BIOGRAPHY
Gabie Strong is an interdisciplinary artist working in a post-studio practice, exploring spatial constructions of drone and decay as a means to improvise new arrangements of self-reflexive meaning.

She works with images and sounds to explore related adjacencies that shape the present.

Strong teaches undergraduate and graduate level art, including foundations, photography, new genres, radio broadcasting, and sound art, with an emphasis on embodied placemaking and critical community art strategies. Strong additionally works as a community arts organizer creating accessible spaces for community radio broadcasts, festivals and exhibitions.

She is the founder of Crystalline Morphologies community imprint dedicated to releasing unclassifiable and improvised recorded work by underrepresented Los Angeles women, trans and gender non-conforming artists whose contributions are often overlooked in the context of avant-garde music and art. She co-lead KCHUNG Radio from 2011-2019 to promote community accessible radio broadcasting, participated in the notorious 90's Silverlake pirate radio station KBLT, and was an original organizer of riot grrrl LA from 1992-1994.

Her work has been presented by EPOCH Gallery, The Tapeworm, LAMOA DS#3 at Commonwealth & Council, LAND AND SEA OAKLAND+BAMPFA, The UCLA Hammer Museum, MOCA, Current LA, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts, Knowledges at Mount Wilson Observatory, Sierra Nevada College, Pitzer College Art Galleries, University Art Gallery UC Irvine, LAXArt, Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair, Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Human Resources LA, SASSAS, LACE, High Desert Test Sites, LACMA, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, and Jabberjaw.

She has collaborated with artists and collectives including Sameer Farooq, Pamela Jorden, strom |morts, Drøne, Pauline Lay, Michael Morley (Gate, The Dead C., The Never Quartet), Christopher Reid Martin (Shelter Death, Rotary ECT,), John Pearson, Joe Potts/LAFMS, Joseph Hammer, Anna Homler, Jorge Martin, Liz Harris/Nivhek, Ted Byrnes, Raquel Gutiérrez, Tom Watson, Jared Stanley and Matthew Hebert, Save Music in Chinatown, dublab and SASSAS.

Strong is currently the Studio Core Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Art, School of Art + Design, University of Oregon.

Gabie Strong CV - Updated Fall 2024

EDUCATION

2008 M.F.A., Studio Art, Department of Art, University of California, Irvine

2006 M. Arch, Southern California Institute of Architecture

1993 B.A., Art, Department of Art, University of California, Los Angeles

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2023 – Core Studio Foundations Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Art, School of Art + Design, University of Oregon

2017 – 2023 Faculty, MFA Interdisciplinary Arts, University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe

2015 – 2023 Senior Lecturer, Otis College of Art and Design

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017
Given, LAMOA DS#3 Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles

Overhead, A Raven, Garage Door Gallery, Sierra Nevada College

2012
My War, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro

2011
The Exegesis of Entropy, Autonomie, Los Angeles

SELECT SOLO SOUND PERFORMANCES

2023
Lines of Flight, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand

Soup & Tart, Active Cultures, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

2022
Discordance at the Creative Music Guild, Leaven Community, Portland

2019
sound. at the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook: 20th Anniversary Corpse, Los Angeles

The Eternal Chord featuring Gabie Strong: Desert Daze, Lake Perris

Handbag Factory 8th Anniversary of Noise, Los Angeles

2018
Ende Tymes, Festival of Noise and Experimental Liberation, Brooklyn

Full Tones, LAND AND SEA OAKLAND at The Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley

2016
The Refrain is a Prism, In Real-Life, 100 Days of Film and Performance. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

BOXStock, The Box Gallery, Los Angeles

2015
Volume, Los Angeles

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

SONIC COLLABORATIONS

2023 CGRSM: ReSound, Mare Island, CA

2022 Renée Petropoulos: Analog Among Nations/WB: Sewing Circle. Now We’re Here (This is Not America’s Flag), The Broad and Wende Museum, Los Angeles

2021 Sameer Farooq: A Heap of Random Sweepings. Koffler Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Pamela Jorden: Forest, RomerYoung Gallery, San Francisco

2019 CGRSM: Michael Morley, Music for the Never Quartet, Human Resources, Los Angeles

2018 CGRSM: Christopher Robin Duncan, Drone for 12 Symbols, Human Resources, Los Angeles

2017 Gabie Strong & Raquel Gutiérrez duo: Laconic Economies, A Triptych for Xenolalia, curated by Ron Athey. The Broad, Los Angeles

2016 Renée Petropoulos: Cheek By Jowl, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles

Michael Morley: Gate, S1, Portland

Matt Wardell: “Music for Healing” (or what you need). “EYE-DEE-QUE” (Something Like an Asclepeion), Baik Art, Los Angeles

2015 Kathleen Johnson: Brainchild, High Desert Test Sites, Mars Desert Research Station

2012 Dawn Kasper: THIS COULD BE SOMETHING IF I LET IT. Whitney Biennial 2012, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2011 Raquel Gutiérrez: Material Utterances, Human Resources, Los Angeles

OMAYUMI, Alan Nakagawa, Steve Irvin: Flat Red, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles

Telethon Returns Revisited (directed by Joe Potts/LAFMS), Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles

2008 Boadrum 88, La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, CA

2000 Gabie Strong, David Patton, Ron Russell, Joe Potts, Joseph Hammer: space, climate, light, mood, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles

1999 Gabie Strong, Joe Potts, Francis Stark: angels gate 8.16.99 dusk: installations + trios pulled from a hat, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025
Visiting Faculty Exhibition, Center for Art Research, University of Oregon, Eugene

2022
UnCivil War, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles

2021
Substrata, EPOCH + LAMOA, https://epoch.gallery/substrata/

2015
Khal: A Project by Helga Fassonaki, Nga Taonga Sound & Vision. Audio Foundation Gallery, Auckland, NZ

2013
Contested Destinations, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena

2012
KNOWLEDGES at Mount Wilson Observatory, Angeles National Forest

Summercamp’s ProjectProject @ Side Street Projects, Pasadena

2010
Amy and Wendy Yao’s Art Swap Meet, High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree

Capitalism in Question (Because It Is), (Curated by Ciara Ennis and Daniel Joseph Martinez). Pitzer Art Gallery, Pitzer College, Claremont

2008
Wreckers, Records, Redeemers, LAXArt, Los Angeles

2006
Video Nightmare, Raid Projects, Los Angeles

2004
Imagination and Reality: First Beijing Dashanzi International Art Festival, (Curated by Huang Rui and Tatehata Akira), Beijing

2001
Three Day Weekend, (Curated by Dave Muller), Mad Art Gallery, Saint Louis

1998
Anwander, Bazaar de Cologne, Cologne, Germany

KCHUNG RADIO COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

2020
KCHUNG Radio Creative Capital Project “NewsBody”

2016
KCHUNG Radio at Printed Matter Los Angeles Art Book Fair, MoCA Geffen, Los Angeles

KCHUNG Radio Current LA: KPARK, Angels Gate Art Center, San Pedro

2015
KCHUNG Radio at Printed Matter Los Angeles Art Book Fair, MoCA Geffen, Los Angeles

KCHUNG Radio, High Desert Test Sites, and Machine Project: Off-Road Expo, El Mirage

2014
KCHUNG TV, Made in L.A. 2014, UCLA Hammer Museum

2013 KCHUNG Radio, Public Engagement Artist In Residence, UCLA Hammer Museum

COMMISSIONED PUBLIC ART PROJECTS

2013
Art on Site for the Deer Creek Tribute Trail, Nevada City

2012
KNOWLEDGES at Mount Wilson Observatory, Los Angeles

2011
Blast Site: A Monument For Future Failures. High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree

Untitled score for Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook, Oct. 16, 2011. "sound." commission, SASSAS, Los Angeles

2010
Mapping the Desert/Deserting the Map: Dry Immersion 3 (organized by UCIRA/UCR Sweeney Art Gallery), Twentynine Palms

COMMUNITY ART + ORGANIZING + PROGRAMMING

2022 “Touch.40: Forty years of Touch” festival, 2220 Arts+Archives, Los Angeles

2018 - Zone Mapping, dublab

2016 - Crystalline Morphologies micropublishing imprint

2011 - 2020 Organizer and CEO, KCHUNG Radio

2016 - 2017 Programming Advisor, KNOWLEDGES at Mount Wilson Observatory 2017

2008 - 2010 Board of Directors, SASSAS - Society for the Activation of Social Space Through Art and Sound

AWARDS

2019
Disability Futures Fellowship Nominee

2017
Women’s Center for Creative Work Health Grant

2016
Creative Capital Award - KCHUNG Radio

Rema Hort Foundation Nominee

2013
Sierra Fund - Art on Site Artist Award

2011
CCI Artist Resource Completion Grant

2010
UCIRA/UCR Sweeney Art Gallery Collaborative Research Grant

2008
UC Irvine Medici Circle Scholarship

2006-2008
UC Irvine Department of Studio Art, Graduate Student Scholarship

UC Irvine Graduate Student Research and Travel Grant

UC Irvine Resident of California Fees Fellowship

UC Irvine Graduate Teaching Assistant Fellowship

DISCOGRAPHY

Gabie Strong, “Wilding Sun.” © 2021 Dragon’s Eye Recordings. Digital album.

strom|morts + gabie strong, R10-Android Paramour Poetry. © 2021 strom|morts. Digital track.

Gabie Strong, “my body did this to me” © 2020 Tapeworm. Cassette and digital album.

Gabie Strong + Pauline Lay, “Other Day.” Johanna Hedva: Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain. © 2020 Sming Sming. Audiobook.

Gabie Strong, “Armour.” Helga Fassonaki: Khal. © 2020 Drawing Room Records + Sming Sming Books.

V/A, “Building A Better Reality : A Benefit Compilation.” ©2020 JMY. Digital album.

Drøne, “The Stilling.” © 2020 Pomperipossa Records. 12” Vinyl LP and digital album.

Nivhek, “After its own death/Walking in a spiral towards the house.” © 2019 Nivhek/Superior Viaduct. 12” Vinyl LP and digital album.

Gabie Strong, “Incantations Vol. 1” © 2018 Crystalline Morphologies. Cassette and digital album.

Gabie Strong, “Sacred Datura/Peaked Experiences,” © 2016 Crystalline Morphologies. 12” vinyl LP, cassette, and digital album.

Gabie Strong, “Spectress,” © 2016 Crystalline Morphologies. 12” vinyl LP and digital album.

Various artists, soundCD no.1: Live recordings of experimental improvisations organized as a part of sound., ©2002 soundNet recordings/SASSAS. Compact disc.

Tom Watson, Country and Watson. With Erik Bluhm, Brian Christopher, Lynn Johnston, Bob Mothersbaugh, Stephen Prina, Gabie Strong, Mayo Thompson and Diana Watson. ©1999 by Leiterwagen Records, ©2002 Theologian Records. Compact disc.

Ron Russell, David Patton, and Gabie Strong, PS001 Ron Russell, David Patton, Gabie Strong. ©1999 Pacific Standard Recordings.

Ajay Dhaka, Tanya Samazan and Gabie Strong, Canopy/SeeSaw, with Joey Morris and Richard Medina. ©1993 Canopy/SeeSaw. Sour Power Records. 7” vinyl record.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Art Newspaper’s XR Panel. "Memories of Myst: Substrata, a new artist-run virtual exhibition, is like entering a magical afterlife." The Art Newspaper, March 12, 2021.

Osberg, Annabel. "Spelunking Through “Substrata” at EPOCH Gallery." AEQAI. February 20th, 2021.

Rose, Brad. “Inside and Within: An Interview With Gabie Strong.” Foxy Digitalis, December 2, 2021.

Moser, Gabrielle. “Sameer Farooq, Koffler Gallery.” Artforum, May 2021, Vol. 59, No.9.

Coley, Byron. “Size Matters,” Soundcheck. The Wire Magazine. No. 425. July, 2019.

Clother, Cate. “Morphology: An interview with interdisciplinary artist Gabie Strong,” Cordella Magazine. Issue 11: Re/cast. March, 2019.

Harvey, Doug. “Under the Radar: What’s Making What Noise,” Artillery Magazine. Volume 11, Issue 2, November - December 2016. p. 22.

The People Radio, Episode 36 Gabie Strong & Micheal Morley. February 20. 2016.

Kio, Griffith. "Fresh Faces in Art: Gabie Strong." Fabrik. Issue 32, 2016.

Lawson, Thomas. “Open City: Thomas Lawson on Made in L.A. 2014.” Artforum. October, 2014.

Diehl, Travis. “Networked Television.” Artforum.com. August 02, 2014.

McDonnell, Evelyn. “San Pedro: A Different Kind of Burgeoning Art Scene.” LA Weekly. January 9, 2014.

Puusemp, Kiersten. “Gabie Strong,” The Benefit of Friends Collected, A Journal of Artist-on-Artist Critical Writing, Jesse Benson, publisher. 2013

Hebdige, Dick. “The Desert Studies Project: More From Less Than Zero.” Arid: A Journal of Desert Art, Design and Ecology. Fall 2012, Volume 1 Issue 1.

Perel, Marissa. “Gimme Shelter | Anti-Establishment in the Establishment: Dawn Kasper at the Whitney Biennial, Part 1.” May 18, 2012. Art21 Magazine.

Bakhle-Ellis, Aparna. “Cosmic Knowledges: Site-Specific Art at Mount Wilson Observatory,” Fabrik, issue #17, (Summer 2012): pp. 76-85.

“Art: Gabie Strong’s ‘My War’: An installation in San Pedro looking at the military's influence in Southern California.” LA Times. March 15, 2012.

Schmidt, Heinrich. “Dawn Kasper: Performance at Whitney Biennial 2012,” Vernissage TV, March 16, 2012.

Yablonsky, Linda. “Different Strokes, New York,” Artforum Diary, 03.03.12.

Keller, Caitlin. “Survival cooking demo at High Desert Test Sites workshop,” LA Times Daily Dish. September 9, 2011.

Crain, Mary Beth. "Sound Is Everything," L.A. Weekly. Oct. 13-20, 2011.

Stanley, Jared. “Strong Discolored Blast – An Emblem,” ONandOnScreen, Winter 2012.

UCR Sweeney Art Gallery Podcast Vol. 4 : Issue 5.6 “Dry Immersion 3,” April 1, 2010.

Davis, Lisa Selin. “Desert Beauty,” BlouinARTINFO, March 10, 2010.

Ennis, Ciara and Daniel Joseph Martinez, editors. Capitalism in Question (Because It Is), Claremont: Pitzer Art Galleries, Pitzer College, 2010. Catalog to exhibition.

Carson, Juli, “Remembering Site,” Wreckers, Records, Redeemers. Irvine: Department of Studio Art, UC Irvine, 2008. Catalog to exhibition.

Rui, Huang, editor. Beijing 798: Reflections on Art, Architecture and Society in China. Beijing: Timezone 8, 2005.

PUBLISHED WRITING

Strong, Gabie. “Greg Wilken: Stains,” The Benefit of Friends Collected, A Journal of Artist-on-Artist Critical Writing, Jesse Benson, publisher. 2013.

Strong, Gabie and Danielle McCullough. Blast Site: A Field Guide to Future Failures. Self published artist chapbook, 2011.

Strong, Gabie. Kara Walker,” This Is Not To Be Looked At: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of MOCA, Los Angeles. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2010. Ann Goldstein, editor.

Strong, Gabie. “Dirty Work, Land Art of the West,” Great God Pan, The Journal of Californiana, #13 (1999): pp. 22-23.

Strong, Gabie. Editor. The Kitten Kore fanzine. 1990-1995.

LECTURES + WORKSHOPS

2022
MFA Interdisciplinary Arts, University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe

2019
USC Roski School of Art and Design

2017
Sierra Nevada College

2016
Sound Lab, Art Center College of Design

2015
Noise & The Possibility for A Future, Goethe Institute, Los Angeles

2013
Women’s Studies, Loyola Marymount University

2012
Otis College of Art and Design

Cal State Fullerton

Arizona State University

Southern Methodist University

2010 Center for Integrated Media, California Institute of the Arts

RELATED EXPERIENCE

2016 Los Angeles Artist Liaison, ABSOLUT ART

2006 - 2008 Curatorial Assistant, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

2005 - 2008 Graphic Designer, Doug Aitken Workshop