John Roach

Curriculum Vitae

Selected Group Exhibitions & Performances

2011

• Flux Factory Auction - Center 548: 548 West 22nd Street, NYC
• Facetime #2 - John Roach & Gabriela Vainsencher Parker's Box. Brooklyn, NY
• Sequence of Waves - Saint Cecelia Convent. Brooklyn, NY.
• Atlanta Spaces - Space is the Place (with Craig Dongoski). Georgia State University. Atlanta, GA.

2010

• Flux Factory Auction - Center 548: 548 West 22nd Street, NYC
• Special Choice Book Arts Part 1 & 2 - Williamsburg Art and Historical Center. Brooklyn, NY
• The Self Destructing Art Show - Fluxfactory. Long Island City, NY.
• Your Documents Please - Alma in Manhattan. NewYork, NY.
• Media MIXED X4. The BQEar. The Art Lot, Brooklyn, NY.
• Ten Years Hunting [The Trophy Room]. Parkers Box. Brooklyn, NY
• Works on Paper. Big&Small/Casual. Long Island City, NY.
• House Broken - Flux Factory. Long Island City, NY.
• Postcards from the Gowanus. Sterling Basement. Brooklyn, NY.

2009

• Robo-Improvisation Arena. (with Käthe Wenzel) Alma on Dobbin. Brooklyn, NY.
• Visionary Drawing Building - Drawing included in book included in an
  exhibition by Matt Bua at Mass Moca.
• Your Documents Please – Project included in a touring exhibition. Mexico,
  Japan, Hungary, Germany and Slovakia.

2008

• Songs of the Gowanus - Sterling basement @ Issue Project Room, New York, NY
• NYNYNY (so nice we named it thrice!). Fluxfactory. Long Island City, NY.
• Everything Must Go! Fluxfactory. Long Island City, NY.
  

2007

• Urban Trailhead. La Superette Viewmaster Festival. New York, NY
• Trailhead. Free103.9 Wave Farm. Acra, NY
• Bartok’s Bugs. 2B Gallery. Budapest Hungary.
• Turbulence.org. Performance & Launch of The Simultaneous Translator.
  

2006

• nomusic.org Festival X.
• Sculptors. 2B Gallery. Budapest Hungary.
• 4th International Artists’ Book Exhibition. King Saint Stephen Museum.
  Székesfehérvár Hungary.
• Papírvarázs Fesztivál. 2B Gallery. Budapest Hungary.
• Makeover. Tastes Like Chicken Gallery. Brooklyn, NY.
• Fluxbox. Fluxfactory. Long Island City, NY.
  

2005

• The Blur of the Otherworldly, an exhibition of technology and the paranormal.
  The Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland Baltimore County. Baltimore, MD.
• nomusic.org Royal battle.
• The Green Ray. Parker’s Box. Brooklyn NY.
• Waldsee 1944. The Hebrew Union Museum. New York, NY.
  

2004

• Congreso Internacional Cultura Digital Y Ciudanía. Universidad Autonoma. Madrid, Spain.
• Simultaneous Translation V1 Universidad Autonoma. Madrid, Spain.
  

2003

• Walking Slowly Showcase. Spaceworks Gallery at The Tank, New York, NY.
  

2002

• Hunter College Alumni Exhibition (February 2002). Times Square Gallery. New York, NY.

2001

• Colaboratory. Gale Gates Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
• Made in the shape. Band-O-Matic (with John Hudak) PS 1 Contemporary Art Center. Queens, NY.
• Sound and Complexity. Plan B Evolving Arts Center. Santa Fe, NM.
• Negative Space. Consolidated Works. Seattle, WA.

2000

• Subject to Sound. The Rotunda Gallery. Brooklyn, NY.
• Back East. The San Francisco Center for the Book. San Francisco, CA.
  

1999

• Wrestling with Mary Shelly. Blohard Gallery. Philadelphia, PA. Curated by Richard Harrod.
  

1998

• CAMBIO. Museo Universitario del Chopo. Mexico City. Curated by Kenny Schachter.
• Hey You Never Know. 534 Laguardia Place. NYC. Curated by Kenny Schachter.
  

1996

• The Experimenters. Lombard Freid Gallery. NYC. Curated by Kenny Schachter.
• Taking Stock. 25 Broad st. NYC. Curated by Kenny Schachter.
• SoHo Annual. 420 w. Broadway, NYC. Juried by Michael Brenson, Susan Hort & Robert Storr.
• Incarcerated with Genet & Artaud. The Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA),London.

 

Awards and Residencies

• Nominated for the World Technology Award. 2010
• Research Scholarship & Creative Practice Fund. Parsons. 2010
• Nominated for the Art in General EERE Residency 2009
• Free103.9 Wavefarm Residency 2007
• Parsons the New School for Design. Project Funding. 2006
• American Embassy in Budapest, Hungary. Travel Grant.  2006
• Turbulence.org. New American Radio Grant. 2006
• Experimental Television Center. Finishing Funds Award. 2004
• Experimental Television Center. Finishing Funds Award. 1999
• Experimental Television Center. Residency Program. 1997
• Experimental Television Center. Finishing Funds Award.1997
• Hunter College. William Graf Travel Grant. 1996

Publications

Sculpture Magazine
Fluxbox. By Chloe Hawkins Dec. 2006, pp. 74-75

Art in America
Willing Spirits: Art of the Paranormal. By Nancy Princenthal Feb. 2006

The New York Times
Go AheadLlook Behind the Curtain: "Otherworldy" Wizardry Conjures up Spirit.
By Jessica Dawson. Published. Saturday November 5, 2005

The New York Times
A muse devoted to six feet under. City Section. By Kerrie Mitchell.
Published Sunday January 29, 2006

The New York Times
Art in Review; 'Second Sight' By Holland Cotter
Published Friday March 22, 2002

Contemporary Music Review
Breaking Out: The Trip Back. By Helen Thorington.
Vol. 24, No. 6, December 2005, pp. 445 – 458

Exhibition catalog
Blur of the Otherworldly: Contemporary Art, Technology, And the Paranormal.
Center for Art and Visual Culture, UMBC Center. Exhibition Catalog

Exhibition catalog
Second Sight: Selections of Recent Work by Alumni from the Second Decade
of the MFA Program at Hunter College. Exhibition catalog, February, 2002

Education

• 1992 Rutgers University. BA English.
• 1996 Hunter College. MFA Painting.