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INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECTS:
2010 Water, CA: Creative Visualizations for a New Millennium: a Media Book: (Enid Baxter Blader, and Nicole Antebi, Ed.)
2010 Infinite City: Poison/Palate (SFMOMA Live Art event with the Artists' Collective OPENwater): Alameda, CA
2008 Will Build to Suit: (drawings for SIMPARCH), Venice Architectural Biennale, Venice, Italy
2005 Dirty Water Initiative: (drawings and paintings for SIMPARCH), inSite_05, San Diego CA / Tijuana, B.C., Mexico
2002 The Landfill Interpretive Transect: (in collaboration with the Center for Land Use Interpretation), Los Angeles, CA
2001 The Balloon Track Project / An Exploration of Misintentional Landscape Use: Humboldt State University’s First Street Gallery, Eureka, CA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
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., Mexico
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., 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:2012
Water Week: (Curated by Karl Erickson), DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
Delta Waters: Artists Address the San Joaquin Delta: LH Horton Gallery, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA
2011
Sarah Cowles' Elegantly Wasted Ditch-In Theater: Films by Deborah Stratman, Cynthia Hooper and Ursula Biemann (video screening): MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Territorios de Infraestructura, Expansión, Educación y Conflicto (video screening): Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
Liquid Assets: Perspectives on Water, A Collaboration Between the Crocker Museum and Water, CA: Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Bordocs: Foro Documental Tijuana (video screening): Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana, B.C., México
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
EcoArchive: Meditations on Nature and Time: Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Urban Wildlife: Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles (video screening): Los Angeles, CA
Un..Schärfen des Dokumentarischen: Kunstfilmtag, Düsseldorf, Germany
2009
Field Reports: Documents and Strategies from Land Arts of the American West (video screening): Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Bordocs: Foro Documental Tijuana (video screening): San Diego State University
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 (video screening): San Francisco, CA
Landscape, Nature & Space: Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
T-10 Video Festival (video screening): 21 Grand Gallery, Oakland, CA
Humboldt Film Festival (video screening): Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
Art Faculty Exhibition: College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA
2007
Strange Relations: Armory Digital Forum, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Red Dot Fair: (with the Bucheon Gallery), New York, NY
Artists Go Lightly: Temporary Autonomous Museum(s), San Francisco, CA
Aqua Art Miami: (with the Bucheon Gallery), Miami, FL
2006
Plainer: A Contemporary Take on Landscape: the Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
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
2005
Affair at the Jupiter Hotel: (with the Richard Heller Gallery), Portland, OR
Aqua Art Miami: (with the Acuna-Hansen Gallery), Miami, FL
Megabytes (video screening): Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
Face Paint: Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
-scope New York: (with the Bucheon Gallery), New York, NY
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
Monumental (video screening): Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Frisbee Art Fair: (with the Bucheon Gallery), Miami, FL
Pro Arts Juried Annual: Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
2003
-scope Los Angeles: (with the Bucheon Gallery), Los Angeles, CA
San Francisco International Art Exposition: (with the Bucheon Gallery) San Francisco, CA
Guidelines: The Ink People Center for the Arts, Eureka, CA
AAF Contemporary Art Fair: (with the Bucheon Gallery), New York, NY
2002
Inventive Landscapes: Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
June Show: Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Fresh Kills: Landfill to Landscape Finalist Proposals: The Municipal Art Society, New York, NY
Art Chicago 2002: (with the Bucheon Gallery) Chicago, IL
Relics and Other Scenarios: I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Disruptive Topographies: Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco International Art Exposition: (with the Bucheon Gallery) San Francisco, CA
Reality Snap: Matrix Arts, Sacramento, CA
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
FFWD: Miami Contemporary Art Fair: (with the Bucheon Gallery), Miami, FL
Disruptive Topographies: Humboldt State University’s First Street Gallery, Eureka, CA
January Juried Show: Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA
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
Art Faculty Exhibition: College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA
1998
Serious Fun: Gallery Oboy, San Francisco, CA
California Small Works ’98: Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA
RECENT PUBLIC LECTURES:
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, (panel discussion 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, Los Angeles, CA: Lecture about trans-border water issues in the Mexicali Valley of Mexico and the Imperial Valley of California.
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).
GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES:
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
EDUCATION:
1989 Master of Fine Arts: Painting, San Francisco Art Institute
1985 Bachelor of Arts: Studio Art, University of California at Berkeley
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
HydroMemories: an Interdisciplinary Project on the Theme of Water, on-line 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
