b. 1986 Pennsylvania
Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
college
2018 MFA Studio Art Art Center College of Design / Pasadena, CA
2013 BFA Sculpture New Genres & Graphic Design / Otis College of Art and Design / Los Angeles, CA
other training
2025 How to Tell When We Will Die with Johanna Hedva Corporeal Writing / Virtual
2025 Job Study with Ariana Reines Invisible College / Virtual
2024 Mischief and Tricks with Johanna Hedva Corporeal Writing / Virtual
2023 Paradise Now with Ariana Reines Invisible College / Virtual
2021-23 Snake Oil with Ariana Reines Invisible College / Virtual
2021 Homeworks with Ren Ebel & Laida Lertxundi Polar Films Lab / Trosmø, Norway / Virtual
2021 Skin and Spine with Johanna Hedva Wendy's Subway / Virtual
2020 Gnostic Summer with Ariana Reines Invisible College / Virtual
2020 Inanna 12 Days of Sumer with Ariana Reines Invisible College / Virtual
2020 Joe Brainard Brain Trust with Ariana Reines Invisible College / Virtual
2020 Rilking: The Duino Elegies with Ariana Reines Invisible College / Virtual
2013-14 Acting Classes with Carol D'Andrea / Hollywood, CA
teaching
2022 Teaching Assistant Ariana Reines Gnostic Poetics / Scripps College / Claremont, CA
2018 Teaching Assistant Olga Koumoundouros Senior Projects / Art Center College of Design / Pasadena, CA
2017 Teaching Assistant Bruce Hainley The Buried Individual / Art Center College of Design / Pasadena, CA
non-teaching professional employment
2017-25 Art Director Dos Gardenias Swimwear / Malibu, CA
2021-25 Program Assistant Ariana Reines’ Invisible College / Virtual
2020-23 Website Design & Management Ariana Reines / Virtual
2022 Media Design Ariana Reines’ Divine Justice Performance Space New York / New York, NY
2022 Camera Assistant & Film Colorist Angela Featherstone’s L’ Etranger / Los Angeles, CA
2021 Exhibition & Sound Design Alison O'Daniel’s I Felt People Dancing Kunsthalle Osnabrück / Osnabrück, DE
2021 Curatorial Assistant Alison O'Daniel Hearing Aids McEvoy Foundation for the Arts / San Francisco, CA
2021 Post-Production Assistant Alison O'Daniel’s The Tuba Thieves Feature Film / Los Angeles, CA
2020 Graphic & Motion Designer Ariana Reines’ Invisible College / Virtual
2017 Video Producer Northside Media Group / Los Angeles, CA - Brooklyn, NY
2015-16 Art Director Zealot Networks / Venice, CA
2014 Performance Photographer Krysten Cunningham’s Under/Over Human Resources / Los Angeles, CA
2013-15 Sculpture Studio Assistant Krysten Cunningham / Los Angeles, CA
2013-14 Production Assistant Alison O'Daniel’s The Tuba Thieves Feature Film / Los Angeles, CA
2013 Video Editor Jonas N.T. Becker’s End(s) of the World Shulamit Gallery / Venice, CA
2013 Video Production Assistant UCLA Physics Lab / Westwood, CA
significant projects
2021-25 QuorumQuorum publishing & exhibition platform with Karolina Lavergne / Los Angeles, CA - Virtual
2019-20 DIS-PLAY is a virtual presence and live piece of art with Delia Juergens, Tarik Kentouche / LA, CA - Virtual - DE
2018 BODYSPILL MFA Thesis Exhibition Art Center College of Design / Pasadena, CA
professional bibliography
2024 The Fountain with William Kim / Los Angeles, CA - Bushwick, NY
2022 Body Threads with Karolina Lavergne QuorumQuorum / Los Angeles, CA
2018 Thought Provoker Interview Voyage LA Magazine / Los Angeles, CA
2018 The Circumnavigation of a Maelstrom Thesis MFA Thesis Art Center College of Design / Pasadena, CA
2009 "Malibu Pioneer's Artwork Converge Generations are Bonded.." Malibu Surfside News / Malibu, CA
press bibliography
2025 "Their studios burned. Their art was destroyed..." Lois Beckett, The Guardian / Virtual
2021 Nausicaä-Painting Over the Atlantic Contemporary Art Library / Virtual
2019 Meet Delia Jürgens, Jessica Dillon, Tarik Kentouche of DIS-PLAY Voyage LA Magazine / Virtual
2019 "Survival of the Artist: Making space for Other Places" Virginia Broersma, The Long Beach Post / Virtual
2019 "A Showcase of Hard-to-Categorize Art Projects in San Pedro" Matt Stromberg, Hyperallergic / Virtual
2012 "Otis students meet Palau leadership" Ti Belau / Koror, Palau
catalogs, zines, journals
2024 Cradle zine curated by Ching Ching Cheng Red Hen Press / Pasadena, CA
2024 One of the Dozens group show anthology Praxinoscope / Los Angeles, CA
2023 this table’s too long to hold hands zine curated by Sean T. Randolph Gattopardo / Los Angeles, CA
2023 Hours of the Day group show anthology Praxinoscope / Los Angeles, CA
2022 Flores de Rua zine curated by Andrea Huber Gutierrez Open Hearts Lisboa / Lisbon, PT
2022 CATS 200 images and 2 videos celebrating our relationship with divinity Dito Publishing / Rome, IT
2022 Dreamhouse with Karolina Lavergne curated by Cindy Rehm HEXENTEXTE / Los Angeles, CA
2021 ti-TCR 19 on ritual with Karolina Lavergne The Capilano Review / Vancouver, CA - Virtual
2021 Tower Songs zine curated by Juliana Lutz Invisible College / Virtual
2021 DEADTIME zine curated by Jade Rivera Invisible College / Virtual
2021 DIS-PLAY: DIS-PLAY catalog edited by Delia Jürgens / Berlin, DE
2020 Rilking zine curated by Marie Ségolène Invisible College / Virtual
2017 From the Particular to the General: The Public "I" with Chris Kraus and Annette Weisser / Pasadena, CA
2016 Profusely Sweating zine curated by Richard Andres / Los Angeles, CA
oral presentations
2025 Items Lost with Victoria Franklin-Dillon for One Hundred Percent / Los Angeles, CA
2024 Poetry Reading for A Garden Soirée for More Names by Stacie Vos / Glendale, CA
2024 Poetry Reading for INVOCATION hosted by Maddie Silva / Pasadena, CA
2022 Poetry & Performance with Karolina Lavergne One of the Dozens Praxinoscope Beyond Baroque / LA, CA
2022 Live Voiceover with Karolina Lavergne Hours of the Day Praxinoscope Poetic Research Bureau / Los Angeles, CA
2022 Poetry Reading When I consider everything that grows QuorumQuorum / San Pedro, CA
2022 Poetry Reading Dreamhouse LAND's Nomadic Divison for WOMANHOUSE / Los Angeles, CA
2020 Poetry Reading "I didn't know about the inside of me" Meridian Exhibitions / Los Angeles, CA - virtual
2016 Artist Talk Otis College of Art and Design / Los Angeles, CA
2012 Panelist for Palau Freedom Memorial Chised Oceania TV / Koror, Palau
solo exhibition
2018 BODYSPILL MFA Thesis Exhibition Art Center College of Design / Pasadena, CA
curated group exhibitions
2025 One Hundred Percent with Victoria Franklin-Dillon curated by Aram Moshayedi / Los Angeles, CA
2023 A Room of One’s Own? curated by Karolina Lavergne QuorumQuorum / San Pedro, CA
2023 Brief and Spectacular curated by Elizabeth Folk Scranch / Twentynine Palms, CA
2022 When I consider everything that grows QuorumQuorum / San Pedro, CA
2022 Creaturely Scranch / Twentynine Palms, CA
2021 The All Else QuorumQuorum Other Places Art Fair / San Pedro, CA
2021 Nausicaä-Painting Over the Atlantic curated by Haris Giannouras Galerie Clages / Cologne, DE
2020 Touchless Touching curated by Kathie Halfin The Hive Art Community / NY, NY - Virtual
2020 The Day That Dawns For You, Will Also Dawn For Me Scranch / Twentynine Palms, CA
2020 Diaries DIS-PLAY / Los Angeles, CA - Virtual
2020 “I didn’t know about the inside of me” Meridian Exhibitions / Los Angeles, CA - Virtual
2020 "Everything I want to say to the world right now" Meridian Exhibitions / LA, CA
2020 The Coming Community DIS-PLAY Braunschweig University of Art / Braunschweig, DE
2019 La Piedra y El Pescador with Marcus Zúñiga Descale Space / Malibu, CA
2019 Falling off the Edges DIS-PLAY / Gifhorner Schweiz, DE
2019 SCREEN DIS-PLAY Billy Jacob Projects / Hanover, DE
2019 "And I was feeling alive" Meridian Exhibitions / Los Angeles, CA
2019 TOUCH DIS-PLAY Other Places Art Fair / San Pedro, CA
2018 Can we ever be free? DIS-PLAY Herbstausstellung Kunstverein Hannover / Hannover, DE
2018 Some Ruins curated Chris Hanke Scranch / Twentynine Palms, CA
2017 Amplified Presence curated Chris Hanke Scranch / Twentynine Palms, CA
2017 One Woman Shows Animating the Archive: The Woman's Building organized by Cindy Rehm Pieter / LA, CA
2017 Kenopsia Art Center MFA Far Bazaar at Cerritos College / Norwalk, CA
2016 Refresh curated by Adam Stamp Galerie La Croix / Pasadena, CA
2015 The Toy Train Show Trunk Gallery / Mar Vista, CA
2015 Everything Will Happen curated by Alex Sanchez One of Us Gallery / Los Angeles, CA
2015 Alien-Tears curated by Svetlana Durel Gallery El Camino / Westchester, CA
2015 Plastic Growl Howl curated by Richard Andres Trunk Gallery / Mar Vista, CA
2014 The Hilltop Show curated by Jessica Dillon & Kelly Wall / Santa Monica, CA
2014 House Cooling curated by Jules Marasa / Westchester, CA
2013 “We are making people's days as much as we are ruining them!” Otis BFA Exhibition / Los Angeles, CA
2013 Head Trauma for Meg Cranston Otis College of Art and Design / Los Angeles, CA
2012 Head Dress Rehearsal Bolsky Gallery Otis College of Art and Design / Los Angeles, CA
2012 Silent Night Show curated by Jessica Dillon and Kelly Wall / Santa Monica, CA
2012 Absolute(ly) curated by Amy Adler Otis Fine Arts Junior Juried Exhibition / Los Angeles, CA
performance, site-specific, screenings
2025 Lost Items with Victoria Franklin-Dillon curated by Aram Moshayedi & organized by Kristina Kite One Hundred Percent / Los Angeles, CA
2024 (m)otherbody video screening with Karolina Lavergne North Figueroa Bookshop Praxinoscope / LA, CA
2023 Sophie Dupont’s performing breath group performance with Emji Saint Spero Praxinoscope / Los Angeles, CA
2023 a priori pivot / wet boots, dry river… performance for Brief and Spectacular Scranch / Twentynine Palms, CA
2022 (m)otherbody video + poetry + performance with Karolina Lavergne One of the Dozens Praxinoscope Beyond Baroque / LA, CA
2022 Live Life, Watermelons, A.F. video + live voice over with Karolina Lavergne Hours of the Day Praxinoscope Poetic Research Bureau / LA, CA
2022 When I consider everything that grows poetry + performance QuorumQuorum / San Pedro, CA
2022 Searching the dead brush… performance with Karolina Lavergne Creaturely Scranch /Twentynine Palms, CA
2020 Touchless Touching performance The Hive Art Community / NY, NY - Virtual
2020 Corners, Walls: The Fool, The Surface Pool performance The Day That Dawns.. Scranch / 29 Palms, CA - Virtual
2020 A Slow Rise, Return to Self performance Diaries DIS-PLAY / Los Angeles, CA - Virtual
2020 I dream of the forest poetry reading “I didn’t know about the inside…” Meridian Exhibitions / LA, CA - Virtual
2020 FEELING A LIVE performance "Everything I want to say to the world right now" Meridian Exhibitions / LA, CA
2020 A LIVE ROCK The Coming Community DISPLAY Braunschweig University of Art / Braunschweig, DE
2019 La Piedra y El Pescador performance with Marcus Zúñiga’s installation Descale Space / Malibu, CA
2019 Stretch Stream: SCREEN performance with Sophia Loekenhoff & Eileen Lofink DIS-PLAY Hauptbahnhof Hanover / Hanover, DE
2019 ALIVE FEELING performance "And I was feeling alive" Meridian Exhibitions / Los Angeles, CA
2019 ROCKWATERBODY performance Bigger Than Us Scranch / Twentynine Palms, CA
2019 TOUCH installation activation DIS-PLAY Other Places Art Fair / San Pedro, CA
2018 STILL, MOVE performance Can we ever be free? DIS-PLAY Kunstverein Hanover / Hanover, DE
2018 Caught on a corner... performance Art Center College of Design / Pasadena, CA
2018 BODYSPILL performance Art Center College of Design / Pasadena, CA
2018 Wind Walk performance Some Ruins Scranch /Twentynine Palms, CA
2018 Gilled River Blues video screening with Kelly Wall Films from the Last Generation…Human Resources / LA, CA
2017 The Changing Room performance with Karolina Lavergne Art Center College of Design / Pasadena, CA
2017 Mudroom performance Art Center College of Design / Pasadena, CA
2017 Because I am a Woman performance Animating the Archive: The Woman's Building / LA, CA
2017 The Edge or the End Part II performance Amplified Presence Scranch / Twentynine Palms, CA
2017 The Edge or the End Part I performance Art Center's Kenopsia Far Bazaar Cerritos College / Norwalk, CA
2014 Natalie Jones’ Blueprint for Space performance Paradise Garage / Venice, CA
2014 Soup Ceremony ritual event with Kelly Wall / Santa Monica, CA
2012 Head Dress Rehearsal performance + installation Bolsky Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design / LA, CA
1999 Victoria Franklin-Dillon’s HOUSE performance Art of the State Pennsylvania State Museum / Harrisburg, PA
curatorial projects
2024 "They are alive like I am, but just differently" [soft circle] sound scape produced & mixed by William Kim with poetry by Lou Dillon and William Kim integrating fragments of process correspondence and field recordings to accompany flag by Alex Patrick Dyck, Delia Jürgens, William Kim, Lou Dillon, and Karolina Lavergne a QuorumQuorum collaboration for Other Places / “他の場所” / Tokyo, Japan
2024 Edgewalkers a site specific constellation gathered across cities and continents by Alex Patrick Dyck, Beth Abaravich, Eva Noeske, Karolina Lavergne, Jessica Dillon, and Ching Ching Cheng presented by QuorumQuorum for Other Places Art Fair / San Pedro, CA
2022 Onseeming Upon a site-specific sculptural display by Taylor Zepeda built to support a body of work by Reuben Merringer presented by QuorumQuorum for Other Places Art Fair / San Pedro, CA
2022 When I consider everything that grows a group exhibition with music, performance & poetry presented by QuorumQuorum / San Pedro, CA
2022 To Spring From You Divine a collaborative photography & poetry project from Aimée Keeble and Karolina Lavergne published by QuorumQuorum / Los Angeles, CA
2021 The All Else a pop-up exhibition featuring works Alexa Almany, with supportive tablet videos by Jessica Dillon & Karolina Lavergne presented by QuorumQuorum at Other Places Art Fair / San Pedro, CA
2020 The Day That Dawns For You, Will Also Dawn For Me a series of remote, live, virtual performances in the desert at the Scranch Landing Pad / Twentynine Palms, CA - Virtual
2019 BLUE LACE by Karolina Lavergne DIS-PLAY.XYZ / AZ - DE
2019 SCREEN internationally syncopated group exhibition combining objects with site-specific performances and installations presented by DIS-PLAY.XYZ with Billy Jacob Projects on the occasion of the 22 Zinnober / Hanover, DE
2019 TOUCH internationally syncopated group exhibition showcasing artist’s virtual archives through social media and site-specific performance and installation activations presented by DIS-PLAY.XYZ for Other Places Art Fair / San Pedro, CA
2014 The Hilltop Show a group exhibition curated by Jessica Dillon and Kelly Wall / Santa Monica, CA
2014 Soup Ceremony ritual event hosted by Jessica Dillon and Kelly Wall / Santa Monica, CA
2013 “We are making people's days as much as we are ruining them!” with Nick Kersulis Otis BFA Exhibition / LA, CA
2013 Head Trauma for Meg Cranston Otis College of Art and Design / Los Angeles, CA
2012 Head Dress Rehearsal a collaborative group installation & stage for durational performance with costume & instruments by senior studiomates with mentors Dani Tull and Chris Wilder Bolsky Gallery Otis College of Art and Design / Los Angeles, CA
2012 Silent Night Show a group exhibition curated by Jessica Dillon and Kelly Wall / Santa Monica, CA
public art
2012 Palau Freedom Memorial Public Art Project Otis College of Art and Design / Los Angeles, CA - Koror, Palau
1995-96 Victoria Franklin-Dillon’s The Living Earth environmental sculpture commission / Scranton, PA