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Edgar Arceneaux explores connections between historical events and present-day truths in drawing, sculpture, installation, performance, and multi-media events. In the artist’s work, linear logic is abandoned in favor of wordplay and visual associations, revealing how language, technology, and systems of ordering produce reality as much as describe them. Seemingly disparate elements—such as science fiction, civil rights era speeches, techno music, and the crumbling architecture of Detroit—find a new synchronicity in the artist’s hands, ultimately pointing to larger historical forces such as the rise of the surveillance state.

Recently, Arceneaux has been expanding these concerns into a new body of work focusing on mirrors. Glass shards and mirrors have figured in his work before, but now they literally compose the piece. Through a strenuous process of chemically stripping the mirrors from their backing and transferring them to canvas, Arceneaux creates new complex gestural images that are reflective, yet fragmented, broken and layered, with distressed colors of silver, black, green, and rust.

Edgar Arceneaux was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, and lives and works in Pasadena, California. He is a graduate of Art Center College of Design (BFA, 1996) and the California Institute for the Arts (MFA, 2001). He is an Associate Professor of Art for Roski School of Art and Design at USC. He played a seminal role in the creation of the Watts House Project, a redevelopment initiative to remodel a series of houses around the Watts Towers, serving as director from 1999 to 2012. His work has been featured in the Whitney Biennial (2008), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Performa 15, New York; and the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, among other venues.

Recent solo exhibitions include Edgar Arceneaux, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Library of Black Lies, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA; Edgar Arceneaux, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Written in Smoke and Fire, MIT LIST Center for Contemporary Art, Cambridge, MA; and Hopelessness Freezes Time 1967 Detroit Riots, Detroit Techno and Michael Heizer’s Dragged Mass, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland. Arceneaux has also had solo exhibitions at REDCAT, Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the Studio Museum Harlem, New York. He has been included in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art; the Bronx Museum, New York; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; and MCA Chicago, Chicago.

The artist’s work resides in many public collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; The Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport, CA; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the New York Public Library, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; and the Studio Museum, Harlem, NY; among others.

Selected Works

This image depicts an artwork by Edgar Arceneaux titled "Skinning The Mirror (All My Failures. All My Faults. Well Done. #5)." This artwork was created in 2023 and measures 67" x 34" x 1 ¹⁄₂" [HxWxD] (170.18 x 86.36 x 3.81 cm). Its medium is Acrylic paint, silver nitrate, glass on canvas mounted on panel.
Edgar Arceneaux
"Skinning The Mirror (All My Failures. All My Faults. Well Done. #1-12)", 2023
Edgar Arceneaux “Skinning the Mirror #54 (A+B),” 2022
Edgar Arceneaux
“Skinning the Mirror #54 (A+B),” 2022
Edgar Arceneaux “Cohesion Sketches (August 2022, #1-12),” 2022
Edgar Arceneaux
“Cohesion Sketches (August 2022, #1-12),” 2022
Edgar Arceneaux “Skinning the Mirror #37,” 2021
Edgar Arceneaux
“Skinning the Mirror #37,” 2021
Edgar Arceneaux “Skinning the Mirror #14,” 2021
Edgar Arceneaux
“Skinning the Mirror #14,” 2021
“Skinning the Mirror #36 diptych,” 2021
Edgar Arceneaux
“Skinning the Mirror #36 diptych,” 2021
Edgar Arceneaux “Greenleaf on Evidence / Cases on Partnership,” 2020
Edgar Arceneaux
“Greenleaf on Evidence / Cases on Partnership,” 2020
“Until, Until, Until... The Presidential Bookend Series, Edition 5,” 2015-2020
Edgar Arceneaux
“Until, Until, Until... The Presidential Bookend Series, Edition 5,” 2015-2020
Edgar Arceneaux “Twilight of Authority, Dawn of Authority,” 2019
Edgar Arceneaux
“Twilight of Authority, Dawn of Authority,” 2019
Edgar Arceneaux “The Law of Letters and Credit,” 2019
Edgar Arceneaux
“The Law of Letters and Credit,” 2019
Edgar Arceneaux “Peaks Above The Headlines, (New I),” 2017
Edgar Arceneaux
“Peaks Above The Headlines, (New I),” 2017
This image depicts an artwork by Edgar Arceneaux titled "King Vanitas, Third Stage: When Things Become Relics (To Each Below, The Above, 1968)." It is unknow when this artwork was created and measures 38" H x 27" W x 2.50" D (96.52 cm H x 68.58 cm W x 6.35 cm D) and 32.25" H x 21.50" W (81.92 cm H x 54.61 cm W) (interior glass). Its medium is Enamel on silk, aluminum.
Edgar Arceneaux
"King Vanitas, Third Stage: When Things Become Relics (To Each Below, The Above, 1968),"
Edgar Arceneaux, PLATONIC SOLIDS DREAMING/DETROITS SHRINKING (Octahedron), 2014, Painting on mirrored glass, graphite and ink on vellum, layered over colored paper, in a hand crafted steel frame, 38, SVLAP Solo Show, September 6 - October 18, 2014; Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer
Edgar Arceneaux
"PLATONIC SOLIDS DREAMING/DETROITS SHRINKING (Octahedron)," 2014
Edgar Arceneaux, The Slave Ship Zong, 2011, Acrylic, graphite on paper, 80" H x 130" W (203.2 cm H x 330.2 cm W), Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer
Edgar Arceneaux
"The Slave Ship Zong," 2011
Edgar Arceneaux, Blind Pig #8, 2011, Charcoal graphite on paper, 90
Edgar Arceneaux
"Blind Pig #8," 2011
Edgar Arceneaux, Orpheum Returns- Fires Creation, 2010, Glass vitrine, wood shelf, clay, science book, sugar, 57 x 59 x 25
Edgar Arceneaux
"Orpheum Returns- Fires Creation," 2010
Edgar Arceneaux, American Natural History, 2009, Acrylic, graphite on paper, 60
Edgar Arceneaux
"American Natural History," 2009
Edgar Arceneaux, Detroit, 2009, Acrylic, graphite on paper, 185 x 156,5 cm, Photocredit Lutz Bertram, Berlin
Edgar Arceneaux
"Detroit," 2009
Edgar Arceneaux, Myth, Nature, Man: an Advancement of Evolution, 2009, Inkjet on paper, 35,5 x 19,3 cm, Photocredit Lutz Bertram, Berlin
Edgar Arceneaux
"Myth, Nature, Man: an Advancement of Evolution," 2009
Edgar Arceneaux, Untitled, 2009, Inkjet on paper, 51 x 36 cm, Photocredit Lutz Bertram, Berlin
Edgar Arceneaux
"Untitled," 2009
Edgar Arceneaux, Number of Intersections, Exercise #48, 2008, Graphite, dirt, pencil, charcoal and gesso on paper, 60, ArtBasel Miami
Edgar Arceneaux
"Number of Intersections, Exercise #48," 2008

Exhibitions

1972
Born in Los Angeles, CA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
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

2025
"Edgar Arceneaux: Viewing Room," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2024
"Until Until, Until..." Performance, MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
"Boney Manilli" Performance, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
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

2024
"A Wing and a Prayer," The Bunker Art Space, West Palm Beach, FL
"Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics," LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
"In Memory," Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Sat Lake City, UT
"RETROaction," Curated by Kate Fowle in collaboration with Homi K Bhabha, Charles Gaines, and Ellen Tani, Hauser and Wirth, Los Angeles, CA
"Re-Iterative II," curated by John David O’Brien, Terminal 5, LAX Airport, Los Angeles, CA
2023-2024
"Small World," The 13th Taipei Biennial, The Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
2023
"Artist's Choice: Grace Wales Bonner - Spirit Movers," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"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
"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…,” lax, 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

2025
LA Times Staff. "This momentous LACMA exhibition called for a group portrait — to the tune of Roberta Flack," The LA Times, April 11 (Link)
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Frieze Staff. "Hammer, LACMA, MOCA Acquire Edgar Arceneaux and Shaniqwa Jarvis at Frieze Los Angeles," Frieze, February 20
2024
McKie, Karin. "Review: Racism Remembered as Edgar Arceneaux Revisits Ben Vereen’s Performance for Reagan’s 1981 Inauguration," Third Coast Review, October 27 (Link)
Jones, Chris. "Review: Edgar Arceneaux’s “Until, Until, Until …” on the MCA Stage imagines a bleak night for Ben Vereen," Chicago Tribune, October 18 (Link)
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2023
Wang, Lex. "Q&A: Edgar Arceneaux reveals caregiving, storytelling themes of play ‘Boney Manilli’," Daily Bruin, October 5 (Link)
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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
Horst, Aaron, "Edgar Arceneaux Until, Until, Until…," Art Review, September
Tylevich, Katya, “Reconsidering Ben Vereen’s Blackface Performance at Regan’s Inaugural Gala,” KCET (web), July 31
Walters, Sydney, “Edgar Arceneaux’s Until, Until, Until… at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects,” Art and Cake (web), June 28 (Link)
Black, Ezrha Jean, “Edgar ARceneaux – Until, Until, Until…,” Artillery (web), June 22 (Link)
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
Miranda, Carolina, “Culture and Trump: Artist Edgar Arceneaux on inauguration day at LACMA recalls Regan’s inaugural gala,” Los Angeles Times (web), January 21 (Link)
Swenson, Kirsten, “Reviews: Edgar Arceneaux at MIT List Visual Arts Center,” Art in America (web), January 11 (Link)
Womack, Catherine, "The Library of Black Lies Critiques How We Imagine African-American History,” LA Weekly (web), February 15 (Link)
Garner, Anna, “Labyrinths, Libraries, and Lies – Edgar Arceneaux at The Main Museum,” Art and Cake (web), February 25
2016
Smee, Sebastian, “At MIT, there’s smoke and fire,” The Boston Globe (web), October 20
Taylor, Phil, “Reviews: Edgar Arceneaux at Galerie Nathalie Obadia,” Artforum, April (Link)
Miranda, Carolina, “Mayor Eric Garcetti announces artists for L.A.’s first public art biennial to be held this summer,” Los Angeles Times (web), April 12
Murray, Nick, “Edgar Arceneaux Brings MLK Back to Riverside Church,” The Village Voice (web), April 29 (Link)
Valentine, Victoria L., “New Season of ART21 Features African American Artists Edgar Arceneaux, Nick Cave, Stan Douglas, and Theaster Gates,” Culture Type (web), March 26
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
Enholm, Molly, “Report: Los Angeles,” art ltd., July
“A Nation Engaged: ‘I feel most American when I’m not in the States’,” The Frame, Southern California Public Radio, October 12
Glass, Liz, “Edgar Arceneaux: Written in Fire and Smoke,” Daily Serving (web), December 6
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
Top 5: January 21, 2015, Glasstire, January 21
2014
Mizota, Sharon, "Exploring King's legacy across time: Edgar Arceneaux at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects," Los Angeles Times, September 24
Rowell, Charles Henry, "Edgar Arceneaux," Callaloo: Art & Culture in the African Diaspora, Vol. 37, No. 4
Shaw, Catherine, "The 10th Shanghai Biennale ponders a post-industrial China," Wallpaper, November 28
Schad, Ed, ArtReviewed: Edgar Arceneaux, ArtReview, December
dArenberg, Diana, "Shanghai and the Social Factory," Christies, December 17
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