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Zoe Crosher CVPRESS

BORN 1975 IN SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA

LIVES AND WORKS IN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

As an artist who works with photography, Zoe Crosher is an intellectual powerhouse set to assume her rightful place as one of the most significant artists of her time and her medium. With an exceptional grasp of the photograph as a medium of conveyance in contemporary culture, it’s history and it’s metamorphisis, she has created by extrusion the incredible duBois archive, the final installation and iteration of which Perry Rubenstein Gallery is pleased to exhibit in Los Angeles.

“The lore of moving west—what happens when you hit the border or reach the shore, when you can’t push any further—this is a very loaded threshold. Even Lewis and Clark couldn’t believe it when they hit the Pacific, as if the continent should in fact be never-ending, endlessly unfolding.” ~ Zoe Crosher

“The Disappearing of Michelle duBois” is the final iteration of the extensive, multi-layered, multi-year project and is being exhibited at a critical time at Perry Rubenstein Gallery, just as the work is also getting national museum and publication attention. In her work, Zoe Crosher has exploded the boundaries of conceptual photography far beyond their former placement, by the spectacular erudition of her mind, by forgoing the use of dark room tricks, and taking the very medium itself into hand by arranging and rearranging, by interpreting and reinterpreting, and thereby constructing and reconstructing the very nature of photography itself.

The truly exciting aspect of exhibiting Zoe Crosher and “The Disappearing of Michelle duBois” lies in the fact that Crosher is not only a critical artist, but an LA based artist. The immense archival series of “Michelle duBois” is rooted in the nature of Zoe Crosher’s own biography, and now has come home to Los Angeles. Zoe Crosher is herself the personification of Manifest Destiny, the drive to go beyond all borders and limitations and claim the world of photography itself by her work, as much as Michelle duBois’ life was a thematic and symbolic iteration of the same drive and ambition. Zoe Crosher’s beautiful and brilliant transformative work brings the massive archive to completion, whereby she has also transformed and defined her own life, while bringing “Michelle duBois” home at the end of a long good-bye.

EDUCATION

2001	M.F.A. Photography and Integrated Media, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
1997	B.A. Art and Politics, Honors, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California
1996	Spring Semester Abroad, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

SOLO/TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2012	The Disappearing of Michelle duBois, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, California
	An Evening With Eve Babitz, Los Angeles Nomadic Division, Nomadic Nights, Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles, California
	Zoe Crosher: Mae Wested, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2011	Transgressing the Pacific, Las Cienegas Project, Los Angeles, California
	Art Platform – Los Angeles, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2010	The Unveiling of Michelle duBois: For ur eyes only, Curated by Emma Gray at EGHQ, Charlie James Gallery & Dan Graham, Los Angeles, California
	LAXART Billboard Project, A Star Was Born, Los Angeles, California
	The Unraveling of Michelle duBois, DCKT Contemporary, New York, New York
2009	Selections from the Analog Collection from The Reconsidered Archive of Michelle duBois, 65GRAND, Chicago, Illinois
2008	Autoportrait: The Reconsidered Archive of Michelle duBois, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, California
	Zoe Crosher at Gallery 2.5, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
	The Reconsidered Archive of Michelle duBois, Curated by Pilar Tompkins, Claremont Museum of Art, Claremont, California
	1 Yr-Later, Diverseworks, Houston, Texas
2007	Zoe Crosher at 65Grand, 65 Grand, Chicago, Illinois
2006	Out the Window (LAX), DCKT Contemporary, New York, New York
	Out the Window (LAX), Small A Projects, Portland, Oregon
	LA-Like, Exhibition with Todd Brainard, Kidder-Smith Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2005	LAX, Book launch for LAX hosted by LA Cultural Council, Los Angeles International Airport, Terminal 1, Los Angeles, California
2004	LA-Like, DCKT Contemporary, New York, New York
	Out the Window (LAX), Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles, California

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2013	Set Pieces, Curated by Andrew Berardini and Lauren Mackler, Cardi Black Box Gallery, Milan, Italy
	Searchin’: Los Angeles and the Quest for the Sublime, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, California
	Limuw: An Ode to the Sea, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum Satellite at Hotel Indigo Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
	Ma Prochaine Vie, Curated by Isabelle Le Normand, For Your Art, Los Angeles, California
	Dark Blue: The Water as Protagonist, Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
	The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project, Curatorial collaboration with Shamim M. Momim and LAND, Westbound on the 10 Freeway, Arizona to the Califonia Coast
2012	New Photography 2012, from The Disbanding of Michelle duBois, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (October 2, 2012 – February 4, 2013
	Figure and Form in Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2011	Walking Forward-Running Past, Curated by Courtenay Finn, Art In General, New York, New York
	Love Letter to a Surrogate, Conceived by Warren Neidich, MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
	California Continued: New Approaches in West Coast Photography, Smith-Anderson North, Anselmo, California
2010	2010 California Biennial, Curated by Sarah Bancroft, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
	The City Proper, Curated by James Welling, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
	The Road to Here, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
	Go West, Curated by Jill Dawsey, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
2009	Artist of the Month Showcase, Invisible-Exports, New York, New York
	Suddenly, Curated by Stephanie Snyder, Pomona College Museum of Art, Pomona, California
2008	The Black Dragon Society, Curated by Parker Jones, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, California
	Suddenly, Curated by Stephanie Snyder, Reed College, Portland, Oregon
2006	Re-Make, Re-Model, d’Amelio Terras, New York, New York
2005	Bebe Le Strange, d’Amelio Terras, New York, New York
2004	Based on a True Story, Artists’ Space, New York, New York

PUBLICATIONS

2013	Why Art Photography? By Lucy Soutter, published by CCTaylor and Francis Books, London
	The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project, essay by Matthew Stadler, design by Lauren Mackler, published by Publication Studios
2011-2012	The Reconsidered Archive of Michelle duBois (4 versions) published by Aperture Ideas
2010	Shifter Magazine, edited by Sreshta Rit Premnath and Warren Neidich
	Artist’s Project, X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, curated by Jenee Misraje
	Open Daybook, edited by David Earle published by markbattypublishers, NYC
	Femme Fatale – Zoe Crosher’s Reconsidered Archive of Michelle duBois by Jan Tumlir, Aperture 198, Spring 2010
2009	Publication of Words Without Pictures, ed. by Charlotte Cotton & Alex Klein, LACMA
	Publication Suddenly, Where We Live Now by Stephanie Snyder, Reed College
	2nd Acts, Interrupting the Imaginary, Inside the Ship of My Imagination, Artlies Feb 09
2008	Zoe Crosher: Wright Image Series, Chicago, IL
2007	LA-Like(Lost) CD – 4 Cover Songs about Los Angeles – North Drive Press
2006	Publication of Out the Window (LAX) texts by Pico Iyer, Norman Klein & Julian Myers
2004	Artists’ Space Catalogue from ‘Based on A True Story’
	‘Professionalization as the New Medium’, Cakewalk Issue 6
	Publication of NTNTNT, Calarts Press, Managing Editor, Dream City/Tactical Media/Libidinal Economy/(Power &) Control/ The Collector/The Trace
2002	Published in LANOW, ‘Out the Window (LAX)’

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2011	LACMA AHAN Award (Art Here And Now), Los Angeles, California
	California Community Foundation Mid-Career Grant, Los Angeles, California
	The Santo Foundation 2011 Individual Artist Award, St. Louis, Missouri
	MacDowell Colony Residency, Peterborough, New Hampshire Leon Levy Foundation
	The MacArthur Foundation Travel Grant, Chicago, Illinois
	International Studio & Curatorial Program Residency, Brooklyn, New York
	Durfee ARC Grant, Los Angeles, California
2010	Artist Pension Trust Residency, New York, New York
2008	Durfee ARC Grant, Los Angeles, California
	Lee Michel Emerging Artist Grant
2007	Materials & Applications Residency, Los Angeles, California
2006	Penny McCall Foundation Publishing Award, New York, New York
	Pillowfight Grant, Seattle Washington
2005	Publishing Grant from Phil Aarons, New York, New York
2004	Cooper Union School of Art Residency, New York, New York
2003	Dean’s Award for Faculty & Staff, CalArts, Valencia, California
1999-2001	Liberace Merit Scholarship, Las Vegas, Nevada
1998-2001	CalArts Scholarship, Valencia, California
1999	Integrated Media Grant, CalArts, Valencia, California
1999-2000	Ahmanson Grant, CalArts, Valencia, California
	Dean’s Award, CalArts, Valenica, California
	Dean’s Undergraduate Award for Excellence in the Arts, CalArts, Valenica, California
1997	William Hyde and Susan Benton Irwin Scholarship, University of California, Santa Cruz, California

PRESS REVIEWS

8 May 2012
Lima, Ben. D Magazine. Front Row: A Daily Review of the Dallas Arts.

Modern Painters: Reviews

“The Disappearing of Michelle duBois” is the final installment of a project articulated in four chapters, which began when the mysterious duBois gifted Crosher with a vast archive...

Art In America: Zoe Crosher

Crosher demonstrates how photography’s past lives and unknown practitioners can be revivified as the basis of the medium’s new beginnings.

Zoe Crosher is Disappearing. Everywhere

An image is more durable now than ever before. You can’t burn the negatives of the digital photos from the debauched bachelor party, and now,...

Artforum: Zoe Crosher

The suggestive title of Zoe Crosher’s recent exhibition, “For UR Eyes Only–the Unveiling of Michelle DuBois,” might have been lifted from a mass-market paperback at the...

Los Angeles Gets Its Place in the Sun

…Perry Rubenstein has also opted to go Hollywood, but instead is opening a gallery on Highland Boulevard during Oscar Week, 2012. Rubenstein had been...

Gaze of the Mask

…Zoe Crosher’s use of the alter ego is once removed. Having acquired the photographic archive of another woman known as Michele DuBois (itself an alter ego), Crosher has curated and repurposed the...

Zoe Crosher Named LACMA Art Here and Now Artist

Zoe Crosher is an artist living in Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited in Vancouver, Rotterdam, Los Angeles, and New York City,...

Art Here and Now: New Acquisitions by Zoe Crosher and Mark Flores

Artists Mel Edwards, Chris Burden, Mary Corse, Tim Hawkinson, Pae White, Mark Bradford,...

Bas Jan Ader, Zoe Crosher, and the Art of Disappearing People

…L.A. artist Zoe Crosher’s new exhibition at Las Cienegas Projects in Culver City...

Looking at Los Angeles | In Search of Eve Babitz

Eve Babitz first came into my life via an Amazon book transaction. I had purchased the out-of-print Marcel Duchamp study, West Coast...

Let's Make a Scene

On the edge of the Dallas Design District sits Dallas Contemporary, a 38,000-square-foot museum. Its director is the well-traveled Peter Doroshenko, who came to Dallas in late 2010 and is boldly making a...

Five Portraitists Who Deserve a Spot in the National Portrait Gallery

Zoe Crosher: This Los Angeles-based photographer is engages in one of the more...

Art Review: Does the Dallas Biennale Reflect a Disregard for the Local Scene?

The works of Zoe Crosher and Morehshin Allahyari make for...

Art Review: Zoe Crosher at Charlie James

Whether we are conscious of it or not, we all perform different versions of our-selves as we fll the roles required by daily life: co-worker, lover,...

Killer Text on Art: Zoe Crosher

The photographs of Zoe Crosher present oddly obfuscated fictional moments suspended in time—whether that “time” encompasses a literal physical flight path as...

Ten to Watch

“Los Angeles satisfies almost every interest I have,” says photographer Zoe Crosher, 36, recipient of LACMA’s 2011 Art Here & Now Award.

Arts & Power

In the past few years L.A. has finally solidified its position as one of a select group of international art capitals.

Featured Art Work

Mae Wested no. 5 (Crumpled) from the series 21 Ways to Mae Wested, 2012
Digital C-Print mounted on Dibond, 43 x 36 inches

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Mae Wested no.3 (Crumpled) from the series 21 Ways to Mae Wested, 2012
Digital C-Print mounted on Dibond, 36 x 36 inches

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Mae Wested no.6 (Crumpled) from the series 21 Ways to Mae Wested, 2012
Digital C-Print mounted on Dibond, 36 x 36 inches

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duBois‘ Triple Vision Fantasy Landscapes
Digital C-Print mounted on Dibond 84 7/8 x 84 7/8 inches

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The Other Disappeared Nurse from The Vanishing of Michelle duBois, 2012
Pigmented Ink on Museo Silver Rag mounted on Dibond, 29 7/8 x 23 3/8 inches

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The Overexposing, Fading, Blurring, Crumpling Up Liberated Original Nurse (Darkest), 2012
Pigmented Ink on Museo Silver Rag mounted on Dibond, 62 3/4 x 48 3/4 inches

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No.9 from The Additive Dust Series (GUAM 1979)
Archival pigment print mounted on Dibond 13 x 19 inches

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No.39 from The Additive Dust Series (GUAM 1979)
Archival pigment print mounted on Dibond 13 x 19 inches

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No.26 from The Additive Dust Series (GUAM 1979)
Archival pigment print mounted on Dibond 13 x 19 inches

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Mae Wested no.17 (Almost the Same) from the series 21 Ways to Mae Wested, 2012
Archival pigment print mounted on Dibond, 51 1/2 x 36 inches

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Mae Wested exhibition
The Dallas Contemporary

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Mae Wested exhibition
The Dallas Contemporary

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Disappeared Nurse for Aperture Editions no.14 from the Vanishing of Michelle duBois, 2010
Pigmented Ink on Museo Silver Rag, 29 7/8 x 23 3/8 inches

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The Vanishing of Michelle duBois for Aperture Editions, 2010
Pigmented Ink on Museo Silver Rag mounted on Sintra, 27 1/2 x 24 inches

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Silhouetted no.1
Digital C-Print 32 x 23 inches

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Zoe Crosher installation of Silhouetted Series, 2010
2012 Dallas Art Fair

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Mirrored Autoportrait #1, 2009
Digital C-Print mounted on Dibond, 20 5/8 x 31 inches

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Mirrored Autoportrait #2, 2009
Digital C-Print mounted on Dibond, 20 5/8 x 31 inches

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Mirrored Autoportrait #3, 2009
Digital C-Print, 20 5/8 x 31 inches

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Zoe Crosher installation of Mirrored Autoportrait #3,2,1, 2009
2012 Perry Rubenstein Gallery

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Transgressing the Pacific: Where Norman Maine Disappeared at Laguna Beach, 2010
Fujiflex archive print, 40 x 40 inches

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Like Miko Smiling for Christopher Williams, 2008
Gelatin Silver Print on Fiber Paper mounted on aluminum, 34 3/4 x 38 3/8 inches

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