Seven single channel video artworks in exhibition at the Hammer Café from April 2 – 30, 2012. Curated by Elizabeth Cline, Curatorial Associate of Public Engagement. Works in the exhibition: Nothing Further Happens, At Any Given Moment, Fall 1, At Any Given Moment, Grass 1, At Any Given Moment, Grass 2, Never Happened Again, Eucalyptus, Never Happened Again, Karahnjukar, and Never Happened Again, Glaciers.

At Any Given Moment, Fall 1, single channel video projection, in exhibition in the atrium of the Japanese American Museum, Los Angeles, California, in conjunction with The Future of Water in Southern California Summit, hosted by UCLA, Luskin Center for Innovation. Curated by Teresa Lara. On view for one night only, Friday, January 27, from 5:30 to 8 pm.

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Exhibition Dates: July 15 – October 03, 2011. Curated by Jorge Contreras, Director, MACO. Opening Reception: August 05, 2011. Works in exhibition: Nothing Further Happens, 2011; Never Happened Again, Karahnjukar, 2010; “At Any Given Moment, Fall 1”::/works/show/55, 2009.

The solo exhibition consists of works from two artwork series, About to Happen, 2006 and Homeland #3, 2006. Curated by Barbara Drucker, Associate Dean, UCLA, School of Arts and Architecture.

Opening reception: March 5, 7–9:30. At Any Given Moment, Grass, a permanent video art installation by Rebeca Méndez has been acquired by Environment Furniture and is on view 16 hours a day, 7 days a week at their new showroom on Beverly Boulevard in West Los Angeles. 8126 Beverly Boulevard (Corner of Kilkea Avenue) Los Angeles, CA 90048 T 323.782.0296 F 323.782.0989. Open to the public

Solo exhibition at ANDLAB/ART, The Brewery, Los Angeles, featuring works from Méndez’s ‘Homeland 3’ and About to Happen series. Exhibition dates: October 7 – December 12, 2006.

Rebeca Méndez: Iridescent. 01.24 – 03.2004. Laguna College of Art and Design, Laguna Beach, CA. Curator, Zoran Belic.

reasonsense®: Recent Works by Rebeca Méndez 04.07 – 06.11, 1999. Gallery 1220, UCLA, AUD, Los Angeles, California. Curator: Anne Marie Burke.

Rebeca Méndez: Selections from the Permanent Collection of Architecture and Design 07.17 – 10.20, 1998. SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), San Francisco, California. Curator: Aaron Betsky.

Rebeca Méndez: Mediated Eros 04.06 – 05.02, 1997, Brandstater Gallery, La Sierra University, Riverside, California. Curator: Richard McMillan.

Rebeca Méndez in ‘So Close And Yet So Far’ group exhibition at José Drudis-Biada Gallery, Mount Saint Mary’s College, Los Angeles, California. February 7 – March 24, 2012. Public reception: Sunday 19, 3 – 5 p.m. Curated by Irina Costache. Works in the exhibition: Nothing Further Happens, 2011, Quagmire, 2011, Weatherscape 01, 2008, Weatherscape 15, 2008, and Circumpolar Map #1, 2012.

Rebeca Méndez in ‘WORLDS’, a scientists and artists group exhibition at Alyce de Roulette Williamson Gallery. Curated by Stephen Nowlin. October 14, 2011–January 15, 2012. Opening Reception: Thursday, October 13, 2011. 8:00PM, Art Center Ahmanson Auditorium: Mike Brown, astronomer, author, Killer Pluto; ‘Worlds of Fire, Worlds of Water’. 9:00PM: Wine reception, Williamson Gallery Art Center College of Design, North Hill Campus. 1700 Lida St, Pasadena, CA 91103. Work in the exhibition: Quagmire

Rebeca was invited to participate in the 17th Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition by professor and CIIPE co-director John Gravadahl. The 17th CIIPE hosted by the Department of Art in the School of the Arts at Colorado State University features works of top poster artists and designers worldwide. Now in its 32nd year, the biennial event is the only exhibition of its kind in the United States. The main exhibition will open September 16 and run through October 13 with the display divided between the Clara Hatton Gallery in the Visual Arts Building and the Curfman Gallery in the Lory Student Center. Both venues are on the main CSU campus. Rebeca’s entry Circumpolar #1 received the 1st prize.

Getting Upper Group exhibition. May 15–September 4, 2011. The exhibition shows a collection of 26 silkscreen prints of an experimental alphabet printed at Bloom Press in Oakland and will be exhibited at the Pasadena Museum of California Art Curator: Amos Klausner. The 26 artists include Lisa Anne Auerbach, Katie Hanburger, Gail Swanlund, and Michael Worthington. Méndez’s artwork for the letter ‘R’ is titled: … … R … R R, 2011. See Imprint Review

Stephen Nowlin, Director of the Alyce Williamson Gallery in Pasadena has curated two of Méndez’s video art installations — At Any Given Moment, Fall 1 and At Any Given Moment, Grass 2. Exhibition dates: October 7, 2010 through January 15, 2011.

Group Exhibition curated by Trevor Norris at Mishelle Moross Gallery (Muzeumm), Los Angeles. Artists Opening: May 15, 2010, 7 to 10 pm. Rebeca’s work in the exhibition: There Is No There, 2009; Weatherscape #15-L, 2008; and Mediated Eros: Degrees of Difference, 1996. Other artists in the exhibition: Jeff Cain, Cherie Benner Davis, Robbert Flick, Eraldo Mauro, Danny Shain, Christian Tedeschi, and Ruth Weisberg.

Curated by Edie Kahula Pereira for SHFT at The Continental Gallery. 408 S. Spring St. Downtown L.A. May 13–May 28, 2010. Opening: May 15, 6 –10 pm. Méndez’s work in the exhibition: Homeland #3, Series, 2006. Other Artists in the exhibition: Lauren Bon, Ramon Coronado, Elkpen, Balazs Gardi, Tierney Gearon, Jamie Harley, Jay Mark Johnson, Alia Malley, Yassi Mazandi, Luigia Martelloni, Andrew McConnell, Sam Moyer, Rebecca Miederlander, Jeff Nisbet, Dylan Palmer, Louie Rigano, Deb Ris, Keri Rosebraugh, Daihei Shibata, Sean Vicary, Anais Wade and Liz Young. LA Times

Rebeca’s video artwork At Any Given Moment: Rivers and Fall has been curated by Los Angeles based art critic and curator Paul Young in ARCO Madrid: 29th International Contemporary Art Fair, 2010 / Panorama: Los Angeles / Cinema LOOP. The piece is a single-channel video and will be in exhibition from February 17 – 21. Méndez is represented by LM Projects for ARCO Madrid.

Rebeca Méndez in group exhibition MELTING POINT at El Camino College Art Gallery. Exhibition Dates: November 23 – December 18. Artists Reception: Tuesday, December 1, 7–9 p.m. Curated by Susanna Meiers. Rebeca’s photographic work in the exhibition: Weatherscape #15 and Weatherscape #01, 2008. Read about the Weatherscapes series and see other photographs of the series here.

X Biennial: Parallel Exhibition: Intersections: Memory, Reality and New Eras. October 22 – December 4, 2009. Cuenca, Ecuador.

Rebeca’s video art installations in the exhibition are: At Any Given Moment, Grass and At Any Given Moment, Rivers and Fall.

At Any Given Moment, River and Fall is a video art installation consisting of three recent works from Méndez’s ongoing series At Any Given Moment. The three works on view are At Any Given Moment, River #1; At Any Given Moment, River #2; and At Any Given Moment, Fall #1. On view from June 18–July 4, 2009 at MINOTTI, 8936 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048. www.minotti-la.com.

These works explore issues of perception, specifically our relationship to technologically mediated nature. In At Any Given Moment, River and Fall, the repetitive rhythm, tight cropping, and large-scale image emphasize the work’s particular organizational logic in time and space.

Koplin Del Rio Gallery is pleased to present ‘Memory of the L.A. Billboard: Telepolis in the Archetype.’ Exhibition Dates: May 30-July 3, 2009. Reception for Artists: Saturday May 30, 6pm-8:00pm. Open to the public. Koplin Del Rio Gallery, 6031 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90232. Méndez’s work in the exhibition: There Is No There, a visual and verbal loop, structured as a triptych to emphasize the organizational logic of both the photograph and of language. The work attempts to affirm the existence of something and, at the same time, to negate its position in time and space. It focuses on issues of ambiguity and indetermination.Triptych. Each panel: 20h x 13.33w. Archival inkjet print, plexiglass, white silkscreen ink.

‘Hybrids’ is an art and dance event to benefit the Silver Lake History Collective. Silver Lake artist Peter Liashkov will be exhibiting his collaborative efforts with 12 artists from the LA area in a one day event at the Black Gate Space 1052 Manzanita Street, Los Angeles, California CA 90029 (Sunset Junction) followed by a Tango Milonga from 6-8pm. Artists in the exhibition are Oksana Badrak, Craig Havens, Richard Houston, Nancy Kyes, Peter Liashkov, Lino Martinez, Rebeca Méndez, Ramon Muñoz, Trevor Norris, Pierre Picot, Francesco Siqueiros, and Michael Walker.

Rebeca Méndez’s art work in the exhibition is Recurrence Relation #1, and two mixed media works in collaboration with artist Peter Liashkov.

Méndez in group exhibition ‘Scalable Relations’ at the Beall Center for Art and Technology, at UC Irvine. Curated by Christiane Paul, curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. ‘Scalable Relations’ is an exhibition by faculty members of the University of California Digital Arts Research Network ( UCDARnet ). The exhibition brings together works that explore digital media’s capability of representing a growing amount of data in constantly evolving relations. Addressing a range of issues—from the construction of visual worlds to self-representation and socio-cultural and political issues—the projects in ‘Scalable Relations’ illustrate the complexities and shifting contexts of today’s information society. See Project Here

Stefanie Adcock, assistant director of the UCLA ART|SCI Center at UCLA curated three installation photographs of Gestation, 1994, and The Predisposed, 1995, for the ART|SCI Center symposium and group exhibition: Body, Art and Disease November 5–8, 2008. The exhibition took place at the Bermont Gallery. Artists in the exhibition: Rebeca Méndez, Silvia Rigon, and Philip Beesley.

A video installation and two print works from my ‘Mediated Eros’ series are currently in exhibition at ‘XXX: The Power of Sex in Contemporary Design,’ at the Campbell Hall Gallery, Western Oregon University. Curated by Joshua Berger of Plazm, and Sarah Dougher. ‘XXX’ is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Sex in New York City, and based on the award-winning book of the same name. The opening reception was on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2007, and the show runs through March 13, 2007.

Rebeca Méndez in group exhibition Masters of Graphic Design: UCLA Extension Catalog Covers 1990–2007, an exhibition featuring the graphic design and illustration work of the world’s leading designers. The exhibition is presented at the Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood. Catalogue published by AIGA/UCLA. Curated by Inju Sturjeon.

Rebeca Méndez in group exhibition at Haaz Gallery in Istanbul, Turkey. Exhibition dates: 11.13.06 – 01.13.07. Opening reception 11.13.06. Artwork in exhibition: “Homeland 2”, 2006.

Rebeca Méndez in group exhibition ‘Second Natures’ at Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center, UCLA Arts, Los Angeles, California. Méndez’s list of works in exhibition: HOMELAND 2, 2006 — Homeland 2, Peace White, Homeland 2, Low Green, Homeland 2, Guarded Blue, Homeland 2, Elevated Yellow, Homeland 2, High Orange, and Homeland 2, Severe Red.

Exhibition dates: March 8 – June 25, 2006 An Exhibition of Morphosis’ Work at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France. The permanent installations I created in collaboration with Thom Mayne and Kristina Loock were included in Morphosis Retrospective Exhibition at the Pompidou Center in Paris.

Traveling group exhibition with venues in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. The jury’s selections are currently exhibited at the AIGA National Design Center in New York, December 14, 2005 – February 26, 2006. In addition, the show will travel to AIGA chapters, student groups and galleries throughout the country during 2006. http://www.aiga.org

Catalysts! The Cultural Force of Communication Design. 09.15–11.27, 2005. Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon, Portugal. Curator: Max Bruinsma, Assistant Curator: Willem van Weelden.

Belles Lettres: The Art of Typography. 10.30, 2004–04.17, 2005. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California.

The Art of Design: Selections from the SFMOMA Collection 04–09, 2004. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s architecture and design permanent collection.

Award Exhibition: 50 Books / 50 Covers by the American Institute of Graphic Arts The Strathmore Gallery at the AIGA, New York, New York.

Women Designers in The USA, 1900–2000: Diversity and Difference 11.15, 2000–02.25, 2001. The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York, New York. Curator: Pat Kirkham.

The One Show traveling group exhibition of the work selected, awarded and published by The One Club of New York’s ‘One Show,’ stopping at the Great Hall at Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto and the Advertising Museum in Tokyo. 2001–2002.