ABOUT LARA
Lara Bullock is a writer, contemporary art historian, and curator. She earned her Ph.D. in Contemporary Art History at the University of California, San Diego in 2015. She received her B.A. in Art History with Honours from the University of British Columbia, with an English Minor (2005) and her M.A. in Art History, Theory, and Criticism with scholarships from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2007). As a critic, she has published for a variety of print and online media. She has composed various catalogue essays for both galleries and museums, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego's catalogue for the exhibition Viva la Revolucion: Dialogue with the Urban Landscape. As both a curator and scholar, Lara is interested in cultural criticism, DIY aesthetics, and "art" as a malleable and ever changing term, especially as it is accepted in the world of galleries, museums, and the academy.
EDUCATION
PhD 2015 University of California, San Diego
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in Art History, Theory, and Criticism, Department of Visual Arts, ABD
Concentration: Street Art; Twentieth Century and Contemporary Art; Critical and Textual Theory
Chairs: Norman Bryson and Grant KesterMA 2007 School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Degree: Master of Arts, Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism
Concentration: Twentieth Century and Contemporary Art; Critical and Textual Theory
Thesis: As is Art, so is Art Writing: Stylistic Intersections of Contemporary Artists, Critics, Philosophers, and Historians
Advisors: James Elkins, Joseph Grigely, and Mary Jane JacobBA 2005 University of British Columbia
Degree: Bachelor of Arts in Art History (Departmental Honors) and English Minor
Honors Thesis: The Non-persistence of Memory, Time and Identity: A Critical Reflection on Mike Kelley's Educational Complex, Christian Boltanski's Passion, and Stan Douglas's Der Sandman
Advisor: William Wood, Associate Professor2002-2003 University of East Anglia, Study Abroad
Concentration: Art History, English Literature, Creative Writing2000-2001 University of Miami
Concentration: Psychology and Music Therapy
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2013-14 HELM, A Ship In The Woods, Del Mar, CA (a series of seven solo exhibitions)
2013 Corpus, Visual Arts Gallery at SME, University of California, San Diego, CA
2012 Living As Form (The Nomadic Version), University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA
2012 NanoMicroMega, SME Gallery, San Diego, CA (Assistant Curator to Lucia Sanroman)
2012 New Institutions, Visual Arts Facility Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2012 Immigrant/Emmigrant, Angels Gate, San Pedro, CA
2011 Disperse, The University Art Gallery, La Jolla, CA (http://uag.ucsd.edu/exhibitions/current.shtml)
2011 Laid Bare, The Loft Gallery, San Pedro, Los Angeles, CA
2011 the FUTURE, Marcuse Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2010 Captured!, University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego
2006 Integrated Visions, John M. Flaxman Library, Chicago, IL
JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2012 tideLANDS, The Port of San Diego Public Art Office, San Diego, CA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2013 Graduate Student Researcher, Engaged Scholarship, Center for the Humanities, University of California, San Diego
2012-2013 Curator, Visual Arts Gallery at SME, University of California, San Diego
2012-2013 Discursive and Curatorial Practice Initiative Member, University of California, San Diego
2012-2013 Exhibition Tour Guide, University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego
2012-2013 Preparator's Assisstant, University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego
2010 Curatorial Research Assisstant, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
2010 Curatorial Intern, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
2010 Curator, GSA Gallery, University of California, San Diego
2008-2011 Visiting Artist Lecture Series Committee, University of California, San Diego
2008 Pros Journal, Founding Member, University of California, San Diego
2008-2011 Ph.D. Faculty Representative, University of California, San Diego
2008 Grant Writer, Alogon Gallery
2007 Gallery Assistant, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery
2007 Freelance Writer, STEP Inside Design Magazine
2007 Freelance Writer, TimeOut Chicago
2007 Departmental Representative to Prospective Students, Art History Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2007 Volunteer, Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art, Galerie St. Etienne
2006-2007 Curatorial Intern, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2006-2007 Staff Writer, F Newsmagazine, Department of Student Publications, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2006-2007 Art History Department Lecture Programming Committee, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2006-2007 Assistant Administrative Director, Office of Ceramics, Performance, and Sculpture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2004-2005 Gallery Assistant, Moris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery
2002 Open Studio Coordinator, Vancouver Art Gallery
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2013 Reader, Arts of Japan, Kuiyi Shen
University of California, San Diego2013 Associate Instructor, Formations of Modern Art: Street Art & Graffiti
University of California, San Diego2013 Instructor, Art Through The Ages: Greek & Roman Art
University of California, San Diego Extension2013 Reader, Arts of China, Kuiyi Shen
University of California, San Diego2012 Reader, Arts of Japan, Kuiyi Shen
University of California, San Diego2012 Teaching Assissant, The Message: The Rise and Globalization of Hiphop, Camille Forbes
University of California, San Diego2012 Teaching Assissant, Dwelling-Designing Equality, Nancy Kwak
University of California, San Diego2011 Teaching Assissant, A History of Time: Time in Modern Society, Stefan Tanaka
University of California, San Diego2011 Teaching Assissant, Society of the Spectacle, Charles Thorpe
University of California, San Diego2010 Adjunct Instructor, History of Western Art
Southwestern College, San Diego2010 Teaching Assissant, Writing and the Arts of Memory, Catherina Gere
University of California, San Diego2010 Teaching Assissant, Introduction to Asian Art, Kuiyi Shen
University of California, San Diego2010 Reader, Roman Art, Sheldon Nodelman
University of California, San Diego2009 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Modern Art and Visual Culture: 1660-1900, Norman Bryson
University of California, San Diego2009 Teaching Assissant, Arts of Modern China, Kuiyi Shen
University of California, San Diego2009 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to the History of Art, Ancient to Modern, Ann Woods
University of California, San Diego2009 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Asian Art, Kuiyi Shen
University of California, San Diego
2008 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Modern Art and Visual Culture: 1660-1900, Norman Bryson
University of California, San Diego2007- 2008 Adjunct Instructor, History of Western Art I
Illinois Institute of Art Schaumburg
2006 Teaching Assistant, Issues in Visual and Critical Studies, James Elkins
School of the Art Institute of Chicago2006 Instructor, Survey of Ancient to Modern Art and Architecture
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2005 Teaching Assistant, Survey of Ancient to Modern Art and Architecture, Daniel Merkle
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
2014 Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of California, San Diego
2014 Award for outstanding service in providing accomodations to UC San Diego students with disabilities, University of California, San Diego
2013 Field Research Fellowship, University of California, San Diego
2012 Curatorial Prize Recipient, University of California, San Diego
2011 Tinker Pre-Dissertation Grant for Graduate Study (Brazil), University of California, San Diego
2010 Russell Grant (Italy, London, Norway), University of California, San Diego
2005-2007 Art Institute of Chicago Grant for Graduate Study, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2001-2007 Golden Key Honor Society
2005 John H. Zeisler Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2002-2003 Hugh M. Brock Education Abroad Scholarship, University of British Columbia
2001 Dean's List, University of Miami
2001 Provost's Honor Roll, University of Miami
2000-2001 George Edgar Merrick Scholarship, University of Miami
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2014 Limited Edition Prints: The Artist and the Printshop (Gestalten) co-authored with Pedro Alonzo, ISBN-13: 978-3899555110
2014 "Micro Cities: Swoon's Architectural Conversation Pieces and the Confrontation of Publics"
in Urban Popcultures (ebook), Oxford Interdisciplinary Press
2013 The Paradoxical Eulogy: An Exploration of Surveillance, Rumor, and Psyche in Mark Bradford's Hermes commissioned by Eloisa Haudenschild for The Haudenschild Garage
2013 "Size Matters"
Catalogue for the exhibition entitled Object Object!: A Collection of Smaller Works at Helmuth Projects, San Diego, CA
Curated by good good things2012 Laid Bare
Catalogue for the exhibition entitled Laid Bare at Loft Studios & Galleries, San Pedro, CA
Curated by Lara Bullock2010 Viva la Revolucion: A Dialogue With the Urban Landscape
Catalogue Essays for the exhibition entitled Viva la Revolucion: A Dialogue With the Urban Landscape
Curated by Pedro Alonzo and Lucia Sanroman at Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA2010 "Re-Writing the Waves"
Catalogue Essay for the exhibition entitled Restoration and Ruin, by Clare Parry at Marcuse Gallery, San Diego, CA2009 "Madness and Civilization"
Catalogue Essay for the exhibition entitled The Dark Tower curated by Cauleen Smith at Compact Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA2007 "Targeting Johns: The Influence of Jasper Johns in Contemporary Art Practice"
Catalogue Essay for the exhibition at G2 Gallery, Chicago, IL2007 "Out of the Box and Onto the Scene"
Essay for the exhibition entitled Unwrapped at Temp Gallery, New Orleans, LA
SELECTED ARTICLES
2009 "New Drawings" THE Magazine, July/August 2009
"Mark Dean Veca: Painting, Wall Drawings, and Collaborations" THE Magazine, May 2009
2007 "Ochsenfest" STEP Inside Design Magazine, March/April 2007
"DeVotchka" STEP Inside Design Magazine, March/April 2007
"Canadian Council Archives" STEP Inside Design Magazine, March/April 2007
"Caught in the Valley: Larry Sultan at the MoCP"F Newsmagazine, March 2007
"Open and Shut," TimeOut Chicago, February 22-28, 2007
2006 "Open Your Art to Me: The Artworld Unites at The Chicago Art Open" F Newsmagazine, Dec 2006
"Trans-X-hibition" F Newsmagazine, Nov 2006
"Heads Will Roll at Scott Fife's Latest Exhibition," F Newsmagazine, Oct 2006
"The Totally Radical Faculty Sabbatical," F Newsmagazine, Oct 2006
"Massive Change: The Future of Global Design?," F Newsmagazine, Sept 2006
"New York's Iron Artist," F Newsmagazine Web Exclusive, Summer 2006
CONFERENCES/PRESENTATIONS/PAPERS
2013 Urban Popcultures III Conference
Paper Title: Micro Cities: Swoon's Architectural Conversation Pieces and the Confrontation of Publics
Prague, Czech Republic2012 Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, Tinker Foundation Symposium
Paper Title: Sao Paulo Streets: From Pixo to Logo
Copley Internationa Conference Center, University of California, San Diego2008 Fear Minus One Film Screening, curated by Stephen Hepworth
Paper Title: Takeshi Murata and Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960)
University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego2008 Fear Minus One Film Screening, curated by Stephen Hepworth
Paper Title: Gabriel Lester and Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974)
University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego2007 Interdisciplinary Graduate Thesis Symposium
Paper Title: Pictures, Prose, and Persuasion
Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago2004 Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference
Paper Title: Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida, and the Photograph Refocused
University of British Columbia
GUEST LECTURES
2012 VIS 23: Information Technologies in Art History, Professor Jack Greenstein, University of California, San Diego
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2012-2013 Cultural Coordinator, Graduate Student Association, University of California, San Diego
2012-2013 Service Committee, Graduate Student Association, University of California, San Diego
2012-2013 Allies Committee, Graduate Student Association, University of California, San Diego
2012-2013 President's Committee for Diversity, Graduate Student Association, University of California, San Diego
2012-2013 Campus Activism Committee, Graduate Student Association, University of California, San Diego
2010-2011 MFA/PhD Liason, University of California, San Diego
2008-2010 Visiting Artist Lecture Series Committee, PhD Representative, University of California, San Diego
2008-2010 PhD Faculty Representative, University of California, San Diego
2008 Pros Journal Founding Member, University of California, San Diego
2007 Departmental Representative for Prospective Students,Art History Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2006-2007 Art History Department Lecture Programming Committee, PhD Representative, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
College Art Association
LANGUAGES READ/SPOKEN
German
French
English
Rudimentary Portuguese
COLLECTIONS
Joan Flasch Artist Books collection, -MENT
*** Title image is of the remains of a recreation of Nam June Paik's Zen For Head (1962) performed by Lara Bullock and Natalie Sciortino under the direction of Simon Anderson on October 28th, 2005 during FLUXUS on LSD at the opening of the Secret Histories Museum in Bridgeport, IL.
