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GREGORY
KUCERA
BORN:
Santa Fe, NM
RESIDES: Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION:
2001 Master of Fine Art, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
CA
1996 Bachelor of Arts (Psychology, Film, Art), Occidental College,
Los Angeles, CA
EXHIBITONS HISTORY
SOLO SHOWS:
2005 Always As It Is Today, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2005
Gregory Kucera at Greg Kucera Gallery (no relation), Seattle, WA
2004
Pong Farm, I-20 Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Tessellation Anxiety, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica , CA
2003 Sweeney Art Museum, University of California, Riverside,
CA
2002 Intervals & Inversions, I-20 Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Graduate Gallery Art Center College of Design, Pasadena,
CA
GROUP
SHOWS:
2005
"Extreme Abstraction" Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo NY
"Animals" Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CAY
"ARCO New Territories " Curated by Victor Zamudio-Taylor. Madrid, Spain
2004
"Domicile" Center on Contemporary Art (COCA), Seattle, Washington (curated by Jim O’Donnell)
"Stay Positive! Positivism and Abstraction" in Contemporary Art Marella Arte Contemporanea, Italy (cat.)
“FARfetched | a benefit and celebration of all things f.a.r.!”Los Angeles, CA 90065 "
“The Armoury Show ” New York, NY"
2003
“Miami Basel Art Fair", Miami FL
"Artissima" Torino, Italy
"Art Cologne 2003", Cologne, Germany
“Scope Art Fair, Special curated Benefit", Standard Hotels,
Los Angeles, CA
“Susquahannah Art Museum in Harrisberg,PA
“Art Forum Berlin, GermanySusquahannah Art Museum in Harrisberg,PA
“Scope Art Fair, Special curated Benefit, Standard Hotels,
Los Angeles, CA
“The Armoury Show ” New York, NY
“Art In Motion: Interference Patterns, The Armoury, Pasadena,
CA
2002
“LA
Freewaves” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
“LA Freewaves” UCLA Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles,
CA
“LA Freewaves” The Egyptian Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
“Art Forum Berlin” Berlin, Germany
“Suburban Discomfort,” Rufino Tamayo Museum, Mexico
City, Mexico
“Contemporary Exhibitions Series,” Coppos Films, Los
Angeles, CA
“Das Spyderman,” Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
(LACE), Hollywood, CA
2001
“DFKU,”
Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense,Denmark
“Videoteque,” KUNSTAKUTEN, Stockholm,Sweden
“Test Tube,” Curated by Chistopher Miles, Los Angeles
Pierce College, CA
“Liste, Art 32 Basel” (Low Gallery, Los Angeles),
Basel, Switzerland
“AIMII,” Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica,
CA
2000
“Fit,”
New Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
“Shotgun!” Project Space, Peblink, Denmark
1999
“CAA-MFA,”
Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Brisk,” Occidental College Gallery, Los Angeles,
CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Nina Choski, "Visions of Airy Confines" X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, Volume 8, #3, 2006.
Richard Speer, "Gregory Kucera " Art News, September 2005
Andrew Engelson "DOMICILES" Seattle Weekly: VISUAL ARTS PICK
Stay Positive! Positivism and Abstraction in Contemporary Art Marella Arte Contemporanea, Italy (cat.)
Regina Hackett, "COCA's 'Domecile' Really Hits Home" Seattle PI, July 10 2004
Miles,
Christopher. "Gregory Kucera Critics Picks", ArtForum
Online, Nov 2003.
Alex
Worman, "LA Confidential” Art Net: Los Angeles CA, 2003
Art
Scene LA: Los Angeles CA, 2003
Miles, Christopher. "Gregory Kucera-First Takes", ArtForum, Jan 2003.
Meyers,
Holly. “Turning Impulses Into Works of Art:” LA Times,
Aug 2002
Pence,
Elizabeth. “Das SpyderMan”, ArtWeek, Oct 2002
Tribe,
Kerry. “Fit,” Los Angeles: University of California,
2000.
Gonzales,
Rita. “Give Me Shelter, Videos on Suburban Discomfort”
Mexico City: Rufino
Tamayo Museum, 2002.
FILMOGRAPHY
(ANNOTATED):
Co-Producer,
Sound-Editor. Suicide et Moi , featuring Jean Baudrillard,
Mike Kelley, (Executive Producer,) and the Chance Band, Audio
c.d , 62 min. 2002.
Cinematographer,
Editor, Post-Production Supervisor.
The Big Hunt/Little Hunt. Catherine Sullivan, director. Co-Produced
by the Armand Hammer Museum and the Renaissance Society.Experimental,
22 min., 16mm film and digital video, 2002.
Editor,
Intiation Rite of 360, Jim Shaw, director. Experimental, 10 min.,
digital video, 2002,.
Creative Director, Art Center College of Design, Fine Art Site,
/fineart.artcenter.edu /, 2001.
Producer,
Cinematographer, Editor. Domestic Scene, Mike Kelley, director.
Experimental narrative, 30 min., digital video, 2001.
Art
Director, Memento, Chris Nolan, director. Feature Film, 35mm,
120 mins. 2001.
Producer,
Five Films from 1968 (New), John Baldessari, director. Video Installation,
180mins.
Kunsthalle, Basel, 2001.
PUBLIC
COLLECTIONS
Thyssen
Bornemisza Museum
Albright-Knox Museum
AWARDS
AND HONORS
Travel
Grant, Art Center College of Design
Art Center College of Design, Graduate Fellowship
Howard J. For Juror’s Prize, Works on Paper, Occidental
Collge
J. Paul Getty Trust Research Fellowship
Bank of America, Juried Prize
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