Education

2007

• California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Valencia, CA, Master of Fine Arts

2003

• Washington University in St. Louis, MO, Bachelor of Fine Arts, with a major in sculpture, Summa Cum Laude

2001

• Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy

Solo Exhibitions

2013

• 3 Solos, Audrey Chan, Elana Mann, and Chan & Mann, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
• Meet the Chans and Mann, A collaboration with Audrey Chan, 323 Projects, Los Angeles, CA
• Listening as (a) movement, Side Street Projects, Pasadena, CA

2012

• Chann & Mhann: A Historical Retrospective, 2005-2012, A collaboration with Audrey Chan, Elephant, Los Angeles, CA

2011

• For more than one voice, 323 Projects, Los Angeles, CA
• Die Gedanken Sind Frei (Our Thoughts Are Free), Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2010

• Artist Bailout: Renegade Bounty Exchange, A collaboration with Autumn Rooney, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA

2008

• Do you feel different now? A Solo Show, Sea and Space Explorations, Los Angeles, CA

2007

• The usefulness of forgetting, Gallery D300, CAlArts, Valencia, CA

2006

• “Conversation Pieces,” A collaboration with Adam Overton, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Valencia, CA

2003

• Elk Grave-Sight, Washington University, Tyson Research Center, Eureka, MOSelected group exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions

2014

• Dedicated to the one she loves, a collaboration with Audrey Chan, H Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

2013

• Baker's Dozen 5, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
• The Hollow Center, Smak Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
• Teach-In, Cypress College, Cypress, CA

2012

• The Bureau of Experimental Speech and Holy Theses, Pomona Art Museum, Claremont, CA
• You are breathing in it! Alternative art practices, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
• video.mix, Modified Arts, Phoenix, AZ
• Attitude Cinema, Zoe Gallery, Rome, Italy (catalog)
• re/spond/re/peat, Soapbox Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
• Radio Break--Artist Interventions in Broadcast Space, USC Master’s thesis exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
• Jancar Gallery, Photo LA and Art Contemporary Los Angeles, Santa Monica, CA

2011

• Storefront Video, Transformer Gallery, Washington D.C.
• Beyond Conventions: Reimagining Human Rights in a Time of Change, Ford Foundation, New York, NY
• SUR: Biennial, Los Angeles, CA
• Some City Angels, Edward Cella Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Hot Town, 323 Projects, Los Angeles, CA
• Telephone, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA (catalog)
• Signify, Sanctify and Believe, The Church of Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA
• L.A. NAPOLI, Le Cercle Blanc Gallery, HBC, Berlin, Germany
• Narratives of the Perverse II, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Gathered in a Clearing, LEVEL, Brisbane, Australia
• Open Daybook, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)

2010

• TBA: A Group Video Exhibition in 7 parts, Kristi Engel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• To Live and Draw in L.A., Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
• The Purpose of Being, a collaboration with Vera Brunner-Sung, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
• Never Very Far Apart, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
• Actions, Conversations, and Intersections, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)

2009

• Grito e Escuta, 7th Mercosul Bienial, Porto Alegre, Brazil (catalog)
• Monster Drawing Rally, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
• What’s on the page, Imprenta, Los Angeles, CA
• Print Matters, General Store, Sydney, Australia
• Soundscapes, Gallery 727, Los Angeles, CA
• Needle in a Haystack, Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, CA
• Stay Bite: Modes of Operation, University of Texas, Dallas, TX

2008 

• Just how does a patriot act: A response to US policy at home and abroad, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA (catalog)
• The Audacity of Desperation, Sea and Space Explorations, Los Angeles, CA
• Stay Bite, Lime Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
• From A to B: A Field Guide to the Urban Commute, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

2007

• Deeesire, The Gatov Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, CA
• The Girly Show, The Wignall Museum, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA (catalog)
• The Collective Body, Galerie Califia, The Czech Republic
• For Ever, curated by Eungie Joo and Clara Kim, 915 Mateo, Los Angeles, CA
• A not so simple case for torture, Gallery D300, CAlArts, Valencia, CA
• The Powder Room, Track 16, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
• Abre-Alas, A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, BR

2006  

• Mid-Residency Exhibition, CAlArts, Valencia, CA
• It was the blurst of times, Commerce Street Artist Warehouse, Houston, TX
• GLAMFA, The Gatov Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, CA

2005   

• Hello my name is:, CAlArts, Valencia, CA

2004   

• Did you wash your body today?  Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN

Selected performances and screenings

2012

• Body Packing, The Last Bookstore, Los Angeles, CA
• MIA screening series, the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
• Time pieces by Alan Kaprow, (1980/2012), part of Spirit Resurrection by Liz Glynn, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
• Myths of Rape (1977/2012), a recreation of a piece by Leslie Labowitz produced in collaboration with Audrey Chan, part of Three Weeks in Janaury by Suzanne Lacy, LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA

2011

• Women Represented, ArtLab+ Film Forum, Hirshhorn Gallery, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C.
• Out the window, Freewaves Los Angeles Metro Project, Los Angeles, CA
• ARLA: Resonate! Receive!, The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
• Perform Chinatown, Jancar gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• The Brain’s Exchange Value, hm157, Los Angeles, CA
• Eternal Telethon: Our work is never done, the MAK center, Los Angeles, CA

2010

• Chasing Shadows, The Onion, North Hills, CA
• Eternal Telethon: Infinity + 24, Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA
• Violet Against Women: Confronting Notions of the Feminine, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
• Ocean of Noise, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
• Drive-in/ Ride-in/ Walk-in cinema, Philadelphia Art Hotel, Philadelphia, PA
• YOU DON’T BRING ME FLOWERS: An Evening of Re-Performances, PØST gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Hojotoho! A serial staging of Die Walkure.  Act 111, scene 1, a collaboration with Juliana Snapper, Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA
• (non-edible) Bake Sale for the Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, LA, CA

2009

• 1969, Friends of Distinction (Dan Graham), Los Angeles, CA
• Retirement Bash, commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
• Juste à côté de L.A.: CalArts Video, 2005-2007, Le Cinematographe, Nantes, France
• “Till there was you, an inauguration special” WILDNESS, Los Angeles, CA

2008

• Conventions & Attitudes, the CUNY Graduate Center Art Gallery, New York, NY
• alt_cph, Alternative Art Fair, Koh I Noor Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Come Out & Play; Supermasochist, Apex Art, New York, NY
• Maulwerker Performing Music, SITUATIONS: Art. Life. Transitions. Interpenetrations, Berlin, Germany
• My footnote to David Askevold, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
• Publicity, A reinvention of Allan Kaprow’s performance, part of "Allan Kaprow: Art as Life" at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Vasquez Rocks, CA

2007

• The Other Project, Valencia, CA
• Drip Event, The Pawn Shop, Los Angeles, CA

2006 

• The river is our parade, Santa Clarita, CA
• Video Nightmare, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2005 

• Sounding Out Festival, CAlArts, Valencia, CA
• The door show, CAlArts, Valencia, CA

Awards/Grants/Residencies

2013

• Artist in Residence, Amy Marie Sears Memorial Visiting Artist Series, St. Catherine University, St. Paul, MN

2012

• ARC Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation

2010

• Philadelphia Art Hotel residency, Philadelphia, PA

2009

• California Community Foundation Visual Artist Fellowship for Emerging Artists
• Kitty Chester Series of Curator’s Laboratory Projects, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

2005   

• Willamette Week “Best Group show of 2005” for the TROCA: Brasil exhibit, Portland, OR

2004   

• Franconia Sculpture Park intern artist fellowship, Shafer, MN

2003   

• John T. Milliken Traveling Scholarship, St. Louis, MO
• Commencement Marshall, Valedictorian of the School of Art, St. Louis, MO
• Secor Sculpture Award, St. Louis, MO
• Crescent Hills Research Grant, Tyson Research Center, Eureka, MO

2002   

• University City Public Sculpture Commission, St. Louis, MO

Curatorial projects

2012

• Shares and Stakeholders: The Feminist Art Project day of panels at the College Art Association, a collaboration with Audrey Chan, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

2010

• Driven by What’s Inside, Side Street Projects, Pasadena, CA

2009

• Performing Economies, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

2008

• Exchange Rate: 2008, www.exchangerate2008.com (catalog)

2007   

• Exquisite Acts and Everyday Rebellions: 2007 CalArts Feminist Art Symposium  and  Exhibition, in partnership with the “WACK!” exhibition at LA MOCA, CAlArts, Valencia, CA
• TROCA:USA, A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2005   

• TROCA: Brasil, The Feldman Gallery + Project Space, The Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

Lectures and Workshops

2013

• Visiting Artist Lecture, St. Catherine University, St. Paul, MN
• Visiting Artist Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
• Panel Moderator, Cuts & Clots: Queer Visual Art, Thinking Gender, 23rd Annual Graduate Student Research Conference, UCLA Center for the Study of Women, Los Angeles, CA

2012

• Visiting Artist Lecture with Audrey Chan, CalArts, Valencia, CA
• Visiting Artist Lecture, UCLA World Cultures Department, Los Angeles, CA
• Co-Chair with Audrey Chan, Colleagues, Co-conspirators, and Partners: Perspectives from Feminist Men, Shares and Stakeholders, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
• Visiting Artist Lecture with Audrey Chan, CalArts Theater Department, Valencia, CA

2011

• Visiting Artist Workshop, Woodbury College, Burbank, CA
• Panelist, The Aesthetics of Deficit, a symposium sponsored by Woodbury College, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
• Panelist, Rethinking Identity in a Pluralistic World, Standard Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
• Panelists, Progressivism and the Museum, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
• Guest speaker, Still Doin’ It: Fanning the Flames of the Woman’s building, Otis College of Art and design, Los Angeles, CA
• Panelist, New financial architectures for the arts, State of Independence: A Global Forum on Alternative Practice, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
• Panelist, New financial architecture for creative communities, State of Independence: A Global Forum on Alternative Practice, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
• Visiting Artist Lecture, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA

2010

• Visiting Artist Lecture, Pitzer College Media Studies Cinematheque, Claremont, CA
• Panelist, The Futility of Making Salad, Material press, Los Angeles, CA

2009

• Visiting Artist Lecture, CAlArts, “Experimental Impulse” class, Valencia, CA
• Visiting Artist Workshop, Culver City High School, through Los Angeles MOCA Community Outreach Program
• Visiting Artist Lecture, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
• Panelist, g727, Panel discussion with curator Tiffany Barber, Los Angeles, CA

2008

• Visiting Artist Lecturer, CAlArts, in the Intermedia Department, Valencia, CA
• Panelist, Talking out of Turn, at B/P/D in the REDCAT lounge, Los Angeles, CA
• Visiting Artist Workshop, LA MOCA, Visiting Artist, Family Day workshop on the “Allan Kaprow; Art as Life” exhibition
• Visiting Artist Lecturer, CAlArts, Graduate Performance Analysis class, a class offered in the Theater School for MFA students

2007

• Visiting Artist Lecture, The Other Project, Valencia, CA,
• Panel Moderator, “Strategies for Contemporary Feminism,” for Exquisite Acts and Everyday Rebellions symposium, with panel members Mary Kelly, CAtherine Lord, Andrea Fraser, CAlArts, March 10
• Visiting Artist Workshop, National Association of Artists Organizations (NAAO), Workshop on Feminist Art, April 26-28

Writing and Publications

2012

• “Activ[ist] listener performances: Scores for listening to lectures,” The Bureau of Experimental Speech and Holy Thesis Weekly, Issue 1-5, co-edited with Adam Overton and John Burtle, published by the Pomona Art Museum
• The People's Microphony Songbook, edited and published by Elana Mann, designed by Colleen Corcoran
• "Radical Receptivities," co-authored with Juliana Snapper, Art 21 Blog, January 4

2010

• “February 6,” The Open DayBook, Mark Batty Publisher
• “Alone Togetherness & Mutual Abandon in the City of Flowers and Sunshine,” The Futility of Making Salad, published by Material and Insert Press, October 2010
• Mañana por la Mañana, designed and produced by Tanya Rubbak, Fall 2010
• Can’t Afford the Freeway: A Reader, created and published by Elana Mann, designed by Jean-Paul Leonard, Philadelphia, PA
• We are the Art, created by Elana Mann, published by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
• “The Participant,” Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Issue #7

2009

• “Performing Economies” Day to Day, edited by Carolina Caycedo,
• Exchange Rate: 2008, edited and published by Elana Mann, designed by Roman Jaster

2008

• ID 517: Special Topics in Art and Politics: A Not So Simple Case for Torture, One Star Press, A project by students from CalArts with Nancy Buchanan, Sam Durantand Martha Rosler.

2007

• GIVE IT TO ME, DO IT TO ME, MAKE ME…, created and published by Elana Mann, designed by Roman Jaster

2006

• Conversation Pieces, created and published by Elana Mann and Adam Overton

2004

• “Garbage Safari,” Garbage Issue, Eaten-Alive Magazine, produced by Rachel Mason, v.2 no. 10

2003

• “Free Issue,” Eaten-Alive Magazine, produced by Rachel Mason, v.1

Public Collections

• Getty Research Institute

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