carolyn sortor
carolyn(a)c-cyte.com, dallas, tx, u.s.a.
c-cyte.com, creamistress.com
c-cyte.blogspot.com
shakefest.com
sortor.com
SOLO EXHIBITION
2004 Creamistress
6: “The Centered Polenta”, Conduit
Gallery, Dallas, TX
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011Superheros, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, NM
2011Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2010Glitch - Metroplex Video, CentralTrak, Dallas, TX
2010Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX (Untitled entry for "Texture of Dallas" competition)
2010Featured artist, X20+ Version II, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX (Falls)
2010Contribution to El Último libro (The Last Book), organized by Luis Camnitzer, exhibited in
the National Library, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Zentral Bibliothek, Zurich, Switzerland; and
the New York Public Library, Aguilar Branch
2006The
Matthew Barney Show, Jack the Pelican Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Creamistress 6)
2006The Matthew Barney Show, BOCA Gallery, San Francisco, CA (Creamistress 6)
2006Wish!, The Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX (Intraject Certificate)
2006Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX (Grace at Camp Casey)
2005National broadcast on Current TV (Grace at Camp Casey)
2005ChickFlicks, Dallas, TX (Grace at Camp Casey)
2005Wish! Exhibition and Auction, The Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX (Creamistress 6)
2004Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX (Creamistress 6)
2004The Texas Show (this program is juried and issued on a DVD, which is
collected by various institutions including the Dallas Museum of Art), Dallas Video
Festival, Dallas, TX (Creamistress 6)
2003Edgeworks Film Festival, Corpus Christi,
TX (Creamistress 6: "The Centered Polenta")
2000SXSW Film Festival, Austin, TX (Looking Glasses)
2000The Texas Show, Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX (Looking Glasses)
CURATING / INSTIGATING
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2010ART WORK in dallas, an exhibition, symposium, and program of readings relating to
a project by the Chicago-based collective, Temporary Services; in collaboration with
University of Texas - Dallas' CentralTrak and Southern Methodist University
2008The Program, a series of five exhibitions within five weeks of over fifty recent, media-
based works by more than forty internationally-recognized, artists, co-curated with
Charles Dee Mitchell and Bart
Weiss, at Conduit Gallery, Dallas
2007I Heart Video Art, screenings of five compilations of video art, co-curated with Danette
Dufilho, at Conduit Gallery, Dallas
2007Tech-Art Activism, short videos showing creative uses of technology to challenge
perceived abuses of authority, at the Dallas Video Festival
2004-10 Curatorial assistance to the Dallas Video Festival
WRITINGS
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2004-c-Blog, on art, politics, and trash (over 1,000 posts, including discussions of the
PresentCreative Time Summit 2 (2010), the ART WORK in Dallas series, Rotozaza's
GuruGuru, Kalup Linzy's Keys to Our Heart, Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 13,
Ryan Trecartin's A Family Finds Entertainment, and Patti Smith's and Jem Cohen's
cover video of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit)
2009"Diary of the Dead," Fray magazine, Issue No. 3
2009Tribute to the Honorable Chief Judge Harold Barefoot Sanders, SMU Law Review,
Volume 62, Special Issue
2003A ShakeFest for Book Clubs, ShakeFest Biograhical & Historical Supplement,
poems, and other writings at c-cyte.com
1985-93 Writings on commercial legal issues in various legal publications
PRESS
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Review, 'Chain Letter' at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, LA Times, August 4, 2011; additional press available via Shoshana Wayne Gallery
Review, "The Non-Profit Margin, CentralTrak" by Erin Starr White, Art Lies Issue #67, Fall, 2010
Appearance on Art This Week Dot Com, CentralTrak-Art Work-Carolyn Sortor, June 11, 2010, Episode 56
"Art, Money and Labor at CentralTrak" by Jerome Weeks, art + seek, May 21, 2010
Independent Movie Data Bank entry on Creamistress 6: "The Centered Polenta"
Independent Movie Data Bank entry on Grace at Camp Casey
"Carolyn Sortor Explores the Real State of Video Arts," cover story, inaugural edition of THE Magazine - Dallas
"Interview: Carolyn Sortor" by Kate Watson, might be good... Issue #105, September 5, 2008
Review, "The Program," by Kate Watson, might be good... Issue #105, September 5, 2008
"Dallas Days 2-3" by Rainey Knudson, Glasstire, August 2008
"The Program: Video Art at Conduit Gallery" by Manny Mendoza, art + seek, August 15, 2008
Appearance on KERA 90.1's Think, program on video art, August 1, 2008
"The Program: Matthew Barney, more at Conduit" by Anne Bothwell, art + seek, July 28, 2008
"The Program: Video Art at Conduit Gallery" by Manny Mendoza, art + seek, July 24, 2008
"Creamistress 6" by Tom Moody, tom moody, June 22, 2008
"Dallas Video Festival in Second Life," The Grid Live, July 30th, 2007
"Post-Barney" by Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, May 1, 2006
"The Matthew Barney Show at Jack the Pelican" by James Wagner, jameswagner.com, April 8, 2006
"Artnet News," artnet, March 28, 2006
"This Week's Day-By-Day Picks," The Dallas Observer, January 29, 2004 (under "Tuesday, 3")
"Creamistress" by Alan Murdock, A is for Apiculate, January 10, 2004 (under "January 10") |
OTHER
2008-Member, Advisory Board, CentralTrak
Present
1996-98 Board Chair, Video Association of Dallas ("VAD"; details here)
PriorMember, Boards of VAD, the McKinney Avenue Contemporary and Zoë Artz Project
EDUCATION
2004B.F.A.
purchased from Ben B. Britt, who originally received it in 1981 from University
of Texas, Austin (bill of sale here)
1986J.D.,
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Editor, Southwestern Law Journal; Order of the Barristers; winner in writing
competitions for both Journal of Air Law and Commerce and Southwestern Law
Journal; Maxwell, Godwin & Carlton Award for best law review article on commercial
law; winner, Second Annual Grant Gilmore Poetry Contest with entry, "Ode by a
Creditor Burned"
1976B.A.,
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Cum laude, with High Distinction in English Literature; received sculpture $2,000
grant
COLLECTIONS
Claude & Susan Albritton
Danette & John Dufilho
Tim & Nancy Hanley
Steve & Carol Nash
Sherrill
& Jo Ann Pettus
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