Brandon Gonzalez Curriculum Vitae Interdisciplinary Artist and Teacher Website: Somaticart.com Email: Brandon@somaticart.com EDUCATION University of California at Davis, MFA in Interdisciplinary Dramatic Arts (focuses in Choreography, Performance, and Visual Art) 500-hour Massage Therapy Licensing Program, Lauterstein-Conway School of Massage, Austin, TX 2006 The Yoga Intensive and Teacher Training, Kalani Honua Institute, Pahoa, Hawaii 2005 Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, BFA in Studio Art (Sculpture) EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCE SUNDAY RUN_UP, group show in Stockholm, Sweden Vibrant Matter, performance-installation at University of California, Davis Softening/Encounters, performance at Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, TX Subject to Change, group show at Beatnik Studios. Sacramento, CA Alumni Invitational, Texas State University Galleries, San Marcos, TX 2014 Radiata Machine, Basement Gallery, University of California Davis Implicit Fragments, Basement Gallery, University of California Davis Somatic Paintings, group show at Pine St. Station Austin, TX Space Between #4, Institute of Theater, Dance, and Performance, Davis, CA Space Between #3 Performance Studies Symposium, Davis, CA Space Between #5, Northern California Performance Platform and Performance, San Francisco Art Institute, CA Made in Austin, collaboration with Nicole Roerick, group show in Austin, TX
Transmigrations, group show at Salvage Vangaurd, Austin, TX A General Theory of Love, collaboration with Mike O Connor, WUK in Vienna, Austria A General Theory of Love, collaboration with Mike O Connor, OHO Tanzfestival, Oberwart, Austria Medicine Show, group show at Butterfly Bar, Austin, TX Space Between #2, selected for Texas Dance Improvisation Festival, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 2010 Space Between #1, selected for Texas Dance Improvisation Festival, Texas Women University, Denton, TX 2009 Vedanā, solo show at BIRDHOUSE Gallery, Austin, TX Mammal, collaboration with Lauren Tietz, selected for Texas Dance Improvisation Festival, Northwestern College San Antonio, TX 2008 Not Until Now, Rio de Janeiro Film Festival, Brazil Merge, group show at Fusebox Festival, Austin, TX 2007 New Paintings, solo show at Gallery 1724, Houston, TX Mountain Piano, solo performance at Breitenbush Hot Springs, OR 2006 Life Stories, selected at The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX Black and White Show, group show at Red 10 Studios, San Marcos, TX Represented by Eyes of Texas Gallery, San Marcos, TX Annual exhibition, Kalani Honua Institute, Pahoa, HI, 2006 Group show at American Youthworks, Austin, Texas, 2006 Life Stories, Young Latino Artists Exhibition, selected at Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX Handsome Fur Bearing Animals, selected for group show (Curated by Art Guys), San Marcos, TX Handsome Fur Bearing Animals, selected for group show (Curated by Art Guys), Austin, TX 2005 Fabric Studies, Thesis Exhibition, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX Sphere, exhibited at Texas State Art and Design building, San Marcos, TX
2004 CARTS Transit System: Artworks 2004 (curated by Garey Sweeney), selected artist Society of North American Goldsmiths: Annual Juried Student Exhibition, The California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2002 Digital Art Showcase, selected artist at Austin Museum of Digital Art, Austin, Texas COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS The Walking Pieces, collaboration with Mira Mutka, University of Dance And Circus, Stockholm, Sweden Dialogue, collaboration with Nadja Pärssinen, Theatre Academy Helsinki, Finland Cracks Are Where The Light Gets In, FemArt Festival, Pristina, Kosovo Cracks Are Where The Light Gets In, Müszi Budapest, Hungary Serendipity, Pop-Up Performance, Ferry Building, directed by Deirdre Morris and Iu-Hui Chua. San Francisco, CA Dance that Documents itself, directed by Jess Curtis and performed at the ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA Glitch-Body and Nanostalgia directed by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Davis, California 2014 Urban Feral, mixed ability dance performance directed by Nita Little, PhD, Avignon OFF Festival in Avignon, France Project Barca, directed Henry Daniel Ph.D., University of California Davis, CA Eyes of Horus, site specific performance directed by Sara Shelton Mann, San Francisco, CA Improvisations, Breitenbush Hot Springs, OR Death Star Migration, directed by Deirdre Morris at University of California in Davis, CA Body Shift, directed by Julie Nathanielsz with Fork Lift. Austin, TX Pick-Up, directed by Karen Nelson, Clearspring Studio, Austin, TX 2009 And Go!, directed by Nina Martin,Texas Dance Improvisation Festival, Texas Women s University
A Closet full of Pictures, directed by Mary O Donnell (Fulkerson) at Ballet Austin Theater Bodies in Urban Spaces, directed by Willie Dorner, Fuzebox Festival, Austin, TX 2002-2003 Video and Projections for musical group Alpha Rhythm, performed live shows at the Mercury Lounge, Eeyor s Birthday Festival, and SXSW Music Festival PUBLICATIONS Vedena. CQ magazine. Vol. 36 No.1, Annual. Print. (Published prints in article and as cover image) ACADEMIC TEACHING - Associate Instructor at University of California Davis 2009- Guest Faculty, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX Artist Faculty, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ Guest Instructor at University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX FURTHER TEACHING AND WORKSHOPS Spectrums of Contact, Helsinki, Finland Fields of Inquiry, Stockholm, Sweden 2014- Assistant Teacher with Nita Little Ph.D., ImPulsTanz (Vienna International Dance Festival) Body Awareness and Focusing, online class, Technologies of Love, workshop in Munich, Germany 2010- Giddy-Up, on-going class and lab Austin, TX
Vedana: Image-Making, Somatic Drawings and CI, Sierraville, CA Unveiling the Beautiful Beast, Austin,TX 2010 Making Contact, workshop at Art Outside Movement Consultant for Rude Mechanicals (Theater Company), Austin, TX 2007 Art Teacher in an afterschool youth program, Austin, TX Art Teacher, home classes for youth, Austin, TX CONFERENCES, PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE, AND SERVICE POSTDANCE Conference, Stockholm, Sweden International Documentation of Contemporary Dance Education (IDOCDE), online networks and conference in Vienna, Austria Meta-Academy an online lab investigating the potential of networked environments for performance and collaborative knowledge production Nita Little Research Lab, San Francisco, CA (-) Member of eight-person committee to produce annual Texas Dance Improvisation Festival at universities in Texas (-) CI Ground Research, Yuba River, CA Crazywood Spring Dance Retreat, produced movement arts festival in Huntsville, TX Crazywood Fall Dance Retreat, produced movement arts festival in Huntsville, TX 2007-2008 Art Handler at Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas AWARDS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2016 Studio Art Grant awarded by The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Stockholm, Sweden 2014
Margrit Mondavi Graduate Fellowship sponsored by the UC Davis Humanities Institute, for artistic research and the creation of a mixed ability dance performance in Avignon, France Graduate Fellowship, University of California in Davis, Department of Dance and Theatre, Davis, CA 2006 Texas Commission on the Arts and Cultural Arts Division, Life Stories, Austin, TX 2005 Texas Commission on the Arts and Cultural Arts Division, Life Stories, Austin, TX Achievement Award for Life Stories from Region XIII Education Service Center Service Learning Austin, TX RESIDENCIES ATTENDED 2016 Residency in Stockholm, Sweden, supported by grant from The Swedish Arts Grants Committee (to be completed in Spring 2016) Settlement VII a collaborative residency at A.PASS, Brussels, Belgium Residency at Penasco Theater, Penasco, New Mexico Selected artist in collaboration for Crazywood Artist Residency Program, Huntsville, TX Semester residency as Artist Faculty at Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ REFERENCES Darrin Martin, Associate Professor of Art University of California Davis 530-754-2594 dtmartin@ucdavis.edu Timothy Hyde, Assistant Professor of Art University of California Davis 530-754-2701 thyde@ucdavis.edu Peter Lichtenfels, Professor of Theater and Dance University of California Davis 530-752-2478
plichtenfels@ucdavis.edu ADDITIONAL REFERENCE Philipp Gehmacher Mumbling Fish (Vienna) studio@philippgehmacher.net http://www.philippgehmacher.net/