Bio
Originally from Ontario, Canada, Vibrata's intermedia paintings, installations and digital work have been seen in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, Chicago and as far away as Turkey, Portugal and Japan.
Rhythmic patterning and the use of beguiling perceptual distortions find their way throughout her work, with a graphic quality that suggests futuristic ideograms or glyphs. She’s most at home in the peculiar, techie playground where digital design meets painting or sculpture techniques, employing machines as familiar as a laser printer and as imposing as a CNC router.
"Paring away anything in my images that can directly represent the physical world leaves the imagination wide open. I want to give a subtle sense of vertigo, an indication that things are not as solid as they seem. I want the viewer to think about the connections between ideas and things, and how malleable the boundaries can be."
Vibrata is a fourteen-time veteran of the Burning Man festival, held every year in Nevada, participating with her own art installations and contributing to the Connexus Cathedral and Entheon Village in 2006, the Institute in 2011 and 2012 and Nexus in 2013. As a lecturer and presenter, Vibrata was featured at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco for the Mind States conference, at CoSM gallery in NYC in 2005 and Bicycle Day in San Francisco in 2012. She was interviewed in 2017 by Transform Press, and the Visionary Arts Academy. Her work has been featured in such publications as the Entheogen Review, the CoSM Journal of Visionary Culture, and the Elfintome Visionary Arts Collective Catalogs.
Resumé
| EDUCATION | |||||
| 1992 | HBFA Visual Arts - Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada | ||||
| 1988 | General Arts and Sciences - Confederation College,Thunder Bay (Dean’s Award for Academic Achievement) | ||||
| GRANTS / AWARDS | |||||
| 2011 yearly through 2019 | Priceless Art Grant - False Profit LLC, San Francisco | ||||
| 2016, 2017 and 2018 | Art Grant - The California Foundation for the Advancement of the Electronic Arts, San Francisco | ||||
| 2012 and 2014 | Art Grant - The Do Lab, Los Angeles | ||||
| 1995 | Best in Show - Gallery 215, Toronto | ||||
| 1992 | Mr. and Mrs. James MacAllan Munro Family Memorial Prize for Visual Arts - Lakehead University Lakehead University Student Union Purchase Award for Academic Excellence - Lakehead University |
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| EXHIBITIONS | |||||
| 2015 | Vallejo Art Windows - The Dream Center, Vallejo, CA | ||||
| 2014 | Boom Festival – Museum of Visionary Art, Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal | ||||
| 2013 | Hacked Organic - Langton Labs, San Francisco | ||||
| 2012 | Entropy - Old Crow Tattoo & Gallery, Oakland, CA (Solo exhibition) Arts of Heroism – The Glint, San Francisco Emeryville Celebration of the Arts – Emeryville, CA |
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| 2010 | Command+J - Old Crow Tattoo, Oakland (Two-person exhibition) 7th Annual Interdimensional Art Show - Madrone Studios, SF Universal Parallels - Hotel Triton, San Francisco (Solo exhibition) Vectorus Maximus - The Lightroom Gallery, Berkeley (Solor Exhibition Emeryville Celebration of the Arts – Emeryville, CA MAPS 2010 Conference - Holiday Inn, San Jose, CA Boom Festival ‘10 - Museum of Visionary Art, Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal |
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| 2009 | Catalyzing Collective Creativity - Push Studio, San Francisco | ||||
| 2008 | Simple Geometry - Monadnock Building, San Francisco | ||||
| 2007 | MetaMedia:Cooperation III - Eugene, OR Transformations - San Francisco |
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| 2006 | Minds Wide Open - Around the Coyote, Chicago, IL 4th Annual Interdimensional Art Show – Tribe 13, Seattle, WA Boom Festival ‘06 - Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal Synergenesis III - Red Ink Studios, San Francisco |
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| 2005 | Mind States - Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco Harmony Festival - Harmony Festival, Santa Rosa, CA Interdimensional Art Show - Gallery of the Senses, Seattle, WA Assa Con - Center for Sex and Culture, San Francisco Synergenesis II - Cell Space, San Francisco Minds Wide Open - Light Space Gallery, Los Angeles |
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| 2004 | Recent Work - Epoch, Berkeley (Solo exhibition) Synergenesis - Cell Space, San Francisco |
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| 2003 | Life Lines - Melting Point Gallery, San Francisco (Solo exhibition) Mind States - UC Berkeley, Berkeley ArtSpan Selections 2003 - The Mills Building, San Francisco Technology Creates - Danville Fine Art Gallery, Danville, CA |
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| 2002 | Invention with Color - gallery >go<, San Francisco Vibrationals - Garden Cafe, Oita, Japan (Solo exhibition) Currents - Cafe Que Tal, San Francisco (Solo exhibition) |
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| 2001 | Organized Labor - Detour 888, San Francisco (Two-person exhibition) | ||||
| 1995 | Images of Eros - Gallery 215, Toronto, ON, Canada Juried Show - Gallery 215, Toronto |
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| 1993 | Emergence/See Redux - Marina Art Gallery, Thunder Bay Annual Juried Members Show - Definitely Superior, Thunder Bay Regional Juried Show - Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay |
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| 1992 | Annual Juried Members Show - Definitely Superior, Thunder Bay Emergence/See - Marina Art Gallery, Thunder Bay Sincerely, a Friend - Magnus Theatre, Thunder Bay (Solo exhibition) The Woman in Black - Magnus Theatre, Thunder Bay (Solo exhibition) |
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| MULTIMEDIA EVENTS / PUBLIC ART | |||||
| 2019 | Priceless – Belden, CA | ||||
| 2018 | Friends and Family – Saratoga Springs, CA | ||||
| 2017 | Wisdom 2.0 Conference – Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco Priceless – Belden, CA Friends and Family – Saratoga Springs, CA |
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| 2016 | Priceless – Belden, CA Beloved Festival – Tidewater, Oregon Friends and Family – Saratoga Springs, CA |
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| 2015 | Wisdom 2.0 Conference - Marriott Marquis Hotel, San Francisco Treasure Island Music Festival - Treasure Island, CA SuperHero Street Fair - San Francisco |
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| 2014 | Treasure Island Music Festival – Treasure Island Priceless – Belden, CA Lightning in a Bottle – San Antonio Recreation Area, CA Sunset Island Music Festival – San Francisco |
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| 2013 | Symbiosis – Woodward Reserve, Oakdale, CA Priceless – Belden, CA Burning Man – Black Rock Desert, NV |
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| 2012 | Autumnal Equinox Celestial Celebration – CoSM, Wappingers, NY Lightning in a Bottle – Silverado, CA Priceless – Belden, CA Burning Man – Black Rock Desert, NV |
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| 2011 | Priceless – Belden, CA Burning Man – Black Rock Desert, NV |
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| 2006 | Soulclipse - Paradise Canyon, Turkey Symbiosis ‘06 - Angels Camp, CA SpringFest - Joaquin Miller Park, Oakland Emrg+n+see - Ashland, OR Burning Man - Black Rock Desert, NV |
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| 2005 | Worldspirit DVD Launch - IKHQ, San Francisco Convocation - Soap Factory Annex, San Francisco In:Flux - Vancouver, BC |
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| 2004 | The Fool - Space 111, San Francisco | ||||
| 2003 | WorldSpirit - Sweets Ballroom, Oakland Synergia - IKHQ, San Francisco Ascension - 1015 Folsom, San Francisco |
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| 2002 | Epic - IKHQ, San Francisco An Evening with Alex Grey - IKHQ, San Francisco Ascension - 1015 Folsom, San Francisco The Mantra Lounge - Black Box, Oakland |
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| 2001 | Ascension - 550 Barneveld, San Francisco Ripples - St. John’s Episcopal Church, San Francisco |
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| 2000 | Ambient Groove Temple - 7th Heaven Yoga Studio, Berkeley, CA Samtosa - The Yoga Shala, San Francisco Technature - Cell Space, San Francisco Goa Gil’s Birthday Party - Area 101, Mendocino, CA Playtime - St. John’s Episcopal Church, San Francisco |
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| 1998 | Interference Orange - Latvian Cultural Center, Toronto Earthdance - Toronto |
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| LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS | |||||
| 2017 | Live Interview and Art Jam - Visionary Arts Academy, Online | ||||
| 2015 | CoSM Visionary Painting Intensive - CoSM, Wappingers, NY | ||||
| 2012 | Bicycle Day - Club 1015, San Francisco | ||||
| 2005 | Psychedelic Psychosynthesis - Mind States , San Francisco Visionary Artist’s Panel - Avatar, New York, NY |
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| PUBLICATIONS | |||||
| Wild Lands, Blurb, 2022 | |||||
| Fun Size, Blurb, 2022 | |||||
| CoSM: Journal of Visionary Culture, NY, Vol IX, 2015 | |||||
| Erowid Extracts, No. 23, Grass Valley, CA, November 2012 | |||||
| Jon Hanna, The Manual of Psychedelic Support, 1st Edition, San Francisco, January 2015 | |||||
| Zahir Tales, Issue 9, Encinitas, CA, Spring 2006 | |||||
| The Entheogen Review, Sacramento, CA, Vol. XV, #2, Summer 2006 | |||||
| Vision Catalog, San Francisco, Winter 2006 | |||||
| System Catalog, San Francisco, Spring 2006 | |||||
| Medicine Catalog, San Francisco, Spring 2005 | |||||
| Marisa Scirocco, CoSM Gallery, CoSM: Journal of Visionary Culture, NY, Vol I, December 2004 | |||||
| Synergenesis: Visionary Art Catalog, San Francisco, November 2004 | |||||
| BLOGS | |||||
| Wendy Tucker, "Vibrata Chromodoris: A Creative Force Behind Transform Press", News Feed, "Transform Press Blog", December 6, 2016, https://transformpress.com/vibrata-chromodoris-a-creative-force-behind-transform-press/ | |||||
| Caren Charles, "Vibrata Chromodoris Murals the Mushroom Cafe ," Mystic Rants, "CoSM Blog", 2015, https://www.alexgrey.com/blog/vibrata-chromadoris-murals-the-mushroom-cafe | |||||
