Kaucyila Brooke
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Kathy Acker's Clothes (012)About the artist
Kaucyila Brooke (b. 1952 in Oregon City, USA) lives and works in Los Angeles, USA. Brooke’s multidisciplinary practice addresses the politics of cultural production and sexual representation. In diverse narrativized and serial formats—including large-scale photomontages, photo novellas, and photographic archives—she reevaluates the status of the photograph as object. In Tit for Twat, an ongoing photomontage series Brooke began in 1993 that recodes the biblical creation myth of Genesis, she restages the narrative with reference to lesbian sexual identity. Pursuing a structural approach that is inherently allegorical, the work opens upon a range of interpretation brought about by the juxtaposition of disparate photographic fragments.
Often based on archival research, many of Brooke’s projects focus on the recoding of the photographic genres of portraiture, still life, documentary reportage, and landscape. In Brooke’s series, Kathy Acker’s Clothes (1999–2004), she constructs a posthumous portrait of the late American experimental poet, writer, and feminist by photographing selected items from Acker’s personal wardrobe.
Her work has been covered by leading international media including Frieze and Art Forum.
Solo Exhibitions
2017
The Boy Mechanic, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, US
2015
Where Does the Venus Come From?, Galerie Andreas Huber, @ Four Six One Nine, Los Angeles, US
2014
Tit for Twat: Can We Talk?, Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles, US
2012
Do You Want Me To Draw You A Diagram?, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, DE
2010
Tit for Twat: The Release, Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles, US
Dry Kisses Only, Xcèntric, CCCB Cinema, Barcelona, ES
2009
Where Does the Venus Come From?, Silberkuppe, Berlin, Germany Alma Mater, as part of special exhibition project: Fake or Feint, DE
Carre Shopping Mall, Berlin, DE
2008
Vitrinen in Arbeit, Forum für Fotographie Köln and the Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, Cologne, DE
Tit for Twat: Can We Talk?, Continued, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, AT
2007
Viewing Platforms, Michael Dawson Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2006
Kathy Acker's Clothes, Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
Vitrinen in Arbeit, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, AT
2005
Viewing Platforms, Kunstverein & Stiftung Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, DE
Kathy Acker's Clothes, NAK (Neuer Aachener Kunstverein), Aachen, DE
Vitrinen in Arbeit, Michael Dawson Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2004
The Boy Mechanic, Plattform, Berlin, DE
2002
Kaucyila Brooke, Orange Coast College, Photography Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
2001
Tit for Twat, Art Resources Transfer, Inc, New York, US
Burned…/328 Museum Drive, Michael Dawson Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2000
Bigger, The Other Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Dry Kisses Only, Depot: Centre fur Kunst & Diskussion, Vienna, AT
1999
Not Though Any Sort of Vanity, Art Resources Transfer, Inc, New York, US
1998
Dry Kisses Only, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada
1997
Not Through Any Sort of Vanity, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, US
1993
Tit for Twat and Other Narratives, San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, US
Not Lying Down, Beacon Street Gallery – School St, Chicago, US
1992
Not Lying Down, Eye Gallery, San Francisco, US
Dry Kisses Only, Eye Gallery, San Francisco, US
1991
From: 13 Questions, Installation, San Diego, US
1990
Not Lying Down, A Space, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Dry Kisses Only, UC Irvine, Fine Arts Complex, rvine, US
Dry Kisses Only, Pacific Film Archive, U. C. Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, US
Dry Kisses Only, Euclid Theater, Toronto, Canada
Dry Kisses Only, ICA, Boston, US
Dry Kisses Only, LACE, Los Angeles, US
Dry Kisses Only (Practically) The World Premiere, Mom’s Café, Cal Arts, Valencia, CA, US
Unknown Deviancies, Cerro Coso Community College Gallery, Ridgecrest, US
1989
Narrative Works, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, US
1988
Not Lying Down, Installation, San Diego, US
1987
Owning Your Own, Central Arts Collective, Tucson, US
1982
Photo Flow, Project Space Gallery, Eugene, US
Group Exhibitions
2017
COLA 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, US
What “Everybody Knows”, Jenny’s, Los Angeles, US
Oh…Jakob Lena Knebl and the MUMOK Collection, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, AT
2016
Extensions of Photography, UC San Diego, Visual Arts Department Art Gallery, La Jolla, CA, US
Nature As Retreat, Oslo 10, Basel, CH
Blühendes Gift / Prosperous Poison, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, AT
2015
B/W Metamorphosis, Galerie Andreas Huber @ Four Six One Nine, Los Angeles, US
Untitled (Art Speak?), Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont, US
20 Jahre Halle fuer Kunst Lueneburg, Halle fuer Kunst Lueneburg, DE
Palm Capsule (conceived and compiled by Christian Mayer), Mackey Garage Top: MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, US
2014
Reines Wasser, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria
ARCHE Eine Festung Für Tiere/ARCA Una Fortezza Per Animali, Franzensfeste/Fortezza, IT
Pre/Cut, TMO Studio, Los Angeles, US
RE-THINK ENVIRONMENT, Human Resources, Los Angeles, US
Eden’s Edge Project: Garage Exchange Vienna-Los Angeles, Mackey Garage Top: MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, US
L.A. in the NINETIES, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, US
One shots and imagines, Downtown Photoroom, Los Angeles, US
2013
Topical Constructions: PaperWorks + Actions, The Gun Gallery, Juárez, Mexico
Demolition Women, Guggenheim Gallery, US
White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York, US
A Photograph is Not An Opinion –Contemporary Photography by Women, The Terrace Gallery/Jehangir Complex, Mumbai, India
Rosa Arbeit Auf Goldener Strass, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, AT
2012
now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.., selected by Tom Burr for Bortolami Gallery, New York City, US
The Crash of Ruin Fitfully Resounds, Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles, US
In Former Times, Kamikazee at PØST, Los Angeles, US
Artist As Traveler, Galerie der HBK, Braunschweig, DE
You Are Right It Flows Much Better This Way, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, Austria
Everywhere and Nowhere: Works from the Reydan Weiss Collection, Kunsthaus Villa Jauss, Oberstdorf, DE
Reflecting Fashion: Art and Fashion Since Modernism, Museum of Moderne Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Chute, two-person show with Volker Eichelmann, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, Austria
Wearing Skirts: The Staging of Clothes in Contemporary Photography, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
2011
Collective Show, 995, 997 North Hill Street, Los Angeles, US
Other Places, Camera Club of New York, New York, US
I have a Light,, S1F Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Under One Umbrella, Kunsthall Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Bucharest International Biennale for Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
Queer Territories, Sea and Space, Los Angeles, US
Professor Dialogues, I5 Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2009
ZineBi,, Bilbao International Documentary and Shortmetrage Film Festival, Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain Jahresgaben
Halle fuer Kunst, Lüneburg, DE
Silberkuppe 'takes the waters', Kunsthalle Baden, De
en vue…des manières de voir la nature mise en images et en vitrine, Centre d’Art Passerelle, Brest, FR
En Todas Partes: Politicas de la Diversidad Sexual en el Arte, Galician Center for Contemporary Art, Santiago de Compostela, SE
Twice Upon a Time, Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, US
Once more: A trip down (false) memory lane, The Lexington Club, San Francisco, US
2008
Twice Upon a Time, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, AT
I Queerelanti, Neon - Campobas, Bologna, IT
A Member of the Wedding, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, US
This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in Los Angeles Photographs, The Huntington, San Marino, US
Fiction. Narration. Structure., Artnews Projects, Berlin, DE
Difference Engine, KünstlerInnen - Videoprogramm im Schikaneder Kino, Vienna, AT
2007
Oh Girl It's A Boy, Munich Kunstverein, Munich, DE
Public Park, Scoops, Los Angeles, US
Exportation, T293, Napoli, IT
Brennschluss, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, AT
The California Files, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, US
Solo Project: Kaucyila Brooke, dc-fair/düsseldorf contemporary, Düsseledorf, DE
2006
...UND SO HAT KONZEPT NOCH NIE PFERD BEDEUTET, Generali Foundation, Vienna, AT
Die Queerulanten innen/aussen, Auto, Vienna, AT
20 Jahre NAK, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, DE
The Eighth Square - Gender Life and Desire in the Visual Arts since 1960, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DE
Why Pictures Now?, Museum of Moderne Kunst, Vienna, AT
COLA Anniversary Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, US
Storylines, Kunstraum München, Munich, Germany; Centre d'art Passerelle, Brest, France
The Fantasy of Failed Utopias and A Girl's Daydream..., Galerie Meerrettisch, Berlin; Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany; B- Books, Berlin; Ballhaus Ost, Berlin; Stedelijk Museum CS & Club 11, Amsterdam
WARUM ETWAS ZEIGEN, WAS MAN SEHEN KANN?, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Presented By, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, Austria Pardners, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA Plainer, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2005
Storylines, Kunstlerhaus Göttingen, Göttingen, DE
Abschied von den Eltern, Open Space - Art Cologne, Galerie Daniel Bucholz, Cologne, DE
Old News, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, US
Sometimes Lovers, Sometimes Friends: Contemporary Art from the Lentos Collection, Lentos Museum of Modern Art, Linz, AT
The Opening, Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
COLA, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Fellowship Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, US
The Need to Document, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg eV, Lüneburg, DE
Urban Structures, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Schwaz, AT
2004
COUNTRYSIDE–LANDSCAPE–KRAJINA, Austrian Cultural Forum, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Neo Queer, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, US
3rd Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
2003
Rent-a-Bench, Trapholt Kunstmuseum, Kolding, DK
Drinnen ist’s Anders, Kunsthalle Exnergasse WUK, Vienna, AT
The Air is Blue, Museo Luis Barragan, Mexico City, Mexico
SAME-DIFFERENT: On Identity, Integrity, and Sexual Politics, Galeria Nuoa, Bucharest, Romania
ES IST SCHWER DAS REALE ZU BERÜHREN, Kunstverein München, DE
2002
Rent-a-Bench, Public Art Project, Los Angeles, US
Hausordnungen, Stadthaus, Ulm, DE
L.A. Now: Shaping a New Vision for Downtown Los Angeles, A+D Architecture and Design Museum, Los Angeles, US
Survival L.A., Raid Projects, Los Angeles, US
Marking Change, The Advocate Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Bad News Entertainment, Kafe Bar, Vienna, AT
Vacant: Recent Landscapes of Los Angeles, Gallery Lusotti, Los Angeles, US
Transit: Survival Skills, Park Paradise Complex, Scottsdale, US
2001
The Wasteland, Atelier Augarten of the Oesterreichische Gallerie Belvedere, Vienna, AT
20/35 Vision, MAK Center/Schindler House, Los Angeles, US
Pedigree Pal: Neudefinition von Familie, Shedhalle, Zürich, Switzerland
Untitled, Campos Films, Los Angeles, US
2000
Video as a Female Terrain, Steirischerbst, Landesmusuem Joanneum, Graz, AT
Charm Offensive, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, US
Featured Artist: Kaucyila Brooke, Tit for Twat, Next Sex: Ars Electronica, O.K. Centrum für Gegenwarstkunst, Linz, AT
Happiness Show/Atmospheric Conditions: Landscape After Bellini's St. Francis in the Desert, Dirt Gallery, Los Angeles, US
DNC, Arco Building – temporary gallery, Los Angeles, US
Chroma, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, AT
Not Coming, Projections:Intermissions, Side Street Projects, Los Angeles, US
One Night Stand, Park Plaza Lodge Hotel, Los Angeles, US
1999
Fractured Mirrors, Broken Windows: In the Marketplace of Private Life, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA; Rhode Island School of Design Photography Gallery, Providence, RI
Salt of the Earth, Gallery 25, Fresno, US
After The Gold Rush, Thread Waxing Space, New York, US
I Heart L.A., Collette, Paris, FR
Multiples, Schauraum, Munich, DE
Ireland, County Clare, Ballyvaughan, Burren College of Arts, The Lime & The Mint galleries, CalArts, Valencia, CA (1998)
By All Means, The Advocate Gallery, Los Angeles, US
(Original Accounts) of the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island, Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, US
HEAD, Spanish Kitchen, Los Angeles, US
Tip of the Iceberg, Fred Dorffman Projects, New York, US
1997
American Gothic, Suzanne H Arnold Art Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, US
Contemporary Collections, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, US
Splice, Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, US
Beau Comme Un Camion, Europride, Paris, FR
Blind Date, Birrell’s Studio, Los Angeles, CA; D300 Gallery, CalArts, Valencia, CA Funny Loss, A402 Gallery, CalArts, Valencia, CA
1996
Things That Quicken The Heart, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, US
Gender Fucked, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, US
Re:Public - Listening to San Diego, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, US
1995
Faculty Show, CalArts, Valencia, US
Arroyo Arts Collective Art Tour, Los Angeles, US
Contemporary Photography: The California Focus, The Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
1994
Diderot And The Last Luminare, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA; Site Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993
Disrupted Borders, Arnolfini, Bristol, England; Icon Gallery, Birmingham, England; The Photographers Gallery, London, England; Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada; London Regional Art Gallery, London, Canada
Artist's Writing Reading Room, Side Streets Projects and Beyond Baroque, Santa Monica, US
2 MUCH, UMC Fine Arts Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, US
Mapping: Identities, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, US
All Dressed Up, San Diego State University Art Gallery, San Diego, US
1992
Enthusiasm Strengthens, Center For Creative Photography, Tucson, US
Effected Desire, Carnegie Museum, Philadelphia, US
Queer Bodies, Galleries 2 & 4, Evergreen State College, Olympia, US
Primer, New Works Gallery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, US
Vantage Points, Southern California Women's Caucus for Art, University Art Gallery, Cal State Polytechnic University, Pomona, US
New Orleans Alliance of Pride, New Orleans, US
Le Botanique Festival, Brussels, Belgium
Australian Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Academy Cinemas, Sydney, Australia
Interflugs, Berlin, DE
1991
The Door's Not Locked, Two person show with Doug Ischar, Film In The Cities, Minneapolis, US
Making Sense, Bowman, Penlec & Megahan Galleries, Allegheny College, Meadville, US
Peril and Pleasure, London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, British Film Institute, London, UK
Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Hart, US
Northwest International Gay/Lesbian Film Festival, Olympia, US
Unauthorized Sexual Behaviors, UC Riverside Dept of English and Center for Ideas and Society, Riverside, US
Society for Photographic Education, Annual Conference, New Orleans, US
The Return of Visual Pleasure, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Cincinnati, OH
1990
Against The Tide, Nexus, Atlanta, US
All But The Obvious, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, U
The Emperor’s New Clothes, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA; California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA; Eye Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The 10th Annual Chicago Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Chicago, US
10th American Film Institute National Video Festival, Los Angeles, US
Lookout, Downtown Community TV, New York, US
The Sixth Annual Boston International Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Festival, I.C.A., Boston, US
Sodom North/Bash Back, Video In, Vancouver, CA
The 8th Annual Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Festival, Los Angeles, US
The New Festival, New York, US
Disarming the Genre, Artist's Space, New York, US
Sixth Annual International Women's Day Video Festival, broadcast on Deep Dish TV, New York, US
Kansas City International Video Festival, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, US
1989
Partners In Crime, Camerawork Gallery, London, UK
Self Evidence, Los Angeles, Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, US
1988
Distress Signals: Art About the U.S. Role in Central America, Central Arts Collective, Tucson, US
Member’s Juried Exhibition, Tucson Community Cable Corporation, Tucson, US
Month ’O Fun, collaboration with Imo Baird, Central Arts Collective, Tucson, US
Monologue /Dialogue, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, US
Looking At The Drawing, Central Arts Collective, Tucson, US
That’s Progress, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies at Beyond Baroque, Santa Monica, US
Photography The Art, Womankraft Gallery, Tucson, US
Image and Text, The Woman’s Building, Los Angeles, US
1987
You Choose, Central Arts Collective, Tucson, US
Art Across America: Artists and Their Students, University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR; University of Washington, Seattle, WA; University Art Gallery, California State University, Hayward, CA; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ; Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO; Gallery 200, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
Greetings from the Lavender Pit, Subway Gallery, Bisbee, US
Artist’s Say Howdy, Central Arts Collective, Tucson, US
1986
Lifestories, MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis, US
Recoding Sexuality, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, US
MFA Exhibition, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, US
Untitled, Two-Person Show with Carol Anderson, Invisible Theater, Tucson, US
The Primavera: A Women's Invitational, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, US
Looks Like You’re Into Performance, Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, US
1985
The Bone Show, Phantom Art Gallery, Tucson, US
Primavera: A Celebration of Women Artists, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, US
Women Who Create, Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, US
1984
Graduate Review Exhibition, Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, US
Grad Photo Show, Hippolyte Bayard Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, US
Arizona Biennial ’84, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, US
International Competition of Women Fine Art Photographers, Eighth Street Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Six Photographers, Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, US
A Witch's Tools: Performance by The Sapphic Inquisition, YWCA, Tucson, US
Women’s Week Art Show, 830 Gallery, Tucson, US
Grad Photo Show, Catacomb Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, US
1983
A Witch’s Tools: Performance by The Sapphic Inquisition, University of Arizona, Tucson, US
Oregon Photography Invitational, Benson County Historical Museum, Corvallis, US
1982
Northwest Women’s Art Show, Northwest Artists Workshop, Portland, US
Fifteen Eugene Artists Force Themselves on Corvallis, Corvallis Arts Center, US
Sold Out, Project Space Gallery, Eugene, US
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