KRYSTAL SOUTH
Krystal South is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and writer from Portland, Oregon who has been online every day since she was 12. South has been included in group exhibitions and projects at Carroll/Fletcher Gallery, Ditch Projects, the 2013 PICA TBA festival, The Wrong Biennale, Recess Gallery, Carhole Gallery, and Portland Art Museum, as well as in B.Y.O.B. at New American Art Union, and Wieden+Kennedy in Portland. Her writings have been featured in the Rhizome ArtBase, Flaunt Magazine, Bear Deluxe Magazine, YA5, and September, a project of artists Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen at the 2011 TBA Festival. She enjoys obsessively exploring Everything, including but not limited to: internet art history, the internet, the Sublime, light, jokes, the corporeal, dissonance, physics, tropical plants, junk food, and the Self. Google Krystal South for more info.
EXHIBITIONS
- October, 2014: Unoriginal Genius, curated by Domenico Quaranta, Carroll/Fletcher Gallery, London.
- October, 2014: Exhibition Kickstarter, Ditch Projects, Springfield, Oregon.
- July, 2014: Meta: The Wrong New Digital Art Bienalle, Antiga Galeria Municipal de Arte, Setubal, Portugal.[Press]
- May, 2014: Gifbites, part of Bitrates, Shiraz, Iran.[Press]
- March, 2014: The International Invitational Triennial of Contemporary Wind Chimes, Rocksbox Fine Art, Portland, OR. [Press]
- November, 2013: Western Digital pavilion curated by Rick Silva for The Wrong Biennale, online.
- September, 2013: "...community declared itself a medium...", PICA TBA Festival, Portland, OR.
- June, 2013: Portland Experimental Film Festival, Portland, OR.
- November, 2012: B.Y.O.B. Portland II @ Wieden + Kennedy Gallery, Portland, OR.
- June, 2012: Dimensions Variable, Autzen Gallery, Portland, OR.
- February, 2012: HYPERCORRECTION at Recess Gallery, Portland, OR.
- December, 2011: "CE N'EST PAS LA FIN DU MONDE" GROUP SHOW at R&R Gallery, Los Angeles.
- October, 2011: QR/ART at the Portland Art Museum. [curator]
- September, 2011: 'Observations on the Uncertain' essay as part of Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen's Installation, Don't Worry We'll
FixIt, Time Based Arts Festival, 2011. - September, 2011: Nudity in Groups at PICA's Time Based Arts Festival 2011.
- August, 2011: Sharpening The Image, STORE Gallery, Portland, OR. [press]
- August, 2011: ALL CAPS FESTIVAL, Toronto, Canada.
- June, 2011: Broad Strokes, Carhole Gallery, Portland, OR.
- December, 2010: B.Y.O.B. PORTLAND, New American Art Union, Portland, OR.
- December, 2010: Car Hole Gallery Presents: No More Coats No More Hole: The Unauthorized Greatest Hits & Notes From A Young Curator book release
- October, 2010: NUDITY IN GROUPS ISSUE #2, Edition of 250, available through www.fastweapons.com
- August, 2010: THIS COULD BE ANYWHERE, Carhole Gallery, Portland, OR.
PUBLICATIONS
- February, 2014: LaTurbo Avedon, Flaunt Magazine.
- February, 2012: Image Control: Contemporary Takes on Self Portraiture, Bear Deluxe Magazine issue 33.
- October, 2011: Snack Addicts Unite! for YA5 #3, The Food Issue.
- December, 2010:Notes From a Young Curator by Sam Korman. Published by Jank Editions and Publication Studio. Contains Sam's essay on my piece Who Are You People?
- March, 2010: We Need to Know Where We've Been To Know Where We Are Going: A History of Socially Engaged Art Practice, edited by Jen Delos Reyes with texts by Paul Butler, Harrell Fletcher, Ted Purves, Helena Keefe, Joseph del Pesco and more. See my diagram about socially engaged artistic practice.