour, David “Heather Carson opens Major Show at Ace Gallery Los Angeles”, Lighting and Sound America, October 2009 Wilder, Matthew "Critic's Picks", Artforum.com, April 2007 Citizen X, "Grant Winners Hurrah!: $30,000 awarded to downtown artists", Citizen L.A., May 2007 Barbour, David "One Design Approach for a One-Person Show", Lighting and Sound America, July 2004 Dorbian, Iris “Teaching an Endangered Art”, Stage Directions, October 2003 Barbour, David "Heather Carson to Head Lighting Program at Penn State", Entertainment Design, October 2002 Barbour, David "Centerline Q&A", Entertainment Design, October 2001 Barbour, David "A Space for Tragedy: LD Heather Carson explains her controversial approach to lighting opera" Lighting Dimensions, October 2001 Napolean, Davi "Three-Ring History Cycle: RSC's Henry VI Tetralogy Comes to Michigan", Entertainment Design, August 2001 Wasserstein, Wendy "Light Fantastic" Garden Design October 1999 Barbour, David "Forest of Night" Lighting Dimensions, September 1999 Barbour, David "Judgement Day" Lighting Dimensions April 1999 Orskov, Lise "Art Crash Symposiet", Lys ( Danish Lighting Magazine), November, Nr. 3 1998 Barbour, David "Heather Carson wins Rome Prize", Lighting Dimensions, April Orskov, Lise "Art Crash Symposiet", Art Crash Journal No. 2 Brennan, Mary "Finally given a chance to shine", The Scottish Herald, February 25th 1997 Hogan, Jane "The speed of light", Lighting Dimensions Falvey, Jennifer "Light of her Life", The Daily Telegraph, Sydney, September 21st ACE GALLERY LOS ANGELES 5514 WILSHIRE BLVD · LOS ANGELES · CALIFORNIA · 90036 TEL 323.935.4411 · [email protected]
Adamson, Judy "Negrin puts his spin on Hoffmann's tales", The Northern Herald, Sydney, Sept. 19th "Heather Carson dictar curso de illuminacion en altos de Chavon", Listen Diario, Santo Domingo, July Pesta, Abigail "Intuition and Integrity: LD Heather Carson blazes her own trail through the worlds of Opera, Dance, and Theatre Lighting", Lighting Dimensions, November 1994 Pesta, Abigail "Don't Look Down", Lighting Dimensions, November 1993