Program Proposal During the summer of 2008 Seth Lower received a strange message from someone in Taipei named Lee Ming. With no further introduction, she (or he) told him that s/he knew who he was and that s/he had met him in a dream before he was ever born. S/he described the dream, which had recurred numerous times throughout her/his life, as something like a fever dream, always giving her/him a strange feeling of sadness. In the dream, a cloaked figure saved her/his life from a band of murderers, but only at the expense of his life. As he lay dying in her/his arms, he wrote his name in blood on the palm of her/his hand. It was Seth’s name. How s/he found him after this s/he didn’t say—only that s/he saw one of Seth’s images on the Internet and immediately recognized it. That was all s/he said, and despite subsequent replies, s/he never sent anything further. Working with members of the KdMoFA and Taipei National University of the Arts community, Lower will create a video reconstruction of Lee Ming’s dream and will search for people in Taipei named Lee Ming, creating an investigative project in the process. Seth Lower Education/學歷 2008 San Francisco Art Institute, MFA 2006 San Francisco Art Institute, post-baccalaureate certificate 2004 The University of Michigan, BFA Photography Artist Residencies/駐村經驗 2008 Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA Selected Solo Exhibitions/個展 2009 The Raccoon Shirt Coincidence, The Lab (Front Gallery), San Francisco, CA, USA 2009 Humble Arts Foundation (online) 2008 About Me: Seth Lower, A Solo Show, Sea and Space 2008 Explorations, Los Angeles, CA, USA 2008 The Cusp of Greatness, Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco, CA, USA 2008 What it Means, Stillights Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA 2007 Pacifica, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA 2006 Threshold, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA Selected Group Exhibitions/團體展 2009 TBA, Temescal Contemporary, Oakland, CA, USA 2009 Juried Annual, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA, USA. Selections by Ali Subotnik, Curator of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and co-curator of the 4th Berlin Biennial Contemporary Art 2009 Depth of Perception: 4th National Photography Juried Competition, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA, USA. Juried by Linda Connor 2009 The Exquisite Corpse Project, Meat Market Gallery, Washington DC, USA 2008 Numbers Game, Rhodes & Fletcher, LLC, San Francisco, CA, USA. Curated by Laura Mott, Assistant Director/ Curator, Mission 17 2008 New Visions 2008, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA, USA. Juried by Lucinda Barnes, Chief Curator of the Berkeley Art Museum, and Karen Tsujimoto, Senior Curator at Oakland Museum of California. 2008 Young Curators, New Ideas, Bond Street Gallery, Brooklyn, NY , USA 2008 New American Talent: The 23rd Exhibition, Arthouse, Austin, TX, USA. Juried by Nato Thompson, Curator and Producer, Creative Time 2008 New Insights, Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. Curated by Susanne Ghez, Director of The Renaissance Society, Chicago, and Curator of Documenta 2008 21st Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA, USA 2008 The Myth of Difference, The Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI, USA 2008 Site and Situation, Clara Street Projects, San Francisco, CA, USA 2008 Easy to Feel, Hard to Make Happen, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA 2008 Fjord, Fallon Agency, London, UK 2008 CCAC, UC Davis, Davis, CA, USA