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ERIKA ROTHENBERG:

BIOGRAPHY

 Born, New York.
 
 Education: University of Chicago; School of Visual Arts, New York
 
 Lives in Los Angeles.
 

ONE ARTIST EXHIBITIONS

1986P.P.O.W., New York.
1987W.P.A., Washington D.C.
 San Francisco Airport, San Francisco.
 P.P.O.W., New York.
1988Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles.
1989"New California Artist XV," Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California (catalogue).
 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles.
 "Have You Attacked America Today?" New Museum, New York.
1990P.P.O.W., New York.
1991"Bathroom doors, greeting cards, trophies...and a test," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles.
  Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago.
1992Museum of Modern Art, New York.
 P.P.O.W., New York.
 Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna.
1993Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St. Louis.
 "Suicide Notes," in collaboration with Tracy Tynan, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles.
 "Suicide Notes," in collaboration with Tracy Tynan, PPOW, New York.
 Jewish Museum of San Francisco.
1994"Suicide Notes," in collaboration with Tracy Tynan, Janus Avivson Gallery, London, England.
 "Human Interest: New Work," Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago.
 Laguna Art Museum, Costa Mesa, California.
1995"Sex Lives of Animals" and other new work, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica.
 Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland.
1996"Sex Lives of Animals," PPOW, New York.
 "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes," New work plus collaborations with Tracy Tynan, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica.
1997Galerie Praz/Delavallade, Paris, France.
1999"Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" a collaboration with Tracy Tynan, PPOW, New York.
2000New Work, including "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" a collaboration with Tracy Tynan, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica.
2001"Everyone Who Sat On This Chair" and other new work, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery Inc., Chicago.
2005Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1979Books & Co., New York.
 "Artists Books, USA," travelling exhibition, curated by Martha Wilson.
1980White Columns, New York.
 Art Something Gallery, Amsterdam.
1981"Not Just for Laughs...The Art of Subversion," The New Museum, New York, curated by Marcia Tucker.
 "Selections," Artists Space, New York, curated by Linda Shearer.
 "55 Mercer Invitational," New York.
 "Words and Images," Philadelphia Art Alliance, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, Pennsylvania.
1982"The Atomic Salon," Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York.
 Heller Gallery, University of California, Berkeley.
 "Decision by Arms," Just Above Midtown, New York.
 "The Future is Ours," The Arsenal, New York.
 "Radical Humor," Loeb Student Center, New York.
1983"1984...A Preview," Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York.
 "Language, Drama, Source and Vision," The New Museum, New York.
 "Artists' Use of Language," Franklin Furnace, New York, curated by Barbara Kruger.
 "Subculture," Subway Cars, New York.
 "Contra Media," The Alternative Museum, New York.
 Group exhibition, Het Appollohuis, Eindhoven, Holland.
1984"Freedom of Expression National Monument," Art on the Beach, New York, and Westchester Community College, Valhalla, New York.
 "Artists' Weapons," Ted Greenwald Gallery, New York, curated by Donald Kuspit and Ted Greenwald.
 "Public Relations," Franklin Furnace, New York.
 "Objectivity," Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York.
 Window installation, Printed Matter, New York, window, curated by Lucy Lippard.
 "Women and the Media," Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH, curated by William Olander.
 "In the Shadow of the Bomb," Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts.
 "Telling Tales," University of Massachusetts Art Gallery, Amherst.
 "The Power to Provoke," S.U.N.Y., Old Westbury, New York.
 "Art Against Apartheid," Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York.
 Y.M.C.A., Bus Station and Welfare Office, Seattle.
 "Artists Call," Judson Church, New York.
1985"Disinformation," The Alternative Museum, New York.
 "Guerrilla Girls," Palladium, New York.
 "Art and Advertising," Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle.
 "Not Just Another Pretty Picture," P.S. 122, New York.
 "Feminists and Misogynists," Avenue B Gallery, New York.
 "Private Gone Public," SoHo 20, New York, curated by Ellen Lubell.
1986"Outside LACE," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles.
 "Reinventing Politics," Telluride Institute, Colorado.
 P.P.O.W., New York.
 "Oppression Expressions," Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans.
 "Products and Promotion," Camera Work, San Francisco.
 "Corporate Lobby Show," Mokotoff Gallery, New York.
 "Mass," The New Museum, New York, curated by Group Material.
 "Television and the Artist's Imagination," Home Box Office Building, New York.
 "Telling Tales," Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania.
 Real Art Ways, Hartford.
 "Feminists and Misogynists," Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle.
 Rosemont College, Pennsylvania.
 "Three Artists in Offset," UCLA Library, Los Angeles.
1987"Press /Art," University Art Museum, Long Beach, California.
 "Connections," Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York.
 "Madness in America," Elizabeth Galasso, New York.
1988"Committed to Print," Museum of Modern Art, New York.
 "Products and Promotion," Franklin Furnace, New York.
 "Art and Law," travelling exhibition.
 "Home Show," Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California. (catalogue).
 "AGIT/POP," Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles.
 "New Works on Paper," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles.
 "Democracy," Dia Foundation, New York.
 "Fresh from New York," Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand.
 "Signs of the Times," Bread and Rose Cultural Center, New York.
1989"Art Against AIDS," Billboard project, San Francisco.
 "Media Talk," Security Pacific Gallery, Costa Mesa, California.
1990"Past & Present - Selected Works by Gallery Artists," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles.
 "Selections from PPOW," Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina.
 "Word as Image: 1960-1990," Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee; traveled in 1991 to: Oklahoma City Art Museum, Oklahoma City; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston.
 "Taking Liberties," The Woman's Building, Los Angeles.
 "AIDS Timeline," A Group Material Project, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco.
 "Food, from Pleasure to Politics," Goddard Riverside Community Center, New York.
1991"1991 Whitney Biennial,"AIDS Timeline, A Group Material Project, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
 "No Laughing Matter," University Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton. Travels to Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska, and University Art Gallery, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, through 1993.
 "Art of Advocacy," Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut.
 "To Wit," Rosa Esman Gallery, New York.
 "Quick Coagulation Forms The August Corpse," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles.
 "Addictions," Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA (catalogue).
 "Artists of Conscience: 16 Years of Social and Political Commentary," The Alternative Museum, New York.
1992Documenta IX, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany.
 "Empowering The Viewer: Art, Politics and The Community," Temple Gallery, Temple University, Philadelphia.
 "Rosamund Felsen Clinic & Recovery Center," curated by Ralph Rugoff, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles.
 "Breaking Barriers: Revisualizing the Urban Landscape," Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica.
 "Good-bye to Apple Pie: Contemporary Artists View the Family in Crisis," Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts.
 "Getting to kNOw You: Sexual Insurrection and Resistance," curated by Christof Tannert and Dean McNeil, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.
 "Vote," Terry Dintenfass, New York.
 Group exhibition, Zolla/Lieberman, Chicago.
 Kunstlerhaus Bethanlen, Berlin, Germany; traveled to Liepzig, Germany.
1993"L.A. STORIES," Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles.
 "the elegant, irreverent & obsessive: DRAWING IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA," California State University, Fullerton; Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica.
 "FUSION '93," The Pauline Hirsh Gallery, Jewish Federation Council, Los Angeles.
 "Disorderly Conduct," PPOW, New York.
 "The Stationery Store," Renee Fotouhi Fine Art, East Hampton, New York.
 "Money," Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C.
 "Multiplicities," Bobbie Greenfield, Los Angeles.
 "The Exquisite Corpse," The Drawing Center, New York.
 "Uber-Leben," Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany.
1994"Bad Girls East," organized by Marcia Tucker, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.
 "Bad Girls West, organized by Marcia Tanner, Wight Art Gallery, UCLA,Los Angeles.
 "Old Glory: The American Flag in Contemporary Art," Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland; traveled to Houston Museum of Contemporary Art, Phoenix Museum of Art 1995-96.
 "Can You Always Believe Your Eyes?" de Beyerd, Rotterdam, Holland.
 Group exhibition, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago.
 "Disorderly Conduct," Hobart and William Smith College, Geneva, New York.
 "Three Curators, Three Visions," Sonnabend Gallery, New York.
 "Red Windows," Barney's, New York.
1995"From L.A. With Love," Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris.
 "A Glimpse of the Norton Collection: As Revealed by Kim Dingle," Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica; travelled to SITE, Santa Fe, NM.
 "Re-inventing the Emblem: Contemporary Artists Recreate a Renaissance Idea," Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
 "Oppose Any Authority," Janus Avivson Gallery, London, England.
 Group exhibition, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago.
 "Temporarily Possessed," The New Museum, New York.
1996"Cultural Economies: Histories from the Alternative Arts Movement," The Drawing Center, New York.
 Group Exhibition, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago.
 "Sex in America," Galerie Im, Munich, Germany.
 "Watercolors," PPOW, New York.
 New Building Inaugural Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art,Chicago.
 "Private spaces, Public rooms," Freewaves Video Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
 "Blessings & Beginnings," The Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.
1997"The End of the Century: Prints since 1970 from the Permanent Collection," Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
 "20/20: CAF looks forward and back," Santa Barbara Contmporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California.
 "Auto-portrait," Exit Art, New York.
 "Wit, Whimsy and Humor," Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York.
1998"Taboo, Repression and Revolt," Gallery St. Etienne, New York.
 "5729-5756: The Jewish Museum List Graphic Commission," The Jewish Museum, New York.
 "The Bean Show," curated by Marc Pally and Rhonda Saboff, Dirt Gallery, Hollywood, California.
 Group show, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago.
 "Draw, Stranger, Draw," Plug In, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
 "Original Accounts of the Lone Woman of San Marcos Island," Side Street Projects, Los Angeles.
 "Life Lessons: How Art Can Change Your Life: The Judy and Stuart Spence Collection," Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California.
 "Bioethics: Thresholds of Corporal Completeness," Side Street Projects, Santa Monica.
 "Art at Michael's," Michael's Restaurant, Santa Monica.
 Group show, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York.
1999"Billboard," MassMOCA, Massachusetts.
 Group show, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago.
 Selections from the Permanent Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
2000"Made in California:NOW," LACMALab, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
2001"Recent Acquisitions featuring the Norton Gift," Berkeley Art Museum, UC Berkeley, California.
 "Lighten Up: Art with a Sense of Humor,"DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
 Group Show, Zolla/Lieberman, Chicago
 "Artist Writing Reading Room, Side Street Projects, LA
 "Amusement" Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago
 "Beverly Hills Collects," Beverly Hills Municipal Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
2002"Show: the Flag," Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena
 Selections from the Permanent Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
2003“American Dreams,” Ronald Feldman Gallery, NY
 “Whiteness: A Wayward Construct,” Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
 Zolla/Lieberman, Chicago
 “Me, We,” Art In General, New York
2004“Artists Interrogate: Politics and War.” Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
 “A Sharp Eye: An Art Dealer’s 40 year Journey,” Evanston Art Center, Evanston IL
  “100 Artists See Satan,” Fullerton Art Museum and traveling
2005“Situation Comedy,” MCA, Chicago and traveling

SPECIAL PROJECTS

 Artists Advisory Board, The New Museum, NY.
 
 Artist-In-Residence, WPLG/TV Miami, FL, 1985; sponsored by Post-Newsweek, TV Stations and Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
 
1999Board of Trustees, L.A.C.E., Los Angeles 1994-9

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

 Pratt Institute, New York, NY.
 
 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY.
 
 Carleton College, Northfield, MN.
 
 Camera Work, San Francisco, CA.
 
 Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
 
 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.
 
 University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.
 
 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
 
 Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA.
 
 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
 
 University of Missouri, St. Louis.
 
 New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY..
 
 Akademie Der Bildenden Kunste, Vienna.
 
 Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland.
 
 Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ.
 
 Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA.
 
 Sci-Arc, Los Angeles, CA.
 
 Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
 
 Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
 
 Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN
 
1987California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, Visiting Artist 1987.
1989-91California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, Visiting Artist 1989-91.
1995University of California, Los Angeles, Visiting Assistant Professor 1995.
1996Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, Graduate Program Faculty, 1996.
1997University of California, Los Angeles, Visiting Assistant Professor 1997.

AWARDS, HONORS

1990Art Matters Project Grant 1990
 Norton Family Foundation Grant for LA Festival Billboard 1990
1993Getty Center Artists's Fellowship 1993

COMMISSIONS

1984Sculpture for Creative Time's "Art on the Beach," New York, 1984:"Freedom of Expression National Monument," with Laurie Hawkinson, architect and John Malpede, performance artist.
1989Billboard for Art Against Aids, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., 1989: "Teenagers Don't Die From Aids."
1990Project for the Los Angeles Festival, 1990: Billboard: "There Are Still Traditional Families" Van Nuys Boulevard north of Hatteras, Los Angeles, CA.
 Project for the Los Angeles Festival, 1990: Window Installation: "Have You Attacked America Today?," Soap Plant, Los Angeles, CA.
1991-95Los Angeles County Transportation Commission, Lakewood Boulevard Green Line Station, permanent installation, 1991-95.
1992Billboard for Hartford, CT and Philadelphia, PA, 1992: "There are Still Families With..."
1994-97Los Angeles Public Library Robertson Branch Commission "Under the Covers," 1994-97.
1999-2001Hollywood & Highland, Los Angeles, permanent public art work, "The Road to Hollywood," 1999-2001.
2004"Freedom of Expression National Monument", a collaboration with Laurie Hawkinson, and John Malpede sponsored by Creative Time and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Foley Square, Lower Manhattan August 17-November 13, 2004
2006Friend Paper Company, Pasadena, permanent public art work, 2003 – 2006 (in progress)

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

 Museum of Modern Art, New York.
 
 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
 
 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
 
 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.
 
 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
 
 Allen Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio.
 
 Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee.
 
 Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio.
 
 New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.
 
 Van Abbemuseum, Ghent, Belgium.
 
 Musee d'Art Contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland.
 
 The New School for Social Research, New York.
 
 Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina.
 
 The New York Public Library, New York.
 
 Getty Center Library, Los Angeles.
 
 The Jewish Museum, San Francisco.
 
 UCLA Dickson Art Center, Los Angeles.
 
 University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach.
 
 Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley.
 
 Oakland Museum of California
 
 University Art Museum, Santa Barbara.
 
 Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida.
 
 Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho.
 
 Museum of Modern Art, New York.
 
 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
 
 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
 
 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.
 
 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
 
 Allen Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio.
 
 Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee.
 
 Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio.
 
 New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.
 
 Van Abbemuseum, Ghent, Belgium.
 
 Musee d'Art Contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland.
 
 The New School for Social Research, New York.
 
 Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina.
 
 The New York Public Library, New York.
 
 Getty Center Library, Los Angeles.
 
 The Jewish Museum, San Francisco.
 
 UCLA Dickson Art Center, Los Angeles.
 
 University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach.
 
 Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley.
 
 Oakland Museum of California
 
 University Art Museum, Santa Barbara.
 
 Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida.
 
 Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho.
 
 Berkeley Art Museum, University of California
 

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Gibson, Eric “The High Art of Highbrow Protest,” Wall Street Journal, August 27, 2004
Smith, Roberta, “Caution: Angry Artists at Work,” New York Times, August 27, 2004
AP, “Forget the GOP: Biggest NY Parties in the Streets,” Chicago Sun-Times, August 27, 2004
Brian Lehr, “Artful Protests,” Brian Lehr Show, WNYC, August 26, 2004
“Stars Come Out and Respond to GOP,” MSNBC, August 25, 2004
Time Out New York, August 25, 2004
Koolhaas, Jeroen, The New Yorker, August 23, 2004
Yah/Nay Show, WPS1, August 23, 2004
Dobnik, Vernea NYC Stages a Star-Studded Response to the GOP Convention (AP), Newsday, August 25, 2004, also appeared (with varied headlines) in: Toronto Star Aug 26, Globe and Mail Aug 26, Miami Herald Aug 25, Chicago Tribune, Aug 25 and many other newspapers
WABC-TV News, Time Out Picks, August 25, 2004
Haithman, Diane, “The Show From Hell,” Los Angeles Times, July 25, 2004
Chang, Richard, “Good & Evil,” Orange County Register, July 18, 2004
Takhar, Amrieka, “Whiteness: A Wayward Construction,” Stretcher, wwwstretcher.org, January 5, 2004.
Trainor, James, "Freedom of Expression National Monument,: Frieze Review, Nov/Dec 2004, Issue 87, p.107
Gottlieb, Shirle “Erika Rothenberg, Preview,” Artscene, March 2005.
Ammirati, Domenick “Freedom of Expression National Monument,” artUS 5/6, January/February 2005.
Freudenheim, Susan “Casting a cold eye…,” Los Angeles Times, March 25, 2005, E2.
Frank, Peter “Art Pick of the Week,” LA Weekly, April 8-14, 2005, p. 138 (reproduction).

BIBLIOGRAPHY BY THE ARTIST

Morally Superior Products: A New! Idea for Advertising, S/Z Press, New York, 1983
"Abandon the Good Life for a Life of Goodness," Artforum Artists Project, February 1989
"Have You Attacked America Today?," (photographic reproductions), Framework, Volume 3, 1990, pp 63-65.
"Greetings," silkscreened box set of greeting cards, IC. Editions, New York. 1993.
"Nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world," silkscreen edition, 22 x 28", the Jewish Museum, New York, 1994
“Paradise Lost” 2-part Iris print, Muse X Editions, 1996.
“Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” series of Iris prints, Muse X editions, 1996.
“Monument to a Bear” outdoor sculpture, edition of 2, 2003.

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