Artist
Statement
Education
MA 2010 Studio Art California State University, Northridge, CA
BA 2003 Art History California State University, Northridge, CA
Residencies
2023 Desert Dairy, Twentynine Palms, CA
Dorland Mountain Arts, Temecula, CA
2022 Dorland Mountain Arts, Temecula, CA
2021 Dorland Mountain Arts, Temecula, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Perceive Me, Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
New Work, Shoebox Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Zoom Freeze Selfies, Another Year in LA, Virtual Exhibition
Perceive Me, Coastline Art Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
2021 Perceive Me, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
Perceive Me, Studio Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA
Plus Crowne Plaza and Plus Hard Rock Hotel (new work), Another Year in LA, Virtual Exhibition
2020 Perceive Me, Ronald H Silverman Gallery, Cal State Univ LA, CA
2019 New Paintings, Shoebox Projects. Los Angeles, CA
Plus- Voices Matter, Moorpark Community College, Moorpark, CA
2018 Plus, Ark, Altadena, CA
2015 Mirror, Mirror! Gallery H Phantom Galleries LA, Hawthorne, CA
2014 A Comfortable Skin, Kerckhoff Hall Art Gallery UCLA, presented by UCLA Cultural Arts Commission, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Ce n’est pas une peinture, TRACTIONARTS, Los Angeles,CA
2012 And one man in his time plays many parts, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Over Due, Altadena City Library, Altadena, CA
2010 New Work, The Colony Theatre Company, Burbank, CA
1000+ Avatars Project installation, hosted by New Media Consortium at MIT
2009 Gracie Kendal’s So-called Second Life, Shed Gallery - CSUN, Northridge, CA
Group Exhibitions
2023 Painted Dot, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
50/50, Coastline College Art Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
2022 Fast Forward: The Future is Female, Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Brewery Link, LA Artcore, Los Angeles CA
Realization, CSUN Art Gallery, Northridge, CA, juried by Leonardo Bravo
Duets/With, Coastline Art Gallery, Newport Beach CA
Begin/Again, Open Mind Art Space, Santa Monica CA
Sending Love, Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
2021 2020: Our Vision Our Voices, Sloan Fine Art, Virtual Exhibition
High Beams #4: SPF 405, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2020 Drive-By-Art, Los Angeles, CA
We Are Here/Here We Are, Durden and Ray, Across Los Angeles, CA
Parlor Presents, Shoebox Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Femella, Golden West College, Newport Beach, CA
Kitsch-n-sync, Coastline Community College, Newport Beach, CA
Keystone Art Space Group Show, Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Fresh Start, LAVA Projects, Alhambra, CA
U.S. Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
The Art of The Self, Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA
Beyond the Age of Reason, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
Her, Launch LA, Los Angeles, CA
Poetry of Scale and Space, Surrogate Projects, Pasadena, CA
Dialectic of Being and Becoming, 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, CA
Dragnet: 832, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
Mothers, Eggshells, and the People Who Birth Us, Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
Artist & Researchers 2, USC Keck, Los Angeles, CA
Spell Check, POST, Los Angeles, CA
Let Me Eat Cake, POST, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Landscape, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Spatial Recognition, Finishing Concepts, Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful Parts, CSUN Art Gallery, Northridge CA
Shift and Fade, BLAM Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2016 MAS Attack, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Sticks & Stones, Cactus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Shifting Ground, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Face in the Crowd, Artshare LA, Los Angeles, CA
MAS Attack, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
Feminist Perspective 2.0, MuzeuMM, Los Angeles, CA
Vehicle To Art, Automobile Driving Museum, El Segundo, CA
2015 Chrysalis Lens: A Brief Survey of Contemporary Video Art, Marymount California University, Los Angeles, CA
An Odyssey, 10 Years at the Torrance Art Museum, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Island Girls, bG Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica,CA
Nature vs. Nurture, Red Pipe Gallery, Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA
The Telephone Game, Prohibition Gallery, Culver City, CA
2014 Clothing Optional, Blackboard Gallery, Camarillo, CA, Juried by David Elder
Charmed & Strange, I-5 Gallery @ The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA
FRESH, Southbay Contemporary, Rolling Hills Estates, CA, Juried by Mat Gleason
Art & Algorithms, Digital Arts Festival, Titusville FL/Second Life
2014 10x10, I-5 gallery @ The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA
Sudden Impact, 11:11 A Creative Collective, Tarzana, CA
From Her: An exhibition by Women about Women, Pico House Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Augmented Plateau: Art and Virtual Worlds in HUMlab 2007-2013, HUMlab, Sweden
2013 Dreams, Create:Fixate, Los Angeles, CA
Open Video Night, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
The Pussycat Challenge, Art Share L.A., Los Angeles, CA
Mana, Garboushian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
Vision 2013, Our Becoming… MLY Gallery, Malibu, CA
Recent Press
Diversions LA Kristine Schomaker Celebrates 10 Years Supporting Artists at Shoebox Arts December 2023 https://www.diversionsla.com/kristine-schomaker-celebrates-10-years-supporting-artists-at-shoebox-arts/
Artillery Magazine Review: Kristine Schomaker Coastline College Art Gallery by Genie Davis https://artillerymag.com/kristine-schomaker/
Art and Cake Artist Profile: Kristine Schomaker January 2021 https://artandcakela.com/2021/02/27/artist-profile-kristine-schomaker/
Dazed and Confused Why Kristine Schomaker asked 60 other artists to make nude portraits of her https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/47788/1/kristine-schomaker-la-artist-asked-60-artists-to-make-nude-portraits-of-her
Art and Cake Perceive Me at Cal State LA, Betty Ann Brown https://artandcakela.com/2020/01/30/perceive-me-at-cal-state-la/
CSULA University Times Challenging beauty: ‘Perceive Me’ opens its doors for the Fine Arts Gallery https://csulauniversitytimes.com/challenging-beauty-perceive-me-opens-its-doors-for-the-fine-arts-gallery/
Diversions LA. Perceive This. http://diversionsla.com/perceive-this/.
Artillery Magazine Review: Perceive The Passion: January ends with heat. https://artillerymag.com/perceive-the-passion-january-ends-with-heat/?fbclid=IwAR30VrqfA4soMuZdRPr-U2iuMIBsC3RaM3iAV-pP7fF-DTz5EfPXCr1SZJw
Diversions LA. Renaissance Woman: Artist, Curator, Art Guru Kristine Schomaker. http://diversionsla.com/renaissance-woman-artist-curator-art-guru-kristine-schomaker/
Born to talk Radio, Artist Kristine Schomaker. https://borntotalkradioshow.com/artist-kristine-shomaker/
Art and Cake. Beautiful Parts at CSUN Art Gallery. https://artandcakela.com/2017/10/20/beautiful-parts-at-csun-art-gallery/
Diversions LA. Beautiful Parts. http://diversionsla.com/beautiful-parts/
Diversions LA. The Power of Art Held in a Shoebox: Kristine Schomaker on PR, Gallery Space, and Art Itself. http://diversionsla.com/the-power-of-art-held-in-a-shoebox-kristine-schomaker-on-pr-gallery-space-and-art-itself/
The Heroine’s Journey, The Heroine’s Journey of Kristine Schomaker. https://theheroinejourney2016.wordpress.com/2017/03/31/the-heroines-journey-of-kristine-schomaker/
Professional Artist Magazine, Hire a P.R. Firm By C.M. Schmidlkofer April/May 2017. http://www.professionalartistmag.com/shop/print-issues/aprilmay-2017-print/
Beautiful.Bizarre, Metaphorical Skin: The Art of Kristine Schomaker, 7-13-2016 https://beautifulbizarre.net/2016/07/13/metaphorical-skin-the-art-of-kristine-schomaker/
Huffington Post, Off the Wall, 11-30-15, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shana-nys-dambrot/kristine-schomaker-off-th_b_8665594.html
Diversions LA, Mirror, Mirror! Kristine Schomaker Reflects Our Bodies/Ourselves, Dec 9, 2015. http://diversionsla.com/?p=1794
The B-Side, Kristine Schomaker - Mirror, Mirror! Saturday, December 5, 2015, http://scenesnaps.com/BSIDE/?p=8065
CBS Los Angeles. 8 Best Art Curators In Los Angeles. November 23, 2015. http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/top-lists/8-top-art-curators-in-los-angeles/
Diversions LA, Meet the Artist: Kristine Schomaker, 7-24-15 http://diversionsla.com/?p=34
Artists Portfolio Magazine, Kristine Schomaker, 7-2015 http://issuu.com/artistportfoliomagazine/docs/issue23/11?e=2382761/1417779
Nakid Magazine, An Afternoon at Studio 3- Kristine Schomaker, 7-17-15, http://nakidmagazine.com/2015/07/17/an-afternoon-at-studio-3-kristine-schomaker-exhibitioninstallation/
We Choose Art, We Choose Art: Kristine Schomaker, 6-18-15 http://wechooseart.com/kristine-schomaker/
Lady Clever, Working toward gender equality, 5-20-15 http://ladyclever.com/culture/we-choose-art-working-toward-gender-equality/
The Paper Mixtape, Life inside the Brewery, Spring 2015. https://issuu.com/thepapermixtape/docs/tpm_for_print_final/
ABC7 Eyewitness News. BREWERY ARTS COMPLEX HOSTING FREE SPRING ART WALK. Interviewed by Adrienne Alpert. April 24, 2015. http://abc7.com/entertainment/brewery-arts-complex-hosting-free-spring-art-walk/680750/
Nohoartsdistrict.com, THE HIDDEN ARTIST: Kristine Schomaker, 2-5-15 http://www.nohoartsdistrict.com/industry-art/art-blog/item/2763-the-hidden-artist-kristine-schomaker#.Vgq73PlVhBc
KCET- Departures. The Brewery Art Colony: From Craft Beers to Arts and Crafts. February 2, 2015. https://www.kcet.org/departures-columns/the-brewery-art-colony-from-craft-beers-to-arts-and-crafts
Studios Magazine, Connecting the Dots- Kristine Schomaker, Fall 2014, http://www.interweavestore.com/studios-fall-2014-grouped
Dunn Edwards, An Artist's Haven: The Brewery Art Colony. Sept 5, 2014. https://www.dunnedwards.com/colors/specs/posts/an-artists-haven-the-brewery-art-colony
Art & Algorithms, 2014 and the Virtual Art Initiative. Fall 2014 http://artandalgorithms.com/virtual-art-initiative/
Daily Serving, Fan Mail: Kristine Schomaker, 8-1-14, http://dailyserving.com/2014/08/fan-mail-kristine-schomaker/
Cartwheel Art. Brewery Art Walk: Artists’ Life in the Brewery Art Colony, April 15, 2014. http://www.cartwheelart.com/2014/04/15/brewery-art-walk-artists-life-in-the-brewery-art-colony/
Hyperallergic, A view from the Easel, 2-23-14, http://hyperallergic.com/149294/a-view-from-the-easel-61/
Rogue Art, Avatars, Body Image and Feminism: A Conversation with Kristine Schomaker, 2-28-14 http://rogue-arts.org/avatars-body-image-and-feminism-a-conversation-with-kristine-schomaker/
Daily Bruin, Kerckhoff Art Gallery explores perceptions of beauty, 2-24-14, http://dailybruin.com/2014/02/24/kerckhoff-art-gallery-explores-perceptions-of-beauty/
New World Notes. Artist Turns SL Inventory Into Performance Art, Deleting Every Virtual Item She's Owned Over the Last 7 Years. August 14, 2013. http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2013/08/sl-art-installation.html
irez, Life imitating art, imitating beauty? July 26, 2012. http://irez.me/2012/07/26/life-imitating-art-imitating-beauty/
THE HUMLAB BLOG. Kristine Schomaker’s “My Life as an Avatar: The Gracie Kendal Project” and “1000+Avatars.” January 27, 2012. http://blog.humlab.umu.se/?p=3825
A Passion for Virtual Fashion. “Gracie and the Real Girl” October 20, 2010. https://slfashionpassion.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/gracie-and-the-real-girl/