Born: Dallas, Texas, 1959
Education University of Texas, Austin
Awards
2008 Guggenheim Fellowship (filmmaking)
2007,05 Rockefeller Nominee (filmmaking)
2005 Creative Capital (video installation)
2003-4 Wattis Foundation, Artist in Residence, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2003 The R & B Feder Charitable Foundation for the Beaux Arts
1999 Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist in Residence
Austin Film Society, grant, filmmaking
Texas Commission on the Arts, grant, filmmaking
1993 Pioneer Fund, grant, filmmaking
Western States Media Alliance, grant, filmmaking
1990 Film Arts Foundation, grant, filmmaking
Exhibition
2019 Beyond the Street NYC, group show
Nowhere Near, group show, Black Butte Center for Railroad Culture
F’ the Likes, group show, Superchief LA
2018 Beyond the Streets LA, group show
Bozo Texino screenings: Moniker Identity Lost and Found, Massillion Museum, Ohio; Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn; San Diego Public Library; 420MVL, Marysville CA; (downtown in the alley) Redding CA;
Tri-X-Noise, pop up photo tour, venues across the US: Zeitgeist, NOLA; Lockhart TX; Museum of Human Achievement, Austin; Flight Gallery, San Antonio; Resonator Institute, Norman OK; Paradigm, Sheboygan WI; Smashed Plastic, Chicago; (art center), Louisville KY; Lowe Mill Arts, Huntsville, AL; Black Iris, Richmond, VA; Spark Arts, Syracuse NY; Orchard Skate, Boston; AS220, Providence, RI; Superchief NY, Brooklyn; Babyland, Pittsburgh; The Lodge, Dayton KY; Impermanent, Nashville TN; Mobile Contemporary Art Museum, Mobile AL; Minicine?, Shreveport LA
(slide show) Six Stair, LA; Kevin’s Studio, Oakland; The Container, Bushwick, NY
2017 Tri-X-Noise Japan Tour
Moniker Art Fair
2016 Speed Art Museum (Bozo Texino screening)
Aura Workshop (Touring pop-up collaboration with Shlomit Strudi. Several venues between Texas and NY); SFVHS at Atlanta, Mudlark, NOLA; Asheville NC;
2015 Tri-X-Noise exhibitions: Minicine?, Shreveport, LA; VOV; Bloomington, M.U.G. Detroit; Peoples Records, Detroit; Mission Creek Festival, Iowa City; Sulzar Library, Chicago; Coaxial, LA; University of the South, Sewanee TN; Sluggos, Chattanooga TN; ABC No Rio, NYC; Holland Projects, Reno NV; Rice Media Center, Houston;
2013 Energy was Everywhere, San Francisco Art Institute, group show
2012 Dirt Lot Cinema, Berkeley Art Museum, performance/screening
Streetopia, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, photography, group show
2011 Art in the Streets, MOCA, Los Angeles, installation, group show
Who is Bozo Texino?, MOMA, NY (screening and acquisition)
Tri-X-Noise, Holland Projects, Reno, NV, photography, 3-person show (curator and artist)
2010 Ground Score, Space Gallery, Portland, ME, photography, solo show
2009 The Great Depression, installation, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA, installation, solo show
Sunset Scavenger, Get This! Gallery, Atlanta, photography, solo show
2008 After Nature, New Museum, New York, photography, group show
In the Fullness of Time, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, film, group show
There is a House, abandoned house, Braddock, PA, photography, guerrilla installation
2007 Sunset Scavenger, Rayko Photo Center, photography, solo show
2006-8 Sunset Scavenger, mobile video installation touring to various outdoor sites.
Selected exhibitions; Banff Media Centre, Banff Canada; Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver, BC; Transformazium, Brooklyn NY; Other Cinema, San Francisco; Common Ground, New Orleans, Oberlin College; many others
2004 Ponder Yonder, mixed media installation, video, Headlands Center for the Arts
2003 Souls Harbor, mixed media installation, video, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Free Ride Prototype, installation, Core Sample, Portland, OR Pretty Gritty, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco
Selected film/video projects
Who is Bozo Texino?, 2005, film, (selected festival screenings: Rotterdam IFFR, Viennale, and others)
Sunset Scavenger, 2003-2008, touring multi-media installation
The Girl in the Train in the Moon, 2001-4, touring video installation, commissioned for Deitch Projects' “Widely Unknown”, toured with “The Lucky Bum Film Tour” to 200+ venues in N. America
Collections
Museum of Modern Art New York
Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Beinecke Library, Yale University
Published works
Tri-X-Noise, 2017, Radio Raheem
The Zone System, 2012, And Pens Press
Mostly True, 2008, Microcosm Publishing
Inclusions
Incite Journal of Experimental Media, 2013, essay, INCITE
Various Small Books, Referencing Various Small Books by Ed Ruscha, 2013, inclusion “Dead Gas Stations”, Brouws, Burton, and Zschiegner, MIT Press
Trespass, 2010, contributor, Taschen
Charlie 05, 2008, artist profile, Deste Foundation
Lecture/Artists Talk
2018 Pitzer College
2017 Kansas City Art Institute, UT Chattanooga, Sam Houston State University
2016 Central Track, Dallas; Black Mountain School (School of the Alternative), Valley of the Vapors Festival, Hot Springs AR (Junk Cam Workshop), New Orleans Community Print Shop (Junk Cam Workshop), Asheville Darkroom (Junk Camera Workshop),
2015 Skidmore College; Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester NY; University of Indiana Bloomington; UC Davis; Rice Univ;
2012 UC Davis, Tulane University, Carnegie Mellon University, Hunter College, Bowdin College, Bennington
2004 College, California College of Art, San Francisco Art Institute, Harvard Ethnographic Film Studies, Portland
State University, Georgia State University, San Francisco State University, Evergreen College
Instruction
1999 Lighting for Motion Picture, course, The Academy of Art College, San Francisco
1994 Intrepid Super-8, super-8 documentary course, Film Arts Foundation
1990 Super-8 production seminar, SXSW