Born in Bridgeport, California, USA, 1959
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California, USA

EDUCATION

1981 B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1977-79 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA


 

FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS

2012 The New Festival, Centre Pompidou, curated by Bernard Blistene, Paris, France


 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011 Marnie Weber, The Autumn Bear, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2010 Marnie Weber, Forever Free, The Cinema Show: A Film Retrospective and Installations, Sculpture and Collage, curated by Yves Aupetitallot, Le Magasin Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, France
Eternity Forever, curated by Emi Fontana, West of Rome (WOR), Pasadena, California, US
2009 The Truth Speakers, The Sea of Silence, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
Marnie Weber: Campfire Song, Sint-Lukas Galerie, Brussels, Belgium
The Bondage of Decay, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, US
2008 Marnie Weber, Bernier Eliades Gallery, Athens, Greece
Marnie Weber, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
2007 A Western Song, Utställningar Hösten 07, Vita Kuben, Umea, Sweden
Sing Me A Western Song, Patrick Painter Gallery, Santa Monica, US (cat.)
Variations on a Western Song, Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York, US
From a Western Song, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK
2005 Marnie Weber: From the Dust Room, curated by Julie Joyce, Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles, US (cat.)
Ghost Love, The Spirit Girls, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Spirit Girls, Songs that Never Die, Galerie Praz-DeLavallade, Paris, France
2004 Marnie Weber, Ten Year Survey of Collage, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK
2002 The Dollhouse, Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York, US
Collages and Videos, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
2001 Forever More, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Who’s the Most Forgotten of Them All?, Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York, US
2000 Sleepy Weepy Stories, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, US
1999 Storybook Endings, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
1998 The Tender Desert, Jessica Fredericks Gallery, New York, US
The Unlovables, Sheppard Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, US
The Unlovables, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, US
1997 Lost In The Woods, Jessica Fredericks Gallery, New York, US
Destiny and Blow Up Friends, Milwaukee Art Museum, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, US
Video XI: Marnie Weber, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden
1995 Quest for Happy, Andreas Brandstrom Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
1992 Woman with Bass, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, US


 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011 Have You Seen Me?, curated by Tanya Haden & Anna Oxygen, (Collaborative Project), La Cienega Projects, Culver City, US
Interchange, curated by Anna Meliksetian, Exchange LA, Los Angeles, US
Dazed Cover at Colette, Colette, Paris, France
Material Spiritual World, curated by Filip Luyckx, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Summer Group Show: Recent Work by Gallery Artists, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, NY
The Archaic Revival, curated by Dani Tull, Las Cienega Projects, Hollywood, US
Sympathetic Magic: Video Myths and Rituals, curated by Catherine Taft, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, US
2010 The Artists Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
Points of View, Portugal Arte, curated by Stefan Simchowitz, Lisbon, Portugal
Art Shack, curated by Greg Escalante, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, US
Uncontrollable Flesh, curated by Sarvia Jasso, BAM/PFA, Berkeley, US
2009 Unusual Behavior, California Forum, Santa Barbara, US
The Chelsea Hotel, No Longer Empty (NLE), New York, US
Don’t Panic! I’m Selling My Collection, Rental Gallery, New York, US
Sonic Youth Etc: Sensational Fix, Konsthall Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
Los Angeles: Aspects of the Archaic Revival, Galerie Haus Schneider, Uschi Klb, Karlsruhe, Germany
Le Sort Probable de L’homme Qui Avait Avalé Le Fantôme, Centre Des Monuments Nationaux, Paris, France (in collaboration with le nouveau festival du Centre Pompidou)
Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
I Want You to Want Me, Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco, US
Sonic Youth Etc: Sensational Fix, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
2008 Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix, Malmö Konstall, Sweden
When It’s a Photograph, Bolsky Gallery at Otis College for Art and Design, Los Angeles, US
Expenditure, The Busan Biennale, South Korea
Good Doll, Bad Doll, Armory center for the Arts, Pasadena, US
2007 Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, curated by Dominic Molon, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US (cat.)
LA Bodies: Figuration in Sculpture, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, US
Multiple Vantage Points: Southern California Women Artists, 1980-2006, curated by Dextra Frankel, The Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, US (cat.)
Art Project, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
What Glue Do You Use, Cardenas Bellanger, Paris, France
Group Show, Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens, Greece
Art Projects, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
2006 All We Ever Wanted was Everything, Centre D’Art Contemporain, La Synagogue de Delme, France
Captive, curated by Carol Cheh and Kristen Raizada, Gatov Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, US
The Black Show, curated by Daniel Mendel-Black, David Patton, Los Angeles, US
2005 Vandspejl, (H.C. Andersens work); The Arts Club, London, UK
Very Early Pictures, Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles, US
100 Artists See God, Contemporary Art Centre of Virginia, Virginia Beach, US
2004 Walking on Elbows, curated by Mindy Shapero, Anna Helwing Gallery, Culver City, US
Fractured Fairytales, curated by Pam Posey, Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads School, Santa Monica, US
Certaines Traces: Dialogue Los Angeles? Prague 2004, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, US Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, US (cat.)
100 Artists see God, curated by Meg Cranston and John Baldessari, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, US
100 Artists see Satan, Grand Central Art Centre, Cal State University Fullerton, US
2003 Variations on the Theme of Illusion, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK
Los Angeles Post Cool, curated by Michael Duncan, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, US
6 plus 1, F Space, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, US
2002 Netherlands per Saldo, Noorbrabants Museum Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands (cat.)
Los Angeles Post Cool, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, Costa Rica
Wonderland Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium
Xeroxes, Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Subject Matters, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, US
2001 Diabolical Beauty, curated by Jane Callister and Colin Gardner, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, US (cat.)
Tattoo, Modern Art Inc., London, UK
All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy, Gallery Franchesca Pia, Bern, Switzerland
The Portrait Show, New Image Art, West Hollywood, US
Show Room, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
The “W” Show, curated by Bob Nikas, Frac Franche-Comte, Musee de Beaux Arts, Dole, France
Circus Circus, Norrtalje Konsthall, Norrtalje, Sweden
Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France
2000 My Living Dol, curated by Michael Duncan, Chapman University, Orange, France
Philosophy in the Bedroom, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (cat.)
Picturing the Modern Amazon, New Museum, New York, US (cat.)
1999 Flash 99, Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Papermake, Modern Art Incorporated, London, UK
Pleasure Dome Jessica Fredericks Gallery, New York, US
Flash 1999 – Emering International Young Artists, Brigitte March Galerie Stuttgart, Germany
Jim Shaw/Marnie Weber Recent Works, Project, Wichita, US
Antiworld, Gallery: Untitled, Dallas, US
A Girl Like You, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
AZ, Treatment: Women’s Bodies in Medical Science & Art, Dinnerware Contemporary Art Gallery, Tucson, US
1998 Transfiguration, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, US
Life Lessons: How Art Can Change Your Life; The Judy and Stuart Spence Collection, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, US
Lost and Found, Post, Los Angeles, US
Fictional Biographies, Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Whittier, US
21st Annual Benefit Auction, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, US
L.A. On Paper 2 (Fantastic Matter of Fact). Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
1997 A Trilogy for Happy, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden
Bring Your Own Walkman, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles, Jason & Rhodes, London, UK
Summer of Love, Fotouhi Cramer, New York, US
1996 Las Vegas and Jeffrey Vallance presents: The Magic Show, Magic and Movie Hall of Fame, Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, US
Las Vegas and Jeffrey Vallance presents: The Cranberry Show, Contemporary Arts Collective, The Cranberry Museum, Las Vegas, US
1995 Smells Like Vinyl, Roger Merians Gallery, New York, US
Video Installation, Jan Baum Gallery, Felicity, Los Angeles, US
1993 Otis Alternatives: AIDS Memorial, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, US


 

SELECTED PERFORMANCES

2011 Perform Now, Chinatown, curated by Lee Lynch, Originated at Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2010 Eternity Forever, Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, US
2008 Some Painting: The LA Weekly Biennale, curated by Doug Harvey Track 16, Santa Monica, US
High Desert Test Sites, part of 2008 California Biennale, curated by Andrea Zittel, The Palm, Wonder Valley, US
2007 The Spirit Girl’s Holiday Spectacular, Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles, US
An Evening of Film and Performance, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
2005 Spirit Girls: The Rock Opera, Luckman Theatre, California State University Los Angeles, US
2002 I’m not a Bunny, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, US
2000 Poor Them, Norrtalje Konsthall, Norrtalje, Sweden
1996 Cry for Happy, ACME, Santa Monica, US
Delta, Prague, Czech Republic
Spaceland, Silverlake, US
Impala Cafe, Los Angeles, US
1995 ACME, Santa Monica, US
Bodies, San Diego, US
Theoretical at the Faultline, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Santa Monica Museum of Art, US
LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), US
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, US
Gallery Klenova, Klenova Castle, Zamec, Czech Republic
Repra Club, Obecnidum, Prague, Czech Republic
Alterna Komotovka, Prague, Czech Republic
O.K. Club, Osthaven, Czech Republic
1992-89 LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), US


 

SELECTED VIDEO SCREENINGS

2011 The Eternal Heart, Video Screening, The Art of Fear, Artists Films Inspired by Horror Cinema, Nitehawk Cinema, Brooklyn, US
The Eternal Heart, Video Screening, Art Los Angeles Contemporary, The Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, US
2010 Eternity Forever, Video Screening, The Eternal Heart, Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, US
À l’occasion de l’expostion de l’artiste, Video Screening, Forever Free, The Cinema Show: A Film Retrospective and Installations, Le Magasin – Centre National d’Art Contemporain (CNAC), FNAC,
Grenoble, France
2009 Uncanny My Ass: Penetrating the Performative Object, Marnie Weber Video Screening, The Sea of Silence, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, US
Marnie Weber, Artist Talk and Video Screening, Sea of Silence, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
Marnie Weber, Recent Films, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, US
2008 BHC Opening party for BHC Kollektiv and Circle Culture, Berlin, Germany
TULCA2008 : I-podism, Cultural Promiscuity in the Age of the Consumption, Merchants Road Building, Galway City, Ireland
2007 Marnie Weber; An Evening of Film and Peformance, Billy Wilder Theatre, Hammer Museum, US
The Snow Queen: Reason vs. Fantasy, Crystal Palace, Stockholm, Sweden
Renegade Artists: The Swedish Los Angeles, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, US
2005 From the Dust Room, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, US
2003 La Question, curated by Stephanie Moisdon, Magasin Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, France
Program Video by BVD, curated by Nicolas Trembly, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
2000 Shoot/Moving Pictures by Artists, Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden
1997 A Trilogy for Happy, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden
It’s The Cathode Ray, Big Sail Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Malmo Art Academy, Malmo, Sweden


 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

FRANCE FRAC, Paris, France
USA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angles, US
Neuberger Berman, Inc., New York, US
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield, US