JOHN STURGEON
born: January 6, 1946, Springfield, Illinois, USAemail: sturgeon@umbc.edu
web site: http://www.umbc.edu/sturgeon
EDUCATION:
1970 Master of Fine Arts Painting Cornell University
1968 Bachelor of Fine Art Painting University of Illinois
1967 Yale-Norfolk Fellowship Painting Yale University Fellow
Art Resume - Selected
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, in Video - 1981
Fulbright Scholar Abroad Award, Argentina, Uruguay & Brazil - 1988-89
National Endowment for the Arts, Media Production Grant - 1984-86
National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artists Fellowship Grant - 1980
National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artists Fellowship Grant - 1977
National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artists Fellowship Grant - 1975
American Film Institute - N.E.A., Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowship - 1982
N.E.A./Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Mid-Atlantic Region Media Arts Fellowship - 1994
N.E.A./Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Mid-Atlantic Region Media Arts Fellowship - 1992
Arts International, The Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals and Exhibitions - 1992
(USIA, NEA, Rockefeller & Pew)
American Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist; Rome, Italy - 1998
Hallwalls-National Endowment for the Arts, Inter-Disciplinary Arts Grant - 1988
Checkerboard Foundation, Video Post-Production Grant - 1990
New York Foundation for the Arts, Individual Artists Fellowship (Video) - 1986
C.A.P.S. Grant in Video, New York State, (Creative Artists Public Service) - 1984
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Young Talent Award Fellowship Grant - 1978
Experimental Television Center, Finishing Funds Grant - 1990
New York State Council on the Arts, Production Grant - 1985
New York State Council on the Arts, Production Grant - 1984
SOLO EXHIBITIONS - INSTALLATIONS / PERFORMANCES •
2000 Dissolving, (CD-ROM installation) Pittsburgh Biennial, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
1998 Saturn Return, (video/performance), Castle of Imagination-6th international meeting of performance artists, Bytow,Poland; InterAzoni, Teatro ARKA, Cagliari, Sardinia
Shared Fear-the dance denial, (video/performance), World Image, Metzingen, Germany; InterAzoni, Teatro ARKA, Cagliari, Sardinia
1997 Confessions of Addiction, Love & Surgical Musings, (performance) ISEA97 (International Symposium on Electronic Arts), @ School Art Institute of Chicago
Caldera, Latin AmeriMEX!can Festival, (collab. sound & video performance with Michael Pestel), Chatham College, Pittsburgh, PA
1996 Blooming, while we are sinking, (collab. video installation, w/ Edda Akkermann), Galerie Gruppe Grün, Bremen, Germany
1994 Narkose, (video installation), The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
1993 TRAP/bat, (Commission, video installation) The Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Narkose, (video installation), Art in the Age of Information, Woodstreet Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA
1992 Symposium Moor 92, (perf., video & site specific work), Witte-Moor, Germany
More Moor, (collaborative performance event), Oldenburg, Germany
Ghost Story from the 1960's (moon walk), video performance, N0-SHOW, The Brew House, Pittsburgh, PA
1989 Chariot Chamber, Too, (Collab. Video-Environment/Installation w/ Aysha Quinn), Proctors Too, Schenectady, NY
1988 Video Art Alone/Together, East End Art Gallery, Riverhead, Long Island, New York (John Sturgeon & Aysha Quinn)
1987 L.A. Louver Gallery, (premiere NOMADS), Venice, California
1986 Fragments, (Collaborative Video & Computer Graphics/Performance with Aysha Quinn), UC Video/Medium West Gallery, Minneapolis, Minn. & Performance Series, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
1985 Fragments, (Collab. Video/Computer Graphics/Performance w/ Aysha Quinn), School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chariot Chamber, (Collab. Video-Environment/Installation w/ Aysha Quinn), Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
1984 I Will Take You, Video/Installation, Video: Retrospective, Long Beach Museum of Art, 1974-1984 (Part II), LBMA, Long Beach, CA
1984 Anthology Film Archives, (Collaborative & Solo Video/Performances) Millennium Theater, NYC
1983 John Sturgeon-Prime Time, (Retrospective) Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
NO EARTH/NO EARTH STATION, (Collaborative Video/Performance w/ A. Quinn), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Bing Theater, LA, CA
1982 NO EARTH/NO EARTH STATION, (Collaborative Video/Performance w/ A.Quinn), 2nd Intermedia Arts Festival, U. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Atari is the New Parent, (Collab. Interactive Satellite Video Performance, Sturgeon/Quinn/Lloyd, Iowa City-Los Angeles Link Up), Artists in Television Conference, National Cablecast- Learning Channel, Univ. Iowa
SPINE/TIME, (Video & Photo Install.), Univ. of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
1981 Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
1979 Uroboros, (Video/Installation) photos & drawings, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
1978 The Museum of Modern Art, Video Projects, New York, NY
Two Video Installations , Long Beach Museum of Art
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA), Los Angeles, CA
1977 Conjunction/Opposition II, Video/Perf., L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
Spinning Dream, Video/Performance & video exhib., AND/OR Gallery, Seattle
John Sturgeon & Joel Hermann-Video Works, Casat Gallery, LaJolla, CA
1976 Conjuction/Opposition, Video/Performance & video exhibition, Site, San Francisco, CA
1974 Spin 411, (Video Enviroment, Collaborative, N. Sobel), Mark Taper Forum Experimental Lab Theater, Hollywood, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS •
2000 Made in California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (fall 2000)
InterAzioni 2000, Cagliari, Italy
1997 The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, Selections from the Video Collection
Chrome/Osome, Art-Design-Technology 1945-2000, AAP, Pittsburgh, PA
1995 Second Biennale of Video and Electronic Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
1994 L.A. Video: Scratching the Surface, (Scratching the Belly of the Beast: Cutting-Edge Media/Los Angeles 1922-94), Filmforum, LA
1993 2nd European Film & Video Festival, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
More Moor, Stadtmuseum, Oldenburg, Germany
1992 Choice Encounters, Long Beach Museum of Art, LB, CA
Erde-Zeichen-Erde, International Society-Fine Arts, Bonn (traveling)
1991 Fact/Fiction, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
GraphiCon'91, Engineering Center, Moscow, USSR
High & Low Tech, Videotheque, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Video Meetings '91, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
The Kitchen, NYC
Brooklyn Museum, Native Amer. Film & Video: A Walk in Two Worlds
1990 Selections from theVideo-Collection, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Computer Art in Context, International Computer Arts Exhib., Barcelona & Salamanca, Spain
Adelaide Festival, Adelaide, Australia
New Music America 1990, Montreal, Quebec
1989 Salso Film & TV Festival, Salsomaggiore, Italy
Siggraph '89 Art Show, Computer Museum, Boston, Massachusetts
1988 Institute of Contemporary Art - Boston, Histories: New Video Art,
Boston, Massachusetts
Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
Videobrasil, Festival Fotoptica, Museu da Imagem e do Som, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Third Videonale, Bonn, West Germany (touring)
Degrees of Reality, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1987 28th American Film & Video Festival, New York, NY
1986 American Film Institute, 1986 AFI Video Festival, NEA Regional Fellowships, LA
1985 The Museum of Modern Art, Spacial Relationships in Video, NYC
The Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
1st International Video Week, Geneve, Switzerland
1st Annual Biennal of Video, TV Man Union, Tokyo, Japan
1984 The Museum of Modern Art, Video & Ritual, New York, NY
Long Beach Museum of Art, Video: A Retrospective, LBMA 1974-84 (Part I), Long Beach, CA
1984 Olympics American Film Institute Video Exhibition, Los Angeles,
1983 The Museum of Modern Art, Video Art: A History, New York, NY
The Second Link-Video in the 80's, (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; National Gallery of Ontario, Canada; Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Long Beach Museum of Art, LB; Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada)
The Museum of Modern Art, Performance Video, NYC
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Young Talent Awards: 1963-83, LA
7th Annual Independent Film & Video Festival, Atlanta, GA
United States Film & Video Festival, Park City, Utah
1982 The Museum of Modern Art, Performance Video, NYC
U.S. Film & Video Festival, Park City, UT (Invitational)
1980 Video: New York, Seattle, & Los Angeles, Museum of Modern Art, NYC (Traveling: '80-'81, Japanese Museums)
22nd Annual American Film Festival, New York, NY
1979 The Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Sculpture Selections, NYC
1978 Airwaves & Stars, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
Neuberger Museum, Self Portrait to Autobiography, Purchase, NY
1976 1976 Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Southland Video Anthology 1976, Long Beach Museum of Art, L.B., CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Video Art: An Overview, S.F., CA
1975 Whitney Museum of American Art, 1975 Biennal of Contemporary Art, NYC
Arts Council of Great Britain, The Video Show, Serpentine Gallery, London
Southland Video Anthology, Long Beach Museum of Art, L.B., CA
1973 American Center, Tokyo, Japan
CABLECASTS & BROADCASTS •
'88-90 New Television Series, PBS (NYC - Boston - Los Angeles)
1988 TV MIX, (Interview) & tape broadcast , Ch. 11, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Long Beach Museum of Art, Video Viewpoints Cable Series
1987 PBS -WMHT
Night Light TV, Manhattan Cable, NYC
1985 Night Flight, USA CABLE (national)
VPRO (Dutch Television), Holland
Not TV, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
1983 Night Flight, USA CABLE (national)
1982 Artists in Television Conference, Atari is the New Parent, Satellite Video Performance, The Learning Channel
1980 SOHO Television, Manhatten Cable, NYC
1979 Uroboros, WILL, Live Performance Simulcast & solo tape broadcasts, Champaign, Ill.
COLLECTIONS • including:
The Museum of Modern Art, NYC
L.A. County Museum of Art
The Long Beach Museum of Art
Biennale of Venice
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Franklin Furnace, NYC
Banff Centre, Canada
Anthology Film Archives, NYC
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Johnson Museum, Cornell University
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American Art, NEA Archive, Washington, D.C.
REFERENCES • including:
AFTERIMAGE
ART-COM
HI PERFORMANCE
LBMA VIDEO
ARTWEEK
ARTFORUM
ART NEWS
L.A.I.C.A. JOURAL
LOS ANGELES TIMES
Postmodern Currents, Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media (1st & 2nd Edition)
Art Speak, a Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1945 to the Present
Elektronishches Gestalten In Kunst und Design
Performance Art, a source book for a decade of California Performance Art
VIDEO ART
Who's Who in Amer.Art
VISITING ARTIST/LECTURES* & VIEWINGS •
1998 Künstseminar, Metzingen, Germany
1995 Städtische Galerie im Buntentor, (w/Edda Akkermann), Bremen, Germany*
1994 Hochschule für bildende Künste - Hamburg, Germany *
KunstAkadamie, Düsseldorf, Germany*
2. Oldenburger Filmtage, Oldenburg, Germany*
1993 Video View Points, Museum of Modern Art, NYC*
Conversations with Contemporary Artists, Museum of Modern Art, NYC*
University of Oldenburg, Germany*
Art in the Age of Information, panel, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust*
1992 der Zufall im Einfall, School of Visual Arts, Kiel, Germany*
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Danish Royal Academy of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Art Department, Spring 92 Lecture Series, Carnegie Mellon University*
1991 2nd Biannual-Arts & Technology Symp., Connecticut College, New London
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Electronic Art at Rensselaer, The Kitchen, NYC
20th Anniversary, the Raindance Foundation, panel, Kitchen, NYC*
1990 Video Art Dialogue, Cafh Foundation Center, NYC
Savannah College of Art/ Design, Savannah, Georgia
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1989 New Angle Series, Dia Art Foundation, NYC
Hudson Valley College, Troy, NY*
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
1988 Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina*
International Conference, Latin America & USA, Universidad del Mar Del Plata, Argentina*
Museo Nacional de Artes, Plasticas y Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay*
Museo de Arte Contemporania, Universitaria de Sao Paulo, Brazil*
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina*
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)
Western Front, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Network for New Music, the Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Real Art Ways, Hartford, Conn.
Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
Music Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Apollohuis, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Ericcson Computer Art Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
LOGOS Foundation, Ghent, Belgium
Video Art Series, Oakland Museum of Art, CA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
1987 L.A. Louver Gallery, premiere: NOMADS, Venice, California*
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA*
Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Harbor, CA
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
SUNY-Buffalo, New York
Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA
Bosgarren Kolectiboa, Tolosa, Spain
1985 School of the Art Institute of Chicago*
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY*
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA*
1984 Boston Film/Video Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts*
Brown Univ. Providence, R.I.*
1983 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, "Satellite Transmission & Video Performance" w/ Aysha Quinn, Chicago, Illinois*
1982 Univ. of Iowa, Colloquim, Iowa City, Iowa*
Corroboree Gallery, U. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA*
Aorta Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
Montevideo Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
U.S. Film and Video Festival, Video Art Panel, Park City, Utah*
1981 Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma*
Utah Media Center, Visiting Critic California Video, Salt Lake City, UT*
1980 Museum of Modern Art, Video: Art As Alchemy, Video View Points (lecture series), NY, N.Y*
The Salt Lake Art Center, SLC, UT*
Corroboree Gallery, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA*
Occidental College, Image Dissector, LA, CA*
1979 Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, CA*
Videotapes Uit Los Angeles, California, De Appel, Amsterdam, Holland
1978 Anthology Film Archives, NYC*
Chicago Editing Center, Chicago, Illinois*
Festival Dei Popli, Firenze, Italy
The School of the Art Institue of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois*
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Studio Tour, Venice, CA*
1977 Vancouver School of Art, Vancouver, British Columbia*
University of California/Santa Barbara*
1976 University of California at Los Angeles - Extention, Long Beach Museum of Art, Abstract Art in the 20th Century, Long Beach, CA*
Claremont College Graduate School, Claremont, California*
University of California at Riverside*
1975 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California*
Immaculate Heart College, L.A. Lab, Los Angeles, CA*
1974 San Francisco State College, San Francisco, California*
2nd Annual Southern California Video Festival, Santa Monica, CA*
Univ. of California at LA, Concord Video Lab*
1973 Suffolk Community College, Selden, New York
1971 McGill University, Videolibre, Montreal, Quebec*
DISTRIBUTION •
MonteVideo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
Raindance Foundation, NYC
ART COM, La Mamelle, Inc., San Francisco
Listings: THE DATA BANK, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
the Artist
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE, & FACULTY •
Numerous Artist in Residence positions, 1971-Present
2000-present: Chair & Professor of Art, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
1991-2000: Professor of Art, School of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
1994 fall - Guest Professor, Hochschule für Künste, Bremen, Germany