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

Bibliography

2020: Gibson, Jeff. “Amy Myers, Daughter Universe.” ARTFORUM, January 3
2019: Stewart, Nan. “Amy Myers, Daughter Universe.” Editors’ Picks, ARTNET, November 4
2015: Haynes, Clarity. “Drawing a Universe of Cosmic Sexuality.” Hyperallergic, October 23
: Mermall, Madeline. “Amy Myers, Light as Spiral.” Artefuse, September 19
2014: Benedei, Alejo. “Amy Myers: Atomic Cosmologies.” Glasstire, June 25
: Granberry, Michael. “Gallery Spotlight.” The Dallas Morning News, June 12
: Johnson, Kimberley. “An Artistic Lesson in Physics.” Inland Empire Weekly, October 23
: Stallings, Tyler. “Amy Myers’ Monumental Drawings.” KCET ARTBOUND, October 9
: Koester, Megan. “Different Particles and Indeterminate States: New Monumental Drawings by Amy Myers at UCR Artsbloc.” FABRIK, October 7
2011: Self, Dana. “A Show of Local Strength.” Kansas City Star, January 29
: Wypolski, Bondo. Easy Reader, Manhattan Beach, November 18
2009: Taylor, Alex. “Reviews: New York, Amy Myers.” Artnews, January, p. 118.
: Halperen, Max. Art Papers, February, p. 58.
2008: Thorson, Alice. “Downtown ARTwall To Get Liquid.” The Kansas City Star, Kansascity.com, June 17
2007: Wicks, Stephen C. Amy Myers, New Directions in American Drawing. Columbus, Georgia, Columbus Museum, 2001, pp. 33-34.
: “Homecoming.” The Kansas City Star, Feb.
2006: Perez, Magdalene. “Amy Myers at Mike Weiss Gallery.” Artnews, Nov., pp. 182-183.
: Thorson, Alice. “Local Artists Go Make Good.” The Kansas City Star, November 26, pp. f5, f8.
: Bruner, Miriam. “Amy Myers: The Particle Zoo at Mike Weiss Gallery.” Artcritical.com, November
2005: Hobbs, Robert. Amy Myers, The Opera Inside the Atom. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
2004: Sobiezeck, Robert. Fearful Symmetry, Amy Myers. Claremont: Montgomery Art Center, Pomona College
: Fischl, Eric. “Artists on Artists: Eric Fischl on Amy Myers.” BOMB, Spring pp. 60-61.
2003: Coer, Holland. “Uptown, Too, Has Heat and Light Aplenty.” The New York Times, May 30, pp. e31, e35
: Finch, Charlie. “Ones in Love With Amy,” Artnet.com, May 22
: Bailey, Susan. “New Age Art offers Cosmic Approach.” Wood River Journal, November 5
: Peinger, E.J. “And the Universe Said.” Boise Weekly, 10-16 December., p. 33
: Tanous, Adam. “At the Edge of Science’ Brings Together Two Worlds.” Mt. Express, November 5-11
2002: Honig, Peregrine. “Women Artists: Redefining Roles and Rules.” Review, November, pp. 74-75
: Kirsch, Elizabeth. “Beauty and Brains.” The Kansas City Star, September 20, p. 27
: Hackman, Kate. “Open & Opening.” Review, September/October, pp. 24- 25
: 2001 Cash, Stephanie. “Amy Myers at Mary Boone.” Art in America, October, pp. 160-161
: Ollman, Leah. Los Angeles Times, May 12, p. f10
2000: Pagel, David. “Using Words and Images to Deliver their Messages.” Los Angeles Times, September 18, p. f6
: Coer, Holland. “With a Nervy Sense of Today.” The New York Times, February 25, p.e39
: Lombino, Mary-Kaye. Amy Myers, Centric 60. Long Beach: University Art Museum, California State University
: Caldwell, John. “Diversions: New Exhibits Highlight the Abstract.” On-Line 49er, vol. viii, no. 5, September 5
1999: Helfand, Glen. “Amy Myers, Nelleke Beltjens.” San Francisco Bay Guardian, January 20, p.84
: Rowlands, Penelope. “Amy Myers.” Art on Paper, May-June, pp. 67-68.
: Van Proyen, Mark. “San Francisco E-mail.” Art Issues, March-April., pp. 32-33

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

Bibliography

2023: Farber, Jim. "The Industry Again Rethinks Opera With Star Choir, a 2023 Space Odyssey," Classical Voice San Francisco, October 3 (Link)
: Otieno, Nereva. "A Sci-Fi Opera’s Cosmic Quest for Belonging," Hyperallergic, October 3 (Link)
: Bowman, Emma. "See the stars and a heavenly sci-fi opera at Mt. Wilson," US Times Post, September 3 (Link)
: Womack, Catherine. "You can see the stars at Mt. Wilson Observatory — and a celestial sci-fi opera," The LA Times, September 3 (Link)
2022: Vargas, Steven. "The most fun, festive holiday shows and events for this weekend," LA Times, December 7 (Link)
: Morris, Matt. "Vestigial Trends and Anticipated Futures: Chicago and the Return of the Expo Art Fair," Flash Art, April 13 (Link)
: Belmont, Sarah. "The 9 Best Booths at Expo Chicago: From Dazzling Peacocks to New ‘Vogue’ Covers Honoring Black and Indigenous Women Activists," ArtNews, April 8 (Link)
: Bruce, Delan. "My Barbarian: 20 Years of Making Art and Theater Together," UCLA Newsroom, March 11 (Link)
2021: Perry, Barlo. "MY BARBARIAN ARTIST TALK Whitney Museum of American Art," ParisLA, December 4
: Damman, Catherine Quan. "HAPPIER ENDINGS, Catherine Quan Damman on the art of My Barbarian," Artfourm, November (Link)
: Miller, Deb. "Exhibition and livestream performance series by theatrical artists group ‘My Barbarian’ at NYC’s Whitney Museum of American Art," DC Metro Theater Arts, October 24 (Link)
: Elbaor, Caroline. "Here Are the 13 U.S. Museum Shows That Matter This Fall, From a Survey of 21st-Century Feminisms in Berkeley to a Radical Art Rediscovery in Atlanta," Artnet News, September 13 (Link)
: 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: Velasco, David. "My Barbarian talks about “Double Agency” at LACMA," Artforum, April 27 (Link)
: Kirsch, Corinna, Dealers Report: The 2015 Armory Show is Legit Awesome, ArtFCity, March 5
2014: "The Agenda: What to do this week in New York," Art in America online, March 18 (Link)
: My Barbarian, Counterpublicity, 2014, ArtForum.com, December 1
: Universal Declaration of Infantile Anxiety Situations Reflected in the Creative Impulse: My Barbarian at Gallery 400, Edie and Andy Blog, October 7
: Jovanovic, Rozalia, Handicrafts Carry the Day at the 2014 Whitney Biennial, Artnet, March 6
: Kunitz, Daniel, 9 Booths Not to Miss at This Years Armory Show, ArtInfo, March 6
: Indrisek, Scott, This is Not a Survey: An Incomplete Review of the Whitney Review, ArtInfo, March 6
: Brara, Noor, CalArts Presents a Benefit and Auction at Metro Pictures and Paula Cooper Gallery, Interview Magazine, April 8
: Munrow, Cait, An Unexpected Opera Performance at the CalArts Benefit in New York, Artnet, April 8
: Johnson, Grant, The Whitney Biennial: My Barbarians The Mother, Performa, April 3
: Cohan, Nate, Modernist Mom: My Barbarian at the Whitney Biennial, Art in America, March 19
: McGarry, Kevin, Review: Whitney Biennial 2014, Art Agenda, March 7
2013: Ng, David, Whitney Biennial 2014 to include L.A. artists, David Foster Wallace, Los Angeles Times, November 15
: Vogel, Carol, The 2014 Whitney Biennial Is Taking Shape, The New York Times, November 14 (Link)
: Damman, Catherine, "Review: My Barbarian at Susanne Vielmetter," Art in America, October
: Moss, Avigail, "Working Mothers of Invention: My Barbarian at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects," Texte zur Kunst, no. 91, September
: Fraser, Andrea, "My Barbarian," BOMB Magazine, Fall 2013
: Newman, Robin, "Masks and Mothers from My Barbarian," The Wild Magazine, August 18
: Mizota, Sharon, Critics Pick: My Barbarian at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Artforum.com, July 26
: Damman, Catherine, Work It, Working Mother: L.A. Summer Performances, Art in America, July 24
: Korek, Bettina, Seriously Go: Galleries Heat Up Los Angeles, Huffington Post, July 11
: Wagley, Catherine, "Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week," LA Weekly, July 10
: Jackson, Shannon, Just-in-Time: Performance and the Aesthetics of Precarity, The Drama Review
2012: Steffen, Patrick, Review: My Barbarian, Flash Art, May-June
: Myers, Holly, Art Review: My Barbarian at Human Resources, Los Angeles Times, March 8
: Wagley, Catherine, How Do You Create a Fake Theater Troupe? LA Weekly, March 1
2011: Wagley, Catherine, Top 10 Moments of the Year in L.A. Art, LA Weekly, December 22
2010: Coburn, Tyler, Reclaim the Street (Theater), Art Review, March
: Grantham, Tosha, 30 Second off an Inch, International Review of African American Artists, Vol. 23, No. 1
2009: Cotter, Holland, Art Review: Ecstatic Resistance, New York Times, December 17
: Ellegood, Anne, Best of 2009, Artforum, December
: Valdez, Sarah, Exhibition Reviews: My Barbarian, Art In America, November
: Pollack, Barbara, Art Review: My Barbarian, The Night Epi$ode, Time Out New York, October 8
: Pollack, Barbara, Making Night School Cool, Art News, September
: Kley, Elisabeth, Gotham Art & Theater, artnet.com, September
: Tumlir, Jan, Reviews: My Barbarian, Artforum, September
: Myers, Holly, An Ironic Approach to Challenging Beliefs, Los Angeles Times, May 22
: Mueller, Kurt, Solution, Art Papers, May/June
: Casadio, Mariuccia, Acoustics, Vogue Italia, March
: Miles, Christopher, Sculptural Comedy, LA Weekly, January 23
: Muoz, Jose Esteban, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, (New York: NYU Press)
2008: 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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: Jordan, Patti. “Hauser & Wirth Gets Intimate with Personal Private Public,” Arte Fuse, October 23
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: 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)
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: 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)
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: Indrisek, Scott. “At MoMA, Photography Doesn’t Have to Reinvent Itself to be Radical,” Artsy, March 20 (Link)
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2017: "Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Figures, Grounds and Studies" The Eye of Photography, February 20
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: 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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: Conner, Allison Noelle. "Opacity and the Spill, The Photographs of Clifford Prince King, Shikeith, and Paul Mpagi Sepuya," CARLA Magazine, November (Link)
: ArtNet News. "10 Must-See Gallery Shows in Los Angeles This Month, From Vintage Cindy Sherman Photographs to Sand-Inflected Abstractions," ArtNet, October 4 (Link)
: Smith-Perez, Adam. "Paul Mpagi Sepuya on portraiture, queer space, and zinemaking.," Art21, October 4 (Link)
: Guilford, Lauren. "PICK OF THE WEEK: Paul Mpagi Sepuya," artillery, September 15 (Link)
: Dambrot, Shana Nys. "The Work Of Art: Arts Calendar September 1-7," LAWEEKLY, August 31 (Link)
: Heidenry, Rachel. "The 7 Must-See Exhibitions in California this Fall," Testudo, August 5 (Link)
: Zara, Janelle. "Paul Mpagi Sepuya Explores the Dark Room’s Eroticism," Cultured, July 8 (Link)
: 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

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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2011: Wagley, Catherine, "Watts Towers at Pacific Standard Time: How the towers legacy is more confusing than you think," LA Weekly, December 15
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2009: Myers, Holly, "Intelligent, but hardly passionate," Los Angeles Times, September 1
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: 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
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: Glover, Michael, "An Orgy of Appropriation," The Independent, September 13
: Horowitz, Noah and Sholis, Brian, "The Uncertain States of America Reader," Serpentine Gallery, London
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: 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

Nicola Tyson

: Born in London, England
: Lives and works in New York, NY

1989: Central/St. Martins School of Art, London, England
1980-1981: St. Martins School of Art, London, England
1979-1980: Chelsea School of Art, London, England

Selected Exhibitions

2022: "Nicola Tyson: A Bit Touched," Nino Mier, Brussels, Belgium
2021: "Holding Pattern," Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK (Link)
2020: "Sense of Self," Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York NY
: "Four Paintings," Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
2017: "Mutual Admiration Society," Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL
: "Nicola Tyson," Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO (Link)
: "A Tendency to Flock," Sadie Cole’s, London, UK
: "Beyond the Trace," The Drawing Room, London, UK
2016: “Works on Paper,” Friedrich Petzel, New York, NY
: “Living Dangerously,” two person show with Angela Dufresne, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2015: Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
: "Goodbye/Hello,” Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
2014: "Trouble in Happiness," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2013: Nicola Tyson: Bowie Nights at Billy’s Club, London, 1978, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
2012: Nicola Tyson: Bowie Nights at Billy’s Club, London, 1978, White Columns, NY (Link)
2011: Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
2009: Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
: Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
2007: Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
: Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
2006: Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
2005: Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
: Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
2003: Heads, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
: Oeuvres Recentes, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
2002: Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
2001: Galeria Carnargo Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Brasil
2000: Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
1999: Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
1998: Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland
: Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
1997: Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
1995: Anthony dOffay Gallery, London, UK
: Entwistle Gallery, London, UK
: Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
1993: Trial Balloon, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

2023: "Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022: "Plants Now!" Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Women Painting Women," The Modern, Fort Worth, TX
2021: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2020: "100 Drawings from Now," The Drawing Center, New York City, NY
2019: "Pulled in Brooklyn," International Print Center, New York, NY
: "This Woman’s Work: Female Artists in the Swindon Collection," Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, Swindon, UK
2018: "ISelf Collection: The Upset Bucket," Whitechapel Gallery, London (cat.)
: "Nudes," Sadie Coles HQ, London
: "Close: Drawn Portraits," Drawing Room, London
: “Cast of Characters,” Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and The LGBT Community Center, New York, NY
2017: "Mutual Admiration Society," Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago
: “Petzel at Nanzuka,” Nanzuka, Tokyo, Japan
: "SomeBodies,” Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
2016: “Belief and Doubt: Selections from the Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Collection, NSU Art Museum, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
: “Portraits,” Skarstedt, New York, NY
2014: "New Dawn", curated by Leidy Churchman, Silberkuppe, Berlin
: "The Nakeds," the Drawing Room, London, UK
2013: "ICA Off-Site: A Journey Through London’s Subculture: 1980s to Now", Old Selfridges Hotel, London
: The Cat Show, curated by Rhonda Lieberman, White Columns, New York
: Facture and Fidelity: Painting Between Abstraction and Figuration, 1945 2010, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
2012: Bowie Nights at Billys Club, London, 1978, White Columns, New York I glove U, curated by Ridley Howard, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia.
2011: CLAP, Hessel Museum of Art & CCS Galleries, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
: A Painting Show, Harris Lieberman, New York, NY
: Group Exhibition: Never Let Me Go curated by Terry R. Myers, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago IL
: Readykeulous: The Hurtful Healer: The Correspondence Issue, Invisible-Exports, New York, NY
: Kick in the Eye, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
: Looking Back / The 6th White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York
: Dark Christmas, Leo Koenig, New York
2010: Monster, West Vancouver Museum, Vancouver, Canada
: A Site, Teverina Fine Art, Cortona, Italy
: Summer Exhibition, room curated by Fiona Rae, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, (catalog), Nominated for the Charles Wollaston Award
: "Vivid: Female Currents in PaintinG, curated by Janet Phelps, Schroeder Romero & Shredder Gallery
: Un-home-ly, Oakville Galleries, Toronto, Canada
: Culture Show, June 2011, Petzel, New York, NY
2009: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous, Teverina Fine Art, Athens, Greece
: Movement Schmoovement, La Mama La Galleria, New York, NY
2008: Kunst Im Heim, Capitain Petzel Gallery, Berlin
: Second Thoughts, Hessel Musesum of Art, Center of Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY
: Out of Shape: Stylistic Distortions of the Human Form in Art from the Logan Collection, The Frances Lehnman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
2007: Exhibitionism: An Exhibition of Exhibitions of Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, Center of Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY
: Dont Look. Contemporary Drawings from an Alumnas Collection (Martina Yamin, Class of 1958), Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, MA
: At Home, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, NY
: Stuff: International Contemporary Art from the Collection of Burt Aaron, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, MI
: Shared Women, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
: The Sorcerers Apprentice, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
2006: Drawn into the World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: Donald Baechler, Saint Clair Cemin, George Condo, Nicola Tyson, Rebecca Warren: Works from the Ophiuchus Collection, Hydra Workshops, Greece
: Ridykeulous, Participant Inc., New York, NY
2005: Les Grands Spectacles 120 Years of Art and Mass Culture, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Vienna
: UBS Openings, Level 3: Material Gestures, Tate Modern, London, UK
: Present Perfect, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
: Art Now: Confronting Figures, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT
: Slices of Life, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY
2004: "Summer Exhibition", room curated by Gary Hume, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
: Sexy Beasts 1963 2004, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, NY
: Esprit, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
2002: Gallery Swap, Sadie Coles H.Q. London, Sommer Contemporary, Tel-Aviv, Israel
: Statements (six), Rita Ackerman, Mark Borthwick, Nicola Tyson, a project by Dornbracht, New York, NY
2000: Drawing on the Figure: Works on Paper from the Manilow Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: Greater New York, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY
: Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
: Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
: Blurry Lines, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
: Full Serve, Curated by Kenny Schacter, New York, NY
1999: New Work: Painting Today Recent Acquisitions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
: What Big Is, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
1998: Pop Surrealism, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
: Drawings IV, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: Some Women/Pretty Girls, Florida Atlantic University, Ritter Art Gallery, FL
: Galeria Camargo Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Brasil
: Chaos, Control, Chaos, Control. You Like? You Like, Curated by Anne Lemieux, Elias Fine Art, Boston, MA
1997: A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Drawing, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
: Project Painting, Basilico Fine Arts & Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
: Best of the Season, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
: Package Holiday: Works by British artists in the Ophiucus Collection, curated by Pauline Karpidas and Sadie Coles, Hydra
: New Work: Drawings Today, Curated by Janet Bishop and Gary Garrels, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
: Drawings…An Annual Bi-coastal Invitational, Meyerson and Nowinski, Seattle, WA
1996: Psycho-Morphing, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
1995: Works on Paper: Paul Myoda and Nicola Tyson, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
: In a Different Light, curated by Nayland Blake and Lawrence RInder, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
1994: The Unsuccess Story, curated by Kenny Schachter 479 Broome Street, New York, NY
: Petzel/Borgmann Gallery, New York, NY
: I Could Do That, Curated by Kenny Schachter, 109 Greene Street, New York, NY
1993: The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
1992: part FANTASY, Trial BALLOON, New York; traveled to:
: Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
: The University of British Columbia, Vancouver
: The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, 1994
1991: Queer, Minor Injury, New York, NY
1990: Milch Gallery, London, UK
1989: The Whitechapel Open, The Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
1988: The Whitechapel Open, The Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

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: Wyma, Chloe, “Writing the Body,” Art + Auction, February
: Litt, Steven, “Artists Dufresne and Tyson reimagine the body in terrific show at Cleveland Institute of Art,” Cleveland.com (web), November 17
2015: Bryant, Eric, 25 Most Collectible Midcareer Artists, ArtInfo (web), September 1
2014: Wagley, Catherine, "5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including Violations of the 5-Second Rule," LA Weekly, March 12 (Link)
: "The Naked Body Explored In New Exhibition At London’s Drawing Center," Artlyst, August 6 (Link)
2013: Searle, Adrian and Healey, Alex, "A Journey Through London Subculture: 1980s to Now – video preview of the ICA’s new off-site exhibition," The Guardian, September 12 (Link)
: Serafinowicz, Sylwia, "Critics’ Picks: ‘A Journey through London Subculture’ at the ICA Off-Site," Artforum, October 8 (Link)
: Croomer, Martin and Barnes, Freire, "The ICA Off-Site’s artists explain their London subcultures," TimeOut London, September 9
: "A Journey through London’s subculture," Wall Street International, July 3
: Christensen, Lauren, "Nicola Tyson on Documenting London’s Underground Punk Movement and Her Latest Photo Exhibit of Deadly Glamorous Cats," Vanity Fair Daily, May 8
: Rubenstein, Bradley, Glamorama: Nicola Tyson + Bradley Rubenstein, ArtSlant, March
: Russeth, Andrew, Grave Matters: Read an Exclusive Excerpt of Nicola Tysons Dead Letter Men, GalleristNY at Observer.com, February 5
: Nicola Tyson’s Bowie night shots come to London, Phaidon, January 15
2012: Helmore, Edward, "Making a Scene", W Magazine, November
2011: Harpers, Readings, August, p. 17
: Landi, Ann, Dear Picasso, Art News, Volume 110, May, pp. 92-99
: Smith, Roberta, Art in Review, Vivid, The New York Times, January 21
: Heinrich, William, A Portrait of the Artist at Work, The New York Observer, September 13
2009: Smyth, Cherry, Nicola Tyson, Art Review, Issue 31, April, p. 114
: Smith, Roberta, Rewards and Clarity in a Show of Restraint, The New York Times, February 19
: Douglas, Sarah, Select Crowd, Art & Auction, February, p. 29
: OReilly, Sally, Nicola Tyson at Sadie Coles South Audley St, Time Out London, January 29-February 4, p. 46
2008: Saltz, Jerry, No Images of Man, Nymag.com, August 25
: Baker, R.C., Retro Man, Village Voice, July 9-15, p. 36
: Recent Acquisition, At the Johnson: Cornell University, Members Newsletter, back cover, Spring
: Out of Shape: Stylistic Distortions of the Human Form in Art from the Logan Collection, Art Daily.org, January
2007: Impulse: Works on Paper, The Logan Collection Vail, Catalogue, p. 154
: Krner, Magdalena, Nicola Tyson, Monopol, August, p. 18
: The Sorcerers Apprentice, Galleri Faurschou, pp. 46-49
: Calendar, Tate Diary, March
: Falconer, Morgan, Nicola Tyson, Art Review, July, p. 132
: Cristobal, Sarah, Nicola Tyson: Yvon Lambert, Style.com, July
: Brooks, Amra, Nicola Tyson: Marc Foxx Gallery, Artforum, Summer, p. 506
: Myers, Terry R., Nicola Tyson: Marc Foxx, Modern Painters, June, p. 113
: Bedford, Christopher, Critics Picks: Nicola Tyson at Marc Foxx, Artforum.com, March 28
: Brooks, Amra, Must See Art: Nicola Tyson and Charline von Heyl, L.A. Weekly, March 28
: Berardini, Andrew, Scene & Herd: Painting the Town, Artforum.com, March 21
2006: Hirsch, Faye, Nicola Tyson at Friedrich Petzel, Art in America, October, p. 197
: Hudson, Suzanne, Nicola Tyson, Artforum, March, p. 292
: Donald Baechler, Saint Clair Cemin, George Condo, Nicola Tyson, Rebecca Warren: Works from the Ophiuchus Collection, Hydra Workshops, Greece, p. 7, 13, 15, 19
: Mullins, Charlotte, The Figure Unraveled, Painting People: figure painting today, Distributed Art Publishers
: Conner, Justin, Nicola Tyson, Artkrush, February 8 21
: Yablonsky, Linda, Reviews: Nicola Tyson, Time Out New York, February 2 8, p. 62
: Gleuck, Grace, Art in Review, The New York Times, January 27
: Calendar, New York Sun, January 26, p. 10
2005: Nicola Tyson, Dublin, The Douglas Hyde Gallery
: Brehm, Margrit, Balancing Acts and Masquerades, Les Grands Spectacles 120 Years of Art and Mass Culture, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Hatje Cantz Verlag, pp. 156-165
: Searle, Adrian, Where Laughter Comes In, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Exhibition catalogue, pp. 1-4
: Colman, David, The Country Girl, Elle Dcor, November, pp.204-209
: Nicola Tyson, Keith Edmier, The Dubliner, July 15
: Dunne, Aidan, Fascinating Bodies of Work, Irish Times, July 6
: Leen, Catherine, Nicola Tyson, Sunday Times, July 3
: Feaver, William, Nicola Tyson, Artnews, June, p.134
: Falconer, Morgan, Contemporary Painting: London, The Burlington Magazine, April, p. 269-271
: Nicola Tyson, Tema Celeste, issue 108, March-April
: Smyth, Cherry, Nicola Tyson, Art Monthly, March
2004: Grassner, Hubertus, Preface, Moving energies # 02 1, Museum Folkwang Essen, 2004
2003: Hirsch, Faye, Special: Monotypes, Art on Paper, May-June, pp. 64-65
: Barone, Mary, Out With Mary, Artnet.com, February 4
: Levin, Kim, Jon Pylypchuk + Nicola Tyson, The Village Voice, February 12
: Gruner, Fisun, Colorful Characters, Metro Life, January 21
2002: Cotter, Holland, Art in Review Nicola Tyson, The New York Times, May 24, p. E37
: Quadt, Edgar, Kunst als Ritual, Art Investor, no. 03, 2002, p. 12
2001: Krajewski, Sara, Extended Review: Blurry Lines, John Michael Kohler Center for the Arts, New Art Examiner, March 2001, p. 47
2000: DSouza, Aruna, Nicola Tyson, Art in America, February, pp. 124-125
: Hammond, Harmony, Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History, Rizzoli, New York
1999: Coomer, Martin, Time Out London, March 17-24. p. 50
: Nicola Tyson, The New Yorker, November 1,
: Grant, Simon, The Guide, The Guardian, February 27-March 5,
: Hirsch, Faye, Paper Trail, Art On Paper, March-April, vol. 3-4, pp. 22-23
: Hirsch, Faye, Working Proof, Art on Paper, January-February, vol. 3, p. 55
: Johnson, Ken, Art in Review Nicola Tyson, The New York Times, October 29
: Schwender, Martha, Nicola Tyson, Time Out New York, November 11-18, p. 86
1998: Burgi, Mendes, The Beginning of Transformation, Kunsthalle Zrich
: Pop Surrealism, Exhibition Catalogue, Aldrich Museum, p. 126
: Nicola Tyson, Exhibition Catalogue, Kunsthalle Zurich
: Katz, Vincent, Art in America, January, no. 1, pp. 98-99
: Kimmelman, Michael, In Connecticut, Where Caravaggio First Landed, New York Times, July 17
: Kurjakovic, Daniel, Nicola Tyson in der Kunsthalle Zrich, Kunst-Bulletin, no. 3
: Rabi, Thomas, Wandlungen der Selbstwahrnehmung, Neue Zrcher Zeitung, January 29
: Nigg, Marie Louise, in sich versponnen, Zrichsee-Zeitungen, January 28
: Maurer, Simon, Heimliche Selbstbildnisse, Tages-Anzeiger, January 19
: Kunsthalle Zrich: Nicola Tyson, Basler Zeitung, January 20
: Wst, Karl, Verstmmelte Innenansichten, Bnder Zeitung, January 19
1997: Nicola Tyson, Exhibition Catalogue, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
: Cotter, Holland, Ideas from the Air, Wrapped in Paper, The New York Times, December 19
: Danbrot, Lisa, Nicola Tyson, Zing Magazine, Summer, pp. 230-231
: Ebony, David, New Yorks Top Ten, Artnet Magazine Online
: Jana, Reena, New Work: Drawings Today, Flash Art, October, p. 75
: Levin, Kim, Voice Choices: Nicola Tyson, Village Voice, April 1, p. 13
: Nicola Tyson, The New Yorker, April 7,
: Sand, Olivia, Nicola Tyson at Friedrich Petzel Gallery, Artis, June-July, pp. 66-67
: Schjeldahl, Peter, Painting Rules, The Village Voice, September 30, p. 97
: Smith, Roberta, Art in Review Nicola Tyson, The New York Times, March
1996: Smith, Cherry, Damn Fine Art By New Lesbian Artists, London, Cassell
: Beech, David, Enttaeuschung & Katastrophe. Ein Besuch der Nicola Tyson-Ausstellung in den Anthony dOffay
: Galleries, London, Texte Zur Kunst, March 1996, no. 21, pp. 187-190
: Lyttleton, Celia, Nicola Tyson, Tatler, January 1996, p. 16
: Plagens, Peter, Lady Painters? Smile When You Say That, Newsweek, September 30, pp. 82- 83
: Searle, Adrian, Time Out London, January 3-10, p. 46
1995: A Brief History of Trial Balloon. : Different Light: Visual Culture, Sexual Identity, Queer Practice, San Francisco, City Lights Books
: Searle, Adrian, The Independent, November 7, p. 8
: Smyth, Cherry, Nicola Tyson, Art Monthly, September, pp. 35-37
: Cameron, Dan, Nicola Tyson, Frieze, Summer, p. 74
: Hirsch, Faye, Erotic Autopsy, World Art, Summer, pp. 42-44
: Seward, Keith, Nicola Tyson, Artforum, Summer, pp. 106-107
: Pederson, Victoria, Nicola Tyson, Paper, April, p. 106
: Glueck, Grace, Nicola Tyson, New York Observer, April 10, p. 22
: Kimmelman, Michael, Art in Review Nicola Tyson, New York Times, March 17
1994: Saltz, Jerry, Art in America, May
1991: Hall, James, Art International, Spring-Summer, no. 14, p.73
: Morgan, Stuart, Milch is Good for You, Artscribe, January, no. 85, pp. 13-14
1990: Morgan, Stuart, Time Out, August 22-29
: Hilton, Tim, The Bubble Bursts, The Guardian, October 5

Public Collections

: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
: Tate Gallery, London, UK
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
: Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
: UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA