Bio
Gregory Kucera studied under and collaborated with the major artist/filmmakers John Baldessari, Mike Kelley, Sylvere Lotringer, Patti Podesta, Christopher Nolan, and Wally Pfister, Guy Pierce.
Having graduated with Honors at Occidental, and Art Center College of Design, his original career approached the artworld through a technological lens, cybernetics, and brain machine intelligence, this work has since spanned five continents. His career currently also espionage, film, media, advertising, design. He filed a patent in neurotechnology and mass surveillance, and collaborated with Caltech.
Teaching career included adjunct professor at University of Southern California, as well as at the Art Center College of Design, Otis College of Art, and has lectured throughout Southern California and Manhattan.
Kucera has been featured in articles for the ARTFORUM, ArtNews, ArtNet, the Observer, Seattle Intelligencer, and The Art Newspaper. Collections include Albright-Knox, San Jose Airport, and worked with the Getty, LACMA, MOCA, Basel Kunsthalle.
Currently Kucera is obligated for research and lawfare regarding national security, and is an intelligence professional with an elaborate dossier with all the national security agencies operating in the United States.
Kucera is currently a government whistleblower in counter litigation.
Education
MA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Caltech, Colloquium, Pasadena CA.
BA, (with Honors) Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
Corporate Commercial Work
1998-2020: Kucera Labs, (Freelance Multimedia/Intelligence Studies). Santa Fe, NM. Clients have included Microsoft, Unilever, McCann Erickson, Deloitte Touche, San Jose Airport, Sony Pictures, Paramount Studios, Focus Features.
Abridged Work
2012: Mike Kelly Studio’s, Gagosian Gallery.
2010: City of San Jose: Multi Media Artist
2008: Walt Disney Studios: Art Director.
2002-2004: Simple Industries, CEO, Patent based startup, Los Angeles, CA
1998-2004: Art Center College of Design: Lecturer/Media Instructor.
2002: Focus Features: Freelance Art Director
2000: Paramount Studios: On Site Technical, Hollywood CA
1996-2008: Patti Podesta: Assistant : Hollywood CA.
1998 Ayzenberg: Multimedia, Pasadena CA.
1996-1998: Milk & Honey Films, Art Director, Prague, CZ
1996-1997: McCann Erickson, Lead Art Director, Prague, CZ.
Exhibitions
2010: San Jose Airport, City of San Jose, San Jose California-permanent installation.
2008 Dream(land), Jail Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2007 Summer Stock, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2005 The Great Outdoors, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2005 Always As It Is Today, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California (solo)
2005 Gregory Kucera, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington (solo)
2005 Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2004 Under the Influence of Warhol, Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles, California
2004 Domicile, Center on Contemporary Art (COCA), Seattle, Washington
2004 Stay Positive! Positivism and Abstraction in Contemporary Art, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Italy
2004 Pong Farm, I-20, New York City, New York (solo)
2003 Tessellation Anxiety, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California (solo)
2003 Projects 2003, Sweeney Art Museum, University of California, Riverside (solo)
2003 Susquahannah Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
2003 Scope Art Fair, special curated benefit, Standard Hotel, Los Angeles, California
2003 Art in Motion: Interference Patterns, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California
2002 Das Spyderman, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California
2002 LA Freewaves,Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
2002 Give Me Shelter: New Videos on Suburban Discomfort, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
2002 Intervals and Inversions, I-20 Gallery, New York City, New York (solo)
2002 Contemporary Exhibitions Series, Coppos Films, Los Angeles
2001 DFKU, Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
2001 Videoteque, KUNSTAKUTEN, Stockholm, Sweden
2001Test Tube, Los Angeles Pierce College, Los Angeles, California
2001 Liste, Art 32 Basel (Low Gallery, Los Angeles), Basel, Switzerland
2001 AIM II, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California
2001 Graduate Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California (solo)
2000 Fit, New Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles
2000 Shotgun, Project Space, Peblink, Denmark
2000 Strangers in the Night, Gallery Paradiso, Costa Mesa, California (one person)
1999 CAA-MFA, Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1999 Brisk, Occidental College Center Gallery, Los Angeles, California