EDUCATION
2011 Bachelor of Arts Degree California State University Northridge, Summa Cum Laude
EXHIBITIONS SOLO / PANELS / LECTURES/ ART RESIDENCY
2018 Museum Of The San Fernando Valley
2017 Visiting Artist/Pop Up Gallery/Room and Board, Culver City, CA
2017 Solo Guest Speaker, The Museum of the San Fernando Valley, Northridge, CA
2016 “ChungKing Alley”, Back Room Gallery, Coagula Curatorial, Special Showing
2014 LA Artcore, 3 person exhibit, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Valley Performing Arts Center Gallery, Cal State Univ. Northridge
2013 Guest Speaker on Solo Exhibit, CSUN ARTS COUNCIL, Valley Performing Arts Center Gallery
2013 Pop Uber Alles, Solo Exhbit Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Solo Exhibit, Conversations With The Artist, Gallery 825, (Sept. 2nd)
2013 Valley Performing Arts Center Gallery, Cal State University Northridge
2013 Interpretations, Drawing, Curator: Mary Oliver, City Hall Bridge Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, City Hall East
2012 Polish Pallet Art Residency, Oswiecim, Poland, Lark Gallery
2012 Momentum Art Panel WCA, Reverse the Gaze and process, Gallery 825, Los Angeles CA
2012 Guest Speaker, California State University Northridge, Senior Projects
2006 “Particular Places” Marriott Hotel, Woodland Hills, CA
2004 “Faces”, Pelican Art Gallery, Petaluma, CA
2003 “Shoptalk”, Performing Arts Gallery, Cal State Northridge, CA
1999 “Valley Faces”, Orlando Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA
EXHIBITIONS GROUP
2018 Post, Kamikasis, Curator Mahara Sinclaire, DTLA
2018 Studio System ll, Torrance Art Museum Residency, Director Max Presneill
2018 Art In Place, Curator Juri Koll, Longbeach
2017 Art In Place, Curator Juri Koll, Longbeach
2017 Hellmouth, Avenue 50 Studio., LA, Curator Leonard Greco
2017 Cratedigger VOL. 2 Gabba Gallery Curator Jason Ostro
2017 Monstervision 2017, Instagram, featured artist
2017 Red On Red, Balconi Gallery, West LA, Curator Kio Griffith
2017 HOLD YOU Foundation/Charity Auction, The Loft at Liz’s, Randi Kreeft, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Art & Home 2017, Room & Board & Angeleno Magazine, Culver City, CA
2017 Hollywood & Fine, A.G. Geiger Galleries, DTLA, Curator: Juri Koll
2017 Female Figure Beyond The Lines Gallery, Bergamot Station, S.M., Curator: Brittany Davis
2017 Tequila Mockingbird’s Steampunk and Proper Art Show, Mid-City Art House Culver City, Curation: LA Punk Museum
2017 Dada 100, MuzeuMM Gallery, Curator: Kio Griffith
2017 Loteria III, Cactus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Womans Feminist Exhibit, Curators: Betty Brown/ Wendy Sherman., Groundspace, Los Angeles
2016 MAS Attack, Torrance Art Museum, Curators: Max Presneill, Arta Curatorial
2016 Art and Home 2016, LAFH, Art Benefit, Culver City, Room and Board
2016 Tiny Treasures XI, Los Angeles, Cactus Gallery
2016 Sticks and Stones, Los Angeles, Cactus Gallery
2016 Gun Show, The Loft At Liz’s, Los Angeles
2016 “Sticks and Stones, Cactus Gallery, LA, ,Curators Douglas Alvarez, Sandra Mastroianni
2016 Room and Board Decor, LA Family Housing, Angeleno Magazine, Culver City
2016 Boots On The Ground, Mid City Art House Gallery, Culver City, CA
2015 ART MAKES CHANGE, Dale Youngman Projects, Bergamot Station, Vision Quest LA
2015 The Drawing Show, The Loft Gallery, Curator: Betty Brown
2015 Blank Canvas, Washington Reid Gallery, Fund Raiser/ United Cerebral Palsy, Curator: Kristine Schomaker, Culver City, CA
2015 Room and Board Decor, LA Family Housing, Angeleno Magazine Culver City
2015 Sketchbook Exhibition, Temporary Space LA, Curator: Melissa Orcutt
2015 Fashionistas Fight Back, OCCCA, Orange County Center For Contemporary Art, Curator: Shana Nyes Dambrot
2015 Gabba Gallery, Wishlist 3.0, Gabba Arts District DTLA
2015 Shine On Pop Up Exhibit, Basecamp Brewery,Curator: Carl Shubs, DTLA
2015 Mask Art Show, KGB Gallery, DTLA
2015 Artboot Camp Exhibit, Phantom Gallery, Hawthorne
2015 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Chimmaya Gallery
2015 “Red Hot”, Beyond Baroque, Venice CA- Exhibit highlights 10 LA Artists, Curator: Bob Branaman
2015 “Adorn”, Gallery 825, LA, Juror: Sarah Russin (LACE Director)
2015 5th. Annual Art Project LA, Aids Project LA, Bonhams Auction House
2015 Reseda Council, Exhibit of local artists
2014 Brand 42, Works on Paper, Brand Library, Juror: Jack Rutberg
2014 Invitation design for Dan Tana’s 50th year Gala event
2014 Our Ever Changing World Pop Up Exhibition,Chung King Road, Los Angeles, Curator/Publisher: Karrie Ross
2013 Reseda Public Project, Reseda Neighborhood Council
2013 Gleaming Apollo, Gallery 825 Juror: Shula Nazarian
2013 Michael Hale Gallery, Two person Exhibit, Santa Monica, CA
2012 Chimmaya Gallery Small Works December Exhibit, East Los Angeles, CA
2012 Dale Youngman Projects, Syrup Loft, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Momentum Exhibit, LAAA, Curator: Rita Gonzalez, Associate Curator of LACMA
2011 Julien’s Auction House, Beverly Hills, CA Auction of Guitar “Star Chords”
2011 Crewest Gallery, Top Of The Dome, Los Angeles Calif.
2011 Dale Youngman, ART SHARE LA HOLIDAY ART BAZAAR, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Chim Maya Gallery, November Group show, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Chim Maya Gallery, DOD exhibit, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Portraits of the Fallen, Memorial Project, Calif. Phase
2011 Sustainable Art Exhibition, The New World F.E.S.T., Santa Monica, CA
2011 Doug Harvey Chain Letter Exhibition, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA at Bergamot Station
2011 CSUN Annual Juried Exhibition, Cal State University, Northridge, CA, Jurors: James Robie
2011 Korean Cultural Center – Contributing Ornament Artist to “Window Between Worlds” by Kim Abeles
2011 Subspace, Culver City, CA
2010 Crewest Gallery, Downtown LA, CA, Curators” Man One/Harry Flanagan
2010 Mount St. Mary’s College, Curator: Jody Baral 4 Person Show
2010 L.A. Juried Exhibition for L.A. Municipal Art Gallery
Curators: Franklin Sirmans (LACMA) & Ali Subotnick (Hammer Museum)
2010 Mail Art Exhibit, Armory Center for the Arts, LA
2010 Bolt Barber Exhibition Rowan Gallery, Downtown Artwalk
2010 Mirrors of the Soul, El Portal Theatre, North Hollywood, CA
2010 Eye for Identity, West Gallery, California State University, Northridge, CA
2010 Artist Guild Show, West Gallery, California State University, Northridge, CA
2009 “Home Grown”, LA Art House, West Hollywood, CA
2009 “11th Annual Faces”, Upstream People’s Gallery, On-line 2009
2009 “CSUN Student Art Exhibit”, Juror: Ashley Emenegger 2009
2009 “Out There”, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, Juror: Bert Green 2009
2008 “Out There”, Juror: Cliff Benjamin, Gallery 825/LAAA, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Alchemy of Art, Juror: Peter Frank, Lark Gallery On line Exhibit
2008 A Politico On line Exhibit
2008 Gallery 825/LAAA; Benefit Exhibit
2007 Detour Exhibit-Otis College of Art & Design
2007 25th Anniversary Art Scene Gala, Original Art Centerpiece LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
2007 GEM, Gallery 825, Los Angeles
2006 Ann Philbin Open Show Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Grey McGear Modern, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2006 Tarfest, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Beckstrand Gallery, Palos Verdes
2006 Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA
2005-06 Upstream People’s Gallery
2005 McGear Modern, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Long Beach Art Gallery, Long Beach, CA
2004 L.A. Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Grey McGear Modern, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Pierce Art Gallery, Woodland Hills, CA
2003 Beckstrand Gallery, Palos Verdes, CA
2003 Cambridge Art Assoc. Nat’l. Prize Show, Cambridge, MA
2003 Consumerism” The Second City Council Gallery, Long Beach, CA
2002 Cambridge Art Assoc. Nat. Prize Show, Cambridge, MA
2002 Black History Month, The Second City Council Gallery, Longbeach CA
2001 America, The Second City Council, Longbeach CA
2001 Dorothy Chandler Pavillion, Live Auction , CA
2000 Bank Of America, Laguna Beach, CA
2000 St. Louis Artists Guild, St. Louis, MO
1999 Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA
1999 Century Gallery, Los Angeles Mission College, CA
1998 The West Gallery, Cal State University, Fullerton, CA
1997 ASPCA Benefit Art Auction , Los Angeles, CA
1997 Masterpiece Gallery, Chatsworth, CA
1995-96 Mythos Gallery, Burbank, CA
1995-96 Gail Michael Collection, Studio City, CA
1996 LA Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, LA
1995 Charles Hecht Gallery, Tarzana, CA
1994 Bowles-Sorroko Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
AWARDS/PUBLICATIONS/REVIEWS/SCHOLARSHIPS
2018 Studio Visit Magazine, Volumes 39&40, George Kinghorn, Executive Director/ Curator/ Univ. of Maine, Museum of Art
2016 Diversions LA , “LA Art Scene Mural-On-Canvas” (may 31 on line review), Genie Davis
2016 Diversions LA, (October on-line review), “Groundspace Explores Fantastic Feminist Figuration”, Genie Davis
2016 Artful Amphora (Art Blog Review Sept. 21), Woman Around Town, Karen Schifman
2016 Art and Cake (October on-line review) “Fantastic Feminist Figuration” at Groundspace Project, Jennifer Susan Jones
2016 American Art Awards EXPRESSIONISM HUMAN FIGURE(S): 3RD PLACE JODI BONASSI USA
2016 Diversions LA , “LA Art Scene Mural-On-Canvas” (may 31 on line review), Genie Davis
2015 Diversions LA, (Dec on line review) “What I Want For The Holidays: Wish List at The Gabba Gallery, Genie Davis
2015 Arts Meme, On Line art review by Kirk Silsbee, on “The Drawing Show”: “Where They Live: So. Cal Artists Draw at Liz’s
2015 People’s Choice Award, Temporary Space LA, Sketchbook Competition
2015/2014 Dan Tana’s 50th Anniversary Celebrity Gala: Work for Hire for Invitation Design.
2015 Pomona Valley Review, PVR9, Liberal Arts Journal
2014 Zocalo Public Square: Barbershop Confessions; Nexus Section
2014 Our Ever Changing World Curator/Publisher: Karrie Ross
2013 Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 19, Curator: Jonathan Greene
2012 Hair’s How Magazine, Art Interview with Images, Russia
2012 Art of Now Lark, On Line Review by Peter Frank, Third Place
2012 Door Installation Image, Singular City article on Divorce (Jan. issue)
2011 Outstanding Graduating Senior Award
2011 Communication Nominee: Leo Wolfson Scholar Award
2010 Larchmont Review
2010 “Guitar Town Is Coming”
CWG Magazine, On-Line Publication
2010 Jodi Bonassi at Barnsdall, On-Line Review, Rene Deloffre
2010 Hans Burkhardt Memorial Scholarship, California State University, Northridge, CA
2010 Best of America Artist & Artisans, Vol. 2, Blick Art Materials & Kennedy Publishing
2010 Dean’s Outstanding Senior Student Award, Mike Curb College of Arts Media, and Communication, CSU, Northridge, CA
2010 Studio Visit Magazine, Juror: Dina Deitsch
2009-11 Gallery 825 Catalogue, Juror: Samuel Hoi, Pres., Otis Art Institute
2008-10 Delta Alpha Pi, International Honor Society, California State University, Northridge, CA
2008-10 University Scholars Award, Cal. State University, Northridge
2008 Studio Visit Magazine, Ocean Press
2007 Art and Living Magazine, Events
2007 Emerging Artist Calendar
2007 WWNorton Publishing. Psychology 7e, Chapter 3, “Chess Players 2,” college textbook
2006 Flavorpill, On-line Magazine, Review of Open Show, Dec. 16
2006 LA Daily News. Visual Art Gallery, March 1
2006 “Associates Award,” Awarded by Prof. Mike McGee, Director of Fullerton Art Galleries
2006 De Benneville Pines Art Camp, Seminar Speaker, Big Bear, CA
2005 Art Calendar Magazine-Cover Art, July/Aug. Issue
2003 Boston Globe
2003 “Outstanding Painting” Awarded by Marc Pachter, Dir. of Nat’l. Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
2003 Living Artists, Nevada, California, 13th Edition, February
2002 L.A. Times, “Valley Art Tour,” Valley Section, October
2002 Harper’s Literary Magazine, New York, November
2002 The Chronicle Review, Washington, D.C., May 31 Issue
2001 A Community of Angels, Los Angeles, Angel Press
2001 Pasadena Star, “Touched by an Angel” April 6
1999 LA Times. “Valley Faces,” January 15
1998 “Trust Me” – TV Movie for HBO (Art Gallery scene)
1997 Park La Brea Art Council, LACMA Banner
1997 LA Times, “Banner Moment,” April 19
1996 Good Housekeeping, “A Fathers Gift,” August
1996 Desert Sun “Desert Enchants California Artist”
1996 Desert Sun “Gallery Glimpse” September issue
1996 Scot Cards, Newberry Park, CA
1995 The Messenger, Topanga Gallery Paper, CA
1994 The Concern Foundation
1987 Creative With Words Publications
PUBLIC ART/ SPECIAL PROJECTS
2018 LA Artists Guest Series, teaching, SVAH School of Visual Arts And Humanities
2017 Modern Arts Blitz Guest Artist, Host Mat Gleason
2017 Guest Artist Teacher Series Los Angeles High School Sonia Hansen/ David Valentine
2014 Metro Art, work for hire, Art Director: Alan Nikagawa
2010 The Sunset Strip Guitar Town project for Gibson Guitars, Los Angeles, California
2010 “A Window Between Worlds” – Curator Artist: Kim Abeles
2009 “Wall of Changes” Collaborative Mural Project, Participating Artist, Cal State University Northridge
2005-06 LAWA Public Art Exhibit, Tom Bradley Terminal, LAX
2005 CRA Gallery, North Hollywood, CA
2001 A Community of Angels, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Chandler Outdoor Gallery, North Hollywood
2001 Vons Corporation, Angel Heart: A Community of Angels
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Cal State University Northridge
The Museum Of The San Fernando Valley
Betty Ann Brown
Dee Wallace
Janine Smith
AFFILIATIONS AND REGISTRIES
The Loft At Liz’s
Cultural Affairs Dept, Slide Registry, Los Angeles, CA
Municipal Art Gallery
Cactus Gallery
Coagula Curatorial
REVIEWER STATEMENTS
Quoted from Genie Davis Review, May 31, Diversions LA, “ Reviewer Statements:
“Mat Gleason, an iconic figure and art critic in the LA Art scene describes her recent painting “Chungking Alley”: My impressions of the piece are that it asserts its own art historical narrative instead of submitting to academic structures and choices. An amazing dreamscape narrative with painterly precision.”
– Mat Gleason 2016
“Jodi Bonassi’s complex, incredibly riveting universe of characters spill from their canvasses.”
– Genie Davis, Art Writer, Producer, Publisher, Novelist 2016
“Jodi Bonassi may be best known for her upbeat, rough hewn depictions of barber shops and other sites of public interaction, but here she offers tender, detailed and slightly strange drawings of children and other domestic figures.
What she brings to this time-honored practice is a sence of anxious, almost paranoid distortion. Such
expressionism doesnt usually pervade renditions this exacting, this naturalistic. Bonassi has brought to the present day the “anxious realism” of the
Wiemar-era New Objectivity.”
–Peter Frank: Curator, Art Critic, 2012
Peter Frank writes about third place winner for Art of Now-
“An unmistakable highlight Jodi Bonassis”, lively illustrations of small town life from an unexpected bond with the equally charismatic paintings of Heather Scholl.”
– Flavor Pill, Dec 2006
“Jodi Bonassi gets the painting award for “Times Star Barbershop 1938”, a narrative painting infused with nostalgia. It’s rich with detail and well painted. The tiles swirling over the floor suggest that this flashback is about to fade. This is simply a feel-good artwork”
– Cate McQuaid, Art Critic, Boston Globe 6/13/03
“Bonassi depicts her subjects with a Silly Putty realism, exaggerating anatomical features – especially hands. She also stuffs an abundance of visual activity into a composition to represent a suitable claustrophobic environment or perhaps to capture a dense identity.”
– Josef Woodward, Art Critic, Los Angeles Times
Jodi Bonassi: Art Creatures and Other Madness 