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b. 1961, Cleveland, OH
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EDUCATION:
- 1989 Master of Fine Arts: Painting, San Francisco Art Institute
- 1985 Bachelor of Arts: Studio Art, University of California at Berkeley
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PUBLISHED WORK:
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GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES:
- 2014 The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
- 2012 Half Life: Patterns of Change Residency: Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
- 2011 Creative Ecologies: A Group Residency + Conversation: Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
- 2008 Djerassi Resident Artists Program: (James Irvine Foundation Honorary Fellowship), 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 Artist’s Residency: The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, Utah
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS:
- 2026 Eco-Social Realism: (forthcoming) (two-person exhibition with with Sean Starowitz), Big Ramp, Philadelphia, PA
- 2018 Cultivated Ecologies: An Interdisciplinary Video and Essay Project by Cynthia Hooper: Humboldt State University Third Street Gallery, Eureka, CA
- 2016 Research & Desire: Videos and Paintings by Cynthia Hooper: The Haldan Art Gallery, Lake Tahoe Community College, South Lake Tahoe, CA
- 2015 Infrastructure Aesthetics: The Films of Cynthia Hooper (video screening): New York University, NY
- 2014 A Negotiable Utopia: The Humboldt Bay Project (two person exhibition with Mary Mallahan) Humboldt State University First Street Gallery, Eureka, CA
- 2013 Shifting Baselines (two person exhibition with Hugh Pocock): Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
- 2012 Humedales Artificiales: Three Transnational Wetlands (video screening): Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
- 2010 Opportunistic Vistas: The Films of Cynthia Hooper: The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Los Angeles, CA
- 2009 H2O: 373.15 K: Exposición de Aquareles de Cynthia Hooper: Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT), Tijuana, B.C., México
- 2008 Opportunistic Vistas: Videos about Industry by Cynthia Hooper: College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA
- 2006 La Morita Enamorada: Paintings and a Video Installation: Galeria La Casa de la Nueve, Tijuana, B.C., México
- 2005 Provisional Communities: Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 2004 The Cummings Road Landfill Project: Cummings Road Landfill, Eureka, CA
- 2003 Landfill Projects: College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA
- 2001 The Balloon Track Project / An Exploration of Misintentional Landscape Use: Humboldt State University First Street Gallery, Eureka, CA
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COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS:
- 2026 Erratic Fields (with Archivo Familiar del Río Colorado), Athenaeum Art Center at Bread & Salt Gallery, San Diego, CA
- 2023 The Fountains of Owens Lake (with the Center for Land Use Interpretation), CLUI Swansea, Owens Lake, CA
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
- 2025 The Mexicali Experimental Project: Galería Metropolitana, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City
- 2025 The Mexicali Experimental Project: Instituto de Investigaciones Culturales-Museo, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexicali, BC, México
- 2025 Eco-Social Salon, Site-Seeing, and Screening Series #12: Ulises, Philadelphia, PA
- 2025 Los desbordamietos del Delta del Río Colorado: Galería de la Ciudad, Mexicali, BC, México
- 2025 San Francisco Estuary Institute State of the Estuary Conference, Oakland, CA
- 2024 The Mexicali Experimental Project: InSite Art Practices in the Public Sphere, Bread & Salt Gallery, San Diego, CA
- 2024 A visualidade da territorialidade fronteiriça: Festival Internacional de Videoarte SPMAV, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil
- 2024 Los desbordamietos del Delta del Río Colorado: Casa de la Cultura, Mexicali, BC, México
- 2023 MexiCali Biennial: The Land of Milk and Honey (The Borderlands): Steppling Art Gallery, San Diego State University, Calexico, CA
- 2023 Finger Mullet Film Festival: Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, Saint Augustine, FL
- 2022 MexiCali Biennial: The Land of Milk and Honey, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History
- 2021 PULLED APART: Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco
- 2018 Historia de un Río: Crecidas, Sonidos y Texturas del Río Tijuana: Museo de Historia de Tijuana, Tijuana, B.C., México
- 2018 Unnatural Disasters: Climate Change and the Limits of the Knowable, Link Gallery, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
- 2018 Yet Not To Be Attained: Reflections on Landscape in Contemporary Video Art, UMASS Amherst, MA
- 2017 Infrastructuralisms (screening): Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
- 2016 Prácticas de Campo: Casa del Lago, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City
- 2014 Border Film Week: Visions and Transmissions to Erase the Border: Trans-border Institute, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA
- 2014 Annual Faculty Exhibition: College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA
- 2013 Bordocs Foro Documental (screening): Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana, B.C., México
- 2013 Works on Water: Marin Community Foundation, Novato, CA
- 2012 Water Week: (Curated by Karl Erickson), DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
- 2012 Wastestreams Film Salon: (Curated by Nance Klehm), Archeworks, Chicago, IL
- 2012 Delta Waters: Artists Address the San Joaquin Delta: LH Horton Gallery, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA
- 2012 Imperium Naturae: MIA (A Monthly Moving Image Art Screening Series): Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
- 2012 HydroMemories: An Interdisciplinary Project on the Theme of Water: Museum of Natural History, Turin, Italy
- 2012 Food Shift: Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA
- 2011 Sarah Cowles' Elegantly Wasted Ditch-In Theater: Films by Deborah Stratman, Cynthia Hooper and Ursula Biemann (screening): MASS MoCA
- 2011 Territorios de Infraestructura, Expansión, Educación y Conflicto (screening): Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
- 2011 Liquid Assets: Perspectives on Water, A Collaboration Between the Crocker Museum and Water, CA: Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
- 2011 Bordocs Foro Documental (screening): Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana, B.C., México
- 2011 Turf: Ecological Activism and Art: Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, CA
- 2010 Asteroide B 162: Diseño Regenerativo y Balances Ambientales: Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
- 2010 EcoArchive: Meditations on Time and Nature: Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
- 2010 Infinite City: Poison/Palate (SFMOMA Live Art event with the Artists' Collective OPENwater): Alameda, CA
- 2010 Urban Wildlife: Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles (screening): Los Angeles, CA
- 2010 Un..Schärfen des Dokumentarischen: Kunstfilmtag, Düsseldorf, Germany
- 2009 Field Reports: Documents and Strategies from Land Arts of the American West (screening): Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- 2009 Bordocs Foro Documental (video screening): San Diego State University
- 2008 Landscapes For Frankenstein (screening): Sarah Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
- 2008 Beobachtungen (screening): Director’s Lounge, Berlin, Germany
- 2008 The Show Starts on the Sidewalk: Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social Practice (video screening): University of California, Santa Cruz
- 2008 Landscape, Nature & Space: Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 2008 T-10 Video Festival (screening): 21 Grand Gallery, Oakland, CA
- 2008 Humboldt Film Festival (screening): Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
- 2008 Art Faculty Exhibition: College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA
- 2007 Strange Relations: Armory Digital Forum, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
- 2007 Red Dot Fair: (with the Bucheon Gallery), New York, NY
- 2007 Artists Go Lightly: Temporary Autonomous Museum(s), San Francisco, CA
- 2007 Aqua Art Miami: (with the Bucheon Gallery), Miami, FL
- 2006 Plainer: A Contemporary Take on Landscape: the Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
- 2006 Year_’06 Art Projects London: (with the Bucheon Gallery), London, England
- 2006 Deluge: A Group Watercolor Show: Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 2006 Nova Art Fair: (with the Bucheon Gallery), Chicago, IL
- 2005 Affair at the Jupiter Hotel: (with the Richard Heller Gallery), Portland, OR
- 2005 Aqua Art Miami: (with the Acuna-Hansen Gallery), Miami, FL
- 2005 Megabytes (screening): Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
- 2005 Face Paint: Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 2005 -scope New York: (with the Bucheon Gallery), New York, NY
- 2005 Art LA Contemporary Art Fair: (with the Bucheon Gallery), Santa Monica, CA
- 2004 The Political Landscape: The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2004 Monumental (screening): Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 2004 Frisbee Art Fair: (with the Bucheon Gallery), Miami, FL
- 2004 Pro Arts Juried Annual: Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
- 2003 -scope Los Angeles: (with the Bucheon Gallery), Los Angeles, CA
- 2003 San Francisco International Art Exposition: (with the Bucheon Gallery) San Francisco, CA
- 2003 Guidelines: The Ink People Center for the Arts, Eureka, CA
- 2003 AAF Contemporary Art Fair: (with the Bucheon Gallery), New York, NY
- 2002 Inventive Landscapes: Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 2002 June Show: Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 2002 Fresh Kills: Landfill to Landscape Finalist Proposals: The Municipal Art Society, New York, NY
- 2002 Art Chicago 2002: (with the Bucheon Gallery) Chicago, IL
- 2002 Relics and Other Scenarios: I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2002 Disruptive Topographies: Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 2002 San Francisco International Art Exposition: (with the Bucheon Gallery) San Francisco, CA
- 2002 Reality Snap: Matrix Arts, Sacramento, CA
- 2002 AAF Contemporary Art Fair: (with the Bucheon Gallery), New York, NY
- 2001 Fresh Kills: Landfill to Landscape Finalist Proposals: Staten Island Institute of the Arts and Sciences, Staten Island, NY
- 2001 FFWD: Miami Contemporary Art Fair: (with the Bucheon Gallery), Miami, FL
- 2001 Disruptive Topographies: Humboldt State University’s First Street Gallery, Eureka, CA
- 2001 January Juried Show: Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA
- 2001 Art Faculty Exhibition: College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA
- 2000 California Small Works 2000: Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA
- 1999 California Small Works ’99: Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA
- 1999 Art Faculty Exhibition: College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA
- 1998 Serious Fun: Gallery Oboy, San Francisco, CA
- 1998 California Small Works ’98: Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA
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PUBLIC LECTURES:
- 2025 Visiting Artist lecture for Johnnie Chatman’s Digital Photo and the Environment course, Cal State San Marcos
- 2021 Pulled Apart: A Conversation with Artist Cynthia Hooper and USF Engineer Lou Sassoubre: Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco
- 2021 Visiting Artist Lecture for Ken Ehrlich's Infrastructure and the Climate Crisis course, CalArts
- 2021 Tree Talk: Artists Speak for the Trees: Ecoartspace and Joshua Tree Center for the Photographic Arts, Joshua Tree, CA
- 2021 Re-engineering and Re-purposing Human Civilization: Laser Lecture Series, Stanford University
- 2021 Faculty Exhibition Presentation: Anadromous Architectures: College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA
- 2018 Living Room Light Exchange: Praba Pilar, Cassie Thorton, and Cynthia Hooper: Oakland, CA (lecture and video screening)
- 2018 Museo de Historia de Tijuana: Agua, Frontera y Producción Audiovisual, (lecture and video screening)
- 2016 University of San Francisco: The Unmonumental and Indeterminate: The New Commons of the Anthropocene, (lecture and video screening)
- 2014 Consilience: Artist Presentation Initiative: Los Angeles, CA (lecture and video screening)
- 2014 University of San Diego: Humedales Artificiales: Three Transnational Wetlands, (video screening and panel discussion)
- 2013 Shifting Baselines: Three Transnational Wetlands, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM (lecture and video screening)
- 2012 Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA: Westlands: The Politics of Water and Agriculture in the San Joaquin Valley: A Discussion with artist Cynthia Hooper
- 2012 Humboldt State University's Biodiversity Conference, Arcata, CA: Anthropogenic Aquascapes: the Video Art of Cynthia Hooper, (lecture and video screening)
- 2012 Universidad Iberoamericana, Tijuana, B.C., Mexico: Humedales, Un Paisaje Que Desaparece, (lecture and video screening)
- 2012 San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA: Delta Waters: Artists Address the San Joaquin Delta, (lecture and panel discussion)
- 2011 Political Equator 3, San Diego and Tijuana: Conversations on Co-Existence: Border Neighborhoods as Sites of Production, (lecture and video screening)
- 2011 Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA: HydroAction: Water Quality, Biodiversity & Infrastructure, (lecture and video screening with artist Patricia Johanson)
- 2011 College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA: Anthropogenic Aquascapes: Videos About Water and the Environment, (lecture and video screening)
- 2010 California State University Northridge: Adaptive Ecosystems in the Era of NAFTA: Tijuana's Informal Communities, (lecture and video screening)
- 2010 Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana, B.C., México: Seminario de Arte Público: Urbe y Género, (video screening and panel discussion)
- 2010 Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City: The Main Outlet Drain Extension (the MODE) and Mexico’s Cienega de la Santa Clara (lecture and video screening)
- 2010 The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Culver City, CA: Independent Interpreter Lecture
- 2009 Bordocs Foro Documental, San Diego State University and the Institute of Culture, Tijuana: Video screening and panel discussion
- 2009 Sea and Space Explorations, Los Angeles, CA: Lecture and video screening in conjunction with the exhibition Through the Looking Glass: The Los Angeles Aqueduct
- 2009 College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA: Dual Citizenship and Border Patrol: Picturing Tijuana's Contested, Transnational Water (lecture and video screening)
- 2009 Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT), Tijuana, B.C., Mexico: Doble Nacionalidad y Patrulla Fronteriza: El Agua en Pugna Transnacional (lecture and video screening)
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
- MexiCali Biennial: Art Actions/Exchanges Since 2006 (exhibition catalog), Spring 2026
- INSITE Journal 07: A Timeless Way to Build: INSITE Art Practices in the Public Sphere, Fall 2024
- MexiCali Biennial Opens Land of Milk & Honey in the Borderlands (review) The Calexico Chronicle, October 31, 2023
- Pulled Apart Exhibition Catalog: University of San Francisco, 2021
- Gopinath, Gabrielle: Bit Torrent: The Work of Cynthia Hooper (review) Art Practical, February 27, 2018
- Cultivated Ecologies: An Interdisciplinary Video and Essay Project by Cynthia Hooper (Exhibition Catalog), Humboldt State University, 2018
- Timken, Kristin: The New Explorers: Making Meaning in the 21st Century American Landscape (with an introduction by Lucy Lippard), Conveyance Press, 2015
- Maughan, Tim: Letting Environmental Art Speak for Itself is No Longer Enough, (review) New Scientist, December 16, 2015
- Weidermann, Ken: A Bay in the Life of Humboldt: First Street Gallery Presents a Negotiable Utopia, (review) Northcoast Journal, October 2, 2014
- Kosky, Jeffrey: Arts of Wonder: Enchanting Secularity, (illustrations), University of Chicago Press, 2012
- HydroMemories: an Interdisciplinary Project on the Theme of Water, online publication, 2011
- Liquid Assets: Perspectives on Water (gallery guide) Crocker Art Museum, 2011
- Le Duc, Aimee: EcoArchive: Meditations on Time and Nature (review) Art Practical, December, 2010
- Barber, Jeremiah: Nature at the Intersection (review): KQED Arts, December 21, 2010
- Asteroide b612: Diseño Regenerativo y Balances Ambientales (exhibition catalog) Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, 2010
- The Center for Land Use Interpretation's Lay of the Land Newsletter: "Cynthia Hooper: Expert Framer of Views Presents Her Work", Spring 2010 Issue
- Kennedy, Sarah: The Art of Effecting Change: Travels in Los Angeles, Part 1 (review) MoMA/P.S.1 Blog, June 7, 2010
- Ewart, Nancy: EcoArchive: Meditations on Time and Nature (review) San Francisco Examiner, December 14, 2010
- New American Paintings: (West Coast Edition), The Open Studios Press, 2008
- SIMPARCH with Steve Rowell: “Hydromancy” (illustrations), The University of Texas at El Paso, 2007
- 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 Track, (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
