RESUME
EDUCATION
1996 B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
2002 M.A., San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2007 M.F.A., University of California, Berkeley, CA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
| 2012 | Unnamed Broadway Musical: The Musical!, EFA Project Space, New York, NY |
| 2010 | Tremendous, Recess Activities Inc., New York, NY |
| Tremendous, Tribeca Cinemas, New York, NY | |
| 2009 | Hunger makes a fine sauce, Art Palace, Austin, TX |
| One thing after another, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA | |
| 2008 | A tent in which to read The Invisible Man, MainSite Contemporary, Norman, OK |
| A Problem of Courage, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX | |
| 2006 | Re-enacted Scenes, (selected by Harrell Fletcher, with Dana Dart-McLean), Small A Gallery, Portland, OR |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
| 2012 | You, Me, We, She, Fleisher Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| Concept Plus Object, Possible Projects, online project based in Philadelphia, PA | |
| MAD-LIB[rary], Independent Curators International, New York, NY | |
| 2011 | Bloodlines, Craftswoman House, Pasadena, CA |
| Land Before Skype, CS13, Cincinnati, OH | |
| 2010 | It's better to regret something you have done..., Art Palace, Houston, TX |
| Me, My Camera, and I, Pace Digital Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Two Sheets Eight Pages, Possible Projects, Brooklyn, NY | |
| Material & deStructure, PG Contemporary, Houston, TX | |
| You Can Tell a Cowboy by the Horse He Rides, Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland | |
| 2009 | Domestic Disturbance, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA |
| Artist as Performer, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX | |
| Core Artist in Residence Exhibition, The Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX | |
| Show # 21: Protagonist, And/Or Gallery, Dallas, TX | |
| 2008 | I-35 Biennial Invitational, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX |
| Alien Audiograph, AUX, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| Playing Alive: Revisions on Reality, PDX Film Festival, Portland, OR | |
| Core Artist in Residence Exhibition, The Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX | |
| Weight of the World, Reed Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH | |
| 2007 | Dark Mirror, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
| Body Double, Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Self 2.0, Vertexlist, Brooklyn, NY | |
| Compass 2007, UC Riverside California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA | |
| Fermata, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA | |
| The Collective Foundation, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA | |
| Deadpan Exchange, Kooh-i-nor Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| We Love Cinema, Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY | |
| Abstract Things, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, England | |
| 2006 | Open Walls #2, White Columns, New York, NY |
| Immediate Futures, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA | |
| 2004 | Women in the Directors Chair International Film and Video Festival, Chicago, IL |
| Festival Tous Courts, International Festival of Cinema, Aix-en-Provence, France | |
| 2003 | Women With Vision Film Festival, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
| 2002 | New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, New York, NY |
| Film Arts Festival of Independent Cinema, San Francisco, CA | |
| Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX | |
| 2001 | Witness Short Films, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA |
| 2000 | Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA |
| New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Rachel Cook, "Interview: The Transition from Firstness to Thirdness- Kara Hearn," ...might be good (September 16, 2011).
Ali Fitzgerald, "Gender (and other) Trouble," Art21 Blog (July 1, 2010).
Rachel Reese, "My Tidal Wave Dream – Interview with Kara Hearn," theartblog.com (June 8, 2010).
Steffani Jemison, "Artist as Performer," Art Lies (winter, 2009).
Natalie Sciortino-Rinehart, "Criticʼs Pick," Artforum.com (May 11, 2009).
Douglas Britt, "Light, sound, video smoke: all part of DiverseWorksʼ atmosphere," Houston Chronicle (June 6, 2008).
Garland Fielder, "Kara Hearn- A Problem of Courage," ArtsHouston.com (June 10, 2008).
Andrea Liu, 2008 Core A.I.R. Exhibition, ArtUS 23 (summer, 2008).
Holly Myers, "ʼBody Double: through a lens starkly," Los Angeles Times (September 12, 2007).
David Velasco, "Criticʼs Pick," Artforum.com (June 12, 2006).
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2010 Recess Artist-in-Residence, New York, New York
2009 Meredith Long Prize Recipient, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
2009 Idea Fund Recipient, Andy Warhol Foundation
2007-09 Core Fellow, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
2007 UC Berkeley Eisner Award for Art 2006 Murphy Fellowship in the Fine Arts, sponsored by The San Francisco Foundation