AWARDS
2021 Top 10% of 11,000 entries in the Bridport Prize First Novel Competition
2020 Long Listed Cinnamon Press Pencil Competition
2015 Honorable Mention in Best American Fiction of 2015 by Saturday Evening Post for ‘Life Lessons’
2014 Long Listed Short Story Competition Creative Writing Matters
2013 Long Listed Short Story Competition Cinnamon Press
2008 Indie Grits Film Festival Helen Hill Award, Columbia, SC
2008 Grant, South Carolina Arts Commission, SC
2007 Artist Residency, Experimental Television Center, NY
2007 Grant, The Surdna Foundation, New York, NY
2006 Grant, South Carolina Arts Commission, SC
2005 Grant, Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Los Angeles,CA
2003 Grant, Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville, SC
2002 Grant, Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville, SC
2001 & 2002 Outstanding Teacher, National Scholastic Arts and Writing
2001 Grant, Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville, SC
2001 Grant, South Carolina Arts Commission, SC
1992 Fellowship, University of California Los Angeles, Folklore and Mythology
1991 Grant, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1989 Experimental Video Award, American Film Institute, Hollywood, CA
FILM/VIDEO/INSTALLATION/COLLABORATION
2020 Field Research, Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Iceland
2018 Field Research, Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Iceland
2010 Borders, solo exhibition, Furman University Art Gallery, Greenville, SC, USA
2008 Traumbagger, multimedia collaboration, Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Greenville, SC, USA
2008 Indie Grits Film Festival, video installation, Columbia, SC, USA
2008 Borders, solo exhibition, Lipscomb Gallery, Greenville, SC, USA
2008 Wasted Wine, visuals for performance at Coffee Underground, Greenville, SC, USA
2008 Eight Oh Eight, group show, Contemporary Art Forum, Greenville, SC, USA
2007 Field Research, Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Venice, Italy
2007 7 x 7, group show at the Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville, SC, USA
2005 Pilgrimages: A Journey Through W.B. Sebald’s Rings of Saturn, Field Research, Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Suffolk, England
2004 The Dialectic Image, video installation, University of the Arts, London, UK
2004 Demotic, a multimedia collaborative performance, The Beall Center for Art and Technology, UC Irvine, CA, USA
2003 Aspire Greenville, group exhibition, Greenville, SC, USA
2003 WIPP JAM: Women In Productive Professions, exhibition, Columbia, SC, USA
2003 The Roman Forum Project, multi-media collaboration, Plaintext Players UC Irvine, CA, USA
2002 Virtual Live, multi-media collaboration, Plaintext Players, Location One, New York, NY, USA
2002 Passages, video installation, Sam Francis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2001 Passages, video installation, South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, Greenville, SC, USA
2000 The Roman Forum, multi-media collaboration, Plaintext Players, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2000 The Coronation of Poppea, multi-media collaboration, Plaintext Players, Bonn, Germany
1999 Birth of the Christ Child, multi-media collaboration, Plaintext Players, Literaturehaus, Munich, Germany
1999 The Manual of Lost Ideas, collaboration, Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1997 The White Whale, multi-media collaboration, Plaintext Players, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1995 Gutter City, multi-media collaboration, Plaintext Players, Digital Salon, New York, NY, USA
1995 Little Hamlet, multi-media collaboration, Plaintext Players, Blast 4, London, UK
1995 Traumbagger, multi-media collaboration, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1993 The Green Box, film/video, International Video Festival, Brazilia, Brazil
1993 New California Video, film/video, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, USA
1993 The Green Box, film/video, National Short Video Festival, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
1993 The Green Box, film/video, American Film Institute International Video Festival, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1992 Incline, film/video, American Film Institute International Video Festival, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1992 Solstice I & II: Porftable Lacan, contributor, Museum of Forgery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1991 Incline, film/video, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1991 Le Deluge, film/video installation, Highways Contemporary Art Space, Los Angeles, CA. USA
1990 The AIDS Bottle Project, collaborator, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1989 Le Deluge, film/video installation collaboration, Los Angeles Fringe Festival, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1988 Sinking, film/video installation collaboration, SITE, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1987 Lost and Found, Fringe Festival, Los Angeles, CA, USA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
American Film Institute
Institute of Cultural Inquiry, Los Angeles, CA
Long Beach Museum of Art
Security Pacific Corporation Art Collection
PUBLICATIONS/REVIEWS
2015 Life Lessons, by Axel Forrester published in Best Short Stories from The Saturday Evening Post 2015
2008 ‘And the Grit Goes To,’ Skirt! Magazine, Columbia, SC, USA, April 23, 2008
2008 ‘Indie Grits, Take Two,’ Freetimes, Columbia, SC, USA, April 15, 2008
2008 ‘Indie Grits Film Festival,’ Undefined: book Two, Columbia, SC, USA, April 2008
2008 ‘What’s in a Dream?’ Cindy Landrum, Greenville Journal, Vol. 10, No. 16 April 18, 2008
2007 Searching For Sebald, contributing artist, ICI Publication, Dr. Lise Patt, Ed.
2003 featured in “Artist Profile,” Greenville Magazine October Issue, Greenville, SC, USA
2003 Idea Revolution, by Clare Warmke
2002 ‘The Birth of the Christ Child,’ Marlena Corcoran, in PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, MIT Press, Fall/2002
2001 Benjamin’s Blind Spot, Edited by Lise Patt
2000 ‘The Roman Forum,’ Todd Martens, L.A.Times Online, (8/10/2000)
1999 ‘Life and Death in the Digital World of the Plaintext Players,’ Marlena Corcoran, in Leonardo Magazine, 32:5, (10/99)
1995 ‘A World Exhilarating and Wrong: Theatrical Improvisation on the Internet,’ Antoinette LaFarge, Leonardo Magazine, 28:5, (October 1995)
TEACHING
I’ve been an art and design teacher at Whittier College, Ca., California State University Long Beach, Ca., Burlington Technical Center, Vt., South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities and the American School in London. It has been an honour and privilege to serve and learn from my students and colleagues.
EDUCATION
2020-2021 mentor: Jacqui Lofthouse, The Writing Coach
2019-2020 mentor: Sara Sares, Blue Pencil Agency
2015-2017 MSc Creative Writing, University of Edinburgh
1990-1992 Graduate Work and Fellowship, Folklore and Mythology Program, University of California at Los Angeles
1987-forever Lise Patt, Christel Dilbohner, Antoinette LaFarge and Fellows of the Institute of Cultural Inquiry
1980-1986 MFA Drawing and Painting, California State University Long Beach
1973-1977 BFA Fine Art and Design, Brigham Young University