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EDUCATION
2002 Master
of Fine Art, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1995 Bachelor of Art, University of California, Irvine, CA
SELECTED ONE
PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2008 Negative Space, medicine FACTORY, Memphis, TN
2007 Sympathetic Coordination, International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago,IL (Catalog)
2006 Delicate Structures, Innate Forces,
Curated by Cynthia Pannucci, (ASCI), The New York Hall of Science, New York, NY
2005 Domesticated
Viscera, Richmond Art Center
West Gallery, Richmond, CA
Integrated Bodies, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA
Viscera Sera (with Tara Daly), 21 Grand, Oakland, CA
New Work, Femina Potens Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Reflexive, Build, San Francisco, CA
Disbursement
and Accumulation, Catharine Clark Gallery Project Rooms, San Francisco,
CA
2003 Underneath, Adobe Bookshop Window,
San Francisco, CA
1999 Marked Territories, with Julia Babiarz, Crucible Steel Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
1998 Order/Disorder, Milky World Gallery, Seattle, WA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Phenomena(l), Spaces, Cleveland, OH
Reimagining the Distaff Toolkit, Bennington Museum, VT (Catalog)
Biological Imperative, Gallery Aferro, Newark, N.J. (Catalog)
2007 Under the Skin, Translations Gallery, Denver, CO
Pricked: Extreme Embroidery, Museum for Art and Design, New York, NY (Catalog)
Brief Encounters, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
Raised in Craftivity, Greenlease Gallery, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO
Beneath the Skin, Limn Gallery, San Francisco,
CA
The Powder Room, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Subjects of Hybridization, 10th Annual Subtle Technologies Festival: in situ: art | body | medicine, University of Toronto. Toronto, Canada
2006 Four Freedoms, Martin Art Gallery, Baker Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA (Catalog, back cover)
Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age , Art & Culture Center Of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL
2005 Trillium Show, SFMOMA Artist’s Gallery, San Francisco,
CA
Synthetic Zero, Synthetic Zero Loft, Bronx, NY
New American Talent 19, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Kala Fellowship Award Exhibition, Kala Art Instititute, Berkeley, CA
Intelligent Distribution, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA
SubAnatomy,
Museum of Contemporary Art at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts,
Santa Rosa, CA (Catalog p.1)
Monster
Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
The
Winter Life, Galerie SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2004 Finesse,
Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
New American Talent 19, Arthouse, Austin, TX (Catalog p.83)
New American Talent 19, Texas A&M University, Commerce, TX
Meat Show, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, CA (Catalog pp.4-5)
Snap
to Grid, Los Angeles Center For Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
Gen
Art SF's 5th Annual NewFangle New Media Art Exhibition, Herbst Internat'l
Exhibition Hall, SanFrancisco, CA
High
Fiber, Kala Art Institute Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Rustic,
Build, San Francisco, CA
State
of the Nation, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Hidden
Treasures, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA
Blur,
the Bekins, Santa Barbara, CA
Monster
Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Underpants
Party, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
2003 Introductions
South, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Night
Moves, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Nightworks'
Canal Street Projection Project, New Orleans, LA
Postcards
From the Edge, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
EUREKA!:
New Works From the Golden State, Pure Joy, Brooklyn, NY
Organic,
Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, CA
Illegal
Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age, Nexus Gallery,
Philadelphia, PA
Waiting
to Happen, The Lexington Club, San Francisco, CA
Magnify
Sense, Build, San Francisco, CA
[sub]urban,
[sub]version, Westinghouse Building Little Tokyo Lofts, Los Angeles,
CA
Daily
Special, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
life
after / afterlife, Delta Axis Gallery, Memphis, TN
Illegal
Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age, SFMOMA Artist’s
Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Benefit
Auction of Fine Photographic Prints, SF Camerawork, San Francisco,
CA
Making
Ends Meet, Lucky Tackle, Oakland, CA
Monster
Drawing Rally, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Solid
Gold, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Synthesis,
Melting Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Virus,
Melting Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 Cozy, Spanganga Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Remember
When…, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Bloodshow,
Quotidian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Mystery
Ball, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Ladyfest,
Spring Tower, Los Angeles, CA
The Tiny
Show, Adobe Bookshop, San Francisco, CA
I/O #3:
Skin, Quotidian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
trepidation,
16march projects, San Francisco, CA
Bay Area
Student Sculpture Biennial, Pacific Rim Sculptors Group, San Francisco,
CA
34th
Annual Olive Hyde Textile Exhibit, Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont,
CA
SoExquisite,
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2001 Murphy & Cadogan Award Exhibition, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery,
CA
Residual
Images, Studio Z Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Synesthesia,
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Video
Pieces, Mills College, Oakland, CA
Site Specific
Installation for Collaboration with David Tudor Composer-in-Residence: Paul
De Marinis, Mills College Concert Hall, Oakland, CA
2000 Fuzzy Logic, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
The Element
of Temporary 2, Cell, San Francisco, CA
Fabricated
To Be Photographed, Calumet Studio, San Francisco, CA
blueprint,
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Ladyfest,
Arrowspace, Olympia, WA
1999 The Soft
Museum, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
Tender,
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Shiny,
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
BROADCASTS
2008 Checking on the Arts, WKNO, Memphis, TN, Interview by Kacky Walton
2007 Eight Forty-Eight: An Artist's Unconventional Medium,
WBEZ Chicago Public Radio, Story by Independent producer Tim Carnahan
2005 Spark:
Artist in Search of a Medium, March 2nd and 4th, KQED Channel 9,
San Francisco, CA
1999 Inside City Limits, produced by Heather Schultz, TCI Cable
Channel 27 (currently Ch. 23), aired August
1997 Artist’s Television, Channel 29, San Francisco, CA
PUBLICATIONS
2006 Sextessense: A Tribute to John Stevens and the SME, compact disc cover art, Winter 2006
2005 3rd Floor: A Portable Artspace, Spring, Issue 2, p.10
Pearl Necklace, Issue #4 , pp. 64-65
Surface Design Journal: Machine Embroidery, "Informed Source", Fall 2005, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 46-47
2004 Public Library
of Science Medicine Journal, November issue, cover
2003 Die
Cast Garden: Ground Founds
2002 Die
Cast Garden: Paraphysics
1996 Milky, #6, pp. 30-31
1995 Grand Larceny: Reclaiming Stolen Histories, Vol.2, p.37
CATALOGS
2007 Sympathetic Coordination, International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL
The Powder Room, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006 Four Freedoms, Martin Art Gallery, Baker Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA (back cover)
2005 SubAnatomy, Museum of Contemporary Art at the Luther Burbank
Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, CA, p.1
2004 Meat Show, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San
Francisco, CA, pp. 4-5
New
American Talent (with essay by Jerry Saltz), Arthouse at the Jones Center, Contemporary Art
for Texas, Austin, TX, p.83
ARTIST
RESIDENCIES
2008 medicine FACTORY, Memphis, TN
2004 Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
FELLOWSHIPS,
AWARDS, & GRANTS
2007 Jerome Foundation Travel & Study Grant for Visual Arts
2004 Kala
Art Institute Fellowship Award
2003 Trillium
Fund Grant
2002 Herringer Prize for Excellence in Art
Mills College
Graduate Research Grant
2001 Eklind Fellowship
Cadogan Fine
Arts Fellowship
1995 UC Irvine Chancellor's Scholar
1994 UC Irvine Studio Art Coalition Grant
ARTIST LECTURES
2008 Reflexive, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
2007 Biology and Art: Two Worlds or One?, New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY
Public Lecture Series, Textiles Department, California College of Art, Oakland, CA
2006 Visitig Artist, Graduate Thesis Seminar, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2005 Art and Culture Lecture Series, California State
Summer School for the Arts, Cal Arts, Valencia, CA
Domesticated Viscera, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Biotechniques Graduate Seminar, California College of Art, San Francisco, CA
Anatomy Drawing, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Visiting
Artist Talk, California College of Art, Textiles Department, Oakland,
CA
Fellowship
Artist Talk, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2004 Soft Sculpture: Fabric and Fiber, St. Mary’s College, Art Department, Moraga, CA
Exploratorium Brown Bag Lecture Series, San Francisco, CA
2003 Artists’ Presentations: Laura Splan & Philip Ross,
SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
2002 Photo Fakery, California State University, Hayward, CA
2001 Skin Symposium, Bleeker Studios, Stanford University,
Palo Alto, CA
ARTIST PANELS
2007 Pricked: Extreme Embroidery, Museum for Art and Design, New York, NY
2005 Carnal Knowledge, MOCA at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, CA
2002 Ladyfest Artist Panel, Spring Tower, Los Angeles, CA
PROFESSIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2008 Instructor for Independent Study, Summer MFA program, San Francisco Art Institute, conducting w/ student in New York, NY, Winter Semester
Visiting Artist Critiques, Senior Thesis Seminar, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
2007 Visiting Artist Critiques, Graduate Thesis Seminar, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2005 Visiting Artist / Instructor, Electronic Arts, Mills College, Oakland, CA, Spring Semester
Studio Practice Instructor, California College of Art, San Francisco, CA, Spring Semester
2004 Studio Practice Instructor, California College of Art, San Francisco, CA, Fall Semester
ARTICLES
AND REVIEWS
Sood, Sheena, "Extreme Embroidery @ the Museum of Arts and Design", Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, February 2008
Elder, Gaye, "Pricked: Extreme Embroidery," Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot, Winter 2007/2008, pp 28-33
Gill, Leonard, "Drawing Blood," Memphis Flyer, Issue #986, Jan 17 - 23, 2008
Jackson, Julie, "From Prozac To Skin Peels", Craft, Volume 5, November 2007
Camhi, Leslie, "Let's Get Stitched:
A radical take on an old art, 'Pricked' needles the traditional craft of embroidery,Village Voice,
November 20, 2007
Self, Dana, “Knit Happens: Raised in Craftivity ain’t your grandma’s crochet work”, The Pitch: Arts & Entertainment, Sept. 20, 2007
Trafton, Robin, “Art review: ‘Raised in Craftivity’ is engaging group show”, The Kansas City Star, Thursday, September 20, 2007
Martin, Stacy, "Test People and Beneath the Skin: Levitation and latch-hook rugs at Limn”, San Francisco Bay Guardian, July 4, 2007
Baker, Kenneth, "The man works wonders with, yes, paint rollers", San Francisco Chronicle, Saturday, June 16, 2007, p. E-1
Obermeyer, Lindsay, “Arts and Sciences”, Fiberarts, Summer 2007 Issue, Vol. 34, No. 1
Ornes, Stephen, "Art: Of Doilies and Disease", Discover Magazine, Reviews, February 2007, pp. 66-67
Gehman, Geoff, “21st-century artists explore FDR’s 1941 freedoms at ‘Berg”, The Morning Call, Thursday, October 26, 2006, pp. 8-9
Valenzuela, América, "Medicina en la galería de arte”, EL MUNDO: Área de Salud, Saturday, October 7, 2006
Mills , Michael, “Il Duce Does Wal-Mart: The Art and Culture Center brims with art that takes liberties with corporate images”,
Broward-Palm Beach New Times, March 16, 2006
Suppes, Christine, Fashionlines.com, “Embroideries: The act of stitching cloth reflects artists’ play with popular understandings
about feminine work, gender stereotypes and empowerment”, Fall 2006
Goe, Tara, "The Inside-Out Art of Laura Splan", Kitchen Sink, Vol. 4, Issue 1, 2006, pp.71-75
Wiebe, Stacey, "Body of Art," VC Reporter: Art & Culture, September 22, 2005, pp.23-28
Arnold, Eric K., "Meltdown: Plastic Fantastic," East Bay Express: Scenes, Vol. 27, No. 47, August 31-September 6, 2005, p.24
Berry, Colin, “SubAnatomy and Nathan Lynch: Sweetspot at the Museum of Contemporary Art and the
Luther Burbank Center for the Arts,”
Artweek, July / August 2005, pp.12-13
Valenzuela, América, "CIENCIA ILUSTRADA (II): Los artistas en el laboratorio", El Mundo: MEDICINA, Friday, July 15, 2005
Miles, Todd, "seeing red", 7x7 San Francisco Magazine, May 2005, p.48
Bing, Alison, “Laura
Splan: Femina Potens”, SF Gate: Art, March 2005
Bamberger, Alan, "Femina Potens Gallery: Laura Splan", Artbusiness.com, March 9, 2005
Proulx, Mélissa, "Pop Culture: Maux d'hiver", Voir, February 10, 2005
Armstrong, Denis, “SAW takes art to the outdoor people”, The Ottawa Sun, Wednesday, February 2, 2005, p.43
Euteneier, Anita, “SAW Gallery’s Winter Exposure”, Ottawa Xpress, Vol. 12, Issue 2, January 13-19, 2005
Bing, Alison, “Meat Show at the San Francisco Arts Commission
Gallery”, Artweek, February 2005, Vol. 36, Issue 1, p.29
Vekic, Natalija, “Catherine Clark brings collectors and media
artists together”, Release Print, January/February 2005,
Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 24-25
Buckner, Clark, “Meat
Show”, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Dec. 22-28, 2004,
Vol. 39, No. 12
Saldivar, Steve, “This
Meat Can’t Be Beat”, The Daily Californian, Thursday,
December 2, 2004
Davis, Virginia, “High Fiber”, Fiberarts, November/December
2004, pp. 58-59
Polgar, Robi, "New
American Talent – The 19th Exhibition", Austin Chronicle,
August 6, 2004
Gagnon, Adrienne, “Linear Thinking: Pen and pencil are the tools of the trade at
this group show”, SF Weekly, July 21, 2004
Baker, Kenneth, “Hosfelt
Gallery show suggests we’re blinded by information”, San
Francisco Chronicle, July 10, 2004, p.E-1
Campbell, Rob, "Natural
Refinement: Organic takes art by the roots and (gently) pulls", VC Reporter, December 15, 2003
Woodard, Josef, "All certified Organic", Los Angeles Times,
Calendar Weekend, December 4, 2003
Cheng, DeWitt, "Introductions South at the San Jose Institute of
Contemporary Art", Artweek, October 2003, Vol. 34, Issue
8
Brenneman, Christine, "Illegal Art at SFMOMA Artists Gallery", Artweek, September 2003, Vol. 34, Issue 7, p.17
Tromble,
Meredith, "West Coast", stretcher.org, Wednesday, August
27, 2003
Gaither, Chris, "Art
attack", The Boston Globe,
July 14, 2003, p.C1
Lidor,
Danit, "Artists Just Wanna Be Free", wired.com: Wired News,
Jul. 07, 2003
Swanhuyser,
Hiya, "Copy Right or Wrong, Freedoom of Expression: Illegal?", SF Weekly, July 2-8, 2003, p.30
Tompkins, J.H., "8 Days a Week: Something in the Air", The
San Francisco Bay Guardian, July 2, 2003, pp.66-67
Davis, Chris, "Little
Green Anthropologists", Memphis Flyer, p.27, June 12-18,
2003
Tudor, Silke, "House of Tudor: Dusty-voiced troubadours, corporeality
explorers, cotton candy jazz, and animalistic toga parties", SF
Weekly, December 24, 2002
Helfand, Glen, "Pet
And Touch: Two digital artists bring the organic body onto the computer", SF Gate, July 2002
Berry, Colin, "Julia
Babiarz and Laura Splan: Marked Territories", bayarea.citysearch.com,
August 1999
Archias, Elise, "Critic's Choice", The San Francisco Bay
Guardian, Vol. 33, No. 47, August 1999, p.116
Phelps, Margaret, "The Medium is the Message", The San
Francisco Chronicle Datebook, August 15-21, 1999, p.21
Natale, Michele, "West Meets East: Two Triangle venues host new
West Coast art", Spectator, May 19, 1999, p.17
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