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Andrea Bowers

1965
Born in Wilmington, Ohio
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
1992
M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA.
1987
B.F.A., Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH.

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2024
Solo, Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
"Eleanor Antin," Curated by Andrea Bowers, Andrew Kreps, New York, NY (forthcoming)
2023
"Joy is an Act of Resistance," Andrew Kreps, New York, NY
2023-2024
"Andrea Bowers: Exist, Flourish and Evolve," MoCA Cleveland, Cleveland, OH (Link)
2023
"Drink The Wild Air," two-person show with Mary Weatherford, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany
2022-2023
"Moving in Space without Asking Permission," Fondazione Furla and Galleria d’Arte Moderna (GAM), Milan, Italy
2022
"Andrea Bowers," (Traveling Exhibition) Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
"you must not turn your head away in grief," kaufmann repetto milan, Milan, Italy
2021-2022
"Andrea Bowers," (Traveling Exhibition) Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL
2021
"Energy With Intention," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2020
"Grief and Hope," curated Susanne Titz, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
"Think of Our Future," Andrew Kreps, New York, NY
2019-2020
"Light and Gravity," Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany (Link)
2018
"Open Secret," Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany
“Disrupting and Resisting,” Kauffman Repetto, Milan, Italy (Link)
2017
“Andrea Bowers and Marcos Erre,” Westmont Ridley Tree Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
“Andrea Bowers,” curated by Steven Matijcio, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
"Bureau of Feminism," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2016
"Triumph of Labor," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
“Andrea Bowers: Sanctuary,” curated by Sofia Hernandez Chong Chuy, Bronx Museum, New York, NY
"Whose Feminism is it Anyway?" Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
"The United State v. Tim DeChristopher," Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2015
"Self-Determination," Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, Italy
2014
"Andrea Bowers: #sweetjane," Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
"In Situ-1: Andrea Bowers, Espace culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
2013
"Cultivating the Courage to Sin", Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany
"Transformer Display for Community Fundraising: Phase 4," Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (two-person show with Olga Koumoundouros)
2012
"Help the Work Along," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2011
"Ni Una Muerta Mas," curated by Anna Karetsi, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
"The New Womens Survival Guide," Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
2010
"Andrea Bowers," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2009
"Mercy Mercy Me," Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
"An Eloquent Woman," Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
2008
"Sanctuary," Van Horn, Dusseldorf, Germany
"The Weight of Relevance," ZKM/Zentrum fr Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
2007
"The Weight of Relevance," The Power Plant, Toronto, curated by Gregory Burke
"The Weight of Relevance," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, CA
"The Weight of Relevance," Secession, Vienna, Austria
2006
"Nothing is Neutral: Andrea Bowers," REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Eungie Joo, traveling to: ArtPace, San Antonio, TX; St. Louis Museum,St. Louis, MO
"Vows," Halle fuer Kunst, eV, Lneburg, Germany
"Eulogies to One and Another," Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany
"Letters to an Army of Three," Core Program, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, curated by Mary Leclre
2005
"Culture of Choice," Van Horn, Dsseldorf, Germany
2004
"Soft Blockades Part 2," Magazin 4, Voralberger Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria
"Soft Blockades," Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Training," Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
2003
"Magical Politics," Chouakri Brahms, Berlin, Germany
2002
"Virtual Arena (catalogue)," Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
"From Mouth to Ear, Goldman Tevis, Los Angeles, CA
"Box with Dance of Its Own Making, Chouakri Brahms, Berlin, Germany
2001
"Democracys Body Dance Dance Revolution, Art 32 Basel, Art Statements,
Basel, Switzerland, presented by Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
2000
"Intimate Strangers, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
"I Need a Hero, Institute of Visual Arts (INOVA), University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
"One and the Same Body, ARCO Project Room, Madrid, Spain, presented by Sara Meltzers on view, New York, NY 1301 PE, Los Angeles, CA
1999
"Moving Equilibrium, Sara Meltzers on view, New York, NY
1998
"Ohio (two-person show with Sam Durant), Dogenhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany
"Spectacular Appearances, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
1997
"Spectacular Appearances in the Food Court, A project with the Santa Monica Museum of Art
Video Installation, Santa Monica Place Mall, Santa Monica, CA
Spanish Box, Santa Monica, CA
1994
"Damaged Goods, Bliss, Pasadena, CA
1993
FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
"Get in the Game," SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA (forthcoming)
2023
"Menschheitsdämmerung," Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany (forthcoming)
"The Feminist Art Program (1970-1975): Collective Cycles," REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
"Dawn of Humanity," Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
"How to Survive," Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, Alaska (Link)
"What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection," Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Berkeley, CA
"(Chosen) Family/ (Wahl) Famile: Who We Are," Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Ravensburg, Germany (Link)
"Dear Earth: Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis," Hayward Gallery, London, UK
"Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing," The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
"Rohkunstbau 28: Finally Peace! Caring For Yourself And Others," Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany
"Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Mouvement et Lumiére," Fondation Villa Datris, Paris, France (Link)
"Euroluce," Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy
"Imperfect Paradise," Barbati Gallery, Venice
"Visual Language: The Art of Protest," Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"Language in the Time of Miscommunication," Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2022-2023
"Paint The Protest," Off Paradise, New York, NY
"Empowerment," Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
2022
"Wrongs & RIGHTS," The Rudin Family Gallery, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM Strong), Brooklyn, NY
"Calling To Our Future: LA Climate Art Action," Emerson Collective, Downtown Los Angeles, CA
"51 @ 51," Rennie Museum, Vancouver, Canada
"Plants Now!," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Working Thought," The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
2021-2022
"Omelette Papier," Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany
2021
"Who will Write the History of Tears," MoMa Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
"Vogliamo Tutto," Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Torino, Italy
"New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century," University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
"We Are Here." Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA
"In the Meanwhile… Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Stories of Resistance," CAMSTL, St. Louis, Missouri
"Wayne Thiebaud: Influencer," Thiebaud Centennial Exhibition, Manetti Shrem Museum, UC Davis, Davis, CA
2020
"Rhizome 7/7," Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany (online)
"Conversational Spirits," Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA
"F as in Frank," Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
"Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change," Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
"Don’t Let This Be Easy," Walker Art Center, Minneaplis, MN
Permanent Collection, National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens, Greece
"What is Nature?," Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany
"Drawing 2020," Gladstone Gallery, NY
"South East North West: New Works from the Collection," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Time for Outrage: Art in Times of Social Anger," Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany (Link)
"Vent’anni – 20 years," Kaufmann Repetto, New York (Link)
"In the Meanwhile…Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (Link)
2019-2021
"Waking Dream," Ruby City, San Antonio, TX
2019-2020
"In Plain Sight," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2019
"Inaugural Exhibition," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
"F-Bomb", Daniel Arts Center, Bard College, NY (Link)
"How the Light Gets In," Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
"United by AIDS," Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
"Damn! The Defiant," Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY
"STORIES: Selections from the Permanent Collection," Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
"Queer California: Untold Stories," Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
2018-2019
"The Street. Where the World is Made," MAXXI, Rome, Italy (Link)
"Parking on Pavement," The School, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
"Terres de femmes," Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, CA
2018
"What Is Enlightenment? 200 Years of the Print Room of the University of Warsaw Library," Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
"Climate Change Is Real," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
"Art & Activism: Drawing the line," Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
"Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection," Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (Link)
"West by Midwest," MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
"After Posada: Revolution," El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas
“The Un-Heroic Act. Representations of Rape in Contemporary Women’s Art in the US,” Shiva Gallery, John Jay College, CUNY
"Kinship," Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Artists and Their Books / Books and Their Artists," The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
“Mis (missing) Information,” organized by Jody Zellen and Brian C. Moss, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
“Agora,” The High Line, New York, NY (Link)
“Power to the People. Political Art Now,” Schirn Kunsthalle Franfurt, Frankfurt, Germany (Link)
“Nothing Stable under Heaven,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (Link)
"¿¡Welcome?!," Manetti Shrem Museum, University of California, Davis, CA (Link)
"Manifesto: A Moderate Proposal," curated by Ciara Ennis and Jennifer Vanderpool, Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont, CA (Link)
2017
“Really?” curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody,Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940 – 2017," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (Link)
“Sonic Rebellion: Music as Resistance,” Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
"Marching to the Beat," Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Women to the Front: Works from the Miller Meigs Collection,” Lumber Room, Portland, OR
“I Plan to Stay a Believer,” Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
documenta 14, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
“Graphic Witness,” The Drawing Room, London, UK
“Resistance Training,” curated by Glen Helfand, Mills College, Oakland, CA
“Occupancy,” Boston University art Galleries, Boston, MA
“The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin,” The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
“The Intersectional Self,” The 8th Floor, The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, New York, NY
“LA TERRA INQUIETA,” curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
“Unfinished Conversations,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2016
“Displacement: Symbols and Journeys,” Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
"The Revolution Will Not Be Gray,” Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
“Take Me (I’m Yours),” Jewish Museum, New York, NY
“The Gildless Age,” curated by Denise Johnson, Torrance Art Museum, Torrence, CA
"Let There Be Light,” curated by Jens Hoffman, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Frozen World of the Familiar Stranger,” KADIST, San Francisco, CA
“The Gildless Age,” Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2015
"Drawing Now," Albertina, Vienna, Austria
"Unpacking Our Library," Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany
"When Artists Speak Truth…" The 8th Floor, New York, NY
"The Bottom Line," S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium
"Citizen," Tate Modern, London, UK
“Agitprop!” Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
"A Voice Remains," Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
"Words, Words, Words," Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2014
"Grip friheten! Take Liberty! Museum of Contemporary Art," Nationalmuseum, Oslo, Norway
"Pace Gems," Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, TX
"Lavenir (looking forward)," La Biennale de Montreal, curated by Gregory Burke, Peggy Gale, Lesley Johnstone and Mark Lanctt, Montral, Quebec, Canada
"Burning down the house," 10th Gwangju Biennale, curated by Jessica Morgan, South Korea
2014 SITE Lines: SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, NM
"Post-Picasso: Contemporary Artists Responses to his Life and Art," Museu Picasso, Barcelona, Spain
"The Sunken Living Room," Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT
"If I can’t dance to it, it’s not my revolution," Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, PA
"Andrea Bowers and Susanne Lacy," The Drawing Center, New York, NY
"The Other Side: Chinese and Mexican Immigration to America," USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA; traveled to Asia Society Texas Center, Houston TX (2015)
2013
"Arctic, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
"The Past is Present," Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
"Labour and Wait", Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
"Approximately Infinite Universe", Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Utah Biennial of Contemporary Art, In collaboration with Cori Redstone, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Mondo, UT
"Selections from the Grunwald Center and the Hammer Contemporary Collection", UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2012
"Make Liverpool a City of Sanctuary," Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, England, UK
"The Living Years: Art after 1989" Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
"The Residue of Memory," Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
"Audience as Subject Part 2: Extra Large," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
"No Person May Carry a Fish into a Bar," curated by Julian Hoeber and Alix Lambert, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
"Drawn from Photography," DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
"Malas Artes," Galera Nieves Fernndez, Madrid, Spain
"Go Tell It On The Mountain," Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Five Acts: Chronicles of Dissent," Marginal Utility, Philadelphia, PA
"Femmescapes," Lenore Pereira & Rich Niles private gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Nothing Beside Remains," collaboration with Shizu Saldamando, a project with LAND, Marfa, TX
2011
"Why I Never Became a Dancer," Sammlung Goetz im Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
"Drawn from Photography," The Drawing Center, New York, NY
"Body Gesture", Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
"I Am Still Alive: Politics and Everyday Life in Contemporary Drawing," The Museum of Modern Art, NY
"Word Is.," Luckman Art Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
"Greater LA," curated by Benjamin Godsill, Eleaonor Cayre and Joel Mesler, New York, NY
"In Process," Ann 330 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010
"The Artists Museum: Los Angeles Artists 1980-2010," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
"The Politics of Art," National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
"The Last Newspaper," The New Museum, New York, NY
"Sisters, Brothers & Others," Claremont University East Gallery, Claremont, CA
"Everything is Political," FOCA Fellowship exhibition, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
"In the Balance: Art for a Changing World," Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
"The Seventh House, Edgar Arceneaux, Andrea Bowers, Olga Koumoundouros, Rodney McMillian, Charles Gaines, Nery Gabriel Lemus," Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
"The Road to Hell is Paved," Las Cienega Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"Cycle 8: Stowaways, The Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Araba, Spain, curated by Elke Krystufek," part of the exhibition series PASSWORDS, New Representation on Femininity
"Collection: MOCAs First Thirty Years (1980 Now)," The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA
Inaugural Group Exhibition, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"Love in a Cemetery," 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, CA
2009
"Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy: Your Donations Do Our Work," University of California, Riverside, CA
"DAS GESPINST", collection Schrmann at Museum Abteilberg, Mnchengladbach, Germany
"Multitud Singular: El arte de resistir," Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
2008
"Wunderkammer Lneburg, Halle fr Kunst, Lneburg, Germany
"California Biennial 2008," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (October 26, 2008 – March 15, 2009)
"Progress, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection, The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA
"nach/sichten. Video works from the Goetz Collection, Edith Russ Site for Media Art in Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany, curated by Sabine Himmelsbach and Stephan Urbaschek
2008-2009
"Proyecto Civico / Civic Project, Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT), Tijuana, Mexico, curated by Lucia Sanroman and Ruth Estevez
2008
"Memory is your image of perfection, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
"Southern Exposure: Works from the Collection of the MCA San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Art, Syndey, Australia, curated by Rachel Kent and Dr. Stephanie Hanor
"Currents: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC
"The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art and Politics, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
"We Remember The Sun, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
"Amateurs, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, curated by Ralph Rugoff
"La Mirada Iracunda / The Furious Gaze," Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, co-curated by M. Reiley
"Small Things End," Great Things Endure, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA (curated by Jill Dawsey and Maria Del Carmen Carrion)
"Furious Gaze," Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2007
"Read me! Text in Art," The Armory Center for the Arts, Los Angeles
"Radical Hospitality," The Suburban, Chicago, IL
"Nothing Moments Projects," Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Steven Hull and Tami Demaree
"space.gaze.desire,"Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, curated by Sanne Kofod Olsen
"Classe de Danse," Madonna fust Galerie, Bern, Switzerland, curated by Alessio Fransoni and Ilari Valbonesi
"The California Files: Re-Viewing Side Effects of Cultural Memory," CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, curated by Ariane Beyn
"Tanzen Sehen," Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Seigen, Germany
"The Evil," Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden, Germany, curated by Raimar Stange
"OHIO, Gahlberg Gallery, McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
"Encore," Gallery 40000, Chicago, IL, curated by Huey Copeland and Hannah Feldman
2006
"Personal Affairs," Morsbroich Museum, Leverkusen, Germany
"particulate matter," Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA (curated by Glen Helfand)
"20 jahre NAK," Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen
"Prevailing Climate," Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
"First Artist Defines Meaning," Camera Austria, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
"Human Game," Fondazione Pitti Discovery, Florence, Italy (curated by Francesco Bonami, Maria Luisa Frisa, and Stefano Tonchi)
"This is not a Love Song," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City,
"Anticipation," Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL (curated by Karen Irvine)
"Art for our sake!," Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
"Welcome Home," Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York
Jump Cut—Nights (a symposium on choreographic structures in moving images) and Videoperformance—stories told through movement, Cinema of Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (curated by Georg Elben)
2005
"Monuments for the USA," curated by Ralph Rugoff, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, traveling to White Columns, New York, NY
"REALIT;-)T," curated by Andreas Meier with Dr. Stephan Urbaschek, Sammlung Goetz, Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Switzerland
"Estacion Tijuana," Tijuana, Mexico
Mary Goldman, Los Angeles, CA
"Old News," curated by Jacob Fabricius, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
"New Tapestries," Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
"Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Training," (screening), Kunsthalle Basel, Art/Film, Art/ 36/Basel, Switzerland
"Fast Forward, Media Art From the Goetz Collection," Conde Duque Centro Cultural, Madrid, Spain
2004
"100 Artists See God," curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston; The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA; Albright College Freedman Art Gallery, Reading, PA; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
"Dance Dance Revolution," curated by Matthew Lyons & Lanka Tattersall, The Leroy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University, New York, NY
"Victory 2004," Ronald Felman, New York, NY
"kurzdavordanach," curated by von Wilhelm Schrmann, Die Photographische Sammlung/ SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany
"The Freedom Salon," Deitch Projects, New York, NY
"Drawings," Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Whitney Biennial, curated by Chrissie Iles, Shamim Momin, and Debra Singer, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2003
"Fast Forward, Media Works from the Goetz Collection between Ethno-Narration and Formal Innovation," ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
"Rendered," Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
"Yard: An exhibition about the private landscape that surrounds suburban domestic architect," curated by Robyn Donohue and Alyson Baker, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
"Extended Play: Art Remixing Music," curated by Simon Rees, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
"C.O.L.A. 2003," Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
"Conversations," curated by Connie Butler, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2002
"Videodrome II," curated by Dan Cameron, Anne Barlow, Johanna Burton and Anne Ellegood, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME
"Time-Share," Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
"Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop," curated by Simon Wallis, Tate Liverpool, England
"DV Noir: Video Art from Under the Shadow of Hollywood," curated by Rodolfo Sanchez, Museum at California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
"LA On My Mind: Recent Acquisitions from MoCA’s Collection," curated by Michael Darling, MOCA at The Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
Gallery Group Show, Goldman Tevis, Los Angeles, CA
"New Heimat," curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
"Retake," curated by Susanne Titz and Ulrike Groos, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
"Untitled (Bowers, Hamilton, Schwarz, Steinfeld)," curated by Christine Bisetto and Steffen Boddeker, Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving, TX
"Casino 2001," curated by Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, Stedelijk Museum for Actual Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
2001
"Everybody Now," curated by Katy Siegel, The Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York
"Subject Plural," curated by Paola Morsiani, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
"False Start," curated by Cecilia Brunson, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
"Making Time: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Film & Video," curated by Amy Cappellazzo, Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; PBICA, Palm Beach, FL
2000
"Video Take," Stuc en Hedendaagse Kunsten, De Openabare Bibliotheek, Leuven, Belgium
"Radar Love," curated by David Pagel, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy
"Game On," curated by Sara Meltzer. Essay by Jenelle Porter and Conny Purtill, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
"Moving Pictures," Galerie Tommy Lund, Copenhagen, Denmark
1999
"Painting: Fore and Aft," ACME, Los Angeles, CA
"Drawing the Line," curated by Kirk Delman, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
"Venus," curated by Habib Kheradyar, Arc, Vienna, Austria
"Motion Studies," curated by Michael Darling, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
"Transfer," curated by Rosanne Alstatt Videonale-Intermezzo, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
"Living Theatre," curated by Diana Thater and Hildegund Amanshauser, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
"Im the Boss of Myself," curated by Sara Meltzer. Essay by Amy Cappellazzo, Sara Meltzer, New York, NY
"Me Mine," curated by Julie Joyce and Mike Mehring, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibition, curated by Susie Allen for Virgin Atlantic Airways, Virgin Atlantic VIP Lounge, Newark Airport, Newark, NJ
"Video Cult/tures," ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
"More Than Meets the Eye," curated by Wilhelm Schuermann, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
1998
"Unfinished History," curated by Francesco Bonami, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
"Guarene Arte 98," Selected by Douglas Fogle, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per larte, Torino, Italy
"In the Polka Dot Kitchen," curated by Sally Elesby and Anne Ayres, Otis Gallery and Armory Center, Los Angeles, CA
"Time Dilates," Three Day Weekend, New York, NY
"Kamikaze," curated by Monica Bonvicini, Marstall, Berlin, Germany
"Phoenix Triennial," curated by David Rubin, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
"Love at the End of the Tunnel, or the Beginning of a Smart New Day," curated by Marilu Knode, Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA (catalogue)
"Wings of Desire," curated by Michelle Guy, Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
"Three Day Weekend," curated by Dave Muller, Los Angeles, CA
"Youth Studies," curated by Brad Spence, POSTdowntown, Los Angeles, CA
1997
"Places That Are Elsewhere," curated by Diana Thater, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY
"Quartzose," curated by Michael Darling, Galleri Tommy Lund, Copenhagen, Denmark
"The Summer of Love," Fotouhi Cramer Gallery, New York, NY
"Hot Coffee," curated by Thomas Lawson, Artists Space, New York, NY
1996
"True Bliss," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
"Trying/Pattern, Chance," a project by Art Center College, Whisky Petes, NV
"Open House," curated by John OBrien, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
"Space Space," curated by Stephen Hartzog, POST, Los Angeles, CA
"Ether," curated by Michelle Guy, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Report from Spring Training," Spanish Box, Santa Barbara, CA
1995
"Neotoma," Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
"Redevelopment," curated by Stephen Hartzog & Rick Pirro
"Couldnt Get Ahead (catalogue & CD)," curated by Adam McEwen, Independent Artists Space, London, England
"Three Day Weekend Takes an Extended Working Vacation," In Rezone at Diverse Works, Houston, TX
"People-Going Places-Doing Things," N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Pretty," FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA
1994
"Thanks-The Works Is Not For Sale But Up For Barter," Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, CA
"Daves Not Here," Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, CA
"Thanks Again," FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA
"Second Skin," curated by Charles LaBelle, Espace, San Francisco, CA
"Bad Girls (catalogue)," curated by Marcia Tucker, New Museum, New York, NY
"Utter Realities," curated by Randy Sommer, Cerritos College Fine Art Gallery, Cerritos College, Norwalk,
"PARANOID," co-organized by Sam Durant, M*Y*T*H* Series at the Brewery, Los Angeles, CA
"The Power of Positive Thinking," curated by Sam Durant, FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA
1993
"Loose Slots," curated by Richard Kuhlenshmidt, Temporary Contemporary, Las Vegas, NV
"Heaven Missing," Jose Freire Gallery, New York, NY
"Melancholic Consolation and Cynicism," Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Thank You," FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA
"FOOD HOUSE Visits the Art Store Gallery," curated by FOOD HOUSE The Art Store, Los Angeles, CA
"Public & Private Pleasure," curated by Lauren Lesko, Nomadic Sites, Los Angeles
"Cherry Bomb," Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
"Imp of the Perverse," curated by Alisa Tager, Sally Hawkins Gallery, New York, NY
1992
"Skinned Eyes/Skin Dye," curated by Tyler Stallings, The Bridge Gallery, Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles, CA
"The FAR Bazaar," Foundation for Art Resources Inc., Federal Reserve Building, Los Angeles, CA
"Good Design," organized by Jorge Pardo & Pae White,Nomadic Sites, Pasadena, CA
"Afterthought," San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1991
"Window on L.A.," curated by David Pagel, L.A. Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
"Tales From The Creeps," Marc Richards Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Performances

1993
"Indignant Fairy, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA
1991
"Cafeteria, The Other 45 Minutes, Los Angeles, CA

Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books

2023
O’Connell, Lauren R. "Language in The Times of Miscommunication," Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona (exhibition catalogue)
2021
DiQuinzio, A., Hejinian, L., and; Butler, J. (2021). New time: Art and; feminisms in the 21st Century. Pg 170-171. University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Darling, Michael and Connie Butler. "Andrea Bowers," Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Armand Hammer Museum and Cultural Center Inc., and DelMonico Books, New York
Wassan Al-Khudhairi, and Misa Jeffereis. Foreword by Lisa Melandri. "Stories of Resistance," Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MI pg. 22, & 52
2019
Gygax, R., Munder, H., Ritter, N., Düttmann, A. G., Crimp, D., Lebovici, E., Kerr, T., Himmer, E., and Bindermann, B. (2019). United by Aids: An anthology on Art in response to HIV/AIDS. Pg 208-209. Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst and Scheidegger and Spiess
Bowers, Andrea, Maria Elena Buszek, Ciara Ennis, Peter R. Kalb, and Rebecca McGrew. "Andrea Bowers," Pomona College Museum of Art, Pitzer College Art Galleries, Distributed Art Publishers, New York, NY
2018
Artists and their Book/Books and their Artists. Getty Publicatios, pgs. 48-49
2013
Joyce, J., Salvesen, B., Adamson, G., and Gibson, W. (2013). Labour & Wait. Pg 35, 54-55, 97-99. Santa Barbara Museum of Art
2006
"Who is Marla Ruzicka? Artist Project, InterReview, pgs 4-11

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2020
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2018
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2017
Valentine, Victoria L., “The Artist Project: New Volume Explores What Artists See, What Inspires Them, When They Look at Art at the Met Museum,” Culture Type (web), December 11 (Link)
Michot, Michelle, “Florida is on the frontline of global warming – a crisis that demands creative thinking,” The Art Newspaper (web), December 8 (Link)
Helfand, Glen, “Marching to the Beat at Jessica Silverman Galelry,” Art Papers, October
“5 Artists Respond to: Charlottesville,” New York Times T Magazine, August 29 (Link)
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Menguc, Murat Cem, “Radical Art from the Past Decade, from Tahrir Square to Recife,” Hyperallergic (web), July 19 (Link)
Harris, Gareth and Julia Michalska, “Power of pride: artists champion LGBT causes at Art Basel,” The Art Newspaper, June 14 (Link)
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Sterling, Anna, “This Beautiful Installation Reveals the Money Behind the Dakota Access Pipeline,” KCET Artbound (web), May 31 (Link)
Smith, William S., "The Lookout: ‘The Neighbors, part two, in two parts: Sanctuary: Andrea Bowers and Home: Andrea Aragón’," Art in America, January (Link)
Mitter, Siddhartha, “‘People have Been Kind of Slapped Awake’: Urgent New Shines a Light on Immigration,” The Village Voice (web), January 4 (Link)
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Seda-Reeder, Maria, “Two new Contemporary Arts Center exhibitions confront politically charged topics,” City Beat (web), February 22
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Barshee, Tenzing, “The Value of Rage: Morgan Fisher in Conversation with Tenzing Barshee,” Terremoto, Winter
2016
Bruney, Gabrielle, “Stunning Portraits Spotlight Trans Women Activists of Color,” The Creators Project (web), February 22
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Stromberg, Matt, “Focused on Residencies, the Main Museum Tests a Different Model in Downtown LA,” Hyperallergic (web), December 8
Wagley, Catherine G., “Living Legends: Suzanne Lacy Teaches Andrea Bowers Performance Art, Inaugurating the New Main Museum in Los Angeles,” ArtNews (web), December 9
2015
The Bottom Line, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Gent, Belgium
Gordon, Larry, California Colleges See Surge in Efforts to Unionize Adjunct Faculty, Los Angeles Times, January 3
Basha, Regine, La Biennale de Montral: Lavenir (looking forward), Modern Painters, January
Deleu, Sylvain, Art Basel Switzerland Announce their 2015 Gallery Lineup, artlyst, March 3
Group Exhibition A Voice Remains to Open at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, artlyst, April 24
Purseglove, Laura, Art Review: A Voice Remains Pippy Houldsworth Gallery Reactivating the Revolution, artlyst, April 30
Glentzer, Molly, Provocative Show Examines Immigration, Houston Chronicle, May 10
Steer, Emily, Basel Gallery Picks: Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, US, Elephant Magazine (web), June 19
Jovanovic, Rozalia, See the 11 Best Gallery Booths at Art Basel, ArtNet News (web), June 18
Kirsch, Corinna, Art teachers paid the same as McDonalds workers, The Art Newspaper, July 2
Ricciardi, Nicola, Nothing is neutral: an interview with Andrea Bowers, Mousse Magazine, February
2014
Shen Goodman, Matthew, "Frieze New York Reaches Agreement With Unions," Art in America online, April 10 (Link)
Lescaze, Zoe, "Frieze New York, Unions Reach Agreement in Art Fair Labor Dispute," Gallerist NY, April 9 (Link)
Newhall, Edith, "Galleries: A long-forgotten artist, 1960s anarchy, and clay," The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 28 (Link)
Fisch, Sarah, "’Pace Gems:’ Flawless Pieces, Gorgeous Setting Lost in a Jumble," San Antonio Current, April 30 (Link)
Maloney, Patricia, "Episode 447: Andrea Bowers, #sweetjane", Bad at Sports (audio interview), March 24 (Link)
Landi, Ann, "the Cutting-Edge to Santa Fe," ARTNews, Summer (Link)
Knight, Christopher, Year in Review: Christopher Knights Best Art Shows of 2014, Los Angeles Times, December 19
Knight, Christopher, Year in Review: Christopher Knights Best Art Shows of 2014, Los Angeles Times, December 19
Morgan, Jessica, Burning Down the House, Gwangju Biennale 2014 Exhibition Catalogue, October
Bowers, Andrea, Feminists, Art in America, December
Byrd, Cathy, Fresh Talk: Andrea Bowers, Fresh Art International, October 2
Cooper, Ashton, ` on Futurity: 5 Works at the Montal Bienniale, ArtInfo, October 28
Smith, William S., SITElines.2014: Unsettled Lanscapes, Art in America, November
Byrd, Cathy, Fresh Talk: Andrea Bowers, Fresh Art International, October 2 (Link)
Munro, Cait, At Montreal Biennial Artists Tackle Sexual Politics in the 21st Century, artnet, November 3
Galan, Manuela, Paris Top 10 Contemporary Art Exhibitions this Summer, The Culture Trip, August
Fleury, Claire, Ile-de-France: 5 expos ne pas manquer, Le nouvel Observateur, September 20
Maloney, Patricia, All You Protest Kids, You Can Hear Jack Say, Sweet Jane, The Brooklyn Rail, September 4
Bowers, Andrea, and Lacy, Suzanne, After the Slumber Party, The Brooklyn Rail, September 4
Landi, Anne, Documenting the Americas: Art With a Politicla Bent, but the Messages Are Seldom Heavy-Handed, The Wall Street Journal, September 2
Travers, Andrew, Anderson Ranch hosts Opie and women artists symposium, The Aspen Times, July 29
Sanromn, Lucia, Andrea Bowers, catalog for Unsettled Landscapes, SITE Santa Fe, NM, Summer
Weiderman, Paul, SITE Santa fe Andrea Bowers: The art of activism, Santa Fe New Mexican, July 18
Hanson, Sarah, Pushing Boundaries: SITE Santa Fes Reimagined Biennial, ArtInfo, July 18
Landi, Ann, Bringing the Cutting-Edge to Santa Fe, ARTnews, Summer
Germack, Diane, Louis Vuitton rend homage aux femmes, luxurydesign, July 15
Joyce, Erin, A First Look at the New SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Hyperallergic, July 31
Cristello, Stephanie, Unsettled Landscapes: An Interview with Andrea Bowers, ARTslant, July
Hirsh, Jennie, A New Chapter for SITE Santa Fes Biennial, Art in America, June 13
Groppo, Pierre, In Situ 1: Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton gives Andrea Bowers carte blanche, Vogue Paris, June 4
Gelsomini, Tina, BNLMTL 2014 // Andrea Bowers, The Seen: Chicagos International Online Journal of Contemporary at Modern Art, May 27
Fisch, Sarah, ‘Pace Gems:’ Flawless Pieces, Gorgeous Setting Lost in a Jumble, San Antonio Current, April 30
Fisch, Sarah, ‘Pace Gems:’ Flawless Pieces, Gorgeous Setting Lost in a Jumble, San Antonio Current, April 30
Knight, Christopher, " Review: ‘#sweetjane’ fuses art, a horrific crime to powerful effect," Los Angeles Times, February 18 (Link)
Bodin, Claudia, "Die Kunst, dagegen zu sein," Art Magazin, February
Buckley, Annie, "Investigating Steubenville: Andrea Bowers’ #sweetjane," KCET Artbound, February 6 (Link)
Yoshimura, Courtney, "500 Words: Andrea Bowers," Artforum.com, January 21 (Link)
"March Preview: Andrea Bowers," Art, February
Willette, Jeanne, "Preview: Andrea Bowers at Pomona College Museum of Art," ArtScene, January
2013
Geiser, Kirsa, "Review: Andrea Bowers, ‘Cultivating the Courage to Sin,’ at Capitain Petzel," Spike Art Quarterly, Winter
Mania, Astrid, "Critics’ Picks: Andrea Bowers at Capitain Petzel," Artforum, October 16
Ruthe, Ingeborg, "Ihre Freunde, die Bume: Andrea Bowers, Capitain Petzel," Berliner Zeitung, October 15
Cheng, Scarlet, Labour and Wait displays the melding of art and craft, Los Angeles Times, August 31
Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter, Art Talk: Labour and Wait at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, KCRW, August 15
Foster, Kenneth J, Audience as Subject, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, (Exhibition Catalog)
McGuire, Mary, Andrea Bowers, Labour and Wait exhibition catalogue, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, July
Joyce, Julie, Labour and Wait, exhibition catalogue, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, July
Bodin, Claudia, Der Wichtigste Kunstmarkt Der Welt, ART Das Kunstmagazin, May 14
Smith, Roberta, 40 Nations, 1,000 Artists and One Island, New York Times, May 10 (Link)
Bodin, Claudia, Noch Mehr Lrm, ART Das Kunstmagazin, May 10
Heddaya, Mostafa, Andrea Bowers Protest letters Taken Down Overnight at Frieze, Hyperallergic, May 10
Kinsella, Eileen, Labor Activists Return to Protest Frieze, Will Speak Out at Nato Thompson Talk, ArtInfo, May 10
Kjellburg, Ann, Not Fair: Artist Andrea Bowers Writes to the Organizers of the Frieze Art Fair, Little Star, May 10
Sutton, Benjamin, Andrea Bowers Hangs Letter Decrying Friezes Labor Practices in Susanne Vielmetters Booth, ArtInfo, May 9
Lescaze, Zo, Union Members Protest Frieze Labor Policy, Andrea Bowers Joins the Fray, Gallerist NY, May 5
Willette, Jeanne, "Preview: Andrea Bowers at Pomona College Museum of Art," ArtScene, January
2012
Crow, Kelly, Art Basel: From Bargains to Billionaires, The Wall Street Journal, December 7
Heyman, Marshall, The Insanity of Art Basel, The Wall Street Journal, December 6
Bodin, Claudia, Art Basel Miami Beach: Und ewig lockt der Knstler, Art das Kunstmagazin, December 7
Kellaway, Brooke, Letters to the Army of Three: Andrea Bowers on Abortion, Then and Now, Walker Art Center, December 3
Three Friends Walk Into A Gallery, Revising Loneliness, November 6
Richard, Frances, Andrea Bowers, Artforum, Winter
Knight, Christopher, "A timely, spirited protest at ‘Work’", LA Times, October 5
Heldebro, Johanna, "Interview with Andrea Bowers, LAURA, Issue No. 8, Autumn
Proctor, Jacob, The Residue of Memory, Exhibition Catalogue, Aspen Art Museum
Moshayedi, Aram, No Person May Carry a Fish into a Bar, Artforum.com Critics Pick, August
Clayton, Campbell, Shamim Momin, Art Voices Magazine, Issue 38, June/July
Edwards, Jeff, Never Forgotten: The Art and Activism of Andrea Bowers, ArtPulse, No. 11, Spring
"Five Acts: Chronicles of Dissent", edited by Yaelle Amir, David Dempewolf and Yuka Yokoyama, Marginal Utility
Green, Emily. L.A. activists try to stop woodlands from becoming sediment dumps, High Country News, May 14
Buszek, Maria Elena Necessary Positions in Feminist Art: A Conversation, Art Journal, Spring
Jacobson, Heidi Zuckerman, The Kids Are Alright, Huffington Post, April 30
Audience as Subject Puts Spotlight on the Spectator at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Huffingtonpost.com, February 15
Smith, Roberta. Promising Tyros Join an Art Fair Club, New York Times, March 9
Kiyoizumi, A.J. Art Show Examines Audiences, The Daily Californian, February 22
Prestianni, Sam. Mob Rules, San Francisco Weekly, February 15
Richard, Frances. Andrea Bowers, Artforum, January
Rochester, Katherine. Five Acts: Chronicles of Dissent, Artforum.com, February 16
Thompson, Dale. Meeting Ground: 2012 Artist in Residence Andrea Bowers combines Art and Activism, March 6
27 Questions for Art Activist Andrea Bowers, ArtInfo International, January 4
2011
Bruce, Caitlin, Looking for the Political at Art Basel, Art Threat, December 19
Cotter, Holland. Complacency Butts Up Against Game Changers, New York Times December 16
Andrea Bowers. The New Yorker. December 12
Rabel, Eduardo Alexander. Something for Everyone. Artslant.co, December 9
Lookofsky, Sarah. Critics Pick – Andrea Bowers. Artforum.com, December 8
Gilbert, Alan. Andrea Bowerss The New Womans Survival Catalog. Art-agenda.com, December 8
Sledge, Matt. Occupy Art Basel Remains Elusive, But One Occupation Shoots Up In Miami Beach, huffingtonpost.com, December 2
Rosenberg, Karen. Art Fair: Business Over Activism. New York Times, December 2
Loos, Ted. Ten Things to Look Forward to at Art Basel in Miami. Vogue, November 28
Bloom, Lisa. Glasberg, Elena. Disappearing Ice and Missing Data: Climate Change in the Visual Culture of the Polar Regions. Far Field: Digital Culture, Climate Change, and the Poles, November
Lacy, Suzanne. It Speaks to Me. Los Angeles Tim, September 21
Diaz, Eva. Drawn from Photography. ArtForum, Summer
Rosenow, Romina. The Treet Watchers. Pasadena Magazine, July
Cromer, Mark. Incarceration to Installation. Artillery, May/June
Scott, Andrea K. Drawn From Photography. The New Yorker, March 21
Rosenberg, Karen. Drawn From Photography. New York Times: Weekend Arts, February 25
Rosenberg, Karen, Authorship or Translation? Notes Toward Redefining Creativity, The New York Times, February 24
Dorfman, John. The Lens and the Pencil. Art & Antiques, February
Finkel, Jori, Artist-activist Andrea Bowers arrested in tree-sitting protest in Arcadia, Los Angeles Times, January 13
Finkel, Jori, Artist Andrea Bowers turns activist, Los Angeles Times, January 12
Lawson, Thomas. A Story about Civil Disobedience and Landscape: Interview with Andrea Bowers. East of Borneo, January
Morgan, Margaret. Home Truths, in The M Word, edited by Myrel Chernick and Jennie Klein. Demeter Press
Gilman, Claire. Drawn from Photography. Exhibition catalog. The Drawing Center, New York
DiQuinzio, Apsara. The Air We Breathe: Artists and Poets Reflect on Marriage Equality. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education. Edited by Eungie Joo, Joseph Keehn II, Jenny Ham-Roberts. Routledge
Why I Never Became a Dancer, Exhibition Catalog, Sammlung Goetz im Haus der Kunst, Hatje Cantz
Goetz, Igvild, Why I Never Became a Dancer, at Sammlung Goetz, Munich | Essays: Goetz, Ingvild On this Exhibition: Urbaschek, Stephan On Younglings, Maidens, Dandies, Bobby-soxers, Hooligans, Rowdies, Teenagers and Avatars; Verreet, Isabelle Andrea Bowers, Democracys Body Dance Dance Revolution, 2001
Szupinska, Joanna, Andrea Bowers, ArtUS, No. 30
2010
Barton, Greg. Graphite Testimony. The Last Times December
Young, Paul. The New Garde. Angeleno Magazine December
Gilman, Claire. "Marking Politics: Drawing as Translation in Recent Art." Art Papers, Fall
Zellen, Jody, Andrea Bowers, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Artillery, September/October
Henson, Julie, The Political Landscape, a conversation with Andrea Bowers, Daily Serving, August 7
Barliant, Claire, The Last Newspaper, Time Out New York, November 1
Miles, Christopher, Andrea Bowers at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, LA Weekly, July 29
Knight, Christopher, Other Side of the Dream, Los Angeles Times, July 9
Mizota, Sharon, "The Guide," Los Angeles Times, May 7
Beck, Graham T, Andrea Bowers at Andrew Kreps, Frieze, Issue 129, March
Mizota, Sharon, Love in a Cemetery at the 18th Street Art Center, Los Angeles Times, February 26
Duncan, David, Andrea Bowers at Andrew Kreps, Art in America, January
ONeill-Butler, Lauren, Andrea Bowers at Andrew Kreps, Artforum, January
Bowers, Andrea. "Andrea Bowers in conversation with Tucker Stilley." Jacob, Mary Jane and Michelle Grabner, editors, The Studio Reader. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2010.
California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists 2009. CCF Foundation, Los Angeles.
Dean, Bec. "Raquel Ormella and Andrea Bowers: Life in the Balance." Art and Australia, Volume 48, No. 1
In the Balance: Art for a Changing World. Exhibition catalogue. Curated by Rachel Kent, Glenn Barkley, Anna Davis and Keith Munro, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Politics of Art. Exhibition Catalog. Curated by Anna Kafetsi, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, 2010.
2009
Cotter, Holland, Golden Oldies All Over Chelsea, New York Times, December 4
Mizota, Sharon, Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy, Art Papers, November/December
Amir, Yaelle, Eco-Action, Art Slant New York, November 22
Emerling Susan, Laton: the little California town that served as a muse, Los Angeles Times, April 26
Luna, Marcela Quiroz, Proyecto Cvico / Civic Project at Centro Cultural Tijuana- CECUT, Latin Art, Spring
Dean, Jennifer, Exhibit at UCR pairs art, clothing drive for needy, The Press-Enterprise, March 11
Buckley, Annie, Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy, Art Forum, March 6
Cheng, Scarlet, Irvine Shines at OC: 2008 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, Artillery magazine, March
Dambrot, Shana Nys, Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacys Progressive Home Economics, THE Magazine Los Angeles, February/March
Calder, Diane, Previews of Exhibitions: Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy, Art Scene, February
Lehrer-Graiwer, Sarah, Museum Preview: 2008 California Biennial, Art Forum, January
I thought California would be different: The 2008 California Biennial in light of the presidential election, DBartmag.com, 2009
2008
Artists Project: Andrea Bowers, Switch 1.1 : A Biannual Magazine Published by The Power Plant, Winter
Pincus, Robert, State of Mind, San Diego Union Tribune, December 14
Wagley, Catherine, The Best Kind of Boring: 2008 California Biennial, dailyserving.com, December 1
Christopher Knight, Critics Choices, Los Angeles Times, November 16
Estves, Ruth and Lucia Sandromn Ed., Proyecto Civico Project, Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT), Mateus Books, November
Boem, Mike. "3 L.A. Artists Get Fellowship," Los Angeles Times, November 11, 2008, p. E-3
Knight, Christopher, Dont Take It Lying Down, Los Angeles Times, November 4
Aeppel; LVR, 2008 California BiennialUnder Beautiful Smog, ovationtv.com, November 4
The 2008 California Biennale, The Santa Barbara New Press, October 31
The Orange County Museum of Art Presents the 2008 California Biennale, artdaily.org, October 26
Chang, Richard, A Broader Biennial, Orange County Register, October 26
Buitron, Michael, 2008 California Biennial at the OCMA and Beyond, Leap Into the Void (blog), October 25
Chang, Richard, California Biennial reaches beyond the Golden State, The Arts Blog, ocregister.com, October 24
Firstenberg, Lauri, 2008 California Biennial. Exhibition catalogue. Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, October
Schwarting, Jen, Progress, The Brooklyn Rail, October
Kecskes, Alex, A Rich Palette of Talent, 944 Magazine, October
2008 California Biennial, THE Magazine, October
Melrod, George, A Questioning Biennial, Interview with Lauri Firstenberg, Art Ltd., November
Andrea Bowers in Conversation with Catherine Opie, Catalogue, Art Resources Transfer, Canada: Westcan, Edited by Alejandro Cesarco
OConnell, Brian, Ghostly Media: What Would an Invoking Media Look Like?, Art & Research, Volume 2, Number 1, Summer
Morrone, Francis. "Changing Times, Changing Notions: ‘Progress’ At the Whitney," The New York Sun, August 14
Myers, Julian, "Amateurs," Frieze, September
Rugoff, Ralph, "Other Experts," Amateurs. Exhibition catalogue. CCA Wattis, San Francisco
Schwarting, Jen, "Progress," The Brooklyn Rail, October
Harmanci, Reyhan, Face of Femminism: Small Things End, Great Things Endure, San Francisco Chronicle, January 17
Bryan-Wilson, Julia, Preview: The Way That We Rhyme, Artforum, January
Krishtalka, Sholem, A Furious Embrace: Not a soft downy comforter, Xtra! January 7
2007
Borchhardt-Birbaumer, Brigitte, "Modelle einer kritischen Gegenwartskunst, Wiener Zeitung, February 22
Pagel, David. "It Pays to Be Booksmart and Streetwise, Los Angeles Times, December 28
Stange, Raimar, The Evil (exhibition catalogue) Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden, Germany, December
Fragoza, Carribean, "LAXART Benefit Art Auction Draws Energetic Crowds and Funds, Flash Art Online, November 16
Prickett, Sarah Nicole, "Art-Hopping: Power Plant, Gallery TPW, Deluca Fine Arts, Torontoist, Nov. 29
Food, Brian, "Going Out: Things to do and People to See in T.O. this week, Globe and Mail, November 24
Buckley, Annie, "A Handmades Tale: Andrea Bowers Bears Witness to the Equilibrium Between Art and Activism, A & U Magazine, September
Patterson, Carrie, "Andrea Bowers: The Weight of Relevance, Art Circles, Issue #5, Fall
Moshayedi, Aram, "Andrea Bowers: Los Angeles, Art Papers, July/August
Schmidt, Eva. "Tanzen Sehen", Exhibition catalogue. Museum fr Gegenwartskunst Siegen
Mizota, Sharon, "Filling the Gap, art ltd, July
Mizota, Sharon, "Politics sewn to art, panel by quilt-like panel, Los Angeles Times, June 9
Bowers, Andrea. "Beyond Drawing". Art on Paper, Vol. 11 (May/June 2007), p.66-68.
Pagel, David, "Honoring a quilt and its powerful message, Los Angeles Times, May 18
Bowers, Andrea. "Guest Lecture by Andrea Bowers", Artillery, Vol 1, No. 5, p. 24, May
Bedford, Christopher, "Artforum Pick: Andrea Bowers at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Artforum.com, May 19
Beyn, Ariane, "The California Files (catalogue), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, April 19
Wing, Carlin, "WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Fluent Collaborative, issue 87, April
"Personal Affairs, Kunstforum International, vol. 184, March/April
"Intimer Einblick in verborgenedurch die Kunst, Dumont Kunst, February
Kort, Michele, "The Women Who Came Before Roe, Alternet, January
"Personal Affairs, Stadt Revue, and Financial Time Deutschland, January
"Personal Affairs im Museum Morsbroich, Kunstbulletin, January, p. 70
"Die Verborgenen chatze des Leverkusener Kunsttempels, Das Regionale Freizeitmagazin, January
2006
Schmidt, Jason. "Artists." Paris, Edition 7L, 2006, p. 137
Wolff, Elaine. "At the Crossroads with Freud and Roe", San Antonio Current, November 1-7
Goddard, Dan R. "Photorealistic drawings honor women’s social activism", San Antonio Express News, Nov. 26
Jones, Amelia. "A Companion to Contemporary Art since 1945." London, Blackwell Publishing, 2006, pp.181-182
Schwenke-Runkel, Ingeborg. "Wie viel Intimitat ist erlaubt?", Kolner – Stadt – Anzeiger, vol 2.3, December
Heinzelmann, Markus, "New Forms of Intimacy, Personal Affairs catalogue, Museum Morsbroich, DuMont Literature and Kunst Verlag
Lawson, Thomas, "Best of 2006, Artforum, December
Valdez, Sarah, "Andrea Bowers: Nothing is Neutral at REDCAT, Los Angeles, art on paper, November/December
Kort, Michelle, "Letters to an Army of 3: Artist Andrea Bowers honors pre-Roe pioneers, Ms. Magazine, Fall
Payton, Brenda, "Art explores world at tipping point, The Oakland Tribune, September 22
Helfand, Glen, "particulate matter, (show catalogue), Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Joo, Eungie. Nothing is Neutral: Andrea Bowers, CA Institute of the Arts and RedCat (show catalogue)
Essays: Butler, Connie. "Andrea Bowerss Magical Feminism
Joo, Eungie. "DIY School (interview)
Leclre, Mary. "The Skeptics Question
Lapp, Axel. "Your Whole Fucking Culture Alienates Me: Andrea Bowers", ArtReview, July, issue 1, p 135
Myers, Holly. "Balancing art, politics, Los Angeles Times, July 19
Taft, Catherine. "Scene and Herd, artforum.com, July 1
Baldwin, Cara. "Cara Baldwin interviews Andrea Bowers, InterReview, pgs 33-34
Futernick, Marisa. "Marisa Futernick on Andrea Bowers, InterReview, pg 25
Herbst, Marc. "An elegy near Andrea Bowers, InterReview, pgs 36-37
Lowther, John, "John Lowther on Andrea Bowers, InterReview, pgs 38-39
Bell, Kirsty; Lubbke-Tidow, Maren; Stange, Raimar. "Andrea Bowers/ Matthew
Antezzo, Neue Review, Art in Berlin, January, pgs. 4-9
Leclre, Mary. "Andrea Bowers: Letters to the Army of Three, exhibition catalog,
The Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2005, pp.4-11
Pollack, Barbara. "Social Studies: Sixty artists overhaul the concept of national monument, Time Out New York, January Issue
2005
Meltzer, Eve. "Monuments for the USA, FRIEZE, Summer 2005
Kraus, Chris. Tumlir, Jan, McFadden, Jane, "LA Artland: Contemporary Art from Los Angeles, Black
Sholis, Brian, Vitamin D, New Perspectives in Drawings, Phaidon Press, London and New York, 2005, Essay p. 36, illustrations pp.37-39.
Lorch, Catrin. "Van Horn, Dsseldorf, Germany, Frieze, Issue 94, October, p. 228.
Bowers, Andrea. "Four Emerging Women Speak Out On Mary Kelly’s Circa 1968:
Danielle Gustafson Sundell, Cara Balwin, Marisa J. Futernick and Andrea Bowers," InterReview p. 28-29.
"Fast Forward/Avance Rapido," Media Art From the Goetz Collection, p.26-27,40-45.
Rugoff, Ralph, "Monuments for the USA", pp. 32-33.
Siegel, Katy. "All Together Now," Artforum, January, p. 169.
2004
"Alla Biennale del Whitney, tourna la pittura, Arte, April, p. 109.
Bankowsky, Jack. "This is Today," Artforum, May, p. 170.
Bowers, Andrea. "Magical Politics Feast or Fasting, Cakewalk, pp. 23-25.
Bowers, Andrea. "My Pop" Artforum, October, p. 94.
Dambrot, Shana Nys. "Andrea Bowers at Mary Goldman Gallery," Artweek, September, pp. 19-20.
Dunn, Melissa. "Whitney Biennial: A Good-Looking Corpse," Flash Art, May-June, p. 63.
Heartney, Eleamor, "The Well-Tempered Biennial" Art in America June/July 2004, p. 75.
Knight, Christopher. "Politics and art? Of course, she says," The Los Angeles Times, June 11.
Kraus, Chris. "Chance", 2004.
Kraus, Chris, "Sentimental Bitch", Video Green, 2004.
Kuhn, Thomas,"Fast Forward", Kunstforum International, 168 January/February 2004, p. 346-348.
Larsen, Lars Bang, Katy Siegel and Jan Verwoert. "What the World Needs Now," Frieze, November/December, pp. 52-53, 77-78, 81-82, 84-86, 88.
Lee, Pamela M. "Crystal Lite," Artforum, May, p. 174.
Mania, Astrid, "Review Andrea Bowers" U-Spot, 02/2004, p. 49.
Martens, Anne. "Andrea Bowers," Flash Art, Jul/Sep, p. 116.
Morgan, Susan. "If Memories Failed to Fade", Andrea Bowers, Magazin 4.
Rapkin, Mickey. "Bold Biennial," Details, March, p. 78.
Seigel, Katy and Mattick, Paul, Art Works Money, Thames & Hudson, pp. 34-35,100-101, 194.
Siegel, Katy et. al. "American Pie," Frieze, May, p. 69.
Sholis, Brian, "Creative Resistance – Carol Bove and Andrea Bowers", Flash Art , October, p.102.
2003
Durant, Sam and Monica Bonvicini. "Andrea Bowers," Neue Review, December, p. 4-5.
"Focus Video and Film, Flash Art, Mar/Apr, p. 93.
Jana, Renna. "California Dreamin, tema celeste.
Kantor, Jordan. "Andrea Bowers, Artforum, January, p. 140.
Myers, Holly. "Relationships at Play in the Physical World, Los Angeles Times, Saturday, July 19.
Smith, Roberta. "Impressions of the Yard, Visual and Olfactory," The New York Times, Friday, June 27.
Sorbello, Marina. "Andrea Bowers: Magical Politics," The Art Newspaper, December.
Thorson, Alice. "The Art of War," Kansas City Star, Sunday, March 30.
2002
Bowers, Andrea. "Game Girl, V Magazine, July/August.
Bowers, Andrea "Top Ten, Artforum. April: p. 38.
Casino 2001, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst.
Gavlak, Sarah "Andrea Bowers, Intimate Strangers. Time Out. Issue 277, Jan. 11-18.
Harvey, Doug "About Time, Bitchin’ video art at the Hammer. LA Weekly. Feb. 16-22.
Knode, Marilu. "Andrea Bowers, Retake, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, p. 70-75. Liverpool.
Kraus, Chris and Katy Siegel. Andrea Bowers, Sara Meltzer Gallery.
Pagel, David "The Myth of Selling Out Art Issues, Summer.
Pagel, David. "MOCA Sampler Is a Mixed Treat, Los Angeles Times, Friday, Feb. 8.
Bowers, Andrea. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Annual Report, Fiscal Years 2000 and 2001.
Robinson, Walter " Baselmania, art.com magazine, June 16.
Siegal, Katy et. al., "Andrea Bowers, Everybody Now, The Bertha and Karl Leubdsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College.
Siegel, Katy "Katy Siegel on Andrea Bowers. Artforum. January: p. 121.
Wallis, Simon. "Andrea Bowers, Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop, Tate Liverpool.
2001
Amanshauser, Hildegund and Thater, Diana, "A Living Theatre, exhibition catalog, Salzburger Kunstverein pp. 22-33.
Klassmeyer, Kelly. "Group Mentality, Houston Press, April 12-18.
Knode, Marilu, "Revolution Dance", exhibition catalog Wiederaufnahme (Retake), NAK, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, 2001.
Molinari, Guido. "Radar Love, Flash Art, December.
"New Heimat", publication on the occasion of the exhibition "New Heimat", Frankfurter Kunstverein, 2001.
Siegel, Katy, "First Take: New Art, New Artists, Artforum, January 2001, p. 121.
2000
Baers, Michael. "An Art Enclave Heats Up in Chinatown, Art.
Berget, Bill "Featured Stories: Marking Time as a Material in Film and Video opens at the Palm Beach ICA onview.com, April 18.
Bowers, Andrea. "Nasty, or unclean, offensive, indecent, inclement. Monica Bonvicini interviewed by Andrea Bowers", Monica Bonvicini: Scream and Shake, pp. 30-38.
Cappellazzo, Amy Making Time: Considering Time As a Material in Contemporary Video & Film. New York: DAP, March 2000.
Guequierre, Nathan. "Karaoke Voyeurism, Shepherd Express Metro, November 9.
Harvey, Doug. "Its Chinatown, LA Weekly, May 5-11, p. 49.
Hunt, David "Andrea Bowers at Sara Meltzers On View Frieze, Issue 50, Jan/Feb,.p. 94-95.
Pagel, David "Thrilling and Shiny, Bowers Work Resonate Los Angeles Times, Feb 25, F3.
Pagel, David. "Andrea Bowers, Artist, Los Angeles, Artforum, Sept/Oct.Vol. 20, No. 5.
Snow, Vicki. "Unfinished History, TGIF, Feb. 5, pp. 12-17.
Thater, Diana. "A Living Theater, Magazin [4] Salzburger Kunstuerein.
1999
Amanshauser, Hildegund, "A Living Theatre, Salzburger Kunstverein, Magazin 4, 1999, pp. 76-83.
Cappellazzo,Amy. "Im the Boss of Myself",Im the Boss of Myself or Please Release Me Let Me Go, New York: Sara Meltzers on View, illustration: p. 3.
Darling, Michael. "Michael Darlings (MuseumGallery) Top 10 Plus 10. LA Weekly. Jan. 8-14
Grabner, Michelle "Unfinished History Frieze. Issue 46, June-July.
Knode, Marilu "Unfinished History Art/Text. No. 65, May-July: 93-94.
Schurmann, Wilhelm, "More than meets the eye, exhibition catalog, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
1998
Bonami, Francesco. Unfinished History, Walker Art Center, p.15-33, Illustrations:p.66-69.
Calame, Ingrid. In the Polka Dot Kitchen, Foundation Press,1998:19-42.
Coleman, Sarah, Glen Helford and Sylvia Tan. "Wings of Desire/Floss, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, February.
Darling, Michael. "Crowd Control Frieze, Issue 38, Jan- Feb: 52-53.
Demetre, Jim. "End of the world? I Feel Fine Seattle Weekly, Feb.
Fogle, Douglas. "Andrea Bowers GUARENE ARTE 98, Torino, Italy: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per larte: pp. 12-16.
Fredericksen, Eric. "Deeply Shallow The Stranger, February 19.
Kangas, Matthew. "Flower Power and Frivolities, The Seattle Times, February 12.
Kelly, Ruby. "The Ruby Kelly Column, Art Review, April.
"L.A. Trained Artists Shown at Art Institute, San Francisco Chronicle, Tuesday, Feb. 19.
Martin, Victoria. "Andrea Bowers at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Artweek.
McEwen, John. "Couldnt Get Ahead, Sunday Telegraph, April 23.
Museum: pp. 8 33, illustrations pp. 52-55.
OReilly, John. "Art for Barts Sake, Modern Review, April 10, p. 33.
Rubin, David S., "Considering Audience: Reflections On the 1998 Phoenix Triennial, 1998 Phoenix Triennial, Phoenix Art Museum, pp. 8-33, illustrations on pp. 52-55.
Webster, Mary Hull. "Wings of Desire and Mark Bradford at the San Francisco Art Institute, Artweek, April, pp. 19-20.
Zellen, Jody, Andrea Bowers Spectacular Appearances at the Santa Monica Museum of Art Volume 1, Number 3, Fall 1998, p. 22.
1997
"Im Still In Love with You, exhibition catalog, Twentieth Century Womens Club, curated by Steven Hull, p. 3 & 4.
Greene, David A. "Hot Coffee Frieze, Issue 43, May: p. 76.
Pagel, David. " Voyeurs Paradise at Santa Monica Place Los Angeles Times, Friday, December 19th: F33.
Saltz, Jerry. "Regular-No Sugar Time Out New York, Issue 75, Feb. 27 March 6: p. 40.
Schjeldahl, Peter. "La-la Band Village Voice, February 18.
1996
Darling, Michael. "Box Tops Santa Barbara News-Press, Feb: 2.
1995
Baker, Kenneth. "Taking Art Into Their Own Hands San Francisco Chronicle, June 2nd: C1& C5.
Craddock,Sacha. London Times, April 5th.
Darling, Michael. " Pretty at FOOD HOUSE Artweek, March: 38-39.
Feaver, William. "Smart Habits and Sharp Practice London Observer, April 23.
Greene, David S. "Andrea Bowers Art Issues, No. 36, Jan Feb, p. 41
Kent, Sarah. " Art Review, Time Out, April: p.51.
1994
Davidson, Leanne Alexis. "Three Day Weekend, Real Life Magazine, No. 23, ill. p. 35-36.
1993
Crosby, Gregory. "The Professors Guide to Vegas Kulcher SCOPE, October.
Devine, Rory. "Heaven Missing Picture Book #4.
Frank, Peter. "Picks of the Week, LA Weekly, August 27, p. 131.
1992
Heartney, Eleanor. "The Imp of the Perverse ARTnews, September.
Jarrell, Joe. "Reviews Sculpture, September/October.
Jones, Amelia. "Public and Private Pleasures Art Issues, Sept Oct.
Pagel, David. "Art Review Los Angeles Times, March 20th.
Rugoff, Ralph. "Sex Objects LA Weekly, April 2-8.
Selwyn, Marc. "FOOD HOUSE: LAs Newest Alternative Space Flash Art, Nov/Dec.
Pagel, David. "Window on LA LA Art Fair Catalog.

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2009
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award
2008
United States Artists Broad Fellow
2003
City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Fellowship Recipient for Visual Arts
1998
Nominee, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per larte Prize
WESTAF/NEA, Regional Fellowship for Visual Arts in Sculpture

Public Collections

ArtPace, San Antonio, TX
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Compound, Long Beach, CA
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC
Historic Broadway Station, Los Angeles, CA
Ingvild Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany
Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Museum Abteiberg, Moenchengladbach, Germany
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
Rennie Museum Collection, Vancouver, Canada
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Tate Modern, London, UK
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Amy Myers

1965
b. Austin TX
Lives and works in New York, NY
1999
MFA, Painting, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1995
BFA, The Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024
"Solo," Flinn Gallery Greenwich Library, CT
2023
"Symmetries of the Sublime," The Core Club, curated by Space2Curate, New York, NY
"The Gift," Colorado Springs Art Center at The Colorado Museum, Colorado Springs, CO
"The Virtual Underground," Mark Moore Fine Arts ARTSY Show, Los Angeles, CA
2022
"Amy Myers," Elaine L. Jacob Museum, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
"A Hydromelodic Event," Malin Gallery, Aspen, CO
"Amy Myers: Ultraviolet Underground," Mark Moore Fine Art, Artsy Show, Los Angeles, CA
"The Gift," Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York NY
2020
"Painting," Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
2019
"Daughter Universes," Malin Gallery, New York, NY
"The Opera Inside the Atom," The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
2015
"Spiral Light," Valerie McKenzie Gallery, New York, NY
2014
"Atomic Cosmologies," Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
2013
"Monumental Drawings," Sweeney Art Museum, California State University, Riverside, CA
2011
Manhattan Beach Cultural Arts Center, Manhattan Beach, CA
2010
"Amy Myers On-Line," Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO
"Feminine Space," Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GA
2009
"Partner to Quark," Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2008
Show-O, Paris, France
"ART-in-the-Loop," Mural Reproduction, Kansas City, MO
2005
"The Opera Inside the Atom," Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
2004
"Fearful Symmetry," Pomona College, Montgomery Art Center, Claremont, CA
"Fearful Symmetry," Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
"The Particle Zoo," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2003
"String Series: The Handheld Universe," Danese Gallery, New York, NY
2002
"Heterotic String Series," Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2001
"Amy Myers," Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
2000
"Centric 60," University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
"New Drawings," Rhona Homan Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999
"The Virtual Underground," Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023
"The Gift," Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, CO
2022
"Now Here," Malin Gallery, Miami, FL
"Hurry Slowly," Selections from Permanent Collection, The Kleefeld Museum of Contemporary Art, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
2021 "Culver@10," Sweeney Art Museum, Culver Center for Arts, Selections from The Permanent Collection
2019
"Points of Light in a Nocturnal World," 7 Herkimer Place, Brooklyn, NY
2017
"Gothic," Lehman Gallery of Art, Bronx, NY
2016
"Something Else," The Painting Center, New York, NY
"No Toxic Factor," On-Line Booking, New York, NY
2015
"Painting Now," Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
"Selections for the Permanent Collection," Sweeney Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2014
"The Last Brucennial," New York, NY
Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Kansas City, MO
"The Way of Drawing," Gallery Momo, Tokyo, Japan
2013
"Looking Forward," Randall Scott Projects, Washington, DC
2012 Abstraction, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
"Oppenheimer Collection Celebration," Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
2010
"Inflection," Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
2009
"Ten Year Anniversary Show," Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX Selections from Permanent Collection, Greenville County Museum, SC
2008
"Something New," Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
"Art on Paper, Drawings," Morris Art Museum, Morristown, NJ "Biennial Exhibition," Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
2007
"Zeichen und Zeichnung," Charim Galerie, Vienna, Austria
"Summer Eyes / Summarize," Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO
"Size Matters: Drawings from the MFA Houston Collection," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
"New Directions in American Drawing," Columbus Museum, GA; Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
"Sirens," Thom Andriola / New Gallery, Houston, TX
2006
"Homecoming," JCC Gallery of Art, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
"Reverence," Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
"Technocraft," Chaee College Museum of Art, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
2005
"Brides of Frankenstein," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
"Stars and Stripes," Biagiotti Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy
2004
"New Math: Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct," Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN
"5th Anniversary Exhibition," Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
"Summer Painting and Drawing," Rhona Homan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003
"Black/White," Danese Gallery, New York, NY Online, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
"Under Glass: Works on Paper 1960-2000," Anthony Grant, Inc., New York, NY
"Art at the Edge of Science," Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID
2002
"Big and Beautiful," H&R Block Art Space, Kansas City, MO
"Collecting: A Community Dialogue," Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
"The Accelerated Grimace," Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY
"Paintings and Works on Paper," Rhona Homan Gallery, Chicago, IL
"National Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture," American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
"Cyborg Manifesto," Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
"Blurry Lines," John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2000
"Society of Contemporary Art," Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1999
"New Space/New Work," Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997
"Works on Paper," Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
"Perspective: Kansas City," Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art, KS

Public Collections

American Express Corporate Collection
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
The Kleefeld Museum of Art, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan UT
Perez Art Museum, PAMM, Miami FL
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

Awards & Grants

2024
Maison Dora Maar Fellowship, Menerbes, France
2023
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation
Creativity Conference Resident, Sea Island, GA (Joyce Carol Oates)
2019
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2018
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
2008
Yaddo Artist Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY
2005
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Visiting Artist, Dora Maar House, Menerbes, France
2004
Visiting Artist, The American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
2002
National Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Studio Grant, New York, NY

Melodie Mousset

1981
Born in United Arab Emirates
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
2011
MFA, California Institute of Art, Valencia, CA, USA
2009
Royal College of Arts, London, UK
2006
Diplome Superieur dArts Visuel, ECAL, Lausanne, Switzerland
2003
Diplome National dArts Plastique, EBAR, Rennes, France

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2013
Lulu, Mexico City, Mexico
Suzanne Geiss Company, New York, NY
2012
Joyce Gallery, Beijing, China
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2011
Melodie Mousset, Lime Gallery, CalArts, Valencia, CA
2010
Impulsive Control, Claudia Groeflin Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Together Again, Main Gallery CalArts, Valencia, CA
2009
Party-Animal, Galerie Marion Meyer, Paris, France
2008
Dans lombre du herisson, la trajectoire de lacier repond a la courbe des arbres, Darse, Geneva, Switzerland

Selected Group Exhibitions

2015
"S.O.S. Dada The World Is A Mess," Collateral Event of the 56th International Art Exhibition la Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi, Venice, Italy
Inhabitations: Phantasms of the Body in Contemporary Art, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
2013
"Inherent Vice", Peckham Artists’ Moving Image Festival, London, UK
lentrenreneur, Crystal palace, Bordeaux, France
the state of making things, La RADA, Locarno, Switzerland
The Ride, Curtat-Tunnel, Lausanne, Switzerland
Brigadoon, La tolerie, Clairemont-Ferrand, France
2012
(Re-) Cycles of Paradise, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Les Urbaines, Arlaud Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland
Ampera Electric Dreams: Vauxhall Technol, curated by Ken Farmer, Filling Station, London, UK
Trouble Rainbow 3, Boltelang, Zurich, Switzerland
Das El Ohne Schale, Oslo10, Basel, Switzerland
Hello? I Forgot My Mantra, Clifton Benevento, New York, NY
The Big Toe, Wallspace, New York, NY
Trouble Rainbow 2, Favorite Goods, Los Angeles, CA
Multi Plakati, Curtat Tunnel, Lausanne, Switzerland
The ride, Zoo Galerie, Nantes, France
Plate Mappe, Curtat-Tunnel, Lausanne, Switzerland
Drive-in, curated by Elise Hammer, Bold Tendencies Sculpture Park, London, UK
2011
Commercial Break, The Nuit Blanche, New York, NY
Once Emerging, Now Emerging: Now and Then, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca
CalArts, Plays Itself, PACT, Essen, Germany
Trouble Rainbow, Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome, Italy
Intimacies, Farley Building, Los Angeles, CA
George Herms: Xenophilia (Love of the Unknown), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Paul Clay, Salon 94, New York, NY
Greater LA, curated by Benjamin Goodsill, Joel Messler and Eleanor Cayre, New York, NY
Thats how we know the tongue is blind, Curtat-Tunnel, Lausanne, Switzerland
Commercial Break, Venice, Italy
Involuntary, curated by Neville Wakefield, New York, NY
2010
Mashup, LA15 Contemporary Art Space, San Juan, Puerto Rico
The Wight Biennial, New Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Minipic, tas cotte ton biclou?, curated by Pauline Beaudemont and Elise Lammer, New York, NY
Volume, AT 1, Los Angeles, CA
Snapshot, curated by Bennett Simpson, LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
2009
Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble, Galerie Marion Meyer, Paris, France
I am by birth a genevese, Vegas Gallery, London, UK
Post Tenebras Luxe, Musee Rath, Geneva, Switzerland
You cut but you cant, Galerie zwanzigquadratmeter, Berlin, Germany
Once in a Lifetime, curated by Dean Kissick, New Model Army, London, UK
Basement Project, Fred, London, UK
Work in Progress, RCA, London, UK
2008
Le Spectrarium, crurated by Tatiana Rihs, Samuel Dubosson, Melodie Mousset, Fondation Suisse du Corbusier, Paris, France
Josef Hannibal, isnt he?, Zoo art fair, London, UK
HOME-mentioned, but did not Stop, Box Productions, Renens, Switzerland
Thats All Folds, Popper, Geneve, Switzerland
Drole de dame, Galerie J, Paris, France
Joseph Hannibal now!, Galerie Blancpain, Geneva, Switzerland
WAWA, La Placette, Lausanne, Switzerland
Black Diaspora, Out of this World, Territet, Switzerland
Abstraction Extension, Fondation Salomon, Chateau dArenthon, Alex, France
Transform en France, La Gnrale, Paris, France
Duplex, Suspens, Geneva, Switzerland
Prototipi-Manzoni, Salon du Mueble, Milan, Italy
Atman Atmen, Out of this World, Territet, Swizterland
West, La Gnrale, Paris, France
Accrochange, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, France
2007
Der Tanz der Doppeppelganger, Shark, Geneve, Switzerland
Bounoule & Tutube, Call me Im an artist, Naphtaline, Lausanne, Switzerland
Sweet & extra-dry, curated by Delphine Coindet, Curcuit, Lausanne, Switzerland
Outre tombe, curated by Pascal Rousseau, 1m3, Lausanne, Switzerland
Lascaux Fiasco, Viva dolor, Lyon, France
Generation Melodie, curated by Raphael Julliard, Galerie, J, Geneva, Switzerland
2006
Lart est il soluble dans le rire, Le chorus, Lausanne, Switzerland
Minigolf, Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland
Cinquieme partie, Les abris anti-atomiques de lArsenic, Lausanne, Switzerland
Cabinet budget, LAtelier, Geneva, Switzerland
La cuisse physique, Espace Bellevaux, Lausanne, Switzerland
SVP, Theatre Tumulte, Neuchatel, Switzerland
Rouge&Cool, Espace rue de Bourg, Lausanne, Switzerland
2005
La Grande Chose, Galerie Basta, Lausanne, Switzerland
Une energie sympatique qui booste le tout, curated by Riond, Kabak, Lausanne, Switzerland
Accrochage, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
2004
Armleder & Co, ELAC, Lausanne, Switzerland
Good Stuff, ECAL, Lausanne, Switzerland
2003
Premire vue, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
Leau a la bouche, lOrangerie, Rennes, France
LEndroit, VItrine, Rennes, France
Yoda/sellenties(interference of Di Matto), Theatre Nationale de Bretagne, Rennes, France
Wax (interference of Campy Vampy, Tacky), La Crie, Centre dart contemporain, Rennes, France

Bibliography

2013
Steffen, Patrick, Brand New: Melodie Mousset, Flash Art, No. 288, January-February
2012
Pilet, Guillaume, Trouble Rainbow, Novembre Magazine, January
Armstrong, Liz, Sleeping with Strangers, Passages Pro Helvetia, Volume 58, Issue 1
Three Friends Walk Into A Gallery, Revising Loneliness, November 6
Guillaume Pilet, Trouble Rainbow, Novembre Magazine, January
Tuck, Geoff, In the moment of Melodie Mousset, Notes On Looking, September 27
2011
Jones, Anna, Melodie Mousset, Precursor. The Creativity Watchlist, published by Gestalten
Bodin, Claudia, L.A. Cool, art Das Kunstmagazin, October
Klanten, Mollard, Precursor: The Creative Watchlist, Gestlaten
Smith, Roberta, Bit of Hollywood, Minus the Tinsel, The New York Times, May
2010
Forsythe, Sara, Melodie Mousset Impulsive Controle, jour, Winter
Kantarovsky, Alexander, Melodie Mousset, Another New Romance, The New Wight Biennial, September
Daniel Morgenthaler, Tages Anzeiger, September 2
Debailleux, Henri-Francois, ArtParis, un certain savoir foire, Liberation, March
2009
Challe, Daniel, Melodie Mousset, Breloque, May
Bacchetta, Joelle, With or without you, Code Magazine, Spring
De Wavrin, Isabelle, ART PARIS: Notre Slection, Beaux Arts, March
Debailleux, Henri-Francois, ART PARIS: un certain savoir faire, La Liberation, March
2008
Mentrey, A Geometrie humaine/Human Geometry, Baboo Time, September
Nolan, Billy, Pasta Princess, Frame, January

Residencies

La Generale, Paris, France
Galerie zwanzigquadratmeter, Berlin, Germany

Amy Myers

Education

1965
Born in Austin, TX
1999
M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, Painting and Drawing
1995
B.F.A., The Kansas City Art Institute, MO, Painting and Drawing

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2024
"Amy Myers," Flinn Gallery Greenwich Library, CT (forthcoming)
2023
"Solo," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
"The Gift," Colorado Springs Art Center at The Colorado Museum, Colorado Springs, CO
"The Virtual Underground," Mark Moore Fine Arts ARTSY Show
2022
"Amy Myers: Ultraviolet Underground," Mark Moore Fine Art, Los Angeles, Artsy Show
"Amy Myers," Elaine L. Jacob Museum, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
"A Hydromelodic Event," Malin Gallery, Aspen, CO
"The Gift," Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York NY
2023
"Symmetries of the Sublime," The Core Club, curated by Space2Curate, New York NY
2020
"Painting," Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
2019
"Daughter Universes," Malin Gallery, New York, NY
"The Opera Inside the Atom," The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
2015
"Spiral Light," Valerie McKenzie Gallery, New York, NY
2014
"Atomic Cosmologies," Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
2013
"Monumental Drawings," Sweeney Art Museum, California State University, Riverside, CA
2011
Manhattan Beach Cultural Arts Center, Manhattan Beach, CA
2010
"Amy Myers On-Line," Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO
"Feminine Space," Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GA
2009
"Partner to Quark," Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2008
"Spin Zero," Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
Show-Off, Paris, France
2006
"The Particle Zoo," Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
2005
"The Opera Inside the Atom," Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
2004
"Fearful Symmetry," Pomona College, Montgomery Art Center, Claremont, CA
"Fearful Symmetry," Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
"The Particle Zoo," Suzanne Vielmeer Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2003
"String Series: The Handheld Universe," Danese Gallery, New York, NY
2002
"Heterotic String Series," Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2001
"Amy Myers," Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
2000
University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
"New Drawings," Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999
"The Virtual Underground," Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021
"Culver@10," Sweeney Art Museum, Culver Center for Arts, Selections from The Permanent Collection
2019
"Points of Light in a Nocturnal World," 7 Herkimer Place, Brooklyn, NY
2017
"Gothic," Lehman Gallery of Art, Bronx, NY
2016
"Something Else," The Painting Center, New York, NY
"No Toxic Factor," On-Line Booking, New York, NY
2015
"Painting Now," Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
"Selections for the Permanent Collection," Sweeney Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2014
The Last Brucenial, New York, NY
Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Kansas City, MO
"The Way of Drawing," Gallery Momo, Tokyo, Japan
2013 Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
"Looking Forward," Randall Sco Projects, Washington, DC
2012
"Abstraction," Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
Oppenheimer Collection Celebration, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
2010
"Inflection," Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
2009
"Ten Year Anniversary Show," Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
"Selections from Permanent Collection," Greenville County Museum, SC
2008
"Five Year Anniversary Show," Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
"Something New," Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
"Art on Paper," Drawings, Morris Art Museum, Morristown, NJ Biennial Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
2007
"VS. Featuring Amy Myers, Carlos Maer, John Newsom and Arnulf Rainer," Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
"Zeichen und Zeichnung," Charim Galerie, Vienna, Austria "Summer Eyes / Summarize," Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO
"Size Maers: Drawings from the MFA Houston Collection," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
"New Directions in American Drawing," Columbus Museum, GA; Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
"Sirens," Thom Andriola / New Gallery, Houston, TX
2006
"Homecoming," JCC Gallery of Art, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
"Realm of the Spirit," Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
"Reverence," Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
"Technocraft," Chaffee College Museum of Art, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
2005
"Brides of Frankenstein," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
"Stars and Stripes," Biagioi Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy
2004
"New Math: Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct," Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN
"5th Anniversary Exhibition," Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
"Summer Painting and Drawing," Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003
"Black/White," Danese Gallery, New York, NY Online, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
"Under Glass: Works on Paper 1960-2000," Anthony Grant, Inc., New York, NY
"Art at the Edge of Science," Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID
2002
"Big and Beautiful," H&R Block Art Space, Kansas City, MO
"Collecting: A Community Dialogue," Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
"The Accelerated Grimace," Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY
"Paintings and Works on Paper," Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
"National Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture," American Academy of Arts and Leers, New York, NY
"Cyborg Manifesto," Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
"Blurry Lines," John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2000
"Society of Contemporary Art," Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1999
"New Space/New Work," Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997
"Works on Paper," Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
"Perspective: Kansas City," Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art, KS

Awards & Honors

2019
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2018
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
2014
Ellen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation Studio Residency and Award
MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2008
ART-in-the-Loop, Mural Reproduction, Kansas City, MO
Yaddo Artist Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY
2005
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Visiting Artist, Dora Maar House, Menerbes, France
2004
Visiting Artist, The American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
2002
National Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Leers, New York, NY
The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Studio Grant, New York, NY

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2019
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2014
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2011
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2007
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2002
Honig, Peregrine. “Women Artists: Redefining Roles and Rules.” Review, November, pp. 74-75
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My Barbarian

2000
Founded, Los Angeles, CA
Malik Gaines
1973
Born in Visalia, CA
2011
PhD, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
1999
MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1996
BA, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Jade Gordon
1975
Born in Santa Rosa, CA
2011
MA, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
2008
BA, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Alexandro Segade
1973
Born in San Diego, California
2009
MFA, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
1995
BA, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2023
"Maskworkers," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022
"My Barbarian," (Traveling Exhibition), ICALA, Los Angeles, CA, Curated by Adrienne Edwards & Mia Matthias, ICALA Presentation Organized by Anne Ellegood and Caroline Ellen Liou
2021-2022
"My Barbarian," (Traveling Exhibition), Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY, Curated by Adrienne Edwards & Mia Matthias (Link)
2016
“The Audience is Always Right,” New Museum, New York, NY (Link)
2014
"Universal Declaration of Infantile Anxiety Situations Reflected in the Creative Impulse," Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
2013
"Universal Declaration of Infantile Anxiety Situations Reflected in the Creative Impulse," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"PoLAAT Jerusalem: Together Forever?" Yaffo 23, Jerusalem, Israel
2012
"Flat Busted Beauty Window Fatale," Transformer Gallery, Washington DC
"The Butterflys Evil Spell," collaboration with Lara Schnitger, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
"Broke Peoples Baroque Peoples Theater," Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
2010
"The Night Epi$ode," UCLA Hammer Museum, Hammer Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"Ecos de los Ecos del los Ecos," Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City, Mexico
2009
"The Night Epi$ode," Participant, Inc., New York, NY
"Suspension of Beliefs," Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2008
"Hystera-Theater," Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Positions, Steve Turner Contemporary, Miami, FL
"Dance Witches Dance," collaboration with Lara Schnitger, Museum Het Domain, Sittard, NL; Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"The Golden Age," video project space, New Museum, New York, NY
"Hacia Una Postura Izquierdista Studio Sound Series," Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023
"Ridykes’ Cavern of Fine Inverted Wines and Deviant Videos," Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
"Eleanor Antin and My Barbarian," Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
“Are We Not Drawn Onward to New Era,” Mandeville Gallery at UCSD, San Diego, CA
2021
"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
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
“Picturing Motherhood Now: Images for a New Era," The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
2017
“One day this kid will get larger,” DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
2015
"Archetypes, Power, and Puppets," The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH
2014
Whitney Biennial, curated by Stuart Comer, Anthony Elms, and Michelle Grabner, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Unsparing Quality," Diane Rosenstein Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Farrah Karapetian
"D’un discours qui ne serait pas du semblant/Actors, Networks, Theories," curated by Vincent Bonin, Dazibao, Montreal, Canada
2013
"Brought Into Being: Performativity and Formative Performance," Amelia A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY College at Old Westbury, Old Westbury, NY
2012
"Stage Presence: Theatricality in Art," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
"The Bearden Project," Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2011
"I, Bear," CANADA Gallery, New York, NY
"Shame the Devil," The Kitchen, New York, NY
2010
"A Unicorn Basking in the Light of Three Glowing Suns," DeVos Art Museum, Marquette, MI
"Ludicrous!" ICA, Philadelphia, PA
2009
"Ecstatic Resistance," Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO; X Initiative, New York, NY
"30 Seconds Off an Inch," Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
"Urban Stories," Baltic Triennial, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
"Convention," Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
"Collected. Propositions on the Permanent Collection," Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
"Solution," DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
2008
"From And About Place: Art From Los Angeles," CCA, Tel Aviv, Israel
California Biennial 2008, Estacin, Tijuana, Mexico
"Six Degrees: Museum as Hub," New Museum, New York, NY
"Friends and Family," Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
"That Was Then This Is Now," PS1, New York, NY
"Freedom," The Hague Sculpture, The Hague, Netherlands
"Unclassifiable," Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
2007
"Fact or Friction," Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
"Bennale de Montral," Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2006
"Underplayed: A Mix-Tape of Music Based Videos," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Interstellar Low Ways," Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
"California Biennial 2006," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
"Making the Band," Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies, Anandale-on-Hudson, NY
"Cluster," Participant, Inc. New York, NY; Espacio El Particular, Mexico City, Mexico

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2023
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2022
Vargas, Steven. "The most fun, festive holiday shows and events for this weekend," LA Times, December 7 (Link)
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2021
Perry, Barlo. "MY BARBARIAN ARTIST TALK Whitney Museum of American Art," ParisLA, December 4
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Fikes, Edith. "Chusid, Segade, Warke discuss queer / queering spaces," Cornell Chronicle, April 23 (Link)
2017
Wagley, Catherine G. "Clonofornication: On Alexandro Segade’s ‘Future St.’ Performance Piece at the Broad Museum," ARTnews, June 8 (Link)
2016
“My Barbarian: The Audience is Always Right,” The New Yorker, October 19
2015
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2014
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Coburn, Tyler, Reclaim the Street (Theater), Art Review, March
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Maslamani, Maliha, Workshop Redefines Actor/Audience Relationship, Daily News Egypt, December 30
Natalicchio, Cristina, The Entertainment Was Here! Work, Winter
Segade, Alexandro, The 5 Principles of the PoLAAT, Art Lies, Winter
Als, Hilton, "Second as Farce," The New Yorker, October 13
Mauss, Nick and Ken Okiishi, Top 10, Artforum, March
Ruiz, Alma, From and About Place: Art From Los Angeles, catalogue, CCA Tel Aviv
2007
Hill, Lori, First Friday Focus, Philadelphia City Paper, December 31
Pagel, David, Read Me! Text in Art is School Smart and Street Wise, Los Angeles Times, December 28
Butler, Connie, Who is Guy de Cointet? Artforum, Summer
2006
Sandals, Leah, The Seven Habits of Politically Effective Public Art, Spacing, Winter
Hart, Hugh, Ground Seized by Those Contrarian Barbarians, Los Angeles Times, November 26
Limnander, Armand, Universal Pictures, Elle Magazine, November
Chang, Richard, Art of the State, Orange County Register, October 8
Knight, Christopher, The Faces of This Place, Los Angeles Times, October 7
Marcopoulos, Ari, Artquake, photo essay, New York Times Magazine, October 1
Knight, Christopher, Forget isms Except Eclecticism, Los Angeles Times, October 1
Kushner, Rachel, Californias Rising Art Stars, C Magazine, October
My Barbarian, L.A. Queer Art Now, guest editors, Frontiers, August 29
Armstrong, Elizabeth, California Above All, Art Review, May
My Barbarian, Rants & Raves, NYFA.org, May
Magnuson, Ann, Clap Your Jazz Hands And Say Yeah! Paper Magazine, April
Chang, Aimee, Ouverture: My Barbarian, Flash Art, January-February
2005
Ferreiro, Laura, My Barbarian, Under the Radar, Winter
Balzer, David, My Barbarian, Eye Weekly, (Toronto, Ontario) June 30
Editors, 250, I-D Magazine, December 2004 / January
Noerver, Peter, ed., Schindler by Mak: Prestel Museum Guide, (Prestel Museum Guides)
2004
Athey, Ron, MAK Daddies, LA Weekly, October 22
2003
Pradhan, Anup, Conquering Heroes, San Francisco Bay Guardian, August 6, 2003

Selected Projects

2012
"Post-Living Ante-Action Theater" Workshop Performance
2013
Together Forever? Yaffo 23, Jerusalem, Israel, June
2012
Born to Kill, Learn to Love, ICA Philadelphia, PA, November
Post-Paradise, Sorry-Again, CalArts School of Theater / REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA, March-April
2011
PoLAAT Toronto, Rhubarb Festival, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, February
2010
Club Remix, American Repertory Theater, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May
Todo El Dinero es Sueo, Matadero, Madrid, Spain, February
2008
The Eleven Human Senses, Townhouse Gallery/Rawabet Theater, Cairo, Egypt, December
Post-Paradise, Never Say Sorry Again, Galleria Civica, Trento, Italy, July
Post-Paradise, Sorry-Again, New Museum, New York, NY, June-July

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2018
United States Artists Fellowship, Theater and Performance, Chicago, IL (Link)
2013
Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, NY
2012
Creative Capital, New York, NY
2009
City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Art Matters, New York, NY

Performances

2023
"Star Choir," Mt. Wilson Observatory, Los Angeles, CA
2022
"Broke People’s Baroque Peoples’ Theater," Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Double Feature: You Were Born Poor and Poor You Will Die and Silver Minds,"REDCAT and Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2021
"Transparency 2021," The Whitney Museum, New York, NY
"Songbook – A Live Concert for the Camera," In collaboration with Telefantasy Studios and broadcast live from 2220 Arts + Archive, Los Angeles, CA
2018
"Non-Western," Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT), Los Angeles, CA (Link)
2015
"Double Agency," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
2013
My Barbarian’s adaptation of ‘The Mother’ by Bertolt Brecht, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2012
Broke Peoples Baroque Peoples Theater, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Art Public, Art Basel Miami Beach, Collins Park, Miami Beach, FL, and Hirshhorn Museum, Artlab+, Washington D.C.
An Evening with My Barbarian, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Broke Peoples Baroque Peoples Theater, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
Night Breakfast, Ball of Artists, Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival, Greystone Mansion, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Broke Peoples Baroque Peoples Theater, The Kitchen, New York, NY; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Tourists From the Future, Watermill Center, The Hamptons, NY
Death Panel Discussion, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2010
Tropical Oracle, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Ecos de los Ecos de los Ecos, Museo Experimental El Eco and Espacio Escoltorico, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
Death Panel Discussion, Transformer Gallery, Washington D.C.
Retro-Active, Self-Appropriation, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2009
The Fourth Wall, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Broke Peoples Baroque Peoples Theater, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
Forrest Brothers and Sisters, Baltic Triennial, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
The Five Principles, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
Dance witches Dance, collaboration with Lara Schnitger, Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Hystera-Theater, Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Positions, Steve Turner Contemporary, Miami, FL
Pagan Rights, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
Non-Western, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA; UCLA Little Theater, LA, CA; San Diego Museum, San Diego, CA; Ground Zero, USC, LA, CA; Estacin, Tijuana, Mexico
Dance witches Dance, collaboration with Lara Schnitger, Museum Het Domain, Sittard, Netherlands
The Case of the Stairs, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Mountain People, International Prize for Performance, Galleria Civica, Trento, Italy
Non-Western, La Noche En Blanco, El Matadero, Madrid, Spain; Joes Pub, New York, NY
Voyage of the White Widow, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Performa 07 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Gods of Canada II: La Sparatisme Galactique, Bennale de Montral, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2006
Mythologic Mass, Performa, Stephen Weiss Studio, New York, NY
Traveling the Spaceways, The Hideout, Chicago, IL; UCR Sweeney Gallery, Riverside, CA
California Sweet, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Torpedo, Oslo, Norway
Medieval Morality, Peres Projects Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Double Future, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
Silver Minds, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
2005
You Were Born Poor & Poor You Will Die, Performa 05 Biennial, Participant, Inc., New York, NY; California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Pagan Rights, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Participant, Inc., New York, NY; Drake Underground, Toronto, Ontario; Evidence Room Theater, Los Angeles, CA
Gods of Canada, commissioned by the Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Squirrel Radio Action, commissioned by Pacific Drift, NPR affiliate KPCC 89.3, Pasadena, CA
2004
Medieval Morality, MAK Centers Schindler House, West Hollywood, CA
Web of the Ultimate: A Sance, MAK Centers Schindler House, West Hollywood, CA
MB: The Mary Blair Story, NOW Festival, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
Purple Eyes, Spring Break Festival, Evidence Room Theater, Los Angeles, CA
The Monkey Machine, Vaginal Davis Bricktops, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Nightmarathon: Halloween Hextravaganza, Sundown Salon, Los Angeles, CA
Fairy Theatre at the Fisting Motel, Outfest 2002, Platinum Oasis, curated by Ron Athey and Vaginal Davis, Coral Sands Motel, Los Angeles, CA
2001
X-Mas Special, performance at the homes of Allison Anders, Beck, Roddy Bottum, Luise Heath, Rene Petropolous, Stephen Prina, Kim Fisher, Los Angeles, CA
Frenchboro, Maine, collaboration with Glenn Ligon & Candice Biertz for Song Poems, Cohen Leslie & Brown, New York, NY; The Palace, Los Angeles, CA

Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books

2022
Edwards, Adrienne, Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon and Alexandro Segade. Contributions by Joshua Chambers-Letson and Lia Gangitano. "My Barbarian," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Yale University Press, New Haven and London.
2021
Liebert, E., Fellah, N. R., Griswold, W., Liebert, E., Keith, N. J., Wexler, L., Lax, T. J., and Griswold, W. Picturing Motherhood Now. Pg 23, 110, 115, 123. Cleveland Museum of Art.
2020
Segade, Alexandro. "THE CONTEXT," Primary Information, Versa Press, East Peoria, IL
2018
Bonin, Vincent, "D’un discours qui ne serait pas du semblant / Actors, Networks, Theories," Blackdog Publishing: London

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 and Two Person Exhibitions

2024
"Reconfiguration of Daylight Studio / Dark Room Studio," Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK (forthcoming)
2023
"Push/Pull," Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich, Switzerland
"Lustrer," Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Paris, France
2022
"Daylight Studio/Dark Room Studio," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"144 Powers," Alice Austen House, New York, NY
"D.R.M.P.," Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
2021
“The Hamilton Public Art Project,” University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2020
“Drop Scene,” Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
"Paul Mpagi Sepuya," Peter Kilchmann Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
"Paul Mpagi Sepuya: A conversation <strike>about</strike> around pictures," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"CONDO," Stuart Shave Modern Art, London, UK
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

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

2024
"Creative Spaces: The Studio as Inspiration," MFA Boston, Boston, MA (forthcoming)
2023
"The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today," Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC (forthcoming)
"Copy Machine Manifesto: Artists Who Make Zines," Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (forthcoming)
"Queer-ish," Ruth Chandler Williamson Art Gallery, Scripps College, CA (forthcoming)
"De Profundis," L’Hotel, Paris, France
"The Long Century: Beginners," Dunes 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, UK
"Photography Now," V & A Photography Centre, London, UK
“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
"It’s Time," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
“Long Story Short”, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2022
"Daylight Studio/ Dark Room Studio," PHOXXI, the Temporary House of Photography at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2022-2023
"Sightlines: Photographs from the Collection," SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2022
"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, UK
"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, UK. 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, UK
"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, UK
"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.

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

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McKnight, Mark. "In Conversation with Mark McKnight & Paul Mpagi Sepuya," Hunter Fashion Magazine, Issue 39, Spring/Summer (Link)
Becker, Morgan. "Paul Mpagi Sepuya redefines the studio space, navigating “the space beyond the frame”," Document, May 13 (Link)
Morris, Matt. "Vestigial Trends and Anticipated Futures: Chicago and the Return of the Expo Art Fair," Flash Art, April 13 (Link)
Donelan, Charles. "Review | ‘This Basic Asymmetry’ at MCA Santa Barbara," Santa Barbara Independent, March 24 (Link)
Cerbarano, Rica. "Tilda Swinton as a curator: revisiting Virginia Woolfs’ novel Orlando through the eyes of eleven artists," Vogue Magazine, March 1 (Link)
Gluhaich, Marko. "California in a State of Creative Incubation," Frieze Magazine, February 14 (Link)
Deslegn, April-Rose. Edited by Hillary Mitchell & Emily Capone. "FEB 4 EXHIBITION REVIEW: A TRAVÉS," Musée Magazine, February 2 (Link)
2021
"Paul Mpagi Sepuya," pg 25-32. IMA Magazine Volume 36, Living with Photography, Autumn/Winter
Emelife, Aindrea. "Paul Mpagi Sepuya: mirrors, exposure and concealment," Wallpaper* Magazine, August 27 (Link)
Steinhauer, Jillian. "3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now," The New York Times, August 18 (Link)
Merola, Alex. "Out of Focus: What’s Left When You Subtract the Self From the Selfie?," Elephant, August 13 (Link)
"Arles 2021 : Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography," The Eye of Photography, July 9 (Link)
Andrews, Brian and Miller, Ryan Peter. "Episode 763: Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Bad At Sports Podcast. March 15 (Link)
Orozco, Jonathan. "Interview with Paul Mpagi Sepuya," WhiteHot Magazine, January 01
Davis, Ben. "Artist Paul Mpagi Sepuya Is Doing a Solidarity Print Fundraiser to Help Save a Beloved LGBTQ+ Nightclub in Los Angeles," January 12
2020
Stachura, Julia. "A Space of Negotiation: Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s Photographic Portraits as a Reflection on the Image of Blackness and Nudity," View
Sargent, Antwaun. "Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists," D.A.P. Distributed Art Publishers, 2020.
Cooper, Ashton. "Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Vielmetter Los Angeles," ArtForum, September
Miranda, Carolina. "Pandemic portraits: Ian Byers-Gamber captures the art world from his car," Los Angeles Times, August 5 (Link)
Preston Zappas, Lindsay. "Art Insider June 23," KCRW, June 23
Brara, Noor and Katie White, "Artists and Galleries Are Selling Works to Support the Black Lives Matter Movement," ArtNet News, June 8
Di Liscia, Valentina. "Paul Mpagi Sepuya Offers Photographs to Advocacy Organization Donors," Hyperallergic, June 3 (Link)
Sutton, Benjamin. "Twenty artists received Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grants, including Tschabalala Self and Paul Mpagi Sepuya," Artsy, May 12 (Link)
Bakare, Lanre, "A new Mapplethorpe? The queer zine legend reinventing the nude," The Guardian, April 28 (Link)
Alexander, Jonathan. "Come Together: Queer Art in a Time of Social Distancing," Los Angeles Review of Books, April 14 (Link)
Kendall, Jonathan. "Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s Latest Body of Work Marries Intimacy and Anonymity," Cultured, April 3 (Link)
Green, Tyler. “Episode No. 426: Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Chiura Obata,” Modern Art Notes Podcast, January 2 (Link)
Buck, Louisa. “The Best Shows to See at Condo London 2020,” The Art Newspaper, January 17 (Link)
Gavin, Francesca. “Six Standout International Art Shows – in London,” Financial Times, January 17 (Link)
Douglas, Caroline. “Paul Mpagi Sepuya at Modern Art, London, Presented by Team Gallery, New York,” Contemporary Art Society, January 17 (Link)
McNay, Anna. “Paul Mpagi Sepuya – Interview,” Studio International, January 20 (Link)
Edalatpour, Jeffrey. "‘Orlando’ Celebrates Virginia Woolf’s Novel About Identity and Gender," SF Weekly, February 12 (Link)
2019
Hockley, Rujeko; and Jane Panetta. "Whitney Biennial 2019," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY pg 69
Davis, Ben. “The 100 Works of Art That Defined the Decade, Ranked: Part 1,” Artnet News, December 27 (Link)
Weber, Jasmine. “In Richmond, Tracing the “Great Force” of American Racism,” Hyperallergic, December 19 (Link)
“Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Objektiv, Issue No. 20, November, cover, pp. 70-75
Abel-Hirsch, Hannah. “Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s Deconstructed Gaze,” British Journal of Photography, October 25 (Link)
Jordan, Patti. “Hauser & Wirth Gets Intimate with Personal Private Public,” Arte Fuse, October 23
Wist, Audra. “The Pornography of Images,” Autre, Volume 2, Issue 8, pp. 138-143
Bonilla-Edgington, Jennifer Rose. “Personal Private Public,” The Brooklyn Rail, October 8
Allen, Brian T. “Time for a Riot: Camp Fashion at the Met, and a Real Riot at the Stonewall,” National Review, August 31
Eckhardt, Stephanie. "The Problem With Robert Mapplethorpe," W, July 27 (Link)
Lescaze, Zoë. “13 Artists Reflect on the Stonewall Riots,” The New York Times Style Magazine, July 27 (Link)
Schwabsky, Barry. "The Whitney Biennial’s Flimsy Promises," The Nation, July 22 (Link)
Morlet, Madeliene. "Paul Mpagi Sepuya," Teeth Magazine Issue 8, July
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)
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

2023
Bullock, Michael. "Paul Mpagi Sepuya," 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

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

2021
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

2019-2023
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

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

American Friends of the Israel Museum, West Hollywood, CA
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
Henry Art Museum, Seattle, WA
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
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
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

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 and Two Person Exhibitions

2024
"Reconfiguration of Daylight Studio / Dark Room Studio," Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK (forthcoming)
2023
"Push/Pull," Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich, Switzerland
"Lustrer," Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Paris, France
2022
"Daylight Studio/Dark Room Studio," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"144 Powers," Alice Austen House, New York, NY
"D.R.M.P.," Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
2021
“The Hamilton Public Art Project,” University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2020
“Drop Scene,” Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
"Paul Mpagi Sepuya," Peter Kilchmann Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
"Paul Mpagi Sepuya: A conversation <strike>about</strike> around pictures," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"CONDO," Stuart Shave Modern Art, London, UK
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

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

2024
"Creative Spaces: The Studio as Inspiration," MFA Boston, Boston, MA (forthcoming)
2023
"Queer-ish," Ruth Chandler Williamson Art Gallery, Scripps College, CA (forthcoming)
"The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today," Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC (forthcoming)
"Copy Machine Manifesto: Artists Who Make Zines," Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (forthcoming)
"De Profundis," L’Hotel, Paris, France
"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, UK
"Photography Now," V & A Photography Centre, London, UK
“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
"It’s Time," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
“Long Story Short”, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2022
"Daylight Studio/ Dark Room Studio," PHOXXI, the Temporary House of Photography at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2022-2023
"Sightlines: Photographs from the Collection," SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2022
"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, UK
"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, UK. 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, UK
"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, UK
"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.

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

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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

2023
Bullock, Michael. "Paul Mpagi Sepuya," 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

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

2021
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

2019-2023
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

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

American Friends of the Israel Museum, West Hollywood, CA
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
Henry Art Museum, Seattle, WA
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
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
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

Dave McKenzie

1977
Born in Kingston, Jamaica
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
2000
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Somerset County, ME
BFA in Printmaking, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2023
"And sometimes y," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"AEIOU," Barbara Wien Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2021
"The Story I Tell Myself," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2018
"Speeches Speeches Speeches," Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, Germany (Link)
2017
"Dave McKenzie: An Intermission," University Art Museum, University at Albany SUNY, Albany, NY
2016
“Joy Syringe,” Practice Gallery, New York, NY
2015
"Pants full of hope, pockets full of adventure, or… dont call me Cheesuz," Wien Lukatsch, Berlin, Germany
2013
"Where the Good Lord Split You," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2012
"Everythings Alright, Nothings Okay!" Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2011
"Citizen," Wien Lukatsch Galerie, Berlin, DE
2010
"Dave McKenzie," Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
2009
"On Premises," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2008
"Present Tense," Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
"Screen Doors on Submarines," REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
2007
"Momentum 8: Dave McKenzie," Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, MA
"Tomorrow will be Better," Small A Projects, Portland, OR
2006
"Havent Seen You in a Minute," Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
2005
"Portrait as a Ghost," Savage Art Resources, Portland, OR
2004
"Together is Forever", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023
"Friends & Lovers," The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
2022
"Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2021-2022
"Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow," The Hancock Whitney Welcome Center, New Orleans, LA
2021
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2020
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2019-2020
"SOFT POWER," SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
"Colored People Time: Mundane Futures," Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
2018
“Stories of Almost Everyone,” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2017
“Postcards from America,” Celaya Brothers Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
“The Times,” The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY (Link)
“The Half-Life of Love,” MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (Link)
2016
“Wound: Mending Time and Attention,” Cooper Union, New York, NY
2015
"Morning Pages," Laurel Gitlen, New York, NY
"Glen Ligon: Encounters and Collisions," Nottingham Contemoprary, Nottingham, UK
2014
Whitney Biennial, curated by Stuart Comer, Anthony Elms, and Michelle Grabner, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Biel Biennial, Le Mouvement: Performing the City, Movement III: The City Performed, Art Centre Centre PasquArt, Biel Switzerland, curated by Gianni Jetzer
2013
"Radical Presence: Black Performance In Contemporary Art," Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX; traveling to Grey Art Gallery at New York University, New York, NY; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
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
"Body Language," The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
"Assembly Required," Selections from the Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Sinister Pop Family Day, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2012
"The Ungovernables," New Museum Triennial, New Museum, New York, NY
"Art Public," Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL
"The Living Years: Art after 1989," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
"Typical Frankenstein," Laurel Gitlen, New York, NY
"Optotype," 92YTribeca, New York, NY
"Year of Cooperation," Broadway 1602, New York, NY
"Configured," Benrimon Contemporary, New York, NY
2011
"The Bearden Project," The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.
"Drawn to Disaster," ICA, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME.
2010
"The Production of Space," The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.
"Held Up By Columns," Renwick Gallery, New York, NY.
"At Home/Not At Home: Works From the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
"The Absolutely Other," The Kitchen, New York, NY.
"’Collected.’ Reflections on the Permanent Collection," Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2009
"30 Seconds off an Inch," Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
"Unusual Behavior," Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
"Character Generator," Eleven Rivington, New York, NY
"Convention," MOCA, North Miami, FL
"To the left of the rising sun," Small A Projects, New York, NY
"Collected. Propositions on the Permanent Collection," The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
"Gravity," Cornish Main Gallery, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
"Rockstone and Bootheel: Contemporary West Indian Art," Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2008
"Prospect.1 New Orleans," International Biennial, curated by Dan Cameron, New Orleans, LA (catalogue)
"This Shadow is a Bit of Ideology," Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, curated by Kelly Chen and Anthony Elms
"As Others See Us: The Contemporary Portrait," Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
"Alternating Beats," RISD Museum, Providence, RI
"Museum as Hub: Six Degrees," New Museum, New York, NY (brochure)
"Free Parking," Boston Center for the Arts’ Mills Gallery, Boston, MA
"On Procession," Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
"Black is, Black Aint," The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (curated by Hamza Walker); traveling to the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI; H & R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
Disinhibition: Black Art and Blue Humor, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
"You & Me," Sometimes, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
"Good Doll Bad Doll," Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
"A New High in Getting Low (NYC)," John Connelly Presents, New York, NY
"2000 Years of Sculpture," Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
"Working History: African American Art and Objects," Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR (catalog)
"Slightly Unbalanced," Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; traveling to Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington WV; Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, LA; Rodman Hall Arts Center, St. Catharines, Ontario; Museum London, London, Ontario; Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art at the University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA (catalog)
2007
PERFORMA 07 Biennial: All Together Now, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, NY (Catalogue)
"Looking Back: The White Columns Annual," selected by Clarissa Dalrymple, White Columns New York, NY
"A New High in Getting Low," Artnews Projects, Berlin, Germany
"Just Kick it Till it Breaks," The Kitchen, New York, NY, curated by Debra Singer and Matthew Lyons, (Catalog)
"Mr. President," University Art Museum, University of Albany, Albany, NY (catalog)
2004
"Me, Myself, and I," Schmidt Center, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
"Figuratively: Dave McKenzie, Wangechi Mutu, William Villalongo," The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
"Open House: Working in Brooklyn," Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (catalog)
"The Sneeze 80 x 80", Gazon Rouge Gallery, Athens, Greece
2003
"American Idyll," Metrotech Center Commons, Brooklyn, NY. (Catalog)
"24/7," Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
"In Practice," Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY
2002
"Videodrome II," New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
"Americas Remixed," The Factory of the Vapor, Milan, Italy (catalog)
"Queens International," Queens Museum of Art, NY (catalog)
"Listening to New Voices," P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
"Supervideonight," Gale Gates, New York, NY
"Slow Dive," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
"Video Marathon: Bringing up the (Mediated) Body," Art in General, New York, NY
"Multiplicity," Midway Gallery, St. Paul, MN
"Room for a Revolution," Deluxe Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001
"Video Call," ICA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
"Something/Nothing-Passport to the State of Flux," Art in General, NY
"Material World," Susquehanna Art Museum/VanGo, Harrisburg, PA
"Freestyle," The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (Catalog) and traveled to Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
"In/SITE/Out: Inquiries into Social Space," Apexart, New York, NY

Screening

Ethnography/Biography/Whimsy: Three Contemporary African American, Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies, Rochester, NY
Declassified Daytime Screening, New Museum, New York, NY
Declassified: Recent Videos by Erik van Lieshout, Dave McKenzie, Museum, New York, NY
Enactment, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Videos In Progress: Dave McKenzie, Stairwell Gallery, The RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Videodrome II, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY [Traveled]

Video Cafe: Dave McKenzie, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
Selections from Art in General: A Program of Short Video Works in Russia, Various Venues, Russia.
Supervideonight, Gale Gates, Brooklyn, NY
Fourth Annual Video Marathon: Bringing up the (Mediated) Body, Art in General, New York, NY
Video Call, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Something/Nothing-Passport to the State of Flux, Art in General, New York, NY

Bibliography

2022
Lakin, Max. "Addicted to the Shindig," Artforum, April 2 (Link)
Cotter, Holland. "A Whitney Biennial of Shadow and Light," The NY Times, March 31 (Link)
2021
Klett, Maddie. "Dave McKenzie with Maddie Klett," The Brooklyn Rail, July/August (Link)
Colby Chamberlain. "The Stranger," ArtForum, May (Link)
Kotecha, Shiv. "Dave McKenzie’s Elegiac Reminder of Cultural Debts," Frieze, April 19 (Link)
Lopez Cassell, Dessane. "Dave McKenzie Brings His Methodical Approach to the Whitney Museum’s Façade," Hyperallergic, April 27 (Link)
2020
Durón, Maximiliano. "2020 Prospect New Orleans Triennial to Consider America’s ‘Unprecedented’ Political Moment," ArtNews, March 2 (Link)
Valentine, Victoria L. "Artist List for Prospect New Orleans Triennial Includes Mark Bradford, Willie Birch, Simone Leigh, Dawoud Bey, Glenn Ligon, Karon Davis, Naudline Pierre, and Kevin Beasley," CultureType, March 2 (Link)
"Prospect New Orleans Announces Artist List for Prospect.5," Artforum, March 2 (Link)
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
Hanson, Sarah P., "The public joins the protest in Frieze’s Live programme," The Art Newspaper (web), May 4 (Link)
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)
Greenberger, Alex,"Frieze New York Will Present Adam Pendleton–Designed Black Lives Matter Flag, Hank Willis Thomas Works on Gun Violence," Artnews, April 5 (web) (Link)
Speed, Mitch. "Critics’ Picks: Dave McKenzie," Artforum, February (web) (Link)
2017
Yerebakan, Osman Can, “In ‘The Times,’ Artists Make the Media Their Message,” ArtSlant (web), July 21 (Link)
2016
Shaw, Anny, “Performa teams up with the contemporary African art fair in New York,” The Art Newspaper (web), April 12
2015
Pilger, Zoe, Black people in post-war America: New exhibition documents an often brutal experience, The Independent (web), April 7
Petersen, Sarah. "Risk Assessment," X-TRA, Summer
2014
Tuero, Natalia, "Corin Hewitt and Dave McKenzie Among Rome Prize Winners," Art in America online, April 11 (Link)
Schnadt, Sara, "Artists on the Whitney Biennial", KCET Art Bound, May 8 (Link)
Vogel, Shane, Touching Ecstasy, Social Text 121, Winter
2013
Johnson, Ken, "Riffs on Race, Role and Identity," New York Times, September 19
Newton, Mike, "Clashing Visions of Black American Life," The Indypendent, October 30 (Link)
Backer, Yona, "Performance Trace: Staged Actions, Live Art, and Performance Made for the Camera," catalogue for "Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art," Contemporary Art Museum Houston
Schwabsky, Barry, Post-White? On Blues for Smoke: The Whiteys adventurous, awkard attempt to explore abstract art through the blues, The Nation, May 20
2012
Schmelzer, Paul, Yesterdays Newspaper: November 8, 2012, Untitled (blog), Walker Art Center, November 8
Simpson, Bennett, Blues for Smoke, exhibition catalogue, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Prestel
Chou, Kimberly, Local Talent Leads Downtown Triennial, Wall Street Journal, February 10
Buchmaier, Barbara, Dave McKenzie, Artforum, January 6
"The Bearden Project", Exhibition Catalogue, The Studio Museum in Harlem
2011
Clifford Owens BOMB, December 15
2009
Haddad, Natalie, Dave McKenzie at Susanne Vielmetter, Frieze, p. 136, November/December
Woodard, Josef, Off the Off Radar Art, Santa Barbara News Press, November 20
Shaw, Michael, Continuing and Recommended, ArtScene, October
Ligon, Glenn, Civic Engagement: To Miss New Orleans, Artforum, January
Born, Katheryn, This Shadow Is A Bit of Ideology, Time Out Chicago, Issue 210, January 1
New York Artists Dictionary Part 1, Flash Art, Volume 62, Number 264, January/February
2008
MacCash, Doug. Prospect.1 New Orleans artist Dave McKenzie practices inspired unproductiveness, The Times-Picayune, November 14
Copeland, Huey, The Blackness of Blackness, ArtForum, October
Foumberg, Jason. Slightly Unbalanced, Frieze, Issue 115, p. 171, May
Weinberg, Lauren, Black Comedy, Time Out Chicago, Issue 164, April
Prospect.1 New Orleans, Exhibition Catalogue, texts by Barbara Bleomink, Dan Cameron, Lolis Eric Elie, and Claire Tancons, Picturebox Inc., Brooklyn, NY, November
McQuaid, Cate, Humor Drives Free Parking exhibit, The Boston Globe, October 15
Just Kick it till it Breaks, Exhibition Catalogue, The Kitchen
Goings on About Town, The New Yorker, May 5
Farrugia, Mallory, Art:Installation, Dave McKenzie, Flavorpill, April
Riggot, Julie, The Season of the Idea, Los Angeles Downtown News, April 28
Mizota, Sharon, Dave McKenzie at REDCAT, Los Angeles Times, April 18
Boucher, Brian, Dave McKenzie, All Together Now, at or near the Studio Museum in Harlem, Art In America, March
Bowie, Chas, Working History: African American Objects, Portland Mercury, February 7
2007
Cotter, Holland, Celebrating the Intangibles Money Cant Buy, The New York Times, December 23
Cotter, Holland, Art is Brief, You Just Have To Be There, The New York Times, November 9
Johnson, Ken, Goldfish, Warhol, and basketball in a video riff on identity politics, Boston Globe, August 10
Malone, Micah, Dave McKenzie Portland, OR Art Papers, May/June
Cotter, Holland, Art In Review, The New York Times, April 13
2006
Moulton, Aaron, 40000, Flash Art, p.72, May/June
2005
Ligon, Glenn, "Black Light", Artforum, pg. 248, September issue
Dirks, Ryan, Dave McKenzie, Portrait as a Ghost, The Portland Mercury, Feb 3
2004
Weinberg, Michelle, Its All About Me, Miami New Times, November 25
Mills, Michael, Through a Fractured Lens, New Times, November 18
Ligon, Glenn, Black Light: David Hammons and the Poetics of Emptiness, Art Forum, 43, no1, pp. 242-249, September
Cotter, Holland, " ‘Black’ Comes in Many Shadings", New York Times, August 13
Firstenberg, Lauri, "Hit Me, Take Me, Wear Me, Fake me", "Figuratively" at the Studio Museum Harlem, exhibition brochure essay
Laster, Paul, "Back-to-back At SMH – Interviews with Mickalene Thomas and Dave McKenzie", WBURG.com, Vol.4, No.2, Summer
Brockington, Horace, "Extra Open: A conversation with Charlotta Kotik, Dread Scott, Bill Scan", NY Arts Magazine, July-August
2003
Ranger, Abby. Whats Paul Bunyan Doing at Metrotech? Brooklyn Eagle, September 26.
2002
Heuer, Megan. "Queens International." The Brooklyn Rail, Autumn.
Van Dyke, Aaron. Multiplicity. New Art Examiner, May-June.
Knighton, Andrew. An Expanding Pluriverse. Object Magazine.
2001
Princenthal, Nancy. Freestyle. Artext, August-October.
Knight, Christopher, " Cultural Evolution in ‘Freestyle’ ", Los Angeles Times, October 2.
Valdez, Sarah. Freestyling. Art in America, September.
Cotter, Holland. A Full Studio Museum Show Starts With 28 Young Artists and a Shoehorn., The New York Times, May 11
Saltz, Jerry. POST-BLACK Radical Intelligence at the Studio Museum in Harlem.The Village Voice, May 22
Schjeldahl, Peter. Breaking Away: A flowering of young African-American artists. The New Yorker. June 11
Brockington, Horace. Freestyle: Studio Museum in Harlem. NY Arts Magazine, Vol. 6 No. 6 June
2000
Jones, Karen E., "MoMovements Against the Grain", Freestyle Catalog

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2018
Artist Grant, Visual Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Arts (Link)
2011
Guna S. Mundheim Visual Arts Fellow, The American Academy in Berlin
2009
USA Rockefeller Fellow, United States Artists
Art Matters Foundation Grant
2008
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant
2005
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
William H. Johnson Prize
Michael Richards Fund, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
2003
Artist-in-Residence, The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2003-2004
2001
Artist-in-Residence, P.S.1 National and International Studio Program, 2001-2002

Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books

2022
Pindell, Howardena. "Howardena Pindell – A New Language," Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh in collaboration with Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge and Spike Island, Bristol. pp 67
2012
Simpson, Bennett. Blues for Smoke, exhibition catalogue, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Prestel

Edgar Arceneaux

1972
Born in Los Angeles
Lives and works in Los Angeles
2001
MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2000
Fachhochschule Aachen, Aachen, Germany
1996
BFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2022
"Skinning The Mirror," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Sneak Peek of Boney Manilli Performance, Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2021
"Skinning The Mirror," Greenhouse, Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2020
"Edgar Arceneaux: Until, Until, Until… The Presidential Bookend Series," (online), Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
"Edgar Arceneaux," Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2018
"Library of Black Lies," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2017
“Until, Until, Until…,” Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"Edgar Arceneaux," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (Link)
“Library of Black Lies,” The Main Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2016
“Cockeyed Eddie,” Galerie Natalie Obadia, Paris, France
“Written in Smoke and Fire,” MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (Link)
2015
"Until, Until, Until…" Performa 15, New York NY
Papillion Institute of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2014
"A Book and a Medal: Disentanglement Equals Homogenous Abstractions," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2012
"Building Loving and Distrustful Relationships", Maccarone Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Hopelessness Freezes Time 1967 Detroit Riots, Detroit Techno and Michael Heizer’s Dragged Mass Museum fr Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
"Blind Pig City," Praz-Delavallade , Paris, France
"Miracles and Jokes, Circle Disk Rotation and 22 Lost Signs of the Zodiac," The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Michigan
2010
"The Algorithm Doesn’t Love You", an ongoing series, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2009
"Disfigurement in the Face of Illusion: The Detroit Riots, Michael Heizer and Drexciya, Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin, Germany
Albion Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2008
"Correlations and Isomorphisms," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"The Agitation of Expansion," Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA
2007
"Jesus and Dinosaurs," PrazDelavallade, Paris, France
"The Agitation of Expansion," Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany
2006
"Alchemy of ComedyStupid," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
Snake River, REDCAT, Los Angeles and Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria, curated by Clara Kim and Stella Rollig, Collaboration with Charles Gaines and the LA Philharmonic
"Alchemy of ComedyStupid", Gallery 400, University of Illinois Chicago, Illinois, collaboration with David Allan Grier
Edgar Arceneaux- New Work, – Alchemy of Comedy,Stupid, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX
"An Arrangement without Tormentors," Lentos Kunstmuseum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria, curated by Stella Rollig
2005
"Borrowed Sun," The Kitchen, New York, NY, curated by Debra Singer
"Borrowed Sun," San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA,curated by Jill Dawsey
Adamski Gallery of Contemporary Art, Aachen, Germany
ArtBasel Miami Beach, Project Booth, presented by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
2004
"Borrowed Sun," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"Negative Capability. The Michael Jackson Project," Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany
"An Arrangement Without Tormentors," Witte de With Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2003
"Drawings of Removal," Project Space, UCLA Hammer Museum, Santa Monica, CA
"Library as Cosmos," Kunstverein Ulm, Germany
"Library as Chaos," Frehrking Wiesehoefer, Cologne, Germany
"107th Street, Watts," Revolver Verlag, Frankfurt, Germany
2002
"Rootlessness," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"Drawings of Removal," Studio Museum Harlem, NY
"The Trivium," Gallery Kamm, Berlin, Germany
2001
"The Trivium," Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, curated by Rebecca McGrew
1999
The Project, New York, NY
1998
"The Remnants Project," Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023-2024
"Small World," The 13th Taipei Biennial, The Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan (forthcoming)
2023
"Artist’s Choice: Grace Wales Bonner – Spirit Movers," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (forthcoming)
"Exercises in Imagination," National Academy of Design, New York, NY
"The Collection," Haubrok Foundation, Fahrbereitschaft, Berlin, Germany
2022
"Boil, Toil & Trouble," Curated by Zoe Lukov, West Palm Beach, FL
2022-2023
"Re-Iterative II," curated by John David O’Brien, Terminal 5, LAX Airport, Los Angeles, CA
"A Gateway to Possible Worlds. Art + Science Fiction," Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France (Traveling Exhibition) (Link)
2022
"Enter the Mirror," Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
"Plants Now!" Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Rituals of Resilience," Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (Link)
2021
"Church for Sale," The Haubrok Collection and the National Gallery Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
"ALI to LA," Transformative Arts, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
COLA Fellowship Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG), Los Angeles CA (Link)
"Pushing the Margins: A Survey of LA Artists," curated by Charles Gaines, Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger, Norway
"Land Art: Past, Present, Futures ," Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
"A New Iconography: Artists Raising Children," The Landing, Los Angeles, CA
2020
"The Biblical Imagination," Mission Gathering, Pasadena, CA
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"An Earth Song, A Body Song: Figures with Landscape from the OCMA Permanent Collection," Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA
"Countermythologies," NXTHVN, New Haven, CT
"In the Meanwhile…Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
"NINETY / THREEHUNDRED," ArtCenter DTLA, Los Angeles, CA
2019-2020
"The Foundation of the Museum: MOCA’s Collection," The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power," MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
2019
"Sculpture," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Inaugural Exhibition," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2018
"26 on 3rd," LBMAx, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
“Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press,” Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
2017
“Pivotal: Highlights from the Collection,” Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
“Performa: Commissions from Performa’s Archives,” Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (Link)
“Starless Midnight,” Baltic Mill, Newcastle, UK
“Unsettled,” curated by JoAnne Northup, Nevada Art Museum, Reno, NV; travelling to Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK; Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA (2018)
“As a text differs from a book, an image differs from an archive,” MAK Center, Mackey Garage Top, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
“Chapters,” Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
“Urban Planning: Contemporary Art and the City 1967 – 2017,” curated by Kelly Shindler, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
“20/20: The Studio Museum in Harlem and Carnegie Museum of Art,” Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
2016
“Wasteland,” curated by Shamim M. Momin, Paris Pantin (Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris France), Mona Bismarck American Center, Paris, France
“Current: LA Water,” Public Art Biennial of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
“LA Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists,” Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2015
"SiteLab8," collaboration with Wangechi Mutu, SITE Santa Fe, NM
"After Living in the Room of Ralits Nouvelles," Sonce Alexander Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Misappropriations: Recent Acquisitions," curated by Dan Cameron, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
"Laugh-In: Art, Comedy, Performance," Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
"Russian Doll," M+B, Los Angeles, CA
"Daily Memories," Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany
“Until, Until, Until,” special commission for Performa 15, New York, NY
2014
2014 Le Biennale de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Shanghai Bienniale, Shanghai, China
"Recurrence," Fridman Gallery, New York, NY
"Word Bites Picture," Design Matters Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"A Thousand of Him Scattered: Relative Newcomers in Diaspora," Scotlands Centre for Photography, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom (Link)
2013
"The Shadows Took Shape," The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
"The Zero Hours," Art Sheffield 2013, Sheffield, England
"The Present Order is the Disorder of the Future" Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
"bald eagle," haubrok foundation, Berlin, Germany (Link)
"You Should’ve Heard Just What I Seen: Selections from the collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg," Riverview School, Cape Cod, MA
"The Armory Show and Tell," The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
"Perhaps all that is left of the world is a wasteland covered with rubbish heaps," Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH
"Hook, Line and Sinker: Contemporary Drawings from the Collection of Debra and Dennis Scholl", Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
"Selections from the Grunwald Center and the Hammer Contemporary Collection", UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
"Etched in Collective History," Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
"Approximately Infinite Universe," Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
2012
"my.LA," haubrok foundation, Berlin, Germany
"Pairings, The Collection at 50," The Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County, CA
"Mutatis Mutandis," Secession, Vienna, Austria
"Marking Time", Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2011
Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil
"The Bearden Project", The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
"Greater LA," curated by Benjamin Godsill, Eleaonor Cayre and Joel Mesler, New York, NY
2010
Inaugural Group Exhibition, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"New Art for a New Century: Contemporary Acquisitions, 2000-2010," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
"Moving Images. Artists & Video/Film," Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Summer Group Show, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"The Artists Museum: Los Angeles Artists 1980-2010," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Edgar Arceneaux, Andrea Bowers, Olga Koumoundouros, Rodney McMillian, Charles Gaines, Nery Gabriel Lemus," Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
"Huckleberry Finn," CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA (Link)
2009
"California Calling: Works from Santa Barbara Collections, 1948-2008," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
"Installations Inside/Out 20th Anniversary Exhibition," Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena CA
"30 Seconds Off an Inch," curated by Naomi Beckwith, The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
"MONITAUR", Aspen Art Museum, Colorado
"PLOT/09: This World & Nearer Ones," curated by Mark Beasley, Public Art Quadrennial, presented by Creative Time, Governors Island, NY
"Wallworks," curated by Betti-Sue Hertz, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
"Code Share: 5 continents, 10 biennales, 20 artists," curated by Simon Rees, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
"Collection in Context: Four Decades," The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
2008
"California Biennial 2008," curated by Lauri Firstenberg, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
"Whitney Biennial 2008," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Black Is, Black Aint," The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, IL; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, MI; H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO; Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
"From and Bout Place: Art from Los Angeles," curated by Alma Ruiz, Center of Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, Israel
"The Lining of Forgetting," curated by Xandra Eden, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; The Austin Museum of Art, Austin Texas (May 30–August 23, 2009)
2007
"Sculptors Drawings: Ideas, Studies, Sketches, Proposals, and More," Angles Gallery, Los Angeles
"Touched: Artists and Social Engagement," curated by Noel Korten, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena
"Philosophy of Time Travel," Studio Museum, Harlem, NY, collaboration with Rodney McMillian, Olga Koumandouros, Vincent Johnson, Matthew Sloly
"USA: American Video Art at the Beginning of the 3rd Millennium," curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Gunnar Kvaran, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, 2nd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
"southwestNET: drawing outside the lines," Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2006
"Materialization of Sensibility: Art and Alchemy," curated by Klaus Ottman, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY
"Black Alphabet: conTEXTS of Contemporary African American Art," curated by Maria Brewińska, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
"Tomorrowland: CalArts in Moving Pictures," Museum of Modern Art, New York
"Symmetry," curated by Kimberly Meyer, and Nizan Shaked, MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, Los Angeles, CA
2005-2008
"Uncertain States of America," curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Gunnar Kvaran, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway
Bard Museum Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
Herning Kunstmuseum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
Le Muse de Srignan, Srignan, France
Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
2005
"Cut," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"The Imaginary Number," KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
"Mixed Doubles," Forum Gallery, Carnegie Museum of Art
"Displaced," curated by Kathrin Becker, KnstlerInnen, Berlin, Germany
"The Need to Document," Halle fr Kunst e.V., Lneburg, Germany
"Monuments for the USA," curated by Ralph Rugoff, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
"Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970," curated by Valerie Cassel, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
2004
"Art and the Afterall Effect," PlaySpace, California College of the Arts Graduate Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Quicksand," de Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
"Upside Down: Neueingerichtete Raeume zur Gegenwart," Ludwigforum Aachen, Aachen, Germany
"Remembering", Sweeny Art Gallery, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA, curated by Charles Gaines
"The Michael Jackson Project", Collaboration with Rodney McMillian, Inaugural Exhibition
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"Fade – African American Artists in Los Angeles – A Survey Exhibition," curated by Malik Gaines, Luckman Gallery and University Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State Los Angeles
2003
"Korrekturen," Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany
"The Summer of 2003," Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, Netherlands
"True Stories," Witte de With Museum, Rotterdam, curated by Catherine David and Jean Perre Rehm, in the context of the International Film Festval Rotterdam, Netherlands
"Social Strategies: Redfining Social Realism," curated by Pamela Achincloss, University Art Museum Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
DePaul University Art Museum, Greencastle, IN
Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Skidmore College, Schick Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
The Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
"The Fifth Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection", traveling exhibition to: Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA; Soo Visual Arts, Minneapolis, MN; Art Center, South Florida, Miami, FL; Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA; The New Museum, New York, NY
"Urban Aesthetics: California Artists 2003", The African American Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2002
"Lateral Thinking", San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
"Persoenliche Plaene," curated by Christina Vegh, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Germany
"Mass Appeal: The Art Object and Hip Hop Culture", curated by Franklin Sirmans, Gallery 101, Ottawa; Montreal Arts Intercultires, Montreal; The Kyber Center for the Arts, Halifax; Owens Art Gallery, Sackville
"Prophets of Boom," Kunsthalle Baden Baden, Baden Baden, Germany
"Unjustified," curated by Kerry James Marshall, Apex Art, New York, NY
2001-2002
"One Planet Under a Groove," curated by Franklin Sirmans and Lydia Yee, Bronx Museum, New York, NY; traveled to: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
2001
"Profiler," curated by Astrid Mania and Peter Robinson, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
"Prosthetics, Camouflage & War," Adamski Frehrking Wiesehoefer Gallery, Koln, Germany
"Superman in Bed," curated by Wilhelm Schurmann, Museum Am Ostwall, Dortmunt, Germany
"Rappers Delight," curated by Arnold Kemp, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2000
"<hers> Video as Female Terrain," curated by Stella Rollig, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
"Sitegeist," curated by Edgar Arceneaux and Dwayne Moser, Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA
"Pierogi Flat Files #148," curated by Susan Joyce, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Veni, Vidi, Video," Kunstfaktor, Berlin, Germany.
1999
"Paradise 8," Exit Art, New York, NY
"Spaceship Earth," curated by Katherine Ruello, Art in General, New York, NY
"Permanent Collection of 1999," San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
"I, Me, Mine," curated by Julie Joyce and Mike Mehring, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998
"Warming," The Project, New York, NY
"Triangle of Nice, Book of Lies, Vol.II," Los Angeles and Fullerton, CA.
"Round 9," Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
1997
"1997 Annuale," curated by Elizabeth Armstrong, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA
"Uncommon Sense," The Geffen Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Kwangju Biannale, Kwanju, Korea
"Fantasy, Desire and Memory," Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA.
1996
"9 Hours at Bliss," curated by Laura CooperBliss Gallery, Pasadena, CA
"Open House," Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

Video Screenings

2017
“Until, Until, Until…,” la>x, Berlin, Germany
2015
Frame Rate: Edgar Arceneaux, Screening of A Time to Break Silence, LAND, Los Angeles, February 28
2012
Screening of Edgar Arceneaux and Kurt Formans collaborative filmic mash-up project Hulk Alter You!, Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City, UT, July 26

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2023
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2022
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"Church for Sale Works from the Haubrok Collection and the Nationalgalerie Collection," Exhibition Catalogue, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
2021
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2020
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2019
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2018
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Cascone, Sarah, "Editors’ Picks, Print Week Edition: 21 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week," artnet news, October 22 (Link)
"150+ Artists and Billboard Locations Announced As Part of The Largest Public Art Project in U.S. History," ArtFix Daily, October 19 (Link)
Clendenen, Dustin. "Update: For Freedoms Arrives in L.A. Ahead of Nov. 6 Midterm Election," LA Weekly, October 23 (Link)
Cooper, Matt. "The week ahead in SoCal theater, Oct. 14-21: ‘Winter Solstice,’ ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ and more," LA Times, October 12 (Link)
"Los Angeles Performance Practice Presents the LAX Festival," Broadway World, October 4 (Link)
Fernandez, Jacqueline. "5 theatre performances, from life at a cutthroat New York magazine to a Pulitzer Prize-winning play," The Eastsider, October 19 (Link)
"Brown Arts Initiative Announces Fall 2018 Programming Highlights Presented at Brown University," ArtFix Daily, September 11 (Link)
Almino, Elisa Wouk. "Ten Days of Local Performance Art Throughout Downtown LA," Hyperallergic, October 10 (Link)
"Sept. 22: CalArts Alum Presents Financial Workshop at Broad Museum," SVC News (web), September 20 (Link)
Stromberg, Matt, "A Workshop for Artists to Mindfully Manage Their Finances," Hyperallergic (web), September 19 (Link)
Wilson, Emily, “Blackface betrayal and ‘Black Lies’ in Edgar Arceneaux’s new YBCA installation,” 48hills (web), March 15 (Link)
Ahn, Abe, “The Politics and Repercussions of Color in Two Exhibitions,” Hyperallergic (web), March 13 (Link)
Janiak, Lily, "YBCA’s ‘Until’ unearths racist nightmare, immerses you in it," San Francisco Chronicle, February 24 (Link)
Fancher, Lou, "A show about a controversial Ben Vereen incident gains new controversy," The Mercury News (web), February 21 (Link)
Yu, Brandon, "Drama re-creates Ben Vereen’s controversial blackface performance," San Francisco Chronicle, February 14 (Link)
Musiker, Cy, "What Viewers Didn’t See Changed Everything for Ben Vereen," KQED Arts (web), February 14 (Link)
Edalatpour, Jeffrey, "TBCA Takes on the History of Blackface, in Until, Until, Until…," SF Weekly (web), January 24 (Link)
2017
Krieger, Deborah, “At OCMA, It’s A Masterful Reinstallation of the Permanent Collection,” White Hot Magazine, December (Link)
Vogel, Wendy, “Post-Truth Detroit,” frieze (web), November 8 (Link)
MacDonald, Cara ,”Artist Unveils MLK-Inspired Sculpture at U Law School,” The Daily Utah Chronicle (web), October 25
Horst, Aaron, "Edgar Arceneaux Until, Until, Until…," Art Review, September
Tylevich, Katya, “Reconsidering Ben Vereen’s Blackface Performance at Regan’s Inaugural Gala,” KCET (web), July 31
Walters, Sydney, “Edgar Arceneaux’s Until, Until, Until… at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects,” Art and Cake (web), June 28 (Link)
Black, Ezrha Jean, “Edgar ARceneaux – Until, Until, Until…,” Artillery (web), June 22 (Link)
Mizota, Sharon, “Review: Ben Vereen, Ronald Reagan and the travesty of blackface, potently remembered,” Los Angeles Times, June 16 (Link)
Shifflett, Jonathan, “An experimental play reinterprets Ben Vereen’s controversial 1981 homage to Bert Williams,” KPCC The Frame (radio and web), May 30
L’Official, Pete, "When Ben Vereen Wore Blackface to Reagan’s Inaugural Gala," The New Yorker, January 6 (Link)
Wagley, Catherine, “5 Free Art Shows to See in L.A.This Week,” LA Weekly (web), January 18
Miranda, Carolina, “Culture and Trump: Artist Edgar Arceneaux on inauguration day at LACMA recalls Regan’s inaugural gala,” Los Angeles Times (web), January 21 (Link)
Swenson, Kirsten, “Reviews: Edgar Arceneaux at MIT List Visual Arts Center,” Art in America (web), January 11 (Link)
Womack, Catherine, "The Library of Black Lies Critiques How We Imagine African-American History,” LA Weekly (web), February 15 (Link)
Garner, Anna, “Labyrinths, Libraries, and Lies – Edgar Arceneaux at The Main Museum,” Art and Cake (web), February 25
2016
Smee, Sebastian, “At MIT, there’s smoke and fire,” The Boston Globe (web), October 20
Taylor, Phil, “Reviews: Edgar Arceneaux at Galerie Nathalie Obadia,” Artforum, April (Link)
Miranda, Carolina, “Mayor Eric Garcetti announces artists for L.A.’s first public art biennial to be held this summer,” Los Angeles Times (web), April 12
Murray, Nick, “Edgar Arceneaux Brings MLK Back to Riverside Church,” The Village Voice (web), April 29 (Link)
Valentine, Victoria L., “New Season of ART21 Features African American Artists Edgar Arceneaux, Nick Cave, Stan Douglas, and Theaster Gates,” Culture Type (web), March 26
Delmont, Matthew F., “Why America Forgot About ‘Roots’,” The New York Times, May 28
"Art in the Twenty-First Century," ART21 (Link)
Wagley, Catherine, “Wasteland: New Art from Los Angeles curated by LAND,” Contemporary Art Review LA, June 30
Enholm, Molly, “Report: Los Angeles,” art ltd., July
“A Nation Engaged: ‘I feel most American when I’m not in the States’,” The Frame, Southern California Public Radio, October 12
Glass, Liz, “Edgar Arceneaux: Written in Fire and Smoke,” Daily Serving (web), December 6
Hopkins, Christopher Snow, “Re-performing the Histories of African American Public Figures,” Hyperallergic (web), December 14
Williams, Maxwell, “Claire Danes to Host Prestige PBS Art Program,” The Hollywood Reporter (web), May 26
2015
Dawsey, Jill, Laugh-In: Art, Comedy, Performance, exhibition pamphlet essay, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, January 23
Jocks, Heinz-Norbert, Eine un-westliche Moderne auf den Fersen der eigenen Tradition, Kunstforum International, February – March
Arceneaux, Edgar, "Muse: The Severed Foot," Art in America, March
Arceneaux, Edgar, Blood and Refuse, Art in America, September
Battaglia, Andy, "At Performa, A Festival of the Unexpected," The Wall Street Journal (web), October 30
“The 30 Most Exciting Artists in North America Today: Part Two,” Artnet News (web), December 24
McGarry, Kevin, "In San Diego, Art is a Laughing Matter," New York Times T Magazine Blog, January 23
Basha, Regine, "La Biennale de Montral: L’avenir (looking forward)," Modern Painters, January
Krasinski, Jennifer, “Pulling the Plug,” Artforum (web), December 29
"Something to Laugh About: La Jolla exhibit to explore stand-up comedy in contemporary art," La Jolla Light, January 21
Top 5: January 21, 2015, Glasstire, January 21
2014
Mizota, Sharon, "Exploring King’s legacy across time: Edgar Arceneaux at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects," Los Angeles Times, September 24
Rowell, Charles Henry, "Edgar Arceneaux," Callaloo: Art & Culture in the African Diaspora, Vol. 37, No. 4
Shaw, Catherine, "The 10th Shanghai Biennale ponders a post-industrial China," Wallpaper, November 28
Schad, Ed, ArtReviewed: Edgar Arceneaux, ArtReview, December
dArenberg, Diana, "Shanghai and the Social Factory," Christies, December 17
Evans, Ariel, "Los Angeles: Edgar Arceneaux," Modern Painters, December
Caldwell, Ellen, "Edgar Arceneauxs A Book and a Medal at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects," New American Paintings, September 24
David, Soleil, "Edgar Arceneaux’s Newest Exhibit Draws on MLK’s Ideas and Legacy, 24700," News from California Institute of the Arts, September 18
Williams, Maxwell, "Intertwined Histories: Edgar Arceneaux Re-imagines Martin Luther King," KCET Artbound, September 11
Goldman, Edward, "Tearful Goodbye to Ensor, Happy Hello To, KCRW," September 9
Berardini, Andrew, "No Longer Lonely (but maybe still a bit brutal): September Openings Across Los Angeles," ArtSlant, September 4
Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter, "Coming Soon! Hunter Drohojowska-Philp offers a preview of some unexpected offerings this fall," KCRW, September 4
Miranda, Carolina, "Datebook: Arts fall season begins this weekend the best openings," Los Angeles Times, September 4
"Edgar Arceneaux: A Book and a Medal: Disentanglement Equals Homogenous Abstractions," Glasstire, August 28
2013
Barnes, Tim, "Review: Edgar Areneaux, ‘A Time to Break Silence,’" Wow 24/7, October 28 (Link)
"Now See This," Art Review, Summer
Sutton, Kate, "Edgar Arceneaux at Maccarone," Artforum, February
2012
Mutatis Mutandis: Group show curated by Catherine David opens at Viennas Secession, artdaily.org, July
Boucher, Brian, "Maccarone to Expand in West Village," Art in America, April 13
Aivazian, Haig, "Edgar Arceneaux’s Untitled," Manifesta Journal, Issue #15
2011
Wagley, Catherine, "Watts Towers at Pacific Standard Time: How the towers legacy is more confusing than you think," LA Weekly, December 15
Elliot, Bobby, "The Bearden Project: A Family Affair," The Huffington Post, December 7
Bodin, Claudia, "L.A. cool," Art Das Kunstmagazin, October
Bohem, Mike, "Watts House Project Lands $370,000 Grant," Los Angeles Times, September 20
Biro, Matthew, "Edgar Arceneaux, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit," Artforum, May
Douglas, Sarah, "L.A. on The Hudson: The West Coast Challenges The East," Modern Painters, May
Hodges, Michael H., "MOCAD exhibits manipulate time, scale," The Detroit News, March 10
Myers, Holly, "Edgar Arceneaux," Art Review, Issue 49, April
Kilston, Lyra, "Edgar Arceneaux," Art in America, February 8
Wright, Travis R., "Life Stories Metro Times," February 4
"Arceneaux/Museum Fur Genewartskunst," The International Review of African American Art
2010
Stillman, Nick, "Edgar Arceneaux, Charles Gaines & Rick Lowe," Bomb, Number 111, p.50-57, Spring Issue
Diehl, Travis, "Critics Pick," ArtForum, November 26
2009
Myers, Holly, "Intelligent, but hardly passionate," Los Angeles Times, September 1
Walker, Alissa, "LA People 2009: Urban Redeveloper Edgar Arceneaux," LA Weekly, April 20
Sciortino-Rinehart, Natalie, "Score & Script: Music in Video," Art Forum, April
Frechette, Zach, "National Volunteer Week: Watts House Project," Good Magazine, April 24
Allsop, Laura, "Future Greats: Edgar Arceneaux," Art Review, Issue 30, p.72, March
Schorr, Max, "Community Leaders Event Recap and Pictures," Good Magazine, March 13
Taft, Catherine, "2008 California Biennial," ArtReview, No. 29, February/March
Bedford, Christopher, "Edgar Arceneaux," Frieze, January/February
Beasley, Mark, "Looking Back: Solo Shows," Frieze, January/February
2008
Chang, Richard, "Visual art/ Top 5 events," Orange County Register, December 26
Burket, Brent, "Miami 2008, Part II," Artcal, December 12
Wagley, Catherine, "The Best Kind of Boring: 2008 California Biennial," dailyserving.com, December 1
Beale, Lauren, "A Lift for 107th Street," LA Times Blog, November 3
Dambrot, Shana Nys, "Edgar Arceneaux: Correlations and Isomorphisms," Art Ltd., November
Melrod, George, "A Questioning Biennial," Art Ltd., November
Mizota, Sharon, "Public Equity: Sharon Mizona on Edgar Arceneaux and Watts House Project," ArtForum, November
"The Orange County Museum of Art Presents the 2008 California Biennial," artdaily.com, October 27
Buitron, Michael, "2008 California Biennial at the OCMA and Beyond," Leap Into the Void (blog), October 25
Knight, Christopher, "Galleries: Continuing," LA Times, October 19
Kilston, Lyra, and Latimer, Quinn, "Los Angeles: Field Guide," Modern Painters, October
Mizota, Sharon, "Eureka moments," LA Times, October 19
Ruiz, Alma, Interview with Edgar Arceneaux, From and About Place: Art from Los Angeles, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, September – November
Knight, Christopher, "Around the Galleries," LA Times, October 3
Melrod, George, California Biennial: Lauri Firstenberg Interview, art ltd., October
Martin, Courtney J., "Critics Pick," ArtForum, October
Copeland, Huey, "The Blackness of Blackness," ArtForum, October
Whats Up, "Collection in Context: Four Decades, The Studio Museum," Harlem Magazine, Summer
Dambrot, Shana, Report: New York City, The Ghost of Jason Rhoades, Art Ltd, July
Eden, Xandra, "The Lining of Forgetting," Witherspoon Art Museum Publication, July
"Arceneaux to Redevelop Watts?," Artnet, June 12
Ammirati, Domenick, "Whitney Biennial 2008 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York," Afterall, May 24
Salsbury, Britany, "Critics Picks: Black Is, Black Aint," ArtForum, May
White, Amy, "The Lining of Forgetting," ArtPapers, May
Patterson, Tom, "Creating Memories: Works by 14 artists comprising a wide-ranging and evocative examination of The Lining of Forgetting," The Winston-Salem Journal, May 11
Vikram, Anuradha, "The LA Annual," Artillery, May/June
Howard Halle, "Whitney Biennial 2008: A Tepid Biennial Inspires neither hate nor love," Time Out New York, March 13
"On Site: Whitney Biennial 2008," Art Observed, March 8
2007
Szupinska, Joanna, "United States Artists winners," Flash Art Online, November 20
Fragoza, Carribean, "LAXART Benefit Art Auction Draws Energetic Crowds and Funds," Flash Art Online, November 16
Vogel, Carol, "Whitney Biennial Stretches to Armory," New York Times, November 16
"Artists Announced for 2008 Whitney Biennial," ArtForum (web), November 16
Boehm, Mike, "USA Fellows puts artists in a flattering light," Los Angeles Times, November 15
"Ann Hamilton and Edgar Arceneaux Among Winners of Fifty USA Fellowships," ArtForum (web), November 15
"Continuing and Recommended," Art Scene, September
Myers, Holly, "Social issues leave imprint in Touched," Los Angeles Times, August 22
Mizota, Sharon, "Clarity in every crisis," Los Angeles Times, July 29
Finkel, Jori, "A Reluctant Fraternity, Thinking Post-Black," New York Times, June 10
"Brancusi Report: Last Days in LA," Artslant (web), March
Fogle, Douglas, "Emerging Artists," Frieze, January/February
Moshayedi, Aram, "Charles Gaines + Edgar Arceneaux," Art Papers, January/February
2nd Moscow Biennale, FlashArt online news, January/February
2006
Searle, Adrian, "Rebels without a cause," The Guardian, December 9
Morgan, Jessica, "Best of 2006," Artforum, December
Kushner, Rachel, "On the Ground: Los Angeles," Artforum, December
Myers, Holly, "A take on comedy is out of the routine," Los Angeles Times, November 10
Blumenstein, Ellen, "L.A. Confidential," Monopol, November/December
Chaplin, Julia, "Culver City Art Crawl," Elle, November
Krasny, Marcin, "Czarno na białym (Black on White)," Obieg Magazine, Poland, October 6
Ollman, Leah, "Forks abound in Snake River," Los Angeles Times, October 4
Muchnic, Suzanne, "The Art Explosion," Los Angeles Times, October 1
Kenning, Dean, "Uncertain States of America," Art Monthly, October
Kent, Sarah, "States of the Art," Time Out, September 20
Berardini, Andrew, "Scene & Herd: On the Road," ArtForum (web), September 15
Glover, Michael, "An Orgy of Appropriation," The Independent, September 13
Horowitz, Noah and Sholis, Brian, "The Uncertain States of America Reader," Serpentine Gallery, London
Spaid, Sue, "Whitney Biennial 2006," artUS, July/September, issue 14
Wood, Eve, "Symmetry: Los Angeles," Art Papers, July/August
Smith, Roberta, "Endgame Art? Its Borrow, Sample and Multiply in an Exhibition at Bard College," The New York Times, July 7
Snake River, "Photography Now," July/August/September
Rume und Kulturen verflochten, Krone O, May 19
Ausstellung, O Nachrichten, May 2
Kunst: Snake River im Lentos, Obersterreichblicke, May
Das sterreich-Kalendarium, Reisemagazin, May
Aktuelle Ausstellungen, Neues aus Linz, May
Thek, Franz, Sprache von Fluss und Musik, O Nachrichten, April 29
Hofleitner, Johanna, Der Lauf der Dinge, Schaufenster, April 28
Hutter, Andreas, Das Linzer Lentos als Kino und als Filmproduzent, Neues Volksblatt, April 28
Haderer, Gerhard, Snake River, sterreichisches Pressebro (oepb.at/linz), April 28
CB, Watchlist, Der Standard, April 27
Snake River im Lentos, Tips, April 25
Snake River, Schaufenster, April 21
AMM, "Edgar Arceneaux: The Alchemy of Comedy Stupid," Artkrush, April 19
Artner, Alan G, "Multichannel video work is lacking a punch line," Chicago Tribune, April 13
"Edgar Arceneaux und Charles Gaines: Snake River," freikarte.at, April 3
Klemcke, Elizabeth, "Artists in the House," Brilliant, April
Bush, Haydn, "The silence of standup," Chicago Journal, March 29
Roussel, Noёllie, "Los Angeles: Elsewhere is Everywhere," Art Press, April Issue, pp. 34-44
Martin, Courtney J, "Edgar Arceneaux: New York," Art Papers, March/April Issue, p. 64
Kastner, Jeffrey, "Elective Affinities: The Art of Egdar Arceneaux," Artforum, February Issue, pp. 192-195
Golden, Thelma, "Edgar Arceneaux: The Alchemy of Comedy, Stupid," The Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine Collectors Issue, Fall/Winter 2005-06
Campagnola, Sofia, "Focus Los Angeles," Flash Art, January/February Issue, Vol. XXXIX, No.246, pg.68
Helfand, Glen, "Edgar Arceneaux San Francisco Museum of Modern Art," Artforum, January Issue, XLIV, No.5, pg.228
Campbell, Clayton, "The City of Angeles A short survey on the Los Angeles art scene," Flash Art, January/February Issue, Vol. XXXVIII, No.246, pg.77
2005
ODriscoll, Bill, "Sun Set," Pittsburgh City Paper, December 29
Cotter, Holland, "Edgar Arceneaux: Borrowed Sun," New York Times, November 17
Von Ulrich, Gutmair, Macht nur soviel Ihr knnt, Netzeitung, August 21
Gupta, Anjali, "Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970," Art Papers, July/August
Roeske, Sharon, "Art in Black History Month," Arts Houston, February Issue
Brooks Ranallo, Anne, "Gallery 400 gets foundation prize for comedy performance film", University of Illinois at Chicago, February
JB, "Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970," Artforum, January, 72
2004
Gaines, Charles, "Edgar Arceneaux’s Search for Meaning Among Infinite Variations," Afterall, September, 64-71
Lorch, Catrin, "Drawings of Removal", pg 76 – 80, AfterAll Magazine, October 2004 issue
"Continuing and Recommended", Artscene, Vol.24, No.2, October
Holte, Michael Ned, "Itineraries", Artforum, August 3
Jones, Leslie, "Edgar Arceneaux / UCLA Hammer Museum," Art on paper, pg. 18, May/June
Myers, Julian, "Edgar Arceneaux / Rodney McMillian at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects / UCLA Hammer Museum," Frieze, May, 92 – 93
Pence, Elizabeth, "Edgar Arceneaux at the UCLA Hammer Museum,"Artweek, April 2004, Volume 35, Issue 3, 21 – 22
Miles, Christopher, "Edgar Arceneaux: UCLA Hammer Museum," ArtForum, March, 190
Knight, Christopher, "A chronicle of race, rage, ritual," Los Angeles Times, February 17
2003
Pagel, David, "Questions, few answers," Los Angeles Times, April 23
Woodard, Joseph, "New social art order," ArtScene, Mach 25 – April 3
2002
"Lateral Thinking – Art of the 1990’s," Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Exhibition Catalog, New York, pg. 31-31
Klaasmeyer, Kelly, "Memory Lane," Houston Press, November 7,
Cotter, Holland, The New York Times, August 2, pg.32
Marzahn, Alexander, Basler Zeitung, Feuilleton, March 30/31, pg. 42
Grundy, Timothy, , Basellandschaftliche Zeitung, March 28, Pg. 6
Bartmettler, Yvonne Basler Zeitung, March 21, pg. 12
Imhoff, Dora, March, pg. 424-425
Naef, Maja, Personliche Plne, Kunstbulletin, Mai 2002, pg.45
Schweizer, Klaus, Kunsthalle nachmittags, Basler Zeitung, April 8, pg. 30
Schweizer, Klaus, Ausstellungen, Neue Zuericher Zeitung, April 13, pg. 64
Bertmettler, Yvone, Das Leben Ein Plan, Basler Zeitung, March 30, 42
Caramanica, John, "Hip Hop Don’t Stop," Village Voice, January 9 15, 57
Joo, Eungie, "Bring that Beat Back", FYI, Spring, 57
Lopez, Luciana, "Hip Hop Planet", URB 91, March issue, 48
The New York Times, March 1
Dies&Das, weekly exhibition openings directory
Oswald, Anja, "Wenn der Bleistift Rappt," Zitty, October, 80
"Show Stoppers," Juxtapoz, 56
2001
Lang, Peter, 729 Kunstlers Profiling, Blitz Review, December 19
Kareem, Nadra, Artist blurs cultural boudries, Los Angeles Times, September 4
Fricke, Harald, Original wird Falschung, Die Tageszeitung, November 14
Reeves, Mosi, "Bring the Noise", San Francisco Bay Guardian, June 6
2000
Pincus, Robert L., "Life as we know it," The San Diego Union Tribune, October 5, 38
Pincus, Robert L., "Objects D’Curio," The San Diego Union Tribune, 49-50
1999
Sirmans, Franklin, "Edgar Arceneaux," Time Out New York, 72

Catalogues

2022
Eshun, Ekow. "In The Black Fantastic," Thames & Hudson, NY, NY
2017
Northrup, Joanne, "Unsettled," Nevada Museum of Art, Hirmer Publishers: Munich, Germany
Huldisch, Henriette, “Edgar Arceneaux: Written in Smoke & Fire,” MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
2016
Momin, Shamin M., “Wasteland: New Art from Los Angeles,” Los Angeles Nomadic Division, presented by Mona Bismarck American Center and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2013
Kunde, Harald; Vlasic, Valentina; et al., The Present Order is the Disorder of the Future, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, September
Taxter, Kelly, You Shouldve Heard Just What I seen: Selections from the collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Riverview School, Cape Cod, September
Griffin, Jonathan, Vitamin D2: New Perspective in Drawing, Phaidon Press, May
2012
Roussel, Nollie, Transient Memory, Imminent Collapse: Edgar Arceneauxs Urban Landscapes, essay published in Marking Time, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
"The Bearden Project", The Studio Museum in Harlem
2011
Huckleberry Finn, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art
Hopelessness Freezes Times-1976 Detroit Riots, Detroit Techno and Michael Heizers Dragged Mass, Museum fr Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
2009
Hertz, Betti-Sue, Wall Works, Exhibition Catalogue, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2008
Firstenberg, Lauri, with text by Julian Myers, California Biennial 2008, Exhibition Catalogue, Orange County Museum of Art, October
Kastner, Jeffrey, 2008 Biennial Exhibition Catalogue The Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art, March
From and Bout Place: Art from Los Angeles, Center of Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, Israel, curated by Alma Ruiz
The Lining of Forgetting, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, curated by Xandra Eden
2007
Molok, Nikolai, Ed., Footnotes on Geopolitics, Market, and Amnesia: 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (catalogue), ArtChronika and Moscow Biennale Art Foundation
Kim, Christine Y, Philosophy of Time Travel (catalogue), The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
2006
Kim, Clara, Snake River: Charles Gaines & Edgar Arceneaux, REDCAT Los Angeles and Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz (exhibition catalogue) Ed. Karen Jacobson
"Alchemy of ComedyStupid", Gallery 400, University of Illinois Chicago, Illinois, collaboration with David Allan Grier
Brewińska, Maria, Black Alphabet: conTEXTS of Contemporary African American Art,
Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland (exhibition catalogue and essay)
2005
Birnbaum, Daniel, Kvaran, Gunnar, Obrist, Ulrich, Uncertain States of America: American Art in the Third Millenium, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art (exhibition catalog)
Dawsey,Jill, New Work: Edgar Arceneaux, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Imaginary Number, KW Institute for Contemporary Art (show catalogue), Ed. Anselm Franke and Kila Peleg
Cassel Oliver, Valerie, "Through the Conceptual Lens: The Rise, Fall, and the Resurrection of Blackness", Double Consciousness, Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, January (exhibition catalog)
2003
Chang, Aimee, "Opening the work", Joo, Eungie, "Library as Cosmos", exhibition catalog essays, in Edgar Arceneaux, "Lost Library", Kunstverein Ulm, Ulm, Germany, co-edited by Brigitte Hausmann
Auchincloss, Pamela & Ottman, Klaus, "Art and Society: from the Social to the Transcendental", exhibition catalog for "Social Strategies – Redefining Social Realism", pg. 7 – 19, New York, February
2001
Jonhson, Vincent, Edgar Arceneaux, Pomona College Museum of Art, (exhibition catalog)

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2021
COLA Fellowship Grant, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
2019
Mike Kelley Foundation Grant, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Malcolm McLaren Award, Performa 15, New York, NY
2013
Rauschenberg Residency, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Captiva, FL
2007
United States Artists Fellowship
2006
William H. Johnson Award
ArtPace Residency, San Antonio, TX
2005
Joyce Award, Chicago, IL
Creative Capital Grant, New York, NY
1999
Skowhegan School of Painting Skowhegan, ME
1998
The Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Project Row Houses, Houston, TX

Public Collections

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
National Academy of Design, New York, NY
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Amy Myers

Education

1965
Born in Austin, TX
1999
M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, Painting and Drawing
1995
B.F.A., The Kansas City Art Institute, MO, Painting and Drawing

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2021
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
2020
"Painting," Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
2019
"Daughter Universes," Malin Gallery, New York, NY
"The Opera Inside the Atom," The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
2015
"Spiral Light," Valerie McKenzie Gallery, New York, NY
2014
"Atomic Cosmologies," Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
2013
"Monumental Drawings," Sweeney Art Museum, California State University, Riverside, CA
2011
Manhattan Beach Cultural Arts Center, Manhattan Beach, CA
2010
"Amy Myers On-Line," Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO
"Feminine Space," Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GA
2009
"Partner to Quark," Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2008
"Spin Zero," Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
Show-Off, Paris, France
2006
"The Particle Zoo," Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
2005
"The Opera Inside the Atom," Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
2004
"Fearful Symmetry," Pomona College, Montgomery Art Center, Claremont, CA
"Fearful Symmetry," Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
"The Particle Zoo," Suzanne Vielmeer Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2003
"String Series: The Handheld Universe," Danese Gallery, New York, NY
2002
"Heterotic String Series," Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2001
"Amy Myers," Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
2000
University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
"New Drawings," Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999
"The Virtual Underground," Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021
"Culver@10," Sweeney Art Museum, Culver Center for Arts, Selections from The Permanent Collection
2019
"Points of Light in a Nocturnal World," 7 Herkimer Place, Brooklyn, NY
2017
"Gothic," Lehman Gallery of Art, Bronx, NY
2016
"Something Else," The Painting Center, New York, NY
"No Toxic Factor," On-Line Booking, New York, NY
2015
"Painting Now," Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
"Selections for the Permanent Collection," Sweeney Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2014
The Last Brucenial, New York, NY
Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Kansas City, MO
"The Way of Drawing," Gallery Momo, Tokyo, Japan
2013 Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
"Looking Forward," Randall Sco Projects, Washington, DC
2012
"Abstraction," Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
Oppenheimer Collection Celebration, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
2010
"Inflection," Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
2009
"Ten Year Anniversary Show," Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
"Selections from Permanent Collection," Greenville County Museum, SC
2008
"Five Year Anniversary Show," Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
"Something New," Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
"Art on Paper," Drawings, Morris Art Museum, Morristown, NJ Biennial Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
2007
"VS. Featuring Amy Myers, Carlos Maer, John Newsom and Arnulf Rainer," Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
"Zeichen und Zeichnung," Charim Galerie, Vienna, Austria "Summer Eyes / Summarize," Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO
"Size Maers: Drawings from the MFA Houston Collection," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
"New Directions in American Drawing," Columbus Museum, GA; Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
"Sirens," Thom Andriola / New Gallery, Houston, TX
2006
"Homecoming," JCC Gallery of Art, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
"Realm of the Spirit," Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
"Reverence," Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
"Technocraft," Chaffee College Museum of Art, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
2005
"Brides of Frankenstein," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
"Stars and Stripes," Biagioi Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy
2004
"New Math: Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct," Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN
"5th Anniversary Exhibition," Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
"Summer Painting and Drawing," Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003
"Black/White," Danese Gallery, New York, NY Online, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
"Under Glass: Works on Paper 1960-2000," Anthony Grant, Inc., New York, NY
"Art at the Edge of Science," Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID
2002
"Big and Beautiful," H&R Block Art Space, Kansas City, MO
"Collecting: A Community Dialogue," Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
"The Accelerated Grimace," Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY
"Paintings and Works on Paper," Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
"National Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture," American Academy of Arts and Leers, New York, NY
"Cyborg Manifesto," Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
"Blurry Lines," John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2000
"Society of Contemporary Art," Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1999
"New Space/New Work," Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997
"Works on Paper," Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
"Perspective: Kansas City," Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art, KS

Awards & Honors

2019
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2018
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
2014
Ellen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation Studio Residency and Award
MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2008
ART-in-the-Loop, Mural Reproduction, Kansas City, MO
Yaddo Artist Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY
2005
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Visiting Artist, Dora Maar House, Menerbes, France
2004
Visiting Artist, The American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
2002
National Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Leers, New York, NY
The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Studio Grant, New York, NY