JOHN PEARSON

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John Pearson | BIO

Solo Exhibitions:
2010 )black(, WPA, Los Angeles, California
2009 Observatory, Open Studio Gallery, Smolny College, St. Petersburg, Russia
2007 Dominated by the Sun, Submissive to Every Object, Youth & Anti-Youth @ Jeff Bailey Gallery; New York, NY
2001 Room to Live / Room to Disappear, Chuck, Los Angeles
1999 Green Eyes, Sandroni Rey, Venice, CA
1998 Übermain; Los Angeles

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2010 Summer Group Show / 1 Year Anniversary, WPA; Los Angeles, California
2010 Swap Thing, WPA; Los Angeles, California
2010 Carpenter's Carpenter (Plan Your Escape), WPA; Los Angeles, California
(video program component of Adam Janes' installation)
2010 Sun Zoom Spark, WPA, Los Angeles, California (screening program)
2009 Spun 2 - Art Light Noise, Monkey Town, Brooklyn, New York (screening)
2009 The Fuzzy Set, LAXART, Los Angeles
2009 An Exhibition of Selected Skills of the Unemployed, WPA, Los Angeles
2008 Projections On Lake; Pasadena, CA (ongoing public screening program)
2008 Summertime Rolls, David Patton Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2008 Summer Guests, Acuna - Hansen Gallery; Los Angeles
2007 Akklimitizatsia / Notes from the Overpass: New Art from Los Angeles and Saint Petersburg; Gallery G18, Helsinki, Finland and Comics Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2007 The Line of Time, And The Plane of Now, Harris Lieberman and Wallspace, NYC
2007 Another February Skies, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
2005 The Picture I Carry In My Head, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
2005 It’s Lonely Here Without You, Raid Projects, Los Angeles
2004 Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2004 Sweet 16, Gallery Augusta, Chicago, Illinois
2004 31+ Flavors, Antai, Los Angeles
2004 Miscellany (screening), Mario’s Furniture, Los Angeles
2004 Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles
2004 Group Project/Through The Slot, London Street Projects, Los Angeles
2003 Place, Harris Art Gallery, University of La Verne, La Verne, CA
2002 How Did I Get Here?, Three Day Weekend, Miami, FL
2002 Stuff For Use At Hand, The Happy Lion, Los Angeles
2001 Stone Soup, Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles
2001 Edges of the Earth, Void, NYC
2001 New Work, Sandroni Rey, Venice, CA
2001 Whitesnake, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles
2000 agains, Studio 870, Los Angeles
1999 High Mornhill, ..., Studio 870, Los Angeles
1998 Please Stay Very Still And Press Your Knees Together., Youth & Anti-Youth, Brooklyn, NY
1998 Mid Sized Median, Übermain, Los Angeles
1998 Little Mystery, Miller Fine Art, Los Angeles
1997 It’s the Cathode, Ray., Big Sail Gallery, Los Angeles
1996 Things That Quicken the Heart, (traveling exhibition) Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark; UCR/California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA; Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Hollywood, CA

Curated by the Artist
2007 Public Park, group exhibition; Antai Gallery; Los Angeles, California
2006 Public Storage / Temple Hospital, video program of work by fifteen California artists from 1977 to 2006; Mandrake; Los Angeles, California

Publications
2004 Miscellany, (DVD), Curated by Andrew Hahn, Produced by Guide
2003 Guide, (DVD), v. 1, no. 1, Los Angeles, California
1999 Magazine, v. 1 no. 1, Los Angeles, California
1996 Exhibition Space, CalArts publication of site-specific student work

Reviews:
Wagner, James. www.jameswagner.com. June 22, 2007.
Gaines, Malik. Place, exhibition catalog. University of La Verne. September, 2003.
Myers, Holly. Los Angeles Times. March 30, 2001.
Calder, Diane. Artscene. November, 1999. pp. 18-19.
Isé, Claudine. Los Angeles Times. October 16, 1998.

Education:
1995 California Institute of the Arts, M.F.A.
1990 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, B.F.A.



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