University of
California, Irvine (M.F.A. Studio Art,
2001) Yale University,
New Haven, CT (B.A. Literature, 1994)
GROUP
EXHIBITION and PROJECT HISTORY, select:
2010 Professor Dialogs — I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Scents and Sensibilities — curated by Koán Jeff Baysa, Smith Farm Center, Washington D.C.
Group Show — curated by Carl Berg, Carl Berg Projects, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA
2009 Visionary Drawing Building, a book and webarchive project by Matt Bua and Max Goldfarb— Mass MOCA, North Adams, MA and at www.drawingbuilding.org Manifestation — curated by Carl Berg, Carl Berg Projects, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA
2008 Time, Space and Alchemy — Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Less Remote: The Futures of Space Exploration — curated by Flis Holland and Rob Le Frenais with The Arts Catalyst, 59th International Astronautical Congress, Glasgow, Scotland
"PEGLEG: Up for War" (installation) — a public memorial project for the Space Shuttle Columbia, ongoing since 2004, 4312 Clinton St., Los Angeles, CA
2007 Exquisite Crisis — curated by Yong Soon Min, Asian/Pacific/American Institute, New York University, New York City Miniature — organized by David Hoffos, The Other Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada Monster Drawing Rally — curated by Julie Deamer, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Spill — two-person
exhibition with David Khang — Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, BC,
Canada (catalog) Irrational Exhibits 5 (performance) — curated by Deborah Oliver, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2005 Mediatopia.2 — curated by Lara Bank and Andrew Bucksbarg, www.mediatopia.net (digital catalog)
Intersection
—curated by Margaret Adachi, Eagle Rock Center for the
Arts, Eagle Rock, CA Vanitas — curated by Colton Stenke,
Mission College Gallery, Santa Clara, CA and The Brewery, Los Angeles,
CA
2004 Severe Negotiations
— curated by Tyler Stallings, The Office: An Art Space, Huntington Beach, CA
…Of Cocks and Tongues
— two person exhibition with David Khang - Paxico Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA gardenLAb — curated by Fritz Haag,
Wind Tunnel Exhibition Hall, Art Center, Pasadena,
CA
2003 UCI Alumni
Invitational — University Art Gallery, Irvine, CA
tranZlab 4.0, with Marcos Lutyens — Electronic
Orphanage, Los Angeles, CA
2002 MOISTURE, a project by Deena Capparelli and Claude Willey— Center
for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), Desert Research Station,
Hinkley, CA
Whacked (sculpture and performance)
— curated by John Souza, Practice Space, Los Angeles, CA
Aspen Valley
Biennial — curated by Dean Sobel, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Faculty
Show — University of Southern California, Los
Angeles, CA
2001 Cyborg
Manifesto, or, The Joy of Artifice
— curated by Tyler Stallings, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA (digital catalog) Post-Op
— deep river, Los Angeles, CA Insider
Trading [profit without honor], a project by Lisa Prior— Mandeville Hotel, London, UK (digital catalog)
"...To Overcome Congenital Tunnel Vision"— (thesis) University of California, Irvine
2000 Aspen Valley Biennial — curated by Dean Sobel, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
1998 Lullaby
Witnessing (solo) — Castle Creek Gallery, Aspen, CO
HONORS and AWARDS:
2008 Durfee Foundation Grant
2001 National Scholar Fellowship Award — University of California, Irvine
2000 National Scholar Fellowship Award — University of California, Irvine
1994 Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Distinction in the Literature Major — Yale University
1993 Comparative Literature Research and Travel Grant — Yale University
INVITATIONAL RESIDENCIES:
2009 Kaus Australis — Rotterdam, Netherlands
2007 "Imaginary Places" — Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada
LECTURES and PRESENTATIONS:
2010 "Art and Innovation," Artist Lecture, San Diego Museum of Art
2009 "Life As We Know It?", presentation with Dr. Christopher Boxe, planetary atmospheric research scientist from JPL/NASA, at "Birth/Day," Visual Studies conference at University of California, Irvine
"Up in the Air: Constraints for Life Sought through Atmospheric Models and Thermodynamic Calculations," presentation with Dr. Christopher Boxe (JPL/NASA), Art | Sci salon, UCLA
2008 Guest Artist, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA (spring and fall)
"Current Projects," Less Remote, International Astronautical Congress, Glasgow, Scotland
2006 "War in the Flower Field," Camouflage: Art, Science and Popular Culture University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls "My Body in Space as a Blur," TRANS Culture, (poster session), University of Wisconsin, Madison
BIBLIOGRAPHY, select:
Brooks, Kimberly. "Carrie Paterson, Barbarella, and the Dark Side of Mercury," The Huffington Post (Jan. 26, 2008)
Buckley, Annie. "The Art of Inquiry," Glass Quarterly (Spring 2009): 40-1, 46-7.
Chang, Richard. "Driven by Technology," Orange County Register (April 15, 2001): 8.
-- "Prime Ticket," Orange County Register (March 20-21)
Click, Carrie. "From Insomnia ... Art," Aspen Times (September 26-27, 1998): 7-B.
Coleman, Caryn. "Severe Negotiations Review," ART.BLOGGING.LA (March 3, 2004)
Coleman, Melissa. "Artist Carrie Paterson - Modern-Day Mina Loy," Roaring Fork Sunday (August 15, 1998): 13.
Hoff, Chris. "Carrie Paterson Online," The OC Art Blog (November 10, 2004)
"Insider Trading (Profit without Honour)," TANK, Vol. 2 In the Zone, Issue 3 (March 2001): 18. Featured image.
Klein, Jeannie. "West Coast Reviews: Cyborg Manifesto," Art Papers (November/December 2001): 81.
Kraus, Chris "Rant Against the Machine," PaxicoReview.com (October, 2004)
Oksenhorn, Stewart. "The Fresh Vision of the Aspen Valley Biennial," Aspen Times (October 7-8, 2000)
Patt, Lise. Ed. Benjamin's Blind Spot: Walter Benjamin and the Premature Death of Aura, Institute of Cultural Inquiry (2001) Illustrations.
Pearson, Gary. "Staying Alive?" Off-Centre Magazine (April 2006): 10.
Wade, Liza. "Current Exhibit: 'Scents and Medical Sensibilities' at Smith Farm Center," The DC Fragrance Examiner, examiner.com (March 16, 2010). Featured image.
2003-10 Art Department, (Graduate Seminar) California State
University, Fullerton
2006-10 Art Department, (undergraduate course on the narrative structures of video games, comics and graphic novels) California State
University, Fullerton
2005 Chapman University, Art and Art History Department,
Orange, CA
2003-4 School of the Arts, University of California,
Irvine
2002 Sculpture Department, University of
Southern California, Los Angeles
Sculpture Department, California State
University, Long Beach
American Intercontinental University, Marina
del Rey, CA (visiting artist)
School of the Arts, University of California, Irvine
(visiting artist)
2001-2 Composition Department, English
and Comparative Literature, University of California Irvine
2001 School of the Arts, University of California,
Irvine