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INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECTS
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 Tract 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
2010 Asteroide B 162: Diseño Regenerativo y Balances Ambientales, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City
2009 Field
Reports: Documents and Strategies from Land Arts of the American West (video
screening): Temple University, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Bordocs:
Foro Documental Tijuana (video
screening): San Diego State University and the Institute of Culture
of Tijuana (ICBC)
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
Humboldt
Film Festival:
Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
Art
Faculty Exhibition:
College of the Redwoods, Eureka, 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
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
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 and video screening 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
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
Enid Baxter Blader and Nicole Antebi (Ed.): Water, CA: Creative Visualizations for a New Millennium: (with essay by the artist) On-line publication, 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, 2010New 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 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