Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2024

• Bellows and Quakes, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
• What can listening do? (Part 2), Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads School of Arts & Sciences, Santa Monica, CA 

2023

• WORD. (two person show with James Griffith), Irenic Proects, Altadena, CA

2021

• Year of Wonders, redux, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA

2020

• Year of Wonders, Artpace, San Antonio, TX
• Sounds from the Swamp, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX 

2018

• Instruments of accountability, Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont, CA 

2016

• The Assonant Armory, Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles, CA

2014

• Drone Duet, a collaboration with Matias Viegener, Digital Mural Project at the Culver Center of the Arts, UCR ARTSblock, Riverside, CA

2013

• 3 Solo Projects: Audrey Chan, Elana Mann, and Chan & Mann, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
• Listening as (a) movement, sculptural installation, series of events, and community organizing, Side Street Projects, Pasadena, CA
• Meet the Chans and Manns, 323 Projects, Los Angeles, CA (Chan & Mann)

Public Projects/Commissions

2024

• After Clara Shortridge Foltz, Permanent Public Art installation for the Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office, Hall of Records, Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, CA 

2021

• One day I will make a mace, but for now I have a mouth, Art Journal Open

2019

• Dark Victory, LACI AIR + CicLAvia, Los Angeles, CA

2017

• Take a Stand Marching Band, Los Angeles, CA

2016

• Talk through the hand, mural on the exterior of Baik Art, Los Angeles, CA

2014   

• All Ears, Mellon Arts Initiative, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
• Grand Rounds, Grand Park in Downtown Los Angeles commissioned by Machine Project and the Music Center

2009   

• Retirement Bash, with Culver City High School Students, commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

• A Nation Takes Place: Navigating Race and Water in Contemporary Art, Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, MN (forthcoming)

2023

• How We Gather, Madeville Gallery, University of California, San Diego, San Deigo, CA
• The Feminist Art Program (1970-1975): Cycles of Collectivity, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
• Micrologies IV, Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
• Matrilineage: The Knowledge We Carry, Studio 203, Los Angeles, CA
• We can do it!, Kitasenju Buoy, Tokyo, Japan

2022

• SOUNDS, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA 
• Micrologies III, Irenic Projects, Altandena, CA
• Unprotected, Epoch Gallery
• PORTALS, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA

2021

• Song of the Cicada, Honor Fraser gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Domestic Ritual, Baik + Khneysser, Little City Farm LA, Los Angeles, CA

2020

• (Dis)Location, Royale Projects, Los Angeles, CA
• Hindsight is 2020: Dispatches from the edge of an apocalypse, Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA

2019

• The School for Endurance Work, California State University, Los Angeles, CA 
• ​The Pedagogical Impulse, The University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
• Tokyo Independent 2019, Tokyo University of the Arts, Chinretsukan Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (in collaboration with Tomorrow Girls Troop)

2018

• The Incongruous Body, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA 
• This is awkward, ESMoA, El Segundo, CA (Chan & Mann)
• ANNEX, M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Manifesto: A Moderate Proposal, Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont, CA

2017

• ​​My City hurts me and I am hurting my Cty, The English Hospital, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq
• ​Black Mirror, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• CHARIVARIA, CentroCentro, Madrid, Spain
• DIS…MISS, Cypress City College, Cypress, CA (Chan & Mann)

2016

• ​Ontology of Influence: Ron Leax and Alumni Exhibition, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
• ​Gildless Age, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA

2015

• Laugh-in: Art, Comedy, Performance, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA (Chan & Mann)
• Wunderkammer, Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont, CA

2014

• Writing Sound 2, Lydgalleriet, Bergen, Norway
• Faculty Exhibition, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
• After Noise, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art, with Chan & Mann, LuXun Academy, Shenyang, China (Chan & Mann)
• Beaver, The Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY (Chan & Mann)

2013

• Resonant Bodies: Landscapes of Acoustic Tension, ICI Berlin, Berlin, Germany
• Baker's Dozen V, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
• The Hollow Center, Smak Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
• Teach-In, Cypress College, Cypress, CA

Selected performances and screenings

2024

• Shadow Poems, commissioned by Freewaves, feMMMes Festival, Los Angeles State Historic Park, Los Angeles, CA

2023

• Lifelines, in collaboration with AF3IRM, She Loves Collective, Tomorrow Girls Troop, and Ni Santas, part of Heal Hear Here, Freewaves, Los Angeles State Historic Park, Los Angeles, CA
• Hope is a Hammer, a collaboration with Sharon Chohi Kim, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA

2021

• Hungry Ears: Pitzer Choir, This is not a reading / Ceci n'est pas une lecture: Remixes & Conversations from There is no soundtrack, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA

2019

• Muscle Beach Cookbook, CURRENT: LA, curated by Human Resources, Venice Beach Recreational Facility, Venice, CA

2018

• Ain't I A Womxn? A Gender's Promenade, Los Angeles State Historic Park, Los Angeles, CA
• The Grand Buddha Marching Band, AxS Festival, Fulcrum Arts, CA

2017

• Now Hear This! An Exercise in Listening, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA

2014

• Villa Murmurs, the Getty Villa, Los Angeles, CA
• Transmission, Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA and Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

2013

• One, Two, Three, South of Sunset, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Awards/Grants/Residencies

2024

• Artist in Residence, Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences
• Artist in Residence, Minnesota Marine Art Museum

2023

• Community Engagement Grant
• Artist's Retreat, St. Andrew's Abbey, funded by Irenic Projects

2022

• Cali Catalyst Award, The Center for Cultural Innovation
• Ruth and Howard Chenven Foundation Grant

2021

• Sustainable Arts Foundation Award
• Future Art Award

2020

• International Artist-in-Residence, Artpace San Antonio
• City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship

2019

• The Stone & DeGuire Contemporary Art Award
• Artist-in-Residence at the Los Angeles Clean-Tech Incubator (AIR LACI)

2017-18

• Ceramics Artist-In-Resident, Pitzer College
• Cultural Trailblazer, City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs

2017

• Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant

2015

• Artist Community Engagement (ACE) Grant, Rema Hort Mann Foundation

2013

• Artist in Residence, Amy Marie Sears Memorial Visiting Artist Series, St. Catherine University, St. Paul, MN
• Durfee Foundation Artist's Resource for Completion (ARC) Grant (for Chan & Mann)

2012

• Durfee Foundation Artist's Resource for Completion (ARC) Grant 

2010

• Philadelphia Art Hotel residency, Philadelphia, PA

2009

• California Community Foundation Visual Artist Fellowship for Emerging Artists
• Kitty Chester Series of Curator’s Laboratory Projects, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Curatorial projects

2023

• What can listening do? (Part 1), Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences, Santa Monica, CA

2018

• Propositional Attitudes: Election Extravaganza, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
• Perfect Worlds/Propositional Attitudes, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
• Propositional worlds, SITE/less, Chicago, IL

2017

• Artists for Racial Justice, Baik Art, Los Angeles, CA

2015

• Race Art & Survival - Michelada Think Tank & Chats About Change, organized with Robby Herbst, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
• Chats about Change: Critical Conversations on Art and Politics, organized with Robby Herbst, California State University and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA

2012

• Shares and Stakeholders: The Feminist Art Project day of panels at the College Art Association, organized with Audrey Chan, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

2009

• Performing Economies, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

2007

• Exquisite Acts and Everyday Rebellions: 2007 CalArts Feminist Art Symposium  and  Exhibition, in partnership with the “WACK!” exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
• TROCA:USA, A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil<

2005

• TROCA: Brasil, The Feldman Gallery + Project Space, The Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

Selected Writing and Publications

2023

• "Ten tips for young women artists," commissioned by REDCAT for the exhibition The Feminist Art Program (1970-1975): Cycles of Collectivity, Los Angeles, CA

2021

• “Robby Herbst: On Art, Kinship and Compassion,” The Edge of Equilibrium, edited by Camilla Boemio, Vanillaedizioni

2018

• Propositional Attitudes: What do we do now? co-edited with John Burtle, Golden Spike Press, Risograph print, 122 pages, edition of 250

2017

• Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal, No. 15, “Revolution,” (Featured Artist, pg. 1, 58, 99)

2015

• “My Tribe: An interview with Senga Nengudi,” co-written with Vera Brunner-Sung, and “Between Radical Art and Critical Pedagogy, with Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz,” In the Canyon, Revise the Canon, edited by Geraldine Gourbe, Shelter Press: Switzerland

2014

• “Searching for Murmurs of History,” The Getty Iris, June 21, 2014>

2013

• “Rupture and Continuity in Feminist Re-performance,” co-written with Audrey Chan and Alexandra Grant, Afterall Journal, Issue 33, Summer 2013

2012

• "Radical Receptivities," co-authored with Juliana Snapper, Art 21 Blog, January 4

Public Collections

• Getty Research Institute
• Cerritos College
• Los Angeles Contemporary Archives
• Center for Political Graphics
• London College of Communication
• Los Angeles County Department of Art and Culture
• California Institute of the Arts Feminist Art Materials Collection

Selected Bibliography

• A Nation Takes Place: Race and Water in Contemporary Art, Editors: Tia-Simone Gardner, Shana M. griffin, The University of Minnesota Press, 2024
• Diss...Miss Gender? Edited by Anne Bray, MIT Press, 2003
• We Can Do It!, Tomorrow Girls Troop, Art Diver, Japan, 2023
• DIMENSIONS: Digital Art Since 1859, Pittlerwerke, Leipzig, Germany, 2023
• Going out. Walking, Listening, Soundmaking, author and editor Elena Biserna, coeditors: Caroline Profanter, Henry Andersen, Julia Eckhardt, umland editions, Brussels, 2022
• Biserna, Elena, "Ambulatory Sound-Making. Re-writing, Re-appropriating, 'Presencing' Auditory Spaces," Michael Bull, Marcel Cobussen, eds., The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies, New-York: Bloomsbury, 2021
• G. Douglas Barrett, “Wonder in the Wake of Crisis: Elana Mann’s Year of Wonders, redux,” 18th Street Arts Center 2020-21 catalog
• Ma, Ming-Yuen S., There is no Soundtrack: Rethinking art, media, and the audio-visual contract, Manchester University Press, 2020
• Fischbeck, Luke, “Elana Mann: Meet me in the vortex,” 2020 COLA Catalog, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
• Fryd, Vivien Green, Against Our Will: Sexual Trauma in Art Since 1970, Penn State Univerity Press, 2019
• Sholette, Gregory and Kopenkina, Olga, “Live Listening: Searching for a Signal with Elana Mann" exhibition catalog essay for Elana Mann: Instruments of Accountability, Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont, CA, 2018
• “Artist Bailout: Renegade Bounty Exchange,” Guidebook of Alternative Nows, edited by Amber Hickey, the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press, 2012
• Cornell, Lauren, Gioni, Massimiliano and Hoptman, Laura, Younger than Jesus: Artist Directory, New Museum and Phaidon Press, April 2009
• Tsatsos, Irene, “Elana Mann,” 2009 California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists Catalog 

Selected Press

• “Conversations with Elana Mann,” Voyage LA, December 26, 2022
• Paris, Melina “Elana Mann: An Artists’ Soundtrack of Activism,” Angel City Culture Quest, podcast October 30, 2022
• Ziv, Stav, “Can this noisemaker rattle the world out of its complacency?”, The Forward, October 11, 2022
• Williams, Janaya and Preston Zappas, Lindsay, “’Unprotected’: New digital art show funds reproductive rights," KCRW Greater LA, August 31, 2022  
• Reizman, Renee, “Let’s make noise for abortion rights,” Hyperallergic, June 24, 2022
• Zellen, Jody, “Elana Mann, 18th Street Arts Center (Airport Campus),” Artillery Magazine, July 6, 2021
• Cross, Lauren, “The Sound(s) of Unrest: A Glimpse of Protest in Elana Mann’s Year of Wonders,” Artpace San Antonio, 2021
• Courtney, James, “Artpace fall 2020 international residents ‘respond to the moment’ with new exhibits,” San Antonio Report, November 18, 2020
• Ollman, Leah, "Humor and human clay meld in 'The Incongruous Body' at AMOCA," Los Angeles Times, August 25, 2018
• Mizota, Sharon, “What to see in LA Galleries..." Los Angeles Times, October 21, 2016
• Harren, Natilee, “Elana Mann: 500 words,” Artforum.com, October 11, 2016
• Owen Driggs, Janet, “Chats About Change: Changing the Terms of Engagement,” KCET Artbound, February 5, 2015
• Williams, Maxwell, “Chats About Change: The Intersection of Art and Activism,” KCET Artbound, January 14, 2015
• Archer, Nicole, "Security blankets: uniforms, hoods, and the textures of terror, Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, Vol. 24, Issl 2-3, 2014
• Moss, Avigail, “3 Solo Projects: Audrey Chan, Elana Mann and Chan & Mann,” exhibition brochure, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Summer 2013
• Gardocki, Matthew and Moore, Catlin, “"Emergent Presence: 8 L.A. Artists You Should Know," Fabrik Magazine, Issue 21
• Yank, Sue Bell, “In the Space Between Bodies: Women Artists and Occupy LA,” n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal (London), vol. 32 (July 2013), Citizenship, pp.23-31
• Jao, Carren, “Elana Mann Tunes noise out to let the signal in,” KCET Artbound, April 4, 2013
• Colbert, Maile, “Radical Listening and the People’s Microphony: A conversation with Elana Mann,” Sounding out!, March 11, 2013
• Wagley, Catherine, “Occupy Used a ‘People’s Microphone’ to Spread Info Through a Crowd. Now There’s a People’s Mic Choir,” LA Weekly, Sep. 17, 2012

Education

2007

• California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, MFA in Art

2003

• Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, BFA in sculpture, Suma Cum Laude

Teaching Experience

2023

• Visiting Artist, Pacific Northwest College of Art/Wilammette University, Portland, OR

2019

• Visiting Artist, Vermont College of Fine Arts, VT

2017

• Otis College of Art and Design, thesis mentor, MFA Public Practice program

2008-16

• Scripps College, Visiting Lecturer, thesis mentor for senior art majors

2015, 13

• Pitzer College, Visiting Lecturer

2013

• University of San Diego, Visiting Lecturer

2012, 10

• San Francisco Art Institute, thesis mentor

2009, 07

• Art Institute of California-Los Angeles, Visiting Lecturer

2008

• Cal Arts, Visiting Faculty