Nancy Buchanan

Beginning with her participation as a founding member of F Space Gallery in Costa Mesa, Nancy Buchanan has been involved in numerous artists’ groups including The Los Angeles Woman’s Building and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE); she has also acted as curator for several exhibitions and projects. Her work has been seen domestically and internationally and she is the recipient of four National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist grants, a COLA grant, and a Rockefeller Fellowship in New Media, which enabled her to complete Developing: The Idea of Home, an interactive CD-ROM, in 1999. Her work has been shown in exhibitions at MOMA, MOCA, the Centre Pompidou, the Getty Research Institute, and was included in four of the Getty-sponsored Pacific Standard Time exhibitions; in 2022, her work was included in the Carnegie International. 

In 2016, she organized a durational performance at UC Irvine’s xMPL Theater as the second event in The Art of Performance; from 1988-2012, she taught in the Film/Video School at CalArts. From 1988-1998, she worked with community activist Michael Zinzun on his cable access show Message to the Grassroots and as a member of Zinzun’s LA 435 Committee, she traveled to Namibia to produce a documentary about that country’s transition to independence from the Republic of South Africa.

She has shown with Charlie James Gallery since 2017. Buchanan lives and works in Los Angeles.

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