1989

Born in Washington, D.C.

2016

MFA, Painting and Printmaking, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2011

BA, Art History and Visual Arts, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2026

"Spotlight: Zoe Walsh - Outsides", Vielmetter, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)

2025

"Night Fields," Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY

2023

"When the breezes start," M+B, Los Angeles, CA

2020

"I came to watch the morning rise," M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2018

"Remote Light," curated by Bianca Boragi, Zeit Contemporary Art, New York, NY

2017

"Periscope," curated by Jean-Baptiste Lenglet, Virtual Dream Center 2.0

"Exposures," Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, France

2013

"Desire Distilled," curated by Jesse Mockrin, Pieter Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA

2012

"Cruising Affect: Peripheral Identifications," Abel Gutierrez Studio, Los Angeles, CA (with Nathan Lam Vuong)

2011

"Tomboy," Occidental College Weingart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025

"Nowhere but the Night," curated by Gemma Rolls-Bentley, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, Netherlands

"Out of LA: Contemporary Voices," opa projects, Miami, FL

2024

"Form and Feeling," curated by Ashton Cooper, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

"for love, for art, and for being," UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA

2023

"A Place to Stay," curated by Pau S. Pescador, Advocate & Gochis Galleries, Los Angeles LGBT Center, Los Angeles, CA

2022

"Young Americans," PM/AM Gallery, London, UK

"Toms Queers," 27th Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival, Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

"Painting: New Approaches," The Chan Gallery of Pomona College, Los Angeles, CA

2021

"Art and Hope At The End Of The Tunnel," curated by Edward Goldman, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

2020

"Eleven Figures in II Parts," Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA

"Brush Against," curated by Munro Galloway, Peppers Art Gallery, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA

2019

"Queer Paranormal (An Exhibition Concerning Shirley Jackson and “The Haunting of Hill House”)," Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT

"You don't control the witness," ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA

2018

"I am no bird...," ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA

"Queering Space," Alfred University Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred, NY

2017

"Virtual Dream Center," La Maison des Arts, Malakoff, France

"Paysages Intérieurs," Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, France

2016

"Queering Space," Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, CT

"Stream: Chapter Three," curated by Cindy Smith, Two Chairs, South Windham, VT

"Merry Go Round," Yve YANG Gallery, Boston, MA

"Partners," curated by Anoka Faruqee & Michael Queenland, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY

"Double Dip," curated by Sheila Pepe & Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, CT

"New Genealogies," curated by John Edmonds & Jenny Tang, Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, CT

2015

"Untitled (with Dani Levine and E.E. Ikeler)," Aisling Gallery, New Haven, CT

"Trans*," Yale Office of LGBT Resources, New Haven, CT

"Second Coming, Second Life, Second Cousin, Second Base," Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, CT

"First Things," Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, CT

2012

"Third Annual Queer Pile-Up," curated by Darin Klein & Friends, ForYourArt, Los Angeles, CA

Awards, Residencies, and Grants

2024

Artist-in-Residence, Quinn-Emanuel, Los Angeles, CA

Artist-in-Residence, Fountainhead Arts, Miami, Florida

2019

Emerging Artist Grant Nominee, Rema Hort Mann Foundation

2016

Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship, Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, France

2015

Al Held Foundation Affiliated Fellow, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy

LGBTQ Studies Graduate Student Workshop Grant, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Bibliography

2025

Çil, Çisemnaz. “Zoe Walsh: Night Fields | Yossi Milo,” Musée Magazine (review), December 10

Artforum. “Night Fields,” Artguide Must-See listing, Artforum, December 9

Art Plugged. Artsy Launches “Queer Art Now” in Celebration of Pride Month. June 22

Artsy Editorial. "30 Artists Defining Queer Art Now," Artsy. June 1

Rolls-Bentley, Gemma. "What is Queer Art Now?," Artsy. June 1

2022

Fishman, Olivia “Layering Subjectivity Q&A with Zoe Walsh," Artillery Magazine, September 6

2021

Teicholz, Tom. “Edward Goldman’s Own ‘Made In LA’— Pandemic Version,” Forbes, October 19

Mendelsohn, Meredith. “How Visual Artists Led the Creative Charge for LGBTQ Rights,” 1st Dibs Introspective, June 20

2020

Goldman, Edward. “LA Art Scene During the Lockdown," Art Matters. July 16

Zellen, Jody. “Pick of the Week: Zoe Walsh,” What’s on Los Angeles. July 16

Herrick, Debra. "Threshold spaces: Rethinking Eleven Figures during Quarantine," Lum Art Zine. May 8

Hernandez, Rodrigo. "Artists unknowingly inspired by same theme at Atkinson Gallery," The Channels. February 22

2019

McGeeney, Makayla-Courtney. "Exhibit explores sexual ambiguity in Shirley Jackson's best known novel," Bennington Banner. October 25

Tenzer, Harrison. "The New Canon: 7 Queer Painters Who Are Tapping into the History Books," Cultured Magazine. June 20

2018

Ekstrand, Anna Mikaela. "Processes of Seduction. Zoe Walsh Talks About Their Show 'Remote Light' at Zeit Contemporary Art," Cultbytes. November 27

2017

Frase Contemporary Art, "Frase Got Talent Catalogue," December

Manvi, Maya. "Zoe Walsh: Periscope," Virtua Dream Center 2.0, October

2016

Sargent, Antwaun. "A Look Inside the First Queer Art Show at Yale," Vice: Creators Project, October 27

Butler, Sharon. "Examining Queer @ Yale University," Two Coats of Paint, October 21

Cummings, Mike. "Exhibit Unites Yale School of Art Students, Faculty, and Alumni Across Generations," YaleNews, January 21

2013

Wagley, Catherine. “Five Artsy Things to Do This Week: Experimental Baby-sitting and the Fuzzy Wild West,” LA Weekly, September 5

2011

Diggins, Claire. “Identity in Art: Zoe Walsh’s Experience As a Studio Art Major,” The Occidental Weekly, February 14