Kiersten Puusemp

Kiersten Puusemp

Kiersten Puusemp
 
Born 1973, Kingston, NY
Lives and works in California
 
Education:
 
BFA 1997, University of California, Berkeley 
MFA 2005, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2007, The Mountain School of Arts, Los Angeles
 
 
Solo/Collaborative Exhibitions:
 
2011
High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, CA
 
2008 
Whole Wide World, The Box, Los Angeles, CA  
 
2007 
Tuesday Night, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
 
2006 
Corona, Issue no. 2 (ed. 500).
A Perfect Night, JMOCA, Los Angeles, CA
 
2005
Kiersten Puusemp, F2, Los Angeles, CA
 
2004 
Nothing to See Here, The Living Room, Pasadena, CA
Illegible - 10 Days, F-Space, Los Angeles, CA
 
 
Public Projects:

2010-2015
Creator/director of The Weekend Residency
 
2010-2015
Curator/co-founder of A Ship In The Woods, Del Mar, CA
 
 
Selected Group Exhibitions:
 
2012
Psycho-pomp, A Ship In The Woods, Del Mar, CA
 
2011
The Pursuit of Happiness - Experiments in Radical Leisure, A Ship In The Woods, Del Mar, CA
 
2010
Says I, Parker Jones, Los Angeles, CA
From The Collection, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
 
2009
NADA Art Fair, The Box, Miami Beach, FL
 
2008 
JMOCA NADA Art Fair Totem, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
Egoesdayglo, Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles, CA
Artists As Publishers, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
 
2007 
Circus Year, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Talented Young People, Co-Lab, Copenhagen, Denmark
Criteria: Los Angeles, Galeria Perdida, Mexico City and Schalter,  Berlin 
The Wonder of it All, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Made For Each Other, Schalter, Berlin, Germany
Capitalist Hippies, CirkulationsCentralen, Malmo, Sweden
 
2006 
Carmada, Schindler House, Los Angeles, CA, An exhibition curated by Sonja Vordermaier.
Many, Many Guys and Girls, All Real Beauties, Circus of Books, Los Angeles, CA, An exhibition curated by Julian Hoeber.
Kippenberger Works, JMOCA, Los Angeles, CA
 
2005 
National Observer, Circus of Books, Los Angeles, CA
For Tomorrow, Lucky Tackle, Oakland, CA
Supersonic, L.A. Design Center
Delusionarium II, White Box Gallery, Marina del Rey, CA
Visual Scholars: New School, Up and Coming Southern California Artists, Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, CA 
 
2004 
F2 Inaugural Show, F2 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
 
2003 
Good Thru, F-Space, Los Angeles, CA
D.S.L.R. West, Balazo Gallery, San Francisco, CA
 
1998 
Toxicity Presents, Toxicity, Oakland, CA
 
1996  
Various performance art shows at The Sandcrawler, Oakland, CA
 
1997-1995 
Various performance art shows at 40th Street, Oakland, CA
 
1995 
Ashes to Ashes, Berkeley, CA
 
1994 
Happy Little Magic Club, Collaborative performance group rc drone including Nato Thompson, Trevor Paglen and Aaron Gach.
 
 
Publications:
 
2013
For The Benefit Of Friends Collected, December 2013
 
2009
Flash Art International, #264, January / February
 
2006 
Corona Magazine, Issue no. 2 (ed. 500).
Delusionarium Catalog, August 2006
 
 
Jan 8 2010pdflink

Kiersten Puusemp: Whole Wide World

By Jesi Khadivi
ArtWeek
February 2009

 
Jan 7 2009pdf

Kiersten Puusemp: Whole Wide World

By Carrie Paterson
FlashArt
January 2009
 
 
Dec 7 2008link

WHOLE WIDE WORLD

WNDRNG.blogspot.com
7 December 2008

Nov 13 2008pdflink

Catherine Taft's Round-Up Of The Best Shows in LA

By Catherine Taft
Saatchi Online
13 November 2008