Artist's Biography

Micol Hebron is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles and is an Assistant Professor in the Art Department at Chapman University in Orange. She has been engaged in individual and collaborative projects in Los Angeles since 1992. Her work frequently explores the artist’s relationship to art-making, art history, and modernism. Her current projects are focused on re-examining essentialist feminism in the context of the contemporary art world. Her latest solo exhibition, Sisterhood Is Powerful at Jancar Gallery, featured a 6-foot tall quartz crystal vagina fountain. From 2010 to 2011, Hebron served as Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. She has served on the editorial board of X-Tra Magazine since 2004, and writes for several international art magazines. She is a founding member of the LA Art Girls, a 30-member collective of women artists in Los Angeles. Recent curatorial projects include: Doublespeak: Codes and Entendres by Contemporary Women Artists, at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art and Forward Thinking: A Curatorial Exchange at the College Art Association 2012 Annual conference in Los Angeles. Recent writing projects include Judy Chicago: Experienced, a catalog essay for her recent exhibition at Jancar Gallery; and Soft Science; or, How Cute Can Save the World, a forward to the Complete Characters of Mr. Winkle, by Lara Jo Regan. Hebron is represented by Jancar Gallery in Los Angeles.Micol Hebron is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles and is an Assistant Professor in the Art Department at Chapman University in Orange. She has been engaged in individual and collaborative projects in Los Angeles since 1992. Her work frequently explores the artist’s relationship to art-making, art history, and modernism. Her current projects are focused on re-examining essentialist feminism in the context of the contemporary art world. Her latest solo exhibition, Sisterhood Is Powerful at Jancar Gallery, featured a 6-foot tall quartz crystal vagina fountain. From 2010 to 2011, Hebron served as Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. She has served on the editorial board of X-Tra Magazine since 2004, and writes for several international art magazines. She is a founding member of the LA Art Girls, a 30-member collective of women artists in Los Angeles. Recent curatorial projects include: Doublespeak: Codes and Entendres by Contemporary Women Artists, at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art and Forward Thinking: A Curatorial Exchange at the College Art Association 2012 Annual conference in Los Angeles. Recent writing projects include Judy Chicago: Experienced, a catalog essay for her recent exhibition at Jancar Gallery; and Soft Science; or, How Cute Can Save the World, a forward to the Complete Characters of Mr. Winkle, by Lara Jo Regan. Hebron is represented by Jancar Gallery in Los Angeles.