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BIOGRAPHY AND CURRICULAE VITAE
Ecological artist Aviva Rahmani’s art work has reflected environmental and social concerns throughout her forty-year career. Her projects range from complete landscape restorations to museum venues that reference painting, sound and photography. Early influences on her work include interdisciplinary classical studies, activism, city planning and the merging of science with aesthetics.
Rahmani's current work reflects her interest in the application of mapping analysis, to "explore potential solutions for urban and rural water degradation in large landscapes." Rahmani has taught, lectured and performed internationally, and is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships including two from the Nancy H. Gray Foundation for Art in the Environment in 1999 and 2000.
She is currently using the internet "to perform residencies without the international travel that spews jet fuel over the earth's waters." Virtual Cities and Oceans of If and the on-going Virtual Concerts address global warming and geo-political conflicts by demonstrating, analyzing and interpreting the local impact of global warming at international real world sites.
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS OF WORK
(EXHIBITIONS, FILM FESTIVALS, ETC.)1972 - 1974Public Art
2006 - to present
Virtual Concerts, Podcast events2005
Virtual Residency, web event
2003 - 2005
"Confluence: Eagle's Rest," restoration installation design for landscaping and rail transit stations, commissioned by Arts-in-Transit Program, St. Louis, Missouri2002
"Blue Rocks," site installation, tidal causeway restoration event, Vinalhaven Island, Maine
1991 - 2000
"Ghost Nets", ecological art and environmental restoration of wetland site that functioned as the island's former dump site, Vinalhaven, Maine.1999
"Echoes of the Islands," landscape sculptures, Vinalhaven Island Ferry Terminal, Maine, for the Maine Department of TransportationSolo Art Shows
2002
"If," performance/installation, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine2001
"City of If: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania," Rosemont College, Rosemont, Pennsylvania2000
"City of If: Portland, Maine," University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine1990
"Requiem," Gallery 210, University of Missouri at St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri1989
"Requiem," Grossmont College Art Gallery, San Diego, California"The Outsider in New York City," Todd's Space, New York City, New York
1985
"Seiche Torque: Medicine Wheel Murals," Sushi Gallery, San Diego, California"The Medicine Wheel Murals," Womans Building, Los Angeles, California
1983
"Ghost Dreams," Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, California"New Paintings," Art Gallery, United States International University, San Diego, California
"Floating Worlds Part 1," performance/installation, Center for Music Experiment, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California
"Floating Worlds Part 2," performance/installation, Sushi Gallery, San Diego, California
"Floating Worlds Revisited," performance/installation, Woodland Pattern Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Film in the Cities Gallery, St. Paul, Minnesota
1982
"Floating Worlds," performance/installation, Rachel Rosenthal's Espace DBD, Los Angeles, California1981
"Child Birth," performance/installation, White Columns Gallery, New York City, New York1979
"Figures and Other Images," Penthouse Gallery, Village Hotel, La Jolla, California1974
"Stay, Wait, Look, Listen, My Symphony," performance/installation, Gallery 707, Woman's Building, Los Angeles, CaliforniaSelected Group Exhibitions
2008
"Feeling the Heat" Deutsche Bank Art Gallery New York City, New York
"In Transition Russia 2008" NeMe and the Independent Museum of Contemporary Art (IMCA), Cyprus and in collaboration with the National Centres of Contemporary Art (NCCA), Ekaterinburg and Moscow, Russian Federation2007
"Trigger Points" with Dr. Jim White, as part of the Cultura21 group at the Joseph Beuys 100 days of Conference Pavillion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy"Office of Global Warming" with Anke Mellin, International Nature Art Forum, Licherode, Germany
"Called to Action," curated by Lillian Ball, Artsites, Riverhead, New York
"Bios4", Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain
"Weather Changes," curated by Lucy Lippard, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado
2006
"The Drop," curated by Jodi Hanel, Exit Art, New York City, New York2005
Current Selections, curated by Elaine Crossman, New Era Gallery, Vinalhaven, Maine"Groundworks," curated by Grant Kester, Regina Miller Gallery, Carnegie- Mellon
University, Pittsburg, Pennsylvani"Visions about Nature," curated by Anke Mellin, Korean Nature
2004
"Cities and Oceans of If," collaborative installation from residency, Campus Library, University of Washington at Bothell, Bothell, Washington2003 - 2004
"Imaging the River," Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York2001
"Ecovention," Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
"Rock Rescue," The Art Center at Kingdom Falls, Belfast, Maine
1999
"LA Woman," curated by Barbara T. Smith, The Brewery, Los Angeles, California Group installation, in collaboration with participants of the First International Art and Ecology, invitational workshop and installation, Society for Ecological Restoration, British Park, Jerusalem, Israel1993
"Shaped Structures: Bookworks in FORM," curated by Judith Hoffberg, Beckstrand Gallery, Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, California1992
"Sexual Harassment: A Dialogue," Triplex Gallery, City University of New York, New York City,
New York1990
"Visions of Life," Chuck Levitan Gallery, New York City, New York
1989
"Mythic Moderns," Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut
"The Revolutionary in Art," Castillo Center, New York City, New York
1987
"Undercover," Fresno Art Center, Fresno, California
"Connexus," Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York City, New York
1986
"Family Album," Womans Building, Los Angeles, California
"Violations," Moonmade Space, New York City, New York
"Oppressions/Expressions," curated by Leon Golub, Contemporary Art Center,
New Orleans, Louisiana
1985
"Nine San Diego Artists," San Diego Arts Center, San Diego, California
"16X26 Landscapes," Quint Gallery, San Diego, California
"East/West Rochester," Pyramid Arts Center, Rochester, New York
"California Bookworks," Otis/Parsons Exhibition Center, Los Angeles, California
"From History to Action," curated by Lucy Lippard, Womans Building, Los Angeles, California
1982
"A Decade of Woman's Performance Art," Mandeville Art Gallery, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California
1981
"Christmas Invitational," A.I.R. Gallery, New York City, New York
1980
"A Decade of Women's Performance Art," Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
1979
"Approaches to Xerography," Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
"Book as Art III," Fendrick Gallery, Washington, District of Columbia
1978 - 1979
"Artwords/Bookworks," Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia; Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; Franklin Furnace, New York City, New York
1978
"Copy Art Exhibit," SoHo Hansen Gallery, New York City, New YorkPerformances
2006 - to present
"Virtual Concerts" weekly events on talkshoe.com
1973
"Perfumed Milk," Three Womanspace Performances, Womans Building, Culver City, California
"Meat Piece Film, " California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
1972
"Ablutions, " with Judy Chicago, Suzanne Lacy and Sandi Orgel, Venice, California
1971
Performance, Time & Space, with John White (touring company)
1968 - 1973
The American Ritual Theatre (touring company), Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego at La Jolla, California and San Diego State College, San Diego, California
Education
1972 - 1974
MFA Multi-media and Electronic Music, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
1971 - 1972
BFA Multi-media and Electronic Music, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
1964 - 1967
Art History, Linguistics and Classics Major, Washington Square College, New York University (NYU), New York City, New York; Fine Arts Program, The Cooper Union School of Art & Architecture, New York City, New York
1963 - 1964
Fashion Design, Parsons School of Design, New York City, New York
1960 - 1963
College du Leman and Institute Monte Rosa, Geneva and Montreux, SwitzerlandSELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCE, CONFERENCE PANELS
& SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2008
eartotheearth, Judson Church, New York City, New York
C.W. Post, Long Island, New York
Greening the Earth, Ithaca Center for Environmental Sustainability - in cooperation with the U.S. Partnership for the U.N. Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (UN/DESD) and Ithaca-based Level Green Institute, Ithaca, New York
Waterfall Arts, Kingdom Falls & Belfast, Maine
2007
"Trigger Points, Terrorism and Technology," "New Frontiers in Arts Sociology: Creativity, Support & Sustainability," 4th Interim Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA), Research Network of Sociology for the Arts, Lueneberg, Germany, Venice Biennale, Joseph Beuys Social Sculpture event, "100 days permanent conference," Sept 6, 2007, as part of the
international Cultura21
"F-word Symposium" Art History Dept. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
"Citizen Sound" eartotheearth, Judson Church, New York City, New York
2006
"Trigger Points and Global Warming," New England Workshop for Science and Social Change, Woods Hole Institute of Oceanography, Massachusetts "Ecological Art Today: From Degradation to Transformation," Women's Caucus for the Arts, College Art Association Annual Conference,
Boston, MA
2005
"Hummingbirds in Situ," groundworks, Regina Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburg, Penn.
Art, Culture and Restoration: An Eco-Dialogue, "Social and Cultural Aspects of Ecological Restoration," chaired by David Haley, Society for Ecological Restoration International Conference, Zaragoza, Spain
Ecofeminism panel chaired by Gloria Orenstein, Annual Women's Studies National Conference
2003 - to present
Vermont College, Montpelier, Vermont
2004
Wesleyan University, Middleton, Connecticut
2004
University of Washington at Bothell, Bothell, Washington
2001
ArtSci 2001 Conference with Michele Dionne, CUNY Graduate Center. New York City, New York"Bridging the Binaries," WASTE panel, Chatham College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Casco Bay Diaspora, October 11, 2001"Aesthetics of Participation," panel, The Open Center, New York City, New York
2000
Panel co-chair, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine
"City of If: Portland, Maine." Residency, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine
"City of If: Liverpool, United Kingdom," SER, Liverpool, United Kingdom
"City of If: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania," Residency, Rosemont College, Rosemont, Pennsylvania
1999
Gender Identity in New Media, Invencao Conference, Sao Paulo, Brazil
"Monitoring," "Opening Panel," "Art and Expression," Society for Ecological Restoration, The Presidio of San Francisco, California1st International Art & Ecology Workshop/Conference, Invitational, Jerusalem, Israel Society for Ecological Restoration, The Presidio of San Francisco, California
"Identity," "History of Environmental Art," College of the Atlantic, Maine
"Off the Mainstream, Onto the Mainstream," panel, College Art Association Conference, Los
Angeles, California
1988
"New York's Museums and Artists' Studios," New School for Social Research, New York University Art Department, Performance Art & Related Media
1982 - 1985
"Figurative Painting," San Diego Community College, San Diego, California
1979 - 1986
University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, Art Department, Extension
1972 - 1973
Assistantship with Scholarship to Allan Kaprow, California Institute Arts, Valencia, California
1969 - 1979
Invitational lectures and panel appearances at University of California, San Diego, Extension Art Department; San Diego State College; Kairos, Rancho Santa Fe; Pomona College, Pomona, California; Lone Mountain College, San Francisco, California
Performances
2006 - to present
"Virtual Concerts" weekly events on talkshoe.com
1973
"Perfumed Milk," Three Womanspace Performances, Womans Building, Culver City, California
"Meat Piece Film, " California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
1972
"Ablutions, " with Judy Chicago, Suzanne Lacy and Sandi Orgel, Venice, California
1971
Performance, Time & Space, with John White (touring company)
1968 - 1973
The American Ritual Theatre (touring company), Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego at La Jolla, California and San Diego State College, San Diego, CaliforniaEducation
1972 - 1974
MFA Multi-media and Electronic Music, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
1971 - 1972
BFA Multi-media and Electronic Music, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
1964 - 1967
Art History, Linguistics and Classics Major, Washington Square College, New York University (NYU), New York City, New York; Fine Arts Program, The Cooper Union School of Art & Architecture, New York City, New York
1963 - 1964
Fashion Design, Parsons School of Design, New York City, New York
1960 - 1963
College du Leman and Institute Monte Rosa, Geneva and Montreux, Switzerland
AWARDS AND HONORS
2006
Seconds Program, Golden Paints
2000
Recipient from the Nancy H. Gray Foundation for Art in the Environment
1999
Recipient from the Nancy H. Gray Foundation for Art in the Environment
1999
Finalist for the Creative Capital Foundation grant
1998
Finalist for the Lindbergh Foundation grant
1972 - 1974
Stipend, T. A. and Scholarship to work with Allan Kaprow, California Institute of the Arts,
Valencia, California
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY BY THEME & PROJECT
Feminist Art, General:
2008
"Practical Ecofeminism," Rahmani, Aviva, Blaze; Discourse on Art, Women and Feminism, Cambridge Scholars Press, United Kingdom
2006
Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975, University of Illinois Press, 2006
1983
The Amazing Decade, Roth, Moira, published by Astro Artz
1994
The Power of Feminist Art, Edited by Norma Braude and Mary D. Garrard, published by
Abrams, New York
1975
Through the Flower, Chicago, Judy, published by Doubleday, New YorkCasa Murals:
1986
"Not a Pretty Picture; Can Violent Art Heal?" Raven, Arlene, Village Voice, 6/17/86
"Review: The Medicine Wheel Mural," Wallen, Ruth, High Performance Magazine, Spring
"Views of a Violent World," Morgan, Robert, Sunday Democrat & Chronicle, Rochester
"At the Galleries," McDonald, Robert, November 22, 1985 Los Angeles Times
1984
"California Book Artists," by Butler, Frances, Crafts International
Cities & Oceans of If:
2007
"Environmental Triage: Disturbance Theory, Trigger Points, and Virtual Analogs for Physical Sites," Rahmani, Aviva, Higher Education for Sustainability, edited by Sacha Kagan, Volker Kirchberg, and Gerd Michelsen, director of the Institute for Environmental and Sustainability Communication (INFU), published by Verlag für Akademische Schriften (VAS,) Frankfurt, Germany
"Looking for Inspiration in the Melting Ice" by Claire Dederer, September 23, 2007 Sunday Arts & Leisure, New York Times
"The Butterfly Effect," Rahmani, Aviva, Soundscape Journal, The Journal of Acoustic
"Digging In to Nurture Nature," Genocchio, Benjamin, May 20, 2007 New York Times
2006 "Mapping the Terrain of Contemporary EcoART Practice and Collaboration," Carruthers, http://greenmuseum.org/generic_content.php?ct_id=263
"Birthing A Virtual Residency," Rahmani, Aviva http://greenmuseum.org/generic_content.php?ct_id=268
2005
Groundworks, published by Carnegie Mellon UniversityVisions About Nature curated by Anke Mellin,The Korean Nature Artists Association -Yatoo, Chungnam, S. Korea
Ghost Nets:
2007
Everything Will be Fine- Art Program, EFA Conference
2004
Aesthetics of Ecology: Art in Environmental Design: Theory and Practice, published by Birkhauser Verlag fur Architektur, Basel, Berlin, Boston 2004
2003
"The Greening of Gaia: Ecofeminist Artists Revisit the Garden," Orenstein, Gloria, Ethics and the Environment Vol. 8 no. 1 (Spring 2003): 103-111.
2002
Ecovention; Current Art to Transform Ecologies, by Spaid, Sue, published by Contemporary Art Center and greenmuseum.org
"Why Blue Rocks?" http://greenmuseum.org/content/artist_content/ct_id- 91__artist_id-23.html
2001
"Art-Eco on Vinalhaven," Sutherland, Amy, Maine Telegram, June 10, 2001
"Gulf of Maine Environmental Information Exchange: Participation, Observation, Conversation," Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 28(6): 865-887, (with five co-authors). www.commoncoordinates.com/papers/2001epbgominfoex.pdf
1997
The Lure of the Local, Lippard, Lucy, published by The New Press
1993
Leonardo Almanac, Edited by Craig Harris, published by MIT Press
1991
"Breaking Ground: Art in the Environment," Schwendenwein, Jude, Sculpture Magazine, September/October 1991
1990
"Artist's 'Ghost' is a 9-year Haunt," Tallmer, Jerry, New York Post December 28, 1990
Requiem:
1989
"The Mental Technology of REQUIEM," Rahmani, Aviva, ACT Magazine
"Grief and Joy Unfold in Performance," Ollman, Leah, Los Angeles Times Art in the Public Interest, Edited by Arlene Raven, published by UMI Press, 9/8/89
1988
Crossing Over: Feminism and Art of Social Concern, Raven, Arlene, UMI Research Press
Floating Worlds:
1983
"Review of Floating Worlds Revisited," Sebastian, Jill, New Art Examiner, November 12
"The Floating Worlds Project," Rahmani, Aviva, High Performance Magazine, June
At Home Show Catalogue, Raven, Arlene, published by Long Beach Museum of Art 1982
Floating Worlds, Rahmani, Aviva, InterNetwork, Inc.
"The Reproduction Dilemma," Miller, Elise, Artweek, August
"The Artist as Parent," Miller, Elise, San Diego Magazine, July
Sunsets:
1979
"Saving the Moment: Aviva Rahmani," Burnham, Linda, Montano, Linda, High Performance Magazine, (vol. 2, no. 3)
1978
Copyart, Firpo, Patrick; Katayanagi, Claudia; Alexander, Lester and Ditlea, published by
Bantam Books
Meat Piece:
1973
1973 "Three Womanspace Performances," Smith, Barbara, Artweek, March