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LAUREN KASMER
Lives and works in Los Angeles

EDUCATION
1979  BA University of California at Los Angeles

EXHIBITIONS
2019  Blind Courier, Brand Library & Art Center (artist and curator) (upcoming)
2018  
Re:Creating (solo show), George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018  Merge, collaboration with Bonita Helmer, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018  
In the Beginning, El Camino City College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA
2018  Carbon, Fellows of Contemporary Art (FOCA), Los Angeles, CA (artist and curator)
2017  
All Media 2017, Irvine Fine Arts Center, curated by Kim Abeles, Irvine, CA
2017  Time Machine: Original Wearable Arts, d’Art Center International Harbor, Norfolk, VA
2016  
Blue, The Loft at Liz’s Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016  Feminist Variations, The Loft at Liz’s Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016  Play, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016  Honeybee: Pollination and Perfidy; El Camino City College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA
2015  
Fashionistas Fight Back, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
2015  CA 101; Industrial Cathedral, AES Power Plant, Redondo Beach, CA
2014  
Myth and Image; Firebird installation, El Camino City College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA
2014  Inspired; Garden 10, Los Angeles Artists Respond to Theodore Payne Foundation                        California Native Plant Gardens, 11th Annual Theodore Payne Foundation Garden Tour,                Santa Monica, CA
2013  
Personal Tales; Flourish from Fire installation, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA
2013  Come In, We’re Open, Da Vinci Gallery, Los Angeles City College, CA
2013  A Stigmatism performance, Los Angeles Movement Arts Catalyst, Diavolo Space, Los                  Angeles, CA
2012  
The Patter of Tiny Brains, 323 Projects, L.A., CA
2012  Food for Thought; A Question of Consumption; LMK Thoughtful Food installation,
2012  Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA

2012  HOMEsite Clothing Exchange, The Brewery Spring Art Walk, Lincoln Heights, CA
2011  Pillow Thoughts, Urban Sanctuary, East Los Angeles, CA
2011  unCommon threads, LMK Apparel Alters and HOMEsite Clothing Exchanges, El Camino              College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA
2010  
Actions, Conversations and Intersections; Homesite Installation, Homesite Recipe                        Exchange & Homesite Clothing Exchanges, social practices, Los Angeles Municipal Art                Gallery, CA
2010  Homesite Recipe Exchanges, pop up locations in mid-Wilshire, Encino, Santa Monica, 2010  Pasadena, CA Homesite Clothing Exchange, ArtNight, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa                    Monica, CA
2010  Mannequin Collective; Homesite Clothing Exchange Mannequin, Santa Monica Place, CA
2009  
Homesite Clothing Exchanges, pop up locations including The Brewery Fall Art Walk,                    Lincoln Heights, The MODAC Museum of Fashion Designers and Creators, Downtown                  Los Angeles Artwalk, and The Moishe House, Mar Vista, CA
1998  
Finding Family Stories; Homesite, Japanese American National Museum Los Angeles, CA
1994  
Mapping the Jungle; Homesite, Los Angeles Theater Center, Los Angeles, CA
1993  Books by Artists;
Homesite, Barnsdall Art Park Junior Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA
1992  
Homesite, a collaborative installation, funded by City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs                      Department grant 1980-1992
1992  Trappings (solo exhibition), California Federal Bank at the California Mart, CA
1992  Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA)
1992  Los Angeles City College Art Gallery, CA
1992  The Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies (LACPS), CA
1992  Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA
1992  Jones Troyer Gallery, Washington D.C.


CURATORIAL
2019  Blind Courier, Brand Library & Art Center (artist and curator) (upcoming)
2018  
Carbon, Fellows of Contemporary Art (FOCA), Los Angeles, CA (artist and curator)
2012  University of Southern California,
Sight Specific: LACPS and the Politics of Community                  project, Getty's Pacific Standard Time initiative, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles,              CA (originator)
1994  Museum of Fashion Design & Creators,
Beatrice Wood and California Design Legends                  project, The Schindler House, L.A., CA
1982-1990 Fallout Fashion, performances at The Improv, Hollywood, CA; Fallout Fashion at                    Exploratorium Gallery at California State Los Angeles, CA
          California Federal Bank at the California Mart, L.A., CA
          Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies (LACPS), Los Angeles, CA
          Canon Gallery, Hollywood, CA
          Torrance Art Museum, CA
          EZTV, West Hollywood, CA
          Rose Cafe, Venice, CA
          Craft and Folk Art Museum,
Home Sweet Home, American Domestic Vernacular                            Architecture venues include, USC Fisher Art Galleries, UC Santa Barbara, Pomona                      Colleges Art Gallery, Craft and Folk Art Museum, CA
          Open Windows, Los Angeles Festival Open Festival/Fringe Festival (CARS), Los Angeles

PUBLIC WORKS, GRANTS AND AWARDS
2018  FOCA Curators Award
2017  IFS Film Festival, Los Angeles,
Firebird
2015  SaMo Indie Fest, Honorable Mention, Firebird
2015  Best Shorts Competition, Award of Merit, Firebird 2000-2005 Contract, City of Pasadena              Cultural Affairs, ARTS
1996  Finalist, City of Santa Monica/Malibu Education Foundation, 3rd Street Promenade
1994  Finalist, City of Long Beach, Belmont Shore, 2nd Street 1991-1992 Grant, City of Los                    Angeles Cultural Affairs Department

1983  Grant, Liberty Hill Foundation

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2018  Carbon, the Fellows of Contemporary Art, Art and Cake, Genie Davis Carbon, the Fellows            of Contemporary Art (Catalogue)
2016  Feminist Variations: Critique Without Complaint, Huffington Post, Shana Nys Dambrot
          Feminist Variations at Loft at Liz’s: Female Philosophy in Art, Diversions LA
2015  Easy Rider, High Voltage: CA 101 art show is plugged into the
AES Power Plant
2012  KTIE Talk of the Inland Empire on Food for Thought program

2011  Artillery Magazine, TIP
2011  Uncommon Threads, Coagula Magazine

2010  Exhibition catalog: Actions, Conversations, and Intersections; LAMAGA  
1993  Artweek, Vol. 23, #29, Art and Advocacy: Art Activism in Southern California, Collette                    Chattopadhyay
1993  LA Weekly, Home is Where the Site is, Connie Monaghan, Good Times
1993  Section LA Times, LA Stories, Nancy Kapitanoff, Valley Life 1990 Los Angeles Open                      Festival: Open Windows interviews on KNX
1993  New Radio and KPFK 90.7
1983  Home Sweet Home: American Domestic Vernacular Architecture,

1983  Craft and Folk Art Museum (book)
1983  Fallout Fashion (catalogue)
1983  Vogue Magazine
1983  Los Angeles Magazine, LA Times, Associated Press articles

WORK EXPERIENCE
1980-2000 Architectural, Environmental, Graphics Color & Finish Consultant,

some select clients: Los Angeles Olympics Organizing Committee, the Schindler House (MAK Center), Women in Architecture, Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, Nissan Motors, Neutrogena Corporation, UCLA
2000-2005 Senior Editor, MetroLA (NoHoLA)
2015 Member since 2015; Los Angeles Art Association 


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