Math Bass | VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES

1981: Born in New York, NY
: Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

2011: MFA, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2003: BA, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024: "Monday’s Child," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Math Bass: Full Body Parenthesis," Lumber Room, Portland, OR
2023: "Math Bass: Roses Are Red," Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
2022: "clown alley," Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2021-2022: "a picture stuck in the mirror," Henry Art Gallery, The University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2021: "Math Bass," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
: "Desert Veins," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2019-2020: "Fill It Up Silver,” Various Small Fires, Seoul, Korea
2019: "Cherry Baby," The Gallery At, Los Angeles, CA
: "To Name A Few," Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany
2018: "Hammer Projects: Math Bass," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: "My Dear Dear Letter," Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
2017: "Domino Kingdom," Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany
: The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
: "Math Bass: Serpentine Door," Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
: "Over the Top: Math Bass & the Imperial Court SF," Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
2016: "Bloomies," Michael and Jon Alan, Miami Beach, FL
2015: "Off the Clock," MoMA PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY
2014: "Lies Inside," Overduin & Co., Los Angeles, CA
2013: "Newz!," Michael Jon Gallery, Miami, FL
: "Monte Cristo," with Leidy Churchman, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
2012: "And then the words came out," with Leah Glenn, Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2011: "G.L.O.W.," with Mariah Garnett, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, CA
: "Pass the Line," UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025-2026: "Wintergreen," La Loma Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2025: "Fictions of Display," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2024: "A Wing and a Prayer," The Bunker, Palm Beach, FL
: "Reverberations," The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA
2023: "Next Door," Yuz Project Space of Art, Panlong, Shanghai, China
2022: "A Maze Zanine, Amaze Zaning, A-Mezzaning, Meza-9," David Zwirner and Performance Space New York, New York, NY
: "Dreams," Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: "Plants Now!" Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Not Me, Not That, Not Nothing Either," Leslie Lohman Museum of Art New York, NY
2020: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2019: "The Light Touch," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Eight Ball," Martos Gallery, New York, NY
: "Throwback Jack," curated by Amanda Schmitt, Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York, NY
2018: "A Page from My Intimate Journal (Part I)," Gordon Robichaux, New York, NY
: "Nothing Will Be As Before," Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany
2017: "Abstract/Not Abstract," Moore Building, Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL
: "New Modernism," Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2016: "Los Angeles – A Fiction," Aaturp Fearnly Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
: "OVERPOP," Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
: "Gesture Play," Simone Subal, New York, NY
: "Flavr Savr," curated by Alexandra Gaty, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA
: "A Shape That Stands Up," Hammer Museum and Art + Practice, Los Angeles, CA
: "Wasteland," curated by Shamin M. Momin, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris, France
2015: "Artist Theater Program," with Shannon Ebner, Lauren Fisher, Dylan Mira, Silke Otto-Knapp, Adam Putnam, and Nora Slade, Performa 15, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
: Artist Theater Program, with Shannon Ebner, Lauren Fisher, Dylan Mira, Silke Otto-Knapp, Adam Putnam, and Nora Slade, Performa 15, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
: "Bring Your Own Body," Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College, Chicago, IL
: "Bring Your Own Body," Cooper Union, New York, NY
: "The Answer. The Question," Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: "No Joke," curated by Sanya Kantarovsky, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany
: Drawing Biennale 2015, The Drawing Room, London, UK
: "My Own Private Los Angeles," curated by Math Bass, Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: "Initimate Paintings," Half Gallery, New York, NY
: "Joshing the Watershed," Del Vaz Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: "With & Width," Chapter NY, New York, NY
: "VESTAL VIRGINS," curated by Sylvie Lake, Lummis House, Los Angeles, CA
2014: "Bavarian Fire Drill," 247365, New York, NY
: "Shit Like Hair," White Flag Projects, Saint Louis, MI
: "Flex," Kent Fine Art, New York, NY
: "Another Cats Show," 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA
: "New Dawn," curated by Leidy Churchman, Silberkuppe, Berlin, Germany
: "Duck Soup," Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden
: "Darren Bader," Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
: "Drowning and swallowing this text," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
: "Autograft," Laurel Gitlen, New York, NY
2013: "Culm," Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "356 Sculptures," 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA
: "B.B.S.Q.," Wallspace, New York, NY
: "Cast Recording," Prism Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "P&Co.," Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012: "Made in LA," The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: "This is It With It As It Is," Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
: "Il Regalo," Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles, CA
2011: "Gloria Hole," The Fire Place Project, East Hampton, NY
2010: "Almost Outline," 2nd Floor Projects, San Francisco, CA
: "Says I," Parker Jones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009: "riDYKEu-lous HITS BOTTOM," Leo Koenig Inc., New York, NY
: "Somethings Gonna Soon," Artist Production Fun, New York, NY
2008: "Our bodies, our selves," Montehermosos Cultural Centre, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
: "The Way That We Rhyme," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
: "Oceans of Potions," Pens and Needles, San Francisco, CA
2007: "Shared Women," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Tent Show," Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
2006: "Not A Marathon, Just a Traffic Jam," Art in General, New York, NY
: "New Ghost Entertainment Entitled," Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
: "New Ghost Entertainment Entitled," Stadtische Galerie Kunsthaus, Dresden, Germany
: "Esthetics of Resistance," CareOf Gallery, Milan, Italy
2005: "Macerate," Around the Coyote Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003: "Listen Translate Translate Record," Andrew Kreps, New York, NY
: "Man, I Feel Like A Woman," Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA

Performances

2022: "if i could sing you back" with Eden Batki, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2017: "Quiet work in session," with Lauren Davis Fisher, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2015: Artist Theater Program Performa 15 + The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
2014: Overduin & Co., Los Angeles
: Artist Theater Program, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Troy, New York, NY
: Paramount Ranch, Malibu, CA
: Quiet work in session, with Lauren Davis Fisher, curated by Summery Guthery, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR
2013: "Planets Making Planets," with Anna Sew Hoy and Claire Kohne, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
2012: The Actors Studio, Wilfred Yang Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Brutal Set," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: "Blasting Voice," Suzanne Geiss Company, New York, NY
2011: "Dogs and Fog," Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles, CA
2010: "Perform Now!," Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA

Screenings and Lectures

2015: Coulisse Effect, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles, CA
2014: Marmalade Me, South London Gallery, London, UK

Bibliography

2025: Laster, Paul. "Discover Highlights from the 2025 Aspen Art Fair," Galerie Magazine, August 1
: Quadros, Karly. "The Aspen Art Fair, Which Aspires to Be the Summer Camp of Art Fairs, Is Back for Its Sophomore Edition," Cultured Magazine, July 25
2024: Noteboom, Kaya. "Hidden bodies, hoards of feeling: Math Bass at lumber room," Variable West, July 10 (Link)
2023: Dorris, Jesse. "A Painter Who Flattens to Find Expanse," Surface Magazine, September 19 (Link)
: Art In America Staff. "The Ruscha Effect: Seven Artists Weigh In on the Impact of the Great Ed Ruscha," Art In America, September 8 (Link)
2022: Civin, Marcus. "Math Bass in conversation with Marcus Civin," Maake Magazine, October 7 (Link)
: Bass, Math and Chloe Stead. "Barbara Kruger’s Teaching Legacy: “She Always Cut Through the Bullshit," Frieze Magazine, February 14 (Link)
2021: Simmons, William J. "Queer Formalism: The Return," Floating Opera Press, Berlin, Germany
: Simmons, William J. "On Math Bass “Got a Light?” Artillery, January 5
2019: "Larry Pittman with Terry R. Myers," The Brooklyn Rail, September (Link)
: Simmons, William J. "Portfolio: Math Bass," Bomb, June 14 (Link)
2015: Locks, Mia, “The Body is a Location: Math Bass in conversation with Mia Locks”, Art Journal Open, December 14
: Rosenthal, Tracy Jeanne, “Waveforms”, Art in America, October
: Fox, Dan, “The Eyes Have It”, Frieze, Issue 173, September
: Tattersall, Lanka, “Ones to Watch”, sleek Magazine, Summer
: Small, Rachel, “Geometry Lessons with Math Bass”, Interview Magazine, May 20
: Zhong, Fan, “Codes and Keys”, W Magazine, May 7
: Braithwaite, Hunter, “A New Way of Thinking: Introducing Math Bass”, Modern Painters, May
: Powers, Bill, “’People Have Anxiety about Ambiguity’: A Talk with Math Bass”, ARTnews, March
2014: Gavin, Francesca, “The Materiality of Math”, Twin Magazine, November
: “Initiation”, Art in America, October
: Hudson, Suzanne, “Math Bass”, Frieze, Issue 163, May
: Wagley, Catherine, “Math Bass: Lies Inside at Overduin & Co.”, LA Weekly, March 18
: Ebner, Shannon, “Math Bass: FutureGreats 2014”, ArtReview, March
2013: Raoli, Martha, “Newz!: Math Bass”, The Miami Rail, Winter
: Cha, Olivian, “Monte Cristo”, Art Papers, September/October
2012: Made in L.A., essay by Amanda Hunt, published by Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
: Griffin, Jonathan, “Made in LA 2012”, Frieze, September
2009: Doyle, Jennifer, “Managing Desire: Girls, Boys and Queer Sport Spectacles”, X-TRA, Spring
: Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports, essay by Julia Bryan Wilson, published by Los Angeles County Museum of Arts, Los Angeles
2008: Bordowitz, Gregg, “Sentiment, Belief, and Medium”, Film, Avant-Garde and Biopolitics, published by Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna
: Brewer-Ball, Kate, “In Sight, Out of Focus: Marriage, the union of Wu Tsang and Math Bass” Performance Studies International #14: Interregnum: In Between States.
: Summers, Robert, “The Way That We Rhymes”, Art US, Issue 23
: The Uncertain States of America Reader, essay by Matt Wolf, published by Sternberg Press, Berlin.
: Wolf, Matt, “New Lives Queer Art”, LTTR.

Public Collections

: Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
: Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
: Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China