L.A. ART MACHINE Mearone

L.A. ART MACHINE Mearone

MEAR ONE

Mear One, born 1971 as Kalen Ockerman in Santa Cruz, California, is a Los Angeles-based fine artist, famously known for his often-political street graffiti art. Commonly referred to as the 'Michelangelo' of Graffiti, Mear One is often associated with CBS (Can't Be Stopped -- City Bomb Squad) and WCA (West Coast Artist) crews. As a graphic designer, Mear One has designed apparel for Conart, Kaotic, as well as his own Reform brand. Mear One has done album covers for artists like Freestyle Fellowship, Alien Nation, Limp Bizkit, Busdriver and Daddy Kev. In 2004, Mear One joined artists Shepard Fairey and Robbie Conal to create a series of "anti-war, anti-Bush" posters for a street art campaign called "Be the Revolution" for the art collective Post Gen. As a famed L.A. street artist and prolific graffiti writer for over 20 years his partners have included Kofie, Skate One, Az Rock, Tren, Item, Anger, Yem, and Cisco. view available print work	Mear One Toy Eater

CURRICULUM VITAE Born in Santa Cruz, California, 1971 Lives and works in Los Angeles, California SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2010 VOX HUMANA, Volta 6, L.A. Art Machine, Basel, Switzerland SCOPE Art Fair, Willem Kerseboom Gallery, Basel, Switzerland Art Amsterdam, Willem Kerseboom Gallery, Amsterdam, ND VOX HUMANA, American Association of Museums Conference, L.A Art Machine, L.A., CA Contemporary Corruption, Mid-City Arts, Los Angeles, CA VOX HUMANA, Coachella Music Festival, L.A. Art Machine, Indio, CA VOX HUMANA, L.A. Art Show, L.A. Art Machine, Los Angeles, CA Street Legal, Rivera & Rivera Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2009 Mear One Cosmic Creations Tattoo and Gallery, Lake Tahoe, California 2008 Mear One Strikes Back, 1 AM Gallery, San Francisco, California Mearasma, 01 Gallery, Los Angeles, California 2007 Manifest Energy and Radiate, Upper Playground, Portland, Oregon Mear One: Mental Paintdown, Venice Contemporary, Los Angeles, California 2006 Carnival, Submerged Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California 2005 Speaking in Tongues, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, California 2004 Robert Roman Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona Complacency Kills, Blackmarket LA, Los Angeles, California District 3 Gallery, San Diego, California New American Casuals, Portland, Oregon 2003 Graffitemotions, David Lawrence Gallery, Beverly Hills, California 2002 Destroying Normality, 33 1/3 Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1997 01 Gallery, Los Angeles, California SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2009 Beyond Eden, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, California Culver City Invasion, Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles, California Under the Influence: The Official Art Tribute to the Beastie Boys, Gallery 1988, Los Angeles, California 2008 Steinweiss: A Selection of Tribute Pieces to Alex Steinwiess, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, California BLOC28 By Disney Artist Series, Los Angeles, California Pacific Northfresh, Upper Playground, Seattle, Washington LA Vs. War, The Firehouse, Los Angeles, California 2007 Languedocalifornia, Galerie Dominique Bagouet, Montpellier, France Battle of the Year 2007, Le Zenith Sud, Montpellier, France Rendition: An Exhibition of Los Angeles Visual Culture, Scion Space, Los Angeles, California 2006 Bergamot Invasion II, Copro Nason Gallery, Santa Monica, California Picks of the Harvest: Batch Three, Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles, California Picks of the Harvest: Batch Two, Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles, California I am 8-Bit, Gallery 1988, Los Angeles, California Conart, Crewest Gallery, Los Angeles, California 2005 Celebrate Mickey: 75 Inspirations, Sotheby’s, New York, New York Picks of the Harvest: Batch One, Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles, California 2004 – 2005 Installation, Scion Space, Los Angeles, California 2004 Sphere Project, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, California Installation Art Auction, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, California Los Angeles Biennial, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California Los Angeles Biennial, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, California 100 Artists See Satan, Grand Central Station, Los Angeles, California Under Deconstruction: Mear One and Marka27, Union 237, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania PostGen Be the Revolution National Tour, Collaborative Works by: Mear One, Shepard Fairey, and Robbie Conal The Avalon, Hollywood Zeitgeist Gallery, Boston, MA during DNC Gallery Sovereign, Boulder, CO Market LB, Long Beach, CA Asterisk Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Sole Division Concert, San Francisco, CA Arizona State University, ASU Museum Downtown Art Center, Las Vegas, NV UN World Forum, Barcelona, Spain 2003 RTEA Charity Group Exhibition, Don O’Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles, California Yankee Doodle, Crewest Gallery, Alhambra, CA Paintings on Canvas, Cal Poly Pomona Downtown Center, Pomona, CA RTEA Facts For Kids, Inshallah Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Open All Windows, Let Out Your Fears, The New Sunset Building, Hollywood, CA Elemental Journey: Your Style is Worth While, Inshallah Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2002 Juxtapoz 8th Anniversary Art Show, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2001 Poster Renaissance, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA Capital Art, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Detours, Side Street Projects, Los Angeles, CA ¡Zalût!, Gallery at Avalon Island, Orlando, FL 2000 Last Thursday, Orlando Museum of Fine Art, Orlando, FL Made In California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Graffiti Art: The Auction, Guernsey’s, New York, NY The Portrait Show, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA The Definitive Retrospective, Copro/Nason Gallery, Culver City, CA Detours, Side Street Projects, Los Angeles, CA Contemporary Corruption II, 0-1 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1999 Contemporary Corruption, 0-1 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Poster Renaissance, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA Roots, Rhyme and Rage: The Hip-Hop Story, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Inductee), Cleveland, OH 1998 Festival Attitude, Galerie Le Zoo, Montpellier, France Calivera Kustom, Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1997 Wild West, ICU Gallery, Los Angeles, CA ACME CUSTOM, Acme Gallery, San Francisco, CA Dada Art Festival, Downtown Los Angeles, CA 1996 New Directions: CHAZ/MEAR, TWO MAN ART SHOW, 01 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Dada Art Festival, Downtown Los Angeles, CA 1995 Top Illin’, ICU Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1993 48 Hours in the Hole, Gallery X, Hollywood, CA SELECTED MURAL INSTALLATIONS 2001 Life Imitating Art, Boys and Girls Club Center, Tucson, AZ Untitled Group Installation, Yellowstone Building at Melrose and La Brea, Los Angeles, CA 2000 and prior Untitled, Yellowstone Building at Melrose and La Brea Avenues, Los Angeles, CA Untitled Group Installation, Vacant Building at Pico and La Brea Avenues, Los Angeles, CA Untitled, Belmont Tunnel Yard, Los Angeles, CA Untitled Group Installation, CRLA Building, Los Angeles, CA Untitled Group Installation, North Hollywood Thrift Shop, North Hollywood, CA Untitled, Motor Yard, Culver City, CA Untitled, Los Angeles River, Los Angeles, CA Untitled, Venice Pit, Venice, CA Untitled, The Bridge Building, South Bronx, NY Untitled, Shibuya, JAPAN Untitled, Shinjuku, JAPAN Untitled, Wiesbaden, GERMANY Untitled, Paris, FRANCE Untitled, Montpellier, FRANCE SELECTED REVIEWS 2001 Fridge Magazine, New York, NY Urb Magazine, Los Angeles, CA (Total of 33 Different Issues) SP Magazine, Los Angeles, CA Cool Trans Magazine, JAPAN Scrawl Too: More Dirt, London, ENGLAND 2000 and prior The New York Times, New York, NY Urb Magazine, Los Angeles, CA SP Magazine, Los Angeles, CA Jordan Magazine, London, ENGLAND The Source, New York, NY Juice Magazine, GERMANY Ollie Magazine, JAPAN Juxtapoz, San Francisco, CA The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, CA The LA Weekly, Los Angeles, CA Rap Pages, Los Angeles, CA Fine Magazine, JAPAN Subculture, Los Angeles, CA SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 2007 Graffiti LA: Street Styles and Art, Steve Grody, New York, New York 2005 The History of Los Angeles Graffiti Art, Volume 1, 1983-1988, Robert “Wisk” Alva and Robert “Relax” Reiling Celebrate Mickey: 75 Inspirations, Sotheby’s, New York, New York 2004 100 Artists See Satan, Exhibition Catalogue, Los Angeles, California 2002 URBAN DISCIPLINE 2002 Graffiti-Art, Gerrit Peters, Heiko Zahlman, Mirko Reisser BROKEN WINDOWS Graffiti NYC, James Murray and Karla Murray, Gingko Press 2001 Scrawl Too: More Dirt, Liz Farrelly, David Recchia, Mike Dorrian, Ric Blackshaw, Booth-Clibborn Editions 2000 Exhibizion 2000, Akademie Der Kunste Graffiti Art: The Auction, Guernsey’s, Exhibition Catalogue, New York, NY 1997 Painting the Towns; Murals of California, Robin J. Dunitz & James Prigoff, RJD Enterprises	Mear One Transformanation, 2010 Acrylic on canvas 138 x 138 inches Created during Vox Humana at the L.A. ART SHOW 2010. Mear One Lubricant in the Machine Mear One Metaphysics Mear One Higher Ground