DORIAN WOOD (b. 1975, US)
dorianedwardwood@gmail.com | www.dorianwood.com
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2012 "Abaddon" (performance/original music), directed by WIFE @ The Compound, Los Angeles, CA
2012 "An Evening With Dorian Wood" @ KPCC's Crawford Family Forum, Los Angeles, CA
2011 "Athco, Or The Renaissance of Faggot Tree", commissioned by LACE for Los Angeles Goes Live/Pacific Standard Time, Los Angeles, CA
2011 "An Artist's Life Manifesto" (directed by Marina Abramovic) @ Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2011 "Construal & 'The Self'" (collaboration with Mariel Carranza) @ Highways, Santa Monica, CA
2011 "Zoophilic Follies" (directed by Tandem and Timur and The Dime Museum) @ REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Collaboration with Mariel Carranza @ LACE, Los Angeles, CA
2011 "Color From God-lung (Larkwat 1106)" @ Stockholm Fringe Fest, Sweden
2011 "Color From God-lung (Larkwat 1254)" @ Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
2011 "Color From God-lung (Larkwat 1152)" @ Breathing Room, San Francisco, CA
2011 "Color From God-lung (Larkwat 1217)", GUTTED fund-raiser @ LACE, Los Angeles, CA
2011 ValenTINY @ Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, San Francisco, CA
2011 "Casbahtic" (collaboration with Dino Dinco, Robert Crouch and Yann Novak), somatic SENSOR @ Highways, Santa Monica, CA
2010 "Larkwat 343" (collaboration with Michael Ibarra) @ LA Artstream's Ear Meal Webcast
2010 "Oh Woman", Confusion is Sex @ Pieter, Los Angeles, CA
2010 "Let Them Eat LACMA" (collaboration with Killsonic) @ LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
2010 "Untitled", GUTTED fund-raiser @ LACE, Los Angeles, CA
2010 "Untitled", Mastodon Mesa @ Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA
2010 "The China Town" (collaboration with Joseph Tepperman) @ Perform! Now!, Los Angeles, CA
2010 "Tongues Bloody Tongues" (collaboration with Killsonic) @ REDCAT Theater, Los Angeles, CA
2010 "Riverside '81", The Corpus of Corpus @ University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA
2010 "Brutus Tour" @ Comete 347, Paris, FR
2010 "Brutus Tour" @ Niu, Barcelona, ES
2010 "Brutus Tour" @ Le Baloard, Montpellier, FR
2010 "Berlin '10", The Darkness @ Monster Ronsons, Berlin, DE
2010 "Brutus Tour" @ Högkvarteret, Stockholm, SE
2010 "Brutus" recording @ St. Giles-in-the-Fields Church, London, UK
2010 Collaboration with Killsonic, Ryan Heffington and OJO, LACE Benefit Art Auction @ LACE, Los Angeles, CA
2009 "Black Pig", IT’S (A)LIVE: BRAVE LIVE ART FROM LOS ANGELES @ Gallery 114, Los Angeles, CA
2009 “Pianos and Bricks” short film (directed by Dino Dinco)
2008 The Stone, Manhattan, NY
2008 “Untitled NYC”, Poppers @ Texas Firehouse, Long Island City, NY
2008 "In Heaven", Highways 19th Birthday Celebration Nervous Breakdown @ Highways, Santa Monica, CA
2008 “The Mutual” short film (directed by Michael Frost)
2007 "El Vals Del Arbolito Cagado", 3rd ANNUAL LATINO NEW WORKS FESTIVAL @ Highways, Santa Monica, CA
CURATORIAL/OTHER WORKS
2011 Sweet Sheets group exhibit (visual art) at Zelle Arte Contemporanea, Palermo, IT
2011 Call and Response Exhibit (visual art), Mastodon Mesa @ Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA
2010 from one side to the other, I’ve dreamed that too (recording, "Uncle Christmas"), curated by VOLUME for 323 Projects
2010 "REPULSIONS: Celebrating 55 Years of Cinema" (curator) @ Gallery 2023, Los Angeles, CA
2007 "ORGANIKA II" (curator/performer) @ Highways, Santa Monica, CA
2007 "ORGANIKA" (curator/performer) @ Highways, Santa Monica, CA
PUBLICATIONS
2010 “God Bless This Army So Close To The Ground” (essay), InDigest Magazine, Issue No. 18
2008 Essay/illustration, Pisszine, Issue No. 03
GRANTS/AWARDS
2010 Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Artist Grant
EDUCATION
1994 - 1998 Film Program @ Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, CA
1992 Graduated from Conservatorio de Castella, San Jose, Costa Rica