education
1996 Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, DNSAP [comparable to MFA]
solo exhibitions
2020 Re-Entry, Beyond Baroque, Venice California (May 9-June 21) POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19
2019 Points of View: Everything Happening All at Once, San Francisco Edition, Canessa Gallery, San Francisco (Dec. 1 – 27)
2019 Points of View: Everything Happening All at Once,
Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka CA (July 13 – August 25, 2019) EXTENDED until October 27 2019
2018 Nesting Materials, Black Faun Gallery, Eureka CA
2010 Everything to Declare, Upstairs Art Gallery, Arcata CA
2004 F.E.A.T.H.E.R. Branes, installation, Intimate Stage, Seattle /cur. Joan Laage
2003 Surreal Estate, Dark Horse Books, Victoria BC Canada
2002 Pinturas de Ojos Fertiles, Alianza Franco-Mexicana, Oaxaca, Mexico
2002 The Beautiful and the Beat (drawing installation + poetry Ted Joans) Instituto de Arte Gráfica de Oaxaca
2001 Effervescence, Le Centre Culturel Francophone, Vancouver, BC
1998 Peintures Récentes, Le Centre Culturel Francophone, Vancouver BC
group exhibitions
2023 Sensing Habitat, exhibition with Gerri Sadler and David St John, Canvas + Clay Gallery, Eureka CA, curated by Jen McLaurin
2022 Ingrid Nickelsen Trust Juried Exhibition, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka CA, curated by Joan Gold
2021 Outer Roominations, Table Bluff, Loleta CA, curated by Leslie Castellano
2019-2020 Collecting: 20 Years, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka CA
2019 Guitarbage – Art Guitars, Mendenhall Studios, Eureka CA
2019 100 Años de Surrealismo, Centro Cultural Espacio Matta, Santiago, Chile /cur. Enrique de Santiago
2018-2019 20 Years: The Victor Thomas Jacoby Award,
Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka
2016 Las Llaves del Deseo, Museo Municipal de Cartago, Costa Rica; and Biblioteca Nacional, San José, Costa Rica /cur. Amirah Gazel + Alfonso Peña
2014 La chasse à l’objet du désir, Galerie L’Espace
/Liaison Surréaliste à Montréal. Catalogue
2012 Surrealism 2012: Toward the World of the Fifth Sun, Goggleworks, Reading PA /cur. Joseph Jablonski
2012 Survival Kit, Synapsis, Eureka CA /cur. Leslie Castellano
2010 El Umbral Secreto, Museo de la solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago de Chile /cur. Enrique de Santiago
2009 Illuminações Descontìnuas, convento S. Jose, Lagoa Portugal /cur. Miguel de Carvalho. Catalogue
2009 Beyond the Outer Banks, 5ive&40rty Gallery, Winston Salem NC /cur. Peggy O’Donnell + David Williams
2009 A Voz dos Espelhos, Surrealismo Actual, Galeria Arturo Bual, Amadora, Portugal /cur. M. de Carvalho. Catalogue
2008 O Reverso dô Olhar, Surrealismo Actual, Casa da Cultura, Coimbra, Portugal /cur. M. de Carvalho. Catalogue
2008 Bucket of Dawn, installation, Free Sheep Foundation, Seattle /cur. DK Pan
2007 Selections from The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, De Young Museum, San Francisco
/cur. Karin Breuer + Timothy Anglin Burgard. Catalogue
2007 Altars and Tabletops, 108, Seattle /cur. Daniel Michael Viox
2006 City Bitch and Travel, Salon Centro Projects, Mexico City /cur. Katya Gardea Browne
2006 Tomorrow’s Drawing Today, Carroll Turner Gallery, Santa Fe N.M. /cur. Sandy Besser
2006 Drawing Discoveries, St Petersburg Arts Center, Florida /cur. Sandy Besser
2005 Boys Meet Girls, Salon Centro, Mexico City /cur. Katya Gardea Browne
2005 LINESCAPE, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle
2005 Installation, 108, Seattle /cur. Daniel Michael Viox
2004 Feria al Maiz Malinalco, Mexico
2004 Elective Affinities, Art in Nature festival, Camp Long, Seattle, with John Pai
2004 Seattle Erotic Art Festival, Consolidated Works, Seattle
2004 Rabbits & Robots, SAW Gallery, Seattle /cur. Kristine Evans
2004 Seattle City Collects, new acquisitions to Seattle’s Portable Works Collection
2003 + (1), Luscious, Seattle /cur. DK Pan
2002 Surrealism Here And Now!, Heartland Gallery, Chicago
/cur. Franklin and Penelope Rosemont
2001 Possible Showers, Granville Island, Vancouver
/cur. Andrew Luketic + Alannah Newsmall
1999 Patricia Cameron Gallery, Seattle
1998 L’Art et le Papier III, Jean-Claude Bergeron Gallery, Ottawa. Catalogue
1997 Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria, BC
1996 Dessin/Drawing, Kyoto Art University, Kyoto, Japan. Catalogue
1994 Totems Without Taboos: The Cadavre Exquis Lives, Black Swan Gallery, Chicago /cur. Franklin+ Penelope Rosemont
more projects + collaborations
2018 Nest of Possibilities, performance collaboration with Leslie Castellano dance + Medicine Baul music, in exhibition Nesting Materials, Black Faun Gallery Eureka CA video
2016 Lost Wilds, an inquiry into shifting relations between wilderness, body, and society, Synapsis, Eureka /cur. Leslie Castellano
2007 The Motel Project (www.motelmotelmotel.com)
Slippage Drawing, installation in Motel # 1, the Bridge Motel, Seattle. /cur. DK Pan
BCNH-Scroll, in Motel #2, Seattle. /cur. Mike Min, the Seattle School
2003-2007 Crosspollination. collaborative drawing, Butoh, performance,video project with P.A.N. Seattle, South Korea, Japan.
2006 Tenten Drawings, ephemeral installation, Kyo Ryu Kan, Kyoto, Japan
2005 Deer Dust, sound work with Monte Merrick, in Aqua Art Sound Broadcast by Susan Robb, Aqua Art Miami
2005 Rorschach Translation, collaboration with The Seattle School, Consolidated Works, Seattle
2005 Three Free Beets, performance with P.A.N., Gallery 1412, Seattle
2004 Between a Dream and Family, performance in “My Mother My Father” by DK Pan, SOIL Gallery, Seattle
1991-2003 collaborative projects of visual poetry, cadavres-exquis, super 8 films, with poet Ted Joans
selected publications
2020 “Deertime”, drawing, with poem Skull by Monte Merrick, in Peculiar Mormyrid issue 9: Deep Times, Fall 2020 online + print
2016 Seasonal snapshot, “Raven’s Tools”, in Humboldt Insider magazine, Summer-Fall 2016 Vol III No. 1
2013 Maillot d’Hécatombes pour Jeanne d’Arcula, précédé de Vestibule d’éternité. poetry Guy Girard, drawings Laura Corsiglia. Editions Sonámbula, Montréal.
2008 “the Oystercatcher”, issue #5 ed. by Ron Sakolsky, Inner Island, Canada (drawings)
2008 “Cosco Busan-Surf Scoter”, drawing + text, in “Fifth Estate” vol. 43 no.1––Detroit
2005 History Against Misery, David Roediger, ––Charles H Kerr publications, Chicago (drawings)
2004 “Deer Dust”, text + drawings, in the Fulcrum #5, ed. Monte Merrick, Seattle
2002 “Surrounding Area”, in Surrealist Subversions, ed. Ron Sakolsky ––Autonomedia, New York
2001 OUR THANG: Selected Poems & Drawings, Ted Joans + Laura Corsiglia ––Ekstasis Editions, Victoria BC review
2000 “A Fearful Symmetry: The Enigma Of Marie Wilson” text in Daedalic Isomorphs ––Hellenic American Union, Athens, Greece
2000 Grrrrrr: An Anthology of Bear Poems ed. CB Follett ––Arctos Press, Sausalito CA (drawings)
1999 WOW, Poems by Ted Joans ––Quicksilver Press, Muckilteo WA (drawings)
1998 Race Traitor, “Surrealist Issue” ed. F. Rosemont, ––Cambridge, Mass (drawings)
1997 Seattle Review, vol.XIX No. 2, U. of Washington ––Seattle (drawings)
awards / grants
2022 Ingrid Nickelsen Trust Award
2022 Funds for Artists’ Resilience Mini-Grant, for drypoint copperplate project: Intertwine. Ink People Center for the Arts, Eureka CA
2015 Victor Thomas Jacoby Award, Humboldt Area Foundation
2004 Emerging Artist Award, Seattle office of Arts & Culture
2006 Dokkebi Award, Chuncheon International MIME Festival, Chuncheon South Korea (for collaboration project Crosspollination with P.A.N.)
1995 Bourse Maurice-Colin Lefranc, French ministry of culture study grant, to University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
selected bibliography
2023 Sensing Habitat, exhibition showcases artists’ abstract landscapes, by Heather Shelton, 1/29/23 –The Times-Standard, Eureka CA
2021 Laura Corsiglia, A Book of Ange, I hope you can hear the Birds, by Terri Geis, –The Oystercatcher #18 May Day 2021
2019 Epic Scrolls and Journeys, Laura Corsiglia and Lida Penkova at the Morris Graves Museum of Art, by Gabrielle Gopinath, 8/1/2019 –North Coast Journal, Eureka CA
2018 Laura Corsiglia’s Interior Landscapes, by Gabrielle Gopinath, 3/1/2018 –North Coast Journal, Eureka CA
2018 Birds Populate Artist’s Life, –The Times-Standard, Eureka CA
2017 Birds of a Feather, by Ron Sakolsky, ––Eberhardt Press, Portland OR.
2016 Studio Space : On the walls and easels at StewART, by Gabrielle Gopinath, 12/8/17 –North Coast Journal, Eureka CA
selected collections
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, De Young Museum
Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka
City of Seattle Portable Works Collection
Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile
Casa da Cultura, Coimbra, Portugal
Centro Cultural Espacio Matta, Santiago, Chile
TELESAT Canada, Ottawa
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