Clare Rojas

 

BORN 1976, Columbus, OH


EDUCATION


2002 M.F.A. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1998 B.F.A., Printmaking, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI


SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2007

Sympathetic Magic, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, León, Spain

Kitty Buck, Lizabeth Oliveiria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

P.S. Hurray!, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA


2007/2006

Clare Rojas: Hope Springs Eternal, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA


2006

Moody Loner, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

Clare Rojas, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark

Ulrich Project Series – Clare Rojas, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS


2005

Miss Lead and Miss Guide, Modern Art, London, England

SubUrban: Clare Rojas, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN


2004

Table Turner, Deitch Projects, New York, NY

Tournesol Award Exhibition, McBean Project Space, SFAI, San Francisco, CA

Will Poor Will, Belkin Satellite, Vancouver, B.C.


2002

Doing My Day, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Maybelle Crick, Lizabeth Oliveria, San Francisco, CA

Walk Like Man, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2007

Joy Feasley & Clare Rojas: Pow-Wows or The Long Lost Friend, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA


2006

Drawing is a Fine Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

Girl on Guy, Columbia College of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Men, I-20, New York, NY

Jen Liu + Bjørn Melhus + Clare Rojas, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA


2005

Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic

Art Part II: Dazzle Dogs, Clare Rojas, Erin Rosenthal and Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Eureka Fellowship Award Exhibition, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA


2004

Change of Address, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Your Heart Is No Match for My Love, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN

It’s a Wonderful Life, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH

Altoids Collection, traveling exhibition

East of the Sun and West of the Moon, White Columns, NY


2004 – 2007

Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art, Skateboarding and Street Culture, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH (traveling to YBCA, SF & OCMA, Newport Beach)


2003

Yerba Buena Center For the Arts, “Pocket Atlas” San Francisco, CA (July-Oct.)

Luggage Store, “Outerspace Hillbilly”, San Francisco, CA May-June


2002

Institute of Contemporary Art, “Scratch Off the Serial”, Philadelphia, PA


2001

Deitch Projects Wooster Street Space, Widely Unknown”, New York, NY (11/01)

Institute of Contemporary Art, East Meets West”, Philadelphia, PA


SELECTED FILM FESTIVALS


2003

New York Underground Film Festival, New York, NY (The manipulators #2)


2000

New York Underground Film Festival, New York, NY. Award: Best Animation

Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Harbor, Michigan. Award: Isabella Liddell Art Award, Included on tour

Sarah Lawrence Experimental Film and Video Festival, Sarah Lawrence, NY. Award: 2nd Prize:0-5 Min.

Hi Mom Film Festival, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Award: Audience Choice, 3rd Prize

Cleveland International Film Festival, Cleveland, OH

Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, IL

Central Florida Film Festival, Orlando, FL

Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL

New York Expo Film Festival, New York, NY


RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS


Headlands center for the arts, project space, 4/10/03-5/19/03

Tournesol Award, headlands center for the arts 7/03-7/04


SELECTED PERFORMANCES


2003

Noise Pop, San Francisco, CA


2002

“In the Street” Festival, San Francisco, CA


2001

Institute of Contemporary Art, East Meets West”, Philadelphia, PA, opening night,

Material Clothing Company, Debut Party, Tokyo, Japan


ALBUMS


2002 “Super Unreleased”, Peggy Honeywell, self produced

2001 “Honey For Dinner”, Peggy Honeywell, Galaxia Records

2000 “Peggy Honeywell and the Dew Loves You Too”, Peggy Honeywell, self produced

“Walk Like Man”, Peggy Honeywell, self produced