CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

2000

  • Master of Fine Arts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Art & Technology Emphasis

1988

  • Bachelor of Fine Arts, Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA. Graduated with distinction and appreciation.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

2007

  • Associate Professor with Tenure, San Diego State University, School of Art, Design and Art History

2001

  • Assistant Professor, San Diego State University, School of Art, Design and Art History. Teaches digital multimedia and photography courses. Multimedia Graduate Coordinator.

2000

  • Part-Time Faculty, Columbia College, Chicago, spring session. Taught web design/development courses.

1999

  • Part-Time Faculty, Columbia College, Chicago, spring, summer and fall sessions. Taught web design/development courses.
  • Teaching Assistantship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, spring session. Assisted digital imaging course in the photography department.

1995

  • Visiting Part-Time Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute, winter and spring sessions. Taught courses in the photography department.

PUBLICATIONS

2009

  • Jackrabbit Homestead: Tracing the Small Tract Act in the Southern California Landscape, 1938–2008, Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago (Center Books on the American West), Chicago, Il

2005

  • Greetings from the Salton Sea: Folly and Intervention in the Southern California Landscape, 1905–2005, Center for American Places (Center Books on the American West), Santa Fe, NM

COMMISSIONS

2002

  • Safe As Mother’s Milk: The Hanford Project, a web documentary and installation commissioned for the 2002 ART | ACTIVISM Visiting Artist Series at Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA.

2001

  • Salmoncity.net, a web-based project commissioned by the Seattle Arts Commission for Salmon in the City, a series of temporary artist projects responding to the recent ESA listing of Puget Sound Chinook salmon as regionally threatened.

GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS

2010

  • Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) “Investing in Artists” grant

2008

  • California Council for the Humanities awarded a California Story Fund project grant for Jackrabbit Homestead Web site and self-guided car audio tour.

2007

  • Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts awarded production funding for Jackrabbit Homestead book project

2004

  • Creative Work Fund awarded production funding for collaborative project with artists Amy Balkin and Tim Halbur with the non-profit organizations, Green Action and Pond for Invisible-5 Audio Tour.
  • Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts awarded production funding for Salton Sea book project.
  • Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Grant, San Diego State University, production funding for Salton Sea book project.

2003

  • Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Grant, San Diego State University, production funding for Salton Sea book project.

2002

  • Kodak Photo Educator Scholarship, Santa Fe Workshops, Santa Fe, NM

2001

  • Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Grant, San Diego State University

2000

  • James Nelson Raymond Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Cash Award

1995

  • Kodak Photo Educator Scholarship, Santa Fe Workshops, Santa Fe, NM

RESIDENCIES

2000

  • Atlantic Center for the Arts, attended a three-week residency April 14 – May 7, 2000 at Civitella Ranieri Center, Umbria, Italy. Master artists Mark Dion and William Kentridge headed this program.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010

  • Jackrabbit Homestead, Michael Dawson Books, Los Angeles, CA

2009

  • Jackrabbit Homestead: Tracing the Small Tract Act in the Southern California Landscape, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Center for Photography, Berkeley, CA

2008

  • Critical Landscapes: Kim Stringfellow, Hyde Art Gallery, Grossmont Community College, El Cajon, CA

2006

  • Greetings from the Salton Sea, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI

2005

  • Greetings from the Salton Sea: Folly and Intervention in the Southern California Landscape, 1905–2005 (book signing/exhibit), Michael Dawson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2003

  • Greetings from the Salton Sea (book fundraiser event), Circle Elephant Art, Los Angeles, CA

2002

  • Safe As Mother’s Milk: The Hanford Project, Henriette E. Woessner Alumni Gallery, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA

2001

  • Greetings from the Salton Sea, Gallery Two, Washington State University, Pullman, WA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008

  • Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments, Casa de Tunel Art Center, Tijuana, Mexico
  • Future Of Nations: Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
  • An Atlas of Radical Cartography, a traveling exhibition [www.an-atlas.com]

2007

  • Paradise Regained: Visionary Ecology and the Terrain of Ideals, Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA
  • Just Space(s), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA

2006

  • Ecotopia: The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center for Photography, NY
  • Invisible-5, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

2005

  • FILE, Sao Paulo, Brasil

2004

  • Speculative Terrain: Recent Views of the Southern California Landscape from San Diego to Santa Barbara, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
  • Safe As Mother’s Milk: The Hanford Project, ISEA 2004, Tallinn City Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
  • Speculative Terrain: Recent Views of the Southern California Landscape from San Diego to Santa Barbara, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
  • Tender Landscapes: Artists Respond to Human Involvement in the Natural World, Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, GA

2003

  • Speculative Terrain: Recent Views of the Southern California Landscape from San Diego to Santa Barbara, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
  • Siggraph’03, Web Graphics Expo, San Diego, CA
  • Digital State: New Faculty and Student Work at SDSU, SDSU Community Art Gallery, San Diego, CA

2002

  • Paisajes Toxicos, El Reino del Mundo Gallery, Bibliotéca Nacional José Martí, Havana, Cuba
  • Toxic Landscapes: Artists Examine the Environment, Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, NJ

2001

  • Toxic Landscapes: Artists Examine the Environment, Rachel Carson Institute, Chatham College, Pittsburg, PA

2000

  • MFA Graduate Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 2, Chicago, IL

1999

  • Seventh New York Digital Salon, School of Visual Arts, show traveled to Circulo de Bellas in Madrid, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain and the Centro de Cultura, Malaga, Spain
  • Rattling the Frame: The Photographic Space 1974-1999, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
  • Siggraph’99 technOasis: Art Site, Los Angeles, CA
  • Immedia’99, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

1996

  • The Saints and Other Unusual Personages, Mythos Gallery, Burbank, CA

1995

  • 13th Annual Photo Metro Contest Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
  • The Woman’s Show, Danville Fine Arts, Danville, CA

1994

  • Race and Gender…an Alternative View, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA
  • 20th Anniversary Membership Exhibition, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
  • Commodities, Secession Gallery at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • Barbie and Beyond, Morphos Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • Photographic Constructions, Morphos Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1993

  • Juried Exhibition, Photo Metro, San Francisco, CA

1992

  • It’s A Wonderful Life, Gallery 817, Los Angeles, CA

1991

  • Beyond Belief, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
  • Two Artists, Emanuel Radnitzky, San Francisco, CA
  • Circus, Show-n-Tell, San Francisco, CA

1990

  • 8th Annual Photo Metro Contest, Vision Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1989

  • 7th Annual Photo Metro Contest, Lee and Lees Contemporary Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • Objects of My Affection, Show-n-Tell, San Francisco, CA
  • Just a Bunch of Paintings, Show-n-Tell, San Francisco, CA
  • Beyond Permission, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX

AWARDS/HONORS

2003

  • South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Web Competition, Safe As Mother’s Milk selected as a finalist in the “Online Education Resource” category [www.sxsw.com/interactive/web_awards/finalists/]

1999

  • The Seventh New York Digital Salon selected The Charmed Horizon for exhibit at the School of Visual Arts [www.sva.edu/salon/]
  • SIGGRAPH’99, The Charmed Horizon was one of thirteen sites exhibited at the technOasis: ArtSite in Los Angeles [www.siggraph.org/s9.9/conference/art/artsite.html]
  • South by Southwest (SXSW) 2nd Annual Interactive Web Competition chose The Charmed Horizon as Best Art-Related Site [www.sxsw.com]

1995

  • 13th Annual Photo Metro Contest, 2nd place, Cash Award

1993

  • Photo Metro Annual Contest, Honorable Mention, Cash Award

1990

  • Photo Metro 8th Annual Contest, Honorable Mention Commercial Category, Cash Award

1989

  • Trio-7th Annual Photo Metro Contest, 3rd Place Commercial Category, Cash Award

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

2010

  • The Nevada Museum of Art

2007

  • The Margulies Collection at the WAREhOUSE, Miami, FL

1989

  • Polaroid International Collection, Osgood, Germany
  • Clarence Kennedy Gallery, Polaroid Domestic Collection, Cambridge, MA

LECTURES/INTERVIEWS

2010

  • Big City Forum #11, conversation with Kim Stringfellow and Rebeca Mendez hosted by Leonardo Bravo at Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2009

  • Artist-Led Exhibition Walkthrough for New Topographics Exhibit at LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
  • Lecture on Jackrabbit Homesteading for the Joshua Tree Park Association’s Old Schoolhouse Lecture series, Twentynine Palms, CA
  • Visiting artist lecture, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Center for Photography, Berkeley, CA
  • UNLV Visiting Artist Lecture Series, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • Public Salon Lecture Series, FARMLAB, Los Angeles, CA
  • Southern California Collage: Back Roads, Parklands, Waterways, Historical Society of Southern California 12th Annual Autry History Conference. Panel discussion presentation for “Alternative Histories: Art and the Southern California Environment,” moderated by Los Angeles Urban Ranger, Jenny Price. Autry National Center, of the American West, Los Angeles, CA

2008

  • Ground Truth: Mapping the Invisible Landscape, ALOUD Lecture Series at the Los Angeles Central Library. Panel discussion of Invisible-5 with co-collaborator, Amy Balkin and Matt Coolidge of CLUI on 11/9/2008.
  • Borrego Springs Performing Arts Center, Borrego Springs, CA. Lecture/presentation on the Salton Sea.

2006

  • These Days, KPBS San Diego, November 9th, 2006. Interview by Tom Fudge on the 100th anniversary of the Salton Sea.
  • The California Report, KQED San Francisco, October 13th, 2006. Feature on Invisible-5 audio project.
  • Publishing the Photographic Book, Photo SF, San Francisco, CA
  • The Art of Biologies and Environmentalism, Digital Arts and New Media Festival (DAMN) Festival, UC Santa Cruz, CA

2004

  • ISEA 2004: Geopolitics of Media conference (presentation of Safe As Mother’s Milk: The Hanford Project), Tallinn, Estonia

2003

  • Lunchtime Lecture Series, UC Berkeley Art Department, Berkeley, CA

2002

  • Gallery Talk: Jeanne-Claude and Christo, Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

1994

  • Artist Lecture: Gayle Tanaka/Kim Stringfellow, moderated by Teri Cohn, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • Jenny Price, “Southern California Day Trip: Joshua Tree,” Sunset Magazine, January 2010.
  • Judith Salkin, “Artists embrace harsh desert in creating their own wide open gallery spaces,” Desert Sun, August 8th, 2009.
  • Emily Scott, PhD Candidate, UCLA Art History, “Field Operations: the Geographical Impulse in Post-1960s Art,” paper/lecture delivered at the College Art Association Annual Meeting, February 26, 2009.
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  • Leah Ollman, “Around the Galleries: The briny beauty of the Salton Sea,” Los Angeles Times, Friday, August 19, 2005
  • “Creative Work Fund Grants,” Artweek, September, 2004.
  • Joseph Woodward, “’Speculative Terrain’ at the Carnegie Art Musuem,” Artweek, April 2004
  • Susan Platt, “Changing Models for Public Art: Seattle’s “Salmon in the City,” Sculpture Magazine, June 2002, Vol. 21 No. 8
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  • “Transformation & Decay: Kim Stringfellow’s Sensual Shrines,” Art Alternatives, Summer 1995
  • Terri Cohn, “Shaped Identities: The Photographic Object,” Camerawork Quarterly, Spring 1994
  • Joe Donohoe, “The Theology of Kim Stringfellow,” Filth, Issue #13, May 1994
  • Photography At Bay, John Bloom, University of New Mexico Press, 1993
  • 1993 Annual Contest Issue, Photo Metro, November 1993
  • M.A. Greenstein, “Fauxtography L.A.,” Visions Art Quarterly, Summer 1992
  • “No More Heroes,” Camerawork Quarterly, Summer/Fall 1991
  • John Bloom, “Beyond Belief at SF Camerawork,” Photo Metro, August 1991
  • Stephanie Watson, “Butterflies are Symbols of the Soul,” Arterial, July/August 1991
  • 8th Annual Contest Issue, Photo Metro, October 1990
  • Heather Mackay, “Circus of Styles,” SF Bay Guardian, May 20, 1990
  • Trio-7th Annual Contest Issue, Photo Metro, October 1989
  • Beyond Permission, Houston Center for Photography, Dossier on the Exhibition, April 1989
  • “Selections,” Photo Metro, November 1988
  • “Beyond Underground: Two Offbeat Photo Shows,” SF Chronicle, June 1988