Gregory Kucera

Paths of movement and power.

Gregory Kucera is an artist, intellectual, studied under and collaborated with the major artist/filmmakers John Baldessari, Mike Kelley, Sylvere Lotringer, Patti Podesta, Christopher Nolan, and Wally Pfister, Guy Pierce.

Kucera graduated from Occidental College, with BA’s in Psychology/Psychophysiology, Film, and Fine Art. He gained an MFA at Art Center College of Design, while focused on machine technology, cybernetics, critical theory, and neuromorphic intellectual property.

His original career approached the artworld through a technological lens, cybernetics, and brain machine interfaces, but prioritized an academic post graduate career. He filed patents to integrate non-invasive medical devices for use in mass customization, and computer driven production. This work was eventually enabled and involved area’s of national security science, and was thus repurposed by Sandia National Labs.

Kucera has taught at the University of Southern California, Art Center College of Design, Otis College of Art, in addition to international art museum and creative exhibitions, significantly influenced by John Baldessari, Mike Kelley, Sylvere Lotringer, Patti Podesta, Christopher Nolan, and Wally Pfister, Guy Pierce.

Kucera has been featured in articles for the ARTFORUM, ArtNews, ArtNet, the Observer, Seattle Intelligencer,  and The Art Newspaper. Collections include Albright-Knox, San Jose Airport, and worked with the Getty, LACMA, MOCA, Basel Kunsthalle.

Currently Kucera is obligated for research and lawfare regarding national security, and is an intelligence professional with an elaborate dossier with all the national security agencies operating in the United States.

Kucera is currently a government whistleblower.

Education

MA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

Caltech, Colloquium, Pasadena CA.

BA, (with Honors) Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA

Corporate Commercial Work

1998-2020: Kucera Labs, (Freelance Multimedia/Intelligence Studies). Santa Fe, NM. Clients have included Microsoft, Unilever, McCann Erickson, Deloitte Touche, San Jose Airport, Sony Pictures, Paramount Studios, Focus Features.

Abridged Work

2012: Mike Kelly Studio’s, Gagosian Gallery.

2010: City of San Jose: Multi Media Artist

2008: Walt Disney Studios: Art Director.

2002-2004: Simple Industries, CEO, Patent based startup, Los Angeles, CA

1998-2004: Art Center College of Design: Lecturer/Media Instructor.

2002: Focus Features: Freelance Art Director

2000: Paramount Studios: On Site Technical, Hollywood CA

1996-2008: Patti Podesta: Assistant : Hollywood CA.

1998 Ayzenberg: Multimedia, Pasadena CA.

1996-1998: Milk & Honey Films, Art Director,  Prague, CZ

1996-1997: McCann Erickson, Lead Art Director,  Prague, CZ.

Exhibitions

2010: San Jose Airport, City of San Jose, San Jose California-permanent installation.

2008 Dream(land), Jail Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2007 Summer Stock, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California

2005 The Great Outdoors, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California

2005 Always As It Is Today, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California (solo)

2005 Gregory Kucera, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington (solo)

2005 Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York

2004 Under the Influence of Warhol, Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles, California

2004 Domicile, Center on Contemporary Art (COCA), Seattle, Washington

2004 Stay Positive! Positivism and Abstraction in Contemporary Art, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Italy

2004 Pong Farm, I-20, New York City, New York (solo)

2003 Tessellation Anxiety, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California (solo)

2003 Projects 2003, Sweeney Art Museum, University of California, Riverside (solo)

2003 Susquahannah Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

2003 Scope Art Fair, special curated benefit, Standard Hotel, Los Angeles, California

2003 Art in Motion: Interference Patterns, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California

2002 Das Spyderman, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California

2002 LA Freewaves,Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California

2002 Give Me Shelter: New Videos on Suburban Discomfort, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico

2002 Intervals and Inversions, I-20 Gallery, New York City, New York (solo)

2002 Contemporary Exhibitions Series, Coppos Films, Los Angeles

2001 DFKU, Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark

2001 Videoteque, KUNSTAKUTEN, Stockholm, Sweden

2001Test Tube, Los Angeles Pierce College, Los Angeles, California

2001 Liste, Art 32 Basel (Low Gallery, Los Angeles), Basel, Switzerland

2001 AIM II, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California

2001 Graduate Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California (solo)

2000 Fit, New Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles

2000 Shotgun, Project Space, Peblink, Denmark

2000 Strangers in the Night, Gallery Paradiso, Costa Mesa, California (one person)

1999 CAA-MFA, Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California

1999 Brisk, Occidental College Center Gallery, Los Angeles, California