Mike Pare'
Born 1969, Daly City, CA
Lives/ Works Brooklyn, NY

EDUCATION
1992 BFA in Printmaking at California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005
Blissed Out at ATM Gallery, NYC
2004
Works on Paper at Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003
Black Light Folk Festival at ATM Gallery, NYC
2001
White Room Project, at White Columns, NYC
1998
Pacific Time, at ESP Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997
World Sports, at ESP Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995
Junk Science, at St. Edward's, Emeryville, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
Awakening of My Secret Brother, Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo, Japan Hot and Cold #3, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA In the Country of Last Refuge, Aferro Gallery, Newark NJ Artists of Invention: A Century of CCA, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA Space is a Place, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon Harry Smith Anthology Remixed, Alt.gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2006
I Drank the Kool-aid, Anna Kustera Gallery, New York National Image, Boston University Square Root of Drawing, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Youth Of Today, Schirn Kunstalle, Frankfurt Cosmic Wonder, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art benefit
2005
Stick/Figure drawing show, MAMA showroom, Rotterdam Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art First We Take Museums, Kaisma, Helsinki, Finland With Us Against Reality or Against Us, Chocolate Factory, Oslo, Sweden God is Bored With Us, Fast Moving Consumer Goods, London Poster Show, White Columns, NYCMystic Truths at Kavi Gupta, Chicago White Columns Benefit Auction, NYC Much Madness is Divinest Sense, Cohan and Leslie, NYC
2004
Stars and Bars, Chapman College, Orange, CA By The People, For the People, Transport Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Brothers, Fresh Up Club, Austin, TX Axxxpresssunizm, Vilma Gold, London White Columns Benefit Auction, NYC Neotrad, Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam, NL
2003
Downtown 4 Democracy Benefit Auction, NYC Kult 48, Deitch Projects, Brooklyn, NY K48 Teenage Rebel: The Bedroom Show, agnes b. gallery, Paris Now Playing, D'Amilio Terras Gallery, NYC The T-Shirt Show, Daniel Silverstein Gallery, NYC The Future That Never Happened, GhettoGloss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA K48 presents: DAAG ONS NIET UIT, Marres Gallery, Maastricht, Netherlands What Are You Growing In Your Garden?, ATM Gallery, NYC
2002
K48 Teenage Rebel Show, John Connelly presents, NYC Bellwether Benefit Auction, Brooklyn, NY
2001
White Columns Benefit Auction, NYC
2000
Portrait Show at New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA Ride Free, at Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, NYC
1999
Bay Area Now 2, at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF Return of the Real, at Videoland, NYC Forever is a Hell of a Long Time at Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, NYC Peek-a Boo, erotic art show at ESP Gallery, SF 1998 Acne, at Double Pleasure Gallery, NYC Pets, at Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, NYC Survey Show, at ESP Gallery, SF 1996 Confess, at Southern Exposure Gallery, SF
1995
Cheap Art Show, ACME Gallery, SF

EVENTS
2006
ART LA fair, Santa Monica. Presented by ATM Gallery
NADA art fair, Miami. Presented by ATM Gallery
Black Light Folk Festival West, various california locations
2005
NADA art fair, Miami. Presented by ATM Gallery Black Light Folk Festival 2005, Glass House Gallery, Brooklyn Kunst 05 Zurich art fair, Switzerland. Presented by ATM Gallery 2004 NADA art fair, Miami. Presented by ATM Gallery Scope art fair, New York. Presented by Mark Moore Gallery
Stray art fair, Chicago. Presented by ATM Gallery
2003
Black Light Folk Festival, various locations in NYC including Deitch Projects and ATM Gallery Scope Art Fair, NY. Presented by K48
1999
The New York Performance Awards at CRP Gallery, Brooklyn, NY "Ride On" video selected for Hors Circuit, film/video show in Paris and Berlin. "Ride On" video selected for the Ex-Change Project, sponsored by the Anthology Film Archives, NY. International film/video exhibit in Paris, New Zealand, China, Thailand, and New York. "Ride On" video at Feels Like the First Time at Double Pleasure Gallery, NYC
1998
Atari Therapy performance at the Piano Store, NYC
1996
Installation/performance: "Portrait Artist" at Sui Generis Warehouse, SF 1992 Installation/performance: "Shop" at Cat's Head Performance, Dublin, Ireland
1990-1996
Member of performance group CHIXDIGME

PRINT PROJECTS
2007
Artwork forEsquire Magazine Russia Artwork for GHQ album, Crystal Healing Contribution to Hot and Cold magazine #3 Publication-"Kampus", book review contribution to K48 Magazine Monograph- "Thought Forms", published by Seems press, San Francisco Drawing for Nike "Re-Run Project" curated by Aaron Rose Artwork for Bidoun Magazine Article- "A Portrait of the Jihadist as a White Negro" Publication- story contribution to "My First Time" book published by AK Press. Edited by Chris Duncan Publication- “The Canyon is Possessed”, contribution to Frozen Tears III
2006
Lithography editions printed with J.E. Wolfensberger, Zurich Drawing for Tokion magazine Drawing project for Anathema magazine Drawing project for Converse Chuck Taylor Shoes Drawing project for 2K Gingham 2005 UOVO Drawing project Drawing project for McSweeny’s “Yeti Researcher”
2004
Analogue Press Portfolio Series, Vol 1, #1, Los Angeles Album art for "Too Young to go Steady" by Mob Stereo "Two Steps Back" for 55DSL "Secret Sidewalk" text for Frozen Tears, book project curated by John Russell, London, UK 2003 "Psychic Freedom", a 4 page print project for K48 magazine, NY
2002
"Teenage Geography" print/video project for K48 magazine, NY Album art for Medicine8 on Regal recordings Untitled, an eight page print project for K48 magazine, NY 2001 The Secret Element, a 20 page project curated by Luis Macias for Zingmagazine 1999-2001
contributor to Great God Pan magazine

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007
Feature in Beautiful Decay Magazine, issue R Feature in XLR8R magazine, September
2006
Catalog for 'The Youth of Today', Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt Catalog for 'Cosmic Wonder', Yerba Buena Center For the Arts, San Francisco
2005
Catalog for ' First We Take Museums', Kiasma, Helsinki Supergroups and Wannabees, Jerry Saltz, Village Voice interview in Tokion magazine Critical review of Works on Paper at Mark Moore by Erik Bluhm, Art US Critical review of Axxpressunizm at Alice Day by Maria Fusco, Flash Art
2004
Critical review of Works on Paper at Mark Moore by Holly Myers, Los Angeles Times 2003 Critical review of Black Light Folk Festival by Holland Cotter, New York Times
2002
Critical Review of K48 Teenage Rebel Show by Karen Rosenberg, Village Voice
2000
Critical review of Bay Area Now 2: by Tessa DeCarlo, Wall Street Journal, January 27
1999
Critical review of Forever is a Hell of a Long Time: "Mood Swings" by Jerry Saltz, Village Voice

VIDEOGRAPHY
2006
Transmagon series 1-5 2005 Skate Pentagon
2002
Teenage Geography
2001
Free Concert 1998 Ride