Bio / CV
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Julie Orser was born in Chicago in 1974. She received her M.F.A. in Studio Art from California Institute of the Arts and a B.F.A. in Photography at Pacific Northwest College of Art. Julie currently lives in Los Angeles where she is the New Genres Lab Supervisor in the Department of Art at UCLA. Her videos, photography, and multi-channel installations have exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Changing Role Gallery (Rome), Rosamund Felsen Gallery (Los Angeles), Paul Kopeikin Gallery (Los Angeles), Il Magazzino d'Arte Moderna (Rome), Royal College of Art (London), Kunstraum Innsbruck (Austria), Sala Rekalde (Bilbao, Spain), REDCAT (Los Angeles), Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha), The Armory Northwest (Pasadena), Philip Feldman Gallery (Portland), Western Washington University (Bellingham), Cheekwood Museum of Art (Nashville), Glendale Art Gallery, Cal State Long Beach, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Saison Vidéo (France), Ann Arbor Film Festival, PDX Film Festival, Dallas Video Festival, New West Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, and the Big Muddy Film Festival. Her work was recently included in the Multiple Vantage Points: Southern CA Women Artists, 1980-2006 exhibition at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in Barnsdall Park. In 2006 Julie started ART OFFICE for Film & Video as an ongoing curatorial platform formed to promote and present contemporary time-based media by emerging artists throughout the Los Angeles area.

CV (pdf)

Teaching CV (pdf)

Education
2005 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1999  BFA, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
1997 – 1998

Northwest Film Center, Portland, OR

home
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Anna Moore, Changing Role Gallery, Rome, Itlay
2007

Anna Moore, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Anna Moore, Philip Feldman Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

2005 Occurrence At Lookout Rock, Gallery D301, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2004 The Upstairs Room, (collaboration w/ Jon Irving), Orange Coast College, CA
2003 Fracture Line, Gallery D300, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
An Exchange, Lower Columbia College, Longview, WA
2002 An Exchange, Interactive Media Arts Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
2000 Water and Sound Installation, (collaboration w/ Katy Clove), Garage Gallery, Portland, OR
1998 Museum of Shhh, (collaboration w/ Katy Clove & Ken Fisher), Garage Gallery, Portland, OR
1997 Liquid Light Fragments, Garage Gallery, Portland, OR
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 (Upcoming) Here Once Again Where Art and Cinema Interact, Loop Gallery, Seoul, Korean

Akklimitizatsia (Acclimatization): New Work from Saint Petersburg & Los Angeles, C.A.G. Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Calypso: Videoteque, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain
The Video Gentlemen, New American Art Union, Portland, OR
Lament, Viralnet.net, Online Audio Exhibition, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

2007 Underground Cinemachine, Curated by Tom Leeser, Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA
Works by Emerging Video Artists, Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
Off Hours, New Wight Gallery, University of California Los Angeles, CA
Notes from the Overpass: New Art from Los Angeles and Saint Petersburg, Galleriet G18, Helsinki, Finland
Multiple Vantage Points: Southern CA Women Artists, 1980-2006, Curated by Dextra Frankel, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
Exquisite Acts & Everyday Rebellions: 2007 CalArts Feminist Art Exhibition, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2006 At Home in the World, Curated by Elise Barclay, Armory Northwest/965, Pasadena, CA
Fair Exchange, Curated by Irene Tsatsos and Glenn Phillips, Millard Sheets Gallery, Pomona, CA
Contemporary, Curated by Maria Rosa Sossai, Magazzino d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
TOMORROWLAND: CalArts in Moving Pictures, Curated by Josh Siegel, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Action Adventure, CANADA, New York, NY
VideoMixTape5, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
SIGNAL CHANNEL: Contemporary Video Art, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
A Play on Action: 5 Los Angeles Artists Consider Feminism, Curated by Bari Ziperstein, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
11:59, Curated by Parker Jones, Compact/Space, Los Angles, CA
2005 A Single Channel Video Show, Glendale Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
Dis/Connect, South La Brea Gallery, Inglewood, CA
GREATER LA MFA: A Student-To-Student Invitational Exhibit, Long Beach, CA
Shipping & Receiving: The CalArts MFA Thesis Show, Armory Northwest, Pasadena, CA
Supersonic: LA Design Center, LA Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
Sweet Substitute, FAB Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2004 Soft Emergencies, VU Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 
MID-RES, Stevenson Blanche Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2003

Transit, Gallery D301, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

Stratum, Soundvision Gallery, Portland, OR
The Audible Still-Life, (collaboration with Jon Irving) Stasis_Space Online Exhibition

1999 Thesis Show, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Screenings
2008 Imitation of Life, Saison Vidéo #32, Tourcoing, France
Lust4LACE, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, CA
2007 Summer Loving Series, Curated by Anat Ebgi, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Second Nature, Fette Gallery, Culver City, CA
Los Angeles Video Art, Republic of Kalmykia, Russia
Stranger than Fiction-Helsinki, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland

2006 FilmLichter 06, International Short Film Festival Detmold, Germany

Contemporary Film Series: Spark Video Program, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Spark Video, Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, NY
Video Picnic, Me & You Variety Candy, Los Angeles, CA
Stranger than Fiction, The LAB, San Francisco, CA
19th Annual Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX
Signal Channel, Reel 1, Curated by Echotrope, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
The Visuals, Curated by Echotrope, University of Nebraska Lincoln, NE
5th PDX Film Festival, Peripheral Produce Invitational, Portland, OR
44thAnn Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
Film & Video from Portland Oregon, Curated by Claire Fowler, Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London
Underground Art Mafia goes to…BED, Curated by Susanne Reichling, New York, NY

2005 No Heroics Please, (collaboration w/ Jon Irving), REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
You Promise, (collaboration w/ Jon Irving), Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2004 RHZ Amateur Radio Network, (collaboration w/ Jon Irving), Los Angeles, CA

SFEMF, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, (collaboration w/ Jon Irving), San Francisco, CA
Slipping, (collaboration w/ Jon Irving), Bijou Theater, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

2002 NEAMO, Northwest Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, (collaboration w/ Jon Irving), Portland, OR, & S.D.S.U., San Diego, CA

Eso Steel, irving + orser, (collaboration w/ Jon Irving), Soundvision Gallery, Portland, OR
A Night of Moving Images, Nada Gallery, Portland, OR

2000 Charm Bracelet, Portland, OR
22nd Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, IL
1999 Peripheral Produce at Cinema 21 and Peripheral Produce at The Lab, Portland, OR
Bibliography
2008

Julie Orser, Roma, Changing Role, Exibart.com, by Helga Marsala, March 2008 (reproduction)

Julie Orser, Changing Role, Roma, ARTKEY Magazine, by Maria Leonardi, April 2008 (reproduction)
Da Roma: Freaky Friday, dopo il giro delle gallerie, tutti a Trastevere, Exibart.com, March 2008
Personale di Julie Orser alla Changing Role, Culturalazio.it, by Isabella Indolfi, February 2008

2007 Julie Orser, Artforum.com, Critics’ Picks, by Andrew Berardini, July 2007 (reproduction)

Julie Orser: “Anna Moore” at Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Art LTD., by Shana Nys Dambrot, September 2007, p.18 (reproduction)
Off Hours New Wight Gallery UCLA, Artillery, by Kathryn Hargreaves, Nov./Dec. 2007 p. 39
Visual Arts, Portland Mercury, by Chas Bowie, Portland, OR, Arts Calendar, January 18, p.36

2006 World Piece, Pasadena Star-News, by Priscilla Fleming, December 8 (reproduction)

Contemporary, Roma, Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Exibart.com, by Fabrizia Palomba, July 2006
A Play on Action at Rosamund Felsen Gallery, ArtWeek, by Annie Buckley, June 2006, p.18
I-80 Cultural Exchange, City Weekly Omaha NE, by Michael Joe Krainak, May 3

2005

Where’s the Crazy, It’s college: ‘Greater LA MFA’ should be more insane, OC Weekly, by Rebecca Schoenkopf, Vol.10 No.52, September 2005

2004

San Francisco Electronic Music Festival 2004, (collaboration w/ Jon Irving), The Wire, by Richard Henderson, Issue 248, October 2004, p.80

2003

Video molds lasting image, Santa Clarita Daily News, by Eugene Tong, Valencia CA, News, December 28 (reproduction)

Visual Reviews, Portland Mercury, by Chas Bowie, Portland, OR, Visual Arts, April 10, p.35
2002 Eso Steel, irving + orser, (collaboration w/ Jon Irving), Willamette Week, by John Graham, Portland, OR, Electronic, December 18, p31         
2001

Constant Chatter and Minor Interruptions (Film), Four Featured Portland Filmmakers, Jantzen Swim Wear Promotional CD, Portland, OR (reproduction)

1997 Julie Orser, Willamette Week, by D.K. Row, Portland, OR, Visual Arts, September 10, p63
Catalogs
2008 Saison Vidéo #32, Lille and Tourcoing, France (reproduction)
2007 Multiple Vantage Points: Southern CA Women Artists, 1980-2006, Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Curated by Dextra Frankel, Los Angeles, CA (reproduction)
2006

Fair Exchange, The Souvenir Catalog to the Exhibition at the 2006 L.A. County Fair, Curated by Irene Tsatsos and Glenn Phillips, Millard Sheets Gallery, Pomona, CA (reproduction)

Editorial, Filmlichter 06 International Short Film Festival, Detmold, Germany (reproduction)
Lectures
2008 Artist Lecture, Broad Performance Space, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, April 24
2007 Artist Lecture, Advanced New Genres, UCLA Department of Art, CA

Artist Lecture, fem-in-art, UCLA Department of Art, CA
Gallery Talk, Multiple Vantage Points: Southern CA Women Artists, 1980-2006, Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA, March 31
Gallery Talk, Anna Moore, Feldman Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, January 31

2006 Artist Lecture, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, April 28                

Panel Discussion, A Play on Action: 5 Los Angeles Artists Consider Feminism, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, hosted by The Fellows of Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA, April 1

2005

Nomad & Residence, ART2102, Los Angeles, CA, May 21

2002 Visiting Artist Lecture, Northwest Film Center, Portland, OR, March 12
2000 Visiting Artist Lecture, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, April 10                
1999 Visiting Artist Lecture, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, April 8
Curatorial Projects
2008 Reality Testing, ART OFFICE & Slab at LACE: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, CA
2007 troooz, ART OFFICE at Show Cave Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Force of Nature, ART OFFICE in the Project Space, Feldman Gallery, Portland, OR
2006 Look, Win, Get It On, ART OFFICE at UCLA Department of Art, EDA, Los Angeles, CA
Professional Activities
2007 Instructor, Beginning New Genres, UCLA Department of Art Summer Session
2006 – Present

Co-Director of ART OFFICE for Film + Video, Los Angeles, CA

2005 – Present New Genres Lab Supervisor, UCLA Department of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2004 - 2005 Lead Coordinator for Shipping & Receiving: The CalArts MFA Thesis Show
Residences
2001 – 2002 Artist in Residence, Intermedia Department, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
2001 Filmmaker in Residence, Northwest Film Center, Portland, OR
Awards and Scholarships
2006 1st Place Peripheral Produce Invitational World Championship V, PDX Film Fest, Portland, OR
Directors Citation Award, 24th Black Maria Film & Video Festival, Jersey City, NJ
2004 California Institute of the Arts Scholarship, Valencia, CA
2003 The Herb Alpert Foundation Scholarship, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1999 Stephen Swerling Award, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR