JEFF FROST
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, INSTALLATIONS, SCREENINGS & PERFORMANCES
2024 The Gaia Hypothesis, exhibition installation, The Elemental, Palm Springs, CA, curated by Christopher Yggdre
2024 Environmental Impact, exhibition of California on Fire prints, The Art Center, Quincy IL
2023 MIT School of Engineering, Lateral Duality digital art display, Massachusetts, MI
2023 Filme im Dialog, California on Fire screening, Berlin, Germany
2023 Forest For the Trees, California on Fire installation and screening in conjunction with the Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA
2022 Bombay Beach Biennale, Transmutation House painting installation and film, Bombay Beach, CA
2022 SuperRare in Decentraland, exhibition of ‘Joshua Tree Lateral Move’ digital art for SuperRare Museum, Decentraland (metaverse), curated by Paloma Rodriguez & An Rong
2022 The Unearthly World, exhibition of ‘Joshua Tree Lateral Move’ digital art for SuperRare & VellumLA, Jackson Hole, WY, curated by Sinziana Velicescu
2022 Facing Fire, traveling museum exhibition (catalog), curated by Douglas McCullough
2022 Tomorrow // Today, exhibition, Hot Shot Muffler, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Ellie Pritts
2022 Environmental Impact II, exhibition of California on Fire prints, Bateman Gallery of Nature, British Columbia
2021 Implied Scale: Confronting the Enormity of Climate Change, exhibition for California on Fire, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ, curated by Kele McComsey
2021 Art in the Plague Year, online exhibition for Ghosts of the Future, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
2021 Santuary of the Aftermath, exhibition for Circle of Abstract Ritual, Angelsgate Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, Curated by Jason Jenn and Vojislav Radovanović
2020 Rewilding Structures, exhibition for Ghosts of the Future, Torrance Art Museum (TAM), Torrance, CA, curated by Hope Ezcurra (catalog)
2020 Light of Space, exhibition for GO HOME, Museum of Art Lancaster (MOAH), Lancaster, CA, curated by Andi Campognone (catalog)
2020 Facing Fire, California Museum of Photography, exhibition, Riverside, CA (catalog)
2020 L.A. Mise-en-scène Video Art Festival, LA Art Documents, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Environmental Impact, exhibition, Dennos Museum Center, Traverse, MI
2019 Dok Leipzig Film Festival, screenings for California on Fire, Leipzig, Germany
2019 Desert Daze Music Festival, sound art performance, Lake Perris, CA
2019 UCLA Centennial Event Exhibition, GO HOME prints, ROW DTLA, Los Angeles, CA
2019 California on Fire a Desert X Independent Installation, Camel Stable, Palm Desert, CA (solo)
2019 Joshua Treenial: Paradise Parallax, a Desert X Parallel Project, boxoHOUSE, Joshua Tree, CA, curated by Bernard Leibov (catalog)
2019 Lines of Fire/Lines of Ice, Gallery Bergen, NJ, curated by Timothy Blunk
2019 Art Responds California on Fire, Napa Valley Opera House (Blue Note), Napa, CA, curated by Rina Faletti
2019 Wild Blue Yonder, Los Angeles Intl Airport (LAX), Los Angeles, CA, curated by Kōan Jeff Baysa (KJB)
2018 Luminosity 2.0, Loft at Liz's, Los Angeles CA
2018 Art Responds, First Street Gallery, Napa, CA, curated by Rina Faletti
2018 European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Data Center (print on permanent display)
2016 Palm Springs Photo Festival, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA (California on Fire preview screening & panel member)
2015 Open Show, Los Angeles Art Association (LAAA), curated by Leslie Jones (LACMA)
2015 MAC Creteil for COP21, UN Climate Change Conference, Paris, France
2015 Photo Center Northwest (PCNW) Benefit, Canvas, Seattle, WA, curated by Michelle Dunn Marsh
2015 Palm Springs Photo Festival, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA, Circuit Board Species
2014 20/20 Nature Nurture, U.S. Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand, curated by Hossein Farmani
2014 Palm Springs Photo Festival, Palm Springs Art Museum Annenberg Theater, screening of Circle of Abstract Ritual
2013 Snap! Orlando Photography Festival, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL, curated by Patrick & Holly Kahn
2013 Palm Springs Photo Festival, Palm Springs Art Museum Annenberg Theater, Palm Springs, CA, screening of Modern Ruin
2012 Palm Springs Photo Festival, Palm Springs Art Museum Annenberg Theater, Palm Springs, CA, screening of Flawed Symmetry of Prediction
2012 On the Inside Looking Out, Promenade Gallery, Anaheim, CA (solo)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021 Korsha Wilson, Article, T-List Recommends: An Exhibition that takes on Climate Change, New York Times, July 1, 2021
2021 Art Forum, Article, Spotlight: Implied Scale, Confronting the Enormity of Climate Change, Art Forum, June 3, 2021
2021 Alejandra Borunda, Article, Wildfires threaten the world’s oldest trees—but prescribed burns are protecting them, National Geographic, Sept 21st, 2021
2021 Tris McCall, Review, Five Artists Take on Climate Change: Implied Scale at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City Times, April 28, 2021
2021 Jeff Frost and Lauren Markham, Article (collaboration), Land of Smoke and Fire: Documenting California’s Endless Season of Heat, Literary Hub, July 21, 2021
2021 Mariana Mazzucato, Article, Saving the Climate in a Triple Crisis, The New Republic, March 15th, 2021
2020 Jeff Frost, Written Essay, Orange, I Think We Need to See Other Colors, Stanford MAHB Blog, October 29, 2020
2020 Elisa von Hof and Carola Padtberg, Written Essay, Fire Photographer Frost, Der Speigel, September 16, 2020
2020 Sarah Cascone, Interview, Photographer Jeff Frost Has Been Chasing California Wildfires for Years. This Season Is the Worst He’s Ever Seen, Artnet, September 10, 2020
2019 Miles O’Brien, TV Interview, Artists Harness the Power of Fire and Ice to Shape Attitudes on Climate Change, PBS Newshour, April 16, 2019
2019 Shana Nys Dambrot, Review, The Sea and Fire: Art in the Coachella Valley by Cristopher Cichocki and Jeff Frost, LAWeekly, April 4, 2019
2019 Sarah Cascone, Review, This Artist Spent 5 Years Chasing Wildfires Across California See His Harrowing Footage Here, Artnet, February 15, 2019
2018 John Bartell, TV Interview, The Art of Fire, ABC10, November 8, 2018
2018 Sarah Cascone, With Ingenuity and Strange Beauty, Northern California Artists Rebuild From the Ashes, Artnet, October 10, 2018
2017 Josh Raab, Interview (video, text), California on Fire, TIME Magazine, October 9, 2017
2017 Alan Scherstuhl, Netflix’s Fire Chasers Offers a Stunning Immersion Into the Ranks of the Firefighters Saving California, LA Weekly, August 31, 2017
2016 Jack Crager, Jeff Frost’s Stunning Photos of California's Devastating Wildfires, American Photo Magazine, July 12, 2016
2016 Arianna Menon, Interview (print), Videographer’s ‘Fire’ Spreads to U2, Palm Springs Life, March 31, 2016
2016 Ed Mazza, The Terrifying Beauty Of California’s Wildfires, Huffington Post, March 3, 2016
2016 George Dvorsky, This Timelapse of Californian Wildfires is Absolutely Apocalyptic, Gizmodo, March 18,
2016 Brian Clark Howard, Stunning Time-lapse Shows Beauty and Danger of Wildfires, National Geographic, March 18, 2016
2016 Jennifer Newton, In the Line of Fire, Daily Mail, UK, March 15, 2016
2015 Harriet Jarlet, Interview (video), From U2 to TEDxCERN: visual artist shows CERN in new light, European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), October 07, 2015
2015 Beckett Mufson, U2's Tour Visuals, and the Astrophotographer Who Made Them at CERN, VICE, July 7, 2015
2014 Christopher Jobson, Circle of Abstract Ritual: A Stop Motion Timelapse Created from 300,000 Photos of Wildfires, Painted Houses, and Riots, Colossal, September 22, 2014
2014 Andrew Sullivan, A Short Film for Saturday, The Dish September 20, 2014
2014 Omar Kardoudi, This is the weirdest and most beautiful time lapse I've ever seen, Gizmodo, September 20, 2014
2014 Beckett Mufson, 300,000 Photos Offer A Glimpse Into California's Gritty Underbelly VICE, September 17, 2014
2014 No. 2 Science Fiction, Cercle Magazine, July 1, 2014
2014 Nick Visser, This is What it Looks Like When a Wildfire Threatens Your Home, Huffington Post, April 27, 2014
2014 Holly Willis, Video Artist Jeff Frost Decouples Time and Space, KCET LA, January 13, 2014
2013 Joe Gosen, Hundreds of Thousands of Images Unite for Ultra-Creepy Animation, WIRED, October 28, 2013
2013 Ken Scarboro, Making the News Into Art, NPR LA, 89.3 KPPC, October 10, 2013
2013 Gabrielle Lisa Collard, Interview Series: Jeff Frost “I do art because I have to”, Live Fast Magazine, September 11, 2013
2013 Kevin Holmes, 150,000 Photographs, Riots, Wildfires, And Optical Illusions Make For A Compelling Time-Lapse Film, VICE, August 16, 2013
2013 Helga Marsala, War Paint for Trees: When Film Reinvents Landscape, Artribune (Italian), May 15, 2013
2012 Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg, A Jaw-Dropping Time-Lapse Video of Optical Illusions in Abandoned Houses, The Atlantic, November 12, 2012
2012 Robbie Gonzales, Absolute Best Optical Illusions of 2012, io9, December 28, 2012
2012 Terry Gross, NPR Fresh Air, November 15, 2012
2012 Christopher Jobson, A Time Lapse of Optical Illusions in the American West, Colossal, November 11, 2012
2012 Kevin Holmes, Prepare To Have Your Perceptions Bent In This Optical Illusion TimeLapse, VICE, November 6, 2012
2012 Phil Plait, A Little Sunset CARMA, Bad Astronomy DISCOVER, September 4, 2012
2012 Robbie Gonzales, Illusions are even better in 3D, io9, February 28, 2012
2012 Paul Schmelzer, Jeff Frost's stop-action interventions in Utah and California, Eyeteeth, February 27, 2012
2012 Jeff Frost Timelapsed Desert Squatting, and Painting, Brooklyn Street Art, February 21, 2012
2012 Dr Joe Hanson, Nature Meets Optical Illusion Time Lapse, It's Okay to Be Smart, 2012
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2021 Videographer, National Geographic, CA (followed photojournalist Stuart Palley into the heart of CA wildfires for this story on prescribed burns)
2020 Field producer, photographer Lynsey Addario, CA (guided this Pulitzer Prize-winning war photographer through CA wildfires for a NatGeo grant project)
2020 Videographer, National Geographic, CA (followed photojournalist Stuart Palley into the heart of CA wildfires for this story on firefighters)
2020 Field producer, New York Times Magazine, CA (guided Times photographer Meridith Kohut through CA wildfires for this story on climate migration)
2017 Commissioned artist, National Geographic, CA (wildfire footage One Strange Rock series, dir by Darren Aronofsky)
2016 Producer & subject, NETFLIX, CA (‘Fire Chasers’ docuseries)
2016 Judge, Getty Images Grant, Look 3 Festival, Charlottesville, VA
2015 Commissioned artist U2, (video director for 2015 world tour live visuals)
2015 Instructor, Palm Springs Photo Festival, Palm Springs, CA (workshop)
2014 Instructor, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA (workshop)
2013 Commissioned artist, Vimeo for Lincoln Motors, (created ‘War Paint for Trees’ film for campaign)
2013 Instructor, Samy's Camera, Los Angeles, CA (workshop)
2013 Instructor, Art Institute, Costa Mesa, CA, Summer Studio (workshop)
2013 Instructor, American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), Los Angeles, CA (workshop)
2013 Instructor, Samy's Camera, Los Angeles, CA (workshop)
2013 Instructor, Art Institute, Beijing Connection IV, Costa Mesa, CA (Beijing foreign exchange workshop)
2012 Commissioned artist, Natural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (film documenting solar panel installation)
2012 Instructor, Art Institute, Beijing Connection III, Costa Mesa, CA (Beijing foreign exchange workshop)
2012 Instructor, Art Institute, Beijing Connection II, Costa Mesa, CA (Beijing foreign exchange workshop)
2011 Instructor, Art Institute, Costa Mesa, CA Summer Studio (workshop)
2010 Instructor, Art Institute, Costa Mesa, CA Summer Studio (workshop)
AWARDS
2020 Grant, California Desert Arts Council, Palm Springs, CA
2020 Grant, Desert X Artist Relief, Palm Springs, CA
2020 Clermont-Ferrand Intl Film Festival, Audience Award for California on Fire, Clermont-Ferrand, France
2020 ÉCU The European Independent Film Festival, Special Jury Mention for California on Fire, Paris, France
2020 17° Festival internacionale Signos da Noite (Signs of the Night), Special Jury Award for California on Fire, Lisbon, Portugal
2019 Time Lapse Film Festival, Best in Show (overall) for ‘GO HOME’, 1st place in Experimental category for ‘GO HOME,’ Joshua Tree, CA
2019 Time Lapse Film Festival, 2nd place in Beauty of Nature category for ‘Moonrise in the Salt Kingdom,’ Joshua Tree, CA
2019 Festival internazionale Segni della Notte, Night Awrd for California on Fire, Urbino, Italy
2019 Residency, FB AiR Program, Facebook offices, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Residency, NordicLA Residency, ACE Hotel, Palm Springs, CA
2016 Time Lapse Film Festival, Experimental category winner for ‘Circuit Board Species’, Joshua Tree, CA
2016 Time Lapse Film Festival, Documentary category winner for ‘California on Fire,’ Best in Show overall runner-up for ‘California on Fire,’ Joshua Tree, CA
2014 American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), Best Photographers of 2014 Award
2014 Vimeo Staff Pick, Circle of Abstract Ritual
2014 Kickstarter Funded Project, ‘TEMP’ (working title for what became ‘California on Fire’)
2013 Kickstarter Funded Project, ‘Modern Ruin’ (now ‘Circle of Abstract Ritual’)
2013 Kickstarter Project of the Day, ‘Modern Ruin’ (now ‘Circle of Abstract Ritual’)
2013 Kickstarter Staff Pick, ‘Modern Ruin: White Hole’
2013 Vimeo Staff Pick, ‘Modern Ruin: Black Hole’
2013 Vimeo Staff Pick, ‘War Paint for Trees’
2012 Vimeo Staff Pick, ‘Flawed Symmetry of Prediction’
2011 Best in Show, Art Institute of California Graduate Portfolio Show
2011 Scholarship, Digital Photography, Art Institute of California
2010 Scholarship, Digital Photography, Art Institute of California
2009 Scholarship, Digital Photography, Art Institute of California
1997 Scholarship, Graphic Design, College of Eastern Utah, Price, UT
1996 Scholarship, Music Composition, College of Eastern Utah, Price, UT
LECTURES & PANELS
2021 Panelist, Palm Springs Photo Festival, Photographers Talk Photography, with Barbara Davidson, Keith Carter, Dan Winters, & Jeff Dunas
2021 Panelist, Actors From Witnesses, Earth Institute & Mana Contemporary with Zaria Foreman, Robin Bell, & Caroline Juang
2021 Panelist, Mana Contemporary, Climate Scientists, Culture and Local Government: The Frontline of Combating Climate Change with Mayor Steven Fulop, Katharine Hayhoe, Mayor Francis Suarez & others
2019 Lecture & Panel, Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA
2019 Lecture & Panel, Palm Springs Art Museum screening event for California on Fire, Palm Springs, CA
2018 Panelist, Art Responds, Napa Valley Opera House, Napa, CA
2017 Panelist, New Digital Trends, Palm Springs Photo Festival (symposium), Palm Springs, CA
2016 Panelist, Activist Artists, Palm Springs Photo Festival, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
2016 Guest Lecture, Look 3 Festival, Charlottesville, VA
2015 Featured Speaker, TEDx, European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland, Oct 10, 2015
2014 Guest Lecture, Framingham State University (FSU), Framingham, MA, March 7, 2014
2013 Guest Lecture, LMGA Location Managers Guild of America, Los Angeles, CA, October 20, 2013
2013 Guest Lecture, Art Institute of California, Orange County, 2013
2013 Guest Lecture, Snap! Orlando Photography Festival, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
2013 Guest Lecture, University of Southern California (USC) - Guest presentation, Q&A
2012 Guest Lecture, LADiG (Los Angeles Digital Imaging Group)
PUBLICATIONS AS AUTHOR
2020 Orange, I Think We Need to See Other Colors, Stanford MAHB Blog, October 29, 2020
2016 SHIFTER MEDIA 30FPS - an art book collaboration with Daniel Milnor, January 1, 2016
2015 Circle of Abstract Ritual (self published, limited, monograph)
2015 Jeff Frost, My Narrow Wildfire Escape, Huffington Post, August 26, 2015
2014 Jeff Frost, Chasing Fire, Huffington Post, September 18, 2014
2013 Flawed Symmetry of Prediction (self published, limited, monograph & eBook)
EDUCATION
2012 AS, President’s List (2009, 2010, 2011), Dean’s List (2009, 2010, 2011), Digital Photography, Art Institute of California, Costa Mesa, CA
2013 Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA (philosophy & electronic engineering courses)
1998 College of Eastern Utah, Price, UT (music composition & graphic design majors)