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;
and at the Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY.

Ursula Brookbank 310.866.0218 ursula.brookbank@gmail.com

Education

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

Awards

2024
Artist in Residence, Energy Fields Foundation, Tucson, AZ
2023
Lightpress Grant, Interlay Cinema Society, Seattle, WA
2022
Artist in Residence, Automata, Los Angeles, CA
Artist in Residence, Velaslavasay Panorama, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Artist in Residence, 11 Jane Street Art Center, Saugerties, NY
2012
Artist In Residence, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
2010
CalArts / Integrated Media Residency, Santa Paula, CA

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, W
Arbor Day Celebration, Wishwood, 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 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 - Echo Park Film Center, 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
New Works Salon Echo Park Film Center, 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, Echo Park Film Center, 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, Echo Park Film Center, 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: An Evening of Slide Show Travelogues, 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, Benefit Auction, Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Juried Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Open Call, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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

2020
Echo Park Film Center, North - Overhead projection Worksho,  Vancouver, BC
2016
UC Irvine - Lecturer in Photography, Irvine, CA
2014
Idyllwild Arts Academy, Idyllwild CA
2002 - 2005
The Art Center College of Design - 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