EDUCATION
Whitney Independent Study Program, Studio Division, 2007
Oberlin College, BA Studio Art & East Asian Studies, 1999
Doshisha University, Japanese Language Program Study Abroad, 1998
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004
an army of lovers cannot fail, Artists Space, New York
i no we can reign here, La Centrale, Montreal
OTHER EXHIBITIONS & PUBLIC PROJECTS
2008
How did she find herself here? with Emma Hedditch, Serpentine Gallery, London
LTTR for WACK! exhibition at PS1, New York
Material Culture, Longwood Arts Center, New York
2007
documenta 12 magazines, Documenta, Kassel
Exile of the Imaginary, Generali Foundation, Vienna
Locally Localized Gravity, Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Ridykeulous’ At least it’s not abstract, The Kitchen, New York
Shared Women, LACE, Los Angeles
WHIP with Ulrike Müller, Acktualisierungsraum, Hamburg
Sex in the City, Dumbo Art Center, Brooklyn
Craft Up, YYZ, Toronto
The Activist Way, Cueto Projects, New York
Encore, Gallery 40000, Chicago
2006
Eat the Market, LACMA Lab with Sam Durant, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA
Welcome to Gayside, Eastern Edge, St Johns, Newfoundland an army of lovers cannot fail, Art Metropole, Toronto
When Artists Say We, Artists Space, New York
Flex Your Textiles, John Connelly Presents, New York
Hot Topic, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, New York
If a cat gives birth to kittens in an oven, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn
Ridykeulous, Participant Inc, New York
Flex Your Textiles, Brooklyn Failed Attempts, Needles & Pens, San Francisco
The Family Room, Cinders, Brooklyn HomoHome, Cinders, Brooklyn
2005
A wave of new rage thinking: LTTR in Residence at Printed Matter, New York
Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Sarah Cain, Sonja Ahlers, Open Space, Victoria BC
LTTR: Let’s Take The Role, The Kitchen, New York
Can I Get A Witness, Longwood Arts Center, New York
Anniversaire Hi-5 for projet MOBILIVRE-BOOKMOBILE project, La Centrale, Montreal
The Third Leg presents ‘Glorious Holes’, Cinders, Brooklyn
LTMIXTR, Mix Festival, New York
The Muster, Public Art Fund, New York
Paper Politics, Seattle Print Arts, Seattle
Stitched: Craft/Design/Art, Broadcloth, Baltimore
2004
EXPLOSION LTTR/Practice More Failure, Art In General, New York
The Third Leg presents ‘In Art We Gay’, La Centrale, Montreal
Publish or be Damned, Cubitt Gallery, London
Lesbians to the Rescue, New Image Art, Los Angeles
Art in General presents LTTR, The Armory, New York
The End Of The End Of The Line, Soap Factory, Minneapolis
Tit Pin Project, Art Metropole, Toronto
Experimental Media for Feminist Tresspass, Pilot Television, Chicago
projet MOBILIVRE BOOKMOBILE project, Philadelphia
2003
Listen Translate Translate Record, Andrew Kreps, New York
Lesbians to the Rescue, Bellwether, Brooklyn
Man, I Feel Like A Woman, Space 1026, Philadelphia
projet MOBILIVRE BOOKMOBILE project, Philadelphia
2002
Scratch off the serial: Space 1026, Institue of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
some things are hard to look at, Rare, New York
Man, I Feel Like a Woman, Space 1026, Philadelphia
projet MOBILIVRE BOOKMOBILE project, Philadelphia
2001
Forearms of Steel, Print Center, Philadelphia
Small Town Bullies, CBGB’s 313, NY NY
9 (from) 1026 = deece!, LUMP, Raleigh NC
projet MOBILIVRE BOOKMOBILE project, Philadelphia
2000
projet MOBILIVRE BOOKMOBILE project, Philadelphia
AWARDS
Smack Mellon Studio Residency, New York, 2008
NYU Visiting Scholar, LTTR for Queer Nightlife Symposium, New York, 2006
Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Residency, New York, 2005
Emerging Artist Publication Award for LTTR #4, Printed Matter, New York, 2005
Artist Broadside for Safe Sex/AIDS Awareness, Visual AIDS, New York, 2005
projet-MOBILIVRE, Conseil des Arts et des Letters du Quebec, Montreal, 2004
projet MOBILIVRE, Inter-Arts Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, 2003
projet MOBILIVRE, Inter-Arts Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, 2002
PANELS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2006
Hot Topic, LTTR & Ridykeulous in conversation, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
LTTR at London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, London
2005
Panel on Artist Collectives, Pratt University, Brooklyn
Tim Rollins/Kids of Survival, SWOON/Toyshop Collective, John Ahearn/Collab & Fashion
Moda, Yates McKee/16 Beaver
2004
ReGenerations: ‘Thirty-Something’ Artists Talk About Their Work, Intersexions: Queer
Visual Culture at the Crossroads, NY NY, Angie Piehl, Anthony Goicolea, Jess Dobkin,
Kami Chisholm & Elizabeth Stark,Terry Berlier, Chair: Harmony Hammond
2003
Panel on queer art practice, Greene Naftali, NY NY, AA Bronson, John Connelly, Carrie
Moyer, Scott Hug, Edwin Ramoran, Moderator: José Muñoz
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Repetition and Difference, Art Forum Summer 2006 Julia Bryan-Wilson San Francisco Bay
Guardian February 8, 2006, Interview with Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Kimberly Chun
NYFA Current Online August 24, 2005 ‘Setting a Pace: Andrea Geyer & LTTR’ Amoreen Armetta
Time Out New York August 18, 2005 ‘Recommended Reading’ Emily Weiner
Village Voice March 16, 2005 ‘Cinders’ Allan Frame
NY Times December 26, 2004 ‘The Missed Opportunities’ Holland Cotter
Artforum December 2004 ‘on the ground’ John Kelsey
Hour December 9, 2004 ‘Quilt of love: Stitching Community’ Isa Tousignant
NY Times August 6 2004 ‘Explosion LTTR’ Holland Cotter
NY Press June 27, 2003 ‘Transformed Vocabulary’ Kate Crane
Venus Spring 2003 ‘Send Me a LTTR’ Sara Marcus
Stylus January 2003
UTNE reader November 15, 2002 ‘Art on the Run’ Chris Dodge
Village Voice Voice Choices July 9 2002
Tart ‘Outwardly Mobile’ Summer 2002
Philadelphia Weekly ‘Space Creatures’ May 22 2002
Los Angeles Times Summer 2002 ‘Whirl of the Words’ Susan Carpenter
Bust Spring 2002 ‘Pump up the Volumes’ Kat McAndrew
Bitch ‘The Bitch List’ Spring 2002
Philadelphia Weekly August 2001
Philadelphia City Paper July 2001
Philadelphia Weekly February 2001
Metropolis magazine November 2001 ‘Bookin’ Down the Road’ Jonathan Ringen
Tokion Magazine Winter 2000 ‘ A Story for the Road: Bookmobile’
