Edgar Arceneaux | VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES

1972: Born in Los Angeles
: Lives and works in Los Angeles

2001: MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2000: Fachhochschule Aachen, Aachen, Germany
1996: BFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2022: "Skinning The Mirror," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: Sneak Peek of Boney Manilli Performance, Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2021: "Skinning The Mirror," Greenhouse, Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2020: "Edgar Arceneaux: Until, Until, Until… The Presidential Bookend Series," (online), Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
: "Edgar Arceneaux," Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2018: "Library of Black Lies," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2017: “Until, Until, Until…,” Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: "Edgar Arceneaux," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (Link)
: “Library of Black Lies,” The Main Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2016: “Cockeyed Eddie,” Galerie Natalie Obadia, Paris, France
: “Written in Smoke and Fire,” MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (Link)
2015: "Until, Until, Until…" Performa 15, New York NY
: Papillion Institute of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2014: "A Book and a Medal: Disentanglement Equals Homogenous Abstractions," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2012: "Building Loving and Distrustful Relationships", Maccarone Gallery, New York, NY
2011: Hopelessness Freezes Time 1967 Detroit Riots, Detroit Techno and Michael Heizer’s Dragged Mass Museum fr Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
: "Blind Pig City," Praz-Delavallade , Paris, France
: "Miracles and Jokes, Circle Disk Rotation and 22 Lost Signs of the Zodiac," The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Michigan
2010: "The Algorithm Doesn’t Love You", an ongoing series, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2009: "Disfigurement in the Face of Illusion: The Detroit Riots, Michael Heizer and Drexciya, Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin, Germany
: Albion Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2008: "Correlations and Isomorphisms," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: "The Agitation of Expansion," Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA
2007: "Jesus and Dinosaurs," PrazDelavallade, Paris, France
: "The Agitation of Expansion," Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany
2006: "Alchemy of ComedyStupid," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
: Snake River, REDCAT, Los Angeles and Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria, curated by Clara Kim and Stella Rollig, Collaboration with Charles Gaines and the LA Philharmonic
: "Alchemy of ComedyStupid", Gallery 400, University of Illinois Chicago, Illinois, collaboration with David Allan Grier
: Edgar Arceneaux- New Work, – Alchemy of Comedy,Stupid, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX
: "An Arrangement without Tormentors," Lentos Kunstmuseum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria, curated by Stella Rollig
2005: "Borrowed Sun," The Kitchen, New York, NY, curated by Debra Singer
: "Borrowed Sun," San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA,curated by Jill Dawsey
: Adamski Gallery of Contemporary Art, Aachen, Germany
: ArtBasel Miami Beach, Project Booth, presented by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
2004: "Borrowed Sun," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: "Negative Capability. The Michael Jackson Project," Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany
: "An Arrangement Without Tormentors," Witte de With Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2003: "Drawings of Removal," Project Space, UCLA Hammer Museum, Santa Monica, CA
: "Library as Cosmos," Kunstverein Ulm, Germany
: "Library as Chaos," Frehrking Wiesehoefer, Cologne, Germany
: "107th Street, Watts," Revolver Verlag, Frankfurt, Germany
2002: "Rootlessness," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: "Drawings of Removal," Studio Museum Harlem, NY
: "The Trivium," Gallery Kamm, Berlin, Germany
2001: "The Trivium," Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, curated by Rebecca McGrew
1999: The Project, New York, NY
1998: "The Remnants Project," Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023-2024: "Small World," The 13th Taipei Biennial, The Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan (forthcoming)
2023: "Artist’s Choice: Grace Wales Bonner – Spirit Movers," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (forthcoming)
: "Exercises in Imagination," National Academy of Design, New York, NY
: "The Collection," Haubrok Foundation, Fahrbereitschaft, Berlin, Germany
2022: "Boil, Toil & Trouble," Curated by Zoe Lukov, West Palm Beach, FL
2022-2023: "Re-Iterative II," curated by John David O’Brien, Terminal 5, LAX Airport, Los Angeles, CA
: "A Gateway to Possible Worlds. Art + Science Fiction," Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France (Traveling Exhibition) (Link)
2022: "Enter the Mirror," Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
: "Plants Now!" Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Rituals of Resilience," Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (Link)
2021: "Church for Sale," The Haubrok Collection and the National Gallery Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
: "ALI to LA," Transformative Arts, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: COLA Fellowship Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG), Los Angeles CA (Link)
: "Pushing the Margins: A Survey of LA Artists," curated by Charles Gaines, Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger, Norway
: "Land Art: Past, Present, Futures ," Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
: "A New Iconography: Artists Raising Children," The Landing, Los Angeles, CA
2020: "The Biblical Imagination," Mission Gathering, Pasadena, CA
: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "An Earth Song, A Body Song: Figures with Landscape from the OCMA Permanent Collection," Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA
: "Countermythologies," NXTHVN, New Haven, CT
: "In the Meanwhile…Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
: "NINETY / THREEHUNDRED," ArtCenter DTLA, Los Angeles, CA
2019-2020: "The Foundation of the Museum: MOCA’s Collection," The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: "Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power," MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
2019: "Sculpture," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Inaugural Exhibition," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2018: "26 on 3rd," LBMAx, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
: “Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press,” Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
2017: “Pivotal: Highlights from the Collection,” Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: “Performa: Commissions from Performa’s Archives,” Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (Link)
: “Starless Midnight,” Baltic Mill, Newcastle, UK
: “Unsettled,” curated by JoAnne Northup, Nevada Art Museum, Reno, NV; travelling to Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK; Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA (2018)
: “As a text differs from a book, an image differs from an archive,” MAK Center, Mackey Garage Top, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
: “Chapters,” Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
: “Urban Planning: Contemporary Art and the City 1967 – 2017,” curated by Kelly Shindler, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
: “20/20: The Studio Museum in Harlem and Carnegie Museum of Art,” Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
2016: “Wasteland,” curated by Shamim M. Momin, Paris Pantin (Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris France), Mona Bismarck American Center, Paris, France
: “Current: LA Water,” Public Art Biennial of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: “LA Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists,” Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2015: "SiteLab8," collaboration with Wangechi Mutu, SITE Santa Fe, NM
: "After Living in the Room of Ralits Nouvelles," Sonce Alexander Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Misappropriations: Recent Acquisitions," curated by Dan Cameron, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: "Laugh-In: Art, Comedy, Performance," Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
: "Russian Doll," M+B, Los Angeles, CA
: "Daily Memories," Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany
: “Until, Until, Until,” special commission for Performa 15, New York, NY
2014: 2014 Le Biennale de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
: Shanghai Bienniale, Shanghai, China
: "Recurrence," Fridman Gallery, New York, NY
: "Word Bites Picture," Design Matters Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "A Thousand of Him Scattered: Relative Newcomers in Diaspora," Scotlands Centre for Photography, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom (Link)
2013: "The Shadows Took Shape," The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
: "The Zero Hours," Art Sheffield 2013, Sheffield, England
: "The Present Order is the Disorder of the Future" Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
: "bald eagle," haubrok foundation, Berlin, Germany (Link)
: "You Should’ve Heard Just What I Seen: Selections from the collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg," Riverview School, Cape Cod, MA
: "The Armory Show and Tell," The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
: "Perhaps all that is left of the world is a wasteland covered with rubbish heaps," Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH
: "Hook, Line and Sinker: Contemporary Drawings from the Collection of Debra and Dennis Scholl", Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
: "Selections from the Grunwald Center and the Hammer Contemporary Collection", UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: "Etched in Collective History," Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
: "Approximately Infinite Universe," Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
2012: "my.LA," haubrok foundation, Berlin, Germany
: "Pairings, The Collection at 50," The Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County, CA
: "Mutatis Mutandis," Secession, Vienna, Austria
: "Marking Time", Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2011: Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil
: "The Bearden Project", The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
: "Greater LA," curated by Benjamin Godsill, Eleaonor Cayre and Joel Mesler, New York, NY
2010: Inaugural Group Exhibition, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: "New Art for a New Century: Contemporary Acquisitions, 2000-2010," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: "Moving Images. Artists & Video/Film," Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
: Summer Group Show, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Artists Museum: Los Angeles Artists 1980-2010," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: "Edgar Arceneaux, Andrea Bowers, Olga Koumoundouros, Rodney McMillian, Charles Gaines, Nery Gabriel Lemus," Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
: "Huckleberry Finn," CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA (Link)
2009: "California Calling: Works from Santa Barbara Collections, 1948-2008," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
: "Installations Inside/Out 20th Anniversary Exhibition," Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena CA
: "30 Seconds Off an Inch," curated by Naomi Beckwith, The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
: "MONITAUR", Aspen Art Museum, Colorado
: "PLOT/09: This World & Nearer Ones," curated by Mark Beasley, Public Art Quadrennial, presented by Creative Time, Governors Island, NY
: "Wallworks," curated by Betti-Sue Hertz, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
: "Code Share: 5 continents, 10 biennales, 20 artists," curated by Simon Rees, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
: "Collection in Context: Four Decades," The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
2008: "California Biennial 2008," curated by Lauri Firstenberg, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: "Whitney Biennial 2008," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: "Black Is, Black Aint," The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, IL; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, MI; H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO; Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
: "From and Bout Place: Art from Los Angeles," curated by Alma Ruiz, Center of Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, Israel
: "The Lining of Forgetting," curated by Xandra Eden, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; The Austin Museum of Art, Austin Texas (May 30–August 23, 2009)
2007: "Sculptors Drawings: Ideas, Studies, Sketches, Proposals, and More," Angles Gallery, Los Angeles
: "Touched: Artists and Social Engagement," curated by Noel Korten, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena
: "Philosophy of Time Travel," Studio Museum, Harlem, NY, collaboration with Rodney McMillian, Olga Koumandouros, Vincent Johnson, Matthew Sloly
: "USA: American Video Art at the Beginning of the 3rd Millennium," curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Gunnar Kvaran, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, 2nd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
: "southwestNET: drawing outside the lines," Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2006: "Materialization of Sensibility: Art and Alchemy," curated by Klaus Ottman, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY
: "Black Alphabet: conTEXTS of Contemporary African American Art," curated by Maria Brewińska, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
: "Tomorrowland: CalArts in Moving Pictures," Museum of Modern Art, New York
: "Symmetry," curated by Kimberly Meyer, and Nizan Shaked, MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, Los Angeles, CA
2005-2008: "Uncertain States of America," curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Gunnar Kvaran, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway
: Bard Museum Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
: Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
: Herning Kunstmuseum, Copenhagen, Denmark
: Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
: Le Muse de Srignan, Srignan, France
: Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
2005: "Cut," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Imaginary Number," KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
: "Mixed Doubles," Forum Gallery, Carnegie Museum of Art
: "Displaced," curated by Kathrin Becker, KnstlerInnen, Berlin, Germany
: "The Need to Document," Halle fr Kunst e.V., Lneburg, Germany
: "Monuments for the USA," curated by Ralph Rugoff, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
: "Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970," curated by Valerie Cassel, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
2004: "Art and the Afterall Effect," PlaySpace, California College of the Arts Graduate Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: "Quicksand," de Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
: "Upside Down: Neueingerichtete Raeume zur Gegenwart," Ludwigforum Aachen, Aachen, Germany
: "Remembering", Sweeny Art Gallery, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA, curated by Charles Gaines
: "The Michael Jackson Project", Collaboration with Rodney McMillian, Inaugural Exhibition
: Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: "Fade – African American Artists in Los Angeles – A Survey Exhibition," curated by Malik Gaines, Luckman Gallery and University Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State Los Angeles
2003: "Korrekturen," Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany
: "The Summer of 2003," Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, Netherlands
: "True Stories," Witte de With Museum, Rotterdam, curated by Catherine David and Jean Perre Rehm, in the context of the International Film Festval Rotterdam, Netherlands
: "Social Strategies: Redfining Social Realism," curated by Pamela Achincloss, University Art Museum Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
: DePaul University Art Museum, Greencastle, IN
: Illinois State University, Normal, IL
: Skidmore College, Schick Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
: The Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
: "The Fifth Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection", traveling exhibition to: Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA; Soo Visual Arts, Minneapolis, MN; Art Center, South Florida, Miami, FL; Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA; The New Museum, New York, NY
: "Urban Aesthetics: California Artists 2003", The African American Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2002: "Lateral Thinking", San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
: "Persoenliche Plaene," curated by Christina Vegh, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Germany
: "Mass Appeal: The Art Object and Hip Hop Culture", curated by Franklin Sirmans, Gallery 101, Ottawa; Montreal Arts Intercultires, Montreal; The Kyber Center for the Arts, Halifax; Owens Art Gallery, Sackville
: "Prophets of Boom," Kunsthalle Baden Baden, Baden Baden, Germany
: "Unjustified," curated by Kerry James Marshall, Apex Art, New York, NY
2001-2002: "One Planet Under a Groove," curated by Franklin Sirmans and Lydia Yee, Bronx Museum, New York, NY; traveled to: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
2001: "Profiler," curated by Astrid Mania and Peter Robinson, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
: "Prosthetics, Camouflage & War," Adamski Frehrking Wiesehoefer Gallery, Koln, Germany
: "Superman in Bed," curated by Wilhelm Schurmann, Museum Am Ostwall, Dortmunt, Germany
: "Rappers Delight," curated by Arnold Kemp, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2000: "<hers> Video as Female Terrain," curated by Stella Rollig, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
: "Sitegeist," curated by Edgar Arceneaux and Dwayne Moser, Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA
: "Pierogi Flat Files #148," curated by Susan Joyce, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Veni, Vidi, Video," Kunstfaktor, Berlin, Germany.
1999: "Paradise 8," Exit Art, New York, NY
: "Spaceship Earth," curated by Katherine Ruello, Art in General, New York, NY
: "Permanent Collection of 1999," San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
: "I, Me, Mine," curated by Julie Joyce and Mike Mehring, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998: "Warming," The Project, New York, NY
: "Triangle of Nice, Book of Lies, Vol.II," Los Angeles and Fullerton, CA.
: "Round 9," Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
1997: "1997 Annuale," curated by Elizabeth Armstrong, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA
: "Uncommon Sense," The Geffen Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Kwangju Biannale, Kwanju, Korea
: "Fantasy, Desire and Memory," Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA.
1996: "9 Hours at Bliss," curated by Laura CooperBliss Gallery, Pasadena, CA
: "Open House," Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

Video Screenings

2017: “Until, Until, Until…,” la>x, Berlin, Germany
2015: Frame Rate: Edgar Arceneaux, Screening of A Time to Break Silence, LAND, Los Angeles, February 28
2012: Screening of Edgar Arceneaux and Kurt Formans collaborative filmic mash-up project Hulk Alter You!, Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City, UT, July 26

Bibliography

2023: Wang, Lex. "Q&A: Edgar Arceneaux reveals caregiving, storytelling themes of play ‘Boney Manilli’," Daily Bruin, October 5 (Link)
2022: Smith, Melissa. "For Some American Artists, Recognition by Mainstream Art Institutions Is a Means to an End: Building Their Own Alternatives," artnet, December 23 (Link)
: "Church for Sale Works from the Haubrok Collection and the Nationalgalerie Collection," Exhibition Catalogue, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
2021: Almino, Elisa Wouk and Matt Stromberg. "Your Concise Los Angeles Art Guide for August 2021," Hyperallergic, August 10
: Gregg, R., and Villarejo, A. "The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema," Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom
: Buchman, Dr. Lorne. "Creative Uncertainty: How We Make to Know," Thames & Hudson, London, UK
2020: Valentine, Victoria. "Online: 5 Gallery Exhibitions Focus on Artists Amy Sherald, Charles Gaines, Genevieve Gaignard, Edgar Arceneaux, and The Racial Imaginary Institute," Culture Type, October 30
: Goldstein, Caroline. "‘I Was Brought to Tears’: Watch Artist Edgar Arceneaux Reinterpret a Tragically Misunderstood 1980s Performance," ArtNet News, July 9 (Link)
: Easton, Makeda. "Black graduates make up just 1% of ArtCenter alumni. Can an exhibition fix that?" Los Angeles Times, March 2 (Link)
2019: Obioha, Vanessa. "Review: ‘Boney Manilli’ Finds an Inquisitive Audience in Lagos," This Day, May 17 (Link)
: Bleiberg, Laura. "‘Artist in residence’: How one phrase is powering L.A.’s cultural explosion," Los Angeles Times, April 25 (Link)
: Gelt, Jessica. "Mike Kelley Foundation grants: 10 winners split $400,000 to make daring art," Los Angeles Times, April 11 (Link)
2018: Paul, Crystal. "Edgar Arceneaux’s labyrinthine ‘Library of Black Lies’ invites endless interpretation," Seattle Times, December 19 (Link)
: Castro, Alexander. "Performance revisits an infamous TV moment for Ben Vereen," Providence Journal, November 28 (Link)
: Borchert, Gavin. "Henry Art Gallery’s New Senior Curator on the Role of Art in Challenging Times," Seattle Magazine, November (Link)
: Cascone, Sarah, "Editors’ Picks, Print Week Edition: 21 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week," artnet news, October 22 (Link)
: "150+ Artists and Billboard Locations Announced As Part of The Largest Public Art Project in U.S. History," ArtFix Daily, October 19 (Link)
: Clendenen, Dustin. "Update: For Freedoms Arrives in L.A. Ahead of Nov. 6 Midterm Election," LA Weekly, October 23 (Link)
: Cooper, Matt. "The week ahead in SoCal theater, Oct. 14-21: ‘Winter Solstice,’ ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ and more," LA Times, October 12 (Link)
: "Los Angeles Performance Practice Presents the LAX Festival," Broadway World, October 4 (Link)
: Fernandez, Jacqueline. "5 theatre performances, from life at a cutthroat New York magazine to a Pulitzer Prize-winning play," The Eastsider, October 19 (Link)
: "Brown Arts Initiative Announces Fall 2018 Programming Highlights Presented at Brown University," ArtFix Daily, September 11 (Link)
: Almino, Elisa Wouk. "Ten Days of Local Performance Art Throughout Downtown LA," Hyperallergic, October 10 (Link)
: "Sept. 22: CalArts Alum Presents Financial Workshop at Broad Museum," SVC News (web), September 20 (Link)
: Stromberg, Matt, "A Workshop for Artists to Mindfully Manage Their Finances," Hyperallergic (web), September 19 (Link)
: Wilson, Emily, “Blackface betrayal and ‘Black Lies’ in Edgar Arceneaux’s new YBCA installation,” 48hills (web), March 15 (Link)
: Ahn, Abe, “The Politics and Repercussions of Color in Two Exhibitions,” Hyperallergic (web), March 13 (Link)
: Janiak, Lily, "YBCA’s ‘Until’ unearths racist nightmare, immerses you in it," San Francisco Chronicle, February 24 (Link)
: Fancher, Lou, "A show about a controversial Ben Vereen incident gains new controversy," The Mercury News (web), February 21 (Link)
: Yu, Brandon, "Drama re-creates Ben Vereen’s controversial blackface performance," San Francisco Chronicle, February 14 (Link)
: Musiker, Cy, "What Viewers Didn’t See Changed Everything for Ben Vereen," KQED Arts (web), February 14 (Link)
: Edalatpour, Jeffrey, "TBCA Takes on the History of Blackface, in Until, Until, Until…," SF Weekly (web), January 24 (Link)
2017: Krieger, Deborah, “At OCMA, It’s A Masterful Reinstallation of the Permanent Collection,” White Hot Magazine, December (Link)
: Vogel, Wendy, “Post-Truth Detroit,” frieze (web), November 8 (Link)
: MacDonald, Cara ,”Artist Unveils MLK-Inspired Sculpture at U Law School,” The Daily Utah Chronicle (web), October 25
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: Mizota, Sharon, “Review: Ben Vereen, Ronald Reagan and the travesty of blackface, potently remembered,” Los Angeles Times, June 16 (Link)
: Shifflett, Jonathan, “An experimental play reinterprets Ben Vereen’s controversial 1981 homage to Bert Williams,” KPCC The Frame (radio and web), May 30
: L’Official, Pete, "When Ben Vereen Wore Blackface to Reagan’s Inaugural Gala," The New Yorker, January 6 (Link)
: Wagley, Catherine, “5 Free Art Shows to See in L.A.This Week,” LA Weekly (web), January 18
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: Delmont, Matthew F., “Why America Forgot About ‘Roots’,” The New York Times, May 28
: "Art in the Twenty-First Century," ART21 (Link)
: Wagley, Catherine, “Wasteland: New Art from Los Angeles curated by LAND,” Contemporary Art Review LA, June 30
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: “A Nation Engaged: ‘I feel most American when I’m not in the States’,” The Frame, Southern California Public Radio, October 12
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: Hopkins, Christopher Snow, “Re-performing the Histories of African American Public Figures,” Hyperallergic (web), December 14
: Williams, Maxwell, “Claire Danes to Host Prestige PBS Art Program,” The Hollywood Reporter (web), May 26
2015: Dawsey, Jill, Laugh-In: Art, Comedy, Performance, exhibition pamphlet essay, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, January 23
: Jocks, Heinz-Norbert, Eine un-westliche Moderne auf den Fersen der eigenen Tradition, Kunstforum International, February – March
: Arceneaux, Edgar, "Muse: The Severed Foot," Art in America, March
: Arceneaux, Edgar, Blood and Refuse, Art in America, September
: Battaglia, Andy, "At Performa, A Festival of the Unexpected," The Wall Street Journal (web), October 30
: “The 30 Most Exciting Artists in North America Today: Part Two,” Artnet News (web), December 24
: McGarry, Kevin, "In San Diego, Art is a Laughing Matter," New York Times T Magazine Blog, January 23
: Basha, Regine, "La Biennale de Montral: L’avenir (looking forward)," Modern Painters, January
: Krasinski, Jennifer, “Pulling the Plug,” Artforum (web), December 29
: "Something to Laugh About: La Jolla exhibit to explore stand-up comedy in contemporary art," La Jolla Light, January 21
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: Shaw, Catherine, "The 10th Shanghai Biennale ponders a post-industrial China," Wallpaper, November 28
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: Evans, Ariel, "Los Angeles: Edgar Arceneaux," Modern Painters, December
: Caldwell, Ellen, "Edgar Arceneauxs A Book and a Medal at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects," New American Paintings, September 24
: David, Soleil, "Edgar Arceneaux’s Newest Exhibit Draws on MLK’s Ideas and Legacy, 24700," News from California Institute of the Arts, September 18
: Williams, Maxwell, "Intertwined Histories: Edgar Arceneaux Re-imagines Martin Luther King," KCET Artbound, September 11
: Goldman, Edward, "Tearful Goodbye to Ensor, Happy Hello To, KCRW," September 9
: Berardini, Andrew, "No Longer Lonely (but maybe still a bit brutal): September Openings Across Los Angeles," ArtSlant, September 4
: Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter, "Coming Soon! Hunter Drohojowska-Philp offers a preview of some unexpected offerings this fall," KCRW, September 4
: Miranda, Carolina, "Datebook: Arts fall season begins this weekend the best openings," Los Angeles Times, September 4
: "Edgar Arceneaux: A Book and a Medal: Disentanglement Equals Homogenous Abstractions," Glasstire, August 28
2013: Barnes, Tim, "Review: Edgar Areneaux, ‘A Time to Break Silence,’" Wow 24/7, October 28 (Link)
: "Now See This," Art Review, Summer
: Sutton, Kate, "Edgar Arceneaux at Maccarone," Artforum, February
2012: Mutatis Mutandis: Group show curated by Catherine David opens at Viennas Secession, artdaily.org, July
: Boucher, Brian, "Maccarone to Expand in West Village," Art in America, April 13
: Aivazian, Haig, "Edgar Arceneaux’s Untitled," Manifesta Journal, Issue #15
2011: Wagley, Catherine, "Watts Towers at Pacific Standard Time: How the towers legacy is more confusing than you think," LA Weekly, December 15
: Elliot, Bobby, "The Bearden Project: A Family Affair," The Huffington Post, December 7
: Bodin, Claudia, "L.A. cool," Art Das Kunstmagazin, October
: Bohem, Mike, "Watts House Project Lands $370,000 Grant," Los Angeles Times, September 20
: Biro, Matthew, "Edgar Arceneaux, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit," Artforum, May
: Douglas, Sarah, "L.A. on The Hudson: The West Coast Challenges The East," Modern Painters, May
: Hodges, Michael H., "MOCAD exhibits manipulate time, scale," The Detroit News, March 10
: Myers, Holly, "Edgar Arceneaux," Art Review, Issue 49, April
: Kilston, Lyra, "Edgar Arceneaux," Art in America, February 8
: Wright, Travis R., "Life Stories Metro Times," February 4
: "Arceneaux/Museum Fur Genewartskunst," The International Review of African American Art
2010: Stillman, Nick, "Edgar Arceneaux, Charles Gaines & Rick Lowe," Bomb, Number 111, p.50-57, Spring Issue
: Diehl, Travis, "Critics Pick," ArtForum, November 26
2009: Myers, Holly, "Intelligent, but hardly passionate," Los Angeles Times, September 1
: Walker, Alissa, "LA People 2009: Urban Redeveloper Edgar Arceneaux," LA Weekly, April 20
: Sciortino-Rinehart, Natalie, "Score & Script: Music in Video," Art Forum, April
: Frechette, Zach, "National Volunteer Week: Watts House Project," Good Magazine, April 24
: Allsop, Laura, "Future Greats: Edgar Arceneaux," Art Review, Issue 30, p.72, March
: Schorr, Max, "Community Leaders Event Recap and Pictures," Good Magazine, March 13
: Taft, Catherine, "2008 California Biennial," ArtReview, No. 29, February/March
: Bedford, Christopher, "Edgar Arceneaux," Frieze, January/February
: Beasley, Mark, "Looking Back: Solo Shows," Frieze, January/February
2008: Chang, Richard, "Visual art/ Top 5 events," Orange County Register, December 26
: Burket, Brent, "Miami 2008, Part II," Artcal, December 12
: Wagley, Catherine, "The Best Kind of Boring: 2008 California Biennial," dailyserving.com, December 1
: Beale, Lauren, "A Lift for 107th Street," LA Times Blog, November 3
: Dambrot, Shana Nys, "Edgar Arceneaux: Correlations and Isomorphisms," Art Ltd., November
: Melrod, George, "A Questioning Biennial," Art Ltd., November
: Mizota, Sharon, "Public Equity: Sharon Mizona on Edgar Arceneaux and Watts House Project," ArtForum, November
: "The Orange County Museum of Art Presents the 2008 California Biennial," artdaily.com, October 27
: Buitron, Michael, "2008 California Biennial at the OCMA and Beyond," Leap Into the Void (blog), October 25
: Knight, Christopher, "Galleries: Continuing," LA Times, October 19
: Kilston, Lyra, and Latimer, Quinn, "Los Angeles: Field Guide," Modern Painters, October
: Mizota, Sharon, "Eureka moments," LA Times, October 19
: Ruiz, Alma, Interview with Edgar Arceneaux, From and About Place: Art from Los Angeles, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, September – November
: Knight, Christopher, "Around the Galleries," LA Times, October 3
: Melrod, George, California Biennial: Lauri Firstenberg Interview, art ltd., October
: Martin, Courtney J., "Critics Pick," ArtForum, October
: Copeland, Huey, "The Blackness of Blackness," ArtForum, October
: Whats Up, "Collection in Context: Four Decades, The Studio Museum," Harlem Magazine, Summer
: Dambrot, Shana, Report: New York City, The Ghost of Jason Rhoades, Art Ltd, July
: Eden, Xandra, "The Lining of Forgetting," Witherspoon Art Museum Publication, July
: "Arceneaux to Redevelop Watts?," Artnet, June 12
: Ammirati, Domenick, "Whitney Biennial 2008 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York," Afterall, May 24
: Salsbury, Britany, "Critics Picks: Black Is, Black Aint," ArtForum, May
: White, Amy, "The Lining of Forgetting," ArtPapers, May
: Patterson, Tom, "Creating Memories: Works by 14 artists comprising a wide-ranging and evocative examination of The Lining of Forgetting," The Winston-Salem Journal, May 11
: Vikram, Anuradha, "The LA Annual," Artillery, May/June
: Howard Halle, "Whitney Biennial 2008: A Tepid Biennial Inspires neither hate nor love," Time Out New York, March 13
: "On Site: Whitney Biennial 2008," Art Observed, March 8
2007: Szupinska, Joanna, "United States Artists winners," Flash Art Online, November 20
: Fragoza, Carribean, "LAXART Benefit Art Auction Draws Energetic Crowds and Funds," Flash Art Online, November 16
: Vogel, Carol, "Whitney Biennial Stretches to Armory," New York Times, November 16
: "Artists Announced for 2008 Whitney Biennial," ArtForum (web), November 16
: Boehm, Mike, "USA Fellows puts artists in a flattering light," Los Angeles Times, November 15
: "Ann Hamilton and Edgar Arceneaux Among Winners of Fifty USA Fellowships," ArtForum (web), November 15
: "Continuing and Recommended," Art Scene, September
: Myers, Holly, "Social issues leave imprint in Touched," Los Angeles Times, August 22
: Mizota, Sharon, "Clarity in every crisis," Los Angeles Times, July 29
: Finkel, Jori, "A Reluctant Fraternity, Thinking Post-Black," New York Times, June 10
: "Brancusi Report: Last Days in LA," Artslant (web), March
: Fogle, Douglas, "Emerging Artists," Frieze, January/February
: Moshayedi, Aram, "Charles Gaines + Edgar Arceneaux," Art Papers, January/February
: 2nd Moscow Biennale, FlashArt online news, January/February
2006: Searle, Adrian, "Rebels without a cause," The Guardian, December 9
: Morgan, Jessica, "Best of 2006," Artforum, December
: Kushner, Rachel, "On the Ground: Los Angeles," Artforum, December
: Myers, Holly, "A take on comedy is out of the routine," Los Angeles Times, November 10
: Blumenstein, Ellen, "L.A. Confidential," Monopol, November/December
: Chaplin, Julia, "Culver City Art Crawl," Elle, November
: Krasny, Marcin, "Czarno na białym (Black on White)," Obieg Magazine, Poland, October 6
: Ollman, Leah, "Forks abound in Snake River," Los Angeles Times, October 4
: Muchnic, Suzanne, "The Art Explosion," Los Angeles Times, October 1
: Kenning, Dean, "Uncertain States of America," Art Monthly, October
: Kent, Sarah, "States of the Art," Time Out, September 20
: Berardini, Andrew, "Scene & Herd: On the Road," ArtForum (web), September 15
: Glover, Michael, "An Orgy of Appropriation," The Independent, September 13
: Horowitz, Noah and Sholis, Brian, "The Uncertain States of America Reader," Serpentine Gallery, London
: Spaid, Sue, "Whitney Biennial 2006," artUS, July/September, issue 14
: Wood, Eve, "Symmetry: Los Angeles," Art Papers, July/August
: Smith, Roberta, "Endgame Art? Its Borrow, Sample and Multiply in an Exhibition at Bard College," The New York Times, July 7
: Snake River, "Photography Now," July/August/September
: Rume und Kulturen verflochten, Krone O, May 19
: Ausstellung, O Nachrichten, May 2
: Kunst: Snake River im Lentos, Obersterreichblicke, May
: Das sterreich-Kalendarium, Reisemagazin, May
: Aktuelle Ausstellungen, Neues aus Linz, May
: Thek, Franz, Sprache von Fluss und Musik, O Nachrichten, April 29
: Hofleitner, Johanna, Der Lauf der Dinge, Schaufenster, April 28
: Hutter, Andreas, Das Linzer Lentos als Kino und als Filmproduzent, Neues Volksblatt, April 28
: Haderer, Gerhard, Snake River, sterreichisches Pressebro (oepb.at/linz), April 28
: CB, Watchlist, Der Standard, April 27
: Snake River im Lentos, Tips, April 25
: Snake River, Schaufenster, April 21
: AMM, "Edgar Arceneaux: The Alchemy of Comedy Stupid," Artkrush, April 19
: Artner, Alan G, "Multichannel video work is lacking a punch line," Chicago Tribune, April 13
: "Edgar Arceneaux und Charles Gaines: Snake River," freikarte.at, April 3
: Klemcke, Elizabeth, "Artists in the House," Brilliant, April
: Bush, Haydn, "The silence of standup," Chicago Journal, March 29
: Roussel, Noёllie, "Los Angeles: Elsewhere is Everywhere," Art Press, April Issue, pp. 34-44
: Martin, Courtney J, "Edgar Arceneaux: New York," Art Papers, March/April Issue, p. 64
: Kastner, Jeffrey, "Elective Affinities: The Art of Egdar Arceneaux," Artforum, February Issue, pp. 192-195
: Golden, Thelma, "Edgar Arceneaux: The Alchemy of Comedy, Stupid," The Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine Collectors Issue, Fall/Winter 2005-06
: Campagnola, Sofia, "Focus Los Angeles," Flash Art, January/February Issue, Vol. XXXIX, No.246, pg.68
: Helfand, Glen, "Edgar Arceneaux San Francisco Museum of Modern Art," Artforum, January Issue, XLIV, No.5, pg.228
: Campbell, Clayton, "The City of Angeles A short survey on the Los Angeles art scene," Flash Art, January/February Issue, Vol. XXXVIII, No.246, pg.77
2005: ODriscoll, Bill, "Sun Set," Pittsburgh City Paper, December 29
: Cotter, Holland, "Edgar Arceneaux: Borrowed Sun," New York Times, November 17
: Von Ulrich, Gutmair, Macht nur soviel Ihr knnt, Netzeitung, August 21
: Gupta, Anjali, "Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970," Art Papers, July/August
: Roeske, Sharon, "Art in Black History Month," Arts Houston, February Issue
: Brooks Ranallo, Anne, "Gallery 400 gets foundation prize for comedy performance film", University of Illinois at Chicago, February
: JB, "Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970," Artforum, January, 72
2004: Gaines, Charles, "Edgar Arceneaux’s Search for Meaning Among Infinite Variations," Afterall, September, 64-71
: Lorch, Catrin, "Drawings of Removal", pg 76 – 80, AfterAll Magazine, October 2004 issue
: "Continuing and Recommended", Artscene, Vol.24, No.2, October
: Holte, Michael Ned, "Itineraries", Artforum, August 3
: Jones, Leslie, "Edgar Arceneaux / UCLA Hammer Museum," Art on paper, pg. 18, May/June
: Myers, Julian, "Edgar Arceneaux / Rodney McMillian at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects / UCLA Hammer Museum," Frieze, May, 92 – 93
: Pence, Elizabeth, "Edgar Arceneaux at the UCLA Hammer Museum,"Artweek, April 2004, Volume 35, Issue 3, 21 – 22
: Miles, Christopher, "Edgar Arceneaux: UCLA Hammer Museum," ArtForum, March, 190
: Knight, Christopher, "A chronicle of race, rage, ritual," Los Angeles Times, February 17
2003: Pagel, David, "Questions, few answers," Los Angeles Times, April 23
: Woodard, Joseph, "New social art order," ArtScene, Mach 25 – April 3
2002: "Lateral Thinking – Art of the 1990’s," Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Exhibition Catalog, New York, pg. 31-31
: Klaasmeyer, Kelly, "Memory Lane," Houston Press, November 7,
: Cotter, Holland, The New York Times, August 2, pg.32
: Marzahn, Alexander, Basler Zeitung, Feuilleton, March 30/31, pg. 42
: Grundy, Timothy, , Basellandschaftliche Zeitung, March 28, Pg. 6
: Bartmettler, Yvonne Basler Zeitung, March 21, pg. 12
: Imhoff, Dora, March, pg. 424-425
: Naef, Maja, Personliche Plne, Kunstbulletin, Mai 2002, pg.45
: Schweizer, Klaus, Kunsthalle nachmittags, Basler Zeitung, April 8, pg. 30
: Schweizer, Klaus, Ausstellungen, Neue Zuericher Zeitung, April 13, pg. 64
: Bertmettler, Yvone, Das Leben Ein Plan, Basler Zeitung, March 30, 42
: Caramanica, John, "Hip Hop Don’t Stop," Village Voice, January 9 15, 57
: Joo, Eungie, "Bring that Beat Back", FYI, Spring, 57
: Lopez, Luciana, "Hip Hop Planet", URB 91, March issue, 48
: The New York Times, March 1
: Dies&Das, weekly exhibition openings directory
: Oswald, Anja, "Wenn der Bleistift Rappt," Zitty, October, 80
: "Show Stoppers," Juxtapoz, 56
2001: Lang, Peter, 729 Kunstlers Profiling, Blitz Review, December 19
: Kareem, Nadra, Artist blurs cultural boudries, Los Angeles Times, September 4
: Fricke, Harald, Original wird Falschung, Die Tageszeitung, November 14
: Reeves, Mosi, "Bring the Noise", San Francisco Bay Guardian, June 6
2000: Pincus, Robert L., "Life as we know it," The San Diego Union Tribune, October 5, 38
: Pincus, Robert L., "Objects D’Curio," The San Diego Union Tribune, 49-50
1999: Sirmans, Franklin, "Edgar Arceneaux," Time Out New York, 72

Catalogues

2022: Eshun, Ekow. "In The Black Fantastic," Thames & Hudson, NY, NY
2017: Northrup, Joanne, "Unsettled," Nevada Museum of Art, Hirmer Publishers: Munich, Germany
: Huldisch, Henriette, “Edgar Arceneaux: Written in Smoke & Fire,” MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
2016: Momin, Shamin M., “Wasteland: New Art from Los Angeles,” Los Angeles Nomadic Division, presented by Mona Bismarck American Center and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2013: Kunde, Harald; Vlasic, Valentina; et al., The Present Order is the Disorder of the Future, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, September
: Taxter, Kelly, You Shouldve Heard Just What I seen: Selections from the collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Riverview School, Cape Cod, September
: Griffin, Jonathan, Vitamin D2: New Perspective in Drawing, Phaidon Press, May
2012: Roussel, Nollie, Transient Memory, Imminent Collapse: Edgar Arceneauxs Urban Landscapes, essay published in Marking Time, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
: "The Bearden Project", The Studio Museum in Harlem
2011: Huckleberry Finn, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art
: Hopelessness Freezes Times-1976 Detroit Riots, Detroit Techno and Michael Heizers Dragged Mass, Museum fr Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
2009: Hertz, Betti-Sue, Wall Works, Exhibition Catalogue, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2008: Firstenberg, Lauri, with text by Julian Myers, California Biennial 2008, Exhibition Catalogue, Orange County Museum of Art, October
: Kastner, Jeffrey, 2008 Biennial Exhibition Catalogue The Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art, March
: From and Bout Place: Art from Los Angeles, Center of Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, Israel, curated by Alma Ruiz
: The Lining of Forgetting, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, curated by Xandra Eden
2007: Molok, Nikolai, Ed., Footnotes on Geopolitics, Market, and Amnesia: 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (catalogue), ArtChronika and Moscow Biennale Art Foundation
: Kim, Christine Y, Philosophy of Time Travel (catalogue), The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
2006: Kim, Clara, Snake River: Charles Gaines & Edgar Arceneaux, REDCAT Los Angeles and Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz (exhibition catalogue) Ed. Karen Jacobson
: "Alchemy of ComedyStupid", Gallery 400, University of Illinois Chicago, Illinois, collaboration with David Allan Grier
: Brewińska, Maria, Black Alphabet: conTEXTS of Contemporary African American Art,
: Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland (exhibition catalogue and essay)
2005: Birnbaum, Daniel, Kvaran, Gunnar, Obrist, Ulrich, Uncertain States of America: American Art in the Third Millenium, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art (exhibition catalog)
: Dawsey,Jill, New Work: Edgar Arceneaux, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
: The Imaginary Number, KW Institute for Contemporary Art (show catalogue), Ed. Anselm Franke and Kila Peleg
: Cassel Oliver, Valerie, "Through the Conceptual Lens: The Rise, Fall, and the Resurrection of Blackness", Double Consciousness, Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, January (exhibition catalog)
2003: Chang, Aimee, "Opening the work", Joo, Eungie, "Library as Cosmos", exhibition catalog essays, in Edgar Arceneaux, "Lost Library", Kunstverein Ulm, Ulm, Germany, co-edited by Brigitte Hausmann
: Auchincloss, Pamela & Ottman, Klaus, "Art and Society: from the Social to the Transcendental", exhibition catalog for "Social Strategies – Redefining Social Realism", pg. 7 – 19, New York, February
2001: Jonhson, Vincent, Edgar Arceneaux, Pomona College Museum of Art, (exhibition catalog)

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2021: COLA Fellowship Grant, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
2019: Mike Kelley Foundation Grant, Los Angeles, CA
2015: Malcolm McLaren Award, Performa 15, New York, NY
2013: Rauschenberg Residency, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Captiva, FL
2007: United States Artists Fellowship
2006: William H. Johnson Award
: ArtPace Residency, San Antonio, TX
2005: Joyce Award, Chicago, IL
: Creative Capital Grant, New York, NY
1999: Skowhegan School of Painting Skowhegan, ME
1998: The Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada
: Project Row Houses, Houston, TX

Public Collections

: Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
: Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
: Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
: National Academy of Design, New York, NY
: New York Public Library, New York, NY
: Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
: Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
: Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY