Stef Allespach
CONTACT
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Publications & Print
2021 Under The Spell Anthology - Text by female identifying artists and arts professionals from L.A.
2021 Between Here and There - Photo Book
2009 Emergence Enchanted - Catalog
2008 Overflow/Fluids - Photo Booklet
2007 Felix at the 52nd Venice Biennale - Photo Booklet
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2011-20 Adjunct Assistant Professor and Lecturer of History of Photography and Digital Media at various institutions including University of Southern California, Los Angeles City College and Chapman University
EXHIBITION, SCREENINgs, INSTALLATION, PERFORMANCE-COLLABORATION
2020 MAYDAYMAYDAY - Collaboration Project by Susan Silton, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Songs for LA LA - A gathering with Daniel Marlos, Oona Nelson and guests, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Chan Gallery,Woman’s Day Exhibition/Women's Art Work, Curator Tricia Avant, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
2017 D.V. Gallery, A-Z, Organizer Stacey Wexler, Los Angeles City College
2016 University of California Irvine - xMPL Theatre, Illuminations Series #2, Event Curator Ulysses Jenkins,
It's Your Party, Performance Installation Collaboration with Nancy Buchanan, Irvine, CA
2014 Squaring the Circle - L.A.A.G. Make Camp, Event Curator Cindy Rehm, Llano Del Rio - Palmdale, CA
2013 Zeitgeist Interdisciplinary Art Center, Educational Complex Edit: Video from the Students of Mike Kelley,
Guest Curator Joseph Herring, New Orleans, Louisiana
2013 Armory Center for the Arts, Show and Tell, Chief Curator Irene Georgia Tsatsos and Assistant Curator
Sinéad Finnerty-Pyne, Pasadena,CA
2013 Department of Art University of West Florida - TAG Gallery, Guest Curator Joseph Herring,
Educational Complex Edit: Video from the Students of Mike Kelley, Pensacola, FL
2013 Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Occupy Museum (LA Art Girls), Curator Rebecca Trawick, Chaffey College
Rancho Cucamonga,CA
2012 Gallery Kronenboden, pur // photographies als statement, Guest Curator Andreas Weinand, Berlin
2012 Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition, I Feel Like Two Wolfs Are Fighting In My Heart, Spirit Resurrection Chief Curator
Carol Stanakas and Guest Curator Liz Glynn. Part of Los Angeles Goes Live The Getty Museum
2012 Jancar Gallery, Narratives of the Perverse III recits des trois perverses - femmes seulement, Curators Tom Jancar and
Tricia Avant, Los Angeles
2012 Spine of the Earth, January 22, 2012, Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles, Performance Collaboration project by Lita
Albuquerque. Part of Los Angeles Goes Live The Getty Museum
2012 Lucca Film Festival Experimental, catalog, Lucca, Italy
2011 Outpost for Contemporary Art, Sometimes, Chief Curator Julie Deamer, Los Angeles
2011 Orange Coast College, Get Down-Get Down, Guest Curator Holly Topping, Los Angeles
2011 SO36, Womxn Gleaning, Ladyfest, Berlin
2011 Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Debating Through the Arts 4: Contemporary Issues in
Performance Art, Performance Collaboration project by Jerri Allyn and Inez Bush. Part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in Los
Angeles1945-1980 and Los Angeles Goes Live: Performance Art in Southern California 1970-1983 The Getty Museum
2010 Kristi Engle Gallery, Monitor Show, Curator Kristi Engle, Los Angeles
2010 Torrance Museum of Art, eros/thanataos, Guest Curator Tricia Avant, Torrance, CA
2009 5th International Video Shorts Festival, Los Angeles, Curator Veronique Sapin, Women’s Caucus for Art
2009 Southwest Museum Lummis House, Spellbound: El Alisal, Curated by Arroyo Arts Collective
2009 UCLA Fowler Museum, Building Bridges from Tehran to Los Angeles, Guest Curator Marjan Vayghan, Los Angeles
2008 Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Resolution 3 Symposium, Guest Curator Micol Hebron
2008 Pitzer College, Video Praxis in Global Spaces, Curated by Ciara Ennis and Ming-Yuen S. Ma, Claremont, CA
2008 American Cinematheque, Old Town Pasadena Film Festival
2008 Outpost for Contemporary Art, Intersections, Chief Curator Julie Deamer, Los Angeles
2008 The Getty Center, Overflow/Fluids (LA Art Girls), Chief Curator Andrew Perchuk and Assistant Curator Donna Conwell
2008 L.A. Art Girls Art Fair Biennale Los Angeles 08, Pacific Electric Building Downtown L.A.
2008 Torrance Art Museum, Pix, Chief Curator Kristina Newhouse, Torrance, CA
2008 Museum of Contemporary Art, The LA Art Girls Talk Back with Suzanne Lacy, Los Angeles
2007 Armory Northwest, Utopia or Otherwise, Pasadena, CA
2007 Torrance Art Museum, All In, Guest Curator Lorraine Molina, Torrance, CA
2006 Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Draw a Line and Follow It, Los Angeles
2006 Angles Gallery, Hysteria Deluxe, Guest Curators Micol Hebron and Elizabeth Tremante, Los Angeles
2006 KBeach Radio, String Theory: Following the Threads of Feminism, Collaboration Radio project by Kim Schoenstadt,
California State University Long Beach, CA
2006 The Getty Center, Movement and the Visual Arts: T.A.P.E., (LA Art Girls), Curator Glenn R. Phillips, Los Angeles
2005 Silverlake Film Festival, Los Angeles and New Media Festival Prog: ME (catalog), Rio de Janeiro, Letter to Faye
Curator Darin Klein
2005 Emily Davis Gallery, A Visible Line of The In-Between:Time to Come and Time Elapsed, Guest Curator Deanna Skedel,
The University of Akron, OH
2004 Spaces, Dissent: Political Voices, Chief Curator Kristen Baumlier and Assistant Curator Craig Lucas, Cleveland, OH
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2018 Feminist Summer Camp, Artist in Residence, Birch Creek Ranch, Ephraim,UT
2007 Armory Northwest, Artist in Residence, Pasadena, CA
2007 Torrance Art Museum, All In, Awarded 3rd Prize
2005 X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, Artist Projects Volume 7.3, Honorarium
2002 William Turner Gallery, E=, Awarded 2nd Prize, Venice, CA
2000 Scholarship Recipient, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
1999 George’s Gallery, Photography Show, Awarded 1st Prize, Los Angeles
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2011 SO36, Ladyfest:Screenings, Berlin
2010 Torrance Musuem of Art, eros/thanatos, Assistant Curtator with Guest Curator Tricia Avant
2009 Project Space Kreuzberg, Berlin
2009 Emergence Enchanted, Cocurated with Krista Chael at The Pike (T.E.D. Talk), Long Beach, CA
2008 Collection, The Discovery Tour, Arroyo Seco Artists Collective, Los Angeles
2008 LAAGAFBLA08, Coordinated with Tricia Avant, Phantom Galleries, Los Angeles
GUEST SPEAKER
2018 Columbus City College, Legacy Dinner, Culinary Program Fundraiser, Columbus, OH
2013 Akademie der Künste, Re.act Feminism, Curator Kathy Rae Huffman, Lecture presentation with Nancy Buchanan, Berlin
2013 Armory Center for the Arts, Show and Tell workshop, Curator Irene Georgia Tsatsos, Pasadena, CA
2012 CAA 100th Annual Conference, Contemporary Collaboratives and Collectives, Chairs: Sharon L. Butler - Eastern
Connecticut State University, Micol Hebron - Chapman University
2011 Outpost for Contemporary Art, Artist Presentation, Moderator Micol Hebron, Curator Julie Deamer, Los Angeles
2011 The University of California, Photography, Artist Presentation, Moderator Craig Havens, Los Angeles
2009 Women’s Caucus for Art 5th International Video Shorts Festival, Artist Panel, Los Angeles
2007 Armory Center for the Arts, Artist Presentation, Imaginings: Utopia or Otherwise, Pasadena, CA
2007 Santa Monica Museum of Art, Artist Presentation and Workshop, Santa Monica, CA
2006 Getty Research Institute, Discourse and Autonomy: Inventing the LA Art Girls, Moderator Jill Dawsey, Los Angeles
2005 Spaces, Artist Panel, Dissent, Cleveland, OH
2005 University of Southern California, Artist Presentation, Moderator Tad Beck, Los Angeles
2004 Otis College of Art and Design, Artist Presentation, Undergrad Seminar
2003 University California San Diego, Lecture Series with John Welchman and Chris Balaschak, San Diego, CA
2001 Glendale College, Artist Panel - Scapes, Moderator Annabelle Aylmer, Glendale, CA
Media AND Fundraisers
2017 Armory Center for the Arts - Monster Drawing Rally, Curator Irene Georgia Tsatsos, Pasadena, CA
2013 Center for The Arts Eagle Rock, 11Th Annual Art Auction Benefit, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Eat, Drink, Art, Curator Meg Madison, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Armory Center for the Arts, Off The Wall, Pasadena, CA
2009 T.E.D. Blog, Inspired by TED: Three astonishing art shows in Long Beach, Editor Emily McManus, February 12, 2009
2008 KPFK Pacifica Radio - Feminist Magazine, Interview with Lynn Ballen, July 16, 2008, Los Angeles
2005 The Plain Dealer Cleveland, Opposites Attract: A range of artist use extremes to make political statements,
by Douglas Max Utter, May 12
2005 X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, Artist Projects Volume 7.3, Cover and Honorarium
2004 Supersonic - Catalog text by Chris Balaschak, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
2002 To Believe Much More Than That - Catalog text by Karl Haendel,Wight Gallery - The University of California, Los Angeles
2000 Downtown News - Los Angeles, Art Imitating Politics: DNC Art Exhibit Paints the Issues, by Victoria Looseleaf,
June 5th, 2000
EDUCATION
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, MFA
Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste Braunschwieg, Germany
School of the Art Institute Chicago, BFA (Photography, Film & Video)
Cleveland Institute of Art (Painting/Drawing)
MFA Thesis Committee: Mike Kelley, Patti Podesta, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, M.A. Greenstein and Hirsch Perlman;
also student of: Lita Albuquerque, Heike Baranowsky, Amy Gerstler, Bruce Hainley, Larry Johnson,
William E. Jones, Norman Klein, John Knight, Diana Thater and Ruben Ortiz Torres
Thesis - On The Horizon: Attention and the Event, Art Center College of Design
Languages
English and German - Fluent