ELIZABETH SIMS

Contact:

ECSims@sbcglobal.net

SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS

Hello, How Are You? Invisible Venue and Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA 2012

Valediction for a Sunbeam, Arthur B McArthur Gallery, Oakland, CA 2011

The Authority Workshop,
Royal Nonesuch Gallery, Oakland, CA 2011; Teachers for Social Justice Conference, San Francisco, CA 2010; Holy Names High School, Oakland, CA 2009

The Magnificent Sunbeam: A Collaborative Site for the Practice of Everyday Life, TheMagnificentSunbeam.wordpress.com 2010

Chaos Never Died: A Nomic Game, Ongoing throughout Northern California, 2008-Present

Social Permaculture Workshop, California Base Collective DIY Fest, Santa Ana, CA 2007

The Our Garden: A Collaborative Guerilla Permaculture Site , Huntington Beach, CA 2006

Elizabeth Sims: From the Top of the Ocean to the Bottom of the Sky, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA 2005

Elizabeth Sims: Sacred Spaces/Public Places, College of Creative Studies Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA 2003

 

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Kala Artist's Annual, Kale Art Institute, Berkeley, CA 2012

Inverse Internet Operating Manual, Dena Beard for Art Micro Patronage, Oakland, CA 2012

Open Source, Invisible Venue, 2011

Open, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA 2006

Supersonic, Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles, CA 2005

Exquisite Corpse, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA 2004

Adult Groups, Gallery 1434, Santa Barbara, CA 2003

 

PUBLICATIONS

The End of Art, Aorta 2012; Artists Bloc: Artists of the 99%, 2011

The Classroom is a Commune: A Radical Pedagogy, 1984 Press 2011

Olafur Eliasson: Take Your Time, X-tra Contemporary Art Quarterly, Spring 2008

Brave New Site: Here There Be Monsters, Infranatural and Workshop LEVITAS at Materials & Applications, X-tra Contemporary Art Quarterly, Fall 2006

Not a Review: Lauren Bon’s Not a Cornfield, Coagula, Issue # 80, 2006  
         
Laura Owens’ Guerilla Girliness, Thing: Claremont Graduate University’s Critical Arts Journal, Spring 2005

John Currin’s Guilty Pleasure, Thing: Claremont Graduate University’s Critical Arts Journal, Spring 2005

 

PANELS

Inverse Operating Manual, Art Micro Patronage, Oakland, CA 2012

Contemporary Art and Radical Politics, Bay Area Annual Radical Book Fair, CA 2012

Contemporary Art and Politics, Bay Area Annual Radical Book Fair, CA 2012

The New Art Economy Summit, Autonomous Organization and Royal Nonesuch Gallery, Oakland, CA2011

 

PROFESSIONAL HONORS

Claremont Graduate University Fellowship Grant, 2005

The Wassaic Project Fellowship, 2012

 

RESIDENCIES

The Wassaic Project, New York, June 2012

 

Click HERE to download a pdf of Elizabeth Sims' Resume.