Whitney Bedford | VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES

: Lives and works in Los Angeles

2003: MFA, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
1998-2000: Fulbright Visiting Artist under Professor Wolfgang Petrick, Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
1998: Art and Architecture of Rome at RISDE European Honors Program, Palazzo Cenci, Rome, Italy
1996: Pont-Aven School of Art, Pont-Aven, France
: Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
1994-1998: BA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
1993: Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026: "Sunsetting," Secrist Beach, Chicago, IL (forthcoming)
: "Sunsetting," Art:Concept, Paris, France (forthcoming)
: "Sunsetting," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
2025: "Sunsetting," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2024: "Whitney Bedford: The Window" San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA
2023: "Whitney Bedford: Veduta," Miles McEnery, New York, NY
: "Whitney Bedford: Vedute," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022: "Imaginary," Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
: "Whitney Bedford: Vedute," Art:Concept, Paris, France
2021: "Whitney Bedford," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
: "Whitney Bedford: Greenhouse," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2020: "Nevertheless," Carrie Secrist Gallery (online)
: "Nevertheless," Starkwhite (online)
: "Nevertheless," Vielmetter Los Angeles (online)
: "Reflections on the Anthropocene," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2018: "Numinous," Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL (Link)
: "Bohemia," Starkwhite Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2017: "The Left Coast," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: “Bardo Parade,” Art:Concept, Paris, France
2016: “East of Eden,” Carrie Secrist, Chicago, IL
: “Lost and Found,” Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
2015: "Night and Day," Taymour Grahne, New York, NY
: "West of Eden," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2014: "Whitney Bedford," Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
: "Love Letters," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2013: "This for That," Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
2011: Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2010: "Whitney Bedford (here and there)," Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
2009: Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2008: "Whitney Bedford," Art:Concept, Paris, France
2007: "Whitney Bedford: The Escape Artist Series," Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, USA
2006: Art:Concept, Paris, France
2005: DAmelio Terras, New York, NY
: Cherrydelosreyes, Los Angeles, CA
2004: Art:Concept, Paris, France
2000: "Whitney Bedford," Hotel de Ville, Biot, France
1999: "Whitney Bedford," Fulbright-Kommission, Berlin, Germany
1998: "Whitney Bedford," BEB Gallery, Providence, RI
1997: "Whitney Bedford," Sokolofska #124 Space, Prague, Czech Republic

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026-2027: "Feels Natural," Heartland Whole Health Institute, Bentonville, AR (forthcoming)
2025: "Natura Non Constristatur," Secrist Beach, Chicago, IL
2024-2025: "All Bangers, All The Time," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
2024: "In the Making: Contemporary Art at SBMA," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
: "Overserved," Miles McEnery, New York, NY
: "Olio e pepe," Galerie Art: Concept, Paris, France
2023: "New Landscapes Part I," Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA
2023-2024: "Inside/Outside," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (Link)
2023: SWQT Group Show, Starkwhite Queenstown, Queenstown, New Zealand
2022: "Plants Now!," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2021: "Was/Is/Ought," Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL (Link)
2020: "Only Connect," Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
: "Do You Think It Needs A Cloud?”, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
: "Slippery Painting," Starkwhite, Auckland, NZ
: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2019: "Shall we go, you and I while we can," Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
: "Kaleidescope," Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2018: "How They Ran," Over the Influence, Los Angeles, CA
: “Evolver,” LA Louver, Los Angeles, CA
: “New on the Wall (N.O.W.),” Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH (Link)
: "C’est Comme Vous Voulez – As You Like It," Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
2017: “Anniversary Show,” Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
2016: "A Verdant Summer," Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York, NY
: “Painting: A Transitive Space,” ST PAUL ST Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2015: "La femme de trente ans," Galerie Art: Concept, Paris France
2014: "Lovers," Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
: "Sargent’s Daughters," Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY
2013: "Summer Group Show," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2012: "Facing the Sublime in Water, CA," Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2011: "Everything Must Go," A Project with Ceramica Suro Guadalajara, Mexico, organized by Jose Noe Suro and Eduardo Sarabia, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY
2010: "The Gleaners: Works from the Sarah and Jim Taylor Collection," Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, CO
: "Five from LA," Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
: "Bagna Cauda," Gallerie Art: Concept, Paris, France
: "Houdini: Art and Magic, 1919-1949," The Jewish Museum, New York, NY; Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
2009: "This Is Killing Me," Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
2007: "PX – Snow Falls in the Mountains," curated by Jan Bryant, St Paul’s Gallery, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
: "Poker," Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy
2006: "Melancholy in Contemporary Art," Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel
: "Step Into Liquid," Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
: "Peindre des images," Galerie de l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Quimper, France
2005: "CUT," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: "Evidence," Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
: "The Third Peak," Galerie Art: Concept, Paris, France
: "Rogue Wave," LA Louver, Venice, CA
: "Wunderkammer 2," Nina Menocal, Mexico City, Mexico
: "Sad Songs," University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
: "Project Room: A Show Without Works," curated by Daniele Perra, Spazio Lima, Milan, Italy
2004: "summer group show," Cherry de los Reyes, Los Angeles, CA
: "Carpet Bag and Cozyspace," Healing Arts Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
: "Rimbaud," Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
2003: Black Dragon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
: "MFA Exhibitions Show #1," UCLA New Wight Gallery/Kinross, Los Angeles, CA
1998: "New England Connection," Lanning Gallery, Columbus, OH
: "Woods-Gerry Invitational Exhibition," Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
1997: Inagurative Show, Space 1026 Space, Philadelphia, PA
1996: L’ecole Nouveau de Pont-Aven (The New Pont-Aven School Painters), Hotel de Ville, Pont-Aven, France
: Salon de Refuses, Gallerie M, Pont-Aven, France
1995: "Common Threads," Rites and Reasons Gallery, Providence, RI

Bibliography

2025: Zellen, Jody. "Whitney Bedford: ‘Sunsetting’," ArtNowLA, June 26 (Link)
: Billing, Karen. "Local art advisors launch pop up art exhibit in Rancho Santa Fe village," San Diego Union Tribune, April 11
2024: Lanham, Camilla. "Whitney Bedford’s solo show at SLOMA highlights what’s been lost by looking back at historic landscapes," New Times, October 31 (Link)
: Frieze Staff. "Association of Professional Art Advisors’ Top 10 Picks from Frieze Los Angeles Viewing Room 2024," Frieze, February 26 (Link)
: Pound, Cath. "11 Contemporary Artists Channeling Pierre Bonnard’s Post-Impressionist Vision," Artsy, January 22 (Link)
2023: Woodard, Josef. "Rethinking, Re-tilling Landscape Art," Santa Barbara Independent, November 26 (Link)
2020: Dambrot, Shana Nys. "Review: Whitney Bedford at Vielmetter Los Angeles," Artillery, March 5 (Link)
: Finkel, Jori. "Artist Whitney Bedford is drawing a portrait of Elizabeth Warren every day until she is elected president," The Art Newspaper, March 3 (Link)
: Diehl, Travis. "The Best Shows to See in LA," Frieze, February 11 (Link)
: Cascone, Sarah. "In LA for Frieze Week? Here Is Our Guide to 33 Inspiring Gallery Shows to See Beyond the Fairs," artnet, February 10 (Link)
2019: Sritharan, Abi. "5 Wonderful Things To Do In London This Weekend (15-17 March 2019)," Luxury London, March 12 (Link)
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: Riechert, Elliot, "Art Top 5: June 2018," New City Art (web), May 30 (Link)
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: De Santis, Sophie, “Le ‘La-La-Land’ de Whitney Bedford,” Figaroscope, February 22
: “Whitney Bedford – Peinture,” Art Libres, March 1 – 7
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2016: Vallecorse, Victoria, “Alumna showcases art worldwide, stays in LA for dynamic environment,” Daily Bruin, February 26
: Zarley, B. David, “Whitney Bedford: The Sinister Sublime,” New American Paintings (web), June 6 (Link)
: Rigou, Vasia, “Painting Raging Nature and the Powerful Sublime, Whitney Bedford in Profile,” NewCity Art (web), June 10 (Link)
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: La Femme de trente ans, Contemporary Art Daily, July 21
: Pick of the Week: Whitney Bedford, Artillery Magazine (web), December 17
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: "Preview the 2014 Expo Chicago Art Fair," ARTnews, September 15
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: Knight, Christopher, Around the Galleris, Los Angeles Times, October 5
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: Baldessari, John, 100 Future Greats: Whitney Bedford, Art Review, December
: News & Features, Art Basel Miami: Theyre a Steal!, ARTINFO, December
: Bennou, Kassiani, The risk of Art: Yorgos Tsibiridis Collection, Ozon, July/August
: Rogue Wave 05, exhibition catalog, LA Louvre, Venice, CA
2004: Fertiles Textiles, Jalouse, November
: Brochard, Yves, Mixed Paint: A Survey of Contemporary Painters, Flash Art, November
: Dagan, Philippe, Le allusions fantomatiques de Whitney Bedford, Le Monde, October
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Catalogues and Publications

2023: Schwabsky, Barry and Sarah Whitfield. "Bonnard: The Experience of Seeing," Acquavella Galleries, New York, NY, 2023
2021: Schwabsky, Barry. “Whitney Bedford,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY 2021

Teaching Experience

2020: Visiting Artist, University of Texas, Austin, TX
2018-2024: Adjunct Professor, Chapman University, Orange, CA
2018-2021: Adjunct Professor, University of California, Riverside
2018: Visiting Artist, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2016-2017: Adjunct Professor, University of California, San Diego
2016: Visiting Artist, Otis College of Design, Los Angeles, CA
2014: Visiting Artist, University of California, Los Angeles
2012: Visiting Artist, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2015: Pollock Krasner Award
2000-2003: UCLA Darcy Hayman Award
2001: UCLA Hammer Museum Drawing Biennial Winner
1998-2000: Fulbright Graduate Fellowship, Hoschule der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
1998-1999: Karl-Hoffer Gesellschaft Atelier, Kunstler Werkstatt Banhoff Westend
1997: Peggy Guggenheim Collection Studentship, Venice, Italy

Public Collections

: Eric Decelle, Brussels, Belgium
: Francois Pinault Collection, Paris, France
: Ginette Moulin and Guillaume Houzé Contemporary Art Collection, Paris, France
: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
: Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
: Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
: Pizutti Collection, Columbus, OH
: Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz, Miami, FL
: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
: The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK