Micol Hebron
- Education:
- University of California, Los Angeles, Bachelor of Arts
University of California, Los Angeles, Master of Fine Arts
Biography
Professor Micol Hebron is a video and performance artist who has worked out of Los Angeles for the past 15 years. Originally from Northern California, Professor Hebron has studied at UCSD, the Accademia Di Belle Arti in Venice, Italy, and UCLA. She received her MFA in New Genres from UCLA in 2000. She maintains active involvement in the Los Angeles art community in numerous ways. In 1997 she founded Gallery B-12, a cooperative artist-run exhibition and lecture space in Hollywood. In 2002 and 2003 she co-produced the Full Nelson Festival, a showcase of international performance art. In 2004 she founded the LA Art Girls, a collective of 30+ women artists in the LA area. LA Art Girls is a post-graduate critique group dedicated to furthering critical discourse and inspiring continued creative practice amongst professional women artists in Los Angeles.
Professor Hebron sits on the editorial board of X-Tra magazine, and she currently writes for Art Forum, Flash Art International, and Arte Contexto. She has an active exhibition practice and has exhibited, performed and lectured throughout the US and in Europe. Her most recent solo show was at Sabina Lee Gallery in Los Angeles, and she will be performing and moderating a panel at the National Review of Live Art in Glasgow, Scotland in February of 2008. She is currently working on a book project titled "1 Image 1 Minute", which will be a selection of 1-minute narratives by various art world professionals speaking about individual photographs that are significant to them.
Since receiving her MFA, Professor Hebron has held teaching positions in new genres and contemporary art history and theory at Art Center College of Design, UCLA Extension, and Chaffey College. She has presented lectures and papers at the Society for Photographic Education, Pepperdine University, UCLA, the University of Tennessee, the San Francisco Art Institute, and The Getty Center, among other institutions. She is ecstatic to be able to call Chapman her home now, and is looking forward to helping to build courses of study in Video Art, Performance Art, and Digital Media.
Education
MFA, New Genres, UCLA, 2000
BFA, Fine Art, Summa Cum Laude, UCLA, 1995
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Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications
- Solo exhibition of new artwork: Where Are The Women and What Are They Doing?, Another Year in LA (gallery), Los Angeles, CA
- Group Exhibition, “The Feminist Art Program (1970-1975): Cycles of Collectivity”, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
- Group Exhibition, More than Meets AI, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, UC Berkeley, Berkeley,CA
- Bray, Ann, Diss…Miss Gender, MIT Press, September, 2023
- Hebron directed a 3-week residency, "Feminist Summer Camp", at Birch Creek Service Ranch, in Sanpete Valley, Utah
- Hebron was a featured guest on KABC Radio 790AM, Morning Show, December 4, 2019
- Epp Buller, Rachel, and Charles Reeve, “Inappropriate Bodies: Art, Design, and Maternity” (Chapter 4: “The Artistic Practice of Micol Hebron: Provoking a Performative Heuristics of the Maternal Body” by Tina Kinsella), Demeter Press, 2019
- Hebron directed the second iteration of Feminist Summer Camp, a think-tank residency program for feminist creatives. Ephraim, UT
- Directed, curated and produced the third annual Femmes Video Art Festival, a showcase of work by 65 international, female-identified video artists. The Situation Room, Los Angeles
- Hebron co-curated, and featured a new work in the exhibition, "Masculine/Feminine", at the Beall Center for Art and Technology, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA
- Hebron authored an essay for the catalog for the exhibition "Still They Persist", Wave Pool Gallery and DAAP’s Reed Gallery, Camp Washington, Cincinnati, OH, March
- Hebron curated and produced the third annual "Femmes’ Video Art Festival", The Situation Room, August 27th, 2017. This festival featured 22 artists from around the world, and screened 28 videos.
- Hebron organized a community conversation, "Feminist Friday", for the exhibition Animating The Archives: History of the Women’s Building, at Avenue 50 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA May 20, 2017
- Hebron produced the exhibition "OURS" featuring 8 emerging women artists of color, curated by Janeth Aparicio (MFA student at Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA), at The Situation Room, February 2017.
- Hebron curated the "St Bob Flanagan Memorial Sick Clinic" presented by Sheree Rose and Rhiannon Aaron for The Situation Room, Los Angeles, CA, January 6, 2017
- Professor Hebron co-curated and presented Fair, an all-women art fair at Brickell City Cenre in Miami, Florida during Artweek, 2017.