SUSANNE VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES PROJECTS
STEVE RODEN
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Born     1964, lives & works in Pasadena, CA

Education

1989     MFA, Art Center College of Design Pasadena, CA

1986     BFA, Otis /Parsons, Los Angeles, CA

Awards

2004     COLA Award, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, CA

Solo Exhibitions

2008        Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA

               “Nothing but what is therein contained", Founder’s Hall, Girard College, Philadelphia, PA

2007    Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects

2006    “steve roden: day ring, night ring”, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, sound installation in James

                   Turrell’s Skyspace

           “Steve Roden: recent work”, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy, curated by Valerio Dehò

           "lines and spaces", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, CA

2005    "Seamarks", Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

           "Steve Roden: Transmissions from Space", Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science,

                  Fresno, CA

2004     "ear(th)", Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena,

                  CA, in collaboration with the California Institute of Technology

            "New Work", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA

            "cups into clouds, songs into rain", e/Static Gallery, Torino, Italy

            "stills (for guru dutt)", Tang Museum at Skidmore College, MY

2003     Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA

            "The Silent World", Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles, CA

            "The Surface of the Moon", Suyama Space, Seattle, WA

            "chamber music", Jack Straw New Media Gallery, Seattle, WA

2002     Singuhr - Hörgalerie in Parochial, Berlin

            e/Static Gallery, Torino, Italy

            Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA

2000     Jenn Joy Gallery, San Francisco, CA

            Studio Five Beekman, New York, NY

            The Guardshack, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA,

1999     JennJoy Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1997     Griffin Contemporary Exhibitions, Venice, CA

            Pac Des Ouches, Nevers, France

1996     Griffin Contemporary Exhibitions, Venice, CA

1995     Gallerie OU', Osaka, Japan

1992     Kaibundo Gallery, Kobe, Japan

Group Exhibitions

2008        “Allan Kaprow's 18 happenings in 6 parts”, LACE, Hollywood, CA

               “Before and After Science”, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, curated by Michael Ned Holte

               “Some Paintings: The Third (2007) LA Weekly Annual Biennial”, Track 16, Santa Monica (curated by Doug Harvey)

2007      “Between Thought and Sound: Graphic Notation in Contemporary Music”, The Kitchen,
                     New York, curated by Alex Waterman, Debra Singer, and Matthew Lyons (catalog)

            “Slippet, part of Grieg ‘07”, Bergen, Norway, traveling to Oslo

             “Stephen Vitiello and Steve Roden”, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX, curated by Regine                           Bashan

            “Mercosul Biennial”, Porto Alegre, Brazil (September)

            “The Sound of Norwegian Spring”, Bergen, Norway (September)

            “Kit Bashing”, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA

            “Space is the Place”, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI           

2006     “accretion”, Kellogg University Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic University,
                   Pomona, CA

            “Immodesty”, Another Year in LA, Los Angeles, CA

            “The Grand Promenande”, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, curated by Anna

                   Kafetsi (two sounds installations)

            “Space Is the Place: Contemporary Art and Space Travel”, ICA at MECA, Portland, Main

            Intersections, Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron, Ohio (in progress)

            Draw A Line, LACE, Los Angeles (in progress)

            (Keep Feeling) Fascination, Recent Abstract Painting in Los Angeles, Luckman Fine Arts

                  Gallery, Cal State La, Los Angeles

            “Cityscapes”, ARCO, Project Booth selected by Christopher Miles, presented by Susanne

                  Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Madrid, Spain

2005     “Park Sounds”, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK, with Paul Panhuysen

            “sounds like drawing”, The Drawing Room, London, UK, curated by Anthony Huberman,

                  with Carsten Nicolai, Kaffe Mathews, Terry Nauheim

            “In Resonance”, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, curated by Fionn Meade and Robert Millis,

                  with Chistoph Cox, Kim Gordon and Marina Rosenfeld

            “je ne regrette rien”, Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy

            “word Play”, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Tamar Cohen

            “I10”, McClean Gallery, Houston, TX

            “seamarks”, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY

            “EN/OF Editions”, Printed Matter, New York, NY

            "Loops", G Fine Art, Washington, DC, curated by Christoph Cox

            "In the Abstract", Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

            "Special - Artists Select Artists", Kustera Tilton Gallery, New York, NY

            "Light Sculpture - scultura leggera", 503 Mulino, Vicenza, Italy

            "Percussion Music", Solway Jones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

             COLA exhibition

2004/05 "Listen" (part of Sons et Lumiere), Pompidou Center, Paris, curated by Boris Tissot

             "D(igital) fraged", University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida

2004     "Specific Objects: The Minimalist Influence", Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La

                  Jolla, CA, with Sol LeWitt, Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Agnes Martin,

                  Robert Irwin, John McLaughlin, Byron Kim, Damían Ortega, and others, La Jolla, CA

            "Treble", The Sculpture Center, New York, NY, curated by Regine Basha, with Francis

                  Alys, Euan McDonald, Max Neuhaus, Dario Robleto, Mungo Thompson, Steven

                  Vitiello and others)

            "About Painting", The Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga

                  Springs, NY

            "The Sound of Place / The Place of Sound", Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID

            "southwestNET: PHX/LA", Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ

            "Freewall", Kellogg University Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic University,

                  Pomona, CA, curated by Jody Zellen

            "The Way it Looks from Here", Spanganga, San Francisco, CA

            "Abstraction 1913-2002", Pomona College Museum, Pomona, CA

            "New", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA

2003     ArtBasel Miami Beach, with Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

            "Painting by Letters", Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, curated by Eve Wood

            "audiolab 2", Centre George Pompidou Museum, Paris, France

            "Deceptive Translations - Jeff Elrod and Steve Roden", University of San Antonio,

                  San Antonio, Texas, curated by Francis Colpitt

            "Before and After Sound", e/Static Gallery, Torino, Italy

            "Collectors XVIII", Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA

            The Armory Show, with Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

2002     "Resonance 2", Stadtgalerie, Saarbrucken, Germany

            "Liminal Spaces", Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, NY

2001     "One Wall", Orange County Museum of Art, Newport, CA

            "In Between Outdoors", MAK Center for Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA

            "Resynthesis", Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, IL

            "Snapshot", UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA & Miami MOCA, Miami, FL

            "Cross-Cuts", Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA

            "Stolen Properties", Sala Diaz, San Antonio, Texas

2000     "Break Step", Inmo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

            "En Red O", Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain

            "The Other Side of Zero", Video Positive Festival, Tate Gallery Liverpool, UK

1999     "Fall Selections 99"The Drawing Center, New York, NY

            "Motion Studies" Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark

            "The Mix : Recent Acquisitions", ASU Art Museum, Tempe AZ

            "Sig Alert", ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ

1998     ISEA 98, various sites, Liverpool, UK

            "Open Container", Refusalon, San Francisco, CA

            "Viaggiatori", Palazzo Dei Consoli, Gubbio, Italy, 

1997     "Parallels", Kunstalle Grassi-Museum, Leipzig, Germany

1996     "Tangles", Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA

            "Dal 'Campo d'Obsservazione' to 'The Brewery'", Palazio Ducale, Gubbio, Italy

1994     "Transtextualism", Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1993     "Peculiar Paintings", Woodbury College, Burbank, CA

            "Germinal Notations", Food House, Santa Monica, CA

            "Gallery Without Walls", Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY

1986     James Turcotte Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Sound Performances, Installations, Film Screenings

2007      The FM Ferry Experiment”, live broadcast, Staten Island Ferry, NY, September 14-29

              Screening, “anything else and/or nothing at all”, International Film Festival, Rotterdam,
                      January 27, 29

               Sound installation and discussion with Jeremy Strick, MOCA director,
                      “Dark Over Light Earth”, MOCA Pacific Design Center, January 20

2006      Music Performance, “Tribute to the Life and Art of Nam June Paik at LACMA”, Bing

            Theatre, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 1

            “Eco e Narcisco”, Province of Turin, Italy, site-specific sound work at Museum of Open Air

            Architecture, Ivrea (accompanying disk “Eco e Narcisco: Presenze Sonore”, 2006)

2005     Sounding Architecture, Serpentine Gallery, London, Performance

            “Soundwalk 05”, sound festival various sites, Long Beach, CA, installation

            “The Bells”, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA, live soundtrack to the silent film 'the bells'

            SoCalSonic, sound festival, Long Beach, CA, performance

            “On the Boards”, Seattle WA, performance

            Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science, Fresno, Ca, performance/artist talk

2004     Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, performance

            Suite in Parochial, Singuhr - Horgalerie in Parochial, Berlin (live Collaboration w/ Frank

                      Bretschneider)

            Winter Festival, Engine 27, New York, NY, installation from residency

            Nest, commissioned site specific sound installation in downtown Ketchum, ID (part of sound

                      of place show)

            Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID, (performance for the opening of sound of

                      place show)

2003     Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA

2002     Extrapool, Nijmegen, Holland

            Stadt Galerie, Saarbrucken, Germany

            Ephemeralization, Remote, New York, NY

2001     Osaka Municipal Art Center, Osaka, Japan

            Gallery 360,Tokyo, Japan

            Podewil, Berlin, Germany

            Transmissions Festival, various sites, Chicago, Illinois

            Touch Tones, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA

2000     Architeturra, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

            Centro Brasileiro Britânico,São Paulo, Brazil

            Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

            Hayward Gallery London, UK

            Cinema Nova, Brussels, Belgium

            Musee des Beaux Artes de Nantes, Nantes, France

            Logos Foundation, Ghent, Belgium

            Interference, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

1999     Sampling Rage Festival, Berlin, Germany

1997     ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), London

            Festival Musique Ultimes', Dijon, France

1995     Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Selected Solo Audio Publications:

2005     Transmissions (voices of objects and skies), Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fresno, CA

            Oder Delias or Butterflies, CD, NonVisualObjects, Germany

            Airforms, CD, Line, USA

2004     ear(th), CD & 24 page Catalog, Art Center College of Design and City of Pasadena, CA

            In Flows and Spuns, LP, en/of edition, germany (collaboration with Doug Aitken)

2003     3 Roots Carved , CD, Sonoris, France

            Resonant Cities, CD , Trente Oiseaux, Germany

2002     Winter Couplet, CD, New Plastic Music, USA

2001     Forms of Paper, CD,  Line, USA

            Schindler House, CD, MAK Center for Art & Architecture/New Plastic Music, USA

1999     View, CD, JennJoy Gallery, San Francisco, CA

            The Radio, CD, Sonoris, France

1998     Crop Circles, CD, Trente Oiseaux, Germany

Selected Bibliography:

2008          Knight, Christopher, “Around the Galleries: Mark Flores at David Kordanksy Gallery”,
                        Los Angeles Times, February 22

            Gray, Emma, “L.A. Confidential”, Artnet, January

            Harvey, Doug, “Some Paintings”, LA Weekly, January 9

2007     Berardini, Andrew, “Delirious Los Angeles”, artforum.com, January 26

2006     Kubisch, Christina, “Best of 2006: Music”, Artforum, December

            Kafetsi, Anna, The Grand Promenade (exhibition catalogue), Hellenic Ministry of Culture
                       and National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece

            Holte, Michael Ned, “Steve Roden: Sound, paintings, and process; Alexander Graham Bell,
                       kites and a grandmother’s attic”, Frieze, November/December, p. 145

            Higgie, Jennifer, “The Grand Promenade”, Frieze, November/December, p. 174

            Lippens, Nate, “Roden Gives the Passage of Time An Amazing Aural Quality”, Seattle PI,
                       September 29

            Frank, Peter, “Art Pick: A Lot of Local Abstraction”, LA Weekly, September 27

            Meade, Fionn, “Editor’s Choice: Art”, Bomb Magazine, Fall

            Cascella, Daniela, “Presenze Sonore/ Sonic Presences”, Turin, Italy, CD catalogue essay

            Meade, Fionn, “Sounding Architecture”, www.nyfa.com, August

            Valerio Dehò, Steve Roden, show catalogue, Studio la Città, Verona

            Burk, Greg, “Bondage and multidiscipline”, LA Weekly, March 01 (reproduction)

            Harvey, Doug, “Glossolalia for Dummies”, LA Weekly, February 22

2005     Vitiello, Steve, “ Music: Best of 2005”, Artforum, December, pg. 74

            1+1+1, UK, Autumn, entire issue devoted to the exhibition "sounds like drawing", incl.

                       transcribed symposium and reproductions, 12 pages oversize

            Rocco Moliterni, Scultura, La Stampa, Italy, Marzo 19, [reproduction]

            Edwin Pouncy, Outer Limits, The Wire, UK, October, pp. 73

            Steve Roden, Inner Sleeve, The Wire, UK, August, pp. 83 [reproduction]

            __, Seamarks, San Francisco Art Institute, exhibition catalog, 36 pages, [reproductions]

            Bieber, Susanneh, “Steve Roden Transmissions from Space”, Fresno Metropolitan Museum,

                       exhibition brochure, 6 pages, [reproductions]

            Heffley, Lynne, “An All-Around Soundfest”, LA Times, august 19, pp:E2

            Cassidy, Laura, “Surround Sound”, Seattle Weekly, August 31, pp: 23 – 29

            Lippens, Nate, “Correspondence Courses”, The Stranger, Seattle WA, September 1,

                       pp. 38 [reproduction]

            Graves, Jen, “Bumbershoot Art Exhibit Links Sights, Unmusical Sounds”, The News Tribune,

                       Tacoma WA, September 4, pp. E4

            Hackett, Regina, Art Review, Seattle Post Intelligencer, September 2, pp: 33

            Simone Menegoi, Sebatiano Barassi, Daniela Cascella, Light Sculpture/Scultura Leggera,

                       exhibition catalog, 503 Mulino, Italy, 188 pages, [reproductions]

            Dr. Frauke von der Horst, Alan Nakagawa, Steve Roden, SoundWalk 2005, Flood, 16 page

                       catalog & CD, includes the essay Active Listening by Steve Roden

            Richard Janku, Laura, “Steve Roden”, ArtUS, may/june, pp:24 – 25 [reproduction]

            AA Bronson, Joeg Heiser, “Guido de Werd”, EN/OF 001 - 030, Museum Kirhaus Kleve,

                       Germany, 124 page, book & 3 X CD in slipcase

            Canty, Scott, COLA 2005, Catalogue, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Dept.,

                       88 pages [reproductions]

            __, I10, exhibition catalog, Mcclean Gallery, Houston, Tx, 18 pages [reproduction]

            Ned Holte, Michael, “Percussion Music”, Artforum.com, Picks, March

            Cox, Christoph, “On Time: The Loop and the Line”, exhibition essay

            Meade, Fionn, “In Resonance”, Seattle Center (catalog essay)

            Menegoi, Simone, “Light Sculpture Scultura leggera”, essay from exhibition catalog with

            Wolfgang Laib, Gabriel Orozco, Erwin Wurm and Rachelk Whiteread.

            Cascella, Daniela, “Listening Places”, exhibition essay “Light Sculpture

                    Scultura leggera” (catalog)

            Canty, Scott, COLA exhibition catalog, pg.40-41

            Richard Janku, Laura, “Steve Roden”, Art US, May Issue

            Grundberg, Andy, “‘Loop’: What Gose Around…”, Washington Post, March 20

            Nolte, Michael, “Percussion Music", Artforum Pick, Artforum, March 10

2004     Hart, Hugh, "Artists plant new ideas about nature at Pasadena sites", LA Times, November

            Cox, Christoph, "Treble", ArtForum, No.8, Pg.262, September

            "Audio Files -Sound Art Now: An Online Symposium", Artforum, August 3

            Frank, Peter, Art Pick of the Week, LA Weekly, July 31

            Pagel, David, "A lively intellect that bucks the system", Los Angeles Times, E27, July 23

            Licht, Alan, "New York Sculpture Center", WIRE, Issue 245, July

            Holte, Michael Ned, "Steve Roden - Susanne Vielmetter", Los Angeles Critic's Pick,

                  ArtForum.com, July 17

            O'Brien, John, "Activism isn't a four letter word", Art Scene, June, Vol. 23, No.10

            Harvey, Doug, "Stranded - the connected lives of Steve Roden", LA Weekly, April 30 -

                  May 6

            Cox, Christoph, ArtForum, May, issue, pg. 70

2003     Kofoed, Kristian, "The Sound of Art - A conversation with Steve Roden", Artweek,

                  October issue, pg 12 and 29

            Cox, Christoph, "Return to Form", ArtForum, November

            Knight, Christopher, "A game of show and tell", Los Angeles Times, November 21

            Knight, Christopher, "Smaller, more creative", Los Angeles Times, December 21

            Cutajar, Mario, "Painting by Letters", ArtScene, November, Vol. 23, No. 3

            Cox, Christoph, "Return to Form,", ArtForum, November issue, pg. 67

            Hall, Emily, The Stranger, Seattle, June 26 - July 2, Vol. 12, No. 41

            LaBelle, Charles, "Steve Roden - Pomona College and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles

                  Projects", Frieze Magazine, May

            Schulz, Bernd, "Resonances - Aspects of Sound Art", Catalog, Stadtgalerie

                  Saarbruecken, Saarbruecken, Germany

            Cox, Christoph, "Case Sensitive", feature article in WIRE, Issue 229, March, pg. 28-31

            Knight, Christopher, "Encoded Creations (Steve Roden at Pomona College Museum and

                  at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects", Los Angeles Times, January 27

            "Steve Roden - the another silent green world", exhibition catalog, Pomona College

                  Museum of Art

            Frank, Peter, Art Pick of the Week, LA Weekly, January 24 - 30

2002     Guido Curto, Steve Roden e/Static, Flash Art, Oct./Nov., Italy

            Chiara Bertola, Steve Roden e/Static, Tema Celeste, Sept., Italy

            Some Reconstructions of Wandering and Inner Space, Exhibition Catalog, Santa Barbara

            CAF, Essays by Meg Linton & Christoph Cox., Santa Barbara, CA

            Doug Harvey, Chaos Theory ..., LA Weekly, June 7 – 13

            Eric Fredericksen, Art of Noise, Architecture Magazine, May

            BT Monthly Art Magazine, Vol. 54, no. 821, June, Japan

            Eleanor Welles, Steve Roden, ArtScene, May, CA

2001     Snapshot, Exhibition Catalog, UCLA Hammer Museum, CA

            Louanne Greenwald, In Between Art & Architecture, Exhibition Catalog, Mak Center for

                  Art & Architecture, CA

            David Pagel, Down to Earth & Eye Catching, LA Times, Oct. 16

            Shana Dambrot, Snapshot, Tema Celeste, Oct., Italy

            Elisa Turner, A Visual Tale of Two Cities, Miami Herald, Oct. 28

            Aric Chen, How Many Inches, Surface Magazine, Spring, USA

            Doug Harvey, Multiple Exposures, LA Weekly, june 22 – 28

2000     Olivier Lamm, Poesie del la Matiere, Planet of Sound, France

            M. Moniot, Art Reviews, San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 22

            Daniella Cascella, Costelazioni Sonore, Artel Contemporanei, no. 2, Italy

1999     Drawing Papers I, The Drawing Center, NY, exhibition catalog

            Rob Young, Of Architecture & the Ear, The Wire, Oct., London, UK

            Steve Roden & Brandon Labelle editors, Site Of Sound, Smart Art Press / Errant bodies,

                  Los Angeles, CA

1998     Tyler Stallings, Review, Zing Magazine, Summer

            Doug Harvey, Steve Roden, Art Issues, Jan., No. 51

            Bradley Smith, The Billboard Guide to Progressive Music, Billboard Publications, USA

1997     Translations & Articulations, Exhibition Catalog, Griffin Contemporary Exhibitions,

                  essays by Christopher Miles, B. Labelle, & Steve Roden

Public Collections

            Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

            Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA

            Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs, CA