Erik Bluhm
Los Angeles, California
Solo exhibitions
2008
•Cooperate with the Energy and Anything That Happens. David Patton Los Angeles.
•New Nature (“Sur la plage abandonnée et crustacés…”). Random Gallery, Paris.
Group exhibitions and sharing
2011
• Matinee Soiree, Wonderloch Kellerland, Berlin.
• Bullet Train, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco.
• Jamaica, Annie Wharton Los Angeles, Los Angeles.
• Bullet Train, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco.
• Jamaica, Annie Wharton Los Angeles, Los Angeles.
2010
• Three Tall Men, Space 1520, Los Angeles.
2009
• You Can’t Expect to Get Back to Normal, Las Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles.
•The Still Life Show. 533, Los Angeles, Mile Post 5, Portland Oregon.
2008
•Tenderly. Sunday L.E.S., New York.
•Free Love Gods: Works on Paper from the Far West and Wild East.
Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland. Oregon.
•SASSAS Benefit (“Long Years in Space” as part of the New Energy Encounter Group). Los Angeles
2007
•Awakening of My Secret Brother. Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo.
•Off-Screen (“Garden Grove Creative Community” as part of the New Energy Encounter Group). Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
•Rainbow Goblins. Advocate Gallery, Los Angeles.
•What Glue Do You Use? Atelier Cardenas Bellanger Gallery, Paris.
2006
•Circular performance demonstration with French percussionists and actors (as part of the New Energy Encounter Group). The Purple Night at the California Biennial. Orange County Museum of Art, California.
•Timed duration of organ, flute, and slow movement (as the New Energy Dark Consort of Musicke). Humans Were Here: Sundown Salon #30, Los Angeles.
•Everywhen. Lobot Gallery. Oakland, California.
•Welcome Wizards (video screening). New Yipes. Oakland, California.
2005
•Los Angeles Juried Exhibition. Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles.
•New Energy Workshop (as part of the New Energy Movement). Arthurfest, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles.
•Electric Meditations on the Four Seasons (for Francois Perrin’s Weather Garden as part of the New Energy Encounter Group). Materials and Applications, Los Angeles.
2004
•American Stars N’ Bars. Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, California.
•Nature. Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles.
2003
•From The Collection. North Spring St. Gallery, Los Angeles.
•A Bazaar of Dangerous And Smiling Chances. Urban Egyptian Gallery, Los Angeles.
•The Future That Never Happened. Ghettogloss Gallery, Los Angeles.
•"No" video piece with Sharon Ben-Joseph. Aclip, Berlin/London.
2002
•For The Love of The Arts. 20th Century Fox Studios, Los Angeles.
2000
•Wall drawing project with Steven Brown in collaboration with architectural remodel by Simparch (Matt Lynch and Steve Badgett) at Center For Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, Nevada.
1998
•Anwander. Bazaar de Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Writing
• Co-editor and publisher of Great God Pan Magazine—The Champion of Californiana, a journal of Western culture and history from 1992 to 2000 (published online 2003—present).
• Co-author of Salt Desert Tales (2000) with Mark Sundeen in conjunction with the Center For Land Use Interpretation.
• Pieces for MOCA, K48, Arthur, Art US, McSweeney’s, Anathema, LA Weekly, Neue Review (Berlin), Ten by Ten, Ugly Things, Pazmaker (Mexico D.F.).
Bibliography
“Bluhm’s Search for Symbols.” Holly Myers, Los Angeles Times, January, 2008.
“In L.A. January is Where it’s At…” Caryn Coleman, ArtReview.com, January, 2008.
“Offscreen.” Christopher Russell, ArtUS, July, 2007.
“Erik Bluhm.” Rocket Tokyo May, 2007.
“What Glue Do You Use?” Yaël Hirsch, ParisArt January 2007.
“A Golden State with Zing.” Booth Moore, Los Angeles Times February, 1999.
Acheivements
• 2000 Residency at Center For Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, Nevada. Project was research and writing of a non-fiction book on the history and culture of the region.
• Had paper entitled “May Your Tank Never Run Dry” presented at American Society of Environmental Historians (ASEH) conference in Denver, Colorado, 2002.
Education
BFA San Francisco State University
MA Western History California State University
