Micol Hebron is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice includes studio work, curating, writing, social media, crowd-sourcing, teaching, public-speaking, and both individual and collaborative projects. She has been engaged in individual and collaborative projects in Los Angeles since 1992. Hebron is an Associate Professor of Art at Chapman University; the founder/director of The Situation Room resource space for the creative community; the Gallery Tally Poster Project about gender equity in contemporary galleries; and the Digital Pasty/Gender Equity initiative for the internet. In the past she has been the Chief Curator at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art; the director of the UCLA Summer Art Institute; an editorial board member at X-Tra magazine; an independent curator; a conservator at LACMA, and the co-founder of Gallery B-12 in Hollywood in the 90s. She has served on advisory boards at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Birch Creek Ranch Residency (Utah), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and UCLA. She is the founder of the LA Art Girls, and the Co-Founder of Fontbron Academy. She employs strategies of consciousness-raising, collaboration, generosity, play, and participation to support and further feminist dialogues in art and life. Hebron has presented exhibitions, performances, and lectures at numerous international institutions. The best way to reach her is through social media.
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EDUCATION
University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, MFA, New Genres, 2000
University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, BA, Summa Cum Laude, 1995
Academia di Belle Arti / Università di Venezia, Venice, Italy, 1993-94
Università di Siena, Siena, Italy, 1991
University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, 1990-92
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Visiting Artist Lecturer, Otis College of Art and Design, Public Practice MFA, LA, CA, 2017
Associate Professor, Chapman University, Orange, CA, 2014-Present
Assistant Professor, Chapman University, Orange, CA, 2007-2014
Faculty Mentor, The Critique Program, Berkeley/Los Angeles, CA, 2013-2018
Artist-Teacher, Vermont College MFA program, LA/Chicago/San Diego, 2005-2012
Teacher, Video and Art, Campbell Hall School, North Hollywood, CA, 2003-2007
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, 2002-2007
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Artist Advisor, Art and Technology LAB, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA, CA, 2015-Present
Contributing Editor, X-Tra Magazine, Los Angeles, CA, 2012-2015
Consulting Chief Curator (in LA), Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 2011-2012
Salt Lake City, UT
Senior Curator in Residence, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT, 2010-2011
Contributing Writer, ArtPulse, Miami, FL , 2010-2013
Contributing Writer, Arte Contexto Magazine, Madrid, Spain, 2007-2014
Reviews Writer, Flash Art International, Milan, Italy, 2007-2010
Reviews Writer, Critics Picks, Los Angeles Correspondent, Artforum.com, 2006-
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Gallery Tally, Trisolini Gallery, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
2016 Body of Knowledge, Bare Oaks Naturist Park, East Willimbury, Ontario, Canada
2016 Body of Knowledge, Arnarholl Hill, Reykjavik, Iceland
2016 Gallery Tally, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Hollywood, CA
2013 Reverse Engineering, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2013
2012 It’s All I Know, Performance, Bebelplatz, Berlin, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019:
Dis…Miss, Love and Fear, at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Hollywood, CA
F-Bomb, Curated by Maura Reilly, Bard College at Simons Rock
Friends and Family, Curated by Keith Mayerson at Peter Mendenhall Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2018:
Free Fair, Curated by Anthony Spinello, Spinello Projects, Brickell City Centre, Miami
Lady Scumbag, Pomona College Art Gallery, Pomona, CA
Coordinates, 4thwallapp, site-specific AR public Art, Los Angeles and Nipomo, CA
2017:
Fair, Brickell City Center, Miami, FL
Starless Midnight; Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, UK
Count/Recount, Hirschhorn Museum of Art, curated by Carmen Hermo, Washington DC
Lift Off, Rio Hondo Gallery
The Personal is Political: Feminist Art from the Sara M. and Michelle Vance
Waddell Collection, Wave Pool Gallery and DAAP’s Reed Gallery, Camp Washington,
Cincinnati, OH, March
Masculine ßà Feminine, Beall Center for Art and Technology, University of California at Irvine,
Irvine, CA
Diss…Miss, LA Freewaves, Los Angeles, CA, and online at http://freewaves.org/dismiss-postcards/
2016
Broadcast, Keystone Studios, Curated by Kim Abeles and Ken Marchionno, Los Angeles, CA
Time + Space=Futures, Curated by Ellina Kevorkian, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, Kaufman Repetto Gallery, Milan, Italy
Intersectionality, North Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL (June-August)
Inside the White Cube, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (Dec 2015-January 2016
Gallery Tally, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, December 10--January 10, 2016
Looking Forward, Looking Back (ft Gallery Tally), New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
(Sept 11, 2015-Jan 17, 2016)
AWARDS
2019 Faculty Travel Grant to travel to Ghana with one student to research Travel Course feasibility ($1200)
Faculty Travel Grant to travel to Paris for a board meeting for the Centre Pompadour Residency ($500)
2018 City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs Trailblazer: http://culturela.org/programs-andinitiatives/
cultural-trailblazers/ ($400)
2017 Faculty Travel Grant to produce Fair Play, a feminist video art festival, and Fair, an all-women art fair in
Miami during Artweek, Miami Basel, featuring Gallery Tally ($1300)
2016 Faculty Travel Grant to bring students to Art Basel Miami, Miami, FL ($600)
Pasadena Art Alliance, SPArt grant for Social Practice Art, Los Angeles, CA ($10,000)
Faculty Travel Grant From Chapman University to attend Naked State residency in Toronto ($1700)
PUBLICATIONS
The Motherload: Burdens Women-Artists Bear in the Art World, KCET ARtbound, April 18, 2018
https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/the-motherload-burdens-women-artists-bear-in-the-art-world
“Still They Persist”, Catalog Essay, Wavepool Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, May 2017
Motto at Time.com “An Artist Explains the Issue with Kim Kardashian’s Naked Selfies”, March 11, 2016
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2020 Feminist Summer Camp, theme: alternative education and feminist political strategies, Ephraim, UT
(Cancelled due to Covid)
Feminist Field School, theme: physical and psychological structures of the Body/House metaphor,
Ercourt, France. (Cancelled due to Covid)
Women’s March, Ephraim, UT
Lawn Gnomes 2020, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT
2019 Feminist Summer Camp, Thinktank/residency program, Ephraim, UT
Feminist Field School, Centre Pompadour, thinktank/workshop program, Ercourt, France
1 Image 1 Minute, collaborative, community presentation on photography, Granary Art Centerm
Ephraim, UT
Feminist Friday, Granary Art, Ephraim, UT
Women’s March, Ephraim, UT
2018 Feminist Summer Camp, thinktank/residency program, Ephraim, UT
2017 Feminist Friday, Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, NY, December 27, 2017
Fair, and Fair Play, Brickell City Center, Miami, FL, Dec 2017
Animating The Archives: History of the Women’s Building, Feminist Friday, Avenue 50
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA May 20, 2017
Feminism! Feminism? Feminism…, Symposium on Feminism 4D, Main Museum, Los Angeles, CA, May
13, 2017
Cryin’ Out Loud, Juried Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, April 2017
Feminist Friday, Davis, CA, March 28, 2017
Masculine ßàFeminine, in collaboration with David Familian, Beall Center for Art and Technology,
UCIrvine, January 2017
2016 Art and Activism, Sign-making Workshop, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Hollywood, CA
December 11, 2016 (including artist commissions)
Feminist Friday*, Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, October 14, 2016
Feminist Friday, community event at Sheep Meadow, Central Park, New York City, NY June 8, 2016
Feminist Summer Camp, Birch Creek Ranch, Ephraim, UT, May 2016
Femmes’ Video Art Festival (Second Annual), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions,
Los Angeles, CA April 2016
Feminist Friday, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, February, 2016
THE SITUATION ROOM, 2015 – Present (ongoing):
2020
Jimmy Xie, Screening, February 22, 2020
At Home-Made Art, Chime Charter Kinder and Elementary, June 2020
2019
Deniall, an exhibition by Alyssa Forsyth and special project by Corinne Tam, Sept 2019
Soulskin, a group exhibition curated by Michelle Jacobson, May 2019
Painting My Divinity, an exhibition by Verlena Johnson, April 2019
Conversation with Michael Spiegel, February 24, 2019
Workshop on feminism, adoption, and inclusivity, by Jerri Allyn, February 9, 2019
Naral Regional Meeting, March 13, 2019
2018
Flop, Solo Exhibition by Gary Cannone, Oct-Nov, 2018
Bodies Mapping Time, Solo exhibition by J Michael Walker, Sept/Oct 2018
Feminist Friday, hosted by Deborah Reilly, Venice, CA
Feminist Friday, hosted by Alexandra Karl, Salt Lake City, UT
Feminist Friday, hosted by Marshall Astor, Los Angeles, CA
Feminist Friday: CAA, February 23, 2018 (with performance by Annina Rüst)
Feminist Friday: Performance and Video by Katya Grokhovsky, February 17th, 2018
Loaf: Issue 2, Launch Party, January 20th, 2018
2017
Third Annual Femmes’ Video Art Festival, August 28th, 2017
Please, Exhibition by Seth Kaufmann, April 1 – 30, 2017
Wood, Eve, Artillery Magazine, April 19, 2017, “Seth Kaufmann at The Situation Room”,
http://artillerymag.com/byline/eve-wood/
OURS, curated by Janeth Aparicio, February 2017
Julianna Balogh, Hindu Meditation, January 8, 2017
Sheree Rose, St Bob Flanagan Memorial Sick Clinic, January 6, 2017
2016
Joshua Short, Bomb Shelter Radio, December 2016
Meital Yaniv, Spectrum for an Untouchable, book reading, December 2016
Feminist Friday, The Situation Room, November 17, 2016
Feminist Friday, The Situation Room, November 11, 2016
Feminist Dinner Party #2, The Situation Room, Los Angeles, CA, September, 2016
Fernando Villena Irigoras, works from the Basque Country, October/November 2016
Exhibition, Liquid/Solid, by Arden Surdam, September 8th – 30th, 2016
Bode, Katie, Carla Magazine, Contemporary Art Review, LA, “Arden Surdam at The Situation
Room”, http://contemporaryartreview.la/arden-surdam-at-the-situation-room/
Creating Consent Culture, presented by Tiernan Hebron and Amber The Activist, for The Situation
Room, Los Angeles, CA. August 27, 2016
Feminist Friday, community event at The Situation Room, Los Angeles, CA. June 17th, 2016
Feminist Dinner Party #1, The Situation Room, Los Angeles, CA, June, 2016
Exhibition, curated by Ginger Wolfe-Suarez titled "Four Candles in Four Parts", at The Situation
Room, Los Angeles, CA. May 13 - June 17th, 2016
Femmes’ Video Art Festival (Second Annual), The Situation Room, Los Angeles, CA April 2016
Siobhan Hebron, The Head and the Heart, March, 2016
https://artandcakela.com/2017/03/20/siobhan-hebrons-the-head-and-the-heart-at-usc-keck/12thurs-3print/
Invited PAPERS, LECTURES, PANELS
Guest Artist, California State University at Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, April 22, 2020
Guest Artist, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, March 9, 2020
Guest Artist, Pepperdine University, Pepperdine, CA, February 19, 2020
Guest Artist, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA, January 23, 2020
Panelist, “The Longest March: Feminisms, Institutions, and Art”, chaired by Hilary Robinson and Elspeth Mitchell
for the College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, 2020
Invited Consultant, Instagram/Facebook Headquarters, New York, NY, October 21, 2019
Gender Equity Workshop leader, Campbell Hall School, Sherman Oaks, CA, October 11, 2019
Guest Artist Lecture, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, June 6, 2019
Guest Artist Lecture, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, April 2, 2019
Panelist, “Countercultural Positions” moderated by Cathy Akers, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, March 27, 2019
Guest Artist, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, March 2019
Panelist, Women and Leadership in the Arts, Chapman University Cross Cultural Center, March 9, 2019
Panelist, “Publishing Against the Grain” with Xtra Magazine, Pitzer College Art Gallery, Claremont, CA, February 2,
2019
Guest Artist Lecture, Laguna College of Art and Design, Nov 28, 2018
Guest Artist Lecture, Cal State Fullerton, September 25, 2018
Guest Artist, public lecture, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, Los Angeles, Sept. 18th, 2018
American Women Artist Association, Annual Conference, Haggin Museum, Lodi, CA, Aug. 4, 2018
Guest Artist, Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, CA, May 8, 2018
Guest Artist, UCLA, Art and Activism Honors Course, Los Angeles, CA May 3, 2018
Aesthetic Civil Disobedience, Philosophy Colloquium, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT, March 8, 2018
Session Leader, A.C.M.E Session, FEMINISTS UNITE! Building Community through Art &
Activism, Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT, March 7, 2018
Interviewee, Please Disturb, #metoo, School of the Visual Arts at the College Art Association Annual
Conference, in dialogue with David Ross, February 23, 2018
Guest Artist, Public Lecture, Hammer Museum, Westwood, CA, November 7, 2017
Guest Lecturer, UCLA, Honors 136, Dr. Terri Anderson, Los Angeles, CA April 18 2017
Art + Activism, Symposium, Featured Speaker, Cal State University Long Beach, April 8, 2017
Crocker Art Museum, Women in the Arts, March 23, 2017
http://www.sacbee.com/news/business/biz-columns-blogs/cathie-anderson/article139767648.html
Telethon, Hammer Museum Bureau of Feminism, Participating performer, March 4, 2017
https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2017/02/telethon/
On Friendship and Feminism, Performance Lessons with Suzanne Lacy, Andrea Bowers, Leslie
Labowitz Staurus, Beta Main Museum, November 6th, 2016
Mothership, HerPopUpLA, Palm Desert, CA, Featured speaker, November 5th, 2016
Lecture/interview with Andrea Bowers, Ohio University, Athens, OH, October 25th, 2016
Guest Lecturer, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA March 16, 2016
Panelist, Sustaining Artists Series: Starting Art Spaces, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha,
NE, February 25, 2016
Looking Forward, Looking Back, New Mexico Museum of Art, curator, Merry Scully. Panelists: Micol Hebron,
Angela Ellsworth, Ligia Bouton. January 9, 2016
MODERATED PANELS and LECTURES:
2017 Talking to the Other Side: discussing the role of politics in the classroom,
co-moderator with Tom Zoellner, Chapman University, Orange, CA, May 3, 2017
Beall Center for Art and Technology, LASER talk: Expressing Gender,
University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, March 20th, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVDB94I434c&feature=youtu.be
2016 "Transfeminist Discussion", moderated by Addison Vincent (Chapman Alum) And Addie Tinnell at Los
Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA. March 24, 2016
Cixous Reading Group at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, as part of the Gallery Tally
exhibition programming. Los Angeles, CA. March 20th, 2016
Feminist Friday, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA. March 18, 2016
Panel Organizer and Moderator, "Teenage Feminist Boys", Panel discussion and
community dialogue, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA.
March 15, 2016 http://welcometolace.org/event/engendered-inequity-the-gallery-tally-poster-project
MEDIA APPEARANCES (Video, Radio, Podcasts):
KABC Radio 790AM, Morning Show, December 4, 2019
Inside Instagram’s Nipple Ban, Reset podcast by Vox, Interviewer: Arielle Duhaime-Ross, October 26, 2019
https://art19.com/shows/reset/episodes/bcb8e704-93b7-4276-833c-b460ccbdead3
Center Pompadour, resident profiles (Video), October 2018
Featured guest on the CARLA Podcast, interviewed by journalist, writer, Lindsay Preston Zappos, September 5th,
2018. https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-carla-podcast/episode-6-Fi_YWrleBp-/
ACME/FEMINISTS UNITE! Building Community through art and activism, Utah Museum of Fine Art, April 11, 2018
https://www.google.com/search?q=micol+hebron+umfa+acme&source=lnms&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiTiabIyJ_
dAhWmGDQIHRYyCP8Q_AUIDSgE&biw=1001&bih=878
Artist and Mother, KCET Artbound documentary on Art and Motherhood, Season 9, Episode 7, April 2018
https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/episodes/artist-and-mother
Fordistas Podcast, featuring Micol Hebron, https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/micol-hebron-exhibiting-artist-curatorfair-
play-at/id1294810149?i=1000396790461&mt=2
Sacks, Abbey, @dolescent, “Round Table Discussion with the Hebron Sisters”, June 9, 2017
https://www.adolescent.net/a/round-table-discussion-with-the-hebron-sisters
Frayer, Lauren, “In A First, Spain’s Museum Puts The Spotlight On A Female Artist”, National Public Radio, Morning
Edition, story and interview by Lauren Frayer, November 30, 2016
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/11/30/503129505/in-a-first-spains-prado-museum-puts-the-spotlight-on-awoman-
artist
Feminist Magazine, April 5: Girls Rock, SoCal Incarcerated Moms, Gallery Tally, KPFK, Los Angeles
http://feministmagazine.org/2016/04/fm-april-5/, April 5, 2016