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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017

Camelot and other stories, The Collaborative, Long Beach, CA

2015-16

Camelot, Tom Bradley International Terminal, LAX Airport, CA
Kennedy Obsession, Barrick Museum, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV

2014

Bienvenidos los Presidentes, Oficina de Proyectos Culturales, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Deborah Aschheim: Involuntary Memories, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, Yorba Linda, CA

2013

Deborah Aschheim: Involuntary Memories: Marine Corps Air Station El Toro and the Nixon Years, Orange County Great Park Gallery, Irvine, CA
Deborah Aschheim: Threshold, Suyama Space, Seattle, WA

2012-13

Deborah Aschheim: My life in airports, Terminal 1, Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, CA
Deborah Aschheim: Method of loci, CentralTrak, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX

2011

Deborah Aschheim: feeling-of-knowing (with Lisa Mezzacappa), San Diego State University Art Gallery, San Diego, CA

2010

Nostalgia for the Future, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA

2009

Deborah Aschheim, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI
Deborah Aschheim + Lisa Mezzacappa: Earworms Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA

2008

Deborah Aschheim: Reconsider, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO

2007

The Forgetting Curve, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME

2006

On Memory, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
Episodic, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN

2005

Neural Architecture no. 6, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
Neural Architecture no. 5, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

2004

Panopticon,(neural architecture no. 4) Ben Maltz Gallery Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Neural Architecture (a smart building is a nervous building) Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

2003-4

Arborization, The Wellcome Trust, London, England, UK

2001

Osmosis, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY

2000

Intergel, City Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Evenflow, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Evenflow, Suyama Space, Seattle, WA

1998

Menace (Evenflow Installation,) Jennjoy Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1997

Spore/Virus Project, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA

1994

Recent Sightings, Int’l UFO Museum and Research Center, Roswell, NM
Boat Project, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019

Faster, Faster! The Art of Motorcycle Culture, Wignall Museum of Art, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA

2018

We the People: Protest and Patriotism, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, ID
Creative Practices, Bethel University Art Gallery, St. Paul, MN
Every (ongoing) Day, Arena 1, Santa Monica, CA

2017

Wonder Room, Tongva Park, Santa Monica, CA
Conduction, FOCA Curators Lab, Los Angeles, CA

2016

Five, Marjorie Barrick Museum, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Danube Video Art Festival, Grein, Austria

2015

Yesterday’s Future, Orange County Great Park Gallery, Irvine, CA
The Brain, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID

2013

Modernist Maverick, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV

2011

Some City Angels, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
Hiding Places: Memory in the Arts, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI (with Lisa Mezzacappa)

2010

I Spy: Surveillance and Security, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, ID
Viralnet: Home and Garden, Museum of Jurassic Technology, Culver City, CA

2009

Installations Inside/Out, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA (with Lisa Mezzacappa)
The Future Imaginary, Ben Maltz Gallery Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA

2008

Vital Signs, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
The Lining of Forgetting, Weatherspoon Art Museum University of North Carolina at Greensboro

2007

Orion’s Belt, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno

2005

The One, NGC 224, Brooklyn, NY

2004

Certain Traces: Dialogue Los Angeles/Prague 2004 Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, CA and MuseumKampa, Prague, C.R.
Suspension: Sonic Absorption Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA

2002

Synthetically Bred, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI
Out Of True,(Audition,) University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara, CA
Beelden Buiten 2002:Fractals (Arborization),Tuin De Brabandere, Tielt, Belgium (Histology paintings), Galerie CD, Tielt, Belgium
New Works, New Spaces,(Retina) Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

2001

Synapse Installation, Artificial Structures, Raid Projects, Los Angeles
Sensate, Kellogg University Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA

2000

Quirky, Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York, NY

1999

What on Earth?!, Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV

1998-9

On the Ball DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA

1997

Invitational '97, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY

SELECTED HONORS, AWARDS, RESIDENCIES

2017

Humanities for all Quick Grant for “Time Travel”, California Humanities, CA
Individual Artist Fellowship, Pasadena Arts and Culture Commission, CA (also 2008, 2004)

2014

Residency Fellowship, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

2013

Investing in Artists Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation, Los Angeles, CA

2011

Artists’ Resources for Completion Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation Los Angeles, CA (also 2007, 2004)
Artist Fellowship, California Community Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

2011-12

Artist in Residence, Orange County Great Park, Irvine, CA

2009-11

Hellman Visiting Artist Fellowship, Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA

2009

City of Los Angeles Artist-in-Residence Grant, Los Angeles, CA

2007

Artist-in-Residence, Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain
Artist-in-Residence, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC

2006

Artist-in-Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

2002-3

City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship, Los Angeles, CA

2001

Individual Artist Fellowship, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, NJ

2000

Visiting Artist Residency, CSUF Grand Central Arts Center, Santa Ana, CA

1994

Residency Fellowship, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE

1993-4

Artist-in-Residence Grant, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM

SELECTED ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

2017

San Francisco Chronicle, “Bus shelters bring Summer of Love’s ghosts back to life,” by Sam Whiting, March 2, p.E6, ill. SF, CA

2015

Las Vegas Weekly, May 14-20, “Deborah Aschheim explores the tension between personal and collective memory,” by Dawn-Michelle Baude, p.47, Henderson, NV

2014

Getty Iris, July 22, “Planning for Utopia” by Deborah Aschheim, ill. Los Angeles, CA

2013

Seattle Times, February 1, ill. "At Suyama Space, mesmerizing ‘Threshold’" Robert Ayers, Seattle, WA
The Stranger, February 6, "Ghost Buildings: Art in the forth dimension," ill, Jen Graves, Seattle, WA

2012

Art Ltd., January/February 2012, p. 23-24, ill, “Deborah Aschheim: ‘feeling of knowing’ at San Diego State University Art Gallery,” Jody Zellen, LA, CA

2011

Sculpture, November, p.17, ill “Itinerary – San Diego State University, Juxtapoz, p. 122, August, “Profile: Deborah Aschheim,” ill., San Francisco, CA
Juxtapoz, p. 122, August, “Profile: Deborah Aschheim,” ill., San Francisco, CA

2010

Zyzzyva, p. 95, 136, 138, Winter, “Works on Paper,” San Francisco, CA
Art Ltd., p.24, Nov/Dec, “Los Angeles: Deborah Aschheim ‘Nostalgia for the Future’ at Edward Cella Art + Architecture,” George Melrod, Woodland Hills, CA

2010

Artforum.com, October, ”Critic’s Picks: Deborah Aschheim, Edward Cella Art and Architecture,” ill. Lyra Kilston, New York, NY

COMMISSIONS

2018

Story Wall, Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, Downey, CA
Art Glass and video wall installation, LA County Arts Commission

2018

LAPD Yearbook, Los Angeles Police Academy, CA
66’ outdoor wall of drawings translated into glass and powder coated aluminum for new training facilities. Los Angeles Cultural Affairs

2017

The Zeitgeist, Art on Market Street, San Francisco, CA
Posters exhibited in bus shelters, San Francisco Arts Commission

2015-

Back story, Fire Station Number 1, Santa Monica, CA (in progress)
Architectural Art Glass, Santa Monica Cultural Affairs

2014

A.W. Clausen Memorial and Clinic & Research, installations, Sandler Neurosciences Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA
Wall installations with video, Commissioned by UCSF Memory and Aging

2012

Periscope, Amazon.com, South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Video and light sculptural installation for window space. Vulcan, in.c

2010

Taxonomy, Pocket-Greenhaven Library, Sacramento, CA
Exterior light installation, Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission

2007

Nerve Center, LAPD Valley Communications Dispatch Center, CA
Data driven fiber optic wall installation, LA Cultural Affairs

EDUCATION

1990

University of Washington, Seattle, WA, MFA, Ceramic Sculpture

1986

Brown University, Providence, RI, BA, Honors Anthropology, Studio Art