Education
1995 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1993 BFA, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MN
Selected Teaching and Other Experience
2010 Graduate Thesis Panel for Amelia Saul with Aïda Ruilova and
Carol Bove, New York University, NY, NY
2009 Intermedia, Sculpture Program, CSULB, Long Beach, CA
Photography Seminar, Photography Program, CSULB, Long
Beach, CA
Foundation 3D, Sculpture Program, CSULB, Long Beach, CA
2008 Intermedia, Sculpture Program, CSULB, Long Beach, CA
Art 100: Contemporary Issues, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Visiting Artist Workshop, Art Center, Pasadena, CA
1997-06 Studio Assistant, Allan Kaprow, Encinitas, CA
1994-06 Archival Assistant, Special Collections, Getty Research
Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Awards, Grants, Commissions
2010 Center for Cultural Innovation, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Art Perform Commission
2007 Performa Commission
Tiffany Award, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
2004 Alberta Prize for Visual Art, Alberta duPont Bonsal
Foundation
Selected One and Two Person Exhibitions
2010 Compass, a performance in conjunction with While Bodies get
Mirrored - An Exhibition about Movement, Formalism and Space,
curated by Heike Munder and Raphael Gygax, migros
museum für gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland (exh. cat.)
Weather Center, Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Italy
2009 Shifting Shapes, Art Perform, curated by Jens Hofmann and
Stacen Berg, Miami, FL
2008 Art Statements, Basel, Switzerland
2007 Floyd on the Floor, PERFORMA07, New York, NY (exh. cat.)
Perspectives 158: Kelly Nipper, Contemporary Arts Museum
Houston, curated by Toby Kamps, Houston, TX (brochure)
Circle Circle, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Bedded I Videotape Elsa, collaboration with Aïda Ruilova,
Art Positions, Salon 94, Miami Basel Art Fair, Miami, FL
2005 MC Presents: Kelly Nipper - Adrian Paci, MC,
Los Angeles, CA
2004 Bending Water into a Heart Shape, Francesca Kaufmann,
Milan, Italy
2001 Shotgun and a Figure 8, Shoshana Wayne Gallery,
Santa Monica, CA
1999 norma – practice for sucking face, Shoshana Wayne Gallery,
Santa Monica, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 Move: Choreographing You, curated by Stephanie Rosenthal
and Andre Lepecki, Hayward Gallery, London, UK (exh. cat.)
One Leading Away from Another, 303 Gallery, New York, NY
The Tale of a Blind Resistance Fighter, Galerie Paul Andriesse,
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Scene Grammar, Parra & Romero, Madrid, Spain
While Bodies get Mirrored - An Exhibition about Movement,
Formalism and Space, curated by Heike Munder and Raphael
Gygax, migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zürich,
Switzerland (exh. cat.)
2010: Whitney Biennial, curated by Francesco Bonami and
Gary Carrion-Murayari, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, NY (exh. cat.)
The Moving Image II: Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection II,
curated by Karen Moss, Orange County Museum of Art,
Newport Beach, CA
2009 Dance with Camera, curated by Jenelle Porter, Institute of
Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA (exh. cat.)
2008 The Why of Life, curated by Gianni Jetzer, Swiss Institute,
New York, NY
Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent
Collection, curated by Philipp Kaiser, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Exit Music (for a Film), Grimm Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
(exh. cat.)
2005 BIDIBIDOBIDIBOO, curated by Francesco Bonami, Fondazione
Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy (exh. cat.)
Untitled, curated by Kristin Chambers, Santa Barbara
Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA (brochure)
2003 Lei, Donne nelle Collezioni Italliane, curated by Francesco
Bonami, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Girls' Night Out, curated by Elizabeth Armstrong and Irene
Hofmann, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA.
Traveled to Contemporary Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO; Blaffer
Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, TX;
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO; Addison Gallery of American Art,
Phillips Academy, Andover, MA (exh. cat.)
Short Cuts: Video Art and Photography, The Israel Museum,
Jerusalem, Israel
From the Flat Files, curated by Amada Cruz, Ramp Gallery,
Waikoto Institute of Technology, Hamilton, New Zealand
2002 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport
Beach, CA (exh. cat.)
People See Paintings, curated by Francesco Bonami, Museum
of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2001 Passion for Art: The DiSaronno Originale Photography
Collection, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL. Traveled to New
Museum, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,
IL; Museum of Art at the University of California at Berkeley
(brochure)
Boom! : Playmakers, Manifattura Tabbachi / Manifattura d’Arte,
Florence, Italy (brochure)
A Sport and a Pastime, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY
IMSL (Imaginary Monumental Sculpture Lawn), Three Day
Weekend in conjunctiowith Made in California: Now, Los
Angeles County Museum of Art West, Los Angeles, CA
2000 Guarene Arte, selected by Paul Schimmel, Fondazione
Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy, (exh. cat.)
Sharon Lockhart + Kelly Nipper: 2 Artists in 3 Takes, The
Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute,
San Francisco, CA (exh. cat.)
Beyond Boundaries: Contemporary Photography in California,
Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA. Traveling to
California State University, n Long Beach, CA (exh. cat.)
1998 Breath, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
Point Blank, Charim Klocker Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Selected Bibliography
2010 Tattersall, Lanka. "Terms of Use." Texte zur Kunst, June 2010.
Camhi, Leslie. "Art: Women at the 2010 Biennial." Vogue Online.
February 2010.
Meade, Fionn. "Kelly Nipper." 2010: Whitney Biennial. Yale
University Press, New Haven, 2010. pp. 88-89.
Velasco, David and Nipper, Kelly. "1000 Words: Kelly Nipper."
Artforum, March 2010: 198-203.
Nipper, Kelly. Interview with Jens Hoffmann. "We like to move it,
move it." Mousse Magazine, February March 2010: 111-117.
Sholis, Brian. "Dance with Camera." Aperture, Spring 2010.
2009 Goldberg, RoseLee. "Floyd on the Floor." Everywhere and All
at Once: An Anthology of Writings on Performa 07. Zürich,
Switzerland: JRP Ringier.
Porter, Jenelle. "Dance with Camera: Body." Dance with Camera.
Exh. cat. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art.
2008 Vetroq, Marcia. “Performance: Everywhere and All at Once.”
Art in America, March: 56-7.
2007 Sutton, Gloria. Ice Cream. London, England: Phaidon.
Lopez, Michelle. Exit Music (for a Film). Exh. cat. New York,
NY: Grimm Rosenfeld Gallery.
La Rocca, Claudia, “Love Takes a Tumble Amid a Brewing
Storm,” New York Times, 17 November, B13.
Kamps, Toby. Perspectives 158: Kelly Nipper. Brochure.
Houston, TX: Contemporary Arts Museum.
Leher-Graiwer, Sarah. “Kelly Nipper: Critics’ Pick,” Artforum
Online, October.
2006 Sutton, Gloria, Vitamin Ph, London, England: Phaidon.
2005 Chambers, Kristin. Untitled. Brochure. Santa Barbara, CA:
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum.
Bonami, Francesco. BIDIBIDOBIDIBOO. Exh. cat. Turin, Italy:
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.
Myers, Holly. “Mesmerized by Two Stangers,” The Los Angeles
Times, 17 June, E1, E24.
2003 Hofmann, Irene. Girls' Night Out. Exh. cat. Newport Beach, CA:
Orange County Museum of Art.
2002 Albertini, Rosanna. “Kelly Nipper at Shoshana Wayne Gallery,”
Art Press 281 (June-August): 73.
Knighton, Andrew. “On Site: No Name Exhibitions @ The Soap
Factory,” New Art Examiner 29 (May-June): 46-51.
Perchuk, Andrew. “Kelly Nipper: Critics’ Pick,” Artforum
Online, May.
Ventriglia, Ilaria. “Kelly Nipper: Photographing Time,” Domus
Online, March-April.
Hofmann, Irene. California Biennial. Exh. cat. Newport Beach,
CA: Orange County Museum of Art.
“interval,” Seduire/Seduce 3: 154-9.
2001 Ferguson, Russell. “Test Patterns,” Artext 74 (August-October):
42-45.
Miles, Christopher. “Kelly Nipper at Shoshana Wayne Gallery,”
Artforum, May: 181-2.
Knight, Christopher. “Visual Flips,” Los Angeles Times, 23
February, F24.
Molon, Dominic. "Kelly Nipper." A Passion for Art: The
DiSaronno Originale Photography Collection. Brochure. Miami,
FL: Miami Art Museum.
Corbetta, Caroline. “The Dynamics of Competition and
Collaboration.” Boom!: Playmakers. Brochure. Florence, Italy:
Manifattura Tabbachi / Manifattura d’Arte.
2000 Coleman, Sarah. “Sharon Lockhart and Kelly Nipper at SFAI’s
Walter and McBean Galleries,” Artweek, June, pp. 13-14.
Moss, Karen. “Sharon Lockhart + Kelly Nipper: 2 Artists in 3
Takes,” San Francisco Art Institute Magazine, vol. 3, no. 2
(Spring).
Helfand, Glen. “Tweeners: Sharon Lockhart and Kelly Nipper
Blur Distinctions Between Art, Film, and Everything Else.”
San Francisco Bay Guardian, 12 April.
Kabat, Nora. Beyond Boundaries: Contemporary Photography in
California. Exh. cat. San Francisco, CA: Friends of
Photography.
Moss, Karen. “Kelly Nipper/interval.” Guarene Arte 2000. Exh.
cat. Turin, Italy: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.
Moss, Karen. Sharon Lockhart + Kelly Nipper: 2 Artists in 3
Takes. Exh. cat. San Francisco, CA: The Walter and McBean
Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute.
1998 Arginteanu, Judy. “Breath-taking,” Saint Paul Pioneer Press,
8 August, D1, D2.
Abbe, Mary. “Installation Included,” Minneapolis Star Tribune,
2 August, F1, F5.