-Jeffrey Mohr

b. 1979 Spokane, WA
Lives and works in Los Angeles

Mohr holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from Sierra Nevada College, and a Master of Fine Art in Sculpture/Intermedia from California State University, Long Beach. An avid outdoorsman, Mohr spent several years in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Mohr now lives and works in Los Angeles, where he serves as Assistant Public Art Officer for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

An interdisciplinary artist, Mohr works in video, sculpture, installation, performance, and sound. His work has resulted in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums within Europe, The United States, and Japan, including a sound performance commemorating the opening of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum. Mohr is former director of exhibitions at the Treehouse Gallery and co- founder of AMproject in Los Angeles. As a curator, Mohr has organized nearly 30 exhibitions locally and internationally with a recent feature in Readymade Magazine. Both his visual and written works have been published by AMproject Publishing. He is a member of Vern, an international art collective.

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bb gun drawing, 2009

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Ballistics Quonset, 2009

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Jeffrey James Mohr (portrait), 2009

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Shot Quonset, 2009

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Quonset panel, 2009

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Little Stranger (detail), 2007

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Solo Exhibitions:

2009 Quonsets, Porter Gallery, Long Beach, CA

2007 Little Stranger, XIT Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2006 Master’s Thesis Exhibition, Gatov Gallery, Long Beach, CA

2005 Zone D 3-5, Advancement Exhibition, Merlino Gallery, Long Beach, CA

Stall, Closet Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

2004 BFA Thesis Exhibition, “Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Blow”, Tahoe Gallery, Incline Village, NV

S.O.P., show, bleulion space, Reno, NV (two person exhibition)

Museum Exhibitions:

2008 Found Sound, Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

2006 LA Menu Munchies, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions:

TBD Vern: TUPAC-Lima, Peru

2009 I Like Winners: Sports and Selfhood, Shepard Fine Arts, University of Nevada, Reno

Red Rover, NightHawksLA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2008 Relative Environment, 26th Annual Outdoor Sculpture show, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY

Excess/Access, Workspace2601, Los Angeles, CA

2007 The Home Show, current and past residents, Treehouse Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Fingered Seven, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA (Solo Performance)

Vern: Tahoe, Behind Closed Doors, Tahoe Gallery, Incline Village, Nevada

Foot Fetish, Unitard Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Elicitnix, SCA Project Gallery, Pomona, CA

2006 Fortnight, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA

Long Beach>Brooklyn, Tilly’s Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY

2005 SAVE THE YOUTH OF AMERICA SUMMER TOUR- 5 COUNTRIES

De Haas Gallery- London, England

Takt Projektraum- Berlin, Germany

MAMA Gallery- Rotterdam, Holland

Centraal Antwerpen Station- Antwerp, Belgium

Phoenix Park- Dublin, Ireland

Recently, Werby Gallery, Long Beach, CA

25.3, Transport Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

REVELATIONS, “paradise or apocalypse”, Gatov Gallery, Long Beach, CA

Fantastic Realities, Werby Gallery, Long Beach, CA

Space Lottery, Merlino Gallery, Long Beach, CA

New Grads Group Show, Gallery 5, Long Beach, CA

2004 Five from Long Beach, California State University Fullerton, Tony Danza Gallery,

Grand Central Station, Santa Ana, CA

2003 Dissect, bleulion space, Reno, NV

2002 Motel Vacancy, bleulion space, Reno, NV

2001 Dia de los Muertos, Gallery One, Washington State University, Pullman, WA

Selected Guerrilla Installations/Public Performances

2005 Looking, Mission District, San Francisco, CA

Looking part II, Fashion District, Los Angeles, CA

LA’s Finest Produce, Los Angeles, CA

What is a Citrus Tree? San Francisco, CA

The Felling of a Tree, Lake Tahoe, CA

2004 Paparazzi, bleulion space, Reno, NV

2003 Polaroid, Tourist Club, Truckee, CA

Sound Performance

2007 Mary Tyler Smores, LA CITA, Los Angeles, CA

Mary Tyler Smores, Que Sera, Long Beach, CA

Mary Tyler Smores, Unitard Space, Los Angeles, CA

Residencies

TBD TUPAC Residency Program, Lima Peru (forthcoming)

Publications:

2009 Reno News and Review, I Like Winners, Jan. 29, 2009

2008 Haber’s Art Reviews, Brooklyn Summer Sculpture, 2008 (www.haberarts.com)

2008 The Brooklyn Paper, Park Art, July 17, 2008

2008 Nooan Magazine, Animal, May-June 2008 issue

2007 Ready Made Magazine, “Art School Residential”, October, November 2007 Issue

2007 Argonaut Paper, Little Stranger, Pick of the week, Los Angeles

2007 LA Weekly, FINGERED SEVEN, Pick of the week, performance, Highways Performance Space

2007 AMproject Publishing, Rust Free Dudley, The Kind of Sense You Make When You Have Stayed

Too Long Alone

2007 AMproject Publishing, Collective Bargain: a Catalog of Good Art

2005 Channel 77 Television, Interview Long Beach, CA

2004 Reno News and Review, SOP, Pick of the Week

Collections:

Gayle Anderson Sculpture Park, Joshua Tree, CA

Margery Levinson, Incline Village, NV

Rex Castle, Spokane, WA

Education:

California State University, Long Beach, MFA Intermedia/Sculpture 2006

Sierra Nevada College, BFA Ceramics 2004

Washington State University 2000-2001 Ceramics

One Response to “-Jeffrey Mohr”

  1. Roselle Kinner Says:

    Thank You, Keep up the Good work :)

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