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= Elana Mann = Elana Mann is a Los Angeles-based artist and activist born on November 26, 1982 in Newton, MA. Mann explores the power of the collective voice by bringing greater consciousness to the acts of listening & speaking through sculpture, video, and community engagement. Additionally, Mann collaborates, organizes, & writes. Her work has been presented in museums, galleries, & public spaces within the U.S. & internationally.

Instagram: @elanamamma

Life & Education
Mann received a B.F.A (with honors) in sculpture from Washington University in St. Louis in 2003, and a M.F.A in art fromCalifornia Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA in 2007. She currently resides in Southern California with her husband, designer Jean-Paul Leonard, & their two kids.

Writing / Publications
Mann's multidisciplinary approach to making art has also included of publishing poems, books, etc. which include of:


 * Conversation Pieces (2006)
 * GIVE IT TO ME, DO IT TO ME, MAKE ME... (2007)
 * Exchange Rate: 2008 (2009)
 * Can't Afford the Freeway: A reader (2010)
 * We Are the Art (2010)
 * The People's Microphony Songbook (2012)

Further selected writings/publications:

2021 - “Robby Herbst: On Art, Kinship and Compassion,” The Edge of Equilibrium, edited by Camilla Boemio, Vanillaedizioni

2018 - Propositional Attitudes: What do we do now? co-edited with John Burtle, Golden Spike Press, Risograph print, 122 pages, edition of 250

2015 - “My Tribe: An interview with Senga Nengudi,” co-written with Vera Brunner-Sung, and “Between Radical Art and Critical Pedagogy, with Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz,” In the Canyon, Revise the Canon, edited by Geraldine Gourbe, Shelter Press: Switzerland

2014 - “Searching for Murmurs of History,” The Getty Iris, June 21, 2014>

2013 - “Rupture and Continuity in Feminist Re-performance,” co-written with Audrey Chan and Alexandra Grant, Afterall Journal, Issue 33, Summer 2013

2012 - "Radical Receptivities," co-authored with Juliana Snapper, Art 21 Blog, January 4

Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2021 - Year of Wonders, redux, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA

2020 - Year of Wonders, Artpace, San Antonio, TX Sounds from the Swamp, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX

2018 - Instruments of accountability, Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont, CA

2016 - The Assonant Armory, Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles, CA

2014 - Drone Duet, a collaboration with Matias Viegener, Digital Mural Project at the Culver Center of the Arts, UCR ARTSblock, Riverside, CA

2013 - 3 Solo Projects: Audrey Chan, Elana Mann, and Chan & Mann, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA

Listening as (a) movement, sculptural installation, series of events, and community organizing, Side Street Projects, Pasadena, CA

Meet the Chans and Manns, 323 Projects, Los Angeles, CA (Chan & Mann)

2012 - Chann & Mhann: A Historical Retrospective, 2005-2012, Elephant, Los Angeles, CA (Chan & Mann)

Public Projects/Commissions
2023 - Commission for the Public Defender's Office, Hall of Records, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming) 2021 - One day I will make a mace, but for now I have a mouth, Art Journal Open

2019 - Dark Victory, LACI AIR + CicLAvia, Los Angeles, CA

2017 - take a Stand Marching Band, Los Angeles, CA

2016 - Talk through the hand, mural on the exterior of Baik Art, Los Angeles, CA

2014 - All Ears, Mellon Arts Initiative, Pomona College, Claremont, CA

Grand Rounds, Grand Park in Downtown Los Angeles commissioned by Machine Project and the Music Center

2009 - Retirement Bash, with Culver City High School Students, commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Awards/Grants/Residencies
2022 - Cali Catalyst Award, The Center for Cultural Innovation

Ruth and Howard Chenven Foundation Grant

2021 - Sustainable Arts Foundation Award

Future Art Award

2020 - International Artist-in-Residence, Artpace San Antonio

City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship

2019 - The Stone & DeGuire Contemporary Art Award

Artist-in-Residence at the Los Angeles Clean-Tech Incubator (AIR LACI)

2017-18 - Ceramics Artist-In-Resident, Pitzer College

Cultural Trailblazer, City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs

2017 - Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant

2015 - Artist Community Engagement (ACE) Grant, Rema Hort Mann Foundation

2013 - Artist in Residence, Amy Marie Sears Memorial Visiting Artist Series, St. Catherine University, St. Paul, MN

Durfee Foundation Artist's Resource for Completion (ARC) Grant (for Chan & Mann)

2012 - Durfee Foundation Artist's Resource for Completion (ARC) Grant

2010 - Philadelphia Art Hotel residency, Philadelphia, PA

2009 - California Community Foundation Visual Artist Fellowship for Emerging Artists

Kitty Chester Series of Curator’s Laboratory Projects, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA