Still image from 2006 presentation of the digital slide projection Public Smog,
based on the site-specific installation work Public Smog, 2004–ongoing, location and dimensions variable.

2003 view of the site for This Is the Public Domain, 2001–ongoing.
2.64 acres of land near Tehachapi, California. Photo Josh On

BIOGRAPHY

Born: Baltimore, Maryland, 1967

Resides: San Francisco, California

Education: Stanford University (M.F.A., 2003);

School of the Art Institute of Chicago (B.A., 1991)

Websites: www.publicsmog.org

www.thisisthepublicdomain.org

www.invisible5.org

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2006

“Public Smog” (gallery exhibition), Peer, London. Publication.

“Statistic Garden,” Spano Park, Fresno, Fresno Metropolitan Museum, California. Catalogue.

2005

“This Is the Public Domain” (poster series), CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco.

2004

“Public Smog,” over the Southern California Air Quality Management District. publicsmog.org

2001

“This Is the Public Domain,” Tehachapi, California. thisisthepublicdomain.org

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008

“Disclosures: View-on-Demand Film and Reading Library,” Gasworks, London.

“Vapor,” Southern Exposure, San Francisco.

“Pixelache Festival,” Helsinki.

“Greenwashing: Environment—Perils, Promises and Perplexities,” Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy.

“Free Culture,” Rum 46, Århus, Denmark.

2007

“Just Space(s),” Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE).

“Hacking Spike,” in “Offload: Systems of Survival” festival, Spike Island Centre of Contemporary Art & Design, Bristol, U.K.

2006

“Project Placement,” Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland.

“Radical Software: Art, Technology, and the Bay Area Underground,” CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco. Traveled. Catalogue.

“Invisible-5,” Southern Exposure, San Francisco. www.invisible5.org

2004

“This Way Please: Tours of the Everyday,” Pond, San Francisco.

“Version>04: Invisible Networks,” Chicago Cultural Center.

2003

“No War,” The Luggage Store, San Francisco.

“Our Hospitality,” Adobe Books, San Francisco.

2002

“Murphy & Cadogan Award Exhibition,” San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery.

2001

“La Perruque,” office/gallery, San Francisco.

Selected Bibliography

2007

Minton, Anna. “Down to a Fine Art,” Guardian (London, January 10).

Rich, Kate. “Promised Lands,” Mute 2, no. 5 (London, online edition, May 9).

2006

Andrews, Max, ed. Land, Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook. London: RSA Arts & Ecology.

Hubbard, Sue. “The New Romantics,” New Statesman (London, December 4).

Kunzru, Hari. “This Is the Public Domain,” Mute (London, Winter/Spring).

Palm, Kristin. “Not Just Another Roadside Attraction,” Metropolis (June).

Polla, Barbara, and Wolf, Laurent. “L’Emprise de L’Art,” Le Temps (Geneva, December 30).

2003

Meyers, Julian. “Our Hospitality,” Frieze (November–December).

2002

Franceschini, Amy, ed. “Harvest,” Futurefarmers: 1995–2002, Hong Kong: Systems Design.

2000

Bossé, Laurence; Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn; and Obrist, Hans Ulrich, eds. La Ville, Le Jardin,

La Memoire. Paris: Académie de France; and Rome: Villa Medici.

1998

Moed, Andrea. “The Zine-ing of Architecture,” Metropolis (July).