Zoe Crosher

Background

Crosher was born in Santa Rosa, California. The daughter of a diplomat and airline stewardess, Crosher grew up mostly as an expatriate.

Education

Crosher subsequently attended California Institute of the Arts where she received her Master of Fine Arts in Photography and Integrated Media.

Career

Crosher lives and works in Los Angeles, California. She returned to California to earn her Bachelor of Arts in Art and Politics from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Early Crosher edited NTNTNT (2004), a collaborative project that investigated the short-lived history of Netto.art, and later served as Associate Editor of Afterall Magazine. In 2006, she was the recipient of the Penny McCall Foundation Publishing Award (New York, New York) and the Pillowfight Grant (Seattle, Washington).

She is also a 2007 recipient of the Materials & Applications residency in Los Angeles, California.

In 2012, Crosher"s work was included in MoMA"s 2012 New Photography exhibition.

Crosher has also received solo exhibitions at spaces such as Dallas Contemporary, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Los Angeles><ART, and the California Museum of Photography. In collaboration with Los Angeles Nomadic Division, Crosher initiated and co-curated The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project, a public art exhibition taking place on billboards along the I-10 freeway.

Crosher"s work will close the show, appearing in 2015 on the westernmost segment of the project

Achievements

• In 2011 Crosher received the Los Angeles County Museum of Art AHAN Award (Art Here and Now) The same year, Aperture published the first of a series of a limited edition, four volume set of books that offers Crosher"s re-interpretation of Michelle duBois"(a frequent protagonist in Crosher"s work) archive of self-portraits titled "The Reconsidered Archive of Michelle duBois.".