Katrina Umber
Born 1979 in Minnesota
Lives in Los Angeles, California

Education  
2010  University of California, Los Angeles, CA, MFA
2004  Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, BFA

Exhibitions
2019   Entangled Matter, GardenLA, Los Angeles
2018   Make Of It What You Will, Muzeumm, Los Angeles
2013   Cinderella Ashtray, Concord, Los Angeles, CA
2013   And, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Solo Exhibition)
2013   Out of Bounds, Samuel Zients Space, Brooklyn, NY (Two-person Exhibition)
2013   FLICKER, curated by Jan Tumlir, Control Room, Los Angeles, CA
2011   S.I.N. Strength In Numbers!, Scope Miami
2011   REFORMATION 2011: One Show Two Sites, Skowhegan, ME
2011   NEW STAND, Uturdur, Reykavik ICLD
2010   NEW STAND, Arts & Sciences PROJECTS, New York, NY
2010   Self Publish Be Happy, The Photographers’ Gallery, London UK
2010   UCLA MFA Thesis Exhibition #2, UCLA New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009   Between the Surface / Art Harvest LA, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009   MFA 2010 Exhibition, UCLA New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007   Goodness Gracious, Show Cave, Los Angeles, CA (Solo Exhibition)
2005   Kaleidoscope (new character portraits), Bent, South Pasadena, CA 
2005   If your life is a movie, What is it rated? Show Pony, Los Angeles, CA (Solo Exhibition)

Residencies
2018  The Desert House, Yucca Valley, CA
2011  Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

Awards / Honors
2011   Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Scholarship
2009   Lillian Levinson Scholarship
2009   Edward J. and Alice Mae Smith Scholarship
2009   D’Arcy Hayman Award
2008   UCLA Art Council Award, 2008-2010
2008   UCLA University Fellowship, 2008-2010
2001   Art Center College of Design Presidential Scholarship, 2001-04
1999   San Francisco Art Institute Scholarship, 1999-00

Bibliography
2019   Entangled Matter at Garden, Contemporary Art Review LA
2017   A Series of Abductions, or Motherhood As an Elsewhere Place by Stacy Elaine Dacheux
2013   5 Artsy Things To Do In LA, LA Weekly
2013   Review for Katrina Umber’s And, Fraction Magazine
2013   Big Red & Shiny Artist In Residence
2013   Locating Self: Photographer Katrina Umber, Profile including an interview and
           photographs, Fabrik Magazine Issue 20

2010   Self Publish Be Happy catalog 
2005   Open Pages, Photographs by Katrina Leigh Umber, eight pages, front and back covers,
           Look Look Magazine, Issue#4

Collections
Stewart and Lynda Resnik Collection

Curatorial
2014   Reds, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles

Artist Talks
2014   UCLA Extension, Fine Art Photography, Instructor Masood Kamandy 
2012   University of California Irvine, Advanced Photography, Instructor Shelby Roberts
2011   UCLA, Los Angeles and Photography, Instructor Kavior Moon
2010   UCLA, Advanced Photography, Instructor James Welling