Barbara Seiler

EDUCATION

2005 UCLA, School of Art, MFA, Interdisciplinary Studio, US
2000 Brown University, Providence, RI. BA, Visual Art and Modern Culture and Media, US
1999  Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design, visiting artist, US

SOLO EXHIBITIONS / PERFORMANCE

2020-2021
Witch’s Kitchen Archive, Active Cultures, Los Angeles, CA (web-based)

2019
An Analphabet, Vielmetter Los Angeles, CA. September

2018
Phosphorescents, Pheasants and Unpleasants, performance at Art Catalogues LACMA, Los Angeles, CA

2017
a.k.a. Public Opinion, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles
Mutual Admiration Society, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL
Shana Lutker: SNAFU, Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zurich, CH

2016
Shana Lutker: Scenes from Chapter Four, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA.
Obsession Dada: Shana Lutker, «The Nose, the Cane, the Broken Left Arm II», Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, CH

2015
Le “NEW” Monocle, Chapters 1 – 3, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Paul, the Peacock, the Raven, and the Dove, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm
Paul, Paul, Paul, and Paul, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
The Raven, The Dove, Paul, and the Peacocks, Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zurich, CH
Project Gallery: Shana Lutker: Again Against, A Foot, A Back, A Wall, Perez Art Museum Miami, FL

2014
Monuments, Frieze Frame project with Barbara Seiler Galerie, Frieze New York

2013
The Blowing Nose, Barbara Seiler, Zurich, CH.
The Bearded Heart, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA.

2012
New Research Concerning Fistfights of the Surrealists, The Center For Ongoing Research & Projects, Columbus, OH.

2011
A. G. L. & X., Barbara Seiler, Zurich, CH.

2010
H. Y. S. T. et al., Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, CA.
Hear It Here, SOMA, Mexico City, Mexico.
Reading Seating, Works Sited, Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, CA.

2009
Forever Will a Blockhead Be, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden. Catalogue.

2008
Books, 2005-2008, The Suburban, Oak Park, IL.
The Commiffioners, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles, CA.
Combined Faulty Acts, Artists’ Space, New York, NY. Catalogue.

2007
CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA.
The Future of an Illusion, Room Gallery, University of California, Irvine.

2006
Excerpts, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden. Catalogue.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)

Radical Empathy Public Poster Commission, Compound Long Beach, CA
20 Years, Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Vielmetter Los Angeles, CA.
Drive-By-Art Los Angeles, City-wide exhibition, Los Angeles, CA (organized by Warren Neidich)
Inventory-19, Online exhibition, organized by Darren Bader

2019
No-”Q”-No, Real Pain Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
CURRENT:LA FOOD, City of Los Angeles Public Art Triennial, Los Angeles. October
Enchanted Interior, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, England. October
Smoke and Mirrors, AF Projects, West Hollywood, CA
Dreamhouse vs. Punk House (+Cat House), Serious Tropics, Inglewood, CA

2018
Virginia Woolf: an exhibition inspired by her writings, Tate St. Ives, England, traveled to Pallant House
Gallery, Chichester, and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Catalogue
Twentyfourseven: 40 Years, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
EX-CORPSE, AWHRHWAR at OPAF, Battery Leary-Merriam Angels Gates Park, San Pedro, CA
26 on 3rd, LBMAx, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
No. 1, The Magic Hour, Twentynine Palms, CA
My Kid Could Do That, Project Art Benefit exhibition at The Underground Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Valley Vision, The Brand Library Gallery, Glendale, CA

2017
Listening Party 25, SASSAS, Los Angeles, LA
99 Cents or Less, MOCADetroit, Detroit, US

2016
PDF-OBJECTS, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, US

2015
F.B.I., Arturo Bandini, Los Angeles, US. The Museum of the Unwanted, curated by Clare Goodwin, Kunstmuseum Olten, CH
Passing Leap, Hauser & Wirth, New York, US

2014
Pier 54 Exhibition, curated by Cecilia Alemani and the Highline, 120 Eleventh .Avenue, New York, NY.
The Outlanders, The Pit, Glendale, CA.
Too Many Things Are Too Many Things, Sputnik, GA/GA, Basel, CH
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

2013
The Nose, The Cane, The Broken Left Arm, Performa 13, New York, NY.
The Unicorn, curated by Reto Thüring,
Transformer Station, 
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. Catalogue.
The Stand In (or a glass of milk), curated by Alexandra Gaty and Lauren Mackler, Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA.
This is the House that Jack Built, Barbara Seiler and HelmRinderknecht, old townhouse, Zurich, CH.
Subject, Answer, Countersubject, curated by Summer Guthery,
 Disjecta
Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR.
The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project, LAND Los Angeles Nomadic Division, CA.
Emmy Moore’s Journal, curated by Quinn Latimer, SALTS, Basel, CH.
Double Life, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY. Catalogue.

2012
Reflections on Form, Barbara Seiler, Zurich, CH.
Things, Words and Consequences, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, RU.
A Round World Distorts a Flat Map, 5323 Abbott Place, Los Angeles, CA.
Perros Negros presents Perros Negros, New Jerseyy, Basel, CH.
A Brand New Baby Carriage Standing There on the Porch, Barbara Seiler, Zurich, CH.
Barter Show, LAND, West Hollywood, CA.
Eagle Rock Rock and Eagle Shop, Los Angeles, CA.
economy of means: toward humility in contemporary sculpture, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ.
Ball of Artists, Greystone Mansion, part of Pacific Standard Time Festival, Beverly Hills, CA.

2011
The Trap Door, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA.
Two Schools of Cool, curated by Sarah Bancroft, FOCA, Los Angeles, CA.
Greater LA, curated by Benjamin Godsill, Eleanor Cayre and Joel Mesler, New York, NY.
Suelto, curated by Pilar Tompkins Rivas and Adrian Rivas, La Central, Bogota, CO.

2010
Lovingly, Rose Peebles, Brand Gallery, Glendale, CA.
Session_12_Words, Am Nuden Da at Four Boxes Gallery, Skive, Denmark.
Ruins (Los Angeles), LA> A Torrent of Words, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI.
Territories, Left of Center, Luckman Fine Art Gallery, Cal State University, Los Angeles, CA.
Works Sited, Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, CA.
Point to one end, which is always present, Small A projects, New York, NY.

2009
Performa 09, X Initiative, New York, NY.
Session_7_Words, Am Nuden Da, London, England.
An Object Tossed from One Country to Another, Block Party, Highland Park, CA.
Veronica, Pitzer Art Gallery, Claremont, CA. Catalogue.
In Love with the Night, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA.
On the Pleasure of Hating, Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York, NY. Bitch is the New Black, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA.
Broken English, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland.
This is Killing Me, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA.
The May Show, Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA.
Put On, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

2008
California Biennial 2008, Orange County Museum of Art, CA. Offsite performances at Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum and the LAB, Costa Mesa.
Shana Lutker, Anna Sew Hoy, Brenna Youngblood, University Art Museum, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA.
Delusionarium 4, David Salow Gallery and Bonelli Contemporary, Los Angeles.
This Shadow is a Bit of Ideology, Gallery 400, UIC, Chicago, IL. The 30TH Anniversary: PART III, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden. Catalogue.
The Whole World is Watching, Glendale College Gallery, Glendale, CA. Curated by Irene Tsatsos.
November Again, Harris Lieberman, New York, NY.
The Silence of Infinite Space, Glendale College Gallery, Glendale, CA. Curated by Aram Moshayedi.
3 Rooms: Shana Lutker, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, David Kennedy Cutler, D’Amelio Terras, NY.

2007
Art Perform, Art Basel Miami Beach. Curated by Jens Hoffman.
You Are Here, Glassell School of Art Gallery, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX.
Passengers, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Jens Hoffman. Catalogue.
Abstraction, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
For Sale, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal. Curated by Jens Hoffman. Catalogue.
The Pyramid Show, Monte Vista, Los Angeles, CA.
Reality Disorder, Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles, CA. 88:88, The Project, New York, NY.
Big Secret Cache, Angstrom, Los Angeles, CA.
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2006 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, CA. Catalogue.
November, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY. Curated by Jeffrey Uslip.
People for a Better Tomorrow, Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside, CA. Curated by Meg Cranston.
Re-make/Re-Model, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY.
Online Exhibition at www.remakeremodel.net
And Therefore I Am, Tang Museum, Skidmore, Saratoga, NY.

2005
Happenstance, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York. Curated by Lauri Firstenberg.
Champion Fine Art 2003-2005, Art 2102, Los Angeles.
Public Sculpture for Benevento Citta Spettacolo, Italy, Theater Festival. September 2005. Catalogue.
Erzähl mal was, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagan, Germany. Supersonic 2, LA Design Center, Los Angeles, CA.
The Paths of Moons and Planets, Crazy Space, Santa Monica, CA. Curated by Dawn Kasper.

2004
Faith, Champion Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Matt Johnson. Catalogue.
Delusionarium I, Legacy Art Gallery, Santa Ana, CA. Catalogue. Art and Propaganda, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ.

2003
Record, Art 2102, Los Angeles, CA. Screening curated by Sharon Hayes.
The Stage, Stray Show 2003, Chicago, IL. Special installation project with Matthew Rich.
Instant Installations, Sundown Salon, Los Angeles, CA.

AWARDS , GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES

2020 Department of Cultural Affairs Los Angeles, Cultural Trailblazer
2020 Artist in Residence, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT
2016  Artist Lab Residency, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
2014  Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC
2014  Artist in Residence, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
2012  Artist in Residence, Cité des Art Internationales, Paris, FR
2012  Artist in Residence, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida, FL
2011  Artist in Residence, Sitterwerk, St. Gallen, CH
2010  Artist in Residence, SOMA, Mexico City, MX
2008 California Community Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship, CA
2006 Durfee Artist Completion Grant, CA
2004-2005 Elaine Krown Klein Award, CA
2004-2005 Art Council Award, CA
2004 Hoyt Fellowship, CA
2003 Orselli Fellowship, CA
2003 Clifton Webb Art Award, CA