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BONITA HELMER
Lives and works in Los Angeles

EDUCATION
Graduate Work, Otis Art Institute, CA 1978
Additional Studies with Francoise Gilot
BFA in Painting, UCLA and Antioch University
 
MUSEUM AND PUBLIC SPACES
(solo and group shows)
2019  Jerusalem Biennial, "For Heaven’s Sake” Jerusalem, Israel
2017  Museum Sonderjylland “Far Out”  BRUNDLUND SLOT, Denmark
2014  MOCA Beijing, "The Form of the Formless," Beijing, China 
2014  Fisher Museum, solo Installation for performance piece,”This and my Heart” – Emily Dickenson, University of Southern California
2013  The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall, “The Spiritual in Art”
2012  MOLAA (Museum of Latin American Art.), Long Beach, CA
2012  Teda Contemporary Art Museum. Tianjin, China
2011  Or’Hatorah Cultural Center, Solo exhibition, “The Four Worlds” Los Angeles, CA
2009  Zimmer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2009  Skirball Museum and Cultural Center, Video Installation 15 artists participating, Los Angeles,Ca
2009  Cal State Channel Islands “The Non-Objective Object” with Ruth Pastine and Jack Reilly
2007  MOCA, Whack exhibit, official Adjunct show, featured artist, Beyond Words and Time, UCLA New School of Phychoanlysis.
2007  NYU Hebrew Union College Museum, The LA Story, with Ruth Weisberg and Tony Berlant, NY
2006  Zimmer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1999  UCLA/Hammer Museum, Solo Painting Installation at Murdoch Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
1996  Musee de L’Space Bateau Lavoir, L’Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, Solo exhibition “Artiste De Los Angeles, Paris, France
1989  Downey Art Museum: ”Women Artists who are Mothers”, Downey, CA
1985  Newport Harbor Art Museum (presently- Orange County Museum of Art) Director Paul Schimmel, “The Ecstasy of St. Teresa, sets for Performance piece.

ADDITIONAL SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2121  Changes in Velocity, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca
2018-19  “In the Midst of Chaos, George Billis, Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015-16  Observed, George Billis Galley, Los Angeles, CA
2014  Dune Gallery, New York Design Center, NY
2012  Here be Dragons, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010  The Unseen Structure, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009  UCLA, Dortort Center for the Arts, Hillel, Los Angeles, CA
2008  Mt. St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA
2008  George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006  George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000  Transamerica Building, curated by Patrick Ela - Los Angeles, CA
          El Camino College, Center for the Performing Arts, El Camino, CA
1997  Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995  New Work, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, Ca
1991  Ojai Valley Music Festival, exhibit and  festival poster design, catalogue by Nancy Doll ,  Curator Santa Barbara Art museu

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 “Urban Paradise, Shatto Gallery, Los Angeles
2019  "For Heaven's Sake", Jerusalem Biennial, Jerusalem, Israel
2019  "Event Horizon", McMish Gallery Oxnard College, curated by Mela Marsh                                                           
2019  "I Am Nature," The Loft at Liz's, LA
2018  FOCA (friends of contemporary Art)  “Carbon” China town, Los Angeles, CA
2018  “L.A. meets Shanghai in Berlin,” Kunstraum F200, Philip Johnston Berlin, Germany
2017  A Women’s Perspective, MRG Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017   “Fiction” Christoph Damm Art Room, Berlin, Germany
2017   “Far Out”  Gallerie Nexus, Denmark
2016-17 RaumZeit (Spacetime), Kunstraum F200 galerie, Philip Johnston Bl. Berlin
2012  Hebrew Union College, USC, Los Angeles, CA
2010  City of Los Angeles Gallery at Barnsdall Actions, Conversations, and Intersections, participating artist
2008  Contemplations, Mt. St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles
2008  Art Matters, Contemporary Gallery, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
2004  Track 16, “The Hollywood Bowl Spheres,” Bergamot Station, Santa Monica  
2003  Jewish Federation Building, with Helen Frankenthaler, Larry Rivers, Stanley Boxer curated by Nancy Berman,  Director Emeritus, Skirball Museum,
1993  Artists Books, Municipal Gallery, Barnsdall, curated  by J. Dallal and L Kasmer, Los Angeles
1993  California State University Northridge, School of Fine Art, Northridge, CA
1992  Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1990  Momentum Gallery, Ventura Arts Council, Ventura CA
1990  Pence Gallery,”Art and Soul”, Santa Monica, CA
1988  Vorpal Gallery, group show with Andy Warhol, Wayne Thiebaud et al., San Francisco, CA
1987  Seven LA Artists, Gallery  Q, Tokyo                                           
1986  Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York

GRANTS
NEA grant for set design, “This and My Heart”, Emily Dickenson, 2009
18th Street Arts Complex and Getty grant, “Art in the Middle Schools,” 1999
City of Los Angeles Dept. of Cultural Affairs,  “Children at Risk,” 1995
California Arts Council and L.A. Theater Works,  “Children in Prison,”1992,93
California Arts Council and Ojai Valley Art Center, 1990
 
MULTIMEDIA AND SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATIONS                           
2009  “This and My Heart,” Emily Dickenson, set paintings for performance piece, The Beach House , Dept. of  Cultural Affairs, City of Santa Monica) and Cal Plaza (grand performances), CA
2000   El Camino College, Center for the Performing Arts, set paintings for “The Stage, The Street, The Spirit, El Comino, Ca.
2007   Home of  Barbara Zacky and Ellen Sturtz, Malibu, Commission, CA
2006   Sylvee Terree,Yoga Studio Commission, St. Barths,  French West Indies
2000   Office of Rabbi Steven Robbins. Commission Painting, Los Angeles, CA
1998   Japan-America Theater, Set Paintings for “the XTC of St. Teresa, New Age Opera” co-produced by Cal Arts and Cal State Fullerton. Los Angeles, CA
1993/1994  Homesite, traveling exhibition, Project by J. Dallal and L. Kasmer, funded in part by City Of Los Angeles, Dept. of Cultural Affairs

CURATORIAL WORK
Curator, Mobius 2, Otis College of Art and South Gallery, Los Angeles, 2010 
Curator, Evolution: The Process of Abstraction, Eight LA Artists, Otis College of Art and Design, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2004Fringe Festival, CARS, California Art Resources Services, Artists Curating Artists, Spring Street, part of the L. A. Festival, curated by Peter Sellers, 1990
 
TEACHING
Otis College of Art and Design, Faculty Instructor - Los Angeles. 1998-2018
18th St. Arts Complex, L.A. Middle Schools. 1998
Children at Risk, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs & L.A. Theater Works, Los Angeles. 1995
Children in Prison, LA Theater Works/California Arts Council, Los Angeles, CA1993-1995
SPARC, Painting Workshop, Venice, CA 1992
U.C.L.A., Extension, Los Angeles, CA 1989/1990
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PUBLICATIONS                                                                                                                                
Carbon Allotropes: Visceral & Ethereal, An Artist’s Response, Wall Street Journal International, 2019
Art and Cake, featured article by Gary Brewer 2018
Voyage L.A., featured article, 2018
Palm Beach Women, featured article, 2017
Art Ltd. Review “Observed”  Megan Abrahams, 2016
ArtWeek L.A. featured article , Shayna Nys Dambrot,2015
Extroadinart, featured article, Milan, Italy, 2014 
Huffington Post, featured article, Tracey Harnish, 2012
ArtWeek.LA, featured article, 2012 
ArtScene, featured artist review by Marlena Donahue, 2008
Art in America, American Artists, 2007
Mosaique (in French), 2007
Catalogue Essay, George Billis Gallery. Marlena Donahue, 2006
Metro L.A, Lauren Michelle 2006
Curatorial Statement, Patrick Ela - Los Angeles. 2001
Los Angeles Times, Art Upended, 1996
Al-Ahram International – (in French and Arabic) Paris, France. 1996
 rt in America, American Artists. 1993
Art in America, American Artists. 1992
Los Angeles Times, L.A. Festival. 1991
California Art Review, American References, page 550, 553 & 555, 1989
Marouchi Times, Tokyo, Japan. 1986
Art Now/ California Gallery Guide, page 12, Feb. 1985
Los Angeles Times Calendar Section, front page, September 18, 1984
Arizona Sun Times, Art Section, page 1, November 12, 1982

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Morgan Stanley, New York
Sylvee Terree, Yoga Studio, St. Bart’s, French West Indies
ComDev. Corporation – El Segundo                                                                                      
The Offices of Reed Smith and Assoc. - Los Angeles, CA
MODAC (Museum of Designers and Creators) - Los Angeles
The Law Offices of Weissman, Wolf and Associates - Beverly Hills
The Law Offices of Hufstedler, Miller, Carlson and Beardsley
Law offices of Andrew Pollet - Los Angeles
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