RESUME

SUSAN JOSEPH
www.perfectbitch.net/susan
1427 E. 4th Street #4
Los Angeles, CA 90033
(323) 264-0756
susan@perfectbitch.net

Education
1986 MFA Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
1984 BFA Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA

Solo Exhibitions:
2003 Chronicle Elsewhere, Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles Harbor College, Wilmington, CA
February/March
Fetish, 5ifty Bucks Gallery, Pomona, CA February/March
2001 French Tickler, Miller Durazo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA March-April
1998 Circle, Gallery Paradiso, Costa Mesa, CA December-January
1995 A Presence of Absence, Art Gallery, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA January
1992 Milk & Honey, Laguna Art Museum, South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa, CA
March-May
1991 Stores, Rex Wignall Museum/Gallery, Alta Loma CA December-February
1988 Finding a Home for Lilith, Double Rocking G Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
January-February
1987 Stick Game, Double Rocking G Gallery, Los Angeles, CA January-February
1986 Stick Game, East Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA March
1984 Organic Constructions, Robert Lawrence Galleries, Bellingham, WA January
1982 Alderpieces: Paintings and Sculpture, Union Gallery, Western Washington
University, Bellingham, WA April

Exhibitions:
2002 Terrains: Going to Ground. at the Brewery project, Los Angeles, CA March
Find Your Way Home, 1958 Van Ness, Hollywood, CA June
Wall 2, Miller Durazo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA April
CA Drive By, Jimmy O’s, San Pedro, CA March
Fortysomething, 5ifty Bucks Gallery, Pomona, CA March
2001 I’m In This Show, 5ifty Bucks Gallery, Los Angeles, CA September
Big Wave III, Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA October
Line Dance, Flora del Luna, Los Angeles, CA April
Art Frankfurt, Miller Durazo Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany April
All Systems Go, Fine Art Gallery, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA March
2000 The Wall, Miller/Durazo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA July
LADad Silent Auction, Downtown Playhouse, Los Angeles, CA June
Disparate Sensibilities, Fine Art Gallery, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA March
1999 Abstractions, Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Big Wave, Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA November-December
LA Multiple, Miller/Durazo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA July
1998 3 x 4, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA March
Dressed in White, Gallery Paradisio, Newport Beach, CA January
Group Show, Chamberlin Gallery, Palm Beach, CA September
Works, Fine Art Gallery, Shasta College, Shasta, CA October
1997 Hundred Dollar Show, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA August
The Wave, Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA September
The $99 Store, Robert Miller Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA June-July
Five Women Artists, Marc Arranaga Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA January
Seen and Unseen,, Brand Gallery, Santa Ana, CA January
Exhibition, Hollywood Digital, Los Angeles, April-June
1996 Afond, Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA March-April
Jewish Community Center Benefit Auction, Los Angeles, CA November
Exhibition, Hollywood Digital, Los Angeles, CA October
DADA, group exhibition, Downtown Arts Development Ass., Los Angeles CA October
Susan Joseph and Yao Wang: Paintings, Rex Wignall Museum Gallery, Chaffey
College, Alta Loma, CA February-April
1995 The Cup and the Teapot: the incredible diversity of a simple form, Clark
Humanities Museum, Scripps College, Claremont, CA March-April
Venice Art Walk, Silent Auction, Venice, CA April
Social Engagement, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
January-April
Rubric, The Art Store Gallery, Los Angles, CA June/July
Venice Art Walk, Silent Auction, Venice, CA April
Sanded and Poured, 750 Gallery, Sacramento, CA February
1994 Contrariwise Painting: Representation = Abstraction, Space Gallery, Chicago, IL
Feb-March
Get Back, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA December
Get Back, East Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA October
Downtown Art Lives!, DADA, Los Angeles, CA December
Miracle on 18th Street, Side Street Projects, Los Angeles, CA December
1993 Out Auction, Los Angeles, CA July
DADA, Los Angeles, CA December
1992 Smog, A Matter of Life and Breath, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
September-November
Venice Art Walk, Guy Dill invitational, Westminster School, Venice, CA April
Dangerous Memories, East Gallery, The Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA July
Dangerous Memories, Annex Gallery, California State University, Northridge October
The Store Show, Richard Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA April
1991 Imago, Fine Arts Gallery, Mount San Antonio College, Walnut, CA October
Mixed Media and Messages, Lang Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
1989 1989 SITE, SITE alternative space, Culver City, CA June
Group Show, Stuart Katz Fine Arts, Laguna Beach, CA
Barbie, Gallery C, California State University, Long Beach, CA October
Content + Form = Style, Todd Gallery, Idyllwild School of Music and Arts,
Exhibitions:Idyllwild, CA February
1989 Content + Form = Style, Century Gallery, Sylmar, CA April
Spirit Keepers, Rex Wignall Museum, Alta Loma CA May-June
1988 Six at Citrus, Fine Art Gallery, Citrus College, CA October
1987 Group Show, Double Rocking G Gallery, Los Angeles, CA December
The Small Exhibit, Chrysalis Gallery, Claremont, CA March
1986 Web, DA Gallery, Pomona, CA
Twenty Four Artists Travel, West Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, February
Second Coming, East Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA

Commissioned Installations:
“Stores,” in the exhibition Social Engagement, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, by
Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, CA 1996
“Perceptual Anecdotes,” in the exhibition Smog: a Matter of Life and Breath,
California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA 1992
Milk and Honey, Laguna Art Museum, by the museum and Friends of the Museum,
Laguna Beach, CA 1992

Publications:
Coagula, “Top 10 in L.A.,” Mat Gleason, April, 2001
Ism, “Piles,”essay by Susan Joseph, Spring, 1996 (published by SAGA, Support Associates of
Graduate Art)
Catalogue, “Susan Joseph and Yao Wang: Paintings,” essay by Peter Frank, Rex Wignall
Museum Gallery, Chaffey College, Alta Loma, CA 1996
Catalogue, "Social Engagement...",essay by Suvan Geer, black & white, Los Angeles
Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1995
The New Art Examiner, John Brunetti, "Contrariwise Painting: Painting = Representation,"
May, 1994
Visions Art Quarterly, Devorah L. Knaff, "The Credible Lightness, and Darkness, of Being,
Humanistic Installations in Southern California," (Laguna Art Museum) Winter, 1993
Los Angeles Times, Steve Harvey, "Art that Burns the Eyes," (Smog: A Matter of Life and
Breath, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA) August 11, 1992
KCLA News, "The Story Behind the Story," (Smog: etc, CMP, Riverside) August 24, 1992
Daily Bulletin, Lee Peterson, "Unlikely Inspiration for Artists," (Smog: A Matter of Life and
Breath, CMP, Riverside) August 24, 1992
Press Enterprise, Devorah L. Knaff, "Getting Smog Off Their Chests," (Smog: etc. CMP,
Riverside) July 26, 1992
Press Enterprise, Devorah L. Knaff, "A Bright Idea for a Hazy Day," (Smog: etc. CMP Riverside)
August 9, 1992
The San Bernardino Sun, Sam Atwood, "Smog Art Display Leaves Them Gasping," (Smog:
etc., CMP Riverside) August 2, 1992
Los Angeles Times, Zan Dubin, "Arts Ways and Meanings," (Milk & Honey, Laguna Art
Museum) April 11, 1992
Los Angeles Times, Cathy Curtis, "You Need a Good Map for this Land of Milk and Honey,"
(Milk and Honey, Laguna Art Museum) March 30, 1992
The Orange County Register, Valerie Takahama, "Bovine Exhibit Speaks Volumes
About Society," (Milk and Honey, Laguna Art Museum) March 21, 1992
The L.A. Weekly, Peter Frank, "Art Pick of the Week," (The Store Show, Richard Bennett
Gallery) May 1991
Artweek , Greg Schneider, "Bargain Basement" (The Store Show, Richard Bennett Gallery)
May 1991
Los Angeles Times, Christopher Knight, "Collision Course" (The Store Show, Richard Bennett
Gallery) April 1991
Catalogue; "The Store Show," black & white, Richard Bennett Gallery, April 1991
Art Week, Lita Barrie, "The Nurturing Hand" (Stores, Rex Wignall Museum/Gallery)
December 20, 1990
Catalogue essay; Suvan Geer, "Stores," color, (Stores, Rex Wignall Museum/Gallery)
Nov , 1990
Visions Art Quarterly, Terrence Word, review, two color photos, (Stick Game, Double Rocking G Gallery) Summer 1987
Artweek, Elizabeth Richardson, "Pluralistic Objects," (Stick Game, Double Rocking G Gallery)
Jan. 31, 1987
Vanguard, Ron Glowen, (Alderpieces: painting and sculpture, Viking Union Gallery,
Bellingham WA) Summer 1982

Lectures & Panels:
1996 A Refresher: the Return to Abstract Painting, panel discussion, Rex-Wignall Museum
Gallery, Alta Loma, CA April
1996 Public/Installation Art: What is it? Why is it important? and Residency ,Visiting Artists
Lecture Series, University of New Mexico at Gallop, March
1995 Conversations with the Artist, in conjunction with "Social Engagement...", Los Angeles
Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1994 A Feminist Response to the Negative Dialectic in Contemplative Painting, Art and
Religion Section, American Academy of Religion Regional Conference, Santa Clara,
CA April
1993 A Feminist Response the Negative Dialectic in Contemplative Painting, Women's
Salon, Karen Jo Torjeson, Claremont, CA November
1992 Good Morning Laguna, Lecture Series, in conjunction with "Milk and Honey", Laguna
Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA April
1992 Installation Sculpture: Relational Potentials in Social and Personal Expression,
Inter-Arts Seminar, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA April
Juror, 28th Annual Inland Juried Exhibition, San Bernardino Art Ass.,
Redlands, CA June
1991 Healthy Artist, A Healthy World: Ecological Responsibility & Health Hazards in the
Studio Chair & Moderator, Panel Discussion Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach,
CA Feb 28
1990 Contemporary Artists Lecture Series, in conjunction with "Content + Form = Style",
Idyllwild School of Music and Arts, Idyllwild, CA July
1988 Installation Sculpture and the Deconstructive Process Inter-Arts Seminar, Pitzer
College, Claremont, CA April
1988 Artists Workshop, Women's Correctional Institution, Norco UCLA Extension May
1988 Three Installation Artists, Contemporary Art Seminar, Biola University, La Mirada,
CA April
1987 Three Installation Artists, Artist Lecture, Senior Seminar on Contemporary Art,
Scripps College, Claremont, CA Nov
1987 Artist lecture in conjunction with "The Small Exhibit," for the Pasadena Art Alliance,
Chrysalis Gallery, Claremont, CA April
1987 Contemporary Los Angeles Art Series, artist lecture in conjunction with "Stick Game",
Double Rocking G Gallery, L.A. CA