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Nick Aguayo

2019

Drambot, Shana Nys. “Art Guide: Saturday, September 7th in Downtown,” LA Weekly, September 4 (Link)

 

Edgar Arceneaux

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)

 

My Barbarian

2018

“Non-Western,” Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT), Los Angeles, CA (Link)

 

Whitney Bedford

2019

Sritharan, Abi. “5 Wonderful Things To Do In London This Weekend (15-17 March 2019),” Luxury London, March 12 (Link)

2018

Jean Black, Ezhra, “Refuge from the Inferno: L.A.’s Best Summer Group Shows,” Artillery (web), August 8 (Link)

Zarley, B. David, “Sand, Sea, and the Sublime: A Review of Whitney Bedford at Carrie Secrist Gallery,” New City Art (web), June 15 (Link)

 

Sadie Benning

2018

Casadio, Mariuccia. “I quadri di Sadie Benning,” Vogue Italia, April 16 (Link)

O’Falt, Chris, “Pixelvision: How a Failed ‘80s Fisher-Price Toy Camera Became One of Auteurs’ Favorite ’90s Tools,” IndieWire (web), August 9 (Link)

Masterson, Piers, “Sadie Benning: Sleep Rock,” this is tomorrow Contemporary Art Magazine (web), May 10 (Link)

Lloyd, Kathryn, “Sadie Benning, Sleep Rock,” The White Review (web), May (Link)

Luke, Ben, “Sadie Benning/Ian White review: Playing tricks on a sense of time,” Evening Standard (web), April 30 (Link)

Waugh, Rosemary, “Sadie Benning: Sleep Rock,” Time Out London, April 24 (Link)

 

Ellen Berkenblit

2019

“Atrium Project: Ellen Berkenblit,” MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL (Link)

“Samaritans,” Eva Presenhuber, New York, NY (Link)

Farr, Kristin. “Ellen Berkenblit, Practical Magic,” Juxtapoz, July 10 (Link)

Russeth, Andrew. “Seven Superb Shows to See in Los Angeles During—and After—the Art Fairs,” Artnews, February 15 (Link)

Desmarais, Charles. “Berkenblit, Braman’s trippy ‘True Blue Mirror’ at McEvoy Foundation,” SF Chronicle, February 8 (Link)

Scott, Andrea K. ““Samaritans,” New Yorker, January 26 (Link)

2018

Yau, John, “Ellen Berkenblit’s Outcasts, Animals, and Body Parts,” Hyperallergic, September 22 (Link)

Nadel, Dan, “Human Nature: Dan Nadel on the Art of Ellen Berkenblit, Carroll Dunham, Sarah Peters, and Kyle Staver,” Artforum, September (Link)

“In Conversation: Ellen Berkenblit with Alex A. Jones,” The Brooklyn Rail (web), September 4 (Link)

Indrisek, Scott, “17 Artists Share the Music that Inspires Them,” Artsy (web), June 27 (Link)

“Ellen Berkenblit at Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels,” Artnet News, June 16

Yau, John, “An Artist’s Film Not Like the Others,” Hyperallergic (web), June 15 (Link)

 

Andrea Bowers

2018-2019

“Parking on Pavement,” The School, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY

2019

O’Neil, Dilara. “Who Profits When Pain Becomes Art?,” Garage, June 19 (Link)

“Art Basel removes part of Andrea Bowers’ ‘Open Secret’ installation,” Malay Mail, June 14 (Link)

Larsen, Nina. “Women artists bring #MeToo reckoning to Basel fair,” Jakarta Post, June 14 (Link)

Niermann, Ingo. “Basel Roundup,” Art Agenda, June 18 (Link)

“#MeToo Art Installation in New York Involves Survivors’ Images Without Consent, Social Media Slams Artist Andrea Bowers,” Latestly, June 13 (Link)

Cascone, Sarah. “After an Outcry, Andrea Bowers Removes an Abuse Survivor’s Photos From a Monumental Artwork About the #MeToo Movement,” artnet, June 12 (Link)

Schneider, Tim and Kate Brown. “The 6 Best—and Riskiest—Artworks at Art Basel Unlimited, Where the Fair’s Supersized Artwork Shines,” artnet, June 11 (Link)

Siegel, Nina. “#MeToo Work at Art Basel Offers Cautionary Tale About Political Art,” New York Times, June 16 (Link)

Kinsella, Eileen. “The #MeToo Movement Will Headline Art Basel Unlimited This Year With Andrea Bowers’s Epic Account of America’s Harassment Reckoning,” artnet, April 16 (Link)

Weathers, Chelsea. “After Posada: Revolution,” Artforum, February (Link)

2018

Mania, Astrid. “Critics Picks: Andrea Bowers at Capitain Petzel,” Artforum, September (Link)

Judah, Hettie. “Frieze London review – women on top at the #MeToo art fair,” The Guardian, October 4 (Link)

Schuster, Angela M.H. “Contemporary Art Shines Bright in the City of Light,” Robb Report, October 16 (Link)

Princenthal, Nancy, “3 Outdoor Art Shows and One Trusty Dog (With Tricks!),” New York Times (web), September 6 (Link)

Stromberg, Matt, “The Power of Artists’ Books to Bind Together Radical Ideas,” Hyperallergic (web), August 28 (Link)

Lambie, Mark, “El Paso artists’ sweet creations of pan dulce casts benefit Annunciation House,” El Paso Times (web), July 27 (Link)

“#MeToo Narratives in Open Secret by Andrea Bowers,” Blouin Art Info (web), July 18 (Link)

Lynch, Scott, “Check Out All This New Art & Insane Crowding On The High Line,” Gothamist (web), April 27 (Link)

 

Kim Dingle

2019

Grundy, Gordy. “We Love Art Books! (Part 2),” Artillery, April 25 (Link)

Barrie, Lita. “Kim Dingle: I Will Be Your Server (The Lost Supper Paintings),” Riot Material, April 5 (Link)

Pagel, David. “Mayhem, table for 1: Artist Kim Dingle, Fatty’s restaurant and her ‘Lost Supper’ paintings,” Los Angeles Times, March 18 (Link)

Schneider, Tim. “Frieze Los Angeles Opens With Pop-Cultural Cachet in the Aisles, on the Stands, and in the Sales Figures,” artnet, February 15 (Link)

“Frieze Los Angeles Kicks Off Inaugural Edition at Paramount Pictures Studios This Week,” Artfix Daily, February 13 (Link)

2018

Brewer, Gary, “Studio Visit: Kim Dingle, Innocence and Pathos – the Chiaroscuro of the Soul,” Art and Cake, October 5 (Link)

Wolff, Natasha, “Change Agents Erin Christovale, Kim Dingle, and Maggie Kayne,” Muse, April 2 (Link)

Becker, Noah, “Whitehot Suggests: Kim Dingle at Sperone Westwater,” Whitehot Magazine, March (Link)

Moony-Martin, Lucia Love, “Muscle Memory: Kim Dingle talks about her Blindfold paintings with Lucia Love Mooney-Martin,” artcritical (web), March 3 (Link)

Yau, John ,”Painting by Touch, Not by Sight,” Hyperallergic (web), January 27 (Link)

2017

Pashaie, Natalie, “Kim Dingle ‘YIPES’: From Playful to Notorious,” Art Now LA, November 16 (Link)

Miranda, Carolina, “Q&A: How Ed Sullivan, girls gone wild, an alligator and blindfold painting shaped the art of Kim Dingle,” Los Angeles Times, November 8 (Link)

 

Mx Nicole Eisenman

2019

Kinsella, Eileen. “With Warren Kanders Gone, the Eight Whitney Biennial Artists Will Keep Their Work in the Show After All,” artnet, July 25 (Link)

Saltz, Jerry. “A True Protest Biennial,” Vulture, July 22 (Link)

Kushwaha, Brooke. “Queer Artist Nicole Eisenman Installs a Public Artwork in Boston’s 401 Park,” L’Officiel, July 22 (Link)

Sutton, Benjamin. “Four artists demanded their works be removed from the Whitney Biennial.” Artsy, July 19 (Link)

Small, Zachary. “Seven Artists Withdraw Their Work From 2019 Whitney Biennial,” Hyperallergic, July 19 (Link)

Greenberger, Alex. “Artists Remove Work from Whitney Biennial, Protesting Board Member’s Ties to ‘Teargas and Other Weapons of Repression,’” ArtNews, July 19 (Link)

Stapley-Brown, Victoria. “Four artists withdraw their work from the Whitney Biennial,” The Art Newspaper, July 19 (Link)

Moynihan, Colin. “Seven Artists Withdraw From Whitney Biennial Over Board Member’s Ties to Tear Gas,” New York Times, July 19 (Link)

“A Letter From Artists in the Whitney Biennial,” Artforum, July 19 (Link)

Kinsella, Eileen. “Nicole Eisenman and Three Other Artists Withdraw Their Work From the Whitney Biennial in Protest of Board Member Warren Kanders,” artnet, July 19 (Link)

Higgie, Jennifer. “58th Venice Biennale Review: Brilliance and Bluster,” Frieze, May 9 (Link)

Davis, Ben. “Venice Biennale in Pictures: See Work by Every Artist in the Giardini Section of the Sprawling 2019 Exhibition,” artnet, May 9 (Link)

Russeth, Andrew. “Touring the Venice Biennale, Part 2: The Giardini,” ArtNews, May 8 (Link)

Freeman, Ciaran and Brandon Sanchez. “What does America look like in 2019? The Whitney Biennial asks and answers.” America: The Jesuit Review, June 14 (Link)

Dondero, Lillian. “What to Expect at this Year’s Politically-Charged Whitney Biennial,” Elle Decor, June 14 (Link)

Forsythe, Dana. “7 Public Art Installations To Check Out In Boston This Summer,” wbur, June 7 (Link)

Dawson, Aimee. “‘Do your worst, Boston’: Nicole Eisenman’s fountain—vandalised in Germany—gets permanent US home,” Art Newspaper, June 7 (Link)

Scott, Chad. “Nicole Eisenman Installation Puts Exclamation Point On Fenway Development,” Forbes, June 6 (Link)

Budick, Ariella. “Whitney Biennial: an anthology of young America,” Financial Times, June 4 (Link)

Huang, Banyi, “Whitney Biennial 2019: Between Resistance and Complicity,” Ocula, May 31 (Link)

Kelly, Brian. “Forensic Architecture’s Documentary on Kanders Doesn’t Absolve the Whitney Museum,” Hyperallergic, May 22 (Link)

Singer, Dan. “These laid-back Nasher sculptures will keep on lounging poolside for good,” Dallas News, May 23 (Link)

Flores, Micah. “See the Nasher’s Whimsical New Fountain Installation,” D Magazine, May 22 (Link)

“Biennial delivers, despite birth pains,” The Villager, May 22 (Link)

Schjeldahl, Peter. “The Whitney Biennial in an Age of Anxiety,” New Yorker, May 20 (Link)

“Nasher Sculpture Center Acquires Nicole Eisenman’s Sketch for a Fountain,” Artforum, May 20 (Link)

Moffitt, Evan. “The 2019 Whitney Biennial Is Unafraid to Be Beautiful,” Frieze, May 20 (Link)

Hoffman, Barbara. “Whitney Biennial 2019 is a don’t-miss spectacle of wit and weight,” New York Post, May 17 (Link)

Smee, Sebastian. “The Whitney Biennial presents the best new artists in the country — and lots of fluff,” Washington Post, May 18 (Link)

Ferrarini, Paolo. “Venice Art Biennale 2019: Bold + Bright,” Cool Hunting, May 17 (Link)

Bradley, Paige K., “As the World Turns,” Artforum, May 16 (Link)

Solomon, Deborah. “Review: The Whitney Biennial Cops Out,” WNYC, May 17 (Link)

Plagens, Peter. “Whitney Biennial Review: Still Protesting, but to What End?,” Wall Street Journal, May 16 (Link)

Cotter, Holland. “The Whitney Biennial: Young Art Cross-Stitched With Politics,” New York Times, May 16 (Link)

Small, Zachary. “The Apprehensive Politics of a Generation Surface at the 2019 Whitney Biennial,” Hyperallergic, May 15 (Link)

Solway, Diane. “The Whitney Biennial 2019’s Standout Artists Look Backwards, Forwards, All Around Us,” W, May 15 (Link)

Russeth, Andrew. “Soft Power: The Whitney Biennial Is an Elegant But Safe Portrait of Right Now,” ArtNews, May 13 (Link)

Small, Zachary. “Initial Thoughts and Highlights from the 2019 Whitney Biennial,” Hyperallergic, May 13 (Link)

Sutton, Benjamin. “A Nicole Eisenman fountain will splash down in Boston.” Artsy, April 9 (Link)

Russeth, Andrew. “Nicole Eisenman Fountain Will Grace Boston,” ArtNews, April 9 (Link)

Buck, Louisa. “Lismore Castle serves up a rich palimpsest of themes for new show,” Art Newspaper, April 5 (Link)

2018

Alma, Rahel. “By All Means, Judge a Book By Its Cover,” Garage (blog), December 24 (Link)

Brown, Kate. “Nicole Eisenman Makes a Dramatic Turn to Sculpture in Her First Solo Institutional Show in Germany,” artnet, November 8 (Link)

Freeman, Nate. “What Sold at FIAC,” Artsy, October 22 (Link)

Small, Zachary, “Looking at Queer Constellations of Intimacy,” Hyperallergic (web), August 20 (Link)

Hickley, Catherine, “Münster on track to raise funds for Eisenman fountain as artist and gallery reduce price,” The Art Newspaper (web), August 15 (Link)

Faires, Robert, “Nicole Eisenman Receives Booth/FLAG Art Prize,” The Austin Chronicle (web), August 6 (Link)

Friel, Katie, “Austin art museum bestows one of the world’s most ambitious prizes on New York artist,” Culture Map Austin (web), August 3 (Link)

“Nicole Eisenman Wins $200,000 Suzanne Deal Booth/FLAG Art Foundation Prize,” ArtForum (web), August 3 (Link)

Barnes, Michael, “Austin museum picks winner of $800,000 art prize,” My Statesman (web), August 2 (Link)

van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire “Nicole Eisenman wins $200,000 Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize,” Sight Lines Magazine (web), August 2 (Link)

Smith, Roberta, “Painting: An (Incomplete) Survey of the State of the Art,” New York Times (web), August 2 (Link)

Varadi, Keith J., “Nicole Eisenman at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects,” carla (web), April 18 (Link)

Gerwin, Daniel, “Nicole Eisenman’s Portraits of Angry White Men,” Hyperallergic (web), April 12 (Link)

Waters, Sydney, “Dark Light is a Masterpiece of Political Relevance,” Art and Cake, April 9 (web) (Link)

Mizota, Sharon, “In Nicole Eisenman’s paintings, a must-see mirror to America’s political moment,” Los Angeles Times (web), April 2 (Link)

 

Genevieve Gaignard

2019

“Lost and Found in America,” Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, FL (Link)

Zeiba, Drew. “Vernacular Interior at Hales New York,” Artforum, July (Link)

Vickery, Morgan. “Q&A | Genevieve Gaignard,” Flaunt, May 2 (Link)

Malley, Clara. “Genevieve Gaignard removes our rose-colored glasses for white Americana,” Document, April 5 (Link)

Dafoe, Taylor. “Best Buys: Eight Artists at Independent to Collect for Under $15,000 (If You’re Lucky and Move Fast),” Artnet, March 7 (Link)

Finkel, Jori. “Inside the Dramatic Makeover of LA’s Thriving Art World,” W, February 11 (Link)

Miranda, Cynthia. “Artist Genevieve Gaignard wants her art to speak to different identities,” The Daily Texan, January 30 (Link)

Durón, Maximilíano and Alex Greenberger. “15 Los Angeles Artists to Watch,” ARTnews, January 9 (Link)

Harmon, Erica. “Stepping Into Personal Space,” C Magazine, January

2018

Woolridge, Jane, “Art Basel Week Action Goes Beyond Fairs. You’ll Want These Happenings On Your List,” Miami Herald, December 1 (Link)

Banks, Emma, “This Art Basel Show is Challenging Mainstream and Marginalized Dynamics,” Milk.xyz, December 6 (Link)

Cohen, Alina, “The 15 Best Booths at Art Basel in Miami Beach,” Artsy, December 6 (Link)

Valentine, Victoria, “Beyond Basel: Where to See, Buy, and Experience African and African American Art During Miami Art Week 2018,” Culture Type, December 8 (Link)

Lavelle, Ciara, “Art Basel and Miami Art Week 2018 Winners and Losers,” Miami New Times, December 10 (Link)

Morais, Pedro, “Feminism and Art, The New Voice,” Le Quotidien de l’art, December 14

Idarraga, Jessica. “FREE! Art Fair Starring Genevieve Gaignard,” Cultured, December 4 (Link)

Greenberger, Alex. “The Browser: Jack Smith, Genevieve Gaignard, and Eckhaus Latta’s Notes on Performance,” Artnews, September 12 (Link)

“9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week,” ArtNews, September 17 (Link)

Drew, Kimberly. “Tina Knowles Lawson on Her Black Art Collection, Beyoncé, Solange, and Creativity,” Vanity Fair, August 6 (Link)

Cascone, Sarah. “There are Enough Damsels in Distress: Artist Genevieve Gaignard Wants to Undermine Your Assumptions About Beauty and Blackness,” Artnet, August 3 (Link)

Morgan, Maybelle. “Genevieve Gaignard: Meet the Artist Exploring Race, Gender, and Identity Through Her Collages,” Wonderland Magazine, July 25 (Link)

Ryder, Katie. “An Artist’s Costumed Alter Egos Cross Racial Lines,” The New Yorker, July 17 (Link)

Shepherd, Harriet. “The Bi-Racial Artist Using White-Passing Characters to Talk About Blackness,” Sleek Magazine, June 7 (Link)

Cascone, Sarah. “Editors’ Picks: 16 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week,” Artnet, June 4 (Link)

Eckardt, Stephanie. “The 7 Photographers Proving That the Self-Portrait Is 2018’s Most Exciting Genre,” W Magazine, April 6 (Link)

“‘Hidden Fences’ by Genevieve Gaignard at Praz-Delavallade Paris,” BlouinArt Info, March 22 (Link)

Dayal, Mira. “Fictions” at The Studio Museum in Harlem, Artforum, March 1

Shaw, Cameron. “Take a Closer Look: An Interview with Genevieve Gaignard,” Pelican Bomb, March 1 (Link)

Benoit, Guillaume. “Genevieve Gaignard at Praz-Delavallade,” Slash Magazine, March (Link)

Reynolds, Pamela. “In Forms & Alterations, Artists Use Fashion to Unravel Gender Politics and Identity,” The Artery, February 1 (Link)

Female Artist Who Has Made 2017 “Her” Year, The Art Gorgeous, January 30 (Link)

 

Liz Glynn

2019

“Rosetta Getty on the Female Artists who Inspire her,” Vanity Fair, May 24 (Link)

Culp, Samantha. “Artistic Capital: In Liz Glynn’s massive installations, big questions about the meaning of value,” Harvard Magazine, January/February (Link)

2018

“Frieze London Opens This Friday,” ArtForum (web), October 3 (Link)

Baradel, Lacey, “Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas,” CAA Reviews, September 21 (Link)

“Diana Campbell Betancourt Introduces Live 2018,” Frieze, September 21 (Link)

Brown, Mark, “Frieze London art fair returns with gossiping opera singer,” The Guardian (web), September 20 (Link)

Iredale, Jessica, “Rosetta Getty RTW Spring 2019,” WWD, September 10 (Link)

“New York Fashion Week Women’s S/S 2019 Editor’s Picks,” Wallpaper, September 11 (Link)

Marcisz, Christopher, “Liz Glynn’s Comforting Vision of a Dystopian Future,” Hyperallergic, August 28 (Link)

Marcisz, Christopher, “Liz Glynn’s Comforting Vision of a Dystopian Future,” Hyperallergic (web), August 27 (Link)

Anderson, Lindsey, “Catch a Free Sculpture Milwaukee Talk at the Pfister Tonight,” Milwaukee Magazine (web), August 22 (Link)

Harrington, Leah Triplett, “Redefining Common Space,” Now + There blog, August 6 (Link)

“Sculpture Milwaukee attracts visitors with tours, lectures and summer fun,” Urban Milwaukee, July 18 (Link)

Hagman, Sarah, “Sitting Pretty,” The Improper Bostonian (web), August 3 (Link)

McGowan, Amanda, “Get A Taste Of Gilded Age Living With A New Public Art Exhibit In Boston,” WGBH, August 3 (Link)

Katz, Marni Elyse, “Beautiful Ruins,” The Boston Globe (web), August 2 (Link)

Cook, Greg, “Recreating A Gilded Age Ballroom Outdoors In Boston To Mull Our Economic Future,” Wonderland (web), July 30 (Link)

Ambrose, Graham, “A new public art installation puts the ruins of a Gilded Age ballroom by Kenmore Square,” The Boston Globe (web), July 27 (Link)

Gerst, Ellen, “New Public Art Brings an Opulent Ballroom to the Comm. Ave. Mall,” Boston Magazine (web), July 26 (Link)

Garcia, Maria, “Art Installation In Kenmore Square Transforms An Opulent Ballroom Into A Ruin,” wbur, July 26 (Link)

Tang, Angela. “MASS MoCA’s ‘Archaeology’ Excavates Temporal Questions”, The Williams Record, February 7 (Link)

Kane, Tim, “Artist at MASS MoCA explores implication of production,” Times Union (web), March 28 (Link)

McQuaid, Cate. “At MASS MoCA, a dark look at a possible future”, The Boston Globe, 14 January (Link)

2017

Carrigan, Margaret. “Liz Glynn Questions the Direction of American Progress at Mass MoCA”, Observer, 11 December, 2017. (online) (Link)

2016

Munro, Cait. “Meet Creative Capital’s 63 Award-Winning Artists, Writers, and Performers,” artnet, January 12 (Link)

 

Karl Haendel

2019

Schwaiger, Seth Orion. “Making It in America: Karl Haendel on the absurdities of the Art World,” artcritical, February 20 (Link)

Heinrich, Will. “What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week,” January 16 (Link)

2018

“How do I sell more art?” Diaphanes, Fall/Winter

“Inside Frieze London 2018,” via Five iPhone Camera Rolls,” AnOther, October 5 (Link)

Da Silva, José. “All the president’s men (and one first lady) at Art Basel,” The Art Newspaper, June 15 (Link)

 

Samuel Levi Jones

2019

Boyd, Oseye. “New exhibit at Newfields makes lasting impression,” Indianapolis Recorder, March 21 (Link)

2018

Sayej, Nadja. “Edge of visibility: celebrating artwork with hidden messages,” The Guardian, November 19 (Link)

Ollman, Leah. “Keep Looking: Samuel Levi Jones Speaks with Leah Ollman,” Art In Print, September 6 (Link)

Weisbrode, Kenneth and Heather H. Yeung, “How We Lost the Sky,” The New York Times, July 23 (Link)

Sussman, Anna Louie, “What Sold at Art Basel,” Artsy (web), June 17 (Link)

Chi, Paul, “Blu Ivy Bid $10,000 at an Art Auction, and Won,” Vanity Fair (web), March 18 (Link)

 

Hayv Kahraman

2018

“Project Series 52: Hayv Kahraman,” Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA (Link)

2019

“The Third Line summer show at Alserkal Avenue,” Arab News, May 25 (Link)

Okamura, Sara Farrell. “A Wake-Up Call at MASS MoCA: Suffering from Realness,” Greylock Glass, May 5 (Link)

Hodgson, Emma. “How Art Dubai’s Inclusive New Direction Is A Win For Us All,” Grazia Middle East, March 13 (Link)

2018

Beeston, Georgia. “‘You have to go deeper’: Islamic art comes alive at Jameel prize in London,” Middle East Eye, October 11 (Link)

Judah, Hettie. “Frieze London review – women on top at the #MeToo art fair,” The Guardian, October 4 (Link)

Shaikh, Ayesha, “5 Art Books That Will Immediately Upgrade Your Coffee Table,” Harper’s Bazaar Arabia (web), September 27 (Link)

Mizota, Sharon, “Review: Hayv Kahraman’s paintings of decorous Kurdish women short-circuit stereotypical images of Iraq,” LA Times (web), September 17 (Link)

Feliciano, Kristina, “Sex Work and Survival in Hayv Kahraman’s ‘Silence Is Gold,'” Gallery Gurls (web), Spetmeber 22 (Link)

Finkel, Jori, “Hayv Kahraman on the Kurdish exodus—and the trouble with humanitarian campaigns,” The Art Newspaper (web), September 21 (Link)

“Top London Art Shows this Week: Justin John Greene to Tomma Abts,” Blouin ArtInfo, September 3 (Link)

Forshaw, Siobhan, “Hayv Kahraman’s Politics of Painting,” Elephant (web), July 25 (Link)

Da Silva, Jose, Gareth Harris, and Emily Sharpe,”Three to See: London,” The Art Newspaper (web), June 29 (Link)

Lescase, Zoe, “13 Artists On: Immigration,” The New York Times Style Magazine (web), June 19 (Link)

“These Artists and Designers Have Made the Shortlist for Jameel Prize 5,” Harper’s Bazaar (web), June 19 (Link)

Stoughton, India, “Middle Eastern Artists Give Traditional Art A Modern Twist,” Al-Monitor (web), June 4 (Link)

Greenberger, Alex, “Shortlist Revealed for 2018 Jameel Prize,” ARTnews (web), February 6 (Link)

 

Raffi Kalenderian

2019

De Witt, Olivia. “Raffi Kalenderian,” Artillery, June 26 (Link)

Irvin, Rebecca. “Raffi Kalenderian celebrates life in his exuberant, colourful, painted portraits,” It’s Nice That, June 7 (Link)

McNay, Anna. “Raffi Kalenderian – interview: ‘It’s like banging your head against a brick wall, but if you get through to the other side it feels so good’,” Studio International, June 4 (Link)

2018

Nash, David. “Kendall Wilkinson Outfits the $15.5 Million Penthouse at San Francisco’s 181 Fremont,” Architectural Digest, October 30 (Link)

 

Mary Kelly

2019

“The Best Guide to Desert X 2019,” KCET, March 6 (Link)

Cascone, Sarah. “The Desert X Biennial Opens in the Coachella Valley With Art Scattered Across 55 Miles,” Artnet, February 8 (Link)

Sussman, Anna Louie. “The Challenges Female Artists Face Mid-Career,” Artsy, January 11 (Link)

2018

Rea, Naomi and Kate Brown. “Who Shops at Frieze London? We Buttonholed Rose McGowan, Bob Rennie, and Other Power Players at the Fair,” Artnet News (web), October 5 (Link)

“Revisiting the Fiercely Productive Practices of Marginalized Women Artists,” Frieze (web), October 1 (Link)

Sussman, Anna Louie. “The Art Market Is Finally Catching up with Strong Female Artists It Ignored,” Artsy, October 5 (Link)

“Must See: Pippy Houldsworth Gallery Face-to-Face,” ArtForum, Fall (Link)

Fowler, Susanne, ” ‘Social Work’ Provides Visibility for Women Artists at Frieze London,” New York Times (web), October 1 (Link)

Buck, Louisa. “Social work: eight dissenting female artists feature in Frieze London’s new section,” The Art Newspaper (web), October 4 (Link)

Bromwich, Kathryn, “Mary Kelly: ‘All borders are anathema to art’” Guardian (web), September 15 (Link)

Kelly, Mary. “Women in the Arts: Mary Kelly,” Frieze (web), October 2 (Link)

Black, Holly. “Five Pioneering Female Artists Who Changed the Landscape of the Art World,” Another Magazine, October 8 (Link)

 

Shana Lutker

2019

Danielson, Jenny, “Den nya konststaden,” Axess.se. July (Link)

Frank, Peter, “DOLLHOUSE FUNHOUSE: “Dreamhouse vs. Punk House (+ Cat House),” Whitehot magazine, April (Link)

2018

Horst, Aaron, “Shana Lutker at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects,” Flash Art, March/April

Stromberg, Matt, “A New Outdoor Art Sapce Sprins from the High Desert East of Los Angeles,” Hyperallergic (web), March 13 (Link)

Hudson, Suzanne, “Shana Lutker at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects,” Artforum, February

 

Hugo McCloud

2019

Boucher, Brian. “Cracking the Millennial Market: How Art Businesses Are Tweaking Their Strategies to Target the Next Generation of Collectors,” artnet, July 8 (Link)

2014

Anderson, Stacey. “Hugo McCloud: Artist by Design,” The New York Times, May 28 (Link)

Small, Rachel. “A Room Full of Roof: Hugo McCloud,” Interview, May 16 (Link)

 

Dave McKenzie

2019

Copeland, Huey and Meg Onli. “ABOUT TIME: Huey Copeland in conversation with Meg Onli,” Artforum, May (Link)

“ICA Philadelphia Explores Black History in “Colored People Time” Exhibition,” Hypebeast, February 15 (Link)

2018

Schneider, Tim, “‘It’s About a Sort of Twisted Magic’: How One Artist Is Revealing the Tricks of Racial Profiling at Frieze New York,” Artnet news (web), May 2 (Link)

 

Rodney McMillian

2019

Desmarais, Charles. “Rodney McMillian’s cyclorama of displacement at SFMOMA,” SF Chronicle, April 29 (Link)

Gardner, Drake. “Professor’s new exhibition explores homelessness, inequality in America,” Daily Bruin, April 30 (Link)

Shindel, Dan. “A New, Highly Eclectic Space for Arthouse Films in Los Angeles,” Hyperallergic, April 19 (Link)

“The Twenty Five,” Cultured, February/March

Lorin, Guillaume. “BEAUX ARTS – In this Land de Rodney McMillian au SFMOMA,” CHOQ, March 28 (Link)

Ambramovich, Alex. “Termite Art and the Modern Museum,” New Yorker, February 28 (Link)

Volpicelli, Anna. “Winter Arts Preview: 16 Bay Area Exhibitions, Performances + Festivals,” 7×7, January 8 (Link)

2018

Knight, Christopher. “Review: Helen Molesworth’s final show at MOCA is the anti-celebrity show we need right now,” Los Angelest Times, October 19 (Link)

Wouk Almino, Elisa. “Helen Molesworth’s Last MOCA Exhibition Is an Act of Love,” Hyperallergic, November 13 (Link)

Rus, Mayer. “Designer Nell Alano Reimagines Philanthropist Eileen Harris Norton’s Santa Monica Home,” Architectural Digest, November 11 (Link)

Smith, Roberta, “Painting: An (Incomplete) Survey of the State of the Art,” New York Times (web), August 2 (Link)

Raji, Michelle, “Artist Rodney McMillian Wants Viewers to Grapple with Race — and Register to Vote,” Texas Observer (web), July 6 (Link)

Jean, Melany, “’Rodney McMillian: Against a Civic Death’ at the Contemporary Austin,” The Austin Chronicle (web), March 16 (Link)

Olsen, Ivy, “Antidotes for apathy: Rodney McMillian’s Austin show is a ‘call to action’,” The Art Newspaper (web), February 20 (Link)

Miranda, Carolina A., “L.A. artist Rodney McMillian peels back the façade on the ultimate symbol of power: the White House,” Los Angeles Times, January 10 (Link)

 

Yunhee Min

2019

Walter, Alexander. “10 engaging architectural installations for your Friday inspiration,” Archinet, May 3 (Link)

Leung, Phillip. “Hammer Museum installation delivers vibrant, sensory experience,” Daily Bruin, April 25 (Link)

2018

Brien, Patrick. “Four years in the making, massive Riverside exhibit blends art, architecture,” The Press-Entreprise, November 22 (Link)

Nash, David. “Kendall Wilkinson Outfits the $15.5 Million Penthouse at San Francisco’s 181 Fremont,” Architectural Digest, October 30 (Link)

Weber, Jessica, “Rolling Out the ‘Red Carpet’,” UCR News, October 1 (Link)

Stallings, Tyler, “Red Carpet in C at UCR ARTS Blurs Boundaries of Art and Architecture,” KCET, September 4 (Link)

“UCR Arts Exhibition Blurs Boundaries of Art and Architecture,” UCR Today (web), August 16 (Link)

 

Wangechi Mutu

2019

“Wangechi Mutu’s Female Figures Grace the Met’s Façade,” New Yorker, September 9 (Link)

MacSweeney, Eve. “How Kenyan-Born Artist Wangechi Mutu Is Taking Over the Met,” W, August 27 (Link)

Catlin, Roger. “Women’s Voices Ring With a Resounding Roar in this New Show,” Smithsonian Magazine, July 17 (Link)

Budick, Ariella. “Whitney Biennial: an anthology of young America,” Financial Times, June 4 (Link)

Loos, Ted. “Why These 4 Whitney Biennial Artists Are Making Waves,” Galerie Magazine, May 10 (Link)

Goodman, Jonathan. “Highlights from the 2019 Whitney Biennial,” Art Fuse, May 30 (Link)

Moffitt, Evan. “The 2019 Whitney Biennial Is Unafraid to Be Beautiful,” Frieze, May 20 (Link)

Valentine, Victoria L. “Artists Wangechi Mutu and Kara Walker Land Major Museum Commissions,” Culture Type, April 14 (Link)

Freeman, Nate. “Wangechi Mutu will make works for the Metropolitan Museum’s façade for one in a trio of contemporary commissions,”Artsy, March 22 (Link)

Libbey, Peter. “The Met Will Use its Facade and Great Hall to Showcase Contemporary Art,” New York Times, March 21 (Link)

Pellerin, Amanda. “Wangechi Mutu-Keep Moving, Keep Making Art,” TL Magazine, January 12 (Link)

2018

Halperin, Julia and Charlotte Burns”Yes, Basquiat Is an Art-Market Superstar. But the Work of Other African American Artists Remains Vastly Undervalued,” Artnet News, September 20 (Link)

“‘Road to Justice’ at MAXXI,” Blouin Art Info (web), July 31 (Link)

Valentine, Victoria L., “Baltimore Museum of Art Swaps Works by Warhol, Kline, Noland, and Rauschenberg for Acquisitions by Whitten, Sherald, Mutu, and Yiadom-Boakye,” Culture Type (web), June 28 (Link)

Spivack, Emily, “Why this artist is inspired by a chest of drawers,” The New York Times Style Magazine (web), June 20 (Link)

Brownell Mitic, Ginanne, “In Nairobi, An Art Scene in Transition,” The New York Times, June 12 (Link)

Wilson-Goldie, Kaelen, “’Multiply, Identify, Her’ International Center of Photography Museum (ICP),” ArtForum (web), June 2 (Link)

“‘Inside my Studio’ with Wangechi Mutu,” Cultured Mag (web), June 1 (Link)

 

Elizabeth Neel

2018

Smith, Roberta. “At 7 Art Galleries, the Ecstatic Flow of Paint and the Stories It Can Tell,” New York Times (web), September 27 (Link)

 

Ruben Ochoa

2019

Delson, Susan. “Playful Riffs on Fact and Fiction,” Wall Street Journal, July 26 (Link)

2018

Shimi Roth, Minhae. “Locust Projects Turns 20: Remembering Its Most Memorable Exhibits,” Miami New Times, December 4 (Link)

Safari, Ida, “Ruben Ochoa at Art + Practice,” Artillery, January 2 (Link)

 

Angel Otero

2019

Dafoe, Taylor. “‘Act First and Then Think’: Artist Angel Otero on How to Turn Failure Into Fuel for Creativity,” artnet, April 10 (Link)

Brito, Maria. “Angel Otero and the Miracle of Memories,” Cultured, March 11 (Link)

Yerebakan, Osman Can. “A Brooklyn Artist Finds Inspiration, and Refuge, in Puerto Rico,” New York Times, March 5 (Link)

“Urban Glamour #46,” Livingetc (web), January 24 (Link)

2018

Shirine, Saad. “With the MECA Art Fair, San Juan’s Art Community Rises Again,” Vulture, November 21 (Link)

Nash, David. “Kendall Wilkinson Outfits the $15.5 Million Penthouse at San Francisco’s 181 Fremont,” Architectural Digest, October 30 (Link)

Angeleti, Gabriela, “Angel Otero shares his top picks from Frieze New York,” The Art Newspaper (web), May 3 (Link)

 

William Pope.L

2017

“If Not Apollo, the Breeze,” Kadist, San Francisco, CA (Link)

2019

Kissick, Dean. “THE SEPTEMBER OPENINGS: NEW YORK’S MUST-SEE SHOWS,” Cultured, September 4 (Link)

“AN rounds up must-see exhibitions to catch this summer,” The Architect’s Newspaper, July 31 (Link)

Schuster, Clayton. “Why the Whitney, MoMA and Public Art Fund are Uniting for an Exhibition About Artist Pope.L,” Observer, July 25 (Link)

Small, Zachary. “Pope.L Wants You to Crawl Across New York With Him,” Hyperallergic, July 24 (Link)

“The Most Influential Living African-American Artists,” Artsy, February 25 (Link)

“Arts Power 50: The Changemakers Shaping the Art World in 2019,” The Observer, April 1 (Link)

Arn, Jackson. “When Performance Art Takes to the Street, the Results Are Moving,” Artsy, April 9 (Link)

Cotter, Holland. “MoMA, the New Edition: From Monumental to Experimental,” New York Times, February 5 (Link)

Ongley, Hannah. “moma is closing to diversify the art canon,” i-D, February 7 (Link)

2018

Reichert,Elliot J. “Pope.L: The Escape,” Brooklyn Rail, December 20 (Link)

Johnson, Steve. “‘Pope.L: The Escape’ reworks a slavery play as performance art and dares you to wonder what to think about it,” Chicago Tribune, November 16 (Link)

Freeman, Nate. “What Sold at FIAC,” Artsy, October 22 (Link)

Valentine, Victoria L., “Loaded with Symbolism, a Fountain Sculpture by Pope.L is Among New Acquisitions at Carnegie Museum of Art,” The Culture Type (web), July 29 (Link)

Wargo, Abby, “Differing, Drawn: Scholar Examines Pope.L’s “Skin Set” Drawings,” The Elm (web), April 28 (Link)

“Pope.L, Jennifer Russell, and Rachel G. Wilf Join NYU Institute of Fine Arts’ Board of Trustees,” NYU (web), April 4 (Link)

O’Grady, Megan, “Answering Society’s Thorniest Questions, with Performance Art,” T Magazine, New York Times, March 2 (Link)

“Pope.L: The Escape,” The Art Intitute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (Link)

 

Mary Reid Kelley

2019

Fullerton, Elizabeth. “‘They’re our female supervillains!’ Artists mash up Ayn Rand and Gwyneth Paltrow,” The Guardian, July 2 (Link)

Watson, Denise. “MOCA’s new exhibition fills in the “The Rest of History,” the stories often discarded in the telling of America’s story,” The Virginian-Pilot, March 22 (Link)

Campbell, Andy. “Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley,” Artforum, February (Link)

Wood, Eve. “Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley,” Artillery, January 2 (Link)

2018

Knight, Christopher. “Review: Harry S. Truman at the center of this wonderfully weird, strangely poignant art show,” Los Angeles Times, November 30 (Link)

Horst, Aaron. “Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley at Susanne Vielmetter,” Carla, November 29 (web) (Link)

Dunne, Aidan, “Kelleys’ bizarre creations crackle with energy of early cinema,” The Irish Times (web), August 4 (Link)

Thorne, Harry, “The Burlesque Worlds of Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley,” frieze, April 5 (Link)

Cromwell, Tim, “From Hirst’s Medusa to Quinn’s marble bust: new London show explores how classical art inspires contemporary artists,” The Art Newspaper, March 6 (Link)

Culpan, Daniel, “Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley at Tate Liverpool,” Artforum, January (Link)

 

Deborah Roberts

2019

Valentine, Victoria L. “Black Female Artists Are Headlining Exhibitions Throughout London,” The Culture Type, July 21 (Link)

Epps, Philomena. “Deborah Roberts at Stephen Friedman,” Artforum, July 1 (Link)

Jansen, Charlotte. “The Artist Disrupting Perceptions of Black Youths,” Elephant, June 25 (Link)

Barrie, Lita. “Deborah Roberts Explores The Fragility of Black Masculinity in Native Sons,” Riot Material, June 5 (Link)

Valentine, Victoria L. “Artist Deborah Roberts Joined Susanne Vielmetter Projects Los Angeles and Has an Exhibition at Gallery’s New Downtown Space,” CultureType, April 23 (Link)

Marcoci, Roxana. “Young Heroines: Deborah Roberts,” Mousse Magazine, Spring (Link)

2018

Roberts, Deborah. “The Lives They Lived: Linda Brown,” The New York Times Magazine, December 30 (Link)

Sheets, Hilarie M. “A Collector Who Grew Up With Art Now Fosters Its Makers,” The New York Times, December 26 (Link)

Greenberger, Alex. “Long-Running ‘Anonymous Was a Woman’ Grants Awarded for 2018, With Betty Tompkins and Deborah Roberts Among 10 Winners,” ArtNews, December 11 (Link)

Valentine, Victoria L. “Art Basel Miami Beach 2018: Select Galleries Throughout the Mega Fair are Showing Works By African and African American Artists, Here’s Where to Find Them,” The Culture Type, December 6 (Link)

Williams, Margaret. “People of the Year: Deborah Roberts,” Tribeza Artists Curated, November 29 (Link)

Onyewuwnyi, Ikechukwu Casmir. “Deborah Roberts at Luis de Jesus,” Carla, Issue 13, August. (Link)

Dambrot, Shana Nys. “Deborah Roberts at Luis de Jesus,” Art and Cake, June 10 (Link)

Luke, Ben. “Artist Deborah Roberts on Yinka Shonibare exhibition and why ‘black is not a colour any more,” Evening Standard, June 6. (Link)

Mizota, Sharon. “Roberts’ powerful statement of black female identity,” LA Times, May 29 (Link)

Miller, Ashia. “Deborah Roberts’ #EvolutionOfMimi art tackles heavy topic of colorism,” RollingOut, May 25. (Link)

Amirkhani, Jordan. “Art Review: ‘The Evolution of Mimi’ at Spelman Museum,” BURNAWAY, April 25. (Link)

Cochran, Rebecca. “Deborah Roberts: The Evolution of Mimi,” Art Papers, March 17.

Sargent, Antwaun. “The Artist Changing the Face of Black Girlhood,” VICE, March 6 (Link)

Feaster, Felicia. “The power and pathos of girlhood defines Deborah Roberts’ collages,” The Atlantic Journal Contribution, March 6.

Van Proyen, Mark. “Deborah Roberts @ Jenkins Johnson,” Square Cylinder, February 19. (Link)

Larocca, Amy. “Portfolio: Her Breakthrough Women,” The New York Magazine, February 5 (Link)

Green, Tyler. “Deborah Roberts, Anita Witek,” Modern Art Notes Podcast, February (Link)

Johns, Myke. “Artist Deborah Roberts ‘Emancipates’ Black Girlhood In Spelman Exhibit,” National Public Radio, January 25 (Link)

 

Steve Roden

2019

Knight, Christopher. “Review: Sonic frequency as art? Enter Steve Roden’s captivating prisms of color,” Los Angeles Times, August 17 (Link)

 

Paul Mpagi Sepuya

2019

“Grace Wales Bonner,” Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, England

Eckhardt, Stephanie. “The Problem With Robert Mapplethorpe,” W, July 27 (Link)

Weitzman, Jordan. “Episode 32: Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Magic Hour, July 8 (Link)

Jackson, Danielle. “What the Whitney Biennial Tells Us About the Future of Photography—and the Artists Who Will Shape It,” arnet, July 3 (Link)

Irvin, Rebecca. “Deconstructed bodies: The photography of Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” It’s Nice That, June 21 (Link)

“Confessions on the Dance Floor: Reveries From The Gay Bar,” Artforum, Summer (Link)

Howe, David Everitt. “The Conditions,” Art in America, May (Link)

Loos, Ted. “Inspired by Virginia Woolf, Curated by Tilda Swinton,” New York Times, May 22 (Link)

Henderson, Jane. “Q&A: Intimate portraits by Paul Mpagi Sepuya revise notion of ‘dark rooms’,” St. Louis Today, May 22 (Link)

Goldstein, Caroline and Eileen Kinsella. “A Buyer’s Guide to the Whitney Biennial: What You Need to Know About the Exhibition’s Brightest Rising Stars,” artnet, May 22 (Link)

Moffitt, Evan. “The 2019 Whitney Biennial Is Unafraid to Be Beautiful,” Frieze, May 20 (Link)

King, Chris. “New CAM shows fulfill every challenge of contemporary art,” St. Louis American, May 20 (Link)

Aletti, Vince. “Previews: Paul Mpagi Sepuya at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis,” Artforum, May (Link)

Gilbert, Alan. “Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s “The Conditions,” Art-Agenda, April 5 (Link)

Scott, Andrea K. “Paul Mpagi Sepuya Mines the Queer History of the Portrait Studio,” New Yorker, March 29 (Link)

Schwendener, Martha. “New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now,” New York Times, March 28 (Link)

Mellin, Haley. “Sheree Hovsepian and Paul Mpagi Sepuya Take Over Venice Beach,” Garage, March 25 (Link)

Manatakis, Lexi and Ashleigh Kane. “Art shows to leave the house for this month,” Dazed, March 15 (Link)

“9 Art Events in New York: Isaac Julien, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Gretchen Bender, Arakawa, and More,” ArtNews, March 4 (Link)

Velasco, David. “Project: Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Artforum, March (Link)

“Photographer Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s Blurred Lines,” Garage, February 20 (Link)

Cavaluzzo, Alexander and Daniel Avery. “THE 12 BEST ART EXHIBITS TO SEE IN 2019,” Newsweek, February 13 (Link)

Malone, Callan. “The LALA List,” LALA Magazine, Winter 2019, p. 51

“In the Studio with Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” SIXTY Hotels (blog), January 9 (Link)

Selvin, Claire. “Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects Now Represents Paul Mpagi Sepuya,’ ARTnews, January 8 (Link)

Pahules, Anastasia. “Artists on Art: Paul Mpagi Sepuya on Lorna Simpson,” LACMA Unframed (blog), January (Link)

2018

Cooper, Ashton. “Critics’ Picks: Positioner at Matthew Marks,” Artforum, October (Link)

Christon, Jimmy. “‘Tipping Points’ exhibit reflects changing political world,” The Miscellany News, October 24 (Link)

Haris, Gareth. “Can an increase in two-artist booths spur sales at Paris’s Fiac?” Art Newspaper, October 17 (Link)

Lubow, Arthur. “What’s New in Photography? Humanism, MoMA Says,” New York Times, March 9 (Link)

Allegretto, Dan. “We All Wear the Mask: New Photography at the Museum of Modern Art,” Art in America, April 2 (Link)

Jones, Gregory Eddi. “Picture, Paper, Friend, and Flesh: An Interview with Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” In the In-Between, March 12 (Link)

Onyewuenyi, Ikechukwu Casmir. “Paul Sepuay at team (bungalow,” Carla, February 14 (Link)

Oldweiler, Cory. “MoMA’s new photography exhibit focuses on identity in 2018,” AM New York, March 18 (Link)

Woodward, Richard B. “MoMA’s Human Focus,” Wall Street Journal, March 14 (Link)

Wheeler, André-Naquian. “moma’s ‘new photography’ series asks what it means to be human,” i-d, March 27 (Link)

Aubry, Lisa. “MoMA to Display UCLA Alum’s Work Exploring Identity, Portraiture,” Daily Bruin, March 14 (Link)

Norman, Lee Ann. “Intimate Moves In A Dark Room: Paul Mpagi Sepuya at Document,” New City Art, April 19 (Link)

Goldberg, Ariel. “In the Room,” Art in America, April 1 (Link)

“Image of the Day,” Elephant, September 12 (Link)

Wheeler, André. “In the Studio, in the Nude: An Artist Capturing Queer Masculinity,” AnOther, October 12 (Link)

Campbell, Andy. “Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Aperture, Fall

“Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Unseen, Issue 5, Fall

Quinton, Jared. “Paul Mpagi Sepuya at DOCUMENT,” Artforum, March (Link)

Norman, Lee Ann. “Intimate Moves In A Dark Room, Paul Mpagi Sepuya at Document,” Newcity Art, April 19 (Link)

Goldberg, Ariel. “The Room,” Art In America Magazine, April 1 (Link)

Allegretto, Dan. “We All Wear The Mask : New Photography at the Museum of Modern Art,” Art In America Magazine, April 2 (Link)

Wheeler, André-Naquian. “MoMA’s ‘New Photography’ Series Asks What It Means to be Human,” i-D Magazine, March 27 (Link)

Indrisek, Scott. “At MoMA, Photography Doesn’t Have to Reinvent Itself to be Radical,” Artsy, March 20 (Link)

“Five Questions with Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Cultured Magazine, March 20 (Link)

Woodward, Richard B. “MoMA’s Human Focus,” The Wall Street Journal, March 14 (Link)

Lubow, Arthur. “What’s New in Photography? Humanism, MoMA Says,” The New York Times, March 9 (Link)

 

Arlene Shechet

2019

Heitzman, Lorraine. “The Quirky Harmony of Arlene Shechet’s Sculpture,” Art and Cake, May 20 (Link)

Ollman, Leah. “Arlene Shechet’s new sculptures are weirdly engrossing and crazy fresh,” Los Angeles Times, April 29 (Link)

Belcove, Julie. “These Trailblazing Female Artists Are Finally Getting the Recognition they Deserve,” Robb Report, April 11 (Link)

Kalb, Jonathan. “Fiona Shaw Performs “The Waste Land” in Madison Square Park,” TheaterMatters, April 11 (Link)

Small, Zachary. “Fiona Shaw Will Perform T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land in Madison Square Park,” Hyperallergic, April 11 (Link)

Barron, James. “Bringing Liberty’s Torch to Manhattan (Icy Weather Permitting),” New York Times, February 3 (Link)

2018

Solomon, Deborah. “Review: Arlene Shechet Goes Public,” WNYC, December 21 (Link)

Cascone, Sarah. “How a Residency at a Toilet and Sink Factory Inspired Arlene Shechet’s New Public Art Project at Madison Square Park,” artnet, December 20 (Link)

Small, Zachary. “Arlene Shechet Smuggles Politics into Madison Square Park,” Hyperallergic, November 20 (Link)

“NYC restaurant serves guests wooden boxes for stowing away their phonesNYC restaurant serves guests wooden boxes for stowing away their phones,” CTV News, October 30 (Link)

Carlson, Jen. “Video: Dianne Wiest Is Buried In Scorched Earth & Performing Samuel Beckett In This NYC Park,” Gothamist, October 24 (Link)

“VIDEO: Dianne Wiest Totally Rocks Beckett in Madison Square Park!” Broadway World, October 24 (Link)

Feldman, Adam. “Dianne Wiest is doing Beckett in a park this week, for free, dressed as a rock, Time Out, October 24 (Link)

Libbey, Peter. “Dianne Wiest Is a Boulder, but Not for Halloween,” New York Times, October 24 (Link)

“Dianne Wiest To Perform Beckett Next Week At Madison Square Park,” Broadway World, October 17 (Link)

“‘Every Single Second it Changes’: Watch Sculptor Arlene Shechet Harness the Protean Power of Plaster,” Artnet News, October 5 (Link)

Cascone, Sarah, “Editors’ Picks: 12 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week,” Artnet News (web), September 25 (Link)

Loos, Ted, “Porcelain Finds Its Outside Voice,” New York Times (web), September 23 (Link)

“Morning Links: Sword Wound Edition,” Art News, September 24 (Link)

“Photographer outs herself as anonymous donor of millions to female artists,” CBS This Morning (web), August 23 (Link)

“’A Beautiful Land of Extremes’: See New York through the Eyes of 6 Visionary Locals.” CNN Style, June 28 (Link)

Wong, Alex, “Reflecting pond in Madison Square Park will be transformed by public installation,” The Architect’s Newspaper (web), June 1 (Link)

Farber, Janet L., “‘More Than I Know’ Shechet’s abstract sculpture at Joslyn eludes easy classification for all,” The Omaha Reader (web), May 27 (Link)

Bui, Phong, “Arlene Shechet: Some Truths,” The Brooklyn Rail (web), May 1 (Link)

 

Dasha Shishkin

2018

Jones, Samuel. ” At new Neiman Gallery exhibit, psychedelic prints bleed into negative space,” Columbia Spectator, October 22 (Link)

 

Amy Sillman

2019

“Confessions on the Dance Floor: Reveries From The Gay Bar,” Artforum, Summer (Link)

Henry, Clare. “Passionate About Drawing: Roger Malbert Unveils Hand Drawn Action Packed – Clare Henry,” ArtLyst, March 28 (Link)

2018

Sillman, Amy. “Delacroix,” 4columns, December 14 (Link)

Kamps, Toby. “In Conversation: Amy Sillman with Toby Kamps,” The Brooklyn Rail, December 11 (Link)

Haidu, Rachel. “Amy Sillman: Camden Art Centre,” Artforum, December (Link)

Armstrong, Annie. “Phillips $88.5 M. Contemporary Sale Comes Up Short, with Passes on Burri and Pollock,” Art News, November 15 (Link)

Angeleti, Gabriella. “Phillips and Bonhams see strong sales on smaller lots,” The Art Newspaper, November 16 (Link)

Hatfull, Nicholas. “The Vicarious Warmth of Amy Sillman’s Paintings,” Frieze, October 26 (Link)

Westall, Mark. “Amy Sillman: Landline : The first institutional exhibition of the acclaimed American painter,” Fad Magazine, July 4 (Link)

Judah, Hettie, ” The Best Shows in London During Frieze Week,” Frieze (web), September 28 (Link)

Barnard, Imelda, “‘I’m working with and against painting’ – an interview with Amy Sillman,” Apollo (web), September 26 (Link)

Sillman, Amy, “Laura Owens,” Artforum, April (Link)

“Amy Sillman,” The New Yorker, February (Link)

Tuchman, Phyllis, “Artisanal Abstraction: The Elusive, Effusive Art of Amy Sillman,” ArtNews (web), February 16 (Link)

Petrovich, Dushko, “The New Face of Portrait Painting,” The New York Times Style Magazine, February 12 (Link)

Mullen, Matt, “The Playfully Troubled Art of Amy Sillman,” Interview (web), January 25 (Link)

 

Mickalene Thomas

2016

“Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs and tête-à-tête,” Aperture, New York, NY; travelled to Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD; Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA (2017); Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA (2017); Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA (2018) (Link)

2019

Lim, Kay. “Black models in modern art,” CBS News, July 14 (Link)

Barmann, Jay. “SFMOMA Sells Rothko Painting To Fund Purchase Of 11 Works By Women And Minorities,” SFist, June 28 (Link)

Desmarais, Charles. “SFMOMA’s new acquisitions an important drop in the bucket,” SF Chronicle, June 28 (Link)

“The Most Influential Living African-American Artists,” Artsy, February 25 (Link)

Stapley-Brown, Victoria. “Surround yourself in the 70s: Mickalene Thomas installation comes to Miami’s Bass Museum,” Art Newspaper, June 7 (Link)

Palumbo, Jaqui. “These Photographers Explore the Limitlessness of Gender Identity,” Artsy, May 30 (Link)

Little, Colony. “The Studio Museum Conceives Its Future in a Traveling Exhibition,” Hyperallergic, March 6 (Link)

Parris, Amanda. “In the heart of the AGO, 100 Black women artists gathered to celebrate. Is it a sign of true change?,” CBS, February 8 (Link)

Valetine, Victoria L. “Black Art History: 17 Exhibition ‘Firsts’ Happening This February,” The Culture Type, February 8 (Link)

Scott, Chadd. “‘Posing Modernity’ Prepares To Say ‘Goodbye’ To New York, ‘Hello’ To Paris,” Forbes, January 25 (Link)

Burns, Charlotte and Julia Halperin. “Museums, Acquisitions and Artists of Color, Why Now is the Time for Change,” Sotheby’s, January 11 (Link)

Valetine, Victoria L. “Culture Type Picks: 18 Best Black Art Books of 2018,” Culture Type, Janurary 4 (Link)

“‘Mickalene Thomas: Femme Noires’ at the Art Gallery of Ontario,” Blouin Art Info (web), January 8 (Link)

Smith, Melissa. “How a Businesswoman Became a Voice for Art’s Black Models,” New York Times, December 26 (Link)

2018

Egan, Maura. “Enterprising Artists Are Redefining Country Living in Picturesque Northwestern Connecticut,” Departures, September 24 (Link)

Smee, Sebastian. “Two revelatory exhibitions upend our understanding of black models in art,” Washington Post, December 10 (Link)

Parris, Amanda. “The art world often excludes Black women. Mickalene Thomas’s superpower is making them visible,” CBC, December 7 (Link)

Rosen, Miss. “7 Black Artists You Should Know,” Broadly, December 6 (Link)

Carrier, David. “Deconstructing Race in Western Painting,” Hyperallergic, December 1 (Link)

Adams, Kelsey. “Mickalene Thomas celebrates Black women at the AGO,” Now Toronto, December 3 (Link)

“Baltimore Museum of Art Launches Commission Series and Curatorial Fellowship with Focus on Diversity,” Artforum, November 30 (Link)

Greenberger, Alex. “Baltimore Museum of Art Launches Diversity-Minded Commission Series and Curatorial Fellowship,” Art News, November 30 (Link)

Hernandez, Jasmin. “Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont Run on Adoration and Activism,” Elle, November 30 (Link)

“Mickalene Thomas: The artist on reclaiming the black female body,” WBEZ Chicago, November 28 (Link)

Nguyen, Long. “Posing Modernity,” Flaunt, November 12 (Link)

Reid, Tiana. “What it Means When Columbia Does a Show About the Black Model on Its West Harlem Expansion Campus,” Vulture, November 9 (Link)

Edelson, Sharon. “As If, Audemars Piguet Bring Stimulating Talk to Beautiful Setting,” WWD, November 9 (Link)

Sargent, Antwaun. “Seven Artists on the Warhol Influence,” New York Times, November 1 (Link)

Goldsmith, Suzanne. “2018 Fall Arts Guide: November,” Columbus Monthly, October 29 (Link)

Diderich, Joelle. “Dior Lady Art Project Celebrates Great Women Artists,” WWD, October 29 (Link)

Cascone, Sarah. “‘I Use It as a Way of Drawing and Seeing’: Artist Mickalene Thomas on How Photography Became the Center of Her Practice,” artnet news, October 26 (Link)

Sheet, Hillarie M. “New Attention for Figures in the Background,” The New York Times, October 25 (Link)

Stapley-Brown, Victoria. “Show turns a spotlight on the black female figure in Modern art,” The Art Newspaper, October 23 (Link)

“Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today,” Apollo, October 1 (Link)

Pitts, Zac. “Mickalene Thomas Photography Exhibition,” WDTN News, October 19 (Link)

O’Grady, Megan. “How Carrie Mae Weems Rewrote the Rules of Image-Making,” New York Times Style Magazine, October 15 (Link)

Gilson, Nancy. “Arts review: In depicting women in her life, painter Mickalene Thomas prefers flash, depth,” Columbus Dispatch, October 14 (Link)

Binlot, Ann. “The Art of Being A Muse,” Document, October 10 (Link)

Weber, Jasmine. “Mickalene Thomas Makes a Muse of Cardi B,” Hyperallergic, October 9 (Link)

Kai, Maiysha. “High Art: Cardi B and Artist Mickalene Thomas Collab for W Magazine,” The Glow Up, October 9 (Link)

Solway, Diane. “Cardi B Channels Hollywood’s Legendary Latina Glamour Queens in W’s Art Issue,” W Magazine, October 9 (Link)

Azzarello, Nina, “opera ‘music video’ by maurizio cattelan & pierpaolo ferrari is as wild as you’d imagine,” designboom (web), 4 October (Link)

Adrian-Diaz, Jenna, “5 Lessons in Feminist Art,” The Cut (web), October 3 (Link)

Drew, Kimberly and Nicole Chapoteau, “Artist Mickalene Thomas Opens Up About the Importance of Diverse Bodies In Her Work,” Harper’s Bazaar (web), October 3 (Link)

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Pothast, Emily, “An Artist Pays Homage to Her Glamorous, Dying Mother,” The Stanger (web), September 12 (Link)

Lee, Michael, “Wexner Center art exhibition to empower women, challenge art history norms,” The Lantern, September 10 (Link)

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Stapley-Brown, Victoria, “Did Juergen Teller borrow from Mickalene Thomas’s work in Vogue Paris Rihanna shoot?” The Art Newspaper (web), July 24 (Link)

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Nicola Tyson

2018

Allam, Roula, “4 Noteworthy London Fashion Week Happenings,” About Her (web), September 19 (Link)

Dacre, Karen, “Victoria Beckham’s SS19 10th anniversary show at London Fashion Week,” The Evening Standard (web), September 17 (Link)

Rogers, Sam, “Victoria Beckham comes home to London Fashion Week,” Vogue Paris (web), September 16 (Link)

Conti, Samantha, “LFW Preview: Victoria Beckham Set to Light Up Piccadilly Circus With London Show,” WWD (web), September 14 (Link)

Magenheim, Jillian, “Runway Report: Victoria Beckham SS19,” Olivia Palermo (web), September 18 (Link)

Elison, Jo, “Victoria Beckham’s 10th anniversary homecoming was all business,” Financial Times (web), September 16 (Link)

Paton, Elizabeth, “Victoria Beckham Sells Her Clothes Herself,” New York Times (web), September 17 (Link)

Jones, Jo, “Victoria Beckham: backstage at her spring/summer 2019 show – in pictures,” The Guardian (web), September 17 (Link)

 

Monique Van Genderen

2018

“If I go there, I won’t stay there” at ltd los angeles,” Blouin Art Info, October 1 (Link)

 

Esther Pearl Watson

2019

“The Moon: Eternal Pearl,” Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Concord, MA

 

Patrick Wilson

2018

Pagel, David,” When a rectangle is more than a rectangle: Making sense of Patrick Wilson’s colorful chaos,” Los Angeles Times, February 5 (Link)

 

Brittney Leeanne Williams

1990
Born in Pasadena, CA
2008
BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025
The Armory Show, Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY
2024
"The Form in Which the Spirit Dresses," Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
2023
"Huddle," Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY
"I’m There Where the Angel Is Missing," Newchild, Antwerp, Belgium
"Name This Mountain Interruption," Carl Kostyál, Stora Sundby, Sweden
2021
"The Body Knows Its Door," The Hole, New York, NY
"How Far Between and Back," Monique Meloche, Chicago, IL
"The Arch Is a Portal Is a Belly Is a Back," Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY
2020
"This Bitter Earth," Mamoth, London, UK
2019
"To Tarry in Prayer/To Terri in Prayer," Zevitas Marcus, Los Angeles, CA

Public Collections

The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
Domus Collection, New York City, NY / Beijing, China
Fundacion Medianoche0, Granada, Spain
HE Museum (HEM), Foshan, China
MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL
Museu Inimá de Paula, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts & Culture, Charlotte, NC
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
X Museum, Beijing, China

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2026
Hilma af Klint Center Artist-in-Residence, Adelsö, Sweden
2024
Joan Mitchell Center Artist-in-Residence, New Orleans, LA
2021
The Fores Project Residency, London, UK
2020
Luminarts Fellow
Coney Family Fund Award
2019
A Tale of Today Emerging Artist Fellow, Richard H. Driehaus Museum, Chicago, IL
McColl Center for Art + Innovation Artist-in-Residence, Charlotte, NC
2018
Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant
2017-2018
Arts + Public Life Artist-in-Residence, Chicago, IL
The Center Program Residency, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2017
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2016-2017
HATCH Project Residency, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL

Karl Haendel

1976
Born in New York
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
2003
University of California, Los Angeles, MFA
2000
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1999
Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, NY
1998
Brown University, Providence, RI, BA in Art Semiotics and Art History

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026
"Glass half," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2025
"Blind Faith, Hope, Pandora’s Box, Messiah," Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany
"…but then again," Sommer Salon, Zurich, Switzerland
"Less Bad," Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
2024
"Less Bad," Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT
"Love and Capital," Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
2023
"Karl Haendel and Mike Glier," The Suburban, Milwaukee, WI
"Daily Act of Sustained Empathy," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022
"Praise Berlin," Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany
"Praise New York," Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
2021
"Feeble Synapse," Sommer Tel-Aviv, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel (Link)
2020
"Double Dominant," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Art Basel Feature, Basel, Switzerland
"Masses & Mainstream," Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
"Mazel Tov Group by Karl Haendel," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2018
"Doppelgänger," Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017
"BY AND BY," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"Pink Cup and the Facts," Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
2016
"The Suburban," Riverwest, Milwaukee, WI (with Petter Ringbom)
"Unwinding Unboxing, Unbending Uncocking," Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany
"Karl Haendel and Tony Lewis," LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
“1/2 Einstein’s Brain, 1/2 Moon Rock,” Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples, Italy
2015
"Unwinding Unboxing, Unbending Uncocking," Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Organic Bedfellow, Feral Othello," Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
"Weeks in Wet Sheets," Barbara Seiler Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2014
"People Who Don’t Know They’re Dead," Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
"Water Works," with Adam Helms, Halsey Mckay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
"Fresh Musk," Eastern Star Gallery at the Archer School for Girls, Los Angeles, CA
2013
"Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality", Museo de Arte de El Salvador (MARTE), San Salvador, El Salvador
"The Competition Myth," Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
"High Performance Stiffened Structures, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
2012
"Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality," Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
"Questions For My Father," Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, Utah
"Questions for My Father," The Box, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
"Informal Family Blackmail," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2011
Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
"Celestial Spectacular," Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (with Jennifer Bornstein)
"Questions for My Father," Harris Lieberman, New York, NY (with Petter Ringbom)
"Fiddle the Cooperation," Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples, Italy
2010
"Karl Haendel," Lever House, New York, NY
"Sir Ernest Shackelton and All The Clocks in My House," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"My Invisible Friend," Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009
"Displeasure," Milliken Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
"Plug n Play," Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA (with Walead Beshty)
"How to Have a Socially Responsible Orgasm and Other Life Lessons", Harris Lieberman, New York, NY
2008
"Kommitment Karl, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007
The Suburban, Chicago, IL
"I Need Work," Harris Lieberman, New York, NY
"Last Fair Deal Gone Down," Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006
"MOCA Focus Series," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad," Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
"Make Me Down a Pallet on Your Floor," Sorcha Dallas Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland
2005
"Grits Aint Groceries (All Around the World)," Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003
"You Cant Lose What You Aint Never Had," Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026
"Into the Time Horizon," Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
"Love to Hate," Megan Mulrooney Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Model World," Tierra Del Sol, Los Angeles, CA
"The Dog and Pony Show," Main Projects, Richmond, VA
2025
"Alexa Almany, Karl Haendel, Pamela Ramos," Timeshare, Los Angeles, CA
"Blissfully Miserable," Petah Tikva Museum of Art, Petah Tikva, Israel
"Hold my hand in yours," Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
“Experience 66: GRIEF,” Experimentally Structured Museum of Art (EsMoA), Lawndale, CA
"Crosscurrents: Works from the Contemporary Collection," Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
"See it Now: Contemporary Art from the Ann and Mel Schaffer Collection," Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
"Who made the grasshopper?," Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
2024
"20 years – An Anniversary Show," Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany
"The Art of Oscar," Jeffrey Deitch Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"On the Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Period of Time," Contemporary Arts Center Gallery, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA
"Dogs & Dads," Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Flower Sound," Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
"Standpunkte. Blick in die Sammlung #7," Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
2023
"Cowboy," MCA Denver, Denver, CO; Traveling to Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX (2024 – 2025)
"Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"New Acquisitions," North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
2022
"Obertura: Más allá de los mapas," Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Alicante (MACA), Alicante, Spain
"Among Friends: Three Views of a Collection," The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
"The Tale Their Terror Tells," Curated by Geena Brown & Lauren Guilford, Lyes and King, New York, NY
"Works on Paper on Fridges," Harkawik, New York, NY
2021
"Fake News: Art, Fiction, Mensonge," EDF Group Foundation, Paris, France
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"The Frog Show," Real Pain Fine Art, New York, NY
"The Skin I Live In," Lyles & King, New York, NY
2020
"zoom in – zoom out," Wentrup, Berlin, Germany
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"100 Drawings from Now," The Drawing Center, New York City, NY
2019
"Dreamhouse Vs. Punk House (Plus Cat House)," Serious Topics, Inglewood, CA
"20 Years," Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
"Drawn Together Again," FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
"Fake News-Fake Truth," Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
"Copines–Copains–Berlin," Wentrup, Berlin, DE
"We are the people. Who are you?" Edel Assanti, London, UK
2018
"A Slice through the World: Contemporary Artists’ Drawings," Drawing Room, London, UK and Modern Art, Oxford, UK (Link)
“The World on Paper,” Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin, Germany
"Papier.Salon.," Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany
"INTO ACT!ON: A Celebration of Community Power & Cultural Resistance," Los Angeles, CA
"Not Your Toy," Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, IL
"Noi e il Masi, Donazione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati," Museo d’arte della Svizzera Italiana (MASI Lugano), Lugano, Switzerland
2017
"Salon," Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, Switzerland
"I who make mistakes on the eternal typewriter," Drawing Centre Diepenheim, The Netherlands (Link)
“Unsere Amerikaner,” Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
“Really?” curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Game On!,” Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
"Black Mirror," Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Drawings & Sculptures," Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
“American Dream: Paintings and Drawings of American Realism since 1965,” Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany
2016
“Halftime in America,” Arturo Bandini, Los Angeles, CA
“House Warming,” Adds Donna, Chicago, IL
“Questions to My Father,” Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015
Biennial of the Americas, Denver, CO
"SUNSET STRIP," organized by Night Gallery at The Batter, San Francisco, CA
“The World is Made of Stories,” Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
2014
Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, curated by Stuart Comer, Anthony Elms, and Michelle Grabner
"Lone Tree," Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY
"Informal Forms," Aran Cravey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Life Transmissions," curated by Marcus Herse, Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University, Orange, CA
"Ghost Current," curated by Ryan Wallace, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
"Manifest Intention. Drawing In All Its Forms," Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy, curated by Beatrice Merz with Marianna Vecellio
2013
"Meanwhile Suddenly and Then," 12th Biennale de Lyon, curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran, Lyon, France
2012
"The Residue of Memory," Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, curated by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson
"Graphite," curated by Sarah Urist Green, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
"True Stories," Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, curated by Lilly Wei
"Kathryn Andrews, Darren Bader, and Karl Haendel," United Artists, Ltd., Marfa, TX
2011
"In the Name of the Artists – American Contemporary Art from the Astrup Fearnley Collection," The São Paulo Bienniale Pavillion, São Paulo
"Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art," Bienal Pavillion, Sao Paulo, Brazil
"Degenerate Art Lives (with Yael Bartana and Tomas Zipp)," Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
"Benessere Temporaneo," Galleryia Six, Milan, Italy
"Art sur Image:
 Collection du MAMAC," Galerie des Ponchettes, Muse d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France
"Verisimilitude," Francois Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea, Part 2" Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
"Prospect II," curated by Dan Cameron, New Orleans, LA
"Drawn from Photography, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, and DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL, curated by Claire Gilman
"Nothing Beside Remains," LAND, Marfa, TX, curated by Shamim Momin
"Greater LA," curated by Benjamin Godsill, Eleaonor Cayre and Joel Mesler, New York, NY
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being," Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
"Ohlio," Country Club, Cincinati, OH
"Prix Canson 2011," Htel de Sauroy, Paris, France
"American Exuberance," Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, FL
2010
"Haunted", Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, curated by Jennifer Blessing
"The Last Newspaper," The New Museum, New York, NY, curated by Richard Flood and Benjamin Godsill
"Art Moves 2010," 3rd International Festival of Art Bilboards, Torun, Poland
"Second Story," Pepin Moore, Los Angeles, CA
"Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty," Sheree Hovsepian, and Barbara Kasten, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Held Up By Columns," Renwick Gallery, New York, NY
"Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA; traveled to: Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN; Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Batimore, MD; Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA; Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
"Pictures and Statues," Country Club, Cincinati, OH
"Blind Mirror," Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples, Italy
"New Art for a New Century: Contemporary Acquisitions, 2000-2010," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
2009
"Collection: MoCA’s First Thirty Years (1980 Now)," The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA, curated by Paul Schimmel
"Beg Borrow and Steal," Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL; traveled to the Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs, CA
"Maximal Minimal," Primopiano, Lugano, Switzerland, curated by Nini Bonavoglia
"Rotating Views #2 – Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection", Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
"Play With Your Own Marbles: Walead Beshty, Karl Haendel & Patrick Hill," Noma Gallery, San Francisco, CA, curated by Betty Nguyen
"No Bees, No Blueberries," Harris Lieberman Gallery, NY, cur. by Sarina Basta and Tyler Coburn
"Nothingness and Being", curated by Shamim Momin, Fundacin/Coleccin Jumex, Mexico
"Picturing the Studio, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, curated by Michelle Grabner and Annika Marie
"This Is Killing Me," Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
2008
"Going Out of Business, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Meet Me Around the Corner Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection," Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
"2008 California Biennial," Orange County Museum of Art, curated by Lauri Firstenberg, Newport Beach, CA
2007
"The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation, curated by Staci Boris. Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL and Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
"XXS (Extra Extra Small)," Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel
"Lines, Grids, Stains, Words: Minimal Art Drawings from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art," organized by Christian Rattemeyer, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, and traveling to: Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal; Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
"Hammer Contemporary Collection Part 1," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
"HB Works on Paper," Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
"Play," Galleri Erik Steen, Oslo, Norway
"The Price of Everything," The Art Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, NY
"Big Secret Cache," Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006
"Red Eye: Los Angeles Artists from the Rubell Family Collection," The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
"Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, Part Two," curated by Luis Perez Oramas, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"Particulate Matter," curated by Glen Helfand, Mills College of Art, Oakland, CA
"Pierre Bismuth, Ryan Gander, Karl Haendel, T.Kelly Mason," Cohan and Leslie, New York, NY
"A Brighter Day," James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
"Down by law," curated by the Wrong Gallery as a show within a show for The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
2005
"Uncertain States Of America," Reykjavik Museum of Art, Reykjavik, Iceland; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo; Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Serpentine Gallery, London, UK; Museé d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France; Moscow Biennale; Herning Art Museum, Herning, Denmark; Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland; Musée de Sérignan, Sérignan, France; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic; Songzhuan Art Centre, Beijing, China
"Drive Time," Wingall Museum, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
"Fast Forward: A Passion for the New," curated by Scenic, House of Campari, Venice, CA
"Rogue Wave," curated by Christopher Pate and Peter Goulds, LA Louver, Venice, CA
"Hunch and Flail," curated by Amy Sillman, Artists Space, New York, NY
"L.A.," Lucas Schoorman Gallery, New York, NY
2004
"California Biennial 2004," curated by Elizabeth Armstrong and Irene Hofmann, Orange County Museum of Contemporary Art, Newport Beach, CA
"Group Show," Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Clarissa Dalrymple and Nicole Klagsbrun
"Gio Ponti: Furnished Settings & Figuration," ACME, Los Angeles, CA
2003
"Richard Croft, Karl Haendel, Mitchell Syrop," Rosamund Felsen, Santa Monica, CA
"Side Efffects," The Latch, Los Angeles, CA
Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"What do you see at night?" Track 16, Santa Monica, CA
2002
"Emily Jacir, Karl Haendel, Kevin Hooyman," La Panaderia, Mexico City, Mexico
1999
"Moving Into Outside," Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
"Xmas," Kent Gallery, New York, NY
"100 Drawings," P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, Long Island, NY
"Open Studios," Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY
1998
David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
Woods Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Public Projects

2026
"Hands & Things," LA METRO, Wilshire/Fairfax Train Station, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Christine Lynn Rehab Center, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL
2015
"Plow Pose," I-70 Sign Show, St. Louis, MO
2011
"Questions for Marfa," building facade, part of Nothing Beside Remains, LAND, Marfa, TX
2010
"A Year From Now, Art Moves 2010," 3rd International Festival of Art of Billboards, Torun, Poland
2009
"Public Scribble #2," façade of LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
"Scribble," 411 Broadway, New York, NY, with Art Production Fund
2008
"A Year From Now," California Biennial 2008, Billboard on La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
1998
"Desires," Kennedy Plaza Bus Terminal, Providence, RI
"Simple Symbols," Radding Billboards, Providence, RI

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Zellen, Jody. "Karl Haendel: ‘Double Dominant’," ArtNowLA, February 26 (Link)
David, Ben. "Why a New Yorker Cartoonist Is Up in Arms About Appropriation Art," Artnet News, February 12
Moldan, Tessa. "Frieze Los Angeles: Shows to See," Ocula, February 7 (Link)
Remenchik, Jennifer. "Strange and Subtle Portraits of Artists’ Hands," Hyperallergic, February 5
Sipress, David. "Stop, Thief! My Cartoon Gets Appropriated," New Yorker, February 4 (Link)
Macinnis, Emily. "John Baldessari’s former art students remember professor’s impact, kindness," Daily Bruin, January 16
2019
Haendel, Karl. "Am I Jared Kushner?," Jewish Currents, Summer 2019
Mack, Gerhard. "Alle Künstler lügen ¬– Eindrücke von der Art Basel," New Zürcher Zeitung, June 15
Finkel, Jori. "Honey I shrunk the art: the ultimate alternative biennial opens in Los Angeles," The Art Newspaper, April 24
Masterson, Piers. "We Are the People. Who Are You?," This is tomorrow, March 4
Barrett, David. "We Are the People. Who Are You?," Art Monthly, March 2019, pp. 22-23
Schwaiger, Seth Orion. "Making It in America: Karl Haendel on the absurdities of the Art World," artcritical, February 20 (Link)
Indrisek, Scott. "Why It’s Refreshing When White Male Artists Doubt Themselves," Artsy, February 7 (Link)
McLaughlin, Rosanna. "We are the People. Who are you?," Studio International, January 30
Haiser, Arwa. “We Are the People. Who Are You?,” Elephant, January 29
Heinrich, Will. "What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week," January 16 (Link)
2018
"How do I sell more art?" Diaphanes, Fall/Winter
"Inside Frieze London 2018," via Five iPhone Camera Rolls," AnOther, October 5 (Link)
Da Silva, José. “All the president’s men (and one first lady) at Art Basel,” The Art Newspaper, June 15 (Link)
2017
Lüddemann, Stefan. "The American Dream: Risse im American Way of Life", Osnabrücker Zeitung, November 17
Horst, Aaron. "Karl Haendel at Susanne Vielmetter", Carla, Winter
Annemiek Rens, Katharian Henkel, Antje-Britt Mählmann. "The American Dream, Amerikaans Realisme 1945-2017," WBOOKS, Zwoll, The Netherlands
Astorga, Elena. "Planes culturales para este Inauguration Day en Los Ángeles," La Opinión, January 18
Vanduffel, Dirk. "ArtDependence Speaks to Karl Haendel," ArtDependence Magazine, December 19 (Link)
Watts Jr., James D. “ARTS: Philbrook Downtown unveils ‘Game On!’,” Tulsa World, May 4 (Link)
Goldman, Edward. “France and the US: Art and politics two centuries apart,” KCRW, January 10 (Link)
Wagley, Catherine. “5 Free Art Shows to See in L.A.This Week,” LA Weekly, January 18
Walters, Sydney. “Karl Haendel: Drawing the American Ego,” Art and Cake, February 3 (Link)
2016
"Normales Leben," Madame, March, p. 96
"Karl Haendel in mostra alla Raucci/Santamaria”, Naploi Post, May 10
Woods, Gaea, "LA Artists and their Cars”, Kaleidoscope, Issue 26, Winter
Harren, Natilee. "Knight’s Heritage: Karl Haendel and the Legacy of Appropriation, Episode One, 2000,” Art Journal Open, February 29 (Link)
Harrison, Nate. "Response to Natilee Harren’s ‘Knight’s Heritage: Karl Haendel and the Legacy of Appropriation, Episode One, 2000’,” Art Journal Open, February 29
Martin, Lucy. "Now showing: Karl Haendel, Unwinding Unboxing, Unbending Uncocking,” Elephant Magazine, Spring
Bier, Arielle. "Critics’ Picks: Karl Haendel at Wentrup,” Artforum, March 29
Deverchere, Hugo. "Karl Haendel fait du Yoga,” Droguistes, March 29
Harren, Natilee. "Knight’s heritage: Karl Haendel and the Legacy of Appropriation, Episode 2, 2012,” Art Journal Open, April 22
Mizota, Sharon. "Review: At LAXART, boundary-blurring drawing as a form of sculpture,” Los Angeles Times, May 2
Wagley, Catherine. "A Maniacal Cartoon Cobra Slithers Into a Mid-Wilshire Gallery,” LA Weekly, May 18
Boucher, Brian. "Artists Aren’t Afraid to Get Political at Art Basel Miami Beach,” Artnet News, November 30
Cascone, Sarah. "The Art World’s Social Media Reaction to Donald Trump,” Artnet News, November 9
Kazakina, Katya. "Trump Alters Vibe at Miami Art Fair," Bloomberg, December 1
Fargo, Jason. "Politics and Commerce Collide at Art Basel Miami Beach,” The New York Times, December 2
2015
Swenson, Eric Minh. "Understanding Karl Haendel," Huffington Post, March 30
Rosenthal, Katie. "Virgo, Vape, Strap-on, Tampon: Karl Haendel at Night Gallery," The Hundreds, March 15
Zellen, Jody. "Karl Haendel: Unwinding Unboxing, Unbending Uncocking at Night Gallery," art ltd, May / June
Schuessler, Ryan. "Blah, blah blah? Billboard art show confronts Missouri drivers head-on," Aljazeera America, May 31
"If I Only Knew Then What I Know Now," Art | Basel Miami Beach Magazine, December, 2015
Rosenmeyer, Aoife. "Karl Haendel: Barbara Seiler Galerie," frieze, December
Haendel, Karl. "The Story Behind an Artwork, in the Artists Own Words," Modern Painters, March
Slocum, Amy Maire. "Karl Haendel: ‘Tis in Ourselves That We Are This or Thus," Flaunt, Fall, pp. 64-65
Sanati, Mercedeh. "Karl Haendel, Mitchell-Innes & Nash," The Globe and Mail, October 31
Ellwood, Mark. "If I Only Knew Then What I Know Now," Art Basel Miami Beach Magazine, December, pp. 238 – 239
Gluck, Marissa. "Southern California’s Interconnected Art Ecosystem," KCET, March 16
2014
Wagley, Catherine. "5 Arts Things to Do in LA this week: Totems That Could Be on ‘Sesame Street,’” LA Weekly, October 1
Morris, Bill. "The Writing on the Wall (Redux): The 2014 Whitney Biennial, Starring David Foster Wallace,” The Millions, March 13
Austin, Ben. "Whitney Biennial and ADAA: Ben Austin’s Armory Week Diary day 4,” artlyst, March 9
Borrelli, Christopher. "Meet artist Michelle Grabner, Whitney Biennial 2014 curator,” Chicago Tribune, March 7
Indrisek, Scott. "This is Not a Survey: AN Incomplete Review of the Whitney Biennial,” ArtInfo, March 6
Dambrot, Shana Nys. "Whitney Biennial: The View From LA,” art ltd., March-April
Kunitz, Daniel. "9 Booths Not to Miss at This Year’s Armory Show,” ArtInfo, March 3
Yahav, Galia. "Karl Haendel: Drawer of Tabloid Soul," Ha’rretz, May 25, p. 24
2013
Olivar, Pabel. "The iconographic tangle of Karl Haendel,” Diario 1, December 16
McGarry, Kevin. "Review: 12th Lyon Biennale,” Frieze, November – December
Packer, Matt. "The 12th Biennale de Lyon” Meanwhile…Suddenly, And Then," Kaleidoscope, November
Bret, Par Cyrille. "Les artistes de la Biennale > Karl HAENDEL," Lyon Capitale, October 14
Heurteloup, Laura. "Quand l’art fait des histories,” Arts Magazine, September 26, 2013, p. 129
Lieu, Lynn. "’Beg Borrow Steal’ your way to these exhibits,” The Desert Sun, January 31
Saati, Briana. "Locust Projects’ New Exhibits Force Viewers Outside Their Comfort Zones," Miami New Times, January 25
Ng, David. "Whitney Biennial 2014 to include L.A. Artists, David Foster Wallace," Los Angeles Times, November 15
Lardizabal, Abet. "10 Highlights from Expo Chicago," Complex, September 25
Yablonsky, Linda. "The Neverending Story," Artforum, September 23
"The Story at the heart of the 12th Biennale de Lyon," La Presse, September 12
Dagen, Philippe. "Histories emerge in an ocean of images," Le Monde, September 11
Grabner, Michelle. "Karl Haendel," Vitamin D2: New Perspectives in Drawing, Phaidon Press, London
Fernandes, Annabel. "Karl Haendel’s The Competition Myth, at Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris," Purple Diary, March
2012
MacCash, Dough. "Critic reviews Prospect.2 artist Karl Haendels drawings at CAC," The Times Picayune, January 5
Wells, Georgina. "Portfolio: Graphites Spotlight," Modern Painters, December
Shaw, Dan, "A Modern and Minimal New York City Apartment", Architectural Digest, September (Photo by Nikolas Koenig)
Lipschutz, Yael, "Karl Haendel", Flash Art, July
Caldwell, Ellen. "Karl Haendel at Susanne Vielmetter LA Projects," New American Painting, July 5
Drohojowska-Philip, Hunter. "Karl Haendel`s Informal Family Blackmail," KCRW, June 19 (Link)
Spee, Mitch. "The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea: Part II," Frieze, February
Davis, Ben. "Karl Haendel," Modern Painters, February
Frankel, David. "Karl Haendel," Artforum, January
2011
Rosenberg, Karen. "Authorship or Translation? Notes Toward Redefining Creativity," The New York Times, February 24
Smith, Roberta. "A Bit of Hollywood, Minus the Tinsel," The New York Times, May 31
Douglas, Sarah. "All About My Father: Artist Karl Haendel and His Friends Have Lots of Questions," The New York Observer, September 20
Smith, Roberta. "Questions for My Father," The New York Times, October 27
Appleton, Andrea. "Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture," City Paper, Baltimore, November 30
2010
Moshayedi, Aram. "500 Words: Karl Haendel," Art Forum, March 23
Goldstein, Andrew M. "In New York: Opening this Weekend," ArtInfo, March 25
Latimer, Quinn. "The High Modernist Drawing Board," Art In America, March 31
Smith, Roberta. "In Fields of Art, Snapping Photos #148," New York Times, April 1
Wahlquist, GF. "Time and the Trace: Karl Haendel at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects," Arthood.com, April 22
Pulimood, Steve. "Now Showing: Karl Haendel at Lever House," The New York Times Style Magazine, May 3
Harren, Natilee. "Karl Haendel," Artforum, May
"Karl Haendel Exhibition," NY Art Beat, March
Moshayedi, Aram. "500 Words: Karl Haendel," Art Forum, March 23
2009
Ewing, John. "No Bees, No Blueberries," Art Lies, Fall, pp. 94-95
Portfolio, First Person, Issue 3, fall 2009, pp. 64-69
Zellen, Jody. "Karl Haendel, New York," Art Papers, September/October
Baker, Kenneth. "Annos abstractions," Marbles at Noma, SFGate, September 26
Sperlinger, Mike. "Diminishing Returns, or is Robert Morris Cynical?," Switch, Issue 1.2, Summer p. 29
Szupinka, Joanna. "Play with Your Own Marbles," Artslant, September 14
Johnson, Ken. "How to Have a Socially Responsible Orgasm and Other Life Lessons," The New York Times, June 12
"Goings On About Town: Karl Haendel," The New Yorker, June 8 & 15
Wilson, Michael. "Karl Haendel, How to Have a Socially Responsible Orgasm and Other Life Lessons," Time Out New York, Issue 714, June 4-10
Medium Cool. "Installation: Karl Haendel," Time Out New York, Issue 710, May 7-13
Vogel, Carol. "Karl Haendel’s Jottings, Writ Large, on a SoHo Wall," The New York Times, May 7
Beshty, Walead. "Walead Beshty puts for questions to Karl Haendel," Modern Painters, April, p. 80
Goldstein, Andrew. "The art of Appropriation remains at the forefront, as a major new show from the Rubells testifies," The Art Newspaper, December 2, p. 11
2008
Beshty, Walead. "2008 On the Ground: Los Angeles," Art Forum, December
Bryan-Wilson, Julia. "Signs and Symbols, On Billboard Projects in Los Angeles," Artforum, October
Foumberg, Jason. "Review of The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation," The Spertus Museum, Chicago, USA. Frieze Magazine, January 8
Haramis, Nick. "The New Regime: Karl Haendel," BlackBook, December
Watson, Simon. "New Artist Karl Haendel: Redrawing," Whitewall, Winter 2008, pp. 68-69
Whitehead, Vagner M. "An Interview with Karl Haendel (I)," Art Signal: Contemporary Art Magazine. January/March, Issue 3, pp. 16-31
Nys Dambrot. "Is Drive-by Art a Good Thing?,” flavorwire.com, November 20
"I Thought California Would Be Different,” LAist, November 19
"The Orange County Museum of Art Presents the 2008 California Biennial,” artdaily.org, October 27
Mizota, Sharon. "Eureka moments,” Los Angeles Times, October 19
"2008 California Biennial,” THE Magazine, October
Kecskes, Alex. "A Rich Palette of Talent,” 944 Magazine, October
"Spotlight: California Biennial 2008,” Deutsche Bank Art News
Kilston, Lyra. "Los Angeles: Field Guide,” Modern Painters, October
Johnson, Ken. "Art in Review: Karl Haendel,” the New York Times, June 11
"Goings on about town: Galleries – Downtown,” the New Yorker, June 8
Wilson, Michael. "Karl Haendel, "How to have a socially responsible orgasm and other life lessons,” Time Out New York, Issue 714, June 4 – 10
Vogel, Carol. "Karl Haendel’s Jottings," Writ Large, on a SoHo Wall,” The New York Times, May 7
2007
Yahav, Galia. "XXS Review Time Out Tel-Aviv," November 29, p. 86
Weinberg, Lauren. "Art stars of David: There isn’t a Chagall in sight in the new Spertus Museums first show," Time Out Chicago, Issue 144, November 29 – December 5
Bell, Eugenia. "Karl Haendel," Artforum, November
Saltz, Jerry. "Has Money Ruined Art," New York Magazine, October 15
"Galleries- Downtown," Karl Haendel, New Yorker, October 10
Smith, Roberta. "Karl Haendel," The New York Times, October 5
"Goings on About Town," Art, New Yorker, September 25
Cotter, Holland. "Quirks and Attitude to Burn," The New York Times, June 8
Garcia, Kathryn. "Karl Haendel at MOCA Focus," Textfield, Fall & Winter 2006-07, pp. 112 – 113
"Karl Haendel," The New Yorker, October 1
2006
Wullschlager, Jackie. "Bright, brash, unmissable: the US legacy," Financial Times UK, September 15
Searle, Adrian. "Rebels without a cause," The Guardian, September 12
Bluhm, Erik, "Karl Haendel", ArtUS, Issue 13, May/June, p. 5
Thompson, Susannah. "Karl Haendel," Contemporary Magazine, No. 83, pp. 60-63
Smith, Roberta. "Chelsea Is a Battlefield: Galleries Muster Groups", The New York Times, July 28
Smith, Roberta. "Endgame Art? It’s Borrow, Sample and Multiply in an Exhibition at Bard College," The New York Times, July 7
Zellan, Jody. "Karl Haendel," Art Press, April, Issue 322, pp. 74-75
Blain, Francoise-Aline. "Los Angeles fait son show," Beaux Arts magazine. March, p. 76
Pagel, David. "A late 80s date gets penciled in," Los Angeles Times, February 22, p. E2
Ng, Fiona. "Getting a Haendel on Things," Los Angeles Downtown News, February 6, p. 22
Dea, Cynthia. Los Angeles Times, February 2, p. E46
Schimmel, Paul. "Future Greats 2005," ArtReview, December/January, p. 92
"Focus Los Angeles," Flash Art, January/February, pp. 70
2005
Jones, Leslie. "Karl Haendel at Anna Helwing Gallery," Art on Paper, July/August, Vol 9, No 6. p. 65
Pence, Elizabeth. "Karl Haendel at Anna Helwing Gallery," Artweek, June, Vol 35, Issue 5, p. 18
Ollman, Leah. Los Angeles Times, April 1
Kite, Kristina. "Critics Pick," Artforum, March 18
2004
Knight, Christopher. "Biennial arrives, and so does museum, Los Angeles Times, October 13
Chang, Richard. "The Art of the New, The Orange County Register, October 10
Pincus, Robert L. "Tuning into the O.C.: "Biennial" belly laughs," San Diego Tribune
2000
Kawalick, Erika. "Karl Haendel, McSweeneys, Issue 6
1999
Heon, Laura and Diggs, Peggy. "Billboard: Art on the Road," MASS MoCA and MIT Press
1998
Van Siclen, William. "Bus Gallery, Providence Journal Bulletin, March 20

Selected Writing

2023
“Drawings for Tony Lewis," catalog essay, Tony Lewis: Anthology 2014-2016, Hirschhorn Museum, Washington, DC
2015
“BioPic," Modern Painters, March 2015
2014
“Shame," Double Ampersand Press, Los Angeles (Artist’s book)
2013
“Fear," Double Ampersand Press, Los Angeles (Artist’s book)
2011
“Country Music," X-Tra, Winter 2011, Vol. 13, No.2
2010
“Complicated Sneakers," catalog essay, Beg, Borrow and Steal, The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
2002
“to believe much more than that,” catalog essay, to believe much more than that, Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles
2001
“Beyond Relativism,” catalog essay, Wight Biennial Twothousandandone, Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles
“Mensch & Ubermensch," (with Amy Sillman), X-tra, Summer 2001, Vol 3., No.4

Publications

2026
Andrea Gyorody, Aldy Milliken, Darren Bader, Mario Ybarra Jr., Michelle Jane Lee, Ray Anthony Barrett, Karla Diaz, and Analia Saban. "Karl Haendel: Less Bad," Kimball Art Center and Pepperdine University, Skira, Milan, Italy
N. Scott Momaday, Maia Nuka, Apsara DiQuinzio, Makeda Best, William L. Fox. "Into the Time Horizon," Nevada Museum of Art, Radius Books, Sante Fe, NM
2025
Campbell, Andy and Michael Nunziata. "Karl Haendel: Great Ass at The Met," Triangle Books, Brussels, Belgium
2023
Nora Burnett, Miranda Lash, Jongwoo Jeremy Kim, Myeshia C. Babers, and R. Alan Brooks. "Cowboy," MCA Denver, Rizzoli Electa, New York, NY
2020
Harren, Natilee. "Karl Haendel, Double Dominant," Triangle Books, Brussels, Belgium
2018
Rattemeyer, Christian and Rita Gonzalez. "Karl Haendel: Doubt," Hatje Cantz, Berlin, Germany
2017
Harren, Natilee. "Karl Haendel: Knight’s Heritage," LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Anthony Elms, Michelle Grabner, and Stuart Comer. "2014 Whitney Biennial," Whitney Musuem, NY
"Life Transmissions," Chapman University, Guggenheim Gallery, New York, NY
"Lyon Biennale 2013 T.2," les presses du réel, Dijon, France
Norr, David. "Michelle Grabner: I Work From Home," MOCA, Cleveland, OH
"Rubell Family Collection: Highlights & Artists’ Writings Volume 1," RFC/Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, FL
2013
Boutoux, Thomas. "12th Biennale de Lyon, ed.," Les Presses Du Réel, Dijon, France
Blind Spot, issue 46, ed., Walead Beshty
"Bright: Typography Between Illustration and Art," ed., Slanted, Daab, Cologne
Graphite, ed., Sarah Urist Green, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Slanted 22: Art Type, Slanted, Karlsruhe, Germany
Subaltern, Issue #2, Umea, Sweden
"Vitamin D2: New Perspectives in Drawing," ed., Christian Rattemeyer, Phaidon Press, London
2012
"Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? Original Jokes about The Suburban and the Poor Farm by Artists Who have Exhibited There," Poor Farm Press, Manawa, WI
"Hyperdrawing, Beyond the Line of Contemporary Art," eds., Phil Sawdon and Russell Marshall, I.B. Tauris, London
"The Residue of Memory," Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
"Prospect 2, New Orleans," by Dan Cameron and Miranda Lash, US Biennial, Inc.
2011
"American Exuberance," The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Firstenberg, Lauri, Malik Gains, and Ceaser Garcia "LAXART 5," LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
"Drawn From Photography," Drawing Papers 96, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
"Art Moves 2010," Fundacja Rusz, Torun, Poland
"Between the Lines: A Coloring Book of Drawings by Contemporary Artists," Vol 3, RxArt
2010
"Haunted: Contemporary Photography, Video, Performance," Guggenheim Museum, eds., Jennifer Blessing, Peggy Phelan, Nat Trotman
"Image Transfer," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Words Without Pictures," Aperture/LACMA, ed., Alex Klein
"The Studio Reader: On the Space of Artists," University of Chicago Press, eds., Michelle Grabner and Mary Jane Jacob
2009
Beg, Borrow and Steal, The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection: Catalogue Raisonné, ed., Christian Rattemeyer, Museum of Modern Art, NY
2008
2008 California Biennial, Lauri Firstenberg, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
"Lines, Grids, Stains, Words: Minimal Art Drawings from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art," Christian Rattemeyer, Museum of Modern Art, NY
2007
"The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation," Staci Boris, Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL
"Red Eye: Los Angeles Artists from the Rubell Family Collection," Rubell Family Collection, 2007
2006
"Anna Helwing Gallery Conversations: Karl Haendel and Mario Ybarra Jr.," Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Karl Haendel," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
A Brighter Day, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2005
"Do It," edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist, e-flux and Revolver, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
"Uncertain States of America," Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
"Rogue Wave," LA Louver, Venice, CA
2004
"La Panaderia: 1994-2002," edited by Yoshua Okon, Turner, Mexico City,
California Biennial 04, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
"American Stars N’ Bars," Chapman University, Orange, CA.
2000
McSweeney’s, issue # 6, ed. by, Erika Kawalick
1999
"Billboard: Art on the Road," MASS MoCA and MIT Press, ed. by Heon, Laura and Diggs, Peggy.

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2015
California Community Foundation
Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant
2011
Chinati Foundation Artist is Residence
2006
Katherine S. Marmor Award
2004
Penny McCall Foundation Award
Durfee Foundation Grant

Public Collections

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Astrup Fearnley Collection, Oslo, Norway
Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt, Germany
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Boston, MA
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
La Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Los Angeles, CA
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places, Miami, FL
Museo d’arte della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
Public Art Collection, Brown University, Providence, RI
RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Wemhöner Collection, Berlin, Germany
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Robert Pruitt

Born in 1975, Houston, TX
2003
MFA, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 2000
2000
BA, Texas Southern University, Houston, TX

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026
"Robert Pruitt: Infinite," Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX (forthcoming)
2025
"Corpus," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"..Son…Sun…Sin…Syn…Sen…Zen…Zenith," Salon 94, New York, NY
2023
"Goodnight Prometheus," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2021
"To Control the Universe," Salon 94, New York, NY
2020
"Ad Infinitum," Salon 94, New York, NY
"Guest Minister," Oxbow, Seattle, WA
2019
"The Banner Project," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
"The Majesty of Kings Long Dead," Koplin Del Rio, Seattle, WA
2018
"Robert Pruitt: Devotion," California African American Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2017
"Robert Pruitt: Benediction," Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
"Robert Pruitt: Planetary Survey: New Drawings," Koplin Del Rio, Seattle, WA
2016
"Robert Pruitt: New Work," Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX
"Escape Velocity," Robert L. Ringel Gallery, Stewart Center Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2015
"Robert Pruitt: Flight Risk," Koplin Del Rio, Culver City, CA
"The Mosaic Project: Robert Pruitt & Shadra Strickland," Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Lancaster, PA
"Omohle Ntsudu Omnyama," Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa
2013
"Fantastic Sagas," Koplin Del Rio, Culver City, CA
"Robert Pruitt: Women," Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2012
"Robert Pruitt," Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA
2011
"The Souls of Black Folk," McKinney Art Center, Dallas, TX
"New American Voices," Fabric Workshop Museum, Philadelphia, PA
"Them From After the End of the World," Koplin Del Rio, Culver City, CA
2010
"The Forever People," Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX
2008
"Two Tears in a Bucket: Considering The Alcubierre Metric," Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006
"Quiet as Kept," Clementine Gallery, New York, NY
"Perspectives 154: Robert Pruitt," Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
2004
"I call my brother sun because he shines like one," Clementine Gallery, New York, NY
"Cold Kuts and Fresh Beef," Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX
"Round 18 of Artists’ Installations," Project Row Houses, Houston, TX

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026
"Some American Dreams," The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2025
"Icons, Archetypes, and Portraits," North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
"History or Premonition," Joan Mitchell Center Residency Program, New Orleans, LA
"Terms and Conditions: The Promise vs The Reality," University Museum at Texas Southern University, Houston, TX
"FEMMES," Curated by Pharrell Williams, Perrotin, Paris, France
"Between Distance and Desire: African Perspectives," The Soloviev Foundation Gallery, New York, NY
2024
"Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
"Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SF MoMA), San Francisco, CA
2023
"The Book of HOV: A celebration of the life and work of Shawn "JAY-Z" Carter," The Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY
"Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022-2025
"A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration," Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MI; Traveling to Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (2022-2023); Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (2023); California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2023-2024), Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) Berkeley, CA (2024); Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (2025).
2022
"In Blackest Shade, In Darkest Light," Curated by Patrick Earl Hammie, Giertz Gallery at Parkland College, Champaign, IL
"Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield South Carolina," The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; traveling to The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA
"Us, We, Them," Worcester Art Museum, Worcrester, MA
"A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration," Mississippi Museum of Art; traveling to: Baltimore Museum of Art
2021
"Assembly: New Acquisitions by Contemporary Black Artists," Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
2019
"Perennial," Koplin Del Rio (Pop-up exhibition), Los Angeles, CA
"Men of Steel, Women of Wonder: Modern American Heroes in Contemporary Times," Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
"Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth, Exhibition," coordinated by the Smithsonian Institution, the 10-city national tour opened at the California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA, April/May
"Black Refractions | Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem," The Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA (January 15 – April 14, 2019); Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC (May 24 – August 18, 2019);Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, MI (September 13 – December 8, 2019); Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA (January 17 – April 12, 2020); Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA (May 9 – August 2, 2020); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (August 28 – December 13, 2020)
2018
"People Get Ready | Building A Contemporary Collection," Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
"WOMAN," Koplin Del Rio, Seattle, WA
"We The People," Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, AZ
"Out of Africa," Art Village Gallery, Memphis, TN
"MLK50: Beyond the Balcony," Art Village Gallery, Memphis, TN
2017
"LIBERTY.," Koplin Del Rio, Seattle, WA
"Anachronism and Liberation," Asteroid Tiger Strike, Philadelphia, PA
"Z is for Zigzag: Directions Around Northern Manhattan," Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling, New York, NY
"Impressions: African American Artists and Their Connection to African Art," Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
"How Far Have We Come," Koplin Del Rio, on Artsy (online exhibition)
2016
"Indivisible: Spirits in the Material World," curated by William Cordova, Prizm Art Fair, Miami, FL
"Time + Space: Futures, Bemis Center, Omaha, NE IDENTITY," Koplin Del Rio, Seattle, WA
2015
"New Editions," Tamarind Institue, Univeristy of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2013
"Wunderkammer: Miniatures and Curiosities," Koplin Del Rio, Culver City, CA
"The Shadows Took Shape," The Studio Museum Harlem, New York, NY
2012
"Self Possessed: Examining Identity in the 21st Century," Koplin Del Rio, Culver City, CA
"HX8(Houston Times Eight)," Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX
2011
"Stargazers, Elizabeth Catlett in conversation with 21 contemporary artists," Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
2010
"Hangin’ Together," Koplin Del Rio (Guest Curated by Kerry James Marshall), Culver City, CA
2008
"Black Is, Black Ain’t" Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
"S & M: Shrines and Masquerades in Cosmopolitan Times," NYU, Steinhardt Galleries, New York, NY
"New Works: 07.1," curated by Debra Singer, Artpace, San Antonio, TX
"Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song," Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Whitney Biennial Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Black Alphabet," The Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland Frequency, The Studio Museum, New York, NY
"The Texas Prize Exhibition," ArtHouse, Austin, TX (catalog) Texas Artadia Recipients, Diverseworks, Houston, TX
"Art on Paper," The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
"Black Alphabet," the Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
"Intersections: Shifting Identity in Contemporary Art," John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
"Interstellar Low Ways," Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
"…but I was cool," Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
2005
"Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970," Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston, TX
2004
"Farm to Market," ArtPace, San Antonio, TX
"Texas Prime," Diverseworks, Houston, TX
"SuperSalon," Samson Projects, Boston, MA
2003
"Miniatures," Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX
"The Big Show, (first prize)," Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
"Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
"Come Forward: Emerging Art in Texas," Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
2002
"Soul Sonic Lustre Silk," Houston Community College, Houston, TX
"The Big Show," Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
"Process," Creative Research Lab, Austin, TX
"The Debt," The Old School, Austin, TX
"22 to Watch: New Art in Austin," Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
"Safety Gear," D Ramos Studios, Austin, TX

Curatorial Projects

2020
Drawing the Ghost, Koplin Del Rio, Seattle, WA
2013
Coming Through the Gap in the Mountain on an Elephant, University Museum of Texas Southern University, Houston, TX
2012
Stacks, Art League Houston, Houston, TX

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Catalogues and Publications

2024
Tommasino, Akili. "Look Inside Flight into Egypt Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now," Yale University Press and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Awards, Residencies, and Grants

2022
Studio Museum in Harlem’s Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize
2014
Idea Fund Grant
2013
Joan Mitchell Foundation Artist Grant
William H. Johnson Prize
2009
Art Matters Travel Grant
2007
Creative Capital Foundation grant (Otabenga Jones)
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship Grant
2004
Artadia Artist Grant
1999
The Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund award, Dallas Museum of Art
Emerging Artist Grant, Cultural Arts Council of Houston

Residencies

2016
Joan Mitchell Foundation Artist in Residence, New Orleans, LA
2015
Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa
2014
Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM
2007
ArtPace Residency, San Antonio, TX
2002
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

Public Collections

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Art Museum of Greater Lafayette at Purdue University, Lafayette, IN
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR
Studio Museum of Harlem, NY
University Museum, Texas Southern University, Houston, TX
US Embassy, Zimbabwe
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

Paul Mpagi Sepuya

1982
San Bernardino, CA
Based in Los Angeles, lives and works in Los Angeles
2016
MFA Photography, University of California, Los Angeles
2004
BFA Photography & Imaging, New York University Tisch School of the Arts

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026
Solo, Peter Kilchmann, Zürich, Switzerland (forthcoming)
2026-2027
"Paul Mpagi Sepuya – Focus. Desire," Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
2025
"Excerpts & Fragments," Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), Los Angeles, CA
"POSITIONER," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"TRANCE," Bortolami, New York, NY
2024
"Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Infinite Like Night," DOCUMENT, Chicago, IL
"Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Exposure," Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, England
2023
"Push/Pull," Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich, Switzerland
"Lustrer," Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Paris, France
2022
"Daylight Studio/Dark Room Studio," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"144 Powers," Alice Austen House, New York, NY
"D.R.M.P.," Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
2021
“The Hamilton Public Art Project,” University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2020
“Drop Scene,” Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
"Paul Mpagi Sepuya," Peter Kilchmann Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
"Paul Mpagi Sepuya: A conversation <strike>about</strike> around pictures," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"CONDO," Stuart Shave Modern Art, London, England
2019
“Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO; traveled to: Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX
“The Conditions,” Team Gallery, New York, NY
2018
DelVaz Projects at Avant Premiere, Palais Royale, Paris, France
“Double Enclosure,” FOAM Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Dark Room,” Document, Chicago, IL
2017
“Dark Room,” Team (Bungalow), Los Angeles, CA
“Figures, Grounds and Studies,” Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
“Portraits / Positions,” KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY
2015
“Figures / Grounds / Studies,” DOCUMENT, Chicago, IL
2014
“STUDIO WORK,” Platform Centre for Photography, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
2013
“RECENT PICTURES / a journal,” Clough-Hanson Gallery at Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
“STUDIO WORK,” Artspeak, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2011
“STUDIO WORK,” Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, MN
2010
“Portraits / Positions,” NP Contemporary Art Space, New York, NY
2009
“Alexandria,” Envoy Enterprises, New York, NY
2007
“Beloved Object and Amorous Subject,” Envoy Gallery, New York, NY

Two and Three Person Exhibitions

2026
"Jimmy DeSana and Paul Mpagi Sepuya," DOCUMENT, Chicago, IL
2022
"Paul Mpagi Sepuya," 2-Person show with Alix Marie, PHOXXI, the Temporary House of Photography at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2019
"The Autopoets," Cooley Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR
"Sheree Hovsepian and Paul Mpagi Sepuya," Team (bungalow), Venice, CA
2016
"MFA Thesis Show #3," New Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
"storefront: Public Fiction," Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026
"Between and Beyond," Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany (forthcoming)
“Fragile Beauty: Works from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection," Jeu de Paume, Paris, France (forthcoming)
"Space is the Place: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2025-2027
"Performer and Participant: Sovereignty of Quiet," Tate Modern, London, UK
2025-2026
"ECHO DELAY REVERB: American Art, Francophone Thought" Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
"To Improvise a Mountain: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Curates," Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, United Kingdom; Traveling to: MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom (2025); Nottingham Castle, Nottingham, United Kingdom (2026).
2025
"On View: Encounters with the Photographic," Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
2025-2026
"Objects of Desire," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2025
"My Romantic Ideal," BGSQD, New York, NY
"Glass Subjects," R & Company, New York, NY
"$3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives," Getty Research Center, Los Angeles, CA
"Mark / Image / Object: Celebrating 40 Years of Visiting Artists at Anderson Ranch," Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
"Love, Maybe," Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, Munich, Germany
“ESTALO: 14th Edition of Bienal de Mercosul," Biennial Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2024-2025
"Reflections: Surface and Substance," Torggler Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA
"Before You Now: Capturing the Self in Portraiture" Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA; Traveling to Vincent Price Art Museum, ELAC, Los Angeles, CA (2025).
"Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics," LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
2024
"Drawing With Light: Photographs Selected From CC Foundations Collection," CC Foundation, Shanghai, China
"Showroom Collaboration," Sized Studio x Pierre Augustin Rose, Los Angeles, CA
"Friends and Lovers," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
"The Campus: Inaugural Exhibition," The Campus, Claverack, NY
"Airhead," PPOW, New York, NY
"FULL DISCLOSURE: Selections from the Thomas-Suwall Collection" Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
"Nineteenth‐Century Photography Now," Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
“Fragmented Bodies," Galleria Lorcan O’Neill Roma, Rome, Italy
“Contemporary Photography: Highlights from the Collection” Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
"Hypnopomp," Canepa Selling Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Studio/Archive” The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
"Taken Apart & Put Back Together Again," Tlön Projects at A Tale of A Tub, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Netherlands
“Seen Together: Acquisitions in Photography” The Morgan Library & Museum New York, New York, NY
“ICP at 50: From the Collection, 1860–2019” International Center for Photography, New York, NY
“Exhibit A,” Document, Chicago, IL
"Shashin Ron (on Photography)," Dazed Space, London, England
"The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today," Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA; Traveling to: Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI (2024)
2023-2026
“The Way We Are” Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany
2023-2025
"Photography Now," V & A Photography Centre, London, England
"Copy Machine Manifesto: Artists Who Make Zines," Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Traveling to Vancouver Art Gallery Vancouver, BC, Canada (2024)
2023-2024
"Creative Spaces: The Studio as Inspiration," MFA Boston, Boston, MA
“Long Story Short”, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2023
“A Project Curated by Artists: 15 Years of ACP,” Morán Morán, Los Angeles, CA
"De Profundis," L’Hotel, Paris, France
"Queer-ish," Ruth Chandler Williamson Art Gallery, Scripps College, CA
“Friends & Lovers,” The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
"The Long Century: Beginners," Dune Gallery, Portland, ME
"Not Gay," Cathy & Jesse Marion Art Gallery at the State University of New York at Fredonia, Fredonia, NY
"Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Kinship: Photography and Connection," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
"Energy: Sparks from the Collection," The Photography Centre, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
“In First Person Plural” MACRO, Rome, Italy
"Rooms of Resonance," Cloud Seven, Brussels, Belgium
“SEEING STARS: Works from the Fischer/Shull Collection of Contemporary Art,” Harvey Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC
“Queer Love: Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art” Lehman College Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
“Queer Love: Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art” La MaMa Galleria, New York, NY
“Are We Not Drawn Onward to New Era,” Mandeville Gallery at UCSD, San Diego, CA
“handle with care,” Edouard Merlier Photo Gallery, Cypress College, Cypress, CA
"Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
“The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today,” Orlando Museum of Art Orlando, FL; Traveling to: Auckland Art Museum, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC
"It’s Time," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"The Minotaur’s Daydream," Semiose Galerie, Paris, France
2022-2023
"Sightlines: Photographs from the Collection," SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2022
"Daylight Studio/ Dark Room Studio," PHOXXI, the Temporary House of Photography at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
"Plants Now!," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Queering The Narrative," Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
"The Dividual," Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
“Meia-Noite. Parte 2.” Anozero’21/22 Bienal de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. Curated by Elfi Turpin and Filipa Oliveira
"Being Human," PHOTO 2022 International Festival of Photography Biennial, Melbourne, Australia (Link)
“Elegies: Still Lifes in Contemporary Art,” Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
“In Dialogue,” The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
“A Century of the Artist’s Studio 1920-2020," Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
"This basic asymmetry," Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, CA
"Olvido, Sombra, Nada,” Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Mexico City, Mexico
“A Través," James Cohan, New York, NY
2021
"Black American Portraits," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Athens Biennial 7: ECLIPSE,” Athens, Greece
“Queer/Dialogue,” Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell, IA
"Between,” Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
"Ridykes Cavern of Fine Gay Wine and Videos: Hauser & Werk Bitch: Don’t Be Mad At Us!," Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY. Curated by Ridykeulous. (Link)
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
“f/stop 9: TRUST/vertrauen”, Festival für Fotografie, Leipzig, Germany
"Momentum Biennale 11: House of Commons,” Moss, Norway
“Portals,” NEON Foundation, Athens, Greece
"Mirror, Mirror," Nathlie Karg, New York, NY
“Love in the Times of…,” Hotel Europe, Zürich, Switzerland
"Photo Flux: Unshuttering LA", Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
“Remake,” Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA (online)
“Queerness Out T/Here” Tonga Art Advisory, New York, NY. Organized by James Shaeffer
“Face Forward,” Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell, IA
"A Beautiful America – Works By Afro-America Artists From The Vermeire-Notebaert Collection," Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium (Link)
“Taken Together: Collaborative Actions in Photography,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
"FOAM," Amsterdam, Netherlands
“MOMENTUM 11: House of Commons,” MOMENTUM Biennale, Moss, Norway
2020-2022
“Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography,” LUMA Foundation, Arles, France
2020
“Intimacy: New Queer Art from Berlin and Beyond,” Schwules Museum, Berlin, Germany
“i’m yours: Encounters with Art in Our Times,” ICA Boston, Boston, MA.
"Rear Window," White Cube, online
“The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing,” Diamond Valley, Alberta, Canada
“Picture in Picture,” Cassilhaus Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC.
“myselves,” Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Joshua Friedman.
“Grace Before Jones: Camera, Disco, Studio,” Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, England. Curated by Cédric Fauq with Olivia Aherne.
“Stand at the Window,” Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Eve Fowler.
"Constellations,” David Lewis Gallery, New York, NY
“Interiors,” Document, Chicago, IL
“Intimate Companions,” Mary Heaton Vorse House, Provincetown, MA. Curated by Joe Sheftel.
“The Artist and the Self,” James Fuentes, New York, NY.
“Art at Time Like This,” Online eponymous exhibition. Curated by Barbara Pollack and Anne Verhallen.
"Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago," Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Fragmented Bodies,” albertz benda, New York, NY.
“New Visions Triennial,” Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
“Tell Me Your Story,” Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands
"Dancing Machines,” FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
“Mapping Black Identities,” Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
2019-2020
"The Foundation of the Museum: MOCA’s Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Orlando," Aperture, New York, NY; travelled to the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Literaturhaus, Munich, Germany
"The Body Electric," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; traveled to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2019
“Better Nights,” Bass Art Museum, Miami, FL. Organized by Mickalene Thomas
“Must’ve Been A Wake-Dream: Guadalupe Rosales,” Gordan Parks Foundation, Pleasantville, NY
"Personal Private Public," Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY
"Studio Photography: 1887-2019," Simon Lee Gallery, New York, NY
"Umbilicus," Galeria Sultana, Paris, France
"In Focus: The Camera," Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
"Artists I Steal From," Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London, England
"Forging Territories: Queer Afro and Latinx Contemporary Art," San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
“BeSeen: Portrait Photography Since Stonewall,” Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Stonewall 50!,” Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
"Smart to the Core: Embodying the Self," Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now,” Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
"Fire," Company Gallery, New York, NY
"Nobody’s World," Gordon Robichaux, New York, NY
"Circus of Books," Fierman, New York, NY
"Your Mirror: Portraits from the ICP Collection," International Center of Photography, New York, NY
"Grace Wales Bonner," Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, England
"Smart to the Core: Embodying the Self," Smart Art Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2018
“Groundings,” MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
"Tipping Points," Palmer Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
“Positioner,” Matthew Marks Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
“Echoes: Reframing Collage,” Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL. Opening October 11
“The Violators,” Leslie Lohman Project Space, New York, NY. Organized by Gio Black Peter
"This is Not a Prop,” David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY.
“Intimacy,” Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY.
“Both, and,” Stevenson Galleries, Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa.
“Being : New Photography 2018,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
“Tag: Proposals on Queer Play and the Way Forward,” ICA Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. Curated by Nayland Blake.
2017
“Trigger : Gender as a Tool and a Weapon,” The New Museum, New York, NY.
“Discursive Selves,” Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY.
“A Sag, Harbored,” Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL.
“Encounters I may or may not have had with Peter Berlin,” Vamiali’s, Athens, Greece. With Mariah Garnett and Neal Tait, curated by Caroline May.
“Over the Rainbow,” Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, CA.
“Visual Notes for an Upside-Down World,” P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY.
“The Coffins of Paa Joe and the Pursuit of Happiness,” Jack Shainmann Gallery’s The School, Kinderhook, NY.
“Regarding the Figure,” The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.
“Picturing Love: Photography’s Pursuit of Intimacy,” Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY.
“Deana Lawson, Judy Linn and Paul Mpagi Sepuya, “ Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY.
“Compassionate Protocols,” Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY. Curated by Moyra Davey and Jason Simon.
2016
“Tête-à-tête,” David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL. Curated by Mickalene Thomas.
“Protuberances,” LAXART, Los Angeles, CA.
“Occupy Space Differently,” Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA.
“A Subtle Likeness,” ONE Archive, Los Angeles, CA.
“James Baldwin / Jim Brown and the Children,” The Artists’ Institute, New York, NY. Curated by Hilton Als.
“Jack Pierson: Tomorrow’s Man,” University of Nevada, Reno, NV. Curated by Jack Pierson.
“storefront: Public Fiction,” MOCA, Los Angeles, CA. With Litia Perta, curated by Lauren Mackler.
“MFA Thesis Show #3,” University of California, Los Angeles, CA. With Nikita Gale and Sarah Sarchin.
“Queering the Biblioproject,” Center for Book Arts, New York, NY. Curated by John Chaich.
“Terms of Use : Reproducing the Photographic Image,” Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL. Curated by Aron Gent.
2015
“Record. Collect. Compose,” Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Masood Kamandy (catalogue)
“I Am a Camera,” Houston Foto Fest, Houston, TX.
“A Room of One’s Own,” Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY.
“Nine Artists,” Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
“Introducing! Young California Photographer Award,” Paris Photo LA, Los Angeles, CA.
“In Profile: Portraits from the Permanent Collection,” the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.
2014
“Kings County,” Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. (catalogue)
“Spain & 42 St.,” Foxy Production, New York, NY.
“Something Beautiful,” Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY.
“Beyond the Pale,” Interstate Project, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Sam McKinniss. (catalogue)
“Race, Love, and Labor,” Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY. Curated by Sarah Lewis. (catalogue)
“The Thing Itself,” Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY.
“Lighting Speed of the Present,” Boston University, Boston, MA. Curated by Lynne Cooney.
2013
“Tête-a-Tête,” QF Gallery, East Hampton, NY. Curated by Mickalene Thomas.
“Body Language,” The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.
“The Kids Are All Right,” Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC.
“White Boys,” Cantor-Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College, Philadelphia, PA. Curated by Hank Willis Thomas and Natasha Logan. (catalogue)
2012
“The Kids Are All Right,” Koelher Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI.
“BENEATH,” VOGT Gallery, New York, NY.
“B-OUT,” Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY.
“Surface Tension,” Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY.
2011
“Pride & Prejudice Reprise,” Mason Gross Galleries at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Curated by LaToya Ruby Frazier.
“Evidence of Accumulation: Simone Leigh, Kamau Amu Patton, Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY. (catalogue)
“Portraits,” I-20 Gallery, New York, NY. Curated by Simon Watson.
2010
“Quadruple-Consciousness,” Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA. Curated by Malik Gaines. (catalogue)
2018
2010 “In Translation (Portraiture),” Skylight Projects, New York, NY. Curated by Joe Sheftel.
2010
“Lost Horizon / Head Shop,” Exile Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Billy Miller.
“The Accidental Egyptian and Occidental Arrangements,” Façade/Fasad, Brooklyn, NY.
“50 Artists Photograph the Future,” Higher Pictures, New York, NY. Curated by Dean Daderko.
“Printed Matter’s Queer Zines,” Office for Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway.
2009
“Compassion,” Union Theological Seminary, New York, NY. Curated by AA Bronson
“30 Seconds Off an Inch,” The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.
“Buddy List,” Space 414, Brooklyn, New York, NY.
“Lyst,” Overtaden Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen, Denmark.
“Inside of Me,” PHIL, Los Angeles, CA.
“My Bloody Valentine,” Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Darin Klein.
2008
“Artist as Publisher,” Center for Book Arts, New York, NY.
“LEADAWARDS2008,” Deichterhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
“Male: photographs, drawings, paintings and ephemera from the collection of Vince Aletti,” White Columns, New York, NY. (book)
2007
“Come Join The Brotherhood,” Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney and Neon Parc Galery, Melbourne, Australia
“The Male Gaze,” The powerHouse Arena, Brooklyn, New York, NY.
2006
“When Fathers Fail,” Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, NY.
“Six Degrees of Separation,” Stefan Stux Gallery, NY.
“When Artists Say ‘We’,” Artist Space, New York, NY. Curated by Andrea Geyer.

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2020
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2018
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2017
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2016
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2015
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2014
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2013
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2012
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2011
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2010
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2009
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Forteza, Pepo Moreno. “Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Natural Light Portrait,” Revista Metal Magazine, April 15
Ryzik, Melena. “At a Clinic, Artists Reflecting on Home,” The New York Times, May 10
Blagojevic, Bosko. “Paul Sepuya’s ‘Alexandria’ at envoy,” ArtCat, February 10
Gartenfeld, Alex. “Jack Pierson interviews Paul Sepuya,” Interview Magazine, January 30
Courtney, Kenneth. “Alexandria,” This.Hearts.On.Fire, January 5
2008
Bronson, AA. “Queer Zines” Printed Matter, NY
Limnander, Armand. “Fine Print: Beloved Object and Amorous Subject, Revisited,”The New York Times Style Magazine, April 4
Il Terzo Occhio : “La fotografia americana,” by Umberto Mancini January 28
2007
Packam, Monte. “Clean Sheets: Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” SLEEK Magazine, Autumn
Trebay, Guy. “Gay Art: A Movement, or at Least a Moment”, The New York Times , May 6
2006
van Benekom, Jop and Gert Jonkers. “BUTT BOOK,” BUTT Magazine
Polly, John. “Art Zines Rule! Part One,” LOGO New Now Next Blog, September 20
Tierney, Paul. “Zine Scene,” V Man Magazine, September
Klein, Darren. “Thing: New Penis Art from America,”
Weskott, Aljoscha. “Designing Men- Shoot,” de:bug, July
“Weniger ist mehr: Paul Sepuya besticht mit eindrucksvollen Portraits,” GAB-Frankfrut Magazin, April
White, David. “He SHOOTs, He Scores,” Instinct Magazine, March
Frame, Allen. “Slide Slam” Teaching Photo Magazine, February
“Boys,” BUTT Magazine : issue 15
2005
Boston, Nick. “Canadian Professor in New York gets hyper-realistic portrait taken by young photographer,” BUTT Magazine, issue 14
“Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” EYEMAZING Magazine, issue 08

Publications

2025
"Uso das imagens: circulação, circularidade, ciclos," Organized by Ivair Reinaldim, Luciano Vinhosa. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2025
"Love, Maybe," Edited by Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung and Jana J. Haeckel, DISTANZ-Verlag, Munich, Germany, 2025
2024
Demirkazik, Gökcan. "Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Dark Room A–Z," Aperture, New York, NY
Paul Mpagi Sepuya and Caleb Kruzel. "D.R.M.P X B.F.D. ZINE," designed in collaboration with Juan Pablo Rahal, Pasadena, CA
"A Black Collage: My History With African-American Art," By Rob Perrée. Jap Sam Books, Prinsebeek, The Netherlands, 2024
"Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines," By Branden W. Joseph and Drew Sawyer. Brooklyn Museum, Phaidon, New York, NY 2024, pp 354-357
"Hippolyte Bayard and the Invention of Photography Hardcover," By Karen Hellman and Carolyn Peter. Published by J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2024
2023
"Setups and In-Betweens," by Ryan McNamara, DOCUMENT, No 23., 2023
"Paul Mpagi Sepuya," By Michael Bullock. Apartamento Magazine Issue #31, Spring/Summer 2023, Pg 340 – 361
2022
"Orifice + Aperture | Paul Mpagi Sepuya," TBW Books, Oakland, CA 2022
“Flora Photographica: the Flower in Contemporary Photography," Edited by William Ewing and Danae Panchaud, Published by Thames & Hudson, 2022
2021
"STILL LIFE: Reflections from Confinement," Organized by Roya Sachs, Mafalda Millies, Lizzie Edelman and Matthias Kliefoth, Text by Jennifer Higgie, Published by TRIADIC and DISTANZ Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2021
2022
"Prime Art’s Next Generation," Phaidon Press Limited, London, UK 2022, pp 360-363
2021
“Humans: Photographs That Make You Think” By Henry Carroll, Published by Abrams, 2021
“The Extreme Self” Edited by Shumon Basar, Douglas Copeland, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Published by Buchhandlung Walther König, 2021
“Off Camera” Edited by Steven Humblet, Published by Roma Publishers, 2021
"What Artists Wear" by Charlie Porter, Published by Penguin, 2021
“Photography Now: Fifty Pioneers Defining Photography” By Charlotte Jansen, Published by Ilex; Tate, 2021 (Link)
2020
Sargent, Antwaun. "Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art," The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art, D.A.P. Publishing, New York, NY, 2020
"Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” with texts by Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Grace Wales Bonner, Lucy Gallun, Ariel Goldberg, and Evan Moffitt, published by CAM St. Louis in association with Aperture, April 7, 2020
"Why Photography?” edited by Bjarne Bare, Behzad Farazollahi, and Christian Tunge, published by Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in association with Skira Editore and Melk, May 28, 2020 (pp. 44-51)
2019
“The Image of Whiteness: Contemporary Photography and Racialization,” edited by Daniel C. Blight, published by SPBH Editions & Art on the Underground, 2019
“Contact Sheet 202: Light Work Annual 2019,” artist portfolio and text by Alex Jen, Published by Light Work, 2019, pp. 76-83
“Body” by Nathalie Herschdorfer, Published by Thames & Hudson, 2019
“Art & Queer Culture (Edition II),” by Catherine Lord and Richard Meyer, Published by Phaidon, 2019
2017
Burton, J., and Bell, N. (2017). Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon. Pg 152-155. New Museum.

Public Talks, Panels and Juries

2024
19th-Century Photography Now Artist Panel with Wendy Redstar and Laura Larson, Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
Darkroom A To Z: Paul Mpagi Sepuya In Conversation, Expo Chicago, Chicago, IL (forthcoming)
2023
The Catalyst Speaker Series: In conversation with Rodney Diverlus, Toronto Metropolitan University, Virtual (artist talk)
DPI Alum Panel Honoring Lorie Novak, New York, NY + Virtual (artist talk)
2022
2022 Monsen Photography Lecture, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2020
San Diego State University, San Diego, CA (artist talk)
University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. (artist talk)
Yale University, New Haven, CT. (artist talk)
Los Angeles Art Book Fair, Los Angeles, CA. (in conversation with Wassan Al-Khudhairi)
Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX. (artist talk)
Robert Giard Foundation Grant, New York, NY. (juror)
2019
Art Basel Conversations, Miami Beach, FL. (panel)
University of California Los Angeles, Graduate Art History Symposium, Los Angeles, CA. (keynote lecture)
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY. (panel)
Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, St. Louis, MO. (artist talk)
Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston, TX. (artist talk)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. (panel)
International Center for Photography, New York, NY. (artist talk)
CSS Bard, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. (in conversation with Lauren Cornell)
Cal State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA. (artist talk)
Cal State University Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA. (artist talk)
University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA. (artist talk)
California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA. (panel)
2018
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (artist talk)
Columbia College, Chicago, IL
The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA. (In conversation with Hilton Als)
The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL. (artist talk)
The Society for Photographic Education, Northeast Chapter, New Paltz, NY. (keynote lecture)
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. (artist talk)
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR. (artist talk)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. (panel)
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. (artist talk)
The New Museum, New York, NY. (screening and artist talk with A.K. Burns)
The Palm Springs Museum of Art, Palm Springs, CA. (artist talk)
2017
KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY. (artist talk)
Denison University, Granville, OH. (artist talk)
Parsons The New School, New York, NY. (artist talk)
Photo LA, Los Angeles, CA. (panel with Kelly Nipper, Carter Mull and Russell Ferguson)
3000
Analogue Dissident at South of Sunset, Los Angeles, CA. (artist talk)
2015
Document, Chicago, IL. With Megha Ralapati (artist talk)
2014
The Pitch Project, Milwaukee, WS. (artist talk)
Latitude, Chicago, IL., With Elijah Burgher. (artist talk)
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL. (artist talk)
2013
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. (visiting artist talk)
Haverford College, Philadelphia, PA. (artist talk)
“Black Male Revisited,” Danspace Project, New York, NY. With niv Acosta, Rich Blint, and Thomas Lax. (artist talk)
Fire Island Artist Residency, Cherry Grove Arts Center, Fire Island, NY. With Laurel Sparks, Baker Overstreet and Grey Day. (artist talk)
Artspeak, Vancouver (artist talk)
2012
Pride Photo Award, Amsterdam (juror)
2011
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY. With Simone Leigh and Kamau Amu Patton. (artist talk)
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (juror)
2010
Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY.
2011
New York Photo Fest (panelist)
Rhode Island School of Design (visiting artist)
2009
Printed Matter Artist Grant (juror)
2006
“Slide Slam,” International Center for Photography, New York City. With Leigh Ledare and Phyllis Galembo. (artist talk)

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2024
Legends and Trailblazers, Wallpaper* USA 300
2022
Finalist, Music Photography Awards, Abbey Road Studios, London, UK
Artist-in-Residence, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
Finalist, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2021
Affinity Award, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
Artadia Award, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Finalist, City of Miami Beach Legacy Purchase Program, Miami Beach, FL
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation 2019 Biennial Grant
Rauschenberg Residency, Captiva Island, FL
2018
Artist-in-Residence, Lightwork, Syracuse, NY
2017
The Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant for Emerging Los Angeles Artists
2015
Finalist, Paris Photo Los Angeles inaugural Introducing! Young California Photographer Award
2014
Jackman Goldwasser Artist-in-Residence, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago
2013
Artist-in-Residence, Fire Island Artist Residency (Sikkema Fellow Award)
2010-2011
Artist-in-Residence, Studio Museum in Harlem
2010
Artist-in-Residence, Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY
2009-2010
Artist-in-Residence, Workspace, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Visiting Artist, New York University
2009
Artist-in-Residence, HomeBase, New York
2008
LEAD Academy, Hamburg

Teaching Experience

2019-2025
Associate Professor in Media Art, University of California San Diego
2019
Visiting Artist, California State University Bakersfield
Visiting Artist, California State University Long Beach
Visiting Artist, University of California Riverside
2017-2019
Visiting Artist Faculty, CalArts
2018
Visiting Artist, California College of Art
Visiting Artist, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
Visiting Artist, MFA Lecture Series, Yale University School of Art
Visiting Artist, Ben Maltz Lecture Series, Rhode Island School of Design
Visiting Artist Faculty, Bard College MFA
Visiting Artist, Pacific Northwest College of Art
Visiting Artist, Virginia Commonwealth University
Visiting Artist, Georgia State University
Visiting Artist, University of Georgia, Athens
2017
Guest Critic, Cal State University, Long Beach
Visiting Artist, Denison University
Visiting Artist, Otis College of Art & Design
Visiting Artist, Parsons The New School
2016
Summer Arts Academy, University of California, Los Angeles

Boards and Service

2019-2020
Printed Matter Board
Hammer Museum Artist Council
2018-2020
Los Angeles Artist Advisory Committee
2009-2020
The Robert Giard Foundation

Library Collections

Brooklyn Museum Library Collection, Brooklyn, NY
Fotomuseum Winterthur Library Collection, Winterthur, Switzerland
Hirsch Library, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
Mills College Library, Oakland, CA
Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, NY

Public Collections

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Center for Photography at Woodstock Collection at SUNY New Paltz, NY
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell, IA
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Henry Art Museum, Seattle, WA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
The Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University, Orange, CA
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
International Center for Photography, New York, NY
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
JP Morgan Collection, New York, NY
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY
Light Work, Syracuse, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Desert, CA
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Smith College, Northampton, MA
Speed Art Museum, New Orleans, LA
The Speed Museum, Louisville, KY
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
University of New Mexico, La Cruces, NM
University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Wangechi Mutu

1972
Born in Nairobi, Kenya
Lives and works in New York and Nairobi
2000
MFA Sculpture, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
1996
BFA, Cooper Union for the Advancement of the Arts and Science, NY
1991
IB, United World College of the Atlantic, Wales, UK

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025
"Wangechi Mutu: Cleaning Earth," Sant’Andrea de Scaphis, Rome, Italy
"Wangechi Mutu: Black Soil Poems," Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy
2023-2024
"Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined," New Museum, New York, NY; Traveling to New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA (2024)
2024
"Wangechi Mutu: My Cave Call," St Louis Art Museum, St Louis, MI
2022
"Wangechi Mutu," Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY
"Mama Ray," Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC
2021
"Wangechi Mutu," Gladstone Gallery, New York City, NY
"Wangechi Mutu: I am Speaking, Are you Listening?," Legion of Honor, San Francisco Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco, CA
2020-2021
"Screenings 6: Wangechi Mutu," University of San Diego, San Diego, CA
2019-2020
"The Facade Commission: Wangechi Mutu The New Ones, will free Us," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2018
"Wangechi Mutu: The End of eating Everything," Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
"Wangechi Mutu: A Promise to Communicate," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (Link)
2017
“Journeys into Peripheral Worlds” Des Moines Arts Center, Des Moines, IA
"Ndoro Na Mit," Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong
Austin Contemporary, Austin, TX
2016
“The End of Carrying All,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (Link)
2015
“Wangechi Mutu,” Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
2014
"Nguva na Nyoka," Victoria Miro, London, UK
2013
"Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey," Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY; traveling to the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL; and Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia
Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
2012
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"This Undreamt Descent," Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
"Blackthrones," Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Muse d’art contemporain de Montral, Montreal, Canada
2011
Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
2010
Hunt Bury Flee, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Wangechi Mutu: My Dirty Little Heaven, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany, traveling to:Wiels Museum, Brussels, Belgium
Wangechi Mutu: This You Call Civilization?, Art Gallery of Ontario / Muse des beaux-arts de lOntario, Canada
2009
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
2008
Wangechi Mutu: In Whose Image?, Kunsthalle Wien Project Space Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria, curated by Angela Stief
Little Touched, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Yo.n.l, Victoia Miro Gallery, London, UK
2007
Cleaning Earth, Franklin Artworks, Minneapolis, MN
The Cinderella Curse, ACA Gallery, Woodruff Arts Center, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
2006
Sleeping Heads Lie, Power House, Memphis, TN
An Alien Eye and Other Killah Anthems, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY
Exhuming Gluttony: a Lovers Requiem, Salon 94, New York, NY
2005
The Chiefs Lairs A Holy Mess, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, curated by Tara McDowell
Wangechi Mutu – Amazing Grace, Miami Art Museum, curated by Peter Boswell, Miami, FL
problematica, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
2004
Hangin in Texas, Art Pace, San Antonio, TX
2003
Pagan Poetry, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Creatures, Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning, Queens, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2027
Group Exhibition, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (forthcoming)
2026
“61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia: In Minor Keys," Curated by Koyo Kouoh, Arsenale di Venezia Campo de la Tana, Venice, Italy (forthcoming)
“Into the Time Horizon,” Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
"Iter Subterraneum," Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
"New Humans, Memories of the Future," The New Museum, New York, NY
2025
"40 Years," Victoria Miro, London, UK
"See it Now: Contemporary Art from the Ann and Mel Schaffer Collection," Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
"Diary of Flowers: Artists and their Worlds," MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
"Daphne’s Wardrobe," Descanso Gardens, La Cañada Flintridge, CA
2024
"Spirit in the Land," Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL. Traveling to:The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksoville, FL
2024-2025
"Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica," Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Travling to MACBA, Barcelona, Spain; KANAL, Pompidou, Brussels; The Barbican Centre, London, UK
2024
"The Infinite Woman," Fondation Carmignac, Île de Porquerolles, France
"Cut Up/Cut Out: Photomontage and Collage," Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
2024-2025
"The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure," The Box, Plymouth, UK; Traveling to: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC (2025)
"Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics," LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
"Scientia Sexualis," ICA Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2024
"Chance Encounters: Surrealism Then and Now," Bechtler Museum of Modern Art at Levine Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC
"In an effort to be held," Library Street Collective, Los Angeles, CA
"A Long Affair: Surrealism 1924 to Now," Hyde Collection, Glenn Falls, NY
"Houseguest: Mute Flesh," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
"The Infinite Woman," Villa Carmignac, Porquerolles, Île de Porquerolles, France
"Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood," organized by Hayward Gallery, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK; Traveling to MAC, Birmingham: June – October 2024; Millenium Gallery, Sheffield: October 2024 – January 2025
"Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists since 1940," The Modern Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
"The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure," Curated by Ekow Eshun, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
"From Her Perspective: Intersections of Gender and Race," Mott-Warsh Collection, Flint, MI
"Wangechi Mutu: My Cave Call," St Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO
2023-2024
"Diario notturno. Di sogni, incubi e bestiari immaginari," MAXXI L’AQUILA, L’Aquila AQ, Italy
"New Ground: Jacob Samuel and Contemporary Etching," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"Africa Supernova: The collection of Carla & Pieter Schulting," Kunsthal KaDE in Amersfoort, The Netherlands
"Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage ," Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN; Traveling to Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (2024); The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. (2024)
2023
“Women on the Verge,” Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Maternity Leave," Green Family Foundation, Dallas, TX
"Sharjah Biennial: Thinking Historically in the Present,” Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates
"It’s Time," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022
"Boil, Toil & Trouble," Curated by Zoe Lukov, West Palm Beach, FL
"THE SELF, THE WORK, THE WORLD," Fabian Lang, Zurich, Switzerland
"Rock My Soul," curated by Isaac Julien, Eva Livijn, Stockholm, Sweden
"A Gateway to Possible Worlds. Art and Science Fiction," Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France (Traveling Exhibition) (Link)
"The Story of Art as it’s Still Being Written," curated by Katy Hessel, Victoria Miro, London, UK
"Homecoming," The University of Iowa, Stanley Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA
"In the Black Fantastic," (Traveling Exhibition) Hayward Gallery, London, UK
"Dream On," NEON at Hellenic Parliament, Athens, Greece
"Feminine Power: The Divine to the Demonic," (Traveling Exhibition) The British Museum, London, UK
"In Dialogue:3," The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
"Lux et Veritas," NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL
"What is left unspoken: love," High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
"Rituals of Resilience," Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
"Positive Fragmentation," The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
"WOMEN AND CHANGE," Museum of Moderne Kunst, Ishøj, Denmark
"Image Gardeners," McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2021-2022
"Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow," The Hancock Whitney Welcome Center, New Orleans, LA
"New Arrivals From Salvador Dalí to Jenny Saville," Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
2021
"Visions of Dante," Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
"On The Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale," Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
"Born in Flames: Feminist Future," Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
"Plural Possilbities & the Female Body," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2020
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2019
“Rock My Soul,” curated by Isaac Julien, Victoria Miro, London, UK
2019-2020
“Driving Forces: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Ann and Ron Pizzuti,” Columbus Museum of Art and Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
“Riffs and Relations,” The Phillips Collection, Washington DC
2020
“Abortion is Normal,” curated by Marilyn Minter, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, New York, NY
"A Beautiful Struggle: Black Feminist Futurism," Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
“Indian Ocean Current: Six Artistis Narratives,” McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Boston, MA
“Bodyscapes,” The Israel Museum, Israel, Jerusalem
“Neurones, Intelligences simulées: Mutations-Créations,” The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
“Contemporary Female Identities in the Global South”, Johannesburg Contemporary Art Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa
"Indian Ocean Current: Six Artistic Narratives," McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Massachusetts
2019-2020
“Art For All: from the collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation,” The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University, Portland, OR
2019-2022
"Waking Dream," Ruby City, San Antonio, TX
2019-2020
"Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum." Harlem Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; Traveling to Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
“Serious Sparkle,” Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
"Are We There Yet? Arts of the Black Atlantic," Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin OH,
2019
"Isaac Julien: ‘Rock My Soul,’" Victoria Miro, London, UK
"I Am . . . Contemporary Women Artists of Africa," National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C.
"IncarNations: African Art As Philosophy," Bozar Centre for Fine Art, Brussels, Belgium
"The Academic Body American Academy in Rome," Italy
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"30 Americans," Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
"Social Space," The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
"Word on the Street," Artpace, San Antonio, TX
"Uptown to Harlem: African American Works from the collection of Martin & Rebecca Eisenberg,” Riverview School, East Sandwich, MA
“Suffering from Realness,” MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (Link)
2018-2019
"Chaos and Awe," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
"People Get Ready: Building a Contemporary Collection," Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC
2018
"Tintoretto 500: The Madness of Painting," Ca’ d’Oro, Venice, Italy,
2018-2019
"Making Africa. A continent of Contemporary Design," Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
2018
"Witness: Race and Identity in Contemporary American Printmaking," Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR
"Beyond Borders: Global Africa," University of Michigan Museum of Art, Anne Arbor, MI.
“Seed,” Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
2018-2019
“The World on Paper,” Palais Populaire, Deutsche Bank, Berlin, Germany
2018
“Blind Faith: Between the visceral and the Cognitive in Contemporary Art,” Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
"Chaos and Awe,” Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
2017
“Contemporary Women Printmakers”, Museum of Art WSU, Pullman, WA
“Simple Passion, Complex Vision: The Darryl Atwell Collection”, The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts and Culture, Charlotte, NC
"Afro-Tech and the Future of Re-Invention", HMKV at the Dortmunder U, Dortmund, Germany
Canadian Biennial 2017, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
“I Am You, You Are Here, We Are Everywhere,” Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Lucy’s Iris,” Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain
Performa 17, New York, NY
“Colonial Stories: Power and People Exhibition,” GI Holtegaard, Holte Denmark
“Liquid Possibilities,” Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
“Liquid Possibilities,” Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
“Outcasts: Women in the Wilderness,” Wave Hills Arts Center, Bronx, NY
“Wanderlust,” UB Art Galleries, Buffalo, NY
2016
“Blackness in Abstraction,” Pace Gallery, New York, NY
“Making and Unmaking,” Camden Arts Center, curated by Duro Olowu, London, UK
“Black Pulp!,” International Print Center New York, New York, NY
“Protest,” Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
Sindika Dokolo Collection, curated by Kendell Geers, Luanda, Angola
“Africans in America,” Goodman Gallery, curated by Hank Willis Thomas, Johannesburg, South Africa
2015
“Spatial Stories: Topographies of Change in Africa,” Center for Visual Art, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, CO
"All the Worlds Futures," 56th International Art Exhibition, curated by Okwui Enwezor, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (Link)
Hello Walls, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Portraits and Other Liknesses from SFMoMA, Musuem of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
Making Africa A Continent of Contemporary Design, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Open this End: Contemporary Art From the Collection of Blake Byrne, traveling to: The Nasher Museum, Ohio State University Urban Arts Space, Columbus, Ohio; The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, New York, NY; the Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art at Lewis & Clark College, Vancouver, WA
Picasso.mania, Grand Palais, Paris, France
"Artists in Dialogue 3: Wangechi Mutu and Nora Chipaumire," National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
"Conflict: Contemporary Responses to War," University of Queensland Art Museum, St. Lucia, Australia
Hidden and Revealed, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"The Grace Jones Project," Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
Africa: Architecture, Culture, and Identity, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark
2014
"Death is Your Body", Steineres Haus Am Rmberg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
"Divine Comedy," MMK Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany; traveling to SCAD, Savannah, Georgia; and Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C.
"Conflict: Contemporary responses to war," UQ Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
"Interrupting Entropy: Selections from the Betlach Collection," University Library, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
"Bash: An Exhibition in Two Parts," curated by Daniel Mason, MaxArt, Woodstock, NY
"Herland," Deutsche Bank, New York, NY
"We Live in Brooklyn Baby," Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
"Made by Brazilians…Creative Invasion," Sao Paulo, Brazil
Dak’art Bienniale, Dakar, Senegal
"King’s County," Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
"Haute Africa Festival of Photography," Knokke-Heist, Belgium
"Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo," Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
"Holding it Together," Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Hidden and Revealed," Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Artists in Dialogue 3," National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
"Bad Conscience," curated by John Miller, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
2013
5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
"The Shadows Took Shape," The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
"Step Right In," The Visual Arts Center (VAC) at the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
"Broken Memories", Museu AfroBrasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
"Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa," National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
"Aquatopia," Nottingham Contemporary, UK; Tate St. Ives, UK
Migrating Identities, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Sakahn (to light a Fire), National Gallery of Canada, Ontario, Canada
A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Seismic Shifts: 10 Visionaries in Contemporary Art and Architecture, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
2012
The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
African Contemporary Art, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Mumbai, India
There is no archive in which nothing gets lost, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
Intense Proximity, La Triennale at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Visions of Our 44th President, Wright Museum, Detroit, MI
"Trade Routes Over Time", Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Follow The Line, The Girls Club, Fort Lauderdale, FL
The Calendars Tale: Fantasy, Figuration and Representation, Boston University, 808 Gallery, Boston, MA
The Soul of a City: Memphis Collects African American Art, Brooks Art Museum, Memphis, TN
Six Yards, Guaranteed Dutch Design, Museum of Modern Art, Armhem, Armhem, Netherlands
Wangechi Mutu, KAWS, Jeff Sonhouse, Wim Delvoye, Gallery Zidoun, Luxembourg
28 Days, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, CA
Twisted Sisters, Dodge Gallery, New York, NY
Day for Night: Between Reality and Illusion, Richard Harris Terrace at the Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY), Presented in collaboration with Art 21, New York, NY
2011
The Bearden Project, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Twisted Selves, University of California Riverside Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
Seeing Is a Kind of Thinking: A Jim Nutt Companion, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Stargazers: Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation with 21 Contemporary Artists, Bronx Museum, NY
2010
The Secret Lives of Trees, Monica De Cardenas Galleria, Milan, Italy
Water, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Collection: MOCAs First Thirty Years (1980 Now), The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA
Until Now: Collecting the New (1960-2010), Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Disquieted: Contemporary voices from Out of the Shadows, Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, traveling to: Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Dress Codes, The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Visceral Bodies, Vancouver Art Gallery, BC, Canada
2009
The Spectacle of The Everyday, 10th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France, curated by Hou Hanru, New York, NY
Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women, and Art, Art Work for Change and the Tides Center, traveling to: The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway; University Art Gallery, San Diego, USA; Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico; Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico; Chicago Cultural Center, USA; David J. Sencer CDC Museum, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, USA; New Orleans Center for Creative Arts; Newcomb Gallery, Tulane University; and Prospect 2, New Orleans, USA; Redline, Denver, Colorado, USA; The Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Fundacion Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain; Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg , South Africa; Traveling to: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada; Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art, Puerto Rico, USA; New York City, NY, USA
Rebelle. Art and Feminism 1969-2009, Museum Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Netherlands
Black Womanhood, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Under the Knife, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Sortilge, Jean-Marc Soloman, Chteau d’Arenthon, France (catalogue)
Paint Made Flesh, First Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, TN and traveling to: The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, Memorial Art Garden, Rochester, NY
2008
Videostudio, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Objects of Value, The Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Prospect.1 New Orleans, The New Orleans Biennial, curated by Dan Cameron, New Orleans, LA
U-Turn, Quadrennial for Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
Transformation AGO, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL. Traveling to: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
Body Memory, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion, Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX, curated by Terrie Sultan, David Pagel and Colin Gardner traveling to: The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY (Catalogue)
Black Woman Hood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Collage: The Unmonumental Picture, New Museum, New York, NY, curated by Richard Flood, Massimiliano Gioni, and Laura Hoptman
2007
Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice, Ballroom, Marfa, TX, curated by Bob Nickas
Fractured Figure: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, DESTE Foundation, Athens, Greece, curated by Jeffrey Deitch
Paper Baglady and Other Stories, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
Star Power: Museum as Body Electric, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, curated by Cydney Payton, Denver, CO
(re)Volver, Plataforma Revolver, Lisbon, Portugal, curated by Filipa Oliveira
Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York
2006
Triumph of Painting, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
USA Today, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK
Still Points in the Turning World: SITE Santa Fes 6th Biennial, SITE Santa Fe, NM, curated by Klaus Ottman
Having New Eyes, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, Passariano, Italy, curated by Francesco Bonami and Sarah Cosulich Canarutto
If a cat gives birth to kittens in an oven, are they kittens or biscuits? Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, NY
The F-Word: Female Vocals, Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Out of Time: a contemporary view, Museum of Modern Art, New York (curated by Joachim Pissarro)
The 2nd Seville Biennale, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla, Spain, curated by Okwui Enwezor
2005
Linkages & Themes in the African Diaspora: Selections from the Eileen Harris Norton and Peter Norton Art Collections, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
Matisse and Beyond The Painting and Sculpture Collections, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Cultures, Peeler Art Center, DePauw University,Greencastle, IN, traveling to McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University, OH;
Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond, VA
Drawing from The Modern, 1975-2005, Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by Jordan Kantor
Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
CUT, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
Girls on Film, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, curated by Kristine Bell
The White Rose, Brent Sikkema, New York
Greater New York 2005, PS1, Long Island City, NY
Rewind, Re-cast, Review, Berrie Arts Center, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, curated by Isolde Brielmaier
African Queen, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Follow Me: A Fantasy, Arena 1, Santa Monica, curated by Malik Gaines
Only Skin Deep Changing Visions of the American Self, International Center of Photography, curated by Brian Wallis and Coco Fusco (catalogue), traveling to San Diego Museum of Art, CA; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
2004
Africa Remix, Kunstpalast Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany, curated by Simon Njami, traveling to Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Hayward Gallery, London; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing, Tate Modern, London, curated by Emma Dexter
Fight or Flight, Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York
Its About Memory, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, curated by Simon Watson
I Feel Mysterious Today, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, FL, curated by Dominik Molon
Figuratively: Dave McKenzie, Wangechi Mutu, William Villalongo, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, NC, curated by Ron Platt
Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
2003
Only Skin Deep, International Center of Photography, New York, curated by Coco Fusco Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
Black President: the Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, traveling to The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnatti, OH; The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Barbican Centre, London, UK, curated by Trevor Schoonmaker
We Are Electric, Deitch Projects, New York, curated by Chris Perez
Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora, Museum for African Art, Long Island City, NY, traveling to Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, curated by Laurie Ann Farrell
Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
Creatures, Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning, Queens, NY
Wangechi Mutu/Carl Scholz, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
2002
Africaine, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, curated by Christine Kim
2001
Out of the Box, Queens Museum, New York
2000
The Magic City, Brent Sikemma, New York, curated by Trevor Schoonmaker
1997
Lifes Little Necessities, Johannesburg Biennale, The Castle, Cape Town, South Africa, curated by Kellie Jones
1996
One Voice, 7th Gallery, Cooper Union, New York

Selected Talks, Lectures and Panels

2023
Wangechi Mutu: In Conversation with Curators Vivian Crockett and Margot Norton, New Museum, New York, NY
"The Timeless, Ancient Language of Art: Wangechi Mutu," TED, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 22
2020
Winter/Miller Lecture: Wangechi Mutu, Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
The Bakwin Lecture: Wangechi Mutu, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MS
2019
An Evening with Artist Wangechi Mutu, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Bakwin Lecture: Wangechi Mutu, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
MATTER Lecture: Wangechi Mutu, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2018
Artist Lecture, In Conversation with Anne Palopoli, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
Artist Lecture, In Conversation with Adrienne Edwards, Brown University, Providence, PN
Artist Lecture, Columbia University, New York, NY
Artist Talk, In Conversation with Okwui Okpokwasili, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, MA
Artist Talk, In Conversation with Heather Pesanti and Kanitra Fletcher, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX
2017
Artist Lecture, Georgetown University, Washington DC
Artist Talk, In Conversation with Adrienne Edwards, Performa17, New York, NY
Artist Lecture, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, CO
Artist Lecture, In Conversation with Adrienne Edwards, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PN
2016
Artist Lecture, Washington University, St. Louis, MI
Artist Lecture, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Symposium, In Conversation with with Juie Mehretu, Modern Art Museum, Addis Ababa University, Gebre Kristos Desta Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2015
Artist Lecture, ASAP 7 Conference Clemson University, Greenville, SC
Artist Lecture, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Artist Lecture, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Artist Talk: "Wangechi Mutu, Art & Politics"
Artist Lecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Artist Lecture, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
Artist Talk: “Myths, Theories, Truths, Lies," William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society, New York, NY
Artist Lecture, "The End of Carrying All," Keynote Speech, Art Therapy Department, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2014
Artist Lecture, Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts, Cape Town, South Africa
Artist Talk, Wangechi Mutu in Conversation with Zoe Whitley, Tate Modern, London, UK
Artist Talk, Wangechi Mutu in Conversation with Huey Copeland, Chicago, IL
Artist Talk, “ÀSÌKÒ: A History of Contemporary Art in Senegal in 5 weeks," Dak’Art 11th Biennale, Dakar, Senegal
Artist Talk with Trevor Schoonmaker, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, FL
Artist Talk, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Panelist, CinemAfrica Film Festival, with Zina Saro-Wiwa and Frances Bodomo, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Director’s Q&A: Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT
ArtistTalk, Wangechi Mutu in Conversation with Courtney J. Martin, Arttable/ Artnet, New York, NY
2013
Artist Talk, Wangechi Mutu in Conversation with Nora Chipaumire, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Artist Talk, Wangechi Mutu in Conversation with Rachel Kent, MCA, Sydney, Australia
Visiting Artist, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Artist Lecture and visiting artist, Phillips Collection and George Washington University, Washington DC
Artist Lecture, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Artist Lecture, Columbia University, New York, NY
Visiting Artist, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Artist Talk, with Trevor Schoonmaker, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC
2012
Artist Talk, “Common Ground: Artistic and Intellectual Communities," Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Commencement Speech: Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
Artist Lecture, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Artist Lecture, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Program Participant, The Artist’s Voice: Ishamel Houston-Jones, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2011
Artist Lecture, Penn State University, Happy Valley, PA
Artist Lecture, Tyler University, Happy Valley, PA
Artist Lecture, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Artist Lecture and Residency, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, CO
Juror, Alliance for Young Artists & Writers’ Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, New York, NY
Juror, Dreamyard Student Art Awards, Bronx, NY
Zabar Visiting Artist, Hunter College, New York, NY
Artist Lecture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Artist Lecture, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
2010
Artist Talk, Wangechi Mutu and Marilyn Minter in Conversation with
Richard Flood, New Museum, New York, NY
Artist Lecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Artist Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Artist Lecture, Urban Arts Partnership, New York, NY
2009
Artist Lecture, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY
Artist Lecture, School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Artist Lecture, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Artist Lecture, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
Artist Lecture, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Artist Lecture, 92nd Street Y, New York
2008
Artist Lecture, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Panelist, The Cooper Union School of Art, “Prospect.1: A Biennial For New Orleans," New York, NY
Panelist, Art Chicago – Speaks Patronage and Contemporary Art, Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Artist Lecture, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Artist Lecture, Eastern Illinois University, Champaign, IL
Artist Lecture, UCLA-Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Artist Lecture, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Artist Lecture, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
Artist Talk, Yale, New Haven, CT
Artist Talk, The Hirshorn Museum and Garden, Washington DC
Artist Talk, New Museum, “Collage: The Unmonumental Picture," New York, NY
2007
Artist Lecture, Tyler School of Art, "Critical Dialogues Lecture," Elkins Park, PA
Artist Lecture, “Here and Now," New York University, New York, NY
Artist Lecture, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Artist Lecture, "Cinderella Curse," Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA
Visiting Artist, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Artist Lecture, Pratt University, Brooklyn, NY
Artist Lecture, The Visual Arts at Yale, Yale, New Haven, CT
Artist Lecture, “MoMA Gallery Talks," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Artist Lecture, New York University. The Steindhardt School of Art, New York, NY
Studio Lecture, Independent Curators International, Brooklyn, NY
Panelist, “Feminist Future” Symposium, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2006
Artist Lecture, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Artist Lecture, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Panelist, “Multiple Modernities,” Columbia University, New York, NY
Artist Lecture, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Group presentation for Guggenheim, “Exhuming Gluttony,” Salon 94, New York, NY
Panelist, Site Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, NM
2005
Artist Lecture, Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington DC
Studio Lecture, Miami Art Museum, New York, NY
Artist Lecture, “Amazing Grace,” Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Artist Lecture, The Society for Contemporary Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Artist Lecture, “Fight for Flight,” Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York, NY
2004
Artist Lecture, Altoids Art House, Austin, TX
Artist Lecture, “Looking Both Ways,” Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Artist Lecture, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
2003
Panelist, “Looking Both Ways,” The Museum of African Art, Long Island City, NY
Artist Lecture, TICA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
“Contemporary African Artists,” Moderated by Chester Higgins, Langston Hughes Library, Queens, NY
Artist Lecture, “Creatures,” Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning, Queens, NY
2002
Artist Lecture, Bennington University, Bennington, VT
Critique of MFA Work, Union Institute and University at Vermont College, Montpelier, VT
“The Artist Voice: Fatimah Tuggar and Wangechi Mutu,” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
“New York City Museum Educators Roundtable Annual Conference,” Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY

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2022
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2021
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2020
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Cascone, Sarah. "‘I Didn’t Want Her to Carry the Weight’: How Wangechi Mutu’s African-Inspired Caryatids on the Met’s Facade Break Free of Tradition," artnet, September 30 (Link)
Trujillo, Maria. "Liberating art history: Wangechi Mutu takes over the Metropolitan’s empty niches," ArtCritique, October 1 (Link)
Aldridge, Taylor Renee. "‘We Ourselves Are Our Prize’: Lasting Works in the Whitney Biennial Evoke Toni Morrison and Ancestry Through the Ages," ARTnews, September 19 (Link)
Valentine, Victoria L. "2019 Whitney Biennial: The Museum as a Site of Protest," CultureType, September 22 (Link)
Morris, Kadish. "In Pictures: Wangechi Mutu’s Empowering Sculptures of African Women at The Met," Frieze, September 13 (Link)
Sayej, Nadja. "’The works represent a new era’: behind the Met’s bold new sculptures," Guardian, September 16 (Link)
Small, Zachary. "Wangechi Mutu Adorns the Met Museum’s Façade With Images of African Queendom," Hyperallergic, September 9 (Link)
Cotter, Holland. "At 19 Art Shows, From Los Angeles to Manhattan, All Eyes Are on Inclusion," New York Times, September 9 (Link)
Chisholm, N. Jamiyla. "Wangechi Mutu’s Sculptures Transform Iconic Steps at The Met," ColorLines, September 6 (Link)
Belcove, Julie. "African-American Artists Will Deliver a Tidal Wave of Compelling Work This Fall," Robb Report, September 7 (Link)
"Wangechi Mutu’s Female Figures Grace the Met’s Façade," New Yorker, September 9 (Link)
MacSweeney, Eve. "How Kenyan-Born Artist Wangechi Mutu Is Taking Over the Met," W, August 27 (Link)
Catlin, Roger. "Women’s Voices Ring With a Resounding Roar in this New Show," Smithsonian Magazine, July 17 (Link)
Budick, Ariella. "Whitney Biennial: an anthology of young America," Financial Times, June 4 (Link)
Loos, Ted. "Why These 4 Whitney Biennial Artists Are Making Waves," Galerie Magazine, May 10 (Link)
Goodman, Jonathan. "Highlights from the 2019 Whitney Biennial," Art Fuse, May 30 (Link)
Moffitt, Evan. "The 2019 Whitney Biennial Is Unafraid to Be Beautiful," Frieze, May 20 (Link)
Valentine, Victoria L. "Artists Wangechi Mutu and Kara Walker Land Major Museum Commissions," Culture Type, April 14 (Link)
Freeman, Nate. "Wangechi Mutu will make works for the Metropolitan Museum’s façade for one in a trio of contemporary commissions,"Artsy, March 22 (Link)
Libbey, Peter. "The Met Will Use its Facade and Great Hall to Showcase Contemporary Art," New York Times, March 21 (Link)
Pellerin, Amanda. "Wangechi Mutu-Keep Moving, Keep Making Art," TL Magazine, January 12 (Link)
2018
Halperin, Julia and Charlotte Burns"Yes, Basquiat Is an Art-Market Superstar. But the Work of Other African American Artists Remains Vastly Undervalued," Artnet News, September 20 (Link)
"’Road to Justice’ at MAXXI," Blouin Art Info (web), July 31 (Link)
Valentine, Victoria L., "Baltimore Museum of Art Swaps Works by Warhol, Kline, Noland, and Rauschenberg for Acquisitions by Whitten, Sherald, Mutu, and Yiadom-Boakye," Culture Type (web), June 28 (Link)
Spivack, Emily, “Why this artist is inspired by a chest of drawers,” The New York Times Style Magazine (web), June 20 (Link)
Brownell Mitic, Ginanne, "In Nairobi, An Art Scene in Transition,” The New York Times, June 12 (Link)
Wilson-Goldie, Kaelen, “’Multiply, Identify, Her’ International Center of Photography Museum (ICP),” ArtForum (web), June 2 (Link)
“‘Inside my Studio’ with Wangechi Mutu,” Cultured Mag (web), June 1 (Link)
Mertha, Amelia, "Postcolonial assemblages," Honi Soit (web) May 23 (Link)
Yuelys, Joanna, "ICA Exhibition Highlights Social Division, Installation as Catalyst," The Heights (web), February 11 (Link)
Wa Gacheru, Margaretta, "Wangechi Mutu, Artist Who’s Feted Abroad but Unknown in Kenya," Business Daily (web), January 25 (Link)
2017
Uszerowicz, Monica, “Performa 17 is Inspired by the Anarchic, Restlessly Inventive Spirit of Dada,” Hyperallergic (web), October 19 (Link)
Travers, Andrew, “Anderson Ranch National Artist Award honoree Wangechi Mutu discusses her work,” The Aspen Times (web), July 19 (Link)
McKenzie, Abby, “Wangechi Mutu,” Art Asia Pacific (web), June
Fateman, Johanna, “Wangechi Mutu,” Artforum, April (Link)
Gordon, Sean, “Wangechi Mutu Explores Afrofuturism and The New Humanism with Ndoro Na Miti,” Paste (web), February 12 (Link)
D’Souza, Aruna, “Wangechi Mutu,” 4Columns (web), February 24 (Link)
Scobie, Ilka, “Wangechi Mutu at Gladstone Gallery,” The Brooklyn Rail (web), March 1 (Link)
Smith, Roberta, “What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week: Wangechi Mutu,” The New York Times, March 10 (Link)
2016
Bourland, Ian, "500 Words," Artforum, July 12 (Link)
Cervenak, Sarah Jane, “Like Blood or Blossom: Wangechi Mutu’s Resistant Harvests,” Feminist Studioes 42, no. 2
Sargent, Antwaun, “A Century of Pulp Fiction Offers a Window into Balck Identity,” The Creators Project (web), October 28
2015
Valentine, Victoria L., 2015 Venice Biennale to Include More than 25 Black Artists, Culture Type, March 5
McGroarty, Patrick, Africans Turn to Local Art: Five Artists to Watch, The Wall Street Journal, March 13
Muoz-Alonso, Lorena, 12 Must-Read Tips for a Successful Career in the Art World, Artnet News, April 6
Said-Moorhouse, Lauren, Why Africa is the buzz at this years Venice Biennale, CNN.com, May 13
Valentine, Victoria L., Commencement 2015: African American Artists Bestow Wisdom on Graduates, Culture Type, May 27
Valentine, Victoria L., ARTnews Publishes Special Report on Women in the Art World, Black Artists Respond, Culture Type, May 31
Stupart, Linda, Its not all a pretty picture at the Venice Biennale, channel24, May 24
Sangweni, Yolanda, Campaign, with a Little Help from Solange, Essence, June 5
Mutu, Wangechi, Wangechi Mutu Responds, ArtNews, June
Scher, Rob, This New Arts Endeavor Hopes to Change the Way We Engage With Africa, Bedford + Bowery, June 5
Forgenie, Cacy, RECAP: Wangechi Mutus Africas Out! Benefit, Flavorpill, June 8
Mutu, Wangechi, Five Artists, Five Book Reviews, The New York Times, June 25
Indrisek, Scott, 5 Must-See Gallery Shows in New York: Tom of Finland, Hello Walls, and More, ArtInfo (web), July 9
Sargent, Antwaun, Africas Out! Lets Celebrate, W Magazine, June 8
2014
Scheffler, Daniel, Brooklyn Inspires African Artists, The New York Times, October 14
Tschida, Anne, "Fantastic Journey: Wangechi Mutu at Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami," The Miami Herald, May 23 (Link)
Ballard, Thea, Deep Explorer: Wangechi Mutu Dives into Aquatic Mythology, Modern Painters, October
Frank, Priscilla, 40 Contemporary African Artists Take on Danes Divine Comedy, The Huffington Post, October 20
Young, Allison, Critics Pick: Wangechi Mutu, ArtForum, November 20
Waxman, Lori, Seductive hells, Chicago Tribune, November 26
Wallace, Arminta, In A Dance Class, You Are Often Made To Feel You Must Apologise For Your Body, Irish Times, August 12
Instagrams Of The Art World: Wangechi Mutu And Flotus, Lena Dunhams Toilet, And More, Blouin Artinfo,Blogs.Artinfo.Com, August 8
Mongezeleli Joja, Athi, The female form through Wangechi Mutus lens, Mail & Guardian, November 14
Lebel, Estelle, Femmes Extrmes, Recherches Fministes, Vol. 27 No. 1
Spettel, Elizabeth, Les Artistes Femmes: Des Esthtiques De La Limite Dpasse?,Feminist Research,July 2014
Vitiello, Chris, Acklands More Love, Nashers Mutu Receive National Honors, Indyweek.Com, June 25
Gaskins, Nettrice, Black Futurism: The Creative Destruction And Reconstruction Of Race In Contemporary Art,Blog.Art21.Org, June 24
Tschida, Anne, An Intense Fantastic Journey , Miami Herald, May 25
Thornton, Sarah, 33 Artists In 3 Acts Norton Books, Pp. 58-63, November
Tschida, Anne, Fantastic Journey, The Miami Herald, May 23
Willis, Deborah, Wangechi Mutu By Deborah Willis: Exploration Of The Female Body And Identity, Afrikadaa Magazine,Www.Africadaa.Com, May
Conway, Megan, Performas 10th Anniversary Gala Honors the Art Worlds Renaissance Women, The Wall Street Journal, October 29
Papenburg, Bettina, Grotesque Sensations: Carnivalising The Sensorium In The Art Of Wangechi Mutu,Www.Acadamia.Edu,May
Barsamian, Edward, Vogue, Diane Von Furstenberg, Liya Kebede, John Mergrue, Wangechi Mutu, And Claire Danes Host A Born Free Africa Carnival, Vogue Magazine, Www.Vogue.Com, May 12
Suarez De Jesus, Carlos, Art Mirrors Life In Wangechi Mutus Moca Show, Miami New Times, Www.Miaminewtimes.Com, May 1
Bhoomki Believer: Wangechi Mutu, Www.Bhoomki.Com, May 6
Neilson, Laura, Why Feminism Still Matters According to a Badass Artist, Refinery29, November 19
Landers, Elizabeth, Designers Unite To End Hiv Transmission Www.Cnn.Com April 23
Kim, Eun Kyung, Top Fashion Moms Design Collection To Fight Infant Aids Www.Today.Com, April 23
Van Meter, Jonathan, The Fashion Industryteams Up With Born Free In The Fight Against Aids Www.Vogue.Com,April 23, 2014
Cascone, Sarah, Wangechi Mutu-Designed Clothing Line For Victoria Beckham Helps Fight African Aids Crisis News.Artnet.Com, April 23
Conmiff, Kelly, The Surreal Thing Time Magazine, April 14
Toure, Katia, The Afro-Futurism: Retro Hip Trend Or Engaged Art? Www.Lesinrocks.Com, March 23
The Fantastic, Feminine, And Futuristic Work Of Wangechi Mutu Www.Artobserver.Com, March 20
Baum, Kell, Acquiring Modern Art Princeton Alumni Weekly, March 19
Sumba, O., Wangechi Mutu Comes To Frankfurt Www.Oksh-Ev.De March 19
Bourdin, Lara, The End Of Eating Everything Www.Zammagazine.Com, March 17
Willis, Deborah, Wangechi Mutu Bomb Magazine, Bombmagazine.Org, February 28
Cooper, Ashton, Boatright, Kristen, Video: Mickalene Thomas On Wangechi Mutu And Her Fantastic Journey Article: Www.Blouinartinfo.Com, Video: Www.Bcove.Me/K15l61w2, February 27
Ehsan, Pari, Whimsical & A Ball, Www.Paridust.Com, February 28
Naves, Mario, Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey At The Brooklyn Museum Mnaves.Wordpress.Com, January 31 Stone, Paul Wangechi Mutu; I See The World As Being Somewhat Female. Www.Myfirstshoot.Com, January 12
Caruth, Nicole J., Wangechi Mutu On Failure Art 21 Magazine, Blog.Art21.Org, January 10
Hower, Wendy, A Wangechi Tree Grows In Brooklyn Www.Nasher.Duke.Edu Nasher Museum, January
Bodin, Claudia, Abscheulich schne Krper, Art Magazin, January
Willis, Deborah, Excerpt from BOMBs Oral History Project: Wangechi Mutu, BOMB, Winter
2013
Open Now! Go See: Wangechi Mutus Wild World @ the Brooklyn Museum, Dog Star, December 29
Bhatia, Pooja, African Beauty, Now, OZY, December 12
Kelley, Kevin J., Mutus art pieces deck the walls of Brooklyn Museum, Daily Nation, December 8
Nsehe, Mfonobong, The 20 Young Power Women In Africa 2013, Forbes, December 4
Wolff, Rachel, The New Collage, ARTnews, December
Budick, Ariella, Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey, Brooklyn Museum, New York review, Financial Times, November 26
Byrne, Brendan C., Cyborg Humanism: Wangechi Mutu at Brooklyn Museum, Rhizome.org, November 15
Agustsson, Sola, Wangechi Mutus Fantastic Journey at The Brooklyn Museum, Whitewall, November 13
Kaitano, Chiwoniso, The Afrofuturism of Wangechi Mutu, The Guardian, November 13
Rosenberg, Karen, The Future Is African, The New York Times, November 8
Mutu, Wangechi, The Women, Art in America, November
The Lookout: Wangechi Mutu at the Brooklyn Museum, Art in America online, October 31
Plagens, Peter, Passion and Talent in Large Doses: Exhibitions of Wangechi Mutu, Thomas Eggerer, and Karl Wirsum, The Wall Street Journal, October 26
The Reckoning : Women Artist Of The New Millenium Prestel Publishing, Pp.55-58
The Age Of Collage: Contemporary Collage In Modern Art, Gestalten Publishing Pp. 15-17
Barsh, Joanna, Wangechi Lives Into Her Strengths Centered Leadership, Pp.55-59 Centered Leadership
Russell, Heather, "Interview with Artist Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey," artnet, October 18 (Link)
Hansen-Bundy, Benjy, "A Fantastic Journey Into the Mind of Collage Artist Wangechi Mutu," Mother Jones, October 12 (Link)
Moon, Grace, "Wangechi Mutu’s Fantastical Journey, Dripped, Dipped and Left to Bled," Velvet Park, October 16 (Link)
Cotter, Holland, "A Window, Not a Mirror: A Survey of Wangechi Mutu at Brooklyn Museum," The New York Times, October 11 (Link)
Cooper, Ashton, "Wangechi Mutu’s First New York Survey Opens at the Brooklyn Museum," ArtInfo, October 11 (Link)
Giancana, Norell, "Wangechi Mutu’s Fantastic Journey Opens at the Brooklyn Museum," BET online, October 11 (Link)
Karefa-Johnson, Gabriella, "Wangechi Mutu’s ‘Fantastic Journey’ Opens at the Brooklyn Museum," Vogue.com, October 11 (Link)
Pearson, Erica, "Celebrated around the world, Kenyan-born Brooklyn resident Wangechi Mutu gets Brooklyn Museum retrospective," New York Daily News, October 6 (Link)
Wolff, Rachel, Shell Probably Cut Up This Magazine Too, New York Magazine, August 25 (Link)
Meier, Allison, The Grotesque Beauty of Wangechi Mutu, Hyperallergic, August 5 (Link)
Lee, Denise, " ‘Migrating Identities’ showcases multicultural artists, examines cultural rifts," The Daily Californian, July 11
Papenburg Ph.D, Bettina, "Carnal Aesthetics: Transgressive Imagery and Feminist Politics," IB Taurus, London, UK
Forrest, Nicholas, "Wangechi Mutu’s Diverse Work at Sydney’s MCA," ArtInfo, July 8
Bierach, Barbara, Schock und Schnheit, Kunstmarkt, July 5, 6, 7
Wolf, Rachel, 50 Under 50: The Next Most Collectable Artists, Art + Auction, June
Greenberg, Blue, Mutus Woman both Gorgeous and Monstrous, The Herald Sun, April 5
Menconi, David, Wangechi Mutu takes Nasher on A Fantastic Journey, newsobserver.com, March 23
Anderson-Barranger, Hannah, Artist Mutu Premieres Show at Nasher, The Duke Chronicle, March 21
Vitiello, Chris, Horror, Beauty, and Transcendence, (print title), In Her First Major U.S. Exhibition, Wangechi Mutu Thinks Big, (on-line title), Indy Week, March 20
Bellamy, Cliff, Nasher to open touring exhibit of multi-media artist Wangechi Mutu, The Herald Sun, March 18
Buck, Louisa, Feature Artist Interview: Mutable Montage, The Art Newspaper, Number 244, March
Haskell, Angela, Artist Mutu’s work opens at Drexel, The Philadelphia Tribune, February 27
Gandy, Mira, A Conversation with Kenyan Artist Wangechi Mutu on Art, Power and Returning Home, New York Beacon, February 21-27
Schad, Ed, Wangechi Mutu at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Art Review, January/February
Arceneaux, Edgar, Wangechi Mutu and Her Post Human Kenyan Mutants, KCET Artbound, January 9
Lax, Thomas J, Preview: Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey at the Nasher Museum of Art, Artforum, January
Bodies Bright and Greater: Mixed Media Collages by Wangechi Mutu, Harpers Magazine, January
2012
Mohseni, Yasmine, 5 L.A. Gallery Shows You Should Go See Right Now, ArtInfo, December 20
From struggling student to international art guru, The Daily Nation Kenya, December 8
Pagel, David, "Past, present collide in Wangechi Mutu’s ‘Nitarudi Ninarudi’", The Los Angeles Times, November 29 (Link)
Yablonsky, Linda, "Women In Art 2012: Wangechi Mutu", Elle Magazine, December
Richardson, Jared, "Attack of the Boogeywoman: Visualizing Black Women’s Grotesquerie in Afrofuturism", Art Papers, November/December
Fiduccia, Joanna, Heavy Painting, Spike Quarterly, Issue 33, Autumn
Bynoe, Holly, "Museum of Fine Arts Houston and Glassell School of Art presents There is no archive in which nothing gets lost", ARC Magazine, September 1
The Subjective Object, GRASSI Museum fr Vlkerkunde zu Leipzig, K. Verlag Press, August
This Undreamt Descent: Wangechi Mutu in the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Deutsche Bank, July 13
Bidouzo-Coudray, Joyce, Wangechi Mutu The Catatonic Bliss of Violent Incidences, Another Africa, June 12
Rankin, Kelly. 28 Days: Reimagining Black History Month, The University of Toronto News, February 6
Pohl, John. The Beauty of Body Language, Montreal Gazette, February 4
Salehi, Ashkan. 28 Days: Reimagining Black History Month, The Strand, February 2
Schechter, Fran, For 28 Days Only: Top Artists Fuel Black History Show, Now Toronto, February 1
Arbus, Miriam, Artists Rethink Black History Month in 28 Days, The Newspaper: University of Toronto’s Independent Weekly, January 26
Goldberg, RoseLee, Shirin Neshat and Wangechi Mutu, Flash Art 282, January
2011
Elliot, Bobby, The Bearden Project: A Family Affair, The Huffington Post, December 7
Saro-Wiwa, Zina, Interview with Wangechi Mutu, Kilimanjaro Magazine, Autumn/Winter
Hampton, Dream, It Was All a Dream, Life + Times, September 19
Kunitz, Daniel, Wangechi Mutu, Modern Painters, September
Cotter, Holland, Under Threat: The Shock of the Old, New York Times, April 17
Spence, Rachel, The Power of Instinct, The Financial Times, April 15
Herndon, Lara Kristin, Wangechi Mutu, ArtPapers, March/April
Hirsch, Faye, Sharon Stone In Abuja, Art in America, March
Jones, Kellie, EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art, Duke University Press
Enwezor, Okwui, Cut & Paste: Interview with Wangechi Mutu, Arise Magazine, Issue 11
Wainaina, Binyavanga, One Day I Will Write About This Place, Minneapolis, MN: Gray Wolf Press, Cover image
Tate, Greg and LaTasha Diggs, Coon Bidness: The Critical Ass Issue, pp. 22-23, 82
2010
Kantilal Patel, Alpesh, Wangechi Mutu, Gladstone Gallery, ArtForum Critics Pick, November 17
Stern, Melissa, Hunt, Bury, Flee: Drawings By Wangechi Mutu, CityArts, Nov. 20
Wehr, Anne, Wangechi Mutu, Hunt Bury Flee, Time Out New York, November 18-24
Rosenberg, Karen, Wangechi Mutu, Hunt, Bury and Flee, The New York Times, November 12
Yablonsky, Linda, Artifacts | Moths and Mercenaries, T Magazine, November 4
Rohr-Bongard, Schreckensschoene Schnippelei, Manager Magazin, August
This You Call Civilization? Art Gallery of Ontario, The Art Street Journal, August
Smith, Roberta, Art? Life? Must We Choose? New York Times, July 2
Hove, Jan Van, Droombeelden Uit Afrika, De Standard, July
Nutt, Harry, Mischwesen, Frankfurter Rundschau, June 1
Clarke, Bill, Wangechi Mutu: Art Gallery of Ontario, Modern Painters, Summer Woeller, Marcus, Sex und Gewalt (Vorsicht, Falle!), TAZ, May 12
Arts and Culture: Wangechi Mutu, BBC World News Service, May 7
Cash, Stephanie, Wangechi Mutu: Terrible Beauty, Art in America, May
Bodin, Claudia, Monstrse Brute und Zwitter, Art: Das Kunstmagazin, May
Kuhn, Nicola, Gefhrlich schne Gttinnen, Der Tagesspiegel, April 29
Nys Dambrot, Shana, Daily Dose Pick, Flavorwire, April 28
Karcher, Eva, Wangechi Mutu, Vogue.de, April 28
Dembo, Wendy, My Dirty Little Heaven, coolhunting.com, April 28
&#147;Prospect.1 New Orleans Shows Public Art as a Form of Civic Engagement, artdaily.org, April 12
Reed, Aimee, Interview with Wangechi Mutu, Daily Serving, April 12
Rylance, David, Bold New Bodies for a Brave New World: David Altmejds The Index and Wangechi Mutus This you call civilization?, Transductions, April 4
Wiensowski, Ingeborg, Grausamer Glamour: Schoen und erschreckend wirken die Collagen von
Wangechi Mutu. Erstmals sind sie in Berlin zu sehen, Kultur Spiegel, April
Evans, Matthew, We Categorize What Were Afraid Of, Deutsche Guggenheim Magazine, Issue 11, Spring
Sandals, Leah, Questions and Artists: Wangechi Mutus Beauty Riff Collages, National Post, February 25
The Short List, Portland Tribune, February 25
Goldstein, Andrew, Wangechi Mutu Wins Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year Award, Art Info, February 23
Row, D.K., Beauty Amid the Upheaval, The Oregonian, February 22
Crow, Kelly, Wangechi Mutu is Deutsche Banks Artist of the Year 2010, Wall Street Journal, February 22
Milroy, Sarah, Amid the Games, Artists Dissect the Body, The Globe and Mail, February 19
Laurence, Robin, Shows Dissect the Body and Human Fears, The Georgia Straight, February 11-18
Griffin, Kevin, Visceral Bodies Shows Off Our Fleshy Architecture, The Vancouver Sun, February 15
Family Skeletons on Display, The Globe and Mail, February 8
Ampofo, Akosua Adomako, and Signe Arnfred, African Feminist Politics of Knowledge, Sweden: The Nordic Africa Institute, Cover image
Artpace Alumi Update, Artpace 10.1, San Antonio, TX
Barson, Tanya, and Peter Gorschlter, Afro Modern: Journeys Through the Black Atlantic, London: Tate Publishing, Cover image
Evans, Matthew, Wangechi Mutu: Between Beauty and Horror, ArtMag Issue 57
Face to Face, Vogue Italia May Issue 717, p. 24
Taguchi Art Collection, New Global Art. Japan: Kentaro Oshita
Han, Heng-Gil, Network and Fluid, pp. 85, 117
Patton, Sharon, Close Up: Enwezor, The International Review of African American Art
Present, Frankfurt, Germany: Deusche Bank Artworks
Spotlight: Artist of the Year 2010: Wangechi Mutu, ArtNews
2009
Smith, Roberta, Dress Codes: Beyond a Simple Fashion Statement, New York Times, October 8
Cotter, Holland, The Week Ahead: April 26 – May 2, New York Times, April 24
Sweeney, Eve, A Fertile Mind, Vogue, pp. 190, 248, April, Photographed by Annie Leibovitz
Bernoni, Giorgia, Un Corpo Mutante e Ambiguo, Inside Art (Italy), March
Mirov, Ben, ART: Pretty Ugly: Wangechi Mutu, A Shady Promise, Brooklyn Rail, February
Wei, Lilly, New Orleans Report: Deliverance: The Biennial, Art In America, February
Halpern, Ashlea, Out of Africa, TimeOut New York, pg 41 Issue 694 January 15-2
Ligon, Glenn, Civic Engagement: To Miss New Orleans, Art Forum, January
Stern, Steven, Looking Back: Prospect.1 New Orleans, Frieze, Issue 120, January
2008
Mueller, Kurt, Houston: Damaged Romanticism at the Blaffer Gallery, Art Lies, No. 60, Winter
Gawlik, Goschka, Horror Beauties mit Zerschnittenen Seelen, Art Magazine, November 19
Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter, ARTnews, Los Angeles: Wangechi Mutu, pg 176 Vol 107/Number 10, Novermber
Studio, Studio Magazine, Museum of Harlem, Upcoming Exhibitions, pg 13, Fall/Winter
Austin, Tom, Dollar Signs, Moral Symbols: A MAM Exhibition Incites Plenty of Value Judgments, The Miami Herald, December 7
Finch, Charlie, Lighter than Eros, Artnet, November 12
Ellwood, Mark, Our Man In: New Orleans, GQ Magazine, November 7
Robinson, Walter, Bleeding-Heart Biennale, Art Net Magazine, November 7
Britt, Douglas, Blaffer Exhibit Finds Beauty in the Bleak, The Houston Chronicle, November 5
Dewan, Shaila, New Orleans Rising, by Hammer and Art, New York Times, October 29
Browne, Alix, Cuff Love, New York Times, October 3
Watson, Simon, Wangechi Mutu: Mass in the Time of War, Whitewall, Spring
Pagel, Daniel, Boldly Linking all the Pieces: Wangechi Mutu at Vielmetter, Los Angeles Times, April 11
Miles, Christopher, Art Around Town, Los Angeles Weekly, April 10
Dembo, Wendy, Wangechi Mutu, Cool Hunting, April 7
Garcia, Kathryn, Culver City, Opening Night, For Your Art, April 2
Continuing and Recommended, ArtScene, April
Heartney, Eleanor, Make It New, Art in America, April
Wangechi Mutu: Little Touched, Beautiful Decay.com, April 1
Catherine Wagley, Destroying Prettiness: Wangechi Mutu and Kara Walker, Daily Serving, March 31
Goldman, Edward, ArtTalk: Art, Sex, and Videotape, KCRW, March 18
Shaw, Alex, More Flavor: Lecture, Wangechi Mutu, Flavorpill, March 13
Turner, Elisa, Wilfredo Lam Meets Miami, Art Circuits: Miami Visual Art Guide, Spring
Enright, Robert, Resonant Surgeries: The Collaged World of Wangechi Mutu, Border Crossings Magazine, Issue No. 105, February
Yablonsky, Linda, Poll Positions, Artforum.com, February 6
Feature: Paper Cuts, Artkrush, Issue 77, February 6
Martin, Courtney J., Pick: Wangechu Mutu at Victoia Miro Gallery, London, Artforum, January 18
Martin, Courtney J., Wangechi Mutu: Yo.n.l, Artkrush, Issue 75, January 9
Cox, Lorraine Morales, Transformed Bodies, Colonial Wounds & Ethnographic Tropes: Wangechi Mutu in 2008
Violence, N. Paradoxa International Feminist Art Journal, Ed. Katy Deepwell, Volume 21
2007
Volzke, Daniel, Ab dem 22. November: Wangechi Mutu zeigt opulente Collagen in London, Monopol, December
Steinberg, Claudia, Aufbruchstimmung an der Lower East Side, Kunstzitung, December
Macmillan, Kyle, Exhibit shows a world of fine artists, Denver Post, November 1
Eshun, Ekow, The Art of Darkness, Vogue, November
Row, DK, In praise of bolder women, The Oregonian, October 29
Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice, The Big Bend Sentinel, September 20
Mullins, Charlotte, Painting People, Figure Painting Today, pg 110
Voelz Chandler, Mary, Inside the Box: New Museum building squares up space for art, education, community, Rocky Mountain News, August 23
Dimling Cochran, Rebecca, Pick: Wangechi Mutu at ACA Gallery, Atlanta, Artforum, June 7
Heartney, Eleanor, Worldwide Women, Art in America, June/July
Aldarondo, Cecilia, Ghada Amer + Wangechi Mutu, Art Papers, May/June
Kruger, Barbara, Wangechi Mutu, Interview Magazine, April
Nolan, Joe, Wangechi Mutu: Sleeping Heads Lie, Number Independent Arts Journal, No 58, Spring
Koenig, Wendy, Wangechi Mutu: Memphis, Art Papers, March/April
Abbie, Mary, Feminism Revisited: Art by two African-born women revitalizes feminist issues in a handsome Franklin Art Show, Star Tribune, March
Brooks, Amra, Fair Report: Art LA, artinfo, February 10
Cotter, Holland, Feminist Art Finally Takes Center Stage, The New York Times, January 29
Ellis, Patricia, Catching up with Charles (Saatchi), FlashArt, January/February
Oguibe, Olu, Looking Back: the most significant shows of 2006, frieze, January, issue 104
Spaulding, David, New York, Interrupted, Artforum, January
2006
Mullins, Charlotte, Painting People: the state of the art, Thames and Hudson, London
Cameron, Dan, New York, Interrupted, PKM Gallery, Beijing, China
Jongbloed, Marjorie, Entangled: Approaching Contemporary African Artists, Marjorie Jongbloed and VolkswagenStiftung, Hannover
Wangechi Mutu- The Art Universe, Vanity Fair, December, pg 352
Koeppel, Fredric, Gorgeous surfaces in a nightmare of sensuality, corruption, violence, The Memphis Commercial Appeal, November 10
Maart, Brenton, Distant Relatives: Artists of the African Diaspora, Mail and Gardian, Western Cape South Africa, Vol. 22 #43, pg 2, Nov 3-9
New Prints Review, Art on Paper, November/December
Carver, Jon, Still Points of the Turning World, Art Papers, November/December, pg 69
Martin, Courtney, Site San Fe 6th International Biennial: Still Points of the Turning World, Contemporary, Issue 86, pg 64
Blumenstein, Ellen, L.A. Confidential, Monopol, November/December
Korotkin, Lindsay, Reviews, Tema Celeste, November/December, pg 78
Berkovitch, Ellen, SITE Santa Fes 6th International Biennial, artUS, November
Colpitt, Frances, A Slow-Motion Biennial, Art in America, October, pp 69-75
Murray, DC, Wangechi Mutu at SFMOMA, Art in America, October, pg 205
Wright, Karen, Saatchi Exhibits Totemic Art, Surrealist Penis, bloomberg.com, October 6
Muchnic, Suzanne, The Art Explosion, Los Angeles Times, October 1
Rimanelli, David, Scene & Herd: A Night at the Opera, Artforum.com, September 26
Blum, Kelly, and Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, ed. Art is Passion, Blanton Museum of Art: America Art Since 1900,
The Articulate, The University of Texas at Austin, 2006.
Auricchio, Laura, Wangechi Mutu, Art Papers, September/October
Murinik, Tracy, Afro-Alien Exquisite Corpses, Art South Africa, Spring, pp 26-29
Klopper, Sandra, Distant Relatives/Relative Distance, Art South Africa, Spring, pp 64-65
Black, Ezrha Jean, Labyrinths of SITE: Ottmann scales down numbers and theme, but stays big on art, artillery, vol 1 no 1, September
Vogel, Carol, Where Bel Canto Meets Paintbrush, New York Times, August 15
Morris, Tom, "Still Points of the Turning World", ArtReview, July, issue 1, p 37
Roberts, Angela, "Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism", ArtReview, July, issue 1, p 139
Walker, Hollis, "Colonial apparitions", Pasatiempo, July 7-13
Fischer, Zane, "Art Without Excuses", Santa Fe Reporter, July 5-11
Wangechi Mutu, The New Yorker, June 26
Wangechi Mutu, The New Yorker, June 12
Smith, Roberta, Wangechi Mutu: An Alien Eye and Other Killah Anthems, New York Times, June 9
Kazanjian, Dodie, Fierce Creatures, Vogue, June
Perryer, Sophie, Distant Relatives/Relative Distance (catalogue no.21), June
Berwick, Carly, Jungle-Punk Princesses Populate Wangechi Mutus Solo NYC Debut, Bloomberg.com, May 31
Wilson, Michael, House Red, Artforum.com Diary, May 25
Pollack, Barbara, Wangechi Mutu: An Alien Eye and Other Killah Anthems, Time Out New York, Issue 556, May 25-31
Miller, Paul, A Gathering of the Tribes #11, Time Out New York, Issue 556, pg 70, May 25-31
Taylor, Catharine P, Charles Saatchi messes with USA Today, adweek.blogs.com, May 12
Alberge, Dalva, Hang it allthey want to sneak Saatchis junk into our academy, The Times (UK), May 11
Lewis, Caroline, Saatchis USA Today at the Royal Academy of Arts London, 24hourmuseum.org, May 10
Reynolds, Nigel, Saatchi is ready for another sensation at the RA, The Daily Telegraph, April 5
Goodyear, Sarah, Wangechi Mutu: An Artist Comes into Her Own, Bklyn, Spring, page 20
Wangechi Mutu at SFMoma, ArtInfo.com, March
Mullins, Charlotte, Painting People, Thames & Hudson
Helfand, Glen, Voluptuous Horror Wangechi Mutu harnesses the power of violence and beauty,
San Francisco Bay Guardian.com,vol. 10 no. 14, January 4-10
Helfand, Glen, Wangechi Mutu, Artforum.com, January 3
Cotter, Holland, Feminist Art Finally Takes Center Stage, New York Times, January
1111 Journal of Literature and Art, Volume III
Thomas, Liz, Wangechi Mutu, The F-Word Zine, Number 2, page 2
For Committed Civic Engagement, The Cooper Union, pg 16
Oliveira, Filipa, Wangechi Mutu, Arte Contemporanea, pg 66
Schmidt, Jason, Artists: photographs by Jason Schmidt, pg 90
Cotter, Holland. ART; Feminist Art Finally Takes Center Stage, The New York Times, Section E, pg1, January
2005
Paul, Jonathan S., Places, Everyone, The New York Times Style Magazine, Winter
Oliveira, Filipa, Wangechi Mutu, W-Art Contemporary Art Magazine, Issue no. 8, pages 66-69
Future Greats 2005, ArtReview, Volume IX, December, page 99
Fricke, Kirsten, Sex Sells, Beautiful Decay, December
Smith, Roberta, Where Issues of Black Identity Meet the Concerns of Every Artist, The New York Times, November 18
Egon Schiele: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections, Neue Galerie Museum for German and Austrian Art, New York, (catalog illustration, page 388)
Adjaye, David, Top Ten, Artforum, November
Trellis, Emma, Mutable Mutu, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, October
Weinberg, Michelle, Out of Africa: Female Forms that Tell a Tale of Torture, Miami New Times, Sept. 15
Turner, Elisa, Going Solo: Wangechi Mutu Finds Inspiration In Her Native Africa, The Miami Herald, Sept.11
Hatcher, David, Poco a Go-Go, X-tra, Volume 8, Number 1, Fall Issue
Arty Hour, The Herald, August 12
Luis, Carlos M., Wangechi Mutu y su Amazing Grace, Artes & Letras, August 7
Amazing Grace, Miami Monthly, August
Fricke, Kirsten, Wangechi Mutu, Beautiful/Decay, Issue L, August
Ellis, Patricia, Wangechi Mutu – The Triumph of Painting, The Saatchi Gallery essay
Bravo, Gabriel C., Wangechi Mutu Art Exhibit, MiamiPoetryReview.com, July 22
Suarez de Jesus, Carlos, Mutus Mojo, The Miami New Times, July 21
Amazing Grace: First Solo Show for Kenyan-born Artist, Coral Gables Gazette, July 21
Sheets, Hilarie M., Using Art to Build Pride, The New York Times, June 1
Kapferer, Roland, Africa Remix, Frieze, June/July/August Issue 92, page 156
Heartney, Eleanor, Return to the Real, Art in America, June/July, pages 85-89
Korotkin, Joyce B., Fight or Flight, Tema Celeste, May/June, pages 76-77
de La Forterie, Maud, Africa Remix Continental, Art Actuel, Issue #38, May/June, pages 47-50
Post-Black, Post-Soul, or Hip-Hop Iconography: Defining the new Aesthetics, The International
Review of African American Art, Volume 20 #2
Lo, Melissa, Wangechi Mutu, Flash Art, May/June Issue, Vol. XXXVIII, NO. 242, page 146
Chevalier, Jari, Greater New York Show at P.S.1, The New York Art World.com, April
Brielmaier, Isolde, Wangechi Mutu: Re-Imagining The World, Parkett, No. 74, pp. 6-13
Where to buy – Wangechi Mutu, The Week, March 25
Andersson, Ruben, Mixed Bag of African avant-garde, The London Globe, March 20
Rosenberg, Karen, Artists on the Verge of a Breakthrough, New York Magazine, March 3
Continued and Recommended, ArtScene, Vol.24, no.7, March
Painted Ladies, SouthBank, March
Myers, Holly, Artists at play in the world, Los Angeles Times, February 25
Brownell, Ginanne, "Front and Center: In London, it’s the year of African art", Newsweek, www.msnbc.com, February 17
Harrison, Sara, Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing, Art Monthly, February
Pollack, Barbara, Panic Room, Time Out New York, January 13-19, pages 55-56
Biro, Matthew, "Reviews – Midwest", Art Papers, pg. 51, January/February Issue
2004
Graham-Dixon, Andrew, All stuck and scribbled, The Sunday Telegraph, December 19, page 112
Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing, BBC News UK edition, December 13
Cripps, Charlotte, Work at the cutting edge, The Independent Review, December 2, page 18
A-Z London, The Art Newspaper, No.153, December
Ciuraru, Carmela, Cutting Remarks, Cover Page and Feature, ArtNews, November
Leitzes, Cary Estes, Body Politic, and Kunitz, Daniel, US Editors Letter, ArtReview, cover and feature, pages 61-63, September
Cotter, Holland, Black comes in Many Shadings, The New York Times, Friday, August 13, page E29
Kelly, Kevin, Reward for Creative Touch, Daily Nation, Lifestyle Magazine, August 11
Johnson, Kenneth, Shes Come Undone, The New York Times, July 9
Ribas, Joao, Shes come Undone, Time Out, July 8, page 55
Kerr, Merrily, Extreme Makeovers, Art on Paper, July/August, page 28-29
Schwendener, Martha, "She’s Come Undone", ArtForum.com critics pick, June
Saltz, Jerry, Borough Hall, Village Voice, May 3
Smith, Roberta, "Emerging Talent and Plenty of It", The New York Times, March 12
Martin, Courtney, Looking Both Ways, Flash Art, January/February
Worman, Alex, "L.A. Confidential", Artnet.com, January 24
Daily, Meghan, "Peter Norton – Collecting with a Conscience", Guggenheim Magazine, Winter, pg 30
2003
Williamson, Sue, Looking Both Ways, Artthrob, December
Cotter, Holland, Redefining the African Diaspora, New York Times, November 21
Pagel, David, Harrowing, hallucinatory visions – Wangechi Mutu at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles Times, October 24
Martin, Courtney, Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Flash Art, October
Fleey, Peter, Black President, Frieze Magazine, October, page 118
Sirmans, Franklin, Portfolio, Grand Street, Fall
Koirala, Snigdha, Black President, BOMB, Fall, page 17
Cotter, Holland, King of Music, New York Times, July 18
Cotter, Holland, Off The Record, New York Times, May 16
Cotter, Holland, Wangechi Mutu, New York Times, March 14
McKanic, Arlene, Mutus Disturbing Creatures at JCAL, Q.guide, March 13
Ashford, Doug, Off The Record, Time Out Magazine, May 8-15
Croal, Aida Mashaka, Africana, March
Oneacre, Alison, Hallowed Walls, Womens Wear Daily, February 3
2002
Murray, Soraya, Africaine, NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art, Fall/Winter, p. 88-93
Banai, Nuit, Body of Evidence, One World, August/September, p. 124-125
Hazlewood, Carl E., Hot Shows From the Edge: Summer in the City, NYArts, September
Barliant, Claire, Africaine, Art on Paper, July/August
Johnson, Ken, Art Guide, The New York Times, July 5
Cotter, Holland, From the Ferment of Liberation Comes a Revolution in African Art, New York Times, Feb. 17
Budick, Arielle, Identity, a Concept Explored in 2 Harlem Shows, Newsday, February 1
Cunningham, Bill, Old and New, New York Times, January 27
2001
African art exhibit, Daily News, November 25
Sonkin, Rebecca, Good Rap, Art News, April, p. 41
2000
Brockington, Horace, After Representation, The International Review of African American Art, p. 47
Ziolkowski, Thad, The Magic City, Artforum, October
The Magic City, The New Yorker, August 14, p. 14
Johnson, Ken, The Magic City, The New York Times, August 11
Johnson, Ken, The Magic City, The New York Times, August 4
1999
Sirmans, Franklin, Surely it Cannot Burn so Long, Time Out Magazine, November 25December 2
Oguibe, Olu and Enwezor, Okwui, Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace, The MIT Press, p. 10
1998
Sadao, Amy, Transgressive Imaginations, essay and interview on Wangechi Mutu and Rina Banerjee

Catalogues

2026
Apsara DiQuinzio, Makeda Best, William L. Fox, Maia Nuku, Maya Lin. "Into the Time Horizon," Radius Books Co-published with the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV.
2023
Norton, Margot, Vivian Crockett, Maureen Mahon, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, and Tina Campt. "Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined," The New Museum
2022
Tandiwe Bell, Aisha, Nora Lawrence, John P. Stern and Wangechi Mutu. "Wangechi Mutu. Storm King Art Center" X Artists’ Books.
2021
Liebert, E., Fellah, N. R., Griswold, W., Liebert, E., Keith, N. J., Wexler, L., Lax, T. J., and Griswold, W. (2021). Picturing Motherhood Now. Pg 118-119. Cleveland Museum of Art
Schmuckli, Claudia, Issac Julien and Wangechi Mutu. "I Am Speaking, Are You Listening?" de Young/ Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Del Monico Books, D.A.P., New York, NY
2020
de la Fuente, Alejandro. "Transition: The Magazine of Africa and the Diaspora, Issue 129," Hutchins Center at Harvard University, Indiana University Press, pg 27-45
2019
Hockley, Rujeko; and Jane Panetta. "Whitney Biennial 2019," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY pg 58
English, D., Barat, C., and Lowery, G. D. (2019). Among Others, Blackness at MoMA. Pg 322-323. Museum of Modern Art.
Barat, Charlotte. ed. "Among Others: Blackness at MoMA," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 2019.
2018
Schneider, Anna, "Blind Faith: Between the Visceral and the Cognitive in Contemporary Art," Munich: Prestel, pg. 122-127.
Chao, Marina, "Multiply, Identify, Her," New York: International Center for Photography, pg 52-57.
2017
Lewis, Heidi and Roland Mitchell, "Beyond Mammy, Jezebel and Sculpture and Sapphire," Portland: The Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, 2017, pg 14; 36-39; 65-67.
Colo, Holland Cotter, Mary Anne Staniszewski, Rachel Gugelberger, and Jeanette Ingberman, "Unfinished Memories/30 Yeras of Exit Art," New York: Steidl, pg. 88
"Thirty Years," New York: Socrates Sculpture Park, pg 70-71.
"Lucy’s Iris: Contemporary African Women Artists," (El Iris de Lucy: artistas africanas contemporaneas), Madrid: Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, pg. 176-179.
Direktor, Ruth, "Rearding Africa: Contemporary Art and Afro Futurism," Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, pg 92.
Phillips, Lisa, "New Museum: 40 Years New," New York: Phaidon, pg 164.
2016
Olowu, Duro, "Making and Unmaking," London: Ridinghouse and Camdnen Arts Centre, pg 36-37.
"Biennale Internationale de L’art Contemporain Casablanca," Casablanca: Maroc Premium Foundation, pg 32
Demand, Thomas (editor), "L’image volée," Milan: Fondazione Prada, pg. 13; 94-96
Della Monica, Lauren P., “Bodies of Work: Contemporary Figurative Painting,” Schiffer, Atglen, PA
2015
Hudson, Suzanne. "World of Art, Contemporary Painting," Thames & Hudson, pg 79-80
Malbert, Roger. "Drawing People: The Human Figure in Contemporary Art," Thames & Hudson
2013
Kent, Rachel, Wangechi Mutu, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia. Includes essays by Mbugua Kimani, Dan Cameron, and Adrienne Edwards.
Schoonmaker, Trevor; Stiles, Kristine; and Tate, Greg, "Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey," Duke University Press
Getlein, Mark. "Living With Art," Tenth Edition, McGraw Hill, pp. 55-56
2012
"VISIONS 15 Years Deutsche + Guggenheim," Deutsche Bank AG, November
Blisle, Jos. "Wangechi Mutu," Muse d’art contemporain de Montral
2011
The Luminous Interval, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain Angela
Thompson, Susan, "Wangechi Mutu, The Luminous Interval: The D. Daskalopoulos Collection"
Hou, Hanru. "The Power of Doubt," pp. 100-107
2010
Htte, Friedhelm, Ed. "Wangechi Mutu: My Dirty Little Heaven," with essays by Okwui Enwezor, Lauri Firstenberg, Courtney J. Martin, and Klaus Ottman, Deutsche Guggenheim, Hatje Kanz, Berlin
Moos, David and Jennifer Gonzalez, Odili Donad Odita, and Raphael Rubinstein. "Wangechi Mutu: This You Call Civilization?" Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, DAP Books.
"Visceral Bodies," Exhibition catalogue, Vancouver Art Gallery, pp. 56-57
"The Visible Vagina," Exhibition catalogue, Francis Naumann Fine Art/David Nolan Gallery
2009
rebelle, Art and Feminism 1960-2009, Museum of Modern Art, Arnheim, NL
Ditner, Judy, Ed. "Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video," ICP/ Steidl Holzwarth, Hans Werner, Ed. 100 Contemporary Artists, Taschen, Berlin
Bonham-Carter, Charlotte, and David Hodge. "The Contemporary Art Book," Goodman Books, Carlton Press, London
Hobbs, Robert, Franklin Sirmans and Michele Wallace. "30 Americans," Rubell Family Collection
Scala, W. Mark, ed. "Paint Made Flesh, First Center for Visual Arts," Vanderbilt University Press
"In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor," Laguna Art Museum in association with Gingko Press
"At Home/Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg," New York: CCS Bard
Holzwarth, Hans Werner. "Art Now, Vol. 3," Taschen, essay by Astrid Mania
"Prospect.1 New Orleans," texts by Barbara Bleomink, Dan Cameron, Lolis Eric Elie, and Claire Tancons, Picturebox Inc., Brooklyn, NY, November
Singleton, Douglas Ed. "Wangechi Mutu: A Shady Promise," Damiani Press, with essays by Isolde Brielmaier, Malik Gaines and Michael Veal, March
Video Studio, Studio Museum in Harlem, p. 5, Fall/Winter
Sultan, Terry, David Pagel, Colin Gardner, Claudia Schmuckli. "Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion," Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, D Giles Limited, London
Yo.n.l, Victoia Miro Gallery, London, UK
2007
"Global Feminisms, New Directions in Contemporary Art," Brooklyn Museum Merrell Publishers Limited, pp 53, 280
"Wangechi Mutu: The Cinderella Curse," ACA Gallery of SCAD, November
2006
Zoubok, Pavel. "The New Collage," Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York
Enwezor, Okwui. "The Unhomely Phantom Scenes in Global Society," October
"Wangechi Mutu," The Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery Met, New York
Gupta, Anjali, Wangechi Mutu, Blanton Museum of Art. "American Art Since 1900," Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, pgs 220-221
INFINITE PAINTING- Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, September, pg 122
Brandstetter, Anna-Maria, Violence/Trauma/Memory, ed. Marjorie Jongbloed, Volkswagen Foundation, Hanover, Germany
Ottmann, Klaus, Still Points of the Turning World, SITE Santa Fe International Biennial Exhibition, July
Bonami, Francesco, Cosulich, Canarutto, Sarah, Infinite Painting, Villa Manin Centro dArte Contemporanea, exhibition catalog, pg.122-123
2005
Dexter, Emma, Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawings, Phaidon Press, London and New York,essay page 214, illustrations page 215-217, bio page 334
Africa Remix, Hayward Gallery, London
McDowell, Tara. "New Work: Wangechi Mutu," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Kantor, Jordan. "Drawing from the Modern: 1975-2005," Museum of Modern Art, New York, p. 185
"Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Cultures," Pamela Auchincloss Arts Management and University of Richmond Museums, VA
Greater New York 2005, P.S. 1. Contemporary Art Center/ MoMA, Queens, NY, March Kuramitsu, Kris and LeFelle-Collins, Lizetta. "Linkages & Themes in the African Diaspora: Selections from the Eileen Harris Norton and Peter Norton Art Collections,,"
Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco
Boswell, Peter. "Wangechi Mutu – Amazing Grace," Miami Art Museum
Vielmetter, Susanne. "Wangechi Mutu," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, with essay by Christopher Miles
eleven eleven {1111} "Journal of Literature and Art," California College of the Arts San Francisco
Brielmaier, Isolde and Tu, Thuy Linh N. "Rewind/Re-Cast/Review," Berrie Arts Center, NJ
"Color Wheel Oblivion," Marella Arte Contemporanea, pp. 38-40
2004
"Africa Remix," Kunstpalast Dusseldorf, Germany
"Gwangju Biennial," South Korea
Muhammad, Dalya Erica. "Wangechi Mutu," The Studio Museum in Harlem, July
Cameron, Dan, Artpace Residencies and Exhibition Catalog, pg. 63-69
2003
Farrell, Laurie Ann. "Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora Museum for African Art," Long Island City, NY, catalogue essay by Laurie Firstenberg, Perverse Anthropology
Schoonmaker, Trevor. "Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti," The New Museum, New York
1997
Jones, Kellie. "Lifes Little Necessities: Installations by Women in the 1990s, Trade Routes: History and Geography," 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, p. 287

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2026
National Gallery Contemporary Fellowship, In Partnership with Artfund and Whitworth, The University of Manchester
2019
Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Inaugural Façade Commission, New York, NY
2018
Honoree African Art Awards Dinner, National Museum of African Art, Washington DC
2017
Artist Honoree, Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Gala, Washington DC
National Artist Award, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, CO
2016
Cultural Leadership Award, American Federation of Arts, New York, NY
2014
United States Artist Fellow
2013
African Diaspora Awards, New York, NY
Blackstar Film Festival Audience Award for Favorite Experimental Film, Philadelphia, PA
Brooklyn Museum Artist of the Year, Brooklyn, NY
2011
Cooper Union Augustus St. Gaudens Distinguished Artist Award, New York, NY
2010
Artist of the Year Award, Deutsche Bank
2008
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, New York, NY
Cooper Union Urban Visionaries Awards, Emerging Talent Award, New York, NY
2007
The Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Award New York, NY
2006
Presidents Citation in Art, Cooper Union, New York, NY
2005
Artist in Residence, Steep Rock, Washington, CT
2004
Artist in Residence, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX
The Chrysalis Award, The Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Art, New York, NY
2003
Artist in Residence, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Artist in Residence, Cooper Union, New York, NY
2001
Jamaica Center for the Arts Fellowship, Queens, NY
2000
Fannie B. Pardee Fellowship, New Haven, CT
1998
Masters of Fine Art Fellowship, Sculpture Department, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1994
Richard Leakey Merit Award, Nairobi, Kenya

Public Collections

Altoids Collection / New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Brooklyn Art Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
The Hague, Netherlands
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Judith Rothschild Foundation / The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Musée d’art contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, QC
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Nasher Museum, Duke University, Durham, NC
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL
Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MI
San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Tate Modern, London, UK
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Steve Roden

Born: 1964, Los Angeles, CA
Died: 2023, Los Angeles, CA
1989
MFA, Art Center College of Design Pasadena, CA
1986
BFA, Otis /Parsons, Los Angeles, CA
1985
Parsons, Paris, France

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026
"Steve Roden: wandering," UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art, Irvine, CA
2024
"floating over the silent world," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2023
"Tribute to Steve Roden," Studio La Cittå, Verona, Italy
2019
"could/cloud," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2018
"the walls with sand in a single neutral color,” Spazioersetti, Udine, Italy (Link)
2017
"Steve Roden," La Kunsthalle Mulhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Mulhouse, France (Link)
2016
“A Year Without Painting,” Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
“Extra-Ordinary Things,” Biola University, LA Mirada, CA
2015
Steve Roden and Alexandra Grant: These Carnations Defy Language, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
2013
"rag-picker", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"rag-picker," CRG Gallery, New York, NY
The Spaces Contained In Each, St. Cornelius Chapel, Governors Island, New York (collaboration with Stephen Vitiello)
Jenny Perlin & Steve Roden, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH, curated by Bruce Checefsky
2012
bells, shells, steps and silences, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
some small fires," Run Run Shaw Creative Media Center, City University of Hong Kong
notations, Marxhausen Gallery of Art, Concordia University, Seward, NE
rag picking, Singuhr Hoergalerie at Meinblau Kunsthaus, Berlin, Germany
a song without words / a music without sound, Le Bon Accueil, Rennes, France
rag picking (v.2), Chapellle Saint-Joseph, Montfort su Meu, France
2011
stones throw, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2010
Steve Roden: In Between: A Mid-Career Survey, curated by Howard Fox, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
blinking lights at night, Phonebox at IMO projects, Copenhagen, Denmark
when words become forms, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
2008
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"to these four horizons, Geluidpost/Lokaal01, Breda, the Netherlands
2007
Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects
2006
"lines and spaces", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, CA
"Steve Roden: recent work, Studio la Citt, Verona, Italy, curated by Valerio Deh
"steve roden: day ring, night ring, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, sound installation in James Turrells Skyspace
"Recent Monotypes, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA
2005
"seam arks, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
"seamarks", Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
"Steve Roden: Transmissions from Space", Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science, Fresno, CA
2004
"ear(th)", Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, in collaboration with the California Institute of Technology
"New Work", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"cups into clouds, songs into rain", e/Static Gallery, Torino, Italy
"stills (for guru dutt)", Tang Museum at Skidmore College, MY
2003
Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
"the silent world", Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"the surface of the moon", Suyama Space, Seattle, WA
"chamber music", Jack Straw New Media Gallery, Seattle, WA
2002
"light forms," Singuhr – Hrgalerie in Parochial, Berlin
"a year of skies," e/Static Gallery, Torino, Italy
"some reconstructions of wandering & inner space," Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
2000
Jenn Joy Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"mir/we ned to say goodbye," Studio Five Beekman, New York, NY
"The Guardshack, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA,
1999
"the anatomy of touch/ the alchemy of the verb," JennJoy Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997
Griffin Contemporary Exhibitions, Venice, CA
Pac Des Ouches, Nevers, France
1996
Griffin Contemporary Exhibitions, Venice, CA
1995
Gallerie OU’, Osaka, Japan
1992
Kaibundo Gallery, Kobe, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
"Re-Iterative II," curated by John David O’Brien, Terminal 5, LAX Airport, Los Angeles, CA
2023-2025
"Energy Fields: Vibrations of the Pacific," Curated by Lawrence English with Fulcrum Arts, Getty PST Initiative, Chapman University, Orange, CA
2023
"Fogli (Leaves)," Roswell Space Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Group Show, Organized by John O’Brien, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
2022
"Generations," Brand Art Library, Glendale, LA
2021-2022
"LA Biblioteca, Artists’ Books from Los Angeles/Italia," The Don B. Huntley Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona, CA (Link)
2020
"Audiosphere Sound Experimentation 1980-2020," Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"In Verbis Artis," HMCT Gallery at ACCD, Pasadena, CA
2019
"Centennial: 100 years of Otis College Alumni," Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2018
“Evolver,” LA Louver, Los Angeles, CA
2016
“Sound of Silece,” Broel Museum, Kortrijk, Belgium
“SYNAESTHESIA,” Five Car Garage, Los Angeles, CA
“Mas all del sonido,” Muntref-Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
MAK, curated by Michael Ned Holte, Schindler House, Los Angeles, CA
“Sweet Gongs Vibrating,” San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
2015
"Wunderkammer, Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont, CA
By This River, curated by Michael Solway, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
"The recorder was left on, or the closer I get to the end the more I rewrite the beginning, curated by Suzy Halajan, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Los Angeles, CA
2014
First International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias #1: Cartagena, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
"Left Coast: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Reverb!, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, curated by Max Presneill
Portraits of the Garden, Sturt Haaga Gallery, Descanso Gardens, La Caada Flintridge, CA
2013
"In the Sance Room: Acquisition Highlights from 2003-2013," Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
"heroes," Carter & Citizen, Los Angeles, CA
"Lines + Spaces" Joseloff Gallery at the Hartford Art School, curated by John Yau, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
Observer Effect, Gallery 400 at the University of Chicago Illinois, Chicago, IL
2012
Silence, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Finale, Inglewood Main Library, Inglewood, CA
Purepresence Presents: "Parisonic Room", La Gaite Lyrique, Pairs, France
2011
Time Again, Sculpture Center, New York, NY
Summer Group Sculpture Show, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
Game Theory, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
With Hidden Noise, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
An Exchange eith Sol Lewitt, Cabinet, New York
Absence/Presence: Contemporary Abstraction, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA
"In and Outside: Writing," Voorkamer, Lier, Belgium
"Worlds," Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
2010
The Hendersons Will Be There, BravinLee Programs, New York, NY
&#147;Inaugural Group Exhibition, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
The Drawing Machines, Galleria Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany
ARTe SONoro, curated by Jose Manuel Costa, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
Ear to the Page, curated by Alan Light and James Hoff, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
Re-Sound, Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, MO
Sound in Space, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
2009
at the Brewery Project: 1993-2007: the Finale, The Armory Gallery, Pasadena, CA (December 7, 2008 March 1, 2009)
"Hidden City, various sites, Peregrine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2008
"Selections from the Permanent Collection, EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
"L.A. Now," Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV, curated by David Pagel (Link)
"L.A. Paint," The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA, curated by Philip Linhares (Link)
"Perspectives 163: Every Sound You Can Imagine, The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX, curated by Toby Kamps and Christopher Cox and traveling to: New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA (February 5 March 28, 2009) (Link)
"Marfa Sessions, Marfa Ballroom and Various Sites, Marfa, Texas, curated by Regine Basha & the Relay Project
"Happy New Ears, Kortrijk, Belgium, curated by Joost Fonteyne (upcoming)
"Southern California Painting, Oakland Museum, CA, curated by Phil Linares
(dis)concert "sound objects, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
"Some Paintings: The Third (2007) LA Weekly Annual Biennial, Track 16, Santa Monica (curated by Doug Harvey)
"Before and After Science, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, curated by Michael Ned Holte
2007
"Mercosur Biennial, Porto Allegre, Brazil
"Sleppet (part of Grieg 07), Bergen, Norway, curated by Jorgen Larsen, traveling to Oslo
"soundwaves, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
"between thought and sound, The Kitchen, New York, curated by Debra Singer and Matthew Lyons (catalog)
"Reverberations: Steve Roden & Stephen Vitiello, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX, curated by Regine Basha
"decoupage (f d), Blank, Torino, Italy
"Open End, Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
"Kit Bashing, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA
"invisible. Other, New American Art Union, Portland, OR, curated by TJ Norris
2006
"The Grand Promenande, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, curated by Anna Kafetsi (two sound installations)
"Eco E Narciso, Museum of Modern Architecture (MaAm), Ivrea, Italy, curated by Danieal Cascella & Rebecca De Marchi
"Draw A Line, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Hollywood
"(Keep Feeling) Fascination: Recent Abstract Painting in Los Angeles, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State LA, Los Angeles
"Space is the Place, 2005 ICI Traveling Exhibition, curated by Alex Baker and Toby Kamps, ICA Portland, Maine, Cranbrook Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
"Intersections, Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron, Ohio
"Cityscapes, ARCO, Project Booth selected by Christopher Miles, presented by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Madrid, Spain
"Otis / LA, Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Immodesty, Another Year in LA, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Linda Day
2005
"Sculturra Liggera / Light Sculpture, 503 Mulino, Vincenza, Italy, curated by Simone Menegoi
"COLA, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Award, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Park Sounds, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK, with Paul Panhuysen
"EN/OF Editions, Printed Matter, New York, NY
"In the Abstract", Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Percussion Music, Solway Jones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Artists Select Artists", Kustera Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
"I10, McClean Gallery, Houston, TX
"je ne regrette rien, Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy
"Wordplay, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
"In Resonance, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, curated by Fionn Meade and Robert Millis
"sounds like drawing, The Drawing Room, London, UK, curated by Anthony Huberman
2004
"Listen", Pompidou Center, Paris, curated by Boris Tissot
"Specific Objects: The Minimalist Influence", Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA, with Sol LeWitt, Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Agnes Martin, Robert Irwin, John McLaughlin, Byron Kim, Daman Ortega, and others, La Jolla, CA
"Treble", The Sculpture Center, New York, NY, curated by Regine Basha, with Francis Alys, Euan McDonald, Max Neuhaus, Dario Robleto, Mungo Thompson, Steven Vitiello and others)
"Painting Now", The Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
"The Sound of Place / The Place of Sound", Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID
"southwestNET: PHX/LA", Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2003
"audiolab 2", Centre George Pompidou Museum, Paris, France
"Painting by Letters, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Eve Wood
"Graphic Eloquence", UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio, Texas, 2-person show with Jeff Elrod, curated by Francis Colpitt
"Before and After Sound", e/Static Gallery, Torino, Italy
"Transmission, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM, curated by Steve Peters
2002
"Resonance 2", Stadtgalerie, Saarbrucken, Germany
"25th anniversary selections exhibition, The Drawing Center,NY
"New Works / New Spaces, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, curated by Jay Belloli
"LA Freewaves, Marios Furniture, Los Angeles, CA, citywide media festival
2001
"In Between Outdoors", MAK Center for Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
"Cross-Cuts", Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA
"6 Degrees: Art in the Libraries, Hollywood Regional Branch LA Public Library, Los Angeles, CA
"Between Representation, INMO Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Doug Harvey
2000
"Break Step, INMO Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"En Red O", Centre de Cultura Contempornia de Barcelona, Spain
"Exquisitely Wrought, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA, curated by John OBrien
"The Other Side of Zero", Video Positive Festival, Tate Gallery Liverpool, UK
1999
"Fall Selections 99"The Drawing Center, New York, NY
"Motion Studies" Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
"Sig Alert, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ, curated by John Spiak
"Painting&#133;, Post, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Habib Khederyer
1998
"Sound, Refusalon, San Francisco, CA, curated by Jennifer Hope Davy
ISEA 98, various sites, Liverpool, UK
"Open Container, Refusalon, San Francisco, CA, curated by David Hunt
"Viaggiatori", Palazzo Dei Consoli, Gubbio, Italy
"The House Was Quiet, site specific installation, Senkoji Temple, Osaka, Japan
"Sound Pictures, Komaba Ryo Gallery, Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan
1997
"Parallels", Kunstalle Grassi-Museum, Leipzig, Germany
"Allegorical Re/Visions, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Noel Karten & Ruth Weisberg
1996
"Tangles", Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA
"Dal Campo dObsservazione to The Brewery, Palazio Ducale, Gubbio, Italy
"Triennial Sofia 96 Exhibition of Painting, Art Gallery of the Union of Bulgarian Artists, Sofia, Bulgaria
"Currents in Abstraction, Ikon Ltd/Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
1994
"Transtextualism", Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Far Bazzar, The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA
1993
"Peculiar Paintings", Woodbury College, Burbank, CA
"Germinal Notations", Food House, Santa Monica, CA
1992
"FAR Bazzar, The Old Federal Reserve Building, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Sound Performances, Installations, Film Screenings

2015
"re:sound / touch," Sound Festival, Mare Island, CA
Installation and Peformance: Vancouver Musical Festival, Simon Frazier University, Vancouver, Canada
Performance: Hidden Voices Conference, Aarhus, Trine, Denmark
2014
"bricks and mortar," Steve Roden and Stephen Vitiello, Muses de la ville de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
This, Neil Greenberg, Steve Roden, and James Kidd Studio, New York Live Arts, New York, NY
Steve Roden and Stephen Vitiello, Monoquini, Bordeaux, France
2013
Soundtracks for Ghosts Before Breakfast by Hans Richter, LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), Los Angeles, CA
2012
Performance, "Sequences and Scores", presented by LACE and the Los Angeles Filmforum at The Spielberg Theater at Egyptian Theater, Los Angeles, CA
Performance for "Shells, Bells, Steps and Silences" with Lawrence English, LACE, Los Angeles (Link)
2010
Performance, CEAIT Festival, REDCAT, Santa Monica, CA (FRIDAY MARCH 5, at 8:30 pm)
Screening, "Not a Place, An Outlook", Governors Island, NY, June September
Performance, Possible Landscape (for Donald Judd), 2010 01SJ Biennial, San Jose, CA
UNES PIERRE, DES ARCS ET DES OREILLES, web project, Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France
2008
Performance, "Glow, Dusk-to-Dawn, City of Santa Monica, Santa Monica, CA
"18 Happenings in 6 Parts, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), Hollywood, CA (director and performer of a re-invention of Allan Kaprows seminal 1969 work in conjunction with the MOCA Kaprow retrospective. With Michael Ned Holte, Simone Forti, Rae Shaolan-Blum, Flora Weigmann, Carol Stakenas, and Steve Irvin)
Collaborative Performance, "Mammoth, LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), Los Angeles, CA
2007
Sound installation and discussion with Jeremy Strick, MOCA director, "Dark Over Light Earth, MOCA Pacific Design Center, January 20
Performance, "Activating the Medium Festival, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
Screening, "everything else &/or nothing at all, International Film Festival, Rotterdam, January 27, 29
Reading and Sound Performance, with Simone Forti and Anne Tardos, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA
2006
Sound Performance, "Klang Aparatus, Tesla, Berlin Germany
Music Performance, "Tribute to the Life and Art of Nam June Paik at LACMA, Bing Theatre, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 1
San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, San Francisco, CA
2005
Performance, "Sound Architecture, Serpentine Gallery, London
Installation, "Soundwalk 05, sound festival various sites, Long Beach, CA
"The Bells, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA, live soundtrack to the silent film ‘the bells’
2004
Performance, "Suite in Parochial, Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, Singuhr Horgalerie in Parochial, Berlin (live Collaboration w/ Frank Bretschneider)
"Nest, commissioned site specific sound installation in downtown Ketchum, ID (part of sound of place show)
2003
Performance and Film Screening, "KYTN, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland
Performance and Artist in residence, "Paesinae, Theatre du Point Aveugle, Marseille, France
Performance, "Possible Landscape, MIT University, Boston, MA
Performance, "Possible Landscape, Bard College, New York, NY
Performance, "house of waterproof paper, 3 Nights of Fluxus, Otis Art Instituate, Los Angeles, CA
Performance, "Possible Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
2002
Performance, "Bell Forms, Stadt Galerie, Saarbrucken, Germany
Performance and Residency, Extrapool, Nijmegen, Holland
Performance, "Off12, Stadt Galerie, Saarbrucken, Germany
2001
Performance, "Flight Pattern, Podewil, Berlin, Germany
Performance, "Soundhouse, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles,CA
Performance, "12K/BipHop Festival, Tonic, New York City, NY
Film Screening, "Touch Tones, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2000
Sound Performance, Architeturra, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Performance, "Water Temple, Centro Brasileiro Britnico,So Paulo, Brazil
Performance, "Unfolding Resonance, Hayward Gallery London, UK
Film Screening and Performance, "Light Structures, Cinema Nova, Brussels, Belgium
Performance, "Interference, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1999
Installation & Performance, "Heizlufter, Sampling Rage Festival, Berlin, Germany
1998
Performance, "Helios Flying, REV, ISEA 98, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
Installation with Doug Aitken, "Hysteria, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Performance, "Soundwork, Tokyo (Uplink), Osaka (Senkouji Temple), Matsuyama (Sound Gallery), Kobe (Kobe Design University)
1997
Performance, "Cloud Moving, ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), London
Performance, "Enclosures, Festival Musique Ultimes’, Dijon, France
1996
Performance, "Ngattaugree, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), CA
Performance, "Somnia, Ducal Palace, Gubbio, Italy, with John OBrien and Toti Marcadante
1995
Performance, "Communicating Vessels, Interzone One: New Music Festival, Osaka, Japan
1994
Performance, "Asphalt Opera #9, Zenko Temple, Osaka, Japan
1993
Performance, "Phonography, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
1991
Performance, "Fireworks, Fandangos, Osaka; Sate Senin, Sayama; Theatre Poo, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

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2010
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2008
Between Thought and Sound, Exhibition Catalogue, The Kitchen
Wagley, Catherine, Rack Room: Interview with Steve Roden, ArtSlant, December
Rapko, John, LA Paint at the Oakland Museum, Artweek, Vol. 39, Issue 10, December
Kelly, Danielle, Now Were Talkin!, Las Vegas Weekly, December 18
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2007
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Santanna, Cristiano, "A Festa Das Artes, Correio Do Povo, December 1
Hanor, Stephanie, "Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling, exhibition catalog
Loomis, Nicky, "Artwork to Your Ears, Pasadena Star News, April 16
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Knight, Christopher, "They Help Make the L.A. Scene, Los Angeles Times, December 2
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2006
Knight, Christopher, "45 Painters Under 45, Los Angeles Times, December 2
Kubisch, Christina, "Best of 2006: Music, Artforum, December
Kafetsi, Anna, The Grand Promenade (exhibition catalogue), Hellenic Ministry of Culture and National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Holte, Michael Ned, "Steve Roden: Sound, paintings, and process; Alexander Graham Bell, kites and a grandmothers attic, Frieze, November/December, p. 145
Higgie, Jennifer, "The Grand Promenade, Frieze, November/December, p. 174
Lippens, Nate, "Roden Gives the Passage of Time An Amazing Aural Quality, Seattle PI, September 29
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2005
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Edwin Pouncy, Outer Limits, The Wire, UK, October, pp. 73
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__, Seamarks, San Francisco Art Institute, exhibition catalog, 36 pages [reproductions]
Bieber, Susanneh, "Steve Roden Transmissions from Space, Fresno Metropolitan Museum, exhibition brochure, 6 pages, [reproductions]
Heffley, Lynne, "An All-Around Soundfest, LA Times, august 19, pp:E2
Cassidy, Laura, "Surround Sound, Seattle Weekly, August 31, pp: 23 29
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Hackett, Regina, Art Review, Seattle Post Intelligencer, September 2, pp: 33
Simone Menegoi, Sebatiano Barassi, Daniela Cascella, Light Sculpture/Scultura Leggera, exhibition catalog, 503 Mulino, Italy, 188 pages, [reproductions]
Dr. Frauke von der Horst, Alan Nakagawa, Steve Roden, SoundWalk 2005, Flood, 16 page catalog & CD, includes the essay Active Listening by Steve Roden
Richard Janku, Laura, "Steve Roden, ArtUS, may/june, pp:24 25 [reproduction]
AA Bronson, Joeg Heiser, "Guido de Werd, EN/OF 001 – 030, Museum Kirhaus Kleve, Germany, 124 page, book & 3 X CD in slipcase
Canty, Scott, COLA 2005, Catalogue, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Dept., 88 pages [reproductions]
__, I10, exhibition catalog, Mcclean Gallery, Houston, Tx, 18 pages [reproduction]
Ned Holte, Michael, "Percussion Music, Artforum.com, Picks, March
Cox, Christoph, "On Time: The Loop and the Line, exhibition essay
Meade, Fionn, "In Resonance, Seattle Center (catalog essay)
Menegoi, Simone, "Light Sculpture Scultura leggera, essay from exhibition catalog with Wolfgang Laib, Gabriel Orozco, Erwin Wurm and Rachelk Whiteread.
Cascella, Daniela, "Listening Places, exhibition essay "Light Sculpture Scultura leggera (catalog)
Canty, Scott, COLA exhibition catalog, pg.40-41
Richard Janku, Laura, "Steve Roden, Art US, May Issue
Grundberg, Andy, "Loop: What Gose Around, Washington Post, March 20
Nolte, Michael, "Percussion Music", Artforum Pick, Artforum, March 10
2004
Hart, Hugh, "Artists plant new ideas about nature at Pasadena sites", LA Times, November
Cox, Christoph, "Treble", ArtForum, No.8, Pg.262, September
"Audio Files -Sound Art Now: An Online Symposium", Artforum, August 3
Frank, Peter, Art Pick of the Week, LA Weekly, July 31
Pagel, David, "A lively intellect that bucks the system", Los Angeles Times, E27, July 23
Licht, Alan, "New York Sculpture Center", WIRE, Issue 245, July
Holte, Michael Ned, "Steve Roden – Susanne Vielmetter", Los Angeles Critic’s Pick, ArtForum.com, July 17
O’Brien, John, "Activism isn’t a four letter word", Art Scene, June, Vol. 23, No.10
Harvey, Doug, "Stranded – the connected lives of Steve Roden", LA Weekly, April 30 – May 6
Cox, Christoph, ArtForum, May, issue, pg. 70
Kofoed, Kristian, "The Sound of Art – A conversation with Steve Roden", Artweek, October issue, pg 12 and 29
Cox, Christoph, "Return to Form", ArtForum, November
Knight, Christopher, "A game of show and tell", Los Angeles Times, November 21
Knight, Christopher, "Smaller, more creative", Los Angeles Times, December 21
Cutajar, Mario, "Painting by Letters", ArtScene, November, Vol. 23, No. 3
Cox, Christoph, "Return to Form,", ArtForum, November issue, pg. 67
Hall, Emily, The Stranger, Seattle, June 26 – July 2, Vol. 12, No. 41
LaBelle, Charles, "Steve Roden – Pomona College and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects", Frieze Magazine, May
Schulz, Bernd, "Resonances – Aspects of Sound Art", Catalog, Stadtgalerie Saarbruecken, Saarbruecken, Germany
Cox, Christoph, "Case Sensitive", feature article in WIRE, Issue 229, March, pg. 28-31
Knight, Christopher, "Encoded Creations (Steve Roden at Pomona College Museum and at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects", Los Angeles Times, January 27
"Steve Roden – the another silent green world", exhibition catalog, Pomona College Museum of Art
Frank, Peter, Art Pick of the Week, LA Weekly, January 24 – 30
Guido Curto, Steve Roden e/Static, Flash Art, Oct./Nov., Italy
Chiara Bertola, Steve Roden e/Static, Tema Celeste, Sept., Italy
Some Reconstructions of Wandering and Inner Space, Exhibition Catalog, Santa Barbara
CAF, Essays by Meg Linton & Christoph Cox., Santa Barbara, CA
Doug Harvey, Chaos Theory …, LA Weekly, June 7 13
Eric Fredericksen, Art of Noise, Architecture Magazine, May
BT Monthly Art Magazine, Vol. 54, no. 821, June, Japan
Eleanor Welles, Steve Roden, ArtScene, May, CA
2001
Snapshot, Exhibition Catalog, UCLA Hammer Museum, CA
Louanne Greenwald, In Between Art & Architecture, Exhibition Catalog, Mak Center for Art & Architecture, CA
David Pagel, Down to Earth & Eye Catching, LA Times, Oct. 16
Shana Dambrot, Snapshot, Tema Celeste, Oct., Italy
Elisa Turner, A Visual Tale of Two Cities, Miami Herald, Oct. 28
Aric Chen, How Many Inches, Surface Magazine, Spring, USA
Doug Harvey, Multiple Exposures, LA Weekly, june 22 28
2000
Olivier Lamm, Poesie del la Matiere, Planet of Sound, France
M. Moniot, Art Reviews, San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 22
Daniella Cascella, Costelazioni Sonore, Artel Contemporanei, no. 2, Italy
1999
Drawing Papers I, The Drawing Center, NY, exhibition catalog
Rob Young, Of Architecture & the Ear, The Wire, Oct., London, UK
Steve Roden & Brandon Labelle editors, Site Of Sound, Smart Art Press / Errant bodies, Los Angeles, CA
1998
Tyler Stallings, Review, Zing Magazine, Summer
Doug Harvey, Steve Roden, Art Issues, Jan., No. 51
Bradley Smith, The Billboard Guide to Progressive Music, Billboard Publications, USA
1997
Translations & Articulations, Exhibition Catalog, Griffin Contemporary Exhibitions, essays by Christopher Miles, B. Labelle, & Steve Roden

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2016
Rauschenberg Residency, Captiva, FL
2014
Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel Visiting Artist, Duke University, NC
2011
Foundation for Contemporary Arts, 2011 Artist Grant
2010
Chinati Foundation, Artist in Residence, Marfa, TX
2009
Jentel Artist Residency, Banner, WY
2008
California Community Foundation Getty Fellowship
2005
Nimoy Artist in Residency Grant, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2004
COLA Award, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, CA
City of Los Angeles COLA Award
City of Pasadena Individual Artist Grant, Pasadena, CA
2003
California Arts Council Grant in Visual Arts
Engine 27, New York, NY, grant and residency
2001
Durfee Foundation Grant

Public Collections

Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin, TX
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
National Museum of Contemporary Art / Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Athens, Greece
Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Pomona College Museum of Art, Pomona, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC

Alec Egan

1984
Born in Los Angeles, CA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
2013
MFA, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2007
BA, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
2006
The New School, New York, NY

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026
Solo Exhibition, Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (forthcoming)
"Groundskeeper," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2023
"Drawing Room," Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
"Blue Setting," Charles Moffett, New York, NY
2022
"Look Out," Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
2021
"The Study," Charles Moffet, New York, NY
"Miro’s Corner," Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2020
"August," Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
2019
"Pets," Charles Moffet, New York, NY
"Living Room," Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IA
2018
"Viewing Room," Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
"Welcome Home," California Heritage Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2016
"Sanctuary House," Ampersand Gallery, Portland, OR
"Close To Home," Freight and Volume, New York, NY
2014
"Luminous Opera," Western Project, Culver City, CA
2013
"You Should’ve Asked Your Dad About That," Bolsky Gallery, Los Angles, CA
2010
"Look," Room Gallery, Hartford, CT
2009
"Tranny," Box Eight, Los Angeles, CA
"Secret Agents," Sebrof International Gallery, New York, NY
"Recent Work," Studio 2507, Portland, OR

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025
"The Wave," Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
2024
"The First Taste," Anat Ebgi, New York, NY
2023
Group Show, Almine Rech, Paris, France
2020
"Good Company: Pt. 1," Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
"L.A. Views," Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Staycation," Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
2019
"The Conversation," Anat Ebgi at Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2016
"Memory Theater," Upfor Gallary, Portland, OR
"Sincerely Yours," Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2014
"Unknowable," Jaus, Los Angeles, CA
"The Status of Portraiture," Autonomy, Culver City, CA
2013
"Shutter Speed," De Service Garage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Untitled," Western Project, Culver City, CA
"MAS Attack," Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA Five, California Heritage Museum, Los Angeles, CA
"Chess," Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012
"All My Gilberts," Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011
"Voices," Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IA
2010
"NOHIO," Poor Dog Studio, Los Angeles, CA
2007
"Salt Shaker," Horn, Gambier, OH

Residencies & Studio Programs

2016
DNR Residency, Cape Cod, MA
2015
Millwork Residency, Dubuque, IA

Bibliography

2026
Mejía, Paula. "Trial By Fire," KCRW, May 7 (Link)
Spiller, Nancy. "Alec Egan: "The Groundskeeper" at Vielmetter Los Angeles," Art & Cake, April 28 (Link)
Urist, Jacoba. "The LA fires changed these artists’ lives — a year later, they’re still dealing with the fallout," The Financial Times, February 15
2025
Jacobs, Harrison. "The Best Booths at Art Basel Hong Kong 2025, From a Gold-Digging Video Game to Extravagant Installations," ARTnews, March 27 (Link)
Rabb, Maxwell. "The 10 Best Booths at Art Basel Hong Kong 2025," Artsy, March 26 (Link)
Hoffman, Ali. "Alec Egan Lost Everything in the L.A. Fires. Now, the Tragedy is Fueling His Newest Paintings," W Magazine (Link)
2021
Waddoups, Ryan. "We All Live Inside Alec Egan’s Freakish Floral Paintings," SURFACE Magazine, September 6
2020
Zellen, Jody. "Alec Egan at Anat Ebgi Gallery," Artillery, September/October, Print
Cohen, Alina. "17 Contemporary Artists Reimagining the Still Life," Artsy, August 7
Goldstein, Caroline. "Painter Alec Egan’s Luscious Interiors and Brightly Lit Landscapes Are the Subject of a New Show at Anat Ebgi," artnet, July 24
2019
"Alec Egan at Anat Ebgi," Patron Magazine, April: p. 78-79. Print.
2018
"Vividness in Alec Egan’s ‘Viewing Room’ at Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles," Artinfo
2013
“Studio Visit With Alec Egan,” 3 Cities Productions,
2012
Herod, Regina. “Interview with Alec Egan,” Object Cathexis MFA Publication: p. 32- 38. Print.
2010
“Kara Chats with Artist Alec Egan,” Better Connecticut, Daily Motion, Television.
2006
“The Heather Stalks," Chanterelle’s Notebook, a poetry e-zine.
2005
“Untitled," The Horn Magazine: p. 18-23. Print

Public Collections

Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT
The Saunders Collection, Berlin, Germany

Ever Baldwin

1978
Born in Brookline, MA
Lives and works in Catskill, NY
2005
MFA in Studio Art, School of The Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, Boston, MA
2000
BFA in Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024
"Stranger in the Echoes," Marinaro, New York, NY
2023
"Down the Line," Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
2022
"Ever Baldwin & Wayne Fischer," LeFebvre et Fils, Paris, France
"Quiet Yes," Marinaro, New York, NY
"PLENTY," Five Car Garage/Emma Gray HQ, Los Angeles, CA
2021
"Between Observation and Sensation," JAG Projects at Hudson House Reserve, curated by Elisa Soliven, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
2018
"An Animal Unto Itself: Ever Baldwin & Anna Ortiz," curated by Tom Marquet, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015
"Labor Day," Curt’s Door Gallery, Chicago IL
2007
"A Bad Bad Xmas For Cursed Earth! Ever Baldwin and Royal Robertson", Sunday Gallery, NY
"Don’t Let Nobody Make You Mad," Sunday Gallery, New York, NY
2006
"Mythmaking: Ever Baldwin and Ann Young," Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, VT

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026
"No Point in Making Myself Comfortable," Springs Projects, New York, NY (forthcoming)
2025
"The Horror II, "The University of Texas, Dallas, TX
"Summer Spell," Marinaro, New York, NY
"The River That Flows Both Ways," Ruthann, Catskill, NY
"Signal Intelligence," eyes never sleep, New York, NY
"The Middle Ages, " Roundabouts Now, Kingston, NY
"Bride of the Far Side," Post Times, New York, NY
2024
"Pluperfect: an action of continued relevance," 81 Leonard Gallery, New York, NY
"Secular Gothic," eyes never sleep, New York, NY
"The Return of Histoire Naturelle," Chex Max et Dorothea, Los Angeles, CA
"Looking Back/The 14th White Columns Annual," White Columns, New York, NY
2023
"The Triumph of Death," Marinaro, New York, NY
"Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022
"Jung Lovers," Soloway, Brooklyn, NY
JAG projects at Foreland, Catskill, NY
"Recipes for Romance," curated by Nick Payne, Hudson House, NY
2021
Forge Collection public exhibition, Taghkanic, NY
JAG projects at Hudson House Staff Show, Art Omi, Ghent, NY
2020
Holiday Show, LABSpace, Hillsdale, NY
Eddysroom at Left Field, curated by Austin Eddy, Left Field Gallery, Los Osos CA
"Infinite Uncertainties," Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY
2019
"Limbic Songs," Curated by Cotter Luppi, Real Eyes Gallery, North Adams, MA
"The Endless Body," curated by Julia Klein, TSA Chicago, IL
2018
"New School," Greene County Council on The Arts, Catskill, NY
Art To Go Benefit, Transmitter, Brooklyn, NY
2017
Summer Exhibition, Curated by Sarah Butler, D.R. Evarts Library, Athens, NY
"Act 1," September Gallery, Hudson, NY
"Escape Portal," Community Room, Cairo, NY
2016
Group Exhibition at Eddy’s Room, Brooklyn, NY
"Conceptualize/Realize," Marwen Foundation, Chicago, IL
2015-2016
"Buy What You Love Benefit Auction," Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York, NY
2015
"Person, Place or Thing: Works on Paper by 51 Artists," 68 Projects, Berlin, Germany
2014
"Buy What You Love Benefit Auction," Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York, NY
"InsideOut," Atlantic Center for The Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2013
ACRE’s Art Expo Satellite Exhibition, Susanin’s Auction House, Chicago, IL
2012
"Movements and Transformations," ACRE Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Quiet Echo on Loud Wind," With Laura Hart Newlon, ACRE Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011
"Hot China," Estrella Gallery, Truth or Consequences, NM
"Wish You Were Here," Niche Gallery, Truth or Consequences, NM
"Chain Letter," Samson Projects, Boston, MA
"Restore Defaults," Camel Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
2010
"Black Thursday Halloween City Black Friday Fireworks Stand," Troutman Studios, Brooklyn, NY
"The Romance Show," Curated by Sasha Panyuta, New York, NY
2009
"What It Is!" In collaboration with Matthew Ward, Repetti Gallery, Queens, NY
"Good Vibrations," curated by Jasmin Tsou at Carol Bove’s studio, New York, NY
"Quizotic," Troutman Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2008
Studio Artists Exhibition, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
2007
"Conversational Lag," Freight and Volume, New York, NY
"Chuck has a fat fucking ass (MFA Thesis Exhibition)," Tufts University, Medford, MA

Selected Awards & Grants

2021
NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship: Painting
2017
Publication: Bites, an artist board book by (Ever) Baldwin, Soberscove Press, Chicago, IL
2014
DCASE Individual Artist Program grant recipient, Chicago, IL
Atlantic Center for The Arts Residency with Artist Dana Schutz, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2013
Ragdale Artist Residency, Lake Forest, IL
2012
ACRE Artist Residency, Steuben, WI
2011
Byrdcliffe Artist Residency, Woodstock, NY
2008
Museum of Arts and Design, Artist in Residence, New York, NY

Bibliography

2023
Irons, Hillary. “Modernism Both Past and Present Shine in Two Shows at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art,” Boston Art Review, November
2022
Smith, Roberta. “What to See in NYC Galleries Right Now,” The New York Times, August
Gerwin, Daniel. “Ever Baldwin,” Artforum, May

Public Collections

ICA Miami, Miami, FL
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME

Jared McGriff

Born in Los Angeles, CA
1999
BA Architecture, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2008
MBA, New York University, New York, NY

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025
"The Stakes are Myself," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2023
"The Burden of Song Carrying," Historic Hampton House Museum of Culture & Art, Miami, FL
"On Being A Big Dream," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022-2023
"Jared McGriff," Rubell Museum, Miami, FL
2022
"Where We Are You," NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2020
"Only Touching the Ground to Jump," Spinello Projects, Miami, FL
2019
"Alone Together," Spinello Projects, Miami, FL

Selected Fair and Group Exhibitions

2026
"Close to Home," NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL (forthcoming)
"Unreal," Seacrist Beach, Chicago, IL
2024
"Mirror of the Mind: Figuration in the Jorge M. Perez Collection," El Espacio 23, Miami, FL
2024-2025
"Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing," co-presented by The FLAG Art Foundation and The Church, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
2023
"So Red It Looks Black," COMA Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL
2022
"American Journey," Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
EXPO Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
"Fire, Figure, Fantasy," ICA Miami, Miami, FL
Armory Show, Javits Center, New York, NY
Florida Prize Exhibition, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
2021
"Lineages: Works from the Collection," NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2020
PRIZM Art Fair, Miami, FL (online)
"Time-Sensitive," Spinello Projects, Miami, FL
2019
PRIZM Art Fair,, Alfred Dupont Building, Miami, FL
"Grounded," Spinello Projects, Miami, FL
"Inter|sectionality," Moore Building, Miami, FL (traveling exhibition)
"Inter|sectionality," The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African – American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC (traveling exhibition)
"Inter|sectionality," Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, Washington, DC (traveling exhibition)
"Makings of You," Annex Gallery, Detroit, MI
2018
PRIZM Art Fair, Alfred DuPoint Building, Miami, FL
Collaboration 2018, CityPlace, Palm Beach, FL
2017
PRIZM Art Fair, MANA Downtown, Miami, FL
NVisible Atelier Group Show, Warehouse416, Oakland, CA
"Art of the Living Black," Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
2016
MATATU Film Festival, CIIS, San Francisco, CA

Bibliography

2024
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2025
Braver, Rita. "The art of boxing," CBS News, February 9 (Link)
2024
da Silva, José. "In pictures: sport at Art Basel," The Art Newspaper, June 14 (Link)
2023
Sokol, Brett. "Miami Has Matured into a Cultural Capital. What’s Next?," The New York Times, December 5 (Link)
Treaster, Joseph B. "Miami’s Rise as an Art Hub Draws Artists and Offers Inspiration," The New York Times, December 5 (Link)
Smith, Melissa. "6 Galleries Changing the Conversation at New York’s 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair," artnet news, May 19 (Link)
2022
Durón, Maximilíano. "At New York’s Armory Show, Dealers Sell Works Worth Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars," ArtNet News, September 9 (Link)
Gómez-Upegui, Salomé. "‘Fire, Figure, Fantasy’ Reflects Miami’s Thriving Art Scene, Frieze, July 7 (Link)
2021
Iglesias, José A. "After working in tech in the Bay Area, Jared McGriff moved to Miami to make art," Miami Herald, November 29 (Link)
Sokol, Bret. "Art Basel Miami Beach Returns, Smaller but Ready to Party," New York Times, November 24 (Link)
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2020
Sokol, Bret. "Art Basel Miami Beach Was Canceled, but the Show Goes On," New York Times, November 27 (Link)
2019
Warren, Kaylee. "‘Love in the Time of Hysteria’—3 Miami Basel artists reflect on artistic freedom in a world of social chaos," Document, December 4 (Link)
2018
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2017
Hunter Davis, Melissa. "Studio Visit: Jared McGriff," July (Link)

Awards, Residencies, and Grants

2022
Orlando Museum of Art’s Florida Prize
2021
South Florida Cultural Consortium Grant

Public Collections

The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL
Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX
ICA Miami, Miami, FL
Miami-Dad County Art in Public Places, FL
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL
NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Rubell Museum, Miami, FL