Dana Duff

Biography/bibliography

Professor at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles

EDUCATION: California Institute of the Arts, MFA
Cranbrook Academy of Art, BFA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006

  • Los Angeles: Museum of Jurassic Technology: Screening of “Some things about water:”

2005

  • Rotterdam: 2005 International Film Festival: Screening of “Some things about water:”
  • Rome: American Academy in Rome: Screening of “Some things about water:”
  • Geneva: Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement International: Screening of “Some things about water:”

2003

  • “Hunger Eats You Alive” video screening, Foundation Kaus Australis, Rotterdam
  • Performance: “Hunger Eats You Alive” with Pam Strugar in Festival of Performance Art, 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica

2001 – Storage Gallery, Los Angeles
1998 -Lemon Sky, Los Angeles
1992 -Monserrat College, Beverly, Mass. Collaboration with Dennis Balk
1991 -Max Protetch Gallery, New York
-Cranbrook Academy Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
1990 -Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles
1989 -Milford Gallery, New York
1988 -Milford Gallery, New York
1987 -Piezo Electric Gallery, Los Angeles

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009

  • “Building Bridges Videos from Tehran to Los Angeles” UCLA Fowler Museum
  • “Because the Night” Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman College
  • “Reunion/Reunión” San Joaquin Valley Project, Laton CA (organized by Suzanne Lacy)
  • “High Strangeness” curated by Donald Krieger at Eagle Rock Arts Center, Los Angeles

2008

  • “Omage: Artists, Designers, Writers of Otis College of Art and Design,” Track 16, Santa Monica

2007

  • - “On Death and Drawing”, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles
  • - “the sneeze: 80 x 80 (a featured film),” Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
  • – “Exquisite Acts and Everyday Rebellions,” Cal Arts, Valencia CA (in conjunction with the “WACK” show at MOCA, Los Angeles)
  • – Media Collection screenings at Fringe Gallery, Los Angeles

2006

  • - Cinematic CD competition; online screenings of short video www.cinematiccd.com
  • -“Omage: Artists, Designers, Writers of Otis College of Art and Design, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica
  • -”Many, Many Guys and Girls, All Real Beauties,” Circus of Books, L.A. Curated by Julian Hoeber
  • – NOVA Art Fair Chicago: video screening
  • -”Flourished” Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions benefit show and auction, Los Angeles
  • – Cal Arts Alumni auction — online

2005

  • - “Immodest Proposals: Los Angeles vs. Houston” Space 125 Gallery at CACHH, Houston

2004

  • - “the sneeze: 80 x 80 (a featured film),” Gazon Rouge Gallery, Athens, Greece, and internationally
  • -“Film Club” 6 serial screenings at Four Walls, Brooklyn New York

2002

  • -“Pont-Aven School of Art Faculty Exhibition,” Paris, France, and Boston
  • -“Fete de Cabannes,” Site-specific installation in Neves, France

2001

  • -“By Hand,” University Art Museum, Cal State University, Long Beach
  • – New York Benefit Auction, Yamaguchi Studios, Malibu

2000

  • -“The Fashion Show,” George’s Gallery, Los Angeles
  • – Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Benefit Auction, Los Angeles

1999

  • -“East of Eden: Profane Gardens,” Guggenheim Gallery, Orange CA

1997

  • -”Liquiform,” curated by Bill Arning, traveling internationally
  • -”The Box,” Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington D.C.
  • -“Splice”, Side Street Projects, Los Angeles

1995

  • -”Temporarily Possessed,” New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
  • -”A Vital Matrix,” Domestic Setting Gallery, Los Angeles
  • -”Diderot and the Last Luminaire,” Site Gallery ,Los Angeles

1994

  • -”Christmas Show,” TRI Gallery, Los Angeles
  • -”Against Nature,” Art Center College, Pasadena
  • -”Diderot and the Last Luminaire,” Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco
  • -”Flow,” curated by Sabina Ott, Cerritos Fine Art Gallery, Los Angeles

1993

  • -”Living With Art: The Dennison Collection,” The Morris Museum, New Jersey
  • -”Playing House,” Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York
  • -”Group Show,” Kohler Art Center, Kohler, Wisc.
  • -”Paper Trails: The Eidetic Image,” I Space, Chicago
  • -”Vanity, Value, Virtue: The Economy of Meaning,” University of St. Louis
  • -”A Carafe, That is a Blind Glass,” Occidental College, Los Angeles
  • -”Works on Paper,” Max Protetch Gallery, New York

1992

  • -”Dirt and Domesticity,” Whitney Museum at the Equitable, New York
  • -”A New American Flag,” Max Protetch Gallery, New York

1991

  • -”Lick of the Eye,” Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles
  • -”Cadences,” New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

1990

  • -”Catalogue,” Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York

1989

  • -”Strange Attractors: Signs of Chaos,” New Museum, New York
  • -”Ulteriors,” Elizabeth MacDonald Gallery, New York
  • -New Museum Benefit Auction, New York

1988

  • - “Still Trauma,” Milford Gallery, New York
  • -”Sculpture,” Milford Gallery, New York
  • -”Notations on the Virtual,” Loughelton Gallery, New York
  • -”Cal Arts: Skeptical Belief(s),” Newport Harbor Art Museum, Cal.

AWARDS/GRANTS:

Otis College of Art and Design Faculty Development Grant, 2008

Otis College of Art and Design Instructional Technology Grant, 2007
American Academy in Rome; Visiting Artist residency, 2005
Otis College of Art and Design Faculty Development Grant, 2005
Foundation Kaus Australis Residency, Rotterdam, Netherlands 2003
Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant, 1991

GUEST LECTURER:
Center for Multimedia /National Center for the Arts, Mexico City
American Academy in Rome
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Pont-Aven College of Art, France (twice)
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan
Middlebury College, Vermont
Bennington College, Vermont
California Institute of the Arts (2 times)
University of Southern California
University of California, Riverside
Otis College of Art and Design, California (3 times)
Claremont Graduate School, California
Art Center College, California (3 times)

BOARD MEMBER, JUROR:
MTA Art Advisory Group, Los Angeles, 2003
Member, Exhibition Committee of the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art; 1986.
Member, Board of Directors of the Foundation for Art Resources, Los Angeles; 1982 and 1983.

BIOGRAPHICAL
Program Director of Sculpture/New Genres, Otis College of Art and Design, L.A.; 1996 to 2007.

Summer Faculty, Pont-Aven School of Art, Pont-Aven, France; 2002 and 2004.
Graduate Advisor/Art Faculty, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena; Fall 1993 to 1999.
Art Faculty, U.C.L.A.; Winter 1994 to Spring 1996.
Art Faculty, Otis College of Art and Design; 1994 to present.
Art Faculty, New York University; Fall 1992 to Spring 1993.
Visiting Art Faculty, Bennington College; Spring 1992.
Acting Head of Sculpture, Cranbrook Academy of Art Graduate School; Spring 1991.
Guest Lecturer in Residence, University of North Carolina, Graduate Program, Chapel Hill; Spring 1990.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg
Museum of Modern Art, New York
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Phillips Collection, Washington DC
Stanford University Museum, Palo Alto, Cal.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ybarra, Christina, “Somethings about Dana Duff,” Squint Magazine, 2007
Ed. Lewis & Makowski, “Sneeze 80 x 80′,” Article Press; Central Books (UK) 2006
Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement International catalogue 2005
International Film Festival Rotterdam catalogue 2005
Giorgos Vamvakidis, TIME OUT ATHENS, Art, July 1-8, 2004
Mary Kay Lombino/University Art Museum, Cal State University Long Beach catalogue: “BY HAND… ,” 2001.
Holly Myers, Art Review “By Hand… ,” LOS ANGELES TIMES, September 19, 2001.
Scarlet Cheng, Art & Architecture “Look Ma… ,” LOS ANGELES TIMES CALENDAR, August 26, 2001.
Jan Tumler, Review “Fashion Show”, ART & TEXT, May-July 2000.
Jacqueline Cooper , Review “Fashion Show,” NEW ART EXAMINER, Spring 2000.
Amy Gerstler, “A Garden of Quotations,” X-TRA, Winter 1999.
Richard Turner, “East of Eden:..”, X-TRA, Winter 1999.
Suzanne Slesin, “The Mod Squad,” HOUSE & GARDEN, March 1999.
Cathy Curtis, “Art Review,” LOS ANGELES TIMES CALENDAR, February 17, 1999.
New Museum of Contemporary Art, catalogue: TEMPORARILY POSSESSED, 1995.
Jane Hart, catalogue: A VITAL MATRIX, 1995.
Occidental College, catalogue: A CARAFE, THAT IS A BLIND GLASS, 1993.
Garbe/Morse, catalogue: PLAYING HOUSE, 1993
Kim Levin, “Choices,” THE VILLAGE VOICE, July 14, 1992.
Whitney Museum, catalogue: DIRT AND DOMESTICITY, 1992.
Bayer Company, book, KUNSTWERK; BILDENE KUNST BEI BAYER, 1992.
New Museum of Contemporary Art, catalogue, CADENCES, 1991.
Terry Myers, review, FLASH ART, March/April 1991.
Roberta Smith, “Turning the Corner on Political Correctness,” NEW YORK TIMES, Sun. March 3, 1991.
Peter Schjeldahl, review, “Cadences…,” THE VILLAGE VOICE, March 5, 1991.
Kim Levin, “Choices: ‘Cadences’,” THE VILLAGE VOICE, March 12, 1991.
Peggy Cyphers, review, ARTS MAGAZINE, March 1991.
Marlena Donohue, review, SCULPTURE, July/August 1990.
Christopher Knight, review, LOS ANGELES TIMES, April 27, 1990.
Jody Zellen, review, ARTWEEK, April 19, 1990.
Brooks Adams, “Shock of the Mundane,” VOGUE, March 1990.
Dennis Cooper, review, ARTSCRIBE, January/February 1990.
Eileen Myles, review, ART IN AMERICA, January 1990.
Kim Levin, “Choices,” THE VILLAGE VOICE, October 10, 1989
Kim Levin, “Artwalk,” THE VILLAGE VOICE, October 3, 1989.
Jane Rankin-Reed, “Still Trauma,” review, TEME CELESTE, January/March 1989.
Dennis Cooper, review, ARTFORUM, October 1988.
Robert Mahoney, review, ARTS MAGAZINE, September 1988.
Roberta Smith, solo show review, NEW YORK TIMES, June 10, 1988.

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