# Kevin Appel URL: https://vielmetter.com/artists/kevin-appel/ Has exhibited with Vielmetter Los Angeles ## Exhibitions - [Kevin Appel: Paintings](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2012-07-kevin-appel-paintings.md): July 14 — August 23, 2012 · Artists: Kevin Appel ## Biography Born in Los Angeles, CA Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA 1995 MFA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 1990 BFA, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY **Selected Exhibitions** 2012 “Paintings”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA 2009 “Drawings”, Acme, Los Angeles, CA 2008 The Suburban, Chicago, IL 2007 Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY 2006 Wilkinson Gallery, London, England 2004 Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY 2003 Descripcion sin lugar: Una seleccion de obras de Kevin Appel, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City 2002 Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2001 Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY 1999 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1998 Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA **Group Exhibitions** 2013 “Painting Two: The Thick of It,” Two Rooms, Auckland, NZ 2011 “LANY”, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY “Beta Space: Kevin Appel and Ruben Ochoa”, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA “Goldmine”, Contemporary Works from the Collection of Sirje and Michael Gold, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA 2010 “Small Paintings”, Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand “Haute”, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA “FAX”, Burnaby Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada “FAX”, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA 2008 “Works on Paper”, Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand 2007 “Counterparts: Contemporary Painters and Their Influences”, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia “The Last Show”, Cambridge Heath Road, Wilkinson Gallery, London, England “Summer Stock”, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2006 “L.A.NOW”, Galerie Fiat, Paris, France 2005 “New Works on Paper”, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA California Modern, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport, CA 2004 “Artitecture”, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA “From House to Home: Picturing Domesticity”, MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA “Seeing Other People”, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York City, New York, NY 2003 “Variance”, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2002 “Drawing Now: Eight Propositions”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY “Trespassing: House X Artists”, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington “New Economy Painting”, ACME, Los Angeles, CA 2001 “New to the Modern: Recent Acquisitions”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY “It’s a Wild Party and We’re Having a Great Time”, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY “furor scribendi”, Works on paper, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA “Works on Paper”, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland “010101: Art in Technological Times”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA “Against Design”, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA “Painting at the Edge of the World”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN “Next Wave Prints”, Ellas Fine Art, Allston, MA 2000 “Do you hear what I hear?”, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY “Painting Show”, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland “Drawings Spaces”, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL “2 x 2”, Architectural Collaborations, San Francisco, CA “Shifting Ground; Transformed Views of the American Landscape”, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA “Against Design”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA “Architecture and Memory”, CRG, New York, NY 1999 “Farve Volumen / Color Volume”, Kunsthallen Brandts Klæ defabrik, DK-Odense, Denmark “Down to Earth”, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, New York “DRIVE-BY: New Art from L.A.”, South London Gallery, London, England “The Perfect Life: Artifice in L.A. 1999”, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC “Local Color”, The Harris Art Gallery, The University of La Verne, CA “1999 Biennial”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA “New Paintings from L.A.”, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland 1998 “proof.positive.”, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA “Abstract Painting Once Removed”, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX “Architecture and Inside”, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY “Painting From Another Planet”, Deitch Projects, New York, NY “Paintings Interested in the Ideas of Architecture and Design”, Post, Los Angeles, CA 1997 “Inhabited Spaces: Artists Depictions”, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA “In Touch With...”, Galerie + Edition Renate Schrö der, Köln, Germany Kevin Appel, Francis Cape, Jorge Pardo, Janice Guy, New York, NY “Quartzose: 20 Los Angeles Artists”, Galleri Tommy Lund, Odense, Denmark “Beau Geste”, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA “Ten Los Angeles Artists”, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Bastards of Modernity”, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1996 “Interiors”, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA **Bibliography** 2013 Fitzpatrick, Kyle, “Kevin Appel’s Screen (Double Desert Inverted)”, Los Angeles I’m Yours, January 7 2012 Fox, Emily Ellis, "Reviews in Brief: Kevin Appel", Modern Painters, November, p. 66 Pagel, David, "Review: Kevin Appel's 'Paintings' Pack Punch at Susanne Vielmetter", Los Angeles Times, July 26 2011 Myers, Terry R, Ed. 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20 “Farve Volumen / Color Volume”, Kunsthallen Brandts Klæ defabrik, DK-Odense, Denmark (exhibition catalogue) Farquharson, Alex, "Drive By: New Art from Los Angeles", Frieze 48, September/October : 112-113 Chung, Karen, "Appel Core", Wallpaper, July/August: 58 Dobrzynski, Judith H, "In Olympics of Art World, Anything for an Edge”, The New York Times, 17 June: B1-4 Pagel, David, “Home Vision”, Los Angeles Times, 4 June: F17 Darwent, Charles, "Vacant and Proud of It", The Independent, 9 May: 6 "Drive-by: New Art from LA", South London Gallery, Frieze, Issue 46, May 1(Illustrated) Rawsthorn, Alice, "LA Story", Vogue, April: 79-82 Fulcher, Dawn, "Drive-by-New Art from LA", Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 22 “The Perfect Life: Artifice in LA 1999”, Duke University, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina (exhibition catalogue) Greenberg, Blue, "Artifice Makes Arty Reality in Duke Exhibit", Durham Herald-Sun, 16 April: 4 Gora, Susannah, "L.A. in DUMA", Recess, 16 April: 4 Kauffman, Susan, "Student Curators Bring Home to Duke a Perfect Image of L.A.”, News and Observer, April 13 Bartolucci, Noah, "Student-Curated Show Takes a Critical Look at LA Myths", Duke Dialogue, April 9 Curtis, Cathy, "Formal Boundaries Take Some Life From 'Biennial'", Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section, 2 March: F12 Curtis, Cathy, "Method, Madness", Los Angeles Times, Orange County Edition, 24 February: F1-5 Walsh, Daniella, "Art made for the pure joy of it", Orange County Register, 14 February: 28 Dubin, Zan, "What It's All About", Los Angeles Times, Orange County Calendar, 6 February: F2-22 Ben Yehuda, Eron, "Young At Art", Newport Beach/Costa Mesa Daily Pilot, Datebook, 5 February: 2 "Best Bets Orange County", Los Angeles Times, Calendar Weekend, 4 February: 4R 1998 Dewan, Shaila, "What's So Great About Painting", Houston Press, 29 October - 4 November: 59-60 Johnson, Patricia C., "Abstract Artists Redraw Boundaries of Painting", Houston Chronicle, 7 October: 1D-3D Friis-Hansen, Dana, “Abstract Painting Once Removed”, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (exhibition catalogue) Relyea, Lane, "Virtually Formal", Artforum XXXVII, No. 1, September: 126-173 Pagel, David, "Visual Stimulation in L.A.: Paintings From Another Planet", Flash Art, XXXI, 201, Summer Issue: 116-220 Darling, Michael, "Kevin Appel", Frieze 41, June/July/August: 88 Cotter, Holland, "Painting From Another Planet: New Paintings From Los Angeles", The New York Times, 24 July: E35 Joyce, Julie, "Kevin Appel," Art Issues 53: 40 Pagel, David, "Fresh Outlook", Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section,13 February: F23 1997 DiMichele, David, "Bastards of Modernity at Angles Gallery," Artweek, April 28.4: 22-23 Tanner, Marcia, "Ten Los Angeles Artists at Stephen Wirtz Gallery", Artweek, April 28.4: 22 Hainley, Bruce, "Bastards of Modernity, Angles Gallery", Artforum, March: 98-99 Kandel, Susan, "Art Reviews: Modernist Montage", Los Angeles Times, 7 February: F16-F30 **Public Collections** Museum of Modern Art, New York Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California Portland Art Museum, Oregon The New York Public Library Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Rhode Island School of Design Misumi Corporation, Tokyo, Japan Fogg Museum, Harvard University The Logan Collection, Vail, Colorado Saatchi Collection, London **Awards, Grants and Fellowships** 2011 California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists Citibank Private Bank Emerging Artist Award, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California