PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY 315 Potrero Avenue San Francisco, CA 94103 [email protected] 510.788.5860
CHRISTINA MCPHEE
Born: 1954 (Pomona, CA)
Education
1974 BFA, painting and printmaking, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO 1979 MFA, painting, Boston University, Boston, MA studied with Philip Guston
Professional Activity
2018 Future Tripping, Film & Media Studies Department, University of California Santa Barbara, CA 2017 Cosmos and Crisis Workshop, w/funding from Leverhulme Foundation and the British Academy, Warwick Sociology, King’s Cross, London, UK 2015 Interdisciplinary Scholar Award/lecture, American Associations of Geographers, Chicago, IL 2009 Intermedia Arts Residency/Visiting Artist, curator Mel Potter, Columbia College, Chicago, IL 2008-10 Lecturer, DANM (Digital Arts and New Media) MFA Program and Department of Film and Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 2007 Documenta 12 Magazine, Cairo & Kassel, Editorial, curator Georg Schöllhamer, Springerin Verlag, Vienna 1999-2000 Lecturer, Art & Art History Department, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO
Solo Exhibitions, Screenings, & Performances
2018 SPILLBANK, 3channel video installation, Wireframe Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara,CA 2016 Second Sight: Christina McPhee, paintings, drawings, photographs and video, curator James MacDevitt, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, Los Angeles, CA Solar Circuit Parts Per Million, video installation, OLGA Project Space, curatorJanice Krause, Hamilton, New Zealand 2014 La Conchita N-Amour and Other Environmental Films by Christina McPhee, Black Hole Cinematheque, Oakland, CA Carbon Song Cycle, performance work and video installation with Pamela Z, Joe Goode Performance Space, Theatre Artaud, San Francisco, CA 2013 Carbon Song Cycle, performance work and video installation with Pamela Z, Berkeley Art Museum/ Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA Carbon Song Cycle, performance work and video installation with Pamela Z, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY 2012 Markers: Christina McPhee and Ryan Chard Smith, video installation and drawings, curator Jasmine Moorhead, Krowswork, Oakland, CA 2011 Teorema Drawings, curator Cara Megan Lewis, Cara y Cabezas Gallery, Kansas City, MO Delicate Landscape of Crisis: Films by Christina McPhee, curator Directors Lounge, Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany 2009 Tesserae of Venus, curator Leigh Markopoulos, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2008 La Conchita N=Amour, 3 channel, 24 screen installation work (commission), curator Illyana Nedkova, Thresholds Artspace, Horsecross Arts, Perth, Scotland 2007 Carrizo-Parafield Diaries, photomontage and video installation, curator Jack Rasmussen, American University Museum-Katzen Art Center, Washington, DC 2006 La Conchita mon amour, photomontage, drawing and video, Sara Tecchia Roma New York, NY Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries, video installation, curator Maria Tjader-Knight, Cartes Center for Art and Technology, Espoo, Finland
PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY 315 Potrero Avenue San Francisco, CA 94103 [email protected] 510.788.5860
2005 Carrizo Quartet, video installation, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries, photomontage, web-based interactive work, video and print installation, Transport Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2001 Nax:suite, photomontage and video, Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO 1999 Ring of Fire: Paintings and Monotypes, Gallery ‘Iolani, University of Hawaii-Windward Community College, Kane’ohe, Oahu, HI
Group Exhibitions & Screenings
2018 Assembler with Julia Couzens, Christina McPhee & Helen O’Leary, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA It’s Time: An Uncensored Look at the Time's Up & #MeToo Movements, curator Anuradha Vikram, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA Pulse of LA, curator Katherine Harvath, South Bay Contemporary Art Center, Los Angeles, CA 2017 Women, 24 screen video installation, curator Iliyana Nedkova, Threshold Artspace, Perth Concert Hall, Perth, Scotland 2016 CVM Salon, film screening curator the Center for Visual Music (Los Angeles), Horse Hospital, Bloomsbury, London, United Kingdom FIRE (Transparent Heart), video curator Jasmine Moorhead, Krowswork, Oakland, CA Femmes Video Festival 2, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA 2015 For Machine Use Only, Schneiderei Gallery, Vienna, Austria Scene of the Crime, Central Booking, New York, NY The Wrong New Digital Art Biennial, international online Selections from the Permanent Collection, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO 2014 Up All Night, SF Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA Everybody’s Ocean, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA Microswarm One, performance of drawn aleatory score by Christina McPhee, performance with Quinn Dougherty, Fall Experimental Music Festival, <fidget>, Philadelphia, PA 2013 Four Core Chambers, curator Katie Anania, Martina-Johnston Gallery, Berkeley, CA I See You, Kunsthalle Detroit, Detroit, MI Post-natural, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 2012 De-Mobbing: Landscape, Structure, Bioform, curator Brian Karl, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA Expanded Abstraction, Center for Visual Music at LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 2011 El Mapa: Cartografias Criticas, curator Mariángela Méndez and Jan-Erik Lundström, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (MAMM), Medellín, Colombia Domains: Parameters: Wanderings, curator Brian Guidry, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA Collections III: Works by Women Artists, Horsecross Arts, Perth Concert Hall, Perth, Scotland Open Space Video Art Program, curator Vernissage.tv / Heinrich Schmidt, Art Cologne, Germany Silent City, curator Cara Nahaul and ShoppingHour, Rag Factory, London, United Kingdom Liquid Assets: Perspectives on Water, curator Water, CA, Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA 2010 Hot and Cold: Abstractions from Nature, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO Cinéphémère, Fondation Ricard+Louvre Museum-Tuileries, FIAC Hors-des-Murs, Paris, France Hurricane Season, curator Meredith Drum and Rachel Stevens, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY 2009 Turbulence @Pace, Pace Digital Gallery, New York, NY Twice Upon A Time, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA The Map: Navigating the Present, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden Tesserae of Venus: Ghostdance, curator Kathy Ray Huffman, ISEA, University of Ulster Art Gallery, Belfast, Ireland Bad Moon Rising, curator Jan van Woensel, Boots Contemporary, Saint Louis, MO Art Collection of the United States Embassy, Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Because the Night, video program curated by Catherine Forster/LiveBox, curator Sabina Ott, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Los Angeles, CA 2008 Twice Upon A Time, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, Austria PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY 315 Potrero Avenue San Francisco, CA 94103 [email protected] 510.788.5860
2008 Bucharest Biennial 3, curator Jan-Erik Lundström and Johan Sjöström, Bucharest, Romania War as a Way of Life, curator Clayton Campbell, 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, CA Sonic Residues, curator Margaret Schedel, SAC Gallery, Stony Brook University, Long Island, NY The Map: Navigating the Present, curator Jan-Erik Lundström and Johan Sjöström, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden Dark House, SF Cinematheque, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2007 d12 Magazine project, Documenta 12, texts and video curator Christina McPhee, with -empyre- list.serv (Sydney), Documenta Halle, Kassel, Germany Interactiva07 New Media Biennial, Merida, Mexico Latency Structures Bonneville Salt Flats, video and live-stream interactive installation, Split Festival of New Media and Film, Split, Croatia Noise: Language, Culture, Body, and Nature, Itaú Cultural Centre, Belo Horizonte, Brazil 2006 Persona-Personae, Sara Tecchia Roma New York, NY Janet Biggs, Christina McPhee, Andrea Juan, Scope Foundation/M21 Art, curator Lee Wells, Gansevoort Hotel, Miami Beach, FL Artistic Disasters: 65 Seconds That Shook the Earth, curator Steve Seid, Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, CA 2005 Groundworks: Environmental Collaborations in Contemporary Art, new media curator Patrick Deegan with Grant Kester, Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 2004 _page-space_, Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA Art in Embassies Program Exhibition, US Embassy to the Republic of Guinea, Conakry, Guinea Recombinant Flux, RX Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2003 Phelan Award in Printmaking Exhibition, curator Constance Lewallen, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA Naxsmash@Lounge|Lab, E-Werk, Deutsches Nationaltheater, Weimar, Germany 2002 FILE 2002, Paco des Artes, University Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil Impromptu: Improvisation with Digital Media, curator Ted Fisher with James MacDevitt, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA Cybersonica: Convergence, curator Stanza, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London, UK
Grants, Awards, Fellowships, & Residencies
2012 MAP Fund, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation/Andrew Mellon Foundation, New York, NY 2009 Intermedia Arts Residency/Visiting Artist, curator Mel Potter, Columbia College, Chicago, IL 2007 New Media Award, Split Festival of New Media and Film, Split, Croatia 2006 American Scandinavian Foundation Grant, Cartes Center for Art and Technology, Espoon, Finland 2005 Experimental Television Center, curator Sherry Hocking, Oswego, New York 2004 iRes, curator Kate Southworth, University College Falmouth School of Art, Cornwall, UK 2003 back_up Festival + Lounge|lab, Bauhaus Universität, Weimar, Germany 2003 James D. Phelan Art Award, Printmaking, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA 2000 Lois Langland Alumnae-in-Residence (LLAiR), Scripps College, Claremont, CA Commissioning Music USA Award for Carbon Song Cycle, NewMusic USA, New York, NY
Visiting Artist Lectures & Events
2016 Cerritos College, Norwalk, Los Angeles, CA 2015 Interdisciplinary Scholar Award/lecture, American Associations of Geographers, Chicago, IL 2014 BABEL, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA DAP Performance Lab with choreographer Johannes Burringer, Brunel University, West London, UK 2010 DAP Performance Lab with choreographer Johannes Burringer, Brunel University, West London, UK 2009 School of Art and Design, curator Kevin Hamilton, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, IL 2009 Internet as Playground and Factory, curator Trebor Scholz, Eugene Lang College, New School, New York, NY PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY 315 Potrero Avenue San Francisco, CA 94103 [email protected] 510.788.5860
2006-7 Documenta 12 Magazine Project, “Lunch-time Lectures,” curator Georg Schöllhamer, Halle, Kassel, Germany 2006 GPS Expo, at CLUI Wendover, curators Painters’ Flat (Brett Stalbaum and Paula Poole), with support from University of California-San Diego Visual Arts Department and Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, Utah and Los Angeles, CA 2005 HumLab, curator James Barrett, Umeå Universität, Umeå Sweden Jihui Digital Salon, curator Christiane Paul, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY 2004 COSIGN Conference on Computational Semiotics, Split, Croatia Lecturer, curator Andrea Polli, ASCI, Hunter College, New York, NY
Public Collections
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY International Center for Photography, New York, NY Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO Rhizome Artbase at the New Museum, New York, NY Open University, Milton Keynes, UK Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NB Colorado Springs Fine Art Center Museum at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO Center for Visual Music, Los Angeles, CA Thresholds New Media Collection, Perth, Scotland Great Plains Art Collection, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NB Hallmark Fine Art Collection, Kansas City, KS Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS Experimental Television Center Archive + Rose Goldsen Archive, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY United States Embassy, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery of Art, Scripps College, Claremont, CA Cerritos College Art Collection, greater Los Angeles, CA Video Data Bank, Experimental Television Center Collection, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Selected Bibliography
2017 Eileen A. Joy, ed., Christina McPhee: A Commonplace Book, with essays by Frazer Ward, Ina Blom, Judith Rodenbeck, Phil King, James M acDevitt, Melissa Potter, Estar Timar and Donata Marletta. Punctum Books. “Christina McPhee, the Political Aesthetics of Nature,” interview with Donata Marletta, DIGICULT.it, from 27 February Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Issue 10: “Climate Atlas: A non-Cartography of Power”, print 2016 Robert Summers, “Christina McPhee, “ Artillery Magazine, Los Angeles, 11 November 2016 “July 2016: Feminist Data Visualization,” curated by Christina McPhee, -empyre- list.serv, Cornell University, Rose Goldsen Archive. 2015 “Interview: Christina McPhee,” Museum of Non-visible Art, Yale University Radio WYBC, April 16. Christina McPhee, “Take a Walk on the Dark Side: on Matteo Pasquinelli’s Solar Databases and the Exogenesis of Light,” Superconversations Day 22, e-flux, June 4. Dale Hudson and Patrica R. Zimmerman, “Mapping Open Space to Visualize Other Knowledges,” Thinking Through Digital Media:Transnational Environments and Locative Places, New York: Palgrave -Macmillan. Cindy Keefer, “Visual Music’s Influence on Contemporary Abstraction,” Abstract Video: The Moving Image in Contemporary Art, Gabrielle Jennings, ed., Oakland: University of California Press.
PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY 315 Potrero Avenue San Francisco, CA 94103 [email protected] 510.788.5860
2013 Francesca De Nicolò with Christina McPhee, “Slipstreaming the Cyborg,” Critical Digital Studies: A Reader,Marilouise and Arthur Kroker, eds. 2nd edition, Toronto: University of Toronto Press and online at CTheory 2012 Louis-Georges Schwartz, “On Christina McPhee’s SHED CUBED” and “Double Blind Studies: Interview with Christina McPhee,” criticalsecret, Paris, France 2010 Ella Mudie, “Spectacle of Seismicity,” Boston: Leonardo Journal, MIT Press, volume 43, issue 2, in print and online 2009 Melissa Potter, “Interview: Christina McPhee,: BOMB Magazine, New York, Leigh Markopoulos, “Iraqi Eye,” SF Camerawork Journal, San Francisco Sharon Lin Tay, Women on the Edge: Twelve Political Film Practices, London: Palgrave/Macmillan 2008 Francesca De Nicolò with Christina McPhee, “Slipstreaming the Cyborg,” Critical Digital Studies: A Reader, Marilouise and Arthur Kroker, eds. 1st edition, Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2006 Christina McPhee, “(an)Architecture, Eros, Memory:The Naxsmash Project,” Engineering Nature: Art and Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era, Roy Ascott, ed.,Portland and Bristol: Intellect Books Christina McPhee, La Conchita mon amour, New York: Sara Tecchia Roma New York 2005 Mark Gordon, Interview with Christina McPhee, Centerstage, KXLU, Los Angeles Holly Willis, “Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries”, Signal to Noise, LA Weekly, Los Angeles Ryan Griffis, “Christina McPhee’s Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries at Transport Gallery, LA”, USArt, Los Angeles. Christina McPhee, Carrizo Topologies, artist’s book-monograph