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ABOUT LARA
Lara Bullock is a writer, contemporary art historian, and curator currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Contemporary Art History at the University of California, San Diego. She received her B.A. in Art History with Honours from the University of British Columbia, with an English Minor (2005) and her M.A. in Art History, Theory, and Criticism with scholarships from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2007). As a critic, she has published for a variety of print and online media. She has composed various catalogue essays for both galleries and museums, most recently for the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego's catalogue for the exhibition Viva la Revolucion: Dialogue with the Urban Landscape. As both a curator and scholar, Lara is interested in cultural criticism, DIY aesthetics, and "art" as a malleable and ever changing term, especially as it is accepted in the world of galleries, museums, and the academy.
EDUCATION
2008-present University of California, San Diego
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in Art History, Theory, and Criticism, Department of Visual Arts, ABD
Concentration: Street Art; Twentieth Century and Contemporary Art; Critical and Textual Theory
Advisor: Norman Bryson
2005-2007 School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Degree: Master of Arts, Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Concentration: Twentieth Century and Contemporary Art; Critical and Textual Theory
Thesis: As is Art, so is Art Writing: Stylistic Intersections of Contemporary Artists, Critics, Philosophers, and Historians
Advisors: James Elkins, Joseph Grigely, and Mary Jane Jacob
2001-2005 University of British Columbia
Degree: Bachelor of Arts in Art History (Departmental Honors) and English Minor
Honors Thesis: The Non-persistence of Memory, Time and Identity: A Critical Reflection on Mike Kelley's Educational Complex, Christian
Boltanski's Passion, and Stan Douglas's Der Sandman
Advisor: William Wood, Associate Professor
2002-2003 University of East Anglia, Study Abroad
Concentration: Art History, English Literature, Creative Writing
2000-2001 University of Miami
Concentration: Psychology and Music Therapy
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2012 Teaching Assissant, Dwelling-Designing Equality, Nancy Kwak
University of California, San Diego
2011 Teaching Assissant, A History of Time: Time in Modern Society, Stefan Tanaka
University of California, San Diego
2011 Teaching Assissant, Society of the Spectacle, Charles Thorpe
University of California, San Diego
2010 Adjunct Instructor, History of Western Art
Southwestern College, San Diego
2010 Teaching Assissant, Writing and the Arts of Memory, Catherina Gere
University of California, San Diego
2010 Teaching Assissant, Introduction to Asian Art, Kuiyi Shen
University of California, San Diego
2010 Reader, Roman Art, Sheldon Nodelman
University of California, San Diego
2009 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Modern Art and Visual Culture: 1660-1900, Norman Bryson
University of California, San Diego
2009 Teaching Assissant, Arts of Modern China, Kuiyi Shen
University of California, San Diego
2009 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to the History of Art, Ancient to Modern, Ann Woods
University of California, San Diego
2009 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Asian Art, Kuiyi Shen
University of California, San Diego
2008 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Modern Art and Visual Culture: 1660-1900, Norman Bryson
University of California, San Diego
2007- 2008 Adjunct Instructor, History of Western Art I
Illinois Institute of Art Schaumburg
2006 Teaching Assistant, Issues in Visual and Critical Studies, James Elkins
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2006 Instructor, Survey of Ancient to Modern Art and Architecture
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2005 Teaching Assistant, Survey of Ancient to Modern Art and Architecture, Daniel Merkle
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2010 Curator, GSA Gallery, University of California, San Diego
2010 Curatorial Research Assisstant, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
2010 Curatorial Intern, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
2006-2007 Curatorial Intern, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
EXHIBITIONS CURATED
2011 Immigrant/Emmigrant, Angels Gate, San Pedro, CA (upcoming)
2011 Disperse, The University Art Gallery, La Jolla, CA (http://uag.ucsd.edu/exhibitions/current.shtml)
2011 Laid Bare, The Loft Gallery, San Pedro, Los Angeles, CA
2011 the FUTURE, Marcuse Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2010 Captured!, University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego
2006 Integrated Visions, John M. Flaxman Library, Chicago, IL
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2010 Curatorial Research Assisstant, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
2010 Curatorial Intern, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
2008-present Visiting Artist Lecture Series Committee, University of California, San Diego
2008-present Pros Journal, Founding Member, University of California, San Diego
2008-present Ph.D. Faculty Representative, University of California, San Diego
2008 Grant Writer, Alogon Gallery
2007 Gallery Assistant, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery
2007 Freelance Writer, STEP Inside Design Magazine
2007 Freelance Writer, TimeOut Chicago
2007 Departmental Representative to Prospective Students, Art History Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2007 Volunteer, Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art, Galerie St. Etienne
2006-2007 Staff Writer, F Newsmagazine, Department of Student Publications, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2006-2007 Art History Department Lecture Programming Committee, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2006-2007 Assistant Administrative Director, Office of Ceramics, Performance, and Sculpture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2004-2005 Gallery Assistant, Moris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery
2002 Open Studio Coordinator, Vancouver Art Gallery
CONFERENCES/PRESENTATIONS
2008 Fear Minus One Film Screening, curated by Stephen Hepworth
Paper Title: Takeshi Murata and Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960)
University of California, San Diego
2008 Fear Minus One Film Screening, curated by Stephen Hepworth
Paper Title: Gabriel Lester and Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974)
University of California, San Diego
2007 Interdisciplinary Graduate Thesis Symposium
Paper Title: Pictures, Prose, and Persuasion
Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago
2004 Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference
Paper Title: Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida, and the Photograph Refocused
University of British Columbia
CATALOGUE ESSAYS
Viva la Revolucion: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape, 2010
Catalogue Essays for the exhibition entitled Viva la Revolucion curated by Pedro Alonzo and Luca Sanroman at Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
"Re-Writing the Waves," May 2010
Catalogue Essay for the exhibition entitled Restoration and Ruin, by Clare Parry at Marcuse Gallery, San Diego, CA
"Madness and Civilization," May 2009
Catalogue Essay for the exhibition entitled The Dark Tower curated by Cauleen Smith at Compact Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Targeting Johns: The Influence of Jasper Johns in Contemporary Art Practice," Nov/Dec 2007
Catalogue Essay for the exhibition at G2 Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Out of the Box and Onto the Scene," Oct 2007
Essay for the exhibition entitled Unwrapped at Temp Gallery, New Orleans, LA
SELECTED ARTICLES
"New Drawings" THE Magazine, July/August 2009
"Mark Dean Veca: Painting, Wall Drawings, and Collaborations" THE Magazine, May 2009
"Ochsenfest" STEP Inside Design Magazine, March/April 2007
"DeVotchka" STEP Inside Design Magazine, March/April 2007
"Canadian Council Archives" STEP Inside Design Magazine, March/April 2007
"Caught in the Valley: Larry Sultan at the MoCP"F Newsmagazine, March 2007
"Open and Shut," TimeOut Chicago, February 22-28, 2007
"Open Your Art to Me: The Artworld Unites at The Chicago Art Open" F Newsmagazine, Dec 2006
"Trans-X-hibition" F Newsmagazine, Nov 2006
"Heads Will Roll at Scott Fife's Latest Exhibition," F Newsmagazine, Oct 2006
"The Totally Radical Faculty Sabbatical," F Newsmagazine, Oct 2006
"Massive Change: The Future of Global Design?," F Newsmagazine, Sept 2006
"New York's Iron Artist," F Newsmagazine Web Exclusive, Summer 2006
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
2011 Tinker Grant for Graduate Studies, Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, University of California, San Diego
2010 Russell Grant, University of California, San Diego
2005-2007 Art Institute of Chicago Grant for Graduate Study, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2001-2007 Golden Key Honor Society
2005 John H. Zeisler Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2002-2003 Hugh M. Brock Education Abroad Scholarship, University of British Columbia
2001 Dean's List, University of Miami
2001 Provost's Honor Roll, University of Miami
2000-2001 George Edgar Merrick Scholarship, University of Miami
COLLECTIONS
Joan Flasch Artist Books collection, -MENT
LANGUAGES READ/SPOKEN
Reading fluency in German
*** Title image is of the remains of a recreation of Nam June Paik's Zen For Head (1962) performed by Lara Bullock and Natalie Sciortino under the direction of Simon Anderson on October 28th, 2005 during FLUXUS on LSD at the opening of the Secret Histories Museum in Bridgeport, IL.
