Curriculum Vitae
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2009
- Deborah Aschheim, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI
- 2008
- Deborah Aschheim, Gallery 2.5, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Earworms, (with Lisa Mezzacappa) Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
Deborah Aschheim: Reconsider, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO
- 2007
- The Forgetting Curve, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME
- 2006
- On Memory, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
Episodic, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
- 2005
- Neural Architecture no. 6, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
Neural Architecture no. 5, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
- 2004
- Panopticon,(neural architecture no. 4,) Ben Maltz Gallery
Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Neural Architecture (a smart building is a nervous building)
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
- 2003-4
- Arborization, TwoTen Gallery and Contemporary Initiatives
(Euston Road Installation) The Wellcome Trust, London, England, UK
- 2001
- Osmosis, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY
- 2000
- Intergel, City Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Evenflow, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Evenflow, Suyama Space, Seattle, WA
- 1998
- Menace (Evenflow Installation,) Jennjoy Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 1997
- Spore/Virus Project, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
- 1994
- Recent Sightings, Int’l UFO Museum and Research Center, Roswell, NM
Boat Project, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
- 1993
- Boat Project work in progress The Graham Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
- 1992
- Pilgrimage Raw Space, Albuquerque, NM
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2009
- Installations Inside/Out, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
The Lining of Forgetting, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
The Future Imaginary, Ben Maltz Gallery
Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Designing Intelligence, University Galleries
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
- 2008
- Germ Warfare, The Shore Institute of Contemporary Arts, Long Beach, NJ
Vital Signs, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
The Lining of Forgetting, Weatherspoon Art Museum
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- 2007
- Orion’s Belt, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno
(with Lisa Mezzacappa)
- 2006
- Alternate Routes: Mapping in the Studio,
Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads School, Los Angeles
Draw, Paper, Scissors, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles
MAF06, Thailand New Media Arts Festival, Bangkok, Thailand
- 2005
- LA Art Girls’ Work, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The One, NGC 224, Brooklyn, NY
Certain Traces: Dialogue Los Angeles/Prague 2004
- 2004
- Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, CA and MuseumKampa, Prague, C.R.
Suspension: Sonic Absorption (Eavesdropping network)
Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA
- 2003
- C.O.L.A. 2003 (Neural Architecture installation), Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
- 2002
- Synthetically Bred, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI
Out Of True,(Audition,)University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara, CA
Beelden Buiten 2002:Fractals (Arborization),Tuin De Brabandere
Tielt, Belgium (Histology paintings), Galerie CD, Tielt, Belgium
New Works, New Spaces, (Retina) Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Odd Drawings, guest curator Tyler Stallings, Cypress College, Cypress, CA
Irrational Propositions, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2001
- Synapse Installation, Artificial Structures, Raid Projects, Los Angeles
Sensate, Kellogg University Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA
- 2000
- Animate Sculpture: As If Alive, N.J. Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
Quirky, Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York, NY
- 1999
- What on Earth?!, Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV
Waiting for the Millennium: Deborah Aschheim and Christine Karkow,
Artwest, Jackson Hole, WY
- 1998-9
- Spore/Virus Installation for On the Ball: The Sphere in Contemporary
Sculpture, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
- 1997
- Invitational '97: Deborah Aschheim, John Evans, Heather Hutchison,
Mary Judge, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY
Are We Touched? Identities from Outer Space,
Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA
Alien Sex Toys in They Came Here First!,
Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
- 1996
- Roswell UFO Projects in The Hanging Sculpture Garden,
Newport Mall, Jersey City, NJ
HONORS, AWARDS
- 2009
- Artist in Residence Grant, City of Los Angeles Dept. of Cultural Affairs, CA
- 2008, 2004
- Individual Artist Grant, Pasadena Arts and Culture Commission, Pasadena, CA
- 2007
- Artist-in-Residence, Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain
Artist-in-Residence, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC
Artist-in-Residence, UCSF Memory and Aging Clinic, San Francisco, CA
- 2007,2004
- Artists’ Resources for Completion Grant, The Durfee Foundation, L.A., CA
- 2006
- Artist-in-Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
- 2002-3
- City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Individual Artist Fellowship, L.A., CA
- 2001
- HARP Residency, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
Individual Artist Fellowship, New Jersey State Council on the Arts
- 1994
- Residency Fellowship, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
- 1993-4
- Artist-in-Residence Grant, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
- Deborah Aschheim: Neural Architecture (a smart building is a nervous building).
Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Art Museum, 2004
- Deborah Aschheim: Neural Architecture no. 6,
Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, 2005
- Deborah Aschheim: Reconsider. St. Louis, MO: Laumeier Sculpture Park
SELECTED ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
- 2008
- Flaunt Magazine, April v.93, p. 185 “Deborah Aschheim: Reconsider,”
Christopher Miles, ill., Los Angeles, CA
St. Louis Post Dispatch, April 12, “Deborah Aschheim: Reconsider,” David Bonetti, ill., St Louis, MO
Riverfront Times, February 6, p. 31, “The Art of Forgetting,” Malcolm Gay, ill., St. Louis, MO
- 2007
- Art New England, June/July, p. 31, "Deborah Aschheim: The Forgetting Curve,” Carl Little, ill., Brighton, MA
- 2006
- Sculpture, May, p.74-5, “Nashville: Deborah Aschheim,” Laura Dillon, ill.,
Hamilton, NJ
Art Papers, March-April, p.62, “Deborah Aschheim, Nashville,” Wendy Koenig, ill. Atlanta, GA
- 2005
- Los Angeles Times, February 19, p. E26, “Rework, rebuild, recycle,” Scarlet Cheng, ill, Los Angeles, CA
Sculpture, December, p.66-67, “Reviews: Laguna Beach, California: Deborah Aschheim,” Collette Chattopadhyay, ill, Hamilton, NJ
- 2004
- artUS, September/October, p.7, “Deborah Aschheim,” Kathleen Vanesian, ill, Los Angeles, CA
COMMISSIONS
- 2009-
- Art Commission, Robbie Waters Pocket-Greenhaven Library, Sacramento, CA
(in development)
- 2008-
- Permanent Suspended Artwork, Norman Y Mineta San Jose International
Airport Terminal B, San Jose, CA (in development)
- 2007
- Nerve Center, LAPD Valley Communications Dispatch Center, City of Los
Angeles Cultural Affairs, Public Art Division, Los Angeles, CA
Building as Body, University of Southern Maine, installations for Bioscience
Research Institute, Portland, ME and Robie Hall, Gorham, ME
- 2004
- Ibiza (Neural Architecture 3.5), Bush residence, Laguna Beach, CA
EDUCATION
- 1990
- University of Washington, Seattle, WA, MFA, Ceramic Sculpture
- 1986
- Brown University, Providence, RI, BA, Magna Cum Laude,
Honors Anthropology, Studio Art
