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2023

Cones, John M. White 5x5x5 Show, Art City, Ventura, CA

 
2022

Dust (Video), John M. White 5x5x5 Show (Live Premiere), Art City, Ventura, CA

 
2021

1979 Norwegian Choreography for Skateboard & Banana, 5x5x5 Show (Online), Ventura, CA

 
2020

Bugle, Mop, Frond, Coronavirus parade curated by realArt, Ventura, CA

 
2019

John's Arrow (A Psychomagic Spell), 5x5x5 Show, Art City Gallery & Studios, Ventura, CA

Twenty-Seven, Not An Exit Show, Art Share Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Pedestal Kitty, 5x5x5 Show, Art City Gallery & Studios, Ventura, CA

Ceiling Your Fate, 5x5x5 Show, Art City Gallery & Studios, Ventura, CA

Magic Spells, 5x5x5 Show, Art City Gallery & Studios, Ventura, CA

 
2018

Aliens, 5x5x5 Show, NAMBA Performing Arts Space, Ventura, CA

Rattle Rattle Redux, 5x5x5 Show, NAMBA Performing Arts Space, Ventura, CA

 
2017

High Culture, 5x5x5 Show, NAMBA Performing Arts Space, Ventura, CA

Upside Down Organ, 5x5x5 Cinco de Mayo Show, NAMBA Performing Arts Space, Ventura, CA

Eating Mozart, 5x5x5 Show, NAMBA performing Arts Space, Ventura, CA

Biggest Fan, Redux, High Voltage Show, Electric Lodge, Venice, CA

 
2016

Biggest Fan, 5x5x5 Show, NAMBA Performing Arts Space, Ventura, CA

Royals, 5x5x5 Show, NAMBA Performing Arts Space, Ventura, CA

You're So Nice, 5x5x5 Show, NAMBA Performing Arts Space, Ventura, CA

 
2015

Armageddon, The Kauf-Drops Show, Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB), Hollywood, CA

BURDEN: A Tribute to Chris Burden, Ventura Art Walk, John White Gallery, Ventura, CA

Prepositions, Greatest Show in the Back of a Truck, 850 Lillian Way, Hollywood, CA

They're On The Tar, 5x5x5 Show, NAMBA Performing Arts Space, Ventura, CA

Doppelganger, 5x5x5 Show, 1793 ALoft Gallery, Ventura, CA

 
2014

Inspired By Matt Damon: DICKTEMP, online at www.dicktemp.com

Ouroboros, 5x5x5 Show, Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, CA

Two Performance Artists, CA Bookstore Day, UC San Diego, CA

Magic In Your Name, Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, CA

#LABEEF, performance protest of Shia LaBeouf, Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles

Echolocation For The Unconscious, 100 Performances For The Hole, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA

 
2013

Echo, Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, CA

Manly Man, Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, CA

 
2012

Ice Fish Fur, HIGHWAYS, Santa Monica, CA  (with ice shoes)

Seed, Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, CA

Like a Rock, Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, CA

 
2011

Divorcing Divorce, Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, CA

 
2004

Cornered Solo, Oak St. Performance Salon, San Francisco, CA

 
2003

My Brother's Wife, Los Alamitos, CA

 
1996-2002

Toolbox, University of California at Irvine (UCI), CA

Untitled with Metal Bedframe, UCI

Music for Plants, Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica

 
1995

Blackout (Excerpt), Mysterious Combination, Live Art Forum, Los Angeles

Knuckle Shaman, Huntington Beach Arts Center, Huntington Beach

Birds, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions' "Hot & Sticky", Los Angeles

My Father, Santa Monica Museum of Art Troopers Group, Los Angeles

Tales of a Fish, UCI

Catching Father, HIGHWAYS, Santa Monica

 
1994

Something About A Priest, UCI

Boy With Stick, UCI

The Sounds of the Sticks, UCI

50 Fast Pieces, UCI

 
1993

Shape of the State, UCI

Soul Contract, Nixon Theater, Irvine

Space Joyce, UCI

Trash Eat, "M.F.A. in Music Recitals," UCI

Covering the Stool, UCI

Travels in Ink, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles

 
1992

Parlez Vous, UCI

End of the World, UCI

Paranoia Worm, DA Center for the Arts, Pomona/Claremont

Uncle's Brain, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles

Magic for Children, City Library at Fashion Island, Newport Beach

How the Fool Meets the Sun (1-2), Sum Total Performance Evening, UCI

Rattle Rattle, Sum Total Performance Evening, UCI

The Late, Fine Arts Village, UCI

Sheesh, Cultural Soundstage, Irvine

 
1991

Alice, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA

Hill Handflight, UCI

Facing the Frame, UCI

Jude the Obscure, UCI

Snorting Mouse Fur, UCI

Having A Ball: One Testicle's Puppet Show, UCI

 
 

2016

Royals w/KayDee Kersten, NAMBA Performing Arts Space, Ventura, CA

2014

DECOYY w/KayDee Kersten & Anne Williams, Mermaids Tattoo Salon, San Francisco, CA

 
2012-2013

Wet The Hippo (performance group, multiple shows), Los Angeles

 
2011

The Roughhausers w/Ridley Barlow, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Leith, Scotland

 
1998-2002

Banana w/B. Jackson, San Francisco Tenderloin Alley, CA

Big Lawn w/B. Jackson, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA

Two Lies and a Truth w/Lauren Crux (Direction), MFA Performances, UCI

 
1994

Rice Bowl w/Gary San Angel, Asian-American Festival, CSU Long Beach

Silent Chambers w/Gary San Angel & Michael Mufson, Old Vienna Coffee House, San Diego

This Is Not Violent w/Nate Dryden, Onyx Echo Cafe, Echo Park, Los Angeles

Sticks Indoors & Out w/Beth Stinson, UCI

 
1993

Will Fuck for Money w/Beth Stinson, UCI

Satan and Jesus w/Beth Stinson and Nate Dryden, UCI

Standing and Sitting w/Nate Dryden, Nixon Theater, Irvine

Rolling w/Nate Dryden, UCI Nixon Theater

Dog Fight, Chew Gum w/Nate Dryden, "CAUTION," UCI

Sister's Teeth w/Nate Dryden, UCI

Salads & Sweaters w/John White, Cornerstone Cafe, Irvine

Compound Fracture Shoot w/Robert Flynt/NYC, Irvine

Love Dance w/Clay Young, UCI and Riverside

 
1992

STUN w/The Shrimps (contributed choreography), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions

The Songs of the Forest Muse w/Leslie Blough, Fine Arts Village, UCI

On Birthing and Chairs w/Nate Dryden, "An Evening of Performance," UCI

Playing the Flat Man w/Nate Dryden, UCI

Politics and Other Consumer Goods w/Michael Mufson, UCI

 
 

Two Performance Artists Kidnap Their Boss And Do Things With Him (novel), Freakshow Books, 2014

"Kidnapping As Art," A Journal of Performance And Art (PAJ), MIT Press, issue 109, January 2015

Performance Art Manifesto, 2002

 
 

B.A. in English (Cum Laude), University of California, Irvine

M.S., University of Maryland

Ph.D., Parapsychology, University of Sedona

Participated in performance workshops given by John M. White, The Downtown L.A. Live Art Forum, Rachel Rosenthal, Melinda Ring, Jacki Apple, John Fleck, The Shrimps, The Circle of Willis, and Cirque du Soliel's John Gilkey.

Taught performance workshops as a UCI Visiting Artist, 1994, 1995