JAN TUMLIR 5051 ½ Coringa Drive. L.A., CA. 90042 C: (323) 547 8827 E: [email protected]

CURRICULUM VITAE

BIO Jan Tumlir is an art-writer and teacher based in Los Angeles. He is a founding editor of the local art journal X-TRA, and his articles appear regularly in Artforum and Flash Art. He has written catalog essays for such artists as Bas Jan Ader, Uta Barth, John Divola, James Welling, Jorge Pardo and Cyprien Gaillard. Tumlir is a member of the MFA faculty at Art Center College of Design, and has in the past taught at Otis, CalArts, USC, UCR and UCLA. This year he is visiting Washington University in St. Louis as the Wallace Herndon Smith Distinguished Professor of Art. His book LA Artland, a survey of contemporary art in Los Angeles co- written with Chris Kraus and Jane McFadden, was published by Black Dog Press in 2005. Hyenas Are…, a book on artist Matthew Brannon, was published by Mousse in 2011. Tumlir’s latest book, The Magic Circle, On The Beatles, Pop Art, Art-Rock and Records was published by Onomatopee in 2015.

EDUCATION Jan. 1987-Dec. 1988: MFA, California Institute of the Arts. Sept. 1983-Dec. 1985: BFA, University of California, Los Angeles. Sept. 1981-June 1983: California State University, Long Beach.

BOOKS 2015: The Magic Circle: On The Beatles, Pop Art, Art-Rock and Records, Onomatopee.

2014: X-TRA Collected Writings, X-TRA.

2013: In the Good Name of the Company, Picturebox & ForYourArt.

2011: Matthew Brannon: Hyenas Are… Mousse Publishing.

2010: Endless Bummer: Surf Elsewhere, with Drew Heizler, Blum & Poe. The Non-Identical Abstraction Engine, with Robert Linsley, Old Mill Books.

2008: Desertshore, 2nd Cannons Press.

2005: LA Artland: Contemporary Art from Los Angeles, with Chris Kraus and Jane McFadden, Black Dog Publishing, London.

2002: Morbid Curiosity, ACME, LA/I-20 Gallery, NYC.

MONOGRAPHS & CATALOGS 2015: “Twin Peaks,” monograph essay, Twin Peaks: On the Paintings of Robert Linsley & Jeff Tutt, Old Mill Books.

2014: “Xavier Veilhan: Aller-Retour,” catalog essay, Xavier Veilhan: Architectones, SPA, Los Angeles, pp. 190- 195. “The Eye Sees Only Eyes,” monograph essay, Tomory Dodge: Paintings 2007-2011, ACME/CRG/Alison Jacques Gallery, London. “The Torn-Apart Book,” monograph essay, Al Ruppersberg: Posters, MFC-Michele Didier, Paris. “What Happened Here?” catalog essay, Jonah Freeman / Justin Lowe, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, pp. 73- 79. “Pictures Are Also Things,” catalog essay, James Welling: The Mind on Fire, Prestel, pp. 53-77. “Off Wall, On Track,” monograph essay, Dashiell Manley: The Great Train Robbery Scene Three, LAXART. “Muscle Memory, Future Comedy,” catalog essay, Aaron Garber-Maikovska, Standard (Oslo) Books, pp. 10-16. “Black Heaven,” catalog essay, Joan Van Barneveld: Into Longing, Vast Rock, Onomatopee, pp. 46-50. ““How We Became Invisible,” catalog essay, Your Shell Is Made of Air, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman College, pp. 8-14. “The Pass, the Band, the Color,” catalog essay, Yunhee Min, Suzanne Veilmeter Gallery.

2013: “This Is Mine,” catalog essay, Andy Coolquitt, University of Texas Press, pp. 85-107.

2012: “Introduction,” Zoe Crosher: The Unveiling of Michele Dubois, Aperture Ideas Books, pp. 5-9.

2011: “Nathan Hylden” & “Sterling Ruby,” short essays, Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting, Phaidon Press Ltd., p. 138 and p. 260. “Lessons of the Class of 90: Siting Recent Art in Los Angeles”, reprinted essay, Contemporary Art in North America, Black Dog Press, pp. 212-218. “The Newness of Cities,” monograph essay, Won Ju Lim: Untitled Silence, Dartmouth College. “Masking, Passing,” essay, An Exhibition (curated by Brian Todd-Mann & Jesse Benson), Las Cienegas Projects, unpaginated. “Necromantic,” catalog essay, John Divola and Cyprien Gaillard: Palms Won’t Grow Here and Other Myths, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London.

2010: “What Is This?” catalog essay, David Schafer: Separated / United Forms, Charta, pp. 88-119. “Your Confession Booth is my Soapbox,” essay on Skip Arnold, The Black Sphinx (On the Comedic in Modern Art), ed. John Welchman, JRP/Ringier, pp. 177-196. “Michael Pierzynski,” essay, COLA 2010, Department of Cultural Affairs, LA, pp. 56-58.

2009: “What is Aesthetic?” essay on Dave Bailey, What’s Left? ed. Emily Pethik, Sternberg Press. “Crossing Paths,” catalog essay, Of Walking in Ice, cur. Jack Ryan, Soil Gallery, Seattle & White Box, Portland. “Ezra Johnson,” brochure essay reprinted in Hammer Projects, UCLA Hammer Museum. “Psycho-Logic: On the Origin, Genesis and Progeny in Slasher Cinema,” catalog essay, The Night Goat Demands Reparations, cur. Adam Miller, Pacific Design Center, pp. 19-45. “Jan Tumlir,” interview, Arts in Store, ed. Michael Markowsky, Armory Center for the Arts, pp. 115-130. “Drawing in Los Angeles,” catalog essay The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, Catalogue Raisonné, ed. Christian Rattemayer, Museum of Modern Art, NY, pp. 26-35.

2008: “Critical Times,” essay for the USC 2008 MFA catalog, USC, pp. 9-12. “Interview with Mark Hagen,” OCMA: California 2008 Biennial, ed. Lauri Firstenberg, Orange County Museum of Art, pp. 98-100. “Jan Tumlir & Peter Zellner: A Conversation,” I Don’t Must, ed. David Hatcher & Astrid Mania, JRP Ringier. “About the In-Between,” interview with Jorge Pardo, Jorge Pardo, Phaidon Press Ltd., pp. 132-140.

2007: “Playing the Strip,” catalog essay, Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock & Roll, ed. Dominic Molon, Yale University Press, pp. 176-189. “Snail,” catalog essay on Euan Macdonald, Tempo ao Tempo (Taking Time), Marco Museum of Contemporary Art, Vigo, Spain, pp. 156-161. “Kristian Burford: On Rebecca, Christopher and Kathryn,” monograph essay, Kristian Burford, Magrorocca, Milan, pp. 2-5. New Ghost Entertainment – Entitled, reading, The Mandrake Bar, January 25. “Michael Markowsky in Conversation with Jan Tumlir,” interview, Michael Markowsky: Driving Drawings and Paintings, Volume One, Canada Council for the Arts, pp. 47-52. “Ezra Johnson,” brochure essay, Hammer Projects: Ezra Johnson, UCLA Hammer Museum.

2006: “Charlie White: Everything is American,” monograph essay, Charlie White, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain, pp. 15-127. “Whose House Is This?” catalog essay, New Ghost Entertainment – Entitled, cur. Katrin Pesch, Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany & Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 60-65. “My Barbarian,” “Brian Fahlstrom,” “Mario Ybarra Jr.,” “Amir Zaki,” four catalog essays, OCMA: California 2006 Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art. (Barbarian, pp. 121-123; Fahlstrom, pp. 89-91; Ybarra Jr., pp. 165-167; Zaki, pp. 169-171.) “Suzanne Kosmalski,” “David Lefkowitz,” “Aaron Van Dyke,” “Jay Lance Wittenberg,” four catalog essays, MCAD / McKnight Artists 2005-2006, MCAD. “Interview with John Divola,” John Divola: Three Acts, ed. Michael Famighetti, Aperture Foundation Books, NYC, pp. 134-141.

2005: “Pae White: Civics and Seduction,” catalog essay, Pae White, cur. Michael Stanley, Milton Keynes Museum of Art, UK. “Joe Sola: Fish Out of Water?” catalog essay, Joe Sola: Taking a Bullet, LACE, pp. 24-39. “About Place: Ed Ruscha, Bas Jan Ader & the Los Angeles Experience,” catalog essay, Uncertain States of America, American Art in the 3rd Millenium, cur. Daniel Birnbaum, Gunnar Kvaran & Hans Ulrich Obrist, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, pp. 149-158. “Rodney Graham’s Black Box Treatment,” essay, Dia: The Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art, No. 3, ed. Lynne Cooke & Karen Kelly, Dia Art Foundation, pp. 159-189.

2004: “Figures of Fun,” monograph essay, Michael Coughlan: We Have (Had) The Technology, Stalke Gallery, Denmark, pp. 8-11. “Fantastic Formalism,” monograph essay, Jennifer Pastor: The Perfect Ride, The Whitney Museum of American Art, pp. 15-17. “Under the Paving Stones, the Desert,” catalog essay, Mungo Thomson: Cuenca, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, pp. 106-126. “Reports from the Front,” catalog essay on Jeroen De Rijke & Willem De Rooij, The Hugo Boss Prize 2004, The Guggenheim Museum, pp. 36-39. “Figures of Stasis and Flux,” monograph essay on Uta Barth, white blind (bright red), SITE Santa Fe.

2003: “Cecily Brown,” monograph essay, Cecily Brown, Gagosian Gallery.

2002: “Roy McMakin: The Accidental Architect,” monograph essay, Charming Homes for Today, Feature Inc. NYC. “Jorge Pardo Goes to College,” brochure essay for MIT List Center, New Dormitories Project. “Apart from the Whole,” catalog essay on John Divola, Imago 2002, Salamanca Foundation, Spain, pp. 98- 100. “Russ Crotty: Apocalyptic Scribe,” catalog essay, Personliche Plane, Kunsthalle Basel. “Unspeakable,” liner notes for DVD project, David Bunn: Unspeakable, published by Carolina Nitsch.

2001: “The Hole Truth,” interview with Jeff Wall, reprinted in Jeff Wall: Figures and Places, ed. Rolf Lauter, Prestel, pp. 150-157. “Von Hier Aus,” catalog essay, USC Graduate Exhibition Catalog, 8th and Figueroa.

2000: “The Social Degree-Zero,” monograph essay, John Divola: Abandoned Houses, Nazraeli Press. “Carter Potter’s World,” monograph essay, Carter Potter, Rocket Gallery, London.

1999: “To Look at Nothing with Longing,” monograph essay, Uta Barth: Nowhere Near, ACME, pp. 46-53. “Inside Out: On the Paintings of Kevin Appel,” catalog essay, Kevin Appel, cur. Paul Schimmel, MOCA, pp. 25-35. “Bas Jan Ader, The Artist as Time-Traveler,” catalog essay, Bas Jan Ader, cur. Brad Spence, UCI Art Gallery, pp. 21-29. “Pae White & Victor Estrada,” catalog essay, Pae White & Victor Estrada, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX. “From Station to Station,” catalog essay, Jorge Pardo (Untitled), Royal Festival Hall, London.

1998: “Interview with Jessica Bronson,” catalog interview, Jessica Bronson, MOCA. “Bureaucratic Poetry,” catalog essay, David Bunn: Because I Love You, Brooke Alexander Gallery, NYC, pp. 38-58 “I Thought I Saw A Pussy-Cat,” catalog essay, Liz Larner, MAK Center, Austria.

MAGAZINE ESSAYS, REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS 2015: “Trouble, A Post-Mortem,” essay, X-TRA, Vol. 18/2, pp. 90-92. “Pacific Records,” essay on British Sea Power, Artforum, November, p. 159. “Recesses @ Park View,” review, Artforum, November, pp. 313-314. “Detour,” essay on Adria Julia, Osmos Magazine, No. 07, Winter, pp. 32-33. “David Schafer @ Diane Rosenstein,” review, Artforum, Summer, pp. 363-364. “Lisa Anne Auerbach @ Gavlak,” review, Artforum, January, p. 221.

2014: “Angel of History or Canary in a Coalmine,” essay on Miles Coolidge, X-TRA, Vol. 11/1, pp. 34-47. “Stanya Kahn @ Suzanne Veilmetter,” review, Flash Art, No. 297, July/August/September, p. 10. “Al Ruppersberg @ Mark Selwyn,” review, Artforum, September, pp. 283-284. “Carter Mull @ Mark Foxx,” review, Artforum, May, p. 328.

2013: “In and Out of the Studio,” interview with Michelle Grabner, X-TRA, Vol. 16/2, pp. 74-87. “Still Lifing,” interview with Laura Owens, X-TRA, Vol. 16/2, pp. 88-99. “Mark Hagen @ China Art Objects,” review, Artforum, December, pp. 270-271. “Lasting Pictures,” essay, Flash Art, November/December, pp. 86-89. “A Room of Owens’s Own,” interview with Laura Owens, X-TRA, Vol. 16/1, pp. 80-91. “Focus: Urs Fischer @ MOCA,” long-form review, Artforum, October, pp. 286-287. “On Site: Jorge Pardo’s Tecoh,” essay, Artforum, September, pp. 109-112 “Richard Prince @ Gagosian Gallery,” review, Artforum, Summer, pp. 366-367 “In the Good Name of the Company,” essay, X-TRA, Vol. 15/4, pp. 33-39. “Stanley Kubrick @ LACMA,” review, Artforum, May, pp. 334-335. “Jordan Wolfson @ Redcat,” review, Artforum, March, pp. 285-286. “Mary Kelly @ Rosamund Felsen,” review, Artforum, February, pp. 253-254. “Dave Muller @ Blum & Poe,” review, Artforum, January, pp. 215-216.

2012: “Night Life: On Cyprien Gaillard’s LA Photographs,” Cahiers d’Art, No. 1, pp.104-105. “Jon Pestoni,” interview, Flash Art, November/December, p. 107. “Profile: Frances Stark,” essay, Art Review, Issue 62, October, pp. 90-95. “Dark-Side Minimalism,” essay, X-TRA, Vol. 15/1, pp. 64-77. “Robert Adams,” review, Aperture, No. 208, Fall 2012, pp. 10-11. “Studio Crisis!” essay, Art Journal, Vol. 71/1, Spring 2012, pp. 58-74. “Openings: Pietro Roccasalva,” essay, Artforum, June, pp. 296-99. “Delia Brown @ Country Club / Martha Otero,” review, Artforum, June, p. 324. “Sanya Kontarovsky @ Mark Foxx,” review, Artforum, May, p. 317. “Focus: Under the Big Black Sun @ LAMOCA,” long-form review, Artforum, February, p. 218.

2011: “Karina Nimmerfall @ Las Cienegas Projects, Artforum, December, pp. 264-265. “Loud Flash: British Punk on Paper @ Honor Fraser,” review, Artforum, November, pp. 279-280. “Walead Beshty @ Regen Projects,” review, Artforum, September, pp. 353-354. “Brad Spence @ Shoshana Wayne Gallery,” review, Artforum, April, pp. 224-225. “Mark Flores @ UCLA Hammer Museum,” Artforum, March, p. 275. “Jonah Freeman And Justin Lowe @ Country Club,” Artforum, January, pp. 230-231.

2010: “Paul Winstanley @ 1301PE,” review, Artforum, December, p. 256. “Jorge Pardo @ Gagosian Gallery LA,” Artforum, October, p. 284. “New Topographics @ LACMA,” long-form reveiw, X-TRA, Vol. 12/4, Summer, pp. 26-37. “Matt Mullican @ Kunsthalle LA,” Artforum, May, p. 258-59. “Steven Bankhead @ Circus,” review, Artforum, March, p. 256.

2009: “My Barbarian @ Steve Turner Contemporary,” review, Artforum, September, p. 301. “Focus: 9 Lives, Visionary Artists from LA @ UCLA Hammer Museum,” long-form review, Artforum, Summer, p. 329. “Zoe Crosher: Femme Fatale,” essay, Aperture, No.198, Spring, pp. 30-35.

2008: “Walead Beshty: Piece by Piece,” essay, Aperture, No.192, Fall, pp. 32-39. “Christopher Michlig @ JAIL,” review, Artforum, May, p. XX. “Jeffrey Valance @ Margo Leavin,” Artforum, April, pp. 378-379.

2007: “Sci-Fi Historicism Part 3: Character Animation,” essay on contemporary art in Los Angeles, Flash Art, July/September, pp. 120-124. “Florian Maier-Aichen: Outside the Frame,” essay, Aperture, No. 187, Summer, pp. 46-53. “Sci-Fi Historicism Part 2: Desertshore,” essay on contemporary art in Los Angeles, Flash Art, May/June, pp. 118-121. “Robert Russell @ Anna Helwing,” review, Artforum, May, p. 378. “Kristian Burford @ I-20 Gallery, NYC,” review, Artforum, May, pp. 371-372. “Mathias Poledna @ UCLA Hammer Museum,” review, Artforum, April, pp. 281-282. “Sci-Fi Historicism Part 1: The Time Machine,” essay on contemporary art in Los Angeles, Flash Art, March/April, pp. 102-105. “Mark Grotjahn: Big Nose Baby and the Moose,” feature interview, Flash Art, January/February, pp. 82-85.

2006: “Enigma Variations: Philip Guston and Giorgio de Chirico @ Santa Monica Museum of Art,” review, Artforum, December, pp. 314-315. “Wolfgang Tillmans @ UCLA Hammer Museum,” review, Artforum, December, p. 314. “Adria Julia @ Orange County Museum of Art,” review, Artforum, October, p. 272. “Primal Dirge,” essay on Sunn 0))), Artforum, April, p. 93. “Openings: Matthew Brannon,” essay, Artforum, February, pp. 196-197.

2005: “Focus: INSITE_05, San Diego & Tijuana,” long-form review, Artforum, November, pp. 248-249. “David H. Bailey @ Daniel Hug,” review, Artforum, November, p. 260. “Stan Kaplan @ Mary Goldman,” review, Artforum, September, pp. 311-312. “The Magic Circle: On The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper and the Invention of Art Rock, Part 4,” essay, X-TRA, Vol. 7/4, pp. 3-13. “David Hockney @ LA Louver,” review, Artforum, Summer, p. 332. “The Magic Circle: On The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper and the Invention of Art Rock, Part 3,” essay, X-TRA, Vol. 7/3, pp. 4-13. “Mathias Poledna @ Richard Tellis,” review, Artforum, May, pp. 253-254. “Amir Zaki @ The MAK Center,” Artforum, April, p. 195. “Plane Words,” feature essay on Ed Ruscha, Flash Art, March/April, pp. 80-83. “Cindy Bernard @ Margo Leavin,” review, Artforum, March, pp. 244-245. “Focus: The California 2005 Biennial,” long-form review, Artforum, February, p. 168. “Kevin Appel @ Angles,” review, Artforum, January, p. 188.

2004: “On the Ground: Los Angeles,” year-end wrap-up essay, Artforum, December, pp. 65-68. “Sam Durant @ Blum & Poe,” review, Artforum, December, p. 202. “The Magic Circle: On The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper and the Invention of Art Rock, Part 2,” essay, X-TRA, Vol. 7/2, pp. 4-16. “David Hockney: On Returning,” cover feature essay, Flash Art, October, pp. 94-98. “Destroy All Monsters: On Motor City Madness,” essay, Artforum (Special Issue, Pop After Pop), October, p. 85. “Tony Oursler @ Margo Leavin,” review, Artforum, September, pp. 277-278. “The Magic Circle: On The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper and the Invention of Art Rock, Part 1,” essay, X-TRA, Vol. 7/1, pp. 4-16. “Openings: Taft Green,” essay, Artforum, Summer, pp. 236-237. “Robert Overby @ The Luckman Gallery,” review, Artforum, Summer, pp. 255-256. “Pae White @ UCLA Hammer Museum,” review, Artforum, Summer, p. 255. “Mindy Shapero @ Anna Helwing,” review, Artforum, May, p. 218. “Judy Fiskin @ Angles,” review, Artforum, April, p. 165. “The Vancouver Scene,” editorial, X-TRA, Vol 6/3. “Rodney Graham’s Black Box Treatment (short version),” essay, X-TRA, Vol 6/3, pp. 33-39. “Band Apart,” essay on MATMOS, Artforum, March, pp. 69-72. “Jorge Pardo @ Gagosian,” review, Artforum, February, pp. 155-156. “On and Around the Dia,” interview with Lynn Cooke, X-TRA, Vol. 6/2, pp. 4-17. “Sharon Lockhart @ Blum & Poe,” review, Artforum, January, pp. 159-160.

2003: “Jack Goldstein @ 1301 PE,” review, Artforum, December, pp. 151-152. “Tom Allen @ Richard Tellis,” review, Artforum, November, p. 195. “Spinning One’s Wheels in LA,” essay, Flash Art, October, pp. 102-105. “Picture: The Zorthian Ranch,” essay, Frieze, No. 78, October, p. 82. “John Divola @ Patricia Faure,” review, Artforum, September, pp. 231-232. “Jack Goldstein,” editorial, X-TRA, Vol. 5/4. “Trespassing, Houses X Artists,” review, Frieze, No. 76, June/July, pp. 12-121. “1000 Words: Jennifer Pastor,” interview/essay, Artforum, Summer, pp. 154-155. “Interview: James Welling,” Artforum (The 80s Issue), April, pp. 216-217. “Mathias Poledna @ Richard Tellis,” review, Frieze, No. 74, April, pp. 95-96.

2002: “The Butler Did It,” interview with Jorge Pardo and Brian Butler, Flash Art, December, pp. 90-93. “The Old In and Out,” essay, X-TRA, Vol. 5/2, pp. 12-29. “The New Bastards (of Modernity),” editorial, X-TRA, Vol 5/2. “Morbid Curiosity,” essay Artext, No. 78, Fall, pp. 64-76. “The Nineties Jr.,” essay, X-TRA Vol. 5/1, pp. 22-26. “Report: The Locust Days of Burnett Miller,” essay, Artext, No.77, Summer, pp. 34-35. “Openings: Brad Spence,” essay, Artforum, March, pp. 130-131. “Visitation Rites,” interview/essay on David H. Bailey, Artext, No. 76, Spring, pp. 37-45.

2001: “Song Poems @ Leslie, Cohen & Brown, NYC,” review, Artext, No. 75, November/January, p. 78. “First Break: Chris Burden,” interview/essay, Artforum, December, p. 23. “Snapshot @ UCLA Hammer Museum,” review, Artforum, October, p. 155. “Report: Public Offering,” essay, Artext, No. 74, August/October, pp. 37-38. “The Art and Music Issue,” editorial, X-TRA, Vol 4/1. “White Album,” essay, X-TRA, Vol 4/1, pp. 8-23. “The Hole Truth,” feature interview with Jeff Wall, Artforum, March, pp. 112-117. “Tenth Reunion,” interview with Paul Schimmel and Howard Singerman, Artforum, February, pp. 120-123. “Report: Seducing the Sequel,” essay on Sue de Beer and Laura Parnes, Artext, No. 72, February, pp. 32- 33.

2000: “Baldessari’s Urn, On Nineties Art in LA,” essay, Artext, No. 71, November, pp. 42-51. “The Visionary Landscape @ Christopher Grimes,” review, Frieze, No. 52, August, p. 114. “John Divola @ Patti Faure,” review, Artext, No. 70, August/October, p. 81. “Openings: Heidi Kidon,” essay, Artforum, May, pp. 168-169. “The Fashion Show @ George’s,” review, Artext, No. 69, May/July, p. 95. “Charles Long @ Shoshana Wayne,” review, Artext, No. 69, May/July, p. 83. “T. Kelly Mason @ Marc Foxx,” review, Artext, No. 68, February/April, p. 96.

1999: “Afterimage @ MOCA,” review, Artext, No. 67, November/January, p. 82. “Jorge Pardo and Bob Weber @ China Art Objects,” review, Frieze, No. 48, September/October, p. 103. “Mike Kelley @ Patrick Painter,” review, Artext, No. 66, August/October, p. 76. “Benjamin’s Aesthetic,” essay on Walter Benjamin, X-TRA, Vol. 2/4, pp. 2-7. “Knock Knock,” essay on Liz Larner, Artext, No. 65, May/July, pp. 56-61. “Laura Owens, Gentle Purpose,” essay, New Art Examiner, Vol. 26/8, May, pp. 45-46. “Jorge Pardo, 4166 Sea View Lane,” essay, Artext, No. 64, February/April, p. 76.

1998: “Bureaucratic Poetry,” essay on David Bunn, Artext, No. 63, November/January, pp. 34-37. “Points of Access,” essay on Martin Kippenberger, LA Weekly, Vol. 20/43, September 18-24, p. 51. “Uta Barth @ ACME,” review, Artext, No. 62, August/October, p. 90. “Mariko Mori @ LACMA,” review, LA Weekly, June, p. XX. “Surface Wounds,” essay, Artweek, Vol. 29/6, June, p. 16. “The Nouveau Objet,” essay on Pae White, Artext, No. 61, May/July, pp. 40-43. “Carter Potter @ Angles,” review, Frieze, No. 40, May, p. 85. “The Museum Museum,” interview with David Wilson of The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Frieze, No. 39, March, pp. 52-55. “Out of Actions: The Object of Performance,” long-form review, MOCA, Documents, No. 12, Spring, pp. 42- 47. “Reading John McCracken,” essay, Artweek, Vol. 29/2, February, pp. 13-14. “Margaret Honda @ Shoshana Wayne,” review, Frieze, No. 38, January/February, p. 89.

1997: “Ron Athey, Bob Flanagan and the Practice of Secular Sacrifice,” essay, X-TRA, Vol. 1/4, pp. 10-14. “On the Record,” essay, Documents, No. 8, Winter, pp. 21-24. “Who’s Afraid of Reification?” essay on Steven Berens, zingmagazine, No. 96/97, Autumn/Winter, pp. 206- 209. “Kevin Hanley @ ACME,” review, Frieze, No. 36, September/October, p. 99. “On Allan Sekula,” essay, X-TRA, Vol. 1/2, pp. 2-7. “Can One Speak of Art?” essay, Artweek, Vol. 28/6, June, pp. 16-17. “Sharon Ellis,” essay, X-TRA, Vol. 1/1, pp. 9-11. “On Young Art in LA”, essay, LA Art Muscle / New Art Examiner, Vol. 11/3, February/March, pp. 7-9. “The Power of Suggestion @ MOCA,” review, Artweek, Vol. 28/2, February, p. 24.

1996: “Mass-Production and the Work of Sculpture,” essay, Artweek, Vol. 27/12, December, pp. 12-13. “Fandra Chang and Adam Ross @ Shoshana Wayne,” Artweek, Vol. 27/11, November, p. 21. “The Work of Painting,” essay, Artweek, Vol. 27/9, September, pp. 11-12. “Mitchell Syrop @ Rosamund Felsen,” Artweek, Vol. 27/3, March, p. 32. “Reconsidering the Object of Art @ MOCA,” review, Artweek, Vol. 27/1, p. 20.

LECTURES, READINGS and DISCUSSIONS 2015: Mark Hagen, conversation with Mark Hagen, Parapet / REAL HUMANS, Saint Louis, MO, December 12. Scenes, conversation with Kristian Burford, Samuel Freeman, October 24. Architectones Book Release, roundtable discussion with Xavier Veilhan, Francois Perrin, Mark Hagen & Maura Lucking, MOCA, June 12. X-TRA: The First Show, roundtable discussion with Stephen Berens & Shana Lutker, 18th Street Projects, March 11. Pongo’s Dream, roundtable with Benjamin Lord & Melissa Huddleston, Los Angeles Book Fair, MOCA, January 31. Set Up: The Synergistic Mobilization of Experimental Music and Visual Culture, conference paper, Designhuis, Eindhoven, Holland, May 23.

2014: X-TRA Collected Writings, book release, conversation with Shana Lutker, Fitzpatrick-Leland House, LA, October 19. On the Delay, lecture, Washington University, St. Louis, October 15. Flicker: On Monochrome Painting and Noise, lecture, Guelph University, Canada, March 13. Flicker: On Monochrome Painting and Noise, lecture, Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD), Canada, March 12. Karl Haendel: Fear, conversation with Karl Haendel, Los Angeles Book Fair, MOCA, February 1.

2013: Flicker: On Monochrome Painting and Noise, lecture, Sam Fox School, Washington University, St. Louis, November 15. 40 Years of Unexplained Change: Art, History, Subjectivity since 1973, conference paper and roundtable discussion with Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Richard Shiff, Jane McFadden and Daniel Marcus, organized by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe and Jason E. Smith, Art Center, November 10. Flicker: On Monochrome Painting and Noise, lecture, UCLA Graduate Studios, October 18. Architectones: Xavier Veilhan, panel discussion with Xavier Veilhan, Francois Perrin, Nicolas Godin and Frank Escher, Sheats-Goldstein Lautner House, April 24. Dialogues, moderator for a panel on art and architecture with Fritz Haeg, Marie Jaeger, Alice Konitz, Ivette Soler, Oscar Tuazon and Eric Wesley, MAK Schindler House, January 30.

2012: Black & White Paintings & Albums, lecture, ForYourArt, October 7. Architectones: Xavier Veilhan, panel discussion with Xavier Veilhan, Francois Perrin, Raymond Neutra and Barbara Lamprecht, Neutra VDL House, August 10. Occult Aesthesis, moderator for a panel on Art and the Occult, Art Center College of Design, July 5. On the Delay, lecture, UCI, May 1.

2011: The Long Range, panel discussion with John Divola and Cindy Bernard, Ltd Los Angeles, October 8. The Long Range, panel discussion with Jim Skuldt and Christopher Michlig, Ltd Los Angeles, September 18. Boom, moderator for a panel on graduate art school in LA with Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Eve Fowler and Steve Turner, LA Mart, August 11. On Won Ju Lim, lecture, Dartmouth College, NH, May 26. On the Delay, lecture, USC Roski School of Art, April 22. A Conversation with Zoe Crosher, Photo LA, Santa Monica Convention Center, January 15.

2010: Pacific Standard Time Performance Grant Panel, with Glenn Phillips and Lauri Firstenberg, The Getty Foundation, October 5. On the Delay, lecture, Control Room, October 3. Asterisk & Obelisk, lecture, UCR, May 18. A Conversation with Jack Ryan, White Box @ White Stag, Portland, March 3. Asterisk & Obelisk, Davis lecture, University of Oregon, Eugene, March 2. A Conversation with Zoe Crosher, Aperture Foundation, NYC, February 16.

2009: Fellowship of Contemporary Art Grant Panel, with James Welling and Jens Hoffman, FOCA, November 15. Critical Aesthetics in the Post-Medium Condition, symposium paper and roundtable discussion with Matthias Poledna, Catherine Wood and Mary Kelly, organized by Juli Carson, UCI, May 8.

2008: Desertshore, lecture, University of California San Diego, November 20. Desertshore, lecture, Art Institute of Chicago, October 15. Sci-Fi Historicism, lecture, USC Roski School of Art, September 10. Art/Science Abstraction Fellowship, invited by artist/writer Robert Linsley to participate in his fellowship program, Toronto, Canada, May 15-19.

2007: First, Last, Always, lecture on Jeff Wall, The Art Institute of Chicago, July 19. The Grand Tour, conducted a trip through the Art Fairs and Biennials in Europe with a group of Art Center students, June 10-23. A Conversation with Mathias Poledna, part of the series What Remains, mod. Juli Carson, UCI, May 8. Around Photography: The Archive Reconsidered, conference paper and round-table discussion with Cathy Opie and Joel Sternfeld, organized by James Welling and Alex Klein, UCLA Hammer Museum, April 28. Art/Science Abstraction Fellowship, invited by artist/writer Robert Linsley to participate in his fellowship program, Toronto, Canada, March 10-14.

2006: OCMA: California 2006 Biennial, exhibition walk-through, Orange County Museum of Art, October 15. OCMA: California 2006 Biennial, panel discussion with Elizabeth Armstrong, Karen Moss, Aimee Chang and Glen Hefland, Orange County Museum of Art, October 1. MCAD / McKnight Artists 2005-2006, moderated panel discussion between fellowship recipients, Minneapolis College of Art & Design (MCAD), July 12. State of the Independents, organized and hosted a three-part panel discussion on the history, present-day functions and future potentials of the independent art space, Beyond Baroque, March 4, 2006. Loving Ugly, two lectures, Art Center College of Design, January 25 & March 15.

2005: LA Artland Roundtable, discussion with David Bunn, Frances Stark and Daniel Mendel-Black, The Mountain Bar, November 20. Are We on the Same Page? conference paper on the history of X-TRA and roundtable discussion, organized by John Welchman and SOCASS, LACE, April 12 On Ed Ruscha & Bas Jan Ader, lecture, UCR, February 3. The Lateral Slip, lecture, The Sweeney Gallery, UCR, January 22.

2004: An Arc, Another, and So On, lecture, CSLA, October 25. A Lover’s Discourse, reading (program curated by Benjamin Weissman), UCLA Hammer Museum, May 18. The Magic Circle: On Art and Popular Music, lecture, Otis College of Art, Graduate Studios, May 14.

2003: On Art and Popular Music (Part 3), conversation with Mayo Thompson, The Mountain Bar, October 12. On Art and Popular Music (Part 2), conversation with Frances Stark and Dave Muller, The Mountain Bar, September 28. On Art and Popular Music (Part 1), conversation with Kevin Hanley, The Mountain Bar, September 21. Conversation with Jorge Pardo, The Mountain Bar, April 15. Roy McMakin, lecture, MOCA, April 3. On the Record: Art and Popular Music, lecture, Art Center College of Design, February 4.

2002: LA on my Mind, lecture, MOCA, March 17. Art Rock, lecture, CALARTS, January 22.

2001: Adventures in Reduced Listening, lecture/performance, Beyond Festival, Beyond Baroque, August 19. Student to Artist, panel discussion, CALARTS @ Track 16, April 13. The Vanishing Author, conference paper, Aim Festival, USC, February 15.

2000: Voyeur 2000, lecture, SPE Conference, San Diego Museum of Photography, November 19. Popular Music and the Theory of Montage, lecture, Occidental College, November 2. Rodney Graham’s Black Box Treatment, lecture, Dia Center for the Arts, NYC, May 18.

1998: Montage-Painting, lecture, Cranbrook Academy of Art and Design, Detroit, December.

1996: From Bosch to Crumb, lecture on caricature, Santa Monica Museum of Contemporary Art, March 29.

CURATORIAL 2013: Inside This Human Clay, with Sarah Lehrer-GraiwerLtd Los Angeles, November 2-December 20. In the Good Name of the Company, with Christopher Michlig & Brian Roettinger, New York Book Fair, September 20-22. Endless Bummer 2: Still Bummin’, with Drew Heitzler, Marlborough Gallery, NY, May 11-June 29. Flicker, Control Room, March 15-April 22. In the Good Name of the Company, with Christopher Michlig & Brian Roettinger, ForYourArt, February 23- March 23.

2012: Drawing a Blank, with Matthew Brannon, David Kordansky Gallery, July 14-August 18.

2011: The Long Range, Ltd Los Angeles, September 8-November 5.

2010: Jerry/Jury-Rigged, Glendale College Art Gallery, September 25-November 13. The Non-Identical Abstraction Engine, ACME, January 9-February 6.

2009: Juried Exhibition, selection, installation and discussion of student works, Pasadena City College, November- December.

2008: Desertshore, The Luckman Gallery, August 23-October 18.

2006: 666, USC Roski School of Art Gallery, June 6-24.

2005: The Lateral Slip, The Sweeney Gallery, UCR, January.

2004: An Arc, Another, and So On, CSLA, October.

2002: Morbid Curiosity, I-20 Gallery, NYC, April-May.

2001: Morbid Curiosity, ACME, September 8-August 6. White Album, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, December 16, 2000-January 27.