MICHELE O'MARAH
EDUCATION
BFA, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
Michele O'Marah: Video Portraits, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
2010
A Girl's Gotta Do What A Girl's Gotta Do, Brennan & Griffin, New York, NY
A Girl's Gotta Do What A Girl's Gotta Do, Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA
2009
Faustus’s Children, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2006
Faustus’s Children, Sister Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Peacehead, Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Valley Girl, Goldman Tevis, Los Angeles, CA
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2008
Repeat After Me: I AM A Revolutionary, with Henry Taylor, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
2007
Repeat After Me: I AM A Revolutionary, with Henry Taylor, Rental Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Version, with Kota Ezawe, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Reality Manifestos - Can Reality Break Bricks?, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien, Austria
2011
Greater LA, curated by Benjamin Godsill, Eleanor Cayre, and Joel Mesler, New York, NY
Other Life Forms, curated by Kate Scherer, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
2010
The LAst Show, Kathryn Brennan Gallery at Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA
Perpetuum Mobile, curated by Etienne Bernard and Celine Kopp, Four Boxes Gallery, Krabbersholm School, Krabbersholm, Denmark
2009
The Morning After, Artisterium: 2nd Tbilisi International Contemporary Art Exhibition, curated by Benjamin Godsill, Tbilisi, Georgia
Video Journeys, curated by Katie Brennan, Sister @ Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA
Offset, curated by Matthew Spiegelman, Mount Tremper Fine Art, Hudson Valley, CA
Group Show, Sister, Los Angeles, CA
1999, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA
2008
The Station, curated by Shamim Momin, Art Basel Miami Beach, FL
Amateurs, curated by Ralph Rugoff, CCAC Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA
A Dead Serious Group Show, Sister, Los Angeles, CA
25 Artists x 2 Screenings = 1 week, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
You, Whose Beauty was Famous in Rome, curated by Andrew Berardini and Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Mandarin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Under the Influence, curated by Anat Egbi, CCS Galleries, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2007
Sculptor's Drawings, Ideas, Studies, Sketches, Proposals and More, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
She Was Born to Be My Unicorn, curated by Amy Kellner, Smith-Stewart, New York, NY
Performance/Film/Video, Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Backroom, curated by Magali Arriola, Kate Fowle, and Renaud Proch, The Kadist Foundation, Paris and Le Celda Contemporanea, Mexico City
2006
From Baja to Bar Harbor: Transnational Contemporary Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Portland, ME
2005
The Backroom, curated by Magali Arriola, Kate Fowle, and Renaud Proch, Los Angeles, CA and New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Summer Show, Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Valley Girl, White Columns, New York, NY
Peachead, Art in General, New York, NY
2003/2004
Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast in Contemporary Art ("B2V"), traveling to the Seattle Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Vancouver Art Gallery, and CCAC Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA
2003
The World's A Mess It's In My Kiss, Debs & Co., New York, NY
2002
Play it as it Lays, London Institute of Contemporary Art, London
LA Freewaves: TV or not TV, Los Angeles, CA
2001
Performances, Goldman Tevis, Los Angeles, CA
Video Projects, Nikolai Wallnner, Copenhagen
1998
HMO SUV IPO, Side Street Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Tri-Annuale (Part 1): Pinwheel, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2011
The Home Show, Co-curated with Miki Garcia, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
SCREENINGS
2009
Valley Girl, The Bridge, Progressive Arts Initiative, Charlottesville, VA
2008
Faustus's Children, New York Underground Film Festival
Valley Girl, Winnipeg Film Group
2007
White Diamonds/Agent Orange and Faustus's Children, Spotlight Video Series, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Valley Girl, Fidelity and Betrayal: Variations on the Remake, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francsico, CA
2006
Valley Girl, New York Underground Film Festival, Festival Choice Award, New York, NY
Valley Girl, Chicago Underground Flim Festival, Chicago, IL
Valley Girl, Almo Drafthouse, Austin, TX
2003
Valley Girl, Mixture Contemporary, Houston, TX
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2011
Miki Garcia, "Michele O'Marah: Video Portraits and Home Show, Revisted," Exhibition Catalogue, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA.
2010
Michael Ned Holte, "Best of the Year, Michele O'Marah: A Girl's Gotta Do What A Girl's Gotta Do," Artforum, December.
Michael Ned Holte, "Body Doubles: Michael Ned Holte on Michele O'Marah," Artforum, February, pp 75 - 76.
2009
Holly Myers, "Exhibition Review," Los Angeles Times, Friday, June 18, p. D21.
2008
Tom Breidenbach, "Review," Artforum, January.
Richard Thompson, "Remake No Air-Headed Parody," Winnipeg Free Press, March.
Julian Myers, "Amateurs," Frieze, September.
2007
Amra Brooks, "Michele O'Marah, Tim Jackson, David Jones," Artforum, January.
Catherine Taft, "Faustus's Children," Art Review, January.
Chris Balashak, "Michele O'Marah," Freize, January.
Cheryl Eddy, "A Tale of Two Valley Girls," San Francisco Bay Guardian, March.
2006
Christopher Knight, "Faustus's Children," Los Angeles Times, November 8.
2005
"The Future Greats," Art Review, December.
Kristina Kite, "The Backroom," Critics Picks, artforum.com, October.
2004
Michael Ned Holte, "Michele O'Marah," Critics Picks, artforum.com, December.
Meredith Goldsmith, "Version," Art Papers, Jan-Feb.
Alison Bing, "Version," SFGate.com, October.
Nirmala Nataraj, "Version: Aping Popular Culture," sfstation.com, October.
Rachel Kushner, "Valley Girl + White Diamonds, Agent Orange," Cakewalk, Issue #6.
2003
Glen Helsand, "Baja to Vancouver," Artforum, December.
2002
Bruce Hainley, "Bruce Hainley: Best of 2002," Artforum, December.
Richard Blanford, "Play it as it Lays," Frieze, September.
Clayton Campbell, "Michele O'Marah," Flash Art, October.
Bruce Hainley, "Michele O'Marah," Artforum, October.
Andrew Perchuk, "Michele O'Marah," Critics Picks, artforum.com, August.
1999
Frederick Strange, "For Those About to Rock," Bibel Magazine.
1997
Amy Kellner, "For Those About to Rock," Index Magazine.
AWARDS
2009
Artists Resource Completion Grant, The Durfee Foundation
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA