Colin Manning
Portland, Oregon / Los Angeles, California
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts, Filmmaking San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA, 2000
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA, 1998
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Water Weeping Falls Collage-paintings on glass, video installation and a projection performance, Digital Debris Video Gallery, Los Angeles, California, January 4-16, 2020
Hug Circle Collage-paintings on glass and a projection performance, The Handbag Factory, Los Angeles, CA, January 2019
Memory Wave Sediments Experimental films retrospective and projection performance, Portland Art Museum’s Whitsell Hall, Hosted by Northwest Film Center, September 13, 2017
Interior Camping Collage-paintings on glass, The Academy Theater, Portland Oregon, March 2016
Slanted Horizons Collage-paintings on glass, The Handbag Factory, Downtown Los Angeles, November 2015; The Projection Museum, Portland Oregon, September 2015
Where Do You Go When You Sleep? Collage-paintings, Bar Carlo, Portland OR, September, October 2014
Retrospecter/Art Destroys Lives Collage, Painting, Drawing and Installation, the Projection Museum, Portland OR, March 2014
Feardom Collage-paintings, Gallery Homeland, Portland OR, September 2013
Paintings by Colin Manning Sawhorse, Los Angeles CA, Summer 2012
Haute Glue Collage, painting and assemblage, Sancho Gallery, Los Angeles CA, 2011
Grit n’ Transcendence Collage, paintings and drawings, Regent Building Gallery, Downtown Art Walk, Los Angeles CA, 2009
Firm Pucker Collage, paintings and drawings, L’Kegg Gallery, Los Angeles CA, 2008
Haunted Couches Collage, painting, drawing and installation, Showcave Gallery, Los Angeles CA, 2007
Godz Gone Public outdoor installation; two backlit 3×9 foot collage-paintings on plexiglass installed into a commercial sign fixture, 1645 Silverlake Blvd., Los Angeles CA, 2006-2008
Above the Smog Paintings, Pacific Unitarian Church, Rancho Palos Verdes CA, 2005
I Want Money Installation with video, collage, painting, San Francisco Art Institute MFA Graduate Exhibition, Fort Mason, San Francisco CA, 2000
Triple Vision Collage, Mission Badlands Gallery, San Francisco CA, 2000
Fringes Among Us Collage-paintings, New Nothing Cinema, San Francisco CA, 1999
Body Shop Collage-paintings, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute CA, 1997
Bus Stop Paintings, Norris Theater for the Performing Arts, Rolling Hills Estates CA, 1996
Emotion Refraction Paintings, Student Union Art Gallery, City College of San Francisco CA, 1995
SELECTED PROJECTION PERFORMANCES
Party of the Grid in secret location in the Mt. Hood Wilderness, Oregon, June, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023
The Elrod Party In celebration of the life of my dear friend James Kerby Faris the 3rd,1968-2019, The Extra- Action marchin Band, Andy Human and the Reptoids, at The Knockout, San Francisco CA, January 31 2020
Gasp and Sissy Spacek Concert at Zebulon, Los Angeles, California, February 3, 2018
Ariel Pink Concerts Revolution Hall, Portland Oregon, October 2017; Roseland Theater, Portland Oregon, September 2015; Hawthorne Theater, Portland OR, February 9 2015, The Escarpment, Huntington Park CA for Ariel’s Birthday Concert with Fancy Space People, June 2010
Pond Mind Pulp Live projection performance with live audio by Colin Manning, Ez Ra and John Pape; Pacific Vortex Series at Pacific Northwest College of Art, May 1, 2016
Threnodies (Reed Arts Week 2016) The Chapel at Reed College, with audio performances by Manhole (Jon Pape) and Silhouette Writer (Drew LaBarre), Portland Oregon, March 5, 2016
Friday the 13th at the Electric Mansion Historical Monument #157, Los Angeles, CA, November 13, 2015
Chrome Concert Bunk Bar, Portland Oregon, July 17, 2015
Believe You Me The Liquor Store, Portland Oregon, May 8, 2015
M.A.S.S. VII With music by Benoit Pioular and Like A Villian, Alberta Abbey, Portland OR, June 8, 2014
Round Window With music by William Ingrid and Consumer, Portland Experimental Film Festival, Disjecta, Portland OR, June 2014
Under Dark Cloak With music by Tough Fuzz, Montgomery Word and Soul Ipsum, Alhambra Theater, Portland OR, March 29, 2014
Eternal Thermal Spring Low Gallery, San Diego CA, January 2014
Club Ding-A-Ling With music by Thee Earwigs, The Telescopes, Joseph Hammer, the Centimeters, Geneva Jacuzzi and many others; at the Outpost, Sancho Gallery, Krishna Kumar Gallery and the Hyperion Tavern, Los Angeles CA 2005-2014
Friday the 13th in Feardom Gallery Homeland, Portland OR, September 13, 2013
Boards of Canada Official Listening Party Holocene, Portland OR, June 2013
Portland Experimental Film Festival Gallery Homeland, Portland OR, May 2013
Reflective Turbulence With music by Thrones, John Wiese, Ace Farren Ford, William Strangeland and Peter Kolovos; at Dem Passwords Gallery, Los Angeles CA, December 2012
Black Mass Rising With music by Shazzula Nebula, Eternal Tapestry and Brooks Blackhawk; at The Fez Ballroom, Portland OR, Summer 2012
Fancy Space With music by Fancy Space People; at The Echoplex, The Escarpment, The Two-Headed Horse, The Cog, Showcave Gallery and other venues, Los Angeles and San Francisco CA, 2008-2011
My Halloween With performance by God’s Girls; at the Henry Fonda Music Box Theater, Hollywood CA, October 30, 2005
Craigslist Foundation Community Bash Terra, San Francisco CA, 2004
Atmosphere Monthly projection performances for dj/dance party events; at 111 Minna Street Gallery, San Francisco CA, 1999-2004
The Transformative Film Train Phenomenon 600+ projection performances; at Club Six, San Francisco CA, 1998-2004
Yes Yoko Ono White Food Party Projection installation based on text by Yoko Ono for special event with Ms. Ono at the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA, 2002
The Night Listener In Atrium of San Francisco Main Library, for Armistead Maupin’s book release event, San Francisco CA, 2000
Pangea Arts Festival With music by Buckethead and Cellaphane Masses, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco CA 2000
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Text Bewtween Lines Collage-paintings on glass with works by Alex Safanov and Eric Joseph Leffler, The Solship, January 5, 2019
Art Medicine Cabinet Mystery School of Wayward Images Beatnik Lounge, Joshua Tree California, December 8, 2018
Triad Exhibitions 1 and 2 Collage-paintings on Glass, True Measure Gallery, Portland Oregon, December 2016 and May 2017
M.A.S.S. VII Projections and Collage-Paintings, Alberta Abbey, Portland OR, June 8 2014
In Bloom Curated by Karen Russel, Collage-paintings, Denizen Gallery, Portland OR, April 2014
heART Walk Echo Park Collage-paintings, Sancho, Los Angeles CA, March 2014
Eternal Spring Collage-paintings, Low Gallery, San Diego CA, January 2014
Hutch Collage-paintings, Hutch, Los Angeles CA, December 2013
The Coaster Art Show Collage-paintings, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles CA, September 2013
Echo Park Art Walk Collage-paintings, Sancho, Los Angeles CA, Summer 2013
Club Tropicana Collage-paintings, Cafe 26, Marseille, France, 2012
Et Tu Brute? Collage-painting and drawing, Sancho Gallery, Los Angeles CA, 2011
Conceptual Mining Painting and collage, DIY Gallery, Los Angeles CA, 2009
Departed Collage, World of Wonder Gallery, Hollywood CA, 2008
Naked Collage-painting, Dreamland Loft, Los Angeles, CA 2007
Folk and Fantasy Projection Installation, Canvas Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2003
Ideas In Animation Screened short films with live soundtracks performed by The Sprocket Ensemble, 111 Minna St. Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1997-2000 (annually)
Video Mutants Screened Methyl Cellulose and Disaster, Lecture Hall, San Francisco Art Institute CA, 2000
Window Project Projection Installation, Quotidian Gallery, San Francisco CA, 2000
New San Francisco Film and Video Screened short films, Stain Gallery, San Francisco CA, 1999
Film Arts Festival of Independent Cinema Screened short films with live soundtracks performed by the Sprocket Ensemble, Roxie Cinema and The Victoria Theater, San Francisco CA, 1997 & 1999
Freaky Film Festival Screened Gorgeous Mommy and Breakfast of Champions, The Thunderbird Theater, Urbana Illinois, 1998
TEACHING AND CURATION
The Projection Museum Director/Curator, Portland OR, 2013 – 2017
Krishna Kumar Gallery Director/Curator, Los Angeles CA, 2011 – 2013
Tears and Ecstasy Curator, Sancho Gallery, Los Angeles CA 2011
Cinespace A/V Technician, DJ and Curator of weekly music and projection art events at large nightclub/dinner theater, Hollywood CA, 2008 – 2010
Showcave Gallery Co-Director/Curator, Los Angeles CA, 2007-2008
Foundations in Drawing and Painting Instructor, Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 2005
Experiments in Animation / Eclectic Collage / Drawing from the Surreal Instructor, Community Education Program, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 1998-2001
Mixed Media Art Instructor, Atherton Arts Commission, Palo Alto, CA 2000-2001
Drawing Instructor, Waldorf High School, San Francisco, CA 2001
Mixed Media Art Instructor, New Traditions Elementary, San Francisco CA, 2000-2001
11th Grade English / Various Subjects Instructor, Vallejo City Unified School District, Vallejo CA, 2000 – 2001
Disposable Head Transplants Curated bi-annual screenings of local experimental film shorts, New Nothing Cinema, Artists Television Access and Cafe International, San Francisco CA 1997-1999
FILMOGRAPHY
Hugging Kate Jackson in Killer Bees Sunken Red Memories Projection art YouTube video 2011
Colin Manning / Spiritual Path in a Materialistic World / Enjoyable Heart Disease Subject and projections artist in three short films by Luis Molina, Los Angeles, CA, 2010
Monkey Bone Animation assistance for feature film, 20th Century Fox, San Francisco, CA, 2001
Tedious Menace 16mm experimental short film; Stop-motion collage animation, cell animation, soundtrack and editing, San Francisco, CA, 2000
Hush Hush Sweet Harlot Art production for Teleplay by George Kuchar, San Francisco CA, 1999
Methyl Cellulose 16mm experimental short film; Stop-motion collage animation, cell animation, optical printing, editing and soundtrack, San Francisco, CA,1999
Gods Magnificent Plan for Salvation Experimental short film; Stop-motion collage animation, Super-8 and 16mm cinematography, soundtrack and digital effects/editing, San Francisco, CA, 1999
Asvatthama 16mm experimental short film adaption of an ancient account of nuclear warfare from Srimad Bhagavatam; Stop-motion collage animation, cell animation, optical printing, editing and soundtrack, San Francisco, CA, 1998
Disaster 16mm experimental short film; Stop-motion collage animation, cell animation, optical printing, editing and soundtrack, San Francisco, CA, 1998
Hoper 16mm experimental short film; Stop-motion collage animation, cell animation, editing and soundtrack, San Francisco, CA, 1998
Tourist Experimental short film; Super-8 footage and digital editing; Soundtrack by Walter Funk, Colin Manning and Matt Dean, San Francisco, CA, 1998
The Pus Muppet Purple Onion Incident Short experimental documentary film; video shot by Daniel Merlot; editing by Colin Manning, San Francisco, CA, 1998
Breakfast of Champions 16mm experimental short film; Stop-motion collage animation, with soundtrack by Walter Funk and Colin Manning, San Francisco, CA, 1997
Material Story 16mm experimental short film; Animation drawn directly on film, optically printing, editing and soundtrack, San Francisco, CA, 1997
Gorgeous Mommy 16mm experimental short film; Stop-motion collage animation, cell animation, editing and soundtrack, San Francisco, CA, 1996
Incarnation #16 16mm experimental short film; Animation drawn directly on film, optical printing and soundtrack, 1996
Crater Walk Super-8 black and white experimental short film; Cinematography, hand processing, editing and soundtrack by Colin Manning, San Francisco CA, 1996