Barbara Drucker received her MFA from UCLA where she is currently the Associate Dean of Community Engagement & Arts Education; Founding Director of the Visual and Performing Arts Education (VAPAE) Program in the School of the Arts and Architecture; and Professor of Painting and Drawing in the Department of Art.

Drucker is a recipient of the prestigious George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship in Visual Art, Brown University, Providence, RI. In 1994 Drucker co-founded FIG (First Independent Gallery) in Santa Monica, CA; then from 1996-2001 founded and directed The Living Room: Special Projects in Contemporary Art, an alternative exhibition space in Santa Monica, CA. Drucker is currently a member of JTAG, an artists’ collective based in Joshua Tree, CA.

Drucker’s studio practice includes painting, sculptural installations, documentary video, photography and artists’ books. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as the Mazzocchi Gallery, Parma, Italy; Libera Academia di Belle Arti, Brescia, Italy; Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz, Austria; Kennedy Gallery, Hellenic American Union, Athens, Greece; Bouzianis Gallery, Athens, Greece; Art Centre of Hasselt, Belgium; Gallery SIDAC, Leiden, Holland; Biblioteca Rionale Affori, Milan, Italy; Center for Book Arts, NY; LA Contemporary, Los Angeles; 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica; Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica; Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles; Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis; Rutgers University Gallery, Camden, New Jersey; Gallery 10, Washington, D.C.; and Kathryn Markel Gallery, NY.

Drucker’s work is included in public and private collections including the Smithsonian Archives of Contemporary Art, Washington, D.C.; Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami, FL; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; University Research Library, Special Collections/Artists’ Books, UCLA; Museum of Greek Folk Art, Film Archives, Athens, Greece; and the Museum of Greek Popular Instruments, Center of Ethnomusicology, Athens, Greece.

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MFA          University of California, Los Angeles
BA             University of California, Los Angeles


ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2014
Associate Dean, Community Engagement + Arts Education, SOAA, UCLA

2009-2016
Founding Director, Visual and Performing Arts Education Program, UCLA

2008-14
Associate Dean, Academic Affairs, SOAA, UCLA

2000-06
Chair, Dept of Art, University of California, Los Angeles

2000
Professor, Dept of Art, University of California, Los Angeles

1991
Associate Professor, Dept of Art, University of California, Los Angeles

1982
Assistant Professor, Dept of Art, University of California, Los Angeles

1981
Photography Lecturer, West Los Angeles Community College

1978
Fine Arts Instructor, Los Angeles Photography Center

1976
Visiting Lecturer, Dept of Art, California State University, Northridge


fellowships/awards

2014
Artist in Residence, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA

2003,5
Academic Senate Research Grants, University of California, Los Angeles

1988
Instructor of the Year, Visual Arts, Extension Division, UCLA

1986
Howard Foundation Fellowship, Brown University, Providence, RI

1985-1999
Academic Senate Research Grants, University of California, Los Angeles

1976
Anna Bing Arnold Award, University of California, Los Angeles
 

solo exhibitions

2018
ACCÈS INTERDIT, JTAG, Joshua Tree, CA

2017
Inside Out, JTAG, Joshua Tree, CA

2016
Threading the Needle, JTAG, Joshua Tree, CA

2010
Bread in One Hand, California State University, Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA

2007
Winter Wheat, LA CONTEMPORARY, Culver City, CA

2002
Calendar Notations, Project Room, Patricia Correia Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Calendar Notations, Concordia University, Irvine, CA

1998
Barbara Drucker / Barbara Magnus, Galleria Mazzocchi, Parma, Italy

1997
Calendar Notations, Artworks, Santa Monica, CA

1995
Material Evidence, Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA

1994
Material Evidence, FIG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Foreign Objects, FIG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1989
Cross Words, Kennedy Gallery, Athens, Greece
Black Leaves, Artworks, Santa Monica, CA
Boxes and Pages, Gallery 10, Washington, DC

1987
Barbara Drucker/Suvan Geer, Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA

1986
Bouzianis Gallery, Athens, Greece

1980
California State University, Northridge, CA

1979
Idaho State University, Boise, ID
Los Angeles Photography Center, Los Angeles, CA


group exhibitions

2015
Group Exhibition, JTAG, Joshua Tree, CA

2014
18is25, Exhibition & Benefit Auction, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
JTAG Pop-Up Show, Modernism Week, Palm Springs, CA

2013
Group Exhibition, JTAG, Joshua Tree, CA

2012
Group Exhibition, JTAG, Joshua Tree, CA
Artists' Tower of Protest, organized by LA><ART and the Getty Research Institute
Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival, curated by Cesar Garcia

2011
Anti-Delusionists, organized by Rowan Wood, Anne Martens’ Home, Echo Park, CA
Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, organized by Doug Harvey, Santa Monica, CA
In the Studio, Santa Ana College Arts Gallery, Santora Building, Santa Ana, CA
Art Tours Collective Show, Hi-Desert Nature Museum, Yucca Valley, CA
Women of the Book, Richman Gallery, The Park School, Baltimore, MD

2010
EXPERIMENT ONE, 211A Studio & Main Public Library of Samos, Greece
International Mail Art Exhibition – Hoffberg Memorial, Armory Center, Pasadena, CA
Vault Series: Portraits, New Bedford Museum of Art, MA

2009
Preservation/Conservation, LAX Terminal 3, Los Angeles, CA

2008
Conventions and Attitudes, Projected exhibition curated by Karen Atkinson, 
Exchange Rate event, Trade and Row website (November 4, 2008)
Monster Drawing Rally, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Altadena, CA
So Cal, California State University, Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA
BLUE, La Canada Presbyterian Church, La Canada, CA
Emphasis/Santa Monica, Barrett Art Gallery, SMCC, Santa Monica, CA
The Art of Thought, City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA

2007
Portrait, groupworkLA: Issue V (magazine), eighteen-thirty gallery, LA, CA
Quiet Time/Love’s Labor, Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
ARTPROJECT07 – Alexiou, Drucker, Vathy, Samos, Greece
Women’s Work Is Never Done, Fullerton College Art Gallery, Fullerton, CA

2006
Sixteen Tons, New Wight Gallery, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center, UCLA
Makor/Source, USC/UCLA Hillel Galleries, Los Angeles, CA

2005
Quiet Time, 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica, CA
Unpredictable Dialogues, Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads, Santa Monica, CA
Women of the Book, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey; JCC, Miami, FL
Passion/Passover, Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles, CA
Scents:Locks:Kisses, Mail-art Project, Art Centre of Hasselt, Belgium

2004
Quiet Time, Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois
Too Jewish, Bell Family Gallery, Jewish Community Federation, Los Angeles
Words on Fire, Mizel Museum of Jewish Art, Denver, CO
Living, Gallery SIDAC, Mail-art Project, Leiden, Holland

2003
Shouts, Whispers and Cheers, Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA
Art and Anthropology/Four Journeys - El Camino College, Torrance, CA
Words on Fire/Women of the Book, Starr Gallery, Boston, MA    
Women of the Book, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana
To Life, University of Judaism, Platt/Borstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2002
California Dream - Gleaning, Libera Accademia di Belle Arti, Brescia, Italy
Artists’ Books, Christine Willis Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Material Concerns, University of Judaism, Platt/Borstein Gallery, LA, CA
SOCAL Books, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, UT; 
University Research Library, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
The Power of Aging, Gelabert Gallery, New York, NY
Women Beyond Borders, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, CA
Women of the Book, La Sierra University, Riverside, CA

2001
SOCAL Books, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
Women of the Book, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN    
After 75, Downstairs at the Milken, West Valley Jewish Center, West Hills, CA
After 75, Birch Gallery, Westside Jewish Center, Los Angeles, CA
3 Perspectives, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA
La donna ieri e oggi, Biblioteca Comunale, Mail-art Project, Milan, Italy

2000
The Artful Book, Pico Rivera Centre for the Arts, Pico Rivera, CA
Legal Size, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA
2000: L’Anno Mondiale della Matematica, Mail-Art Project, Bologna, Italy
Quel Libro, Biblioteca Rionale Affori, Mail-Art Project, Milan, Italy
Energy-Balance, Cologne Museum of Art, Mail-Art Book Proj., Koln, Germany
Women of the Book, Ritter Art Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, FL;
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

1999
Open and Closed: Books as Sculpture, Fullerton College Art Gallery, CA
Women of the Book, Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown University, Pennsylvania;
Kamin Gallery, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, University of Pennsylvania;
Janice C. Epstein Museum Gallery, Jewish Community Center, Detroit, MI
Millennium 2000, Mail-Art Project, Spazio di Arte Totale, Pistoia, Italy
2000 Names 2000 People 2000, Mail-Art Project, Klingenberg, Germany
L’enfance perdu/Lost Childhood, Mail-Art Project, Montreal, Canada
Hair / Archives, Mail-Art project, Terwispel, Netherlands
Before / Now, Artworks, International Mail-Art Project, Santa Monica, CA
After 75, The Living Room, Santa Monica, CA
The Last Spring, Dirt, Hollywood, CA

1998
6th Annual Miracle on 18th Street, Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, CA
Beyond the Matter of Space, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA
The $99 Store, Miller / Durazo Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Art Portfolios 1968-1998, Southern California Multiples #4, Long Beach, CA
Cosmic Cross, International Mail-Art Project, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Loose in the Fire, Mail-Art Project, The Kilns, Oxford, England
The Future World - La Testata, Mail-art Project, Arezzo, Italy
RED, Mail-Art Project, Acqui Terme, Italy
Libera Comunicazione, Mail-Art Project, Torreglia, Italy

1997
118W/24N, Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz, Austria
Women of the Book: Jewish Themes, Finegood Art Gallery, West Hills, CA
Death - A Round Trip Ticket, Tucson, AZ
Artists’ Books, FIG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
L.A. Slide, The Living Room, Santa Monica, CA
Dreams of Life and Death, The Living Room, Mail-art Project, SM, CA

1996
L.A. Current: The Female Perspective, Hammer Art Rental Gallery, LA, CA
Tears in the Fabric, California Medical Arts Group, Santa Monica, CA
California Index, Merging One Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Books in The Living Room, The Living Room, Santa Monica, CA

1995
Blue, International Mail-Art Project, Italy
Art from California, Maynard Walker Art Collection, Garnett, Texas
Global Focus: Women in Art and Culture, Beijing, China
The Transformative Object, Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
Death’s Domain, The New Gallery, Highways, Santa Monica, CA
In a Protected Space, Rachele Lozzi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1994
Contemporary and Beyond, UCLA/Hammer Museum, Art Rental Gallery, CA
The Never Before Seen, Rachele Lozzi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
In the Spirit of Fluxus, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
An Artist’s Postcard, Mail-Art Project, Finale Ligure, Italy
Searching for the Hidden, Mail-Art, Queens College, Cambridge, England
Black/White, Mail-Art Project, Chelm, Poland
Pieve di Cento e Il suo Barbaspein, Mail-art Project, Italy
Stuff, Santa Monica College Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Last Chance to Dance, Slide Show, LACE, Los Angeles, CA

1993
Shaped Structures: Bookworks in Form, Beckstrand Gallery, Palos Verdes, CA
Rituals of Passage, NCJW/LA Women’s Center Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Give me your hand, Mail-Art Project, Miejski Osrodek Kultury, Chelm, Poland

1992
Crossing Borders, Mail-Art Project, Irvine Fine Arts Center, CA
Boxes, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Photographic Book Art in the United States, Texas Woman’s University, TX    
Women, Witches, Sibyls, Mail-Art, MYSWEETHOUSE Archives, Fabriano, Italy
Arthur Rimbaud’s Death, Mail-Art Project, Limoges, France
Cross Currents - Bookworks from the Edge, CSU, Hayward, CA

1990
La Posta in Gioco, Mail-Art Project, Florence, Italy
New Works, Ted Cronin Gallery, New York, NY
Monchique 90, Arte Postal-Exposicao, Almada, Portugal
A Southern California Decade: An Exhibition of Contemporary Books,
Special Collections, URL Library, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

1989
A Book in Hand, Arvada center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO
Assemblage: Six Visions, Thinking Eye Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Photography is Dead, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

1988
Masks at Artspace, Artspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1987
Diversity & Presence, University Art Gallery, UC Riverside, CA
Women’s Autobiographical Artists’ Books, Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

1986
Artists’ Books, Cameraworks Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Small Works, SOHO 20, New York, NY

1985
Book Rate, Center for the Book Arts, New York, NY

1984
California Bookworks: The Last Five Years, Otis/Parsons, Los Angeles, CA

1983
Artists’ Books, Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY


public presentations

2014
Bread & Death, Video & Lecture, Huffington Center, St. Sophia Cathedral,  Los Angeles, CA

2011-16
Morongo Basin Cultural Arts Council, Annual Art Tour, Joshua Tree, CA

2011
Bread & Death, Video & Lecture, Department of Ethnology, University of Stockholm, Sweden

2010
Bread & Death, Video & Lecture, Bread in One Hand, CSUCI, Camarillo, CA

2008
Bread & Death, Video & Lecture, BODY/ART/DISEASE Symposium, ART/SCI Center, UCLA

2007
Bread & Death, Video Installation, Winter Wheat, LA CONTEMPORARY,  Culver City, CA

2006
Bread & Death, Video Installation, Sixteen Tons, New Wight Gallery, Broad Art Center, UCLA

2002
Artists’ Lecture, Women Beyond Borders, Fowler Museum, UCLA

2000
Artists’ Lecture, Women Healers, Ritual and Religion, WACD Department, UCLA

1999
Artists’ Lecture, Viewpoint School, Calabasas, CA

1998
Cemetery Rituals in Rural Greece, Gallery Mazzocchi, Parma, Italy

1997
Artists’ Lecture, Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz, Austria

1996
Artists’ Lecture, Ventura Community College, Ventura, CA

1995
Artists’ Lecture, Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA
Artists’ Lecture, New Gallery, 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica, CA
Artists’ Lecture, Art School of the Aegean, Samos, Greece
Cemetery Rituals in Rural Greece, Classics Department, UCLA

1994
Cemetery Rituals in Rural Greece, FIG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA


public collections

Smithsonian Archives of Contemporary Art, Washington, DC
Sackner Collection of Concrete Poetry and Artists’ Books, Miami, Florida
University Research Library, Special Collections/Artists’ Books, UCLA
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Museum of Greek Folk Art/ Film Archives, Athens, Greece
Museum of Greek Popular Instruments Center of Ethnomusicology, Athens, GR
Natural History Museum of the Aegean/ Ethnography Collection, Samos, GR