Kerry Tribe’s work in video, film, installation and other media explores relationships between subjectivity and representation, often by investigating the gray areas between the authentic and the scripted or the collective and the idiosyncratic. She regularly invites the collaboration of friends, strangers and actors. Her work has been shown in exhibitions and festivals internationally, including venues in New York, California, Australia, Canada, Croatia, Germany, Holland, Italy, Korea, Portugal and Switzerland. Tribe received her MFA from UCLA in 2002, was a Whitney Independent Study Program Fellow in 1997-98, and received her BA magna cum laude in Art and Semiotics from Brown University in 1997. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

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Born 1973 in Boston, MA - Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA


Education / Formation

2002 University of California Los Angeles, MFA
1998 Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program
1997 Brown University, BA's in Visual Art & Art: Semiotics, Magna Cum Laude

Solo exhibitions / Expositions personnelles

2008
Near Miss, Artspeak, Vancouver, Dec. 1, 2007 - Jan.19, 2008. Opening Friday 30th Nov. at 8 pm.

2007
C'est pas du jeu , Centre photographique d'”le de France, Oct. 9 - Dec. 22, 2007
Near miss, Artspeak, Vancouver, Dec. 1, 2007 - Jan. 19, 2008
Ruzicska, Salzburg, Fall 2007
Art Statements, Art 38 Basel, Galerie Maisonneuve, June 13-17, 2007
God's Waiting Room, COMA (Center for Opinions in Music and Art), Berlin, Jan. 19 - Feb. 24

2006
Rewind, REC, Esther Shipper's Project Space, Berlin, Sept. 30- Oct. 30
Subjective Effects, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, August 31 - Sept. 17
Kerry TRIBE, Galerie Maisonneuve, proposed by Muriel Quancard Contemporary Art, April 12- June 03

2005
Here & Elsewhere, Lewis Glucksmann Gallery, Cork, Ireland Northern Lights,
Here & Elsewhere, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

2004
Florida, Art Chicago 2004, sponsored by Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL

2003
Florida, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Kerry Tribe, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery (project room), Chicago, IL

1998
The Audition Tapes (more home movies by Kerry Tribe), MWMWM Gallery, New York

Group exhibitions & Festivals / Expositions de groupes et Festivals

2009
The Lining of Forgetting, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, May 30 - August 23,

2008
Memory is Your Image of Perfection, Group Show, MOCA San Diego, USA, July
Idle Youth, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, NYC, curated by Russell Furgeson, June 26 - August 15
The Lining of Forgetting, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, Feb 10 - May 25
Reconstitutions Reenactments Re, DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art,Montreal, Canada, Feb 21- May 5
I Will Be Your Mirror, Konstfack University, Stockhom, Sweden, May 2- 4
Group Show, 1301PE, Los Angeles, Jan 25 - March 1

2007
C'est pas du jeu, Centre photographique d'”le de France, Oct. 9 - Dec. 22, 2007
History Will Repeat Itself, Hartware Medium Kunstverein, Dortmund, June 2007 & Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Fall 2007
Moment Making, Art Space, Auckland, New Zealand, Feb. 2 - March 3
Material for the Making, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, NYC, January 6 - February 10
Villa Foton, International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Villa Sonnenveld, Rotterdam, Jan. 24 - Feb. 4
Exile of the Imaginary: Politics / Aesthetics / Love, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Jan. 18 - April 29 
Elephant Cemetery, Artists Space, NYC, Jan. 18 - March 10

2006
Ephemeralities, Menen, Belgium, Nov. 2006
FIAC, Cour Carrée, Louvre, Booth D16, October 26-30 2006
Fiction, la box, Bourges, Oct. 23 - Dec. 9
Happy Believers, 7th Werkleitz Biennale, Werkleitz, Germany, Sept. 6 - 10 2006
Down By Low, organised by The Wrong Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, January 21 - May 21 2006
Happiness, Gagosian Gallery, 4th Berlin Biennale for contemporary art, Berlin, March 24 - April 18 2006
Draft Deceit, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway, February 17 - April 12
Vidéoformes, American Art Video, presented by Rosanna Albertini, Clermont - Ferrand, 14-18 March

2005
Oversight, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
The Lateral Slip, University of California, Riverside Art Gallery, Riverside, CA
Contour II, Mechelen, Belgium

2004
How Can We Resist? (LA Freewaves), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2048.98 Km, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Sympathetic - Manipulative Behavior, University Art Gallery, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI
California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA. Catalog.
Adaptive Behavior, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC, NY
Between You and Me, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY
Whitstable Biennale 2004, Kent, England
Itineraries, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA

2003
Video Lounge Project, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Re: LAX, DCKT Contemporary, New York City
Top of the Pops, Grand Central Art Center, Cal State Fullerton, Santa Ana, CA
Oases, Lazy J, Los Angeles, CA
What Lies Between: The Autobiographical Impulse in Film and Video, UCLA Hammer Museum / Melnitz Movies, Los Angeles, CA
Pol-i-tick, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Echo Sparks, Ars Electronica Museum, Linz, Austria
First Person, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada

2002
Rent-a-Bench, public project organized by Jacob Fabricius, Los Angeles, CA
Masquerade, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Videodrome II, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Features for a Quality Picture, MAK Center, Los Angeles, CA
A Show That Will Show That a Show Is Not Only a Show, The Project, Los Angeles
Alternate Routes, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
How Do We Know the Sky Isn't Really Green and We're Just Colorblind? (video library), Santa Monica Museum of Art Project Room, Santa Monica, CA
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
Genius Loci, LA Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2001
Not Quite Myself Today, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Drawn From L.A., Midway Initiative, St. Paul, MN
Impakt Festival, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Re: Duchamp, traveling exhibition. Venues include 49th Venice Biennale, Italy, and 2001 Istanbul Biennial, Turkey
City Game, Tent, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2000
Pusan Biennial, Pusan, Korea
Sitegeist, San Diego, CA
Fact-Fiction-Formen des Dokumentarischen inder aktuellen Videokunst und im Film, Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany. Catalog.
As I Love You You Become More Pretty, 937 N. Hudson, Los Angeles, CA
d>art 00, Sydney Film Festival, Sydney, Australia
VideoGallery International Festival for Film, Video and New Media, traveling exhibition. Venues include: European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany; L'immagine leggera, Palermo, Italy; Int'l Festival of New Film,Split, Croatia; Video Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal; and VIPER, Lucerne, Switzerland.
Thaw00: Fifth Annual Festival of Video, Film and Digital Media, Iowa City, IA

1999
Unpacking, oragnized by Cletus Dalglish-Schomer, New York
4ème Manifestation Internationale Vidéo et Art Electronique, Champ Libre, Montreal
Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Catalog.
Five29Ninety9, organized by Sharon Hayes, Matthew Buckingham, Kristin Lucas, New York

1998
Scope 3, Artists Space, New York
Open Studios, Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York
Local Color, Abrons Art Center, New York
Visin 21, organized by Phil Guest for Real Gallery, at Tunnel, New York


Selected awards and fellowships / Prix et résidences

2006
Guna S. Mundheim Fellow, American Academy in Berlin (year-log residency)

2005
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award

2003
Durfee Foundation Artist's Resource for Completion Grant
Associate Artist, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida

2001
Hoyt Scholarship, Department of Art, UCLA

1999
Clifton Webb Fine Arts Scholarship, Department of Art, UCLA
D'Arcy Haymen Award, Department of Art, UCLA

1997
Ann Belsky Moranis Award (highest award in art), Department of Art, Brown University

1996
Gilbert Stuart Award (best in show), Department of Art, Brown University