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EDUCATION AND RESIDENCIES

2009 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER Residency, Johnson, Vermont

2007 SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE Residency, Skowhegan, Maine

1989-1991 CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS Fine Art, Art History, Semiotics, Feminism, Popular Culture, Conceptual and Critical Theory, Valencia, California

1988-1989 SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS Photography, Painting, Sculpture, Media Communication, New York, New York

1982-1986 ARTS MAGNET HIGH SCHOOL Painting, Drawing, Art History, Printmaking Dallas, Texas

2009
DOWNTOWN Municipal Shadow, Performance, Marfa, Texas

EFFEARTE GALLERY Photography, Video and Performance for Beyond This Thing Between Us, Milan, Italy

2008
BRIDGE WYNWOOD Intimate Distance, Soldier/Adulterer, Performance, Miami, Florida

ABANDONED LOT Intimate Distance, Adulterer, Performance, Marfa, Texas

2007
WOMEN AND THEIR WORK Photographs from Things I Never Told You and Girl in a Bubble, Performance, Austin, Texas

2004
PLAN B Photographs from Women, Austin, Texas

2003
ART BAR Photographs from Women, Dallas, Texas

1999
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVE The Deep End, Feature Film Screening; Co-wrote, co-produced and played the lead role, produced by Cary Woods, New York, New York

RALIEGH STUDIOS The Deep End, Feature Film Screening, Los Angeles, California

1991 PIK ME UP Good for Amusement Only, Public Art Installation, Produced and programmed short films for a coin-operated film booth and installed it in espresso cafe, Los Angeles, California

PURPLE PANTHER Good for Amusement Only, Public Art Installation, Film booth installation in tattoo parlor, Los Angeles, California

PARKER ZANIC GALLERY Speaker Death, Performance, Los Angeles, California

THE OTHER 45 MINUTES Gold In Unison, Performance, Los Angeles, California

1990
RAJI’S Speaker Death, Performance, Los Angeles, California

MAIN GALLERY Free Beer, Female Beet Wrestling, Performance, CalArts, Valencia, California

MAIN GALLERY The Running (of the sheep), Performance, CalArts, Valencia, California

2009
FESTIVAL DE CINE INTERNACIONAL DE BARCELONA Beck Video and Soldier video screening, Barcelona, Spain

ROOFTOP FILMS Home Movies Short Films program, Beck Video screening, Brooklyn, New York

Performance For C.Q. and Others for Low Lives, projected in real time at FIVEMYLES, Brooklyn, New York; DIASPORA VIBE GALLERY, Miami, Florida; LABOTANICA, Houston, Texas

SAN FRANCISCO SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, Soldier video screening, San Francisco, California

INTERNATIONAL ARTEXPO - ESSENCE / BORDERS . Soldier and Beck Video Screening, Istanbul, Turkey

2009 BIG RED SUN Beck Video Screening, Austin, Texas

2008
APAMA MACKEY GALLERY Photographs for Treat, Houston, Texas

WOMEN AND THEIR WORK Performance for Interact Out, Austin, Texas; Thirtieth Anniversary Gala

ART ALLIANCE AUSTIN Celebrity Topiary public art commission for Art City Austin, Austin, Texas, jurors Laurence Miller Fluent Collaborative, Eva Buttacavoli Austin Museum of Art, Annette Carlozzi Blanton Museum of Art , Ursula Davila Blanton Museum of Art

COLOR OF ENERGY GALLERY Photographs for You Are Here, Dayton, Ohio; curated by Eva Buttacavoli, Director of Exhibitions and Education, Austin Museum of Art

UNITED STATES ART AUTHORITY Photograph for Rewind Seventies, Austin, Texas

2007
LAWNDALE ART CENTER Retablo for Dia de los Muertos, Houston, Texas

2006
ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM OF ART & HISTORY Photograph for Biennial Southwest, Albuquerque, NM; juror Neal Benezra, Director, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

PHOTOGRAPHY NOW: ONE HUNDRED PORTFOLIOS Photographs from Things I Never Told You on DVD-ROM organized by Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio

WICHITA FALLS MUSEUM OF ART New American Talent: The Twentieth Exhibition, Wichita Falls, Texas, Traveling exhibition

GALLERI URBANE Photographs for Me, Myself and Everybody Else, Marfa, Texas

2005
ARTHOUSE AT THE JONES CENTER - NEW AMERICAN TALENT 20 New American Talent: The Twentieth Exhibition, traveling exhibition originating in Austin, Texas; juror Dan Cameron, Senior Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York

2040 GALLERY Photograph for Endless Summer, Austin, Texas

JORDAN GALLERY Photographs for Smithville, Texas!, Smithville, Texas

2004
ARCAUTE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO Photographs for Los Americanos, Monterrey, Mexico

ARTHOUSE AT THE JONES CENTER - NEW AMERICAN TALENT 19 New American Talent, traveling exhibition, Austin, Texas; juror Jerry Saltz, Senior Art Critic, The Village Voice, New York

AMVETS Photographs for Post 65, Marfa, Texas

2040 GALLERY Photograph for Cicada, Austin, Texas

2003
GUADALUPE ARTS CENTER Photographs for Eclectic Gatherin,g Austin, Texas

1991
BLISS The Significance of Bricolage, Installation at Bliss Gallery, Pasadena, California

1986
THEATER GALLERY Mud Wrestling, Performance, Dallas, Texas


2009 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER Full fellowship

2008 ART ALLIANCE AUSTIN Commission of temporary public art installation

2007 SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE Grant

2005 LEOPOLD GODOWSKY JR. COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS Nominated

2004 AUSTIN CHRONICLE Named one of the Top 7 Individual Artists of the year by Arts writer Rachel Koper

1999 TEXAS FILM INSTITUTE Semifinalist in feature screenplay competition for Finespun

BIBLIOGRAPHY / MEDIA

“Exposed”, Tribeza, November 2009

“An exhibit in the form of art criticism”, Austin 360.com, July 15, 2009

Cover image and two spreads, Irreversible Magazine an International Art Project, Spring 2009

“Echoes and Reverberations: Karen Finley and the Delicate Art of Disgust”, Dallas Observer, Feb 13, 2009

“A Tale of Two Bridges,” ARTINFO, December 5, 2008

Featured on Downtown television program, “Art City Austin” KLRU, November 13, 2008 http://www.downtownaustintv.org/#/art/art-city-austin/

The Big Bend Sentinel, October 16, 2008

Picnic Magazine, Issue #3, September 2008

“Interact Out with Women & Their Work,” The Austin American Statesman April 17, 2008

“Weekend Austin Art Fair Modernizes, Moves,” The Austin American Statesman April 11, 2008

“Art Alliance Austin poised to makeover the city,” News 8 Austin interview with Paul Brown, April 11, 2008

“The city becomes an outdoor art gallery of sorts,” News 8 Austin interview with Kendra Mendez, April 7, 2008

“The Ultimate Gig,” Austin Monthly, December 2007

“Things I Never Told You: The Photographs of Denise Prince,” catalogue accompanying show at Women and Their Work, May 2007

“Things I Never Told You,” 180 Magazine, June 2007

“Inner Worlds We Inhabit,” Austin Chronicle, May 25, 2007

Biennial Southwest catalogue, Albuquerque Museum of Art, 2006

“`Biennial Southwest' takes folks into the world of cutting-edge contemporary art,” The Albuquerque Tribune, October 5, 2006

“Albuquerque Museum 'Biennial Southwest' Picks Up Pieces of Other Shows,” The Albuquerque Journal, September 10, 2006

“Photographs, book signing featured at Galleri Urbane’s show Friday,” Big Bend Sentinel August 2006

“Oh, Give Me a Home,” The Austin Chronicle, July 1, 2005 p. 34

“The 20th 'New American Talent' exhibition reveals a country struggling with isolation and power,” The Austin Chronicle, July 1, 2005

“Don't judge work of 'New American Talent' artists by the curator's essay,” The Austin American Statesman, June 30, 2005

“Top 7 Individual Artists of 2004,” Austin Chronicle, January 2005 p. 28

“Wonder Women,” bRILLIANT Magazine, August 2004 p. 23

“They Like Me, They Really Like Me,” GlassTire, August 2004

“Calendar,” Photo District News, July 2004 p. 126

“Curator Weaves New Craftiness Into Expanded ‘New American Talent’ Show,” The Austin American Statesman, July 1, 2004

“Recommended,” Xlent June 3, 2004

“Out and About,” The Good Life June 2004

“A Piece of Work,” Austin Chronicle August 2003 http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2003-0815/arts_feature.html)

“Working Women in the Arts,” Interviewed for cable programming, 2001

Filmmaker Magazine, 1992