1999 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California

1996 Akademiebrief at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf

1994 Master Student, Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf (MFA)

Selected Exhibitions

2009

“Arthur Ou & Alice Könitz: Resort, A Station for Display”, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA (two-person show)

2008

"Stay Calm, Walk Home, and Induce Low Stress", Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin

2006

"Two Proud Society Spouses Are Reclining on Contemporary Furniture As A Golden-Eyed Ghost Lady Looks Over The Coffee Tables”, Hudson Franklin, New York

"Public Sculpture”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA

2004

"Centric 66", University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach, curated by Mary-Kay Lombino

"Owl Society Part II", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA

"Pan American Nightclub Sculptures", boom editions, Chicago, IL

2003

"Owl Society", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA

"Owl Society Part II", Hudson and Franklin, New York, NY

2002

"Beautiful Ornaments as Shadows, Crashed Down and a Video of Flickering Light in a 70’s Office Tower”, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions

2001

Chicago Project Room, Los Angeles

1998

Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, Utah

1996

Luis Campaña Gallery, Cologne

Group Exhibitions

2010

“Sun Zoom Spark”, WPA, curated by Pamela Jordan, Los Angeles, CA

“Mostly Sculpture Show”, Sea and Space Explorations, Los Angeles, CA

“The Secret (Still) Knows”, Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), Los Angeles, CA

2008

California Biennial 2008, High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, CA, off-site project location in association with the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

"The Whitney Biennial”, Whitney Musuem of American Art, New York, NY

"We construct the chorus”, I-Space, Chicago, IL

2007

Hug Fu: Kathryn Andrews, Alice Könitz, Stephanie Taylor”, Daniel Hug Gallery

"Young artists from St Petersburg and Los Angeles”, Gallery G18, Helsinki, Finland, curated by Emily Newman

"Time Writers from the Mirror Horizon”, David Patton Los Angeles

"Cock: Kathryn Andrews, Alice Könitz, Stephanie Taylor”, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China, curated by Zhao Gang

"Laying Bricks”, Wallspace Gallery, NY, curated by Michael Ned Holte

"Blockbuster Summer”, Taxter and Spengemann, New York

"Aspects, Forms, and Figures”, Bellwether, New York

"Being There”, Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State LA

"Half Square Half Crazy”, Villa Arson, Nice, France, with Pae White, Raymond Pettibon, Jeppe Hein, Sherrie Levine, Tom Friedman, Martin Creed, Jonathan Monk and others (catalogue)

2006

"Reality is an August Imagination", Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, curated by Andrew Hahn

"Bring the War Home”, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York and QED, Los Angeles, curated by Drew Heitzler

New Ghost Entertainment Entitled, Or Gallery Vancuver, Kunsthaus Dresden, by Katrin Pesch

2005

"Celine and Julie Go Boating”, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, organized by Michael Ned Holte

"Kicking Rocks", Champion Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

"Bull's Eye", Hudson Franklin, New York, NY

2004

"Brown Constructions", LemonSky Miami, Miami, FL, curated by Amir Zaki.

Backstage Tourismus, Forum Stadtpark, Graz (catalog)

"Upstream: Idea drawings", Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles

2003

Sundown Salon at the Schindler House presented by the MAK Center for Art &

Architecture at the Schindler House

"International Paper", UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

"Win, Loose, or Draw", Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA

"If the Hippies Cut Their Hair, I Don’t Care, I Don’t Care", Galerie Michael Hall, Vienna, Austria

2002

"Play it as it Lays”, 17 Artists from Los Angeles, The London Institute, London

"Out of the Ground Into the Sky Out of the Sky Into the Ground”, A Detour show organized by Kopp Kordansky at Pond in San Francisco, Black Dragon Society in Los Angeles

2001

"Sharing Sunsets”, MOCA Tucson

"Drawn from LA (Home is where the Heart is)”, Midway Initiative, Saint Paul, Minnesota

"Tirana Bienniale”, Albania

2000

Guggenheim Gallery of the Chapman University in Orange County

"The Closet Show”, Los Angeles, 3424 Council ST. Los Angeles

"Legal Paper” Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles

"DRS Project Wall 2000”, Los Angeles

1999

"Colab” at 240 South Broadway, Los Angeles

"Expanding Limited Space”, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles

"Touring the Frame”, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles

"Remaining Speculations”, 926 Chung King Road, Los Angeles

"The Temptations”, Mark Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles

"The CAA Show”, Barnsdall Building, Los Angeles

1998

"Anwander” Bazaar de Cologne, Cologne

1997

"Das Leben in der Wüste”, kj, Cologne

1995

"Papier”, Bärbel Grässlin Gallery, Frankfurt

1994

"Zwischenbilanz”, Kunstverein Lingen

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2006

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1998

Matthew Coolidge, CLUI Newsletter

1996

Martin Pesch, Frieze, November

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2007

Tong Xian Artist Residency, Beijing, China

Conferences and Panel Discussions

2003

University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA

2001

Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

Chapman University, Orange County, CA