MICHELE O'MARAH
EDUCATION
BFA, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
A girl's got to do what a girl's got to do, Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Faustus’s Children, Sister Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Peacehead, Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Valley Girl, Goldman Tevis, Los Angeles, CA
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2008
Repeat After Me: I AM A Revolutionary, with Henry Taylor, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
2007
Repeat After Me: I AM A Revolutionary, with Henry Taylor, Rental Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Version, with Kota Ezawe, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
The Morning After, Artisterium: 2nd Tbilisi International Contemporary Art Exhibition, curated by Benjamin Godsill, Tbilisi, Georgia
Video Journeys, curated by Katie Brennan, Sister @ Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA
Offset, curated by Matthew Spiegelman, Mount Tremper Fine Art, Hudson Valley, CA
Group Show, Sister, Los Angeles, CA
1999, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA
2008
The Station, curated by Shamim Momin, Art Basel Miami Beach, FL
Amateurs, curated by Ralph Rugoff, CCAC Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA
A Dead Serious Group Show, Sister, Los Angeles, CA
25 Artists x 2 Screenings = 1 week, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
You, Whose Beauty was Famous in Rome, curated by Andrew Berardini and Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Mandarin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Under the Influence, curated by Anat Egbi, CCS Galleries, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2007
Sculptor's Drawings, Ideas, Studies, Sketches, Proposals and More, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
She Was Born to Be My Unicorn, curated by Amy Kellner, Smith-Stewart, New York, NY
Performance/Film/Video, Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Backroom, curated by Magali Arriola, Kate Fowle, and Renaud Proch, The Kadist Foundation, Paris and Le Celda Contemporanea, Mexico City
2006
From Baja to Bar Harbor: Transnational Contemporary Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Portland, ME
2005
The Backroom, curated by Magali Arriola, Kate Fowle, and Renaud Proch, Los Angeles, CA and New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Summer Show, Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Valley Girl, White Columns, New York, NY
Peachead, Art in General, New York, NY
2003/2004
Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast in Contemporary Art ("B2V"), traveling to the Seattle Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Vancouver Art Gallery, and CCAC Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA
2003
The World's A Mess It's In My Kiss, Debs & Co., New York, NY
2002
Play it as it Lays, London Institute of Contemporary Art, London
LA Freewaves: TV or not TV, Los Angeles, CA
2001
Performances, Goldman Tevis, Los Angeles, CA
Video Projects, Nikolai Wallnner, Copenhagen
1998
HMO SUV IPO, Side Street Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Tri-Annuale (Part 1): Pinwheel, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
SCREENINGS
2007
White Diamonds/Agent Orange and Faustus's Children, Spotlight Video Series, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Valley Girl, Fidelity and Betrayal: Variations on the Remake, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francsico, CA
2006
Valley Girl, New York Underground Film Festival, Festival Choice Award, New York, NY
Valley Girl, Chicago Underground Flim Festival, Chicago, IL
Valley Girl, Almo Drafthouse, Austin, TX
2003
Valley Girl, Mixture Contemporary, Houston, TX
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2009
Holly Myers, "Exhibition Review," Los Angeles Times, Friday, June 18, p. D21.
2008
Tom Breidenbach, "Review," Artforum, January.
2007
Amra Brooks, "Michele O'Marah, Tim Jackson, David Jones," Artforum, January.
Catherine Taft, "Faustus's Children," Art Review, January.
Chris Balashak, "Michele O'Marah," Freize, January.
2006
Christopher Knight, "Faustus's Children," Los Angeles Times, November 8.
2005
"The Future Greats," Art Review, December.
Kristina Kite, "The Backroom," Critics Picks, artforum.com, October.
2004
Michael Ned Holte, "Michele O'Marah," Critics Picks, artforum.com, December.
Meredith Goldsmith, "Version," Art Papers, Jan-Feb.
Alison Bing, "Version," SFGate.com, October.
Nirmala Nataraj, "Version: Aping Popular Culture," sfstation.com, October.
2003
Glen Helsand, "Baja to Vancouver," Artforum, December.
2002
Bruce Hainley, "Bruce Hainley: Best of 2002," Artforum, December.
Richard Blanford, "Play it as it Lays," Frieze, September.
Clayton Campbell, "Michele O'Marah," Flash Art, October.
Bruce Hainley, "Michele O'Marah," Artforum, October.
Andrew Perchuk, "Michele O'Marah," Critics Picks, artforum.com, August.
1999
Frederick Strange, "For Those About to Rock," Bibel Magazine.
1997
Amy Kellner, "For Those About to Rock," Index Magazine.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
LECTURES AND PANELS
2005
Artist Lecture Series, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA
Visiting Artist, Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, CA
2004
"Version," Artist Lecture, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
"Baja to Vancouver," Artist Lecture, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Artist Lecture, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA