Curriculum Vitae

Education:

USC Roski School of Art & Design- Master's 2013
Program: Comparative literature, Contemporary Art History, and Curatorial Practices
Art History Ph.D. coursework in Comparative Literature -Trauma and Memory in Latin America and Spain
USC Roski School of Art & Design, Art History | Studio
Glendale Community College, Graphic Design | Drawing
UCLA, Art History | Theatre Arts

Curatorial Projects:

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

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

The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind The Iron Curtain (2019) Wende Museum)
Metropolis: A Snapshot of Art Making in Los Angeles (2019) Bruce Lurie Gallery
Calafia: Manifesting the Terrestrial Paradise (2019) The Armory
Continuant (2019) Noysky Gallery
Plus One (2019) Art Share Los Angeles
You Is Pretty: Surrealism and the Black Imaginary, (2018) Band of Vices Gallery
House of Witnessing, Simone Leigh/BWA for BLM, Project Row Houses, Houston, 2017
Mass Incarceration, HVW8 Gallery, 2017
Black and Brown Love is Revolutionary, Ave 50 Gallery, 2017
Black Lives Matter Altar, BLM, Hollywood Forever Cemetery, 2016
Artists of Color Flash Mob, Hammer Museum, 2016
Hard Edged, California African American Museum, 2015
One Image-One Minute (performance), Gallery Tally, 2015

Performance, The Descent of Alette: A Reading, Alice Notley, Khalil Huffman, 2014
Riley Mann, See Me, Times Square, NY, Photography FInalist, 2013
Untitled, C.O.L.A., LA Municipal Art Gallery, 2008
Cultural Exchange with Karen Chu, Karen Koblitz, USC Hillel Art Gallery, 2007
Wasted Lives (7 min. Video) Lindhurst Gallery, 2006
Faces in the Office (video), USC Fisher Gallery, 2005
Freddie Roaches Boxing Gym, 5-channel video-PanoChamber Project, USC School of Engineering, 2005
Wasted Lives (7 min. Video) Intermedia, Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery, 2004

Public Presentations

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

Press

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

Gallery Girls: “In Conversation with Chelle Barbour: Dazzling Debut Show of Afro-Surrealist Collages Curated by Angela Bassett”, 2018

YouTube. “Pam Smith-Hudson on Chelle Barbour” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IU3p6qcR-8

Laura Luna. “In Conversation w/Melvin Marshall - Band of Vices Gallery - Chelle Barbour You Is Pretty!”

William Poundstone on Art and Chaos

The Grio. “Angela Bassett co-curates dynamic art show exploring portrayals of Black women in media.” By Kia Morgan-Smith, September 10, 2018

Professional Affiliations

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