Close this window / Go to Gallery

Born 1968, Los Angeles, Ca.



AWARDS & HONORS

2009
Pollock-Krasner Fellowship Award, New York, NY

2008
Print Residency, Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA

2007
Best in Show Award, Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital, Schenectady, NY
Artists' Resource for Completion Grant, Durfee Foundation, Santa Monica, CA

2005
Artists' Resource for Completion Grant, Durfee Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
Artist Grant, Yellow Fox Foundation, Palos Verdes, CA

2004
Scholarship Award, Los Angeles Art Association, Los Angeles, CA
Technical Assistance Grant, National Arts and Disability Center/California Arts Council
Residency Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

2003
Foundation Grant, Artists' Fellowship Inc., New York, NY
Honorarium, Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, Short Hills, NJ
Artist Grant, Artists' Fellowship Inc., New York, NY



SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010
It's Mostly About Me and Much Less About You, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Visions, Dreams, Patterns, and Memories, Slutzky Art Gallery, JCC Orange County, Irvine, CA

2009
Float Without Moving, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX
2-person Show with Lucinda Colbey, Galleri Urbane, Marfa, TX
Inner Outline, UCLA Hillel, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

2008
She Dreamed She Remembered, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Above the Bias Forces, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN

2007
Koelsch Gallery, Monogenetic Dreams From the Rag Trade, Houston, TX
George Billis Gallery, All Done But None, Los Angeles, CA
Torrance Art Museum, A Girl Apart, Torrance, CA

2006
Gallery 825, My Identity Lab, Los Angeles, CA

2004
I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2005
George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Highways Performance Space and Gallery, Hybrids and Mongrels, Santa Monica, CA

2003
Highways Performance Space and Gallery, Cutting Patterns, Santa Monica, CA



SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2010
On|Paper, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Tzit Tzit: Fiber Art and Jewish Identity, Saint Vincent Gallery, Latrobe, PA
Winter Walls, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN

2009
Red Dot Miami, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, Miami, FL
Fresh Voices: Hebrew Union College, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
The Art of Language, Zimmer Childrens Museum, Los Angeles, CA (Catalog)

2008
Summer Salon, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Listen to Your Heart, MOHS Exhibit, Copenhagen, Denmark
Bookish, Seattle University Center for the Arts, Seattle, WA

2007
Selections from the 7th National Sunnyview Exhibit, Union College, Schenectady, NY
Outside the Box, Greene Contemporary, Sarasota, FL
Dark Objects, Light Matter, Galleri Urbane, Marfa, TX
Material Girls, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA (Catalog)
HEALING: A Cultural Exploration, Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2006
LA Municipal Art Gallery, Perspectives, Los Angeles, CA
I-5 Gallery, SURVIVING: Kinkade, Los Angeles, CA
LAAA South/Michael Napoliello Gallery, Biannual, Hermosa Beach, CA
LA Artcore, Multicultural Self-taught Artists, Los Angeles, CA, (Catalog)
The Art of Time, Zimmer Children’s Museum, Los Angeles, CA, (Catalog)
Bentley Projects, Configuration, Phoenix, AZ

2005
BGH Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Ontario International Airport, How to Look at Art, Ontario, CA
Santa Monica Museum of Art, Incognito, Santa Monica, CA
Gallery 825, In the Abstract, Los Angeles, CA

2004
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
Santa Monica Museum of Art, Incognito, Santa Monica, CA
Gallery 825, Outsiders, Los Angeles, CA
Highways Performance Space and Gallery, Identification, Santa Monica, CA

2003
Bedlam Art Salon, 5 LA Women Artists, Los Angeles, CA
Gallery 825 Bergamot Station Annex, Petite Works, Santa Monica, CA
The Art Center, Mechanicsburg, PA (Award)
The Office: An Art Space, Brush, Huntington Beach, CA
Imagine Art, Austin, TX

2002
Angels Gate Cultural Center, words., San Pedro, CA
three. Gallery, Held Ransom, San Pedro, CA
Dougherty Art Center, Austin, TX

2001
Art Share Warehouse Gallery, Featured Artist, Los Angeles, CA
La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Bush Barn Art Center, Salem Arts Association, Salem, OR

2000
West Side Art Gallery, (1999-2000), Venice CA
New Alchemy Gallery, West Hollywood, CA

1999
Track 16 Gallery, Forming the Early Days of LA Punk, Santa Monica, CA
Orlando Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA
New Alchemy Gallery, West Hollywood, CA

1998
Orlando Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA
New Alchemy Gallery, West Hollywood, CA

1997
University of Arizona, The Brain & Self, Copenhagen & Elsinore, Denmark
Verve Gallery, West Hollywood, CA



SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2009
FiberArts Magazine, News & Notes: Awards, Nov/Dec Issue, Loveland, CO
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, Art Picks, February 14, Los Angeles, CA
ArtWorks Magazine, feature: Handmade Memory, A, Moret, Los Angeles, CA

2008
Art, LTD, Review, December, Shana Nys Dambrot, Los Angeles, CA
THE Magazine, Preview 10/08, Los Angeles, CA
Jewish Journal, 10/4/08 Picks and Clicks by Dikla Kadosh and Danielle Berrin, Los Angeles, CA
Flavorpill, Preview 10/7/08, Heather Silva, Los Angeles, CA
The Tennessean, Critics Picks 9/21/08, Artist's Works Transcend Abuse, Nashville, TN
Seattle Times, Bookish, Gayle Clemans, Seattle, WA
Los Angeles Times, Picture Brightens for Self Help Graphics, Agustin Gurza, Los Angeles, CA

2007
NY Arts Magazine, January/February vol. 12 No. 1-2, New York, NY
Coagula #85, LA’s Top 10, Los Angeles, CA
Jewish Journal, Keren Engelberg, Los Angeles, CA
Favorpill LA, #213: Carol Es at George Billis, Shana Nys Dambrot, Los Angeles, CA
Long Beach Press-Telegram, Women Turning Personal Pain into Art, Shirle Gottlieb, LBC, CA
ArtScene Visual Radio, The Mat Gleason Seven (Review), Los Angeles, CA
Press-Enterprise, The Fabric of Art, Vanessa Franko, Riverside, CA

2006
San Pedro Magazine/Long Beach Press-Telegram, Joshua Stecker, Long Beach, CA
Flavorpill LA, #161, Shana Nys Dambrot, Los Angeles, CA
Daily Breeze, A Pattern of Creativity, Josh Grossberg, Torrance, CA

2005
Umbrella, Vol. 28, #2-3, Judith Hoffberg, Santa Monica, CA
Art Muscle, Coagula Corner, Mat Gleason, Los Angeles, CA
Coagula Art Journal #75, Interview with Mat Gleason, Editor, Los Angeles, CA
Flavorpill LA, #106, Shana Nys Dambrot, Los Angeles, CA

2004
Flavorpill LA #73, Shana Nys Dambrot, Los Angeles, CA
SMC Corsair #10, Monica Pachenco, Santa Monica College, CA
Uprising, Pacifica Radio KPFK 90.7 FM, Interview with Sonali Kolhatkar, Los Angeles, CA

2003
Olam Magazine, Los Angeles, CA
Digresss, interview with Annie Knight, Riverside, CA
Feline Magazine, Interview, Woodhaven, NY

2002
Get Underground, Healing Art: An Alternative Therapy, Los Angeles, CA
The Morning Show, Pacifica Radio KPFK, Interview with Sonali Kolhatkar, Los Angeles, CA
Artesian Arts Magazine, Scotland, UK
Playful & Provocative, Nancy Nield, Ph.D., University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Austin American-Statesman, Emerging Artist Within, Austin, TX

2001
Raw Vision #37, New York & Watford, UK
Picklebird Alternative Art, Los Angeles, CA
Verge Art Magazine, Los Angeles & Washington, DC

2000
Internet Tonight, TechTV, San Francisco, CA
Art Thought Journal, Towson, MD

1998
Art Venues Magazine, Target Headed Carol Es, Donna Klaasen, Capistrano Beach, CA
NoHo News, featured artist, North Hollywood, CA
Art Collector Magazine, Vol. 2 #1, Beverly Hills, CA



SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Centre Pompidou, Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Paris, France
J. Paul Getty Trust, Research Institute Library, Los Angeles, CA
The Arthur and Mata Jaffe Collection, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Christopher and Leslie Obaditch, Corona Del Mar, CA
Otis College of Art & Design Library, Artists’ Books Collection, Los Angeles, CA
The Ann Savage Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA
Judith Stein, Philadelphia, PA
UC Irvine Library, Special Collections, Los Angeles, CA
UCLA Library, Special Collections, Los Angeles, CA
UC Santa Barbara, California Ethnic & Multicultural Archives, Santa Barbara, CA
Memory Bridge, Chicago, IL
Zetter Collection, Lois Zetter, Carlsbad, CA
Gail Zone, Los Angeles, CA