b. 1981. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA     
sethlower (at) gmail.com     

Education

San Francisco Art Institute, MFA 2008  
The University of Michigan, BFA 2004  

Solo Exhibitions

2011  
Diamonds Are Forever, WEEKEND, Los Angeles, CA

2010  
Mirror, Royal NoneSuch, Oakland, CA

2009  
Looking for Lee Ming, The Lab (Front Gallery), San Francisco, CA
Looking for Lee Ming, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

2008 
The Raccoon Shirt Coincidence, New Insights, Art Chicago, Chicago, IL. Curated by Susanne Ghez
The Cusp of Greatness, Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions 

2012
Co/Lab, Art Platform Los Angeles (WEEKEND)
Narcissism, the Real, the Fake, and the Anti-Digital Impulse, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles. Curated by Biddy Tran
Artists Merchandising Art, Wonderloch Kellerland, Los Angeles, CA

2011
SVIT L.A.,
Baxter 5, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Zuzana Blochova and Benjamin Echeverria
Anatomy of a Moment -- It is a Poor Kind of Memory That Only Goes Backwards,
Valand School of Fine Art, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Curated by Jasmine Idun Lyman
Sunny Side Up
, Margate Photo Fest, Margate, UK. Curated by Wandering Bears
Over My Dead Body
, Root Division, San Francisco, CA. With David Wolf. Curated by Hava Liberman and Laura Boles Faw
Contemporary Photography Invitational
, Craft Studio, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

2010   
Exquisite Corpse,
Civilian Art Projects, Washington, DC
Displacement, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI

2009
Exercises in Seeing, Queen’s Nails Projects, San Francisco, CA 
The Man Behind the Curtain, Mission 17, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Laura Mott
Silent Eaters, Temescal Contemporary, Oakland, CA. Curated by Ben Echeverria and Jesse Walton
Cross Breeze, Camp Talganie Artistic Farm, Okinawa, Japan
      
2008
Numbers Game, Rhodes & Fletcher, LLC, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Laura Mott
About Me: Seth Lower, A Solo Show, Sea and Space Explorations, Los Angeles, CA
Young Curators, New Ideas, Bond Street Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Grant Willing    
The Myth of Difference, The Gallery Project, Ann Arbor,MI. Curated by Lisa Steichmann
Meet Waradise, New York, NY. Curated by Alana Celii & Grant Willing
Site and Situation, Clara Street Projects, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Josh Keller, Barry Beach, and Kelly Falzone
Easy to Feel, Hard to Make Happen, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Robyn Engel and Ben Echeverria
California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, University of California, Davis, CA

2007
Home, Root Division, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Liena Vayzman
Girls, Trees, Teeth, Meat and Strangers, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
3rd Warsaw Photography Festival, Warsaw, Poland

Curatorial Projects

2008
Untitled (Just for You), Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Co-curated with Joe Cornett

Press

2011
Gaze, Issue 4, Interview with Tsai, Jia-Zhen, December, 2011
L.A. Record, Seth Lower: Diamonds Are Forever, an interview with Claudia Slanar, July 22, 2011
WEEKEND Blog, In Conversation with Brice Bischoff, July 24, 2011
MeFi Mag, An Issue of Cool, Iced Out: Seth Lower's Missing Diamonds, interview with Josh Steichmann, August 2011
New Odor, Interview, May 10, 2011

2009   
Artslant
: “I'll Find it if You Stop Talking,” by Chris Fitzpatrick, December 2009
Examiner.com: “Seth Lower: “Looking for Lee Ming” at The Lab in San Francisco,” by Rives Granade, November 3, 2009
Audio guide by David Buuck for Exercises in Seeing, performed by David Buuck and Cassandra Smith
Art in America: “The Man Behind the Curtain,” by Joseph del Pesco, July 2, 2009
Shotgun Review: “The Man Behind the Curtain,” by Matthew Rana, July 3, 2009
SFMOMA Open Space: “Behind the Curtain,” by Kevin Killian, June 2009
Artslant: “Pay no Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain,” by Michelle Y. Hyun, June 2009
Solo Show, Humble Arts Foundation (online)

2008   
Shotgun Review: “Numbers Game at Office Gallery,” by Matthew Rana, September 6, 2008
MyArtSpace Blog: “Art Space Talk: Seth Lower,” May 9, 2008
Washington Post Online: “A Choice Quarterly That’s Well Done, and Rare,” by Peter Carlson, April 15, 2008

Selected Publications

2010
Man with Buoy, and Other Tales, Little Brown Mushroom Books

2008   
Hamburger Eyes, issue 12
Meatpaper, issue 3

Artist Residencies

Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan, 2009
Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, 2008

Lectures & Panel Discussions

Artist Lecture, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, October 2012
Panel Discussion, Uncanny Valley, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, June 2012
Artist Lecture, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2009

 





 

 





WORK

Props
Actors

Diamonds

Man With Buoy And Other Tales
Mimesis

Lee Ming
The Raccoon Shirt Coincidence


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