Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn

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HARRIET "HARRY" DODGE

Born 1966 in California
Lives and works in Los Angeles


EDUCATION
2003
MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, NY

1995
Laney College, Oakland, CA

1990
City College, SF, CA

1987
San Francisco State, SF, CA

1984
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Champaign-Urbana, IL


STANYA KAHN

Born 1968 in California
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA


EDUCATION
2003
MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, NY

1992
BA, Magna Cum Laude, Interdisciplinary Social Science/ Minor in History, San Francisco State University


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008   
Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York

2006
Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
100 Years (version #3), Garage: Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia (Curated by Klaus Biesenbach and RoseLee Goldberg)
45 Years of Performance Video from EAI, Wiels, Brussels, Belgium
Queer Voice, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Culture Shock: Video Interventions at the QET, in conjunction with the Cultural Olympiad 2010, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Virtuoso Illusion: Cross Dressing and the New Media Avant-Garde, MIT/List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA

2009
Unusual Behavior, curated by Heather Jeno Silva, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
100 Years (version #2, ps1, nov 2009), PS1, Long Island City, NY
New Feminist Video, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
Videonale 12, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Code Share: 5 continents, 10 biennales, 20 artists, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania

2008
Mutual: on callaboration, collaboratively curated with Kate McNamara of Cleopatra's, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
TBA08, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Whitney Biennial 2008, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
California Video, The Getty Centre, Los Angeles
Laughing in a Foreign Language, Hayward Gallery, London (catalogue)
Slightly Unbalanced, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Il; traveling to Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV; Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, LA; University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA (catalogue)

2007
Shared Women, Los Angeles Contemporary Art Exhibitions, curated by Eve Flower, Emily Roysdon & A.L. Steiner
Eden's Edge, Hammer Museum, curated by Gary Garrels, LA (catalogue)
Between Two Deaths, ZKM Karlsruhe, curated by Ellen Blumenstein, Germany (catalogue)

2006
“Defamation of Character”, curated by Neville Wakefield, PS 1, Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY
“Fair Exchange”, curated by Irene Tsatsos, Millard Sheets Gallery at the L.A. County Fair
CAN’T SWALLOW IT, CAN’T SPIT IT OUT, “Combine Platter,” curated by Glenn Phillips, MOCA, LA
CAN’T SWALLOW IT, CAN’T SPIT IT OUT, “Locale”, curated by Kris Kuramitsu, Margo Leavin Gallery, LA
Homer, Art in General, VIDEO 2006, NY

2005
Whacker, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, NADA Art Fair Miami
WINNER, “Ed Ruscha Film Night”, Museum of Contemporary Art, LA
LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL, “Marking Time”, Getty Museum and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, LA
LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL / WINNER, “Sugartown”, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, NY
LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL, Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT
LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL, “Films/Stills”, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL, NY Underground Film Festival, NY
LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL, Provincetown International Film Festival, Provincetown, MA

2004
LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL, “LTTR Show: Fail More”, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, LA
LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL, “Backyard Invitational Video Competition”, (winner), sponsored by Believer Magazine, Hollywood Hills House and the Lazy J, LA
LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL, “Pilot #1”, Old Limehouse Town Hall, London, UK

2003
WINNER, Select Exhibitions and Screenings
Slamdance, New York; Best of Slamdance, LA
“Fail Better”, group show, Ocularis, NY
“Soft Machines”, group show, Brewery Gallery, LA
Mix Festival, NY
Los Angeles Film Festival
New Festival, NY
Slamdance Film Festival, Utah
London Lesbian/Gay International Film Festival
OUTFEST Film Festival, LA
Silverlake Film Festival, LA
Hallwalls Art Space, Buffalo
Flaming Festival, Minneapolis

2001-2002
By Hook or by Crook, Independent feature film, Selected Screenigs
Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT
South by Southwest, Austin, TX
Outfest, LA
New Festival, NY
San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, CA
Cleveland International Film Festival, OH
Paris International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, France


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009
Anderson, Melissa, "Bad Connection," artforum.com
Smith, Michael. “Harry Dodge & Stanya Kahn,” Bomb, Number 108/Summer, p. 22-29.

2008    
Bedford, Christopher. "Focus: Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn," Frieze, November/December, p.174-5.
Richard, Frances. "Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn," Artforum, October, p. 384.
Wolff, Rachel, “Carry a Big Shtick,” Artnews, September, p. 128-131.
Halle, Howard, “Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn,” Time Out New York, July 17-23, p. 57
Armetta, Amoreen, “Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn,” Artforum.com, July
Lawn, Andrzej, “Whitney Biennial 2008,” Flash Art, May-June, p. 79-84.
Volk, Gregory, “Spring in Dystopia,” Art in America, May, p. 158-163, 207.
Schambelan, Elizabeth, “Whitney Biennial,” Artforum, Summer, p. 426-428.
Saltz, Jerry, “When Cool Turns Cold,” New York Magazine, March 24, p. 69-70.
Finkel, Jori, “Unsettling, in a Funny Sort of Way,” The New York Times, Art & Leisure, March 2.
Kushner, Rachel, ”1000 Words: Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn,” Artforum, January.
Halle, Howard, “Whitney Biennial 2008,” TimeOut New York, March 13-19, p.78.
Saltz, Jerry, “When Cool Turns Cold,” New York Magazine, March 24, p. 69.
Lawn, Andrzej, “Whitney Biennial 2008,” Flash Art, Vol. XLI No. 261, May-June, p.79-84.

2007
Hawthorne, Christopher,”Stepping Out,” Los Angeles Times, September 22.
Yablonsky, Linda, “In L.A., the Art Is Hot and the Prices Cool,” Bloomberg News, June 26.

2006
Subotnick, Ali, “Looking Back: Emerging Artists,” Frieze, February.
Frascina, Francis, “Four decades of politics and art in Los Angeles,” Modern Painters, November.
Dodge, Harry and Stanya Kahn, “On Making Comedy in a Time of War,” Modern Painters, November.
Smith, Roberta, “Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn,” The New York Times, May 12.
Cornell, Lauren, “Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn,” TimeOut New York, May 11-17, p. 81.
Shaffer, Grant, “Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn,” The New Yorker, May.
Schwendender, Martha, “Art, Museums and Libraries,” The New Yorker, December, p.20
Van, Tran Duc, “Scene and Herd: The Artforum Diary: Houses Proud,” December.
Kushner, Rachel, “Rachel Kushner on Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn,” Artforum, February.

2005
Bailey, Cindy, “Radar Reading Series,” LitRave, September 9.
Johnson, Ken, “Stanya Kahn and Harriet ‘Harry’ Dodge,” The New York Times, Friday August 5.
Cornell, Lauren, “Notes from Underground,” NYFA Interactive News, April.
Gilani, Nadia “Selected Shorts”, Gingerbeer, April.
Weissman, Benjamin, “Slaves to the Visual”, The Believer, January.

2004
Halter, Ed, “A Few Odd Girls Out…”, Village Voice, November 19-25.
Hall, Phil, “Winner”, Film Threat, February 16.

2003
Specht, Mary, “Crappy Theater”, Houston Press, Volume 15, Number 19, May 8-14.

2002
Anderson, Melissa, “Tracking Shots”, Village Voice, October 23-29.
Fox, Ken, “We’re Not in Kansas Anymore,” TV Guide Online, October 25.

GRANTS/AWARDS/NOMINATIONS
2008
Durfee Foundation, Artist's Resource Grant
California Community Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation nomination in Media

2006
Durfee Foundation, Artist's Resource Grant

2004
Winner, Backyard Invitational Video Competition, sponsored by Lazy-J, Hollywood Hills House, and the Believer Magazine


PUBLICATIONS
2007
Userlands: new fiction from the blogging underground, edited by Dennis Cooper, published
by Akashic Press
  • Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn and Mika Tajima/New Humans participate in the 2008 Whitney Biennial 1 Mar 2008

    Eighty-one artists are participating in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, which opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, on March 6, and runs through June 1, 2008. Installations and performances organized by the Whitney and Art Production Fund,will also be presented in association with Park Avenue Armory (67th Street) from March 6-23.

    Since its founding in 1932, the Biennial has evolved into the Whitney’s signature exhibition as well as the most important survey of the state of contemporary art in the United States today. The exhibition will occupy the entire Museum, with the exception of the fifth floor, which is devoted to the permanent collection. For the first time, the Biennial will expand beyond the Museum’s Breuer building into Park Avenue Armory’s monumental Drill Hall and historic period rooms, creating an opportunity to present works that could not be accommodated within the Whitney’s walls and remaining true to the fluid, interactive way in which these works were conceived.

    The 2008 Biennial is curated by Henriette Huldisch, Assistant Curator at the Whitney, and Shamim M. Momin, Associate Curator at the Whitney and Branch Director and Curator of the Whitney Museum at Altria, and overseen by Donna DeSalvo, the Whitney’s Chief Curator and Associate Director for Programs.

     

    http://www.whitney.org/www/information/press/wb1108.pdf

  • Harry Dodge & Stanya Kahn in "California Video" at The Getty 17 Oct 2007

    March 15 – June 8, 2008
    Co-organized by the Getty Research Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum, California Video is the first comprehensive survey of video art emerging from Northern and Southern California in the late 1960s and up to the present. Representing the developments in and increased accessibility of media technology, this exhibition includes many of the most important works of single-channel video, video sculpture, and video installation. Featuring the work of 60 artists, California Video locates a distinctively west coast aesthetic within the broader history of video art while highlighting the Getty's major commitment to the preservation and exhibition of a young but vital artistic medium.

    THE GETTY

  • Harry Dodge and Stany Kahn in "East of Eden: Fifteen LA Artists" at the Hammer, LA 8 Aug 2007
    May 13 – September 2, 2007
    Eden's Edge: Fifteen LA Artists is an exploration of art made in Los Angeles during the past decade that crosses generations, mediums, and materials to link artists who create work ingrained with intensely personal visions. The exhibition features the work of 15 artists—Ginny Bishton, Mark Bradford, Liz Craft, Sharon Ellis, Matt Greene, Elliott Hundley, Stanya Kahn & Harry Dodge, Monica Majoli, Matthew Monahan, Rebecca Morales, Lari Pittman, Ken Price, Jason Rhoades, Anna Sew Hoy, and Jim Shaw—who share a dedication to craft and mix a wide array of media to create fantasized, often ambiguous, worlds. The artists featured in Eden's Edge: Fifteen LA Artists share a perspective toward landscape and figure that investigates complex contradictions, which are inherent to life in Los Angeles and more broadly to contemporary American culture.

    Eden's Edge: Fifteen LA Artists is organized by Gary Garrels, Chief Curator and Director of Exhibitions and Programs, Hammer Museum.

    HAMMER

  • California Video: Artists and Histories (Hardcover)

    by Glenn Phillips (Author), Meg Cranston (Author), Rita Gonzalez (Author), Kathy Rae Huffmann (Author), Robert Riley (Author), Steve Seid (Author), Bruce Yonemoto (Author)

    Published to accompany a landmark exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from March 15 through June 18, 2008, California Video presents the first comprehensive survey of the history of video art in California. Since the late 1960s, California artists have been at the forefront of an
    international movement that has expanded video into the realm of fine art. Whether designing complex video installations, devising lush projections, experimenting with electronic psychedelia, creating conceptual and performance art, generating guerilla video, or producing works that promote feminism
    and other social issues, these artists have utilized video technology to express revolutionary ideas.

    This illustrated volume focuses on fifty-eight artists, from early video pioneers such as John Baldessari, Bruce Nauman, and William Wegman, to Martha Rosler, Diana Thater, Bill Viola, and other established and emerging talents. Thirty-five recent interviews shed new light on these artists--their
    influences, creative processes, and impact. Together with commissioned essays, rare reprints, and unpublished video transcripts, California Video chronicles a distinctly West Coast aesthetic located within the broader history of video art.

    Hardcover: 320 pages
    Publisher: Getty Publications (May 20, 2008)
    Language: English
    ISBN-10: 0892369221
    ISBN-13: 978-0892369225

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  • Whitney Biennial 2008 (Catalogue)

    Edited by Henriette Huldisch and Shamim M. Momin

    Features Harry Dodge & Stanya Kahn and Mika Tajima / New Humans

    Presenting the latest work by emerging and established artists, Whitney Biennial 2008 accompanies the seventy-fourth in a series of Annual and Biennial exhibitions, inaugurated in 1932 at the Whitney Museum of American Art. This edition is organized by Whitney curators Henriette Huldisch and Shamim M. Momin and features more than eighty artists and collaborative teams, including recognized artists as well as those whose work has never before been seen in a major museum.

    270 pages. 285 illustrations. Paper.

    2008 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

    To order please visit whitneystore

  • Laughing in a Foreign Language

    by Mami Kataoka (Author), Simon Critchley (Contributor)

    Features Harry Dodge & Stanya Kahn

    What is the role of laughter and humor in contemporary art? In a time of increasing globalization, this book questions whether humor can only be appreciated by people with similar cultural, political or historical backgrounds and memories, or whether laughter can act as a catalyst for understanding that which is not familiar. Do laughter and humor transcend difference and language, or are they dependent on inside knowledge and shared experience? Featuring illustrations of more than 70 video, photographic and installation works, this volume includes many artists who have relocated from their home countries, leading them to exploit the humor that arises out of everyday gaps in translation, or even to use humor to fill those gaps. Artists include Makoto Aida, Candice Breitz, Olaf Bruening, Marcus Coates, Cao Fei, Ghazel, Matthew Griffin, Taiyo Kimura, Peter Land, Julian Rosefledt, Shimabuku, Nedko Solakov, Roi Vaara, Martin Walde and others.

    Published on the occasion of the exhibition Laughing in a Foreign Language, The Hayward, London, UK, 25 January - 13 April, 2008.

    Paperback: 152 pages
    Publisher: Hayward Publishing (March 1, 2008)
    Language: English
    ISBN-10: 1853322660
    ISBN-13: 978-1853322662

    To order please visit Amazon.com

  • Between Two Deaths

    by Suzanne Barnard (Author), Mika Hannula (Author), Ellen Blumenstein (Editor), Felix Ensslin (Editor)

    Features Ryan Trecartin and Harry Dodge & Stanya Kahn

    In the continual disappointment of failed political and social utopias--the 60 and the Eastern Bloc come to mind--artists, like everyone else, often find themselves indulging melancholic nostalgia. Between Two Deaths collects work addressing those feelings of uneasiness and loss, critical-artistic reflections on the political, social and cultural trends towards regret and retrospection. The assembled work observes conservative cultural debates, stagnation, regression, fear, insecurity, lethargy and nostalgia, not with censure but with interest--with curiosity about these feelings, and about the cynical pessimism or oft-prescribed optimism that follows. With contributions from Bas Jan Ader, Sebastian Diaz-Morales, Elin Hansdottir, Jutta Koether, Javier Tellez, and Mark Titchner, Harry Dodge, Sue de Beer, Stanya Kahn, Brock Enright and Barnaby Furnass.

    Hardcover: 288 pages
    Publisher: Hatje Cantz (July 1, 2007)
    Language: English
    ISBN-10: 3775720030
    ISBN-13: 978-3775720038

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  • Eden's Edge: Fifteen L.A. Artists

    Features Harry Dodge & Stanya Kahn

    Published to accompany the Hammer Museum's Summer 2007 exhibition, Eden's Edge, this exploration of art made in Los Angeles during the past decade crosses generations, mediums, and materials to link 15 artists of singular personal vision, whether internationally established or not-yet-discovered. The artists--who include Ginny Bishton, Mark Bradford, Liz Craft, Sharon Ellis, Matt Greene, Elliott Hundley, Stanya Kahn and Harry Dodge, Monica Majoli, Rebecca Morales, Matthew Monahan, Lari Pittman, Ken Price, Jason Rhodes, Anna Sew Hoy and Jim Shaw--all track, via their work and vision, a persistent consciousness of change and contradiction. The works collected here are intensely crafted and conjure richly imagistic worlds in which landscape and figure fracture and metamorphose. Together, they establish a generational continuum, integrating newly emerging artists with their more established peers. This clothbound volume includes a critical essay by curator Gary Garrels that contextualizes both the exhibition and the artists' work within the art and culture of southern California, the international art scene, and the trends of the last decade. It includes an entry, a biography, a selected exhibition history and a bibliography for each of the 15 artists.

    Hardcover: 144 pages
    Publisher: Hammer Museum (June 1, 2007)
    Language: English
    ISBN-10: 0943739314
    ISBN-13: 978-0943739311

    To order please visit Art Books