Elizabeth Chiles www.elizabethchiles.com [email protected] 512.487.0152 Born Austin, Texas
Education
2005 MFA Photography, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1997 BA Art History, Columbia University, New York, NY
Teaching
2011–present University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, Lecturer
2012–present Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX, Assistant Professor Part-time
2009-2013 Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, Lecturer
2010 Lesley University, The Art Institute of Boston, Low Residency M.F.A. Graduate Mentor
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2014
On My Mind, Again, Canopy, Austin, Texas
2013
Beauty is Everywhere or We’ll break your Bones (or Sticks), Installations and Experiences by Elizabeth Jean Chiles and Beverly Jane Bajema, Pleasure Palace, Austin, TX
2010
Book of Praise, testsite, Austin, TX
2009
Visibility, Spartan, Austin, TX
2005
Suspended, MFA thesis show, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Shows
2015 Strange Pilgrims, (catalogue with essays by Lawrence Weschler and Ann Reynolds), The Contemporary Austin University of Texas, Austin, Faculty exhibition, Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX
2014 INFOCUS, juried exhibition of self-published photobooks, Phoenix Art Musuem, AZ Mail Art, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT On the Road, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY BLOG RE-BLOG curated by The Latent Image, NY and I like this blog, LA, Big Medium, Austin, TX
2013 Moving/Still (catalogue), curated by Kerry Inman, Houston Center for Photography and Fotofest Contemporary Photographic Practice and the Archive, Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX BLOG RE-BLOG curated by The Latent Image, NY and I like this blog, LA, Signal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY A Collection, Tiny Park Gallery, Austin, TX Self/Reflect, part of Advanced Young Artists, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX Texas Biennial with Lakes Were Rivers, Artifact/Souvenir, Blue Star Art Museum, San Antonio Faculty exhibition, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2012 Girls Guild Group Show, Conjunctured, Austin, TX HER (catalogue), Rolla Foundation, Bruzella, Switzerland South by Southwest popup show, Citygram Magazine, Austin, TX Re(Collection), organized by Noah Simblist, Space X, Fort Worth, TX Dark Matter, Vanderbilt University Gallery, Nashville, TN Faculty exhibition, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2011 Re(Collection), Lakes Were Rivers responds to the Ransom Center, EAST, Austin, TX University of Texas, Austin, Faculty exhibition, Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX Then and Now, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI Aperture benefit exhibition and auction, New York, NY New Art Photography (catalogue),, Chelsea Art Museum,curated by Vanessa Kramer, head of photographs, Phillips de Pury, New York, NY Texas Biennial (catalogue),, curated by Virginia Rutledge, Austin, TX 15 to Watch: New Art in Austin(catalogue),, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX Faculty Exhibition, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2010 Deck the Walls, John Cleary Gallery, Houston, TX Lakes were Rivers presents Panta Rei, Box 13, Houston, TX (in conjunction with Foto Fest) Aperture benefit exhibition, New York, NY Self Similarity, Things in Nature that Resemble Each Other, Gallery of Common Experience, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX Faculty Exhibition, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2009 Deck the Walls, John Cleary Gallery, Houston, Texas Visibility, Spartan, Austin, TX (solo show)
2008 project room, Okay Mountain, Austin, TX
2007 Artists go Lightly, Temporary Autonomous Museum, San Francisco, CA Home (catalogue),, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2006 Winter Selections, Rayko, San Francisco, CA Truth and Lies, Mission 17 Gallery, San Francisco, CA open studios, Blue Studios, San Francisco, CA Ad Hoc, Cell Space, San Francisco, CA
2005 Photo San Francisco curated by SFAI Faculty MFA Thesis Exhibition, Suspended, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
2004 memory/loss, Lacunae Gallery, San Francisco, curated by Alla Efinova & Levia Stern Book Projects, The McBean Project Space San Francisco Art Institute at Stanford University curated by Charles Boone
2003 Shadowboxing, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA Take Out, Swell Gallery, SFAI, San Francisco, CA Fragments of Contemporary Urban Life, Diego Rivera Gallery; San Francisco City Hall; and Michaelis Gallery at the University of Cape Town, South Africa
2002 Creative City, San Francisco Bureau of Urban Secrets, San Francisco, CA
Bibliography
Blogs/Art Indexes
Go Forth Be Creative, November 2014 Downtown Austin Alliance, November 13, 2014 The Latent Image, NY, October 12, 2012 and June 28, 2013 I like this blog, LA, July 25, 2013 Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, December 2012 (interview) I heart photograph, March 31, 2011 Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, November 2, 2011 (interview) Casey Wilson, Elizabeth Chiles at testsite, Austin Center for Photography, March 6, 2010. Art Photo Index ArtSlant LensCulture
Selected Press
Touring the Tour, Seth Orion Schwaiger, The Austin Chronicle, November 21, 2014 The Austin American Statesman recommends for EAST, November 13, 2014 5 Can’t Miss Stops at EAST 2014, Austin Way Magazine, by Wes Eichenwald The nature of the [b]EAST, Seth Orion Schwaiger, Arts & Culture, October 26, 2014 “MOVING/STILL: Recent Photographs by Texas Artists” Tries to Make Peace With Nature, Houston Press, September 24, 2013 by Altamese Osborne Top 5 in Houston this week (Moving/Still at Fotofest & HCP), Glasstire, September 2013 Archives Inform Modern Photographers work at the Ransom Center, Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, The Austin American Statesman, July 14, 2013. KUT, NPR in Austin interview with John Aielli, June 27, 2013 West Austin Studio Tour artist plays with light, nature and the cycles of life by Luke Quinton, The Austin American Statesman, April 25, 2013 In the Studio: Elizabeth Chiles by Andy Campbell, The Austin Chronicle, April 14, 2013 Dark Matter, Critics pick, Nashville Review, November, 2012 Pictures of E.A.S.T, Katie Geha, Glasstire, November, 2012 I Shutter to Think, Rising Stars in Austin, Austin Chronicle, Robert Faires, May 20, 2011 Lakes Were Rivers at Domy Books, The Austinist, February 16, 2011 Art trifecta: 2011 Texas Biennial expands from Austin to Houston and San Antonio, Culture map, Houston, December 19, 2010 PBS television interview, Austin Museum of Art, March 2010 Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, testsite launches ‘Just Because’ series, and more, The Austin American Statesman, Thursday, March 4, 2010
Catalogues
Texas Biennial 2013, Virginia Rutledge, Texas Biennial, Austin, 2013 Young Artist Program, The Contemporary Austin, 2013 HER, Rolla Foundation, Italy, 2012. Texas Biennial 2011, Virginia Rutledge, Texas Biennial, Austin, 2011 The The Collector's Guide to New Art Photography Vol. 2, Amani Olu and Jon Feinstein, Humble Arts Foundation, New York, 2010 Home, Root Division, San Francisco The History of Mission 17 Gallery, San Francisco, New Art in Austin, Kate Bonansinga, Toby Kamps, and Andrea Mellard, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, 2011
Artist books
The flower and the bloom, self published monograph; available at Fotofest, Houston Lakes Were Rivers: Number One, collaborative artist book Book of Praise produced in conjunction with testsite exhibition; available at Domy Books, Houston Theatre, with essay by Toby Kamps, senior curator, Menil Collection, Houston, TX Special edition portfolio, Gum Drops, produced at Cloverleaf Studios, Austin, TX Special edition portfolio, Everyday Portals and Pleasures, produced at Cloverleaf Studios, Austin
Published Writings and images
Cover art: American Short Fiction, fall 2013 Fields Magazine, featured artist, summer 2014 Endless Ocean, Endless Sky, Fuse Box Festival, ...might be good, issue 99 Interview with Jessica McDonald, I Love Texas Photo, September 2013
Grants & Awards
City of Austin, Core Funding Grant, FY2015 Finalist, Art Pace Residency, fall 2014 selected by Mika Yoshitake, Assistant Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Warhol Foundation Idea Fund Grant, 2012 Fellowship, Hambidge, Creative Residency Program, summer 2014 Best photographers to Lakes Were Rivers, Austin Chronicle, 2011 Texas State University, grant to Lakes Were Rivers for a book on the Harry Ransom Center exhibition ‘Contemporary Photographic Practice and the archive’ Nominated for Best Museum Exhibition for Contemporary Photographic Practice and the Archive, Harry Ransom Center, Critics Table Awards, 2014
Public Talks and Lectures
2015 Fotofest, public talk about On My Mind, Again book and project
2014 Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, Rabun Gap, Georgia, Artist talk
2014 The University of Texas at Austin, Quest Program, Artist talk
2013 The Harry Ransom Center, Contemporary Photographic Practice and the Archive, Public Talk on Exhibition
2013 Houston Center for Photography, exhibition walk through with curator
2013 Fotofest, , exhibition walk through with curator
2013 KUT/KUTX, Austin’s NPR station, Radio interview with John Aielli about HRC exhibition
2012 Texas Educators Association, presentation: Photographing the Everyday and Storytelling through Photography
2011 The Austin Museum of Art, Public Talk on Exhibition
2011 PBS interview at Austin Museum of Art, Interview for local PBS station
2011 The University of Texas at Austin, visiting artist lecture
2011 The University of Texas at Austin, faculty exhibition, program lecture
2010 Texas State University, visiting artist lecture
2009 Texas State University, visiting artist lecture
2009 testsite, Public Talk on Exhibition
Collaborator
Lakes Were Rivers, Founding member, 2008 – present Culminating in exhibitions, publications and public conversations on art, our collective began as a critique group to share work. We have had exhibitions throughout the country, won numerous awards and garnered much press.
Service
Austin Center for Photography, 2008 - 2014 Board of Trustees; Executive Committee Member; Co-chair, Programming
Established and led a for-credit internship between Texas State University photography students and Austin Center for Photography
Mentorship through Young Artist Program with The Contemporary Austin, 2013
Organized the annual fundraiser for AIDS at Barbara Krakow Gallery 2000 – 2002
Boston Art Dealer’s Association, 1998 – 2002 Secretary of the organization 1998 – 2002
Independent Studies with undergraduate and graduate students, UT Austin and Texas State University, 2010 - 2014
Juror
See.Me juror for the international competition for Conceptual Photography Texas State University, 2013, juror for exhibition of Buddhist mandalas Art City Austin, 2010, juror for the city wide exhibition for photography Visual Arts Club, Sun City, Texas juror for all visual arts categories
Collections include
Frish Brandt, San Francisco Julie Castellano, New York Mike Chesser, Austin Dell Children’s Hospital, Austin Cathy Kaplan, New York Michael Lacey, Phoenix & New York Laurence Miller, Austin Lora Reynolds, Austin Phil Rolla, Switzerland Susanna Singer, New York Emily Stein, Houston
Gallery Experience
Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX, 2007 – 2009 Associate director Artists: Oliver Boberg, Susan Collis, Francesca Gabbiani, Ewan Gibbs, Ed Ruscha, Robert Therrien, Jim Torok, And Others.
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2005-2007 Associate director Artists: Robert Adams, Diane Arbus Estate, Richard Avedon Estate, Lee Friedlander, Katy Grannan, Helen Levitt Estate, Richard Misrach, Garry Winogrand Estate, And Others.
Walter & Mcbean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, 2002-2005 Head work study position
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA, 1998-2002 Registrar/client specialist Artists: Julian Opie, Fred Sandback, Robert Mangold, Sol Lewitt, Allan Mccollum, Ursula Von Rydingsvaard, Kate Shepherd, And Others.