Vanderpool has exhibited internationally at the National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow; Kroshytskyi Art Museum in collaboration with ArtPlatz, Sevastopol, Crimea, Ukraine; Duna Galéria, Budapest, Hungary; Heritage Space and Hanoi AdHoc, Hà Nội, Việt Nam; Stenersenmuseet, Oslo; RACA, Copenhagen; Kalmar Konstmuseum, Virserums Konsthall, Designarkivet, and Abandoned, Sweden; Victory Gallery & Museum, UK; Nina Menocal Gallery and Zona Maco México Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City; Galería Sextante, Centro Colombo Americano, and Mercadito & Mentidero, Bogotá; No Lugar – Arte Contemporáneo and La Huerta y La Maquina and Museo de Arte, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuado. In the U.S. she has exhibited at L.A. Louver, Edward Cella + Architecture, AMcE Creative Arts, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Wende Museum and Cold War Archive Riverside Art Museum, Butler Institute of American Art, and other venues in Brooklyn, Houston, Atlanta, Kansas City, Tulsa, Los Angeles and around Southern California.

Public Art Commissions

She completed a mural for the British charity Open Door in Birkenhead, UK, and a triptych print for the University of La Verne’s “An Artful Reframing, Inclusive Voices” initiative.

Vanderpool’s work has been awarded exhibition funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, British Academy Leverhulme Trust, US-UK Fulbright Commission, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Ohio Arts Council, Kunstrådet: Danish Arts Council, Kulturrådet: Swedish Arts Council, Malmö Stad, and DéPOT, Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time—funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and collaborating councils in Germany, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Vanderpool and the UCSB Isla Vista Liaison were awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Challenge America grant for her community art project in Isla Vista, California.

Vanderpool’s exhibitions have been reviewed and discussed in many leading publications including The New York Times, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Artillery Magazine, ArtScene, Angeleno, ArtUS, Sculpture, Art Ltd., Art Papers, Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Houston Chronicle, Kansas City Star, and Tulsa World. Internationally, her work has been covered in the Mexican publications El Universal and Time Out México, Colombian publications El Tiempo and Fotografia Colombiana, Ukrainian newspapers Slava Sevastopolya and Sevastopolskaya Gazeta, Danish newspaper Politiken, and numerous Swedish newspapers including Dagens Nyheter and Sydsvenskan.

She has been interviewed on CNN, KPCC Southern California Public Radio, Public Radio Tulsa, Sveriges Radio, Lorry København, Ukrainian National Television, Voice of Vietnam, and Vietnam Internet Television (VITV) among others.

Vanderpool has been a resident artist at HOTHOUSE UCLA/Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, Pitzer College, Claremont, and Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena.

She has spoken about her practice at the United Nations Vietnam, Vietnamese Institute of Art & Cultural Studies, and RMIT University, Việt Nam; Universiteit van Amsterdam and Institute of the Arts, Deventer, Netherlands; University of Lincoln and University of Liverpool UK; Jorge Tadeo Lozano University and Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia; Neringos Gimnazija, Lithuania; California College of the Arts; Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg; other U.S. universities.

Vanderpool and Colin Gardner co-edited the anthology Performative Representation of Working-Class Laborers: The Work Hard for the Money (Palgrave Macmillan). She published an article about her practice in the Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture journal and an essay in the second edition of Car Bombs to Cooke Tables: The Youngstown Anthology (Belt + Arcadia Publishing).

Vanderpool organized an exhibition at Centro Colombo Americano, Bogotá, and curated shows at venues around southern California. Vanderpool and Việt Lê co-curated Love in the Time of War which opened at UC Santa Barbara and traveled to SF Camerawork in San Francisco. The collaborative curatorial team of Ciara Ennis and Vanderpool organized Duty of Care at Collective Arts Incubator in Los Angeles. They co-curated MANIFESTO: A Moderate Proposal at Pitzer College Art Galleries, which the National Endowment for the Arts awarded an Arts Works Grant. The exhibition included manifestos created by invited artists hanging next to ones produced during workshops at the Inmates’ Art Programs at California Institution for Women Corona and the California Rehabilitation Center Norco Men’s Prison Educational Programs.

Vanderpool has spoken about her curatorial practice at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the University of Washington, Seattle, and A Space, Hà Nội. She also co-organized a panel with Ennis for the International Sculpture Center’s Culture and Community Conference.

She has been a visiting artist teaching at Ölands Konst Skolan, Sweden; Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia; University of Sheffield, UK. Currently, Vanderpool is a lecturer in the Art Department at the University of California at Santa Barbara.