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ROBIN LASSER Oakland, California 94618 (510) 282 6993 cell [email protected] http://www.robinlasser.com http://MigratoryCultures.com http://DressTents.com http://RefugeInRefuse.weebly.com EDUCATION 1988 Master of Fine Arts, Mills College, Oakland, CA 1979 Bachelor of Arts, Design, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA TEACHING EXPERIENCE 1994-present Professor of Art, San José State University, San José, CA PUBLIC ART, SOLO EXHIBITIONS, AND INSTALLATIONS 2020 OSU Museum of Art, “The State We’re In: Water,” solo exhibition of five multi-media installations. August 2020-January 2021. Brazilian Gallery, “Sao Paulo Dress Tent,” installation and photographic series. February-April. 2019 Sorbonne University in Paris, “Water: Multi-Species Migration and Displacement” Forum for Radical Imagination on Ecological Culture, installation. June. San Jose Museum of Art, “San Jose Stories: Vietnamese Diaspora,” installation. March. Viet Museum, “San Jose Stories: Vietnamese Diaspora,” installation. March. 2018 Albrecht Kemper Museum of Art, “Memory of Water: Defining Sense of Place in the Hydrosphere.” St. Joseph, Missouri; December 10, 2017-March 30, 2018 . Asian Art Museum, “Sari Dress Tent” San Francisco, CA; September. Kelly Historic Park Koi Ponds, “Dream Boats” public arts event. September. Public installation in front of SF City Hall, “Sari Dress Tent,” commissioned by Livable Cities and the Asian Art Museum, for the Sunday Streets Festival. May. 2017 Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, “Dashboard Hula Girl Dress Tent” installation, video, and performance at “Ae Kai,” a culture lab on convergence at the former site of Foodland. Ala Moana, Honolulu, Hawaii. Stories of Space Festival and Residency, “Migration Stories,” workshop, public projections and performances. Goa, India. Goa Museum, “3rd Space Lab Social Weavers.” Goa, India; November. Florida State University, “Project Ice Ships: Love Letters in the Time of Climate Change,” video projection mapped onto gallery exterior architecture in front of mirror pond, floating lanterns with drawings and inscriptions, student performance. Tallahassee, Florida. Cubberley Community Center, “Migration Stories,” video projection mapped onto a bank of eucalyptus trees that border the Cubberley campus. Palo Alto, CA. SJSU Dance Studio Building, “Melting ICE: Love Letters in the Time of Mass Migration,” video projection mapped onto architecture with student performance. San Jose, CA. 2016 Cubbon Metro Station, “Art in Transit,” public art featuring large scale photography and a site-specific video projection mapping and documentary video project on the topic of immigration supported by the US State Department along with Srishti Institute of Art, Design, and Technology. Bangalore, India. National Museum of Art, “Social Weavers,” site specific video projection, a project created in partnership with weavers from the town of Gajendragada in the Gadag district of Karnataka, India and 3rd Space Lab. Bangalore, India; November. Alzahra University Art Gallery, “International Photo Exhibit-Works from San Jose State University,” first American Photo Exhibit in Iran since the revolution. Tehran, November. Hayes Valley, “Giant Toilet Tent,” public art installation commissioned by Lava Mae for World Toilet Day. San Francisco, CA; November 19. Center for Photographic Art, “Dress Tents,” solo photography exhibition with installations, performance, and video. Carmel, California; July-September. San Jose Museum of Art, “Migration Stories: The Distance From Me To You,” 3D projection mapping. San José, California; July. Jack London Square-Sunset Magazine Building, “Migration Stories: The Distance From Me To You,” 3D projection mapping. Oakland, California; May 20. Pajaro Valley Art Gallery, “Migration Stories: The Distance From Me To You,” 3D projection mapping onto Watsonville Hand Ball Courts. Pajaro Gallery; March 20. Watsonville Art Wall, “Migration Stories: The Distance From Me To You,” 3D projection mapping. Watsonville, CA; March 19. 2015 Omsk, Siberia 2nd Annual Public Arts Festival, “Spaces of Plurality,” co - curated with Vasiliy Melienchenko. Omsk, Russia; May 22 –June 15. SOMArts, “Refuge in Refuse,” large-scale multimedia exhibition. San Francisco, California; February-March. Palo Alto Art Center, “Picnic Dress Tent,” installation. Palo Alto, California; September. Mulvane Museum, “Drift and Drag,” room size video installation. Topeka, Kansas; January-March. City of San Jose Public Art Program, “Our Lives in this Place,” E. Santa Clara Urban Village Planning Project, mobile postcard kiosk with 30 cards highlighting community portraits and stories. San Jose, CA; 2014-2015. Film Fest: Technology to connect audiences with film festivals and makers, “Refuge in Refuse,” distribution of feature length film via apple TV. February. 2014 Exploratorium Observatory Gallery, “3rd Space Culture in Place: Exploring geographic space between Bangalore India and Bay Area,” multi-channel video mapping interventions onto the camera obscura structure and video displays on the interior flat screen module grid. San Francisco, California; August 21. OMSK Contemporary Public Arts Festival, “Curtain + Wall,” public art installation. Omsk, Russia; May. National Gallery of Modern Art, “The Distance from Me to You,” residency, photography, video, and performance. Bangalore, India; January. The Hand Art Center, “Waiting Room Installations,” photography, sculpture, and sound. Stetson University, Deland, Florida; August-October. Glore Psychiatric Museum, “Melancholia,” multimedia installation. St. Joseph, Missouri; April. 2013 Groningen Museum, “The Waiting Room,” installation including large scale photographs printed on fabric, video, sound and sculpture. Groningen, Netherlands; July. 2012 Montalvo Arts Center, “Edible Dress Tent,” sculpture on the grounds of Lucas Artists Residency, public art commission, $16,500. Montalvo, California; May 2012- October 2015. Spencer Museum of Art, “Drop-in Pop-up Waiting Room” multimedia installation about health issues including data visualization, sound, and sculpture. University of Kansas, Kansas; September-January. The Sabatini Gallery, “The Waiting Room,” multimedia installation about women’s health issues including sculpture, video, and sound works. TSCPL, Topeka, Kansas. Arena 1 Gallery, “Refocus: Multicultural Focus,” a Getty’s Pacific Standard Time initiative exhibition, photographs and dress tent installation. Santa Monica Airport, California; January. Bedford Gallery, “Outfitters,” photographs and dress tents installations. Walnut Creek, California; March. 2011 Peninsula School of Art, “Unruffled Views: The Dress as Symbol,” multimedia installation. Fish Creek, Wisconsin; April-July. Sverdlovsk Regional Studies Museum, “Ms. Yekaterinburg: Camera Obscura Dress Tent,” installation. Yekaterinburg, Russia; June. Mentenkov Museum, “Sister City Cultural Exchange: San Jose & Yekaterinburg,” photographs and dress tent installation. Yekaterinburg, Russia; September. City Windows Gallery, “Seven Days – Sister Cities – Artist Exchange,” photographs and video. San Jose City Hall, California; September Yekaterinburg Public Art, “Ms.Yekaterinburg: Camera Obscura Dress Tent,” sculpture and sound installation at multiple public locations. Yekaterinburg, Russia; May. Concourse Exhibition Center, “Art MRKT, Zer01,” exhibitions, two dress tent installations and large - scale photographs. San Francisco, California; May. Di Rosa Preserve, “Zombies,” dress tent installation and photographs. Napa, California; June. 2010 San Jose Temporary Commissioned Public Art, “Floating World: A Tent City for Displaced Human and Bird Song,” $50,000 commission. San Fernando Corridor, California; 2010-2011 Brolly Arts, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, “Green House Dress Tent,” performance and installation. Salt Lake City, Utah. Cal Arts, “Dirty Shower Dress Tent,” performance and installation. Los Angeles, California; October. Mulvane Museum, “Dress Tents,” photographs, video, and installation. Topeka, Kansas; January-March. The Catherine Murphy Gallery, “The Waiting Room,” multimedia installation about women’s health issues including sculpture, video and sound works. University of St. Catherine, St. Paul, Minnesota; November. 2009 Rio de Janeiro Caixa Cultural Center, “Dress Tents,” photographs, video, and installations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; July-September. Mulvane Museum, “Dress Tents,” photographs, video, and installations. Kansas City, Kansas; October-January. Cal Arts, “Dirty Water Dress Tent,” installation. Valencia, California; October. Evergreen College Art Center, “Dress Tents,” photographs, video, and installations. San José, California; October. 2008 Intervene! Interrupt!: Rethinking Art as Social Practice, “Ice Queen: Glacial Retreat Dress Tent,” installation and performance. UC Santa Cruz, California; May. 01SJ Biennial: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge, “Ice Queen: Glacial Retreat Dress Tent,” four public installations and performances. San José, California; June. Santa Cruz Museum of Art, “Green House Dress Tent” installation, Interventions Series. Santa Cruz, California; February-June. John Michael Kohler Arts Center, “Vested Images, Ms. Homeland Security: Illegal Entry Dress Tent,” installation. Sheboygan, Wisconsin; May-September. Tobey Art Gallery, “Allegory and Identity,” Memphis College for the Arts, Memphis Tennessee. Simmons Visual Art Center, “Body Image: Betrayal Beyond Appearance,” Sellars Gallery, Gainesville, Georgia. Cal Arts, “Ms. Homeland Security: Illegal
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