JILL SPECTOR

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STATEMENT

Born in York, Pennsylvania, 1976
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

EDUCATION
2005    MFA: Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
1998    BFA: Syracuse University, School of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse, NY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009
Light & Wire Gallery @ Circus Gallery, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Sculpture In Around: A Believe In, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium

2005
One Arm Too Many, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

2004
Sculpture & A Hat, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Partner, Platform, Perfect, Posture, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

2003
Wearing Outfit, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009
OPERA, Curated by Lia Trinka-Browner, Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Life? Biomorphic Forms In Sculpture, Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria; curator Katrin Bucher Trantow
The Skat Players, Vilma Gold Gallery, London, England
Betwixt and Between, ACME, Los Angeles, CA

2007
…drawling, stretching, and fainting in coils…, curated by Diana Thater, FestSpiele+ 2007, Pinakothek der Moderne and Nationaltheater, Munich, Germany
Modern Lovers, The Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale College, Glendale, CA
Radio Danièle, curated by Christopher Willians and John Kelsey, Radio LoRa in collaboration with Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland; Città Del Capo Radio Metropolitana in Collaboration with GAM Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy

2006
Many, Many Guys and Girls.  All Real Beauties, Circus of Books, Los Angeles, CA
JSA Show, Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2005
Supersonic, Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
Top Drawer, P.S. 122, New York, NY

2004
Ink, Noose, & the Sea: Bret Nicely, Jill Spector, & Dawson Weber, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

PERFORMANCES & SCREENINGS
2007
Performance/Film/Video, Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2005
At 7pm If You Know the Words Sing Along, a performance work by Corrina Peipon, for Celine and Julie Go Boating, organized by Michael Ned Holte, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2004
Show Down, costumes for sculptural performance by Liz Larner, MAK Center at the Schindler House, Los Angeles, CA
Ink, Noose, & the Sea, musical performance and screening in collaboration with Bret Nicely and Dawson Weber, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Five Dance Constructions and Some Other Things, choreography by Simone Forti, staged in conjunction with A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA

PUBLICATIONS
2008
…drawling, stretching and fainting in coils…. Exh. cat. Munich, Germany: Bavarian State Opera and Pinakothek der Moderne, 2008.
Modern Lovers. Exh. cat.  Los Angeles, California: North Fig Press, 2007.