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b. 1981, Michigan (USA). Lives and works in Los Angeles.
EDUCATION, AWARDS, RESIDENCIES
2012-13
Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship, Video/ Film/ New Media Artist, Stuttgart, Germany
2011
I-Park Foundation, Moving Image/ Performance Fellow, Connecticut, USA
2010
California Community Foundation Visual Arts Fellow
Digital Arts Studios, International Artist-in-Residence, Belfast, Northern Ireland
I-Park Foundation, Moving Image Fellow, Connecticut, USA
2008
Awarded Chinati Foundation Internship, Marfa, Texas
2007
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
M.F.A. in Studio Art and in Critical Studies. CalArts Scholarship (2005-07)
2006
Second Place in the Decadal Juried Art Show at Dennos Museum of Art, Traverse City, MI
2003
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
B.A. with Honors in Human Development and with Honors in Visual Arts. Dean’s List (1999 – 2003), Halperin Scholar (1999 – 2003), Foreign Language Acquisition Grant (Summer 2002), Metcalf Scholar (Summer 2001), The Louis Sudler Prize in the Performing and Creative Arts
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES, AND SCREENINGS
2012
Danielle Adair with musical guest Shekhan, invited by Eve Fowler, to The Artist’s Studio@One Colorado, Pasadena (performance, and exhibition of recent video and texts)
Danielle Adair – And I Think I Like It. at Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles (performance and exhibition)
Danielle Adair, Arts District Downtown WinterFest, Los Angeles (performance)
2011
Danielle Adair on Ear Meal, sound art webcast, http://laartstream.com/ear-meal/, Los Angeles (performance/ screening)
2009
First Assignment, Sea & Space Explorations, Los Angeles (screening and performance)
From JBAD, Lessons Learned, The Velaslavasay Panorama, Los Angeles (performance/ book launch)
Coverlands, Work Space, Los Angeles (exhibition)
2007
“Sex and Rage” and Responsibility and March 17th and “The Documents of 20th Century Art” and Texas Holdem and Art Groupies and Walter Hopps and Tripods and “That’s Hot” and War Protest and Theory., D301 Gallery at California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (exhibition)
2006
form into words, Lime Gallery at California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (exhibition)
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES, AND SCREENINGS
2012
Write Thing reading series, Medaille College, Buffalo, New York (reading)
Danielle Adair – HEADTalks at Liz Glynn’s Black Box, part of the PST Performance and Public Art Festival, Los Angeles (performance)
Reading: An Installation, Les Figues Authors, Palos Verdes Arts Center, Palos Verdes (reading)
2011
Nothing to Declare, Vargas Museum, Manila, Philippines (exhibition)
I Am Responsible, Mrs. Porter’s Salon at Occupy Los Angeles, Los Angeles (performance)
Some People Are Without Guitar with drummer Corey Fogel, LA Road Concert, Los Angeles and New York (performance)
30 Under 30: An Anthology of Innovation Fiction, Center for Fiction, New York (reading)
What Do We Do, Eternal Telethon, BELLYFLOP Gallery, Los Angeles (performance)
Perform WOW, Small Form Space, Los Angeles (screening)
Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica (exhibition)
Summer Soul Sis, Jaus Gallery, Los Angeles (exhibition)
12:12 Song, Actual Size, Los Angeles (performance)
Two Shoes Many Hats with project collaborator Jun’ichiro Ishii, Galerie White Project, Paris
Signify, Sanctify, Believe, Public Fiction, Los Angeles (screening and publication)
Dan Graham Booth, Art Los Angeles Contemporary art fair, Santa Monica
The Collective Show, Human Resources, Los Angeles (exhibition)
The Open Daybook, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles (exhibition)
2010
Chasing Shadows curated by Vincent Ramos, The Onion, Los Angeles (screening)
Eternal Telethon, Machine Project, Los Angeles (screening)
The Way of Progress, ArcheTime Conference, EFA Project Space, New York (screening)
We Are Mired In Clouds, Silverlake Jubilee Festival, Los Angeles (performance)
The Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here memorial reading, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles (reading)
2009
1969 curated by Vincent Ramos, Dan Graham Gallery, Los Angeles (performance)
Welcome To Fake Iraq, Angels Gate Cultural Center, Los Angeles (exhibition)
The Space Between Presidents, Washington Blvd Concert, Los Angeles (performance)
2008
Hollywould, LA Freewaves Festival, Los Angeles (screening)
Ornament is a Crime at Gallery 1927, Los Angeles (exhibition)
Interrupt, Intervene! Art as Social Practice Conference at University of California – Santa Cruz (screening)
Exchange Rate 2008 at Remy’s, Los Angeles (performance)
&Now Conference at Chapman University, Orange, CA (performance presentation)
Just How Does A Patriot Act, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA (screening)
Here We Are, Cologne OFF Video Festival, Cologne, Germany (screening)
Fake Afghanistan Video Night at Sea & Space Explorations, Los Angeles (screening)
San Fernando Road Concert, Los Angeles (performance)
Future Potentials and Ex-Nons at BetaLevel, Los Angeles (performance)
GLARE Quarterly launch at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (performance)
SoundinSpace at Sea & Space Explorations, Los Angeles (performance)
Danielle Adair and Garrett Caples at Machine Project, Machine Project, Los Angeles (performance)
Possible Impossible Dimension at Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, Los Angeles (performance)
The Queen Schmooquan “Say My Name” Show with Danielle Adair at BetaLevel, Los Angeles (performance)
2007
Late Night Snack at BetaLevel, Los Angeles (performance)
TrenchArt: Parapets at Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles (performance)
West Hollywood Book Fair, Los Angeles (reading)
The Smell, Los Angeles (reading)
“Corteania” in Conduction in the Catacombs at Artists’ Television Access and 21 Grand, San Francisco (performance)
End of the Year Show at Eveningside Drive, Val Verde, CA (performance)
For Ever, curated by Eungie Joo and Clara Kim, at 915 Mateo, Los Angeles (exhibition and performance)
Next Words at the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater, Los Angeles (performance)
Next Words at High Energy Constructs Gallery, Los Angeles (reading)
The Powder Room at Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles (exhibition)
Lights, Camera, Actions at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles (performance)
Exquisite Acts and Everyday Rebellions at California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (exhibition)
The Juice Is Loose at 507 Rose Gallery, Los Angeles (exhibition)
2006
It Was the Blurst of Times at Commerce Street Warehouse, Houston, TX (exhibition)
Mid-Residency Show at D300 Gallery at California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (exhibition)
How To Do Things With Words at The Cube Gallery, Los Angeles (exhibition)
7th Annual Abstraction Juried Online International Art Exhibition, Upstream People’s Gallery, online (exhibition)
Decadal Juried Art Show at Dennos Museum of Art, Traverse City, MI (exhibition)
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
2012
[forthcoming] “Hope May” in Telephone Book, a project by Brian Stefans
[forthcoming] “The Way of Progress” in [out of nothing] Edition #0
[forthcoming] Models for a Building Block (chapbook), P S Books, Los Angeles
2011
“excerpts from Selma,” in Thirty Under Thirty, Starcherone Books, Buffalo, NY
“What Do You Do” in 03 LIMITS edition, Allotrope Press, Belfast
Some People Are Without Guitar, Library of Sacred Technologies, Los Angeles
“APT: Art Performance Text” in Imaginary Syllabi, Palm Press, Los Angeles
“Studio Visits”, proposal for The Institute of Wishful Thinking, http://theiwt.com, Momenta Art, New York
2010
The Daybook Project organized by David P. Earle, Printed Matter, New York
Manana por la Manana designed by Tanya Rubbak, Printed Matter, New York
“Residual-Bonus” in Casebook Series, ValeVeil, Stockholm
2009
A Contributor to BigOther, an online literary blog. (December 2009 – October 2010)
From JBAD, Lessons Learned (artist’s book), Les Figues Press, Los Angeles
2008
“What does WAR stand for?” in GLARE Quarterly, Portland
Series Cover Artist for the Material Series with Les Figues Press, Los Angeles
2007
“Chen Xiaoyun at MC Gallery” in Afterall Online, Los Angeles
Writing has also appeared in the following publications: Poetry Sz (New Zealand), Next Words (Los Angeles), Chronometry (Los Angeles), TrenchArt: Parapets (Les Figues Press), BeWhich (Which Press)
CONFERENCES AND LECTURES
2012
Visiting Writer, Creative Writing course, Medaille College, Buffalo, NY
2011
Artist Talk, Creative Non-Fiction course, Brown University, Providence
2010
The Way of Progress in the ArcheTime: Cross-Disciplinary Conference and Festival, EFA Project Space / WIX Lounge / SET Gallery, New York (screening)
Artist talk, The University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2008
Interrupt, Intervene! Art as Social Practice Conference, University of California – Santa Cruz (screening)
&Now Conference of Innovative Literature and Art, Chapman University, Orange, CA (performance presentation)
Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, New York City (book signing)
Mid-American College Art Association Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (accepted performance paper)
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010
Chasing Shadows in Another Righteous Transfer, http://anotherrighteoustransfer.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/chasing-shadows-curated-by-vincent-ramos-the-onion-north-hills-december-11-2010/ (December 2010)
in Notes on Looking, http://notesonlooking.com/?m=20100722 (July 2010)
2009
From JBAD, Lessons Learned reviewed in Molossus http://molossus.wordpress.com (December 2009)
We Are Mire In A Kind of Stalemate reviewed in Another Righteous Transfer http://anotherrighteoustransfer.wordpress.com (December 2009)
Akers, Cathy. “The Art of War: Two CalArts Alumni Engage with and Respond to the Conflict in the Mideast“ and “Alumni Profile: Danielle Adair (MFA ’07)” CalArts Alumni Magazine (November 2009)
From JBAD, Lessons Learned reviewed in BadTexas (November 2009)
Coverlands as part of The Ups and Downs Installation Series, essays by Holly Myers, Mathew Timmons, Stan Apps, and Danielle Adair (March 2009)
2008
Afghanistan Journey by Danielle Adair and Bob Downs, The Northern Express, Traverse City, Michigan (November 2008)
2007
Happenings magazine, Fall edition, California Institute of the Arts.
The Powder Room [exhibition catalogue], Track 16 Gallery & Smart Art Press, Western Witch Publishing.
Bernadini, Andrew, “Post-fair; Post-auction Hang-over,” http://www.uber.com
Lion, Lea. “A Show of Their Own,” Los Angeles Downtown News, June 18, 2007.
Equisite Acts and Everyday Rebellions: Feminist Writers Reading on The Museum of Contemporary Art website in conjunction with WACK! http://www.moca.org/wack