JENNIE E. PARK
December 15, 2025
Quiver-and-Hold: Naïve Tricksters’ Decoys in Inbar Hagai’s “Captured Show”
Prospect Art (Los Angeles, CA)
Writer: Jennie E. Park
Excerpt:"Operating throughout the convention and Hagai’s film, the logic of quiver-and-hold redirects participants’ attention from inconclusive flutters between “naïve” and “trickster” toward nonthreatening decoys that inspire uncanny recognition, awe or amusement as appeasing spells."
December 5, 2025
NOT REAL ART (Los Angeles, CA)
Featured: Say Ah II (Registers)
Curator: Kirsten Bengtson-Lykoudis
"From traditional watercolors, woodcuts, and drawings to RISO prints, installations, and analog collage, the artists in Pulp Fiction use paper as a medium and a metaphor." - Kirsten Bengtson-Lykoudis
October 5, 2025
Randall's Island Urban Farm (New York, NY)
Featured: Solutions (Tiebreakers) (video)
Programmer: Maya Han
Event: Fungus Festival 2025
"A selection of mycological mini-documentaries and experimental short films by artists and filmmakers in the NYMS community. Program will be playing throughout the day so drop in anytime and enjoy our cozy cinema under the trees!" - New York Mycological Society
October 4, 2025
Alice Austen House (Staten Island, NY)
Featured: Solutions (Tiebreakers) (video)
Programmer: Maya Han
Event: Climate Week NYC 2025
"Celebrate Climate Week NYC and discover the fascinating world of fungi and their important role in the Staten Island ecosystem! Join us for a one-hour film screening of bold new visions of the fungal. Screening will be followed with a one-hour mushroom walk in the Alice Austen House grounds and garden, led by New York Mycological Society amateur mycologist Victoria Bayevskiy." - Alice Austen House
September 23, 2025
Arsenal (Central Park) (New York, NY)
Featured: Solutions (Tiebreakers) (video)
Programmer: Maya Han
Event: Climate Week NYC 2025
"Join the New York Mycological Society on a one-hour mushroom foray (walk) in Central Park, led by NYMS members and community mycologists Maren Fossi and Alexa Kirlan. Walk will be followed by a one-hour film 'foray' - a cinematic excursion in inventive short films exploring a diversity of new voices and visions in the fungal realm." - New York Mycological Society
July 4, 2025
Call and Response: A Multicultural View (virtual)
Shoebox Arts (Los Angeles, CA)
Featured: 13 images co-created with Dondia York
"Artist #1 will create an original piece of art within 24 hours and send a digital version of it to Artist #2. Artist #2 will then have 24 hours to create a response to it in any medium and with any tools available to them. They will in turn send a digital version of it back to Artist #1 who will create a new work in response." - Shoebox Arts
May 17, 2025
L.A. (SO) The Story Goes: book launch / signing
LA Art Book Fair (Pasadena, CA)
Featured: Jennie E. Park on Jisoo Chung's "Flower Blooms Only After Surviving A Harsh Winter"
Editor: Prospect Art
Publisher: Gato Negro Ediciones
"L.A. (SO) the Story Goes gathers fifteen Los Angeles based artists and pairs them with international writers in essays that explore storytelling as a transformative artistic method. Through installations, performances, video, and text, the artists navigate themes of identity, memory, and myth, challenging rigid definitions and embracing fluidity." - Prospect Arts
March 28, 2025
Call and Response: Women Resist (virtual)
Shoebox Arts (Los Angeles, CA)
Featured: 14 images co-created with Sue Jenkins
"Artist #1 will create an original piece of art within 24 hours and send a digital version of it to Artist #2. Artist #2 will then have 24 hours to create a response to it in any medium and with any tools available to them. They will in turn send a digital version of it back to Artist #1 who will create a new work in response." - Shoebox Arts
March 20 - April 24, 2025
A Woman's Place: Visual Voices
The Ebell of Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
Featured: Blood Brain Barrier
Jurors: Andi Campognone, Lilly Dawson, Jennifer S. Li
"'A Woman’s Place: Visual Voices' is a tribute to the profound impact of women's narratives. This exhibition, in celebration of Women’s History Month, serves as a platform for artists to amplify stories that have often been overshadowed or marginalized. It provides a space where the rich tapestry of women's experiences can be vividly depicted and shared in a manner that crosses language and cultural barriers." - The Ebell of Los Angeles
March 1 - 29, 2025
Woman Made Gallery (Chicago, IL)
Featured: Say Ah I
Juror: Savneet K. Talwar
"I was drawn to pieces exploring the domestic sphere, history, memory, creative process, and feminism within a global context—revealing interconnected narratives. The selected works push material and conceptual boundaries, questioning personal and public spaces that women and gender non-binary artists navigate." - Savneet Talwar
January 17 - February 9, 2025
Citizen Joy: Views of Democracy
Sanchez Art Center (Pacifica, CA)
Featured: Solutions (Tiebreakers) (installation + video)
Juror: Jeff Raz (Founder, Citizen Joy)
"A disheartened, divided populace cannot support a democracy. For that, we need engaged, knowledgeable and even joyful citizens. Artists can, and do, help build this kind of citizenry because artists know how to deal with difficult, even contentious subjects in ways that energize people and create connection." - Jeff Raz
January 15 - March 5, 2025
MELD: Contemporary Innovations in Metal Sculpture (virtual)
1202 Contemporary (Gilroy, CA)
Featured: Comfort (diptych), Flight of the Feeler Gauge
“MELD” celebrates how contemporary artists reinterpret age-old practices of metal sculpture, blending time-honored craftsmanship with modern aesthetics." - 1202 Contemporary
August 19, 2024
Jennie E. Park on Jisoo Chung's "Flower Blooms Only After A Harsh Winter"
Prospect Art (Los Angeles, CA)
Writer: Jennie E. Park
Excerpt:"The installation, hence, ultimately leads viewers to reconsider the (f)utility of searching for 'lost' meanings or stable referents, as the former produces merely melancholia, and the latter merely a stunted essence or thing; in both cases, a kind of interminable thwarting of wholeness yields a feeling of stark emptiness."
June 6 - September 18, 2024
First Floor Gallery, Santa Clarita City Hall (Valencia, CA)
Featured: Airy Diction I
"Celebrating Diversity showcases an exciting collection of artworks from a diverse group of artists, each piece celebrating the myriad of cultures, perspectives, and identities that enrich our communities. With a wide range of mediums, each artwork offers an experience that reflects our shared human experiences and aims to foster dialogue and understanding through compelling narratives." - Santa Clarita Arts
June 1 - July 27, 2024
Studio Channel Islands (Camarillo, CA)
Featured: DIY Political Machines: Circular to Linear Motion
Artist talk: Cyborg Surreality, June 22, 1-2pm. Artists: Chenhung Chen, Jennie E. Park, Ibuki Kuramochi
Curators: Jason Jenn, Vojislav Radovanović
"The Arcade of Hypermodernity explores the realm of technology and imagination via an exhibition designed like an amusement center for visitors with purely pleasurable interpretations and delights from initial inspection with deeper socio-political implications upon further exploration." - Jenn & Radovanović
June 1 - July 20, 2024
39th Annual All Media Juried Exhibition
MOAH:CEDAR (Lancaster, CA)
Featured: Caviar
Jurors: Marisa Caichiolo, Jason Jenn
"MOAH:CEDAR is a catalyst for engaging a diverse audience through captivating exhibitions, innovative artists, and dynamic programming. The gallery encourages progressive ideas, which highlight performance, education, and experimental studio practice." - MOAH:CEDAR
May 25 - June 22, 2024
Teeny Weeny Show
Avenue 50 Studio (Highland Park, CA)
Organizer: Natalie Fratino
"Avenue 50 Studio is an arts presentation organization grounded in Latina/o culture, visual arts, and the Northeast Los Angeles area that seeks to bridge cultures through artistic expressions, using content-driven art to educate and to stimulate intercultural understanding." - Avenue 50 Studio
February 24 - March 2, 2024
Fun-A-Day-LA
Jewel Box Studio (Long Beach, CA)
Featured: Airy Diction II
Organizer: Amy Bauer
"The Jewel Box Children’s Theater Company is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization creating equitable theater and music programs that are accessible and inclusive for all children. We truly believe that the arts can ignite social change and help cast a brighter future for youth in our community." - Jewel Box Children's Theater Co.
February 10, 2024
Center for the Arts Eagle Rock (Los Angeles, CA)
Featured: California Dreams II
Organizer: Miquela Davis
"Center for the Arts Eagle Rock’s mission is to be innovative in providing multidisciplinary, arts-inclusive programming to the diverse communities of northeast Los Angeles… and beyond." - CFAER
January 12 - March 6, 2024
Transcendence: Breaking Boundaries
First Floor Gallery, Santa Clarita City Hall (Valencia, CA)
Featured: Solutions (Tiebreakers) (installation)
"Curated with the intent to push beyond the expected, Transcendence: Breaking Boundaries showcases a diverse range of artworks by artists from Santa Clarita and the Greater Los Angeles area. Each piece is a testament to the artist’s journey beyond the ordinary, inviting viewers to engage in an introspective dialogue." - Santa Clarita Arts
January 10 - February 2, 2024
Los Angeles Open Juried Invitational Exhibition
The Artists Gallery (Los Angeles, CA)
Featured: Flight of the Feeler Gauge, Say Ah I
Award: Excellence in Medium: Sculpture
Juror: Kristine Schomaker
"Founded in 1993, The Artists Gallery is an artist-founded and operated not-for-profit arts cooperative that provides mutual benefit and creative freedom to its members, encouraging the exploration of new media, collaboration, and artistic focus among the members in hopes of enriching individual artists, our community, and the art world at large." - TAG
January 6 - 27, 2024
Crear Studio (Santa Ana, CA)
Featured: Blood Brain Barrier
Curator: Lauren Nicole
"Bringing light to the 'Lost Girls/Lost Generation' of individuals who were late diagnosed from lack of relevant research, Through the Cracks will showcase artwork highlighting the often overlooked feminine perspective on neurodiversity and disability directly from the community." - Lauren Nicole
December 9, 2023 - March 16, 2024
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (Los Angeles, CA)
Featured: Comfort (diptych)
Curators: Nancy Meyer and Hugo Cervantes
"This year’s Open Call, subtitled Apophenia (the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things, such as objects or ideas) is derived from an artwork included in the exhibition. The curatorial approach speaks to the show’s ethos of creating connections among artists and practices that celebrate the differences across Southern California." - LAMAG
November 17, 2023
Anthology for Unseen Book Launch
(Los Angeles, CA)
Featured: Airy Diction I
Editors: Amanda Bauer and Ruoyi Shi
"This book launch event is an opportunity to connect with the community we lost touch with during the COVID-19 pandemic and celebrate this record of all our isolated and unseen moments." - Amanda Bauer and Ruoyi Shi
October 1, 2023
SVA Theatre (New York, NY)
Featured: Solutions (Tiebreakers) (video)
Curator: Maya Han
"Founded in 1962 by the visionary multidisciplinary artist John Cage, New York Mycological Society has had a long relationship with the arts. Join us for a fabulous evening of fiction, documentary, animation, and experimental films showcasing the fascinating world of fungi and exploring mycology in bold new ways." - New York Mycological Society
September 4, 2023
2023 - 2024 Emerging Artist Fellowship
California Arts Council & Los Angeles Performance Practice
"The Individual Artist Fellowships program recognizes, uplifts, and celebrates the excellence of California artists practicing any art form. Excellence, for purposes of this program, is defined as an artist’s
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Unique artistic vision
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Ongoing commitment to creative practice
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Engagement with and impact on the larger cultural ecosystem" - CAC & LAPP
August 24, 2023
Indigeneity + Arts in LA Panel (virtual)
Arts for LA (Los Angeles)
Moderator: Joel Garcia
Panelists: Kelly Caballero, Jessa Calderon, Isaac Michael
A frank and nuanced discussion on how Angelenos can truly recognize, equitably support and create with Indigenous artists and arts communities. Organized by Arts for LA Emerging Arts Leaders (Lizeth Ayala, Paola Lopez, Alfred Nomad, Jennie E. Park, Jean Young).
August 4, 2023
2023 - 2024 California Creative Corps Artist Grantee
California Arts Council & Arts Council for Long Beach
"This pilot program will serve as a media, community outreach, and engagement campaign to increase public health awareness. The result will be a work of art that involves target communities and addresses one or more of the following topics:
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Public health awareness messages to stop the spread of COVID-19
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Public awareness related to water and energy conservation, climate mitigation, and emergency preparedness, relief, and recovery
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Civic engagement, including election participation
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Social justice and community engagement." - Arts Council for Long Beach
July 28 - August 19, 2023
LA CONVENTA: the next day there is more/less grief
THE REEF (Los Angeles, CA)
Featured: Real Change, Caviar
Curator: Rosa Evangelina (Beltrán)
Curator's statement: LA CONVENTA: the next day there is more/less grief is a meditation on feminine vulnerability, grief, and joy as a gallery show and performance program. The project began with research and writing on the work of Hieronymite nun, writer, and composer Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (Mexico, 1651-1695). The performance program includes the premiere of the song cycle “Resta/Ora” based on Sor Juana’s text “La Respuesta (The Answer)”, sculpture, painting, textile, photography, musical performance, and readings. LA CONVENTA explores how gender identity, gender-based and intergenerational violence, and communities of care impact a creative process. The project’s aim is to make vulnerability and joy seen, heard, and felt.
July 11 - August 20, 2023
Slice: A Juried Exhibit of Regional Art
Pence Gallery (Davis, CA)
Featured: Sets(s) (diptych)
Award: Third Place
Juror: Kelly Lindner (CSU Sacramento University Galleries)
"This is an ‘open theme’ juried exhibit, which showcases art that is conceptually thoughtful, technically skilled, and representative of contemporary trends in art. We aspire to be an inclusive, culturally-rich, and essential community-based organization." - Pence Gallery
July 8 - September 30, 2023
Irvine Fine Arts Center (Irvine, CA)
Featured: (Contra)dictions (diptych)
Juror: Gabriela Urtiaga (Museum of Latin American Art)
"Irvine Fine Arts Center is a community venue that presents exhibitions designed to expand awareness, understanding, and sensitivity to art, and provide exploratory and educational viewing experiences for diverse audiences." - IFAC
July 8 - September 1, 2023
Brand 51: Annual National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper
Brand Library & Art Center (Glendale, CA)
Featured: Say Ah II (Registers)
Juror: Ara Oshagan (ReflectSpace Gallery)
"Brand Library & Art Center has been a cornerstone for the arts in Southern California since 1956. This unique public library focuses on visual arts and music and provides free services and programs for a diverse community" - BLAC
July 5 - August 5, 2023
Summer Open Call
El Camino College Art Gallery (Torrance, CA)
Featured: Airy Diction I
"The Art Gallery is where the minds of many artists, known and unknown, combine their energies to enlighten, mystify and reach out to the community in amazing ways." - El Camino College Art Gallery
June 24, 2023
Newport Beach Art Exhibition
Newport Beach Civic Center (Newport Beach, CA)
Featured: Flight of the Feeler Gauge, Comfort (diptych)
"The annual exhibition features recently created original artwork in various mediums, including oils and acrylics, pastels, watercolor, charcoal, pen and ink, sculpture, photography and mixed media." - NBAE
June 22 - July 23, 2023
Treehouse NDSM (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Featured: Solutions (Tiebreakers) (video)
Organizer: Camille de Wit
"The exhibition 'Hear All Voices’ aims to reflect on our democracies and speculate on alternative governance systems that take into account the immense complexity of our current social and economic structures." - Treehouse NDSM
June 6, 2023
Stoneboat Literary Journal (Sheboygan, WI)
Featured (cover image): Airy Diction II
Editor: Katie Amundsen
"Founded in 2010 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Stoneboat is an online, independent journal of literature and arts dedicated to publishing quality fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, artwork, and graphic literature." - Stoneboat Literary Journal
June 3 - 24, 2023
Shoebox Projects (Los Angeles, CA) (online)
Featured: (Contra)dictions (diptych), Caviar, Real Change, 2020 Vision (video)
Award: Shoebox Projects solo exhibition (online)
Curator: Kristine Schomaker
"Shoebox Projects was an alternative Art Space that opened in November of 2016.... We decided to bring Shoebox Projects back as an online gallery as a way to further support our artists. We feel diversity leads to an authentic worldview, inclusion fuels innovation, and transparency helps create an accepting, more equitable work/create/live space." - Shoebox Projects
May 27 - July 9, 2023
38th Annual All Media Juried Art Exhibition
MOAH:CEDAR (Lancaster, CA)
Featured: DIY Political Machines: Circular to Linear Motion (video), Solutions (Tiebreakers) (video + installation)
Award: LA Art Documents Award
Jurors: Cecelia Koger (Angels Gate Cultural Center), Marcus Kuiland-Nazario (18th Street Art Center), Edwin Vasquez (City of Palmdale)
"MOAH:CEDAR is a catalyst for engaging a diverse audience through captivating exhibitions, innovative artists, and dynamic programming. The gallery encourages progressive ideas, which highlight performance, education, and experimental studio practice." - MOAH:CEDAR
May 8, 2023
LeBasse Projects (Los Angeles, CA)
"The grants are focused on supporting artists that are traditionally underrepresented including artists of color, female artists and LGBTQ+ artists [and] artists who present work seeking to enrich and inform the public on important subjects such as social justice, civil rights, the physical environment and other contemporary issues." - VCAG
May 7, 2023
CalArts Creative Writing MFA Showcase
REDCAT (Los Angeles, CA)
Featured: Reading of an excerpt of my written work in progress.
"Audience members will get a feel for the incredible range of experimentation that characterizes the literary endeavors of students in the Creative Writing program." - REDCAT
April 28 - 29, 2023
CalArts (Valencia, CA)
Featured: Beta Data: Integrated Explorations (participatory art activities; work in progress).
"In honor of its 50th Anniversary, CalArts is producing a variety of 70+ artistic projects from the alumnx and student community." - CalArts
March - October, 2023
Emerging Arts Leaders (Programming Committee)
Arts for LA (Los Angeles, CA)
"ACTIVATE EAL is a 9-month, stipended program where participants collaborate and design learning and networking opportunities for the wider Arts for LA community, and expand their own networks through engagement with LA arts leaders." - Arts for LA
January 28 - March 11, 2023
Huntington Beach Art Center (Huntington Beach, CA)
Featured: Airy Diction II
"For over 20 years, Centered on the Center has promoted our mission of providing opportunity for the community and artists to share in a climate of education, experimentation and experience." - HBAC
November 16, 2022
Spirit of the Land: Artists Honor Avi Kwa Ame
Artillery Magazine (online)
Writer: Jennie E. Park
Excerpt: “Spirit of the Land: Artists Honor Avi Kwa Ame” fortifies the work of activists—including the show’s curators, Checko Salgado, Kim Garrison Means and Mikayla Whitmore—who catalyzed the introduction of a congressional bill this year that would designate Avi Kwa Ame (Mojave for “Spirit Mountain”) and its surrounding 443,671 acres of public lands in Southern Nevada a national monument. Without such designation the region, considered sacred by over a dozen local tribes, could be irreversibly harmed by tourists, mining and industrial “green” (wind and solar) energy activities.
October 29 - November 12, 2022
Helen J Gallery (Los Angeles, CA)
Featured: Flight of the Feeler Gauge
Curator: Amy Kahng
Curator's statement (excerpt): Henri Bergson uses the word duration (or durée) to describe the experience of time passing—for example, the inconsistent pacing that makes hours spent laughing with a loved one feel like mere minutes, while a sleepless night seems endless. durée features 27 artists working in painting, sculpture, drawing, video, and multimedia who materialize these considerations of nonlinear temporalities in their work.
September 28, 2022
Artillery Magazine (online)
Writer: Jennie E. Park
Excerpt: Founded in 2018 in Twentynine Palms, California by Alice Wang and Ben Tong, The Magic Hour has hosted six prior iterations (or experimental installations), each for ten weeks and anchored by a set of reconfigurable steel bars (co-produced by Dyson & Womack). Through their sojourn in this seemingly borderless desert tract named after a sliver of time, Tse’s Decommissioned Inter-Mission (2022) and Instant Archeology (2006) conjure space-time wormholes that decontextualize and recontextualize the pieces’ projections of our pasts-to-be.
August 5 - 28, 2022
17th National Juried Exhibition: Seeing in Real/Time
Axis Gallery (Sacramento, CA)
Featured: Comfort (diptych)
Juror/Curator: Kevin B. Chen (San Francisco State University)
Curator's statement (excerpt): Determining what is "real" and how one defines "real" has become an undeniable and exhausting characteristic of our times. Sometimes what we see isn’t what is actually there. And sometimes what is actually there we aren’t able to see.
August 1 - 31, 2022
SCORE / San Fernando Valley Arts & Cultural Center (Tarzana, CA) (virtual)
Featured: Say Ah II (Registers), Flight of the Feeler Gauge
Juror: Lore Eckelberry
Award: Honorable Mention (Say Ah II (Registers))
June 22 - July 30, 2022
Summer Open Call
El Camino College Art Gallery (Torrance, CA)
Featured: Airy Diction II
Jurors: Tulsa Kinney (Artillery Magazine), Rebeca Guerrero (LA Dept. of Cultural Affairs)
June 14, 2022
Metamaking 2022: CalArts Postcolonial Theory and History Group Show and Writings Catalog
Archived at LACA and CalArts library
Artists: Julia Raphaella Aguila, Razan AlSarraf, Caroline Baughman, Andrew Bedows, Sam Brancaccio, Rosa Evangelina, Olivia Fries-Farr, Livya Howard-Yashar, Kira Markman, Jennie E. Park, Wendy Antoniette Espinola Raigosa, Nate Ramer, malavika rao, Bethlehem Tsehai, Yanbin Zhao
Essays:
Hazel Many, Clay, Craft and Colonialism
Kirsten Magbanua, The Laguna Copper Plate Inscription and the Connection to Lost Precolonial Filipino Identity
Miles Karraa, Archaeology in the West Bank: The Potential Power of Museums
Layout: Jennie E. Park and malavika rao
June 4 - July 31, 2022
37th Annual All-Media Juried Exhibition
MOAH:CEDAR (Lancaster, CA)
Featured: Comfort (diptych)
Awards: City of Lancaster Mayor's Award & Assistant City Manager's Award
Jurors: Heather Bowling (Brea Gallery), Mike Che (WeHo Arts), Mika Cho (CSULA gallery)
"MOAH:CEDAR...encourages progressive ideas, which highlight performance, education, and experimental studio practice." - MOAH:CEDAR
May 15 - 18, 2022
Next Words Reading & Anthology Release
Poetic Research Bureau (Los Angeles, CA)
Comfort (diptych) accompanied CalArts Creative Writing MFA '22 graduates reading their work from their collective anthology titled [of lust] rubber.
May 2 - 12, 2022
Metamaking: Postcolonial Theory and History Group Show
John Baldessari Studio Building Crit Space @ CalArts
Featured: Factings
The relationships and questions our show explores around decolonization aim to open up spaces for deeply personal and complex or challenging dialogue. Each of our [the artists'] ancestral histories reflect experiences and legacies of colonization, and each of us in the U.S. has adopted different strategies of survival. We voice our personal histories and points of view in conversation with theorists including Franz Fanon, Edward Said, Césaire, Diderot, and Tuck & Yang, among many others.
*Reception provided by Anuradha Vikram, whose Spring 2022 CalArts class inspired the show*
May 2 - 7, 2022
Factings
C108 Mumbo @ CalArts Center for Integrated Media
Featured: Flats, Flight of the Feeler Gauge, Airy Diction I - IV
April 29 - May 1, 2022
Ashrama: What is Your Refuge?
BB3 Sound Stage @ CalArts
Featured: Comfort (dipytch), Say Ah II (Registers)
Organizer: Aashray Harishankar
Poster: Please join us in an exploration of the many ways that we as humans seek and find refuge. This installation documents perspectives on refuge from a variety of artists and people of different backgrounds, and asks that you immerse yourself in the idea of refuge and what it means in your life.
February 28 - March 4, 2022
Airy Diction
John Baldessari Studio Building Crit Space @ CalArts
Featured: Flight of the Feeler Gauge, Airy Diction I - IV, Comfort (diptych), (Contra)dictions, Real Change, Question Marks
February 8 - May 10, 2022
"ACTIVATE Delegates functions as an advocacy lab for artists, creative sector workers, or anyone interested in the intersection of community organizing and the arts." - Arts for LA
April 27: ACTIVATE delegates A'raelle Flynn-Bolden and Jennie E. Park and Arts for LA Director of Public Policy and Advocacy Robin Gilliam met with Assemblymember Valladares to advocate for SB 628 (California Creative Workforce Act of 2021), SB 1116 (Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund), and additional state funding proposals for the arts.
November 27 - December 3, 2021
Inflection Points
D301 Gallery @ CalArts
Featured: Flight of the Feeler Gauge, Comfort (diptych), Sets, (Contra)dictions, Real Change, Caviar, Say Ah I, Say Ah II (Registers), And/Or I, And/Or II, DIY Political Machines
Art MFA final (thesis) show.
Inflection Points exploress the “generic,” “Neutral” (Roland Barthes) and “erotic” (Audre Lorde) as competing, substitutional, or conjugated vortices of belonging, comfort or liberation. The power of these vortices stems from their common root in me, whether through my body and mind’s anxieties, or soul’s creative truth. The show overall asks, in the words of Audre Lorde, “Which me will survive all these liberations?"
November 12 - 21, 2021
ROS Film Festival (Alicante, Spain) (virtual)
Featured: 2020 Vision, DIY Political Machines
"In recent years, film production with robotics theme has [experienced] a special boom, mainly due to the technological evolution of robots themselves, but also because the relationship between humans and machines is getting closer and closer and is increasingly becoming part of the social imaginary. In addition to establishing a new space for dialogue between art, science and technology, the main aim of the Robotic Online Short Film Festival is to be able to elucidate how this imaginary we previously referred to is made up, by making creators and viewers reflect on a not so distant society where we share our daily life with social robots, those who are capable of interacting and empathizing with humans or among themselves." - ROS Film Festival
November 6 - 28, 2021
Fungi Film Festival (Portland, OR) (virtual)
Featured: Solutions (Tiebreakers)
Artist talk (Nov. 28, 8pm PST): Q&A with Jennie E. Park.
"The Fungi Film Fest (FFF) is the world’s only film festival dedicated to the beauty, weirdness, and human influences of mushrooms, lichens, and micro fungi." - FFF
October 21 - 30, 2021
Crossed Wires
D300, D301, L-Shape Galleries @ CalArts
Featured: Caviar
CalArts School of Art MFA-2 group show.
September 24, 2021
Re-Imagining Democracy, Re-imagining Ourselves (p. 26-41)
MOZAIK Future Art Writers Awards: Re-Imagining Democracy (e-zine)
Writer: Jennie E. Park
Award: MOZAIK FAWA Special Mention
"In the spirit of supporting an inclusive arts ecosystem that celebrates the essential power of scholarly discourse in the arts, The Future Art Writers Award launched in Summer 2021 to provide grants to emerging and established art writers covering contemporary visual art—with a focus on the art on view and this year’s theme: Re-Imagining Democracy.... Interdisciplinary, ethnographic, radically collaborative and celebratory of the artistic achievements of the 50 U.S. artists that answered the call to reimagine democracy through their art, the 2021 Future Art Writers featured here expand democratic possibility through their literary analysis of the power of art as a captured reflection of our times. In turn, they assert their critical contributions to the expansion of a more just, diverse, inclusive and equitable art world." - MOZAIK
June 30, 2021
MOZAIK Future Art Awards: Re-Imagining Democracy (virtual)
Featured: Solutions (Tiebreakers)
Award: MOZAIK FAA Special Mention
Curator: Shiva Balaghi
"This year’s 2021 Future Art Awards Virtual Exhibition is an arts-based exploration of the changing meanings, practices, paradoxes, and futures associated with Democracy. Welcoming hundreds of artists ranging from 17 years to 75 years of age and representing submissions from 62% BIPOC artists across 38 U.S. states, MOZAIK Philanthropy’s 2nd Annual Awards program drew inspiration from the top of social and environmental justice movements of the recent past, including Black Lives Matter, Stop Asian Hate, Me Too, Times Up, Keep It In The Ground, Resist, and Love Wins, among others." - MOZAIK
June 11 - July 31, 2021
Palos Verdes Art Center (Palos Verdes, CA) (virtual)
Featured: 2020 Vision
Juror: Dennis Keeley
"Now Trending, currently in its fifth iteration, was created by Dr. O. Allen Alpay through the Beverly G. Alpay Memorial Education Fund and implemented by Palos Verdes Art Center for the advancement of young artists enrolled in Southern California art schools." - PVAC
June 10, 2021
Feeler Gauge Festival Catalog (release)
Archived at LACA and CalArts library
Artists: 32 CalArts students and alumnx whose short films were featured in the virtual Feeler Gauge Festival, April 5 - May 31, 2021, programmed by Jennie E. Park and Fabian Vasquez Euresti.
Layout: Jennie E. Park
June 8 - 14, 2021
Venice Institute of Contemporary Art (Venice, CA) (virtual)
Featured: Flight of the Feeler Gauge [earlier version], Solutions (Tiebreakers)
Programmer: Juri Koll
June 4 - 8, 2021
Community Collage
24480 Main St., Ste. 150 (Newhall, CA)
Curator: Jennie E. Park
Artists: Lupe Aguirre, Marvin Basham, Cindy Berger, Ed. de la Torre, Cal Kato, Zehuan Ni, Jennie E. Park, Jose Ramos, Ramon Reyes, William Vo
A pop-up show of eclectic and personal works by artists whose paths crossed through SoCal community colleges.
June 2 - 8, 2021
Cloud Formations
24450 Main St., Ste. 110 (Newhall, CA)
Featured: Solutions (Tiebreakers) and other works
May 13, 2021
Bijou Film Festival @ CalArts (virtual)
Featured: Sandbox, 5 Alarm Party, Punch Card
Celebration of hand drawn experimental animated shorts.
May 1 - 31, 2021
between us: tools, people and environment
Art in the Park LA (Los Angeles, CA) (virtual)
Featured: Flight of the Feeler Gauge [earlier version]
Organizers: Liz Goetz, gloria galvez
Exhibition walk-through: Andrew McNeely
Artist lecture: Don Edler
Artists: Julian Cullars, Don Edler, Foremost, Isha Khanzode, Jennie E. Park, Cedric Tai
Organizers' statement (truncated): Although often overlooked, tools are integral to the lives we live. Our bodies have limits, those limits are subverted with tools. We pick up the stick to move the pebble closer, the arm could not reach through the fence. Tools not only help us move past our physical limits, they also push us past the barriers that exist between the environment and us. When hands cup water running out from the faucet we are able to drink it, but if we want to bring it to a friend, folded hands are only able to hold so much….it has to be carried with a tool, like a cup. The cup is a tool that maintains friends. The cup extends one’s relationship with our surrounding environment. This online exhibition presents the work of six artists who contemplate tools, play with tools, rest with tools and examine the world with tools.
April 30 - May 3, 2021
Opacities / Mirrored Pa(i)n(e)s / Vindication Vault
24480 Main St., Ste. 110 (Newhall, CA)
Featured: Where's My Vindication, Vindication Vault
Step back and see yourself reflected, press your nose to the glass and (maybe) get a glimpse of me. A nod to Glissant's opacity, Lacan's mirror stage, Du Bois' double consciousness, and whatever else mirrored retail windows evoke.
April 9 - 10, 2021
Experiments in Dissonance @ CalArts (virtual)
April 10, 2:30 - 3pm PST: Visual Processing talk by Jennie E. Park
CalArts Creative Writing MFA program note: EXPERIMENTS IN DISSONANCE: A Symposium of Interdisciplinary Writing centers research, creative process and practice from graduate students in our uniquely interdisciplinary MFA in Creative Writing, introducing sharp new ideas and fresh energies to the expanded field of writing alongside the other arts.
April 5 - May 31, 2021
Feeler Gauge Festival (virtual)
Featured: Flight of the Feeler Gauge [earlier version]
Programmers: Jennie E. Park, Fabian Vasquez Euresti
A feeler gauge looks and works like a Swiss Army knife, with each steel finger or blade precisely machined to a very small thickness. The tool is used to measure the size of gaps between engine parts (and other things), and some of the fingers are so thin that several of them can be sandwiched together and fit between parts that appear or are designed to be flush (like a table and its legs or a window and its frame). Many of these in-between worlds or portals imperceptibly surround us.
While upending 'normal' through protests and other necessary massive action has been called for in the past year, we would like to also uplift through this festival the subtle, liminal, interstitial, inarticulable, and deeply (often invisibly) personal or singular, as we believe that attending to those dimensions and textures can anchor and generate the kind of presence, awareness and imagination we need to sustainably become the change we wish to see. A sharp-edged tool that can literally cut both ways, a feeler gauge can provide metaphorical frameworks or language for critique, as well as for affirmation.
January 18 - 31, 2021
CAMFA by GLAMFA: Social Distancing
CSULB (Long Beach, CA) (virtual)
Featured: 2020 Vision, DIY Political Machines, Solutions (Tiebreakers) [earlier version]
"[W]e showcased the work MFA students made in confinement. For the first time, we invited students from the entire state of California to participate.... This year’s goal was to showcase responding to the pressing issues we were (and are still) confronting, such as civil unrest, economic crisis, intense political climate towards the presidential election, devastating fires, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic." - CAMFA by GLAMFA
January 13, 2021
Audrey Chan's LA Mural for ACLU
Artillery Magazine (online)
Writer: Jennie E. Park
Excerpt: In discussions spanning several weeks, Chan, the ACLU SoCal, BLMLA, People’s City Council Los Angeles, TransLatin@ Coalition and Ktown for All decided to include in the mural twenty individuals whose community-based work or personal stories amplify the mission of the People’s Budget LA Coalition, as well as the intersectional advocacy efforts of the ACLU SoCal.
January 11 - February 28, 2021
Hivemind / Honeycomb Gallery (virtual)
Featured: DIY Political Machines, Solutions (Tiebreakers) [earlier version], Flight of the Feeler Gauge [earlier version]
Curator: Jennie E. Park
"Nine [CalArts] Art program artists explore the relationship between 'power' and 'play:' power in/at play, power plays and players (including nature), play as power and powerful play, play subverting power, and the meaning of holding stakes, agency, and accountability in systems -- or the consciousness -- of power and of play." - Curatorial statement (intro)
October 2, 2020
Engaging a New Normal: LA Artists on Vulnerability and Resistance
Artillery Magazine (online)
Writer: Jennie E. Park
Excerpt: Kim Abeles, gloria galvez, Ara Oshagan, John Malpede and Henriëtte Brouwers, Cole M. James, Johanna Hedva and Audrey Chan reflected on vulnerability and resistance in light of the intersection of the pandemics and their art practices, life experiences and activism; they suggest interpretations and practices of, or alternatives to, vulnerability and resistance that help orient us toward an imaginative and mutually celebrated new normal.
September 19 - October 31, 2020
Other Places art fair (San Pedro, CA) (virtual)
Featured: 2020 Vision
Occupy Space panel (Oct. 14): SoCal-based artists John Burlet, Emily Babette and Jennie E. Park discuss, with panel organizer and moderator Virginia Broersma, ideas and inspirations around reimagining sustainable art spaces and practices.
"OPaf provides an alternative art fair structure designed for...unconventional projects." - OPaf.info
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September 5, 2020
401 E. 12th St. (Los Angeles, CA) (rooftop)
For this iteration, my work is in a group show with Lawn Ornaments in My Backyard / MAIDEN LA.
"A series of nomadic exhibitions featuring artists and galleries from the Bendix Building and beyond." - highbeams.art
June 30, 2020
MOZAIK Future Art Awards: The Creative Re-imagining (virtual)
Featured: 2020 Vision
Award: MOZAIK FAA Top Ten Featured Artist
"MOZAIK Philanthropy was ready to try a new way to democratize the grant-making process and give more equity to individuals and organizations that may never have the opportunity to receive capital and funding to realize their potential. Flow Funding is a way to champion smaller grants through community leaders and establishing their roles in the grant-making process of their own communities. In April 2020, MOZAIK launched The Future Art Awards as an answer to the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects it had on artists.... MOZAIK asked its 2019 flow funders in the arts to serve as judges in a blind review for The Future Art Awards." - OBVIOUS Magazine
May 30, 2020
Torrance Art Museum (Torrance, CA) (virtual)
Featured: 2020 Vision
Curator: Jason Jenn
"7 artists and 7 different works presented each week for 9 weeks." - TAM
April 7 - 8, 2020
Full Pink Moon: Opera Povera in Quarantine (virtual)
Featured: DIY Political Machines
Supported by Gray Sound Sessions at University of Chicago’s Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry and CalArts.
"[T]o mark the full pink moon, Opera Povera is hosting a worldwide livestream performance of Lunar Opera, a 1999 open-form people’s opera by visionary composer Pauline Oliveros.... Full Pink Moon: Lunar Opera is open to performing artists, such as vocalists, instrumentalists, noise practitioners, actors, movers, exhibitionists and artmakers to join the performance from wherever they might be quarantined." - 24700 blog
