LIENA VAYZMAN
* Material Culture in the Space Between, 1914-1945, - 14th Annual Conference of the Space Between Society: Culture and Literature Between WWI and WWII. Brown University, June 14-16, 2012 “Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore’s Photographs, Channel Islands, c. 1938-39: Translocation, Collaborative Authorship, and the Material Limits of Photography”

Photographic Memory Workshop at Yale University, Dec. 7, 2011
"Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore’s Photographs in the Channel Islands: Liminal Geography, Political Resistance and the Limits of Queer Self-Exposure"

* Yale Women Faculty Forum at Yale Law School, Nov. 8, 2011
"Yale's First Women PhDs, 1894: Photographic Traces and Recovered Histories of Pioneering Scholars and Scientists." Part of "Women and the Politics of Representation" panel discussion featuring Carol Armstrong, Judith Resnik, Liena Vayzman, discussants Linda Greenhouse and Laura Wexler, introduction by Priyamvada Natarajan.

* Lemon Tree Project in Time (Lapse) at Krowswork Gallery Oakland CA - on view through April 18, 2010. San Francisco Chronicle says "Don't Miss" this Muybridge-inspired show.

* Lecture at Understanding Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities 2nd International Conference at Portland State University, May 20-23, 2010

*College Art Association national conference, Chicago, Feb. 13, 2010 "Food as Art as Sustainability Activism: The Politics of Agriculture and Food Systems in 21st Century Art Practices" in the session "Artist Citizen: Catalysts, Collectives, Utopias"

* Lemon Tree Project in It's Still Life at RayKo Photo in San Francisco

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Group Exhibitions RayKo Photo, SF; Receiver Gallery, SF; Load of Fun Gallery, Baltimore; Climate Theater, SF; ATA, SF; Glassbox, Paris; Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris; Hotel Duchess Anne, Nantes; Grunert-Gasser Gallery, New York; Root Division, San Francisco; Centro de Arte Joven, Madrid; Safe-T-Gallery, Brooklyn; apartment shows in Brooklyn (Ground Control) and Chicago (Qu'Art)

Solo Exhibitions Artists Television Access (ATA) Gallery, San Francisco; San Pablo Art Gallery, San Pablo, CA; Wartburg College Gallery, Iowa; Studio of Rebecca Bournigault, Paris

Curatorial Projects "Maria the Korean Bride," ATA, SF, 2009; "Tim Thompson: Captured Accidents - Valencia St. Live," ATA, SF, 2008; "Chance Operations," Climate Theater, SF, 2008; "Night Light: An Evening of Luminous Environments", Climate Theater, San Francisco, 2008; "HOME: The Aesthetics and Politics of Home in Contemporary Art," Root Division, San Francisco. 2007 Exhibition catalog pdf available free on this site by clicking WRITING in the navigation bar. "Ground Control," Brooklyn, 1998.

Teaching San Jose State University Photo Program; Rhode Island School of Design; The New School University, New York; City University of New York - York College; Rutgers University, Newark NJ; Brooklyn Museum of Art

Degrees BA, Vassar College 1992; Post-Diplome, Ecole Regionale des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France 1999; PhD, Yale University 2002