Bio
EDUCATION
2007 – 2009 University of Southern California, LA, CA (MFA)
1994 – 1998 Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (BS)
AWARDS
2021 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
2018 TAP/LA Artist Grant
2016 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
2014 Harpo Foundation Grant
2013 Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) Investing in Artists Grant
2013 Franklin Furnace Fund Grant
2013 Rema Hort Mann Foundation (RHMF) Grant
2012 California Community Foundation (CCF) Fellowship
2012 Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) Artist’s Resource for Completion (ARC) Grant
2009 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
07-09 USC Roski School of Fine Art Teaching Assistantship
RESIDENCIES
2019 LUMA Foundation, Arles, France
2018 LUMA Foundation, Arles, France
2012 Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2010 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2007 unitednationsplaza, Berlin, Germany
2007 Mountain School of Art, LA, CA
2006 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1999 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
PERFORMANCES
2023 IFIF, M Leuven Museum, Leuven, Belgium (upcoming)
2023 Tuning, untuning, together – Listening with Pauline Oliveros, Bétonsalon, Paris, France (upcoming)
2023 Soup & Tart, MoCA, LA, CA
2022 Witches Kitchen & Cabaret, 2220 Arts & Archives, LA, CA
2022 IFIF, Villa Medici: The French Academy, Rome, Italy
2022 Pool, JOAN, LA, CA
2022 IFIF, Human Resources, LA, CA
2020 Continuous Wave, Proper Santa Monica, CA
2019 Split Step, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Paris, France
2019 This Line Is The Present, Museo Picasso, Barcelona, Spain
2019 Split Step, Los Angeles Dance Project, LA, CA
2019 Boots Boobs Booze, LAX Art, LA, CA
2019 Continuous Wave, Frieze LA at Paramount Pictures, LA, CA
2018 The Seed Eaters (Spelen), STUK, Leuven, Belgium
2018 Propositional Attitudes: Election Extravaganza, LACE, LA, CA
2018 Emily Mast & Zack Winokur Showing, LUMA Foundation, Arles, France
2018 The Seed Eaters (Noir), La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel, France
2018 Ashes In I’s, Tongva Park, Santa Monica, CA
2018 Ashes In I’s, John Anson Ford Ampitheatre, LA, CA
2018 Not All There, Human Resources, LA, CA
2017 B!RDBRA!N (Afterward), FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France
2017 The Seed Eaters, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
2017 Hold Your Tension, REDCAT Gallery, LA, CA
2017 Experiments in Falling, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2017 The Cage Is A Stage (Swell), Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2016 Dust, Dusk, Skin, Angles, Architecture, Shadows, A Struggle To Focus and You, 2601-2603 Studios, LA, CA
2016 The Cage Is A Stage, REDCAT, LA, CA
2016 The Cage Is A Stage, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
2016 The Cage Is A Stage (Bleed), e/gallery at the University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada
2015 INDEX (China Art), China Art Objects Galleries, LA, CA
2015 INDEX (Mona B), Mona Bismarck American Center, Paris, France
2015 INDEX (Silencio), Silencio, Paris, France
2015 The Stage Is A Cage, MaRS, LA, CA
2014 ENDE (Again), Night Gallery, LA, CA
2014 ENDE (Like A New Beginning), Hammer Museum, LA, CA
2014 The Least Important Things, LACMA, LA, CA
2013 B!RDBRA!N, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Project Space, NY, NY
2013 Six Twelve One By One, The Onion, LA, CA
2012 I Want To Break Free, ENSBA, Lyon, France
2012 B!RDBRA!N (Epilogue), Public Fiction, LA, CA
2012 B!RDBRA!N, REDCAT, LA, CA
2012 Never It’s Now Or, Mains d’Oeuvres, Paris, France
2012 B!RDBRA!N, Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, The Blackbox, LA, CA
2011 Art In The Parking Space, LAX Art, CA
2011 Offending The Audience, The Velaslavasay Panorama Theater, LA, CA
2011 We Play Nothing, REDCAT, LA, CA
2011 Love Letter To A Surrogate Stage 2, MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
2010 Emily Mast by Emily Mast & Jerome Bel, Human Resources, LA, CA
2011 Love Letter To A Surrogate, Torrence Art Museum, LA, CA
2010 Cold Feet, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2010 This is This, AS220, Providence, RI
2010 To Crack A Nut Is Truly No Feat, Parks Exhibition Center, Idyllwild, CA
2010 The Show Must Go On! (Again), Five Thirty Three, LA, CA
2009 Everything, Nothing, Something, Always (Walla!), Performa 09, NY, NY
2009 Yes, Exhibition Art Initiative, NY, NY
2009 Bread, Water, Laughter, Mihai Nicodim Gallery, LA, CA
2009 Everything, Nothing, Something, Always (Walla!), USC Roski Gallery, LA, CA
2008 Looking For Something New To Long For, USC Roski Gallery, LA, CA
2007 *, USC Roski Gallery, LA, CA
2007 Eureka!, USC Roski Gallery, LA, CA
2007 Third Wind, Mountain Bar, LA, CA
2006 This Is the Rhythm of the Night, Skowhegan, ME
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 The Seed Eaters, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
2017 B!RDBRA!N (Afterward), FRAC Languedoc-Rousillon, Montpellier, France
2016 The Cage Is A Stage, Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada
2015 Missing Missing, La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel, France
2012 B!RDBRA!N (Epilogue), Public Fiction, LA, CA
2010 It will never be known how this has to be told, Steve Turner Contemporary, LA, CA
2009 Everything, Nothing, Something, Always (Walla!), USC Roski Gallery, LA, CA
2008 Looking For Something New To Long For, USC Roski Gallery, LA, CA
2005 You & Me Simultaneously, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
2002 Remember, Paris Project Room, Paris, France
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Tuning, untuning, together – Listening with Pauline Oliveros, Bétonsalon, Paris, France (upcoming)
2022 ÉTINCELLES / SCINTILLE, Villa Medici: The French Academy, Rome, Italy
2019 Fortune Cookies, DXIX at Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
2018 The Tyranny of Distance, Tin Flats, LA, CA
2018 The Tyranny of Distance, ESBA TALM, Angers, France
2018 Dialectic of the Stars – Drag Me Crazy, John Anson Ford Ampitheatre, LA, CA
2017 Chalk Circles, REDCAT Gallery, LA, CA
2017 Curious Poses, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2017 Step of Two, Royal Nonesuch Gallery, Oakland, CA
2017 Gulp #3, Boris R, 2601-2603 Studios, LA, CA
2016 Playground, M Museum, Leuven, Belgium
2016 Dance, Dance, Dance, The Villa Paloma, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco
2016 This is Public & Sexy, St. Andrews Community Centre, Dublin, Ireland
2015 This Sentence, China Art Objects Galleries, LA, CA
2015 Play Grounds, Redline, Denver, CO
2014 A soft almond of a poetic – objects on a shelf, Three days Awake, LA, CA
2014 Made In L.A., Hammer Museum, LA, CA
2013 Secret Codes, Galeria Luis Strina, Sao Paolo, Brazil
2013 It’s Over There, Simone Subal Gallery, NY, NY
2013 LA Existancial, LACE, LA, CA
2012 Sunday @ 4, Todd Madigan Gallery, California State Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA
2011 323 Projects, The Patter of Tiny Brains, LA, CA
2011 Une Vente Aux Encheres, Mains d’Oeuvres, Paris, France
2010 Volume, At1 Art Projects, LA, CA
2009 Exquisite Corpse, or, The Show That Curates Itself, Mihai Nicodim Gallery, LA, CA
2009 Let’s Meet In Real Life, Capricious Space, Brooklyn, NY
2009 CAA LA Area MFA Exhibition, USC Roski Gallery, LA, CA
2008 Strange Ranger, Circus Gallery, LA, CA
2008 Egoesdayglo, Five Thirty Three, LA, CA
2007 Eureka!, USC Roski Gallery, LA, CA
2006 Border Mates, Pasteleria Sta. Teresita, Guadalajara, Mexico
2004 Nuit Blanche, Péniche Antipode, Paris, France
2004 Super Salon, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2023 The Feel Showroom, LA, CA (ongoing)
2020 HOW ARE WE, LA, CA
2019 Mast on Fig, LA, CA
2018 Not All There, Human Resources, LA, CA
2014 Studio (with Jessica Emmanuel), REDCAT, LA, CA
2008 EGOESDAYGLO, Five Thirty Three, LA, CA
LECTURES / WORKSHOPS / PANEL DISCUSSIONS / TEACHING
2023 Tuning, untuning, together – Listening with Pauline Oliveros, Bétonsalon, Paris, France (upcoming)
2023 A Meander-Through “Simone Forti” with Emily Mast, MoCA, LA, CA
2022 Coop: Performance as Study & Method (with Julie Pellegrin), Centre Nationale de la Danse, Paris, France
2022 Non-Performance as Methodology: Emily Mast in Conversation with Julie Pellegrin, Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Roma (MACRO), Rome, Italy
2022 Craft Contemporary Museum, LA, CA
2020 Gathering & Performing in Shared Separation: A Virtual Think Tank, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada
2020 Hogeschool Gent, Belgium
2020 UC Riverside, Riverside, CA
2020 Scripps College, Claremont, CA
2019 International Symposium on Joan Brossa, Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, Spain
2019 University of Southern California (USC), LA, CA
2019 Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
2018 The Least Important Things, Queen Mary College, London, England
2017 Protest Processions for Family Day, The Hammer Museum, LA, CA
2017 Animal Experiments, Southern Exposure & Royal Nonesuch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 The Many Bodies Body (with Simone Forti), Otis College of Art and Design, LA, CA
2016 Danse, Danse, Danse, Pavillon Bosio, ESAP, Monaco
2016 Art Center, LA, CA
2016 University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
2016 Running with Concepts — the Choreographic Edition, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada
2015 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2015 Ecole supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris, Paris, France
2015 Missing Missing, La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel, France
2014 Feathering for Family Day, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Pomona College, Claremont, CA
2013 University of San Diego, San Diego, CA
2013 Otis College of Art and Design, LA, CA
2012 ENSBA, Lyon, France
2012 University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA
2012 ESAAA, Annecy, France
2012 CALARTS, Valencia, CA
2010 University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), LA, CA
2010 Audience Experiments: Contemporary Art in the Age of Spectacle, MoMA, NY, NY
2010 Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2010 Idyllwild Arts Academy, Idyllwild, CA
2009 Montana State University MFA Program, Bozeman, MT
PRESS
2023 Travis Diehl, Immovable Feast: Soup & Tart LA Serves Up Fluxus Redux, Artforum, June 23
2023 Catherine Wagley, All Positions Possible: Simone Forti Across Time, Through Community, Momus, Jan 31
2022 Nahui Garcia, Pool at JOAN, Carla, Issue 29, Fall 2022
2021 Conversation with Emily Mast, L.A. Dance Project digital app
2019 Jeff Slayton, A Very Uneven Program B For LA Dance Project, LA Dance Chronicle, Oct 11
2019 Megan Metcalf, Emily Mast’s Messages In A Bottle, Frieze.com, Feb 15
2018 Dorothy Hoover & Emily Mast, The People Radio, Episode 64, July 14
2018 Zoie Matthew, This Group Show In Chinatown Has No Art, Los Angeles Magazine, Jan 23
2017 The Seed Eaters as Seen by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, Draff.net, October
2017 In Conversation: Emily Mast + Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, Draff.net, September
2017 Skulptur ist Bühne: Emily Mast Installation im Grazer Kunstverein, Kleine-Zeitung, September 25
2017 Grazer Kunstverein: The Seed Eaters by Herbt Remixed, September
2017 Taryn Wiens, Step of Two at Royal Nonesuch Gallery, Daily Serving, June 1
2017 Emily Holmes, At Royal Nonesuch, Emily Mast & Henna Vainio Make Life Strange, KQED Arts, May 17
2017 Pascaline Vallée, Danse, danse, danse au Nouveau Musée national de Monaco, Artpress No. 442
2016 Emily Mast: Interviews from Yale University Radio, WYBCX, August
2016 LA-based artist Emily Mast, Seeing Is Forgetting with Jason Bailer Losh, podcast, February
2016 Landscape: Emily Mast on RBMA Radio, December
2016 REDCAT NOW: Emily Mast on KPFK, July 22, 8 PM
2015 Mehdi Brit, “Conversation with Emily Mast”, Forêt Vierge Magazine, Issue 01
2015 Catherine Wagley, Best Up and Coming Artist (2015): Emily Mast, October
2015 Summer Guthery, “This Sentence, by Public Fiction”, Frieze, November-December
2014 Summer Guthery, “Made in LA”, Frieze, November
2014 Abe Ahn, “Broadcasting Los Angeles”, Hyperallergic, July 28
2014 Lindsay Preston Zappas, Life is strange (or, try not to let the man get you down) on Emily Mast, ENDE at Night Gallery”, Carets and Sticks, July 14
2014 Carol Cheh, “Q&A with Emily Mast”, Another Righteous Transfer!, July 9
2014 Carol Cheh, “Emily Mast, ENDE (Like a New Beginning) Again, Night Gallery”, Another Righteous Transfer!, July 7
2014 Yasmine Mohseni, “Hammer Museum’s ‘Made in LA’ Bienniale Lacks Focus”, Artnet, June 18
2014 Michelle Paul, “Emily Mast”, Proktr, June 12
2014 LA I’m Yours, Made In L.A. 2014: Emily Mast, June 3
2014 “Made in LA 2014: Emily Mast”, Los Angeles I’m Yours, Summer
2014 Brian D. Leitch, “Not the Girl Next Door”, C Magazine, Summer
2014 Andrew Chung, “LACMA: A photo essay”, Another Righteous Transfer!, March 29
2014 Catherine Wagley, “Emily Mast Explains How a Performance Art Piece is Born”, LA Weekly, March 27
2014 José Luis Blondet, “Emily Mast: The Least Important Things”, LACMA Unframed, March 27
2014 Avishay Artsy, “All the world’s a stage”, KCRW Which Way LA?, March 26
2014 Mazwell Williams, “Made in LA 2014 Curator Michael ned Holte on SoCal Cultural Microclimates”, KCET Los Angeles, February 20
2014 Jori Finkel, “Artists Named for Hammer Museum’s Los Angeles Biennial”, New York Times Artsbeat, February 18
2013 “Fresh Faces in Art: Eight LA Artists You Should Know”, Fabrik Issue 21, June
2013 Zachary Keeting, “Emily Mast: September 2013”, Gorky’s Granddaughter, September 15
2013 Geoff Tuck, “Emily Mast: B!RDBRA!N in NY & Other Things”, Notes on Looking, May 25
2013 Carol Cheh, “Word Is A Virus: LA Existancial”, Art:21 Blog, March 21
2013 Carol Cheh, “Six Twelve One by One”, Another Righteous Transfer!, March 20
2013 KCHUNG, “Six Twelve One by One”, March 18 (radio show)
2013 Robby Herbst, “In Utero: Six Twelve One by One”, KCET Artbound, March 15
2013 It’s Over There, Cura, Feb
2013 Jori Finkel, “Puzzling anew over enigmatic artist Guy de Cointet”, Los Angeles Times, Jan 9
2012 Catherine Wagley, “10 Most Memorable L.A. Art Events of 2012”, LA Weekly, Dec 19
2012 Brian X, “Brighten the Corners”, Out West Arts, August 13
2012 Benn Widdey, “REDCAT’s New Original Works Fest Brings on the Women!”, LAist, Aug 9
2012 Cindy Marie Jenkins, “N.O.W. Festival at REDCAT”, Aug 5 (video)
2012 Ed Rampell, “Experiments Inside REDCAT’s Lab – NOW”, LA Stage Times, July 17
2012 Carol Cheh, Anotherrighteoustransfer, The First Five Days of the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival, Anotherrighteoustransfer, Jan
2011 100 Artists to Watch, Modern Painters, Dec 2011/Jan 2012
2011 Charles Mallison, “Offending the Audience at the Velaslavasay Panorama”, LA Record, April 11
2011 Mialka Bonadonna-Morano, “Rebels With Applause: Offending The Audience at Velaslavasay Panorama, Laist, March 26
2011 “Q & A with Emily Mast on Restaging Peter Handke’s ‘Offending The Audience’”, East of Borneo, March 22
2010 Carol Cheh, “Perform! Now!”, Anotherrighteoustransfer, July 30
2010 Carol Cheh, “Love Letters to a Surrogate, presented by Warren Neidich, Torrance Art Museum” , Another Righteous Transfer!, July
2010 “Emily Mast”, Performance Art World, June
2010 Tyler Coburn, “Future Greats: Emily Roysdon, My Barbarian, Vishal Jugdeo, Emily Wardill, Emily Mast”, Artreview, March
2009 Graham T. Beck, “Performa 09 in Review: Part 1”, Frieze, December
2009 WFMU / Night People Interviews Emily Mast, November 5
2007 Timothy Ivison, “Notes on Eclat”, Facsimile Magazine, December
2007 Peter Hellman, “Bogus Bottles”, Art & Auction, August (photo)
2006 Radio Ibero / Good Morning Santa Fe in Mexico City, September 8
2005 Cate McQuaid, “Artist Provokes by Playing With Her Subjects’ Identities”, Boston Globe, Dec 16
2004 Les Inrockuptibles, supplement cadeau, December
2004 The Improper Bostonian, April 14-27 (photo)
2003 Paris Obs, no° 2008, May 1-7 (photo)
PRINT
2023 Marie de Brugerolle, ed. Post Performance Future, T&P Publishing
2021 Mediating, Blackwood Gallery, Society For the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Issue 08
2021 Gloria Bordons, ed., Joan Brossa: Els Arbres Varien Segons El Terreny, Universitat de Barcelona Edicions
2019 WE SPOKE, edited by Meital Yaniv, Lightning Press
2018 Girls Like Us Magazine, Issue #11
2018 Anna Ayeroff, Davie-Blue, Emmy Bright, Cassie de Costa, Sarah Johnson, Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, Emily Mast, Olivia Mole, Amitis Motevalli, Claire Titleman, Marisa Williamson, Meital Yaniv, and Kim Ye in conversation, Riting.org, March
2018 Propositional Attitudes: What Do We Do Now? (edited by John Birtle & Elana Mann), Golden Spike Press
2017 New Highland Art Agents: Double Issue, Pacific Standard Time Performance & Public Art Festival 2012, Armory Press & the Getty Foundation
2017 “Thinking With the Body reviewed by Emily Mast”, The Art Book Review, December 20
2016 Slow Jamz and Afghan Hounds for Riting.org, November
2015 The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal, Winter
2015 In The Canyon, Revise the Canon, Shelter Press (edited by Geraldine Gourbe)
2014 The Benefit of Friends Collected, Vol. 2, X-TRA
2014 The Least Important Things, && Press
2012 “Oeuvres”, MATERIAL, Summer
2012 Yelena Gluzman & Matvei Yankelevich, Emergency Index Vol. 1, Ugly Duckling Press
2011 Roselee Goldberg, Performa 09: Back to Futurism, Performa, 2011
2011 David Senior, Ed. Adventures, Emprint Press & Printed Matter, Edition of 200
2010 Cecilia Alemani, Ed., The X-initiative Yearbook, Mousse Publishing, 2010
2009 Rochelle Steiner, The New Millennium Paper Airplane Book, Public Art Fund, NY
2009 Jonathan Maghen, Ed., MFA 2009, University of Southern California, LA, CA
2008 thisisdreamingalso.com (edited by Emily Mast)
2006 Textfield, July issue, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2006 Pazmaker, Issue No. 2, Mexico City, Mexico