Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
Aphorisms, Ace121, Glendale, CA
2018
Space Between Symbols, Pritzker Gallery- Dotorot Center for Creativity in the Arts-UCLA Hillel, Los Angeles CA
2016
Exodus On Sunset, SIJCC, Los Angeles CA
2014
Star Tours-Cadastral Masorah- Part 6, Annenberg Community Beach House, Santa Monica, CA
Star Tours- Party Truck, Taco Zone, Los Angeles CA
Star Tours- Cadastral Masorah- Part 5, Public Memory, Google Maps & Personal Narrative, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
Star Tours- Cadastral Masorah- Part 4, Workmen’s Circle, Los Angeles CA
Star Tours- Diaspora Banquet, Raid Projects- Hiatus Series, Los Angeles CA
Star Tours Cadastral Masorah- Part 3, LACMA, Los Angeles CA
Star Tours- Cadastral Masorah- Part 2, Watts Towers, Los Angeles CA
Star Tours- Cadastral Masorah- Part 1, Side Street Projects, Pasadena CA
2007
The Picture Reason, Woods Gallery, Annandale-on- Hudson, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Models, Bel Ami, Los Angeles CA
2023
Heat Advisory, Makeroom, Los Angeles CA
2021
Cacttus, Spring Break, Snata Monica, CA
2019
Cacttus, Billie Jean King Main Library, Long Beach, CA
Cacttus, Other Places Art Fai, San Pedro, CA
2018
Armory Fellow Exhibition, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA
Present Tense, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine CA
Speak Out, Braid Gallery, Santa Monica CA
2017
Presence In Absence, Room Gallery UAG, Irvine CA
This Is a DEMO, Cerritos College, Cerritos CA
Swap Meet, High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree CA
2016
White Helmets Benefit, Hilde, Los Angeles CA
LACA Auction, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Los Angeles CA
Irresistible Forces, Chins Push, Los Angeles CA
2015
Quick Draw; Actual Size, Los Angeles CA
Drawn Together: Part 1, Actual Size, Los Angeles CA
Drawn Together: Part 2, Actual Size, Los Angeles CA
2014
Art And Stuff, NCJW, Los Angeles CA
Body and Legs, Kesspro Studios, Los Angeles CA
CultureLab: Oil, Los Angeles CA
2013
Staff Show, LACMA, Los Angeles CA
Sacred Words, Sacred Texts, AJU, Los Angeles CA
Crumb Mandala, Los Angeles CA
Borderlands, Actual Size Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA
Garage Sale, Actual Size Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA
2012
Star Maps, Mulholland Derive, Los Angeles CA
The Subterraneans, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
.ING, Santa Monica, CA
Blank Land, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
IJAYA, Ben Uri Gallery, London, UK
Re: present LA, Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park, CA
2011
IN CONJUNCTION, Open Arms, Art Platform LA, Los Angeles, CA
Chainletter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
GIBSMIR-Family;Tree Structure, Collective Show LA, Los Angeles, CA
EPCAP, Negative Space, Los Angeles, CA
2010
Fancy Animal, Dakota, Santa Monica, CA
E’clepsydre, .HBC, Berlin, Germany
2009
Family Stories, Pasadena Museum of History, Pasadena, CA
2008
Photography at High Speed, Millard Sheets Center For The Arts, Los Angeles CA
2007
Couperin, Joanie for Jackie Film Festival, NYC, New York
Stage Sight ,Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY
2003
LAArt Night, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Games, Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum Los Angeles, CA
2002
Smoking Mirrors, Kerchoff Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Viewfinder, LA Photo Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2000
Picture LA/TA 2000, Tel Aviv, Israel
Picture LA/TA 2000, Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1999
Isn’t S/He a Doll?, Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Publications
GYST Podcast, 2014 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/gystradio/2014/01/30/gyst-radiogyst-doit-with-corrie-siegel-of-star-tours
LA Weekly, 2014 http://www.laweekly.com/arts/5-artsy-things-to-do-in-la-this-week-includingbank-robberies-4254805
Jewish Journal, 2014 http://www.jewishjournal.com/the_ticket/item/ corrie_siegel_l.a._jewish_art_on_location
Jewish Journal, 2013 http://www.jewishjournal.com/arts/article jewish_art_spans_city_with_sacred_words_sacred_texts
KCET Artbound, 2013 http://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/counties/los-angeles/actual-sizechinatown-los-angeles-art-space.html
Riffin’ with Max Maslansky, KCHUNG Radio,2014 http://archive.kchungradio.org/ 2013-12-09/Riffin’-12.09.2013.mp3
Tractor-Spoken Film, KCHUNG,2014
Oh So Arty, 2013 http://ohsoarty.com/2013/09/guest-post-borderlands-at-actual-size-gallerylos-angeles/
Barejovske novosti, 2012
Hamodia, 2012
The Jewish Press, 2012
LA Weekly, 2012 http://www.laweekly.com/calendar/light-and-space-mash-up-2174375; http://www.laweekly.com/calendar/history-hoarder-2173796 http://www.laweekly.com/arts/ pacific-standard-time-to-night-gallery-the-year-in-la-art-2173359 ;http://www.laweekly.com/ calendar/victorian-la-with-a-modern-soundtrack-2173179; http://www.laweekly.com/arts/ moca-crisis-what-do-younger-artists-and-curators-think-2371386
Los Angeles Arts Resource, 2012
https://losangelesartresource.wordpress.com/studio-visit
White Hot Magazine, 2012 http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/2012-open-network-printimprint/
SFAQ, 2011 http://sfaq.us/2011/12/actual-size-gallery-la/
Bard Center For Environmental Policy catalogue, Cover image, 2008-2012
Flash Art International, 2010 http://www.flashartonline.com/2010/07/in-the-artists-handsactual-size-los-angeles-interview/
“Best of 2008” Photo Laureate anthology, 2008
Bard College Art History Dept. Web Page, 2008
Joanie for Jackie: Chainletter, 2007, “Couperin”
BoldInk, WriteGirl Publications, “ F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Journey “2003
LA Times, 2000 http://articles.latimes.com/2000/apr/07/local/me-17058
Honors
Armory Teaching Artist Fellowship, 2017-2018
WORD Grantee, 2016
DreamLab Teaching Fellow AJU, Graduate Center for Education, 2014-2016
Culture Lab Grantee SIJCC, 2014;
6 Points Fellow, 2011-2013
Private/ Public Collections
Los Angeles Contemporary Archive
Berman Collection
Jewish Foundation
Jewish Funders Network
Pournazarian- Rahbarpour Collection
Curator/ Co-Curator
Actual Size Los Angeles; Curator/ Director; Los Angeles, CA 2010-Present
University Art Galleries; Co-Curator Online/Offline; Irvine, CA 2017
University Art Galleries; Co-Curator Presence of Absence; Irvine, CA 2017
CSUN; Curator (ephemera )A Passion for the Possible, Northridge CA 2009
Judson Studios; Curator(watercolors) A Corita Retrospective, Pasadena CA 2003
Artist Talks and Lectures
Artist in Residence, Paper Cuts, Pacific Asia Museum, 2017
Guest Artist, Outdoor Sculpture, Norton Simon Museum, 2017
Guest Artist, Kinetic Sculpture, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California, 2016
Guest Artist, Photo 409, Instructor Sharon Lockhart, USC, Los Angeles, CA, 2015
Guest Artist, Corita MLK Day, All Saints Church, Pasadena, CA, 2015
Guest Artist, Happiness Is A Thing Called Fiestas, Pasadena Museum Of California Art, Pasadena, CA, 2015
Visiting Lecturer, Instructor Josh Peters, Waldorf Arts, Pasadena California, 2015
Guest Lecturer, “Teacher as Learner/Teacher as Creator,” EDJ 590: The Art Of Teaching, Instructor Dr. Miriam Heller Stern, American Jewish University, Los Angeles, CA, 2015
Panelist, Making Time, Museum Educators of Southern California, Huntington Library, San Marino, California,2015
Guest Artist, Print Making, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California, 2014
Artist Speaker, Culture Lab Oil, SIJCC, Los Angeles CA, 2014
Visiting Lecturer, Contemporary Gallery Practices, Instructor Marcus Herse, Chapman University, Los Angeles, CA, 2014
Guest Speaker, Multicultural Summer Getty Intern Hub, Instructor Kai Flores-Emnace, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA, 2014
Artist Speaker and Panelist, Phantom Geographies, West Hollywood Library, West Hollywood, California, 2013
Artist Lecture, Che Ghabar, Shulamit Gallery, Venice, California, 2013
Speaker, Careers in the Arts, Civitas School of Leadership, Los Angeles, California, 2013
Panelist, AOAT- Careers in Art, Cleveland High School, Reseda, California, 2013
Artist Lecture, Remapping The City, CAJM Conference, NYC, New York, 2013
Artist Panelist, City As Museum, CAJM Conference, NYC, New York, 2013
Panelist, Subterraneans-The Artists Behind LA’s Artist-Run Spaces, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, California, 2012
Artist Lecture, Mapping LA, Vincent Price Museum, California, 2012
Guest Artist, Print Making, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California, 2012
Visiting Lecturer, Contemporary Gallery Practices, Instructor Marcus Herse, Chapman University, Los Angeles, CA, 2012
Visiting Lecturer, Practicum: Artist-run Spaces, Instructor Ronni Kim, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA 2011
Guest Artist, Photo 409, Instructor Sharon Lockhart, USC, Los Angeles, CA, 2011
Panelist, Panel of the Muses, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA, 2010
Guest Artist, Intro to Photo, Instructor An-My Le, Bard College, Annandale On Hudson, NY, 2007
Education
BARD COLLEGE Annandale-On-Hudson, New York 2003-2007
B.A. Art History, Philosophy and Photography
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE, Irvine, California 2016-2019
M.F.A Curatorial and Critical Practice
Experience
CO-FOUNDER & CO-DIRECTOR,
Actual Size Los Angeles; Los Angeles, CA
March 2010- Present
Actual Size is an artist run space that engages the public to transform relationships between the viewer, curator, bystander and creator. The gallery collaborates with emerging, established and mid career artists nationally and internationally. Curate, organize, promote and host exhibitions and events within the gallery. Apply for and supply small grants to artists and work with them to support their vision. Write press releases and give interviews to promote the gallery and exhibiting artists. Profiled by Los Angeles Times, Mousse Magazine, Flash Art International, LA Weekly, & Dispatches and Directions: On Artist-Run Organizations in Los Angeles. actualsizela.com
GALLERY TEACHER/CLASSROOM TEACHER
Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Los Angeles, CA
March 2008- Present
Lead tours for middle-school students through the Ancient World and Maya exhibitions. Employ object-based, inquiry-driven, participant-focused teaching strategies. Evaluate myself and other teachers as well as program goals. Participate in extensive in-service training on object-based learning in an encyclopedic collection. Teach in the LAUSD classroom to facilitate hands on observation of ancient artifacts from LACMA’s collection.
GALLERY EDUCATOR
Norton Simon Museum; Pasadena, CA
June 2017-Present
Lead thematic tours and facilitate art making and story time activities for children and adult groups.
EDUCATION MANAGER
Fowler Museum at UCLA; Los Angeles, CA
May 2012- 2016
Design and implement cross-disciplinary educational programs, teacher workshops, gallery tours, and family festivals. Recruit, train and oversee team of part time student educators and provide inquiry-driven, object-based tours for over 10,000 K-12 students a year. Collaborate in grant writing with museum-wide team. Plan and evaluate programming. Conduct outreach to guest artists, educators and performers. Organize family days to serve over 2,500 guests annually. Write teacher curricula and design education material. Connect with professors, teachers, and community leaders to integrate Fowler exhibitions into their curriculum. Guide groups of scholars through the museum. Organize, market, and facilitate two week summer camp. Liaise with other cultural partners (e.g.- Getty Museum, Jewish Federation, Meridian and United Arab Emirates) to plan collaborative events including projecting and reporting on budgets. Recognized in Los Angeles Magazine Best of LA 2015 issue for Kids’ Programming.
OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER
Bardejov Holocaust Memorial Project, Bardejov, Slovakia
Winters 2011- 2012
Document international gathering of survivors and families and their march to mark the 70 the anniversary of the first deportation of Jews by the Nazis. Document civic negotiations, restored cemetery, progress in preserving historic architecture and the creation of civic memorials. Photographs published internationally.
ASSISTANT TO DIRECTOR
Corita Art Center; Hollywood, CA
March 2008- 2012
Create and initiate educational programs and events to share Corita Kent’s artistic legacy and message. Develop gallery guide. Oversee individual projects of summer Getty interns. Curate displays for center as well as for traveling exhibitions. Archive and price art work and publication material. Compile condition reports. Assemble portfolios of artwork. Coordinate with galleries and collectors. Process new acquisitions and sales.
ART HISTORY TEACHER
Le Lycée Francais/ Barnsdall Arts Center; Los Angeles, CA
September 2009- 2011
Teach one hour lessons in the classroom. Topics range from modern to ancient art. Collaborate with a teaching team to create a cohesive curriculum. Develop lesson plans, prepare projects, purchase materials, and organize student art exhibitions.
ASSISTANT
Photographer Larry Fink; Vanity Fair Oscar Party; Los Angeles CA
2009
Held and loaded cameras and assisted with flash.
FINE ARTS TEACHING ARTIST
“Summer Sounds”, LA Philharmonic; Hollywood, CA
Summers 2008- 2011
Develop and teach multi-cultural art projects for children aged 3-16 and their families. Work closely with assistant, Write budget and buy supplies. Serve over 2,000 students.
HOUSE MANAGER
“Summer Sounds”, LA Philharmonic; Hollywood, CA
Summers 2006- 2007
Organize artists and supervise volunteers to attend to the needs of over 2,000 patrons. Manage ticket sales. Coordinate with large camp and school groups. Trouble-shoot tricky situations with patrons employing customer relation skills and on the spot decision-making.
GROUP LEADER
Children’s Expressive Arts Program; Rhinebeck, NY
2005-2007
Organized, coordinated and implemented one hour a week sessions in expressive arts therapy for children at the Astor Home.
TEACHER
Women’s Care Cottage
2003-2004
Developed course on photography geared at homeless women and their children. Created and implemented lesson plan.