Catherine Fairbanks
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, Lincoln, Bachelor of Science, Biology
Residencies, Awards and Accolades
2021 Icelandic Textile Center, Blonduos, Iceland, rescheduled from 2020, forthcoming
2021 Long Beach City College, Ceramics Department, rescheduled from 2020, forthcoming
2019 Salmon Creek Farm, Mendocino, California
2017 The Wool Factory, Barcelona, Spain
2017 The Desert House, Yucca Valley, California
2014 Icelandic Textile Center, Blonduos, Iceland
2013 LOOP Arts, Oakland, California
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, California
2010 Dennis P Gallagher Excellence in Ceramic Sculpture, Prize and Award, San Francisco Art Institute
Solo Exhibitions
2021
A-B projects, Los Angeles, forthcoming
2018
With Edith, Our Prime Property, https://www.ourprimeproperty.org/catherine-fairbanks.html
Mosaïkó, A-B projects, Los Angeles
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
2015
Mount Farallon, Scrawl Center for Drawing, San Francisco
2014
Empathomimesis, Icelandic Textile Center, Blonduos, Iceland
2013
We are the Field, Scrawl Center for Drawing, San Francisco
2011
Just a Secular Babe, Montana Artist Refuge, Basin, Montana
About the Thing and the Thing Itself, VAST Space, Las Vegas, Nevada
2010
To Form, Hastings College, Hastings, Nebraska
Two Person and Group Exhibitions, abridged
2021
A Spirit of Disruption, Walter and McBean Galleries, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco
2020
EAST MEETS WEST, to present a semblance of a whole, Pieter Space, Los Angeles
Chimney Dances, Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden, UCLA, Los Angeles
The Stacks, A-B Projects, Los Angeles
Xenia, Practice Space, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Entangled Matter, Garden, Los Angeles
2018
Fault Line Projects, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada
Seven Places of the Mind, fusedspace, San Francisco
2017
Personals, Skowhegan, New York
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 Milk and Honey, BBQLA, Los Angeles
Vases and Faces, Royal Nonesuch, Oakland
2015
Resonant Forms, Mystic Hotel, San Francisco
Elliot Anderson, Catherine Fairbanks, and Jackie Wang, [2nd floor projects], San Francisco
Pin Outs, Sediment, Richmond, Virginia
2014
Limn, Icelandic Textile Center, Blonduos, Iceland
2013
Bonanza, n/a, Oakland, California
Concentrate, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
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
Experimental Film Festival, Gallery Homeland, Portland, Oregon
2011
Strength In Numbers, SCOPE Miami, Miami, Florida
Reformation, Skowhegan, Maine
2010
Vernissage, Herbst Pavillion, Fort Mason, 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
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
Visiting Artist Lectures, Visiting Educator Lectures, Panel Discussions
2018
Artist talk, Ceramics Department, 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 with Laura Boles Faw, Art Worlds: History, Theory, and Practice, 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
2010
Visiting Artist, Hastings College, Hastings, Nebraska
Positions and Research
2011- current
Critical care nurse, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles
2016-2018
Co-director, Ms. Barbers Gallery, Los Angeles
2006-2010
Critical care nurse, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco
Interviews, Publications, Catalogues and Texts
2020
The World, the Nurse, the Sculpture, SFMOMA open space, Curated and edited by Claudia LaRocco,
https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2020/01/the-world-the-nurse-the-sculpture/
2019
Working Artists, CARLA, Los Angeles
https://contemporaryartreview.la/working-artist-2/
2019
Radical Hospitality, catalogue, Practice Space, Cambridge
2017
Not a Hobby, Glasstire Radio interview with Ariane Roesch, Houston, Texas
http://glasstire.com/tag/not-a-hobby/
2014
Riffin’, KCHUNG Radio interview with Max Maslansky,
http://archive.kchungradio.org/2014-12-22/riffin-12.22.2014.mp3
2013
Ceramics/z, The Writerly Art, by Catherine Fairbanks, San Francisco Art Quarterly
Ian McDonald at Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
http://www.sfaqonline.com/2013/07/ian-mcdonalds-ceramicsz-at-rena-bransten-gallery-san-francisco/
Mason at Kordansky, by Catherine Fairbanks, San Francisco Art Quarterly
John Mason at David Kordansky, Los Angeles
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, PUAH, Las Vegas
http://www.thepopuparthouse.com/exhibition/some_fine_women/catalog.html
Some Type of Way, accompanying text, n/a gallery, Oakland
http://bonanzasf.bigcartel.com/product/some-type-of-way
Public Collections
2014
Agency, published 2013, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, New York Library
2010
The Broadsheet, published 2010 collaboratively with Laura Boles Faw, Southern Exposure, Art Library Now
Selected Bibliography
2019 Claire de Dobay Rifelj, CARLA,
https://contemporaryartreview.la/entangled-matterat-garden/
2018 Sarah Hotchkiss, KQED, https://www.kqed.org/arts/13845690/at-fused-space-seven-places-of-the-mind-is-no-slouch
2017 Christine Kaeppeler, Freitag, https://www.freitag.de/autoren/christine-kaeppeler/koenig-von-dingsbums
2016 Meg Whiteford, Artforum,
https://www.artforum.com/picks/catherine-fairbanks-59493
2016 Annabel Osberg, Artillery,
artillerymag.com/catherine-fairbanks/
2016 Catherine Wagley, LA Weekly,
http://www.laweekly.com/event/catherine-fairbanks-two-chimneys-6895641
2015 ArtPractical Critic's Pick, Art Practical, http://www.artpractical.com/event/elliot-anderson-catherine-fairbanks3/
2012 Jeff Jahn, Portland Art,
http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2012/05/rumblings_for_e.html
2012 Danielle Kelly, Las Vegas Weekly, http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2011/dec/29/2011-year-review-art-and-theater/
2011 Danielle Kelly, Las Vegas Weekly,
http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2011/nov/09/sensuous-now/
2010 Jarrett Earnest, Art Practical,
http://www.artpractical.com/tcq/talkingcure_two_summer2010.pdf