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
