Relevant Curriculum Vitae: Lowell Darling

1969: -US Internal Revenue Service declares Lowell Darling is not an artist.

-Mail In-Mail Out, correspondence exhibition, Chicago Art Institute/Southen Illinois University (SIU), Carbondale, Illinois.

-First Annual Open Invitational Unfired Clay Exhibition, Makanda, IL. (See 20^th Century Ceramics, Edmund de Waal, Thames and Hudson)

- Nail Down Carbondale, Illinois. (Front Page, Chicago Daily News, Chicago, radio interviews nationwide.)

1970: -Refuse Graduate Exhibition, SIU.

-Return Masters Degree to SIU.

-Live in la Ruche, Marc Chagall’s studio, Paris, France.

-Nail Paris.

-Nail London.

-Nail Edinburgh.

-Nail Dublin.

-Artist’s Proof (Do It Yourself Art Kits); Zeez Arts, London, UK.

-Art Center of the World (ACOW: alternative space, Davis, California.)

-National Invitational Xerographic Print Exhibition, ACOW, Davis, CA. (John

Baldessari, Eleanor Antin, Bruce Nauman, Bob Arneson, David Gilhooly,

Steve Kaltenbach, Ellen Van Fleet, Majia Woof, David Zack, John Buck, Jim

Melchert, Mags Harries, Robert Hudson, William T. Wiley, Robert Filliou, Joseph

Beuys, Allan Kaprow.)

-Nut Pot Bag or Clay Without Tears, ACOW Davis, California.

-Lace San Andreas Fault to prevent earthquakes. (Rolling Stone.)

-Fat City School of Finds Art (confer over 50,000 MFAs.)

-Envoi: Paris Biennale, Paris, France, (for Eleanor Antin)

1971: -Hollywood Archaeology, (lifetime pursuit. Hollywood, California.)

1972: -Teach Video (without video), Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, California.

-Hollywood Clay Conference, )various venues, nationally).

-Art In America, cover article.

-37^th Vienna Biennale, Venetian Tools Project: 37^th Venice Biennale.

-Cologne Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany.

-Museum of Contemporary Art, Caracas, Venezuela.

-Sao Paulo Biennale, Video with Anthony Ramos, Sao Paolo, Brazil.

1973: -Ironic Artist (Lecture Series, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.

-Random Public Performances (with Joe Ray and Anthony Ramos, LA.)

-NEA Individual Artist’s Fellowship.

-VideoView, (with Willoughby Sharp.)

-Great Director’s Series, (Willoughby Sharp, Chris Burden), UCLA Film School.

-D.E.P.R.E.S.S.I.O.N. Bread Line, Hollywood and Vine (all LA TV channels.)

1974: -DeccaDance, Elks Building, Los Angeles; )with General Idea, Western Front, Image Bank, Ace Space, Et Al Ala Mail Artists (a swan song: 10 pages in Esquire.)

-D.I.V.O.R.C.E., Womanspace, Los Angeles; (with Kathleen Harris. Photos, Video, Chip Lord; photos, Chris Burden; coin toss, Father Guido Sarducci.

-Fat Bat Presentation to Henry Aaron, Dodger Stadium; with David Ross.

-Honorary PhD, National College of Naturopathic Medicine, Portand, Oregon.

-IRS declares Lowell Darling is an artist

-Artists and Lawyers Ball, LA, with Monroe E. Price, founder, Advocates for the

Arts (One of the first successes that came from this pro bono advocacy

group, other than proving that Lowell Darling is an artist to the government, was

to advocate copyright protection for artists.)

1975: -This Is Your Life, Cal State LA. (Administration burns the books.)

-Urban Acupuncture Treatments: Los Angeles, Port Costa, Portland, Vancouver

-The Real Van Gogh, video Canadian Bar Association, Vancouver.

Hollywood Archaeology, video, Kate Craig, Western Front, Vancouver, BC.

1976: -Cauliflower Alley Club, Long Beach Museum of Art. With Ilene Segalove.

1977: -This Is Your Life, Western Front, Vancouver, B.C.

1978: -Acupuncture California; Needles, California.

-Statewide Campaign for Governor in California. 67,000 votes.

1979: -Political Portraiture, Anhalt Barnes Gallery, Los Angeles.

1980: -One Hand Shaking, (A Memoir), Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, N.Y.

1981: -What’s Up America video with Dana Atchley. Showtime cable.

1983: -Campaign consultant, Susanna Dakin Artist for President Campaign

1985: -Hollywood Blank Verse video with Mike Mazurki, Larry Hagman.

1995: -Hollywood Archaeology Web Site, Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y.

(Designed by Jim Newman.) www.echonyc.com/~hwdarch

1996: -My Hollywood, Molly Barnes Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA.

-Unborn Soldier Web Site (Pershing’s Postcards and the Wadsworth Bible, Talkback,) Lehmann College, Brooklyn, NY. http://ca80.lehman.cuny.edu/gallery/talkback/Subgallery7.html .

1997: -Hollywood Archaeology, Jernigan Wicker Gallery, San Francisco, California.

-Hollywood Archaeology, Gallery 16, San Francisco, California.

-Hollywood Archaeology, Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, California.

1998: -Presidential Intentions, Prairie Progressive, Iowa City, Iowa.

1999: -CFR-11 (Presidential Filing Papers), CSPS, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

-Presidential Speech, London Artist’s Book Fair, Barbican Centre, London, UK.

2000: -Hollywood Archaeology, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California.

2001: -CFR-11, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, California.

2003: -Run Yourself For President; Backfabrik, Berlin, Germany.

2004: -Lowell Darling/Artist or Politician. Sonoma State University Library.

-The Presidency, Exit Art, New York.

-As-semblage, 871 Fine Arts, San Francisco.

-Run Yourself For President, Red Fall, Station Museum, Houston, Texas.

2005: - Bayennale, (an open invitational international gathering of artists, Port Of

Oakland and various Bay Area artist spaces.)

-A Motion Picture, for Tom Marioni, with 14 San Francisco Bay area artists.

-The Perfect Speech, with Suzanne Roewer, Gallery Sleeping Dogs, Berlin DE

2006-2008: - The Perfect Speech European Presidential Campaign. (In progress, with Marianne Wagner-Simon and Susanne Roewer: various international venues.)

-The Perfect Speech Mural (In Progress, various venues within the United States.)