return to Home Page

CORINA GAMMA

Born and raised in Switzerland

Lives and works in Los Angeles

Teaches fine art photography at Long Beach City College


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2008    (un) Restricted Pleasures, D.E.N. CONTEMPORARY, Culver City, CA

2003    Memories, APERTURA Gallery, Switzerland 

2000    Dwelling, ASU MUSEUM, Experimental Gallery, Tempe, AZ

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010    A State of Mind: A California Invitational, Museum of Photographic Art, San Diego CA

2009    Connections, OVERTONES GALLERY, Los Angeles, CA

2008    The Photo Review - Best of Show, UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, Philadelphia, PA, Winners of the 2008 Photo Review International Photography Competition

2008    Hollywould, LA FREEWAVES, 11th Experimental Media Arts Festival, Los Angeles, CA

2008    The American Lifescape, DBA GALLERY, Pomona, CA

2008    World One Minutes, Video Festival [California Selection], TODAY ART MUSEUM, Beijing, China

2006    Three Rituals, three-artists collaboration, SCA GALLERY, POMONA, CA

2006    Land in Translation, exhibit curated by Peter Frank, RIVERSIDE ART MUSEUM, CA

2006    The Unseen World, ECHO PARK FILM CENTER, Los Angeles, CA

2005    Off The Map, installation with 43 artists in my HOME in Los Angeles, CA

2004    Snow Dwellings, ONE MINUTE FILM FEST, Aarau, Switzerland

2003    Lyoba, video screening, C-LEVEL (Karaoke), LA FREEWAVES, 6th Experimental Media Arts Festival Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA

2002    Photomorphosis, FOTOTEKA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2002    Find Your Way Home, VAN NESS HOUSE, Visual Art/ Poetry Exhibition, Hollywood, CA

2002    Democracy When? Video screening, Everyday Acts of Resistance, L.A.C.E., Hollywood, CA

2002    Everyday Acts of Resistance, collaboration one other artist and women living in downtown, 4th STREET GALLERY & KINROSS GALLERY at UCLA, CA

2001    Violate Nature: An interventions within the Desert Landscape, Morongo Valley, CA

1999    Decoding Olivia Crimson, limited edition prints, Danioth-Ring Art Foundation, Switzerland

 

 

EDUCATION

            Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, [MFA] Fine Art, 1998

            University of California, Riverside, CA, [BA] Fine Art, 1996

            Kunstgewerbeschule [School for the Arts], ZŸrich, Switzerland

            ƒcole des Beaux-Arts [School Fine Arts], Lausanne, Switzerland

 

 

AWARDS

                       

            Durfee Foundation, Santa Monica, California: Artist Completion Grant, 2000
        

PUBLICATIONS & REVIEWS

 

            - Honorable Mention, PHOTO REVIEW, 2008 Photo Review Competition, Vol 28 N.4

            - An Eerie Take on Leisure, by Catherine G. Wagley, ARTSLANT, 02/03/2008

            - Continuing and Recommended, ARTSCENE, February 2008

            - On View, by Peter Frank, PHOTOGRAPH, New York, July/August 2006

            - Organic Matters, by Peter Frank, LA WEEKLY, 02/20/2008


 

ARTIST RECIDENCIES

 

2009   

GREENLAND A one-month artist residency as photographer and videographer on a ship.


1999 - 2005    

DOWNTOWN WOMENÕS CENTER (DWC), A shelter for homeless women in downtown Los Angeles. The residency involved art-workshops and photo projects with women visiting the shelter. Out of the residency developed the 50-minute documentary, Ties on a Fence: Women in Downtown Los Angeles Speak Out       

 


 

DOCUMENTARY PROJECT

Ties on a Fence: Women in Downtown Los Angeles Speak Out

50 - minute Film Documentary

first cut 2004 / final cut 2006

Director / Producer: Corina Gamma

Co-Producer: Gizi Weibel

 

SCREENINGS OF TIES ON A FENCE

 

Huntington Library, Pasadena, (2009)


The "Other Venice Film Festival", Venice, CA (2006)


California State University Fullerton, (2006)


Scripps College, Claremont, California (2006


Docufest, Atlanta Underground FIlm Festival, 2006

MiniDV Film Festival, Los Angeles California(2005)

Women's Conference, Scripps College, Claremont, California (2005)


Human Rights Film Festival, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, California (2005)


California State University, Long Beach (2005)


Santa Clarita Film Festival, Santa Clarita, California (2005)


Gallery 825, Los Angeles, California (2005)


"Not a Cornfield", Los Angeles, California(2005)


Midnight Bookstore, Santa Monica, California (2004) 


Swiss-American Film Festival, New York (2004)


Detroit Docs Film Festival, Detroit, Michigan (2004)


Black Earth Film Festival, Galesburg, Illinois (2004)


Berkeley Film Festival, Berkeley California (2004)

 

AWARDS
                    
Best Documentary, Santa Clarita Film Festival, 2005
Best Documentary, Black Earth Film Festival in Galesburg Illinois 2004