Katherine Sweetman

Katherine Sweetman is a contemporary artist, arts writer, and former director of Lui Velazquez art space in Tijuana, Mexico.
Education
Sweetman has an MFA from the University of California San Diego. A BFA in Arts and Technology from California State University, San Marcos and certificate from The New School in New York.
Artwork and exhibitions
Some of Sweetman's significant projects include a collaboration for Art Meets Fashion, a documentary film titled "Gringos Living in Tijuana", about seven non-Hispanic people who chose to live in Tijuana; the Freephone project, a collaboration with Micha Cárdenas, Elle Mehrmand, Chris Head, Camilo Ontiveros, and Felipe Zúniga; and Lucent, a public art collaboration with Owen Mundy for The Office of Graduate Affairs on the campus of University of California, San Diego.
Katherine Sweetman's works have exhibited in galleries and museums in both North America and Europe including Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE); The Voz Alta Project in San Diego; ON-OFF Artprojects in Hamburg, Germany; The San Diego Museum of Art; Ciné Lab in Athens, Georgia; Brevard Art Museum in Melborne, Florida; 3rd Ward Brooklyn in New York; Lui Velazquez in Tijuana; Telic Arts Exchange in Los Angeles; and The Getty Center in Los Angeles.
Controversial Activism
As an unpaid arts blogger for The San Diego Union Tribune, Sweetman wrote a resignation piece in the Union Tribune blog suggesting a boycott of the paper by visual artists in response to the layoff of art critic Robert Pincus. The action was widely reported by writers from news outlets, including Voice of San Diego, The LA Times, Fishbowl LA, Modern Art Notes, San Diego City Beat, Bay Area Observer, and the San Diego Reader.
Selected Film and Video Works
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*Freephone project documentation
*Lucent project documentation
Selected bibliography
*Mr. Nice Guy, Alexander Salazar may be sweet, but he's also serious about selling art, San Diego City Beat
*[http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/pickedrawpeeled.php#Katherine11/ Defying Expectations, Preview Reception and Performance, SDVAN Picked Raw Peeled]
*Bringing The Parisian Salon to San Diego, San Diego Entertainer Magazine
*[http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/pickedrawpeeled.php#Katherine11/ Conspiracy Theory, SDVAN Picked Raw Peeled]
*[http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/pickedrawpeeled.php#Katherine10/ Michele Guieu Takes Command of The Art Produce Gallery, SDVAN Picked Raw Peeled]
*All e-Communication is Miscommunication, Pros* Journal
*The Man Behind the Latino Film Festival, San Diego Entertainer Magazine
*[http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/pickedrawpeeled08_09.php#Katherine9/ Eileen Myles is a Legend, SDVAN Picked Raw Peeled]
*Local Screening of The Yes Men Fix The World, San Diego Entertainer Magazine
*[http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/pickedrawpeeled.php#Katherine8/ Tijuana/San Diego Cooperation and Confrontation at the Interface, SDVAN Picked Raw Peeled]
*X Marks the Spot, San Diego artist Doug Thompson X's greatest masterpiece just might be where he lays his head, San Diego CityBeat
*[http://www.sdcitybeat.com/sandiego/article-6709-extra_-extra_.html/ Extra! Extra!: From Hummer humping to teaching kids about world news, artist Tim Schwartz is as subversive as he is sweet, San Diego CityBeat]
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*[http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/pickedrawpeeled.php#Katherine7/ Homing In - An Exhibition of 50 San Diego Artists, SDVAN Picked Raw Peeled]
*[http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/pickedrawpeeled.php#Katherine6Gabriel Figueroa: Cinematographer, CECUT exhibition review, SDVAN Picked Raw Peeled]
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*[http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/pickedrawpeeled.php#Katherine5/ Deportation Nation: Visual Migrations, SDVAN, Picked Raw Peeled, February]
*[http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/pickedrawpeeled.php#Katherine4/ Christmas at La Casa del Tunel, SDVAN, Picked Raw Peeled]
*The Gender of Dragon, San Diego CityBeat
*[http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/pickedrawpeeled.php#Katherine4/ I Want to See You in My Clothes! Glenna Jennings and Fabian Cereijido at Lui Velazquez, SDVAN, Picked Raw Peeled]
*[http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/pickedrawpeeled08_09.php#katherine2/ Tijuana is Intense, SDVAN, Picked Raw Peeled]
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Curated Exhibitons
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*Intimate Simulations, group show, Tijuana, BC, Mexico
*The Flâneur Reconsidered, The University of Florida's Paris Research Center, Paris, France co-curated with Barbara Revelle
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*Lui Velazquez Presents Glenna Jennings and Fabian Cereijido, Lui Velazquez, Tijuana Mexico
*Lui Velazquez Presents Bob Rob Medina's Buttoning Up the Border, Lui Velazquez, Tijuana
*Co-organizer of UCSD Open Studios with Sara Hunsucker 2006 & 2007
*Living Information, Marcuse Gallery, UCSD
 
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