Adjunct Instructor
Education
MFA in Studio Art: California Institute of the Arts, MFA in Painting: University of Maryland at College Park
About
Lara Bank is a college art educator and artist working in the Los Angeles area. She has been teaching art since 1999 and at the college level since 2002 as an adjunct primarily teaching at USC in the animation department, Otis College of Art and Design product design department, Moorpark College art department, and Pierce College art department. She began teaching digital art classes at the college level following working as a technical director for a dot-com making animated games and websites.
Bank received an MFA in Studio Art from Cal Arts in 1998 and an MFA in Painting from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1996 graduating Summa Cum Laude.
As an artist, Bank produces participatory and static artworks questioning notions of culpability, power, ownership, space, communication, equity, and accomplishment. Her projects often expand upon where art can happen and test the limits of what we think of as an artistic practice such as The Portable Forest, wearable and portable foliage for public interactions (2008-2012), and Sea and Space Explorations, LA, a 501(c)(3) non-profit art gallery (2007-2010), and Tree and Space, a tree designated as a site for public art (2008-2010).
Exhibitions and events include: High Desert Test Sites; The Dumbo Arts Festival; The Dumbo Arts Center, NYC; The San Diego Art Museum; Koh-i-noor, CH, Denmark; The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA; The Torrance Art Museum, CA; Kristi Engle Gallery, LA, CA; Human Resources, LA, CA; Monte Vista Projects, LA, CA; Sea and Space Explorations, LA, CA; Body Builder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago; Raid Projects, LA, CA; Weingart Gallery, Occidental College, LA, CA; Foundation for Art Resources, LA, CA; Huntington Beach Art Center, LA, CA; Side Street Projects, LA, CA; Centro Nacional de Artes, San Salvador, El Salvador; Raflost Festival, Iceland; ISEA2004 Festival; LA Freewaves.
Her projects have been reviewed and discussed in The LA Weekly, LA Magazine, The LA Times, LA Record, Flash Art, FREIZE Magazine, Citizen LA, Sculpture Magazine, and The Washington Post.
Center for Cultural Innovation ARC GRANT recipient, 2012.
Bank received an MFA in Studio Art from Cal Arts in 1998 and an MFA in Painting from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1996 graduating Summa Cum Laude.
As an artist, Bank produces participatory and static artworks questioning notions of culpability, power, ownership, space, communication, equity, and accomplishment. Her projects often expand upon where art can happen and test the limits of what we think of as an artistic practice such as The Portable Forest, wearable and portable foliage for public interactions (2008-2012), and Sea and Space Explorations, LA, a 501(c)(3) non-profit art gallery (2007-2010), and Tree and Space, a tree designated as a site for public art (2008-2010).
Exhibitions and events include: High Desert Test Sites; The Dumbo Arts Festival; The Dumbo Arts Center, NYC; The San Diego Art Museum; Koh-i-noor, CH, Denmark; The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA; The Torrance Art Museum, CA; Kristi Engle Gallery, LA, CA; Human Resources, LA, CA; Monte Vista Projects, LA, CA; Sea and Space Explorations, LA, CA; Body Builder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago; Raid Projects, LA, CA; Weingart Gallery, Occidental College, LA, CA; Foundation for Art Resources, LA, CA; Huntington Beach Art Center, LA, CA; Side Street Projects, LA, CA; Centro Nacional de Artes, San Salvador, El Salvador; Raflost Festival, Iceland; ISEA2004 Festival; LA Freewaves.
Her projects have been reviewed and discussed in The LA Weekly, LA Magazine, The LA Times, LA Record, Flash Art, FREIZE Magazine, Citizen LA, Sculpture Magazine, and The Washington Post.
Center for Cultural Innovation ARC GRANT recipient, 2012.