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
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
