Gareth Spor  



Born 1977, Oxford, UK
Lives and works in San Francisco

Contact Information

E-mail: garethspor@gmail.com

Education

2008 MFA, California College of the Arts
2006 PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Thesis: Amacrine Cell Inhibition Refines the Spatio-Temporal Filtering Properties of Ganglion Cells
1999 BA, Hampshire College

Exhibitions

2008
Human Resources, The Company, Loas Angeles, CA
Cynosure, Spare Room Project, San Francisco, CA
History of Fishspace, Fishspace Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Star Gate, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
TAIDE08, Helsinki Art Fair, Hensinki, Finland
Cut into Chaos, Mission17, San Francisco, CA
Cream, from the Top, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
CCA Thesis Show, San Francisco, CA
Cartes Flux3, Festival of New Media Art, Espoo, Finland
Hypnotic Show, Silverman Galley, San Francisco, CA, curated by Raimundas Malasakaus
Sculpture Key West, Fort Zachary Taylor State Park, Key West, FL, juried by Mary Cerruti
The Rainbow Show, Cafe Royal, San Francisco, CA, curated by Alicia Escott, Christina Empedocles and Gareth Spor
2007
The Death Class with Kai Althoff, PLAySPACE gallery, San Francisco, CA
CCA Centennial All-College Honors & Scholarship Awards Exhibition, Oakland, CA
CCU Notebook Show, PLAySPACE gallery, San Francisco, CA, curated by Luke Butler
Mad Science, San Francisco, CA
Free Frisbee: Antarctica, McMurdo Library, McMurdo Station, Antarctica, curated by Anat Ebgi and Jen DeNike and Gareth Spor
 Cinema Gigante, San Francisco, CA
Supermarket 2007, Koh-i-noor, Stockholm, Sweden
VCU/CCA Exchange, Richmond, VA
Free Frisbee, Circus of Books, West Hollywood, CA, curated by Anat Ebgi and Jen DeNike
2006
Free Frisbee, Art Basel Miami Beach, FL, curated by Anat Ebgi and Jen DeNike
2005
On the Beach, Printed Matter, NY, curated by Justin Lowe
2001
GenArt Summer Arts Festival, NY, curated by Jay Sanders

Curated Projects

2008
The Rainbow Show, Cafe Royal, San Francisco, CA, with Alicia Escott and Christina Empedocles
2007
Free Frisbee: Antarctica, McMurdo Library, McMurdo Station, Antarctica, with Anat Ebgi and Jen DeNike
Optimism: A Natural Vector, Hardware Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002
Visual Haiku, UC-Berkeley, CA

Press

Clark, Cammy. "Key West exhibit takes art to a new dimension". Miami Herald. March 19, 2008
Mourra, Sarah. "'Visual Haiku' Dissemble Details from Askance Views". The Daily Californian. May 2, 2002

Collections

Jean Carper
Rachelle & Andrew Sessions

Honors/Awards

2008
Headlands MFA residency finalist
Toby Devan Lewis Award finalist
The People's Choice Award: Best by Air, Sculpture Key West
2007
Mad Science Residency, California College of the Arts
All-College Honors - Fine Arts, Graduate Fine Arts, California College of the Arts
1998
Mechanisms of Behavior, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, Duke University

Publications

 Felsen G, Shen YS, Yao H, Spor G, Li C, Dan Y.  "Dynamic modification of cortical orientation tuning mediated by recurrent connections."  Neuron. 2002 Dec 5;36(5):945-54.

Presentations

 Spor G, Molnar A, Werblin F.  "Amacrine Cell Inhibition Refines the Spatio-Temporal Filtering Properties of Ganglion Cells" at ARVO Annual Meeting 2006, Prog# 2675.
Spor G, Dan Y.  "Nonlinear Dynamics of Orientation Tuning in Cat V1." at Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2001, Prog# 285.2.