USA Projects

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011
Michele O'Marah: Video Portraits and The Home Show Revisited, Los Angeles 2005-2011, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA

2010
A Girl's Got To Do What A Girl's Got To Do, Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA
A Girl's Got To Do What A Girl's Got To Do, Brennan & Griffin, New York NY

2009
Faustus's Children, collaborative project with Dave Jones and Tim Jackson, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA

2008
Repeat After Me: I AM A Revolutionary, with Henry Taylor, Peres Projects

2007
Repeat After Me: I AM A Revolutionary, with Henry Taylor, Rental Gallery, New York, NY

2006
Faustus's Children, collaborative project with Dave Jones and Tim Jackson, Sister Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2005
Valley Girl, White Columns, New York, NY

2004
Peacehead, Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Version, with Kota Ezawa, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA

2002
Valley Girl, Goldman Tevis, Los Angeles, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011
Other Life Forms, curated by Kate Scherer, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Williamsburg, NY
Greater LA, curated by Eleonor Cayre, Benjamin Godsill, and Joel Mesler, New York NY

2010
The Last Show, Kathryn Brennan Gallery at Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA
Perpetuum Mobile, curated by Etienne Bernard and Celine Kopp, Four Boxes Gallery, Krabbersholm School, Krabbersholm, Denmark

2009
The Morning After, Artisterium: 2nd Tbilisi International Contemporary Art Exhibition, curated by Benjamin Godsill, Tbilisi, Georgia
Offset, curated by Mathew Speigelman, Mount Temper Arts, Hudson Valley, NY
Video Journeys, Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA
Group Show, Sister, Los Angeles, CA
1999, Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA

2008
The Station, curated by Shamim Momin, Art Basel Miami Beach
Amateurs, curated by Ralph Rugoff, CCAC Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA
Under the Influence, curated by Anat Egbi, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annadale-on the Hudson, NY
25 Artists x 2 Screenings = 1 week, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
You, Whose Beauty was Famous in Rome, curated by Andrew Berardini and Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Mandarin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2007
Sculptor's Drawings, Ideas, Studies, Sketches, Proposals and More, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
She Was Born to Be My Unicorn, curated by Amy Kellner, Smith-Stewart, New York, NY
Performance/Film/Video, Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Backroom, curated by Magali Arriola, Kate Fowle, and Renaud Proch, The Kadist Foundation, Paris and Le Celda Contemporanea, Mexico City

2006
From Baja to Bar Harbor: Transnational Contemporary Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Portland, ME

2005
The Backroom, curated by Magali Arriola, Kate Fowle, and Renaud Proch, LosAngeles, CA and New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Summer Show, Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Peacehead, Art in General, New York, NY

2003
Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast in Contemporary Art ("B2V"), traveling to the Seattle   Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Vancouver Art Gallery, and CCAC Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA
The World's A Mess It's In My Kiss, Debs & Co., New York, NY

2002
Play it as it Lays, London Institute of Contemporary Art, London
LA Freewaves: TV or not TV, Los Angeles, CA

2001
Performances, Goldman Tevis, Los Angeles, CA
Video Projects, Nikolai Wallnner, Copenhagen

1998
HMO SUV IPO, Side Street Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Tri-Annuale (Part 1): Pinwheel, LACE, Los Angeles, CA 

SHOWS CURATED BY THE ARTIST

2011
Michele O'Marah: Video Portraits and The Home Show Revisited Co-curated with Miki Garcia, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA

SCREENINGS

2009
Valley Girl, The Bridge, Progressive Arts Initiative, Charlottesville, VA

2008
Fuastus's Children, New York Underground Film Festival
Valley Girl, Winnipeg Film Group

2007
White Diamonds/Agent Orange and Faustus's Children, Spotlight Video Series, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Valley Girl, Fidelity and Betrayal: Variations on the Remake, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

2006
Valley Girl, New York Underground Film Festival, Festival Choice Award, New York, NY
Valley Girl, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL
Valley Girl, Alamo Drafthouse, Austin, TX

2003
Valley Girl, Mixture Contemporary, Houston, TX

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2010
Michael Ned Holte, "Top Ten of 2010", Artforum, December              
Michael Ned Holte, "Body Doubles, Michael Ned Holte on Michele O'Marah", Artforum, February

2009
Holly Myers, "Sculpture gives shape to videos", Los Angeles Times, June

2008
Tom Breidenbach, "Michele O'Marah and Henry Taylor," Artforum, January.
Richard Thompson, "Remake No Air-Headed Parody" Winnipeg Free Press, March
Julian Myers, "Amateurs", Frieze, September

2007
Amra Brooks, "Michele O'Marah, Tim Jackson, David Jones," Artforum, January.
Catherine Taft, "Faustus's Children," Art Review, January.
Chris Balashak, "Michele O'Marah," Frieze, January.
Cheryl Eddy, "A Tale of Two Valley Girls", San Francisco Bay Guardian, March

2006
Christopher Knight, "Faustus's Children," Los Angeles Times, November

2005
"The Future Greats," Art Review, December.
Kristina Kite, "The Backroom," Critics Picks, artforum.com, October.

2004
Michael Ned Holte, "Michele O'Marah," Critics Picks, artforum.com, December.
Meredith Goldsmith, "Version," Art Papers, Jan-Feb.
Alison Bing, "Version," SFGate.com, October.
Nirmala Nataraj, "Version: Aping Popular Culture," sfstation.com, October.                                                         
Kushner, Rachel, "Valley Girl + White Diamonds Agent Orange" Cakewalk issue #6

2003
Glen Helsand, "Baja to Vancouver," Artforum, December.

2002
Bruce Hainley, "Bruce Hainley: Best of 2002," Artforum, December.
Richard Blanford, "Play it as it Lays," Frieze, September.
Clayton Campbell, "Michele O'Marah," Flash Art, October.
Bruce Hainley, "Michele O'Marah," Artforum, October.
Andrew Perchuk, "Michele O'Marah," Critics Picks, artforum.com, August.

1999
Frederick Strange, "For Those About to Rock," Bibel Magazine.

1997
Amy Kellner, "For Those About to Rock," Index Magazine.

AWARDS

2009
Artists Resource Completion Grant, The Durfee Foundation

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

LECTURES AND PANELS AND EVENTS

2011
Visiting Artist, Video One, USC, Los Angeles CA

2010
Screen Test Event, Nomadic Nights, Los Angeles Nomadic Division, Los Angeles, CA
Visiting Artist, Intermediate Video, USC, Los Angeles, CA
Visiting Artist, Studio Visits Seminar, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

2008
Visiting Artist Lecture, Senior Seminar, Pomona College, Pomona, CA

2006
Visiting Artist Lecture, Performance class, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Visiting Artist, Studio Visits Seminar, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

2005
Artist Lecture Series, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA
Visiting Artist Lecture, Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, CA

2004
"Version," Artist Lecture, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
"Baja to Vancouver," Artist Lecture, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Artist Lecture, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA