Pamela Davis Kivelson is a playwright, painter, photographer, sculptor, and performance artist. PDK has a BA in Fine Art from Yale and an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. Her focus has always been the experiential and the human in art. PDK wrote and directed the Quantum un-play Conversations Across Time(CAT). It debuted at the Beecroft Theatre in Oxford in June 2023. She created 35 portraits for the play Vagabond Hotel. Which premiered at the ID Studio Theatre in the Bronx. Recently her sculpture the Frustrated Icosehedron was installed in the lobby of the UBC's Quantum Matter Institute. Her installation, : "The Art of Black Holes" is on display in Varian at Stanford University. It was curated by Stanford Physicist Peter Michelson. PDK is currently artist in residence to Q-FARM at Stanford University. She is working on: "Traveling Portraits for Quantum Future". https://news.stanford.edu/2022/10/14/2022-fall-quarter-guest-arists
She was artist in residence to the Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University for five years. More than 40 works of public art of hers, are on display on the Stanford campus. Previously she was a Lecturer in the Design Impact Program in the Dept. of Engineering.
Before coming to Stanford she founded and directed the Center for Science and Art at UCLA. She has also been Artist in Residence to the Volvo Group, the Society for Artificial Intelligence, and the Swedish Tycho Brahe Foundation. She uses technologies, both traditional and digital, including virtual experiences, to transform non-visual phenomena into visual phenomena. She portrays collective experiences transmitting them in new modes. Her work uses AI, AR, and physics to transform text, math plots, and interviews,into immersive, and non traditional engagement. For example non-linear identities. She had an exhibit in 2019 at Stockholm University, and another more recent one where in a screen-based game-like virtual gallery experience w you can shift into the perspective of the "other".
She co-created an empathy and compassion training program for doctors at LPCH at Stanford. The study of vision science, emotions and psychology was the inspiration underlying her exhibit at the Krannert Museum at UIUC titled, ”Before Recognition.”
In 2014 at Pace for Art and Technology she and filmmaker Robin Swicord created an installation and performance that fused art, and technology to explore the emotions involved in the Silicon Valley “pitch”. She had a one person show at the Mark Miller Gallery in New York in 2014 .She created a sculpture / performance, “Drawing with Tetrahedra,” at Stanford’s Bing Concert Hall in collaboration with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra.
RESUME
SOLO EXHIBITIONS /PROJECTS/ PERFORMANCE
2022 - The Art of Black Holes - Stanford University (PAB)
2022 - Emergence Black Hole Orbits - Sweden
2020 - Art Quarantine Sessions # 4 - Live Painting with Music. April -CCRMA Stanford
2019 - Pamela Davis Kivelson – Visualizing Trust/AI, Stockholm University
2019 - Breadcrumbs – Nordic Innovation House, Palo Alto
2018 - Pamela Davis Kivelson -Mesmerize - The Many Body Problem -111 Minna St Gallery SF
2017 – Performance Improv Drawing -Gravitational Waves – Wallenberg Hall Stanford November
2017 - Poetry, Paintings and AI – Churchill Club
2016 - “My After “Exhibition works on acrylic- www.pkivelson.com Exeter Library October.
2016 – My take-–Portraying Faces in an Election- research project September
2014 - Performance “Pitching X,” Pace Gallery, Menlo Park, November
2014 – “Pitching X Art Installation,” Pace Gallery, Menlo Park, November - December
2014 – “Physicists at Work” a performance June
2014 - A Gentle Madness, Art Collectors and Their Passion Mark Miller Gallery NYC, May – June .
2014- “PitchingX” PACE For ART and Technology Menlo Park June
2014 - “Drawing with Tetrahedra” a performance at the Bing Concert Hall in collaboration with the
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Stanford University, March
2013 - Drawing Orchestra and the Aerialists Performance, June 28, Palo Alto Art Center
2010 - GLAM Project. Ray Hawkings Gallery - Stanford University, CA
2008 - PDK scientist portraits Columbia Teacher’s College New York. N.Y.
2005 - PDK Experiments in the Art of Perception, Chambers Projects, Los Angeles Projects
2005 - Before Recognition, Krannert Art Museum, UI, Urbana
2004 - Gender, Science, and Art, Michigan State University
2004 - Selected Works /Pamela Davis Kivelson, The American Institute of Mathematics
2001 - Pamela Davis Kivelson, The Art of Science Project at the NSF
2000 - Computation, Sound, and Vision, UCLA, Wight Art Gallery
2000 - PDK Installation Project, Library UCSD
1999 - Women in Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin Art Museum
2000 - Selected Images, University of Colorado
2000 - Women in Science, UCLA, Murphy Hall Exhibit Series #1
1998 - Pamela Davis Kivelson, Manne Gallery
1998 - Seeing the Unseen, Manne Gallery, Santa Barbara
1997 - Natural Phenomena - Pamela Davis Kivelson, Steven Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles
1995 - Art and Technology, installation, The Museum of Technology, San Jose, CA
1995 - Photographs, Pamela Davis at Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994 - Waves and Motion, Opening Installation for the Science/Art Center, Knudsen Hall, UCLA
1991 - Pamela Davis Art R & D, The DeSasset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
1991 - Installation Math Passion for the Lobby of the Math Sciences Building, UCLA
1991 - Physics Art III Knudsen and Kinsey Halls, UCLA
1990 - Physics Art II, The California Museum of Science and Technology, Los Angeles, CA
1990 - The Invisible Hibakusha Voices and Images, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1990 - One Year After with the Tiananmen Square Players, Scott Hanson Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1987 - Physics Art I, The New York Hilton
1986 -Pamela Davis Kivelson Paintings - SUNY at Stony Brook
1986 - Present Intelligence Show, Installation Physicists at Work BACA, Brooklyn, NY
1985 - 17 Paintings - Moreton Street Gallery, London, England
1984 - Porcupine Man, Set design premiered at New Dramatists Theater, New York, NY
1981 - Pamela Davis Paintings School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1976 - Lifted Sculpture - Pamela Davis- , Art and Architecture Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
1974 - Pamela Davis, Simon's Rock, Great Barrington, MA
GROUP SHOWS
2014- Incognito Santa Monica Art Museum
2014- Venice Art show
2012 - The Bowl of Light with Bill Burnett D School Stanford University
2006 - Revolutionary Tides a video, Cantor Art Center, Stanford, CA
2004 - Portraits, Esso Gallery, NY
2004 - Group Show, Bobby Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004 - The Neoteric Conjunctive, The Japanese American Cultural Center, LA, CA
2001 - The Collection of, Universal Concepts Unlimited, New York, NY
2000 - Crossing the Divide, Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 - Gallery Artists, Manne Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
1998 - Out of Sight: Imaging/Imagining Science, Santa Barbara Art Museum
1997 - Photography, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Photo LA
1996 - The Taylor Column, Turbulent Landscapes, Exploratorium, San Francisco
1994 – 1996 Kissing Traveling show originated at Mitsukoshi Department Store in Tokyo traveled to Matsuyama, and Nagoya in Japan, then in 1995 at G. Ray Hawkings
Gallery, Santa Monica, and on to Denver, CO in 1996 at the Yancey Richardson Gallery NYC
1994 - Holiday Show, , Santa Monica, CA
1992 - Contemporary Photography, Katherine Fleck Gallery, Aspen, CO
1992 - Conceptual Landscapes, Katherine Fleck Gallery, Aspen, CO
1992 - Science Museum School - Competition Exhibit: California Museum of Science and Industry
1990 - A Day in the Life of A Knot, Concord City Arts Festival, with A. Phillips, Concord, California
1990 - LA Artcore Annual Competition, Los Angeles, California
1986 - The Body Art Show, Adam Gallery, London, England
1986 - The Other Side, Adam Gallery, London, England
1985 - The Leo Show, M-13 Gallery, New York, NY
1984 - 7 Paintings and Drawings: The Club Scene, Phoenix City Gallery, New York, NY
1983 - Tight as a Spring, Curated by Barry Blinderman at Kamakaize, New York, NY
1981 - The Spring Mills Show, Greenville, South Carolina
1980 - “6/6", N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL
1974 - Group Show the Kitchen, New York, NY
COMPLETED PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS and PROJECTS.
2022 - "Co-Creation Emergence Happening on Sweden Innovation Days" Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpzPG2_47Ho
2016 - “ Psychology in Painting”- five portraits Jordan Hall Stanford University
2016 - “Icosahedron “ at the Quantum Institute UBC, Canada
2012-“Opal” for Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Simon’s Center for Geometry and Physics
2012 - Physics Art GLAM
2010 – Drawing with Karin Conrod’s “More or Less I Am” Barge Music New York
2010 - Opal Butterfly print /knot Video – Simons Art/Science Center, SUNY Stony Brook, NY
2009 - Portraits Code to Paint, Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford
2008 - Orange/ X Ray /the Sun, Kavali Center Stanford
2007 - Fly Portraits/ Neurochemistry, Beekman center Stanford
2007- DeBiased / Schwab Learning Center Stanford-
2005 - Before Recognition Performance and Installation ( OPAL), Wallenberg Hall, Stanford
2006 - Draw the Feeling Project, for the Stanford Medical School
2006 - Free Gaze and Pupil Tracker, Media X Stanford Univ.
2004 - Gender Science and Art, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI
2003 - What is an Object? /Posters Public Art Installation, Murphy Hall, UCLA
2004 - Women in Science, Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA
2004 - The Symmetry Mirrors, sculpture for the California Science Center
2004 - Before Recognition: Aesthetics Experiments, Stanford University
1996 - The Taylor Column, University of Colorado/Exploratorium/AIM
1995 - The Soliton – Knudsen Hall, UCLA.
VIDEO
2019 - Breadcrumbs
2017 - Drawing with Gravitational Waves: https://vimeo.com/355034024
2015 - Pitching X www.pitchingx.com
2013 - Drawing Orchestra and the aerialists
2012 - The Bowl of Light
2009 - Giving Bad News Well
2009 - Draw The Feeling
2005 - Revolutionary Crowds, “Revolutionary Tides “Exhibit Cantor Art Center
2004 - Computation, Sound & Vision
1990 - A Day in the Life of a Knot
1989 - Physics Art
1981 - Bear Grass
POSITIONS
2022 - Artist in Residence to Q-Farm Stanford University
2011 - 2022 Adjunct Lecturer, Design Program in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
2021 - Artist in Residence to Nordic Innovation House
2019 - Artist in Residence Volvo group
2018 - 2019- Artist in Residence Compression forum Engineering- Stanford
2017 - 2019 Artist in Residence to the Tycho Brahe Foundation, Sweden
2016 -2019 Artist in Residence to the Society for Artificial Intelligence
2015 - 2020 Artist in Residence to the Churchill Club
2011 - 2014 Artist in Residence, Heroic Imagination Project
2007 – 2010 Lecturer / Artist in Residence to the Humanities and Sciences Stanford University
2004 – 2010 Director, “Draw the Feeling /Perceptual Sciences Art and Technology Program,” Stanford Center for Innovation in Learning, Stanford University
2003 - 2007 Artist in Residence to the Stanford Humanities Lab
2003 - 2006 Director Perceptual Sciences Art and technology Program Stanford University
2003 - 2006 Artist in Residence, American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto, CA
1992 - 2002 Artist in Residence to Physics and Founder and Director, Science and Art Center, UCLA
REPRESENTATIVE INVITED TALKS /WORKSHOPS/PUBLICATIONS
2022 - The Art of Black Holes: Physics and Applied Physics Colloquium Stanford University
2022 - Walking on Paintings: Assessment of passive haptic feedback to enhance the immersive experience : Frontiers | Walking on Paintings
2022 - Frustrated Icosahedron : https://qmi.ubc.ca/news/the-frustrated-icosahedron/
2020 - Painting from Music using Neural Visual Style Transfer
2020 - Translating Paintings Into Music Using Neural Networks
2019 - Nordic Future Mobility Summit Stanford University
2019 - Super Creativity, by S.Batzoglou and T. Evgeniou, in Medium,
https://towardsdatascience.com/supercreativity-b4114ebd0357
2017 - Drawing with Gravitational Waves, Stanford News:
https://news.stanford.edu/2017/12/14/intuitive-rational-creative-exercise/
2017 - International Railways Sustainability Day- Invited talk- Stockholm
2016 - Art and giving voice-assembly- Phillips Exeter Academy
2016 - My Take citizenship and creative expression “Workshop Stanford Arts Institute
2016 - My Take – Voices in a Democracy Workshop Phillips Exeter Academy October
2016 - “Embodied Imagination for Creative Process workshop “Design program”
2015 - “Embodied Imagination and Design Thinking workshop “Design program”
2013 - Drawing Emotions in Motion” Art - PSI conference Stanford
2012 - The elements of Curiosity /Storytelling workshop Cantor Arts Center
2012 - “Drawing and Emotional Intelligence” workshop D School Stanford University
2012 - “Hats, Fashion, Art, and Design” The Metropolitan Club. San Francisco
2008 - “Drawing / Micro expression Portraits,” Loft talk, Design School, Stanford
2005 - “Before Recognition: Aesthetic Experiments,” American Society for Aesthetics
2004 - “Art and the Internet,” The Stanford Law School Green Library, “Physics/Art,” Colloquium, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2004 - McPherson Lecture, Michigan State University
2001 - “Computation, Sound, and Vision,” EDA at UCLA
“The PDK poster project,” L.A. County Museum
2000 - “High Touch/High Tech,” Oakland Museum of Art
1996 - “The Poster Project; a Collaboration,” Allied Signal Corp., Los Angeles
1994 - “Using Art to Attract and Retain Women to Science" The California Institute of Technology, Center for Women in Science
1994 - "Science and Art" Princeton Institute for Advanced Study
1994 - “Physics Art”, Physics Division, National Science Foundation
1994 - “Science, Art, and Visualization”, Mathematics Department, Stanford
1994 - “Science Art”, The American Association for the Advancement of Science
1993 - “Attracting Women and Girls to Science Using Visualization,” The NSF
1992 -"Math and Art", Summer Geometry Institute, Park City, Utah
1992 - "Visualizing Women in Science", Aspen Center for Physics
1991 - "Substantiating Art", Ohio State University (Visiting Lecturer)
1991 - "Math Passion" Panel, UCLA Speaker "Atomic Bomb Survivors/ Visualization and Oral History", UCLA
1991 - Guest on the Wizard Television Program: "Art as a means to Visualize science"
1990 - Panelist for "Art and Action", Women's Caucus for the Arts, UCLA
1988 - IBM Colloquium, "Science Art", IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown, NY
GRANTS / AWARDS
2013- The Young Academy
2013 - Stanford Institute for the Arts
2011 - SICA The Solios Project
2010 – Arnice P. Streit Award for Distinguished Service, Stanford University
2007 - Best Local Artist Award Silicon Valley Foundation
2007 - Djerassi Fellow Artist in Residence program
2005 - Grant from the Stanford Humanities Lab -“Before Recognition”
2002 - Weizmann Women and Science Honoree
1995 - Visiting Artist, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study
1994 - Funding from the NSF and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for the PDK Posters
1980 - Grant, Culture for Agriculture, NEA
1980 - Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
EDUCATION
1985 Master of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1977 Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts, Yale University, New Haven
1973 Studied at Accademia di Bella Arti, Florence, Italy
Consulting Certificate in Special Education, New York University