SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Color Pool, Commissioned permanent interactive video installation, Harding School Makerspace, Santa Barbara, CA
2020
Video Organism, Permanent video installation, Museum of Sensory and Movement Experiences (MSME), Santa Barbara, CA
2017
Video Organisms, Interactive audio and video installations, Wolf Museum for Experience + Innovation (MoXI), Santa Barbara, CA
2016
Deep Blue Plastic, Immersive audio and video installation, The Animal Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Burn Cycle: Sharing Land with Wildfire, Curating community and research collections along with personal works, University of California Santa Barbara Library
2012
Video Feedback: Pixel Behaviors, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, CA
Ethan Turpin: Stereocollision, California Museum of Photography, University of California Riverside
2006
Circles: Cyclical Time, Space and Thought, Perch Art Studio/Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2000
Subluminance, Perch Art Studio/Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS PRODUCED BY ETHAN TURPIN
2023
Walk Into Wildfire and Embers, Immersive community engagement exhibit with Psychological First Aid (PFA) and fire safety partners, Lompoc Veterans Memorial Building, Lompoc, CA
Home Hardening, Public practice collaboration partnered with Santa Barbara County Fire Safe Council launching interactive web experience, Direct Relief headquarters, Goleta, CA
Walk Into Wildland Fire, Site-specific exhibit with The Environment Makers in partnership with Lake States Fire Science Consortium, Kalamazoo Nature Center, Kalamazoo, MI
2022
Walk Into Wildland Fire, Site-specific exhibit with The Environment Makers in partnership with Lake States Fire Science Consortium, Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center, Ashland, WI
Preventing Wildfire Disasters, Site-specific exhibit in a working international aid warehouse partnered with Santa Barbara County Fire Safe Council, Direct Relief headquarters, Goleta, CA
2021
Walk Into Wildfire: An Immersive Multimedia Exhibit, With support from Santa Barbara County Fire Safe Council and UCSB Bren School of Environmental Science & Management. Commissioned by The City of Buellton, CA
2019
Burn Cycle: Living with Fire, Immersive and interactive multimedia installations debuting collaborations with principle fire researchers at the UCSB Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
2018
Entangled Waters, Site-specific architectural video environment with choreographer Robin Bisio and executive producer Lamara Heartwell, Santa Barbara County Courthouse
2016
Burn Cycle: Walk Into Wildfire, Immersive projection environment with Johathan PJ Smith , The Foundry, Bozeman, MT
Department of Light and Power, Mobile and interactive video projections with Tia Rodrig, Udo Gyene and the Hybrid Vehicle Video System, Light Works Festival, Isla Vista, CA
Video Organism, A self-generating and interactive video projection with sound design by Norm Reed, Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science, and Technology
2015
Burn Cycle: Entering Wildfire, An immersive experience made possible with fire-proof camera boxes, Bren School of Environmental Science and Managment, University California Santa Barbara
2013
Bee Cell, With Jonathan PJ Smith, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, CA
Autonomous Video Hut, Lucidity Festival, San Marcos Pass, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Treelogy, Curated by 11:11 Projects, Soraya Art Gallery, California State University Northridge
2022
Fraternal Disorder, Rondo Studio 10 year anniversary collective show, Community Arts Workshop, Santa Barbara, CA
Fire and Ice, Video installation, Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, Solvang, CA
2019
Natural Discourse @Sagehen, UC Berkeley Sagehen Creek Field Station, Central Sierras, CA
2018
System Disruption, Sullivan Goss American Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2017
Visions of the Wild, US Forest Service, Temple Arts Gallery, Vallejo, CA
2015
Five Alchemists: Contemporary Photographers Explore 19th-Century Techniques, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
Primo Lane/The Joshua Treenial, Outpost Projects, Joshua Tree, CA
2014
The Season of Spring, Flower Pepper Gallery, Pasadena, CA
RUCKUS, The Arts Fund Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2013
Mysterious, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California Santa Barbara
Swarm, Ganna Walska Lotusland, Montecito, CA
2012
Standard Deviation, State Street pop-up gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
Visions From The New California, 18th Street Arts, Santa Monica, CA
2011
Systems of Collecting, Kala Art Institute Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Lux ex Machina, Krowswork Gallery, Oakland, CA
Nymphaea, With Jonathan PJ Smith, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, CA
2010
Fresh Work, Kala Art Institute Gallery, Berkeley, CA
What’s Happening Now, Elverhoj Museum, Solvang, CA
2009
The View From Here, Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA
Super Santa Barbara, Quonset Studio, Santa Barbara, CA
Transforming Photography, Edward Cella Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Photo LA, Robert Tat Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Curiosities, Edward Cella Art and Architecture, Santa Barbara, CA
2007
True Metier: Call for Entries 06-07, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, CA
On The Edge, Elverhoj Museum, Solvang, CA
Small Images 2007, Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA
Individual Artist Awards, Santa Barbara Arts Fund Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2006
Bright Young Things, Santa Barbara Arts Fund Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2005
Art Into Action, Natural World Museum, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
Power of the Word, Westmont College, Montecito, CA
Nights, Commissioned Installation, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
2004
The White Show, Mikorp Studios, San Francisco, CA
Homecoming, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2023 US Forest Service - Golden Pinecone Award for Walk Into Wildland Fire
2022 California Dept. of Forestry and Fire Protection with Santa Barbara County Fire Safe Council
2020 Golden Leaf Award for Light It Blue
Santa Barbara County Arts Commission 2020 Responsive Works Award for Pen Connection
City of Buellton Arts & Culture Award for Burn Cycle Project
2018 Indy Award for Innovation In a Site-Specific Project
Pacifica Graduate Institute Opus Archive
2016 National Science Foundation/Bren School for Environmental Science and Management
2016 David Bermant Foundation
2016 Santa Barbara County Arts Commission/LightWorks
2012 David Bermant Foundation
2010 Visions From the New California Award, James Irvine Foundation
2006 William T Colville Memorial Grant
COMMISSIONED INSTALLATIONS
2021
"Color Pool", Harding School Makerspace
"Walk Into Wildfire", City of Buellton
2019
"Burn Cycle: Living with Fire", UCSB Bren School
2018
"Through the Burning Trees", Opus Archive
"Tour of the Multiverse", Zach Gill
"Entangled Waters", Inspiratia International
"Video Organism", Sullivan Goss American Gallery
2017
"Walk Into Wildfire", US Forest Service Region 5 Office
"Video Organism", The Wolf Museum of Experience and Innovation
2016
"Deep Blue Plastic", World Animal Protection
"Walk Into Wildfire", Property and Environment Research Center
2015
"Entering Wildfire", Bren School for Environmental Science and Management
2013
"Climate Map of the Earth", University of California Santa Barbara Library
"Bee Cell", Ganna Walska Lotusland, Montecito, CA
"Autonomous Video Hut", Lucidity Festival, San Marcos Pass, CA
FILM FESTIVALS
2018
"Sirena", Caorle Film Festival, Caorle, Italy
"Sirena", Visionaria Film Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
2017
"Sirena", Mediteranian Film Festival, Sicily, Italy. Best Dance Video Award
"Sirena", Move Me Productions, Antwerp, Belgium
"Wildflower", Angaelica Film Festival, Big Bear, US
"Wildflower", Barcelona Planet Film Festival, Spain
2016
"Sirena", Columbia Gorge International Film Festival
2009
“Showing Disaster”, Santa Barbara International Film Festival
2008
“Her Duty: A Military Wife Speaks Out”, Santa Barbara International Film Festival
2006
“Terror & Tourism”, Santa Barbara International Film Festival
“The Crocodiles Of Kansas City”, Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee Best Documentary: Heartland Award
EDUCATION
1997 - Kansas City Art Institute, Bachelor of Fine Arts - Sculpture
1996 - Victoria College of Art, Melbourne, Australia – Mobile Semester - Sculpture