Michele Jaquis

BIOGRAPHY

1975        born in Buffalo, NY
2000 -    lives/works in Los Angeles, CA

EDUCATION

2000      MFA Sculpture, Honors, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1997       BFA Sculpture and Experimental Studio, Summa Cum Laude, minor Psychology,
                Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, CT
1996       Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007       we still do not have to inherit everything they leave for us, LAAA/Gallery 825 - Wurdeman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
                we do not have to inherit eveything they leave for us, South La Brea Gallery, Inglewood, CA
2003       is this something i even want?, The Office, Huntington Beach, CA
2002       (re)connected, LAAA/Gallery 825 - South Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001       Reparations, The Hatch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

FILM/VIDEO SCREENINGS

2008      RECOVERED - Journeys Through the Autism Spectrum and Back, Victoria Independent Film Festival, Victoria,
                Australia; Northwest Area Education Agency, Sioux City, IA; National Autism Association Conference, Weston, FL;
                Director's Chair Film Festival (Best Documentary), Staten Island, NY; Defeat Autism Now! Conference, San Diego,
                CA; 92Y Tribeca, New York, NY; Folino Theater, Chapman University, Orange, CA (review); Hyatt Regency Austin,
                Austin, TX; Children's Hospital Central CA, Madera, CA; Campbell Community Center, Campbell, CA; Back to School
                Autism/Asperger's Conference, Pasadena Convention Center, Pasadena, CA; The Nile Theater, Bakersfield, CA; Hope
                Academy, Greenville, SC; Silver Screen Theater / Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA (interview, review)
2006      Honeymoon in Havana, Orion's Shorts, outdoor screening curated by FussFactory, Landers, CA
2005       Honeymoon in Havana, 80 Second Videos, curated by Jeremy Quinn, LAAA/Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA and The
                Music Box @ Fonda,  Hollywood, CA; Keep in Touch, curated by Felicia Dickerson, New Space Gallery, Hollywood, CA
                Raw Footage, You Promise, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA; Quixotic Arts Festival, curated by Caleb
                Hammond, Chelsea Theatre Works, Boston, MA
2004       uncertainties, Best of Video 825, curated by Ashley McLean Emenegger, LAAA/Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
2003       uncertainties, drinking fountain, Fire 2.0, curated by Caleb Hammond, FluxFactory, Long Island City, NY; Best of
                Video 825, curated by Ashley McLean Emenegger for MAKDAY Seen and Heard in LA, MAK Center for Art and
                Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
                drinking fountain, expectations, Performative Video II, curated by Camilo Alvarez, Remote Lounge, New York, NY
2002       (re), with, Twinsanity, curated by Andy Spletzer, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA (review)
2001       uncertainties, drinking fountain, (re), Video 825, Inaugural Monthly Screening, curated by Ashley McLean
               Emenegger, LAAA/Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCE EVENTS

2008      Freewaves 11th Biennial Film, Video and New Media Arts Festival: Hollywould..., Hollywood, CA
                Omage: The Artists, Designers, and Writers of Otis College of Art and Design, curated by Lisa Melandri, Track 16
                Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
                The Arts District Community Arts Festival, Art Share, Los Angeles, CA
                I-Dentity, curated by Ashley McLean Emenegger, University of Missouri Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO
2007       Go Native - Installed, organized by LAAA, Phantom Galleries LA, Pasadena, CA
                Connectivity, curated by Rex Bruce, LA Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
2006      Look In, curated by Ashley Mclean Emenegger, Phantom Galleries LA, Pasadena, CA
                Omage: The Artists, Designers, and Writers of Otis College of Art and Design, curated by Christopher Miles, Track
                16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
                Sweater - a collaborative installation directed byTim Hawkinson, LAAA/Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
                Random Perspectives, Red House Gallery, Venice, CA, curated by Ashley McLean Emenegger and Evelyn
                Fitzgibbon
2005       Hands On, curated by Elise Barclay and Jay Belloli , Armory Northwest/965, Pasadena, CA
                Dis/Connect, curated by D. Jean Hester, South La Brea Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
                SoundWalk, curated by FLOOD, Arts Distrcit, Long Beach CA (catalog)
                Off the Map, curated by Jane Castillo, Corina Gamma and Amy Robinson, private home, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
                Interchange 3, curated by D. Jean Hester, LAAA/Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
2004       Interchange 2, curated by D. Jean Hester, LAAA/Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
                Identification, curated by Carol Es, Highways Performance Space and Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003       American Made, curated by Chris Tallon, The LAtch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
                Now, and Now Again, curated by Ed Pelisier, The Wedge at the Woman’s Building, Los Aangeles, CA
                Interchange, curated by D. Jean Hester, Melrose Light Space, Los Angeles, CA
                [sub]URBAN[sub]VERSION, curated by Kimmy McCann, Zone 9 Art Events at the Little Tokyo Lofts, Los
                Angeles, CA
2002       Artworklife, curated by Chris Tallon, The LAtch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
                First Triennial Sculpture Exhibition, Woods Gerry Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI
                The Daily Circus, curated by Chris Tallon and Brooke Sauer, The LAtch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
                I/O (#3) Skin, curated by Michael Smit, Quotidian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
                Reactions, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA and Exit Art, New
                York, NY
                Muse Late Night at LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
                Movement, Key Club’s Video Billboard, Sunset Blvd., W. Hollywood, CA
                LAtch out, The LAtch Gallery, curated by Chris Tallon and Chris Sicat, Los Angeles, CA
2001       Engaging Materialism, curated by Jennifer Shim and Jessica Stewart, Art Share, Los Angeles, CA
                Controlling Nature: Mental vs. Vegetable, curated by Kimmy McCann, Zone 9 Art Events, Los Angeles, CA
                Quick Flicks in conjunction with Video Jam, curated by Jody Servon, Palm Beach ICA, Lake Worth, FL
                Art Flux - a New Media Event, Southern California Insitute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
2000       Long Beach 2000 Faculty Biennial, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
                Site for Sore Eyes, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
                MFA Thesis Exhibition, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
                On the Cusp of Hope, curated by Anne West, Sol Koffler Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI
                Exchange: Parsons / RISD MFA Student Exhibition, curated by Anne Ellegood, Parsons Gallery, New York, NY and
                Market House Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI
                Performance Art?, curated by Michele Jaquis, Art Space, Hartford, CT
1999       Sculpture Biennial, Woods Gerry Galleries, RISD, Providence, RI
                The Y2K Solution: Creative Moves into the 21st Century, curated by Lydia Grey and Jim Jeffers, Mason Gross
                School of the Arts Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
                3rd. Annual International Video Festival, curated by Bernard Toale, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
                99 - Providence to Philadelphia, curated by Dan Rosenfeld, RISD at White Box, Philadelphia, PA
                I'm Here, a collaborative performance directed by Mary Paula Hunter, Carriage House Theater, Providence, RI
                RISD @ Mobius, Mobius, Boston, MA
1998       Longing, Market House Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI (three person)
                No England No Amsterdam III, curated by Richard Vine, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
                Evening of Performance, curated by Gene Gort, Hartford Art School, CT
1997        No England No Amsterdam II, curated by Kenny Schachter, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
                BFA Thesis Exhibition, Taub Hall Gallery, Hartford Art School, West Hartford, CT (three person)

SPECIAL PROJECTS

2008      Site Coordinator (with Jerri Allyn), reinvention of Fluids - a Happening by Allan Kaprow, Westchester Park, Los
                Angeles, CA (organized by Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
2003       30 minutes from here (Rise Industries Collaboration with Jeremy Quinn) and fixed (Collaboration with Tina
                Holmes), video installations featured in Neil Matsumoto’s independent feature film Fixed
2002 -    uncertainties, video included in Art in Unexpected Places - an ideagarden.org Installation, 300 California Street,
                San Francisco, CA

COLLECTIONS

                ACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
                Reactions (Exit Art’s exhibition about the public’s response to September 11th), The Library of Congress,
                Washington, D.C.
                Women Artist Archive, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA
                Permanent Archive, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
                private collections in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Rhode Island, Virginia and Ireland

AWARDS

2008      Best Documentary, Director's Chair Film Festival
2007       University of California Riverside Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Fund Award
2007-03 LAAA/Gallery 825 Artist Member Scholarship Award
2004       Otis Matching Scholarship to attend Creative Capital Professional Development Workshop
2003       University of California Riverside Faculty Minigrant for Instructional Development
2001       Globe Gallery’s First Prize Award for Video
LAAA      Southern California Open Award
2000       LAAA Southern California Open Honorable Mention Award
                International Sculpture Center Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Honorable Mention
1999       Sylvia Leslie Herman Young Scholarship
1998 - 99 Rhode Island School of Design Graduate Fellowship
1998       69th Annual Connecticut Women Artists, Inc. Juried Show Dick Blick Award (juried by Judy Chicago)
1997       Helen Cheney Martyn Prize

REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS

2008      Mikailian, Arin, “Autistic Teens Honored at PDC,” The Los Angeles Independent West Hollywood Edition, May 1-7,
                2008, p. 1, 4
                Tarbox, Jonathan, “Recovered Journeys Through The Autism Spectrum and Back: An Interview with Documentary
                Co-Producer Michele Jaquis,” Autism One Radio, April 24, 2008
                Yavorcik, Carin, “‘Recovered’ Premieres in Los Angeles,” Autism Society of America, April 15, 2008               
               “Research & Scholarship: Documentary Focuses on Autism,” Inside UCR: News for Faculty and Staff of the
                University of California, Riverside, Volume 4 Number 3, February 13, 2008, p. 3
2007       Hill, Jason, "Michele Jaquis," Ten by Ten, March 2007
2006       Myers, Holly, "Close-knit 'Sweater' teamwork", Los Angeles Times, July 14, 2006, Calendar E20
                Grau Twena, Pamela and Harlan, Nancy, Confessions exhibition catalog, OCCCA, April 2006
2005       FLOOD, SoundWalk 2005 exhibition catalog, August, 2005
                Castillo, Gamma and Robinson, Off The Map exhibition catalog, July, 2005
                Walker, Alissa, “Michele Jaquis, Interview,” UnitedDivas, March/April, 2005
2003       Lasarow, Bill, “June Preview: Mining the content of the banal”, Art Scene Cal, May 24, 2003
2002       Stevens, Craig, “Annual Installation Show at Gallery 825”, Artweek, Dec, 2002, p. 24
                “Twinsanity Shorts”, The Stranger, Seattle, WA, Oct. 3-9, 2002
                Gottlieb, Shirle, “Arresting Art”, la.com, Aug. 23, 2002
                Griesbach, L. Hermes, “I Am Not a Millionaire - No Soy Millonario”, RiM: Artist Rag from Mexico City and LA,
                No. 1, Summer 2002, p. 34, 35
2001       McCann, Kimmy, “Reparations”, kimmymccann.com, Oct. 28, 2001
2000      ”ISC 2000 Outstanding Student Achievement Awards”, Sculpture, vol 19, no. 6., July/Aug, 2000, p. 80
1998       Rosoff, Patricia “Playing Artistic Mind Games”, The Hartford Advocate, Oct.1, 1998, art section
1997       McNally, Owen “It’s Art All Over the Place”, Hartford Courant, June 1, 1997, section G p.1

PANEL DISCUSSIONS AND LECTURES

2008      Conversation Series (with other Fluids participants), "Trade Talk" in conjunction with "Allan Kaprow - Art as Life,"
               The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
               Filmmaker's presentation, "Recovered - Journeys Through the Autism Spectrum and Back," Silver Screen Theater at
                the Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA
2007       Visiting Artist, Sculpture New Genres I class, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
                Conversation with the Artist, "we still do not have to inherit everything they leave for us " LAAA/Gallery 825,
                Los Angeles, CA
2006       Conversation with the Artists, "Sweater," with Sophia Allison, Neil Fenn, Tim Hawkinson, Sharon Kagan,
                Meeson Pae Yang and Arthur Pembleton, LAAA/Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
2005       Panelist, “Otis Grrls at Crazy Space," with women faculty, students and alumni from Otis College of Art and
                Design, Crazy Space, Santa Monica, CA
2004       Panelist, "MFA, How to get it, Where to get it, Why get it?," with Mitra Fabian and Amy Robinson,
                LAAA/Gallery 825 Artist Hash Session, Los Angeles, CA
2002       Conversation with the Artist, "(re)connected," LAAA/Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
1999       Panelist, "Post Academic Artists Communities," with Bill Arning, Lia Gangitano, Barbara Pollack, and William
                Pope L., Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ

JURY AND CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE

2001-07 Member (Chair 2002 - 2005), Film and Video 825 Program Committee, LAAA/Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
2006       Curator, The State of the World - Personal reflections on war, politics, society, race and gender, Film and Video
                825, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
2005, 06 Curatorial Review Panelist, GYST Workshop, Side Street Projects, Pasadena, CA
2005       Co-curator (with women faculty from Otis College of Art and Design), Otis Grrls at Crazy Space, Crazy Space,
                Santa Monica, CA
                Selection Committee Member, 2006 Solo Shows, LAAA/Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
2004       Review Panelist, The Lumens Award, Side Street Projects, Pasadena, CA
2002, 03 Juror, Southern California Scholastic Art Awards, video category, Otis College of Art and Design, LA, CA
2002       Judge, Conejo Valley Art Museum’s Art Walk, Thousand Oaks, CA
2001        Curator, Self Reflexive: short videos in which the maker is also the performer, Video 825, LAAA/Gallery 825,
                Los Angeles, CA
                Co-Curator (with S.E. Barnet and Rebecca Carter), Breaking Time - Two Semesters of Video Art at Otis College
                of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2000       Curator, Performance Art?, part of the Expressive Rhythms series, sponsored by Circles - CT’s Center for
                Photography, Art Space, Hartford, CT
1999       Curator, Live Window Art: six artists, six performances, six days, Sol Koffler Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI

PROFESSIONAL AFFILLIATIONS

2004 -    McLean Fine Art, Altadena, CA
2001-07 LAAA/Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
2000 -    College Art Association

CURRENT POSITIONS

Aug. 2008 - Assistant Professor and ACT Program Coordinator, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Oct. 2003 - Videographer/Editor, Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Tarzana, CA