Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork

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Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, *the input of this machine is the power an output contains*, 2020, “Made in L.A. 2020: a version” installation view at Hammer Museum, 2021. © Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork. Courtesy: artist, Empty Gallery and François Ghebaly. Photo: Photo: Joshua White / JWPictures.com.

Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, *Noise Blanket, Nos. 11 – 16, or Everybody’s Got Choices*, 2019, “Searching the Sky for Rain” installation view at SculptureCenter, New York. © Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork. Courtesy: artist, Empty Gallery and François Ghebaly. Photo: Kyle Knodell.

Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, *Not Exactly B-Flat, 2017,* “Catchy” installation view at Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, 2017. © Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork. Courtesy: artist, Empty Gallery and François Ghebaly. Photo: Michael Yu

*Noise Blanket No.7*, 2017. Installation view of SFAI 150 | A Spirit of Disruption at San Francisco Art Institute, 2021. Courtesy: artist, Empty Gallery and François Ghebaly. Photo: Michael Yu

Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, *Noise Blanket No. 7*, 2017, “Catchy” installation view at Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, 2017. © Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork. Courtesy: artist, Empty Gallery and François Ghebaly. Photo: Michael Yu

Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork’s (b.1982, Los Angeles) hybrid practice combines work in sound installation, sculpture, and performance with the aim of reconfiguring the traditional hierarchies between audience, performer, and architecture. She studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and researched the history of acoustics and computer music at Stanford University.

Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Empty Gallery, Hong Kong (2021, 2017); 356 Mission, Los Angeles (2017); The Lab, San Francisco (2016); and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2016). She has participated in group exhibitions at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (Made in LA 2020); SculptureCenter, New York (2019); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2017) and V-A-C Foundation, Moscow (2018). She is a recipient of a 2021 Art + Technology Lab Grant from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her second exhibition with Empty Gallery is currently on view, and her first presentation with François Ghebaly, New York opens in January 2022.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2021

Olistostrome, Empty Gallery, HK

2020

Variations in Mass, #1-3, Various Small Fires

2018

Geometry of Now, VAC Foundation in Moscow

2017

Catchy, Empty Gallery, HK

Not Exactly B Flat, 356 Mission Rd

Inside You Is Me, Variation 3, Human Resources

2016

A Space for Looking is A Space for Listening, Western Front, Vancouver, BC

2014

It Only Happens All of the Time, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, CA

Filter Resonance, CULT Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA

2013

2x2, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA

2012

No Touch, Eli Ridgway Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2009

Our Best Machines are Made of Sunshine, Queens Nails Projects, San Francisco, CA

2008

SYNAH Sometimes You Need A Hole, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, SF, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021

"Made in L.A.", Hammer Museum & The Huntington, Los Angeles

A Spirit of Disruption, San Francisco Art Institute

2019

"Searching the Sky for Rain", Sculpture Center, NY

2017

Soundtracks, SFMoMA

2016

Resonant Structures, Stony Brook University, NY

2015

Contact Expo, DLS Solutions, Disjecta, Portland, OR

A+P+I Artist Residency, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA

Acoustic Deconstruction of 2626 Bancroft Way, The Lab, San Francisco, CA

Site + Sound, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA

2014

What Keeps Mankind Alive, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA

Ambrosiano, Galbrath, Gordon, Schafer, Samuel Freeman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Reverb, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA

2013

(something about magnetic extortion...), SOMArts, San Francisco, CA

Machine Project Field Guide to L.A. Architecture, Off-Site Getty Foundation, LA

MFA Selections, diRosa, Napa, CA

2012

Sound, Image, Object: The Intersection of Art and Music, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA

SOUNDWORKS, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

2011

Joan Mitchell MFA Award, Cue Arts Foundation, New York, NY

Sound and Visual Constructions, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

Sound Art, 0th performance, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, 0th performance, Brava Theater, San Francisco, CA

Scrambled, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford University, CA

SINCERELY YOURS: ALMANAC, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA

Spread: California Conceptualism Then and Now, Curated by Off-Space, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA

At Bay II, Phelan, Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship Exhibition, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, UC Berkeley, CA

2010

Beyond Surface, ARC Gallery though Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco, CA

(…), MacArthur B Arthur Gallery, Oakland, CA

Zero1 San Jose Biennial, 0th performance, San Jose, CA

International Sculpture Center Outstanding Student Achievement Award Show, Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton NJ

The Sound is the Movement, 0th performance, Theater of Yugen's NohSpace, San Francisco, CA

San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Brava Theater, San Francisco, CA

The Blow Up Universe, 0th, Southern Exposure / Live with Animals, San Francisco/Brooklyn, CA/NY

Unraveling Tape, NOMA Gallery, San Francisco, CA

At Bay, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Berkeley University, CA

When The Queenís Mussels Aced Infinity, 0th solo installation, 21 Grand, Oakland, CA

Devil-May-Care, Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford University, CA

2009

APAture, Goforaloop Gallery, San Francisco, CA

DreamBlankets Performance, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA

0th, The Lab, San Francisco, CA

0th, 21 Grand, Oakland, CA

2008

Bones, CafÈ DuNord, San Francisco, CA

0th, The Smell, Los Angeles, CA

DreamBlankets Performance, Kitchen Noise, San Francisco, CA

0th, Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA

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