JOHN ROLOFF
lives and works in Oakland, CA
Environmental Installations/Commissions:
2006 Oakland Estuary
Channel Project, with Lewis deSoto and Sasaki & Associates,
Oakland, CA
2006 The Seventh Climate (Paradise Reconsidered), I-5 Colonnade Project,
Pro Parks Levy, Seattle, WA.
2005 Protogaea Civica (Geology Flags: Franciscan Formation/San Francisco,
CA II), San Francisco Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
2005 Valley Scan, San Fernando Valley Metro Rapid Transitway Project, Los
Angeles, CA.
2004 Pure Mix, The Snow Show, Kemi, Finland (collaboration with Diller +
Scofidio).
2002 Stratigraphic Column I, 101 California Street, San Francisco,
CA.
2001-6 Site Index, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
2000 Wrangelia I & II, proposal drawings, commissioned by the Henry Gallery,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
2000-5 The Middle of the World, Staten Island Ferries, New Kennedy Class,
NYC, NY (with Werner Klotz).
1999 Eocene/Pliocene,
Paradise Wood Sculpture Grove, Santa Rosa, CA
1996 Pitzer Project: A Prototype System for the Production and Redistribution
of Ancient Sunlight, Pitzer College, Claremont Colleges, Claremont, Ca
1996 Compost Project, ALTER Project, Slippery Rock College, Slippery
Rock, PA
1993 Deep Gradient/Suspect Terrain (Seasons of the Sea ‘Adrift’),
Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA
1993 Fragment: The Hidden Sea (Island of Refuge), Stanford University,
Stanford, CA
1992 Metabolism and Mortality/O2,
Tyler School Of Art, Elkins Park, PA
1989 Humboldt Ship, CSU Humboldt, Arcata, CA
1989 Vanishing Ship (Third State), Djerassi Foundation, Woodside,
CA
1988 Oculus: Dead Sea/Oil Field, Arvada Art Center, Arvada, CO
1988 Oculus: Emerson/Beebe, The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural
History, "Eco-Systems," Santa Barbara Contemporary
Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
1988 Untitled (Earth Orchid), Hartford School Of Art, Hartford, CT
1988 Isla De Umunnum (Island of the Hummingbirds), Elkhorn Slough
Estuarine Reserve, Moss Landing, CA
1987 Talking Tree, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV
1986 Winter Stream/Drifting Rowboat (Overturned), San Francisco, CA
1986 Ancient Valley (Sea Floor), Swanston Light Rail Station, Sacramento,
CA
1985 Ancient Shoreline: Island for Lake Lahontan, University of Nevada,
Reno, Reno, NV
1984 Wave Ship (of Fire)/Ice Ship (of Glass), Detroit, MI
1984 Collision: Lava Ship/Trellis Ship, San Rafael, CA
1982 Mountain Kiln/Black Orchid, Oakland, CA
1981 Wave Kiln 1 and 2, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1980 Prairie Starfish/Glacial Epoch, Craven, Saskatchewan, Canada
1980 Land Monitor/Fired Volcanic Boulder, Albuquerque, NM
1979 Fired and Glazed Earth Piece, University of Notre Dame, South Bend,
IN.
One Person Exhibitions (Selected):
2006 Thermodynamics
of Silence/New Work, Gallery Paule Anglim,
San Francisco, CA
2002 Holocene Passage, “Intervening the Space, “Archivio
Emily Harvey, “NEXT,” Venice Architectural Biennale, Venice,
Italy.
2001
Original Depositional Environment,
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2000 John Roloff:
Displacements, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI (brochure)
1999 Morphology of Change, Lance Fung Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Terrain into Architecture: Projection and Displacement, Maryland
Institute of Art, Baltimore,MD
1998 The Rising Sea, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida
(brochure)
1998 Dialogues with Nature, Lance Fung Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Agricola: Four Works 1994-97, Hartnell College, Salinas, CA
1996 Gallerie Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1996 Manchester CG, Pittsburgh, PA
1992 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1989 Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1988 Hartford School Of Art, Hartford CT
1987 Matrix Exhibition, University Art Museum, UC Berkeley, Berkeley,
CA (brochure)
1985 University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV
1984 Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1982 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1981 Theo Portnoy Gallery, New York, NY
1981 Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1980 Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1979 Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibitions
(Selected):
2006 Force
of Nature: 1906 Earthquake Centennial Exhibition,
Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, CA
2005 High 5, site works, International Center for the Arts, SFSU, San Francisco,
CA
2005
Technological Sublime, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, curated by
Lisa Tamaris-Becker
2004 Material Matters, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2004 Monument Recall: Public Memory and Public Spaces, Camera Work, San Francisco,
CA, curated by Paule Levine (catalog).
2004 Process, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY, curated by Chandra Cerrito
(catalog).
2004
Site Index: Rebecca Krinke/John Roloff, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
MN
2004 Topographies, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (catalog).
2004 The Snow Show, Kemi, Finland. (catalog, book)
2003 The Snow Show :New York, Scandinavia House, New York, NY.
2003 The Snow Show: Venice, Palazzo Zorzi, Venice Art Biennale, Venice, Italy.
2001
Fluency, Alfred University, Alfred, NY (catalog)
2000 Bounded Intervals, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI (catalog)
2000 New Prometheans, COCA and University of Washington,
Seattle, WA
2000 Open
House: Art on Site 1, 362 Waller St., San Francisco, CA (brochure, video
catalog)
2000 hunt,
Old Church Cultural Center, Demarest, NJ
2000 terra sac‰re, Puffin Room, New York, NY
1999 domesticated, Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 Arborescence, Paradise Wood Sculpture Grove, Santa Rosa, CA (brochure)
1998 MATRIX/Berkeley: 20 Years, University Art Museum, UCB, Berkeley,
CA (catalog)
1997 The Nature of Materials, Lance Fung Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Photoscene Cologne, EAC--Versuchsreihe, Cologne, Germany
1995 Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area, M.
H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA (catalog)
1994 Color in the Shadows, Bay Area Cyber Art, CCAC, Oakland, CA (catalog).
1992 Fragile Ecologies: Artist’s Interpretations and Solutions, Queens
Museum of Art, Queens, NY, (traveling exhibit, book)
1991 Constructions of Meaning, Illinois State University, Normal,
IL, (catalog).
1989 The Boat Show, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
1989 Eco-Systems, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara,
CA.
1986 Second Newport Biennial: The Bay Area, Newport Harbor Museum,
Newport Beach, CA (catalog).
1982 Nature as Metaphor, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco,
CA (catalog).
1982 Six Artists, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA.
1978 Landscape, New Views, Cornell University, Ithica, NY.
1975 OK Art, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, (catalog).
1975 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY (catalog).
Videography (Selected):
2004 Between Object and System I, single channel video, sound,
00:09:00.
1994 Gradient, single channel video, color, sound, 00: 06:00.
1994 Deluge (Radiant Sleep/Helium Ash), single channel video, color, sound,
00:20:00.
1992 Tyler Project: Metabolism and Mortality/O2, single channel video, color,
sound, 00:14:30.
1991 51 Million BTU’s/Metabolism Study/C3H8, e-, NaCl, single channel
video projection, salt crystal screen installation, color, sound, 00:47:00,
vII, 00: 23:30.
1990 51 Million BTU’s, 3 channel video installation, color, sound, 00:26:00.
Awards (Selected):
1990 Visual
Arts Award, California Arts Council
1986 Visual Arts Award, National Endowment for the Arts
1983 Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Foundations
1980 Visual Arts Award, National Endowment for the Arts
1977 Visual Arts Award, National Endowment for the Arts
Collections (Selected):
National Museum
of American Art, Washington, DC
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
University Art Museum, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred, NY
Fredrick Weisman Museum, Minneapolis, MN
Rene deRosa
Collection, Napa, CA
(Numerous other public and private collections)
Published
Writings/Editing:
Kiln Projects, Artery, February/March, 1983, pg. 6.
Untitled Essay, Ten Years Later, exhibition, catalog, CSU, Fullerton,
Fullerton, CA, 1987
Untitled Essay, 51 Million BTU’s, documentation catalog, 1990.
Organic Logic, New Observations Magazine, #127, New York, NY, co-editor
with Mark Bartlett, fall/winter 2000
Devonian Shale: Aquifer
I, limited first edition of 4 books, Fractal Terror Press, Oakland, CA,
2001
Devonian Shale: Aquifer I, The NCECA Journal 2002, v. XXIII, NCECA, Erie, CO,
2003, pg. 38-40.
Bibliography (Selected):
Albright,
Thomas, Art of the San Francisco Bay Area, University of California Press,
1984.
Baker, Kenneth, Greenhouse Sinks into the Sea, San Francisco Chronicle,
July 17, 1987, pg. 85.
Baker, Kenneth, Sculptor John Roloff at Paule Anglim, San Francisco Chronicle,
Jan. 18, 1992, pg. C5.
Becker, Lisa Tamaris, John Roloff: Displacements, solo exhibition catalog,
J. M. Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, 2000.
Berkson, Bill, John Roloff, University Art Museum, Artforum, Nov.
1987, pg. 144.
Boettger, Suzaan, John Roloff, San Rafael, Artforum, Jan. 1983.
Crohn, Jennifer F., John Roloff, Arts Magazine, April, 1992, pg. 79.
Dyckhoff, Tom, In a Winter Wonderland, London Times, Features, February, 10,
2004
Ebony, David, David Ebony's Top Ten, John Roloff at Lance Fung, artnet.com,
November 1999
Higuchi, Shoichiro, John Roloff, Shotenkenchiku, No. 6, 1990, pg. 296-97.
Higuchi, Shoichiro, Yerba Buena Gardens, Nikkei Architecture, 7-18, 1994,
pg. 218-219.
Johnson, James ed, What Follows: John Roloff, video interview and transcript,
University of Colorado at Boulder, 1988.
Johnson, Ken, Art in Review, John Roloff, Morphology of Change, New York
Times, November 26, 1999, pg. B-39.
Kimmelman, Michael, "Fragile Ecologies," Art in Review, New York Times,
Friday, November 27, 1992, photo.
Kino,
Carol, John Roloff at Lance Fung, Art in America, May, 2000, pg. 163
Lacy, Suzanne, Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art, Bay Press,
Seattle, WA, 1995, pg. 269-270.
Lewallen, Constance, John Roloff, "2nd Newport Biennial: The Bay
Area," Exhibition Catalog, Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1986.
Lewallen, Constance, John Roloff, Matrix Catalog No. 110, University
Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA 1987.
Lewallen, Constance, Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area,
De Young Museum Press, 1995.
Matilsky, Barbara C., Fragile Ecologies, Contemporary Artist’s Interpretations
and Solutions, Rizzoli pub., NY, NY, pg. 57, 104-107.
Morgan, Robert, John Roloff's Rising Sea, catalog essay, Museum of Contemporary
Art, Lake Worth, FL, 1998.
Morris, Gay, John Roloff at Paule Anglim, Art in America, April, 1992,
pg. 168.
Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, John Roloff, A Project for Regina – An
Outdoor Firing, University of Saskatchewan, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, single
channel video, sound, 00:21:20, 1980.
Radford,
Warren and Georgia, "Outdoor Sculpture in San Francisco, A Heritage
of Public Art," 2002, pg. 149-152.
Rapoport, Sonia, Color in the Shadows: Bay Area Cyber Art, Leonardo,
Vol. 28, No. 1, 1995, Reviews, pg. 77-78.
Riding, Alan, The White Stuff, The New York Times, Art/Architecture, Sunday,
February 29, 2004, pg 26-27.
Rosser, Phyllis, Making Trouble, High Performance, Winter 1994, pg. 18-21.
Schwan, Gary, Ecological Mediation Reconciles Art, Science, Palm Beach
Post, Nov. 27, 1998, pg. 37
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American Art, Bullfinch Press, 1995,
pg. 238.
Webb, Michael, Hot Arctic-tecture, Los Angeles Times, Design Section, Sunday,
February 29, 2004
Webster, Mary Hull, A Conversation with Steven A. Nash and Constance Lewallen, curators, ‘Facing Eden,’ Artweek,
June 1995, pg. 15-16.
Lectures, Panels, Visiting Artist Positions (Selected):
2006 University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska (visiting artist,
lecture)
2006 High 5 Respite, deYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA (panel, lecture)
2006 Mills College, Oakland, CA (lecture)
2005 Stanford University, Stanford, CA, (lecture, visiting artist)
2005 University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, Tech Sublime Symposium (panel)
2004 University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, CALA, site work ground-breaking (lecture)
2004 Washington University, St. Louis, MO (lecture, visiting artist)
2004 The Snow Show Symposium, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland (panel)
2002 CCAC,
Dept. of Architecture, (visiting critic)
2002 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, CALA building opening (lecture,
exhibition)
2002 UC Berkeley (lecture)
2002 NCECA Conference, Kansas City, MO (panel)
2001 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (public art, visiting artist)
2001 California State University, San Francisco, Graduate Dept. (lecture)
2001 California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, CA (lecture)
2001 Alfred University, Alfred, NY (panel, Fluency exhibition)
2000 University of
Washington, Seattle, WA (lecture, New Prometheans)
2000 California State University, Fresno (lecture)
2000 Albequerque Academie (lecture)
1999 University
of Washington (lecture)
1998 University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (lecture)
1997 Re-inventing the Terrain, CSU Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA (lecture,
visiting artist, panel)
1996 Moltkerei Werkstadtt, Organic Logic, Cologne, Germany, (lecture)
1996 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (lecture)
1996 CCAC, Oakland, CA (artist symposium)
1996 Pitzer College, Claremont CA, (visiting artist)
1994 Public Art, Anderson Ranch, Aspen, CO (visiting artist)
1994 Color in the Shadows, Bay Area Cyber Art, CCAC, Oakland, CA (artist
panel)
1993 Eve Laramee and John Roloff, CCAC, Oakland, CA (joint lecture)
1993 Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA (artist panel)
1992 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (lecture)
1991 To 1974: 74+ lectures, panels or visiting artist positions.
Teaching:
Professor,
(current Chair) Sculpture Department, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco,
CA, 1973-74, 1978-present.
Mills College, Oakland, CA, Instructor, part-time (concurrent with SFAI), 1980-1991.
Assistant Professor, University Of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1987-88.
Assistant Professor, University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 1974 To 1978.
Represented By:
Gallery Paule
Anglim, San Francisco, CA(http://www.gallerypauleanglim.com)