CURRENT POSITION
Artist-in-Residence, USF Verftet, Bergen, Norway
Assistant Professor, Studio for Interrelated Media, Massachusetts College
of Art (on leave 2005 -2006)
EDUCATION
University of California, Santa Cruz
History of Consciousness Department
M.A./Ph.D. (ABD)
Major Advisers: Angela Y. Davis/ Victor Burgin
Dissertation: Exhibitionist Tendencies: Framing the Politics of Identity
in Contemporary Exhibition
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Art
M.F.A., 2003
Major Adviser: Mary Kelly
Georgetown University,
Washington, DC
B.A., 1994
Major: English
Minor: Fine Art
University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
International Student Exchange Program
1992-1993
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 Kianga Ford Lisa
Dent Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bedtime Stories The
Project Room, Raid Projects,
Los Angeles, CA
Story.
City. Occidental
College, Los Angeles, CA
2003 MFA Thesis Show New
Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 The California Biennial Orange
County Museum of Art,
Newport Beach, CA
Metro
Pictures Museum
of Contemporary Art, Miami
2005 Frequency The
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Living for the City Brooklyn
Institute of Contemporary Art @ Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Sound Madness The
Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada
2004 October Surprise Avenue
50 Collective, Los Angeles, CA
Through
the Gates: Brown v. Board of Education California
African-American Museum,
Los Angeles, CA
2003 What Do You See at Night Track
16, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Silvia Karman Cubina, in Metro Pictures (ex. cat.), The Moore Space and MoCA Miami, 2006
Irene Hofmann, in Frequency (ex. cat.), The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2005
Nizan Shaked, “Tales of Mobility” (ex. essay) for Occidental College Galleries, January 2005
Sharon Mizota, “Kianga Ford” in SF Weekly, October 26-November 1, 2005
Barbara Morris, “Kianga Ford at Lisa Dent Gallery” in Art Week, December/January 2006
Larry Mantle, “Live from the California African American Museum: Brown vs. Board of Education” on Air Talk (89.3 KPCC), May 21, 2004
Allison Keyes, “Museum Exhibit Explores Impact of 'Brown'” on The Tavis Smiley Show (NPR), May 20, 2004
Marva Hawkins, “Ford Succeeds in Artistic Endeavors” in The Sanford Herald, April 7 2004 (ill.)
Marva Hawkins, “Recognizing Outstanding Black Women” in The Sanford Herald, April 4 2004
Valerie Kuklenski, “The Making of a Case” in U-Entertainment, March 22, 2004
Duane Noriyuki, “A Powerful Atmosphere for New Ideas” in The Los Angeles Times, February 7, 2004.
Deborah Willis and Carla Williams, The Black Female Body in Photography. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002
PUBLICATIONS
House of The Underdog: Brenna Youngblood. UCLA Hammer Museum, 2006.
We Are All Post-Exotics: Reflections on the Remix. X-tra Contemporary Art Quarterly, Volume 7, Issue 4.
Playing with Venus: Black Women Artists and the Venus Trope in Contemporary Imaging in Venus 2000, Temple University Press (publication forthcoming).
“The Loudest Muttering is Over”: Rethinking Self-Representation after Identity in Beyond the Frame: A Project of the Women of Color Research Cluster, Palgrave Press (publication forthcoming).
SELECTED PAPERS, LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS
March 2006 |
Visiting Artist. Kunstacademie. Bergen, Norway. |
November 2005 |
Visiting Artist. Stanford University. Palo Alto, CA. |
May 2005 |
Conditions of Narrativity, MIT4: The Work of Stories. MIT. Cambridge, MA. |
April 2005 |
Inquiries & Discoveries: Pillars of the Community. California African-American Museum. Los Angeles, CA. |
March 2005 |
Invited Lecture. Michigan State
University. Department of History. East Lansing, MI. |
March 2005 |
Visiting Artist Lecture Series. San Francisco Art Institute. San Francisco, CA. |
February 2005 |
Invited Lecture. Northeastern University. Visual Arts Department. Boston, MA. |
February 2005 |
Invited Lecture. New York University. Gallatin School of Individualized Study. New York, NY |
February 2005 |
Making Space: Labor, Concept, Conceptual Labor, Art of Labor/Labor of Art. Occidental College. Los Angeles, CA. |
October 2004 |
Scoring Narrative: Film Music for Real Cinema with Allison Johnson. Hamilton College. Hamilton, NY. |
February 2004 |
The Politics of Memory—Andrew Armstrong, Molly Corey, Sara Jordeno, and Renee Petropoulos; curated by Nizan Shaked (panel discussant). Remsen Bird Symposium, Occidental College. Los Angeles, CA. |
February 2004 |
Matters Of Difference—Medium, Material & Post-Identity, Representation After Representativeness: Problems in African American Art Now, College Art Association. Seattle, WA. |
November 2003 |
Making & Unmaking: Exhibition between Post-Identity & Globalization, 38th Annual Art History Graduate Symposium, Migrations of Art: Scripting and Staging Subjectivities, UCLA. |
October 2003 |
Narrative, Community, and Post-Identity, Conference of the Consortium for a Strong Minority Presence at Liberal Arts Colleges, Grinnell College. Grinnell, Iowa. |
July 2003 |
Constructed Intimacies/Contingent Communities. Question. Community? Six Months Project Space. Los Angeles, CA. |
February 2003 |
Invited Lecture. Carleton College. Department of Art and Art History. Northfield, Minnesota. |
April 2002 |
The New Post-Politic—Young Artists and the Struggle for Blackness in Contemporary Art. Diaspora, Descent and Dissent, Transnational and Transcolonial Multicampus Research Group, UCLA. |
April 2002 |
Identity, Site, and Global Domain—Contemporary Black Art in International Contexts. Expanding the Visual Field, USC. |
January 2002 |
Go, Went, Gone—Kara Lynch, Sharon Hayes, Rita Gonzales, and Laurent Dubois (panel discussant). Radical Time, UCLA. |
April 1999 |
Oprah Winfrey, Kara Walker, and the Primal Scene—New ‘Recollections’ of American Slavery. California American Studies Association, UCSC. |
April 1999 |
The (un) Disciplined Response—Art, Activism, and the Limits of Alternative Knowledge Production Inside the Academy. Crossing Over, 1969-1999: Ethnic Studies and Radical Politics Beyond the Schooling Industrial Complex, UC Berkeley. |
March 1999 |
‘I’ is on the Wall—The Politics of Self and Identity in Photographic Self-Portraiture. Women of Color & Visual Representation, UCSC. |
March 1998 |
Producing ‘I’—Self-Portraiture and the (a)Political Subject of the Image. Crossing the Boundaries VI, Shifts and Transformations in Visual Culture, SUNY Binghamton. |
CURATORIAL & SPECIAL PROJECTS
2004-Present |
Editorial Board Member, X-Tra Contemporary Art Quarterly |
2003 |
Co-organizer, Question. Community? With Aimee Chang, Six Months, Watts Labor and Community Action Center, and the Armory Pasadena |
2002 |
Co-organizer, Radical Time, Symposium, UCLA |
2001-2002 |
Curator, Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Department of Art, UCLA |
2001 |
Project Leader, The Visual Literacy Project, Arts Bridge, UCLA/Los Angeles Unified School District |
1999 |
Co-organizer, Women of Color & Visual Representation, with Jennifer Gonzalez and the Research Cluster for the Study of Women of Color in Collaboration and Conflict, UCSC |
1996-1999 |
Co-organizer, Women of Color Film Festival, Research Cluster for the Study of Women of Color in Collaboration and Conflict, UCSC |
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2006 |
Artist-in-Residence, USF Verftet, Bergen, Norway |
2005 |
Banff Thematic Residency Fellowship – Sound & Vision |
2003-2005 |
Irvine Fellowship, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA |
2002-2003 |
Ella Okern Fellowship, UCLA |
2002-2003 |
Honorable Mention, Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship |
2000-2001 |
Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, UCLA |
1998-1999 |
Humanities Research Institute Conference Grant, with Jennifer Gonzalez and the Research Cluster for the Study of Women of Color, UCSC |
1998-1999 |
UC Research Mentorship Fellowship, UCSC |
1996-1997 |
UC Regents’ Award, History of Consciousness Department, UCSC |