Hubby

Bettina Hubby

born 1968, New York, New York lives and works in Los Angeles, California

Education

1995
MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, New York 1990
BA, College of Charleston, South Carolina

Selected Projects

2012
Eagle Rock, The Rock and Eagle Shop, Eagle Rock, California

2011
"The Home Show," curated by Miki Garcia and Michele O'Marah, California Arts Foundation, Santa Barbara, California
"Get Hubbied," The Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California
X-10 Biennial, ten artists present their top ten artists in ten minutes, curated by Leonardo Bravo and Jeremy Rosenberg, Los Angeles, California

2010
"La tribune de la cuisine contestataire," 10 artists internationally doing a radio art work about food, curated by Asuka Hisa at The Santa Monica Museum of Art, for FRANCE CUTURE
"Hubby's CoTour," film screening and lecture, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, edited by Tyler Hubby, Los Angeles, California
Costumes for "Achilla," a performance directed by Andrew Hahn, WPA Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2009
"A Picnic in Eden," The Company Gallery, collaborative project between Bettina Hubby and Abel Gutierrez, Los Angeles, California

2008
"CoTour 2008," assorted Venues, multi-disciplanary project in homage to Hubby's ideal city, Los Angeles, California
"Studio," Redcat Theater, costume design for folk opera, directed by David Jones and Kelly Martin, Los Angeles, California

2007
"Double Fantasy," a co-exhibition of fashion and photography by Mike Slack and Bettina Hubby, Naked, Los Angeles, California
"Hubby Part V," Daniel Hug Gallery, portrait event with live models, Los Angeles, California

2004
"Hubby Part IV," The Mountain Bar, Portrait project of Hubby's community, Los Angeles, California

2002
"Hubby Part II," Weathervane, three models publicly change/model/interact in Hubby's new batch, Santa Monica, California
"Hubby and Hee Hee," DiannePruess Gallery, Runway style fashion show of wearable and not so wearable works, Chinatown, California

Selected Group Exhibitions

2012
ARTIST MERCHANDISING ART, Wonderloch Kellerland, Los Angeles, California
Valentine's Benefit, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California

2011
"Sex without the people," two person show with Lun*na Menoh, Track 16 gallery, Los Angeles, California "Signs on the Road," co-organized by Michael Ashkin and Joshua Geldzahler (as Workroom G), Winkleman CRL, New York
"The Open Daybook," curated by David Earle, exhibition at LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), Los Angeles, California

2010
"The Trade Show," WPA, Chinatown, Los Angeles, California
"Manifest Equality,"curated by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Annie Philbin, Shepard Fairey, Ed Ruscha, Lari Pittman, Lisa Love, Franklin Sirmans, Edgar Arceneaux, Rick Jacobs, David Pagel, Los Angeles, California

2008
"Cocktail Party w/ Skip Arnold," Bonelli Contemporary Gallery, Los Angeles, California
"Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing," Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, California
"Group show w/ Andre Butzer," 1727 N. Spring St., Los Angeles, California
"Fabricated Artifications," Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, California

1999
"Excerpts from 1000 Character Project," MTV, New York, New York

1998
"Drawings," Cal State Fullerton, California

1997
"A View From Brooklyn," Cal State Fullerton, California
"Gothic," Traveling Exhibition, Iceland
"America," LA Space for Art & Culture, Los Angeles, California

1996
"Codpiece," Griffin Linton Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California
"Scratch," Thread Waxing Space, New York, New York
"The Crest Hardware Show," Brooklyn, New York, New York

1995
"The New 13," The Joyce Goldstein Gallery, New York, New York
"The Fold," SVA Gallery, New York, New York
"50 Years," Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, New York

1994
"America's Favorite Painting Part II," Organized by Komar & Melamid, SVA Gallery, New York, New York

1993
"Cadavre Exquis," The Drawing Center, New York, New York

Curatorial Projects

2008
"Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing," Circus Gallery, Los Angeles

2003
"Tif Sigfrids," Horowitz, Ferrini, and Biondi, Los Angeles, California

2002
"Makiko Takehara," Roth Horowitz Gallery, Los Angeles, California

1998
"Slide and Film Club at the Anchorage," Anchorage, Brooklyn, New York

1997
"Winter Social," Four Walls, Hosted in Manhattan, Void, New York, New York
"Fall Social, The Art of Being Social," Four Walls, Brooklyn, New York
"Film Club," Four Walls, Brooklyn, New York

1996
"Vulgate," Nova Space, New York, New York
"Seaming," HERE Gallery, New York, New York

1995
"Flash," New York

Selected Bibliography

Dambrot, Shana Nys. “David Tutera’s ‘My Fair Wedding’ Be Damned: Bettina Hubby’s ‘Get Hubbied’ project Will Transform Your Wedding Into Performance Art, October 2011

Hodge, Brooke. “Seeing Things / Getting Hubbied,” The New York Times, September 2011

Knight, Christopher. “It’s all over the map, Home Show Revisted” Los Angeles Times, July, 2011

Nelson, Steffie. “Space Invaders,” The New York Times, June, 2011

Julavits, Heidi. "Ready to Tear," New York Times T Magazine, December, 2008

Lecaro, Lina. "Couture Savage, Bettina Hubby's Co-Tour 2008," LA Weekly, October, 2008

Apodaca, Rose. Style File Blog, October, 2008

Magner, Erin. "Get on the Bus: Bettina Hubby's Los Angeles," Style.com, October, 2008

Von Messling, Christina. "Get on the Bus: Bettina Hubby's Soulbaring CoTour 2008," Racked.com, October, 2008

Nelson, Steffie. "The Radar Now! CoTour de Force," Angeleno Magazine, September, 2008

Ruscha, Ed. "Erotic Images," Vogue Hommes, Spring/Summer, 2008

Halley, Peter. "Real life: FASHION, Salon Salon!," interview and images, 2005

Hundley, Jessica. "Runway Show as Exhibit," LATimes, 2004

Rose, Aaron. "Bettina Hubby," Anthem Magazine, 2004

Frank, Peter. "Irrational Exhibits 3, Hubby Part IV," LA Weekly 2004

Rose, Aaron. "Young, Sleek, and Full of Hell," Published by Drago, 2001

Rose, Aaron. "People / Bettina Hubby," Atmosphere Magazine, 2001