Kiersten Puusemp

Biography

Born 1973, Kingston, NY
Lives and works in California

Education

BFA 1997, University of California, Berkeley 
MFA 2005, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2007, The Mountain School of Arts, Los Angeles

• Solo/Collaborative Exhibitions

  2011
  High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, CA

  2008 

  Whole Wide World, The Box, Los Angeles, CA  

  2007 

  Tuesday Night, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

  2006 

  Corona, Issue no. 2 (ed. 500).

  A Perfect Night, JMOCA, Los Angeles, CA

  2005

  Kiersten Puusemp, F2, Los Angeles, CA

  2004 

  Nothing to See Here, The Living Room, Pasadena, CA

  Illegible - 10 Days, F-Space, Los Angeles, CA

• Public Projects

  2010-2015
  Creator/director of The Weekend Residency

  2010-2015
  Curator/co-founder of A Ship In The Woods, Del Mar, CA

• Selected Group Exhibitions

  2012
  Psycho-pomp, A Ship In The Woods, Del Mar, CA

  2011
  The Pursuit of Happiness - Experiments in Radical Leisure, A Ship In The Woods, Del Mar, CA

  2010
  Says I, Parker Jones, Los Angeles, CA

  From The Collection, The Box, Los Angeles, CA

  2009
  NADA Art Fair, The Box, Miami Beach, FL

  2008 

  JMOCA NADA Art Fair Totem, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
  Egoesdayglo, Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles, CA
  Artists As Publishers, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY

  2007 

  Circus Year, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

  Talented Young People, Co-Lab, Copenhagen, Denmark

  Criteria: Los Angeles, Galeria Perdida, Mexico City and Schalter,  Berlin 

  The Wonder of it All, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

  Made For Each Other, Schalter, Berlin, Germany

  Capitalist Hippies, CirkulationsCentralen, Malmo, Sweden

  2006 

  Carmada, Schindler House, Los Angeles, CA, An exhibition curated by Sonja Vordermaier.

  Many, Many Guys and Girls, All Real Beauties, Circus of Books, Los Angeles, CA, An exhibition curated by Julian Hoeber.
  Kippenberger Works, JMOCA, Los Angeles, CA

  2005 

  National Observer, Circus of Books, Los Angeles, CA

  For Tomorrow, Lucky Tackle, Oakland, CA

  Supersonic, L.A. Design Center

  Delusionarium II, White Box Gallery, Marina del Rey, CA

  Visual Scholars: New School, Up and Coming Southern California Artists, Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, CA 

  2004 

  F2 Inaugural Show, F2 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

  2003 

  Good Thru, F-Space, Los Angeles, CA

  D.S.L.R. West, Balazo Gallery, San Francisco, CA

  1998 

  Toxicity Presents, Toxicity, Oakland, CA

  1996  

  Various performance art shows at The Sandcrawler, Oakland, CA

  1997-1995 

  Various performance art shows at 40th Street, Oakland, CA

  1995 

  Ashes to Ashes, Berkeley, CA

  1994 

  Happy Little Magic Club, Collaborative performance group rc drone including Nato Thompson, Trevor Paglen and Aaron Gach.

• Publications

  2013

  For The Benefit Of Friends Collected, December 2013

  2009
  Flash Art International, #264, January / February

  2006 

  Corona Magazine, Issue no. 2 (ed. 500).

  Delusionarium Catalog, August 2006

Past Shows