12613 ½ Venice Blvd.
Mar Vista CA 90066 USA
t 310.915.1930
Born 1976 Lincoln, Nebraska
Lives and works in Los Angeles
(www.florawiegmann.com)
Education
University of California, Los Angeles, M.F.A. Dept. of Art and Architecture
Columbia College, Chicago, B.A. in Dance
Laban Centre for Movement and Dance, London
Select Live Performance
3 Sets, 2013, Los Angeles
Allay Alight (with undertow), 2013, Los Angeles
Fly (with Miljohn Ruperto), 3-D animation and live performance, 2013, LA><ART
Swimming Laps, 2013, Los Angeles
Warm Up, 2012, University of California, Bakersfield
Performa11, Ginger Island Exhibition, 2011, New York City
Allay Alight, 2011, Berkeley
After M+G (Backbone Trails) and (London), 2010, London
MiSHA + GIRLS, 2010, Los Angeles
Wandering (still) and (detail), performance/film 2010, 2011, 2012 Various Locations
Innocence in Extremis, 2009, New York
Work, 2009, Banff, Canada
Alan Kaprow’s 18 Happenings in Six Parts, 2008, Los Angeles
Lacma Alpha Bcam, 2008, performance/video, Los Angeles
ARE WE NOT DRAWN ONWARD, WE FEW, DRAWN ONWARD TO NEW ERA?, 2008, New York
American Bald Eagle—Animal Scores, 2008, New York
Ballos/Granat/Wiegmann, 2008, New York and St. Louis
All Day Dance, 2007, six hours, New York
Adaptive Lines, 2007, 3 minutes, 16mm to digital
Nugget Rodeny, 2006, site-specific work, Salt Flats in Wonder Valley, CA
De-Installation, 2004, site-specific work, Grenoble, France
De-installation Series, 2004, 9 works in 9 months, New York
Selected Exhibitions
2017
Scores for Diagrams, El Segundo Museum of Art
Quartet for the End of Time, Factory Place, Los Angeles
Antoine Meditations 1-4, MonkeyTown, Los Angeles
2017
Scores for Diagrams, El Segundo Museum of Art
Quartet for the End of Time, Factory Place, Los Angeles
Antoine Meditations 1-4, MonkeyTown, Los Angeles
2016
Following Beatrix, Occidental College, Los Angeles
Halo of Consciousness, Union Station, Seattle
Magnetic Between, Aspen Museum, Aspen
Halo of Consciousness, Union Station, Seattle
Magnetic Between, Aspen Museum, Aspen
2014
Till You Drop, Greystone Mansion, Los Angeles
Dyslexicon, c.nichols project, Los Angeles, CA (ongoing)
The Artist Theater Program, EMPAC, Troy, NY
Onset, Marxhausen Gallery of Art
Concordia University, Seward, Nebraska
Monday or Tuesday, Camden Arts Centre London, UK
Till You Drop, Greystone Mansion, Los Angeles
Dyslexicon, c.nichols project, Los Angeles, CA (ongoing)
The Artist Theater Program, EMPAC, Troy, NY
Onset, Marxhausen Gallery of Art
Concordia University, Seward, Nebraska
Monday or Tuesday, Camden Arts Centre London, UK
2013
The Stand In (or a glass of milk) curated by Alexandra Gaty and Lauren Mackler, Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA
Performance and screening organized by Silke Otto-Knapp, 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA
Nada Fair, Contemporary Dancing (organized by Cafe Dancer and Sam Gordon), Basketball City, NYC, NY
Flora Wiegmann and Miljohn Ruperto
LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA
HomeLA, Swimming pool of a residential home, Los Angeles, CA
HomeLA, Swimming pool of a residential home, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Zero:1 Biennial, Body Envelope
Montalvo Arts Center, Los Gatos, CA
Sunday @ 4, Todd Madigan Gallery, UC Bakersfield
Split Moment. UAM, Cal State Long Beach
The Artist’s Ball (with Jedediah Caesar), Greystone Mansion, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Performa 11, Ginger Island (with Amy Granat)
Emily Harvey Foundation, New York City, NY
Jacob Kassay Selects (with Drew Heitzler), London ICA, London, UK
Matrix Live, Berkeley Art Museum and PAC, Berkeley, CA
Cinema Zero, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York City, NY
2010
The Miami Set, Outpost NYC DCG
NADA Art Fair, Miami, FL
SASIC 9, Tracing Chaos: Aesthetics in the Surf Zone
Scripps Oceanographic Institute, La Jolla, CA
Dance With Camera, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ
California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport CA
More Pricks than Kicks (with Amy Granat), David Roberts Foundation, London UK
Dance With Camera, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston TX
Perform! Now! (with Amy Granat and JMY Leary), Pepin Moore Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2009
Performa 09 (with Amy Granat and Felicia Ballos)
Emily Harvey Foundation, New York City, NY
Dance With Camera, Philadelphia ICA, Philadelphia, PA
Standing Anywhere in a Relaxed Position (with Silke Otto-Knapp), Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada
Forum Lounge (with Mark Verabioff)
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
2008
Machine Project @ LACMA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Champion Zero (with Felicia Ballos)
Rental, New York City, NY
California Biennial (CB08) (with Anna Sew Hoy)
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Plieades, Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA
Black Noise (with Drew Heitzler), CNEAI, Paris, FR
Anatomy Riot #24, The Open Space, Los Angeles, CA
Bendover/Hangover, White Flags Projects, St. Louis, MO
Reinterpretation of Alan Kaprow’s 18 Happenings in Six Parts
L.A.C.E, Los Angeles, CA
Animal Scores, Animal Estates, Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
An Evening with Cinema Zero, The Kitchen, New York, NY
2007
Smock Shop (a project by Andrea Zittel)
Susan Inglett Gallery, New York City, NY
Carte Blanche, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY
Black Noise (with Drew Heitzler), Mamco, Geneva, CH
Container, Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
World’s Largest Walkie Talkie Network, LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA
Dancing 9 to 5, Whitney Museum of American Art, Altria, New York, NY
2006
High Desert Test Sites
Wonder Valley, CA
Dance videovideo Dance, MonkeyTown, New York, NY
Anatomy Riot #5, Los Angeles, CA
Frisbee, Art Basel, Miami, FL
When Artists Say We (with Drew Heitzler), Artists Space, New York, NY
2005
Lesser New York
Fia Backström Project, Brooklyn, NY
Black Noise (with Drew Heitzler), Gallerie Ecart at Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Visual Noise, The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA
Champion Fine Art: 2003-2005 (with Drew Heitzler), Art2102, Los Angeles, CA
Invisible Hands and the Common Good (with Drew Heitzler), Champion Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Aux Frontieres du Degree Zero
Le 102, Grenoble, France
Connect the Dots (with Drew Heitzler)
LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
Residencies
2009
Banff Centre for Creativity, Banff, Canada
Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2004
Le 102, Grenoble, France
Curatorial and Other Projects
2011-Present
Triple A, (0ngoing with Justin Beal, Francois Ghebaly, Emma Gray, Drew Heitzler and Al Moran), Los Angeles, CA
2008
Curator, Zero, Rental Gallery, New York City, NY
Selection Committee Member, Art2102, Los Angeles, CA
Board Member, Genesis Project, Los Angeles, CA
Pleiades: Seven days and Seven Dancers, Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Sundown Salon: Dancing Convention (co-curated with Fritz Haeg), Los Angeles, CA
2003-2005
Champion Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY and Los Angeles, CA
Panels/Presentations
Activism, Performance and the Ephemeral, Orange County Museum of Art, 2011
Standing Anywhere in the Space in a Relaxed Position, Banff Centre for Creativity, Banff, Canada. July 26, 2009
Action and Site-Specificity, Headlands Center for the Arts, May 21, 2009
State of the Independents: Roving Spaces, Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles, March 4, 2006
Sunshine Quoi? Temporary Contemporaries, Art2102, Los Angeles, Dec. 18, 2005
Books and Catalogs
2010 California Biennial Catalog, Sarah C. Bancroft, Del Monico Books, 2010
Dance With Camera, Edwin Denby, Shirley Clark, and Janelle Porter, ICA University of Philadelphia Pub., 2010
Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive, Fritz Haeg, Evil Twin Pub., 2009
Chapion Zero, Andrew Heitzler and Flora Wiegmann, 2nd Cannons Pub., 2008
Black Noise, John Armleder, Amy Granat, and Mai-Thu Perret, Ecart Publications, 2007
Articles/Reviews
Obscene City, Flaunt, Feb. 2012
Carol Cheh, Sh*t Performance Artists Do, LA Weekly, Feb. 3 2012
Kevin McGarry, Out There/Mystery Theater, T Magazine, Feb. 1, 2012
Carol Cheh, Ball of Artists Crashes Greystone Mansion, LA Weekly blog, Jan 30, 2012
Artists clown around in LA Mansion, Phaidon, Jan. 2012
Kate Mattingly, Review of Silke Otto-Knapp at the BAM, The Berkeley Graduate, Oct. 3, 2011
Carol Cheh, Not the Same Old Song and Dance, Another Righteous Transfer, Feb. 17, 2011
Becky Hunter, Philadelphia Dance with Camera, MAP Magazine, Winter 2009, pg.81
Catherine Wood, Best of 2009, Artforum International, December 2009, pg. 185
Eduard Sozanski, Art: Camera Alters, Enhances Dance, The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 20, 2009
Brian Droitcour, Camera Ready, Rhizome.org, Sept 10, 2009
Tim Christison, Dancing Watercolours, Fast Forward Weekly, Aug. 6, 2009
Silke Otto Knapp: the Dancer and the Dance, Canadian Art, Aug 27, 2009
Andrew Bernadini, Black Market, Artforum.com, July 18, 2009
Catherine Wagley, The Best Kind of Boring:2008 California Biennial, DailyServing.com, December 1, 2008
Carly Berwick, The Facebook Biennial, New York Magazine, Feb. 29, 2008
Cathreine Taft, Just Desert, Artforum.com, July 11, 2006
Jennifer Dunning, Dance In Review: Shimmering, Sensous, and Brainy Too, New York Times, March 19, 2002
(for curatorial and other projects)
Catherine Wagley, Best Highbrow Public Art 2012, LA Weekly, Sept 2012
Andrea Scott, The best (and worst) of 2006, Time Out New York, December 28, 2006
Rachel Kushner, On The Ground Los Angeles, Artforum, December, 2006
Bruce Hainley, artquake, The New York Times Magazine, October 1, 2006
Holland Cotter, Where the Focus Is Sharp But the Categories Blurry, The New York Times, August 16, 2006
David Grosz, Haunted By Ghosts, And By the Art World, The New York Sun, August 3, 2006
Amra Brooks, Must See Art, LA Weekly, July 28 々 August 3, 2006
Christopher Knight, Disconcerting World Views, The Los Angeles Times, July 21, 2006
William Pym, Independents’ Day, artforum.com, July 7, 2006
(for Champion Fine Art):
Lauri Firstenberg, The Backroom, Frieze, January, 2006
Matt Keegan, Top Ten, Artforum, February, 2006
Linda Yablonsky, Naked or Rude, artforum.com, June, 2005
Michael Ned Holte, Carter Mull (review), artforum.com, September, 2005
Maika Pollack, #13: Pictures With People, Flash Art, October, 2004
Jutta Koether, Ich Will Eine Stadtkünstlerin Sein, Texte Zur Kunst, June, 2004