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Curriculum Vitae

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015-16: Camelot, Tom Bradley International Terminal, LAX Airport, CA
Deborah Aschheim: Kennedy Obsession, Marjorie Barrick Museum, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
2014: Bienvenidos los Presidentes/Welcome the Presidents, Oficina de Proyectos Culturales (OPC), Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, 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, Gallery 2.5, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
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
1996: Ghost Town (Collaborative Installation) Nicholaysen Museum, Casper, WY
1994: Recent Sightings, Int’l UFO Museum and Research Center, Roswell, NM
Boat Project, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
1993: Boat Project work in progress The Graham Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
1992: Pilgrimage Raw Space, Albuquerque, NM

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015: summertimeshift, ProjectProject, Summercamp, Los Angeles, CA
William Pereira: Yesterday’s Future, Orange County Great Park Gallery, Irvine, CA
2013: Relative Dimensions: Deborah Aschheim, Matthew Brandt and Christine Nguyen, Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads School, Santa Monica, CA
Modernist Maverick: The Architecture of William L. Pereira, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
When I’m Sixty-Four, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
The Architecture of an Idea, Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art, Midland, MI
2012: Drawing the Mind: neural networks and the emergence of complexity, OSilas Gallery, Concordia College, NY
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)
Open Daybook, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), CA
in/out, Illges Gallery, Korn Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus State University, GA
2010: Dialog 21, Galerie Califia, Horazdovice, CR
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 Lining of Forgetting, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
The Future Imaginary, Ben Maltz Gallery Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Designing Intelligence, University Galleries Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
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
2006: Animus/Wilderness, Glass Eye, Brooklyn, NY
Alternate Routes: Mapping in the Studio, Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads School, Los Angeles, CA
Draw, Paper, Scissors, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA
2005: LA Art Girls’ Work, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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
2003: C.O.L.A. 2003 Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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
2000: Animate Sculpture: As If Alive, N.J. Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
Quirky, Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York, NY
1999: What on Earth?!, Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV
1998-9: Spore/Virus Installation for On the Ball: The Sphere in Contemporary Sculpture, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
1997: Invitational '97: Deborah Aschheim, John Evans, Heather Hutchison, Mary Judge, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY
Are We Touched? Identities from Outer Space Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA

SELECTED HONORS, AWARDS, RESIDENCIES

2014: Residency Fellowship, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
2013: Investing in Artists Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation, Los Angeles, CA
The Artech Grant, Artech, Seattle, WA
2011: Artists’ Resources for Completion Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation Los Angeles, CA
Mid-Career 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
2008, 2004: Individual Artist Grant, Pasadena Arts and Culture Commission, Pasadena, CA
2007: Artist-in-Residence, Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain
Artist-in-Residence, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC
2007, 2004: Artists’ Resources for Completion Grant, The Durfee Foundation Santa Monica, CA
2006: Artist-in-Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2002-3: City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Individual Artist Fellowship, Los Angeles, CA
2001: Individual Artist Fellowship, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, NJ
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

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
Las Vegas Weekly, March 19-25, “The memory, history and myth behind Deborah Aschheim’s drawings,” by Kristen Peterson, p.47, Henderson, NV
2014: Getty Iris, July 22, “Planning for Utopia” by Deborah Aschheim, ill.
2013: Orange County Register, May 14, “Artist evokes Nixon and Vietnam in Great Park exhibit,” ill., Richard Chang, Santa Ana, CA
Huffington Post/Artweek LA, May 6, “Deborah Aschheim: Involuntary Memories: Marine Corps Air Station El Toro and the Nixon Years,” ill., Bill Bush, Los Angeles, CA
Sculpture, March, page 20, illustrated “Itinerary – Suyama Space, Seattle: Deborah Aschheim” Hamilton, NJ 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
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, Artforum.com, October, ”Critic’s Picks: Deborah Aschheim, Edward Cella Art and Architecture,” ill. Lyra Kilston, New York, NY
2008: Flaunt Magazine, April v.93, p. 185 “Deborah Aschheim: Reconsider,” Christopher Miles, ill., Los Angeles, CA
2007: Art New England, June/July, p. 31, “Deborah Aschheim: The Forgetting Curve,” Carl Little, ill., Brighton, MA
2005: Los Angeles Times, February 19, p. E26, “Rework, rebuild, recycle,” Scarlet Cheng, ill, Los Angeles, CA

COMMISSIONS

2014-: LAPD Yearbook, Los Angeles Police Academy, CA (in progress)
2014: A.W. Clausen Memorial and Clinic & Research installations, Sandler Neurosciences Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA
2012: Periscope, Amazon.com, South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Memoryspace, Fuller Laboratories, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
2010: Eyetracking, Neurology Clinic, Ambulatory Care Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA
Taxonomy, Pocket-Greenhaven Library, Sacramento, CA
2007: Nerve Center, LAPD Valley Communications Dispatch Center, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs, Public Art Division, Los Angeles, CA
Building as Body, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME

EDUCATION

1990: University of Washington, Seattle, WA, MFA, Ceramic Sculpture
1986: Brown University, Providence, RI, BA, Magna Cum Laude, Honors Anthropology, Studio Art