Carole Ann Klonarides

Carole Ann Klonarides (born 1951) is an American curator, video artist, writer and art consultant that has been based in New York and Los Angeles. She has worked in curatorial positions at the Santa Monica Museum of Art (1997–2000) and Long Beach Museum of Art (1991–95), curated exhibitions and projects for PS1 and Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Laforet Museum (Tokyo), and Video Data Bank, among others, and been a consultant at the Getty Research Institute. Klonarides emerged as an artist among the loosely defined Pictures Generation group circa 1980; her video work (often in collaboration with Michael Owen as MICA-TV) has been presented in numerous museum exhibitions, including "Video and Language: Video As Language" (LACE, Renaissance Society, 1986–7), "documenta 8," "New Works for New Spaces: Into the Nineties," (Wexner Center for the Arts, inaugural exhibition, 1989), and "The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984" (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009), and at institutions such as MoMA, the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum, Contemporary Arts Center, the New Museum, The Kitchen, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She completed her BFA in painting and printmaking (1973) while still living in New York, and started working at various galleries, including OK Harris Gallery. In 1980, while attending the New School for Social Research (MA, media studies, 1983), Klonarides met Michael Owen and they formed MICA-TV, a video production company focused on making videos with contemporary artists. She also organized "TV: For Real" for the Laforet Museum in Tokyo (1989) and curated the video programs "It's Evening in America" (1989) on the Reagan years and "The Alternative Voice" for Video Data Bank's "Video Drive-In" in New York's Central Park (1990). Critic Christopher Knight described the subsequent multimedia exhibition, "Relocations and Revisions: The Japanese-American Internment Reconsidered"—with work by Margaret Honda, Rea Tajiri and Bruce and Norman Yonemoto—as "generous, provocative" and engaging. Klonarides also organized the LBMA shows, "Gary Hill: Sites Recited" (1993)—his first career survey—and "New California Video: 1994-1995."

From 1997 to 2000, Klonarides served as curator of programming for the Santa Monica Museum of Art. While at SMMA, she organized performance events and exhibitions for Liza Lou, Andrea Bowers, Robert Mapplethorpe, Pierre Huyghe, and Yoshitomo Nara, among others and co-curated the influential show, "Mise en Scene: New LA Sculpture," with Bruce Hainley. Independently, she curated a mid-career survey for George Stone at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (2003) and organized a public installation of a Jessica Bronson's work in Old Town Pasadena (2004). In 2012, she worked with Dawn Kasper on "00:00 [RESET]," a performance series and website sponsored by LAX and the Getty Research Institute. She also curated "Che Mondo" (2013), an exhibition of contemporary photography for Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, and "Alex Slade: What City Pattern?" (2013) and "Richard Prince: The Douglas Blair Turnbaugh Collection (1977–1988)" (2016), both at Edward Cella Art + Architecture. Richard Prince, Laurie Simmons, and John Torreano, that translated each subject's work into a televisual mode through specific aural and visual themes and formats, often with a sense of deadpan humor [and conceptual sophistication]. The video structures a continuous flow of seamlessly edited and scored vertical movement—common to the artists' work—incorporating modern shopping malls, video arcades and pop culture products and was a co-production with the U.K.'s Channel Four for the series "Ghosts in the Machine."

In later work, they created profiles of Vito Acconci, Joel Otterson, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, and others for the 1989 World Financial Center exhibition "The New Urban Landscape," and of Chuck Close (1991) and John Baldessari (1994) for MoMA. For The In-Between (1990), created for the opening of the Wexner Center for the Arts, MICA-TV collaborated with writer Susan Daitch on a contemporary, fractured Gothic narrative that mixed ideas from the building's architect, Peter Eisenman, imagery of the Center itself, and psychoanalytic processes. MICA-TV has been recognized with grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. In the 1990s, Klonarides produced several videos with Joe Leonardi in conjunction with shows she curated at the Long Beach Museum of Art, including the hour-long "Gary Hill: Sites Recited" (1994, with Gary Hill), "Choice Encounters: Selections from the LBMA Permanent Collection" (1993), and "Relocations and Revisions: The Japanese-American Internment Reconsidered" (1991). Santa Monica Museum of Art, Long Beach Museum of Art, The J. Paul Getty Trust, Ars Electronica, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, School of Visual Arts (New York), and Center for Photography at Woodstock, among others. She has authored catalogue essays on artists, including Anna Bialobroda, Henry Coombes, Meg Cranston, Theodora Varnay Jones, Hilja Keading, Nancy Macko, Richard Prince, George Stone, Andy Wing, Bruce Yonemoto, and Etienne Zack. Her essays and reviews and interviews of artists and filmmakers Michel Auder, William Leavitt, Raúl Ruiz, Allen Ruppersberg, and Mungo Thomson have been published in Art Journal, BOMB, and X-TRA, among other publications.