Judy Fiskin

[1][2] She was raised in Los Angeles and graduated from Pomona College, where her classmates included future artists Chris Burden and James Turrell.

She got a master's degree in art history at UCLA, compiled and edited the journals of Richard Neutra, and was co-director of Womanspace Gallery in the mid-1970s.

"[4] Since her first show at Castelli Graphics in New York City in 1976, Fiskin's photographs have had the same distinctive format: small black-and-white images, two and one-half inches square, printed on letter-sized white paper.

In 1992, MOCA in Los Angeles held a mid-career retrospective for Fiskin; critics praised the intelligence, wit, and stylistic coherence of her work.

Her photographs have been exhibited widely, including the Pompidou Center in Paris displaying 24 prints as part of their historic 2006 exhibit, "Los Angeles 1955-1985, Birth of an Art Capital," and MOCA Los Angeles displayed 15 prints in their 2009-2010 show "Collection: MOCA's First 30 Years."

The video won awards at the San Francisco International Film Festival and at Worldfest Houston, and was screened at MOCA in Los Angeles, and in Bonn, Kassel, and Brisbane, among other places.

Her 2007 video, "The End of Photography," a three-minute elegy for the darkroom, was exhibited in Paris, Berlin, Kassel, and in Los Angeles at the Getty, LACMA, MOCA, and at Angles Gallery.

"Like all great works of art," David Pagel wrote in a review in the Los Angeles Times, the video "tells more than one story.

"[14] In her 2010 video, "Guided Tour," which premiered at Angles Gallery in Los Angeles, the voices of two museum docents seem to describe various works of high and low art.

Christopher Knight, art critic for the L.A. Times, called the video "inspired… a surprising journey into your own conflicted assumptions about substance and significance.

[17] As a part of "Made in LA 2014," the Hammer also screened Fiskin’s "Art Talk Trilogy" – her videos "My Getty Center," "50 Ways to Set the Table" and "Guided Tour.

"[18] Fiskin’s Hammer video and other works were the subject of an interview with Tyler Green on the Modern Art Notes podcast.

Since Fiskin turned to video in the late 1990s, this compendium represents her complete photographic oeuvre, including many images never before published.