EDUCATION

1995-97

MFA, Photography, UCLA.

1993-94

Critical Studies, Whitney Independent Studies Program, NY.

 

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Bath Academy of Art, England.

 

Foundation Art, Goldsmiths College, London, England.

 

ONE and TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS/ROOM INSTALLATIONS

2003

Talwar Gallery, NY: people in white houses

 

Oboro Gallery, Montreal, Canada: Will **** for Peace. Collaboration w/- Y.S. Min.

 

Ssamzie Gallery, Seoul, S. Korea: Will **** for Justice. Collaboration w/- Y.S. Min.

2002

Mezzanine Gallery, U. Minnesota, Minneapolis: Will **** for Peace. Collaboration w/- Y.S. Min.

2001

Talwar Gallery, NY

 

Art In General, NY: Terrain

 

Susanne Vielmetter Projects, LA: Terrible Beauty (a re-Sitation of an unnaturally conditioned Mind, cast upon the treacherous waters between International Style and Nationalist Fervor).

2000

The Brewery, LA: Nonzero Sum Games. Collaboration with Yong Soon Min.

1998

The Upstairs at the Market Gallery, LA: All You Can Eat.

1997

Highways, Santa Monica, CA; Threshold

 

Menschel Gallery, Syracuse, NY: AlterNatives. w/- Y.S. Min (cat.)

1994

Camerawork, London: alter idem/performing personae. w/- Y. S. Min

1989

Kafe Klatsch, Wiesbaden, Germany.

1986

Tara Arts Centre, London: Lifting the Veil, Clearing the Mists.

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2003

Museum of African Art, NY: Looking Both Ways. (cat.)

 

San Jose Museum of Art, CA: Un/Familiar Territory.

 

Contemporary Art Musuem, Uni. of S. Florida, Tampa; H and R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, MO; Fisher Gallery, USC, CA: Unnaturally. (cat.)

2002

India Habitat Centre, New Dehli, India: Borderless Terrain. (cat.)

 

Fisher Gallery, USC, LA: Global Address. (cat.)

 

Cherrydelosreyes, LA: Dermatone.

2001

Irvine Fine Arts Center, CA: Phigment.

 

India Center of Art and Culture, NY: Home and The World. (cat.)

2000

Rosamund Felsen Gallery, LA: Cosmic Dermis.

 

London Biennale, The Freud Centre, England: Imaging the Wunderboard.

 

Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, NY: ID/Y2K (cat.)

 

Laemmle Grand Fourplex Theatre, LA: Not Coming.

 

Baum Gallery, Conway, AR: Contemporary Art and Identity. (cat.)

 

The Advocate Gallery, LA: Damage Control.

1999

Camerawork, San Francisco: Body/Language.

 

Miller/Durazo, LA: Transit.

 

Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Inst. of Chicago, IL: Not On Any Map. (cat.)

 

Barnsdall Art Gallery, LA: The Mourning After. (cat.)

 

Black Paint Studio, Toronto: Dia*sperse.

 

Eagle Rock Community Center, LA: Broadcast.

1998

Galeria da Mitra, Lisbon, Portugal: Where I am. (cat.)

 

New Museum, NY: Urban Encounters.

1997

The Photographers Gallery, London; City Uni., NY: Translocations.

 

Studio Museum, Harlem, NY: Transforming the Crown. (cat.)

 

Korean American Museum, LA: Kimchee Xtravaganza. (cat.)

 

The Queens Museum, NY: Out of India. (cat.)

 

CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY: Uncommon Traits.

 

Los Angeles Zoo: SaFARi, organised by FAR (Foundation for Art Resources), w/ Y.S. Min.

 

Wight Gallery, UCLA: Thesis exhibition.

1996

American Photography Institute, NY: National Graduate Photography.

 

Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY: AIM Benefit.

 

UC Irvine Gallery: Terminals, also available on the internet, curated by Connie Samaras.

1995

MTA/Arts for Transit & Organization of Independent Artists,NY: "Fire Without Gold" at Jamaica St. and Yankee Stadium subway stations.

1994

Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY: Fire Without Gold. (cat.)

 

Houston Center for Photography, TX: Picturing Asia America.

 

Desh Pardesh Festival, Toronto, Canada.

 

Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY: Beyond the Borders. (cat.)

 

India Mission, NY: Contemporary Indian Artists.

1993

National Conference Center, Baguio, Philippines: Fourth Baguio Arts Festival.

 

Art in General, NY: Good and Plenty.

 

Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY: AIM Show. (cat.)

 

Whitney Museum, NY: Whitney Biennial. Video collaboration with Yong Soon Min, included in Shu Lea Chang's installation, "Those Fluttering Objects of Desire."

 

Rashtrapati Vidya Bhavan, NY: Inaugural Show.

 

Gallery of Photography, Dublin; Lighthouse Media Center, Wolverhampton: Ecstatic Antibodies. (cat.)

 

10 on 8, NY: Double Time, cur. Todd Ayoung.

1992

Walsall Art Gallery, England: Realms of Glory.

 

494 Gallery, NY: Family Values, collaboration with Yong Soon Min; cur. Lucy Lippard.

 

Exit Art, NY: Those Fluttering Objects of Desire, collaboration with Yong Soon Min.

 

Citizens Gallery, London: Strains of War. (cat.)

 

Leicester City Gallery; Oldham Museum and Art Gallery; Cartwright Hall, Bradford; South London Gallery, England: Crossing Black Waters. (cat.)

 

South London Gallery, England: Second Coming.

 

Worcester Health Authority: Ecstatic Antibodies. (cat.)

1991

Black Art Gallery, London: Value for Culture.

 

Art In General, NY: Artists Engulfed Against War.

 

Horizon Gallery, London: In Focus.

 

Grey Art Gallery, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; Madison Art Center, Madison; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin; Duke University Museum of Art, Durham: Interrogating Identity. (cat.)

 

Diorama, London: Light a Candle for Peace.

 

Battersea Arts Center, London; Street Level, Glasgow; La Maison de la Culture, Quebec, Canada; Barbican Theatre, Plymouth; Gallery of Photography, Dublin; Worcester Health Authority, England: Ecstatic Antibodies. (cat.)

 

Collins Gallery, Glasgow; Watermans Arts, Middlesex, England: Fabled Territories. (cat.)

1990

Herbert Gallery, Coventry; South London Gallery; Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool; Cartwright Hall, Bradford; Castle Museum, Nottingham, England: Let the Canvas Come to Life With Dark Faces. (cat.)

 

John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool: Fabled Territories. (cat.)

 

Embassy Cultural Center, London, Ontario: Siting Resistance.

 

Institute of Education, London: Distinguishing Marks. (cat.)

 

Camerawork, London; South Bank Centre, England: Autoportraits.

 

Darlington Arts Centre, England: The Elvis Show.

 

Impressions Gallery, York; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Chapter Arts, Cardiff: Ecstatic Antibodies. (cat.)

1989

Leeds City Gallery, England; Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada: Fabled Territories. (cat.)

 

National Museum of Havana, Cuba: Third Havana Biennale.

 

Montefiore Centre, London: Drawing Back the Curtain.

1988

Diorama, London: The Outlook.

 

Community Copyart, London: Against the Clause. (cat.)

 

Soho Poly, London: Panchayat.

 

Chisenhale Gallery, London; Laing Gallery, Newcastle; City Gallery, Huddersfield; Herbert Gallery, Coventry; Gardner Arts, Brighton; The Minories, Colchester, England: The Essential Black Art. (cat.)

1987

Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester: The Image Employed. (cat.)

 

Chelsea School of Art, London: The Devils Feast. (cat.)

 

Bedford Hill Gallery, London: Copyart goes South.

 

Shaw Theatre, London: Photocopyart.

 

Cockpit Gallery, London: Copyart at the Cockpit.

 

Whitechapel Gallery, London: Whitechapel Open.

1986

Elbow Room, London: Unrecorded Truths. (cat.)

 

Wapping Sports Centre, London: Brushes With the West.

1985

Hounslow Civic Centre, Middlesex: HAVAC.

1983

Royal Academy, London: Stowells Trophy.

 

The Ambulance Station, London: Signs of Life.

 

PUBLISHED BOOKS

1992

Crossing Black Waters, co-editor, with Merali, S., pub. Working Press, London

1986

The Sikhs in Britain, pub. Batsford, London.

 

PUBLISHED FICTION

2000

Voyeurism, FELIX Journal of Media Arts and Communications: Our Lady.

1998

Re.Visions, Betty Lee exhib. cat., Fellows of Contemporary Art: critical fiction, Re.Visions.

 

Queer PAPI Porn, ed. Joel B. Tan, Cleis Press: Rainsbow’s End.

1997

Asiam, No. 1, NY: Dirt.

1996

Things That Quicken the Heart, exhib. publication, ed. Soo Jin Kim: Pantheon

 

Amerasia Journal, Vol.22, No.1, Asian American Studies, UCLA: Once Bitten.

1995

On a Bed of Rice, ed. Geraldine Kudaka, Doubleday: Stories to Read Aloud.

 

Strange Fruit, exhib. cat., Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies: Biology Lessons.

1994

Rungh Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 4, Vancouver: photo-text, Indian Aphorisms.

 

Tracing Culture, Whitney Museum, NY: Re-Placing Angels (extracts and extractions).

 

Casablanca Magazine, No. 11, London: Notes of a Native Informant.

1993

Asian Pacific American Journal, NY, Vol. 2, No. 2: Circle of Tongues.

1990

Ecstatic Antibodies, ed. Sunil Gupta, pub. Rivers Oram Press, London: Portrait of the Artist as a Dirty Young Man.

 

PUBLISHED NONFICTION and ARTWORK

2003

X-Tra, Vol. 5.3, The Dream of the Audience: the works of Theresa Hak Kyung cha.

2002

Los Angeles Times, Counterpunch: Does Riefenstahl Make a Fascist Statement? (10/7)

 

Kunst Nach Ground Zero, ed. H.P. Schwerfel, Dumont Press, Germany: p.187-189.

 

Angelic States, Connie Samaras exhib cat., SFAI: The Truth is Out There.

 

X-Tra, Vol. 14, No.3, editor.

2001

Alt/–, University of Southern California online journal: Re: Turn of the Living Dead Author.

 

Suite 16, Collage Ensemble, anthology music/sound CD: California Dreaming.

2000

VC FilmFest, LA Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival, catalogue: film reviews.

1999

Terminals, CD-ROM, accompanying book, eds. C.Samaras, V.Vesna; UC Regents: artworks, An American Notebook.

 

X-tra, Vol.2, No.2, LA: Responses to the Irwin Garden at the Getty.

 

Side Street, online magazine: Pile Up.

1998

Framework, Vol.9, No.1, LACPS: Dick and Jane, artist pages.

 

Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age, ed. Ella Shohat, New Museum/MIT Press: artwork, p.443.

 

The Headless Buddha; Dinh Le, exhib. cat., LACPS; Uncommon Traits, CEPA, Buffalo, NY: interview with the artist.

1997

Third Text, London, No. 38; Memories of Overdevelopment, exhib. cat., Plug In Editions, Winnipeg, Canada: essay, The Flight of/from the Primitive. p.65-79.

 

Positions, East Asia Culures Critique, Vol. 5, No.2, Duke Uni. Press: cover and artist portfolio, p. 391-401.

 

Amerasia Journal, Vol.23, No.2, Asian American Studies, UCLA: essay, Return to Bhowani Junction; and cover artwork, Taj Company. p.124-139.

 

Suitcase, Vol. 2, No. 1 & 2, UCLA: photograph.

 

Disorient Journalzine, No, 5, LA: artwork and photograph.

1996

Race and Ethnicity, book catalogue, Routledge: cover photograph.

 

Asian American Sexualities, ed. Russell Leong, Routledge, NY: photographs.

 

Naked Truths, exhib. cat., U. Hawai'i: essay, Notes on the Margins of the White Body.

1995

New Observations, No.107, NY; Quest, Reed College: essay, Sushi Deluxe: Star Trek, Oedipus and the Native Informant.

 

Grand Larceny, Vol. 2, UC Irvine, CA: photograph.

 

Art In General Manual, 93-94, Art in General, NY.

 

Godzilla Newsletter, NY: essay on education.

1994

Trophies of Empire, exhib. cat., Bluecoat/Arnolfini Galleries; Beyond Destination, exhib. cat., Ikon Gallery, Birmingham: essay, Going Native.

 

Photography Quarterly, #61, Vol. 15, No.4, Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY.

1993

Third Text, London: essay, The Spoken Word.

 

Wolgan Art Monthly, South Korea; Harbor Journal, Montreal: essay, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Other Things Seen, Other Things Heard.

1992

Autograph Newsletter, London: exhib. reviews, Chila Burman and Roshini Kempadoo.

 

Casablanca Magazine, No. 1, London: photo-feature collaboration with Yong Soon Min

 

A Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, NY: essay with Yong Soon Min, The Family Album.

 

Creative Camera, London: exhib review, Confrontations.

 

Autograph Newsletter, London: essay, Returning the Gaze.

 

Bazaar, No. 19, London: exhib. reviews, Shoba Broota and Shafique Uddin.

 

Oldham City Gallery: gallery essay, The Death of Cleopatra.

 

Crossing Black Waters, pub. Working Press, London: essays, The Colonial Legacy and The Screaming Distance.

1991

4 x 4, Harris Museum, Preston: catalogue essay, Shaheen Merali.

 

Bazaar, No. 16, London: essay, The Maharajah's New Clothes.

1990

Bazaar, No. 15, London: photo essay, Elvis Was Black!

 

Bazaar, No. 11, London: essay, Cuba Libre: The Havana Biennale.

1989

Bazaar, No. 9, London: illustration feature, 12 Pamellas, 12 Salmans.

 

Bazaar, No. 9, London: exhib reviews, Prafulla Mohanti and Kamakshi Pant.

 

Bazaar, No. 9, London: essay, Goan Dancing.

 

Bazaar, No. 7, London: exhib reviews, Chila Burman and Bhajan Hunjan.

 

Artrage, Spring, London: review, The One Spirit Gallery.

1988

Artrage, London: essay, Clausetrophobia: The Effects of Section 28 on Black Arts Practice.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2003

Lecturer: Studio Art Dept, UC Irvine.

2002

Lecturer: Studio Art Dept, UC Irvine: Visual Culture.

 

Lecturer: Photography Dept, CalArts.

 

Visiting Artist: U. Minnesota, Minneapolis.

2000

Lecturer: Studio Art Dept, UC Irvine.

1999

Lecturer: Studio Art Dept, UC Irvine.

 

Workshop leader: Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), LA.

 

Instructor: The HeArt Project, LA

 

Instructor: The Backyards Project, LA.

1998

Lecturer: Studio Art Dept, UC Irvine.

1997

Visiting artist: The Buckley School, Sherman Oaks, CA.

 

Substitute teaching: Otis School of Art, CA; UC Irvine;

93-94

Lecturer: College of New Rochelle, NY.

 

Instructor: Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY.

1992

Artist in Residence: Houndsfield School, London

1991

Artist in Residence: Scott Wilkie School, London; Weston All Saints School, Bath, England.

1990

Artist in Residence: Prospect School, Reading, Berkshire; Cranford Community School, Middlesex; Alumwell School, Walsall; The Residential Centre, Oxford; Zabalaza Arts Festival, London.

1989

Artist in Residence: Pelsall Community School, Walsall; Aldridge Teachers' Centre, Walsall.

1987

Visiting Artist/Tutor: SHAPE, London.

1986

Artist in Residence: Daneford School, London; Tara Arts Centre, London.

 

GUEST LECTURES

2002

Pomona College. CA.

2001

U.C. Irvine

1998

Burren College of Art, Co. Clare, Ireland.

 

Keynote Speaker: Columbia Uni., NY: Asian Pacific Awareness.

1997

UC Berkeley;

1996

U.C. Berkeley, English and Ethnic Studies departments.

1995

U.C. Irvine.

1994

Society for Photographic Education, Monterey, CA.

 

Hunter College, NY.

 

U.C. Irvine.

1992

Ithaca College, NY; Cardiff Institute of Higher Education, Wales; Leicester City Gallery; Newham Arts and Education Centre, London; Museum of the Moving Image, London; Kingsway Princeton College, London; Asian Youth Conf., London; Winsford School, Cheshire.

1991

Garhi Studios, New Delhi, India; Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, India; Menai Centre, Anglesey, Wales

1990

Central St. Martins School of Art, London; Selby College, Yorkshire; Mid-Cheshire School of Art; Walsall School of Art; Maidenhead Teachers' Centre; Camerawork Gallery, London; Hayward Gallery, London; Wolverhampton Art Gallery; Community Photography Conference, Newcastle; Photography in Education Conference, Birmingham; Isledon Training Center, London; Oakwood School, Manchester;

1988

Tate Gallery, Liverpool; Camden Arts Centre, London; North London Polytechnic.

1987

Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester; Bedford Hill Gallery, London; Cockpit Gallery, London.

 

PANELS/READINGS

2002

Owangiu Biennale, Korea, moderator: Predicament of Place, symposium.

 

The Village, LA, moderator: Artwallah festival.

 

Verle Annis Gallery, USC, panel: Globalization: Opportunities and Threats.

 

UC Irvine, CA, panel: The Dream of the Audience, The work of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.

2001

Notre Dame, Indiana, speaker: Paretition and Memory Conference.

 

Shades of Black, conference, Duke Uni. N. Carolina.

 

Home and the World, India Center for Arts and Culture, NY, artists’ panel.

1999

Ex-Centric Conference, Cochrane Theatre, London.

 

Santa Monica Museum: Terminals.

1998

South Asian Student Alliance Conference, UC Berkeley.

 

The Village, LA: Boys’ Life.

1997

CAA Conference, NY: Art in Flux.

 

Wight Gallery, UCLA: Impudent.

 

Reading: Cal State Northridge: Asian American Sexualities conference; A Different Light, LA.

1996

Racial Spirits Conference; UCLA: Once Bitten.

 

Reading: Pomona College, CA; Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA; California Coffee House, Culver City, CA; Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco.

1995

Reading: Casablanca Salon, London; Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA; Midnight Special Bookstore, Santa Monica, CA; California Coffee House, Culver City, CA.

1994

Whitney Museum, NY: Orientalizing Asia: Japanese American Identity in Art.

 

Bronx Museum, NY: Grounded Transmissions.

1993

Artists Talk on Art, Broad Reach/International Collaborations, NY.

 

Art in General, NY: Migrating Selves/Race-ing Histories.

1992

Center for Fine Arts Miami, Interrogating Identity.

1991

Ikon Gallery, Birmingham: Ecstatic Antibodies,.

1990

Wolverhampton Art Gallery: The Other Story.

 

South London Gallery: Let The Canvas Come To Life With Dark Faces.

1989

Third Havana Biennale: Third World in the First World, Havana, Cuba.

1988

Chisenhale Gallery: The Essential Black Art, London.

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2002

Program/Curatorial Committee: LA Freewaves Festival.

 

Funding Panel: California Civil Liberties Public Education Program.

2001

Pre-Selection Committee, Art In Motion Festival, USC/Santa Monica Museum of Art.

 

Funding Panel: California Civil Liberties Public Education Program.

 

Editorial Board: X-tra Magazine.

 

Pre-Selection Committee: Art in Motion Festival, USC/Santa Monica Museum of Art.

2000

Program Committee: LA Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival.

 

Funding Panel: California Civil Liberties Public Education Program.

1999

Co-chair: College Art Association Conf., LA: Dissident Art and International Art Markets.

 

Selection Panel: Cultural Affairs Department, LA: Literature.

1998

Consultant/editor: LA Culture Net, Getty Institute: Neighborhood Views website.

 

Moderator: The Queens Museum, NY: Out of India.

 

Moderator: Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies: Upstaging Hollywood.

 

Member, Board of Directors: Foundation for Art Resources (FAR).

1997

Moderator: Ko