RESUME
EDUCATION
2007
MFA, Department of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley, CA2002
MA, Interdisciplinary Arts Education, Inter-Arts Center, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA1996
BA, Individual Major, Creative Thought and Action, University of California, Santa Cruz, CASOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2008
A Problem of Courage , DiverseWorks, Houston, TX2006
Re-enacted Scenes , (selected by Harrell Fletcher, with Dana Dart-McLean), Small A Gallery, Portland, OR
Curated: Harrell Fletcher on Kara Hearn, Art Disk, Chicago, IL
Bonus Track Special for You , (onsite intervention), Four Star Video, San Francisco, CA2005
Dr. Magik's Curiosty Booth, Artist's Television Access, San Francisco, CASELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
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
Capture and Release, 24/7 DIY Video Summit, Los Angeles, CA
Weight of the World , Reed Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH2007
Cast of One, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Dark Mirror, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Guilt by Association, Parkway Speakeasy, Oakland, CA
Body Double, Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Self 2.0, Vertexlist, Brooklyn, NY
Vertices, Galapagos Art Space, Williamsburg, NY
Festival Images Contre Nature, Marseille, France
Digital Artifact Magazine, issue one
Learning to Love You More Exhibition, MU Independent Art Space , Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Compass 2007, UC Riverside California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
Cream From the Top, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
Fermata MFA Exhibition, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Deadpan, Kooh-i-nor Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Collective Foundation, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
We Love Cinema, Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Abstract Things, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, England
American Mythologies: Curios and Keepsakes , Cricket Engine Gallery, Oakland, CA2006
Twisted Stories, Liggett Studio, Tulsa, OK
American Mythology II: Identity Through Fantasy, Oliver Arts Center, Oakland, CA
Dirty Light, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Open Walls #2, White Columns, New York City, NY
Immediate Futures, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Tiny Things, Frankenart Mart, San Francisco, CA
The Odyssey Pocket Myths DVD, Mix Festival, New York, NY
Festival Images Contre Nature, Marseille, France
Unfinished Business, Frankenart Mart, San Francisco, CA2005
The Public Hermitage, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA2004
Festival Images Contre Nature, Marseille, France
LABoratory: Exhibition of Experimental Film and Video, Salt Lake City, UT
Women in the Directors Chair International Film and Video Festival, Chicago, IL
Festival Tous Courts, International Festival of Cinema, Aix-en-Provence, France2003
Festival Images Contre Nature, Marseille, France
Walt's Fortune, roadside performance, Old San Antonio Road, Fredericksburg, TX
Women With Vision Film Festival, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN2002
The Living LABoratory, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
InterArts Center Exhibition, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Festival Images Contre Nature, Marseille, France
Live Art Lab Mission Film & Video, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
BAMcinématek, Selections from the 2002 New Festival, Brooklyn, NY
New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, New York, NY
Film Arts Festival of Independent Cinema, San Francisco, CA
Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX2001
Southern Exposure Witness Short Films, San Francisco, CA
Festival Images Contre Nature, Marseille, France2000
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Artists Television Access, San Francisco, CAAWARDS AND GRANTS
2007-09 Core Fellow, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
2007 UC Berkeley Eisner Award for the highest achievement in the Creative Arts
2007 Honorable Mention, UC Berkeley Eisner Award for Film and Video
2006 Murphy Fellowship in the Fine Arts, sponsored by The San Francisco FoundationService-Works Grant, September 2006
PRESS
Garland Fielder, "Kara Hearn- A Problem of Courage," ArtsHouston.com (June 10, 2008).
Douglas Britt, "Light, sound, video smoke: all part of DiverseWorks' atmosphere," Houston Chronicle (June 6, 2008).
Dusti Rhodes, "All by Myself," Houston Press (June 5-11, 2008).
Annie Buckley, "'Body Double' at Luckman Gallery," Artweek (December 2007/January 2008).
Holly Myers, "'Body Double': through a lens starkly," Los Angeles Times (September 12, 2007).
David Velasco, "Critic's Pick," Artforum.com (June 12, 2006).
