Curriculum Vitae

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013
Deborah Aschheim: Threshold, Suyama Space, Seattle, WA
Deborah Aschheim: Involuntary Memories: Marine Corps Air Station El Toro and the Nixon Years, Great Park Gallery, Orange County Great Park, Irvine, CA
2012
Deborah Aschheim: My life in airports, Terminal 1, Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, CA
Deborah Aschheim: Method of loci, CentralTrak, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX
2011
Deborah Aschheim: feeling-of-knowing (with Lisa Mezzacappa), San Diego State University Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
2010
Nostalgia for the Future, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
2009
Deborah Aschheim, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI
2008
Deborah Aschheim, Gallery 2.5, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Deborah Aschheim + Lisa Mezzacappa: Earworms 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

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012
Drawing the Mind: neural networks and the emergence of complexity, OSilas Gallery, Concordia College, NY
2011
Some City Angels, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
Hiding Places: Memory in the Arts, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI (with Lisa Mezzacappa) Open Daybook, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), CA
2010
ADHD, Jaus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
I Spy: Surveillance and Security, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, ID
2009
Viralnet: Home and Garden, Integrated Media, California Institute of the Arts web based curatorial initiative (with Lisa Mezzacappa)
Installations Inside/Out, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA (with Lisa Mezzacappa)
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
2008
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
2005
LA Art Girls’ Work, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The One, NGC 224, Brooklyn, NY
2004
Certain Traces: Dialogue Los Angeles/Prague 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
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

HONORS, AWARDS, RESIDENCIES

2012, 2009
City of Los Angeles Artist-in-Residence Grant, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Artists’ Resources for Completion Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation, Los Angeles, CA
Mid-Career Artist Fellowship, California Community Foundation, Los Angeles
Artist in Residence, Orange County Great Park, Irvine, CA
2011
Hixon-Lied Visiting Lecturer, Department of Art & Art History, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
2009-11
Hellman Visiting Artist Fellowship, Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of San Francisco, CA
2010
Visiting Artist, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA
2008
Visiting Artist, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
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

Are we touched? Identities from Outer Space. Huntington Beach, California: Huntington Beach Art Center, 1997
Beelden Buiten/Fractals. Tielt, Belgium: Cultural Center Gildhof Tielt, 2002
C.O.L.A. 2003. Los Angeles: City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, 2003
Deborah Aschheim: feeling-of-knowing, with Lisa Mezzacappa. San Diego: University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, 2011
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, 2008
Hiding Places: Memory in the Arts, Sheboygan, WI: John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 2011
Installations Inside/Out, Pasadena, CA: Armory Center for the Arts, 2009
The Lining of Forgetting: Internal and External Memory in Art: Greensboro, NC: Weatherspoon Art Museum, 2008
The Open Daybook, David Earle, editor, Brooklyn, NY: Mark Batty Publisher, 2010
Architectural Inventions, Mat Bua and Maximillian Goldfarb, editors, London,UK: Laurence King Publishing, 2012 (forthcoming)

SELECTED ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

2012
Art Ltd., January/February 2012, p. 23-24, ill, “Deborah Aschheim: ‘feeling of knowing’ at San Diego State University Art Gallery,” Jody Zellen, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Sculpture, November, page 17, illustrated “Itinerary – San Diego State University, University Art Gallery, San Diego: Deborah Aschheim.”
Huffington Post/Artweek.LA, November 7-13, “Lucky little ladies in the city of light,” ill., Bill Bush, Los Angeles, CA
Juxtapoz, p. 122, August, “Profile: Deborah Aschheim,” ill., San Francisco, CA
2010
Zyzzyva, p. 95, 136, 138, Winter, “Works on Paper,” San Francisco, CA
Art Ltd., p.24, November_December, “Los Angeles: Deborah Aschheim ‘Nostalgia for the Future’at Edward Cella Art+Architecture,” George Melrod, Woodland Hills, CA
Artillery, p. 62 Nov/Dec, “Deborah Aschheim, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, “Scarlet Cheng, Los Angeles, CA
Artforum.com, October, ”Critic’s Picks: Deborah Aschheim, Edward Cella Art and Architecture,” ill. Lyra Kilston, New York, NY
Artscene, October, p.24, “Deborah Aschheim,” ill, G. James Daichendt, Los Angeles, CA
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
Art New England, June/July 2007, p. 31, “Deborah Aschheim: The Forgetting Curve,” Carl Little, ill., Brighton, MA
The Phoenix, February 14,“Mapping the mind: Deborah Aschheim’s deep cartography,” Ian Paige, ill, Portland, ME
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
Nashville Scene, December 15, p 67, “An Illuminating Infestation,” David Maddox, ill. Nashville, TN
2005
Nashville City Paper, December 9, 2005, “Frist exhibit watches the detectives, Deanna Larsen, Nashville, TN
Los Angeles Times, February 19, p. E26, “Rework, rebuild, recycle,” Scarlet Cheng, ill, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Sculpture, December, p.66-67, “Reviews: Laguna Beach, California: Deborah Aschheim,” Collette Chattopadhyay, ill, Hamilton, NJ
LA Weekly, October 29-November 4, p. 133, “Art Pick of the Week: Richard Ross, Deborah Aschheim,” Peter Frank, Los Angeles, CA
artUS, September/October, p.7, “Deborah Aschheim,” Kathleen Vanesian, ill, Los Angeles, CA
ArtScene, September, p.24-25, “Deborah Aschheim,” Andy Brumer, ill. Thousand Oaks, CA
Riviera, May,p.180-181, “Gray Matter: Deborah Aschheim’s Neural Architecture at Laguna Art Museum,” James Adams, ill, Newport Beach, CA
OC Weekly, April 12, p. 44, “Life as a House: ‘Neural Architecture gets spooky” Rebecca Schoenkopf, ill., Newport Beach, CA
Laguna News-Post, April 1, p.22 “Through art, Aschheim brings inanimate objects to life,” Roberta Carasso, Laguna Beach, CA

COMMISSIONS

2013-
Colorado Avenue Esplanade Project, City of Santa Monica, CA (in progress)
Periscope, Amazon.com, South Lake Union, Seattle, WA (in progress)
2012
Memoryspace, Fuller Laboratories, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
2010
Eyetracking, Neurology Clinic, Ambulatory Care Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Taxonomy, Pocket-Greenhaven Library, Sacramento, CA
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, Sculpture
1986
Brown University, Providence, RI, BA, Magna Cum Laude,
Honors Anthropology, Studio Art