BORN:
San Mateo, California
EDUCATION:
Stanford University, B.S. Engineering
Royal College of Art, London, M.F.A. Painting
1994
"Living, Dying, & Eating," White Columns, New York, October
1998
"Food Chain," P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, Feb. - Aug.
"Food Chain, Encounters Between Mates, Predators & Prey," Curated by Michael Sand, CoCA - Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, April - May
"Food Chain," Magazin 4, Bregenz, Austria, Sept. - Nov.
2000
"Unnatural Science," MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, April - March 2001
"Food Chain," Kunsthalle Vienna, May
"Roaches," PercyMiller Gallery, London, April - June
"Pinkies," RARE, New York, May - June
"Impostors," Cathedral of Saint John the Devine, New York, May - Oct.
"Food Chain," Blue Sky Gallery, Portland OR, June
"Food Chain," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Nov. - Jan.
2001
"Prey and Eat," University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach, March - April
2002
"Bug and Squish Drawings," RARE, New York, Project Space, May - June
"Food Chain," Chicago Academy of Sciences, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago, Sept. - Jan. 2003
"The Birds and the Bees," Imago Gallery, Palm Desert, CA, November
Staton Greenberg Gallery, Santa Barbara, November
2003
"Food Chain," Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, Feb. - March
"American Cockroach," RARE, New York, May
"American Cockroach," Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO, Sept. - Oct.
2004
"American Cockroach," galerie im park, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, May - July
"Executions," g.i p. Contemporary, Zurich, June-August
"American Cockroach Videos," Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Sept - Nov.
2008
"Specimen," Boise Art Museum, Boise, August - October
1989
A/C Project Room, New York, December
1990
A/C Project Room, New York, December
1991
A/C Project Room, New York, December
1993
"Science Fair: Catherine Chalmers, Mark Dion, Michael Joaquin Grey, Damien Hirst, David Kremers, Jorge Pardo, Jon Tower," Thomas Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles, June
"Chamber I," Curated by Melissa Dadourian and Steven Brower, 128 Chambers Street, New York, November
1994
"Animal Farm," James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, January
"Chamber II," 128 Chambers Street, New York, March
"Benefit Exhibition: Who Chooses Who," (Chosen by Larry Clark) New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, April
"Take me to God," Curated by Jessica Fredericks, Jose Freire Fine Art, New York, September
1995
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, August
The SoHo Journal Exhibit, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York, September SoHo Festival, Blind Spot, New York, October
1996
"Blind Spot Photography: The First Four Years," Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York, October
1997
"Making it Real," Curated by Vik Muniz, Organized by I.C.I., New York, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, Jan. - April; Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland, Oct. - Nov.; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, Jan. - Mar. 1998;
Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, Sept.-Nov. 1998
Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, Nov. - Dec. 1998
Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, Jan. - Feb. 1999
"Scientia Artifex," Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, April- May
"Transport," curated by John Mullen, Raphael Ben-Yehuda, 80 Nassau, New York, November-December
1998
"Prime Focus," University Galleries, Illinois State Univ., Normal, March-April
"Formication," Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, June - July
"Hot Spots," Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany, Sept. - Oct.
"Pet Shop," Galerie Alexander Sies, Dusseldorf, Germany, Sept. - Oct.
"Photography's Multiple Roles: Art, Document, Market, Science," Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Nov. - Jan. 1999
"Back to Back, Selected NYFA Fellows 1990-1998," de Chiara /Stewart Gallery, New York, Nov. - Dec.
"The Selective Eye," Anne Reed Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho, Nov.-Dec.
1999
"Phenomena," Friends of Photography, The Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, Feb.- May
"Wohin Kein Auge Reicht" (More than meets the eye), Curated by Wilhelm Schurmann, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, May - Sept.
"Photo Synthesis," Rare Gallery, New York, June
"Summer Reading," Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, July
"In the Unlikely Event," Anne Reed Gallery, Sun Valley, ID, December
"Animal Artifice," Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, Oct. - Jan.
"The New Natural History," Curated by Val Williams, National Museum of Photography & Film, Bradford, England, Sept. - Nov.
Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden, Jan. - Feb. 2000
2000
"Millennium Bugs," Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, Jan. - Mar.
"Life Cycles," SECCA, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, Feb. - May
"Deep Distance," curated by Wilhelm Schurmann, Kunsthalle Basel, May - August
"Multiple Sensations," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, July - Oct.
"Significant Other," Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, Boston, Sept. - Nov.
2001
"Catherine Chalmers and Rob Ziebell," dberman gallery, Austin, TX, March
"The Gravity of the Immaterial," MOCA, Taipei, Taiwan, May - August
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Dec - March 2002
"New Work: Contemporary Figuration," Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, March - May
"New Ideas - Old Tricks," hARTware projekte, Dortmund, May - July
"Natural Histories: Artists Forage in Science and Nature," University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Nov. - Jan. 2002
"A Natural Subject: Photographs from the Permanent Collection," Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Dec - Jan.
2002
"Constructed Realities," curated by Barbara Bloemink, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO, April - May
Sun Valley Center for the Arts & Humanities, Sun Valley, ID OPEN2002, Venice Film Festival, Sept. - Oct
"Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics," Henry Art Gallery, Univ. of Wash, Seattle, April - August 2002
Berkeley Art Museum, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley, Aug. - Dec. 2003
Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, Univ. of Minn., Minneapolis, Jan. - May 2004
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern Univ. Evanston, Sept. - Nov. 2004
"PhotoGENEsis," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, Nov. - Feb. 2003
2003
"How Human: Life in the Post-Genome Era," ICP, New York, Feb.
"Swarm," Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA, March - April
"Photo-Synthesis," Anne Reed Gallery, Sun Valley, ID, May-June
"Animality," Blue Oyster Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand, June-July
"Deciphering Codes / Evolving Identities," The Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, Sept - Oct.
"Bugs & Such," The North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, Nov. - Jan. 2004
"Retrospective/Prospective," Anne Reed Gallery, Sun Valley, ID, Dec.
"Side Track," PercyMiller Gallery, London, Dec.
2004
"Metamorphosis," John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheybogan, WI, Jan. - May
"Earthly Delights," Bakalar Gallery, MASS ART, Boston, Jan. - March
"Cleanliness," Curated by Adam Frank, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, June - July
"Bug-Eyed: Art, Culture, Insects," Turtle Bay Exploration Park, Redding, CA, July - Jan. 2005
"Optic Nerve," Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, April - May
"Glorious Harvest: Photographs from the Michael E. Hoffman Tribute Collection," Philadelphia Museum of Art, June - October
"Fear No Film," Short Film and Video Festival, Utah Arts Festival, Salt Lake City, August
"Erst kommt das Fressen und dann kommt die Moral," Galerie in der HGB Leipzig, Nov. - Dec.
2005
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, February - April
"Bug City," Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada, Sept. - Jan. 2006
"Animal Nature," Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburg, August - Nov.
Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, American Museum of Natural History, New York, Nov.
2006
Tiburon International Film Festival, Tiburon, CA, March 9-17.
"Among the Trees," Curated by Kimberly Marrero, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, April – June
"Magic," Visionaire Gallery, New York, April – August
"Bug out of the Box:," Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA, July – Nov.
"Creatures in Odd Places," Night Vision: MoCA After Dark, MoCA, Los Angeles, July 15
"Going Ape: Confronting Animals in Contemporary Art," DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, Sept. – Jan. 2007
"Ecotopia: ICP’s Second Triennial of Photography and Video," International Center of Photography, New York, Sept. – Jan. 2007
"Odense Photo Triennial," Naturama Museum, Svendborg, Denmark, October
"Eden," International Design Biennale, St. Etienne, France, Nov. – Dec.
2007
“Why Look at Animals?” ArtSpace, New Haven, Feb. - March
Environmental Film Festival, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C., March 15-25
Short Film Corner, Festival de Cannes, May 16-26
Telluride Mountain Film Festival, May 25-28
Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto, June 12-17
Scanners, New York Video Festival, Walter Reade Theater, July 27-29
Edinburgh International Film Festival, Aug. 15-26
New Media Festival, Hardcore Art Contemporary Space, Miami, Sept. - Oct.
“Des Betes et des Hommes (Of Beast and Man),” Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, Sept. – Dec.
Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, Oct. 1-6
2008
“In and Around the Garden,” Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, June - August
“Zoologia Fantastica,” Iris & Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holly Cross, Worcester, MA, Jan. – April
1994
Levin, Kim. "Voice Choices," THE VILLAGE VOICE, New York, September 20: p.75.
Williamson, Alexa. "God and Death," COLUMBIA SPECTATOR, September 15: p.12.
1995
BLIND SPOT, New York, Spring, Issue Five.
THE SOHO JOURNAL, New York: p. 53, 133.
White Columns, UPDATE 1995, New York: Cover, p. 33.
HARPER'S, New York, December: p.18.
1996
"The Very Hungry Frog," THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, London, January 7: Sunday Review Section - p.4.
SEE, The Friends of Photography, San Francisco, Issue 1:4:p. 1, 44-49, 71.
FAT, Winter 1995/1996, Issue #2: p. 44.
FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY, Graphis, New York: p. 64-65.
REGIONAL VISUAL ARTS FELLOWSHIPS 1994-1995, Mid-Atlantic
Arts Foundation, NEA: p. 60, 101.
1997
KGB, New York, April: p. 10-11.
"Everything that Lives, Eats," APERTURE, New York, Spring, Issue 143: p. 32-33.
REVIEW, New York, Feb. 1: p. 20.
MAKING IT REAL, exhibition catalogue, I.C.I., New York: p. 26-27.
CONCRETE JUNGLE, Research Publications, Juno Books, New York, Edited by Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: p. 152-153.
Zimmer, William. "Life With a Twist: Fiction-Based Photography," THE NEW YORK TIMES, March 30.
Lombardi, D. Dominick. "All the World is Staged," THE RECORD- REVIEW, April 11.
King, Rachel. "Student Teachers," ART & ANTIQUES, NewYork, Summer: p. 70.
Asgeirsson, Bragi. "Leikhus Raunsaeisins," MORGUNDLADID, Reykjavik, Iceland, Nov. 14.
1998
BLIND SPOT, New York, Issue Eleven: cover, 1,4,29-30,71-72.
Isaacson, Philip. "'Making it Real' is sometimes unreal," MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM, Feb. 8.
Aletti, Vince. "Voice Choices," THE VILLAGE VOICE, New York, June 23: p. 80-81.
Sand, Michael. "Buzz," WORLD ART, Issue 17: p. 36-43.
ESQUIRE, Japan, Sept., Vol. 12, No. 9: p. 38-39.
HOT SPOTS, exhibition catalogue, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany
Miller, Denise. PHOTOGRAPHY'S MULTIPLE ROLES: ART, DOCUMENT, MARKET, SCIENCE, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago: P. 157, 159, 231.
DAZED & CONFUSED, London, Nov., Issue 48: p. 12,13,15.
Deschka, Katharina. "Fliegende Hauser und Gefrassige Schlangen," FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG, October 9, Nr. 234: p. 91.
"Im Kunstverein herrscht frischer Wind," WIESBADENER TAGBLATT, Sept. 2.
"Amerikanische Motive," WIESBADENER KURIER, Sept. 9.
Fischer, Katinka. "Femd, aber nicht verfremdet," WIESBADENER KURIER, Sept. 16.
Fischer, Katinka. "Haltestelle Moering - steigt jemand aus?", WIESBADENER KURIER, Sept. 7.
1999
HARPER'S MAGAZINE, New York, January: p.29.
Cohu, Will. "Frog's Dinner," THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY, The Sunday Review, London, Feb. 28: p. Cover, 4-7.
Farber, Celia. "Wild Life," GEAR, New York, March/April: p. 82.
Tachikawa, Mito. MORE OR LESS, Tokyo, Vol. 2, Spring/Summer: p.77.
Hackett, Regina. "Food Chain," SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, Seattle, April 2: p. WH -16.
Updike, Robin. "What's eating them?", SEATTLE TIMES, Seattle, April 9: p. C1-2.
Im, Soyon. "Au Naturel," SEATTLE WEEKLY, Seattle, April 1-7: p. 33.
Im, Soyon. Gallery review, SEATTLE WEEKLY, Seattle, April 1-7.
Fredericksen, Eric. "Eat and be Eaten," STRANGER, Seattle, April 15.
Fredericksen, Eric. "Bug's Lives," STRANGER, Seattle, April 22.
"Food Chain," PULP, Antwerpen, Belgium, March/April; p. 62-67.
WOHIN KEIN AUGE REICHT (More than meets the eye), exhibition catalogue, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg: p. 36-37, 77, 119, back cover.
Bonetti, David. "Phenomena: Focus on Nature," SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER, San Francisco, Feb. 17: p. B1, B4.
Parsell, Reed. "Picture-perfect," SACRAMENTO BEE, Sacramento, CA, March 14.
NEW YORK CONTEMPORARY ART REPORT, New York, June/July: p. 67.
Briegleb, von Till. "Knipsers Kronung," DIE WOCHE, Hamburg, June 4: p. 41.
The Bible, VISIONAIRE, New York.
Special Millennium Edition, Sunday Times Magazine, NEW YORK TIMES, September 19: p. 87-89.
NEW NATURAL HISTORY, exhibition catalogue, National Museum of Photography & Film, Bradford, England: p. 48-49.
Loke, Margarett. "Paying Homage to Books," THE NEW YORK TIMES, August 13.
Luscombe, Belinda. "Good Book Goes Hip," TIME MAGAZINE, August 30: p. 71.
Grabher, Ariane. "Schone Bilder vom Gefressenwerden," VORARLBERGER NACHRICHTEN, Austria, Sept. 25/26: p. D8.
"Food Chain," VORARLBERGER NACHRICHTEN, Austria, Sept. 24.
"A-Z" of Pleasure," DAZED & CONFUSED, London, Issue 60, November: p. 100.
THE NEW YORKER, Dec. 13: p. 90.
Lombardi, D. Dominick. "A Show That Shapes Perception of Animals," THE NEW YORK TIMES, Dec. 5: p. WE 20.
2000
NEW NATURAL HISTORY, Exhibition catalogue, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden.
HARPER'S MAGAZINE, New York, March: p. 39.
Hartmann, Sarah. "Getting batty about bugs," ISLIP BULLETIN, January 27: p. 3.
Harrison, Helen. "Beyond 'Eeww!': A World of Insects and Spiders," THE NEW YORK TIMES, February 13: p. LI 12.
Budick, Ariella. "Artists Say it Once More, With Feelers," NEWSDAY, January 28.
V-MAGAZINE, Spring, Issue 4.
Rondeau, Mark E. "The Big Bang Will Open Season of Unnatural Science at MASS MoCA," THE ADVOCATE, Berkshire, MA, March 8.
FOOD CHAIN, ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN MATES, PREDATORS & PREY, Edited by Michael Sand, Aperture, New York.
The Best of Magazine Photos of the Year, LIFE MAGAZINE, New York: p. 112-113.
Schappell, Ellissa. "Hot Type," VANITY FAIR, New York, April: p. 460.
Lack, Jessica. "Doing the Roach," THE GUARDIAN, London, p. 32 The Guide.
Sumpter, Helen. EVENING STANDARD, London, April 27:p. Hot Tickets 38-39.
"Art Appreciation," NORTH ADAMS TRANSCRIPT, North Adams, MA April 14.
"Natural Selection," MEN'S JOURNAL, New York, May: p. 176.
ENGINE, Tokyo, 8.2000 Start.
"A Bug's Life," THE GUARDIAN, London, May 6.
"The Art of SE1," THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE, May 7.
DAVIDBOWIE.COM, "Journal", May 9, 2000.
DEEP DISTANCE, exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle Basel.
NEW YORK CONTEMPORARY ART REPORT, New York, May-June: p. 48-49.
Griffis, Ryan. "Reviews," NEW ART EXAMINER, May, Chicago.
THE NEW YORKER, New York, May 29: p. 30.
Withers, Rachel. "Museum Preview," ARTFORUM, May: p. Cover, 38.
Dery, Mark. BOOKFORUM, New York, Summer: p. 46.
Randall, Mark. "MoCA Experiments with Science," NORTH ADAMS TRANSCRIPT, North Adams, MA, May 27.
Brooks, Libby. "A Matter of Life and Death," THE GUARDIAN, London, May 27: Weekend p. 19-24.
UNNATURAL SCIENCE, exhibition catalogue, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA: p. 38-41, 81, 90-91.
Grant, Daniel. "MASS MoCA's Thinking Big in Science Experiment," BOSTON HERALD, June 3.
Bjornland, Karen. "Thinking Big," SCHENECTADY GAZETTE, Schenectady, NY, June 4.
"The last one to eat will laugh the most," LE SOIR, Brussels, June 14:MAD Supplement.
Isle, Ray. "Let Us Prey," STANFORD MAGAZINE, Stanford University, CA, July/August: p. 82-83.
Lambert, Lisa. "Eat or Die," WILLAMETTE WEEK, Portland, OR, June 28: p. 95.
Raymond, Camela. "A Paradox of Morbidity, Life," THE OREGONIAN, Portland, June 23.
MAX, Germany, June: p. 162.
Felty, Heather. FLASH ART, Summer: p. 114-115.
"Qui Mange Qui?" PHOTO, France, Issue #370, Juin: p. 72-77.
NEWSWEEK, June 19: p. 48-49.
"The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," THE ART NEWSPAPER, Int'l Edition, July-August: p. 26.
Parcellin, Paul. "Weird Science," RETRO-ROCKET.COM, Boston, July 5 & 13.
Lehan, Joanna. "In Print," PHOTO DISTRICT NEWS, New York, New York: p. 96.
Bagg, Mary. "Methods & Madness," VALLEY ADVOCATE, July 13-19.
Osborne, Lawrence. "Fuzzy Little Test Tubes," THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, July 30: p. 41-45 (photos).
"Schnapp, Happ, Weg!" MAX, Germany, July: p. 19.
Gurewitsch, Matthew. "At MASS MoCA, Vast Spaces and Scientific Fantasies," THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, July 19.
Temin, Christine. "'Unnatural' Selection at MASS MoCA," THE BOSTON GLOBE, July 28: p. D1, D10-D11.
"But Seriously, with Brian Malow," PLAYTV.COM, San Francisco, July 31.
Baker, Kenneth. "Manifold 'Sensations' From Earth to Moon," SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, August 5: p. B1, B10.
Smith, Roberta. "In Their Own Worlds: Giant Hybrids of Fact and Fantasy," THE NEW YORK TIMES, August 11: p. B31.
PHOTO METRO, San Francisco, Vol. 18, Issue 159: p. 40
SF WEEKLY, San Francisco, August 2-8: p. 27.
Baker, Kenneth. "Critics Picks," SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, August 11: p. C1.
Bonetti, David. "Bay City Best," SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER MAGAZINE, August 27.
"Life in the Food Chain," BAY AREA REPORTER, San Francisco, Aug 3.
Cahill, Timothy. "Let us Prey," ALBANY TIIMES UNION, August 27.
ORION, "Food for Thought," Summer: p. 1.
AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY #16, New York: p. 77-80.
Wilson, Keith. "Food Chain," FOCUS, Great Britain, August: p. 6-12.
Bressane, Ronaldo. "Laric-animal," TRIP, Sao Paulo, Agosto: p. 73-76.
Humphrey, David. "e-mail from New York," ART ISSUES, Sept./Oct.: p. 40-41.
ECOMPANY, San Francisco, Sept.: p. 49, 52.
Bonetti, David. "Collections, Series form 'Multiple Sensations,'" SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER, Sept. 4: p. B1, B6.
Vispiez, Ivan; Procenzano, Raffaella. "Chi Mangia Chi," FOCUS, Italia, September: p. 22-29.
Wildman, David. "Animals, front and center," BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE, October 1: p. 10.
McQuaid, Cate. "Art Review," THE BOSTON GLOBE, October 4: p. Living Arts.
Sherman, Mary. "'Significant' environment," BOSTON SUNDAY HERALD, October 8.
ZOO, London, Issue 7, November: p. 266-267.
COPIA, The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts, Vol. 3, Issue 2: p. 21.
Stuever, Hank. "The Snacks of Life," THE WASHINGTON POST, Nov. 19: p. Arts G1, G10.
O' Sullivan, Michael. "Belly Up to the Show," THE WASHINGTON POST, Nov. 24: p. Weekend p. 62, 69.
Jacobson, Louis. "Prey for Understanding," WASHINGTON CITY PAPER, Washington D.C., Dec. 1: p. 46-47.
O'Sullivan, Michael. "Best Exhibits of 2000," THE WASHINGTON POST, Dec. 29.
"Food Chain," OUI, Holiday Issue: p. 106.
2001
FOCUS, Greece, January: p. 8-15.
Bensinger, Ken. "Whose Art is it, Anyway?" THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, January 19: p. W12.
"Dodelijke Rondedans," AD MAGAZINE, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 13 January: p. 20 - 25.
Punter, Monique. "Sex en geweld!" KIJK, The Netherlands, Jan.:p. 79-81.
Eskin, Blake. "The Roaches That Came in from the Cold," ARTNEWS, February: p. Cover, 140-143.
Feliciano, Kristina. "Pest in Show," NEW YORK POST, February 25:p. 33.
Howell, George. "Reviews," ART PAPERS, March/April: p. 43-44.
Van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. "Frog lips, cockroach war paint & the art of Catherine Chalmers," AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN, Austin, TX, March 8: p. 25 ent.
Hulspas, Marcel. "Lieve, kleine proefdiertjes," AD MAGAZINE, Amsterdam, 3 February: p. 62-65.
Joy, Jennifer. "dberman gallery bugs out," THE DAILY TEXAN, Austin, March 29.
Barr, Anna. "Snack Time!" OC WEEKLY, Orange County, CA, April 13-19.
Rosenfeld, Megan. "The Late Late Art Show," THE WASHINGTON POST, Washington D.C., April 6: p. C5.
Westbrook, Lindsey. "Critic's Choice: Art," SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN, April 11: p. 84.
THE SCIENCES, New York Academy of Sciences, Spring: p. 25-29 (photos).
Seidel, Frederick. "LIFE ON EARTH," Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York: cover photo.
BLUE SKY #29 & 30, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, exhibition catalogue.
THE GRAVITY OF THE IMMATERIAL, exhibition catalogue, MOCA, Taipei, Taiwan.
GASTRONOMICA, University of California Press, Berkeley, Spring: p. 32-39.
Hitt, Jack. "Building a better bloodsucker," NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, May 6: p. 92-93, 95, 96 (photos).
TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY, London, July: cover photo.
Druhl, Sven. "New Ideas - Old Tricks," KUNSTFORUM INTERNATIONAL, Germany, 08-10/2001
Campe, Martina. "Machterhalt," WESTFALISCHE ANZEIGER Germany, May 22.
"hARTware Projekte, Ideologie!" MARABO, Germany, June.
"Schone neue Welt?" RUHRNACHRICHTEN, Germany, May 12.
"New Ideas - Old Tricks," KUNST AKTUELL, Germany, September.
Wanzelius, Rainer. "Tische - an die Wande geklammert,"
WESTFALISCHE RUNDSCHAU, Germany, May 11. "Ausstellung," BODO - das Strassenmagazin, Germany, May.
Rebecca, Cohen. ARTL!ES, Austin, TX, Summer.
Schudel, Matt. "Natural Selections," SUN-SENTINEL, Fort Lauderdale, Nov. 18.
"FAU exhibit to present contemporary views of science," SUN-SENTINEL, Fort Lauderdale, Nov. 5.
HARTWARE 2001, Exhibition catalogue, "New Ideas - Old Tricks, Hartware Medien Kunst Verein, Dortmund: p. 25, 93.
2002
Hackett, Regina. "Messing with Mother Nature," SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, Seattle, April 6: p. E1-3.
Downey, Roger. "Bring Back Bill Nye," SEATTLE WEEKLY, Seattle, April 18.
Graves, Jen. "Evolving Artistry," THE NEWS TRIBUNE, Seattle, April 19: AI 1-2.
"Gene(sis)," FLASH ART, March/April: p. 45.
Emily Hall. "Haunted Houses - Art and Science," THE STRANGER, Seattle, April 4.
Henderson, Deidtra. "Art ponders genome implications," BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE, Boston, April 7: P. A32.
Thorson, Alice. "Everything here is not what is seems," THE KANSAS CITY STAR, Kansas City, MI, May 3: p. 26,27.
McGraw, Hesse. "Fiction and History: A Science of Disputed Signs," REVIEW, Kansas City, May/June: p. 38,39.
Bailey, Matthew. Review of "Constructed Realities," ART PAPERS, July - August: p. 49.
ADBUSTERS: JOURNAL OF THE MENTAL ENVIRONMENT, Vancouver, Canada, Appetite, Nov/Dec, No. 44.
PHOTOGRAPHY FAST FORWARD - APERTURE AT 50, Aperture, New York: p. 194.
OPEN2002, Venice Lido, Exhibition catalogue: p. 112-113,169-170.
"The Biology of Disgust," DISCOVER, Vol. 23, No. 12, Dec: p. 32.
Sterling, Bruce. "Remote-Controlled Rats," THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, Dec. 15: p. 116 (photo).
LAB04, Metamorphosis, London, Autumn - Winter: p. 130-133.
2003
"Catherine Chalmers' exhibit explores the Food Chain," THE OAKVILLE BEAVER, Ontario, Canada, Jan. 22: p. C8.
OAKVILLE TODAY, Oakville, Ontario, Canada, Jan. 30: p. 13.
MacBride, Craig. "Food Chain exhibit is a shocker," THE OAKVILLE BEAVER, Oakville, Ontario, Canada, Feb. 19: p. 84.
Boxer, Sarah. "The Art of the Code, Or, at Play With DNA," THE NEW YORK TIMES, March 14: p. E35, E39.
Keles, Bettyann Holtzmann and Daniel J. "Truth, Beauty and the Double Helix," NEWSWEEK, Int'l. Edition, February 24: p. 43, 44.
Marien, Mary Warner. PHOTOGRAPHY A CULTURAL HISTORY, Laurence King, London: p. 481, 483.
Boxer, Sarah. "Cockroaches as Shadow and Metaphor," THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 8: p. E1, E5.
Miller, Mike. "Cockroach Art May Bug Some People but That's Life," REUTERS, May 21.
Lin, Tan. "American Cockroach," Grand Arts, Kansas City, Exhibition catalogue, Sept.
Glausiusz, Josie. "American Cockroach," DISCOVER, Sept.: p. 4,80,81.
McGraw, Hesse. "American Cockroach," REVIEW, Kansas City, Sept.: p. 23, 24.
Hackman, Kate. "American Cockroach," THE KANSAS CITY STAR, Sept. 5: p. 22, 26.
Westbrook, Lindsey. "Playing God, Like Scientists," EAST BAY EXPRESS, Emeryville, CA, Sept. 24-30: p. 36.
ENGINEERING, GO FOR IT, American Society for Engineering Education, Washington D.C.: p. 53.
Thorson, Alice. "Feeling Sorry for the Roach,'" KANSAS CITY STAR, Sept. 28: Section I, 1,10.
Canizares, Francisco. "Cucarachas, Que se Haga Justicia," QUO, Madrid, October: p. 106-109.
"Insect Art," PEST CONTROL MAGAZINE, Cleveland, October: p. 67.
Filipiak, Dr. Wanda; Madgalena Jankowska. "Zawod: bog," GAZETA WYBORCZA, Duzyformat, Warszawa, Polska, June 2003: p. 14-18.
Morris, Marjorie. "The World's Backyard in Grand Forks," HIGH PLAINS READER, Grand Forks, ND, Dec.18: p. 12.
"The Science of Art," GRAND FORKS HERALD, Grand Forks, ND, Nov. 14: p. C1-2.
2004
Temin, Christine. "Weird Science," THE BOSTON GLOBE, Boston, Feb. 27: p. C15, C20.
Copeland, Marion. COCKROACH, Reaktion Books, London: p. 41, 43, 61, 100, 113, 164.
EARTHLY DELIGHTS, exhibition catalogue, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, March: p. 18,19,32,53.
Fugami, Tracey. "Observing Change," THE SCENE, Sheboygan, WI, March: p. 14.
Kendricks, Neil. "Nerve Cell," UNION TRIBUNE, San Diego, CA, April, 29.
"Outside the Ordinary, a Tribute in Pictures," APERTURE Magazine, Spring.
AMERICAN COCKROACH, Edited by Lesley Martin, Aperture, New York (fall).
Scharer, Caspar. "Nigh Noon fur Kakerlaken," TAGES ANZEIGER, Zurich, June 19: p. 17.
Schechner, Sam. "The Roach That Failed," THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, July 25: p. 20 (photo).
"Frog meets Mouse," TOPIC, New York, Issue 6: Food: p. Cover, 52-59.
Artner, Alan. "Artists dabble in lab," CHICAGO TRIBUNE, Sept. 16.
Westbrok, Lindsey. "Playing God, Like Scientists," EAST BAY EXPRESS, Berkeley, Sept. 24.
Anker, Suzanne and Nelkin, Dorothy. THE MOLECULAR GAZE: ART IN THE GENETIC AGE, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, New York: p. 168.
2005
"Das Denken Lenken," SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG WISSEN, Munich, January: p. 92 (photo).
Reichle, Ingeborg. KUNST AUS DEM LABOR, Springer Wien: p. Cover, 44, 232.
Fischer, Jack. "Year's best photo books earn coffee table space," MERCURY NEWS, San Jose, Jan. 16.
Berlinerblau, Jacques. THE SECULAR BIBLE, Cambridge Univ. Press, New York: cover photo.
Weinbaum, Alys Eve. WAYWARD REPRODUCTIONS, Duke Univ. Press, Durham: p. 236-239.
Shaw, Kurt. "Carnegie Mellon exhibit looks at how we see animals," PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW, Pittsburgh, Sept. 11.
Thomas, Mary. "'Animal Nature' ranges from funny to shocking," PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE, Pittsburgh, Sept. 14.
St. Germain, Pat. "WAG bugs out in new exhibit," WINNIPEG SUN, Winnipeg, Sept. 21: p. 20.
Roberts, Lorne. "Just crawl over to the WAG and... bug off!" WINNIPEG FREE PRESS, Winnipeg, Sept. 22: p. D6.
Story, Jared. "Buggin' out at the WAG," UPTOWN ARTS GUIDE, Winnipeg, Sept. 27: p. 25-27.
Dault, Julia. "West's Pests Assessed," NATIONAL POST, Toronto, October 6: p. B6.
VISIONAIRE, Issue 46, "Uncensored," Edited by Mario Testino.
St. Germain, Pat. "WAG bugs out in new exhibit," WINNIPEG SUN, Winnipeg, Sept. 21: p. 20.
Roberts, Lorne. "Just crawl over to the WAG and… bug off!" WINNIPEG FREE PRESS, Winnipeg, Sept. 22: p. D6.
Story, Jared. "Buggin’ out at the WAG," UPTOWN ARTS GUIDE, Winnipeg, Sept. 27: p. 25-27.
Dault, Julia. "West’s Pests Assessed," NATIONAL POST, Toronto, Oct. 6: p. B6.
"Put on your Blue Genes," Neuen Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin: p. 37, 60.
2006
Tsuzuki, Kyoichi. "Even cockroaches have souls," ART IT, Tokyo, Issue 10: p. 90-95.
Visionaire, Issue #48, "Magic," New York.
"Among the Trees," Exhibition Catalogue, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit.
"The Artist as Tree Hugger," NEW YORK TIMES, March 26: New Jersey Section.
Ryan, Michael. "From the water to the land," WINDHAM JOURNAL, Hudson Valley Newspapers, NY, March 23: p.B1.
BLIND SPOT, New York, Issue 32, A Tribute.
Weintraub, Linda. ECOCENTRIC TOPICS, Artnow Publications, Rhinebeck, NY: p.103-110.
Wallis, Brian, et al, "Ecotopia," APERTURE, New York, Fall, Issue 184: p. 74-81
Zimmer, Carl. "This Can’t Be Love," NEW YORK TIMES, Sept. 5: p. F1 (photos)
Corcoran, David. "Her Medium Is Mantises (and Other Small Creatures) With a Story to Tell," NEW YORK TIMES, Sept. 5: p. F4
GOING APE, Exhibition catalogue, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA.
ECOTOPIA, Exhibition catalogue, International Center of Photography, New York.
Smith, Roberta."The Natural World, in Peril and in Its Full Glory," NEW YORK TIMES, Sept. 13: p. E1, E5.
Johnson, Ken. “DeCordova’s ‘Ape’ is an entertaining bestiary,”BOSTON GLOBE, Sept. 15.
V MAGAZINE, New York, Issue 43, Fall: p. 146-147.
Budick, Ariella. “It’s the NATURE of the Beast,” NEWSDAY, New York, Sept. 24.
Meyers, William. “The Extinction of Awe,” NEW YORK SUN, Sept 14.
“Nature with an Edge,” NEW YORK TIMES, Sept. 19: p. A24.
Zeaman, John. “Critter’s-eye views of a changing world,” RECORD/HERALD, Hackensack, Sept. 22.
Salzedo-Gramm, Viola. “This Home of Ours,” NEW YORK PRESS, Sept. 27 – Oct. 3: p. 82-83.
Stevens, Mark. “Earth in the Balance,” NEW YORK MAGAZINE, Oct. 2.
Byrne, David. “Ugly Beauty,” DAVIDBYRNE.COM, Sept. 30: journal.
Kunitz, Daniel. “The Political Landscape,” ARTREVIEW, London, Issue 02, August: p. 44-46.
Wyndham, Constance. “Watching Al Gore with the aircon full blast,” FINANCIAL TIMES, Oct. 4.
Fineman, Mia. “The Changing Role of Nature in Art,” SLATE.COM, Oct. 19.
Woodward, Richard B. “Few Soothing Landscapes Here,” WALL STREET JOURNAL, Oct. 25.
Stern, Steven. “Artists Tackle an Inconvenient Truth or Two,” TIME OUT NEW YORK, Oct. 26 – Nov. 1: p. 72.
Yabroff, Jennie. “Man vs. Nature: This Land Is My Land,” NEWSWEEK INTERNATIONAL, Nov. 20.
Gopnik, Blake. “At ‘Ecotopia,’ the Creatures are Stirring,” WASHINGTON POST, Nov. 5: p. N1, N6-N7.
Chris, Chang. “The Hunger,” FILM COMMENT, New York, Nov. / Dec.: p. 17.
“I’m Ready for My Close-up,” ONEARTH, NRDC, New York, Winter: p. 11.
NEXT, Michael Crighton, HarperCollins: p. 339.
TV & RADIO
YOUR RADIO PLAYHOUSE, "Animals," Ira Glass, WBEZ (NPR), Chicago, Interviewed by Paul Tough, February 2, 1996.
THIS AMERICAN LIFE, "Animals," Ira Glass, WNYC (NPR), New York (and national), January 11, 1997.
"Inspire: New York Art Report Vol. 2," PERFECTV, Japan, Produced by Yoichi Kajima, June, 1997.
OohLaLa, CityTV, Toronto, (Canada and 40 countries), Spring, 1999.
"America America," IDEA TV, Brazil, Program #68, Spring 2001.
"Unnatural Science," EGG THE ARTS SHOW, WNET (PBS), New York, (and national), April 26, 2001.
"Eklektikos" with John Aielli on KUT (NPR), Austin, March 9, 2001.
CLEOPATRA'S SECOND HUSBAND, Director Jon Reiss, First Run Features, Indican Pictures, 2001.
"Slice of Life," CBS NEWS, March 23, 2001.
"Talk of the City," KPCC (NPR), Pasadena, March 30, 2001.
INSIDE EDITION, CBS, May 30, 2001.
THE ANANDA LEWIS SHOW, WB / Fox, October 12, 2001.
FLIPPER, National Swedish Radio, January 26, 2002.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TODAY, National Geographic Channel, February 19, 2002.
BBC World, BBC1, May 9, 2003.
Reuters TV, May 13, 2003.
TVS, Russian TV, May 13, 2003.
Five Live, Radio 5, BBC, May 19, 2003.
CNN, June 5, 2003.
KCUR (NPR), Steve Walker, Sept. 4, 2003.
Studio 360, WNYC (NPR), April 3, 2004.
Galileo, ProSieben TV, Germany, June 24, 2005
WPS1, New York, THE BIO-BLURB SHOW, Hosted by Suzanne Anker, Edition 12, "Animal Magnetism Zoomorphic Zones," July 25, 2005.
1995
Mid-Atlantic Regional Fellowship / National Endowment for the Arts
1998
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
2000
Alfred Eisenstaedt Award, LIFE MAGAZINE
2002
The Robert Lehman Foundation for the exhibition at Grand Arts, Kansas City