Artist Bio
Lauren Lavitt
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About Lauren Lavitt Born In Los Angeles in 1980 Education 2002-2005 M.F.A. University of California, Los Angeles 1998-2002 B.F.A. Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles Teaching Experience 2006 Present Instructor, LA College International 2005 spring, Video (FCP) Instructor, UCLA 2002-2005 New Genres Teaching Assistant, UCLA Lectures 2006 Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles 2006 Temple University in Rome, Italy 2005 British School at Rome, Italy 2004 Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles Awards, Scholarships and Residences 2005-2006 Abbey Scholarship Residency Award, The British School at Rome, Rome, Italy 2004-2005 Orsellie Award 2004-2005 Clifton Webb Award 2004 UCLA Council Award 2002-2004 UCLA Graduate Division Award 2003-2004 Hoyt Award Selected Exhibitions 2007 The Wild Flower, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles CA, Guest Curator Rosanna Albertini – Solo Exhibition Next new, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose CA. Annual exhibition of emerging artists, nominated by distinguished faculties from MFA California programs. John Baldessari nominated Lavitt. 2006 Overlap 3, British School at Rome, Rome, Italy Urban/Suburban, Temple University, Rome, Italy Trying to Land, MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy Videoformes 21 art video/nouveaux media, Clermont Ferrand, France Overlap 2, British School at Rome, Rome, Italy 2005 Overlap, British School at Rome, Rome, Italy Flower Album, Play Gallery, Berlin, Germany – Solo Exhibition Fair play, Play Gallery, Berlin, Germany Genderosity, 4F Gallery, Los Angeles CA Anarchy, Slam dance Film Festival Super Sonic, Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles CA The path of the moons and planets, Crazy Space, Santa Monica CA Gea’s Sweets, Bologna Flash Art Fair, Bologna, Italy 2004 1234, Thing Studio, Venice CA Blanking, The Smell, Los Angeles CA Summer Show, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles CA Where the art stops and starts, The Latch Gallery, Los Angeles CA 2003 Splat, Art 2102 Gallery, Los Angeles CA Disquielted, 4F Gallery, Los Angeles CA Materials Process, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont CA The Lowe Gallery Invitational, The Lowe Gallery, Santa Monica CA Anarchy, Slam dance Film Festival Sundown Salon, curators: Fritz Heag, Pipilotti Rist and Skylar Haskard, Los Angeles 2002 Some times it’s dark, Practice Space, Los Angeles CA Gallery commencement, 4F Gallery, Los Angeles CA Bibliography 2007 Michael Grant, “SoFA Sights”, Metro Active, August 15-21 2006 Sonia Campagnola, “Focus Los Angeles”, Flash Art January-February 2006 Catalogue Videoformes 21, “American Video Art,” a selection by Rosanna Albertini, pp. 58-59 2005 Carlo Alberto Bucci, “Accademie, Natale d’arte”, La Repubblica December 2005 Flash Art January-February p.46, Image 2004 Mark Roth, tinsquo, September 21 2004 Gea Politi, “Gea’s Square, Flash Art July-August, p.43 |