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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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