Tyler Stallings has organized contemporary and historical art exhibitions since 1988. Since moving to Southern California in 1990, he received his MFA from CalArts, worked at the City of L.A. Cultural Affairs Dept., and has been the Director of Programs at Huntington Beach Art Center, chief curator at Laguna Art Museum, Artistic Director at Culver Center of the Arts & Director at Sweeney Art Gallery, and ARTSblock interim executive director at University of California, Riverside, and most recently was the director and senior curator at the Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast College.
CURATORIAL PROFESSIONAL
2018 to 2023
Orange Coast College, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Director/Senior Curator, Costa Mesa, California
(Employment dates: January 8, 2018-October 13, 2023)
2006 to 2017
University of California, Riverside, Director, Sweeney Art Gallery & Artistic Director, Culver Center of the Arts
(Employment dates: December 17, 2006-December 17, 2017)
2015 to 2016
University of California, Riverside, Interim Executive Director, UCR ARTSblock
(August 2015-December 2016, during search for new Executive Director)
2013
University of California, Riverside, Interim Executive Director, UCR ARTSblock
(August-December, while Executive Director was on medical leave in Fall 2013)
1999-2006
Laguna Art Museum, Chief Curator, Laguna Beach, California
(Employment dates: September 1, 1999 to December 1, 2006)
1995-1999
Huntington Beach Art Center, Director of Programs, Huntington Beach, California
(Employment dates: December 15, 1994 to July 31, 1999)
1992-1994
City of Los Angeles, Cultural Affairs Department, Public Arts Division Assistant, Los Angeles, part-time
(Employment dates: September 1992 to December 1994)
1990-1992
City of Los Angeles, Cultural Affairs Department, Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park, Associate Curator and Slide Registrar Assistant, Los Angeles, part-time
(Employment dates: September 1990 to September 1992)
1992
Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, Operations Assistant, Venice, California, part-time
(Employment dates: January 1992 to September 1992)
CURATORIAL
EXHIBITIONS (*accompanied by a catalog or book)
2023
Julia Bui: The Couch Surfing Paintings, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA (brochure)
Ann Phong: Re-Evaluating Normal, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA (brochure), in collaboration with Begovich Gallery, California State University Fullerton
Linda White: Four Decades of Painting from Geometry to Gesture, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA (brochure)
2022
Rebecca Campbell: Painting Feminine Power, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA (brochure), traveled to Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University
Holly Topping: The Calamity Hustle, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA (brochure)
2021
What Will Remain: Art in the Time of Human Dominion, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA (brochure): Dean Abernathy*, Cheryl Cotman, Kelli Elliot*, Rebecca Erbstoesser, Joy Fire*, Kim Garrison*, Blade Gillissen, Ed Gomez, Will Hare, Laurie Hassold, John Hesketh, Richard Kraft, Leland Means*, Chelsea Mosher, Kevin Myers, Matthew Newman, Dakota Noot, Steve Radosevich*, Kerri Sabine-Wolf, Kevin Scianni, Katherine Sheehan, Natasha Shoro, Timothy Robert Smith, Yuki Toyooka Smith, Noah Thomas, Holly Topping, Cora Volkoff / Debbie Dunne, Roger Whitridge, Sam Yip, (*Mystery Ranch Project)
2020
Right Place, Right Time: A Survey of John Upton’s Photographs, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA (book)
2019
Flag Sail Wing: New Collages by Richard Kraft, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA (brochure)
Empty Vessel: Amir Zaki, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA (book); traveled to Culver Center of the Arts, University of California Riverside
Renovation Clay: Brittany Mojo & Jackie Rines, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA (brochure)
Stargazers: Intersections of Contemporary Art & Astronomy, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA (brochure): from Lita Albuquerque, Russell Crotty & Laura Gruenther, Lia Halloran, George Legrady, Carol Saindon, Victor Raphael & Clayton Spada, Penelope Umbrico, and United Catalysts
2018
OCC Fine Art Faculty Exhibition 2018, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA (brochure): Leland Means, Kevin A. Myers, Holly Topping, and Roger Whitridge
Elizabeth Turk’s ThinkLab LIVE .002: Extinct Bird Cages, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA (brochure)
Amy Elkins: Photographs of Contemporary Masculinity, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA (brochure)
2017
Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas, UCR ARTSblock, Riverside, CA (co-curator), part of the The Getty Foundation’s
Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative (book); traveled to the Queens Museum, New York
2016
Yunhee Min & Peter Tolkin: Red Carpet in C, UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, CA
2015
Desert Lighthouse Ultimatum: The Second Installation in Daniel Hawkins’ Desert Lighthouse Trilogy, UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, CA
Adriana Salazar: Perpetuity, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, CA
Transcendent Abstraction in Painting: Selections from the Permanent Collection of UCR Sweeney Art Gallery
2014
Figurative Languages: Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection at UCR Sweeney Art Gallery
2013
Different Particles & Indeterminate States: New Monumental Drawings by Amy Myers, UCR Culver Center of the Arts & Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, California (brochure)
Patrick Quan: Accidents and Failures, UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, CA
Jackrabbit Homestead: Tracing the Small Tract Act in the Southern California Landscape, 1938-2008, a project by Kim Stringfellow, UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California (brochure)
Essential: Selections from the Permanent Collection Celebrates UCR Sweeney Art Gallery’s 50th Anniversary UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, California (brochure) Marsia Alexander-Clarke, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Tad Beck, Margarita Cabrera, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Richard Clar, John Divola, Sean Dockray, Sean Duffy, Reanne Estrada, eteam, Fritz Haeg, Desiree Hollman, Lisa Jevbratt, Rachel Mayeri, Jason Middlebrook, Rubén Ortiz Torres, Carrie Paterson, Ann Phong, Bradley Pitts, Alison Ruttan, Connie Samaras, Michael Shroads, Jim Trainor, Hong-An Truong, Julie Thi Underhill, and others (primarily artists who have been featured in past exhibitions at UCR Sweeney Art Gallery since 2007)
Area 51: A Sound Installation by Venzha Christ, UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California, co-curator
REPO the body of work: a dance performance & exhibition in conversation with choreographer Wendy Rogers & collaborators (including set designs by artist Robert Kushner), UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California
Free Enterprise—The Art of Citizen Space Exploration, UCR ARTSblock, Riverside, California, co-curator, traveled (brochure and book) The Arts Catalyst (London, U.K.), Lowry Burgess (Pittsburgh, PA), Center for Land Use Interpretation (Culver City, CA), Richard Clar (Paris/Los Angeles), Skeith De Wine (Santa Ana, CA), Kitsou Dubois (Paris), eteam (New York), European Space Agency Topical Team Arts and Science (international participants), Final Frontier Design (New York), Cultural Center of European Space Technologies / KSEVT (Vitanje, Slovenia), Agnes Meyer-Brandis (Berlin), MIR - Microgravity Interdisciplinary Research (international participants), Forrest Myers (New York), Trieste Constructivist Cabinet (Italy/Slovenia), Nejc Trošt (Slovenia/Houston, TX), Trevor Paglen (New York), Carrie Paterson (Los Angeles), Frank Pietronigro (San Francisco), Bradley Pitts (New York), Cosmokinetial Kabinet Noordung – Postgravityart (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Projekt Atol Flight Operations (Santa Barbara, CA and Ljubljana, Slovenia), Connie Samaras (Los Angeles), Christian Waldvogel (Zurich, Switzerland), Arthur Woods (Zurich, Switzerland), and XCOR Aerospace, Inc. (Mojave, CA)
2012
Mexico at the Hour of Combat: Sabino Osuna's Photographs of the Mexican Revolution, UCR California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California, co-curator, traveled (book)
Cynthia Minet’s Unsustainable Creatures: Sculptures of Plastic and Light, UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California
Michael Shroads: Drag & Logged Sculptures + Noise Drawings, UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California
Matters of Decay: Paintings by Constance Mallinson, UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California
PASOS: New Video Installations by Marsia Alexander-Clarke, UCR California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California (brochure)
Lewis deSoto and Erin Neff: Tahquitz, UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California, co-curator (brochure)
Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, 1945-1982, organized by Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California, as part of the multi-institutional Getty Research Institute initiative, Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A., 1945-1980, guest co-curator (book)
Slim Aarons, Bill Anderson, Diane Arbus, Loretta Ayeroff, John Baldessari, Lewis Baltz, Bruce Bellas, Ruth Bernhard, Bob Gentry, Michael Childers, Eileen Cowin, Robert Cumming, Joe Deal, Roy Dean, John Divola, Garrett Eckbo. Jim French, Anthony Friedkin, David Hockney, Harold Jones, Sant Khalsa, Leland Lee, Bob Mizer, Kenda North, Jane O’Neal, Bill Owens, Maynard Parker, Rondal Partridge, Herb Ritts, Mel Roberts, Ed Ruscha, Lawrence Schiller, Julius Shulman, Larry Silver, Evan Slater, Craig Stecyk, Larry Sultan, George Tate, Edmund Teske, Garry Winogrand, Max Yavno, Lloyd Ziff
Post Pacific Standard Time: Three Artists in Los Angeles from the 1980s, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, California (brochure), featuring Jill Giegerich, Jim Isermann, and Erika Suderburg
2011
Journeys to Recover Your Future: New Paintings by David Leapman, UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California (brochure)
The Great Picture: The World’s Largest Photographs & The Legacy Project, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery & Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California, traveled (book)
Margarita Cabrera: Pulso y Martillo (Pulse and Hammer), UCR Sweeney Art Gallery & Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California (brochure)
2010
Karen Lofgren: Believer, UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California
Re:Cycle—Bike Culture in Southern California, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery & Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California (brochure) Lisa Anne Auerbach, Tad Beck, The Bicycle Lounge, Nathan Bockelman &Cameron Crone, Damon Boyd/Nomad Cruiser, Leslie Caldera, John Divola, Sean Duffy, East Hollywood ArtCycle, Timo Fahler, Finishing School, Ghost Bike, Clement Hanami, Gabriel Hargrove, Simon Hughes, Folke Köbberling & Martin Kaltwasser, Diane Meyer, Midnight Ridazz, Patrick Miller, Rubén Ortiz Torres, Ashira Siegel, Samuel Starr, C.R. Stecyk, Taco Tuesdays, Dan "El Daino" Torres, Jud Turner, Lee Tusman, UCR Bourns College, Ali Valle, Raphael Xavier
Mapping the Desert/Deserting the Map: An Interdisciplinary Response, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery and UC Institute for Research in the Arts, co-curator
2009
Intelligent Design: Interspecies Art, co-curator, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, California
Catherine Chalmers, Beatriz da Costa, John Divola, Sean Dockray, Sam Easterson, Carlee Fernandez, Jill Greenberg, Fritz Haeg, Kathy High, Desirée Holman, Natalie Jeremijenko, Lisa Jevbratt, Nina Katchadourian, Hilja Keading, Rachel Mayeri, M.A. Peers, Nicolas Primat & Patrick Munck, Alison Ruttan, Corinna Schnitt, Jim Trainor
Your Donations Do Our Work: Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, California
Adia Millett, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, California
Kyungmi Shin, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, California
2008
Absurd Recreation: Contemporary Art from China, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, California (exh. cat.)
Chen Chieh-jen, Chen Wei, Hong Hao, Liu Qinghe, Wang Wei, Xie Xiaoze, Xu Ruotao, Xu Zhen, Zhao Liang
Truthiness: Photography as Sculpture, UCR/California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California
(exh. cat.) Elizabeth Bryant, Todd Gray, Katie Grinnan, Brandon Lattu, Srdjan Loncar, Dana Maiden, Thomas McGovern, David Meanix, Gina Osterloh, Anthony Pearson, Carter Potter, Christopher Taggart, Mary Younakof, Amir Zaki, Bari Ziperstein
100% Other: Artists and Psycho-Demographic Transitions, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica (brochure)
Kyungmi Shin, Matthew Bryant, Cheryl Gilge, Perry Vasquez, Reggie Woolery, Yasuko
The Signs Pile Up: Paintings by Pedro Álvarez, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery Riverside, California (book)
2007
Gabriela León: Sunday Walk to the Zócalo, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery Riverside, California (exh. cat.)
Victor Payan and Perry Vasquez: Delirium Fronterium, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery Riverside, California
Compass 2007: New Art from the MFA Programs of University of California, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery and UCR California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California, co-curator (brochure)
Last Exit Empire: MFA Class of 2007, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery Riverside, California
2006
Pervasion: The Art of Gary Baseman and Tim Biskup, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
em/bedded: A multi-media installation by Alan Sondheim with Leslie Thornton, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, California
California Art from the Permanent Collection, Part II, 1930s to 1950s, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California, co-curator
2005
California Art from the Permanent Collection, Part I, The Beginning, 1832-1925, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California, co-curator
Conceptual Photography from the Collection, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
John Baldessari, Wallace Berman, Eileen Cowin, Llyn Foulkes, George Herms, Robert Heinecken, Barbara Kasten, Edward and Nancy Kienholz, Victor Landweber, Susan Rankaitis, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha, Ilene Segalove, Alexis Smith, Michael Stone, Todd Walker
Paul Paiement: Hybrids 1.0-3.5, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California (book)
Laguna’s Hidden Treasures: Art from Private Collections, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
19th to 21st centuries: Nicolas Africano, Peter Alexander, Belle Baranceanu, Walter Emerson Baum, Tony Berlant, Hyman Bloom, Christian Boltanski, George Brandriff, Rex Brandt, Maurice Braun, Nicholas Brigante, Enrique Martinez Celaya, John Chamberlain, Wes Dahlberg, Frank Damiano, Ron Davis, Francis De Erdely, Tony DeLap, Jacci Den Hartog, Phil Dike, Kim Dingle, Tomory Dodge, James Doolin, Jerry Downs, Manny Farber, John Frame, Tom Friedman, John Frost, August Gay, Selden Gile, Bernhard Gutmann, Richard Haines, Armin Hansen, Grace Hartigan, Marsden Hartley, Tim Hawkinson, Anna Hills, Clarence Hinkle, Susan Hornbeak-Ortiz, Yishai Jusidman, Barbara Kasten, Ed Kienholz, Dong Kingman, Joseph Kleitsch, Emil J. Kosa, Jr., Roger Kuntz, Annie Leibovitz, Maurice Logan, Erle Loran, Helen Lundeberg, Arthur Mathews, Barse Miller, Robert Morris. Vik Muniz, Phil Paradise, Douglass Parshall. Edgar Payne, Marcelo Pombo, Ken Price, Joseph Raphael, Alan Rath, Granville Redmond, William Ritschel, Guy Rose, Bud Shackelford, Millard Sheets, Cindy Sherman, Peter Shire, Eugene Speicher, Gardner Symons, Robert Therrien, Wayne Thiebaud, Mary Bradish Titcomb, Peter VandenBerge, Marton Varo, Andy Warhol, William Watt, William Wendt, Lisa Yuskavage
2004
American Gothic: Talent for the Dark Ages, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, California, guest curator (brochure)
Yasuko Bush, Jane Callister, Clayton Campbell, Jennifer Celio, Lee Clarke, Brian Cooper, David Early, Sherié Franssen, Michael Hanson, Laurie Hassold, Joseph Kearby, Jeff Koegel, Adam Mars, Thomas McGovern, Rebecca Niederlander, Naida Osline, Jim Ovelmen, Victoria Reynolds, Clayton Spada, Lisa Tucker
The OsCene: Contemporary Art and Culture in OC, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
Jody Zellen: Other Places*, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California (brochure)
Ruben Ochoa and Marco Rios: Rigor Motors, and Ruben Ochoa’s Class: C Presents, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
Deborah Aschheim: Neural Architecture (a smart building is a nervous building), Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California (exh. cat.)
Funny Business: Humor in Art from the Permanent Collection, Laguna Art Museum, , Laguna Beach, California, co-curator
Robert Arneson, John Baldessari, Jean Bastarache, Doug Buis, Deborah Brown, Lynn Coleman, Jorg Dubin, Llyn Foulkes, Evan Holloway, Michael C. McMillen, Jason McKechnie, Jason Meadows, Gifford Myers, Elizabeth Pulsinelli, Michael Reafsnyder, Jeffrey Vallance, Chris Wilder
Severe Negotiations: Carrie Paterson, Kim Russo, Eve Wood, The Office: An Art Space, Huntington Beach, California, guest curator
2003
Feat of Clay: Five Decades of Jerry Rothman, co-curator, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California (book)
Some Fuzzy Logic: The Joan Simon Menkes Gift, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
Jonathan Borofsky, Tim Ebner, Larry Johnson, Barbara Kruger, Allan McCollum, Matt Mullican
Whiteness, A Wayward Construction, Laguna Art Museum, , Laguna Beach, California, traveled (book)
Los Anthropolocos/Richard A. Lou and Robert J. Sanchez, Kavin Buck, James Casebere, Emilio Cueto, Kim Dingle, Peter Edlund, John Feodorov, Kelsey Fernkopf, Mark Steven Greenfield, Joseph Havel, Mike Kelley, Byron Kim, Clifford Lecuyer, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Myrella Moses and Eric Mondriaan, Tim Oberst, Adrian Piper, Ernesto Pujol, Erika Rothenberg, Kammy Roulner, Lezley Saar, Andres Serrano, Richard Shelton, Kyungmi Shin, Gary Simmons, Travis Somerville, Kara Walker, Millie Wilson
Waking Dreams: The Art of Leonard Kaplan, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California (brochure)
2002
Surf Culture—The Art History of Surfing, Laguna Art Museum, , Laguna Beach, California, co-curator, traveled (book) 19th to 21st centuries: PeterAlexander, Marco Almera, Kevin Ancell, Charles Arnoldi, Ken Auster, George Barris, Jack Barth, Charles W. Bartlett, Emile Bayard, Billy AlBengston, Sandow Birk, Tom Blake, Amy Blount, Estaban Bojorquez, Rex Brandt, Art Brewer, Roger Brown, John Cederquist, OwenChurchill, Lynn Coleman, Jimmy Cleveland, aka Jimmy C, Russell Crotty, Dick Dale, Phil Dike, Laddie John Dill, Phillip Dixon, Robert Lee Eskridge, Jim Evans, Ned Evans, Nathan Fletcher, Anthony Friedkin, Jim Ganzer, Rob Gilley, Keith Glassman, Rick Griffin, Don Ed Hardy, Cris Hicks, Clarence Keiser Hinkle, D. Howard Hitchcock, Dennis Hopper, Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman, Michael Knowlton, Simon Leung,Wayne Levin, Charlotte Light, Aaron Lloyd, David Lloyd, Huc-Mazlet Luquiens, Wayne Lynch, Julie Mammano, Takuji Masudo, JohnMcCracken, Mike Parker, Ambrose Patterson, Joel "Jo Jo" Perrin, Raymond Pettibon, Rusty Preisendorfer, Ken Price, Eugene Riou, Michael Roberts, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Jim Russi, Palmer Schoppe, John Severson, Pat Sparkuhl, Jan Stussy, Brian Taylor, Peter Townend, DeWain Valentine, Jeffrey Vallance, John Van Hamersveld, F. Viault, Chris Wilder, Steve Wilkings, Milford Zornes
The Frustrated Landscape, Chapman University, Guggenheim Art Gallery, Orange, California (brochure)
Tom Allen, Faris McReynolds, Ruby Osorio, Tony de los Reyes, Wayne White
Odd Drawings, Cypress College Fine Arts Gallery, Cypress, California, guest curator
Deborah Aschheim, Brigette Burns, Jacqueline Cooper, Mark Mulroney, Stas Orlovski, R. T. Pece, Eve Wood, Mario Ybarra Jr.
2001
Beefcake Plus: Photographs by Arthur Tress, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California
Laurie Brown: Recent Terrains, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
Cyborg Manifesto, or The Joy of Artifice, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California (ext. cat.)
S.E. Barnet, Mark Bennett, Doug Buis, Clare Cornell, Carlee Fernandez, Chris Finley, Ed Giardina, Ken Gonzales-Day, Jen Grey, Jon Haddock, Evan Holloway, Susan Hornbeak-Ortiz, Mike Kelley, Amy Myers, Rubén Ortiz Torres, Naida Osline, Tony Oursler, Paul Paiement, Carrie Paterson, Alan Rath, H Shahani, George Stone, Chris Wilder, Jody Zellen
Stephen Hendee: Presence Control, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
One Minute of Your Time: A Brief History of Southern California Art from the Collection, 1835-2001, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California, co-curator
2000
Struggle: The Art of Szukalski, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California, co-curator, traveled (book)
Margaret Keane and Keaneabilia, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California (exh. cat.)
Sandow Birk’s “In Smog and Thunder: Historical Works from The Great War of Californias”, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California, traveled (book)
Jerry Burchfield: Habitat, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California (exh. cat.)
L.A. Art in the Early 90s ¬ ReCharge ® The Eileen and Peter Norton Gift, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
Kim Abeles, Geoffrey Allen, Dan Appel, Michael Arata, Nicola Atkinson-Griffith, Phyllis Baldino, Nick Banks, John Beech, Joseph Beuys, Carl Bronson, David Catching, Laura Cooper, Dean DeCocker, Kim Dingle, Dawn Fryling, Wendy Furman, Marion Galczenski, John Galt, Martin Gantman, Jamey Garza, Pamela Goldblum, Thomas Hartman, Mark Heresy, Jenny Holzer, Tina Hulett, Susan Joseph, David Kennedy, Karen Kilimnik, Brian Kimball, Paul LaMarr, Daniel Laskarin, Pamela Leeds, Roy Lichtenstein, Laura London, Gregory Mahony, Daniel Martinez, Denny McCoy, Yolanda McKay, Robert Millar, Michael B. Miller, Michael Napper, Manuel Ocampo, Claes Oldenburg, Noel O’Malley, David Pagel, Kevin Pasnik, Luciano Perna, Raymond Pettibon, Michel Pierzynski, Pruitt & Early, Michael Redfern, Bennett Roberts, Richard Roehl, Craig Roper, Dominica Salvatore, Leonard Seagal, Jim Shaw, Melinda Smith-Altshuler, Steve Spalding, Richard Stein, Donald Sultan, Dani Tull, Paul Tzanetopoulos, Jeffrey Vallance, Perry Vasquez, Daniel Wheeler, Chris Wilder, Jody Zellen
Concrete Lab, The Spurgeon Experience II, Santa Ana, California, guest curator
Concrete Lab, South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa, California, guest curator
1999
Inaudible Whispers: Suvan Geer, A Ten Year Survey, 1989-1999, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, California (exh. cat.)
Elizabeth Olbert: Big Country, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California, guest curator (brochure)
1998
Rubén Ortiz Torres: Desmothernismo, A survey of work from 1990 to 1998, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, California traveled (exh. cat.)
Mike Rogers: El Caminoville, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, California, traveled (brochure)
Simon Leung: Surf Vietnam, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, California (exh. cat.)
Robert Williams, New Work, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, California, traveled (brochure and book)
Outside and In Between: Simone Adels, Thomas LaDuke, and Morgan Arden Carver, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, California (brochure)
1997
Kara Walker: African’t, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, California (brochure)
Are We Touched? Identities From Outer Space, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, California (exh. cat.) The Aetherius Society, Apollo 13, Jacki Apple, Deborah Aschheim, Loretta Birnbrich, Leonard Bravo, Creativity Explored, Douglas Curran, Davis & Davis, Rod Dickinson, Jacqueline Dreager, Ken Gonzales-Day, Heaven’s Gate, Anna Homler and Guy Bennett, Kenneth Huerta II, David Huggins, Eric Johnson, Joni Johnston, Paul Laffoley, Kathleen Kaplan, Michael Masucci and ia Kamandalu, Rene Meredith, Mt. Wilson Observatory Letters, Steve Neill, Selina Phanara, Chuck Rak, Jason Rogenes, Connie Samaras, Jorge Sicre, Brad Spence, Ionel Talpazan, Ruben Ortiz Torres, Unarius Academy of Science, Lisa Ward, Gene Watson, Chris Wilder, Bill Witherspoon
Should A Beatnik Drink A Martini? Richard Turner, A Ten Year Survey 1987-1997, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, California (exh. cat.)
Shelter (Phase VII), An Installation/Performance by Rika Ohara, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, California (brochure)
1996
Body Archaeology from “The Anatomy Lesson”: Joyce Cutler-Shaw, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, California (brochure)
Dead on the Wall: Grateful Dead and Deadhead Iconography, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, California, co-curator (brochure)
1995
Grind: The Graphics and Culture of Skateboarding, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, California, co-curator (brochure)
Fuzzy: Construction of Identity Within the Law, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, California (brochure)
How to Start Your Own Country with artist-in-residence Daniel Martinez, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, California (brochure)
1993
Honey Cakes for Cerberus with Hobgoblins at the Feast, Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, Venice, California (brochure)
1992
Skinned Eyes/Skin Dyes, The Bridge Gallery, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Dept., California
From Hell to Breakfast, Foundation for Art Resources, FAR Bazaar, Los Angeles, guest curator (brochure)
1990
Rated Rx: Pathological Conditions, New Visions Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, guest co-curator
One Another, North Arts Center in collaboration with Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia
CURATED PERFORMANCE (feature-length evenings)
Several performances are presented throughout the year at UCR Culver Center of the Arts. The ones listed below for UCR and other past venues represent those that were produced/curated/organized by Tyler Stallings.
2013
Deanne Stillman, A Trilogy of Short Plays (working title), UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California
Tiffany Lopez, U.S. Latinas/os and the Crisis of Literacy and Incarceration: A Table Reading Series and Workshop Production on Joseph Rodriguez’s JUVENILE and the Lectures of Tomás Rivera, UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California
REPO the body of work: a dance performance & exhibition in conversation with choreographer Wendy Rogers & collaborators (including set designs by artist Robert Kushner), UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California
2012
Aron Kallay, Beyond Twelve: Reinventing the Piano, UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California
Juan Felipe Herrera, A Special Reading by California’s Newest Poet Laureate, UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California
Crystal Sepulveda & no.e. parker, Performance as Process, UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California
2011
Jason Heath, Electronics Live!, installation, performance, UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California
Margarita Cabrera, Florezca Board of Directors, UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California
Remember the Rouse, Writing residency and reading by Stephanie Hammer, UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California
TRANSiTORY: Dance Performance by Zubin Mohamad & Wendy Rogers, UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California
2010
Patrick Miller, Bicycle Bell Ensemble, UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California
2009
Rickerby Hinds, Uncovered: A Pageant of Hip Hop Masters, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, California
2000
Tim Miller, Laguna Art Museum
1999
Aimee Greenberg, (world premiere), Huntington Beach Art Center
1998
Paul Zaloom, Sick But True, Huntington Beach Art Center
Tulsa Kinney and Jade Gordon, Art Star, Huntington Beach Art Center
Oguri, A Blank Space, (world premiere), Huntington Beach Art Center
Tim Miller, Shirts & Skins, Huntington Beach Art Center
1997
Anna Homler and Guy Bennett, No Live World This Side of the Sky, Huntington Beach Art Center
ZooDanceOpera, The Water, (world premiere), Huntington Beach Art Center
The Fabulous Monsters, Ramayana, Huntington Beach Art Center
Dan Froot, Froot Alone, Huntington Beach Art Center
Rika Ohara, Shelter (Phase VII), (world premiere), Huntington Beach Art Center
Denise Uyehara, Headless Turtleneck Relatives: The Tale of Family and a Grandmother’s Suicide by Fire, Huntington Beach Art Center
1996
Aimee Greenberg, Dark Moon of Lilith, (world premiere), Huntington Beach Art Center
Joan Hotchkis, Elements of Flesh, or Screwing Saved My Ass, Huntington Beach Art Center
Doug Cooney, Astronaut, Huntington Beach Art Center
Women Who Kill Too Much, Huntington Beach Art Center
Melinda Ring, Willingly, (world premiere), Huntington Beach Art Center
Tim Miller, Fruit Cocktail, Huntington Beach Art Center
Carol Cetrone, Huntington Beach Art Center
John Fleck, me III, Huntington Beach Art Center
1995
Jeff McMahon, City of God, (West Coast premiere), Huntington Beach Art Center
Shrimps, Screech, (world premiere), Huntington Beach Art Center
Scott Wichman, knuckle shaman, (world premiere), Huntington Beach Art Center
Ernie Lafky, Western Landscapes, Huntington Beach Art Center
Mehmet Sander, Five Solo Dance Performances, Huntington Beach Art Center
James Donlon & Company, Purge!, Huntington Beach Art Center
Barry Morse, Pink-flesh; delicate, (world premiere), Huntington Beach Art Center
Annie Loui, Sympathetic Magic, (world premiere), Huntington Beach Art Center
Luis Alfaro, down town, Huntington Beach Art Center
John White, From the Visual to the Performable, Huntington Beach Art Center
Lisa Lock, Canopy, Huntington Beach Art Center
Rachel Rosenthal, Monologues, Huntington Beach Art Center
Project X, Program for Paradise, readings co-organized with David Bunn, Occidental College, Los Angeles*,guest curator
1994
LAX/94: The Los Angeles Exhibition, “Hmmm within space mmmmm of the maternal wha-koooommmmmm?”,multi-media readings at the Santa Monica Museum of Art for the Otis College of Art & Design Gallery, Santa Monica, California*
1993
Barnsdall Art Park, Barnsdall Artists Cafe series, Bodies Without Organs, performances, Los Angeles
CURATED FILM/VIDEO SERIES
UCR Culver Center of the Arts presents a regular Friday/Saturday night schedule of independent, foreign language, and art house films. It is the only screening room in Riverside and the surrounding area that presents such films. The ones listed below for UCR and other past venues represent those that were curated by Tyler Stallings and, typically, in conjunction with a current exhibition.
2013
Series of artist profile documentaries: Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters, UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California
2012
Series of artist profile documentaries: Gerhard Richter: Painting; Bill Cunningham in New York; Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present; Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry; UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California
Erika Suderburg, Decline & Fall, UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California
2011
V Inter-American Biennial of Video Art, UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California
Series to accompany The Great Picture: The World’s Largest Photographs & The Legacy Project, UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California
Series to accompany Margarita Cabrera: Pulse & Hammer, UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California
Series of artist profile documentaries: Vik Muniz, Waste Land; Bansky, Exit through the Gift Shop; UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California
2010
Series to accompany Re:Cycle—Southern California Bike Culture, UCR Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, California
2001
Series to accompany Three Solo Exhibitions of Photography: Laurie Brown, Anthony Hernandez, and Warren Neidich, Laguna Art Museum
Series to accompany Cyborg Manifesto, or The Joy of Artifice, Laguna Art Museum
Series to accompany Stephen Hendee: Presence Control, Laguna Art Museum
1997
Are We Touched? Identities from Outer Space, shorts, Huntington Beach Art Center
Thomas Allen Harris, Vintage: Families of Value, feature, Huntington Beach Art Center
1996
Ruben Ortiz Torres and Jesse Lerner, Frontierland/Fronterilandia, feature, Huntington Beach Art Center
1995
Sports in a Different Light, shorts, Huntington Beach Art Center
Animals and their Uses, shorts, Huntington Beach Art Center
Love, War...Whatever, shorts, Huntington Beach Art Center
Changes Over Time, shorts, Huntington Beach Art Center
Revelations, shorts, Huntington Beach Art Center
CURATORIAL PRESENTATIONS
PANELIST
“After Whiteness: Race and the Visual Arts,” Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, 2003.
“Alternative Curatorial Practices and the Artworld,” Santa Ana, California: Grand Central Art Center, 2000.
“Art & Technology: Alan Rath, Ruben Ortiz Torres, and Tyler Stallings,” Santa Monica, California: Track 16 Gallery, 2002.
“From Beefcake to Skatecake: Masculinity in the Backyard” for symposium accompanying the exhibition, “Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, 1945-1980,” Palm Springs Art Museum, 2010.
“Close Encounters: Artists and Outer Space,” Ottawa, Canada: The Ottawa Art Gallery/La Galerie D’Art D’Ottawa, 1998.
“The Graffiti Impulse in Sanctioned Public Art,” Santa Monica, California: Track 16 Gallery, 2003.
“New Feminism: On the Recent Work of Ruby Osorio,” St. Louis, MO: Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2005.
“The Role of the Museum Today” and “Donating to Museums,” Palm Springs, California: Palm Springs Art Fair, 2013.
“Sig-Alert 2: New Talent in Southern California,” Santa Ana, California: Grand Central Art Center, 1999.
“The State of Art Criticism,” Los Angeles, California: Annual Meeting of International Association of Art Critics.
“Well Hung: Exhibition Strategies and Realities for the Artist,” Los Angeles: Barnsdall Art Park, 1997.
LECTURES
“150 Years of California Landscape Painting and The Frustrated Landscape,” Orange, California: Chapman University, 2002.
“Are We Touched? Identities from Outer Space, Artists and Outer Space,” Burbank, California: Los Angeles Science Fiction Society, 1997.
“Artists and the Artworld,” Long Beach, California: California State University Long Beach, 1998.
“Audience Development & Publicity for the Arts,” Fullerton, California: California State University Fullerton, 2000.
“Contemporary Art and K-12 Teachers,” Arts Bridge Conference (A.B.C.). Irvine, California: Orange County Board of Education, 1999.
“Cyber-identities: Art and Net,” Digital Dialogues series. Pasadena, California: Art Center College of Art & Design, 1997.
“Art as Criticism,” Valencia, California: California Institute of the Arts, 1996.
“Artists Challenging Definitions of Whiteness,” Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Art Museum, 2004.
“History of ‘Zines,” Valencia, California: California Institute of the Arts, 1994.
“Hysterical Astronaut, an operation-in-the-round, artist-as-curator,” Montreal, Canada: Concordia University, 1998.
“The Importance of a University Permanent Collection,” Orange, California: Chapman University, 2003.
“Intelligent Design: Interspecies Art,” San Luis Obispo, California: Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, 2010.
“The Magic of Longevity: Tony Delap and his art,” Irvine, California: The Pacific Club, 2002.
“Museum Studies,” Saddleback, California: Saddleback College, 2000.
“On the Work of Jeff Koegel,” Pasadena, California: Pasadena Museum of California Art, 2006.
“One Minute of Your Time: 150 Years of California Art and Collecting,” Laguna Beach, California: Seven Degrees Arts Center, Young Presidents Organization, 2002.
“Painting’s Edge,” Idyllwild, California: Idyllwild Arts Program, 2006.
“Popular Culture in Art,” Irvine, California: University of California Irvine, 2000.
“Recent Curatorial Projects,” Art Forum. Santa Ana, California: Santa Ana College, 2001.
“Recent Curatorial Projects,” Fullerton, California: California State University Fullerton, 2003.
“Recent Curatorial Projects,” Claremont, California: Claremont Graduate School, 2001.
“Recent Curatorial Projects,” Irvine, California: Phyllis Lutjeans’ Art Crowd series, 1999.
“Recent Curatorial Projects,” New Orleans, LA: Contemporary Art Center New Orleans, 2005.
“Recent Curatorial Projects,” Los Angeles: Ryman Foundation, University of Southern California, 2005.
“Recent Curatorial Projects,” Pasadena, California: Pasadena City College, 2006.
“Recent Curatorial Projects,” Salt Lake City, UT: Salt Lake City Art Center, 2004.
“Recent Curatorial Projects,” Santa Barbara, California: University of California, Santa Barbara, College of Creative Studies, 2018.
“Recent Curatorial Projects,” Santa Barbara, California: University of California, Santa Barbara, College of Creative Studies, 2002.
“Recent Curatorial Projects,” Valencia, California: California Institute of the Arts, 2000.
“Resurgence of Representation in Contemporary Art,” Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Beach College of Art and Design, 2003.
“The Rise of Representational Art in Southern California,” Laguna Beach, California: California Studies Conference / Orange County History Conference, CSU Fullerton Oral History Program, 2002.
“Science Fiction and Art,” Fullerton, California: Science Fiction Club of Orange County, 2002.
“Science Fiction and Art,” Memphis, Tennessee: University of Memphis, 2020.
“Sex, Violence, and Anarchy: Re-Defining Community and Audience for the Arts,” Madison, NJ: Drew University, 1998.
“Transparent Membranes Make Me Happy, or the Museum as Metaphor,” Rethinking Museums lecture series. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2001.
“Trends in Contemporary Art,” Contemporary Artists Council. Long Beach, California: Long Beach Museum of Art, 2000.
“Trends in Contemporary Art” Long Beach, California: California State University Long Beach, 2000.
SELECTION PANELS
2017
University of California, Riverside, UCR ARTSblock, Executive Director search
2013
University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, Grant Panels, Santa Barbara, CA
2012
University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, Grant Panels, Santa Barbara, CA
2010
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Metro Art, San Fernando Valley Station
2009
MacArthur Foundation, New York, NY (solicited for recommendations)
Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies Award for Curatorial Excellence, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (solicited for recommendations)
2007
University of California, Riverside, UCR ARTSblock, Executive Director search
2003
Beall Center for Art and Technology, University of California Irvine, Exhibition Grants
2002
City of Santa Monica, Fresh Art, Clover Park Public Art Project, Santa Monica, California
City of Ventura, Organization and Individual Artist Grants, Ventura, California
Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle Collects, Seattle, California
2001
California Arts Council, Visual Arts Organizations, Sacramento, California
2000
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Metro Art, MetroLab
30th American Institute of Architects Orange County Design Awards, Art in Public Spaces
Tenure-Track Faculty Selection in Painting, University of California Irvine, California
1999
City of Los Angeles, Cultural Affairs Dept., Regional Arts Grant Program 1999-00
1998
California Arts Council, Visual Arts Organizations, Sacramento, California
Arts Orange County, Individual Artist Grants, Visual Arts, Irvine, California
1995
Brody Arts Fund, Organization Grant Program, California Community Foundation, Los Angeles
1994
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Metro Art, Cal State Metrolink
JUROR FOR EXHIBITIONS
2012
The Written Image: An Art Exhibition, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA
2010
The Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg Feitelson Arts Fellowship, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
2008
MFA Year-End Award, University of California, San Diego
2007
Annual Members Exhibition, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
37th Annual Student Art Exhibition, California State University, San Bernardino
2005
2005 Louisiana Biennial, Contemporary Art Center New Orleans, LA
2004
The Land of the Free, juried and invitational, Brea Gallery, City of Brea, Brea, California
2003
A Remembrance of Things Future, California State University Fullerton, graduate
2001
Graduate Student Exhibition, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, California
New Works, California Choreographers Dance Festival, Laguna Beach, California
Beefcake/Cheesecake, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California
Senior Undergraduate Exhibition, Chapman University, Orange, California
The Elements: Air, Water, Fire & Earth, The Second City Council, Long Beach, California
2000
New Photography, Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona, California
1999
Discovering Darkness Beyond Light, Gallery 825, LA Art Association, Los Angeles
Made In California, Brea Gallery, City of Brea, Brea, California
1998
Undergraduate Show, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Kellogg Uni. Art Gallery
1997
Undergraduate Show, Chapman University, Orange, California
Undergraduate/Graduate Show, California State University, Fullerton, California
1996
Graduate Show, University of California, Irvine, California
CURATORIAL PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS (curatorial) Edited and contributed an essay along with inviting other contributors, 90-250 pages in length
The Great Picture: Making the World's Largest Photograph. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2011.
Mexico in the Hour of Combat: Sabino Osuna’s Photographs of the Mexican Revolution. Laguna Beach, California and Riverside, California: Laguna Wilderness Press and Latin American Perspectives Journal, 2012.
Mundos Alternos: Art & Science Fiction in the Americas. University of California Riverside, 2017. Distributed by D.A.P., New York.
The Signs Pile Up: Paintings by Pedro Álvarez, Santa Monica: Smart Art Press, 2008.
Surf Culture—The Art History of Surfing. Laguna Beach, California & Corte Madera, California: Laguna Art Museum & Gingko Press, 2002.
Whiteness, A Wayward Construction. Laguna Beach, California and Los Angeles: Laguna Art Museum and Fellows of Contemporary Art, 2003. Distributed by RAM Publications, Los Angeles.
EXHIBITION CATALOGS Edited and contributed an essay along with inviting other contributors, 24-48 pages in length
Absurd Recreation: Contemporary Art from China, Riverside, CA and Los Angeles: UCR Sweeney Art Gallery & Morono Kiang Gallery, 2008.
Are We Touched? Identities From Outer Space. Huntington Beach, California: Huntington Beach Art Center, 1997.
Cyborg Manifesto, or The Joy of Artifice. Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Art Museum, 2001. (Online).
Deborah Aschheim: Neural Architecture (a smart building is a nervous building). Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Art
Museum, 2004.
Desmothernismo: Rubén Ortiz Torres. Huntington Beach, California and Santa Monica, California: Huntington Beach Art Center and Smart Art Press, 1998.
Feat of Clay: Five Decades of Jerry Rothman. Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Art Museum, 2003.
Gabriela León: Sunday Walk to the Zócalo, Riverside: UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, 2007.
Grind: The Graphics and Culture of Skateboarding. Huntington Beach, California: Huntington Beach Art Center, 1995.
Inaudible Whispers: Suvan Geer, A Ten Year Survey, 1989-1999. Huntington Beach, California: Huntington Beach Art Center, 1999.
Jerry Burchfield: Habitat. Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Art Museum, 2000.
Margaret Keane and Keaneabilia. Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Art Museum, 2000.
Paul Paiement: Hybrids 1.0 - 3.5. Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Wilderness Press, 2005.
Sandow Birk’s “In Smog and Thunder: Historical Works from The Great War of the Californias.” Laguna Beach, California
and San Francisco, California: Laguna Art Museum and Last Gasp, 2000.
Should A Beatnik Drink A Martini? Richard Turner, A Ten Year Survey 1987-1997. Huntington Beach, California:
Huntington Beach Art Center, 1997.
Simon Leung: Surf Vietnam. Huntington Beach, California: Huntington Beach Art Center, 1998.
Stephen Hendee: Presence Control. Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Art Museum, 2001.
Truthiness: Photography as Sculpture, Riverside, California: UCR ARTSblock, 2008.
BROCHURES Edited and contributed an essay, 2-8 pages in length
Body Archaeology from “The Anatomy Lesson”: Joyce Cutler-Shaw. Huntington Beach, California: Huntington Beach Art Center, 1996.
Dead on the Wall: Grateful Dead and Deadhead Iconography. Huntington Beach, California: Huntington Beach Art Center, 1996.
Fuzzy: Construction of Identity Within the Law. Huntington Beach, California: Huntington Beach Art Center, 1995.
Honey Cakes for Cerberus. Los Angeles and Santa Monica, California: A.R.T. Press and Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, 1993.
Kara Walker: African’t. Huntington Beach, California: Huntington Beach Art Center, 1997.
Outside and In Between: Simone Adels, Thomas LaDuke, and Morgan Arden Carver. Huntington Beach, California: Huntington Beach Art Center, 1998.
Re:Cycle—Bike Culture in Southern California. Riverside, California: UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, 2010.
Robert Williams, New Work. Huntington Beach, California: Huntington Beach Art Center, 1998.
Rules for Wishful Deterioration, Los Angeles: self-published, 1991.
Shelter (Phase VII), An Installation/Performance by Rika Ohara. Huntington Beach, California: Huntington Beach Art Center, 1997.
CONTRIBUTED ESSAYS TO BOOKS AND EXHIBITION CATALOGS
A Model Universe, exhibition catalogue (online), Los Angeles: Otis College of Art and Design Gallery, 2001.
Collecting California: Selections from Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA: Laguna Art Museum, 2009.
“Curator’s Statement,” 2005 Louisiana Biennial. New Orleans, LA: Contemporary Art Center New Orleans, 2005.
Elizabeth Olbert: Big Country, exhibition catalogue. Santa Barbara, California: Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, 1999
“The Everyday Lives of Childish Things,” Childish Things: Davis & Davis. Santa Monica, California: Santa Monica Press, 2003.
“From Beefcake to Skatecake: Shifting Depictions of Male Clandestine Desires in the Backyard Swimming Pools of Southern California,” Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, 1945-1980 (Palm Springs Art Museum). New York, NY: Prestel, 2012.
Hypotheosis: Eve Wood and Doug Harvey, exhibition catalogue (online). Los Angeles: Wayward Gallery, 2001.
“In Plain Sight But Not Defined,” Ruby Osorio: Story of a Girl (Who Awakes Far, Far and Away). St. Louis, MO: Contemporary Art Intimate Dramas: Work by Brigette Burns, exhibition catalogue. Orange, California: Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, 2000.
Laughing Matters, exhibition catalogue. Los Angeles: Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, 1993.
“The Magic of Longevity: Tony Delap and his art,” Tony DeLap. Orange, California: Chapman University Guggenheim Art Gallery, 2003.
“On Receiving a Summons to be Painted,” Bradford Salamon: Tastemakers. Newport Beach, California: Square Blue Gallery2003.
“The Osuna Collection: A New Chapter in War Photography,” Mexico at the Hour of Combat: Sabino Osuna's Photographs of the Mexican Revolution. Riverside, California: Latin American Perspectives, 2011.
“Pump Up the Realism,” Todd Brainard: New Work. Los Angeles: Roberts & Tilton Gallery, 2002.
“Sam Erenberg,” C.O.L.A. 2009 Fellowships Showcase Exceptional Mid-Career Artists in Los Angeles, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles: Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, 2010.
“Walking into Deprivation,” Jeff Koegel: Real Estate. Pasadena, California: Pasadena Museum of California Art, 2005.
“The World’s Largest Statement on Photography,” The Great Picture: Making the World's Largest Photograph. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2011.
CONTRIBUTED ESSAYS, ARTICLES, & REVIEWS TO ART & CULTURE PERIODICALS (PRINT)
“Bad Girls West; Rachel Rosenthal: Zone; Scary Women: Female Monsters and Fiends in American Film.” Art Papers (July-August 1994).
“California Painting In a Different Light: A Portrait of Sandow Birk.” Juxtapoz (September-October 2000).
“Centers on the Periphery.” Poliester (spring 1999): 28-39.
“Cindy Sherman.” Art Papers (November-December 1992): 40.
“David Wilson: The Museum of Jurassic Technology.” Art Papers (January-February 1994): 14-18.
“Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 90’s.” Art Papers (May-June 1992): 31.
“Identities From Outer Space.” Vision (August 1997): 15.
“Jason Rogenes, project 3.94C.” X-tra (Spring 1997): 5-6.
“Jeanne Dunning and David Bunn.” Art Papers (September-October 1992): 37.
“Jody Zellen.” Art Papers (July-August 1993): 51.
“Juliao Sarmento.” Art Papers (1991).
“Like Infants from the Breast: The Cathode-Ray Milk of North America (Artists here have begun to re-embrace technology to question and expand boundaries).” Art Papers (January-February 1999): 34-39.
“Michael Coughlan.” Art.issues (January-February 1995): 38.
“Steve Roden.” Zingmagazine (1998).
“Theater of the Audience: Women of Wrestling, Inc.” Site Street Journal (Fall 2002).
“Trends in Art: Juxtapoz art magazine.” Art Papers (May-June 1998): 16.
“Urban Art Salons in Orange County: Grand Central Art Center and [seven degrees].” Riviera (January 2003).
PERIODICALS: EDITORIAL
Art Papers, West Coast Regional Editor, Atlanta, 1993-1996
Expatriates Anytime, independent ‘zine, Co-editor, Louisville, KY, 1982-1984.
Hand Turkey, no. 1 (May 1992). Guest editor, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California.
The Journal of Arts & Sciences, Co-editor, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN, 1984-1987.