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JOHN SISLEY

Born in Sacramento, CA. Lives and works in Los Angeles.

EDUCATION

2007 MFA, University of California Riverside (UCR), Riverside, CA.
1998 BA, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA.

SELECT EXHIBITIONS

2009
(forthcoming) ENDGAMES, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, OR

2008
LA25 Half-Life, Skadden & Arps, Hammer Museum, LACE, Los Angeles, CA.

2007
Compass 2007, curated by Tyler Stallings & Ciara Ennis, CMP & Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside,CA.
Last Exit Empire: UCR MFA Thesis Exhibition, Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, CA.
Is that all there is to fire? curated by David Horvitz, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA.

2006
Greater LA MFA, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.
Chain Letter, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA.
Separate Checks, Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, CA.
Orion’s Shorts Film Festival, High Desert, CA.

2005
Southern Exposure, New Wight Gallery UCLA, Westwood, CA.
Greater LA MFA Exhibition, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.
Table for 4, UC Riverside Highlander Studios, Riverside, CA.
UC Riverside Graduate Student Exhibition. Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA.

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2007 Sol T. Goldstein Award
2006 Maxwell H. Gluck Fellowship for the Arts
2005 Maxwell H. Gluck Fellowship for the Arts
2004 Maxwell H. Gluck Fellowship for the Arts
2004 UCR Visual Arts Graduate Fellowship

CURATION

2007 Between Thought and Expression. Video exhibition, Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, CA.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2008 LA25 Exhibition Catalogue, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, &Flom LLP
"Art Marks Milestone" Los Angeles Daily Journal, May 6, 2008
2007 Caires, April, “New Kids on The ArtsBlock; Sweeney surveys the UC’s hot new artists,” IE Weekly, August September. 5. p.14.