Barb Choit

b. 1977 Vancouver, Canada. Lives and works in New York.

Education

Master of Arts: Modern Art and Curatorial Studies, Columbia University, New York, NY (2004)
Master of Fine Arts: Visual Arts/Photography, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (2002)
Bachelor of Fine Arts: Photography, Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada (2000)
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and the Arts, New York, NY (1998)
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA (1996)

One and Two Person Exhibitions

2009
Nagel Fades, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY
Permutations: Barb Choit and Sylvain Sailly, curated by Lee Plested, Blanket Contemporary Art Inc., Vancouver, BC Canada
Tea Symposium in honor of Future Historical Importance, Forever & Today, New York

2008
The Division Museum of Ceramics and Glassware, 259 Tenth Avenue Gallery, New York, NY

2006-2007
The Division Museum of Ceramics and Glassware, 141 Division St, New York, NY

2004
Twenty-Two Books, Columbia University Libraries, New York, NY

2002
Ten Shows, California Institute of the Arts Slide Library, Valencia, CA
Zoe Relax, Afterall Journal Office Gallery, Valencia, CA

2001
Mary Boone 1983 Mary Boone 1983, collaboration with Erica Redling, Mint
Gallery, Valencia, CA

2000
Permutations of a Failed Image Within an Enclosed Space, L-Shape Gallery, Valencia, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010
Solid State, Bureau, New York, NY
Contact Photography Festival, Toronto, Canada

2009
Death & Objects, Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC Canada
Everything Must Out Going, Asia Song Society, New York, NY
Extra, Extra, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA
The Longest Train I Ever Saw, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY

2008
Gut of the Quantifier, Lisa Cooley, New York, NY
Please Stay Out We’re Open, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Local, curated by The Apartment, Fillip Studio, Vancouver, BC Canada

2007
NADA Art Fair, Miami, FL
The Amorphous Show, Grotto Gallerie, Brooklyn, NY
A Redundant Insertion, The Explorers Club: Research and Collections Department, New York, NY

2006
Slideshow, Red-I Projects, New York, NY

2005
The Patch, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY
All I Want is Everything, small a projects, Portland, OR
Do You Like Stuff?, Swiss Institute, New York, NY
Bebe Le Strange, D’Amelio Terras, New York NY
Traveling Tales, Aratoi Museum, Masterton, New Zealand
Out of the Loop: Moving Blue Architecture, Barbés, Brooklyn NY,

2003
Out of Sight: The Image Beyond the Index, (Traveled 2000-2003), Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver Canada; The Art Gallery of the South Okanagan, Penticton BC, Canada; The Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey BC Canada

2002
Messy Fingers, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.

2001
Self Reflexive, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Helen Pitt Triennial Awards Exhibition, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC, Canada
Joint Ventures, schnittraum, Cologne, Germany

2000
Beautiful Stranger, Stevenson Blanche Devereau Gallery, Valencia, CA
Year, curated by Martin Clark and Mark Dickenson, (traveled in 2000) Kunstraum
Muenchen, Munich, Germany; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City NY
Knock Off, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Cellular Origins, The Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

1999
Out of Place, The Western Front Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
WOW: John Anderson and Friends, The Western Front Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Spontaneous Compulsion, Latitude 53 Society of Artists, Edmonton, Canada
Satellite 3000, The Video In, Vancouver, Canada

Curatorial Exhibitions

2006
Re-make/Re-model, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY

2005
Bebe Le Strange, D’Amelio Terras, New York NY

2003
Good Words and Credentials: Contemporary Comments on the Art of the Sixties & Seventies, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY

2002
Drive into the Sunset, The Western Front Gallery, Vancouver Canada
Stairwell of the Damned, TMJ Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2000
Jen Weih: New Works, Allergy Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
The Stove Show, Allergy Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

Bibliography/Reviews
Johnson, Ken, "The Lower East Side, Home to the Young and Emerging," The New York Times, December 4, 2009.
Stone, Rosetta, "ARTNET GOSSIP," Artnet Magazine, November 2009.
Leon, Jon, "From the Tanning Bed: Barb Choit," Art in America, November 9, 2009.
"Best in Printmaking," Time Out New York, November 5-11, 2009.
“Emerging Artist Page,” The L Magazine, March 29, 2008.
Sholis, Brian, “Gut of the Quantifier,” artforum.com, March 2008.
Johnson, Ken, “Tracking Suburbia; Do You Like Stuff?" The New York Times, Oct 14, 2005.
"Tracking Suburbia/Do You Like Stuff?" The New Yorker, Oct 24, 2005.
Mendelsohn, Adam E, “Do You Like Stuff? Art Monthly, Oct 2005, No 290, pp 34-5.
Howard, Christopher, “Do You Like Stuff?” Brooklyn Rail, October, 2005.
James Gardner, “ART ATTACK” New York Post, Jul 23, 2005.
Cotter, Holland, “ART REVIEW; Fanciful to Figurative to Wryly Inscrutable, The New York Times, July 8, 2005.
Reisman, Sara, “Bebe le Strange,” in New Museum Picks,
http://www.newmuseum.org/more_curators_picks.php, 2004.
“Perfect 10’s,” The National Post, Toronto, Canada, February 8, 2004.
Usinger, Mike, “With Grab That Gun, The Perfectly Morose Daughters Of 80s Postpunk
May Find Some Self-Esteem At Last,” The Georgia Straight, May 2004, Vancouver, CA.
“Out of Sight: The Image Beyond the Index: Matilda Azlizadeh, Barb Choit, Evan Lee, Kevin Schmidt, Kyla Mallett,& Allison Hardy in “Scans,” http://www.photobasedart.ca, Volume 1, Issue 4, July 25, 2003.
Brayshaw, Christopher, Out of Sight: The Image Beyond the Index (Surrey British
Columbia: The Surrey Art Gallery, 2000).
Cutler, Randy Lee. “Pilfering the Datasphere and Other Recombinant Strategies”
Catalog essay on digital sampling, in Scope Experimental Film
Project. (Vancouver, British Columbia: The Western Front Society, 1999)

Writing

Choit Barbara, “Visible Storage Area Two at the Division Museum of Ceramics and Glassware,” Afterall Journal Online, (London, Los Angeles: www.afterall.com/choit.html).
Choit, Barbara, “Wall Label” in Cakewalk Magazine (Vol. 6 Los Angeles CA, 2004).
Choit, Barbara “Deb,” in Beyond Compare: Dove Presents Women Photographers on Beauty (Toronto: Unilever Press, 2004), illus.
Choit, Barbara, “Violet Hopkins,” in The Calartian (Los Angeles, Spring 2002).

Speaking Engagements

2003
"Permutations of a Failed Image Within an Enclosed Space"
Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver Canada

2002
"Artist as Curator and Curator as Artist"
Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles CA

Teaching Positions

Photography Instructor
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (2008)

Photography Instructor: Brooklyn College Art Lab
The City University of New York, Brooklyn NY (2007)

Visiting Critic: Laboratory
Parsons The New School of Design, New York, NY (2006)

Visiting Instructor in Digital Photography
State University of New York, Binghamton, NY (2006)

Technical Advisor: Color Photography
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (2002)

Teacher's Assistant: Media Theory
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (2002)

Awards and Grants

Guttman Art History Scholarship, Columbia University, New York NY (2003)
California Institute of the Arts Merit Scholarship, Valencia CA (2000)
British Columbia Arts Council: Visual Artist Grant (1999)
The Vancouver Foundation: Helen Pitt Award (1999)
British Columbia Arts Council: Visual Artist Grant (1998)
Savannah College of Art and Design Tuition Scholarship, Savannah GA (1996)