ARTEMISA MARIE DOLORES CLARK
www.artemisaclark.com | artemisaclark@gmail.com
Born 1985, Los Angeles, CA.
Lives and works in Chicago, IL.
EDUCATION
2021
2015
2008
Ph.D., Performance Studies. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. (expected)
Master of Fine Arts, Visual Arts. University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
Committee: Lisa Cartwright (chair), Ricardo Dominguez, Mariana Botey, Brian Cross,
Patrick Anderson.
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photography & Imaging. Minor: Anthropological Archaeology. Tisch
School of the Arts, New York University, New York, NY.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
2015
2014
2013
2011
2010
THERE IS A DEVIL INSIDE ME. Performance for “THERE IS A DEVIL INSIDE ME.” Public Space
One, Iowa City, IA, September 8, 2015.
Lo Que Recuerdo. Performance for the exhibition 8 // MFA Graduate Exhibition 2015.
University Art Gallery, UCSD, June 11, 2015.
Re-Tracing Mendieta. Performative research done on University of Iowa Campus/throughout
Iowa City. Made possible by Catalyst Lab, Department of Visual Art, and funded by The
University of California Institute for Research in the Arts. Iowa City, IA.
Nothing We Haven't Seen Before. Visual Arts Graduate Gallery, UCSD.
Smile Now, Cry Later. Performance for the exhibition Cognitive Camouflage. A Ship in the
Woods, Del Mar, CA January 30, 2015.
Are You Having Fun Yet? Well, I Guess We'll See. Performance for the exhibition You Can't
Choose Your Neighbors. SOMA, Mexico City, Mexico, August 20, 2014.
Are We Having Fun Yet? No, I Don't Think So. Performance for the exhibition SOMAWAX.
Bikini Wax, Mexico City, Mexico, August 8, 2014.
Lo Que Recuerdo. Performance for the exhibition Darin Klein & Friends Present: Mux Demux.
Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles, CA, June 1, 2014.
Re-Performance #02: Cut Piece. Visual Arts Performance Space, UCSD. Performed during the
conference After the Fact: Feminist Cultural Production & Temporal Dissonance, 7th Annual
VisArts PhD Symposium, March 8, 2014.
Re-Performance #01: Untitled (Rape Scene). Pendergrast Gallery, UCSD, January 10, 2014.
My Darling, Sexy, Beautiful Tropicanita. Visual Arts Graduate Gallery, UCSD, September 7,
2013.
I've Been Trying to Tell You. Pendergrast Gallery, UCSD. September 7, 2013.
An Exercise in the Impossible (After Manuel Arechiga). Elysian Park, Los Angeles, CA.
September 20, 2011.
Tell Me Something No One Else Knows. The Strange, Los Angeles, CA, November 18, 2010.
Forgetting Last Year. Private Residence, Los Angeles, CA, October 16, 2010.
Untitled (Lasst uns zum Basilika gehen). In and around Hohensalzburg Fortress, Salzburg,
Austria, August 24, 2010.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
2014
8 // MFA Graduate Exhibition 2015. University Art Gallery, UCSD.
Abramović Method Workshop and 3015, led by Marina Abramović in collaboration with Kim
Stanley Robinson. University Art Gallery, UCSD.
Cognitive Camouflage. A Ship in the Woods, Del Mar, CA.
Las Chicas Presents. 50 Taaffe Place, Brooklyn, NY.
Catalyst Lab Open House. Structural and Materials Engineering Building, UCSD.
You Can't Choose Your Neighbors. Soma, Mexico City, Mexico.
SOMAWAX. Bikini Wax, Mexico City, Mexico.
Darin Klein & Friends Present: Mux Demux. Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles, CA.
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2013
2012
2011
2010
Performance Art 101, group performance lead by visiting artist Kembra Pfahler. Structural
& Materials Engineering Performance Space, UCSD.
Greater Los Angeles Master of Fine Arts Exhibition. CSU Long Beach Long Beach, CA.
Sincerely Yours. Visual Arts Facility Room 452, UCSD. Speculation & Spectacle.
Rogue Art. 240 Meeker Ave, Brooklyn, NY.
Wallpaper. Art & Design Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Space and Body. Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria.
PUBLICATIONS
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
“Are We Having Fun Yet? No, I Don’t Think So.” Emergency INDEX: An Annual Document of
Performance Practice, Vol. 4. Ed. Sophia Cleary, Yelena Gluzman. Brooklyn, NY: Ugly
Ducking Presse, 2015.
8 // MFA Graduate Exhibition 2015. Show catalogue.
Sensitive Boys. “Special Summer Issue: In Living Color.” Edited and produced in
collaboration with Melinda Guillen. Light and Wire Gallery.
Speed Dating. Soma Summer publication.
Mux Demux. Show catalogue.
“My Darling, Sexy, Beautiful Tropicanita.” UnWeave Research Notebook, published by the
Discursive & Curatorial Productions Initiative, “Issue 3: Topologies of the Underground:
Metaphors, Extensions & Speculations.”
Sensitive Boys. Chapbook series edited and produced in collaboration with Melinda
Guillen. "Issue Two: The Cult of Crying." Self-published.
"My Darling, Sexy. Beautiful Tropicanita." RECAPS MAGAZINE, “Issue Nine: Reclaim (the
millennial) Generation,” October 7 2013.
Sensitive Boys. "Issue One: Feeling Feelings." Self-published.
"An Exercise in the Impossible (After Manuel Arechiga)." RECAPS MAGAZINE, “Issue Three:
(Re)writing the Road,” August 13 2012.
Untitled (Lasst uns zum Basilika gehen) featured on rawfunction, May 29 2011.
Following Piece LA featured on i like this art, April 24 2011.
"Box Scheme," Blouin Artinfo, July 9, 2010.
“The Game of Memory: Review of Kerry Tribe’s H. M.,” Anthem Magazine Online, April 7,
2009.
“Dan Graham: Beyond,” Anthem Magazine Online, March 3, 2009.
2008. Publication of works by NYU's Tisch Department of Photography and Imaging
graduating class. New York, 2008.
REVIEWS
2014
2013
2011
Sensitive Boys Issue Two featured in REVIEW 2014, published yearly by the Department of
Visual Arts, UCSD.
Sensitive Boys Issue One featured in REVIEW 2013, published yearly by the Department of
Visual Arts, UCSD.
Kelly Smith. "Calling all those who are 'haunted' by memories in Echo Park," echo park
now, October 12 2011.
TALKS AND CONFERENCES
2015
2014
“Nothing We Haven’t Seen Before,” talk on panel with Rafa Esparza and Raquel Gutierrez
for “Soldadera: Absorbing, Transforming Violence In and Through Our Work,” symposium
organized by Jennifer Doyle for Nao Bustamante’s solo exhibition, Soldadera, Vincent
Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA, July 18, 2015.
“Nothing We Haven’t Seen Before,” talk for the June convening of “analog dissident.”
Organized by Jimena Sarno, Los Angeles, CA. May 10, 2015.
Lecture Series Participant: "You Gotta See It To Be It." Organized by Mario Ybarra, Jr.
and Karla Diaz, Slanguage Studio/Third World Productions, Long Beach, CA, September 17,
2014.
"My Darling, Sexy, Beautiful Tropicanita." COGR 275: Dialogues on Feminism and
Technology. Professors Lisa Cartwright and Elizabeth Losh. Communications, UCSD. April 8,
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2013
2014.
Sensitive Boys booth in "Zine World." LA Art Book Fair, Organized by Printed Matter, Inc.
The Geffen Contemporary at Moca, Los Angeles, CA, January 31 - February 2, 2014.
"Mediated Public Spaces, Embodiment and Virtual Communities" working group with Tavia
Nyong'o, Jasmina Tumbas, Kristy Kan, Ioana Literat, Sofia Gutierrez, Justine Massey,
Andres Garcia Molina, Cory Tamler, Strider Patton and Amanda Cachia. Hemispheric
Institute of Performance and Politics Graduate Student Initiative Convergence, University
of California, Los Angeles, October 10 - 13, 2013.
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2015
2014
2010
Major Grant, The University of California Institute for Research in the Arts. Re-Tracing
Mendieta awarded funding as part of The Tiny-Camera Histories Project: Feminist Sci-Art
Re-Performance in the Archive and the Field, Catalyst Lab, UCSD.
Soma Summer, Soma, Mexico City, Mexico.
Scholarship for the Promotion of the Arts, Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine
Arts, Salzburg, Austria.
CURATORIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL WORK
2015
2014
2013
Coordinator, “THERE IS A BODY INSIDE ME,” symposium about Ana Mendieta on the 30th
anniversary of her death. Participants included David Dunlap, Jenna Sauers, and myself.
Public Space One, Iowa City, IA, September 8, 2015.
Coordinator, “Body Vulnerable/Body Protected,” talk by visiting artist Nao Bustamante.
Department of Visual Arts, UCSD, May 28, 2015.
Coordinator, MFA & PhD Practice Open Studios 2014. Visual Arts Facility & Structural and
Materials Engineering Building, UCSD, March 8, 2014.
Curator, MFA Screenings & Performances. Visual Arts Performance Space, UCSD, March 9,
2013.
Coordinator, "A Touchy Subject: Ron Athey," talk by visiting lecturer Jennifer Doyle.
Department of Visual Arts, UCSD, January 16, 2013.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
SP15
WI15
FA14
SP14
WI14
Teacher's Assistant, Culture, Art & Technology Writing Program, UC San Diego
CAT 125: Storytelling: Performance of Self, Authenticity, and Digital Media
CAT 125: Storytelling and Digital Media
CAT 125: Demonstrating Expertise Through Digital Media
CAT 3: The New (Old) Connectivity
CAT 2: Society of the Spectacle
FA13
SP13
WI13
FA12
Teacher's Assistant, Department of Visual Arts, UC San Diego
VIS 70N: Introduction to Media
VIS 40: Introduction to Computing in the Arts
VIS 2: Introduction to Art-Making: Motion- and Time-Based Work
VIS 60: Introduction to Digital Photography
ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS
Catalyst Lab
FemTechNet
Latin American Studies Association
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