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EDUCATION
1974 M.F.A., Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California.
1962-1968 Art Students League, New School for Social Research, Studio School,
and private studies with artist Ethel Schwabacher, New York City.
1962 B.A., Park College, Kansas City, Kansas.
GRANTS and RESIDENCY
2018 Fellow in Film-Video from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
2001 Individual Artist Grant from the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division and the
Pasadena Arts Commission, Pasadena, CA.
1981 Nominated for the A.V.A. award sponsored by Southeastern Center for
Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, NC.
1974 McDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 MIRANDO, UCR Arts, at the Culver Center for the Arts, Riverside, CA.
July 1 - October 15, 2023, curated by Nikolay Maslov, Curator of Film & Media Projects.
LLAMANDO, Museum of History and Art, MOAH, Lancaster, CA.
May 14 - August 21, 2023. Curator, Andi Campognone.
2020 OJOS PROFUNDOS, Orange County Museum of Art Expand, Santa Ana, CA.
April 17 - January 3 2021. Curator, Cassandra Coblentz.
2017 Reductive Precision, Marsia Alexander-Clarke, Bill Lane, Jose Drudis-Biada Art Gallery,
Mount Saint Mary’s University, Los Angeles, CA, September 5 - October 7.
Curator, Jody Baral.
2013 MARKING TIME, selected works, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA,
September 3 - October 3. Curator, James McDevitt. Catalog.
2012 PASOS, video installation, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA, July 12 -
September 22. Curator, Tyler Stallings.
2008 TAPESTRIES, video installation, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA,
September 21- November 16. Curator, Jay Belloli. Catalog.
2007 TROLUKA, video installation, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA. Curator,
Andi Campognone. Catalog.
NOCHE, video installation, dBa gallery, Pomona, CA. Curator, Andi Campognone.
2006 UT COELUM, video installation, Riverside Art Museum, project RAM gallery,
Riverside, CA, March 2 - 30. Curator, Andi Campognone.
2003 UT COELUM, video installation, Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, California State
University, San Bernardino, CA, February 13 - April 5. Curator, Eva Kirsch.
1999 S-T-R-E-T-C-H-I-N-G, video installation, California Museum of Photography, University
of California, Riverside, CA, September 25 - January 2. Curator, Kevin Boyle.
1987 Sculpture Installation, Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Whittier, CA. Curator, Bill Lane.
1986 STONES, Nomadic Sculptures Installation, Heidi Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne,
Australia.
Nomadic Sculpture Installation, Arts Center Park and Gallery, Mildura, Australia.
1985 CANTO PRIMARIO, Nomadic Sculpture Installation, Junior Arts Center, Barnsdall Park,
Los Angeles, CA. Curator, Josine Ianco-Starrels.
Sculpture Installation, Fine Arts Gallery, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA.
1981 REVERBERATIONS, Sculpture Installation, Works Gallery, San Jose, CA.
1980 REVERBERATIONS Sculpture Installation, city-wide Architectural Sculpture Exhibition,
Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. Curator, Michael Smith.
Catalog.
1979 Vanguard Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Curator, Stephen Sotnick.
1977 Moreau Gallery Three, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana.
Vanguard Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Curator, Stephen Sotnick.
1976 Vanguard Gallery, Fullerton, CA. Curator, Stephen Sotnick.
1974 Brand Library Art Center, Glendale, CA.
1973 Libra Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Sur Biannual exhibit, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA.
September. Curator James MacDevitt.
2018 Moving Line, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA, February 12 – March 8.
Curator, Susanna Meiers.
Music for your Eyes, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA,
February 3 – March 10. Curator, Peter Frank.
2017 Marsia Alexander-Clarke, Eja Kang, Renee Amitai, L A Artcore, Brewery Annex.
Los Angeles, CA, September 1 – 28. Curator, Lydia Takeshita.
Moire Fringe, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, September 15 - October 7, Hosted by
Kio Griffith and KJ Bays.
2016 Woven, Stuart Haaga Gallery, Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, CA,
Curator John O’Brien.
2015 XX Redux - revisiting a feminist art collective, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman
University. Orange, CA. Curator, Nancy Buchanan.
2011 Patterns, Seasons, Uprisings, A video show, SCA Project Gallery, Pomona, CA, January 14 -
February 4. Curator, Andi Campognone.
2010 Signs of the Forest, Arena Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, July 17 - August 21. Curator,
Jean Clad.
Dean DeCocker, Gary Raymond, Marsia Alexander-Clarke, Andi Campognone Projects,
Pomona, CA, November 13 - December 30.
Los Angeles Juried Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA, August 2 - October 3. Jurors, Franklin Sirmans, Ali Subotnick.
2006 Perspectives, HAND MUSIKE, video installation, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA, December 15 - February 4. Curators, Scott Canty and Mary Oliver.
2004 AIM V:SYZYGY (the human remix), Art In Motion, UT COELUM, video installation,
invited artist. University of Southern California in collaboration with the Armory Center
for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, February 15 - April 13. Curator, Lynzie Baldwin.
2003 AIM IV, Interference Patterns, Bank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Curator, Lorraine Molina.
AIM IV, Interference Patterns Screening, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA.
D.U.M.B.O., Short Film and Video Festival, Brooklyn, New York. Curator, John O’Brien.
THE SHOW, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM. Purchase prize. June 6 -
August 31. Juried by Terezita Romo, Susan Rothenberg and Charles Stainback.
Video Installation, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA. curator, Joe Santarromana.
VOICES, Video Installation, Bank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Curator, Lorraine Molina.
Soft Machines, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA, November 15 - December 19.
Curator, Joe Santarromana.
Art Heals, Art Works, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA. Curator, Scott Canty.
Clang: Portraits, VOICES, Video installation, Bank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Curator, Lorraine Molina.
2002 Art Heals, Art Works, Fullerton Museum Center, Fullerton CA. Curator, Scott Canty.
New Works - New Spaces, 6 IN 1 TO 64 CHOIR, video installation, Armory Center for
the Arts, Pasadena, CA. Commissioned work. Curator, Jay Belloli.
2000 Drawing on the Portrait, video installation, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA.
1999 Emotion and Light, "VOICES" video installation, County of Los Angeles Century Gallery,
Sylmar, CA.
1997 Supplication - Artists Respond to Bodily Illness, STRETCHING, video installation, El Camino
College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA. Curator, Susanna Meiers.
TRACINGS, a single channel video, Los Angeles Juried Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA.
1990 The Desert, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA. Curator, Susanna Meiers.
1987 The Quest for Balance, The Women's Building Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
1984 Bookworks: The Last Five Years, Art Gallery, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA.
1983 Group Exhibition, Chrysalis Gallery, Claremont, CA.
1980 Architectural Sculpture, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, CA.
Architectural Sculpture Models, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Poster
announcement and catalog.
1979 Structures, Hera Gallery, Wakefield. RI. Catalog.
Abstractions/Sources/Transformations, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
1978 Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman College, Orange, CA.
1977 Art Gallery, El Camino College, Torrance, CA.
Paper Art, Lang Art Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA. Catalog.
Pasadena Artist's Concern, Pasadena, CA.
1976 Works on Paper, Moreau Gallery Three, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana.
Contemporary Masters, Libra Gallery, Claremont, CA. Catalog.
1974 Young Sculptors, Lang Art Gallery, Claremont, CA.
BIBLIOGRAPHY – REVIEWS
2012 Tyler Stallings, ‘Video Installation by Marsia Alexander-Clarke." ArtBound, KCET,
July
Suvan Geer, "Marsia Alexander-Clarke video installation." ArtScene, June.
2010 Christopher Knight, "Artists Talk Among Themselves," Los Angeles Times,
September 10.
2008 Stephanie du Tan, "Marsia Alexander-Clarke," THE, November.
2003 Suvan Geer, "Marsia Alexander-Clarke at the Robert V. Fullerton Museum,"
Artweek, April.
Mario Cutajar, "Continued and Recommended, AIM IV: Interference Patterns," ArtScene, April.
Betty Brown, "Re[con]Figured Tableaux; Postmodern Images of the Sacred,"
ArtScene, February.
2002 Victoria Martin, "New Work, New Spaces," Artweek, June.
1999 Sherril Leonard, "Homes on the Range," Riverside Press Enterprise, October 2.
William Batey III, "Not Just Quantity," University of California Riverside Press, October.
1990 Suvan Geer, "Sound as Sculpture," Artspace, January/February.
1985 Marga Bijvoet, "Restoring the Balance," Artweek, August 10, p.5.
Diana Rico, "Sculptures move ‘From Here to There’," Los Angeles Daily News, July 7.
1983 Marga Bijvoet, "In Search of Self Through Nature," Arts and Architecture, Volume 2, #3
1981 Melinda Wortz, "Measurements of Time and Structures of Experience," Artweek,
November, p. 5.
Suzanne Muchnic, "Sculpture Becomes a Structure," Los Angeles Times,
October 27.
1979 William Wilson, "Abstract Art More Historic than Modern," Los Angeles Times,
Calendar, March 18.
Suzanne Muchnic, "Art Walk", Los Angeles Times, April 20, 1979, Part 4, p.9.
Announcement, ArtWeek, April 28, 1979.
Gail Stavitsky, "From Abstractions to Inception," ArtWeek, March 24.
1978 Lea Thompson, "Dimensional Paintings, Pyramidal Sculptures," Artweek, September 30.
1977 Suzanne Muchnic, "Marsia Alexander's Sculptural Wrappings," Artweek, July 2.
1974 William Wilson, "'Young Sculptors at Home at Scripps," Los Angeles Times, December 16.
BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ESSAYS
2013 Catalog, MARKING TIME, selected works, 1977-2013, Cerritos College Art
Gallery, Norwalk, CA. Essays by Jay Belloli, "Continuity and Change," James McDevitt,
"Ma(r)king Time," Betty Ann Brown, "Reliquaries of Presence," Shane Shukis,
"Between Abstraction and Experience."
2012 Tyler Stallings, Pasos, "Video installation by Marsia Alexander-Clarke,"
California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA. Brochure.
2008 Shane Shukis, "Between Abstraction and Experience: The video installations of
Marsia Alexander-Clarke," TAPESTRIES, Catalog.
2007 Peter Frank, "Marsia Alexander-Clarke: Video Musics," Riverside Art Museum, June. Catalog.
2003 Jay Belloli, "Marsia Alexander-Clarke: An Introduction," Cynthia Morril, "UT COELUM,
video installation," Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, California State University,
San Bernardino, CA. Brochure.
1999 Kevin Boyle. "Stretching: A Spiritual Journey," Foto Text, Quarterly.
Calendar of UCR/California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA. Brochure.
1990 Virginia Watson Jones, ed., Contemporary Women Sculptors, Illustrated Bio-Bibliographical
Directory, Onix Press, Phoenix, Arizona.
1980 Lucy R. Lippard, "The Inside Picture from the Outside," Architectural Sculpture,
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.
Michael Smith, "California Institute of Technology, Marsia Alexander," Architectural
Sculpture-Projects, Pasadena, CA.
PERFORMANCE – VIDEO BROADCAST
2008 Red/Rojo, One Colorado, Pasadena, CA.
2002 New Media/New Works, performance event including video installation. California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, October 9.
Glass Membrane: Scanner to Screen, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA, March 23-May 12. Curator, Ted Fisher.
Producer and host of Close up on the Arts, a program that focuses on artists
and their work in Pasadena and Los Angeles, CA.
2001 Engagements (short digital videos), California Museum of Photography,
Riverside, CA. September 30.
1995 DI-VI-TRANS, a video/choral performance with choir, Altadena Congregational
United Church of Christ, Altadena, CA, April 5.
1985 - 1989 Sixteen single channel videos broadcast on Pasadena Community
Television, Pasadena, CA.
1981 A Reading of the Tablets, performance, Works Gallery, San Jose, CA.
1978 Listening, performance, Brookside Park, Pasadena, CA, June 26.