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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

  • Repossession, 2025-26, Spelman College Bank of America Gallery, Atlanta, GA

  • Repossessions, 2025 California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA

  • 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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CHELLE
BARBOUR
visual artist


 

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INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST PRACTICE  
Chelle Barbour is an interdisciplinary visual artist, cultural producer, and independent curator. While her initial foray into the arts began in theatre, Chelle's art has expanded into a fully engaged practice of collage and mixed media design,  writing, and photography  Chelle's artwork has been presented in solo, gallery and museum exhibitions. Her collage and photographic works are in the permanent collections of the California African American Museum, the Photographic Archive at the  J. Paul Getty Museum, The Wende Museum, Bank of America Collection, The Richard Seavest Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and other private art collections.
 
As an institutional collaborator, Chelle has participated in international panel discussions at The Wende Museum  exhibition for The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain, she was a symposium moderator for We Wanted A Revolution: Black Radical Women 1960-1985 at CAAM, and a discussant on the lively College Art Association panel, How Will Feminist Culture Engage the Future?"   Chelle has led collage workshops, lectures, and conversations at UC Riverside, LACMA, Azusa Pacific University, Vassar College,  Harvey Gantt Center for African America Art , Kidspace Museum, Riverside Art Museum, and other. For  institutional collaborations, workshops, art acquisitions or commissions, or please email  chellebarbourstudio@gmail.com.
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