j o s h u a c h u r c h i l l
***************@*****.*** www.joshuachurchill.com
Born in Oakland, CA.
Lives and works in San Francisco, CA.
Education
**** ******** ** **** ** Art Studio, Honors Program, Emphases in Video and Printmaking,
University of California at Santa Barbara
Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions
2011 solo exhibition, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
2009 Until The Bright Logic is Won, solo exhibition, NOMA gallery, San Francisco, CA
Sustained Decay, collaborative installation/exhibition, Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, SF, CA
2007 Unfettered, solo exhibition, San Francisco State University Art Gallery, CA
2006 By Way of Necessity, solo exhibition, Keys That Fit, Oakland, CA
2005 Waking Vessels, solo exhibition, 2765 24th St, San Francisco, CA
2001 Reverse Flow, two-person exhibition, P O N D, San Francisco, CA
1998 UC Santa Barbara Honors Exhibition, solo exhibition, Gallery 1434, Santa Barbara, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions & Screenings
2011 Control Group, group exhibition, NOMA Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 Musical Chairs, group exhibition & performance series, Magic Carpet Pop-Up Gallery, SF, CA
Chain Reaction 11, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Amazing Acoustaphotophonogrammitron, MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA
2009 Air Waves, Painted Bird, San Francisco, CA
Socially Involved, Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Beast in Me, Accident Gallery, Eureka, CA
Front + Center, Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin Headlands, CA
2008 Bay Area Now 5, triennial exhibition, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Self-Storage, curated by Curatorial Industries, 2701 16th St, San Francisco, CA
2007 The Clouds Carved the Mountains, collaborative exhibition and performances, Triple Base, SF
Re-Surfacing, in conjunction with Technology Expanding the Horizon,
Skylab Gallery and Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2006 Listening (Pt. 2), The LAB, San Francisco, CA
Listening (Pt. 1), Green Culture Zone, National Showa Kinen Park, Tokyo, Japan
Inforestation, Addison Street Windows Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2005 Aqua Art Sound Broadcast, in conjunction with Aqua Art Miami, Aqua Hotel, Miami, FL
Unsilently, Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA
B Sides, Sub Rosa, San Francisco, CA
2004 Small Works, Oakland Art Gallery, CA
Telltale, Michelle O Connor Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Drift: Resonant Cities, exhibition and radio broadcast, New Media Scotland
Defunct, curated/presented by SMAC, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Sympathy Palace, Post, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Night Moves: New Langton Arts 19th Annual Auction, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
The Summer Line, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Making Ends Meet, Lucky Tackle, Oakland, CA
Bay Area Currents, juried by James Elaine, Oakland Art Gallery, CA
2002 Axis of Good, Galeria Ze Dos Bois, Lisbon, Portugal
Transcinema Festival, The LAB, San Francisco, CA
Video Sho, Ego Park, Oakland, CA
Element of the Temporary, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2001 Think Again, juried by Miwon Kwon, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
Voicepaper, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
2000 Blur, video screening juried by Marina McDougall, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
Fuzzy Logic, juried by Tom Finkelpearl, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
1999 Decay, video festival, Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA
1998 Born Under Surveillance, video festival, Video In Studios, Vancouver, Canada
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Selected Sound Performances
2011 Sound and Shape, solo performance of a sound sculpture by Chris Duncan & Jason Michael Leggiere,
@ Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
in Tecumseh & Riqis w/ Fielded, Head/Head, @ First Church of the Buzzard, Oakland, CA
Tecumseh, w/ Ezra Buchla, Rale, Pedestrian Deposit, @ Pehrspace, Los Angeles, CA
solo performance, w/ Joseph Hammer, John Krausbauer/Ezra Buchla, Brown, @ Dem Passwords,
West Hollywood, CA
Tecumseh, w/ Derek Monypeny, Opera Mort, Caldera Lakes, @ Hemlock Tavern, San Francisco, CA
2010 Musical Chairs, solo performance, w/ Danny Grody, and films by Bruce Conner, Lawrence Jordan,
Begonia Colomar, Maximilla Lukas, @ Magic Carpet Pop-Up Gallery, San Francisco, CA
sound/film collaboration w/ Paul Clipson, w/ John Krausbauer and Agnes Szelag,
Tashi Wada and Madison Brookshire with Mark So, @ The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Radical L@TE: Advance to Full Fury, sound/video collaboration w/ Andrew Benson,
w/ Seth Horvitz (aka Sutekh), Curtis Tamm + Michael Campos-Quinn, @ Berkeley Art Museum
Death & Magic in Sound & Light sound/film collaboration with Collin McKelvey and Paul Clipson,
w/ Acre, Holly Herndon, @ Sight School, Oakland, CA
Temper, Tenor and Drift, sound/film collaboration w/ Paul Clipson, w/ Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Higuma,
@ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Soundwave Festival ((4)) GREEN SOUND, solo performance, w/ Alyce Santoro, Thomas Carnacki
@ The Lab, San Francisco, CA
through sparkling fields, bitter and bright, live video/sound performance w/ Andrew Benson,
as part of Extended Play performance series @ Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Nightways, sound/film collaboration w/ Paul Clipson, w/ Che Chen, Millenium Film Workshop, NY, NY
sound/film collaboration w/ Paul Clipson, w/ Jonas Asher (Grasslung)/Rob Lowe (Lichens)
@ 221 Clinton Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Activating the Medium Festival XIII, solo performance, w/ G*Park, Adam Sonderberg @ The Lab, SF, CA
Full Moon Concerts: Storm Moon, solo performance, w/ Peter Kolovos, Luggage Store Gallery, SF, CA
2009 sound/film collaboration w/ Paul Clipson, w/ Luciano Chessa+Terry Berlier, Eric Ullman,
@ Pacific Basin Building, Berkeley, CA
sound/film collaboration w/ Paul Clipson @ NOMA gallery, San Francisco, CA
solo performance, w/ Sutekh, Virobots @ QUEENS NAILS PROJECTS, San Francisco, CA
sound/film collaboration w/ Paul Clipson @ New Nothing Cinema, San Francisco, CA
Other Cinema, sound/video collaboration w/ Andrew Benson, w/ Michael Gendreau, Ezra Buchla,
Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, CA
The Beast in Me, sound/film collaboration w/ Paul Clipson at reception, Accident Gallery, Eureka, CA
2008 Instants, sound/film collaboration with Paul Clipson, @ AudioVisualArts, New York, NY
Spectral Tides, sound/film collaboration with Paul Clipson, w/ Sannhet @ MonkeyTown, Brooklyn
THE COLONY ROOM: Eccentric Spaces and Serious Pleasures, solo as T/R
w/ Ruaminx (Donna Huanca), BRAN POS @ The Garage at New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
24 Hours of Drone, Riqis @ KFJC 89.7 FM, Los Altos Hills, CA
OF+OM+OR, sound/film collaboration with Paul Clipson, w/ Aero-Mic'd, Gregg Kowalsky,
@ Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Three Pieces, solo performance, @ 1112 Larkin St, San Francisco, CA
2007 From the Darkness, Solace., sound/film collaboration with Paul Clipson,
@ Chapel of The Chimes, Oakland, CA
MONO NO AWARE, sound/film collaboration with Paul Clipson, @ Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY
The Clouds Carved the Mountains: A Dialogue Between Sound and Space, iXi,
w/ Ascended Master, Cones, Fortune Tower @ Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco, CA
NorCal Noisefest 2007, solo noise as T/R, @ Space Theater, Sacramento, CA
solo noise as T/R, w/ John Duncan, John Wiese, @ The RML Compound, San Francisco, CA
Vis Viva, w/ Daniel Higgs + Chiara Giovando, Dead Western, @ the Big White Bus, San Francisco
New Music Series, Vis Viva, w/ Gregg Kowalsky, @ Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco
Vis Viva, w/ Valet, White Rainbow, Ghosting+Axolotl, Crystal Village,
@ Totally Intense Fractal Mindgaze Hut, Oakland, CA
Godwaffle Noisepancakes, solo guitar noise, w/ Umeda Tetsuya, Tim Perkis, Skullcaster,
@ ArtSF, San Francisco, CA
Psychoaustic Soundclash (radio show), performing in Vis Viva, live on KFJC 89.7 FM
solo noise as T/R, w/ Michael Gendeau, Pigs in the Ground, @ 7hz, San Francisco, CA
2006 Psychoaustic Soundclash, solo noise as T/R, live on KFJC 89.7 FM, Los Altos Hills, CA
Ritual Psychedelia Of Panguia, solo noise as T/R, w/ Nord+ASTRO+Vava Kitora+Ophia,
@ Loop-Line, Tokyo, Japan
Listening (Tokyo), solo noise as T/R, w/ ASTRO+Renka, @ Out-lounge, Tokyo, Japan
solo noise as T/R, w/ Scott Arford, Skullcaster, @ ATA, San Francisco, CA
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Articles & Reviews
Baker, Kenneth, "Abstracts commingle well at Meridian, Noma", San Francisco Chronicle, Nov 28, 2009
Heiman, Eric, "A Requiem, A Dream (Part Two), SFMOMA Open Space (blog), September, 2009
Heiman, Eric, "A Requiem, A Dream (Part One)", SFMOMA Open Space (blog), August 5, 2009
Swanhuyser, Hiya, "Inspiration Name of Game", SF Weekly, August 5, 2009
Baker, Kenneth, "Churchill and Vogt in the back room", San Francisco Chronicle, August 1, 2009
Spor, Gareth, "Sustained Decay - Andy Vogt & Joshua Churchill" (blog), Taide & Design, August, 2009
Swanhuyser, Hiya,"Tear It Up, Tear It Down", SF Weekly, July 22, 2009
Reynard, Melanie, Joshua Churchill: Fathom, multimedia feature/interview, KQED.org, Sept 22, 2008
DeCarlo, Tessa, Bay Area Now 5, The Brooklyn Rail, September, 2008
Salazar-Rubio, Sofia, Annual Bay Area Now Exhibit Showcases Unique Art Culture,
The Daily Californian, Aug 7, 2008
Wood, Sura, War & world collapse, front & center, Bay Area Reporter, July 31, 2008
Baker, Kenneth, Bay Area's best new art, now, San Francisco Chronicle, July 23, 2008
Tromble, Meredith, West Coast (blog), Stretcher.org, July 19, 2008
Lower, Seth, Here and Now, Buzzine.com, July, 2008
Haggarty, Clare, Interview with Joshua Churchill, CuratorialIndustries.org, May, 2008
Featured Listing, San Francisco Chronicle: Sunday Datebook, November 11, 2007
Bun, Holly, Crashing and Collapsing Themes Build Art, Golden Gate Xpress, November 8, 2007
Vance, Kelly, Not Quite Out of Business, East Bay Express, December 20, 2006
Crain, Will, This Week - Art: By Way of Necessity, San Francisco Chronicle, December 17, 2006
Callaway, Bob, Three Shows in the Mission, Art Fever (blog), April 19, 2006
Lawrence, David, West Coast (blog), Stretcher.org, January 28, 2006
Chen, George, Chemistry Set, San Francisco Bay Guardian, June 1, 2005
Slaton, Joyce & Swanhuyser, Hiya, Night & Day, SF Weekly, April 28, 2004
Ollman, Leah, No Fuzz, Few Feathers, LA Times, February 6, 2004
Westbrook, Lindsey, Archives and Audiotapes, East Bay Express, May 28, 2003
Tudor, Silke, Science of the Art of the Political, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 18, 1998
Awards & Residencies
2011 Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, California
2010 Investing in Artists Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation, California
1998 Art Affiliates Studio Art Scholarship, University of California at Santa Barbara
William Dole Memorial Art Scholarship, University of California at Santa Barbara
1997 Phillip Francis Siff Memorial Art Scholarship, University of California at Santa Barbara
William Dole Memorial Art Scholarship, University of California at Santa Barbara
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