CV
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
2011 Assembly 11: Last Requests, Bloc Projects, Sheffield
2011 Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles
2011 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
2009 MFA Conversations Part II, I-5 Gallery, Brewery Arts Complex, Los Angeles
2009 Why Theory: MFA Graduation Exhibition, Spring Arts Tower, Los Angeles
2009 Why Video: MFA Video Screening, REDCAT, Los Angeles
2009 Woman As Image, thesis exhibition, D301, CalArts
2009 Between the Surface / Art Harvest LA, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles
2009 Site Work, group show, Deep End Ranch, Santa Paula, California
2008 Publicity, Vasquez Rocks, happening, part of Allan Kaprow: Art as Life, MOCA, Los Angeles
2008 Mid-Residence Exhibition, group show, CalArts
2008 Let’s Twist Again, performance evening, CalArts
2008 Fuzzy Pictures, group show A402, CalArts
2008 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
2007 Déjà Vu, three person show, Bloc Projects, Sheffield
2007 As If One Wasn’t Enough, group show, 20-21 Centre, Scunthorpe
2007 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
2006 Beneath, group exhibition, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
2006 Paint it Black, group show, Cupola Gallery, Sheffield
2005 Office of Outsourced Opinion, an intervention at Art Sheffield 05, with Matt Lewis
2005 Member’s Show, S1 Artspace, Sheffield
2005 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
2011 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
2010 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
2009 The Agency of Narcissism, essay circulated via the CalArts Reviews mailing list
2007 Walk/Dont Walk, text for Alexis Hudgin’s exhibition, CalArts
2007 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