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CARA  JUDEA  ALHADEFF
www.carajudea.com
photo@carajudea.com

 

EDUCATION:

2008-2010 European Graduate Studies (EGS), MA and PhD in Media Communications (in progress)
1993-1995 Pennsylvania State University (PSU)
Bachelor of Philosophy degree with honors in Corporeal Politics (self-designed interdisciplinary major)
minor in Photography
Summa cum laude
1990-1992 Sarah Lawrence College (SLC), NY

 

COLLECTIONS

  SFMoMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, IN
  Private Collections throughout Europe, North America, and Asia

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:  

2008 Headers, Zang Jianyong w/ The Offspring Project
Project Room, Rohrer Fine Art, Los Angeles
  The Gestation Project, Lyon Photo Bienniel
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epresented by Le Bleu du Ciel, Michel Poivet & Gilles Verneret, Lyon, France
  In-sight
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater, San Francisco
  The Alchemy of Intimacy
Gallery Ssamzie, Seoul, South Korea
2005 Captive Nomads
Van Campen & Rochtus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2004 From There to Here – Captive Nomads
Durchgang Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
2003 Thicker than Water
Flatfile Photography Gallery, Chicago
1998 Matter Adheres to Matter
Oakland Federal Building, CA
1997 Viscous Expectations
SF Art Commission, City Hall, San Francisco

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2008 Berliner Liste:  International Art Fair
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epresented by Gallery Lumiere (S. Korea), Berlin
  Introductions
Alicia and Cooper Johnson, Los Angeles
  Visualizing the Animal
Pennsylvania State University
2006 Williamsburg Art Crawl
Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Chanel /SFMoMA
Contemporary Extension Event sponsored by Vanity Fair, SF
  Kunst 05 Zurich,International Art Fair
Represented by Jack the Pelican Gallery, New York
  Art Basel/Miami, International Art Fair
R
epresented by Jack the Pelican Gallery, New York
  Photo New York
Represented by Jack the Pelican Gallery, New York
  Photo Lisboa
Represented by Voyeur Project View, Portugal
  New Photography
SFMoMA’s Artists’ Gallery, San Francisco
  Artist as Traveler
Cork County, Ireland
2004 Photo San Francisco
Represented by Freddie Fong Gallery, San Francisco
  Pierogi Gallery
Brooklyn (ongoing)
2002 Blood Show
Quotidian Gallery, San Francisco
  Picturing Modernity: Photographs from the Permanent Collection
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  Politically Incorrect
Flatfile Photography Gallery, Chicago
2001 Botanica: The Verdant Garden
Flatfile Photography Gallery, Chicago
  Poor Walls
Quotidian Gallery, San Francisco
1999 Wall to Wall Nudes
Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia
1998 Face
Queer Cultural Center, San Francisco
  Queer and Kinky Danger
Gay and Lesbian Historical Society, San Francisco
  Troubling Customs
Ontario College of Art & Design and Katherine Lane Weems, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  Annual Members’ Exhibition
Berkeley Art Center, CA
1997 Generations
A.I.R. Gallery, New York
  Texas National’97
Juried by Starn Twins, Stephen F. Austin University, TX
1996 Art of the State Pennsylvania 1996
The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
  A Woman’s View
Painted Bride Gallery, Philadelphia
  Photography ‘96
Abington Art Center, PA
1995 Not the Same Old Photo Show
Pennsylvania School of Art and Design
  Body of Evidence: The Figure in Contemporary Photography
Cleveland State University Museum
  International Exhibition of Erotic Art
Griffin Gallery, Miami, FL
1992 Wall of Portraits of Women by Women
University of Wisconsin, Madison
  Undressing Our Wholeness: A Celebration of Women's Art
Sarah Lawrence College, NY


PERFORMANCES

2006 Live Pregnant Women/Memory Miner
Collaboration with composer Ben Bolter for MAC computer program, The Supperclub, San Francisco
  Bay Area Now: In-Sight
Collaboration with Kunst-Stoff Dance Company (photographs projected onto sculptural and dancers’ bodies’ surfaces), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
2005 In-Sight
Velocity Dance Center, Seattle
Southern Theater, Minneapolis
Oberlin Dance Company (ODC), San Francisco
2004 In-Sight
Collaboration with Kunst-Stoff Dance Company (photographs projected onto sculptural and dancers’ bodies’ surfaces), ODC Theater, San Francisco
2002 Up to Code
ODC Theater, San Francisco
2001 Tongue and Trigger
Jon Sims Center for the Arts, San Francisco
1999 The Beauty of Disorder
Highlight of Women’s Work, Venue 9, San Francisco
  Gravity Sag
Women’s Work Series, Venue 9, San Francisco
Meet the Beat, The Luggage Store, San Francisco
Salon 455A, Studio Valencia, San Francisco
1997 Corporeal Politics
Luna Sea, San Francisco
1995 Torrid Zones
Pennsylvania State University

 

 

PUBLIC LECTURES:

2008 Indiana University, Visiting Artist Lecturer w/ Jewish Studies and The Kinsey Institute
2007 The Brooklyn Museum, Body Awareness and Creativity Workshops, New York
  Pratt Institute of Art, Body Awareness and Creativity Workshops, New York
  The Brooklyn Museum, Bridging the Gap, Visiting Artist Lecturer, New York
  Penn State University, Visiting Artist Lecturer and 3-day Photography Workshops
  College Art Association Conference, Immigrant Women and their Artist Daughters, New York
2006 Contemporary Museum of Art, Lyon Photo Biennial, Corps, Decors, Visiting Artist Lecturer, France
  Gallery Ssamzie, Visiting Artist Lecturer and Photography Workshops, Seoul, South Korea
2005 University of Minnesota, Visiting Artist Lecturer, Cross-disciplinary Collaborations in Performance Art
2001 UC Berkeley, Visiting Artist Lecturer, Still Life: The Immobile Object
  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Visiting Artist Lecturer, Foto Forum
1997 San Francisco Art Commission, City Hall, Visiting Artist Lecturer, Viscous Expectations
1994 University of Northern Iowa, Sephardic Jews: 1300 Years of Identity and Assimilation
  Rutgers University, Women in a Transnational World, New Jersey
  National Association for Ethnic Studies and Kansas State University, Ethnicity: Global Perspectives, MI
  University of Delaware, Celebrating Women’s Studies, MD
  Penn State University, Third World Feminisms
  Penn State University, Artist Talk Series
1992 Sarah Lawrence College, New Perspectives on Jewish Identity and Black Jewish Relations, NY
  Sarah Lawrence College, The Sephardim in the Americas, NY

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2007 WPSU, Pennsylvania InsideOut, Public Television interview, Patty Satalia, September
2006 Metro International, La Grossesse Mise a Nu, Laeitia Mazzilli, September, Lyon, France
  Le Progres, Nus hors d’enceintes: Les Photos de Cara Judea Alhadeff, September, Lyon, France
  Le Progres,  L’image de jour par Cara Judea Alhadeff, September, Lyon, France
  Metro International, Jean Emmanuel de Nave, September, Lyon, France
  Travel and Leisure, The Alchemy of Intimacy, April, Seoul, South Korea
  Wolgan Misool, Sight and issue, April, Seoul, South Korea
  Korea Herald, Alhadeff's photographs unveil tension between what is seen as natural and as synthetic, Shin Hae-In, April, Seoul, South Korea
  Korea Times, ,Artist Finds Sense of Empowerment in Nudity, Park Chung, Seoul, South Korea
  Herald Media, The Alchemy of Intimacy, YRLee, April, Seoul, South Korea
  Chosun Ilbo, The Alchemy of Intimacy, April, Seoul, South Korea
  Photo-Net,  Ohmynews.com, and Newsis, The Alchemy of Intimacy, April, Seoul, South Korea
  YTN, Cable Television News, The Alchemy of Intimacy, April, Seoul, South Korea
2005 Society Pages, The San Francisco Chronicle:  Swells - Chanel, Vaniety Fair, SFMoMA, December
  FOTO+, Filip Naudts, Utrecht, Netherlands, May, Belgium
2004 FotoForum, SFMOMA, Meet Cara Judea Alhadeff, An Emerging Artist in the SFMOMA Collection, Terri Whitlock, Fall/Winter
  Yearbook, My Secret Eye,Gehrke Verlag, Tübingen, Germany
  San Francisco Chronicle, Art and Opposition, Rachel Howard, May
  Flow, Anne L. Francis, Fast Back Books
  Best of the Bay, Bay Guardian, Signs and spaces, San Francisco Armory Show
  Hamburg: Pur, Art on the Milkyway, Neu: Galerie Durchgang, April, Germany
  Szene Hamburg, Von Dort Nach Hier, April, Germany
2003 New City: Chicago, The Reader, Tip of the Week, Michael Weinstein, January
  Documentary Film , Cara Judea Alhadeff:  Photographer Yoga Teacher, Aoi Tabata
2002 TV de Werld, Runway: Photographer Cara Judea Alhadeff, Feature Profile on European Television
  Public Broadcasting, French-American Television:  The Art of Cara Judea Alhadeff
2000 SF Weekly, Here Kitty, Kitty, February
  San Francisco Bay Guardian, Critic’s Choice: art, February
  citysearch7.com, Emotionally Annoyed, Editorial Profile, January
1999 New Art Examiner, Varieties of Naked Experience: Particulars of the Human Body in Recent Art, Tom Csaszar, October
  San Francisco Bay Guardian, Inside the Visible, Sarah Coleman, June
  New Art Examiner, March
1997 SF Chronicle, For Art’s Sake, Matier and Ross, November
1996 Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, Negotiating the Discursive Body
1995 Happenings, Intelligencer Journal, Definitely Not the Same Old Photo Show, November
  Daily Collegian, Student, like the masters, must face censorship, January
  Voices of Central Pennsylvania, May, June, July, August
Daily Collegian, June, October
  Artsave/People for the American Way, annual edition
  Sarasota Arts Review, February
  Voices, January, February, October
  Daily Collegian, Artist Tests Community’s Limits, January, September, October
  The National College U Magazine, April
  Artsword, vol. 3, No. 1: spring issue
  The Cleveland Free Times, The Subject:  The Body, Frank Green, October
  The Plain Dealer, Bodies real and surreal, warts and all, Steven Litt, October
  Intelligencer Journal, Happenings, November
1994 Voices of Central Pennsylvania, Interpreting Our Imagination
1992 The New York Times, P.S. 30’s Helping Hands:  College Mentors, Penny Singer, May



GRANTS AND AWARDS

2008 Fundacion Valparaiso, One month residency, Playa de Mojacar, Spain
2001 Jon Sims Center for the Arts, Four month collaborative residency, San Francisco
1998 Award of Excellence, Manhattan Arts International, NY
1995 First Prize National Association for Ethnic Studies, Student Research Competition
  Honors medal for highest distinction, PSU
  First Prize Photograph, International Exhibition of Erotic Art, Griffin Gallery, Miami
  Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award in Women's Studies Program, PSU
  Honorable Mention, Zoller Gallery Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, PSU
1993 Honorable Mention, Zoller Gallery Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, PSU