Kembra Pfahler

Born in 1961 in Hermosa Beach, CA, USA. Lives and works in New York City, NY, USA.

EDUCATION

1973 – 1983 School of Visual Arts BA, New York, NY, USA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 Kembra Pfahler and Paul Heyer, CONDO NY, Chapter NY, New York, NY, USA Rebel without a Cock, Emalin, London 2016 Capital Improvements, Emalin, London 2015 Kembra Pfahler The Manual of Action, Bowman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA 2012 Kembra Pfahler: Fuck Island, Participant Inc., New York, NY, USA Giverny (with E.V. Day), The Hole Gallery, New York, NY, USA 2008 Sit-Ins, Deitch Projects, New York, NY, USA 2007 Heaven & Helll, Deitch Projects at Bas Fisher Invitational, Miami, FL 2005 File Under ‘V’, Rove Gallery, London 2002 Availabism and Anti-naturalism: A Feminine Experiment at American Fine Arts Company, New York, NY, USA Riddle of the Sphinx, Deitch Projects, New York, NY, USA Tylenol Island, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, USA Wet Rainbow, HaNNa, Hpgrp Tokyo, JP

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019 Familiar Machines, Backlit, Nottingham, UK 2018 Breaking Wave, Participant Inc., New York, NY, USA The Condition Of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery & American Fine Arts, Co. Hessel Museum of Art, Hudson, NY, USA LUST LAUGHTER LIQUOR, PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, BE 2017 FUTURE FEMINISM, O Space on occasion of European Capital of Culture Aarhus 2017, Aarhus, DK 2016 Grande, Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City, MX Subject to Capital, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY, USA 2015 All Together, Ernest Rubenstein and Jewish Communal Galleries at Manny Cantor Center, New York, NY, USA 2014 Future Feminism, The Hole Gallery, New York, NY, USA ALL HAIL GWAR! Dave Brockie Memorial Art Show, MF Gallery, New York, NY, USA 2013 Summer Reading, The Hole Gallery, New York, NY, USA 2012 Masterpieces: A Fact-Filled Coloring Book, ABC NO RIO, New York, NY, USA Creepers, SUPERCHIEF GALLERY, New York, NY, USA YOU KILLED ME FIRST The Cinema of Transgression, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE 2011 The Unseen, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, USA New York Minute, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, RU 2010 IT AIN’T FAIR 2010, OHWOW Miami, Miami Beach, FL, USA RE:FORM SCHOOL, RE:FORM SCHOOL, New York, NY, USA Closing Night, Participant Inc., New York, NY, USA Dead Flowers, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA The Secret Knows: A LAND Exhibition, The Virgin Mobile Freehouse, Austin, TX, USA Think Pink, Gavlak, Palm Beach, FL, USA 2009 Inferno, Yautepec, Mexico City, MX A New York Minute, curated by Kathy Grayson, MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, IT 2008 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA It’s Not Only Rock ‘N’ Roll, Baby!, curated by Jerome Sans at the Palais des Beaux Arts in , BE Actresstocracy, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY, USA 2007 Georg Gatsas: The Process VI, The Swiss Institute, New York, NY, USA Womanizer, Deitch Projects, New York, NY, USA Horrorshow, TELIC Arts Exchange, Los Angeles, CA, USA 1983 The Extremism Show, ABC NoRio, New York, NY, USA

FURTHER PROJECTS

2019 Calling on Twilight, 182 Avenue C, New York, NY, USA The Voluptuous Horror of (performance), Tompkins Square Park, New York, NY, USA LADA Screens: Kembra Pfahler (performance), LADA, London, England The Johnsons present SHE WHO SAW BEAUTIFUL THINGS (performance), The Kitchen, New York, NY, USA Sex Cells Two Year Anniversary, with Marc Almond (performance), Globe Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, USA A life performance by Kembra Pfahler & the Girls of Karen Black (performance), hosted by Jeffrey Deitch & Kaleidoscope Magazine, Los Angeles, CA, USA 2018 Soldier of Female (performance), Nightfall, curated by Erika Verzutti, Fernanda Brenner, Milovan Farronato, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, BE The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black (performance), Wigstock Festival, New York, NY, USA Doomtown Screenings: Kembra Pfahler presented by Dirty Looks (film screenings), PICA, Portland, Oregon, USA 2017 Dirty Looks: Kembra Pfahler (event), The Kitchen, New York, NY, USA FUTURE FEMINISM (panels and performance Art 101 lecture), Aarhus, DK DISRUPT THEIR LIVES (film), curated by , CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, DK Ich Sehe Das Licht: Kembra Pfahler and The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black (film), Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA, USA 2016 The Misandrists (film), Bruce LaBruce Kembra Pfahler on Genesis Breyer P-Orridge: Try to Altar Everything (symposium), Rubin Museum, New York, NY, USA 2012 Kembra Pfahler: Availablism and Anti-Naturalism + A Conversation with Claywoman (discussion and performance), Southbank Centre, London Turning (film), Charles Atlas 2011 The Advocate for Fagdom (film), Angelique Bosio 2010 Blank City (film), Celine Danhier 2008 Otto; or, Up with Dead People (film), Bruce La Bruce ABC No Rio Benefit Gala & Art Auction, ANGEL ORENSANZ FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS (auction), New York, NY, USA 2006 Surf Gang (film), Katrina del Mar 1999 Gang Girls 2000 (film), Katrina del Mar 1998 Black Date (album), The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black 1996 A National Healthcare (album), The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black 1995 Anti-Naturalists (album), The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black 1994 The Fury Inside (film), Vince Benedetti 1993 Red Spirit Lake (film), Charles Pinion 1992 Sewing Circle (film), War is Menstrual Envy (film), Nick Zedd 1991 Ferrum 5000 (short film), Steve Doughton, USA 1984 XS: The Opera Opus (performance), Pyramid Club, New York, NY, USA

RESIDENCIES

2016 Varda Artists Residency, Sausalito, CA, USA 2009/2010 Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY, USA

PUBLICATIONS

2012 Pfahler Kembra and E.V. Day. Giverny, exhibition catalogue). New York: The Hole Gallery 2010 Gangitano, Lia. Dead Flowers. Philadelphia: Vox Populi and Participant Press 2009 Grayson, Kathy. Kembra Pfahler: Beautalism. New York: Deitch Projects 2008 Sans, Jérôme. IT’S NOT ONLY ROCK & ROLL BABY! Brussels: Bozar Books 2007 Olon, Dominic, Diedrich Diederichsen, Dan Graham, et al. Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art 2002 Metzger, Richard. Disinformation: The Interviews. New York: The Disinformation Company 1999 Sargeant, Jack. Deathtripping: An Illustrated History of the Cinema of Transgression (Creation Cinema Collection). Washington D.C.: Creation Books, 2 Rev Ed July 19

COLLECTIONS

Bozar Museum, Brussels, BE The , New York, NY, USA The Swiss Institute, New York, NY, USA