THREE PIECES Bios
August 5, 2008
Jano Cortijo, Dana Hemenway,
PB8,
Jano Cortijo
Jano Cortijo was born in Trujillo, Peru in 1973. He cleaned his home and hand washed his clothes for about a decade before studying Mass Communications for lack of a less demanding career. In 1997 he began to present exhibitions in his hometown, using photography and video installations that examined issues of personal and collective identity as they shift and are shaped in urban and domestic spaces.
He participated in numerous exhibitions in Trujillo and Lima before being awarded one of the top prizes in the II National Lima Biennial in 2000. He represented Peru in the III Iberoamerican Lima Biennial in 2002 and extended his practice to the development and presentation of curatorial projects in Peru and abroad. He is currently a curator for the Lima Museum of Contemporary Art (www.li-mac.org) and moved to San Francisco in 2007 after an artist's residency at the Kunstmeile in Krems, Austria.
Jano Cortijo will present Hom(m)eworking, a performance examining the Sisyphean and cathartic aspects of domestic chores.
www.janocortijo.com
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Dana Hemenway
Dana Hemenway was born in 1982 and raised in Northern California; she currently works and lives in San Francisco, CA. Dana received her BFA in 2003 from University of California, Santa Cruz. Since moving San Francisco in 2004 Dana has exhibited her artwork at Intersection for the Arts, Femina Potens Gallery, Mission 17 and Artist Television Access in San Francisco; the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek; and San Jose/Works in San Jose. In addition to showing her own artwork Dana has curated exhibitions at Artists Television Access, the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and was on a jury for Root Division. Both her curatorial projects and artwork have been reviewed- curatorial work in the SF Bay Guardian and SF Weekly and artwork in Afterimage Magazine among others. Dana has worked in the fine arts printmaking industry, as a teaching assistant at UC Santa Cruz and is currently the gallery manager at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery.
www.danahemenway.com
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PB8
Stairs could be a Monument for Collectiveness
I was born 1983 in Kaunas, Zaliakalnis district, Lithuania. I Attended Kaunas "Purienos" (22) secondary school; Higher education: 2001-2006 bachelor degree in photography and media arts, Vilnius art academy. Now I'm continuing my master degree studies in the same place.
I invented the symbol PB8 in 2001 in order to identify individual creativity. Officially this symbol was exported in to public realm during PB8_001_V project 2006. In between I was a co-producer of the festival “Elektrodienos. Unidentified Sound Object” at the CAC, Vilnius in 2004. Organizer of the “Workshow” series of collaborative events since 2005. I was trying to be the medium in “Close to Number” live installation in 2005 in London and Vilnius. Through all of this I'm currently collecting found and concrete sounds and presenting them as electro acoustic mosaics together with more public explorations in the design of installations. During 2007 I found and produce till now the monthly event ‘VYlive’. At the same time around ‘Collective Instrument no.1’ was invented.
www.pb8.lt