EDUCATION
- 1968 B. Arch, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
- 2002 "Movie Map", Rena Bransten Gallery
- 2000 "Ant Farm Tme Capsule Openng" The Art Guys studio, Houston, TX
- 1995 "Awakening from the 20th Century," Rena Bransten Gallery
- 1992 "Fashion Zone", video installation, Rena Bransten Gallery
- 1990 "Motorist" Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
- 1988 "Chip Lord: Videotapes 1977-87," International Center of Photography, New York (brochure)
- 1986 "Training Maneuvers" Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York
- 1984 "Witness" 80 Langdon St. San Francisco
- 1983 "Witness" LACE, Los Angeles
- 1982 "Chevrolet Training Film: The Remake" performed at Southwest Alternate Media Project, Houston,
- TX. (collaboration with Phil Garner )
- 1981 "Chevrolet Training Film: The Remake" The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,
- (collaboration with Phil Garner )
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2001 "CTRL Space", Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany (catalog)
- 2001 "les années Pop", C entre Pompidou, Paris (catalog)
- 2001 "Architecture Radicale", Institut d'art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
- 2001 VideoEX Festival, Zurich, Switzerland
- 2000 The Dallas Video Festival
- 2000 "Video Time", Museum of Modern Art, New York, (Catalogue)
- 2001 "Made in California: Art, Image, and Indentity, 1900-2000", LACMA (catalogue)
- 1999 Mill Valley Film Festival ("Awakening from the 20th Century")
- 1998 MuuMedia Festival, Helsinki, Finland ("Mapping a City of Fragments)
- 1998 The World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, (catalog)
- 1998 "Recent Video" Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
- 1998 Dokumenta Film und Videofest, Kassel, Germany
- 1997 "Contemporary Landscapes: the Enigma of Reason",The Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, New York,
- 1997 Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Gronigen, The Netherlands,
- 1995 "Photography after Photography" Siemens Kultur program Munich, Germany and travelled to:
- 1995 Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
- 1996 Stadische Galerie Erlangen, Germany
- 1996 Brandenburgische Kunstammlungen Cottbus, Germany
- 1997 Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark
- 1997 Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
- 1997 Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
- 1998 Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
- 1996 "Location, Location," ICA, San Jose, California
- 1996 "Radicals: design and architecture 1960/75", 6th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice
- Biennale, Italy
- 1994 "Flagging the 21st Century," Capp Street Project, San Francisco
- 1992 "Summer Selection," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco,
- 1993 "Art Mall," The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York,
- 1992 "Video Premiere series", The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 1991 "Comfort," Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California
- 1992 "Multi Mediale 2," Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
- 1991 "Video Features" Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston,
- 1990 "The Decade Show," The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York,
- 1990 "Disarming Genres," Artists Space, New York,
- 1990 "Bay Area Media," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (catalog)
- 1994 "Picture Windows", Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California
- 1989 "Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- 1988 Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, California
- New American Makers, Opera Plaza Cinema, San Francisco, California
- 1989 "Video Recodes the Documentary," The ICA, London, England
- 1988 "New Television" PBS series broadcast on KCET, WNET, and WGBH
- 1987 "Surveillance" LACE, Los Angeles, CA
- 1988 "Collaborators: Artists working together in Houston 1969 - 1986,
- The Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
- 1986 "The Magic Lantern" SF Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco
- 1999 "Content", The Hirshorn Museum, Washington D.C.
- 1984 "California Video 1984", Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
- 1984 L'Imagine Electronica, Galleria Comunate d'art Moderna, Bologna, Italy
- 1983 San Francisco Video Festival.
- 1983 Sydney Biennale, Australia (catalog)
- 1983 "Building Utopia: Oberlin Architecture 1933 - 1983" drawings, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin,
- Ohio (catalog)
- 1983 "About TV" Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York
- 1983 "Video Art: A History" The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 1983 Toronto Film Festival, Toronto, Ont. Canada
- 1982 U.S. Film and Video Festival, Park City, Utah (Honorable Mention award)
- 1981 Toronto Film Festival
- 1981 "Ant Farm Video Retrospective", American Film Institute National Video Festival, Washington DC (catalog)
- 1981 "Amarillo News Tape," Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas
- 1981 International Video Art Festival, Portopia, Japan, (catalog)
- 1981 Anthology Film Archives, New York, video screening
- 1980 "Amarillo News Tape," Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach,
- 1981 "Video Art: The Electronic Medium" Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
- 1980 "Tableaux", Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art
- 1979 "The Executive Air Traveler", The Western Front Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada,
- 1979 "Space/Time/Sound the 1970's: A Decade in the Bay Area", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS
- 1998 Film Arts Foundation Personal Works grant for "Awakening from the 20th Century"
- 1996 Barbara Latham Award, Dallas Video Festival
- 1992 Fellowship for Research and production, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada
- 1992 Artists Fellowship, California Arts Council
- 1991 U.S. - Japan Creative Artists Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts and Bunka-Cho,
- Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan
- 1989 Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowship,
- 1987 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
- 1985 8th Tokyo Video Festival, Japan - Work of Excellence Award
- 1984 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
- 1984 Contemporary Art Television Fund production Grant for "Easy Living"
- 1981 Governor of Hyogo Province Award, Portopia Festival
- 1980 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
- 1979 Artist-in-Residence. KVII-TV, Amarillo, TX
- 1973 Progressive Architecture Design Citation, Ant Farm
TEACHING
- 1988- present Professor and Chair, Film and Digital Media Department, University of California,
- Santa Cruz
- 1985-87 Assistant Professor, Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego
- 1981-85 Visiting Lecturer, Visual Arts Department, U.C. San Diego
VIDEO WORKS PRODUCED
- 2002 El Zócalo
- 2000 El Livahpla: Waking Dream
- 1999 Awakening from the 20th Centiry
- 1997 Mapping a City of Fragments v.2,
- 1994 Cadillac Ranch: 1974/1994,
- 1992 The Aroma of Enchantment
- 1989 Motorist
- 1987 Not Top Gun
- 1986 Ballplayer
- 1985 Media Hostages (with Muntadas and Branda Miller)
- 1984 Easy Living, (collaboration with Mickey McGowan)
- 1984 Chip Lord: Selected Works 1977-1984
- 1980 The Amarilo News Tape ( with Doug Hall and Jody Procter)
- 1975 The Eternal Frame by Ant Farm and T.R.Uthco
- 1975 Media Burn by Ant Farm
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- The San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art
- The Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley Art Museum
- The Long Beach Museum of Art
- Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany.