yumi.roth@colorado.edu
303-735-0478
office: C1B50G
website: www.yumijroth.com

The intersection of art and the everyday through the lens of object-making and installation.

Education

B.A. in anthrolopogy (magna cum laude), Tufts University
B.F.A. in visual arts, School for the Museum of Fine Arts
M.F.A. in metals, State University of New York, New Paltz

Solo Exhibitions

Speak Clearly So We Can Understand, Sarah Bowen Gallery, New York, NY- 2006

Detoured, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX - 2005

Small Acts of Public Service,Vargas Museum, Manila, Philippines - 2005

Durable Goods, Dupreau Gallery, Chicago, IL - 2001

Parts and Labor, Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Madison, WI - 2001

Kwality Art Show, Wriston Art Center Galleries, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI - 2000

Selected Group Exhibitions

Surface Sublime, Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, WI 2006

Nothing to Fear, Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY 2005-06

RG ReSolutions presents: Thinking Small, a collaboration between Yumi Janairo Roth
and Adriane Herman, The Map Room Portland, ME 2005

Flashback, Fastforward Anderson Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM 2005

Art Shanty Project, No Name Exhibitions @ the Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN 2005

600 Images/60 Artists/6 Curators/6 Cities 2005
Lumiere Gallery, Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines;The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA; Gallery F Stop, Bangkok, Thailand; Great Eastern Hotel, London, UK; Bread Factory, Berlin, Germany

7 Curatorial Responses, Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 2004

Spacemakers, Lothringer Dreizen, Munich, Germany and the Suburban, Chicago, IL 2004 curated by the Suburban

USA, Arcaute Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico 2004

Yumi Janairo Roth & Christian Maychack, The Bower, San Antonio, TX 2004

Summer Show, Rule Gallery, Denver, CO 2004

Everything Old is New Again, The Dairy Center for the Arts, Denver, CO 2004

Suspension: Sonic Absorption, Consolidated Artworks, Seattle, WA 2004

Pulse: Emerging Artists, Gallery 1708, Richmond, VA 2004

The Discourse of Others, Salon de la Plastica Mexicana, Mexico City, Mexico 2004

Slop Art: Supermarket, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Fall, IA 2004

Cabin Fever, Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI 2003

The Stray Show, Dupreau Gallery, Chicago, IL 2003

Dotecky, Galerie Sypka at Galerie Klatovy-Klenova, Klenova, Czech Republic 2003

Synthetic Flora, Limn Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2002

Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI 2002

Attached, No Name Exhibitions @The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN 2001

Art Miami, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Miami, FL 2001

Bibliography
Catalogue and Brochure Essays:

Style Depot, by David Varno, Sarah Bowen Gallery, New York, NY, Speak Clearly So We Can Understand, 2006

The Pages of a Book Can’t See Their Cover, by Nicholas Frank, Institute for Visual Arts, Milwaukee, WI, Surface Sublime, 2006

Decorating Tips for Subverting Authority, by Timothy Rodgers, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX, Detoured, 2005

Nothing to Fear, by Nadine Wasserman, Art Center for the Capital Region, Albany, NY, Nothing to Fear, 2005

Doteky/Contacts, by Martina Pachmanova, Galerie Klatovy-Klenova, Dotecky/Contacts, 2004

Suspension: Sonic Absorption, by Sara Krajewski, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA, Suspension: Sonic Absorption, 2004

Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Art Center, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, 2002

Parts and Labor, by Nadine Wasserman, Wisconsin Academy of Arts, Letters and Science, Madison, WI, Parts and Labor, 2001

Arts Not Fine, Postmodern Constructions: The Art of Yumi Janairo Roth, by Michelle Grabner, Wriston Art Center, Appleton, WI, Kwality Art Show, 2000

Selected Reviews:

Art Listings, Last Chance: Prevailing Climate, The New York Times, by Holland Cotter, August 18, 2006

Art in Review: Prevailing Climate, The New York Times, by Holland Cotter, August 11, 2006

Prevailing Climate at Sara Meltzer Gallery, Art Info, online magazine www.artinfo.com, July 18, 2006

Art Listings: Prevailing Climate, recommended show, ed. by Bree Sposato, New York Magazine, New York, NY, July 24, 2006

Sublime Inspirations, by Lindsay A. Wolkowicz, Mke Central, Milwaukee, WI, Feb. 16, 2006

Lawn Signs, Houston Press, Houston, TX, by Keith Plocek, January 12, 2006

Artists Respond to Culture of Fear and Warnings, Times Union, Albany, NY, by Tresca Weinstein, January 15, 2006

Contradiciendo al Consumismo, Rumbo, Houston, TX, by Alfredo Giraldo, Jan. 6, 2006

The Front Row, radio interview with Alison Young on KUHF 88.7, Houston, TX, December 13, 2005

Think Small, Art New England, exhibition review by Chris Thompson, Dec-Jan

Your Brain in Lights, Portland Phoenix, Portland, ME, by Chris Thompson, Sept 9, 2005

600 Images at Lumiere Gallery, Asian Art News, Hong Kong, by Jack Sotto, July/August, 2005

Aptitude at Altitude, The Denver Post, Denver, CO, by Jack Cox, May 24, 2005

Once and Future Things, Pasatiempo: The New Mexican, Santa Fe, NM, by Elizabeth Cook-Romero, March 25, 2005

SFR Picks: Gang of Many Colors, Santa Fe Reporter, Santa Fe, NM, by Zane Fischer, March 23, 2005

Girlie Gore, Twirls, and More, San Antonio Current, San Antonio, TX, by Catherine Walworth, June, 2004

Classical, Jazz, & Avant Sonic Absorption, The Stranger, Seattle, WA, by Chris Delaurenti, March 18, 2004
ConWorks Shows Deliver Fun and Heartbreak, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, by Regina Hackett, March, 2004

Christian Marclay & Suspension: Sonic Absorption, Drain Magazine, by Celine Jeffery, Issue 1

Reaching New Heights, Art News, by Kyle MacMillan, January, 2005

The Best of 2003: Best New Artist, The Denver Post, Denver, CO, by Kyle MacMillan, December 15, 2003

End Runs, Westword, Denver, CO, by Michael Paglia, October 23, 2003

CU Faculty Art Show Reveals Strengths, The Denver Post, Denver, CO, by Kyle MacMillan, September 26, 2003

Art Chicago Alternatives Exist in Odd Places, The Chicago Tribune, Chicago, IL, by Lisa Stein, May 9, 2003

Real is Real, The City Pages, Minneapolis, MN, by Peter Ritter, Vol.22, Issue 1085

Group Show Intrigues with Simple Materials, The Star Tribune, Minneapolis, MN, by Mary Abbe, September 14, 2001

How to Put Infinity into a Box, Object Magazine, Minneapolis, MN, by Andrew Knighton, Vol. 6, 2001
Finding Art at Menards, The Capital Times, Madison, WI, by Kevin Lynch, April 6, 2001

Creative Agendas, WORT, Madison, WI, 2001

Questions of the Quotidian, Milwaukee Journal Sentinal, Milwaukee, WI, by James Auer, March 14, 2001

A Pabulum on Art and the Everyday, The Journal of Mundane Behavior, by Nadine Wasserman, 2001