dewey ambrosino

1967 Born in Chicago, Illinois.

1991 BFA, Sculpture, University of Illinois, Chicago.

1991 BFA , Industrial Design, University of Illinois, Chicago.

1994 MFA, Art, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California.

teaching experience

2004-2010 Adjunct Professor, Interior Architecture, Woodbury University, Burbank, California

Adjunct Professor, Environmental Design, Art Center College of Design - ACAN, Pasadena, California

2008-2009 Adjunct Professor, Architecture, Woodbury University, Burbank, California-Art Center College of Design - ACAN, Pasadena, California

2007 Guest Lecturer, Sculpture, University of California – Irvine

2005 Adjunct Professor, Visual Arts, Art Center College of Design - ACAN, Pasadena, California

visiting artist talks & subject lectures

2008 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California

University of California at Los Angeles

2007 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California

University of California at Los Angeles

2005 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California

2004 Woodbury University, Burbank, California

2003 Chapman University, Orange, California

solo exhibitions

2010 Seed Syllable, Fifth Floor Gallery, Los Angeles, California.

2003 Double Horizontal, Guggenheim Gallery @ Chapman University, Form & Function Exhibition Series, Orange, California; The Shed, Newport Beach, California.

2000 Contents and A White Hole, Momenta, Brooklyn, New York.

1997 Quadrants of Infinite Existence, George’s, Los Angeles, California.

group exhibitions & performances (selected)

2010 Closer 104.7, a radio collaboration performance with LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) and artist Jeff Cain, as part of the Art Los Angeles Contemporary.

Hollywood Ukiyo-e: Diving Bubble, Moon Pool Amphitheater, and Bubble Raft Observatories, LACE – Public Interest 2010, Los Angles, California.

2009 Sunset Junction, Softserve Dubstep, Live PA/DJ performance w/ InI Sound System, Los Angeles, California.

Electric Daisy, Live PA/DJ performance w/ InI Sound System, Los Angeles Coliseum.

2008 Sunset Junction, Duchamping Dubstep, Live PA/DJ performance w/ InI Sound System, Los Angeles, California.

Nocturnal Wonderland, Live PA/DJ performance w/ InI Sound System, Los Angeles, California.

2007 TERRABYTE 2.0, ECOSCAB PAVILLION, installation, w/ Cletus Dalglish-Schommer, and live PA/DJ performance Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Gardens, Arcadia, California.

The Sounds of Vienna, Live DJ performance w/ Makossa & Megablast, The Standard Hotel Rooftop, downtown Los Angeles.

Sunset Junction, Live PA/DJ performance w/ InI Sound System, Los Angeles, California.

Electric Daisy, Live PA/DJ performance w/ InI Sound System, Los Angeles Coliseum.

2006 Miami Image and Sound Machine, collaborative mobile installation with Ruben Ortiz-Torres and Konstantinos Mavromichalis, MOCA Miami.

MOCASONIC, Basship Miami, collaborative live PA/DJ performance with Rubén Ortiz-Torres and Konstantinos Mavromichalis, MOCA at the Goldman Warehouse, Miami.

The Sounds of Vienna, Live DJ performance w/ Rodney Hunter, The Standard Hotel Rooftop, downtown Los Angeles.

TERRABYTE 1.0, Live PA/DJ – “SuperNature” performance, Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Gardens, Arcadia, California.

The Contemporary Art Centre of Castellón Painting Prize Exhibition, Municipal Art Centre Fundación Astroc, Madrid, Spain, and ARCO International Contempoary Fair, 25th Anniversary.

Sound-Out Festival, SMAK - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst and Arts Centre Vooruitin Ghent, Belgium.

AB OVO, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, England and Arena 1, Santa Monica, California.

Modernism For The Masses, Poster Performance, Poster Neutra, North Hollywood, California.

Rocktobersuprisefest, Glendale College Gallery, Glendale, California.

2005 Background Noises, Two Way Sound Sculpture, UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, California.

The Contemporary Art Centre of Castellón Painting Prize Exhibition, Espai – The Contemporary Art Centre of Castellón, Spain.

AB OVO, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, California.

Gentleman’s Club, Live PA (in collaboration with Monica Bonvincini), Berlin, Germany.

Coachella Valley Music Festival, Hornmassive Live PA, Coachella, California.

Internationale Kurzfilmtage 51, Oberhausen, Germany.

RIO, Live PA performance, Berlin, Germany.

White Trash Fast Food, Live PA performance, Berlin, Germany.

Transmediale.05 International Media Art Festival, Haus der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Germany.

26th Annual Benefit Art Auction Exhibition, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California.

2004 GardenLab Exhibition, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California.

Supersonic, Hornmassive, Live PA ,Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California.

The Oulu Music Video Festival, Oulu, Finland.

Oulu International Film Festival, Oulu, Finland.

Hornmassive Debut, Live PA, University of California, San Diego.

31+ Flavors, Antai Gallery, Los Angeles, California.

2003 Form and Function, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, California.

Nueva Cinema Festival, Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan.

Internationale Kurzfilmtage 49, Oberhausen, Germany.

The Oulo Music Video Festival, Oulu, Finland.

Oulu International Film Festival, Oulu, Finland.

Filmstock International Film Festival, Luton, England.

2002 Song Poems, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, California.

Night of the Living Dead Mall, Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, Live PA, The Mountain, Los Angeles, California.

2001 Digidance International Digital Video Festival, Park City, Utah.

2000 RETinevitable 2, DUMBO, New York, New York.

1999 Wall to Walrus, (curated by Dewey Ambrosino), Inshallah, Los Angeles, California.

1998 Local Heroes, (curated by Blum and Poe), Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice, California.

Murder Burt, Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, California.

1997 Hotel California, Arlington Museum, Arlington, Texas and The Bridge Center for Contemporary Art, El Paso, Texas.

1995 Three Day Weekend Takes an Extended Vacation, Diverse Works, Houston, Texas.

1994 Aftershock, Temporary Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, California.

Piggyback, Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, California.

Hot Crop, Claremont College, Claremont, California.

Thirty Seconds Plus Title, Transmission, Glasgow, Scotland.

1992 First Hand, Gallery 400, Chicago, Illinois.

Skate Related, World Tattoo Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.

special design projects

2010 Rockhoney Studio, Pasadena, California.

2009 Las Cienegas Projects, Reception Barrier, Reading Lounge, Nothing Moments Publishing Installation, Los Angeles, California.

West Of Rome 2, Pasadena, California.

2008 Fontana Interior, South Pasadena, California.

2007 TERRABYTE, ECOSCAB PAVILLION, installation, collaboration w/ Cletus Dalglish-Schommer, NASA Spitzer Space Center & Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Gardens, Arcadia, California.

1K STUDIO, Burbank, California.

Angeles Group, Los Angeles, California.

Oskoui & Oskoui Studio, Hollywood, California

2006 West of Rome 1, Pasadena, California.

Nilsen Residence, Mar Vista, California.

2005 ACTION - United Nations & Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, Tokyo, Moscow.

Olafur Eliasson: Meant to be lived in (Today I feel prismatic), Emi Fontana West of Rome, Jamie House, Pasadena, California.

2004 GardenLab Exhibition, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California.

Satellite Artist Management 5653 1/2 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, California.

BANGBANG Studio Los Angeles, California.

2003 Love Gallery 1553 Echo Park Ave., Los Angeles, California.

2002 Eyedentity Optical 1570 Rosecrans Blvd., Manhattan Beach, California.

2001 Rudolf Schindler’s 1938 Yates House remodel, collaboration with architect Amy Murphy.

Camille Hudson 4685 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, California.

THE PROJECT, LA 962 B East 4th St., Los Angeles, California.

publication

2007 The Agency; Ideas for Banishing the Cube, 944 Magazine, Los Angeles, California.

2006 The Contemporary Art Centre of Castellón Painting Prize Catalogue, Municipal Art Centre Fundación Astroc, Madrid, Spain.

Where art, science meet nature, Pasadena Star News, Pasadena, California.

2005 For the Kids, by Double Horizontal, 12" EP Touchin’ Bass Records, London, England.

Davidow, Audrey, Sit-n-Spin, Angeleno Magazine, No. 48.

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Catalogue, No. 51.

AB OVO Catalogue, Art Catalogues at MOCA, Los Angeles, California.

2004 Scale 01.04, Journal of Art and Literature - University of California, San Diego, Vol. 01, No. 04.

Nobody’s Perfect: Mixed by Andrea Parker, Touchin’ Bass Limited TB012CD, London, England.

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Catalogue, No. 50.

Crevist Park After Dark, by Double Horizontal, edition of 500 12" EP, Holding Company Records, Paris, France.

2003 Honkahonk for Budonkadonk, by Double Horizontal (Dewey Ambrosino/Ellwood Elsmere), edition of 500, 7" vinyl single, Holding Company Inc. Records, Paris, France.

Nueva Cinema Festival Catalogue, Tokyo, Japan.

Oulu International Film Festival Catalogue.

Filmstock International Film Festival Catalogue.

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Catalogue, No. 49.

Goldner, Liz, Form & Function: Hybrid mix of art, architecture and design create two cutting edge shows, OC Metro Magazine, (February 2003).

2001 Cohen, Edie, Off the Beaten Path – Dewey Ambrosino designs The Project Gallery in downtown Los Angeles, Interior Design, (August 2001).

Webb, Michael, “Schindler’s Ghost”, Los Angeles Times Magazine, (February 18, 2001).

2000 Bennet, Rantoal, Contents of a White Hole, Vanity Fair Magazine, (July, 2000).

1998 ZYZZYVA, Literary Journal, #52, Vol.XIV, No.1.

1997 Hotel California Catalogue, Arlington Museum, Arlington, Texas.

Kutner, Janet, Art of the Moment, The Dallas Morning News, (May 11, 1997).

Michael Odom, On View-Dallas/Fort Worth ,The New Art Examiner, September.

Kutner, Janet, Hotel California, The Dallas Morning News, (April 4, 1997).

Knudsen, Paul, Cityscape, Arlington Morning News, (April 9, 1997).

Rees, Christina, On the Bus, The Met – Dallas/Fort Worth’s Entertainment Weekly, (April 9, 1997).