Education
1993-95
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY (MFA)
1991
Middlesex Polytechnic-Quicksilver Place, London, England (Exchange
Program)
1989-92
University of Houston, Houston, Texas (Concentration: Painting)
1984-88
Austin College Sherman, Texas (BA Psychology, BA Art)
Solo
Exhibtions
2002
"Six Heads, Indoors" The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
2001
Three Walls, San Antonio, TX
1997
"Amerika" International Gallery of Snorri Asmundsson, Akureyri, Iceland
1996
Calculator Gallery, New York, NY
Selected
Group Exhibitions
2005
"A Mycological Exploration" V-Gun, Portland OR
"Bam! Boom! Bang!!!" Morsel, Brooklyn NY
2004
"Semi-Lucid" White Columns, New York NY
"Wurst
Eigenhaut Special Nr. 3" Galerie Van Gelder, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2003
"Sasquatch Feng Shui" The Portland Building, Portland OR
"After Matisse-Picasso" PS1 Contemporary
Art Center, Queens, NY
"Pink Slips and Golden Parachutes" The
Project, New York, NY
2002
"A Nervous System" Hayworth, Los Angeles, CA
2001
"Substance" NeoImages, New York, NY
2000
"Winter Paper" Catherine Moore Fine Arts, New York, NY
"Flat File" Bellwether, Brooklyn, NY
"Room with a View" Sixth at Prince, New
York, NY
1999
"The Annual Performance Awards" CRP Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
"Standing on the Verge of Getting It On"
Double Pleasure, New York, NY
1998
"No Fun" Double Pleasure, New York, NY
1997
"Deep Entertainment" Double Pleasure, New York, NY
"Fall Social" Four Walls, Brooklyn, NY
"The Chamberpot Show" The Lower East
Side Tenement Museum, New York, NY
1996
"Transmitting Live From Babylon" The Knitting Factory Video Lounge, New
York, NY
"Hines and His
Circle-Tragic Fading Supergraphic" Art of This Century Gallery,
Houston, TX
1994
"Process-Strategy-Irony" Diverseworks, Houston, TX
"I'm Sorry" Cake Gallery, New York, NY
1993
"The Heat Game" CSAW, Houston, TX
"Arena-ennial" Arena Gallery, Houston, TX
Selected
Curatorial Projects
2003
"Brewster 2003: Collaboration" Brewster, NY; one of 12 curators
2002
"East of Hollywood" 210Two Gallery Los Angeles, CA; organized with Jody
Hughes
2002
"Are 'Friends' Electric" Online exhibition
(www.arefriendselectric.com); organized with Jody Hughes
1997
"Wrong Place, Right Time" Double Pleasure, New York, NY
"To Hell With
All of Us" International Gallery of Snorri Asmundsson, Akureyri,
Iceland; organized with Asmundur Asmundson
"Vague Pop
Part 1: The Miracle Whip" View Room Exhibitions, New York, NY
1996
"The Smurf Problem" Calculator Gallery, New York, NY
Bibliography
2005
"Dateline Brooklyn" by Stephen Maine, Artnet Magazine,
February 4, 2005
2003
"Core Sampler" by Daniel Duford, The
Organ (Oregon) #8, November/December
2002
"The Moment and the Eternity; Giovanni Garcia-Fenech and JBK Ransu at
the Living Art Museum" Morgunbladsins,
November 30
"Six Heads Indoors" Frettabladid,
November 30
"Sleeping with the Enemy" by Rufus
Griscom, Nerve.com, August 12
"Nervy Artists Get Personal Online" Artnet News, July 30
"Weekly Highlights: Are 'Friends'
Electric" Los Angeles
New Times, July 26
"The New
Irascibles" by Carol Kino, photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders,
WBurg.com, Spring
"Group Show:
The Nervous System" by Holly Meyers, Los Angeles Times, March 29
2000
"Do Nothing" by Kim Levine,Critique Magazine, Summer
1999
"Brooklyn Spice" by Paul Laster, Artnet
Magazine, October 19
1998
"The Miracle Whip" by Tim Griffin, Paper
Magazine Online, January 28
1997
"The Chamberpot Show" by Jay Grim, Critical
Review, February
1996
"The Smurf Problem" by Tim Griffin, Paper Magazine Online,
October 9
"Giovanni Garcia-Fenech: The Seduction
of Reduction" by Sarah Borruso, HotWired, February
23
"Graphic Ideas" by Shaila Dewan, Houston Press,
February 2
"Hines and His Circle" by Bill
Davenport, Art Letter,
February 1
1995
"Report From Texas: Going Against the Grain" by Frances Colpitt, Art in America,
April
1994
"Painting as Etiquette" by Mark Frohman, Art Lies,
October-November
"Abstraction Without Shame" by Susie
Kahlil, Houston Press,
October 6
1993
"Steam of Consciousness" by Mark Frohman, Public News, June 30
"The Heat Game" by Elaine Rose, Houston Press, June
17
Miscellaneous
2003
Visiting artist, July 30, Yale University undergraduate Color Theory
class
2002
Guest critic, December 16-17, International Studio & Curatorial
Program, New York, NY
Visiting
artist, November 24-29, Icelandic Academy of Art, Reykjavik, Iceland
C.A. Johnson
Fund and The Program in Studio Art visiting artist lecturer, April 29,
Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont