Born 1968, Los Angeles, Ca.

AWARDS AND HONORS

2009     Pollock-Krasner Fellowship Award, New York, NY
2008     Print Residency, Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA
2007     Artists' Resource for Completion Grant, The Durfee Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
            Best in Show Award, Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital, Schenectady, NY
2005     Artists' Resource for Completion Grant, The Durfee Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
            Artist Grant, Yellow Fox Foundation, Palos Verdes, CA
2004     Scholarship Award, Los Angeles Art Association, Los Angeles, CA
            Studio Residency (2004-2007), Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
            Technical Assistance Grant, National Arts and Disability Center / California Arts Council
            Residency Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2003     Foundation Grant, Artists' Fellowship Inc., New York, NY
            Honorarium, Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, Short Hills, NJ

SOLO EXHIBITS

2009     Float Without Moving, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX
            2-person Show w/Lucinda Cobley, Galleri Urbane, Marfa, TX
            Inner Outline, UCLA Hillel, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2008     She Dreamed She Remembered, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
            Above the Bias Forces, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN
2007     Monogenetic Dreams From the Rag Trade, 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     Carol Es, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
            Hybrids and Mongrels, Highways Performance Space and Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004     Distance Divided by 3, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003     Cutting Patterns, Highways Performance Space and Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2009     Red Dot fair with George Billis Gallery LA, Miami, FL
            Fresh Voices, Hebrew Union College, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
            The Art of Language, Zimmer Childrens Museum, Los Angeles, CA (Catalog)
2008     Summer Salon, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
            Listen to Your Heart, MOHS Exhibit, Copenhagen, Denmark
            Bookish, Seattle University Center for the Arts, Seattle, WA
2007     Selections from the 7th National Sunnyview Exhibit, Union College, Schenectady, NY
            Outside the Box, Greene Contemporary, Sarasota, FL
            Dark Objects, Light Matter, Galleri Urbane, Marfa, TX
            Material Girls, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA (Catalog)
            HEALING: A Cultural Exploration, Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2006     Perspectives, LA Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
            SURVIVING: Kinkade, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
            Multicultural Self-taught Artists, LA Artcore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, CA (Catalog)
            Show & Tell: The Art of Time, Zimmer Children's Museum, Los Angeles, CA (Catalog)
            Configuration, Bentley Projects, Phoenix, AZ
2005     Summer Group Show, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
            Then Again, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
            How to Look at Art, Ontario International Airport, Ontario, CA
2004     Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
            Outsiders, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
            Identification, Highways Gallery and Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA
            Me, Myself and I, Pierce College Fine Art Gallery, Woodland Hills, CA
2003     Between the Lines, LA Women Artists, Bedlam Art, Los Angeles, CA
            Now and Now Again, The Wedge at the Womens Building, LA, CA
            Brush, The Office: An Art Space, Huntington Beach, CA
            Extraordinary Art, Exceptional Artists, The Art Center, Mechanicsburg, PA (Award)
2002     Held Ransom, three. Gallery, San Pedro, CA
            words., Angels Gate Cultural Center's Gallery G, San Pedro, CA
            The Emerging Artist Within, Dougherty Art Center, Austin, TX
2001     Go Figure, Bush Barn Art Center, Salem Arts Association, Salem, OR
            Uncommercial Art by Commercial Artists, La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000     Westside Art Gallery, Venice, CA
            Art Share Warehouse Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999     Forming the Early Days of LA Punk, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
            Orlando Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA
            New Alchemy Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
1998     Orlando Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA
            New Alchemy Gallery, (1998- 2002), West Hollywood, CA
1997     The Brain & Self, University of Arizona Postcard Exhibition, Copenhagen, Denmark
1994     Verve Gallery, (1994-1997), West Hollywood, CA

REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS

2009     FiberArts Magazine. News & Notes: Awards, Nov/Dec Issue, Loveland, CO
            ArtWorks Magazine, feature: Handmade Memory, A, Moret, Los Angeles, CA
2008     Art, LTD, Review, December, Shana Nys Dambrot, Los Angeles, CA
            THE Magazine, Preview 10/08, Los Angeles, CA
            Jewish Journal, 10/4/08 Picks and Clicks by Dikla Kadosh and Danielle Berrin, Los Angeles, CA
            Flavorpill, Preview 10/7/08, Heather Silva, Los Angeles, CA
            The Tennessean, Critics Picks 9/21/08, Artist's Works Transcend Abuse, Nashville, TN
            Seattle Times, Bookish, Gayle Clemans, Seattle, WA
            Los Angeles Times, Picture Brightens for Self Help Graphics, Agustin Gurza, Los Angeles, CA
2007     Times Union, Review by Tim Kane, Albany, NY
            ArtScene Visual Radio, Mat Gleason Seven, Carol Es at George Billis, Los Angeles, CA
            Jewish Journal, Calendar Features: 7 Days in Art by Keren Engelberg, Los Angeles, CA
            Favorpill LA, #213: Carol Es at George Billis, Shana Nys Dambrot, Los Angeles, CA
            Long Beach Press-Telegram, Women Turning Personal Pain into Art, Shirle Gottlieb, LBC, CA
            Press-Enterprise, The Fabric of Art, Vanessa Franko, Riverside, CA
2006     RiffRAG, Fall, New York, NY
            San Pedro Magazine, "Getty, Getty Good," Joshua Stecker, Long Beach Press-Telegram, CA
            Flavorpill LA, #161, "Carol Es: My Identity Lab," Shana Nys Dambrot, Los Angeles, CA
            Los Angeles Alternative, "Carol Es Alchemizes Childhood," Lucinda M. Knapp, Los Angeles, CA
            Daily Breeze, "A Pattern of Creativity," Josh Grossberg, Torrance, CA
2005     Umbrella, Vol. 28, #2-3, October, Judith Hoffberg, Santa Monica, CA
            1-SELF, catalog essays, Shana Nys Dambrot, Kristina Newhouse, San Pedro, CA
            Flavorpill LA, #106, "Hybrids and Mongrels," Shana Nys Dambrot, Los Angeles, CA
            Coagula Art Journal, #75, Interview with Mat Gleason, Los Angeles, CA
2004     Flavorpill LA #73, "Distance Divided by 3," Shana Nys Dambrot, Los Angeles, CA
            Uprising, Pacifica Radio KPFK, Interview with Sonali Kolhatkar, Los Angeles, CA
            Flavorpill LA #57, "Identification," Daniel Stephan MacCannell, Los Angeles, CA
            .ISM Magazine, Issue 01, 2 page spread; printed images, Santa Ana, CA
2003     Olam Magazine, Los Angeles, CA
            The Sentinel, "Exceptional artwork on display" Megan Shirey, Carlisle, PA
            Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Resource Book, Springfield, NJ
2002     Artesian Arts Magazine, Scotland, UK
            The Morning Show, Pacifica Radio KPFK, interview with Sonali Kolhatkar, Los Angeles, CA
            Playful & Provocative, Nancy Nield Buchwald, Ph.D., Art History Dept., University of Chicago, IL
            Austin American-Statesman, "Emerging Artist Within," Austin, TX
2001     Raw Vision Magazine, Issue #37, New York & Watford, UK
            Verge Art Magazine, Los Angeles & Washington, DC
2000     Internet Tonight, featured segment on esart.com, TechTV, San Francisco, CA
1999     Art Venues Magazine, "Target Headed Carol Es," Donna Klaasen, Capistrano Beach, CA
1998     NoHo News, featured artist, North Hollywood, CA
1997     Art Collector Magazine, Vol. 1 #4, Beverly Hills, CA
            Brainchild Magazine, Issue #4, Illustrations and prose, Los Angeles, CA

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Centre Pompidou, Bibliotheque Kandinsky, Paris, France
J. Paul Getty Trust, Research Institute Library, Los Angeles, CA
Fred Giampietro Art, New Haven, CT
The Arthur and Mata Jaffe Collection, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Beverly Kaye, Art Brut Collection, Woodbridge, CT
Paul Kirkpatrick Music, London, UK
Juliette Lewis, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Jack Morton Company, Atlanta & NY
Memory Bridge, Chicago, IL
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Otis College of Art & Design, Artists' Books Collection, Los Angeles, CA
The Ann Savage Collection, Los Angeles, CA
UCLA Library, Special Collections, Los Angeles, CA
Zetter Collection, Carlsbad, CA
Gail Zone, Los Angeles, CA

REPRESENTATION

George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX
Galleri Urbane, Marfa, TX
Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN
Drawing Center (Viewing Program), New York, NY