Monet Clark
b. 1968, Los Angeles
UPCOMING
2024
Colonial Climate, The Great Unraveling will be broadcast and worldwide live streamed starting September 11th, 2024 at 9:35 pm (CET) and various screenings throughout September on https://www.okto.tv/de/tv/ Austria. Check the link for DELETE TV programming.
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO
2011:
California Girl, a Retrospective Debut, Krowswork Gallery, Oakland, CA
GROUP
2024:
California Liminal, A Deposition of Alternative Culture and Freedom Predating Burning Man, BMIR (Burning Man Information Radio) 94.5 FM, Burning Man, Black Rock City, Nevada
Bunny Girl, Cauldron Film Festival, Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City, Utah
In Flux: Recalibrating the Unknown, The Museum of Northern California Art (MONCA) 3/21/2024 – 5/12/2024, Chico, California (curated by Jeremy P.H. Morgan)
2022:
Flying Blind: Raven Woman Monet Clark, Interviewed by Chicken Woman Linda Mary Montano, online video presentation, The Internal Beauty Salon, NY, NY
Spells and Incantations for Gathering, live performance The Artists Are Present: A Spell of Gratitude for the Hothouse of Dissonance, EMERGENYC 2022 virtual event
Linda Mary Montano’s Birthdayrama, virtual streamed 21 hour audience participatory life/art performance event, Franklin Furnace, NY; Grace Exhibition Space, NY; Streamside 7, the unceded territory of the Munsee Lenape people; E.A.R.T.H. Lab (Environmental Art, Research, Theory & Happenings, San Francisco), CA; Three Phase Center, NY; and The Interior Beauty Salon, NY;
2021:
Ritual For A Living Future, exhibition for Living Future21 Inclusion + Diversity conference, International Living Future Institute, Seattle, WA (curated by Monet Clark)
Nevada County Reads and Writes Art Walk, screened Colonial Climate, the Great Unraveling, The Alpha Building for the Nevada City Library, Nevada City, CA
2020 – 2021:
INVOCATION DEMOCRACY, A Political and Mystical Virtual Exhibition, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA holding vigil for a peaceful transition of power and the democracy we envision October 30, 2020 – January 20, 2021 Inauguration Day (curated by Monet Clark)
2020:
Supermoon Transmissions 5, live stream performance art and video show and fundraiser, LAST Projects, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Liz Walsh)
Supermoon Transmissions 4, live stream performance art and video show, LAST Projects, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Liz Walsh)
HABITAT CALIFORNIA: Flora and Fauna, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA (curated by Artillery Magazine editor Tulsa Kinney)
Pete’s Cafe SFAI in the 90s, Highlight Reel of Wax Lips, Great Highway Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Here Comes Everybody, cable television video art program screening Ivy and Penelope, Portland, OR; Seattle, WA; Los Angeles, & Berkeley, CA; Olympia, WA; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; and more (curated by Bill Turk)
2019:
Almost Public / Semi-Exposed 6, ATA Window Gallery, performance video projected installation Völva Saga Silenced
Farm and Friends – in 3D, Telematic Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Love, Cruelty and Self Destruction screening, SF Cinematheque in collaboration with Telematic Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Völva Saga the Prequel, operatic wish sorcery, live performance 4 Waves: 40 Performances for the Hole, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
Here Comes Everybody, cable television video art program is screening 1991’s Ivy and Penelope in Portland, OR; Seattle, WA; Los Angeles, & Berkeley, CA; Olympia, WA; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; and more (curated by Bill Turk)
I Am Nature, Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Gary Brewer)
2018:
2018 SF Camerawork Curated Benefit Auction, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
NOW, A Performance/Video Art Ritual, a 10 screen performance video ritual created by John Sanborn and Monet Clark, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
The Channel of Democracy: Womanhood, Power & Freedom in Video Art, Photofairs San Francisco 2018 CONNECTED video art program and panel discussion, the Festival Pavilion at Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA (curated by Justin Hoover)
Here Comes Everybody, cable television video art program screened BUNNY GIRL, Portland, OR; Seattle, WA; Los Angeles, CA; Olympia, WA; Boston, MA and more (curated by Bill Turk)
2017:
AViFF Art Film Festival, Cannes, France, screened BUNNY GIRL
Bideodromo 2017, the Sarean Cultural Center, Bilbao Spain, screened BUNNY GIRL
Sixth RAPID PULSE International Performance Art Festival, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, IL, screened MUSE
Here Comes Everybody, cable television video art program screened Butterfly’s Shoe Fetish, Portland, OR; Seattle, WA; Los Angeles, CA; Olympia, WA; Boston, MA and more (curated by Bill Turk)
Filmchella, Twentynine Palms, CA screened BUNNY GIRL
Culver City Film Festival, Cinemark 18 & XD, Los Angeles, CA screened BUNNY GIRL
Here Comes Everybody, cable television video art program screens in Seattle, WA; Portland, OR; Los Angeles, CA; Olympia, WA; & Boston, MA and more screened MUSE (curated by Bill Turk)
2016:
RETHink Art Digital Festival, The House of Culture, Rethymnon, Crete, Greece, screened BUNNY GIRL
Tasmanian Eco Film Festival, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, screened BUNNY GIRL
Rise of the Phoenix, Phoenix Performance, The Goddess Temple, Boulder Creek, CA, USA
Cine Pobre Film Festival, La Paz, Mexico, screened BUNNY GIRL
The Other VENICE FILM FESTIVAL, Venice, CA, USA, screened BUNNY GIRL
Short and to the Point Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania, screened BUNNY GIRL
Sila Festival, An International Eco Film Festival, San Pietro Magisano, Italy, screened BUNNY GIRL
The Fates, 3 woman evolving exhibition and residency, included The Intuitive Feminist performance, the Performance in Nature series and BUNNY GIRL debut, Krowswork Gallery, Oakland, CA
2015:
The Dragon’s Pearl, Water, Rose & Salt Ritual live performance, The Goddess Temple, Boulder Creek, CA
2014:
Orange Skies Sculpture Show, California Cool live performance, House on the Hill, Los Angeles, CA
2013:
ArtPadSF Art Fair for Krowswork Gallery, Phoenix Hotel, San Francisco, CA
See You Next Tuesday, Autzen Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR (curated by Jennifer Locke)
2012:
Freak Out, Synchronicity Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Shalo P)
Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival, video program, Chicago, IL
Horsies and Hippies, Gallery Heist, two person exhibition with Dale Hoyt, San Francisco, CA
2011:
Have You Seen My Privacy, 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, CA (curated by Richard Neuton)
Radical Light: That Little Red Dot, Cinematheque & Pacific Film Archive, San Francisco, CA
2010:
SFMOMA: Now Playing, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (curated by Chris Johanson)
The Best of Waxed Lips: San Francisco Video & Performance Art, Queens Nails, San Francisco, CA
Exposure, A Conference Exploring Vulnerability, Outerspace, Chicago, IL (presented by Julie Laffin)
2009:
Favorite This! Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA (curated by Carolyn Castano)
Art Tank, Lacy Studio Lofts, Los Angeles, CA
She Rock, First Time LA, Los Angeles, CA
2008:
Cannibal Flower Gallery’s 8th Anniversary Show, Cannibal Flower Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Poisoning/Phoenix Performance Documents, Safari Sams, Hollywood, CA
2007:
XX/XY Show, Hangar 1018, Los Angeles CA
$99.95 Show, Truxstop Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1995:
The Harvest Show, The Knitting Factory, Presented by Art In General Gallery, New York, NY
New Reality, Smart Show Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
Video Art from San Francisco, Galleri Rotor, Gothenburg, Sweden
Fast Forward: 4 Video Artists from San Francisco, Malmoe Konsthall, Malmoe, Sweden
1994:
Rebel Girls, The Knitting Factory, New York, NY
The Aesthetics of Sexual Transgression, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (curated by Carlo McCormick)
Strip Club: The High Art Low Art Confluence (a site specific video installation), The New Century Theater, San Francisco, CA
1993:
Trance Sex- A State of Mystical Absorption, Amanda M. Obering Gallery of Contemporary Art, Mondrian Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
Voyeurism Subverted (a site specific video screening), The New Century Theater, San Francisco, CA
Electronic Arts Intermix Presents: New Video Artist’s Screening, The Kitchen, New York, NY
San Francisco Video Art, The Academy of Video Arts, Koln, Germany
San Francisco Video Art, WP8, Dusseldorf, Germany
Erotic Art, Art Attack Gallery, San Francisco, CA
No More Space for Art, Anti-Matter Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Exploding Ships, Artists Television Access, San Francisco, CA
1992:
Assorted Lunacies, Three Muses Art Space, San Francisco, CA
The 13 Artists Awards 1992 Opening Performance, Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo Main Theater, Cultural Center of the Philippines Contemporary Art Museum, Pasay, Metro Manila, The Philippines
1991:
Opening Exhibition, Art Attack Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990:
Pregnant Nudes, Still Lights Gallery, The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
CURATION
2021:
Ritual For A Living Future, Living Future21 Inclusion + Diversity virtual conference, International Living Future Institute, Seattle, Washington, April 20-23, 2021
2020 – 2021:
INVOCATION DEMOCRACY, A Political and Mystical Virtual Exhibition, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA October 30, 2020 – January 20, 2021 Inauguration Day
HONORS
2018:
Dr. Bronnors Family Foundation grant awarded for NOW, A Video Art Ritual collaboration with John Sanborn
2017:
The Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation grant for NOW, A Video Art Ritual collaboration with John Sanborn
The Bernard Osher Foundation grant for of NOW, A Video Art Ritual collaboration with John Sanborn
1991:
Merit Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute
1990:
Sobel Memorial Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute
INCUBATOR AND AFFINITY NETWORK:
2022:
EMERGENYC, international 3 month gathering of selected performance artists via Zoom, facilitated out of NY, NY
RESIDENCY
2021:
International Living Future Institute, Seattle, WA
2016:
Krowswork Gallery, Oakland, CA
GUEST ARTIST and LECTURES
2021:
International Living Future Institute, Seattle, WA, Living Future21 Inclusion + Diversity virtual conference, artist in residence presentation Ritual For A Living Future
2020:
Instituted for Cultural Activism International, Episode 05: Monet Clark Eco-Feminist and Performance Based Video/Photographic Artist
Pro Arts Commons, Oakland Artist talk 2 for INVOCATION DEMOCRACY, A Political and Mystical Exhibition with live performance by Linda Montano, with Ann McCoy, Edgar Fabián Frías, Darrin Martin and moderated by curator Monet Clark
Pro Arts Commons, Oakland Artist talk 1 for INVOCATION DEMOCRACY, A Political and Mystical Exhibition with Edgar Heap of Birds, Penny Slinger, John DiLeva Halpern and Jennifer Locke, moderated by curator Monet Clark
2018:
SF Camerawork, Artist Talk for NOW, Monet Clark & John Sanborn in conversation with Matt Sussman, co-presented by Bay Area Video Coalition, BAVC and at SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Photofairs San Francisco 2018, The Channel of Democracy: Womanhood, Power & Freedom in Video Art panel discussion, the Festival Pavilion at Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
2014:
San Francisco Art Institute, Film Department, The Andy Warhol Class, Dale Hoyt, San Francisco, CA
2012:
San Francisco Art Institute, New Genres Department, New Genres II, Jennifer Locke, San Francisco, CA
2011:
San Francisco Art Institute, New Genres Department, New Genres II, Jennifer Locke, San Francisco, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Full articles under PRESS
Press for Monet Clark’s Chrome collaboration under CHROME
Harrison, Esther, “Monet Clark –Rise of Raven Woman, Coeur et Art, December 2022
Genser, Julie, “When Me Becomes We: Monet Clark”, Planet Thrive, August 2021
3BL Media, “Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Leaders Bring Perspectives on Justice to Premier Green Buildings Event Keynotes; Join Biden Administrative Leader”, Power Grid International, April 2021
Brackett, Donald, “The Democratic Muse: Invoking the Future”, Critics At Large, December, 2020
SF/ARTS, INVOCATION DEMOCRACY: A Political and Mystical Virtual Exhibition, Curated by Monet Clark, SF/ARTS, December, 2020
CatSynth TV, “INVOCATION DEMOCRACY Episode 303″, curator’s walkthrough, CatSynth TV, October 2020
Nys Dambrot, Shana, “More than a walkthrough: galleries get creative in their digital and analog adaptions”, LA WEEKLY, May 2020
Nys Dambrot, Shana, “Art at Home May 1-3”, LA WEEKLY, May 2020
Chaudhary, Amanda, “Episode 184 Farm and Friends in 3D!” CatSynth TV, October 2019
Sussman, Matt, “Fall Arts Preview: 10 Can’t Miss Art Shows, 48hills, September, 2019
Davis, Genie, “Nature is Nurtured at Transcendent Exhibition at Loft at Liz’s”, Diversions LA, April 2019
Wood, Eve, “I Am Nature, Loft at Liz’s”, Art and Cake, March 2019
Frock, Christian L., “March Highlights from Dance to Galleries, NOW, A Video Art Ritual”, SF Arts Monthly, Vol 26 No. 12, March 2018
Cutting-edge Video Art Given Dedicated Platform at PHOTOFAIRS | San Francisco, artsy, December 2017
Selcer, Anne Lesley, “A Playboy Bunny Navigates the Politics of Dystopia”, HYPERALLERGIC, June, 2017
St. Jacques, Jillian, Features and Essays “Dangerous Dakini: Monet Clark’s Bunny Girl and Other Precarious Performance Videos”, AFTERIMAGE, Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism vol. 44, #4 February, 2017
Hoyt, Dale, Feature: Conversations “A BUNNY THING HAPPENED —A Conversation With Monet Clark”, Stretcher July, 2016
Blay, Yannick, “Interview CHROME”, The New Noise Magazine, France, pg 60-62, July-August, 2014
Martin, Jimmy, “A Scrap Metal Colossus”, The Quietus, UK, June, 4, 2014
Keenan, David, “CHROME, Feel It Like A Scientist”, WIRE Magazine, England, April, 2014, pg 53
Chaudhary, Amanda, “Art Fairs SF 2013”, Stretcher, July, 7, 2013
Jennings, Scott S., “The Art Fair in Review”, Mosshouse, June 14, 2013
SFAQ Editorial Staff, “ARTPAD SF HIGHLIGHTS PART 2 OF 2”, AQ, MAY 18, 2013
Chaudhary, Amanda, “Art Fairs SF 2013”, Catsynth, June, 2013
Lindstrom, Peter, “Chrome”, Orebrostad, Sweden, May, 2013
dixe.flatlin3, “Third Times a Charm”, Paraphilia Magazine, May, 2013
Bamberger, Alan, “San Francisco Art Gallery Openings Part II”, ArtBusiness.com, First Thursday, August, 2, 2012
Hoyt, Dale, “Monet Clark, California Girl at Krowswork”, Stretcher, December 1, 2011
Dobey, Peter, “The Fine Line Between Sexy and Sickness”, HYPERALLERGIC, December 2, 2011
Eternity, Max, “Video Archetypes of a California Girl”, MaxEternity.com, November, 2011
Rosa, Nichole, “Monet Clark at Krowswork”, Art in Limbo, December 12, 2011
Squarecylinder, “Galleries and Museums”, Squarecylinder, December, 2011
Cheng, Dewitt, “Picks Monet Clark: California Girl”, East Bay Express, November 30-December 6, 2011
Blair, Doniphan, “Oakland Angles Against Film and Art”, CineSource, December, 5, 2011
Payne, Bridget Watson, “Brooklyn of the West”, Pippa’s Cabinet, December, 6, 2011
Genser, Julie, “Art Show Detailing Environmental Illness Gets Great Press”, Planet Thrive, December, 4, 2011
Laffin, Julie, “Life as Art: Healing from CFS, FMS, MCS, performance artist Monet Clark’s inspiring story”, Planet Thrive, September, 30, 2010
Wall, Melissa, “Iran Election Street Art in Los Angeles”, Demotix, the home of leading photojournalism, December, 5, 2009
PUBLISHED
2014:
Album cover, CHROME, “Feel It Like A Scientist“
2013:
Album cover, CHROME, “Half Machine from the Sun, the Lost Chrome Tracks from ’79-’80”
1991:
Pictorial, On Our Backs magazine, “Carson and Adrian“, March/April issue, vol. 7, #4, San Francisco, CA
Pictorial, On Our Backs magazine, “The Wild Side”, January/February issue vol. 7, #3, San Francisco, CA
TEXTS
Interview questions for Coeur et Arts “Monet Clark –Rise of Raven Woman,” 2022
“The Casualties of Capitalism’s Commerce of Toxic Substances”and performance for still camera piece, “Opus Externus Domicilium”, Dynamism, Volume 1. 2017
“Performance, Video & Ritual in the Era of Climate Change”, Artists & Climate Change, January, 2017
“Feel It Like A Scientist”, album and CD insert essay, Chrome, Feel It Like A Scientist, 2014
“The History of Rock and Roll, Through the Eyes of an Underground Rock Legend”, Part 1, An Interview with Helios Creed, Bad Sounds Magazine, Sweden, January, 2013
“Half Machine from the Sun, the Lost Chrome Tracks from ’79-’80” album and CD insert essay, Half Machine from the Sun, the Lost Chrome Tracks from ’79-’80, 2013
SELECTED FOR DISTRIBUTION
1993:
Art Com Video 14, “Rebel Girls”, Art Com Media Distribution, San Francisco CA
EDUCATION
1993:
BFA San Francisco Art Institute, Photography, San Francisco, CA
1992-1994:
San Francisco Art Institute, Graduate Program, Performance/Video/New Genres, San Francisco, CA
1988-1989:
San Francisco State University, major: Liberal Arts, focus Women’s Studies, minor: Holistic Health, San Francisco, CA
1985-1987:
City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
1985:
Sierra College, Rocklin CA
COLLECTIONS
Collection of Beau Takahara
Collection of Carlo McCormick