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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)

Keimig, Jasmyne, “Black Girl Magic, Mickalene Thomas, and Being My Own Muse,” The Stranger (web), September 21 (Link)

Michael, Michael Love, “In Conversation: John Edmonds and Mickalene Thomas,” Paper, September 19 (Link)

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)

Cascone, Sarah and Caroline Goldstein, “From Mark Bradford in Baltimore to Victor Hugo in LA: 33 Museum Shows Around the US Worth Traveling For,” Artnet News (web), September 5 (Link)

Belcove, Julie L, “Artist Mickalene Thomas: “It was always a political statement,” The Financial Times (web), August 31 (Link)

“Datebook: Our Top Columbus Events for September,” Columbus Monthly (web), August 31 (Link)

Clemans, Gayle, “A look at painter Mickalene Thomas’ lesser-known photography at Henry Art Gallery,” The Seattle Times (web), August 29 (Link)

Armstrong, Annie, “Carrie Mae Weems, Mickalene Thomas, Zoe Buckman, More Will Make Art for Planned Parenthood’s ‘Unstoppable’ Campaign,” Art News, August 2 (Link)

Najjar, Christina, “Three New York City Artists to Follow on Instagram This Month,” Hamptons (web), June 5 (Link)

Small, Zachary, “In Rihanna Photoshoot for Vogue Paris, Juergen Teller Cribs Imagery from Mickalene Thomas,” Hyperallergic (web), July 24 (Link)

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

Upchurch, Michael, “Mother as muse in a powerful show of Black beauty,” Crosscut (web), July 23 (Link)

“10 LGBTQ+ Artists who Redefined Contemporary Art,” Mutual Art (web), June 7 (Link)

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

 

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

2026
"Spotlight: Brittney Leeanne Williams," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
2025
The Armory Show, Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY
2024
"The Form in Which the Spirit Dresses," Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
2023
"Brittney Leeanne Williams: Huddle," Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY
"Brittney Leeanne Williams: I’m There Where the Angel Is Missing," Newchild, Antwerp, Belgium
"Brittney Leeanne Williams: 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
"Brittney Leeanne Williams: 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

Selected Fair and Group Exhibitions

2026
"Unmade," Newchild, Antwerp, Belgium (forthcoming)
2025
"History or Premonition," Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA
"For Pete’s Sake 2.0," Market Art Fair, Carl Kostyál, Stockholm, Sweden
"When Mountains Dance with the Ocean," Bode, Cape Town, South Africa
2024
"Grace Under Fire," Curated by Kyle DeWoody, Laura Dvorkin and Maynard Monrow, The Shepherd, Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI
"Arcus," Rachel Uffner, New York, NY
"Monomythology," The Hole, New York, NY
"Space Race," Curated by Dexter Wimberly, Lehmann Maupin, London, UK
2022
"Elegies: Still Lifes in Contemporary Art," Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA
"Through a Glass, Darkly," Carl Kostyál, London, UK
"Gardens of Ten Seasons," Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
"Shivering Trees, Curling Flames," Newchild Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
"The Natural World: Part II," Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY
"FuturePresent: Acquisition Highlights from the Permanent Collection," Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, NC
"Elegies: Still Lifes in Contemporary Art," The Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD), San Francisco, CA
"Abigail Lucien and Brittney Leeanne Williams," Deli Gallery, New York, NY
Kathmandu Triennale, Kathmandu, Nepal
FOG Design+Art, Alexander Berggruen
2021
"Black is Beautiful: Recent Gifts from Black Art in America and Najee & Seteria Dorsey," Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
"Universes 4," Galerie Droste, Paris, France
"Sweet Jane in Fields of Daisies," Phillips (online)
"Stockholm Sessions," Carl Kostyál Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
"Otherwise/Revival," Bridge Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"Don’t Call Me Muse," Collaborations, Copenhagen, Denmark
2020
"Ma was Heavy," Newchild, Antwerp, Belgium
"This Sacred Vessel (Pt 3.)," Arsenal Contemporary, New York, NY
Enter Art Fair, The Hole, Copenhagen, Denmark
"Sit Still," Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, NY
"We Begin with Noticing," Deli Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
"Garden of Six Seasons," Para Site Gallery, Hong Kong
"Second Smile," The Hole, New York, NY
"No Time Like the Present," PUBLIC Gallery, London, UK
"Quarters: Anne Buckwalter, Dustin Hodges, JJ Manford, Brittney Leeanne Williams," Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY
"Blackstract," TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Circle Within a Square," (Two Person), LVL3 Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019
"A Tale of Today," Driehaus Museum and EXPO Chicago, Chicago IL
"The Barn Show," Johannes Vogt, New York, NY/East Hampton, NY
"Show Me Yours," Monique Meloche, Chicago, IL
"Fresh Fruit," Curated by Benjamin Tischer, Situations Gallery, New York, NY
"Give Me Body!," MoCADA, Brooklyn, NY
2018
"UNTITLED," Art Miami, Zevitas Marcus Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
EXPO CHicago, Spudnik Press Cooperative, Chicago, IL
"The Annual," Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
"Cosmic Traffic Jam," Zevitas Marcus, Los Angeles, CA
"Not An Inert Box," Triumph, Curated by Danny Floyd, Chicago, IL
“UNTITLED,” Art Miami, Zevitas Marcus Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
EXPO Chicago, Spudnik Press Cooperative, Chicago, IL
“The Annual,” Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
“Cosmic Traffic Jam,” Zevitas Marcus, Los Angeles, CA
“Not an Inert Box,” Curated by Danny Floyd, Triumph, Chicago, IL
"Home/Lands," The Object Press, Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
"Noonlight," EFA Blackburn 20|20, New York, NY
2017
"Petty Biennial," Curated by La Kiesha Leek, Arts Incubator, Chicago, IL
"Art at the Margin," Hunter College Project Space, Hunter College, New York, NY
"Lil Swim," Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Here + Now," Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
2016
"The Art of Blackness," Block 37, Chicago, IL
"Women We Love," Gallery 19, Chicago, IL
"Shared History: 150 SAIC Anniversary," South Side Community Art Center, Chicago, IL
"Abandoned Margins: Policing The Black Female Body," WomanMade, Chicago, IL
2015
"I Can;t Breathe," ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
"(N),either (N)or," Curatorial Lab, Chazen Museum, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

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

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

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
"To Share a Stomach," The Brick, Los Angeles, CA
"Ongoingness," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"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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2026
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2025
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2024
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2023
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2021
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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2009
Ewing, John. "No Bees, No Blueberries," Art Lies, Fall, pp. 94-95
Portfolio, First Person, Issue 3, fall 2009, pp. 64-69
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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

Patrick Wilson

Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
1970
Born in Redding, California
1995
MFA, Claremont Graduate School, CA
1993
BA, University of California, Davis, CA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026
Solo Exhibition, Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2024
"Patrick Wilson," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
"Field Sketch," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022
"Patrick Wilson," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
2021
"Keeping Time," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2019
"Patrick Wilson," Miles McEnery, New York, NY
2018
"Patrick Wilson," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2017
"Patrick Wilson," Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York, NY
2015
"Patrick Wilson," Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York, NY
2014
"Evolving Geometries: Line, Form, and Color," Moss Art Center at Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA
"Steak Night," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2012
"Patrick Wilson: Pull," University Art Museum, California State Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
"Color Space," Ameringer, McEnery, Yohe, New York, NY
"Slow Motion Action Painting," Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco, CA
2011
"Good Barbecue," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2010
"The View from My Deck," Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco, CA
2009
"Always For Pleasure," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"Slow Food," Curators Office, Washington DC
2008
"Considering Truth and Beauty," Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco, CA
"Suite for Mount Washington – works on paper," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects (project space)
2007
"Some Things I Like," Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH
2006
"The Chandler Paintings," Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
"Hothouse Flowers," Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH
2005
"The Course of Empire," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"Patrick Wilson: West," Fusebox, Washington, DC
2004
"New Paintings," Brian Gross Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Oil Fields," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2003
"New Paintings," Fusebox, Washington, DC
2002
"L.A." Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"Patrick Wilson: Dark City," Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2001
"Patrick Wilson," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2000
Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY
Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
1999
Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026
"Cold Comfort," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
2025
“California Dreaming," Contemporary Art Matters, Columbus, OH
"Summer Hang," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
2024-2025
“All Bangers, All The Time: 25th Anniversary Exhibition," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
2024
"Latest and Greatest: New Work," The Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
2022
"Making a Mark: Abstraction in the Ahmanson Collection," The Ahmanson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Summer Drift," Miles McEnery, New York, NY
"Plants Now!" Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Good Vibrations," curated by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp and Shana Nys Dambrot, Palm Springs Convention Center, Intersect Art and Design Fair, Palm Springs, CA
2021
"FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANONYMOUS," North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND (Link)
"Break + Bleed," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2020
"20 Years: Anniversary Exhibition," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Do You Think It Needs A Cloud?," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2019
"The Responsive Eye Revisited: Then, Now, And In-Between," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
2018
“Michael Reafsnyder & Patrick Wilson,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
"Belief in Giants," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (Link)
2017
“On The Road: American Abstraction," David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI
“Pivotal: Highlights from the Collection,” Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
2016
“Geometrix: Lin, Form, Subversion,” Curator’s Office, Bethesda, MD
2014
"NOW-ism: Abstraction Today," Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH (Link)
2013
"California Visual Music Three Generations of Abstraction," Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Co-curated by Marcus Herse and David Michael Lee, Orange, CA
2012
"Local Color," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2011
"Sea Change: The 10th Anniversary Exhibition," Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco, CA
2010
"Tomorrow’s Legacies: Gifts Celebrating the Next 125 Years," Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Inaugural Group Exhibition, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"California Biennial," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
"Summer Selections," Ameringer McEnery Yohe, New York, NY
2009
"Broodwork," Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, CA
"Summer 09," Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH
"Electric Mud," University of Houston, TX; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, curated by David Pagel (January 17 – March 29, 2009)
2008
"iCandy: Current Abstraction in Southern California," Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA
"Swim," Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH
2007
"Keeping it Straight: Right Angles and Hard Edges in Contemporary Southern California Art," Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA, curated by Peter Frank
2006
“Claremont Connections: Selections From the Permanent Collection," Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
"Abstraction," Mulry Fine Art, West Palm Beach, FL
2005
"Two-Fold: Patrick Wilson – Richard Wilson," Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, curated by David Pagel
"Into the Light," Scape Gallery, Corona Del Mar, CA
"Fabulous," Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH
"Gyroscope," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
2004
"New," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City CA
"Tremolo," Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH
2003
“Unstable," Fusebox, Washington, DC
"Place," Harris Art Gallery at the University of La Verne, La Verne, CA
2002
"Chromophilia," Fusebox, Washington DC
2001
“The Permanent Collection: 1970 – 2001," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Heat," Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
"New Work: LA Painting," Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Monochrome / Monochrome?," Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Lilly Wei
2000
"Cool Painting 2000," Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
"Maximal / Minimal," Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
"2000 Anos Luz," Instituto Oscar Dominguez, Teneriffe
1998
"Cool Painting," Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
"Four: Painting in the Abstract," The Living Room, San Francisco, CA
"Transcendence, An Exhibition Celebrating Works of Irish and Irish American Artists," Mount San Antonio College, Walnut, CA
1997
"Generational Abstractions," Ruth Bachofner, Santa Monica, CA
"L.A. Emerging," Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1996
"Drawn Conclusion: Southern California Drawing," Riverside Art Museum, CA
"California Focus: Selections from the Collection of the Long Beach Museum," Long Beach Museum, Long Beach, CA
"Time Splits Open: Fifteen Narratives," Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1994
"Next," California State University, Los Angeles, CA

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2009
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2008
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2006
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2003
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2002
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1998
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1997
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Public Collections

Auchenbach Collection, Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, CA
Benton Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, West Palm Beach, FL
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C
Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Minnesota Museum of American Art, Saint Paul, MN
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Phyllis and Ross Escalette Permanent Collection of Art, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

Mx Nicole Eisenman

1965
Born in Verdun, France
Lives and works in New York, NY
1987
BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025
‘"Schloss Lyfe," Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg, Derneburg, Germany
"Nicole Eisenman: STY," 52 Walker, New York, NY
"Nicole Eisenman: Plastered," Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
2024
"Nicole Eisenman," Sadie Coles HQ, London, England
"Fixed Crane," Madison Square Park, New York, NY
"with, and, of, on Sculpture," Hauser & Wirth, Paris, France
2023-2024
"Nicole Eisenman. What Happened," Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany. Traveling to: Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2023); MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL (2024).
2023
"Nicole Eisenman: Prince," Print Center New York, New York, NY
2021-2022
"Köpfe, Küsse, Kämpfe; Nicole Eisenman und die Modernen," Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany. Traveling to: Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland (2021); Foundation Vincent Van Gogh Arles, Arles, France (2021); Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Hague, Netherlands (2022). (Link)
2021
"Nicole Eisenman: Prince," University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst MA (Link)
"Maquette and Paper Pulp Works," Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY (Link)
"Giant Without a Body," Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
2020
"Nicole Eisenman and Keith Boadwee," Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY
"Where I Was, It Shall Be," Hauser & With Somerset, Bruton, UK
"Nicole Eisenman: Sturm und Drang," The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX
"Incelesbian," Anton Kern, New York, NY
2018
"Baden Baden Baden," Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany (Link)
"Dark Light," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"A Valentine’s Day Show," Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY (Link)
2017
Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL
“Faces: Painted Reliefs,” Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
"Dark Light," Secession, Vienna, Austria (Link)
Skulptur Projekte Münster, Münster, Germany
2016
Hydra Workshop, Hydra, Greece
"Al-ugh-ories," New Museum, New York, NY (Link)
“Magnificent Delusion,” Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
2015
"Masterpieces & Curiosities: Nicole Eisenman’s Seder," The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
"The Kiss," Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany
2014
"Dear Nemesis, Nicole Eisenman 1993 – 2013," Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO, curated by Kelly Schindler; traveling to the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Philadelphia, PA; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), San Diego, CA
2013
"Nicole Eisenman / MATRIX 248," University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2012
"Woodcuts, Etchings, Lithographs and Monotypes," Leo Koenig Gallery, New York, NY
"Tis but a scratch A scratch?! Your arms off! No, it isnt," Studio Voltaire, London, UK (Link)
2011
"New Paintings", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"READYKEULOUS; The Hurtful Healer: The Correspondence," Invisible-Exports, New York, NY
2009
"Nicole Eisenman," Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
"Nicole Eisenman," Leo Koenig Inc., New York, NY
2008
"Coping," Barbara Weiss Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2007
"A Show Born of Fear," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
"Nicole Eisenman," Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland; Le Plateau, Frac Ile de France, Paris, France
2006
"Progress: Real and Imagined," Leo Koenig Inc., New York, NY
2005
"A Show Called Nowhere," Barbara Weiss Gallery, Berlin, Germany
"Chunga en el callejon del Cuajo," Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico (with Jessica Rodriguez)
2004
"Nicole Eisenman: ALL FOR THE GOO(D)," Van Horn, Dusseldorf, Germany
"Elizaville," Leo Koenig Inc., New York, NY
2003
“Nicole Eisenman: Selected Works 1993-2003”, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, curated by Andrea Inselmann
2002
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2000
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1999
Entwistle Gallery, London, UK
1998
"Behavior, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1996
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
Galerie Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam, Netherlands (with Jason Fox)
1995
Centraal Museum Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1994
"Nicole Eisenman," Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
1993
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Trial Balloon, New York, NY
1992
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026
"Generative Disruption: Feminist Art from the Collection," Ruby City, San Antonio, TX
"Ongoingness," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"See it Now: Contemporary Art from the Ann and Mel Schaffer Collection," Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2025
"Copyists," Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
"Small Format Paintings," 56 Henry, New York, NY
"A Certain Form of Hell," Karma Gallery, Thomaston, ME
"Woman in a Rowboat," Olivia Foundation, Mexico City, Mexico
"The Monster," Pace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"How’s My Painting? Paintings from the Falckenberg Collection’," Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
"Da Cindy Sherman a Francesco Vezzoli. 80 artisti contemporanei. Opere dalla collezione Iannaccone," Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
"Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Film, Video, Sound – Ringier Collection 1995-2025," Langen Foundation, Museum Insel Hombroich, Neuss, Germany
"Ghosts: Visualizing the Supernatural," Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2024-2025
"Sex: Jüdische Posi­tionen," Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Traveling to: Jewish Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2024
"Portraiture: From Cassatt to Freud," Acquavella Galleries, Palm Beach, FL
"Pierogi 30: 30th Anniversary Exhibition," Pierogi Gallery, New York, NY
"Scientia Sexualis," ICA LA, Los Angeles, CA
"My Eyes are Like Funnels, My Ass is a Hand," Nicole Eisenman and Edith Hammar, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
"The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition," Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
"The Way I See It: Selections from the KAWS Collection," The Drawing Center, New York City, NY
"Flowers of Romance," Lodovico Corsini, Brussels, Belgium
"Are You Joking? Women & Humor," The Church, Sag Harbor, NY
"Get in the Game," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
"The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy," The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
2023
"Dix And The Present," Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
"Ridykes’ Cavern of Fine Inverted Wines and Deviant Videos," Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
"Lily van der Stokker, Nicole Eisenman: Flowers for Frat Guys," Leo Koenig Inc, New York, NY
"Groove: Artists and Intaglio Prints, 1500 to Now," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
"Dreaming of Home," Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY
"Ugly Painting," Nahmad Contemporary, New York, NY
"50 Paintings," Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
"Before Tomorrow," Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
"Full and Pure: Body, Materiality, Gender," Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX
"GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNG," Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Bruton, UK
"Exercises in Imagination," National Academy of Design, New York, NY
"RIDICULOUSLY YOURS! Art, Awkwardness and Enthusiasm," HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz, Austria
"Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2022
"Boil, Toil & Trouble," Curated by Zoe Lukov, West Palm Beach, FL
"A Maze Zanine, Amaze Zaning, A-Mezzaning, Meza-9," David Zwirner and Performance Space New York, New York, NY
"Women Painting Women," The Modern, Fort Worth, TX
"This is Not America’s Flag," The Broad Museum, Los Angeles, CA
"Vero Collects: Hidden Treasures Revealed," Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL (Link)
2021
"Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40," SMART Museum, Chicago, IL
"Closer to Life: Drawings and Works on Paper in the Marieluise Hessel Collection," CCS Bard College Galleries, Bard College, NY (Link)
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2020
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Future Future," Hair and Nails Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
"Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium," Whitechapel, London, UK
2019-2020
"The Foundation of the Museum: MOCA’s Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
"Mask: In Present-Day Art," Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
2019
"Show Me As I Want To Be Seen," The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco CA
"Forever Young," Brandhorst Museum, Munich, Germany
"A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women," Zernez, Switzerland
"7 Painters," Greene Naftali Gallery, New York NY (Link)
"Nicole Eisenman: Nineteen Nineties," Tilton Gallery, New York, NY (Link)
"What Beauty Is, I Know Not," König Galerie, Berlin, Germany
"May You Live In Interesting Times," 58th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
"Wars," David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY
"Pulled in Brooklyn," International Print Center, New York, NY
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Fire," Company Gallery, New York, NY
"Palimpsest," Lismore Castle, Lismore, Ireland
"Drawn Together Again," FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
Studio Voltaire Benefit Exhibition, London, UK
2018-2019
"Noise! Frans Hals, Otherwise," Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands
2018
"The Trick Brain," Aishti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon (Link)
"This Woman’s Work," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA (Link)
"TEN," Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"Sculpture Garden," Art Lot, Brooklyn, NY
“tears then holes,” Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY
“Intimacy,” curated by Stephen Truax, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
“Go Figure,” Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
“In Tribute to Jack Tilton: A Selection from 35 Years,” Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
“Scenes from the Collection,” Jewish Museum, New York, NY
“Cast of Characters,” Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and The LGBT Community Center, New York, NY
“2018 Ceremonial Exhibition: Work by New Members and Recipients of Awards,” American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2017
“The Everywhere Studio,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
“The American Dream. American Realism 1945-2016,” Kunsthalle Emden, Germany
“Marching to the Beat,” Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Für Barbara,” curated by Leo Koenig, Hall Art Foundation | Schloss Derneburg Museum, Derneburg, Germany
“The White Heat,” Marc Straus Gallery, New York, NY
“Women Painting,” Miami Dade College Kendall Gallery, Miami, FL
“Hope and Hazard: A Comedy of Eros,” curated by Eric Fischl Hall Art Collection, Reading, VT
“Zeitgeist,” Musée d’art moderne et contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva, Switzerland
“Uncanny Likeness,” Simon Lee Gallery, New York, NY
“Piss and Vinegar: Two Generations of Provocateurs,” New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
“Idols and Impossible Structures: New Prints 2017/Winter,” International Print Center, New York, NY
“Looking Back / The 11th White Columns Annual – Selected by Anne Doran,” White Columns, New York, NY
“Engender,” Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“The Trick Brain,” curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Aishti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
"James HD Brown; Life and Work in Mexico,” USC Fischer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
"Marching to the Beat," Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“I Plan to Stay a Believer,” Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
“Talking Pictures: Camera-Phone Conversations Between Artists,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
“Soil Erosion,” curated by Shannon Ebner, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA
2016
“Selections from the Permanent Collection,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Le Grand Balcon,” La Biennale de Montréal, curated by Philippe Pirotte, Montréal, Canada
“These Strangers,” SMAK, Ghent, Belgium
“Intimisms,” James Cohan, New York, NY
2015
"Fetching Blemish," Invisible-Exports, New York, NY
"A Painting Show," Sadie Coles Gallery, London, UK
"All back in the skull together," Maccarone, New York, NY
"America is Hard to See," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age," Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
“The Great Mother: Women, Maternity, and Power in Art and Visual Cutlure, 1900 – 2015,” curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
"No Joke," Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2014
"The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World," curated by Laura Hoptman, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Manifesta 10, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, curated by Kaspar Knig
"Hidden and Revealed," Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"New Dawn," curated by Leidy Churchman, Silberkuppe, Berlin
"Every day in every way Im freely opening my senses to the beauty in myself and opening up to all the beauty around me and in all the people I will encounter," Martos Gallery, New York, NY
2013
"2013 Carnegie International," Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
"Outside the Lines," Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX
"NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star," New Museum, New York, NY
"Body Language," Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
"Catch as Catch Can," Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
"Nightfall," MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen, Hungary
2012
The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"B-Out," Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Scott Hug
2011
"A Painting Show," Harris Lieberman, New York, NY
"Prospect II," curated by Dan Cameron, New Orleans, LA
"The Air We Breathe," SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA
"Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts," American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
"Leidy Celeste Nicole," Museum 52, New York, NY
2008
"Painting, Smoking, Eating," Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
2007
"Horizon," EFA Gallery, New York, curated by David Humphrey
2006
"The Eighth Square: Gender, Life and Desire in Art Since 1960," Museum Ludwig, Cologne
"Through the Looking Glass," Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zrich, Switzerland
"This is not a Love Song," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
2005
"Post Everything," The Rotunda Gallery, New York, NY
"360 degrees art," Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany, curated by Stefan von Wiese
Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
"Self-Preservation Society, Leo Koenig Inc., New York
Roger Bijkomen Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
"A La Pared/On the Wall," Museo de Arte Carrilo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
"Silent Stories," Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria
"Slices of Life," Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY
2004
K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dsseldorf
"Central Station: The Harold Falckenberg Collection," La Maison Rouge, Foundation Antoine de Albert, Paris, France
"Dreamland Artists Club," Creative Time, New York, NY
"USA Today," Galleri S.E., Bergen, Norway
"The Coney Island Project," Creative Time, New York, NY
"100 Artists See God," curated by John Baldesarri and Meg Cranston, The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
"As Time Goes By," Gordian Weber Kunsthandel, Cologne, Germany
Roger Bjorkholmen Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2003
"As Time Goes By," Leo Koenig Inc., New York, NY
"DC: Lilly van der Stokker," Ludwig Museum, Cologne
"On the Wall: Wallpaper and Tableau," Sammlung Speck; K21 Kunstsammlung, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dsseldorf
Sammlung Speck, Kunstmuseum Graz, Austria
"Off the Wall," The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
"The Feminine Persuasion," Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN
"Comic Release!," Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
"Turn On, Drop Out," China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA
"The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum," Works on Paper, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
"The Paper Sculpture Show," The Sculpture Center, Queens, NY (In Collaboration with ICI)
"There’s Always Tomorrow," Galeria Maribini, Bologna, Italy
"Retrospectacle: 25 years of collecting Modern and Contemporary Art," Denver Museum of Art, Denver
2002
"Family," The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
"El Bello Genero Convulsiones y Permanencias Actuales," Comunidad de Madrid, Consejeria de las Artes, Madrid, Spain
"The Empire Strikes Back," curated by Jason Fox and Cannon Hudson, Avenue B Gallery, New York
"Super Natural Playground," Marella Fine Arts, Milan, Italy
2001
"Fast Food For Thought: Cartoon in Art," ArtScan Gallery & Rudolph Projects, Houston, TX
"Threads of Vision: Toward a New Feminine Poetics," Cleveland Center of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
"Waterworks," curated by Kim Levin, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skarhamn, Sweden
"Driving Women," Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY
"Self Made Men," curated by Alexi Worth, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
"Pop & Post-Pop (On Paper)," Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
2000
"Uncomfortable Beauty," Jack Tilton/Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, NY
"H2O," Works on Paper, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
"Blurring Lines in Contemporary Drawing," John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
"People," Andrea Rosen Gallery Booth, Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
"Picturing the Modern Amazon," New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
"The Figure: Another Side of Modernism," Snug Harbor, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, New York, NY
"1/2: Going Forward Looking Back," Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
"The Likeness of Being," DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
"Prophecies," Swiss Institute, New York, NY
"Zona F," Espai d’art contemporani de Castell, Castell, Spain
"Deja Vu: Reworking the Past," Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
"Here Kitty, Kitty," Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
1999
"The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000 Part II," 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
"Warehouse," Exit Art, New York, NY
"I am a Virgin," The Waiting Room at the School of Art and Design, University of Wolverhampton, UK
"54 x 54 x 54," Museum of Contemporary Art, London
"Two DoorsTrue Value," Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
1998
"Cant We All Just Get Along," Deven Golden, New York, NY
"Codex USA," Entwistle Gallery, London, UK
"Deal and Reality," Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria
"From The Corner of the Eye," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
"some WOMEN/PRETTY girls," University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
"Animal Tales: Contemporary Bestiary and Animal Painting," Whitney Museum at Champion, Stamford, CT
"The Wolfsonian Mural Project," Miami (organized by The Drawing Center, New York)
1997
"HEART, MIND, BODY, SOUL: American Art in the 1990s, Selections from the Permanent Collection," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"New WorkDrawings Today," San Fransisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
"Drawn & Quartered," Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY
"Woven in Oaxaca," A/D Gallery, New York, NY
"Womens Work, SECCA," Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
"Just What Do You Think Youre Doing Dave," Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
"Form and Function of Drawing Today," Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
"Fracturing the Gaze," Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX
"The Gaze," Momenta Art, New York, NY
"Dissolution: Made in the U.S.A.," Laurent Delaye Gallery, London, UK
Galerie Rdiger Schttle, Munich, Germany
"The Road Show," Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY
"Vraiment: Fminisme et lart," curated by Laura Cottingham, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France
"Sex / Industry," curated by John Yau, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY
"20 x 152," Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, NY
"The Name of the Place," curated by Laurie Simmons, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY
1996
"Identity Crisis: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art," Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens, Greece; traveled to: Museu dArt Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
"a/drift," curated by Joshua Dector, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
"Be Specific," curated by Michael Duncan, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Gender, fucked," curated by Catherine Lord, Center for Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
"The Comic Depiction of Sex in American Art: Nicole Eisenman, Erika Rothenberg, Jimmy Shaw, Benjamin Weissman, Sue Williams," Galerie in Haus 19, Munich, Germany
"Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party in Feminist Art History," Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, UCLA, Los Angeles
"Defining the Nineties: Consensus-Making In New York, Miami and Los Angeles," curated by Bonnie Clearwater, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
"Real Fake," Neuberger Museum, SUNY at Purchase, Purchase, NY
"Screen," curated by Joshua Decter, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
"Playtime," Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, CT
1995
"A Glimpse of the Norton Collection as Revealed by Kim Dingle," Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
"Art on Paper," Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
"Pervert," The University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA
"Picassoid," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
"Inside Out: Psychological Self Portraits, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
"Way Cool," Exit Art, New York, NY
"Odschon Malerei (Painting)," Gallery Mittelstrasse 18, Potsdam, Germany
"Komix," Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, NY
Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Toys Art Us," Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New York, NY
"Seduction and Betrayal," curated by Shoshana Blank and Bonnie Clearwater, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
New Museum Benefit Show, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1994
"Watt, Witte de With," Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Kunstverein Munich, Munich, Germany
Kunsthaus Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
White Columns, New York, NY
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
"The Seventh Wave," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Sex," Adam Baumgold Fine Arts, New York, NY
"Bad Girls," The Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland
"Return of the Cadavre Exquis," The Drawing Center, New York, NY
"Bad Girls," curated by Marcia Tanner, Wright Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
"Arrested Childhood," curated by Bonnie Clearwater, The Center for Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
"Wenn die Kinder sind im Dunkeln," curated by Birgit Jrgenssen, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
"Bad Girls," The Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
1993
"Bad Girls," Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
"bODD," Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
"The Seventh Wave," curated by Stephen Foster, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, UK
"Urban Analysis," curated by Maynard Munroe, Barbara Braathen Gallery, New York, NY
"Eau de Cologne 8393," Monica Spurth Galerie, Cologne, Germany
"Coming to Power," David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY
"1920," Exit Art/The First World, New York, NY
Elizabeth Koury Gallery, New York, NY
1992
303 Gallery, New York, NY
"Fever," Exit Art/The First World, New York, NY
"Wall Drawings," The Drawing Center, New York, NY
"Part Fantasy," Trial Balloon, New York, NY
"The Lesbian Museum: 10,000 Years of Penis Envy," Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
"Imagining Indians," curated by Fred Wilson, Longwood Arts Gallery, Bronx, New York, NY
1990
"Figuring Eros," Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural enter, Staten Island, NY

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Lasarow, Bill, “Nicole Eisenman at Susanne Vielmetter LA Projects,” ArtScene, April
Goldman, Edward, “Listening to Artists,” KCRW Art Talk, March 20 (Link)
Hickley, Catherine, “Beer and bread rolls for a vandilised sculpture in Münster,” The Art Newspaper (web), March 14 (Link)
Petrovich, Dushko, "The New Face of Portrait Painting," The New York Times Style Magazine, February 12 (Link)
Hafner, Hans-Jürgen, translated by Nicholas Grindell, "Nicole Eisenman at Secession, Vienna," frieze, January/February
Farago, Jason, "A Museum’s Fresh Take on the Whole Meggilah," New York Times, January 26 (Link)
Nayeri, Farah, "The Art on Her Walls Echoes Her Mission: Backing Bold Works by Women," New York Times, January 26 (Link)
2017
Annemiek Rens, Katharian Henkel, Antje-Britt Mählmann. "The American Dream, Amerikaans Realisme 1945-2017," WBOOKS, Zwoll, The Netherlands
Truax, Stephen, “Why Young Queer Artists Are Trading Anguish for Joy,” Artsy (web), November 7 (Link)
Hicklev, Catherine, “Locals fight to retain Eisenman fountain following Sculpture Projects Münster,” The Art Newspaper (web), October 10 (Link)
Hoffmann, Jens, "Skulptur Projekte Münster," frieze, September 11 (Link)
Kinsella, Eileen, “See the Photo Highlights of Skulptur Projekte Münster, the World’s Most Important Public Art Show, artnet News (web), June 9 (Link)
Trouillot, Terence, The New Face of Painting? Nicole Eisenman Reinvents Portraiture in Her New Show at Anton Kern,” artnet News (web), June 6 (Link)
Hoffmann, Jens, “Reviews: Biennale de Montréal,” Artforum, February (Link)
2016
Karch, Swangje, “Nicole Eisenman,” Blau, April
Coates, Jennifer, “The Goo of Paint: How every mark matters,” Modern Painters, May
Myles, Eileen, “Nicole Eisenman’s Green World,” frieze, May (Link)
Solway, Diane, “Nicole Eisenman Has Both Style and Substance,” W Magazine, May
Solomon, Deborah, “A Conversation with Nicole Eisenman and Grace Dunham,” The New York Times, May 7
Allen, Emma, “The Rain in Spain: The MacArthur-winning artist Nicole Eisenman learns to talk like Eliza Doolittle,” The New Yorker, May 9
Schjeldahl, Peter, “Seriously Funny: A Nicole Eisenman Retrospective,” The New Yorker, May 16
Thackara, Tess, “Nicole Eisenman’s Paintings Will Make You Laugh, Even When it Hurts,” Artsy (web), May 6
Indrisek, Scott, “Normal is Boring: Nicole Eisenman at the New Museum,” Blouin Artinfo (web), May 4
Spellings, Sarah, “This Artist Sees Right Through Your Relationship Shams,” The Cut (web), May 11
Smith, Roberta, “Nicole Eisenman, Fluidly Merging Past, Present and Future,” The New York Times, June 2
Yau, John, “A Truly Great Artist,” Hyperallergic (web), June 5
Greenberger, Alex, “Historical Friction: Nicole Eisenman at the New Museum and Anton Kern, New York,” ArtNews (web), June 9
Herriman, Kat, “The Wicked Comedy of Nicole Eisenman’s Allegorical Paintings,” The Creators Project (web), June 24
“Now Showing: Nicole Eisenman,” Elephant Magazine, Summer
Schwabsky, Barry, “Nicole Eisenman’s Path to Genius,” The Nation (web), July 14
Istomina, Tatiana, “Nicole Eisenman: New York, at New Museum and Anton Kern,” Art in America (web), September 1
Korczynski, Jacob, “‘Le Gran Balcon/The Grand Balcony,” La Biennale de Montréal,” art agenda (web), October 26
Ridykeulous (Nicole Eisenman + A.L. Steiner), “An Open Letter To Our Future Selves, by the Art Duo Ridykeulous,” W Magazine (web), November 1
Lewis, Jacqueline, “Nicole Eisenman Hides Nothing,” Cultured Magazine, Winter
2015
Esplund, Lance, Reshuffling, Not Reinventing, The Wall Street Journal, January 27
Tuchman, Phyllis, The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, The Brooklyn Rail, March 5
Rodney, Seph, Can I Get A Witness: The Persistence of Narrative Painting, Artillery, March
Maine, Stephen, The Forever Now, Artillery, March
Wise, Lloyd, The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, Artforum, March
DSouza, Aruna, Nicole Eisenman is an Artist with a lot on her Seder Plate: Subverting Passover Traditions at Jewish Museum, Forward, April 1
Johnson, Ken, All Back in the Skull Together, New York Times, April 9
Miranda, Carolina, The Whitney Museum Announces Inaugural Show, and the Internet Parses, Los Angeles Time, April 16
Merjian, Ara H., The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, frieze, April
Frank, Priscilla, Art Exhibition Champions Blemishes, Pimples, Scars and Other Glorious Flaws, Huffington Post, January 11
20 Artists Who Make New York, Elephant, Spring
Chute, James, Taking a stand for Nicole Eisenman, The San Diego Union-Tribune (web), July 15
Eisenman, Nicole, Art in America (cover), September
Durbin, Andrew, Painting Ghosts, Out (web), September 16
2015 MacArthur Fellows Include Nicole Eisenman, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Artforum (web), September 29
Jeppesen, Travis, Critics Picks: Nicole Eisenman at Galerie Barbara Weiss, Artforum (web), October 9
Mullins, Charlott, Picture People: The New State of the Art, Thames & Hudson (catalogue)
Tourjee, Diana, The Human Painter Making Art Worthy of Aliens, Broadly (web), November 17
Stange, Raimar, Nicole Eisenman: Galerie Barbara Weiss, frieze d/e, December – February
Vartanian, Hrag, Artists Nicole Eisenman and LaToya Ruby Frazier Among 2015 MacArthur Genius Grant Winners, Hyperallergic (web), September 29
Pogrebin, Robin, MacArthur Genius Grant Winners for 2015 are Announced, New York Times (web), September 29
Smith, Roberta, Nicole Eisenman Savors Her MacArthur Moment, New York Times, September 29
Saltz, Jerry, Nicole Eisenman is a Massively Deserving Genius, Vulture (web), September 30
2014
Hine, Thomas, Art: Eisenman at ICA: Great, getting better, Philly.com, October 19
Cotter, Holland, In Museums, Masters Old and New, The New York Times, September 3
Smolik, Noemi, Manifesta 10, Frieze, September
Indrisek, Scott, At MoMA, 17 Painters of Our Forever Now, ArtInfo, December 9
Saltz, Jerry, Forever Now is MoMAs Market Moment, Vulture, December 12
Zhong, Fan, Nicole Eisenman: Brushes with Greatness, W Magazine, December 11
Fitzpatrick, Corrine, Best of 2014: Corrine Fitzpatrick, Artforum.com, December 11
Farago, Jason, The Forever Now Review: Calling time on the Avant Garde, The Guardian, December 12
Vartanian, Hrag, et al., Best of 2014: Our Top 10 Exhibitions Across the United States, Hyperallergic, December 26
Johnson, Paddy, The Ten Best Exhibitions of 2014, Art F City, December 31
Sheets, Hilarie M., Nicole Eisenman at Institute of Contemporary Art, ArtNews, December 31
Latimer, Quinn, Highlights from 2014 Quinn Latimer, Frieze Blog, December 23
Smith, Roberta, End-of-Year Must-See, New York Times, December 27
Dijksterhuis, Edo, Diversity rules at 45th edition of the art markets Olympics, ArtSlant, June 19
Spence, Rachel, The Hermitages NIkhail Piotrovsky on hosting Manifesta, Financial Times, June 6
Knudsen, Stephen, Nicole Eisenman: The Relevance of 21st-Century Expressionism, Art Pulse, June 1
Cristello, Stephanie, Open Letter to an Enemy: Nicole Eisenman (1993 2013), The Seen, May 19
Russeth, Andrew, 2014 Gwangju Biennale Releases Full 105-artist list, Gallerist NY, June 13
Russeth, Andrew, "Heres Manifesta 10′s Artist List," GalleristNY, March 25 (Link)
Russeth, Andrew,"Morning Links: Betye Saar Edition," Gallerist NY, April 11 (Link)
Bryan-Wilson, Julia; Castle, Terry; Perta, Litia; Schindler, Kelley; "Dear Nemesis, Nicole Eisenman 1993 – 2013," exhibition catalogue, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, published by Buchhandlung Walther Knig, Cologne, Germany
Gass, William, Review Readykeulous by Ridykeulous: This is What Liberation Feels Like, Art Papers, March/April
Thomas, Mary, Appreciation for the 2013 Carnegie International 2013, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 4
Russell, Stefene, "The Arts: ‘Dear Nemesis: Nicole Eisenman, 1993-2013’ at Contemporary Art Museum-St. Louis," St. Louis Magazine, March (Link)
Suico, Angela, The Carnegies Evening of Drawing With Nicole Eisenman, Pittsburgh City Paper, Feburary 28
Thomas, Mary, Carnegie Museum of Art acquires additional works by International artists, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 25
Russeth, Andrew, Carnegie Acquires Work From 2013 International by Guyton, Stark, Eisenman, Olowska, More, Gallerist NY, February 18
Griesbach, Sarah Hermes, "Reflection: Nicole Eisenman’s Broad Range On View At CAM," St. Louis Public Radio, February 13 (Link)
Miller, Sarah Bryan, "Artist Nicole Eisenman isn’t afraid to make viewers uncomfortable," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 8
Gay, Malcolm, "Dear Nemesis: Figurative painting is alive and well in CAM’s survey of Nicole Eisenman’s mid career work," Riverfront Times, January 30 (Link)
Griffin, Jonathan, Review: 2013 Carnegie International, art agenda, January 7 (Link)
____. Show of Shows Ten Museum Exhibitions Not to Miss in 2014: No. 1, Nicole Eisenman at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Modern Painters, January
Knudsen, Robert, "Top Ten Contemporary Art Exhibits in 2013," The Huffington Post, January 2
2013
Fiduccia, Joanna, A Desperate Age Review: 2013 Carnegie International, Spike Art Quarterly, Winter
Shaw, Kurt, "Sculptures at Carnegie Museum bend historical allusions," Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, December 28
Hopf, Judith, "Best of 2013: Nicole Eisenman at Studio Voltaire, London," Artforum, December
Raczka, Robert, Nicole Eisenmans good bad painting and witty sculpture are a highlight at the Carnegie International, Pittsburgh City Paper, November 6
Schjeldahl, Peter, "Play Time: The Carnegie International," The New Yorker, October 21 (Link)
Smith, Roberta, Global Extravaganza, but on a Human Scale, The New York Times, October 11
Goodden, Sky, Welding a New Medium, Nicole Eisenman Wins the Carnegie Prize, Artinfo, October 9
Foumberg, Jason, Playful Politics at the 2013 Carnegie International, Art in America, October 9
Russeth, Andrew, "A Playground in Pittsburgh: The 2013 Carnegie International Is a Quiet Triumph," GalleristNY, October 8
Thomas, Mary, "Artist Nicole Eisenman wins Carnegie Prize for ingenious installation at Carnegie International," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 8
Russeth, Andrew, "Carnegie Prize for Nicole Eisenman, Fine Prize for Zanele Muholi," GalleristNY, October 7
Thomas, Mary, "Carnegie International awards prizes to two exhibiting artists," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 7
Karlovitz, Bob, "Pair of works at Carnegie International bring home prizes," Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, October 7
Kukielski, Tina, Nicole Eisenman, 2013 Carnegie International Catalogue, October
Thomas, Mary, Three Curators give the Carnegie International a different look, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 29
Tanner, Marcia, Appropriation redux: Nicole Eisenman in Berkeley, Berkleyside, July 8
"Nicole Eisenman wins 2013 Carnegie Prize," Artforum.com, October 7
Simmons, William J., Nicole Eisenman: MATRIX 248 at BAM/PFA in Berkeley, SFAQ, July
McGarry, Kevin, "Sketch Troupe: Nicole Eisenman," V Magazine, June
DiQuinzio, Apsara, Nicole Eisenman, MATRIX 248 Brochure, Berkeley Art Museum, June
Sillman, Amy, "Preview: Nicole Eisenman," Artforum, May
Wood, Sura, Outside of the Box, The Bay Area Reporter, May 16
Smith, Roberta, 40 Nations, 1,000 Artists and One Island, New York Times, May 10
Akel, Joseph, "10 Picks: New York Frieze 2013," Interview Magazine, May 10
Higgie, Jennifer, Nicole Eisenman: In Your Head, Frieze, May (Link)
Chun, Kimberly, ‘Nicole Eisenman / Matrix 248’: Tea Party time, San Francisco Chronicle, May 22
Meade, Fionn, "Catch as Catch Can," Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Hirsch, Faye, Nicole Eisenmans Year of Printing Prolifically, Art In Print, January – February
Gygax, Raphael, Looking Back, Looking Forward: Part 5, Frieze Blog, January 1
2012
Molesworth, Helen, Best of 2012: Helen Molesworths Top 10, ArtForum, December
Torres, Jesus Manuel Rojas, "Locust Projects Third Annual Bus Shelter Project, Examiner.com, November 21
Nicole Eisenman, Parkett 91, pp. 102-149
Bors, Chris, "Whitney Biennial 2012", Artvoices Magazine, June/July, pp. 86-87
Beer, Jonathan, Nicole Eisenman Woodcuts, Etchings, Lithographs and Monotypes, Leo Koenig Gallery, art-rated, July 4
Molarsky, Mona, Drawing on Talent: A Profile of Work of Artist Nicole Eisenman, New York Press, August 9
Schultz, Charles, Nicole Eisenman: Woodcuts, Ethings, Lithographs, and Monotypes at Leo Koenig, Art in Print, July/August
Wyma, Chloe 25 Questions for Witty Expressionist and Biennial Star Nicole Eisenman, Boulin Artinfo, June 19
Hirsch, Faye, Nicole Eisenmans Prints and People, Art In America, June 15
Nicole Eisenman: the story behind the artwork, in the artists own words, Modern Painters, July/August
50 Next Most Collectible Artists, Art + Auction, June
Schjeldahl, Peter, Not Like The Other Ones: A surprising Whitney Biennial, The New Yorker, March 12
Douglas, Sarah, If You Dont Do This Fair, Youre Stupid: With Sales and High Spirits, the Armory Show Gets Off to a Rollicking Start, Gallerist NY, March 7
Smith, Roberta, A Survey of a Different Color, New York Times, March 2
2011
Pagel, David, Nicole Eisenman at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects," Los Angeles Times, May 5
Simonson, Lily, Looking at Los Angeles, Nicole Eisenman and Wynne Greenwood, Art:21 blog, May 26
Shaw, Michael, Nicole Eisenman, Art Scene, May
Eisenman, Nicole, Artists on Ab-Ex, Artforum, Summer
Chang, Ian, Nicole Eisenman, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Frieze, September
Wolf, Kate, Nicole Eisenmans Human Touch, Artslant, May 16
2010
Smith, Roberta, Post-Minimal to the Max, New York Times, February 14
Berry, Ian, Nicole Eisenman: The Way We Werent, catalogue, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery
White, Brian Evans, Nicole Eisenman, Art US, Issue 28
2008
Werneburg, Brigitte, "Kunstrundgang, TAZ Berlin, September 17
Mania, Astrid, "Verfuhrerisch direkt, Artnet Magazine, September 10
Sholis, Brian, "Nicole Eisenman, Artforum, September
"Art in General, NewCOMPANYline: Advertisement, Performance, Style and Authenticity by K8 Hardy, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, March 14
Myers, Holly, "Nicole Eisenman A Show Born of Fear at Susanne Vielmetter, ArtReview, January
2007
Myers, Holly, "Our Favorite Shows and Artifacts: Nicole Eisenman at Susanne Vielmetter, LA Weekly, December 27
Brooks, Amra, "Our Favorite Shows and Artifacts: Nicole Eisenman at Susanne Vielmetter, LA Weekly, December 27
Lester, Paul, "We Remember Miami, ArtNet, December
Tibbits, Ashley, "Nicole Eisenman: A Show Born of Fear at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Flavorpill, November 27
Gray, Emma, "Top 10 Shows in Los Angeles This Month: Nicole Eisenman, A Show Born of Fear at Susanne Vielmetter, The Saatchi Gallery Blog, November
Sholis, Brian, "Scene & Herd: Boy Wonder, Artforum.com, October 30
Brooks, Amra, "Must See Art: Nicole Eisenman, A Show Born of Fear at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, LA Weekly, October 25
Schindler, Anna, "In der Kunsthalle Zrich: das bad girl Nicole Eisenman, Kunstzeitung, May
2006
Hirsch, Faye, "Tides and Tidings, Art in America, October
Smith, Roberta, "Nicole Eisenman: Progress: Real & Imagined, New York Times, June 10
Hontoria, Javier, "Trazons de un arte urgente, El Cultural, February 9-15
2005
Parker, Erik, "The Artists Artists, Artforum, December
Davis, Tim, "Top Ten, Artforum, May
2004
Burton, Johanna, "Nicole Eisenman, Artforum, Summer
Von Lilien, Titus, "Bomben auf Barbieland, Quest, May-June
The New Yorker, April 5
Chasin, Noah, "Nicole Eisenman: Elizaville, Time Out New York, April 1-8
Bsing, Nicole and Klass, Heiko, "Vor Erffnung ausverkauft, Die Welt, March 27
The New York Sun, March 25
Reed, John, "Critics Picks, Artforum, March
Hirsch, Jaye, "Nicole Eisenman at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Art in America, February
2003
Sillman, Amy, "Top Ten, Artforum
Greenfield, Beth, "fired up, Out, July
"ARTtalk: canvas, ARTnews, May
"America, il doce domain, La Republica, March
2002
Myers, Holly, "Emotions of childhood linger in paint, New York Times, December 27
Stark, Rachael, "Nicole Eisenman: Portrait of the Artist as Collaborator, NY Arts, July/August
Aizpuru, Margarita, "El Bello Gnero, Comunidad de Madrid, June
2001
Levin, Kim, "Self-made men: male self portraits, The Village Voice, May 1
Harris, Susan, "Nicole Eisenman at Jack Tilton, Art in America, January
2000
Clifford, Katie, "Nicole Eisenman: Jack Tilton, ARTnews, November
Naves, Mario, "All About Bambis Sex Life, The New York Observer, October 16
"Nicole Eisenman, The New Yorker, October 9
Baer, Josh, "Slow and Steady, New York Magazine, October 9
Johnson, Ken, "Art in Review: Nicole Eisenman, The New York Times, October 6
Levin, "Voice Choice: Nicole Eisenman, The Village Voice, September 19
Dimling Cochran, Rebecca, "Fantastic Worlds, Art Papers Magazine, July/August
Anton, Saul, "Prophecies, Time Out NY, March 9-16
Kennedy, Gideon C., "Enter the Doghouse, Atlanta Press, February 11-17
Fox, Catherine, "Exploring Our Best Pals, AJC, February 4
Korotkin, Joyce B., "The Likeness of Being, The New York Art World, February
Silverstein, Joel, Review, February
Goddard, Donald, "Art Review: Nicole Eisenman, newyorkartworld.com
Cembalest, Robin, "The Woman in the Mirror, Elle, January

Selected Projects

2019-2020
"Raid the Icebox with Nicole Eisenman: Tonight we are going out and we are all getting hammered," RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2012
Bush Shelter Project: Nicole Eisenman Intentions, Locust Projects, Miami, Florida
2006
Ridykeulous, curated by Nicole Eisenman and A. L. Steiner, Participant Inc, New York
2002
Scenery, White Oak Dance Project
2000
Jennifer Monson, set design for dance program at The Kitchen, New York
1998
The Choice, co-curated group exhibition at Exit Art, New York
1995
Summer of Bad Plays, Writer and Actor
Magazine cover project for Art magazine, March
1994
Centerfold project for Frieze magazine, November/December

Film/TV/Radio

2012
"Nicole Eisenman: Figure Drawing Atelier with Commentary by Margie Weinstein, Manager of Education Initiatives", 2012 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York, NY

Guest Lectures

Bard College, NY
Columbia University, New York
Colgate University, NY
Harvard University, Architecture Department, MA
Hunter College, New York
Mount Royal College of Art, MD
Provincetown Workshop, MA
Rhode Island School of Design, RI
School of Visual Arts, New York
SUNY New Platz, NY
SUNY Binghamton, NY
University of Tennessee, TN
University of Kentucky, KT
Vassar College, NY
Yale University, CT
Princeton University, NJ
Queens College, NY

Teaching Experience

Present Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2001-2002
Mount Royal College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2000-2001
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2020
Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize
2015
MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
2013
Carnegie Prize, 2013 Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, PA
2002
Cabinet Magazine paper sculpture project
Acadia Summer Arts Program, ME
1996
John Simon Guggenheim Grant
1995
The Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
The Lois Tiffany Grant
Penny McCall Foundation Grant

Public Collections

American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Hall Art Foundation, Reading, VT
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Tate, London, UK
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA

Arlene Shechet

1951
Born in New York, NY
Lives and works in New York, NY
M.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
B.A. New York University, New York NY

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026
"Arlene Shechet: She Said She Said," Pace Gallery, New York, NY (forthcoming)
2024
"Arlene Shechet: Beyond Belief," Pace Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
"Arlene Shechet: Girl Group," Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY
2023
"Frieze Masters, Solo Presentation" Frieze London, Pace Gallery, London, UK
"Rising Sun," Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
"Next Sentence," Pace Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
2022
"Best Picture," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Moon in the Morning," Pace Gallery, Hong Kong, HK
"Couple of," T Space, Rhinebeck, NY
2022-2025
"Disrupt the View: Arlene Shechet at the Harvard Art Museums," Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
2021
"Together: Pacific Time," Pace Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
"Making Knowing: Three Takes on the Jack Shear Drawing Collection," The Drawing Center, New York, NY (catalogue)
2021-2023
"Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition," The Helis Foundation, New Orleans, LA
2020
"Together," Pace Gallery, East Hampton, NY
"Arlene Shechet: Skirts," Pace Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
2019
"Arlene Shechet: Sculpture," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2018-2019
“Full Steam Ahead,” Madison Square Park Conservancy, New York, NY (Link)
2018
“More Than I Know,” curated by Karin Campbell, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE (Link)
"Arlene Shechet: Some Truths," Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
2017
”In the Meantime,” Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL (catalogue)
2016
"From Here on Now," Phillips Collection, Washington DC. (catalogue)
"Turn Up the Bass," Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York, NY
"Still Standing," Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
"Porcelain, No Simple Matter: Arlene Shechet and the Arnhold Collection," The Frick Collection, New York, NY
"Urgent Matter," Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
2015
"All At Once," ICA Boston, Boston, MA (catalogue)
"Blockbuster," Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
"SUM," Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
2014
"Meissen Recast," RISD Museum, Providence, RI (catalogue)
2013
"Slip," Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY
2012
"Breaking the Mold," Nature Morte Berlin, Germany
"That Time," Anderson Gallery, VCUarts, Richmond, VA; travelled to Weathersppon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
"Parallel Play," Dieu Donne, New York, NY
2011
"The Thick of It," James Kelly Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2010
"The Sound of It," Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2009
"Blow by Blow," curated by Ian Berry, F. Y. Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
"Here and There," Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, CO
2008
"Now & Away," Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2007
"New Work," Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2006
"Thin Air," Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID
"Round and Round," Hemphill, Washington, D.C. 2004
2004
"Deep Blooze Series," Hemphill, Washington, D.C.
"Out of the Blue," Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003
"Turning the Wheel," commissioned installation, "The Invisible Thread: Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art," Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
"Arlene Shechet and Stephen Mueller," Van Brunt Gallery, New York, NY
"Building," curated by Elizabeth Brown, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2002
"Flowers Found," Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2001
"Puja," A/D Gallery, New York, NY
2000
"Arlene Shechet," Galerie Rene Blouin, Montreal, Canada
1999
"Mirror Mirror," Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1998
"Once Removed," Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1997
"Sculpture and Drawing," Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
"Sculpture and Works of Paper," John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996
"Arlene Shechet," Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1995
"Arlene Shechet," Boulder Museum of Fine Arts, Boulder, CO

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025
"The Journey Continues," Wisch Family Gallery, Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
"The Vessel Revisited: Fundamental Forms in Contemporary Ceramics," Torggler Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA
2023
"Drawing as Practice," National Academy of Design, Chelsea, NY
2022-2023
"Drawings by Sculptors,” Helena Anrather Gallery, New York, NY
"Put It This Way: (Re)Visions Of The Hirshorn Collection," Hishhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
2022
"Singing in Unison: Artists Need to Create On the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy," Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, NY
"Informal Get Together: Keltie Ferris, Joanne Greenbaum, Arlene Shechet, Jessica Stockholder," Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
"STUFF," Organized by Arlene Shechet, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
"Old and New Dreams: Recent Acquisitions in a Collection," MoCA Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
"Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts," American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2021
"Knowledge of the Past is the Key to the Future," The Metropolitain Museum of Art, New York, NY
"Les Flammes," Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, France
"SHOW 4," Arfield, Kingston, NY (Link)
2020
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Art Omi: The Fields Sculpture Park," Art Omi, Ghent, NY
"Abortion is Normal," Eva Presenhuber, New York, NY
"At the Noyes House: Blum & Poe," Mendes Wood DM, and Object & Thing Eliot Noyes House, CT
"Celebrating Women Artists from the Phillips Collection: Anonymous Was a Woman" Awardees, Digital Presentation, Philips Collection, DC
"100 Drawings from Now," The Drawing Center, New York City, NY
2019-2020
"Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2019
"Art Omi: The Fields Sculpture Park," Art Omi, Ghent, NY
"With a Capital P: Selections by Six Painters," Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
"Sculpture Milwaukee," Milwaukee, WI
"The World According to," Pace Gallery, New York, NY
"Listening Closely," Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
"2018 Survey of Dieu Donné Art in Paper: Selections from the Archive," Dieu Donné, New York, NY
2018-2019
"On Edge," The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (Link)
2018
"Class Reunion: Works from the Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann Collection," mumok (museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien), Vienna, Austria
"Scenes from the Collection," The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
“Out of Control,” curated by Peter & Sally Saul, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY (Link)
"The Domestic Plane: New Perspectives on Tabletop Art Objects," The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
"Paper/Print: American Hand Papermaking, 1960s to Today," International Print Center, New York, NY.
“Molding/Mark-Making: Ceramic Artists and Their Drawings,” curated by Margaret Matthews-Berenson and Allison Peller, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, NY (Link)
"Taurus and the Awakener," David Kordansky, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
"By Fire, Ceramic Works," Almine Rech Gallery, New York, NY
“Travel Light,” The Jewish Museum, New York, NY (Link)
2017
Sculpture Park, Madhavendra Palace, Nahargarh Fort, Jaipur, India (Link)
“Regarding George Ohr: Contemporary Ceramics in the Spirit of the Mad Potter,” curated by Garth Clark, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL (Link)
"Small Sculpture," Corbett vs Demspey, Chicago, IL
"Something Living," Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
“Mutual Admiration Society,” Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"A Dazzling Decade," Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
"I Go, You Go, Good to Go," Unclebrother/Gavin Brown, Hancock, NY
"Nagy/Libby/Le Va," Magenta Plains, NY
“Gray Matters,” Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
”Bodies of work,” curated by Molly Donovan, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
”99 cents or Less,” curated by Jens Hoffmann, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI
“Grisaille,” curated by Michael Goodson, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
”Would you Rather…,” curated by Michael Smoler, BBQ LA, Los Angeles, CA
"The Tyranny of Common Sense Has Reached Its Final Stage," The LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University School of the Arts, NY
“The State of New York Painting,” curated by Michael Walls, CUNY Kingsborough Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Vitreous Bodies: Assembed Visions in Glass,” curated by Lisa Tung, Bakalar & Paine Galleries, MA
2016
"Infinite Blue," Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY
"5 Years at Heddon Street," Pippy Houldswroth Gallery, London, UK
"No Rules, No Rules," Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
"As if in a foreign country," Rosemarie Schwarzwälder Gallery, Vienna, Austria
"Pioneer Lust," Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
"A Whisper of Where it Came From," Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
"Pure Pulp: Contemporary Artists Working in Paper at Dieu Donne 2000-Present," Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY; travelled to Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA; Dedalus Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
"Strange Abstraction," Fredericks & Freiser, NYC
2015
"Marks Made: Prints by American Women Artists from the Early 1960s-Present," Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
"CERAMIX: Art and Ceramics from Rodin to Schutte," Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht; travelled to La Maison Rouge, Paris, and Cite de la Ceramique, Sevres, France (2016)
"Bottoms Up: A sculpture Survey," University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY
"Other Planes of There," Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago, IL
"rock hound swap meet," organized by Randy Wray, Junior Projects, New York, NY
"Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms," curated by Andria Hickey, Tanya Bonakdar, New York, NY
"Le Musée Imaginaire," curated by Patrick Letovsky, Galerie Lefebvre & Fils, Paris, France
"Le Souffler: Schürmann meets Ludwig," Ludwig Forum Aachen, Germany
"Taking Form: Quality in Clay," James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Hard and Soft," ACME., Los Angeles, CA
2014
"Kiln," curated by Tiffany Zabludowicz, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY
"The Botanica," presented by AA Bronson & Michael Bühler-Rose, Invisible-Exports, New York, NY
"Now-ism: Abstraction Today," Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
"Speaking through Paint: Hans Hofmann’s Legacy Today," curated by Stacey Gershon and Deborah Goodman Davis, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY
2013
"Drifter," curated by David Rhodes, Hionas gallery, New York, NY
"Jew York," Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY
"Room for Myth," Dodge Gallery, New York, NY
"Ceramics," Rhona Hoffman, Chicago, IL
"Tony Feher, Arturo Herrera, Arlene Shechet, and Kay Rosen," Sikkema Jenkins, New York, NY
"East," Kunstsaele Berlin, Germany
"Modern Times," Lesley Heller, New York, NY
"Le Beau Danger," Sassa Truelzsch Galerie, Berlin, Germany
"Fictitious Truths," curated by Kara Rooney, Rooster Gallery, New York, NY
"Peekskill Project V: The New Hudson River School," HVCCA, Peekskill, NY
"Walled Gardens," Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY
"Makeup on Empty Space," Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
"Economy of Means: Towards Humility in Contemporary Sculpture," Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
"The Annual," National Academy Museum, New York, NY
2011
"Textility," curated by Mary Birmingham, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
"Free From Order: A Delight of Inconsistencies, Amy Gatrell, Cordy Ryman, and Arlene Shechet," curated by Barry Rosenberg, UCONN Contemporary Art Galleries, CT
"Contemporary Clay," RH Gallery
"Paul Clay," Salon 94, Nwe York, NY
"Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards," Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
"Invitational Exhibition of Visual Artists," American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
"January White Sale," curated by Beth Rudin de Woody, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY
2010
"12 Material/Immaterial," Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"XXIst International Ceramic Biennial (BICC)," Vallauris, France
2009
"Dirt On Delight," ICA, curated by Ingrid Schaffner and Jenelle Porter, Philadelphia, PA; travelled to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
"Feelers," three-person exhibition with Sarah Massecar, Sandra Meigs, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, Canada
"The Dark Fair—Aquarium Project," curated by Scott Reeder, Cologne Art Fair, Germany
"New Works/Old Story," Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
"Seriously Funny," curated by Cassandra Coblentz and Claire Carter, Scottsdale Museum, AZ
"New Now," Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
2008
"True Grit, Frames, Fixations, Flirtations," curated by M. Leach, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC "Building/Beijing," US Embassy, Beijing
"Neti Neti (not this not this)," curated by Peter Nagy, Bose Pacia Gallery, New York, NY
"Grey," Dinter Fine Art, New York, N
"Present Tense," Spanierman Modern Gallery, New York, NY
2007
"Shattering Glass," curated Neil Watson and Ellen Keiter, Katonah Museum, NY
"Written on the Wind: The Flag Project," Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY
"In the Way Outdoor Installation," Byrdcliffe, Woodstock, NY
2006
"The Bong Show or This Is Not a Pipe," Leslie Tonkonow, New York, NY
"The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama," Fowler Museum, UCLA, CA
2005
"Faith," curated by James Hyde, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
"Glass, Seriously," curated by Lilly Wei, Dorsky Curatorial Program, Long Island City, NY
"Seven Artists," American Embassy, Hanoi, Vietnam, curated by Virginia Shore, State Department, Wash. D.C.
"Somewhere Outside It," curated by Janet Phelps, Schroeder Romero Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
"Monochrome Image," Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
"Riverhouse Editions: Master Prints by 44 Artists," University of Denver, Denver, CO
2004
"Sidewalk Installation," Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY
"Bottle: Contemporary Art and Vernacular Tradition," curated by Richard Klein, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
"The Buddha Project," Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH
"The Big Nothing," curated by Ingrid Schaffner and Bennett Simpson, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2003
"Some Sculptures," Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
"According with Nadelman: Contemporary Affinities," curated by Cynthia Nadelman, June Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
"Mystic," curated by Jeffrey Keough, Mass. College of Art, Boston, MA
"Water Mark / Inside," curated by Patricia Phillips, E.H. Blum Gallery, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME
"Water, Water," curated by Lilly Wei, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
"Vessels," curated by Joe Fyfe, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
2002
"Line and Landscape," Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York, NY
"Paper Remix: Dieu Donné Work Space Program, 1995-2000," curated by Edwin Ramoran, Dieu Donne Papermill, NY
"Curious Terrain," Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2001
"Ganesh," Rene Blouin Gallery, Montreal, Canada
"Rags to Riches: 25 Years of Paper Art from Dieu Donné Papermill," curated by Donna Stein Kresge, Art Museum, Mich. State University
"Digital Printmaking Now," Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
"A Threshold of Spirit," curated by Peter Nagy, Crossing Paths: an Installation in the Baptistry, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NY
2000
"Mysticism and Desire," curated by Pat Hamilton, Los Angeles, CA
"The Living End," curated by Ingrid Schaffner, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
"Religion: Contemporary Interpretations by Women," The Art Gallery, U. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
"Rapture," Bakalar and Huntington Galleries, Mass Art, Boston, MA
1999
"Crafted Shows," Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
"Om," curated by Joe Fyfe, Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY
"Loaf," curated by Steve Dibenedetto, Baumgartner Galleries Inc., New York, NY
"Women in Print," Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
1998
"In the Details," curated by Kiki Smith, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
"Recent Aquisitions," John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books

2024
"Arlene Shechet: Girl Group," Text by Kate Nesin, Anne Reeve, and Sheena Wagstaff. Published in conjunction with Storm King Art Center and Gregory R. Miller & Co., New York, NY 2024
2022
"Ways of Seeing: Three Takes on the Kack Shear Drawing Collection," (exhibition catalogue) Text by Claire Gilman, Jack Shear, Arlene Shechet and Jarrett Earnest.The Drawing Center, Shapco Printing, Minneapolis, MN, 2022
2020
"Arlene Shechet: SKIRTS," Texts by Rachel Silveri, Deborah Solomon, Michaëla Mohrmann, PACE Publishing, NY, 2020
2018
Shechet, Arlene and Alexandra Schwartz. "Vivian Springford," Alime Rech Gallery Editions: Paris (Link)
2017
Arlene Shechet: From Here On Now (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Dorothy Kosinski, Klaus Ottmann, and Chris Sharp. Washington, D.C.: Phillips Collection, 2017
Arlene Shechet: In the Meantime (exhibition catalogue). Text by John Corbett. Chicago: Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2017
The Artist Project: What Artists See When They Look at Art. London and New York: Phaidon Press Limited; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017
Gray Matters (exhibition catalogue). Columbus, Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, 2017
“Arlene Shechet.” In Vitamin C: Clay + Ceramic in Contemporary Art. New York and London: Phaidon, 2017: 268–271, Illustrated
2016
Auther, Elissa. “Dump and Death.” In Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years (exhibition catalogue). London and New York: Black Dog Publishing Limited; Museum of Arts and Design, 2016: 97–109, Illustrated
Porcelain, No Simple Matter: Arlene Shechet and the Arnhold Collection (exhibition catalogue). Conversation with Charlotte Vignon, Arlene Shechet, and Henry Arnhold. New York: The Frick Collection, 2016
Pure Pulp: Contemporary Artist Working in Paper at Dieu Donné (exhibition catalogue). Clinton, New York and Munich: Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College; DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2016
Shechet, Arlene. “Alive and Well.” In Monster Roster: Existentialist Art in Postwar Chicago. Chicago: Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 2016: 83–85, illustrated
Shechet, Arlene and Mary Heilmann. “Remembering Voulkos.” In Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years (exhibition catalogue). London and New York: Black Dog Publishing Limited; Museum of Arts and Design, 2016: 89–93
2015
Arlene Shechet: All at Once (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Jenelle Porter, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Debra Bricker Balken, Meredith Martin, and interview with the artist by Janine Antoni. Boston and Munich: Institute of Contemporary Art; DelMonico Books, Prestel, 2015
Arlene Shechet: Meissen Recast. Texts by Dominic Molon, Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, Elizabeth A. Williams, and interview with Judith Tannenbaum. New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co, 2015
Bottoms Up: A Sculpture Survey (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Stuard Horodner and Janie Welker. Lexington: University of Kentucky Art Museum, 2015.
2014
Arlene Shechet: Meissen Recast (exhibition catalogue). Interview with the artist by Judith Tannenbaum. Providence: RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, 2014
Now-ism: Abstraction Today (exhibition catalogue). Texts by David Pagel and Greer Pagano. Columbus, Ohio: Pizzuti Collection, 2014
2010
Arlene Shechet: Blow by Blow (exhibition catalogue). Interview by Ian Berry. Saratoga Springs, New York: The Frances Youg Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, 2010
Arlene Shechet: The Sound of It (exhibition catalogue). New York: Jack Shainman Gallery, 2010
2009
Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Ingrid Schaffner and Jenelle Porter. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 2009
2007
Arlene Shechet: New Work (exhibition catalogue). Text by Peter Nagy. New York: Elizabeth Harris Gallery, 2007
The Flag Project: Contemporary Artists Celebrate the Opening of a New Museum. New York: Rubin Museum of Art, 2007: 135, Illustrated
Shattering Glass: New Perspectives (exhibition catalogue). Text by Tina Oldknow. Katonah, New York: Katonah Museum of Art, 2007

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d’Annunzio, Grazia. “Gioco di Specchia,” Architectural Digest Online/ADtoday.it, Feb. 18.
Walsh, Brienne, “The Alchemist: Arlene Shechet Converts ‘White Gold’ into Artworks,” ArtinAmerica.com, Jan. 27.
Gissler, Glenn. “‘Arlene Shechet: Meissen Recast’ at the RISD Museum,” glenngissler.com, Jan. 22
Solondz, Simone. “Shechet’s Shenanigans at the RISD Museum,” RISDxyz, Jan. 21.
van Siclen, Bill. “Warhol exhibit at RISD Museum highlights the icon’s photographs,” Providence Journal, Jan. 26.
“Breaking the Mold,” Elle Decor, Jan/Feb.
Shechet, Arlene. “500 Words,” Artforum.com, Jan. 15.
Wei, Lilly. “Claytime! Ceramics Finds Its Place in the Art-World Mainstream,” ARTnews, Jan
2013
Micchelli, Thomas. “The Pursuit of Art, 2013,” Hyperallergic, Dec. 28
Smith, Roberta. “Arlene Shechet: Slip,” New York Times, Nov. 7
“Goings On About Town: Art,” New Yorker, Nov. 4, 2013.
Micchelli, Thomas. “Parallel Strains: Arlene Shechet’s Ceramic Abstractions,” Hyperallergic, Oct. 19
Abel, Ruthie. “Crafting Slip: In the Studio With Arlene Shechet,” Huffington Post, Oct. 15.
Saltz, Jerry. “Jerry Saltz’s Five Most Anticipated,” New York Magazine, Sept. 2-9.
Gopnik, Blake. “Precious Porcelain Turned Inside Out,” The Daily Beast, Jun 18.
Ryan, Paul. “Reviews: Arlene Shechet, Anderson Gallery” Sculpture Magazine, June, pg. 73-4. Castro, Jan. “Living in the Present, Arlene Shechet,” Ceramics: Art & Perception, June-Aug. Benschop, Jurriaan, “Berlin: Arlene Shechet, Nature Morte,” Artforum, Feb., Pg. 259
2012
Kley, Elisabeth. “Arlene Shechet: Dieu Donne,” ARTnews, June.
Thorson, Alice. “Nerman exhibits the power of ceramics,” Kansas City Star, June 15.
McLister, Iris. “Critical Reflections: Arlene Shechet The Thick of It,” The: Santa Fe Monthly Magazine, Mar.
“Töpfern ist sexy” art das kunst magazin, Mar., pg. 60.
Ollman, Leah. “Clay keeps breaking the mold,” LA Times, Jan. 29.
Hirsh, Faye. “Buckle and Flow,” Art in America, Jan.: 58-64. (Cover Story)
2011
“The Pin-up Menagerie: A collection of 69 Beautiful Things,” PIN-UP, Fall/Winter 2011/12: 158-165.
Hughes, Hannah. “The Thick of It at James Kelly Contemporary,” Adobe Airstream, Dec. 9.
Wilson-Powell, Malin. “Wonderfully Weird,” The Albuquerque Journal, Dec. 2.
Gopnik, Blake. “A Teapot from Mars?,” thedailybeast.com, July 22.
Smith, Roberta. “Paul Clay, Salon 94 Bowery,” New York Times, June 30.
Yablonsky, Linda. “Artifacts: Feats of Clay,” T Magazine, July 7.
Mueller, Stephen. “Arlene Shechet at Jack Shainman,” Art in America Magazine, Jan.
2010
Saltz, Jerry. “Top Ten of 2010,” New York Magazine, Dec. 13.
Howe, Liz. “Arlene Shechet: Working on the Edge,” Ceramics Monthly, Dec.
artcritical.com. Audio from the Sept. Review Panel: Lance Esplund, Faye Hirsch, Andrea Scott, and David Cohen.
Rooney, Kara. “Arlene Shechet: The Sound of It,” The Brooklyn Rail, November
Saltz, Jerry. “ART: Dishy Ceramics,” New York Magazine, Oct. 3.
Schjeldahl, Peter. “Goings on About Town: Art: Arlene Shechet,” New Yorker, Sept. 28.
“Art: Listings”, Time Out
Dickson, Jane. “Arlene Shechet,” bombsite.com. Sept.
Berry, Ian. Arlene Shechet: Blow by Blow. Exhibition catalogue Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College
2009
Schaffner, Ingrid, and Jenelle Porter, "Dirt On Delight: Impulses That Form Clay. Exhibition catalogue. Phila. Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania.
Ruth, Tara. “Double or Nothing: Mimicry in Contemporary Art using Handmade Paper.” Hand Papermaking 24
MacMillan, Kyle, “MCA exhibits showcase big names, big ambitions from Big Apple,” Denver Post, Nov. 22.
Regan, Kate, “‘Feelers’ at Susan Hobbs, Toronto,” ARTnews, Nov.: 125.
“feelers: Touching a Nerve, or Three,” Canadian Art, Fall.
Moser, Gabrielle, “Sarah Massecar, Sandra Meigs, Arlene Shechet, feelers,” Esse, Fall, No. 67.
Smith, Roberta, “Why Craft Never Was a Four-Letter Word,” The New York Times, Apr. 18: C5.
Greenbaum, Joanne. “Decorating the Void: On Clay and Dirt on Delight,” The Highlights, June.
Smith, Roberta, “Crucible of Creativity, Stoking Earth Into Art,” The New York Times, Mar. 20: C25, C28.
Gopnik, Blake, “Clay’s Big Day,” The Washington Post, Mar. 1: M6-7.
2008
Pollack, Barbara, “Neti-Neti,” Time Out New York, July 31-Aug. 6: 53.
Saltz, Jerry, “Gray,” Critics’ Pick, NYMag.com, July 23.
De Vegh, Suzanne, “Arlene Shechet, New York,” Art Papers, July/Aug.: 66
Goodman, Jonathan, “New York Reviews,” Sculpture Magazine, July/Aug.:. 77-8.
Hirsch, Faye, “Arlene Shechet at Elizabeth Harris,” Art in America, Feb.
Keiter, Ellen. Shattering Glass: New Perspectives. Exhibition catalogue. Katonah, NY: Katonah Museum
2007
Genocchio, Benjamin. “Really? It’s All Made of Glass?” New York Times, Dec. 30
Smith, Roberta, “Art in Review,” The New York Times, Sept. 14: E41.
Nagy, Peter, “Perfumed Manifestation, the work of Arlene Shechet,” catalogue essay.
Robinson, Walter, “Reviews: Weekend Update” Artnet.com, Sept. 19
Strouse, Allen. “Arlene Shechet’s Military Base.” Artinfo.com, Dec. 11
2006
Mahoney, J. W., “Arlene Shechet at Hemphill,” Art in America, Oct.: 201-2.
Hyde, James, “Faith”, exhibition catalogue, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Ash, Elizabeth, “ART in Embassies in Hanoi,” State MAGAZINE, March
Dung, Dinh, “An American artist talks about her work and Buddhism,” The Saigon Times Daily, Mar. 29: 7.
“US artist Arlene Shechet to exhibit works in Ha Noi,” Vietnam News, Mar. 17: 20
Larson, Kay, “Keeping the Faith,” ARTnews, February
Dawson, Jessica, “Shechet, Sherwood and Bocchino at Hemphill,” The Washington Post, Jan. 7: C5
2005
Morgan, Robert C., “Who takes Glass Seriously,” The Urban Glass Art Quarterly, Fall: 27-33
Phillips, Autumn, "A Buddhist Concept on Paper," The Steamboat Pilot, Aug. 12: Arts FP
Cover Photograph, Tricycle Magazine, Summer: 39.
Mueller, Stephen, "Personal Statements in Just One Color," Gay City, June 23-29, p. 45
Glueck, Grace, "An Object of Practicality, from the Inside and Out,” New York Times, Apr. 1: E34
Klein, Richard, “Bottle: Contemporary Art and Vernacular Tradition,” New York Times, Apr. 1: E34 Wei, Lilly, exhibition essay for “Glass, Seriously,” Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2004
Morgan, Anne Barclay, “The Manifestation of Awareness," Sculpture Magazine, September, pp. 47-51
McElroy, Joseph, “A Poetry of Transience,” Shambala Sun, March, pp. 58-62
Schaffner, Ingrid, catalogue “The Big Nothing,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Univ.of Penn., Philadelphia, PA
Lipsey, Wei, catalogue essay for “The Invisible Thread: Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art.”
Brentano, Robyn, Olivia Georgia, Roger Lipsey, and Lilly Wei. The Invisible Thread: Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art.
Exhibition catalogue. Staten Island, New York: Snug Harbor Cultural Center
2003
Smith, Kiki, “Artists Choice – Arlene Shechet,” Art on Paper, cover story, Nov/Dec, Vol. 8, No. 2, p. 42-45
Pierpont, Margaret, “Natural Mastery,” Natural Health, Oct, p. 160
Harrison, Helen. “Recycling Paper: Not Just Good for the Environment.” New York Times Jan. 5: 9.
Cover photograph, Buddhadharma Magazine, Summer
Keough, Jeffrey. Mystic. Exhibition catalogue. Mass. College of Art, Boston. Essay by David D. Nolta.
Brown, Elizabeth A. Arlene Shechet: Building. Exhibition brochure. Seattle: Henry Art Gallery, U. of Wash.
2002
Cover Photograph, Hand Papermaking, Vol 17, no. 1, Summer
Johnson, Ken, "Arlene Shechet," New York Times, Art Guide. May 3
Elliot, David, “Ganesh. Galerie René Blouin. Montreal,” Canadian Art 19, no. 1, March
Koplos, Janet, "Arlene Shechet at A/D," Art in America, January
2001
Stein, Donna, catalogue essay for “Rags to Riches, 25 Years of Paper Art from Dieu Donne Papermill,” 57-8
“The Artist’s Way,” O Magazine, November
“Cathedral Removes an Artwork,” The New York Times, June 26
“Minister Wants Artwork Revised or Removed,” The New York Times, June 23
Douglas, Sarah, “’Unsuitable’ art removed from cathedral in New York,” The Art Newspaper
2000
Schaffner, Ingrid, catalogue essay for “The Living End,” Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, CO
Glackstern, J., “Many mysteries suggested at BMOCA’s ‘Living End’”, The Daily Camera, Boulder, CO, Oct. 15
Betts, Kristie, “Artflash, the end is here,” Boulder Weekly, Boulder, CO, September 28
Temin, Christine, “Perspectives: Assorted Artists Capture ‘Rapture’,” Boston Globe February 2
Alvis, Robert E. Rapture, Exhibition catalogue, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1999
Cotter, Holland, “Arlene Shechet,” The New York Times, Art Guide, May 21
Levin, Kim, "Voice Choices," The Village Voice, May 18
Nagy, Peter, catalogue essay for "Mirror Mirror," exhibition at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, NYC
Tagore, Sundaram, "Facing East: American Artists’ Encounters with India," Art India Magazine of India, April
Fyfe, Joe, catalogue essay for "Om" exhibition at David Dorsky Gallery
Nadelman, Elie, "Elie Nadelman: The Late Work," New York: Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, essays by Brandt Junceau and Klaus Kertess. Conversation with Arlene Shechet and Kiki Smith
1998
Gockel, Cornelia, "Korper und Ofnungen," Suddeutche Zeitung, July 30
Goldman, Robert, "Artist Diary," Artnet, Jan. 24
Hirsch, Faye, "Working Proof," On Paper Magazine, Vol. 2, January/February

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2023
American Academy of Arts and Letters Member
2021
VIA Art Fund, Artistic Production Grant
2016
CAA Artist Award for Distinguished Body of Work
2011
American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Art
American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Prize
2010
Anonymous Was A Woman Individual Artist Award
Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant
USA Artists: Special Projects
2006
US State Department American Artists Abroad, Vietnam
2004
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Visual Artist Fellowship
1999
New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist Fellowship Grant
1996
Dieu Donné Papermill, NYC, Artist Work Grant
1993
New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist Fellowship Grant
1986
N.E.A. Visual Artist, Artist Fellowship Grant
New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist Fellowship Grant

Public Collections

Albee Foundation, New York, NY
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, OH
Al Shands Collection, Louisville, KY
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Banff School of Fine Arts, Canada
Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Blanton Museum of Art / UT Austin, Austin, TX
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Candace K. Weir Foundation, New York, NY
The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
Deloitte & Touche, San Francisco, CA
Dieu Donné Papermill, NYC
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
Goldman Sachs (worldwide)
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
Hirshorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Lumber Room, Portland, OR
Martin Margulies Collection, Coconut Grove, FL
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Minnesota Museum of Art, St Paul, MN
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Mordes Collection, Palm Beach, FL
Musuem of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
North Shore Hospital, Long Island, NY
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
New York City Public Library, Drawing & Prints, New York, NY
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
Progressive Insurance, Cleveland, OH
Princeton University Art Museum, NJ
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, RI
San José Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Smith College Museum of Art, MA
Stanford University, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford, CA
University of California San Diego, Stuart Collection, San Diego, CA
US Embassy, Beijing, China
US Embassy, Nepal
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Whitespace Collection, West Palm Beach, FL
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
The J.V. Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ

William Pope.L

Born: 1955, Newark, NJ
Died: 2023, Chicago, IL
1983-1985
Mabou Mines Re.Cher.Chez. Theater Intensive, New York, NY
1979-1981
Mason Gross School, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, M.F.A.
1977-1978
Whitney Museum Independent Studio Program, New York, NY
1975-1978
Montclair State College, Montclair, NJ, B.A.
1973-1975
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026-2027
"Certainly an Act: Works on Paper by Pope.L," The Drawing Center, New York, NY (2026); Traveling to The Brick, Los Angeles, CA (2027)
2023-2024
"Hospital," South London Gallery, London, UK
2022
"Between A Figure and A Letter, " Schinkel Pavilion," Berlin, Germany
"The Ritual Is For All of us," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Four Panels," Mitchell-Innes and Nash, New York, NY
2021
"Pope.L: My Kingdom for a Title," Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, UC of Chicago, Chicago, IL (Link)
"Notations, Holes and Humour," Modern Art, London, England (Link)
"Portikus," Frankfurt, Germany
2019-2020
“Pope.L: Instigation, Aspiration, Perspiration,” Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Public Art Fund, New York, NY
"Pope.L: Well," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"member: Pope.L, 1978–2001," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"Pope.L: Choir," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2019
"Pope.L: Conquest.," Public Art Fund, New York, NY
"No thing: Pope.L, Adam Pendleton," Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
2018
"One thing after another, Part II," Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
“One thing after the other,” La Panacée, Montpellier, France (Link)
2017
“Brown People are the Wrens in the Parking Lot,” Logan Center Gallery, Chicago, IL (Link)
“Flint Water Project,” What Pipeline, Detroit, MI
“Proto-Skin Set,” Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
2016
“Pope.L and Will Boone,” Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
2015
"Forest," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"Desert," Steve Turner, Los Angeles, CA
"Trinket," The Geffen Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Gold People Shit In Their Valet, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
2013
Cage Unrequited, Soto Vlez Cultural and Educational Center, New York, NY
Performa 13, New York, NY
Colored Waiting Room, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
Forlesen, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
A Long White Cloud, Te Tuhi, Auckland, New Zealand
2012
Reenactor, Williams Center Gallery at Lafayette College, Easton, PA; traveled to Hodgepodge Building on Strawberry Alley, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
Three Projects, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
2011
Child, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
2010
landscape + object + animal, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
color isnt matter, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
2009
The Black Factory, Art Projects Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL
Corbu Pops, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
William Pope.L, Kenny Schachter ROVE, London, UK
Yard (to harrow), Hauser + Wirth, New York, NY
2008
October Projects, GreetingLine, New York, NY
Animal Nationalism: Small Cup, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
Animal Nationalism: Trinket, Exhibition Hall at Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, MO
Biting Through Innocence, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
2007
Drawing, Dreaming, Drowning, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Art After White People: time, trees, & celluloid, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
William Pope.L: snow, spraypaint, hair, sperm & baloney, Kenny Schachter ROVE, London, UK
William Pope.L: The Black Factory and Other Good Works, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
The Void Show, MC Kunst, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Condoleezza Rice Day, Galleria Civica, Trento, Italy
Trophy Room, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Under All, Above Most, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
2005
some things you can do with blackness, Kenny Schachter ROVE, London, UK
Props & Propositions, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2004
Five Ways to Say the Same Sadness, University Art Museum, University at Albany, NY
eRacism: electronica, Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, St. Louis, MO
reFunkt: prints & dvds, The Project, New York, NY
eRacism, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; traveled to Artists Space, New York, NY
2003
Foddah, Drew University, Madison, NJ
Some: Of Place and Desire, ArtHouse, Austin, TX
eRacism, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX; traveled to Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2002
Whats Inside a Boy, The Project, Los Angeles, CA
eRacism, ICA at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
Incontinent, Wood Street Gallery, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
2001
Hole Theory, The Project, New York, NY
2000
Eracism: White Room, ThreadWaxing Space, New York, NY
The Hole Inside The Space Inside Yves Kleins Asshole, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Eating The Wall Street Journal And Other Current Consumptions, Mobius, Boston, MA
1998
Recent Work, The Project, New York, NY
1996
Buddy Performance Objects, with Jim Calder, Touchstone Theater, Bethlehem, PA
1993
William Pope.L, Horodner Romley Gallery, New York, NY
1992
William Pope.L, Drew University, Madison, NJ
1991
How Much is that Nigger in the Window, 30 performances, writings and installations, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026
"Ongoingness," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2024-2025
"For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability," Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
2024
"Walk This Way," Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Ravensburg, Germany
"On the Absurd Drama That Is Also Life," Moderna Museet Malmö Malmö, Sweden
"A Portrait in Fragments," Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
2023
"Unbound: Performance as Rupture," Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin, Germany
2023-2024
“From Andy Warhol to Kara Walker. Scenes From the Collection,” Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany (Link)
2023
"Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Gordon Matta-Clark & Pope.L: Impossible Failures," 52 Walker, New York, NY
2022
"Us Them We: Race, Ethnicity, Identity," Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
"WALK!," Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
"When I State That I Am An Anarchist," PLATO Ostrava, Ostrava, Czechia
2021
"Zeros + Ones.," KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
"Transformed: Objects Reimagined by American Artists," Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
"The Principle of Hope," Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, China
"Oehlen, Pendleton, Pope.L, Sillman," Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
"The Paradox of Stillness," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI (Link)
"A Shared Body," FSU Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
“Everyone Is an Artist” Cosmopolitical Exercises with Joseph Beuys, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
"Push Over, Push Back," CCS Bard Galleries, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, NY
"The Holding Environment," Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
2020
"Climate Changing: On Artists, Institutions, and the Social Environment," Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
2021
"K as in Knight," Helena Anrather, New York, NY
"Old Growth – New Decay," Chapman University Guggenheim Gallery, Orange, CA
"Dave McKenzie: The Story I tell Myself," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2020
"Citizenship," Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO.
"Wrecked Alphabet," Broodthaers Society of America, NY, NY
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Rituals of Regard and Recollection," Law Warschaw Gallery, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN
"Stayin’ Alive," ANOTHER SPACE, New York, NY
2019
"Political Affairs: Language is not Innocent," Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
"No Thing: Pope.L, Adam Pendelton," Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland.
"Water After All," Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
2019-2020
"Cro45 to Now," Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
"Elements of Vogue (A case of radical performance)," Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico
"Small Talk," Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
"The Foundation of the Museum: MOCA’s Collection," The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
"Counter-Landscapes: Performative Actions from the 1970s — Now," Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
"Men of Steel, Women of Wonder," Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
2019
"Prisoner of Love," Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
"Embodiment," Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
2019-2020
"Mask: In Present-Day Art," Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
2019
"EBSPLOITATION," Martos Gallery, New York, NY
2019-2020
"Great Force," Institute for Contemporary Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2019
"Drawn Together Again," FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
"Men of Steel, Women of Wonder," Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
"DREAMWEAVERS," UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills, CA (Link)
"Uptown to Harlem: African American Works from the collection of Martin & Rebecca Eisenberg,” Riverview School, East Sandwich, MA
"From Theory to Practice: Trajectories of the Whitney," University Hall Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
2018
"The Land We Live in – the Land We Left Behind," Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Bruton, UK
"Talisman in the Age of Difference," Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
"Rubbish and Dreams: The Genderqueer Performance of Stephan Varble," Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY
“Becoming American,” San Juan Island, Seattle, WA (Link)
"Crossroads: Carnegie Museum of Art’s Collection, 1945 to Now," Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA,
"Cheeky: Summer Butts," curated by Anthony Iacono and Peter LaBier, Marinaro Gallery, New York, NY (Link)
"Agora," The High Line, New York, NY (Link)
"Other Mechanisms,” curated by Anthony Huberman, Secession, Vienna (Link)
"Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, and Journeys 1967-2017," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
"Against the Architecture," Refectoire des Nonnes, Lyon, France
"The Enemy of My Enemy," Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
"Adam McEwen Selects: Exhibition to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts," Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
"35 days of film," Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
"Black Pulp!" African American Museum, Philadelphia, PA
"Counternarratives: Performance and Actions in Public Space," Decker Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
"Learning from the Land and the Water," LookOut! Gallery, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
"Reclamation! Pan-African Works from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection," Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
"Walking Point," Greene Naftali, New York, NY
"20/20: Influential Artists of the 20th Century," Mott-Warsh Collection, Flint, MI
2017-2018
“Mechanisms,” The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
“Elements of Vogue,” CA2M, Madrid, Spain
2017
“20/20: The Studio Museum in Harlem and Carnegie Museum of Art,” Studio Museum, Harlem, NY; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
“We Are Here,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
“art on the front lines that speaks to the present political and social climate,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Gallery, New York, NY
“Active Ingredients: Prompts, Props, Performance,” Williams Museum of Art, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
“Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flanerie,” The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
“Punching Up,” Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery, Purchase, NY
“You Should be an Artist,” Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
"If Not Apollo, the Breeze,” Kadist, San Francisco, CA (Link)
“Invisible Man,” Martos Gallery, New York, NY
“Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967 – 2017,” University of Buffalo Art Galleries, Bufalo, New York, NY; traveling to Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
documenta 14, Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“The Window and the Breaking of the Window,” Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
2016
“With deepest sympathy: Geopolitics and bodies,” Stadtische Galerie, Munich, Germany
“THE PUBLIC BODY.01,” Artspace, Sydney, Australia
“Less Than One,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
“The Invisible Body,” MASS Art, Boston, MA
“The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music from 1965 to Now,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
“Do You, Ms. Jones?” Rosenwald Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
"Body Superficial,” Sgorbati Projectors, New York, NY
“The Window and the Breaking of the Window,” The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
“Blackness in Abstraction,” Pace Gallery, New York, NY
Bienal de São Paolo, Brazil (Link)
“Black Pulp!,” International Print Center New York, New York, NY; travelled to University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL; Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University, Middeletown, CT
2015
“(Counter)Public Art, Intervention, and Performances in Lower Manhattan, 1980-1993,” Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, New York, NY
“TOWER,” Ibid, London, UK
“Walking Sculpture: 1967 — 2015,” deCordova Sculpture Park + Museum, Lincoln, MA
“Identity,” Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
“The Works: Artists in and from Chicago,” CAB Art Center, Brussels, Belgium
“I Like It Like This: Curated by Drake,” Sotheby’s S|2 Gallery, New York, NY
“Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
“Brugges Triennial – Politics and the Productions of Space: The Written City,” City Hall, Brugges, Belgium
“Z-ING,” Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Works on Paper,” Greene Naftali, New York, NY
“Let Us Celebrate While Youth Lingers and Ideas Flow: Archives 1915-2015,” The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL
“The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music 1965 to Now” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2014
“Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
“CON/TEXT,” Lynch Tham, New York, NY
“Days Inn,” Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
“Itinerant Belongings,” Addams Gallery, University of Pennsylvania and Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
“Pierogi X X,” Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
“Poor Working Conditions,” Martos Gallery, New York, NY
“Ruffneck Constructivists,” Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
“30 Americans,” The Rubell Family Collection, Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, TN; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
“Warm Side of Zero,” Overduin & Co, Los Angeles, CA
2013
“African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from the David C. Driskell Center,” Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH; traveled to The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC; Akron Museum, Akron OH
“Blues for Smoke,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; traveled to Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
“Body Language,” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
“Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art,” Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY
“Burying the Lede,” Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
“Against the Grain; Wood in Contemporary Craft and Design,” curated by Lowery Stokes Sims, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
“Cliff and Better,” Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL
“The Eleventh Hour,” DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
“Hello Goodbye Thank You, Again, and Again, and Again,” Castillo/Corrales, Paris, France
“Kaboom! Comics in Art,” Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany
“Pull! Reading Room,” SPACES, Cleveland, OH
“30 Americans,” The Rubell Family Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
“Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art,” Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY; traveled to the The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2012
“Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art,” Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston TX
“African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from the David C. Driskell Center,” University of Maryland, College Park, MD
“Blues for Smoke,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Fax,” University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI; traveled to DeVos Art Museum, Marquette, MI; Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT; San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“30 Americans,” The Rubell Family Collection, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
“Wall Text,” Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL
“superHUMAN,” Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim, UT; traveled to Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
2011
“After Images,” Musee Juif de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
“Another Kind of Vapor,” White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO
“The Bearden Project,” The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
“D’un Autre Monde,” Le Printemps de Septembre – à Toulouse, contemporary art festival, Toulouse, France
“Fax,” Apex Gallery, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD; traveled to Saint Paul Street Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; South London Gallery, London, UK; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
“Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA),” Röda Sten Art Centre, Göteborg, Sweden
“History of Disappearance: Live Art from New York 1975 – Present,” PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin, Ireland; traveled to Laznia Center, Gdansk, Poland
“Inti,” On Stellar Rays, New York, NY
“The Painting Show,” Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
Prospect.2 New Orleans. New Orleans, LA
“30 Americans,” The Rubell Family Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
2010
“The 2010 DeCordova Biennial,” DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
“At Home/Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg,” Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
“Fax,” Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA; traveled to Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Barnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC, Canada; Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong, China; Dowd Gallery, State University of New York, Cortland, NY; Museu de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico; New Galerie, Paris, France
“History of Disappearance: Live Art from New York 1975 – Present,” Arhus Kunstbygning, Arhus, Denmark
“The Last Newspaper,” New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
“The Process Show,” 37-A Gallery, Portland, ME
“Resurrectine,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
“Slightly Unbalanced,” Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, Richmond, VA
2009
“Allan Kaprow YARD (to Harrow),” Hauser & Wirth, NY
“30 Seconds Off an Inch,” The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
“Self as Disappearance,” Centre d’Art Contemporain, La Synagogue de Delme, Delme, France
“Broken Thorn Sweet Blackberry,” Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York, NY
“Carnival Within – An Exhibition Made in America,” Uferhallen, Berlin, Germany
“Collected: Propositions on the Permanent Collection,” The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
“Fax,” The Drawing Center, New York, NY; traveled to Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
“Pour,” installation at the Botanical Gardens, Art Projects at Art Basil Miami Beach, Mitchell-Innes & Nash in collaboration with Galerie Catherine Bastide, Miami Beach, FL
“Slightly Unbalanced,” Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV; travled to Rodman Hall Arts Center, St. Catharines, ON, Canada; Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, LA; Museum London, London, ON, Canada
“Summer Exhibition,” Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
“Trouble at the Front (Troubles aux Frontieres),” Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
2008
“30 Americans,” The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
“Paul Thek: In the Contexts of Today’s Contemporary Art (PART TWO),” Sammlung Falkenburg, Hamburg, Germany
“Black Is, Black Ain’t,” The Renaissance Society at University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Brainwave: Common Sense,” Exit Art, New York, NY
“Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America,” The International Center for the Arts at San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
“Disinhibition: Black Art and Blue Humor,” Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
“History of Disappearance: Live Art from New York 1975 – Present,” Sydney Underground Film Festival, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, Australia
“Informal Architectures (Pt. 2),” Winnepeg, CA
“Mergers and Acquisitions,” Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA; traveled to Retail Value, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2007
“Port City: On Mobility and Exchange,” Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
“History of Disappearance: Live Art from New York 1975 – Present,” Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda, Santiago, Chile
“Keeping Up With the Joneses,” Schroeder Romero, New York, NY
“New York – States of Mind,” House of World Culture, Berlin, Germany; traveled to Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
“Paul Thek: In the Context of Today’s Contemporary Art,” ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
“Situation Comedy: Humor in Recent Art,” Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, FL
“Informal Architectures,” The Banff Centre, Banff, AB, Canada
“Conceptual Paper,” Arndt & Partner, Zurich, Switzerland
“Plug,” Sister Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Silicone Valley,” PS-1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
“Get Lost,” New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2006
“South Bronx Contemporary: Longwood 25th Anniversary,” Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
“A Noir, E Blanc, I Rouge, U Vert, O Bleu: Farben,” Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany
“History of Disappearance: Live Art from New York 1975 – Present,” Galleria Neon>fdv, Milan, Italy; traveled to MANmuseum at the Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
“7e Biennale de l’Art Africaine Contemporaire,” Dakar, Senegal
“Civil Restitutions,” Thomas Dane Gallery, London
“Newark Between Us,” 744 Gallery/Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ
“Stories,” Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
“Situation Comedy,” Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg,Canada; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
“Skowhegan at 60,” Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
“Humor Me,” H & R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
“Relics and Remnants,” Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, New York, NY
“Dreaming of a More Better Future,” Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2005
“Hero,” Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
“History of Disappearance: Live Art from New York 1975 – Present,” Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
“Looking at Words: The Formal Use of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper,” Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
“Moving Collection: Body-Con,” Tactical Museum at Nadiff, Tokyo, Japan
“Reverse Engineers,” Carnegie Art Center, North Towanda, NY
“Landmark,” Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
“RAPSIDA,” Gallery 138, New York, NY
“Double Consciousness,” Museum of Contemporary Arts Houston, Houston, TX
“Situation Comedy,” Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
“Decarie,” Saidye Bronfman Center for the Arts, Montreal, Canada
“Defense,” Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, CA
2004
“The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere,” MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
“Watch What We Say,” Schroeder Romero, Brooklyn, NY
“The Big Nothing,” Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
“5 x 7 Exhibition,” Art House Gallery, Austin, TX
“Harlem Postcards: Spring 2004, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
“Romantic Detachment,” PS-1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
“Brown v. Board of Education 1954-2004,” Gallery 138, New York, NY
“Republican Like Me,” Parlour Projects, Brooklyn, NY
“Moving Collection: Body-Con,” Fukui Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
“Reverse Engineers,” Herndon Gallery, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH
“Only Skin Deep,” International Center for Photography, New York, NY
2003
“Moving Collection: Body-Con,” Wanakio Festival, Naha, Okinawa, Japan
“distillation," Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden
“In Heat,” Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY
“Motion Studies,” Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY
“White,” Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY
“Ameri©an Dre@m,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2002
“Art & Outrage,” Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
“Wallow,” The Project, New York, NY
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Reactions,” Exit Art Gallery, New York, NY
“Moving Collection: Body-Con,” Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand
2001
“Video Jam,” Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Bach, FL
2000
“Pix,” Lance Fung Gallery, New York, NY
“Friendships in Arcadia: Writers and Artists at Yaddo in the 90s,” Art in General, New York, NY; traveled to The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY
“Söma Söma Söma,” Sculpture Center, New York, NY
1999
“Out of Actions,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
“The History of the Future,” Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
“Paradise 8,” Exit Art, New York, NY
1998
“warming,” The Project, New York, NY
“Out of Actions,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to MAK, Vienna, Austria
“Apocalypse Now,” HERE Art Gallery, New York, NY
“Freedom, Liberation and Change: Revisiting 1968,” Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
“A Negro Sleeps Beneath the Susquehanna,” Hide and Seek Residency, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
“Peek,” HERE Art Gallery, New York, NY
1997
“Available Culture,” HERE Art Gallery, New York, NY
“Birdhouses,” Robin Hutchins Gallery, Maplewood, NJ
“Birds of a Feather,” Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
“Habitat for Humanity: (bird)Houses,” New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark, NJ
“Out on a Limb,” Midland Gallery, Montclair, NJ
1996
“Exquisite Corpse,” Danforth Gallery, Portland, ME
1995 “
Art in the USA since 1950,” Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
“Dysfunctional Art,” Tompkins Cove Art Center/Hudson Arts at Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
“Outside The Frame: Performance & the Object: A Survey History of Performance”
“Satellite Choice: Young Curators Explore Diversity,” Artists Space, New York, NY
1994
“Art in the USA since 1950,” Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
“Outside The Frame: Performance & the Object: A Survey History of Performance”
“The Return of the Cadavre Exquis,” Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMOA), Santa Monica, CA; traveled to Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO; American Center, Paris, France
1993
“The Return of the Cadavre Exquis,” Drawing Center, New York, NY
“Transient Décor,” Roger Smith Hotel, New York, NY
“Various Objects,” Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1991
“Looking for Aunt Jenny,” Art in General, New York, NY
1990
“Action and Artifact,” Weatherspoon Gallery at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
1985
“Post-Modern Icons,” Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
1984
“Found Language,” Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
“Radical Culture,” Fashion Moda Gallery, Bronx, NY
1983
“Rutgers Invitational,” Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

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2017
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2016
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2015
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Shaked, Dr. Nizan, “Under the Banner of Contradiction,” X-TRA, Fall
2014
Motley, John, “William Pope.L, the self-described ‘Friendliest Black Artist in America,’ returns to Portland for ‘Claim’ at PSU,” The Oregonian, February 5
2013
Caniglia, John, “PULL!” offers city a labor of art as it rolls through Cleveland streets,“ The Plain Dealer, June 9
Foumberg, Jason, “Is Chicago Ready for William Pope.L?” ChicagoMag.com, May
Simonini, Ross, “William Pope.L,” Interview Magazine, February 6
2012
Sortor, Carolyn, “Looking Back, Looking Forward”, artandseek.net, September 12,
Dirié, Clément, ed, “William Pope.L: Black People are Cropped.” JRP Ringier
Diaz, Eva, “Prospect.2, New Orleans” Artforum, February
2011
Nathan, Emily, “Prospect.2 New Orleans: Beating Heart Biennial,” ArtNet (web), November
2010
“La Fiac sur Orbite Internationale.” Spécial Fiac, October
“The Twenty.” New York Magazine, August 30 to September 6
Barliant, Claire, “Reviews: The Last Newspaper.” Time Out: New York, November 4
Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review: Art and News, Intersecting in the Digital Age.” The New York Times, October 7
Garza, Evan J, “Review: William Pope.L at Samson.” Flash Art, May to June
Wilson, Michael, “Art Review: William Pope.L., landscape + object + animal,” May
Vanderbuilt, Tom, “Review: The Last Newspaper, the New Museum.” ArtForum, October
2009
Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review: William Pope.L.” The New York Times, October
Marjian, Ana, “Review: William Pope.L at the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University,” ArtForum, February
Anstead, Alicia, “Art that Pops – A new installation by William Pope.L transforms Carpenter Center into a playground for challenging ideas,” Arts Spectrum, Cambridge, MA. February
Zhong, Fan, “Yard Work,” Interview Magazine, September
2008
“Goings on About Town: William Pope.L,” The New Yorker, October 13
“Agenda: William Pope.L,” New York Magazine, September 17 to 24
Cotter, Holland, “The Topic is Race; the Art is Fearless,” The New York Times, March 30
Levin, Kim, “Reviews: New York, William Pope.L at Mitchell-Innes & Nash,” ARTnews, December
Valdez, Sarah, “William Pope.L at Mitchell-Innes & Nash.” Art on Paper, November/December, pg 84 to 85
2007
Dorin, Lisa and Darby English, “William Pope.L: Drawing, Dreaming and Drowning.” The Art Institute of Chicago Journal, October
Antebi, Nicole et al, “Failure! Experiments in Aesthetic and Social Practices,” Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press, Los Angeles, CA, pp.60-61, 62-65, 144, 147-148, 176, 180-183, 216.
English, Darby, “How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness.” MIT Press
Taft, Catherine, “William Pope.L. Critics’ Picks,” ArtForum, November 13
2006
Agans, Elizabeth, “Think Again.” Rutgers Magazine, Winter
Chase, Alisia, “Learning to be Human.” Afterimage, January-February
Lepecki, Andre, Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement, Routledge
Sayer, Laura. “Undies to See the Light,” The New Record, Cincinnati, OH, January 5-8
Storey, Natalie. “On Your Knees!” The Santa Fe New Mexican Magazine, March 12-18
Van Cleve, Emily, “Performer Makes an Art of Humiliation,” The Journal Santa Fe, March 3
2005
Delgado, Jerome, “Amener l’Autoroute a la Montagne,” La Presse. Montreal, Canada, June 2
Dischinger, Mark, “The United Colors of America,” RFT: Riverfront Times, St Louis, MO, June 15-21
Firstenberg, Lauri, “Profile: Tapping the energy of Predicament,” Contemporary Magazine, New York, NY
Harthill, Daniel, “Shazam!” Sun Journal, Lewiston, ME, May 30
Lamarche, Bernard, “Toucher Son But,” Le Devoir, Montreal, Canada, May 15
McKanic, Arlene, “JCAL’s Relics and Remnants.” The New York Amsterdam News, November 3-9
Pope.L, William. “The “Looking for Miss Black Factory” Contest.” Art Journal,Spring, 2005
Pope.L, William. “Letter to a Young Artist.” Art on Paper, July/August, 2005
Sedgewick, Augustine. “Perspective: William Pope.L, The Possibilities of Difference.” Sun Journal, June 12, 2005
Thorson, Alice. “Highlighting ‘Blackness.” Kansas City Star, Kansas City, MO, June 12, 2005
2004
Cotter, Holland. “Hometown of Utopia and Dissent.” The New York Times, New York, NY, July 23
Daily, Meghan. “William Pope.L.” ArtForum, April
Smith, Roberta. “William Pope.L.” The New York Times, January 30
Osei-Bonsu, Aufa. “The Art of Contraries: William Pope.L.”. Afrique, Chicago, IL, April
Thompson, Chris. “Afterbirth of a Nation.” Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory
Tousignant, Isa. “Crawl for Your Life.” The Hour, Montreal, Canada, November 4
Trainor, James. “Ain’t No Such Thing As Superman.” Frieze, London, England, May
2003
Calo, Carole Gold. “Public Art/Private Art.” Public Art Review Crossroads, Fall-Winter
D.K. Row. “Covered In Chocolate, An Artist Dances ‘For Democracy’.” The Oregonian, June 12
Owens, Clifford. “Notes on Critical Black U.S. Performance Art.” Fylkingen Net Journal, October 23
Pollack, Barbara. “The Art of Public Disturbance.” Art in America, May
Pope.L, William. “Sandwich Lecture 8”. LIVE Culture, Tate Gallery, London, UK, Spring
Stillman, Nick. “ARTSEEN: William Pope.L, The Great White Way”. The Brooklyn Rail, June
Stillman, Nick. “The Value of Not Knowing.” New York Fine Arts Quarterly (NYFA), Vol. 19, No 2, Spring
Trainor, James. “Walking the Walk: The Artist as Flâneur.” Border Crossings, November
2002
Bessire, Mark H. C., ed. “William Pope.L: The Friendliest Black Artist in America,” MIT Press
Cotter, Holland. “Noted Performance Artist’s Work Slows to a Crawl,” International Herald Tribune, January
Cohen, Ted. “Crawling to Learn.” Maine Telegram Sunday, Portland, ME, October 6
Cotter, Holland. “Tombs, Pop Tarts, and Parties.” The New York Times, August 23
Connors, Philip. “The Man Who Ate the Wall Street Journal.” The Wall Street Journal, April 9
Pollack, Barbara. “Superman Enters the Culture Wars.” Village Voice, New York, NY, January 15
Pope.L, William. “Voices from the Field.” The Visual Art Critic, Columbia University, New York, NY
Pope.L, William, interviewed by Chris Thompson, “America’s Friendliest Black Artist,” PAJ, A Journal of Performance and Art, Vol. 24, issue 3, September
2001
Associated Press. “NEA Grant is Denied for Noted Maine Artist.” Boston Globe, Boston, MA, December 20
Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review: William Pope.L.” The New York Times, June 2001
Pogrebin, Robin. “Warhol Foundation Finances Work Rebuffed by N.E.A.” New York Times, December 21
Pope.L, William. “How Do You Make Social Change: Beyond the Proscenium.” Theatre, No. 3, Vol. 31
2000
Carr, C., “Generation Gap: Three Performers and a Waterbed.” Village Voice, New York, NY, July 18
Rush, Michael, “Performance Hops Back Into the Scene.” The New York Times, July 2
Robinson, Dash, “Consumer Demand: William Pope.L.” Cambridge Tab. Needham, MA, January 14
1999
Crawford, Cair. “My Niagra #2 (Bed).” Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art, Issue 10, Summer
Volk, Gregory. “Rolo Castillo, William Pope.L” The Project. Flash Art, March-April
1997
Carr, C. “Some Kind of Protest.” Village Voice, New York, NY, March 4
Weiss, Allen S., ed. Taste Nostalgia. Lusitania Press, New York, NY
1996
Wilson, Martha. William Pope.L. Bomb Magazine, New York, NY, Spring

Performances

2020
"Dressing Up for Civil Rights (Performance 3 of 3)," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"Haunting the Gallery (Version 3)," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"Eating the Wall Street Journal (Flag Version – Sean Yetter performs)," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2019
"Dressing Up for Civil Rights (Performance 2 of 3)," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"Haunting the Gallery (Version 2)," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"Eating the Wall Street Journal (Flag Version – Mary Louise Guinier performs)," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"Dressing Up for Civil Rights (Performance 1 of 3)," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"Haunting the Gallery (Version 1)," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"Eating the Wall Street Journal (Flag Version – Pope.L performs)," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"Pope.L: Conquest," Public Art Fund, New York, NY
"Conquest," Public Art Fund, New York, NY
"An Evening with Ralph Lemon and Pope.L," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"Flint Water meets the Mighty Hudson," Hudson River, New York, NY
2018
"Pope.L: The Escape," The Art Intitute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (Link)
"Reenactor," Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
2017
"Reenactor," Dlectricity, Detroit, MI
"Shopping Craw," Social Service, Artists Space, New York, NY
2016
"Baile," 32nd Biennal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
"The Problem," Art Basel Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
2015
"The Long White Cloud," Black Cinema House, Chicago, IL
"The Beautiful," Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL
"Cage Unrequited," MCA Live, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2014
"The Limner Performance," Media Replication Services by Triple Canopy, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
"Mercier and Camier," Portland State University, Portland, OR
"Media Replication Services," with Caroline Bergvall, Lisa Gitelman, and Pope.L, facilitated by Triple Canopy, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Costume Made of Nothing," Walk Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2013
"Burying the Blues," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Cage Unrequited," Performa 13: Three Duets, Seven Variations, at Soto Velez, New York, NY
2012
"Firing Squad," Grizedale Arts, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK
"A Personal History of Curation," Case Study: William Pope.L Inteprets Fluxkit, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2011
"Göteborg Crawl," Röda Sten Konsthall, Göteborg, Sweden
"Blink," Prospect 2, New Orleans, LA
"Paste!" Flux This!, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2010
"Eating the Wall Street Journal (new millenium version)," New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2009
"Corbu Pop Singers," Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2007
"In the Cabin," Haus der Kultern de Welt, Berlin, Germany

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2017
Bucksbaum Award, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
Knight Arts Challenge
VIA Art Fund Grant
Mellon Collaborative Fellowship for Arts Practice and Scholarship
2015
American Spirit Award
2012
Joyce Foundation Award
2009
Acadia Summer Arts Program (Kippy Kamp), Mount Desert Island, ME
2007
Nancy Graves Foundation Award
Tiffany Foundation Award
2006
Bellagio Center Residency
United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship
2005
LEF Foundation
Grizedale Foundation Residency Fellowship
2004
Guggenheim Fellowship
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, faculty in residence. Skowhegan, ME
2003
International Arts Critic Association Award
Rockefeller Foundation
2002
Acadia Summer Arts Program (Kippy Kamp), Mount Desert Island, ME
Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art
2001
Japan – U.S. Friendship Commission Fellowship
The Andy Warhol Foundation
Creative Capital Foundation
Artist in Residence – Yaddo
2000
Franklin Furnace/Jerome Foundation
Tanne Foundation Fellowship
Artist in Residence – Yaddo
1999
Maine Arts Commission Fellowship Grant
Artist in Residence – Yaddo
1997
Artist in Residence – Yaddo
Tennessee William Writer-In-Residence, Sewanee: University of the South, Sewanee, TN
1996
Ko Performance Festival Residency, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Residency, Skowhegan, ME
1995
National Endowment for the Arts
Artist in Residence – Yaddo
Ko Performance Festival Residency, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
1994
National Endowment for the Arts
New England Regional Initiative Project
New Forms Artist’s Project Award
Maine Arts Commission Fellowship Grant
1993
National Endowment for the Arts
Art Matters
1992
Franklin Furnace/Jerome Foundation Fund for Art
New England Regional Initiative Project Grant
1991
Mid Atlantic Residency
1990
Art Matters Grant
1989
Mt. Holyoke Writers Workshop
Art Matters Grant
1988
New England Regional Initiative Project Grant
1987
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Playwright’s Development Grant
1986
Just Above Midtown Curator-Artist/Television Grant
Artists Space Grant
1984
Artists Space Grant

Selected Talks, Lectures and Panels

2023
"Pope.L At Museum Brandhorst," Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany (forthcoming) (Link)
2022
"’Alzheimer’s Talk’," Kutztown University Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 15200 Kutztown Rd, Kutztown, PA
"Nuremberg Symposium," Historical Townhall Nuremberg, Nuremberg, DE
"Artist talk at Städelschule," Städelschule, Portikus, Frankfurt, DE
"Pope.L & Andrea Fraser in Conversation," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA
2020
"Open Dialogue: Generational Inequality and the Environment with Pope.L, What Pipeline, Jenny Kendler, and Rachael Havrelock," Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
2019
"Pope.L Artist Talk with Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw at Barnes Foundation," Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
"Book Launch for Pope.L: Campaign in conversation with Pope.L, Dieter Roelstraete and Yesomi Umolu," Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry. Chicago, IL
"Pope.L: Public Art Fund Artist Talk at Cooper Union," New York, NY
2018
"Pope.L in conversation with Noam Segal," Mitchell Innes and Nash, New York, NY
"Several Major Projects," The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York, NY
"Poetics in a Time of Climate Collapse and Human Rights Abuses,” University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“X-TRA presents Pope.L reads “The Cypress” followed by conversation with Hamza Walker,” The Underground Museum, Los Angeles, CA
“Artist Talk in conjunction with Mel Chin: All Over The Place,” Queens Museum, Queens, NY
“Recent Works to Date, Intersections," Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
"Artist Talk with Pope.L and Dieter Roelstraete," University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2017
"Recent Works to Date,” University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
“Conversation Between the Artist and Christopher Y. Lew,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Recent Works to Date. Sawyer Seminar: Urban Projects,” University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2016
“Whispering Workshop,” Continuum: documenta 14 at Polytechnion, Athens, Greece
“Conversation (A) with Pope.L,” Oswald Andrade Cultural Office, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2015
“Conversation with Anthony Huberman,” ‘In-Practice: symposium’ The Renaissance Society Centennial, Chicago, IL
“Conversation with Claudia Rankine,” Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago, IL
“‘Humors’ Panel. “Painting and Its Humors,” University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Keynote Address,” “Far-sited: Creating and Conserving Art in Public Places”
Getty Conservation Institute/CSU Long Beach, CA
"Conversation with Adrienne Edwards. Symposium: New Circuits: Curating Contemporary Performance” at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
“Conversation with Jenny Schlenzka,” College Art Association, New York, NY
“Klingon Talk (Attempt#2): The Colony,” 10th Serpentine Transformation Marathon. Serpentine Radio
“Leonard and Merle Nelson Social Justice Fund Lecture,” Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
2014
“Art Talk: William Pope.L,” University of Southern California, Roski School of Art and Design with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
“(K)NOW: Artists & the Production of New Knowledge, Now – William Pope.L, The Two Projects Talk,” Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
“Media Replication Services,” With Lisa Gitelman and Caroline Bergvall for Triple Canopy, Whitney Biennial 2014, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“PSU MFA Studio Lecture Series,” Portland State University, Portland, OR
“The Diversity Talk. Panel with Zachary Cahill, Wolfie E. Rawk, Lise Yun Lee, and Romi Crawford,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2013
“Artist Talk,” Columbia University, New York, NY
“Artist Talk,” Kent Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Artist Talk – Two Projects,” Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
“Episode 405: William Pope.L. Bad at Sports,” Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Skowhegan Conversations #5: Pope.L & Zachary Fabri,” The Drawing Center, New York, NY
“William Pope.L: Before and After PULL!” Cultural Conversation Series, High Concept Laboratories, Chicago, IL
2012
“Artist Talk. Conversations with Artists Series: Art as Experiment,” Center for the Study of Modern Art, The Phillips Collections, Washington, DC
“Artist Talk. Grossman Visiting Artist,” Williams Center, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
“Mike Kelley Moving Forward. Panel with Rachel Harrison and Joe Scanlan,” MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY
“Three Projects,” Movement Lecture Series, Scheler Humanities Forum, Linderman Library, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
“Visiting Artist Talk,” Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
“William Pope.L Artist Talk,” Frances and Armand Hammer Auditorium, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
2011
“Awards Speech for Geoffrey Hendricks,” VaVa Voom! Visual AIDS Vanguard Awards, New York, NY
“Graduation Talk,” Commencement, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
“Think Tank,” The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2010
“Expanded, Exploded, Collapsed?,” Panel with Johanna Burton and Josiah McElheny moderated by Fionn Meade, hosted by Vera List Center for Art and Politics and the Sculpture Center, at The New School, New York, NY
“Visiting Artist Talk,” Department of Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT
“William Pope.L Artist Talk,” Poag Auditorium, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN
2009
“Artist Talk: Recent Work,” Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA; Haverford College, Haverford, PA; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
“Residency Presentation,” Acadia Summer Arts Program (Kippy Kamp), Mount Desert Island, ME
2008
“Artist Lecture,” Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
“Artist Talk,” Grand Arts and Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
“Artist Talk,” Plug In at ICA, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
“Artist Talk,” Montclair Art Museum and Montclair University, Montclair, NJ
“Artist Talk,” Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Columbia University, New York, NY
“Panel Discussion,” The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Recent Projects,” Hunter College, New York, NY
“Some Recent Things I Made That Do Not Go Together – a lecture by William Pope.L,” Grand Valley State University and the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI
2007
“Art as Intervention,” Roundtable discussion moderated by Mark Bessire, Art of Concern Symposium 2007, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
“Artist Talk,” Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Artist Talk,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
“An Evening with William Pope.L,” Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
“Influence Lecture, version 11,” Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY; University of Michigan School of Art and Design, Ann Arbor, MI
“Visiting Artist Talk,” Union Institute & University at Vermont College, Montpelier, VT
2006
“Artist Talk,” Center for Contemporary Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM Black Factory Round Table Discussion. Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
“Black Factory Talk, version 3,” Foreman Gallery, Bishop’s University, Lennoxville, QC, Canada
“Black Factory Talk, version 4,” Nova Art Fair, Chicago, IL
“Graduation Talk,” Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
“Influence Lecture, version 11,” University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; California College of Art, San Francisco, CA; Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, ON, Canada; Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
“Lecture Seminar,” University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
“Politics of Visual Culture, Black Factory Talk,” College Art Association, Annual Conference, Boston, MA
2005
“Influence Lecture, version 11,” Montana State University, Bozeman, MT; American University, Washington, DC; University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
2004
“Artist Talk,” Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Barbara Lee Artist Lecture Series, Skowhegan, ME
"Community Conversation with the Artist on eRacism," Mason Gross Art Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
“Conversation with Christian Rattemeyer + Lowery Sims,” Artists Space, New York, NY
“eRacism Panel Discussion. With Barbara Pollack, Andre Lepecki, José Muñoz, and Midori Yoshimoto,” Paul Robeson Cultural Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
“Influence Lecture, version 3,” Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; Carnegie Mellon School of the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL; University of California, Davis, CA; Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD; University of Illinois, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL; University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; Columbia University, New York, NY; Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY; Artists Space, New York, NY
“Madison Project: Challenging the Public Art Paradigm,” Panel at University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
“Project Lecture: The Black Factory,” Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
“The Third Body,” Panel at House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
2003
“Artist Talk,” Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
“Conversation with Lowery Sims,” DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
“Influence Lecture, version 2,” University Art Museum, State University of New York, Albany, NY; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT; Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; Drew University, Madison, NJ; University of Texas, Austin, TX; New York Studio School, New York, NY
“Sandwich Lecture 8 (Klingon Talk),” Live Culture: Performance and the Contemporary, Tate Modern, London, UK
2002
“Sandwich Lecture,” Ingestation, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2000
“Bocio Text. Symposium on African Art,” ICA at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
“Yves Klein & Neil Young,” Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
1998
“Interventionism,” Panel with Kika Thorne, Adrian Blackwell, D. Anne Taylor, Anna Banana, and J. Householder
“7a*11d,” (moderator), International Festival of Performance Art, Toronto, Canada

Curatorial Projects

2018
"Brown People are the Wrens in the Parking Lot," Logan Center Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011
"Flux This! With Rob Andrews, Maren Hassinger, Geoffrey Hendricks, Martin Kersels, Clifford Owens, Rafael Sanchez, Xaviera Simmons, and Catherine Sullivan," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2000
"Söma Söma Söma," With Patty Chang and Geoffrey Hendricks, Sculpture Center, New York, NY

Public Collections

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME
Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, CT
Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
University Art Museum at University of Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Rodney McMillian

1969
Born in Columbia, South Carolina
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
2002
MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2000
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, Presidential Scholar
1998
BFA Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1991
BA Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026
"In Other Realms," Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany
"A Son of the Soil," Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
"Some lives in the sunshine," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2025
"neighbors," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2024
"The Land: Not Without a Politic," Marta Herford Museum for Art, Architecture and Design, Herford, Germany
2023
"Landscape in Red," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022-2023
"Regarding Violence," Petzel Gallery, New York, NY (Link)
2020
“Body Politic,” Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
“Historically Hostile,” Blaffer Museum of Art, Houston, TX
"Recirculating Goods," Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
2019
“Rodney McMillian: Videos from The Black Show,” Underground Museum, Los Angeles, CA
"New Work: Rodney McMillian," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2018
"Against a Civic Death," The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX (Link)
2017
“Rodney McMillian: a great society,” Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (Link)
2016
"Chisholm’s reverb," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"Views of Main Street," Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (Link)
"New Media Series: Rodney McMillian," St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
“The Black Show,” Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (Link)
2015
"Landscape Paintings," Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO; traveling to MoMA PS1, New York, NY (Link)
2013
"Against a Civic Death: an overture", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2012
"Prospect Ave.", Maccarone Gallery, New York, NY
2010
"Succulent," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA; Inaugural Exhibition
2009
"Sentimental Disappointment, Momentum 14: Rodney McMillian," Project series, The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, MA
"rodney mcmillian," haubrok foundation, Berlin, Germany
2008
"International Artist-in-Residence New Works 08.1," Artpace, San Antonio, TX; curated by Franklin Sirmans
The Kitchen, New York, NY; curated by Rashida Bumbray
2007
"Jutta Koether / Rodney McMillian," Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin, Germany
Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, NAK, Aachen, Germany
Adamski Galerie, Aachen, Germany
2006
"Odes," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
ArtNova solo presentation, Art Basel Miami Beach, with Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
2005
"Untitled (ellipses) III," Triple Candie, New York, NY
"Rodney McMillian: Untitled," Galleria Estro, Padua, Italy
2004
"on comfort," Gallery Adamski, Aachen, Germany
2003
"Untitled (ellipses) II," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2002
"Untitled," Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX
"Untitled (…on love)," Gallery A-402, Valencia, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026
"Hard Art," MoMA PS1, New York, NY (forthcoming)
"Ongoingness," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"California Light and Space (The 21st Century Version),” David Zwirner, Los Angeles, CA
"Space is the Place: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
"Into the Time Horizon," Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
"Material Witness," Rubell Museum DC, Washington DC
2025
"Master Class: Inside the Last American Museum School with SAIC Painting Alumni," Secrist Beach, Chicago, IL
2024
"RETROaction," Curated by Kate Fowle in collaboration with Homi K Bhabha, Charles Gaines, and Ellen Tani, Hauser and Wirth, Los Angeles, CA
2023-2024
"de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas," KADIST, San Francisco, CA
"The 14th Shanghai Biennale: Cosmos Cinema," Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
2023
"Affective Resistance," University of Irvine, Irvine, CA
"Customs Cars Cultures," UncleBrother, Hancock, NY
"The Collection," Haubrok Foundation, Fahrbereitschaft, Berlin, Germany
"Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
"Re-Materialized: The Stuff that Matters," kaufmann repetto, New York, NY
"Old Wounds, Dark Dreams," Art Galleries at Black Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
"13 Women: Variation II," Curated by Heidi Zuckerman, Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA
"It’s Time," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022
"Black Sounds Project," Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO
"Plants Now!" Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"2022 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts," American Academy of Art and Letters, New York City, NY
"Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Dustress Tolerance," Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
"The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse," Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
"Nocturnal," Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2021-2022
"Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow," The Hancock Whitney Welcome Center, New Orleans, LA
"The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse," Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston, TX
2021
"Time-Slip," Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
“I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality,” Bemis Center, Omaha, NE
"Church for Sale," The Haubrok Collection and the National Gallery Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
"Yesterday we said tomorrow," Prospect.5, New Orleans, LA (Link)
"AB.7: Eclipse," Athens Biennial, Athens, Greece (Link)
"Altered States," Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco, CA
“Pushing the Margins: A Survey of LA Artists," curated by Charles Gaines, Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger, Norway (Link)
"Hiding in Plain Sight," Pace Gallery, New York, NY (Link)
"Our House: Selections from MoCA’s Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles, CA
"20 Years Anniversary," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Not I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE – 2020CE)," curated José Luís Blondet, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2020
“Post Performance Video, prospective 1: Los Angeles,” Carré d’art, Nîmes, France
“States of Mind: Art and American Democracy,” Moody Center for the Arts, RICE University, Houston, TX
"Mojo Rising," CalState LA Ronald Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"20 Years Anniversary," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2019
"New Order: Art and Technology in the Twenty-First Century," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"Parts of Speech," MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL (Link)
"Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
"Inaugural Exhibition," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2018
"West by Midwest," MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
"Say It Loud," 22 London, Asheville, NC
”One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art," Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles, CA
"Welcome to the Dollhouse," Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
“Bounty,” Grice Bench, Los Angeles, CA
"Painting Now and Forever Part III," Greene Naftali Gallery and Matthew Marks, New York, NY (Link)
2018-2020
“Michael Jackson: On the Wall,” National Portrait Gallery, London, UK; travelled to: Grand Palais, Paris, France; Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany; Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland
2017
“Never Free to Rest,” kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
“Pivotal: Highlights from the Collection,” Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
“Looking at the Overlooked,” curated by Sally Frater, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
“Living Apart Together: Recent Acquisitions from the Hammer Contemporary Collection,” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
“Midtown,” Lever House, New York, NY
“In the Abstract,” MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (Link)
“Black Light,” CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA; travelling to Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
“Regarding the Figure,” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2016
“Making & Unmaking,” curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
“Los Angeles – A Fiction,” Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway, travelling to Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France (Link)
“After Pop Life,” curated by Glen Helfand, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
“Frozen World of the Familiar Stranger,” KADIST, San Francisco, CA
“L.A. Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2015
"Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
"Misappropriations: Recent Acquisitions," curated by Dan Cameron, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
"Reproduction, Reproduction," California Museum of Photography, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA
2014
"When the Stars Begin to Fall," The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; traveling to the NSU Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL; and the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)/ Boston, Boston, MA
"Ruffneck Constructivists," curated by Kara Walker, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
"Outside the Lines: Black in the Abstract, Part 2," Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston, TX
2013
"Room to Live: Recent Acquisitions and Works from the Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, Organized by Bennett Simpson
"bald eagle," haubrok foundation, Berlin, Germany (Link)
"Homebodies," MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
"Selections from the Grunwald Center and the Hammer Contemporary Collection", UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
"Selections from the Permanent Collection," organized by Bennett Simpson, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
"no desaster: sammlung haubrok bei falckenberg," Phoenix-Hallen, Harburg, Germany
"The Black Mirror," Diane Rosenstein Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2012
"Blues for Smoke," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
"my.LA," haubrok foundation, Berlin, Germany
2011
"VideoStudio," The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
"The Bearden Project," The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
"Human Nature," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Seven Los Angeles Artists," Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
"shapes," haubrok foundation, Berlin, Germany
"Agitated Histories," Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD; SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
2010
"Summer Group Show," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Edgar Arceneaux, Andrea Bowers, Olga Koumoundouros, Rodney McMillian, Charles Gaines, Nery Gabriel Lemus, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
"The Artists Museum: Los Angeles Artists 1980-2010," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
"About Us (Summer Group Show)," Johann Koenig, Berlin, Germany
"New Art for a New Century: Contemporary Acquisitions 00-10," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
2009
"The Moving Image: Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection II," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
"MONITAUR", Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
"Out of School," City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA
2008
"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
"it’s about sculpture," haubrok foundation, Berlin, Germany
"California Biennial 2008," Orange County Museum of Art, CA; curated by Lauri Firstenberg
"Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection," The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA
"Whitney Biennial 2008," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"BLACK IS, BLACK AINT," The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI; H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO; Temple Gallery At the Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
"Mannerfantasien II," Centre for Opinions in Music and Art, Berlin, Germany; curated by Ellen Blumenstein
"Disorderly Conduct: Recent Art in Tumultuous Times," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; curated by Karen Moss
2007
"An Atlas of Events," Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal; curated by Antnio Pinto Ribeiro, Debra Singer, and Esra Sarigedik
"Touched: Artists and Social Engagement," Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
"Philosophy of Time Travel," Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; collaboration with Edgar Arceneaux, Vincent Johnson, Matthew Sloly, Olga Koumoundouros
"Hammer Contemporary Collection," UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
"stop.look.listen: an exhibition of video works," Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI; Orlando Museum, Orlando, FL; curated by Andrea Inselmann
"Rodney McMillian and Olga Koumoundouros: On A Porch," LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
"USA: American Video Art at the Beginning of the 3rd Millennium," 2nd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia; curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Daniel Birnbaum, and Gunnar Kvaran
"Silicone Valley, PS1," Long Island City, NY; curated by Nick Stillman
2006
"USA Today," The Royal Academy of Art, London, UK
"Black Alphabet: conTEXTS of Contemporary African American Art," Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland; curated by Maria Brewińska
"Ordinary Culture: Heikes/Helms/McMillian," Medtronic Gallery at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; curated by Doryun Chong
"Painting in Tongues," Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA; curated by Michael Darling
"Everybody Dance Now," EFA Gallery, New York, NY; curated by Kathleen Goncharov
"ARCO," Project Booth selected by Christopher Miles; presented by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Madrid, Spain
2005-2008
"Uncertain States of America," Astrup Fearnley Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway; Bard Museum Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland; Herning Kunstmuseum, Copenhagen, Denmark; Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland; Le Muse de Srignan, Srignan, France; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic; curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Gunnar Kvaran
2005
"Happenstance," Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY; curated by Lauri Firstenberg
"Menschensgladbach – Neue Ankufe und Leihgaben", Stdtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
"Rouge Wave," LA Louver, Venice, CA
"Thing – New Sculpture from Los Angeles," UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
"Frequency," Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, NY
2004
"White Noise," REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA; curated by Clara Kim
"Central Station," the collection of Harald Falckenberg, La Maison Rouge / Foundation Antoine de Galbert, Paris
"Currents: African American Video Art Today," Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
"Seeds and Roots: Selections from the Permanent Collection," The Studio Museum Harlem, Harlem, NY
"New Balance Frontier," No Name Exhibitions @ The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN; curated by Aimee Chang
"First Person," a Video Art Exhibition on DVD (with Carla Herrera-Prats and Anne-Julie Raccoursier), Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros, Mexico City, Mexico; curated by Pilar Villela
"Powering Up/Powering Down," a Technica Radica Conference, University of California, San Diego, CA
"New," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA; collaboration with Edgar Arceneaux; inaugural exhibition
"Now is a good time," Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY; curated by Dean Valentine
"FADE – African American Artists in Los Angeles – A Survey Exhibition," Luckman Gallery and University Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State Los Angeles, CA; curated by Malik Gaines
2003
"Gibt’s mich wirklich – Vier Raeume aus der Sammlung Schuermann," K21, Duesseldorf, Germany
"aufgeschraubt & abgestaubt," Il Die Sammlung im Prozess der Neuprasentation, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
"Veni Vidi Video," The Studio Museum Harlem, Harlem, NY; curated by Christine Kim
"Urban Aesthetics," California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA; curated by Sandra Rowe
2002
"A Show That Will Show That A Show Is Not Only A Show," The Project, Los Angeles, CA; curated by Jens Hoffman
"Messy Fingers," Track 16, Santa Monica, CA; curated by Charles Gaines and Martin Kersels
"#9," 5301 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA; with Olga Koumoundouros

Guest Lectures

2025
In Conversation: Rodney McMillian + Anthony Elms, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA (Link)
2024
2024 Summer Series Speaker Program with Charles Gaines, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
2023
Rodney McMillian in Conversation with Jacob Mason-Macklin, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, NY
2022
"Artists on Cezanne: Julia Fish and Rodney McMillian," The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2020
"States of Mind: Art and American Democracy," Mood Center for the Arts, Houston, TX
2019
Rodney McMillian on home and history, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2010
Artist lecture, Performance in collaboration with Tracie D. Morris and Chicava HoneyChild, and Discussion, A Proposition by Rodney McMillian: 13 Unrelated Ideas, The New Museum, New York, NY
2009
Rodney McMillian and Caroline Bergvall, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

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2021
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2020
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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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Friedwald, Will, "The Jazz Scene: Even Uptown Gets the Blues," The Wall Street Journal, February 7
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2012
Wilson, Michael, Rodney McMillian at Maccarone, Art Forum, December
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2011
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2010
Miles, Chris, Rodney McMillian at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, LA Weekly, February 11
Ollman, Leah, Around the Galleries, Los Angeles Times, February 5
Civin, Marcus, Succulent in Culver City, Artslant, January 26
2009
Rodney McMillian features new commission by the artist in his first solo museum exhibition, artdaily.org, August 1
Sholis, Brian, Rodney McMillian: The Kitchen, Artforum, January
Hobbs, Robert, Franklin Sirmans and Michele Wallace, 30 Americans, exhibition catalogue; Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
2008
Chang, Richard, Visual art/ Top 5 events, Orange County Register, December 26
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Buitron, Michael, 2008 California Biennial at the OCMA and Beyond, Leap Into the Void, October 25
Copeland, Huey, The Blackness of Blackness, ArtForum, October
Markle, Leslie, Disorderly Conduct, artUS, Summer
OConnell, Brian, Ghostly Media: What Would an Invoking Media Look Like?, Art & Research, Summer
Dambrot, Shana, Report: New York City, The Ghost of Jason Rhoades, Art Ltd, July
Menzies, Michelle, Black Is, Black Aint, Flash Art, July
Goldner, Liz, Opening Review: Disorderly Conduct, Artillery, May/June
Vikram, Anuradha, The LA Annual, Artillery, May/June
Grabner, Michelle, Black Is, Black Aint, Time Out Chicago, May 22
Salsbury, Britany, Critics Picks: Black Is, Black Aint, ArtForum, May
Volk, Gregory, Spring In Dystopia, Art In America, May
Schjeldahl, Peter, Lessness: The Whitney Biennial, New Yorker, March 17
Cohn, Marilyn, The Big Apple: Whitney Biennial, For Your Art, March 13
Schuker, Lauren A.E., The Fine Art of Less, The Wall Street Journal, March 7
Holland Cotter, Arts Economic Indicator, The New York Time, March 7
Cohen, David, Whitney Biennial Has Adopted A Boho Vibe, The New York Sun, March 5
Mizota, Sharon, World in Upheaval, Los Angeles Times, February 10
Inselmann, Andrea, stop.look.listen: an exhibition of video works, exhibition catalogue; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Thompson, Nato, A Guide to Democracy in America, exhibition catalogue; Creative Time, New York, NY
2007
Vogel, Carol, Whitney Biennial Stretches to Armory, New York Times, November 16
Artists Announced for 2008 Whitney Biennial, Artforum.com, November 16 Continuing and Recommended, Art Scene, September
Myers, Holly, Social issues leave imprint in Touched, Los Angeles Times, August 22
Finkel, Jori, A Reluctant Fraternity, Thinking Post-Black, New York Times, June 10
Brancusi Report: Last Days in LA, artslant.com, March
Firstenberg, Lauri, Rodney McMillian: Los Angeles, Art Papers, January/February
Ellis, Patricia, Catching up with Charles (Saatchi), FlashArt, January/Februrary
2nd Moscow Biennale, FlashArt Online News, January/February
Kim, Christine Y, Philosophy of Time Travel, exhibition catalogue; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
Molok, Nikolai, and Rodney McMillian, Footnotes on Geopolitics, Market, and Amnesia: 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, exhibition catalogue; ArtChronika and Moscow Biennale Art Foundation, Moscow, Russia
Sholis, Brian, Rodney McMillian, exhibition catalogue from An Atlas of Events; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, London, UK
2006
Fair Report: Art Basel Miami Beach & Satellite Fairs, artinfo, December 15
Smith, Roberta, More Than You Can See: Storm of Art Engulfs Miami, New York Times, December 9
Searle, Adrian, Rebels without a cause, The Guardian, December 9
The AI Eye (Miami): Editors Picks of Art for Sale, artinfo, December 8
Nys Dambrot, Shana, Rodney McMillian: Odes, ArtReview, December
Lawson, Thomas, Best of 2006, Artforum, December
Morgan, Jessica, Best of 2006, Artforum, December
Nys Dambrot, Shana, Rodney McMillian: Odes, Lifescapes Magazine, November
Knight, Christopher, Falling short of a Great Society, Los Angeles Times, October 6
Krasny, Marcin, Czarno na białym (Black on White), Obieg Magazine, Poland, October 6
Brooks, Amra, Must See Art: Rodney McMillian, LA Weekly, October 5
Bedford, Christopher, Rodney McMillian, Artforum.com, October 5
CG, Rodney McMillian: Odes, Artkrush, October 4
Muchnic, Suzanne, The Art Explosion, Los Angeles Times, October 1
Kenning, Dean, Uncertain States of America, Art Monthly, October
Kent, Sarah, States of the Art, Time Out, September 20
Berardini, Andrew, Scene & Herd: On the Road, artforum.com, September 15
Glover, Michael, An Orgy of Appropriation, The Independent, September 13
Abbe, Mary, Ordinary becomes extraordinary, Star Tribune Minneapolis, August 17
Smith, Roberta, Endgame Art? Its Borrow, Sample and Multiply in an Exhibition at Bard College, NYTimes, July 7
Art in LA: Then & Now, Artkrush, May 31
Hip New Buyers Boost Sales at Armory Show, Artnews, March 28
Landi, Ann, Multiple Personalities, ARTnews, April
Harvey, Doug, Glossolalia for Dummies, LA Weekly, February 22
Knight, Christopher, "Painting Can Speak In Many Tongues", The Los Angeles Times, February 3
Campagnola, Sofia, Focus Los Angeles, Flash Art, January/February
Kastner, Jeffrey, Frequency, Artforum, January
Frequency, Color Image: The Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine, Collectors Issue, Fall/winter
Brewińska, Maria, Black Alphabet: conTEXTS of Contemporary African American Art, exhibition catalogue; Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Chong, Doryun, Ordinary Culture, exhibition catalogue; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Darling, Michael, and Wolfram, Heubach, Friedrich, Painting in Tongues, exhibition catalogue, pg. 66-77; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Horowitz, Noah and Sholis, Brian, The Uncertain States of America Reader, Serpentine Gallery, London
2005
Chang, Aimee, Rodney McMillian, Exhibition Catalogue, Frequency, The Studio Museum in Harlem, p.58-59
Cotter, Holland, Happenstance, New York Times, December 30
Boston, Nicolas, Give Them the Chair, The New York Observer, December 5
Smith, Roberta, Where Issues of Black Identity Meet the Concerns of Every Artist, New York Times, November 18
Zox, Rogue Wave at LA Louver Gallery, art/design, July 11
Pagel, David, Summer sampler has a dark side, Los Angeles Times, July 8
Lasarow, Bill, Rogue Wave, Art Scene, July
Forgacs, Eva, Thing, artUS, July
Firstenberg, Lauri, Thing, Frieze, June
Frank, Peter,The Dish: Art, Angeleno, May
Almela, Ramon, Sculpture in Los Angeles. Truth, Reality, and Objects, critic@rte, May 15
Mack, Joshua, Sculpture from Los Angeles, Modern Painters, April
Mack, Joshua, Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles, Modern Painters, April
Chang, Richard, Maybe the Next Big Thing, The Orange County Register, March 6
Arriola, Magali, Thing, March
Ned Holte, Michael, "West Coast Thing", Artforum.com, February 10
Knight, Christopher, "The next big ‘Thing’ in L.A.", Los Angeles Times, February 9
Cotter, Holland, "Rodney McMillian at Triple Candie", New York Times, January 21
Tumlir, Jan, "THING: New Sculpture from Los Angeles", Artforum, January
Golden, Thelma, "A Beautiful Thing", exhibition catalogue; The Studio Museum Harlem, NY
Birnbaum, Daniel, Kvaran, Gunnar, Obrist, Ulrich, Uncertain States of America: American Art in the Third Millennium, exhibition catalogue; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
Chang, Aimee, "Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles – Rodney McMillian", exhibition catalogue; Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Myers, Holly, "Disposable Society", Los Angeles Times, October 13
Friedrich, Christine, "White Noise at RedCat", downtownartnews, October 13
Kim, Clara, "White Noise", Exhibition Brochure, RedCat, September
Myers, Julian, "Edgar Arceneaux – Rodney McMillian at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects", Frieze, May
Davis, Phillip, "What we saw at ArtBasel Miami Beach", Dwell Magazine, April
Worthington, Peter, " Eye of the beholder – you gotta see what some people call ‘art’", Toronto Sunday Sun, March 14
Knight, Christopher, "A chronicle of race, rage, ritual", Los Angeles Times, February 17
Harvey, Doug, "Color Theory – Fade to black", LA Weekly, February 13
Barry, Dave, "Call me clueless, but I’m working toward my artistic license", Miami Herald; re-published in: International Herald Tribune Paris; Detroit Free Press; and Houston Chronicle, January 17
Adamski, Stephan, Kunstforum, January
2003
Kunde, Harald, "aufgeschraubt und abgestaubt", Ludwig Forum fuer Internationale
Kunst, Aachen, exhibition text Scarborough, James, artcritical.com, June 17

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2016
Suzanne Deal Booth Art Prize, Contemporary Austin, TX
2008
United States Artists Broad Fellow 2008
Art Matters, Spring 2008 Grantee
2007
William H. Johnson Prize, winner
2005
William H. Johnson Prize, finalist
2000
Edward L. Ryerson Fellowship Recipient, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Public Collections

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
Compound, Long Beach, CA
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
Minneapolis Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
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
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Rennie Museum, Vancouver, BC, Canada
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS

Tâm Văn Trần

Born in Kontum, Vietnam
Lives and works in Los Angeles
1996
Graduate Film and Television Program, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
1990
BFA Painting, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024
"Primordial Sounds of the Avatar," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2017
"Black Melong," Ameringer, McEnery, Yohe, New York, NY
2015
"EXODUS," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"Aikido Dream," MCA Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
"Breathing," Art Gallery, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA
2014
"Survival Skills," Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
2013
"Leaves of Ore," Ameringer, McEnery, Yohe, New York, NY
2012
"Adornment of Basic Space," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2010
"Mind Is A Pure Expanse of Space," Anthony Meier Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2008
"Tam van Tran," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"Luminosity," Cohan and Leslie, New York, NY
2006
"Tam Van Tran: Psychonaut, Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX
"Purple System," Anthony Mier Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2005
"SubUrban: Tam Van Tran," Knoxville Museum, Knoxville, TN
2004
"Tam Van Tran: Lord of Hot Butter," Anthony Meier Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2003
"Vegetarian Summer", Cohan, Leslie and Browne, New York, NY
2002
"Beetle Manifesto", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"Lovers of Air," Leslie, Cohan and Browne, New York, NY
2001
"Lo-Tech Frequency," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2000
"Paintings," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"Cold Frost," Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026
"Sangha," Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2025
"Primordial Procession," ATLA, Los Angeles, CA
2024
"Raffi & Al’s Legendary Garden Party," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2023
"Pollen on a West Wind," Jason Jacques Gallery, New York, NY
2022
"The Hand that Forms a Mirror," MORÁN MORÁN, Los Angeles, CA
"Plants Now!," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2020
"Pacific Coast Ceramics," Galeria Mascota, Aspen, CO
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2018
“Carbon,” FOCA, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
2017
“Drawing: The Beginning of Everything,” Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
“Man Alive,” Maruani Mercier, Brussels, Belgium
2015
"Paperworks," Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2013
"New works of painting, photography, sculpture and video" The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, FL
"High Low," Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
"Pattern: Follow the Rules," Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Lansing, MI; traveling to the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Denver, CO
2012
"Tam Van Tran and DeWey Ambrosino," San Art, Vietnam
"Facing West/Looking East," Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
2011
"Paul Clay," Salon 94, New York, NY
"east EX east," Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
2010
"Ascending Dragon: Contemporary Vietnamese Artists Exhibition," Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
"Fresh from Chelsea," University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
"Inaugural Group Exhibition," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"Keramik," Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
2009
"Topographies," Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2008
"California Dreaming," Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio, Zurich, Switzerland
"Fata Morgana," Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Cologne, France
2007
"Large Scale Drawings," MFA Houston, Houston, TX
"Nineteen Going on Twenty: Recent Acquisitions from the Collection of The Contemporary Museum," The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
2006
"Supervision," Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, MA
2005
"Around About Abstraction," Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC
2004
"The Whitney Biennial," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Topographies," San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA; Traveling to: The Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA (2004)
"Art on Paper," Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC
2003
"International Paper," UCLA Hammer Museum, Santa Monica, CA
2002
ArtForum Berlin, Project Space, with Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin, Germany
"Friends and Family," Lombard Freid, New York, NY
"Heike Kati Barath, Jeff Elrod, Sarah Rapson, Tam Van Tran, Cornelius Voelker, Clare Woods," Cohan, Leslie, and Browne, New York, NY
2001
"Fractals," Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
"New Work: LA Painting," Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Song Poems," Leslie, Cohan and Browne, New York, NY
2000
"Radar Love," Gallery Marabini, Bologna, Italy
"Car Pooling from LA," Asian American Art Center, New York, NY
"Luminous," Ikon Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
"Pierogi 2000: The Flatfiles," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Block Art Space, Kansas City Post, Los Angeles, CA
1999
"Other Paintings," Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA
1990
"Kassel Documenta Archiv," Ludwig Museum, Cologne, France
"Stuttgart Staatsgalerie," Grafische Sammlung, Germany

Bibliography

2022
Van Tran, Tam. "Abstraction," The Brooklyn Rail, July (Link)
2020
Gillespie, Benjamin. "Oral history interview with Tam Van Tran," Archives of American Art, August 8
2017
Shang, Danielle, “Collectors of Color on the Importance of Supporting Under-Recognized Artists,” Hyperallergic (web), November 28 (Link)
2016
Brown, Betty Ann, “Paperworks,” ArtScene, January
Donelan, Charles, “Tam Van Tran at MCASB: ‘Aikido Dream’ Emphasizes Intuition, Process,” Santa Barbara Independent (web), January 21
2015
Pereira, Lorenzo, "Tam Van Tran at Susanne Vielmetter Gallery," Widewalls, April 14 (Link)
Wood, Eve, "Pick of the Week: Tam Van Tran," Artillery, April 16 (Link)
Zellen, Jody, Tam Van Tran, ArtScene, May
Osborne-Bartucca, Kristen, Tam Van Tran at Susanne Vielmetter Projects, ArteFuse Magazine, May 21
McCabe Heibel, Amy, Artists Respond: Tam Van Tran on Ed Moses, UnFramed (web), July 27 (Link)
2014
Baker, Kenneth, Tam Van Tran at Anthony Meier, SF Gate, November 21 (Link)
2013
Gass, Alison, Pattern: Follow the Rules, Eli and Edythe Broad Museum at Michigan State University, March
Kee, Joan, Abstraction: Here, Now, More, Harpers Bazaar, Hong Kong Edition, May, pp. 44-45
2012
Pagel, David, Tam Van Tran at Susan Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles Times, March 15
Wood, Eve, Tam Van Tran at Susan Vielmetter, Whitehot Magazine, March
Tuck, Geoff, Tam Van Tran at Susan Vielmetter, Notes On Looking, March 21
2009
Pagel, David, Glimpses of the future or past?, Los Angeles Times, January 16
San Jose Museum of Art Unveils New Works by Tam Van Tran, Artdaily.org, October
2008
Haithman, Diane, CFF art foundation announced: Fifteen LA County artists receive grants to continue pursuits in various creative fields, Los Angeles Times, May 30
2007
Holographic Ensemble, Art On Paper, Vol. 11, No. 4, March/April
2006
Sultan, Terrie, Tam Van Tran: Psychonaut, exhibition catalogue, Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX
Hudson, Suzanne. Tam Van Tran. Artforum, January
Cotter, Holland, Ambitious Theme in New Home for Modern Art, New York Times, December 8
Ouroussoff, Nicolai, Expansive Vistas Both Inside And Out, New York Times, December 8
Shanahan, Mark, New Institute of Contemporary Art makes a `very, very cool` impression, The Boston Globe, December 3
2005
Self, Dana, "SubUrban: Tam Van Tran, exhibition essay, Knoxville Museum of Art (catalog).
2004
Whitney Biennial Catalog Essay, Pg.248
DeCarlo, Tessa, "It’s a Jungle in There" – Working Habits, ARTnews, pg. 126,
Martin, Philip, "Tam Van Tran – Beetle Manifesto – Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects," Ten By Ten Magazine, pg. 56, 57, Volume 2, Number 3, February issue
2003
Smith, Roberta, The New York Times, October 10
Hiro, Rika, Bijutsu Techo Magazine, pg. 164, July
Martin, Philip, "international paper", Tema Celeste 97, May issue
Frank, Peter, "The Paper Chase", art on paper, April issue, pg 36-39
Koppman, Debra, "International Paper", Artweek, February
Helfand, Glen, "Cries and Whispers", Bay Area Reporter, February 20
Laird, Tessa, "Tam Van Tran / Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects", ART ON PAPER, March issue
Worman, Alex, "L.A. Confidential", artnet, February
Knight, Christopher, "Drawing, not toeing, the line", LOS ANGELES TIMES, February 7
"International Paper – Drawings by Emerging Artists", UCLA Hammer Museum, exhibition catalog, Los Angeles, CA, 2003
2002
Wood, Eve, Static Breathing, Artnet, December
Knight, Christopher, "Piecing Together a Green Manifesto", LOS ANGELES TIMES, December 6
Muchnic, Suzanne, "With all its hang-ups, the L.A. gallery scene thrives, LOS ANGELES TIMES, Sunday Calendar, November 24
ArtScene, December Preview, November 25
TRACE Magazine, issue #36, page 66
Duncan, Michael, "Tam Van Tran at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects", ART IN AMERICA, January issue
2001
Williams, Alena, "Tam Van Tran – Susanne Vielmetter LA Projects", TEMA CELESTE, May-June issue, pg. 88
Hackman, Kate, KANSAS CITY STAR, February
Pagel, David, LOS ANGELES TIMES, February 16
2000
Pasquini, Stefano, NYARTS, December
Schoenkopf, Rebecca, OC WEEKLY, November 3 – 9
Pagel, David, LOS ANGELES TIMES, July 28, 2000
Frank, Peter, LA WEEKLY Pick of the Week, July 21 – 27
Harvey, Doug, "Tam Van Tran / Vielmetter LA Projects", ART ISSUES, summer 2000 issue
Pagel, David, "Tam Van Tran / Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects", LOS ANGELES TIMES, Friday, March 10
Duncan, Michael, ARTNET, April
Rosenberg, Jeremy, LA TIMES CALENDAR LIVE ARTPICK, March ARTSCENE, Vol. 19 No.8, April

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2008
California Community Foundation Fellowship
Art Matters, Spring, Grantee
2001
Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painting
Pollock Krasner Fellowship
1993
Ucross Artists Residency, Ucross, WI
1991
Creative Fellowship in the Visual Arts, Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities

Public Collections

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
The Broad, Los Angeles, CA
California State University Art Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Museum of Contempoary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

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, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich, Switzerland (forthcoming)
"Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Im Blick Des Begehrens," Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
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," Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich, Switzerland
"Paul Mpagi Sepuya: A conversation about/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
"All of Us," Curated by Tony Payne, Phillips, West Hollywood, CA (forthcoming)
"Ongoingness," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Tom’s Stretch," David Kordansky, Los Angeles, CA
"Between and Beyond," Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
“Fragile Beauty: Works from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection," Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
"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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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)
Eckardt, Stephanie. “The 7 Photographers Proving that the Self-Portriat is 2018’s Most Exciting Genre,” W Magazine, April 6 (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)
Jones, Gregory Eddi. “Picture, Paper, Friend and Flesh: An Interview with Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” The In-Between, March (Link)
Schwabsky, Barry. “Without Warning: Margins and the Mainstream at the New Museum’s ‘Trigger’” The Nation, January 26 (Link)
Lubow, Arthur. “What’s New in Photography? Humanism, MoMA Says,” The New York Times, March 9 (Link)
2017
"Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Figures, Grounds and Studies" The Eye of Photography, February 20
Eckardt, Stephanie. "Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s Photo Studio is Sexier Than Yours," February 25 (Link)
Dykstra, Jean. "PAUL MPAGI SEPUYA: FIGURES, GROUNDS AND STUDIES AT YANCEY RICHARDSON GALLERY," Photograh Magazine, February (Link)
Sargent, Antwuan. "Picture Yourself in the Queer Photographic Space of Paul Mpagi Sepuya," Creators, March 23 (Link)
Bradley, Rizvana. “Aesthetic Inhumanisms : Toward an Eroritcs of Otherworlding,” The New Museum
Onyewuenyi, Ikechukwu Casmir. “Paul Mpagi Sepuya at team (bungalow),” Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, issue 15
Pieterson, Mark. “The sinuous nature of desire + alternative ways of seeing with Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s photographic explorations of queer presence,” AQNB, October 31 (Link)
Pofalla, Boris. “Zeigen und Verbergen,” Monopol Magazine, October
Cunningham, Vinson. “How Radical Can A Portrait Be?,” The New Yorker, May 5 (Link)
Schwabsky, Barry. “Playing with Mirrors: Two artists push the limits of what cameras can do,” The Nation, May 2
Dafoe, Taylor. “Paul Mpagi Sepuya at Yancey Richardson Gallery,” Modern Painters, March
Bourland, Ian. “Critic’s Pick: Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Artforum, March 3 (Link)
Griffith, Phillip. “Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Figures, Grounds and Studies,” The Brooklyn Rail, March 1 (Link)
Small, Zachary. “The Solitude and Sensuality of an Artist’s Studio,” Hyperallergic, February 17 (Link)
Rachel, T. Cole. “Paul Sepuya on finding your form,” The Creative Independent, February 9 (Link)
Yau, John. “Three Photographers and What They Show Us About Everyday Life: Deana Lawson, Judy Linn, Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Hyperallergic, February 12 (Link)
“Goings On About Town: Deana Lawson, Judy Linn and Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” The New Yorker, February 1
2016
Als, Hilton. “James Baldwin / Jim Brown and the Children,” The Artists Institute
Garcia, Lindsay. “The Autonomous Limbs of Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Tiger Strikes Asteroid
Malick, Courtney. “From the Singular to the Indexical in Contemporary Portraiture,” San Francisco Art Quarterly
Reznik, Eugene. “Enter the Private World of Photographers’ Studios,” American Photo Magazine, August 13
2015
Malick, Courtney. "Paul Mpagi Sepuya In Conversation with Courtney Malick," SFAQ, December 3 (Link)
“Goings On About Town: A Room of One’s Own,” The New Yorker, August 8
“Goings On About Town: Spain & 42 St.,” The New Yorker, January 6
2014
Russeth, Andrew. “To Bushwick! Shows to See Right Now…,” Artnet News, October 30
Scheffler, Daniel. “Brooklyn Inspires African Artists,” The New York Times, October 14 (Link)
“Goings on About Town: The Thing Itself,” The New Yorker, August 19
ArtReview Magazine : “The Expanded Photograph,” by David Everett Howe, May 2014
2013
Fialho, Alex. “Nuggets of Queerness: Year 3 of the Fire Island Artist Residency,” ARTFCITY, August 29 (Link)
Koestenbaum, Wayne. "My 1980s and Other Essays," Eric’s Stubble, 2013
Benderson, Bruce. “Petits Portraits Entre Amis,” Têtu Magazine, March
2012
Akel, Joseph. “500 Words: Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Artforum, May 15
2011
Lopes, Fabiola. “Review: Portraits, at I-20 Gallery,” Flash Art International Magazine, October
Bronson, AA and Lauren Haynes. “Evidence of Accumulation,” The Studio Museum in Harlem
2010
“Goings On About Town: 50 Artists Photograph the Future,” The New Yorker, June 10
Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review – 50 Artists Photograph the Future,” The New York Times, May 28
Cotter, Holland. “In Books and Fine Arts, Filling the Down Time of New Year’s,” The New York Times, December 31
2009
Cotter, Holland. “All the Books You’ll Never Catch on a Kindle,” The New York Times, October 2
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