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Curriculum Vitae

Education:

  • USC Roski School of Art & Design- Master's  2013 -Contemporary Art History, and Curatorial Practices 

  • USC Roski School of Art & Design, Art History | Fine Art Studio

  • Glendale Community College,  Graphic Design | Drawing

  • UCLA, Art History | Theatre  Arts

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 Art Exhibitions | Group Shows

  • Descendant and Transformation: Voyage to the Americas, 2024, Residency Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

  • Converge + Vertex, 2024, SM College Barrett Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

  • Juxtaposing Afro-Surrealism, 2024, Granary Arts, Ephraim, UT

  • The Reparations Project, 2023, Savannah, GA

  • I Have Paid a Price for My Commitment, 2023, Transformative Arts, Los Angeles, CA

  •  Black American Portraits, 2023, Brooks Museum, Memphis, TN

  • Colliding Visions, 2023, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA 

  • Black American Portraits, 2023, Spelman Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

  •  Black American Portraits, 2022, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA )

  • Vision and Spirit African American Art, 2022, African American Museum, Philadelphia, PA

  • Creative Resistance, 2022, Los Angeles, CA

  • Hollaback to the Future, 2022, Museum of Museums, Seattle, WA

  • Summer Affair, 2022, The Guesthouse, Washington DC

  • Black Beyond Belonging, 2022,  Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

  • Metro-PTYK K Line Project, 2021, Los Angeles, CA

  • The Phoenix Project, 2022, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA 

  • Biome Noire: Health and Wellness among those in the African Diaspora (2022), LA Southwest College, CA

  • Mothership: An Exploration into Afro-Futurism, 2021-22, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA

  • Transformations, 2021, The Wende Museum, Culver City, CA

  • Atlantis to Saturn, A Portal to Joy, 2021,  William Grants Still Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA

  • Defiance and Juncture (2021) ArtShare Los Angeles

  •  Mescaline, 2021, Band of Vices, Los Angeles, CA

  • Defiance and Juncture, 2021, ArtShare Los Angeles

  • Vision and Spirit African American Art | Works from the Bank of America Collection, 2021, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Art , North Carolina

  • Masterpiece, 2020, Band of Vices Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

  • The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind The Iron Curtain, 2019, The Wende Museum)

  • Metropolis: A Snapshot of Art Making in Los Angeles, 2019,  Bruce Lurie Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

  • Calafia: Manifesting the Terrestrial Paradise, 2019, The Armory, Pasadena, CA

  • Continuant, 2019, Noysky Gallery

  • Plus One, 2019, Art Share Los Angeles

  • You Is Pretty: Surrealism and the Black Imaginary, 2018, Band of Vices Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

  • House of Witnessing, 2017, Simone Leigh/BWA for BLM, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX

  • Mass Incarceration, 2017, HVW8 Gallery, Los Angeles

  • Black and Brown Love is Revolutionary, 2017, Ave 50 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

  • Black Lives Matter Altar, 2016, BLM, Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA

  • Artists of Color Flash Mob, 2016, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

  • Hard Edged, 2015, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA

  • One Image-One Minute (performance), 2015, Gallery Tally, Los Angeles, CA

  • Performance, The Descent of Alette: A Reading, Alice Notley, 2014, Khalil Huffman

  • Riley Mann, See Me, 2013, Times Square, NY, Photography Finalist

  • Untitled, 2008, C.O.L.A., LA Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

  • Cultural Exchange with Karen Chu, 2007, Karen Koblitz, USC Hillel Art Gallery, Los Angeles

  • Wasted Lives (7 min. Video), 2006,  Lindhurst Gallery, Los Angeles

  • Faces in the Office (video), 2005, USC Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles

  • Freddie Roaches Boxing Gym, 5-channel video-PanoChamber Project, 2005, USC School of Engineering, 2005 

  • Wasted Lives (7 min. Video), 2004,  Intermedia, Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles

 

Institutional Collaborations: 

  • San Diego New Childrens Museum , 2024 Selected Artist Collaborator for Mass Creativity Day

  • Creating From the Archive, UC Riverside, 2023

  • Kidspace Museum, Pasadena, CA Collage Workshop, 2023

  • LACMA Black American Portraits Collage Workshop, 2022

  • LACMA Father's Day Collage Workshop , Leimert Park, 2022

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Curatorial Projects:

  • Black Beyond Belonging, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, 2022

  • Black Bodies in Propaganda, NW African American Museum, 2016

  • Posing Beauty, NW African American Museum, 2015

  • Jimi Hendrix Environmental Paintings, NW African American Museum, 2015

  • Colored Girls: Works of Art by Women of the African, Asian and Latin Diaspora, Autonomie, 2015

  • A Book as a Work of Art for All, Autonomie Projects, 2015 

  • Tania Bruguera: The St. Francis Effect, Santa Monica Museum, 2014 (participant) 

  • Madame Bovary, Mieke Bal, Ph.D., Cultural theorist and Michelle Gawker, 2014 

  • LAXART's Office Hours with Tania Bruguera, USC Curatorial Practicum, 2013  

  • Between Bodies, USC Curatorial Practicum, 2013  

  • Carttetillas en la Cuidad (Havana, Cuba Biennial) Samuel Riera Gallery, Vedado, Cuba, 2012 

  • Obedientes, Samuel Riera Gallery, Vedado, Cuba, 2012

 

Research and Published Texts

  • Diasporagasm, 2017. Catalog essay 

  • Walter Hopps: Redefining the Artworld. Essay. /seconds. Edition #16, Sharjah, UAE. November 30, 2017

  • TANKAH: De Las Tinieblas Hacia el Sol/From The Underworld To The Sun, 2017. Catalog Essay

  • No Justice, No Peace: LA 1992, (2017) California African American Museum. KCET Art Bound Review

  • Dominique Moody, Signifying Form, 2017. Catalog Essay

  • Following the Spirit: Paper--Selected Works by Belkis Ayon and Ana Mendieta, 2014

  • In Studio with Yrneh Gabon, Visibly/Invisible, California African American Museum, 2014.  Catalog essay

  • Performance of Memory and Ritual: Selected Works by Ana Mendieta and Tania Bruguera, 2013. Thesis

  • Operation Pedro Pan, 2013, Thesis

  • Women Weavers of the Bauhaus, 2013 

  • Renee Cox: Black Feminism and Photography, 2012

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Public Presentations

  • Presenter: Afro-Surrealism Discussion, Riverside Art Gallery, 2023

  • Discussant: “How Will Feminist Culture Engage the Future?". College Art Association, 2018

  • Moderator: "We Wanted A Revolution: Black Radical Women 1960-1985." CAAM Symposium, 2018  

  • Discussant—Twilight: 25 Years After the LA Riots, Intersectionality, 2017

  • Conversation with Yrneh Gabon, Dragonflies Water, and Fire, Otis College of Art, 2016

  • Discussant—Social and Public Art in Los Angeles Today, Southwest Los Angeles College, 2016

  • Discussant— Hard Edge exhibition,."  California African American Museum, 2016

  • Presenter: "Harmon and Harriet Kelly: African American Works on Paper. Northwest  African Museum, 2015

  • Discussant: "Navigating the Art Institution," California Community Foundation, 2015

  • Discussant: Lili Bernard Otis Graduate, Micro–Aggression in Academia, 2014

  • Doris Salcedo: Locating the Trauma and Memory in Selected Works, 2013. 

 

Photographic Documentation

  • Rafa Esparza, A Meditation on Freedom, Los Angeles, 2015

  • I Feel As If I Have Two Wolves Fighting in My Heart, Stephanie Allespach, LACE, 2012

  • Trespass Parade with Arto Lindsay and Rirkrit Tiravanija Getty-sponsored, region-wide initiative,

  • Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, 2011

  • West of Rome Public Art Trespass Party with Arto Lindsay and Rirkrit Tiravanija, Union Station, 2011

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Press

       https://www.laweekly.com/the-medea-insurrection-lifts-the-iron-curtain/

 

  • USC Trojan Magazine.  USC Alumna Chelle Barbour Brings Improvisation to Art “Chelle Barbour: A multidisciplinary artist creates portraits that reimagine notions of black women,” Spring 2019

       https://news.usc.edu/trojan-family/chelle-barbour-artist-usc-alumni/

 

       https://blavity.com/tags/Chelle-Barbour

 

  • Art and Cake. Chelle Barbour’s You Is Pretty!  By Genie Davis, 2018

       https://artandcakela.com/2018/10/10/chelle-barbour-at-band-of-vices/

 

  • Gallery Girls: “In Conversation with Chelle Barbour: Dazzling Debut Show of Afro-Surrealist Collages Curated by Angela Bassett”, 2018

       http://gallerygurls.net/interviews/2018/10/20/in-conversation-with-chelle-barbour-on-her-latest-show-of afrosurrealist-collages-curated-by-angela-bassett

 

       https://goodblacknews.org/tag/chelle-barbour/

 

 

  • ArtWeek

      https://www.artweek.com/events-artist/chelle-barbour#

 

 

  • Laura Luna. “In Conversation w/Melvin Marshall - Band of Vices Gallery - Chelle Barbour You Is Pretty!”

       https://soundcloud.com/laura-luna-p/conversation-with-melvin-marshall-band-of-vices-gallery-chelle-                      barbour-you-is-pretty

 

       William Poundstone on Art and Chaos

       http://lacmaonfire.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-medea-insurrection-at-wende.html

 

  • The Grio. “Angela Bassett co-curates dynamic art show exploring portrayals of Black women in media.” By  Kia Morgan-Smith, September 10, 2018

        https://thegrio.com/2018/09/10/angela-bassett-co-curates-dynamic-art-show-exploring-portrayals-of-black- women-in-media/

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Professional Affiliations

  • Tacoma Art Museum, 30 Americans Exhibition Advisory Board                                           

  • Advisory Board Member, Arts Complex 1101, Tempe, AZ

  • Society of Hysterical Curators

  • Alliance of Museum Professionals

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© 2023 Riley Mann

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