Ariana Jacob makes artwork that uses conversation as medium and as a subjective research method. Her work explores experiences of interdependence and disconnection, questions her own idealistic beliefs, and investigates how people make culture and culture makes people.
Ariana holds an MFA from the Art & Social Practice concentration at Portland State University. She has exhibited work and organized events at apexart in New York City, Betonsalon in Paris, France, The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Time Based Arts Festival, The Portland Art Museum, Gallery Homeland in Portland, OR, The Department of Safety, in Anacortes, WA, Southern Exposure, in San Francisco, CA; and in many public places.
Contact: publicwondering (at) gmail.com
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ARIANA JACOB
EDUCATION
2010 MFA, Social Practice Art Portland State University
1998 BA, Liberal Arts The Evergreen State College
SELECTED PROJECTS & EXHIBITIONS
2012
NW Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum – Tacoma, WA
Portland2012, Disjecta – Portland, OR
2011
Teach Me How to Think Like You, Haybatch – Portland, OR
Conference of Conferences, with Helen Reed, Field Work – Portland, OR
Open Day Book, organized by David P. Earle, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions – Los Angeles, CA
2010
Art/Life Partners, Shine A Light 2010, Portland Art Museum – Portland, OR
Let Knowledge Serve The City, Condensations of the Social, Smack Mellon – Brooklyn, NY
Grown Ups, Disjecta – Portland, OR
Let’s Talk About it, New Video Gallery – Portland, OR
Museum Museum, with Mark Dion, Open Engagement Conference – Portland, OR
Speed Ideating, Open Engagement Conference – Portland, OR
The Incidental Person, curated by Antony Hudek, Apex Art – New York, NY
Conversation Station, Public Sites – Oregon & New York City
2009
Portland Stock, with Katy Asher, Amber Bell, Grey Brent & Mack McFarland – Portland, OR
Parties Prenantes: Info Point, with Harrell Fletcher, Betonsalon – Paris, France
Work/Progress, The Dill Pickle Club – Portland, OR
The Serenades, Shine A Light, Portland Art Museum – Portland, OR
Jam Session, Southern Exposure – San Francisco, CA
2008
Personal Advisor, with Katy Asher, Time Based Arts Festival- Portland, OR
2006
I am / I am not wilderness, Department of Safety – Anacortes, WA
2005
Ladies of the Lake, with Khaela Maricich & Amber Bell, Time Based Arts Festival – Portland, OR
How do you respond? with Amber Bell & Ramona Tougas, Ladyfest – Olympia, WA
2004
Liberal idealist seeks conservatives to talk, Republican National Convention – New York, NY
LECTURES & PANELS
2011
Imagining America Conference, University of Minnesota – Minneapolis, MN
Visual Culture Symposium, University of Oregon – Portland, OR
2010
Visiting Artist Lecture, PSU Art Department – Portland, OR
Imagining America Conference, University of Washington – Seattle, WA
2009
Social Practice West Panel, Art of Participation, SFMOMA – San Francisco, CA
Assume Nothing Symposium, University of Victoria – Victoria, Canada
2009-2011
Open Engagement Conference Planning Committee – Portland, OR
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2011
Instructor of Record, History of Social Practice Art, Portland State University – Portland, OR
Family Arts Instructor, Portland Art Museum – Portland, OR
2010
Co-Instructor, Social Practice with Harrell Fletcher, Portland State University – Portland, OR
Instructor of Record, Drawing, Portland State University – Portland, OR
2005-2008
Community Events Coordinator, People’s Co-op – Portland, OR
2003-2005
Artist Assistant, Mierle Laderman Ukeles – New York, NY
