About

Using film, overhead projection, photography,
video, and performance, I make textural experiences
that capture the illusive and transformative potential
of humble objects and materials. These ordinary things,
under conditions of light and shadow, produce another
world, one that illuminates the poetry of the ordinary.

Performance, projection, and screening events
have been presented at 2220 Arts and Archive,
Automata, the Echo Park Film Center,
the Museum of Jurassic Technology, the Roy
and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT),
the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the Velaslavasay
Panorama, in Los Angeles; onto and outside
of David Ireland’s 500 Capp Street house
in San Francisco; The Grocery Studios, Seattle,
and at the Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY.

Education

1975
BFA in Painting, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 

Residencies

2024
Energy Fields Foundation, Tucson, AZ
2022
Automata, Los Angeles, CA
Velaslavasay Panorama, Los Angeles, CA
2019
11 Jane Street Art Center, Saugerties, NY
2012
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
2010
CalArts / Integrated Media Residency, Santa Paula, CA

Awards

2023
Lightpress Grant, Interbay Cinema Society, Seattle, WA

Solo Events

2024
Wheary Peepers Trunk Show
Velaslavasay Panorama, Los Angeles, CA
2021
David Ireland’s Birthday with Ursula Brookbank
500 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA
2019
Jelly Jar Collapse, Echo Park Film Center North, Vancouver, BC
2018
Home-Life, Cypress College, Cypress, CA
(IS) Instereo No.4 - Occurrence, Clorfeine Studio, ­Kingston, NY
2016
David Ireland’s Birthday,
500 Capp Street San Francisco, CA
2014
CYRK, Automata, Los Angeles, CA
2013
She World Comes to Oakland, Krowswork, Oakland, CA
2012
(IS) Instereo. No.2:
An empathic exchange with Christine Alicino, 
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles CA
2011
Filmic, with Jordan Biren, PØST, Los Angeles, CA
TBA Part 6, Kristi Engle Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Filmic, with Jordan Biren, The Museum of Jurassic
Technology, Culver City, CA

Group Events and Screenings

2024
The Formless is What Keeps Bleeding,
Heavy Manners Library, Los Angeles,CA
Engauge Experiment FIlm Festival, Seattle, WA
Arbor Day Celebration, Wishwood, Seattle, WA
The Doll Party Fresh Mochi, Seattle WA

2023
Bird Show, Seward Park Audubon Center, Seattle, WA
Arbor Day Celebration, Wishwood, Seattle, WA
Double-body, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles, CA
Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Seattle WA
2022
On the Heels of a Prophet, 2220 Arts and Archive,
Los Angeles, CA
Daydream Doodle, Orcas Paley, Seattle,WA
2021
SIFF, Alt Shorts: Female (Re) Visions, Seattle, WA
Pocket Deity, Orcas Paley, Seattle,WA
CYRK, Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Seattle WA
2020
Window, Orcas Paley, Seattle,WA
(IS) Instereo - The Long Minute, Center for the
Less Good Idea, Johannesburg, RSA
(IS) Instereo - On the River’s Edge, Cinecycle, Echo Park
Film Center ( EPFC) North, Vancouver, BC
2019
She World Enumeration,
Engauge Film Festival, Seattle, WA
These Creatures, Wignall Museum,
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Shine a Light, Descanso Gardens,
La Canada Flintridge, CA
2018
(IS) INSTEREO.No.4 - EPFC, Los Angeles, CA
2017
New Works Salon, Echo Park Film Center,
Los Angeles, CA
The Readers Chorus - Museum of Jurassic Technology,
Los Angeles, CA
Elemental: Seeing the Light, Sturt Haaga Gallery,
La Canada Flintridge, CA
2016
Sleepless, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, ­Los Angeles, CA
Dear Object, Velaslavasay Panorama, Los Angeles, CA
Porch, Domestic Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Correspondence, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
Vases and Hallucinations, Right Window,
San Francisco, CA
LA Woman: On Her Own Terms and Haunted, 
Pierce College Art Gallery, Woodland Hills, CA
2014
Small New Films, REDCAT, Los Angles, CA
Fruitique, Fallen Fruit, Los Angeles, CA
New Works Salon, EPFC Los Angeles, CA
2013
Che Mondo, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA
Agency,Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Garden Party, Fellows of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles, CA
(IS) INSTEREO.3: An empathic exchange with
Christine Alicino, EPFC, Los Angeles, CA
Recipes for Living, Dinner and Laura Huxley,
951 CKR, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Fits and Starts, Agency, Los Angeles CA
The Memory Project, Center for Living Arts, Mobile AL
RETCON ((RETROACTIVECONTINUITY))), 
Parsons Hall Project Space, Holyoke, MA
Transluscent Travels, Automata, Los Angeles, CA
New Works Salon, Echo Park Film Center,
Los Angeles, CA
2011
Radical L@TE: Super-Gigantic HalfLiferS, L@TE,
BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA
Unveiled - The Splendor Trap, Craftswoman House, Pasadena, CA 
Stemma, Craftswoman House, Pasadena, CA
2010
The Mirror Made Me, DCG.BR, Krowswork,Oakland, CA
Home & Garden, Museum of Jurassic Technology,
Culver City, CA
Psychic Outlaws, Luckman Fine Arts Complex,
Los Angeles, CA
2009
HHORRRAUTICA 4: (CRYPTO), Parsons Hall
Project Space, Holyoke MA, 
Favorite This, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Cinematic Videos, Ursula Brookbank and Jordan Biren,
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
Home and Garden,
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62 Cinema, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
Death is Not the End, 31 Grand, New York, NY
Double Vision, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary,
Oakland, CA
2007
No New Tale to Tell, 31 Grand, New York, NY 
2006
Photo Miami, Fringe Exhibitions, Miami, FL
Juried Exhibition 2006, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock,
Los Angeles, CA
Inner Vision, Contemporary Quarterly Project Space, Napa, CA
2005
L.A. Arts for Katrina, Los Angeles Design Center,
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Juried Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA
2004
Trace, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Rosa, CA
2003
Female Persuasion, Catalog Project, Cherrydelosreyes Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA
1978
Ursula Brookbank and Nancy Riegelman Steps Into
Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Visiting Artist

2024
Lecturer, Velaslavasay Panorama, Los Angeles,CA
2020
Echo Park Film Center, North - Projection Workshop, 
Vancouver, BC
2016
UC Irvine - Lecturer in Photography, Irvine, CA
2014
Idyllwild Arts Academy, Idyllwild CA
2002 - 2005
The Art Center College of Design
Guest lecturer in Photography, Pasadena, CA

Employment

1979 - 2017
Freelance Creative Direction,
UB Studio for art direction and design, specializing in retail fashion.

Bibliography

Finlinson, Jade, Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, Women and Collections”, 2018
Brookbank, Ursula, “She World’, The September Issues, No.1, June 2018, www.theseptemberissues.com

Bigman, Alex, “Search and Discover Art at Krowswork”, East Bay Express, Jan. 23, 2013,
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/search-and-discover- art-at-krowswork/Content?oid=3441841

Morris, Barbara, Ursula Brookbank, Artillery Magazine, Volume 7, Issue 4, March 1, 2013

Kjeldgaard, Alison, “Ursula Brookbank’s She World”, Art Animal, Jan. 23, 2013,
http://www.artanimalmag.com/review-of-ursula-brookbank-she-world/

Gomez, Erica C., “Ursula Brookbank: She World”, Art Practical, Jan 04 -  Feb 09, 2013,
http://www.artpractical.com/shotgun_review/ursula_brookbank_she_world/

Burns, Torsten Zenas, “Parsons Hall Project Space 2011 Exhibition Catalog 2”, SLVR.HNDS, 
Ursula Brookbank and Jordan Biren, pg. 115

Brookbank, Ursula; Burgoyne, Bette, “VOX, Unveiled”, Craftswoman House Zine

Fallah, Amir H., “Ursula Brookbank’s Lady Studio”, Beautiful Decay, Oct. 17, 2011,
z http://beautifuldecay.com/2011/10/17/ursula-brookbank/

Burns, Torsten Zenas, “Parsons Hall Project Space 2008-2010 Exhibition Catalog 1”, DCG.BR,
Ursula Brookbank, pgs. 26,27,37,40,60,65

Biren, Jordan, “1 Image 1 Minute”, and Cover Image, X-TRA, Volume 11, No. 2, Winter 2008, pg. 65,
http://x-traonline.org/issues/volume-11/number-2/1-image-1-minute/2/

Buckwalter, Timothy B., “Dynamic Duos”, East Bay Monthly, Volume 38, No. 6, March 2008

Ursula Brookbank 310.866.0218 ursula.brookbank@gmail.com