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ALL EXHIBITIONS

EXHIBITIONS

Where the work was curated.

Thirty-seven years of curation, 1985–2022. Some exhibitions include press dossiers.

2022

Penumbra · Small Time · Undisclosed Location

Gallery 825, Los Angeles Art Association, online · Small Time (May)

Online

2022

I Am the Light and the Darkness

MorYork Gallery, Highland Park

Group

2021

Apocrypha · Chestnut · Full Bodied · Petite Works · Ready Go · User to User · Vagaries

Los Angeles Art Association, online · Petite Works (June) · Vagaries (October) · Full Bodied (November)

Online

2021

Abstractum · After Life · Magical Writing · Trees

Neutra Museum and Institute (Neutra Gallery), Silver Lake, Los Angeles

Group

2020

Fairy Tales · Hugging My New Shadow

Neutra Museum and Institute (Neutra Gallery), Silver Lake, Los Angeles

Group

2020

Aurora · Indistinct Chatter

Los Angeles Art Association, online

Online

2019

VS

Two-artist exhibition with Ami Halikman · Gallery 825, Los Angeles Art Association

Two-Artist

2019

Out There 2019

Gallery 825, Los Angeles Art Association

Group

2019

Artists First

Pasadena

Group

2018

REMEMBER: An AIDS Memorial Retrospective

OCCCA, Santa Ana

Group

2018

Vulvacular

Ceres Gallery, New York

Group

2018

Eleven

Lamperouge Gallery, Los Angeles

Group

2017

Sensations

Long Beach City College

Group

2017

Cabaret Re-Voltaire

Art Share L.A., Los Angeles

Group

2016

Incantations

Exhibition and concert with Elliott Levin · Silverlake Independent JCC

Exhibition + Concert

2016

Braille Institute Fundraiser

Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles

Benefit

2016

Barbara Romain vs. Karen Clark

Gallery 825, Los Angeles Art Association

Two-Artist

2015

UCLA National Arts and Disability Center

Featured artist, April–May 2015 · NADC/UCLA Arts and Accessibility Technical Assistance Grant

Featured Artist · Grant

2015

Sacred Memories

Pico House Gallery, El Pueblo, Los Angeles

Group

2015

Con/Text: Rethinking Language in Art

San Diego Art Institute

Group

2015

Clairvoyance II

Strand Center for the Arts, Plattsburgh, NY

Group

2015

Back to the Roots

Southwest Museum, Los Angeles

Museum

2015

8th Annual Department of Disability Art Exhibit

Bridge Gallery, Los Angeles City Hall

Group

2014

Into the Light

Mural commission · Blind Service Association, Chicago

Commission · Public Art

2013

Opulent Mobility

Bell Arts Factory, Ventura

Group

2013

Do You Dream in Color?

UCLA

Group

2013

Contemporary Art from Southern California: 4 Artists

MichaelKate, Santa Barbara

Group

2013

Art Blind

Kunst im Stapelhaus · BBK, Cologne, Germany · sole United States artist among sixteen artists from nine nations

International · Group

2012

Faith, Myth and Legend

Long Beach Arts Center

Group

2012

Braille Printmakers

Café Cultural, Los Angeles

Group

2011

Los Angeles Department of Transportation Storefront Gallery

Los Angeles

Group

2011–15

Colors Colors

Bridge Gallery, Los Angeles City Hall · online and Los Angeles editions

Group

2011

Blind Artists Society Fall Show

Cooperstown Art Center, Cooperstown, NY

Group

2010

Scapes: Urban and Rural

Long Beach Arts Center

Group

2010–16

Blind Artists Society

Albany Center for the Arts, Albany, NY, and other New York venues

Group

2009

Space and Nebulae

Echo Curio Gallery, Los Angeles

Group

2009

Inner Light: Art from the Braille Institute

Forest Lawn Museum, Glendale

Museum

2009–15

Art Slam

de Young Museum, San Francisco

Museum

2008–26

Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate

Holter Museum of Art, Helena · national tour · thirty-two showings across thirty-one venues · curated by Katie Knight

Traveling · Museum

2008

Out There

Gallery 825, Los Angeles Art Association

Group

2008

Derivative Composition

Kennedy Center Terrace Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Group

2008–18

Art Ability

Bryn Mawr Rehabilitation Hospital, Malvern, PA

Juried

2008–11

All About Art

Einstein Medical Center, Elkins Park, PA

Group

2007–08

Emerging Artists Exhibit

Downtown Art Center Gallery, Los Angeles

Group

2007

The Diana Zlotnick Collection

Studio City

Group

2007–11

International Acquisitions

Viewpoint Gallery, Schenectady, NY

Group

2007

Holton Lee Open Competition

Faith House Gallery, Dorset, England

Juried

2007

Destruction of the State: Writing on the Wall

Two-artist exhibition with Joel Sager · Satsuma Gallery, North Hollywood · awarded through the gallery’s 2006 national juried competition

Two-Artist · Awarded Exhibition

2007–18

CORE: Defining Ourselves

Annual juried exhibition, Long Beach and Santa Monica · CORE III (2007, 2nd City Council Gallery, curated by Barbara Romain) · CORE 5 (2009, Second City Gallery) · CORE 6 (2010, EdgeMar Center for the Arts, Santa Monica) · CORE 7 (2011, Santa Monica Art Studios; postcard cover: Geometry) · CORE 8 (2012) · CORE 9 (2013, Long Beach Arts Center) · CORE 10 (2014, Hellada Gallery) · CORE 12 (2016) · CORE 13 (2017, Liberty Gallery) · CORE (2018, Long Beach Arts Center)

Juried · Curated the 2007 edition

2006

Texture

Arts and Literature Laboratory, New Haven, CT

Group

2006

New Beginnings

Satsuma Gallery, North Hollywood · national juried exhibition · Third Place for Royal Flush, with a two-artist exhibition awarded for 2007

Juried · Third Place

2006

Digital exhibition

de Young Museum, San Francisco

Museum

2005–06

The Women’s Show

Cactus Gallery, Eagle Rock

Group

2005–06

Defining Ourselves

George Deneff Gallery, Long Beach

Group

2005

Bad Eye on the Good Foot

Art Around Gallery, Philadelphia · featured exhibition for May 2005, opening May 6 · her only solo exhibition at a commercial gallery

Solo

2004

VSA International Arts Festival

Union Station and Washburn Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Festival

2004–18

Shared Visions

Southern California College of Optometry / Marshall B. Ketchum University, Fullerton

Group

2004–07

Art Beyond Sight · National Exhibits by Blind Artists

Philadelphia area · Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA (2007)

Group

2004

40 × 40

Coronet Theater, Hollywood

Group

2003

Walter Knott Annual Art Award Exhibition

Goodwill Industries · Four Seasons Hotel, Newport Beach · First Prize, for Confronting Orange

Juried · First Prize

2003–22

Passionate Focus

Second Sense (formerly Guild for the Blind), Chicago · fourteen editions · Outstanding Artist — Judi Jasek Award, 2012, for Geometry

Juried · Award

2003–08

InSights

LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired · SF Arts Commission Gallery, City Hall · five editions

Juried

2002

Echo Love

Permanent bus-shelter installation · Echo Park · dedicated April 26, 2002

Solo · Public Art

2001

Travel to the Interior

Installation and exhibit · Zyrex, Inc., Alhambra

Solo · Installation

2001

Portraits: Defining Ourselves

City of Pico Rivera Center for the Arts

Group

1999–2002

Echo Park Artists Festival

Exhibition and studio tour · Echo Park

Festival

1998

Moving Towards the Millennium

City Biennial · Watts Towers Art Center Gallery

Biennial

1998

Poetics

Three-person exhibition · Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco

Three-Artist

1997

Bodies and Vessels

Three-person exhibition · VSA Gallery, Beverly Hills

Three-Artist

1997

Wordland

Installation · Downtown Lives! ’97, DaDa Annual, Los Angeles

Installation

1997

Braille Institute Annual Print Show

Los Angeles

Group

1997–2002

Artists Beyond Disability

International juried exhibition · California State University, Long Beach · First Prize, National Juried Exhibit, 1998

Juried · First Prize

1996–97

Echoes and Expressions

El Centro del Pueblo, Los Angeles

Group

1996–97

Works ’96 · Works ’97

Hollywood–Los Feliz JCC

Group

1996

Resonances: Visions of Echo Park

El Centro del Pueblo, Los Angeles

Group

1996

MTA Bus Bench

Temporary installation · Glendale Blvd and Temple St, Los Angeles

Public Art

1995

Industrial / Tribal

Ivy Substation, Culver City

Group

1994–96

About Face

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery

Group

1994

Words and Symbols

Artspace Gallery, Woodland Hills · curated by Scott Canty

Group

1994–96

Road Kill

Large installation of modular canvases hung with velcro · Los Angeles · venue under review

Installation

1994–96

Jews Love Words

Large installation of modular canvases hung with velcro · Los Angeles · venue under review

Installation

1994–97

Downtown Lives! · DaDa Annual

Spring Street Gallery and other sites, Los Angeles

Group

1994–96

Color Blind

Large installation of modular canvases hung with velcro · Los Angeles · venue under review

Installation

1993

Whose Myth Are Youse With?

Installation and performance with Elliott Levin · Watts Towers Art Center Gallery · City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department grant

Solo · Installation + Performance · Grant

1993

Diana Zlotnick’s Studio

Solo exhibit at the collector’s studio, Studio City

Solo

1993

Crossing L.A. / Los Angeles Festival

Museum of African American Art, Los Angeles

Festival

1993

Contextual Turbulence

John Thomas Gallery, Santa Monica

Group

1993

Biennial Juried Exhibition

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall

Juried

1992

Issues of Choice

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)

Group

1992

Divergynce × 5

Lamb Realty, Studio City

Group

1992

Celebrity Art Auction

National Parkinson’s Association, Beverly Hills

Benefit

1991

MFA Show

Otis College Art Gallery, Los Angeles

Group

1991

Los Angeles Theatre Center, Grand Lobby

Lobby exhibition · Los Angeles

Solo · Installation

1990–91

Visiting exchange exhibitions

USC and Claremont College

Group

1990

Las Angelinas

Mural · former Woman’s Building, downtown Los Angeles · winner, “Gilding the Building” competition

Solo · Public Art · Competition Winner

1989

ABC

Temporary mural installation · MacArthur Park Lake, Los Angeles

Public Art

1988

Group show

Ivey Gallery, Los Angeles

Group

1986

BASFAP (Brothers and Sisters From Another Planet)

Installation for performance · Los Angeles City College and other sites

Installation + Performance

1985

In Her Eyes / In Her I’s

Two-person exhibition with Mara Wave · Rebel Gallery, Hollywood

Two-Artist

1985–88

Group shows

Los Angeles Art Association Gallery, Los Angeles

Group

1985

Group show

Antigallery, Los Angeles

Group

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