Education
SMVisS (Masters in Science in Visual Studies), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2005-7)
B.A – Double major in Fine Art & Interdisciplinary Studies (Honors Thesis & Emphasis in Cultural Geography), University of California, Berkeley (2000)
Exhibitions (select)
Solo Exhibition
2009
'Half-Laps & Overlaps: Collaborations by Shada/Jahn' - Samson Projects (Boston, MA)
'Half-Laps & Overlaps: Collaborations by Shada/Jahn' - Jenny Jaskey Gallery (Philadelpia, PA)
2008
'Mortaise & Tenon: Collaborations by Shada/Jahn' - Camac (Marnay-sur-Seine, France)
2004
Imprint (a Shada/Jahn collaborative) - Backroom Gallery, Adobe Books (San Francisco, CA)
Group Exhibitions (select)
2008
Zero One, Free Soil Bus Tour - San Jose, CA – curated by Amy Franceschini/Future Farmers
Black Market Type Shop - Montreal – curated by Joseph del Pesco
Interventions Conference: Creative Lunch - UC Santa Cruz – curated by Terri Cohn & Dee Hibbert-Jones
2007
Locally Localized Gravity - Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia – curator: Scott Rigby/Basekamp
Arrivals/Departures - Stanica Kucevo, Serbia – curator: Noa Treister
Medium As Message - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco) – organized by Joseph Del Pesco/Collective Foundation,
curated by Berin Golonu
Homework - PS122 (New York City, NY) – curators: Lize Mogel, Lasse Lau, Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen
101 Dresses - Artspace (New Haven, CT) – curated by Deinse Markonish & Linda Lindroth
Great Apes - Second Space (Boston, MA) – curated by Femke Lutgerink
2006
Interactive City - ISEA / Zero One Symposium – curator: Steve Dietz, Cynthia Taylor, Beau Takahara
Hybrid Fields - Sonoma County Museum of Art – curator: Patricia Watts
Metro Pictures - The Moore Space (Miami, FL) – curator: Silvia Karman Cubina
Metro Pictures Part 2 - Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (FL) – curator: Silvia Karman Cubina
Seamless 2 - Museum of Science (Boston, MA) – curator: Christine Liu, Nick Knouf
6: New Projects by MIT Visual Arts Program - Space Other (Boston, MA) – curator: Khadija Zinnenburg-Carroll
Abiko Marginal - Gallery Saoh & Tomos (Tokyo) – curator: MOKS with Ikezawa Takashi
The LisTENING Part 2 - The Lab (San Francisco) – curator: Jos Pollard, Yuka Yokoyama, Yoshinora Niwa
Food + Art – Greenmuseum.org – curator: Greenmuseum
The LisTENING - Showa Kinen Park (Tokyo) – curator: Jos Pollard
Thread Counts - Gallery Artists Studio Projects (Boston, MA)
2005
Istanbul Fragmented - Istanbul Fragmented/Biennale(Istanbul, Turkey) – curator: Otto von Busch, Evren Uzer
Bay Area Now 4: SF Bay Area Biennial - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts – curator: Rene Guzman, Berin Golonu
Feel At Home – 375 South Van Ness (San Francisco) – curator: María del Carmen Carrión and Joshua Pieper
2004
Connect the Dots - LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University (NYC) – curator: Basekamp
The Interventionists - Museum of Contemporary Art (North Adams, MA) – curator: Nato Thompson, Greg Sholette
The Bay Area Show - Tangent Gallery (Detroit, MI)
gAMe - 21 Grand (Oakland, CA)
Summer Arts & Activism - Sanchez Art Center (Pacifica, CA)
2003
Inside of Inside - The Lab (San Francisco, CA)
War & Silence - Kearny St. Workshop (San Francisco, CA) – curator: Claire Light
Making Ends Meet - Lucky Tackle (Oakland, CA) – curator: Adam Driggs-Rompel
Element of Temporary - New Langton Arts (San Francisco, CA) – curator: Evelyn Funes
Triptych - Set design for play written by Summi Kaipa, Theater of Yugen / Noh Space
2002
Reading Room - Southern Exposure – curator: Ted Purves
Conceptually Bound - Coyote Gallery (Oroville, CA) – curator: Nanette Wylde
Shit Hot - Lucky Tackle (Oakland, CA)
One Night Stand - Ego Park (Oakland, CA) – curator: Adam Driggs-Rompel
2001
Dirt - Blackbird Space (San Francisco, CA) – curator: Rebecca Miller
Monster Drawing Rally - Southern Exposure (San Francisco, CA)
2000
Understanding the Lotscape - Worth Ryder, University of CA (Berkeley)
Honors Show - Worth Ryder Gallery , University of CA (Berkeley)
1999
Honors Show - Worth Ryder Gallery, University of CA (Berkeley)
Vacation from Art - Worth Ryder Gallery, University of CA (Berkeley)
1998
W(rec)k Center - Worth Ryder Gallery, University of CA (Berkeley)
Curatorial Projects
selected from 25 exhibitions curated for Pond, a nonprofit organization I co-founded in 2000
Unfurled: A Public Exhibition of Flags. Locations: Pond, San Francisco (2004); Galerii Y, Tartu (2005), Estonia; Katlamaja/Kulturitehaas, Talinn, Estonia (2006)
Shopdropping: Experiments in the Aisle. Locations: Pond, San Francisco (2005), The New Gallery, Calgary (2006), Canada; Western Front, Vancouver (2006)
Invisible 5: an experimental audio tour of the I-5. Location: Southern Exposure, San Francisco (2006)
This Way Please. Location: Pond, San Francisco (2004), The San Francisco Asian Art Museum (2004)
Natalie Jeremijenko: Plant: the Propagation Phase. Location: Pond (2003) ; Sanchez Art Center (2004), presentation at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2003)
Air Portugual 2. Location: Pond, San Francisco with support from Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2001)
Additional exhibitions at Pond, San Francisco from 2001-5 include: Free Mattress, Sculptures (Sean Bluechel), Face 2 Face II Face, Seeing is Believing, Out of the Ground Into the Sky, Out of the Sky Into the Ground, etc.
Summary of Artists Featured:
United Victorian Workers, Shannon Spanhake, Amy Franceschini, Natalie Jeremijenko, Institute for Advanced Architecture, Conrad Bakker, Anti-Advertising Agency, Packard Jennings, Zoe Sheehan Saldana, Trina Robbins, Zeljko Blace, Sue Costabile, Amy Balkin with Tim Halbur, Kim Stringfellow, Rigo, Terri Cohn, Kevin Radley, Veronica de Jesus, Randall Sinner, Deric Carner, Twin Heart Collective, Jackie Sumell, David Rudolph, Tim Martinez, Cheryl Coon, Nathan Burazer, Kevin Greisch, Marijke Jorritsma, Will Yackulic & Dave Larsen, Amy Lockhart, Marc Bell, Erase Errata, Troll, the Numbers, Scott Pagano, Chris Musgrave, Seed, Joao Simoes, Joao dos Santos, Shirley Tze, Kate Grinnan, Alice Konitz, Violet hopkins, Nicolau Vergueiro, Christopher Russell, Mark Flores, Desiree Holman, Geof Oppenheimer, Ricardo Rivera, SchetherShmizu, Kent Manske, Larnie Fox, San Francisco Bureau of Urban Secrets, Matt Volla, Basekamp, Kate Pocrass, Ricardo Rivera, Isis Rodriguez & Nicole Repack, It Can Change, Sutekh, Chris Musgrave, Phoenix Perry, Permi Gill, Sean Bluechel, Robert Ortbal, Dame Darcy.
Bibliography
Reviews for Artwork (select)
'Air du Temps: Carnet d'Addresses – San Francisco.' Air France Magazine (8/2007)
Brennan-Smith, Scott. ‘Reading Art.’ Chico News & Review (10/3/02)
Coon, Cheryl. ‘Sanchez Art Center Celebrating Summer with Environmental Activist Art.’ Pacifica Tribune (6/9/04)
Deshmukh, M.S. ‘The Lives of Desi Women.’ AsianWeek. (1/24/03)
Gopalarithinam, Ranjani. 'Musical Couplets.' Fader (9/2005) p. 62
Hansen, Heiko. 'Contemporary Vehicle Design in Istanbul', Cluster, Italy. (1/2006) pp.11-15.
Huston, Johnny Ray. ‘Better Homes & Galleries’ SF Bay Guardian (5/2004)
Rodriguez, Juan. ‘Orange.’ Artweek (5/02)
Sirp (Estonia daily news), Aug 5, 2005
?oher, ?ebnem. ?stanbul Fragmented Kapsam?nda, Arkitera.com (7/2005)
Reviews for Curatorial Work (select)
Baker, Kenneth. San Francisco Chronicle: Arts & Leisure. (3/22/2002)
Bonnetti, David. ‘Air Portugal II’ featured review in The San Francisco Chronicle (11/2001)
Bonetti, David. ‘Industrial-Strength Art.’ San Francisco Chronicle (1/2001)
Buucke, David. ‘Inside View’. Artweek (3/2002)
Cantrell, Andrea. “Artists Drop While they Shop”, CNNMoney.com(7/20/05)
Cash, Stephanie. 'Bay Area Then and Now.' Art in America. (1/2006)
Chronin, Neva. ‘Doin It For Themselves: Feminist Arts and Activism Infuse Bay Area Ladyfest’. Featured article, SF Chronicle’s Datebook, (7/23/02)‘
Clone Rangers.’ The Independent (4/8/03)
Cohn, Terri. ‘Emerging Alternatives for the Twenty-First Century.’ ArtWeek (7/4/04)
Cohn, Terri. ‘Unfurled.’ ArtWeek (7/04)
Del Pesco, Joseph. “Beware of Subversion in Your Supermaket.” Fast Forward, Calgary, 6/8/06
Garchik, Leah. 'OneTrees.' San Francisco Chronicle: Datebook. (3/11/2003)
Han, Sarah. ‘Drop While You Shop’ San Francisco Bay Guardian: Night & Day. (3/10/2005)
Helstrop, Anjee. ‘Las Dos Rok Starz.’ Zero (4/2001)
Huston, Johnny Ray. ‘Correspondence School’ (featured review) SF Bay Guardian (10/15/03)
‘Night & Day’ – SF Weekly Calendar Pick for Free Mattress. (9/24/03)
McVeigh, Jennifer. 'Shop Till you Drop: The Art of Shopping Takes on Nnew Meaning.' Calgary Herald. 06/2006
Meeker, Cheryl. ‘Seeing is Believing’. Stretcher.org (4/2001)
Meyer, Julien. ‘Air Portugal II at Pond.’ Frieze. (2/2001)
Nijima, Kanya. ‘Form 8 / Air Portugal II’ Shift JP (2/02)
Roche, Harry. A Dip in the Pond’ SF Weekly (1/10/01)
Slaton, Joyce. ‘We’re Sold’ San Francisco Weekly: Weekend Calendar. (3/10, 2004)
Slaton, Joyce. ‘Merrily We Roll Along.’ SF Weekly (7/4/04)
Stout, Christopher. Sean Bluechel. SF Art Magazine (3/2001)
Suwwan, Leila. “Artistas subvertem consume com copias”, Folha de Sao Paulo (2/10/2005)
'Unfurled.' Posttimes, Aug 5, 2005
Westbrook, Lindsey. SF Guardian (July 31, 02)
Wilson, Megan. ‘Critic’s Choice: Grand Opening.’ SF Bay Guardian (01/2001)
Zassenhaus, Eric. ‘Las Dos Rok Starz.’ Punk Planet. (11/2001)
Zassenhaus, Eric. ‘Air Portugal II.’ Clamor. (2/2001)
Catalogues of Personal Artwork
Metro Pictures, Moore Space & Museum of Contemporary Art of North Miami, 6/2006
Bay Area Now 4, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 6/2005
PostSovkhoz, MOKS (Estonia), 2006
VROOM, VROOM (Evren Uzer & Otto von Busch, Editors), 2006
Performances & Workshops
'Nightmarket Workshop 2008; (with Stephanie Rothenberg), National Tainan University, Tainan, Taiwan, 8/14/08-8/19/08
'SET' (with Erik Carver), The Art Gallery of Knoxville, Knoxville, TN (7/25-7/28/08)
'Volume Drawings: Invisible Structures, Movement-Triggered Boundaries' (with Max Goldfarb and Joanne Bristol), Western Front, Vancouver, Canada, 5/31/08
'Art Assist' (with Erik Carver), Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, 3/11/2007
'SET' (with Erik Carver), Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, 3/3/2007 and 3/24/2007
'SET' (with Erik Carver), Lost Highway Expedition Symposium, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 10/27/06)
'Form Letters'. The LIStening, Showa Kinen Park (curator: Jos Pollard)
'Form Letters,' Moles Not Molar series, The Rotunda, Philadelphia, PA, 6/2006
'Original Reproductions' (with Steve Shada), Monster Drawing Rally (curator: Courtney Fink), 2004
'Handshake Drawing' (with Steve Shada), Oakland City Art Gallery (curator: Kerry Johnson), 2004
'Tit for Tat' (with ev Funes), Multiverse, Rx, (curator: Kurt Bigenho), San Francisco, CA, 2004
'Drawing in the West' (with Steve Shada), Curformers, (curator: Margaret Tedesco), New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2004
'A La Carte', San Francisco Asian Art Museum (curator: Pauline Yao), 2004
'Handshake Drawing' (with Steve Shada), Monster Drawing Rally, (curator: Courtney Fink), San Francisco, CA 2003
'sWORDS' (with youth from Meridian Gallery), San Francisco, CA, 2003
Lectures & Presentations
Artist Talk, Cheng Kung University (Tainan, Taiwan), 8/14/2008
Artist Talk, The Art Gallery of Knoxville (Knoxville, TN), 7/27/2008
Artist Talk, The Headlands Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA), 6/2008
Artist Talk, Western Front (Vancouver, CA), 6/15/08
'Art, Industry, & Science Collaboratives', National Fine Arts Museum (Taichung, Taiwan), 8/24/2007
Artist Talk, National Kaoshung University (Kaoshung, Taiwan), 8/29/2007
Artist Talk, GamaLab/Gamania (Taipei, Taiwan), 8/14/2007
'Social-Engagement & Art', Cultural Center (Kucevo, Serbia), 7/20/2007
'Social-Engagement & Art', American Corner at the American Embassy (Belgrade), 7/16/2007
'Shopdropping: Experiments in the Aisle', Eyebeam (NYC), 2/10/2007
'Natural Systems', Hybrid Fields, Sonoma County Museum, (curator: Patricia Watts), 10/16/2006
Visiting Artist & Curator, California College of Art, 10/18/2006
'Interventions and Art in Daily Life', Western Front Gallery (Vancouver, BC), (curator: Joanne Bristol) 10/21/2006
'City Arts & Lectures', San Francisco Commonwealth Club (curator: Intersection for the Arts) 2004
Visiting Artist & Curatorial Talk', PostSovkhoz5, MoKS (curator: Evelyn Myrseup), (Mooste, Estonia), 2004
Visiting Artist and Curator, San Francisco Art Institute, (for Terri Cohn), 2004
Visiting Artist, University of California Berkeley, (curator: Kevin Radley), 2003
Visiting Artist and Curator, Mama (Croatia Zagreb) (curator: Zeljko Blace) 2003
'Writing Art History', Visiting Artist and Curator, San Francisco Art Institute (for Bill Berkson), 2003
'Writing Art History 2', Visiting Artist and Curator, San Francisco Art Institute (for Bill Berkson), 2002
Visiting Curator, Gen Arts Panel Discussion, 2002
Visiting Artist & Curator, Meridian Gallery (San Francisco), (curator: Amy Berk), 2001
'Inhabiting the Lotscape', Conference on the Association of Literature and the Environment, University of East London, 2000
Interviews (Print and Radio) and Television Appearances
Smith, Caroline. 'Shopdropping.' BBC 1 Radio (Canada), 06/01/06
Brydie McGuire (producer), 'Wearable Technology', Beyond Tomorrow, Discovery Channel (6/2006)
Kettenjian, Tania. (radio interview) KALW 91.7 FM (2005)
Wilson, Josh. 'Air Portugal.' KUSF Radio Segue (San Francisco) (11/2001)
Berry, Colin. KPFA. (6/2004)
Cumbria, Melissa. Clamor. (June/July, 2005)
Throwell, Zefrey. 'Postcards.' Interview with Marisa Jahn, Ava Bromberg, Dara Greenwald, Sarah Kanouse, et. al., PS1/MOMA radio (8/2007)
Zassenhaus, Erik. 'Art Pics: Pond.' Punk Planet (2001)
Teaching Experience
'Gesture through the Arts', Arts Educator at Cantor Center at Stanford Univeristy (Palo Alto, CA), 6/2008
Arts Educator for Book-Making Workshop (El Pital, Honduras), 2/2008
Teaching Assistant, MIT Visual Arts Program for Julia Scher (Spring 2006) & Regina Moeller (Fall 2006)
Arts Educator for ISEA/Zero One (San Jose, CA), 8/2006
Oasis for Girls (San Francisco), 4/2004-6/2005
San Francisco Boys & Girls Club, 9/2002-6/2004
San Francisco Art Institute Youth Arts Collaborative, 6/2003
Degirmendere, Turkey, 8/1998
San Diego Museum of Modern Art, summer 1994
As Guest Critic On Reviews at:
MIT - Media Lab (course in Tangible Media by Hiroshi Ishii)
NYIT - Undergraduate Architecture (studio by Erik Carver)
Pratt - First Year Graduate Architecture (studio in Urban Planning by Meta Brunzema)
UC Davis - MFA program (studio course by Conrad Atkins)
Art Residencies
Headlands Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Summer/2008
CAMAC (France), 3/2008
MIT Media Lab: Tangible Media group (Cambridge, US), 9/2007-6/2009
Un Mundo/BreakArts (El Pital, Honduras), 2/2008
Art Interventions (Kucevo, Serbia), 8/2007
MoKS (Mooste, Estonia), 8/2005
San Francisco Unified School District, 9/2004-5/2005
Meridian Gallery (San Francisco), Spring 2004
Awards, Distinctions, Grants (select)
Tenoit Bursaire (Grant Awarded for residency at CAMAC (2008)
Travel Grant Awarded by the American Embassy in Serbia (2007)
MIT Travel Grant (2006)
MIT Council for the Arts Recipient (2005, 2006, 2008)
MIT Department of Architecture Scholarship (2005, 2006)
Artslink Awardee to create new work in Estonia (2005)
Hi-Five Award for Curricular Excellence, Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Awarded two out of five annual awards given to national
Educators for Curricular Excellence), 2003
Best Art Space of the Year, Punk Planet (2001)
Nominee, *surface magazine’s ‘Avant-Garde Picks of the Year
Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Theory (1999)
Robert & Colleen Haas Scholar, UC Berkeley (1999-2000)
Honor's Studio Recipient, UC Berkeley (1998-2000)
Artsbridge Scholar, UC Berkeley (1998)
Dean's List, UC Berkeley (1996-8)
Published Essays & Books
Jahn, Marisa. Consider an Exhibition - essay/review to be published in C-Magazine (Toronto), 2008
Jahn, Marisa. On Being an Exhibition
- review of exhibition at Artists Space NYC, published in www.stretcher.org (San Francisco), 10/2007
del Pesco, Joseph, and Marisa Jahn. Byproduct: The Art of Transactional Disruption. essays and editorial direction, published by YYZ (Toronto), Spring 2008
Jahn, Marisa. How to ROLL with It and Keep the Ball Rolling, or, Perpetuating
Experimental Art, De-Centred: Artist's Run Spaces, (Summer 2008)
Jahn, Marisa. Burn, Another Publication, (Fall 2007)
Jahn, Marisa. Shopdropping: Experiments in the Aisle , published by The Collective Foundation, reception: Yerba Buena Center for the Art, San Francisco (4/2007)
Jahn, Marisa. Shopdropping: 3 Case Studies, (Crosswalks, March 2006) – featured essay
Jahn, Marisa. The Way Things Could Be: Review of Temporary Services’ Prisoner’s Inventions (Clamour Magazine, March 2004) – contributed essay
Jahn, Marisa. tERROR (Chain #13, Temple University, PA, USA, March 2005) – contributed essay
Jahn, Marisa. Words From 7 Artists in San Francisco (New York Arts Magazine, 2001) – contirbuted essay
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