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CYNTHIA
HOOPER
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECTS
2005 Dirty
Water Initiative: (drawings and paintings for SIMPARCH), inSite_05, San
Diego CA / Tijuana Mexico
2002 The Landfill Interpretive Transect:
(in collaboration with the Center for Land Use Interpretation), Los Angeles,
CA
2001 The Balloon Tract Project / An Exploration
of Misintentional Landscape Use: Humboldt State University’s First
Street Gallery, Eureka, CA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 La Morita Enamorada: Paintings and a Video Installation: Galeria La Casa de la Nueve, Tijuana, Mexico
2005 Provisional
Communities: Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 The Cummings Road Landfill Project:
(video installation) Cummings Road Landfill, Eureka, CA
2003 Landfill Projects: College of the
Redwoods, Eureka, CA
2001 The Apotheosis of the Moribund:
Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Landscapes
For Frankenstein (video screening): Sarah Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
Beobachtungen:
(video
screening)
Director's Lounge, Berlin, Germany
The Show Starts on the Sidewalk: Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social
Practice: University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
Landscape,
Nature & Space:
Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
T-10
Video Festival: 21 Grand Gallery, Oakland, CA
2007 Aqua Art Miami: (with the Bucheon
Gallery), Miami, FL
Feed
the Artists 2 (video screening):
Art For Humans Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Red
Dot Fair: (with
the Bucheon Gallery), New York, NY
Artists Go Lightly: Temporary
Autonomous Museum(s), San Francisco, CA
Strange
Relations: Armory Digital Forum, Armory
Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA (curator: Elise Barclay)
2006 Plainer:
A Contemporary Take on Landscape: the Torrance Art Museum, Torrance,
CA (curator: Kristina Newhouse)
Year_'06
Art Projects London: (with the Bucheon Gallery), London, England
Deluge:
A Group Watercolor Show: Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Nova
Art Fair: (with the Bucheon Gallery), Chicago, IL
EDUCATION
1989 Master of Fine Arts: Painting, San
Francisco Art Institute
1985 Bachelor of Arts: Studio Art, University
of California at Berkeley
GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2008 Djerassi
Resident Artists Program: Woodside, CA
2004
Gunk Foundation Grant: (For
the Cummings Road Landfill Project video installation)
2004 Artist’s Residency:
Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center, University of California Riverside
2000-2001 Artist’s Residency: The Center for Land Use Interpretation,
Wendover, Utah
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Frank,
Peter : “Museum Pick: Plainer: a Contemporary Take on Landscape”
(review) The LA Weekly, March
9-16, 2006
Ken Ehrlich & Brandon LaBelle: (cover image) Surface
Tension Supplement No. 1, (Errant Bodies Press: 2006)
Pagel, David: “Our Place in the World” (review) The
Los Angeles Times, March 25, 2004, pp. E4-5
Frank, Peter: “Art Pick of the Week: The Political Landscape,
City Dialogues” (review) The LA Weekly, April 9-15, 2004
Balzar, John: “Landscape, honestly”, (review) The
Los Angeles Times, April 27, 2004, p. F5
Korten, Noel: “The Political Landscape”, (catalog
with essay), The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, March-April 2004
Alderson, Julia Louise: “Nancy Holt and the Sculptural Lens”
(Ph.D. Thesis), Rutgers University, 2004
Butler, Wendy: “Cummings Road Landfill as Art?”, (review),
The Eureka Reporter, September 23, 2004, Arts Section
Westbrook, Lindsay: “Critic’s Choice: Disruptive Topographies”,
(review), The San Francisco Bay Guardian, January 30, 2002,
p. 72
Marden, Mark: “Out and About”, (review), The Bay
Area Reporter, January 24, 2002, p. 34
Almy, Katharine: “Art and the Environment”, (review), Annual
Magazine of the Humboldt Arts Council, 2002, pp. 22-24
Bentley, Jack: "Disruptive Topographies", (brochure with
essay) October, 2001
Doran, Bob: “Finding Beauty in the Blight: A Fresh Look at the
Balloon Tract”, (cover
story), The Northcoast Journal, Oct. 11, 2001, pp. 9-11
Hunt, David: “Serious Fun at Gallery Oboy”, (review), Artweek,
May issue, 1998, p. 21