Catherine Fairbanks
born Binghamton, New York, lives and works in Los Angeles
faircatherine@yahoo.com
Education
2010 San Francisco Art Institute, Master of Fine Arts, Sculpture
2005 Creighton University, Bachelor of Science, Nursing, Magna Cum Laude
1996 University of Nebraska, Bachelor of Science, Biology
Residencies, Awards and Accolades
2017 The Wool Factory, Barcelona, Spain
2017 The Desert House, Yucca Valley, California
2014 National Textile Institute, Blonduos, Iceland
2013 LOOP Arts, Oakland
2012 Wassaic Project, Wassaic, New York
2011 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
2011 Montana Artist Refuge, Basin, Montana
2011 Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
2010 Dennis P Gallagher Excellence in Ceramic Sculpture, Prize and Award, San Francisco Art Institute
Solo Exhibitions
2018
With Edith, Our Prime Property, http://www.ourprimeproperty.org/
Mosaïkó, A-B projects, curated by Nicole Seisler, Lincoln Teaching Fellow, Scripps College Claremont, CA
2016
Learning About Dance Through Clay, THE ONE, http://www.paperwasterpress.com/THE_ONE/2016/12/TO_122016.html
Two Chimneys, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, accompanied by artist talk with artist David Zuttermeister
2014
Empathomimesis, National Textile Institute, Blonduos, Iceland
2011
Just a Secular Babe, Montana Artist Refuge, Basin, Montana
2010
To Form, Hastings College, Hastings, Nebraska
Two person (*) and Group Exhibitions
2019
To Think Despite Ourselves, Garden, Los Angeles UPCOMING
2018
Magick is Afoot, Arvia, Los Angeles
Seven Places of the Mind, fused space, San Francisco
Altered, Gallery #106, Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco
2017
SF Art Book Fair, Royal Nonesuch, San Francisco
Personals, Skowhegan, NY
Overture, Seymour 2017, Los Angeles
2016
Stones, Vernon Gardens, Los Angeles
Paying Attention, Sediment, Richmond, Virginia
On My Volcano Grows the Grass, Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles
Four Square in the Land of Mild and Honey, BBQLA, Los Angeles
End of Semester, BBQLA, Los Angeles
Vases and Faces, Royal Nonesuch, Oakland
2015
Elliot Anderson, Catherine Fairbanks, and Jackie Wang, [2nd floor projects], San Francisco
The Soul and the Pawnshop, Sediment, Richmond
Mount Analogue, Scrawl Center for Drawing, San Francisco, California (*)
Pin Outs, Sediment, Richmond, Virginia (*)
Everybody's Ocean, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, California
2014
Limn, National Textile Institute, Blonduos, Iceland
Reds, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles
2013
We are the Field, Scrawl Center for Drawing, San Francisco, California (*)
Art Paper Auction, Atlanta, Georgia
Bonanza, n/a, Oakland, California
Concentrate, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
The Wassaic Festival, The Wassaic Project, New York
Some Fine Women, VAST Space Projects, Las Vegas
DoIT: 20 Years of Hans Ulrich Obrist's Project, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York
2012
Far Along, Part I, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia
AMP Short-Film Festival, Art Monastery Project, Labro, Italy
This Church Full of Balloons, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, New York (*)
SkowheganPERFORMS, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York
Constructing Fantasy, Beacon Arts, Los Angeles
Experimental Film Festival, Gallery Homeland, Portland, Oregon
2011
Strength In Numbers, SCOPE Miami, Miami, Florida
About the Thing and the Thing Itself, VAST Space, Las Vegas (*)
OMDB, Root Division, San Francisco
Reformation, Skowhegan, Maine
Taste, Root Division, San Francisco
2010
Double Dip, Root Division, San Francisco
Vernissage, Herbst Pavillion, Fort Mason, San Francisco
The Gaming Commission, Adobe Books Parlor, San Francisco
2009
Warfield: Project: Survival, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco
Everything for Nothing or Something, Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco
Lab>, Queen's Nails Annex, San Francisco
Love Portraits and Long Distance Dinner Party, ap-art-ment, San Francisco
Inside/Out Adobe Books Parlor, San Francisco
The Day of the Thread, Pueblo Nuevo Gallery, Berkeley, California
Collide, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
Locality, Mission Art Center, San Francisco
Aurora Borealis Art Experience, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
CCACA California Ceramic Conference, UC Davis, Davis, California
Living Archives, Swell Gallery, San Francisco
Curatorial Exhibitions
2016
Gum Heads, Laura Boles Faw, Ms. Barbers, Los Angeles, accompanied by artist talk with artist Jesse Robinson
2010
The Domestic Garde, co-curated with Laura Boles Faw, ap-art-ment, San Francisco
2009
A Matter of Course, co-curated with Laura Boles Faw, Swell Gallery, San Francisco
Visiting Artist Lectures, Visiting Educator Lectures, Panel Discussions, and Jury Participation
2018
Artist talk in class, Ceramics, Scripps College, Claremont
2016
Visiting artist in class, Sculpture, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts
2014
Panel member, Art and Empathy, UCLA, Los Angeles
Visiting artist with Laura Boles Faw, Contemporary Practices and Unexpected Site, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
2013
Visiting artist with Laura Boles Faw, Conceptual Cartography at California College of the Arts, San Francisco
Panel member, Some Fine Women, VAST Space, Las Vegas
Panel member with Laura Boles Faw, Art Worlds: History, Theory, and Practice, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
Visiting artist with Laura Boles Faw, Conceptual Cartography in Print, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
Visiting Educator, The Aesthetics of Empathy, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
2012
Visiting Artist with Laura Boles Faw, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia
2011
Juror of Annual Student Show, Hastings College, Hastings, Nebraska
2010
Visiting Artist, Hastings College, Hastings, Nebraska
Positions and Research
2011- current
Critical Care nurse, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles
2010
Arts Educator for high school students, City Studio Program, Sculpture and Animation, San Francisco Art Institute
2009-2010
Teaching Assistant for Ian McDonald, Contemporary Issues in Ceramics, San Francisco Art Institute
2006-2010
Critical care nurse, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco
Interviews, Publications, Catalogues and Texts
2017
http://glasstire.com/tag/not-a-hobby/, Interview with Ariane Roesch on Not a Hobby, on Glasstire, Houston, Texas, Upcoming
2015
The Soul and the Pawnshop, catalogue accompanying an exhibition in Richmond, Virginia.
2014
Interview with Max Maslansky, on Riffin', KCHUNG Radio,
http://archive.kchungradio.org/2014-12-22/riffin-12.22.2014.mp3
2013
Ceramics/z, The Writerly Art, by Catherine Fairbanks, Ian McDonald at Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, San Francisco Art Quarterly http://www.sfaqonline.com/2013/07/ian-mcdonalds-ceramicsz-at-rena-bransten-gallery-san-francisco/
Mason at Kordansky by Catherine Fairbanks, John Mason at David Kordansky, Los Angeles, San Francisco Art Quarterly
http://www.sfaqonline.com/2013/10/review-john-masons-solo-exhibition-crosses-figures-spears-torques-at-david-kordansky-gallery-los-angeles/
Some Fine Women, catalogue accompanying an exhibition in Las Vegas. Essays by Kristin Swenson and Shana Nys Dubront, http://www.thepopuparthouse.com/exhibition/some_fine_women/catalog.html
Some Type of Way, Bonanza, http://bonanzasf.bigcartel.com/product/some-type-of-way
2012
The Gazette, VAST Space, Las Vegas, NV
Public Collections
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, New York Library, Agency, published 2013.
Southern Exposure, Art Library Now, The Broadsheet, published 2010.
Selected Bibliography
2018 Sarah Hotchkiss https://www.kqed.org/arts/13845690/at-fused-space-seven-places-of-the-mind-is-no-slouch
2017 Christine Kaeppeler, https://www.freitag.de/autoren/christine-kaeppeler/koenig-von-dingsbums
2016 Meg Whiteford, artforum.com/picks/id=59493 , April 18, 2016
2016 Annabel Osberg, artillerymag.com/catherine-fairbanks/, inn print, June 2016
2016 Catherine Wagley, http://www.laweekly.com/event/catherine-fairbanks-two-chimneys-6895641 , May 2016
2016 http://autre.love/journal/2016/4/15/one-work-from-catherine-fairbanks-new-solo-exhibition-wilding-cran-gallery-in-los-angeles?rq=catherine%20fairbanks April 15, 2016
2015 ArtPractical Critic's Pick http://www.artpractical.com/event/elliot-anderson-catherine-fairbanks3/
2014 Liz Ohanesian, http://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/counties/los-angeles/inglewood-from-city-of-champions-to-city-of-artists.html
2012 Meg Linton, https://blogs.otis.edu/freewaystudies/2012/09/21/cathy-fairbanks/
2012 Jeff Jahn, http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2012/05/rumblings_for_e.html
2012 Jeremy Quinn, http://riseindustries.org/arkv/3454
2012 Danielle Kelly, http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2011/dec/29/2011-year-review-art-and-theater/
2011 Jo Russ, http://jorussfotodiary.blogspot.com/2011_10_01_archive.html
2011 Pat Augsberger, http://fiberartsrock.wordpress.com/
2011 Danielle Kelly, http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2011/nov/09/sensuous-now/
2011 David Wolf, http://o-m-d-b.blogspot.com/
2010 Jarrett Earnest, http://www.artpractical.com/tcq/talkingcure_two_summer2010.pdf
2010 JD Beltran, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/beltran/index
* denotes collaborative art work with Laura Boles Faw
