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Alison J Carr

Born 1978, Sheffield, England • alliejcarr@gmail.com • www.alisonjcarr.net

Education

2013 Practice-led PhD Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam University (expected completion)

2009 MFA Photography & Media, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)

2001 BA (Hons) Fine Art: Combined & Media Art, Sheffield Hallam University

2000 Tampere Polytechnic, Finland

 

Exhibitions & Performances

2012 Showtime, SIA Gallery, Sheffield, with artist Kerstin Honeit

2011 Showtime, LoBe Art Kunst Gallery, Berlin, with artist Kerstin Honeit

Assembly 11: Last Requests, Bloc Projects, Sheffield

Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles

Testing Space, S1 Studios, Sheffield

2010 Terra Summer Residency Open Studios, Giverny, France

2009 Greater LA MFA Exhibition (GLAMFA), California State University Long Beach, Long Beach

MFA Conversations Part II, I-5 Gallery, Brewery Arts Complex, Los Angeles

Why Theory: MFA Graduation Exhibition, Spring Arts Tower, Los Angeles

Why Video: MFA Video Screening, REDCAT, Los Angeles

Woman As Image, thesis exhibition, D301, CalArts

Between the Surface / Art Harvest LA, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles

Site Work, group show, Deep End Ranch, Santa Paula, California

Publicity, Vasquez Rocks, happening, part of Allan Kaprow: Art as Life, MOCA, Los Angeles

2008 Mid-Residence Exhibition, group show, CalArts

Let’s Twist Again, performance evening, CalArts

Fuzzy Pictures, group show A402, CalArts

Wish You Were Here, Real Photographs, Series of Nine, solo show A402, CalArts

2007 Call it a Rebus/Make it a Rebus, group show, Main Gallery, CalArts

Déjà Vu, three person show, Bloc Projects, Sheffield

As If One Wasn’t Enough, group show, 20-21 Centre, Scunthorpe

Dancer A, Host Artists Group, ‘Host 7: Home Disco’, touring programme, screened at Amsterdam, Santander; Spain and Annonay; France

2006 Just for Fun, commissioned performance for a live art evening, organised by Webster Gotts & Robin Close, Sheffield

Beneath, group exhibition, Surface Gallery, Nottingham

Paint it Black, group show, Cupola Gallery, Sheffield

2005 Office of Outsourced Opinion, an intervention at Art Sheffield 05, with Matt Lewis

Member’s Show, S1 Artspace, Sheffield

Bath Fringe Festival, collaboration with Karen Welsh, Bath

2001 Degree Show, Sheffield Hallam University

1999 Susan, solo show, The Small Gallery, Sheffield Hallam University

 

Talks & Papers Delivered

2011 The Showgirlian Method, How Do We Look? MOCA, Los Angeles

The Voice of the Showgirl, Who Do We Think We Are?: Representing the Human,

A Postgraduate Symposium hosted by the Drama and Theatre Department, Royal Holloway, University of London

2010 My Friend, The Showgirl, Transmission: Hospitality, Sheffield Hallam University

Assembling My Critical Tool and Trying Them Out, Creating Friction: An Interdisciplinary Creative Practice Postgraduate Conference, Newcastle University

2009 I-5 Gallery, Brewery Arts Complex, Los Angeles

Writing

2010 An Ideal Conversation, Transmission Off Air, chapbook collection, Sheffield Hallam University

2009 The Tallulah Moment, essay for ‘Why Theory’, MFA catalogue, CalArts

The Agency of Narcissism, essay circulated via the CalArts Reviews mailing list

2007 Walk/Dont Walk, text for Alexis Hudgin’s exhibition, CalArts

Richard Prince Review for FAD blog

 

Symposiums Organised

 

2011 How Do We Look? Sheffield Hallam University funded symposium at MOCA, Los Angeles

Residencies

2011 LoBe London Berlin Art Kunst, Berlin, Germany

2010 Terra Summer Residency in Giverny, France

 

Bibliography

‘Artist of the Day’, COAGULA Art Journal, online, LA 13th February 2010

‘Notes from the LA Scene: An Analysis on Flexible Identities’, Tracy C Gorden, GLAMFA 2009 Catalogue

‘Déjà Vu’, Amanda Tricken, Metro Newspaper, South Yorkshire, 5th October 2007

‘Members Show @ S1 Artspace’, Oonagh Jaquest, BBC South Yorkshire Website 2005

Awards

2009-12 Sheffield Hallam University Bursary

2008, 09 Dean’s Award, CalArts

2008 Student Council Grant, CalArts

2008-9 CalArts Graduate Scholarship

2008 American Association of University Women, International Fellowship

2006 Inspiral Start-Up Grant, Sheffield

Commissions

2007 People are Living in Goole, collaboration with Matt Lewis, mapping the social clubs and voluntary organisations in Goole, commissioned by Goole Town Council

Collections

2009 Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender & Reproduction, Indiana, USA

 

Teaching Experience

2009-12 Teaching Researcher, Sheffield Hallam University: teaching on BA (Hons) Fine Art and undertaking a practice-led PhD.

2008-9 Teaching Assistant for Ellen Birrell and David Bunn, CalArts

2007-9 Student Instructor, CalArts Community Arts Partnership

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