carol es

b. 1968, Los Angeles, Ca.

SOLO EXHIBITS

2007    
Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX
All Done But None, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
A Girl Apart, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA

2006     
My Identity Lab, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

2005     
George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Highways Performance Space and Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2004     
Distance Divided by 3, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2003     
Highways Performance Space and Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2007     
Dark Objects, Light Matter, Galleri Urbane, Marfa, TX
Material Girls, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA (Catalog)
Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2006     
Perspectives, LA Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Zimmer Children's Museum, Los Angeles, CA (Catalog)
Configuration, Bentley Projects, Phoenix, AZ

2005     
George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
BGH Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
Ontario International Airport, Ontario, CA

2004     
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Outsiders, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

2003     
Gallery 825 at Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
LA Women Artists, Bedlam Art, Los Angeles, CA
Brush, The Office: An Art Space, Huntington Beach, CA

2002     
Held Ransom, three. Gallery, San Pedro, CA
words., Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
Dougherty Art Center, Austin, TX

2001     
Bush Barn Art Center, Salem Arts Association, Salem, OR
La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Westside Art Gallery, Venice, CA, 2000
Early Days of LA Punk, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 1999
New Alchemy Gallery, West Hollywood, CA, 1998
Orlando Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA, 1998

AWARDS AND HONORS

2007
Artists' Resource for Completion Grant, The Durfee Foundation

2005
Artists' Resource for Completion Grant, The Durfee Foundation
Artist Grant, Yellow Fox Foundation

2004
Scholarship Award, Los Angeles Art Association
National Arts and Disability Center/California Arts Council
Residency Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center

2003   
Foundation Grant, Artists Fellowship Inc., New York, NY
Honorarium, Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Centre Pompidou, Bibliotheque Kandinsky, Paris, France
The J. Paul Getty Trust, Research Institute Library
The Arthur and Mata Jaffe Collection, Florida Atlantic University
The Jack Morton Company, Atlanta & NY
Ann Savage Collection, Los Angeles, CA
UCLA Library, Special Collections
Michael Verde, Memory Bridge, Chicago, IL
Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA
Zetter Collection, San Diego, CA
Gail Zone, Los Angeles, CA

Carol Es is a self-taught artist and native Los Angelina born in 1968. She worked as a pattern cutter in the apparel industry as a kid and later establish herself as a musician, artist and writer. Her artwork includes paper collage, garment patterns, handmade books, pins and thread, and her own written prose. Her paintings and artist books are included in numerous private and public collections including UCLA Special Collections, the Arthur and Mata Jaffe Collection at Florida Atlantic University, and was recently purchased by the J. Paul Getty Museum’s Research Library. She is also a recipient of The Artists’ Resource for Completion Grant from the Durfee Foundation, The Artist’s Fellowship in New York, a Vermont Studio Center fellowship, and is represented by the George Billis Gallery in Culver City, Los Angeles.