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EXHIBITIONS
2008
Kim Abeles, Survey exhibition curated Josine Ianco-Starrels,
Schneider Museum of Art,
Ashland, Oregon
2007 - 2008 Art
Since the 1960s-California Experiments, Orange County Museum of Art,
Newport
Beach, CA
2007
Nature/Culture: Artists Respond to Their Environment, Morris Museum,
Morristown,
N.J. (traveling exhibition originating at the Society for Contemporary
Craft, Pittsburgh, PA)
Leaf Lounge Beijing, an installation in an exhibition curated by
Holly Wang, Songzhuang
Festival, Beijing, China
Whose Nature? What's Nature?, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun
Valley, ID
Honor Badges in
collaboration with kids, created for Wallworks, Santa Monica
Museum
of Art Neighborhood Outreach Gallery on the third floor of Santa Monica
Place
Book of Lies, 18th Street Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Multiple Vantage Points: Southern California Women Artists, 1980-2006,
Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Hollywood
Kim Abeles - New Work, Scape (Southern California
Art Projects and Exhibits), Corona
del Mar, CA
Kim Abeles -
Installation, the Shed, Newport, CA
Stream, Downspace, Los Angeles
Measure of
Time, University of Berkeley Art Museum
Echoes:
Women Inspired by Nature, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art,
Catalog available
SWARM, Abeles in collaboration with Suzanne Lacy and Jeff Cain,
Artscene:25, Los
Angeles County Museum of Art
Process Portrait,
workshop and exhibition for the Teen Arts Council, Orange County
Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Weather Report: Art and Climate Change, Curated by Lucy R. Lippard,
Boulder
Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado
Touched, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2006
Group Exhibition, Sam
Francis Gallery, Boxenbaum Arts Center, Crossroads School,
Santa Monica, CA
Nature/Culture: Artists Respond to Their
Environment, Society for Contemporary
Craft, Pittsburgh, CA (catalog available)
TALKS, PANELS, AND WORKSHOPS
2007
Panel Discussion - See/Hear: Cross Disciplinary Approaches to
Exhibiting Collections
California Association of Museums' (CAM) Conference, Long Beach
Panel Discussion, Multiple Vantage Points: Southern
California Women Artists, 1980-
2006 Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles
Series of lectures, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Panel Discussion, Approaches to Learning: Service
Learning in Art and Design, National
Association of Schools of Art and Design, NASAD Annual Meeting, Kansas
City, Missouri
2006
Panel Discussion - Innovative Directions/Shifting Paradigms
Museum Educators of Southern California, Annual Institute 2006:
Leadership, Skirball
Museum, Los Angeles
Presentation - Art of Thought
Teachers Academy Partnership, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Lecture, University at Buffalo, State University of New
York
Lecture, Pierce College, Woodland Hills, CA
Workshop - Frankenstein's Heart, Natural History Museum, Los
Angeles
Lectures, Integrated Learning Program at Otis College of
Art and Design, Los Angeles
COLLECTIONS
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
California African American Museum, Los Angeles
United States Information Agency
Arizona State University Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
University of California, Santa Barbara
The Banff Centre for the Arts Library Collection, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Museum of Modern Art Library Collection, NYC
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Clarence Ward Art Library, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio (Special
Collections)
Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, Los Angeles
City of Santa Monica, Santa Monica, CA
California State University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Washington-Jefferson College, Washington, PA
Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
California Bureau of Automotive Repair, Sacramento, CA
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
City of Los Angeles
California Science Center, Los Angeles
Laguna Art Museum, CA
Pomona College Museum of Art, Pomona, CA
Occidental College, Los Angeles
San Jose Museum, CA
Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, CA
Art Resources Transfer (A.R.T. Inc.), NYC
Cooper-Hewitt Publication Design Collection, Smithsonian Institution
Library, NY.
COMMISSIONS AND PUBLIC ART IN PROGRESS
Public Art commissioned by the Los Angeles
Unified School District for the Central Los Angeles New Learning
Center;Ambassador Hotel historical site; Entrance to Library
Public Art funded in part through the City of Los
Angeles Cultural Affairs Department for the Community Magnet School,Bel
Air, California; Entrance Pathway entitled, "Thru the Earth", completed
Sepetember 2006.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Peter Selz, Art of Engagement-Visual Politics
in California and Beyond, University of California Press, 2005
Karen Jacobson, Editor, See/Hear - Museums and Imagination,
California Natural History Museum, 2006
Mark Alice Durant and Thomas McGovern, Essayists, Witness Protection,
Robert V. Fullerton Art
Museum,California State University, San
Bernardino, 2006
Lucinda Barnes, Measure of Time, University of California,
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive,
2007
BOOKS
Kim Abeles, Karen Moss, & Susan Silton,
Kim Abeles:
Encyclopedia Persona A-Z
English edition by Fellows of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1993)
Editions in Spanish & Portuguese
published by the United States Information Agency (1996)
Awards: 1994 ID Annual Design Review;
American Center for Design-1994 The One Hundred
Show;1994 Type Directors Club
Lucinda Barnes, Editor, Kim Abeles,
A.R.T. Press, Los Angeles (1989)
Peter Selz, Art of Engagement:
Political Art in California 1945 - Present, University of
California
Press (2005).
David Spalding, Chemistry in Art, CD-Rom,
Hyle: The Journal of Art,Chemistry and
Philosophy,
Germany (2003)
Eugenia Butler (Editor), Book of Lies
III (2003)
Brandon LaBelle, Ken Erhlich and Stephen Vitiello (Editors),
Problematics of Site-Surface Tension,
Errant Bodies Press (2003)
John O’Brien, Pismo/Letter,
Etišcni uvidi
umetnosti, Ministrstvo za kulturo RS, Slovinia (2001)
Lewis MacAdams (poetry) and Kim Abeles (images),
The Family Trees, Blue Press
(2001)
Robert Hirsch & John Valentino,
Photographic
Possibilities, Focal Press (2001)
Susan Ressler,
Women Artists
of the American West, McFarland Press (2001)
Mark Johnstone,
Contemporary
Art in Southern California, Craftsman House, Australia (1999)
Deborah J. Haynes,
The Vocation
of the Artist, Cambridge University Press (1997).
Lucinda Barnes, Miyoshi Barosh, William S. Bartman (Editors),
Between Artists, A.R.T. Press, Los
Angeles (1996)
Paul Von Blum,
Other
Visions, Other Voices - Women Political Arts in Greater LA,
University Press
of America (1994)
Margaret Sedeen,
Star-Spangled
Banner - Our Nation and Its Flag, National Geographic Society,
Washington D.C.(1993)
Erica Suderberg,
Monde-Los
Angeles, Editions Autrement, Paris (1993)
James Hugunin,
Discipline
and Photograph: The Prison Experience (1991)
Sylvia Moore, Editor,Yesterday
and Tomorrow: California Women Artists, Midmarch Press, New
York (1989)
Virginia Watson Jones,
Contemporary
American Women Sculptors, Oryx Press (1985)
ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
Art in America,
Art News, Harper's, Newsweek, High Performance, Zyma Kunstmagazine
(Germany), Wall Street Journal,
Sculpture, Artforum, Visions, Artpress (France),
New Art Examiner, Village Voice, Caras (South America),
Artweek, Artspace, Westways, Art New England, Art of California, Z
Magazine, After Image, Bijutsu Techo (Japan), and
De Norpen
(The Netherlands)
VIDEO
Ron Mansfield, Producer, Kim Abeles,
Cotsen Fellowship Program, Los Angeles (2002)
Deborah J. Haynes, Producer, What Follows…Kim Abeles,
University of Colorado (2001)
Lisa Mann, Producer, Public Sitings (All Space in Los Angeles
County), Armory Center for the Arts,
Pasadena, CA (1998)
Laree Kiely, Producer, The Five Senses-Introduction to
Business Communication, University Access,
Inc. (1997)
Joe Leonardi, Producer, Kim Abeles, J. Paul Getty Trust
Fund for the Visual Arts (1993)
Larisa Muravina, Producer, The Image of St. Bernadette- An
Installation by Kim Abeles (1987)
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