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Jared McGriff

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

Selected Solo Exhibitions

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

Selected Fair and Group Exhibitions

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

Bibliography

2025
Braver, Rita. "The art of boxing," CBS News, February 9 (Link)
2024
"Art meets boxing in Norton Museum’s "Strike fast, Dance Lightly"," Palm Beach Daily News, November 26
da Silva, José. "In pictures: sport at Art Basel," The Art Newspaper, June 14 (Link)
2023
Sokol, Brett. "Miami Has Matured into a Cultural Capital. What’s Next?," The New York Times, December 5 (Link)
Treaster, Joseph B. "Miami’s Rise as an Art Hub Draws Artists and Offers Inspiration," The New York Times, December 5 (Link)
Smith, Melissa. "6 Galleries Changing the Conversation at New York’s 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair," artnet news, May 19 (Link)
2022
Durón, Maximilíano. "At New York’s Armory Show, Dealers Sell Works Worth Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars," ArtNet News, September 9 (Link)
Gómez-Upegui, Salomé. "‘Fire, Figure, Fantasy’ Reflects Miami’s Thriving Art Scene, Frieze, July 7 (Link)
2021
Iglesias, José A. "After working in tech in the Bay Area, Jared McGriff moved to Miami to make art," Miami Herald, November 29 (Link)
Sokol, Bret. "Art Basel Miami Beach Returns, Smaller but Ready to Party," New York Times, November 24 (Link)
Sugarcane Staff. "NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale Presents First Solo Museum Exhibition of Miami Artist Jared McGriff," Sugarcane, November (Link)
Art Miami Magazine Staff. "Jared McGriff, first solo museum exhibition of Miami artist.," Art Miami Magazine, November 20 (Link)
Rodneu, Seph. "The Sun Also Shines In Florida," Hyperallergic, October 28 (Link)
2020
Sokol, Bret. "Art Basel Miami Beach Was Canceled, but the Show Goes On," New York Times, November 27 (Link)
2019
Warren, Kaylee. "‘Love in the Time of Hysteria’—3 Miami Basel artists reflect on artistic freedom in a world of social chaos," Document, December 4 (Link)
2018
VoyageMIA Staff. "Check out Jared McGriff’s Artwork," VoyageMIA, August 17 (Link)
2017
Hunter Davis, Melissa. "Studio Visit: Jared McGriff," July (Link)

Awards, Residencies, and Grants

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

Public Collections

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

April Bey

1987
Bahamian/American, Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
2014
MFA, California State University Northridge, CA
2009
BFA, Ball State University, Muncie, IN

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026
Solo Exhibition, Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
2024
"I See All The Way Back to Where I’m Supposed to See," Tern Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas
"We Insist Upon Ourselves, In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe," Two Person Show with Kim Dacres, UTA, Atlanta, GA
"I Know All About What You Want to Know All About," Vielmetter Los Angeles, CA
"Atlantican Opulencscapes Part II," Pasadena City College, Los Angeles, CA
"Atlantican Opulencscapes," Glendale Community College, Los Angeles, CA
2023
"Atlantica: The Gilda Region," Nevada Museum of Art, Reno NV
2022
"I Believe in Why I’m Here," Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
"Colonial Swag," Tern Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas
"When You’re on Another Planet and They Just Fly," Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"The Opulent Blerd," Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
"Intersections: Where Art & Activism Meet," Scalehouse Gallery, Bend, OR
2021
"April Bey: Atlantica, The Gilda Region," The California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2020
"April Bey, UNTITLED ART ONLINE," UPFOR Gallery, Portland, OR
"Welcome to Atlantica," Fullerton College Art Gallery, Fullerton, CA
2018
"Made in Space," Band of Vices Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017
"COMPLY," Coagula Curatorial, Los Angeles, CA
2014
"Picky Head," Liquid Courage Art Gallery, New Providence, Nassau, Bahamas

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026-2027
"Sown Together: New Voices in Contemporary Textile Art," Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC (forthcoming)
2026
"Countering the Canon," Samuel Bak Museum, Omaha, NE
"Dress Up, Speak Up: Regalia and Resistance," 21c Museum Hotel St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
"Into the Pluriverse," Sovern LA, Los Angeles, CA
"Ascendancy: The Self in Contemporary Art," Guest curated by Camilo Alvarez, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
"National Gallery of Victoria Triennial 2026," National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
"Material Prophecies: Craft as Divination," The Armory Center for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2025
"In the Life: Black Queerness — Looking Back, Moving Forward," Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Cambridge, MA
"To Be Seen," Jonathan Carver Moore, San Francisco, CA
“Unravaled,” Curated by Jayla Slate, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
"Dress Up, Speak Up: Regalia and Resistance," 21C Museum Hotel, Bentonville, AR
2024
"Green x Gold: Kingston Biennial 2024," National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
"Crafting The Future/The Shape Of Water," Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA
"REALMS," Carl Freedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom
"I’d Love To See You," Juxtapoz 30th Anniversary Show at Rusha & Co, Los Angeles, CA
"The Golden Thread," BravinLee Programs, New York, NY
"Poly/Graphic Triennial," Institute de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
"Backstage Engelberg," Engelberg, Switzerland
"Surrealism and Us: Caribbean African Diasporic Artists Since 1950," The Modern Forth Worth, Fort Worth, TX
2023
"UNTITLED," TERN Gallery, Nassau, Bahamas
“The Threads We Follow,” The Southwestern Center for Contemporary Art, NC
“(En)gendered Agency”, LH Horton Jr. Gallery, Stockton, CA
“The Speed of Grace,” Simões de Assis Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
“ROOTED,” Muzeo Museum and Cultural Center, Anaheim, CA
“WITNESS,” WACO Theater Center, Los Angeles, CA
“We Are Enough,” 193 Gallery, Paris, France
“Queer Threads,” San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA
“Weaving Data,” Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Portland State University, Portland, OR
“A Love Letter to LA,” PHILLIPS, Los Angeles, CA
“A Room Full of Mirrors”, Fragment Gallery, New York, NY
2022
“TEXT MESSAGES,” Grace Ross Shanley Gallery, The Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT
“New Pop Stars,” 21C Museum Hotel Chicago, Chicago, IL
“HAIRTAGE: Continuum,” Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA
“Common Ground: Artists Reimaging Community,” California Lutheran University Art Gallery, Thousand Oaks, CA
“Portraits of Metro Riders,” LA Metro, Los Angeles, CA
“Adornment Artifact,” The Getty, Los Angeles, CA
“Louder Now,” Fragment Gallery, Moscow, Russia (online)
“Salt to Catch Ghosts,” Slash Arts, San Francisco, CA
“Language in the Times of Miscommunication,” Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
“Cantos of the Sibylline Sisterhood,” Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
“Terms of Endearment”, Hilger Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2021
“She Says: Women, Words, and Power in Art,” Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA
“HAIRTAGE: Tangled,” Twisted & Black, Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA
“TEXTURES: The History and Art of Black Hair,” Kent State Museum, Kent, OH
“Floating Rib,” The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
2020
“Show Me the Signs," Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
“INVOCATION DEMOCRACY: A Political and Mystical Virtual Exhibition,” Presented by Pro Arts Commons
“Nasty Women,” Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“SPACELAND IV WAR,” Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles, CA
“Access,” Reflect Space Gallery, Glendale, CA
“Sanctuary,” California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
“Breathe/Breath,” Seer Virtual Gallery curated by: The Association of Hysteric Curators
2019
“Welcome to the AfroFuture,” New Orleans African American Museum, New Orleans, LA
“Dear Lucy,” UPFOR Gallery, Portland, OR
“Black, Brown and Beige,” Self-Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA
“From the Head to the Heart,” The Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT
“Atlantica,” Chimento Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
“LA Painting Survey,” Museum of Art History, Lancaster, CA
“BLACK HISTORY 365,” University of La Verne College of Law, Ontario, CA
“AMERICAN,” Golden West College Art Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA
“Black on Black III,” Raleigh Arts, Raleigh, NC
“NE9: The Fruit and the Seed,” The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
2018
Shika Shika Art Fair, Brazil House Gallery, Accra, Ghana
Visual Resistance, Fullerton College Art Gallery, Fullerton, CA
Glendale Community College Faculty Exhibition, Glendale, CA
“Back to Black,” Avenue 50 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Eye Forward,” Curating Our Narratives, Fresno State University, Fresno, CA
“Dis…Miss,” Freewaves Los Angeles, CA
“Eyes Forward,” LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
“MANIFESTO: A Moderate Proposal,” Pitzer College Art Gallery, Claremont, CA
2017
“The Fabulous 7,” Feral Projects, Los Angeles, CA
“Dis…Miss,” Freewaves, Los Angeles, CA
"CHALE WOTE," Jamestown, Ghana
"ICONIC: Black Panther," Gregorio Escalante Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016
"NE8," The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
"Shift and Fade," BLAM Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"Dis…Miss," Freewaves, Los, Angeles, CA
"Reflections on the Self: Selections from the Permanent Collection," California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
"SKIN," Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015
"Colored Girls," Autonomie Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"Hard Edged: Geometric Abstraction and Beyond," The California Africa American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
"CA 101," Redondo Beach Power Plant, Redondo Beach, CA
"Out of Nothing," Glen Echo Park Gallery, Washington DC
"We Choose Art: A Feminist Perspective," Los Angeles, CA
"50 Years and I Still Can’t Breathe," Watts Towers Arts Center, Watts, Los Angeles, CA
"Pulse of LA," Southern California Women’s Caucus of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2014
"Fresh," South Bay Contemporary, Southbay, CA
"Antillean: An Ecology (NE7)," National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
"GLAMFA," California State University, Long Beach, CA
"#Whodoyouworship?," Graduate Thesis Show, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA

Bibliography

2026
Ross, Claudia. "The Artists Working in Velvet, Amethyst, and Relics," Hyperallergic, July 16 (Link)
Art Daily Staff. "Women artists shaping the visual language of figuration and Pop Surrealism," ArtDaily, July 1
"Burned Land, Read in Clay and Cloth: A Free Pasadena Show Closes Aug. 1," Pasadena Now, June 27 (Link)
"Armory and Altadena Library Team Up for Free Teen Workshop on Wildfire and Renewal," Pasadena Now, June 19 (Link)
Hooks, Ciara. "20 things to do this weekend in Connecticut: Teddy Swims and the Montville Food Truck Festival," New Haven Register, June 4 (Link)
Riefe, Jordan. "Here’s What You Missed Off Frieze at Felix, BUTTER and Beyond," Observer, March 3 (Link)
"Material Prophecies: Craft as Divination," PBS SoCal, February 15 (Link)
Stromberg, Matt. "15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Spring," Hyperallergic, February 3 (Link)
"Craft as Divination: Armory Opens Group Exhibition Exploring Memory and Ritual," Pasadena Now, February 3 (Link)
Bosselman, Haley. "Butter LA Will Debut at Hollywood Park During Art Week," Los Angeles Magazine, January 31 (Link)
"Inaugural Los Angeles Edition of BUTTER Fine Art Fair Coming to Hollywood Park," SoFi Stadium, January 27 (Link)
Cormaci, Carol. "Blasphemy or bold expression? Artwork displayed at JWA causes stir," January 20 (Link)
2025
Rinaldi, Ray Mark. "In a culture of fear, every art show feels like a dangerous act," The Denver Post, September 22
Frank, Annalise. "Frame Work: Past and future Black queer perspectives," Axios Detroit, August 27
ArtNet Gallery Staff. "4 Art Advisors Weigh In on Who to Watch at Untitled Art, Houston’s Inaugural Fair," August 25
Bosselman, Haley. "L.A. Weekend Guide: Black Business Scavenger Hunt, Some Like It Hot at the Pantages, Butter Art Fair," LA Magazine, July 31
Bravo, Tony. "In a year of erasure, queer art reminds us we exist," San Francisco Chronicle, June 24 (Link)
Morici, Abigail. "Dream Weavers," Memphis Flyer, June 11 (Link)
Jones Okla. "“To Be Seen” Is A Powerful Portrait Of Black Queer Visibility," Essence Magazine, June 6 (Link)
Blue, Max. "Six art shows San Franciscans need to see this summer," The San Francisco Examiner, June 2 (Link)
Keenan, Annabel. "Don’t miss these seven artists at Frieze Los Angeles," Wallpaper*, February 6
2024
Frieze Los Angeles Staff. "Eight Standout Solo Shows at Frieze Los Angeles 2025," Frieze, December (Link)
Baker, Cheona. "Crafted Kinship: Inside the Creative Practices of Contemporary Black Caribbean Makers," The Brooklyn Rail, December (Link)
Orozco, Jonathan. "April Bey Asks Us “Will you watch me win?”," WhiteHot Magazine, October 28 (Link)
Boucher, Brian. "Why Fiber Art Is (Still) Having a Moment as Prices and Recognition Continue to Climb," Artnet, June 18 (Link)
Valentine, Victoria L., "Latest News in Black Art: April Bey and Paul Anthony Smith Join New Galleries, Nigel Freeman Heading Fine Art at Swann Auctions, Inaugural Artnoir Fellow & More," CultureType, May 18
Carlo, Pier. "April Bey," Thomas S. Kenan Institute For The Arts, March 18 (Link)
Novoa, Gabriel. "April Bey’s ‘Atlantica’: An alien planet with a human story," PCC Courier, March 18 (Link)
Pasadena Now Staff. "PCC Galleries Unveils Dazzling Exploration Of Afrofuturism By Bahamian Artist," The Pasadena Now, March 10
2023
Modern Luxury Dallas Magazine Staff. "State Of The Arts: 9 Visual Artists Leading The Cultural Conversation Right Now," Modern Luxury Dallas Magazine, November 15 (Link)
Morrison, Alexander. "In pictures: focus on Caribbean artists," The Art Newspaper, December 8 (Link)
"Wide-Eyed and Dreaming—A Season of Seeing in Four Acts," e-flux, October 28
"TERN Gallery at The Armory Show 2023," Artsy, September 8
"Wide-Eyed And Dreaming: A Season of Seeing at the Nevada Museum of Art," Nevada Today, August 29
Bean, Jason. "Artist April Bey talks about fantasy and undercover aliens in "Atlantica, The Gilda Region"," Reno Gazette Journal, August 28
Holmes, Brent. "Q+A with April Bey," Double Scoop, August 21 (Link)
Evan Pricco & Doug Gillen. "April Bey," Juxtapoz Magazine, March
2022
Bochicchio, Sarah. "Thriving on Atlantica: April Bey & her Speculative Futurism," Art&Object, September 15
Eddy Frankel. "April Bey: ‘I Believe in Why I’m Here," Time Out, September 8
Donoghue, Katy. "April Bey Brings the Story of Atlantica to The Bahamas and Beyond," Whitewall, August 3
2023
Jackson, Leigh-Ann. "‘Few people ask us what we think about ourselves’: This L.A. art show elevates Black women and nonbinary artists," The LA Times, May 8
2022
Orozco, Jonathan. "On Atlantica: April Bey’s Utopian Planet," Whitehot Magazine, May
Lawrence, Gabrielle. "Brimming with Lush Texture, Mixed-Media Tapestries by April Bey Envision an Afrofuturist World," Colossal, May 5
Stromber, Matt and Elisa Wouk Almino. "Your Concise Los Angeles Art Guide for March 2022," February 28
Piejko, Jennifer. "Los Angeles: seven must-see shows on view now," Art Basel, Feb
2021
Ortiz, Maria Elena. "Colonial Swag Fashion: A Conversation between April Bey and María Elena Ortiz" Pérez Art Museum Miami, Caribbean Cultural Institute
Dexter, Henry. "April Bey Is an Emissary for the Unseen," Cultured Magazine, November 23

Teaching Experience

2015 – Present
Tenured Professor, Glendale Community College, Glendale, CA
2015-2016
Inglewood Cultural Arts Instructor, Inglewood, CA
2014-2015
Adjunct Professor, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Instructor, artworxla, Los Angeles, CA
Ryman Teaching Artist, Fullerton, CA
2012-2014
Adjunct Professor California, State University Northridge, CA

Exhibition Catalogues and Publications

2024
Barnett, Malene. "Crafted Kinship: Inside the Creative Practices of Contemporary Black Caribbean Makers," Hatchett Book Group, New York, NY (2024)
2023
Minnis, Jodi. "April Bey: The Opulent Blerd," The Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH), Lancaster, CA (2023)

Visiting Artist/Lectures

2022
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA
Chadwick School, Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA
Kent State University, Kent, OH
Cypress College, Cypress, CA
2021
Cypress College, Cypress, CA
Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
Pomona College, Pomona, CA
Glendale Hoover High, Glendale, CA
2020
University of the Bahamas, Nassau, The Bahamas
Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL
Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA
Fullerton College, Fullerton, CA
Women Painter’s West, Laguna Beach, CA
2019
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
University of Alaska, Anchorage, Anchorage, AK
Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, CA
Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Chapman University, Orange, CA
2018
Art+Practice, Los Angeles, CA
The MAIN Museum, Los Angeles, CA
California African American Museum (CAAM), Los Angeles, CA

Residencies, Scholarships, & Prizes

2024
"UNION Fellowship," The Union for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
2020
Self-Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA
Fullerton College Artist in Residency, Fullerton, CA
2019
Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Artist in Residence, Norwalk, CT
Nkyinkyim za, Ada, Ghana
2018
The Current, Nassau, Bahamas
In-Flux Artist Residency, Ghana, West Africa
2017
In-Flux Artist Residency, Bali, Dubai, Senegal, Morocco, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana
CHALE WOTE, Jamestown, Ghana
2012
Can Serrat Artist in Residence, El Bruc, Spain

Selected Awards & Grants

2020
Center for Cultural Innovation Artist Grant
2019
GCC Foundation Grant
Student Equity Grant
2017
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant Nominee
2015
Melvin Best Award
2014
CSUN Arts Council Award

Public Art Projects

2022
For Freedoms, Inglewood Mural
2021
Fringe Projects MiamiDesign District
Glendale Library Arts and Culture
2020
Destination Crenshaw Outdoor Museum Finalist
Census Campaign East LA: Make It Count!
LA METRO Willowbrook Through the Artist’s Eyes

Public Collections

21C Museum Hotels
California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT
The Current Bahamas Tradewinds, Marsh Harbour, Bahamas
Escalette Collection, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Fenix Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Floating Museum, Alameda, CA
Fullerton College Art Gallery, Fullerton, CA
Inter-American Development Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Kistefos Museum, Oslo, Norway
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA
METRO Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Newfelds Indianapolis Art Museum, Indianapolis, IN
Self-Help Graphics, Boyle Heights, CA

Kiriakos Tompolidis

1997
Born in Essen, Germany
Currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany
2024
Diploma in Fine Arts at the University of Arts, Berlin, Germany
2018
Freie Universität Berlin and University of Arts, Berlin, Germany
2016
University Duisburg-Essen Germany, Essen Folkwang, Germany

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026
"The Quiet Hour," Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (forthcoming)
2025
"Your Tears Will Dry," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2024
"Kiriakos Tompolidis: The More It Hurts, the Less It Shows," Galerie Judin, Berlin, Germany
2023
"Kiriakos Tompolidis: God Loves You (But Not as Much to Save You)," Labor, Mexico City, Mexico
"Kiriakos Tompolidis: Don’t Forget to Live," Miettinen Collection, Berlin, Germany
"Kiriakos Tompolidis: I know that I know Nothing," The Cabin, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025
"Icons, Archetypes, and Portraits," North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
"14th Taipei Biennial: Whispers on the Horizon," Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
2024
"GEGEN DEN STRICH," Schloss Sacrow, Potsdam, Germany
"New Works by Lavaughan Jenkins, Mario Joyce, Raffi Kalenderian, Kiriakos Tompolidis," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2023
Group Show, Green Family Foundation, Dallas, TX
"We Are A Way For The Cosmos To Know Itself," Bode Gallery, Berlin, Germany
"SIRANI," Gallery Judin, Berlin, Germany
2022
"Garten of Performance," Fünfter Löffel, Berlin, Germany
2021
"Ein Sommer in Neukladow," curated by Miriam-Esther Owesle, Ghotische Haus, Germany
2020
"Die letzte Blaue," benzinLAB, Germany
2019
"Kunstspur Essen," Open Studios, Essen, Germany
C.A.R. Contemporary Art Ruhr Innovative Art, Essen, Germany

Bibliography

2025
Rathe, Adam. "Is Wallpaper the Art World’s Next Big Thing?," Town and Country Magazine, July 28 (Link)
Porterfield, Carlie. "Independent art fair adjusts as market slows," The Art Newspaper, May 9 (Link)
2023
Plotnikova, Valentina. "In Conversation With Kiriakos Tompolidis | Episode 24," Bode Gallery (Link)
Labor Staff. "KIRIAKOS TOMPOLIDIS: GOD LOVES YOU (BUT NOT AS MUCH TO SAVE YOU)," Onda MX, October
Mutual Art Staff. "Kiriakos Tompolidis: Don’t Forget to Live," MutualArt, September 02
Werther, Wilhelm. "Kiriakos Tompolidis," Woz Die Wochenzeitung, May
Sutton, Benjamin. "’Just relax. You don’t have to have everything’: Danny First shares advice for new collectors and his fantasy of sitting for Lucian Freud," The Art Newspaper, February 16

Public Collections

North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND

Hayv Kahraman

1981
Born in Baghdad, Iraq
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
2006
University of Umeå, Sweden
2005
Accademia di arte e design di Firenze, Florence, Italy

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026
"What cannot be said will be wept," Pilar Corrias, London, UK
"Libations," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2025
"Ghost Fires," Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2024-2025
"Look Me in the Eyes," ICA San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Traveling to Fyre Art Museum Museum of Fine Arts, Seattle, WA
2024
"She has no name," Pilar Corrias, London, UK
"The Foreign in Us," The Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, TX
2023
"Gut Feelings: Part II," The Third Line, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE
2022
"Gut Feelings," The Mosaic Rooms, Tower House, London, UK
"Hayv Kahraman: The Touch of Otherness," SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
2021
"The Touch of Otherness," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2020
"Hayv Kahraman," Pilar Corrias, London, UK
2019
"Hayv Kahraman: Not Quite Human," Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
“To the Land of the Waqwaq," Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design, Honolulu, HI
"Hayv Kahraman: 
Superfluous Bodies," Museum of Art in Honolulu, HI
"Hayv Kahraman: Displaced Choreographies," curated by Rosie Cooper, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexill On Sea, Sussex, UK (Link)
2018
"Silence Is Gold," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"Project Series 52: Hayv Kahraman," Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA (Link)
2017
"Re-weaving Migrant Inscriptions," Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY (Link)
"Acts of Reparation," Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO (Link)
2016
"Audible Inaudible," The Third Line, Dubai, UAE
"Artist Drawing Club: Sound Wounds," Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA (Link)
"Hayv Kahraman," Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
"A Change of Place: Four Solo Exhibitions," The School, Kinderhook, NY
2015
"How Iraqi Are You?," Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2014
"Collective Performance," Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, KS; Duke University, Durham, NC
2013
"Let the Guest be the Master," Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2012
"Extimacy," The Third Line Gallery, Dubai
2010
"Pins and Needles," The Third Line Gallery, Dubai
"Seven Gates," Green Cardamom Gallery, London, UK
"Waraq," Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009
"Marionettes," The Third Line Gallery, Doha, Qatar
2007
"Celebrating Women in the Arts," Diyarbakir, Turkey

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025
"General Conditions," Jack Shainman Gallery, The School, New York, NY
"HT25 (Hawai’i Triennial 2025)," Hawai’i Contemporary, O‘ahu, Maui, and Hawai‘i Island, HI (Link)
"Irreplaceable You: Personhood and Dignity in Art, 1980s to Now," The Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA), Brunswick, ME
2024-2025
"Three Tired Tigers," Jameel Arts Center, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2024
"Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World," San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
"The Infinite Woman," Foundation Villa Carmignac, France
"Ten Thousand Suns," Sydney Bienniale, Sydney, Australia
2023
“Women on the Verge,” Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
"The Inescapable Intertwining of All Lives," Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany (Link)
"O Quilombismo," Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, Germany
"Women Defining Women In Contemporary Art of the Middle East and Beyond," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2022
"In The Heart of Another Country," Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
"Stressed World," Jack Shainman Gallery, The School, Kinderhook, NY
"Women Painting Women," The Modern, Fort Worth, TX
2021-2022
"Our whole, unruly selves," San José Museum of Art, San José, CA (Link)
2021
"Reflections contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa," The British Museum, London, UK (Link)
"Anti/Body," Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY (Link)
2020
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2020-2021
“New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century,” Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
2019-2020
“Driving Forces: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Ann and Ron Pizzuti,” Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
“In Plain Sight,” Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2019
“I Will See It, When I Believe It," Third Line gallery, Dubai, UAE
"When Home Won’t Let you Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art," curated by Eva Respini, ICA Boston, Boston, MA
2019-2020
“Suffering from Realness,” MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (Link)
2019
"Pulse," Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
2018
"Still I Rise," Nottingham Contemporary, UK; De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK
"Jameel Prize 5," curated by Salma Tuqan, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
2017
"The Centre Cannot Hold," curated by Suzanne Egeran, Near East, Istanbul, Turkey
"Between Two Rounds of Fire, The Exile of the Sea: Modern and Contemporary Works from the Barjeel Art Collection, United Arab Emirates," The American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington D.C.
”Dreamers Awake,” White Cube Gallery, London, UK
"The Art Show: Art of the New Millennium in the Taguchi Art Collection," The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
2016
"Making Her Mark," Mattuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
"Us is Them," The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
"No Mans Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection," Rubell Collection, Miami, FL; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C
"Winter in America," The School, Kinderhook, New York, NY
2015
"Piece by Piece: Building a Collection," Kemper Musem of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
"June: A Painting Show," Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
"UNREALISM: Presented by Larry Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch," The Moore Building, Miami, FL
"5th Thessaloniki Biennale: Old Intersections-Make it Νew ΙΙΙ," curated by Katerina Gregos, Greek State Museum, Thessaloniki, Greece
"Minor Heroisms," Galeri Zilberman, Istanbul, Turkey
2014
"The Shape of Things," Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
"Neighors: contemporary narratives from Turkey and beyond," curated by Celenk Bafra, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey
"Contemporary Narratives from Turkey and Beyond," curated by Çelenk Bafra and Paolo Colombo, Istanbul Modern, Turkey
"Mise En Scène," The School, Kinderhook, NY
"Now Babylon – Architecture, Culture and Identity," curated by Kjeld Kjeldse, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
2013
"Jameel Prize," Victoria & Albert Museum; San Antonia Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX; Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, CA
"Echoes: Islamic Art and Contemporary Artists," Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO
"The Beginning of Thinking is Geometric," curated by Sara Raza, Maraya Art Center, Dubai, UAE
"Silk," curated by Jane Neal, Highlight Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012
"Fertile Crescent," Rutgers Paul Robeson Gallery, Newark, NJ
"Newtopia: The State of Human Rights," Kazerne Dossin Museum, Mechelen, Belgium
"Cross-Currents: Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary Art of the Islamic World," curated by Jessica Hunter-Larsen, I.D.E.A. Space, Colorado Springs, CO
"Look Both Ways," Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011-2013
"The Jameel Prize 2011 – Shortlist Exhibition," curated by Salma Tuqan, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; Travelled to: Casa Arabe, Madrid, Spain; Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
2011
"The State: Social/Antisocial?," curated by Rami Farook, The Third Line Gallery and Traffic Dubai, UAE
"Disquieting Muses," curated by Syrago Tsiara, Thessaloniki State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
"I Don’t Need Your Money Honey, All I Need Is Love," Traffic Gallery, Dubai, UAE
"Of Women’s Modesty and Anger," Villa Empain/Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
2010
"The Silk Road," Le Tri Postal, Lille, France
"Women Painters From Five Continents," Osart Gallery, Milan, Italy
2009
"Balla-Drama," Paradise Row Gallery, London, UK
"Echo," Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Sharjah Biennial," Sharjah, UAE
"Taswir: Pictorial Mapping of Islam and Modernity," Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
"Unveiled; New Art from the Middle East," Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2008
"Hayv Kahraman & I-Ling Eleen Lin," Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York, NY
"Local Produce," The Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2007
"Life Drawing," The Third Line, Dubai, UAE
"Celebrating Women in the Arts," Diyarbakir, Turkey
2006
"Demons," Phoenix Theatre, Phoenix, AZ
2005
Alumni show, Accademia di Arte e Design, Florence, Italy

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2024
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2023
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2022
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2021
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2020
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2019
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2018
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2017
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2016
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2015
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Monica, Lauren P. Della, "Bodies of Work – Contemporary Figurative Painting," [S.l.]: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Roselione-Valadez, Juan, Tami-Katz Freiman, and Anna Stothart, "No Man’s Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection"
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2014
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2012
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2011
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2009
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Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books

2022
Morrill, Rebecca, et al., eds. Great Women Painters. London, Phaidon, 2022.
2021
Hernandez, Jasmin. We Are Here: Visionaries of Color Transforming the Art World. Abrams, Incorporated. 2021.
Bose, Melia. Intersections: Art and Islamic Cosmopolitanism. University of Florida Press, 2021.
DiQuinzio, A., Hejinian, L., and Butler, J. (2021). New time: Art and feminisms in the 21st Century. Pg 96-97. University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
2020
al-Hariri, Impostures. NYU Press, New York, NY, 2020.
2019
Respini, Eva, and Ruth Erickson. When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration Through Contemporary Art. Yale University Press, 2019.
Kennedy, Madeleine. The Enchanted Interior. 2019.
Markonish, Denise. Suffering from Realness. Prestel Publishing, 2019.
Rebecca Morrill, Karen Wright, and Louisa Elderton, Great Women Artists. London, Phaidon, 2019.
Ibel, Rebecca, Nannette V. Maciejunes, and Dara Pizzuti. Driving Forces: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Ann and Ron Pizzuti. Columbus Museum of Art. Hopkins Printing, 2019: pp. 70-71, Illustrated.
2018
Wassan, Al-Khudhairi, et al. Hayv Kahraman. Rizzoli Electa, 2018.
Kahraman, Hayv, Rebecca McGrew, Madina Tlostanova, and Sinan Antoon. Hayv Kahraman: Project 52 Series, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.: New York, NY (Link)
2017
Kahraman, Hayv, Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Walter Mignolo, Octavio Zaya, J. Martin Daughtry, and Loren Olson. Hayv Kahraman: Acts of Reparation, Artbook/D.A.P: New York, NY (Link)
Luard, Honey. Dreamers Awake, Curated by Susanna Greeves (exhibition catalogue). White Cube Bermondsey, London, United Kingdom, June – September 2017: p. 68-69, illustrated.
Kufer, Katrina. Sharjah’s Barjeel Art Foundation Collection on Show in Washington DC. Harper’s Bazar Arabia, October 2017.
Fowler, Nancy. Is upcoming Contemporary Art Museum exhibition opportunity for a do-over? St. Louis Public Radio, St. Louis, Missouri, 2 August 2017.
2016
Morrill, Rebecca, Kathryn Rattee, and Julia Hasting. Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting. London, New York: Phaidon Press Limited, 2016: pp. 146-149, illustrated.
2015
Marten, Helen and James Cahill. June: A Painting Show, (exhibition catalogue), Sadie Coles HQ, June 9 – August 15, 2015: illustrated.
Roselione-Valadez, Juan, Tami-Katz Freiman, and Anna Stothart. No Man’s Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection
Monica, Lauren P. Della. Bodies of Work – Contemporary Figurative Painting. [S.l.]: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
2014
Ayad, Myrna, Virginia Blackburn, Adnan Z Manjal, and Wided Khadraoui. Contemporary Kingdom: The Saudi Art Scene Now. 2014.
Rubell Family Collection, and Juan Roselione-Valadez. Rubell Family Collection: Highlights & Artists’ Writings. 2014: 598-599, illustrated.
2012
Le Corps DÈcouvert, 2012, Institut du monde arabe, p. 19, 94, illustrated.
Brodsky, Judith, Olin, Ferris, Baum, Kelly, Badran, Margot. The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art and Society. Rutgers University Institute for Women and Art
2011
Gavin, Francesca. Despite moments of clarity, there is no ‘ism’ in this book. 100 New Artists. Laurence King Publishing, 2011: p. 128-131, illustrated.
2009
Shabout, Nada. New Vision: Arab Art and the Twenty-First Century. London: Transglobe Publishing Ltd.
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Taswir: Pictorial Mappings of Islam and Modernity. Berliner Festspiele, Berlin
Farjam, Lisa. Saatchi Gallery Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East. London: Booth-Clibborn Editions

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2018
Jameel Prize 5, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
2014
Excellence in Cultural Creativity, Global Thinkers Forum Awards
2011
Jameel Prize Short Listed Artist, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

Public Collections

American Embassy, Baghdad, Iraq
The Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
The British Museum, London, UK
Ford Foundation, New York, NY
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA
MATHAF Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, QC, Canada
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
Oppenheim Collection at the Nerman Museum, KS
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, FL
Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
Pomona College Museum of Art, Pomona, CA
Rennie Collection, Vancouver, Canada
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Taltham, MA
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
San José Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

Steve Roden

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

Selected Solo Exhibitions

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

Selected Group Exhibitions

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

Selected Sound Performances, Installations, Film Screenings

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

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2008
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Harvey, Doug, "Some Paintings, LA Weekly, January 9
Knight, Christopher, "Around the Galleries: Mark Flores at David Kordanksy Gallery, Los Angeles Times, February 22
Marley, Brian, "George Brecht / A Christmas Play for Joseph Cornell, The Wire, May
2007
Perez-Barreiro, Gabriel, "6a Biena do Mercosul Zona Franca, exhibition catalog
Taylor, Kate, "Seeing a Symphony on a Grid, The New York Sun
Santanna, Cristiano, "A Festa Das Artes, Correio Do Povo, December 1
Hanor, Stephanie, "Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling, exhibition catalog
Loomis, Nicky, "Artwork to Your Ears, Pasadena Star News, April 16
Licht, Alan, "Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories, Rizzoli International Publications, pp. 26-30, 286-287
Green, Kate, "Steve Roden and Stephen Vitiello, Modern Painters, December 2007January 2008
Knight, Christopher, "They Help Make the L.A. Scene, Los Angeles Times, December 2
Larsson, Jorgen, "Sleppet, Grieg 07, Norway, exhibition catalog
2006
Knight, Christopher, "45 Painters Under 45, Los Angeles Times, December 2
Kubisch, Christina, "Best of 2006: Music, Artforum, December
Kafetsi, Anna, The Grand Promenade (exhibition catalogue), Hellenic Ministry of Culture and National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Holte, Michael Ned, "Steve Roden: Sound, paintings, and process; Alexander Graham Bell, kites and a grandmothers attic, Frieze, November/December, p. 145
Higgie, Jennifer, "The Grand Promenade, Frieze, November/December, p. 174
Lippens, Nate, "Roden Gives the Passage of Time An Amazing Aural Quality, Seattle PI, September 29
Frank, Peter, "Art Pick: A Lot of Local Abstraction, LA Weekly, September 27
Meade, Fionn, "Editors Choice: Art, Bomb Magazine, Fall
Cascella, Daniela, "Presenze Sonore/ Sonic Presences, Turin, Italy, CD catalogue essay
Meade, Fionn, "Sounding Architecture, www.nyfa.com, August
Valerio Deh, Steve Roden, show catalogue, Studio la Citt, Verona
Burk, Greg, "Bondage and multidiscipline, LA Weekly, March 01 (reproduction)
Harvey, Doug, "Glossolalia for Dummies, LA Weekly, February 22
2005
Vitiello, Steve, " Music: Best of 2005, Artforum, December, pg. 74
1+1+1, UK, Autumn, entire issue devoted to the exhibition "sounds like drawing", incl.
transcribed symposium and reproductions, 12 pages oversize
Rocco Moliterni, Scultura, La Stampa, Italy, Marzo 19, [reproduction]
Edwin Pouncy, Outer Limits, The Wire, UK, October, pp. 73
Steve Roden, Inner Sleeve, The Wire, UK, August, pp. 83 [reproduction]
__, Seamarks, San Francisco Art Institute, exhibition catalog, 36 pages [reproductions]
Bieber, Susanneh, "Steve Roden Transmissions from Space, Fresno Metropolitan Museum, exhibition brochure, 6 pages, [reproductions]
Heffley, Lynne, "An All-Around Soundfest, LA Times, august 19, pp:E2
Cassidy, Laura, "Surround Sound, Seattle Weekly, August 31, pp: 23 29
Lippens, Nate, "Correspondence Courses, The Stranger, Seattle WA, September 1, pp. 38 [reproduction]
Graves, Jen, "Bumbershoot Art Exhibit Links Sights, Unmusical Sounds, The News Tribune, Tacoma WA, September 4, pp. E4
Hackett, Regina, Art Review, Seattle Post Intelligencer, September 2, pp: 33
Simone Menegoi, Sebatiano Barassi, Daniela Cascella, Light Sculpture/Scultura Leggera, exhibition catalog, 503 Mulino, Italy, 188 pages, [reproductions]
Dr. Frauke von der Horst, Alan Nakagawa, Steve Roden, SoundWalk 2005, Flood, 16 page catalog & CD, includes the essay Active Listening by Steve Roden
Richard Janku, Laura, "Steve Roden, ArtUS, may/june, pp:24 25 [reproduction]
AA Bronson, Joeg Heiser, "Guido de Werd, EN/OF 001 – 030, Museum Kirhaus Kleve, Germany, 124 page, book & 3 X CD in slipcase
Canty, Scott, COLA 2005, Catalogue, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Dept., 88 pages [reproductions]
__, I10, exhibition catalog, Mcclean Gallery, Houston, Tx, 18 pages [reproduction]
Ned Holte, Michael, "Percussion Music, Artforum.com, Picks, March
Cox, Christoph, "On Time: The Loop and the Line, exhibition essay
Meade, Fionn, "In Resonance, Seattle Center (catalog essay)
Menegoi, Simone, "Light Sculpture Scultura leggera, essay from exhibition catalog with Wolfgang Laib, Gabriel Orozco, Erwin Wurm and Rachelk Whiteread.
Cascella, Daniela, "Listening Places, exhibition essay "Light Sculpture Scultura leggera (catalog)
Canty, Scott, COLA exhibition catalog, pg.40-41
Richard Janku, Laura, "Steve Roden, Art US, May Issue
Grundberg, Andy, "Loop: What Gose Around, Washington Post, March 20
Nolte, Michael, "Percussion Music", Artforum Pick, Artforum, March 10
2004
Hart, Hugh, "Artists plant new ideas about nature at Pasadena sites", LA Times, November
Cox, Christoph, "Treble", ArtForum, No.8, Pg.262, September
"Audio Files -Sound Art Now: An Online Symposium", Artforum, August 3
Frank, Peter, Art Pick of the Week, LA Weekly, July 31
Pagel, David, "A lively intellect that bucks the system", Los Angeles Times, E27, July 23
Licht, Alan, "New York Sculpture Center", WIRE, Issue 245, July
Holte, Michael Ned, "Steve Roden – Susanne Vielmetter", Los Angeles Critic’s Pick, ArtForum.com, July 17
O’Brien, John, "Activism isn’t a four letter word", Art Scene, June, Vol. 23, No.10
Harvey, Doug, "Stranded – the connected lives of Steve Roden", LA Weekly, April 30 – May 6
Cox, Christoph, ArtForum, May, issue, pg. 70
Kofoed, Kristian, "The Sound of Art – A conversation with Steve Roden", Artweek, October issue, pg 12 and 29
Cox, Christoph, "Return to Form", ArtForum, November
Knight, Christopher, "A game of show and tell", Los Angeles Times, November 21
Knight, Christopher, "Smaller, more creative", Los Angeles Times, December 21
Cutajar, Mario, "Painting by Letters", ArtScene, November, Vol. 23, No. 3
Cox, Christoph, "Return to Form,", ArtForum, November issue, pg. 67
Hall, Emily, The Stranger, Seattle, June 26 – July 2, Vol. 12, No. 41
LaBelle, Charles, "Steve Roden – Pomona College and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects", Frieze Magazine, May
Schulz, Bernd, "Resonances – Aspects of Sound Art", Catalog, Stadtgalerie Saarbruecken, Saarbruecken, Germany
Cox, Christoph, "Case Sensitive", feature article in WIRE, Issue 229, March, pg. 28-31
Knight, Christopher, "Encoded Creations (Steve Roden at Pomona College Museum and at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects", Los Angeles Times, January 27
"Steve Roden – the another silent green world", exhibition catalog, Pomona College Museum of Art
Frank, Peter, Art Pick of the Week, LA Weekly, January 24 – 30
Guido Curto, Steve Roden e/Static, Flash Art, Oct./Nov., Italy
Chiara Bertola, Steve Roden e/Static, Tema Celeste, Sept., Italy
Some Reconstructions of Wandering and Inner Space, Exhibition Catalog, Santa Barbara
CAF, Essays by Meg Linton & Christoph Cox., Santa Barbara, CA
Doug Harvey, Chaos Theory …, LA Weekly, June 7 13
Eric Fredericksen, Art of Noise, Architecture Magazine, May
BT Monthly Art Magazine, Vol. 54, no. 821, June, Japan
Eleanor Welles, Steve Roden, ArtScene, May, CA
2001
Snapshot, Exhibition Catalog, UCLA Hammer Museum, CA
Louanne Greenwald, In Between Art & Architecture, Exhibition Catalog, Mak Center for Art & Architecture, CA
David Pagel, Down to Earth & Eye Catching, LA Times, Oct. 16
Shana Dambrot, Snapshot, Tema Celeste, Oct., Italy
Elisa Turner, A Visual Tale of Two Cities, Miami Herald, Oct. 28
Aric Chen, How Many Inches, Surface Magazine, Spring, USA
Doug Harvey, Multiple Exposures, LA Weekly, june 22 28
2000
Olivier Lamm, Poesie del la Matiere, Planet of Sound, France
M. Moniot, Art Reviews, San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 22
Daniella Cascella, Costelazioni Sonore, Artel Contemporanei, no. 2, Italy
1999
Drawing Papers I, The Drawing Center, NY, exhibition catalog
Rob Young, Of Architecture & the Ear, The Wire, Oct., London, UK
Steve Roden & Brandon Labelle editors, Site Of Sound, Smart Art Press / Errant bodies, Los Angeles, CA
1998
Tyler Stallings, Review, Zing Magazine, Summer
Doug Harvey, Steve Roden, Art Issues, Jan., No. 51
Bradley Smith, The Billboard Guide to Progressive Music, Billboard Publications, USA
1997
Translations & Articulations, Exhibition Catalog, Griffin Contemporary Exhibitions, essays by Christopher Miles, B. Labelle, & Steve Roden

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

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

Public Collections

Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA
Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin, TX
Cerritos College Art Gallery, Cerritos College, CA
College of the Art Galleries at CSU Fullerton, California State University, Fullerton, CA
de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Grunwald Center Collection, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Janet Turner Print Museum, California State University, Chico, CA
Long Beach City College, Public Art Program, Long Beach, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
National Museum of Contemporary Art / Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Athens, Greece
Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA
Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Phyllis and Ross Escalatte Permanent Collection of Art, Wilkinson College of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Pomona College Museum of Art, Pomona, CA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Ruby City, San Antonio, TX
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA
University of Maryland Art Gallery, College of Art & Humanities, College Park, MD
Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC

Liz Glynn

1981
Born in Boston, MA
Lives and works in Los Angeles
2008
MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2003
BA, Harvard College, Visual and Environmental Studies, Cambridge, MA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026
"Liz Glynn: American Progress (after John Gast)," Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
2023
"The Futility of Conquest," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2019
"Emotional Capital," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Terra Techne," San Francisco International Airport Terminal 1, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
“Technological Toolboxes,” Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
2018
"The Fear Index," LIVE, Frieze, London, UK
"Open House," Now+There, Boston, MA
2017
"The Archaeology of Another Possible Future," MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
"Open House," Doris C. Freedman Plaza, The Public Art Fund, New York, NY
"The Myth of Singularity," Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
2015
"The Myth of Singularity," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
"PATHOS (Exercise Series)," Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
2014
"RANSOM ROOM," SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY
"HOLD NOTHING," ArtPACE, San Antonio, TX
"On the Possibility of Salvage," Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
2013
"VAULT," Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair, Randall’s Island, NY
"[de]-lusions of Grandeur," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2012
"HOARD," Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
"gold after gold," Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
"black box," as part of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s Pacific Standard Time Performance Art and Public Art Festival, produced by Glenn Phillips & Lauri Firstenberg, Los Angeles, CA
"No Second Troy," Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont, CA
"Spirit Resurrection," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA
2011
"Loving You is Like _ _ _ _ _ _ _ the Dead," MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
"Alexandria and Other Losses," Works Sited, Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, CA
2010
"III," produced by Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Out of the Forest & Into the Light," Machine Project & the L.A. Opera Ring Cycle Festival, Los Angeles, CA
"California Surrogates for the Getty," Anthony Greaney, Boston, MA
2009
"The 24-Hour Roman Reconstruction Project," Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX
"65 | 77 | 03 | -," workspace, Los Angeles, CA
"All that is solid," Anthony Greaney, Boston, MA
2008
"The 24-Hour Roman Reconstruction Project," Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026
"Ongoingness," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2025-2026
"Future Fossils," MassArt Art Museum, Boston, MA. Traveling to: Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA (2025); Torggler Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA (2026)
2025
"Borderline," Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
"Sam Moyer: Woman with Holes," Hill Art Foundation, New York, NY
2024
"The Infinite Woman" Fondation Villa Carmignac, France
2023-2024
"Gilded: Contemporary Artists Explore Value and Worth," Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC. Traveling to: Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga TN (2023-2024); Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, NH (2024).
2023
"Ecstatic: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2022
“Contemporary Antiquity,” Paula Cooper Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
"Working Thought," The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
“STAND: The Watermill Center Annual Summer Benefit, Water Mill, NY
“Strange”, Centro Andaluz the Arte Contemporanea, Seville, Spain
“Stitched,” Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
“No Forms”, curated by Margot Norton, Hill Art Foundation, New York, NY
"51 @ 51," Rennie Museum, Vancouver, Canada
2021
“Tides of the Century,” Ocean Flower Island Museum, Danzhou, Hainin, China
“Carte Blanche: A Changing Exhibition,” Paula Cooper Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
2020
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2019
"Tabula Rasa: The Watermill’s 26th Annual Summer Benefit & Auction," The Watermill Center, Water Mill, NY
"Todo en ti fue naufragio," curated by Jared Baxter, Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
"Non-Vicious Circle," Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
"Sculpture," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Unearthed Underground" in "Fiction," Bold Tendencies, London, UK (Link)
"Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Liz Glynn, Robert Grosvenor, Justin Matherly, Paul Pfeiffer," Paula Cooper, New York, NY
"The American Scene," National Museum of Ceramics, Sevres, France
"Pfeiffer," Paula Cooper Gallery, NY
2018
"Objects Like Us," The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (Link)
"Picture Industry," Mecanique Generale, Parc des Ateliers, LUMA Arles, Arles, France (Link)
“2018 Sculpture Milwaukee,” Milwaukee, WI (Link)
"Statues Also Die," Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and the Egyptian Museum, Turin, Italy (Link)
"Manifesto: A Moderate Proposal," Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont, CA (Link)
2017
"Like a Moth to a Flame," Fondation Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
"Rodin and the Contemporary Figurative Tradition," Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI
"Picture Industry," Hessel Museum of Art at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
"The Gates of Hell," The Institute for New Feeling with Arturo Bandini, Ballroom Marfa
2016
"Systematically Open: New Forms for Contemporary Image Production," Luma Foundation, Arles, France
"In Place of," Miguel Abreu, New York, NY
"Sim City," Arturo Bandini at Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX
"All Right," Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2015
"Station to Station," Barbican Centre, London, UK
"Two/Each," Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
"Bloody Red Sun of Fantastic L.A.," PIASA, Paris, France
"Alchemy," D.C. Moore Gallery, Washington D.C.
"Dissolving Margins," Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
2014
"ArtPublic," curated by Nicholas Baume, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami FL
"A Machinery for Living," Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
"Biennial de Paiz, Concepcion 41," curated by José Luis Blondet, La Antigua, Guatemala
"I Take Part and the Part Takes Me," Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Germany
2013
"Jonathan Borofsky, Sam Durant, Charles Gaines, Liz Glynn, Wayne Gonzales, Hans Haacke, Walid Raad, Carey Young," Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
"Station to Station," a traveling performance festival organized by Doug Aiken
"The only performances that make it all the way," Kunstlerhaus Halle fur Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria
"Renaissance Resistance. Resistance Renaissance," Villa Romana, Florence, Italy Neo Povera, L&M Arts, Los Angeles, CA
"Works Sited," reprised, Cleopatra’s, New York, NY
"Set Pieces," Cardi Black Box, Milan, Italy
"Between This, That and the Other Thing," Harris Lieberman, New York, NY
2012
"Lost Line: Contemporary Art from the Collection," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Cleopatra’s Family Jewels," Cleopatra’s at Family Business, New York, NY
"Eight Sculptors," Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
"Nothing is forgotten, some things considered," UKS, Oslo, Norway
"A set of performative dinners with Liz Glynn," The Academy / The Chthonic at Eleusis by Scott Benzel, Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA
"Made in L.A. 2012," The Hammer Museum, in collaboration with LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
"Invisible Cities," MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2011
"Second Story | new editions, Pepin Moore, Los Angeles, CA
"Temporary Structures: Performing Architecture in Contemporary Art," deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
"Utopia or Oblivion," Performa 11, curated by RoseLee Goldberg, New York, NY
"Benefit For The Student Mobilization Committee To End The War in Vietnam," Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
"On Forgery: Is One Thing Better Than Another?," curated by Andrew Berardini and Lesley Moon, LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA
"No Swan So Fine," curated by Joanna Fiduccia, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA
"Greater LA," organized by Eleanor Cayre, Benjamin Godsill, and Joel Mesler, New York, NY
"7 Sculptors," Brennan & Griffin, New York, NY
"Sculpture," Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
"Object Lessons," Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA
"The shortest distance between 2 points is often intolerable," Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
"Collective Show," with the Public School, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
"Verse | Chorus | Verse," Art Los Angeles Contemporary Special Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"Embarrassment / Theory," Gallery KM, Santa Monica, CA
2010
"Let Them Eat LACMA," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
"The Big Four," Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
"The Elysian Park Museum of Art," LACE, Los Angeles, CA
"Projects and Assignments," curated by Andrew Berardini, Saprophyt, Vienna, Austria
"Phenomenal: Selections from the Manuel de Santaren Collection," Young Projects, LA
"Perform Now!," collaboration with Corey Fogel, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
"Bizarre Animals," curated by Carlin Wing, Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, MA
2009
"The Generational: Younger than Jesus," curated by Lauren Cornell, Massimo Gioni, and Laura Hauptman, The New Museum, New York, NY
"Bellwether, "Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
"Perform Now!," Chung King Project, Los Angeles, CA
"Untitled," (with Nate Page) Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA
"Performing Economies," Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Paradise," (with Mariechen Danz), 7th and Fig Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
"Material Histories," O’Artoteca, Milan, Italy
2008
"A Machine Project Guide to LACMA," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Late Night Snack," REDCAT Lounge, Los Angeles, CA "Exchange Rate 2008," Sea and Space, Los Angeles, CA
"Old Los Angeles Zoo," SLAB / Art 2102, Los Angeles, CA
"GLAMFA," CSU Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
"We Want a New Object," curated by Malik Gaines and Christine Y. Kim, Acuna- Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Residencies, Scholarships, & Prizes

2021
MAP Fund, New York, NY
2018
Delfina Foundation, Performance as Process Residency, London, UK
2017
Rauschenberg Foundation Residence, Captiva, FL
2016
Creative Capital Emerging Fields Grant
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Orange County Collector’s Committee Grant
2015
Harpo Foundation, Individual Artist Grant
Kakehashi Project, Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
2014
International Artist-in-Residence, Artpace, San Antonio, TX
2012
Center for Cultural Innovation, Investing in Artist Grant for Artistic Innovation
2010
California Community Foundation, Emerging Artist Fellowship Artist Researcher, Los Angeles Goes Live, L.A.C.E., Los Angeles, CA
2009
O’artoteca, Milan, Italy
2007
Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
Joan Mitchell Foundation Associate Artist fellowship
2006
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2004
Alfred Alcalay Prize

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Helmke, Juliet. “Liz Glynn on her Public Art Fund Commission Opening in Doris C. Freedman Plaza this Spring”, Blouin ArtInfo, 9 February 2017. (online)
“Liz Glynn at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York”, ArtNews, 30 January 2017. (online)
Smith, William S. “Liz Glynn”, Art in America, 12 January
2016
Munro, Cait. "Meet Creative Capital’s 63 Award-Winning Artists, Writers, and Performers," artnet, January 12 (Link)
Small, Rachel. “10 Picks From Independent New York 2016,” Interview Magazine, March 4 (Link)
Harris, Gareth. “Liz Glynn brings turn-of-the-century grandeur to Central Park with her open-air ballroom.” The Art Newspaper. 26 December
Cascone, Sarah. “Public Art Fund’s Spring Show Will Turn Central Park Into a Gilded Age Ballroom.” Artnet News. 22 December
Chow, Andrew R., “Gilded Age Ballroom Installation Coming to Central Park”, New York Times, 21 December
Soleil, David. “Liz Glynn Receives Creative Capital Grant”, 24700 (blog.calarts.edu), 19 January (online)
“Creative Capital Announces 2016 Arts Awards Winners”, ArtForum, 12 January 2016. (online)
Miranda, Carolina A. “KCHUNG, Ann Carlson and Percival Everett among 6 in L.A. to win Creative Capital grants”, Los Angeles Times, 12 January 2016. (online)
Munro, Cait. “Meet Creative Capital’s 63 Award-Winning Artists, Writers, and Performers”, ArtNet, 12 January, 2016 (online)
2015
Mason, Brooke. “Sculpture Series: Liz Glynn pays Tribute to Rodin at LACMA,” Wallpaper, November 9, 2015. (online) (Link)
Wagley, Catherine. “Real Phonies: 5 Art Show You Should See in LA This Week.” LA Weekly, November 13, 2015.
Nathan, Emily. “artnet Asks: American Artist Liz Glynn,” Artnet, November 4, 2015. (online) (Link)
Roffino, Sara. “Make It Official,” Blouin Art+Auction, October 2015, p. 34; illus.
Saltz, Jerry. “See: Liz Glynn”, New York Magazine, September 23, 2015, p 139- 140
Steadman, Ryan. “Weekend Edition: 10 Things to Do in New Yorkʼs Art World
Halle, Howard. “Criticʼs Picks,” Time Out New York, September 30 – October 6, 2015, p. 52.
“Before September 13,” The New York Observer, September 10, 2015 (online)
Searle, Adrian. “Station to Station at the Barbican”, The Guardian, 29 June 2015. (online)
“Doug Aitken and Liz Glynn”, BBC Radio London, June 24, 2015
2014
Miller, M.H. "Liz Glynn and Dawn Kasper Debate the Theory of Everything," Art News, December 3 (Link)
"Liz Glynn: RANSOM ROOM," SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY
Small, Rachel. “Liz Glynn’s Golden Touch.” Interview Magazine. 3 June 2014. (online) (Link)
Diehl, Travis. “Reviews: Liz Glynn”. ArtForum. April 2014. (online)
Fisch, Sarah. “ArtPace’s International Artists-in-Residence Geek Out.” San Antonio Current. 26 March, 2014
“Art”. The New Yorker. 3 February 2014. P 8
Kollak, Ginny. “Liz Glynn’s ‘On the Possibility of Salvage’”. Art Agenda. 29 January 2014. (online)
Miller, Michael. “The Siren Song of Liz Glynn: The Artist on Shipwrecks, Pirates, and Sending a Performer to Staten Island.” Gallerist NY. 21 January 2014. (online)
Yablonsky, Linda. “Winter Wonderland”. ArtForum. 15 January 2014. (online)
Linnert, Nicholas. “Critics’ Picks: Liz Glynn”. ArtForum. January 2014. (online)
2013
Cooper, Ashton. “Paula Cooper Now Reps L.A. Artist Liz Glynn”. Blouin Artinfo. 27 September 2013. (online)
Kuipers, Dean. “The Expanding Universe of Doug Aitken’s “Station to Station”. Huff Post. 20 September 2013. (Online)
Kooser, Amanda. “Station to Station: A nomadic ‘art happening’ for the tech Age. Crave—CNET. 20 September 2013. (Online)
Lewis, Jim. “Doug Aitken: The Station to Station Agent”. W Magazine. September 2013.
Riefe, Jordan. “Artist Liz Glynn Tells the Story of LA Calder Sculpture Through Ballet Mecanique.” Blouin Artinfo, 22 April 2013. (online)
Laughlin, Shepherd. “Cocktail Art.” LS:N Global, The lifestyle news network. 27 May 2013. (online)
Brown, Griselda Murray. “Art fairs get a piece of the action.” Financial Times. 13 May 2013.
Solway, Diane. “Cultural Calendar: 10th Frieze Frame.” W Magazine. May 2013. p 126
Trebay, Guy. “At Frieze, the Elite Browse and Forage.” The New York Times. 11 May 2013. p ST 8.
Farago, Jason. “Frieze New York turns two with a giant balloon dog and a VIP- free speakeasy.” The Guardian. 10 May 2013.
Sharpe, Emily. “Free Drink! If you’re lucky…”The Art Newspaper. 9 May 2013.
Allen, Emma. “The Artistic Life: Fair Play.” The New Yorker. May 2013. p 24-25
Ellis Fox, Emily. “What She Finds: Histories through objects.” Modern Painters. May 2013. P 66-68
Blondet, José Luis. “Liz Glynn: The Myth of Getting It Right the First Time.” Unframed: the LACMA blog. 16 April 2013. Web.
Lescaze, Zoë. “Buck the Trend: Artists Channel Buckminster Fuller.” Galleristny.com. 10 April 2013. Web.
Blondet, José Luis. “Casting Call: [de]-lusions of Grandeur, a Performance Project by Liz Glynn.” Unframed: the LACMA blog. 18 January 2013. Web.
2012
Mizota, Sharon. “Unfaithful Copies: Liz Glynn’s Ancient Artifacts.” KCET.org. 3 October 2012. Web.
Berardini, Andrew. "Hoards I Have Known." ArtSlant. ArtSlant, Inc., 18 Sept. 2012. Web.
Lawson, Thomas. “Artists at Work: Liz Glynn.” East of Borneo, 6 September Web.
Pincus-Roth, Zachary. “American Idol Meets the Museum : The Hammer’s Mohn Award is a grand experiment in art-world democracy.” LA Weekly, August 23
Baumgardner, Julie. “Q+A: Liz Glynn Discusses Her Sculptures for ‘Made in L.A.’” Surface Magazine Blog, August 8
Firstenberg, Lauri. “Made in L.A. 2012.” exhibition catalogue, 2012, The Hammer Museum, LAXART, and Barnsdall Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, pages 48, 71-74.
Diehl, Travis. “Long Read: On the Intoxication of Ruin (The Party Ends).” …might be good. Summer
Lawson, Thomas, Ciara Ennis, and Mark Allen. “Liz Glynn: No Second Troy.” Pitzer Art Galleries catalogue
Glynn, Liz. “Sculptors Discuss Sculpture.” Frieze. May, 2012 pages 204 – 213 (Link)
Taft, Catherine. “Liz Glynn: Pitzer Art Galleries.” Artforum, April, 2012 pages 220 – 221
Shaw, Michael. “Liz Glynn.” ArtScene. February, 2012 Vol. 31, No. 6 pages 11 – 12
Berardini, Andrew. “The Rise and Fall of Liz Glynn.” Mousse Magazine, December 2011 – January 2012, pages 148 – 154
2011
Baum, Gary, et al. “Arts & Power : On the Make.” Angeleno, December, 2011 page 73
Wagley, Catherine. “Occupy L.A. and the Art World : A wave of art projects go hand in hand with the protest” LA Weekly, November 24
Cashdan, Marina. “Domebound.” New York Times Design Blog, October 24
Sallabedra, Maria. “Liz Glynn’s Like A Patient Etherized Upon A Table (MOCA Goes Dark) Asked Visitors to Wander the Museum Blindfolded” LA Weekly Blog, November 4
Glynn, Liz. "Art in L.A." Artforum, October 2011, page 267
Myers, Holly. "Artist Liz Glynn Digs Through Rubble of History, Modern Times" Los Angeles Times, August 14
Fogel, Corey and Liz Glynn. "III" Public Fiction Quarterly. Summer 2011
Glynn, Liz. "Inverted Obelisk" from the Artist Project Series "A Monument to Forgetting" Cabinet, Summer 2011
Neel, Tucker. “The Big Four.” X-tra Magazine, Summer 2011, pages 65 – 71
Wolf, Kate. “Art Los Angeles Contemporary: The Fair In Three Parts” artnet Magazine
Allen, Stacey. “Ode to an Ambitious Weekend.” East of Borneo, January 27
Ireland, Corydon. “The Master’s Chair.” Harvard Gazette, February 2
2010
Mizota, Sharon. “ ‘Big Four’ with a singular purpose” Los Angeles Times, December 3
Rutzmoser, Jon. “Basement Wagner: A Brief History of the Bayreuther Festspiele” X-tra Magazine, Winter 2010/Volume 13 Number 2
2009
Mayer, Anna. “Letter from Los Angeles.” Proximity Magazine, Winter 2009
Faires, Robert. “Arthouse: It Takes a Village to Raise a City.” The Austin Chronicle, October 2
Faires, Robert. “The 24 Hour Roman Reconstruction Project was too built in a Day.” The Austin Chronicle, September 25
Berardini, Andrew. “The Rise and Fall of Liz Glynn” Anthony Greaney Gallery
Wehr, Anne. “The Generational: Younger than Jesus.” Frieze, June / August 2009
Cotter, Holland. “Young Artists, Caught in the Act.” The New York Times, April 9 (Link)
Saltz, Jerry. “’Jesus’ Saves: God Bless the New Museum’s New Triennial” New York Magazine, April 9
Higgins, Chester. “Building Rome in (Just Over) a Day” New York Times ArtsBeat Blog
Hung, Jochen, Junger Als Jesus, Die Zeit, April 29
Vogel, Carol. “Inside Art – A Plan to Reconstruct Rome.” New York Times, March 27
The Younger than Jesus Artist Directory, The New Museum, NYC
Mann, Elana, “Exchange Rate 2008”, in Day to Day by Carolina Caycedo “Container of Experiences.” Domus, March 2009
A Machine Project Field Guide to LACMA, LACMA, Los Angeles
2008
Finkel, Jori. “Arty Subversives Storm the Museum.” The New York Times, November 28
Hill, Jason. “The Image of the City: Notes on Mark Bradford’s Help Us and Liz Glynn’s 24 Hour Roman Reconstruction Project.” Art Lies, Summer 2008, pages 28-31.
Ting Lipton, Shana. “Student Art Show Takes a Field Trip to Chinatown.” Los Angeles Times, May 29
Friedrich, Kristin. “The Don’t Miss List.” Los Angeles Downtown News, May 26
Weissman, Benjamin, editor, ULTRA, CalArts MFA Catalog Project
Farnbee, Mindy. “The 24 Hour Roman Reconstruction Project: You, the Empire Builder,” Los Angeles Times, January 17

Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books

2021
Stamey, Emily. "Gilded: Contemporary Artists Explore Value and Worth," Exhibition Catalogue. Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro, NC, 2022. (Link)
2019
Cross, Susan, José Luis Blondet, Connie Butler, Travis Diehl, Carlin Wing, and Liz Glynn. “Liz Glynn: Objects and Actions”. New York: DelMonico Books—Prestel with MASS MoCA.
2018
“The Domestic Plane: New Perspectives on Tabletop Art Objects”. Gregory R. Miller & Co. with The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 2018.
Droschl, Sandro. “The Only Performances that Make it All the Way…Yes, But is it Performable?” Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2018.
Knode, Marilu. “Sculpture Milwaukee 2018” Exhibition Catalogue. Milwaukee: Sculpture Milwaukee, 2018.
Beshy, Walead. “Picture Industry: A Provisional History of the Technical Image 1844-2018. Arles: Luma and Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, 2018.
“The Domestic Plane: New Perspectives on Tabletop Art Objects”. Gregory R. Miller & Co. with The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.
2017
Stepken, Angelika, Eva-Maria Troelenberg, and Mariechen Danz, eds. “Unmapping the Renaissance”, p. 196-207. Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2017.
2016
Katrib, Ruba, and Mary Ceruti. “How Does It Feel?” Vol. 3 of “Inquiries into Contemporary Sculpture”, p. 45-48. New York: SculptureCenter and London: Black Dog Publishing, 2016.
2015
“Pathos (The Blind Exercises).” New York: Paula Cooper Gallery, 2015.
Aitken, Doug, and Dean Kuipers. “Station to Station”. Ed. Elizabeth Karp-Evans, 208-9. New York: DelMonico Books—Prestel.
“The Benefit of Friends Collected, Vol. 2”, p. 42-45. Los Angeles: Project X Foundation for Art & Criticism.
2012
Lawson, Thomas, Ciara Ennis, and Mark Allen. “Liz Glynn: No Second Troy.” Claremont, CA: Pitzer Art Galleries, 2012.
Siegel, Lily, and Museum of Contemporary Art. “Engagement Party: Social Practice at Moca, 2008-2012”, p. 187-202. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art.
Firstenberg, Lauri. “Made in L.A. 2012”, p. 48, 71-74. Los Angeles: Prestel with The Hammer Museum, LAXART, and Barnsdall Municipal Gallery.
2011
Deitsch, Dina, Giuliana Bruno, and Neal Leach. “Temporary Structures: Performing Architecture in Contemporary Art”, p. 72-76. Lincoln, MA: deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum.
Berardini, Andrew. “The Shortest Distance Between Two Points is Often Intolerable”, p. 30-33. Milan: Brand New Gallery.
2009
“Bellwether”, p. 20-23. San Francisco: Southern Exposure.
Cornell, Lauren, Laura Hoptman and Massimiliano Giono, eds. “Younger than Jesus Artist Directory: The Essential Handbook to a New Generation of Artists”, 189. London: Phaidon; and New York: The New Museum.
Allen, Mark, Jason Brown and Liz Glynn, eds. “Machine Project: A Field Guide to the Los Angeles Museum of Art”. 18-21, 43-46, 64-66, 150-54. Los Angeles: Machine Project.
2008
Mann, Elana. “Exchange Rate 2008”. Los Angeles: Elana Mann.
Weissman, Benjamin, ed. “ULTRA: 19”. Valencia, CA: Calarts.

Guest Lectures

2019
Liz Glynn on the Work of Frank Stella, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
Keynote speaker, Toward (in)Visibility: Space, Temporality, and Voice. UCSD 12th Annual graduate Symposium, UCSD, San Diego, CA
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
2018
In Conversation: Liz Glynn at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
"A Public Conversation: Public Art, Civic Space, and Activism." Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
"Museum of Capitalism – Community Conversation: Housing in Boston." School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA
"Liz Glynn: Monuments, Mythologies, and Other Things that Fall Apart." Boston University, Boston, MA
"Liz Glynn—In Conversation: Sculpture Milwaukee Artists." Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
"The Afterlife of Sculptures: Posthumous Casts in Scholarship, the Market, and the Law." Conference hosted by The Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association, The Dedalus Foundation, New York, NY
Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Fine Art Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2017
California State University at Long Beach, CA
"Liz Glynn in Conversation with Jason Farago," NeueHouse Hollywood, CA
University of California, Riverside, CA
Public Art Fund Talks at The New School, New York, NY
2016
"The Idea of Time." Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Gut-Rehab: Artists Addressing the Built Frontier," A Creative Capital Creative Conversation. San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2014
Panel: Fieldwork, with Nicholas Baume. Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL
360 Speaker Series, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2013
Symposium: The Artist in Public Life: A Symposium on Public Practices. San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2012
Design Dialogues: Social Club: Participation, Occupation, and Communication. Art Center College, Pasadena, CA
OTIS College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Chapman University, Orange, CA
2011
Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA

Public Collections

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Foundation Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Samuel Levi Jones

1978
Born in Marion, IN
Lives and works in Chicago, IL
2012
MFA, Mills College, Oakland, CA
2009
BFA, Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026-2027
"Samuel Levi Jones: An Archaeology of Knowledge." Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana University Bloomington, Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Bloomington, IN
2025
"Samuel Levi Jones: Making a Garden of Strange Fruit," Kennedy Art Center, Washington DC
"Samuel Levi Jones: Deaccession," Cook Center, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN
2024
Solo, The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Bloomington, IN
"abstraction of truth," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Savage Elite," Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA
2023
"Samuel Levi Jones: Longing," Galerie Lelong Paris, Paris, France
"Conscious Intuition," Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
2021
"No color in the pages," Patron Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019
"Mass Awakening," Galerie LeLong, New York, NY
"No More Tokens," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Samuel Levi Jones – Left of Center," Newfields, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
"Let Us Grow," Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
2018
“Nexus,” Patron Gallery, Chicago, IL (Link)
2017
"One Blood," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2016
“Burning all illusion,” Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
“Reciprocity,” PATRON, Chicago, IL
"Samuel Levi Jones," The Arts Club, London, UK
"Samuel Levi Jones," Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY
“48 Portraits (Underexposed),” EXPO Projects, PATRON, Chicago, IL
2015
“After Fred Wilson,” IMOCA, Indianapolis, IN
“Unbound,” Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
2014
“Black White Thread,” PAPILLON, Los Angeles, CA
2013
DELETE, Los Angeles, CA
“48 Portraits (Underexposed),” Harrison Center for the Arts, Indianapolis, IN

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026-2027
"From the Center: Looking at Lucy Lippard," Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL (forthcoming)
2026
"Ongoingness," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Material Abstractions," North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
"Material Witness," Rubell Museum DC, Washington DC
"a person chosen, named, or honored…," Patron Gallery, Chicago, IL
2025-2026
"Bold: New Voices in Contemporary Art," Newfields, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
2025
"Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art," Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, Birmingham, AL
2024
"Objects and Power," ICA Maine, Portland, ME
"Unruly Navigations," Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
"When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art/History," Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
"Stop & Stare," UTA Artist Space Curated by Genevieve Gaignard, Los Angeles, CA
"Making a Garden of Strange Fruit," Presented at "CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal," Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago, IL
2023-2024
"Dialogues," Patron Gallery, Chicago, IL
2023
"Between the Seams," PM/AM Gallery, London, UK
2022
“Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art,” Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA
"Continuum," SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, CA in partnership with Residency Art Gallery and The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection
"Skin in the Game," Curated by Zoe Lukov & Produced by Abby Pucker, Pop Up Exhibition, Chicago, IL
2021
"New Prints and Editions," Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, NY
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2020
"A Summer Like No Other," Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, NY
2019
"On Soft Ground," Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN
"Solitary & Solidarity: The Joyner/Guiffrida Collection," Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
"Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press," Gallery 360, Northeastern University, Boston, MA; Las Cruces Museum of Art, Las Cruces, NM; Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona, FL
2018
"Sedimentations," 8th Floor Gallery, The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, New York, NY
"Edge of Visibility," International Print Center New York, New York, NY (Link)
"Shifting Gaze: A Reconstruction of the Black & Hispanic Body in Contemporary Art," Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL
“Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press,” Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
“Sidelined,” curated by Samuel Levi Jones, Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, NY (Link)
2017
“Excerpt,” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2016
“Chicago Invites Chicago,” Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
“Trust Issues,” Ronchini, London, UK
“A Dark Matter,” Tarble Gallery, Eastern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
2015
“Theory of Forms,” PATRON Gallery, Chicago
“Talk To Me,” 2×2 Solos, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA
“I Like It Like This,” S2 Sotheby’s Gallery, New York, NY
“The Silence of Ordinary Things,” The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, CA
2014
“The History of Technologies,” Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Open,” PAPILLION ART, Los Angeles, CA
2013
“A Basic Measure,” SEUI ULTCW, Los Angeles, CA
“TRANSPORT,” ProArts, Oakland, CA
2012
“X Libris,” Root Division, San Francisco, CA
“BAILA con Duende,” Watts Towers Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
“MFA Show,” The Last Show on Earth, Mills College, Oakland, CA

Bibliography

2024
Bolden, Jason. "Samuel Levi Jones Dissects the Divine Accidents That Have Made Him an Artist to Watch" Cultured, November 1 (Link)
Silverman, Erica. "Best LA Shows: Alice Neel, Tahnee Lonsdale, Lita Albuquerque, and More," Whitewall, September 16 (Link)
Valentine, Victoria L. "On View: "When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art/History’ At Dallas Museum of Art Showcases Recent Acquisitions by Artists of Color, Women, and Queer Artists," Culture Type, August 13
2023
Donoghue, Katy. "Samuel Levi Jones Breaks Down and Reimagines Systems of Power," Whitewall, October 6 (Link)
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Golden, Dan. "Samuel Levi Jones," Curator Guide, May (Link)
2022
Amadour, Ricky. "‘Continuum” Exhibition Bridges a Gap by Bringing Black American Art Into SoFi Stadium," LA Magazine, August 17 (Link)
Frieze Los Angeles News. "Top Works under $25K on Frieze Viewing Room," Frieze, February 15 (Link)
2021
Fazzare, Elizabeth. "Cultured Collections with Suzanne McFayden," Culture Magazine, June 11 (Link)
2020
Sargent, Antwaun. "Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists," D.A.P. Distributed Art Publishers, 2020.
2019
Wilson, Michael. "Review: Samuel Levi Jones, Galerie LeLong," Artforum, December (Link)
"Viewpoints, Episode 4: Samuel Levi Jones and Pamela Joyner," Galerie LeLong Podcast, October 3 (Link)
Boyd, Oseye. "New exhibit at Newfields makes lasting impression," Indianapolis Recorder, March 21 (Link)
2018
Sayej, Nadja. "Edge of visibility: celebrating artwork with hidden messages," The Guardian, November 19 (Link)
Ollman, Leah. "Keep Looking: Samuel Levi Jones Speaks with Leah Ollman," Art In Print, September 6 (Link)
Weisbrode, Kenneth and Heather H. Yeung, "How We Lost the Sky," The New York Times, July 23 (Link)
Sussman, Anna Louie, “What Sold at Art Basel,” Artsy (web), June 17 (Link)
Chi, Paul, “Blu Ivy Bid $10,000 at an Art Auction, and Won,” Vanity Fair (web), March 18 (Link)
Rodney, Seph, "The Political Truths that Ground our Athletic Heroes," Hyperallergic (web), February 9 (Link)
2017
Valentine, Victoria L., “Artist Samuel Levi Jones is Joining Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects,” Culture Type (web), October 12 (Link)
Sargent, Antwaun, “Kara Walker, Juliana Huxtable, and More Challenge False White Recordings of Black History,” Creators, Vice (web), April 12
Rodney, Seph, “An Artist Gives Us a Vision of the Future Through Books,” Hyperallergic (web), January 10 (Link)
Sargent, Antwaun, “Striking Deconstructed Book Paintings Challenge American History,” The Creators Project (web), January 2 (Link)
Sheets, Hilarie M., “Samuel Levi Jones Unbinds Fractured History of Justice,” Introspective Magazine, January 2
2016
Volkening, Laura, “Tearing Up Power One Book at a Time, Samuel Levi Jones at PATRON Gallery,” Newcity Art (web), April 1
Lowe, Rhiannon, “Ripped,” CCQ Magazine, April 18
Steadman, Ryan,” 10 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before July 1,” Observer Culter (web), June 28
Lesser, Casey, “15 New York Group Shows You Need to See This July,” Artsy (web), June 28
Freeman, Nate, “EXPO Chicago 2016 Announces Roster for Special Projects Sectors,” ARTnews Magazine, August 23
Cataldo, Angelica, “‘A Dark Matter’ Artists Discuss Wor for ‘Artists-in-Dialogue’,” The Daily Eastern News, September 29
Helmke, Juliet, “Samuel Levi Jones on Raising Consciousness and Standing Rock,” Blouin Artinfo (web), November 23
Lesser, Casey, “20 New York Shows to See Over the Holidays,” Artsy (web), December 20
Pobric, Pac, “Three to see: New York,” The Art Newspaper, December 20
“9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week,” ARTnews (web), December 20
2015
Keith, Naima and Dana Liss, “Artist x Artist: Mark Bradford and Samuel Levi Jones,” Studio: The Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine, January 1
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Ollman, Leah, “Unbinding the System,” Art in America, April 1
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Cristello, Stephanie, “Chicago’s Concept-Based Group Exhibitions Show Strength in Numbers,” Art Slant (web), October 20
Winkelman, Timothy, “Review: Theory of Forms at Patron Gallery,” Hairy Rainbow (web), December 17
2014
Dragovich, Sarah, “New Works at Recology San Francisco,” Art Nerd San Francisco, September 22
Ollman, Leah, “Review: Works of Defiant Beauty (Samuel Levi Jones),” Los Angeles Times, November 26

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2018
Sustainable Arts Award, Sustainable Arts Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2014
Recology Residency, San Francisco, CA
Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2012
Vivian and Margarita Stephenson Award, Mills College, Oakland, CA
2011
Mills Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Oakland, CA
2010
Evelyn V. Staton Fellowship in Fine Arts, Mills College, Oakland, CA
2009
Mildred Darby Menz Award, Herron School of Art and Design Indianapolis, IN
2008
Junior Bratton Award, Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN

Catalogues and Publications

2021
Cunningham, Nijah. “Samuel Levi Jones,” Galerie Lelong & Co., New York & Paris, 2021
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

Curatorial Projects

2021
"The Sum of Unity," Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN

Public Collections

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin – Madison, WI
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
JP Morgan Chase Collection, New York, NY
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MO
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Madison Art Collection, Harrisonburg, VA
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
Pennsylvannia Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, CA
Weisman Art Museum Collection, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum, New York, NY

Hugo McCloud

1980
Born in Palo Alto, CA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
2002
Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026
"Hugo McCloud: to everything there is a season," Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY (forthcoming)
2025
"All Directions: Art That Moves You," Fenix, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2024
"Hugo McCloud: As for Now," Sean Kelly, New York, NY
2022
"tiempo," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Art in Focus: Hugo McCloud," Rockefeller Center, New York, NY
2021
"translated memories," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"from where i stand," The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
"Hugo McCloud: Burdened," Sean Kelly, New York, NY
2018
"This and Everything Else," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"Hugo McCloud: Metal Paintings," Sean Kelly, Brooklyn, NY
2016
"Hugo McCloud: Veiled," Sean Kelly, New York, NY
2015
"Hugo McCloud," The Arts Club, London, UK
"Timeline," Fondazione 107, Turin, Italy
2014
"Hugo McCloud: Palindrome," Sean Kelly, New York, NY
"Hugo McCloud: Muted Noise," Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy
"Hugo McCloud: Put in Place," Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026
"Ongoingness," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
“Into the Time Horizon,” Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
2025
"See it Now: Contemporary Art from the Ann and Mel Schaffer Collection," Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
"Everything Now All At Once," Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
"Faktura / Tektonika," Sean Kelly, New York, NY
"Mother Nature in the Bardo," BlackBook Presents, in collaboration with UNESCO’s GEM High Line Nine, New York
"Rest and Reprieve: A Window into Creative Solitude," Canada Gallery, New York, NY
2024-2025
"Invisible Luggage," Historic Hampton House, Miami, FL
2024
"Fifteen Years," Luce Gallery, Torino, Italy
"The Poetics of Dimensions," Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (Link)
2023
"Collector’s Edition," Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA
"Sounds of Blackness," The Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila, Philippines
2022
"Fault Lines: Art and the Environment," North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
"New European and American Painters and Sculptors," The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, FL
"Plants Now!," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Reimagining: New Perspectives," UBS Art Gallery, New York, NY
2021
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"In Relation to Power: Politically Engaged Works from the Collection," Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC
"Small Wonders," NYC Culture Club, New York, NY
"The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time," Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2020
"100 Drawings from Now," The Drawing Center, New York, NY
"Artists for New York," Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY
"Reflections: Open Ended," Gana Art, Seoul, South Korea
2019
"art.now.2019 | metamorphosis: changing climate," Hearst Gallery, New York, NY
"Sculpture," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2017
"No Evidence of Sign," Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy
"On The Road: American Abstraction," David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI
2015
"A Constellation," Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
"I Know You Got Soul," ARNDT Singapore Gallery, Singapore
2014
"From Pre-History to Post-Everything," Sean Kelly, New York, NY
"De Generation Of Painting," Fondazione 107, Turin, Italy
"OPEN," Papillion, Los Angeles, CA
2013
"Pattern Recognition," MoCADA, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Art Basel Miami, N’Namdi Contemporary Gallery, Miami, FL
"Ryan Keeley and Hugo McCloud: From the mind of Mateo Mize," ArtNowNY, New York, NY
"Young Curators New Ideas IV, Beautiful Refuse: Materiality," Meulensteen Gallery, New York, NY

Bibliography

2026
Miel, Rhonda. "Legos, lawsuits and a content creator," Plastics News, June 3 (Link)
Cruz, Catherine and Kevin Allen. "Artist brings together Hawai’i, Chicago and beyond at the Obama Presidential Center," Hawai’i Public Radio, June 22
Pogrebin, Robin. "The Audacity of Art at the Obama Presidential Center," The New York Times, May 1 (Link)
2025
Crow, Kelly. "Four Los Angeles Artists You Should Know," The Wall Street Journal, September 10
Reyes, Maridel. "Art in All Directions: The Fenix Museum Is Changing How We Talk About Migration," Vogue, July 24 (Link)
Picard, Caroline. "The Poetics of Dimensions," Artforum, March
2024
Ologundudu, Folasade. "Getting Vulnerable with Hugo McCloud," Elephant, June 12 (Link)
Schultz, Charles M. "Hugo McCloud with Charles M. Schultz," The Brooklyn Rail, June 3 (Link)
James, Aurora. "To the Artist Hugo McCloud, Even Dead Flowers Are Worth Painting," Interview, June 3 (Link)
Pogrebin, Robin. "Anatomy of a Success Story: How One Artist Broke Through," The NY Times, June 2 (Link)
Shaar, Chloe. "Hugo Mccloud Uses Art To Examine The Self," BlackBook Presents, May 23 (Link)
"Hugo McCloud," Art in America, March
2023
Waga, Nel-Olivia. "Art For The Oceans: How Parley And Art Basel Create Impact," Forbes, December 12 (Link)
2022
Can Yerebakan, Osman. "Hugo McCloud Turns Plastic Bags into Blossoming Paintings on Invisible Labor," Artsy, September 7 (Link)
Fontaine, Pearl. “Hugo McCloud Captivates Rockefeller Center with Largest Plastic Painting Yet,” Whitewall Art, May 13
Scheider, Julie Smith. "Art in Focus: For Artist Hugo McCloud, There’s Beauty in Struggle," Rockerfeller Center Magazine, April 15 (Link)
Armstrong, Robert. “When a bank lobby is better than a white cube for seeing art,” The Financial Times, February 22
"Rockefeller Center Kicks Off 2022 Public Art Program With a 125-Foot Mural, New Line-Up of Artists," Artfix Daily, January 18
2021
Yang, Catherine. "Pick of the Week: Hugo McCloud," artillery, December 15 (Link)
Seymour, Tom & Gareth Harris. "Portrait of a pandemic: five works at Art Basel that confront Covid-19," The Art Newspaper, September 24 (Link)
Donoghue, Katy. "Hugo McCloud: Using Plastic to Paint, Draw Connections, and Ask Questions," Whitewall Art Magazine, August 11 (Link)
Staff, Artsy. "What I Buy and Why: Bronx Museum Trustee Richard Torres on Supporting Artists of Color, and the Picasso He’d Most Love to Pilfer," Artsy, June 28 (Link)
Valluzzo, Andrea. "Painting with plastic: Artist builds his paintings with experimental mediums in Aldrich show," New Haven Register, June 17 (Link)
Wallis, Stephen. "The Painterly, Provocative Art That Uses Humble Plastic Bags," Wall Street Journal Magazine, June 2 (Link)
McLoud, Hugo. "Hugo McCloud on Painting With Plastic," Art in America, February 3
Hernandez, Jasmin. "We Are Here: Visionaries of Color Transforming the Art World," Abrams, 2021
Fontaine, Pearl. "Hugo McCloud Paints with Single-Use Plastic in “Burdened”," Whitewall, January 18
2019
Boucher, Brian. "Cracking the Millennial Market: How Art Businesses Are Tweaking Their Strategies to Target the Next Generation of Collectors," artnet, July 8 (Link)
2018
Nash, David. "Kendall Wilkinson Outfits the $15.5 Million Penthouse at San Francisco’s 181 Fremont," Architectural Digest, October 30 (Link)
Miranda, Carolina, "Datebook: A new performance festival, art about sound and a museum’s Friday night party," LA Times (web), July 19 (Link)
Carrigan, Margaret, "How Artist Hugo McCloud Is Taking Metal to New Heights," Galerie Magazine (web), June 11 (Link)
"How to Wear Workwear Right Now," GQ Magazine (web), May 23 (Link)
Johnson, Noah, "Get Back to Workwear," GQ Magazine, May
Winston, Randy, "Hugo McCloud: An Interview," Brooklyn Magazine, March 23
Lucien, Lyne, “Meet Hugo McCloud, the Artist Who Makes Metal Beautiful,” Daily Beast (web), March 23
Carrigan, Margaret, "6 Tips for Artists on How to Talk about Their Art," Artsy, March 13
"A Conversation With Hugo McCloud," Master and Dynamic, March 9
Cooke, Riley, "Cy Twombly, Cyprien Gaillard, Hugo McCloud: Must See New York Shows," White Wall, March 7
2017
Browne, Alix, "Meet the Victorious Minotaurs: D’Angelo Russell, Halima Aden, Hugo McCloud, Ducki Thot and More Stars of Riccardo Tisci’s Dream Team," W Magazine, October 10
Najjar, Christina, "Three New York City Artists to Follow on Instagram This Month," Hamptons (web), June 5 (Link)
Battaglia, Andy. “Traveling Exhibition and Brooklyn Museum Fete to Honor Joyner / Giuffrida Collection of African- Diasporan Art,” ARTnews, March 7
Sussman, Anna Louie. “What Sold at the Armory Show,” Artsy, March 5
Palon, Nina. “Hugo McCloud Owns His Mistakes | Studio Visits,” The Creators Project, Februrary 2
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Cascone, Sarah. “See How Hugo McCloud Makes a Painting,” ArtNet News, January 11
Binolt, Ann, “Artist Hugo McCloud Searches for Overlooked Beauty in ‘Veiled’.” Forbes, January 11
Rosen, Miss. “Made You Look: Hugo McCloud Transforms the Detritus of Life into Works of Art,” Crave Magazine, January 9
2016
Jurgensen, John. “2017 Resolutions: Cultural Goals For the New Year,” The Wall Street Journal, December 20
McMahon, Katherine. “Scenes from Art Basel, Miami Beach, Part 5”, December 2
Sargent, Antwaun. “The Welder’s Paintbrush,” Cultured Magazine, December
“Looking Ahead: December/January 2017.” Surface Magazine, November
Loos, Ted. “Righting Wrongs and Generating Attention for Art of the African Diaspora.” The New York Times, October 16
Deutsch, Anna. “A Quality Cut with Hugo McCloud,” The Window, March 1
“Studio Visit with Hugo McCloud in Bushwick, Brooklyn,” Gallery Gurls, February 23
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2015
“The Year in Black Art: January 2015,” Culture Type, December 31
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“The Curator Cure,” Artforum, November 16
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2014
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2013
“Pattern Recognition Opens at MoCADA,” Huffington Post, September 25
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Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books

2026
Apsara DiQuinzio, Makeda Best, William L. Fox, Maia Nuku, Maya Lin. "Into the Time Horizon," Radius Books Co-published with the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV.
2021
Klein, Richard. "Hugo McCloud," The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut and Hatje-Cantz-Verlag, Berlin, Germany
2017
Brielmayer, Isolde. "Hugo McCloud: Painting," Sean Kelly Gallery and Hatje-Cantz-Verlag, Berlin, Germany
2016
Martin, Courtney J. "Four Generations: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art," New York, NY
Phaidon Editors, "Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting," London, UK

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2016
Artist in Residence, Bellas Artes Projects, Manila, Philippines

Public Collections

Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, West Palm Beach, FL
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Fenix, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Hort Family Collection, New York, NY
The Joyner Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art, San Francisco, CA
The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, FL
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
Mott-Warsh Collection, Flint, MI
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington D.C.
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
The UBS Collection, New York, NY

Nick Aguayo

1984
Born in Palm Springs, California
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
2012
MFA, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA
2007
BA, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Exhibitions

2026
"Nick Aguayo," Miles McEnery, New York, NY
2025
"Until Next Time!," Blue Door Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"A to L and Back Again: Nick Aguayo & Dan Levenson," Oolong Gallery, San Diego, CA
2024-2025
"All Bangers All The Time," Miles McEnery, New York, NY
2024
"Erasing A Flower," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2023
“Some Trees,” The Floating Gallery, Auto Brake Center, Los Angeles, CA
"Nick Aguayo," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
"The Trial," Good Naked Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022
"Art at Tamarisk," Tamarisk Country Club, Rancho Mirage, CA
Group Show, Blue Door Gallery, Guerneville, CA
2021
"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Via Cafe," Tif Sigfrids, Comer, GA
2020
"poem from home," curated by Rema Gholum, online
"LA In Bloom: Seven Approaches to Abstraction," curated by Maryam Parsi, Werkartz, Los Angeles, CA
"The Vista: Abstract Painting," Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
"Glyph," Unpaved Gallery, Yucca Valley, CA, Curated by Ryan Schneider
2019
"Wake the Town and Tell the People," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
“Synthesis: Some Abstraction in Los Angeles,” Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
"Works on Paper," The Pit, Los Angeles, CA
2017
“Crystal Flowers,” Index, Los Angeles, CA
“Wrong II,” PØST, Los Angeles, CA
“Vantage,” Finishing Concepts, Los Angeles, CA
“Objective / Non Objective,” Gallery Also, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
2016
"Be With Me, a Small Exhibition of Large Paintings,” New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
2015
"Black / White," curated by Brian Alfred, Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York, NY
2014
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2013
"Black Rabbit, White Hole," Samuel Freeman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Paradox Maintenance Technicians," Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2012
UC Irvine Graduate Exhibition, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
"A Romantic Measure," Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
UC Irvine Thesis Exhibition, Irvine, CA
"Traumatic Materiality," Autonomie, Los Angeles, CA
2011
"My head is falling out, so Im standing on my stomach," Artist Curated Projects, The Armory Center for The Arts, Pasadena, CA
"Ne Me Quitte Pas," University Art Gallery, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA
2010
"Action (Un)Packed: Abstraction After Action," Commonspace, Los Angeles, CA
"GLAMFA," California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
"Workspace Selects," House on Genesee, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Undergraduate Scholarship Exhibition, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
"No Art Today," INMO Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Nick Aguayo Painting Exhibition," UCLA Undergraduate Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Hillel Juried Exhibition, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Senior Show, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Bibliography

2025
"April 24 issue: RSF local and regional events," San Diego Union Tribune, April 23
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2022
Aguyao, Nick. "Why This Art: ‘Montauk Highway’," Alta, June 29 (Link)
2019
Akers Point-Dexter, Kathryn. "Nick Aguayo at Vielmetter Los Angeles," Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, October 2 (Link)
Heitzman, Lorraine. "Vielmetter and Nicodim: 1700 South Santa Fe – Art Gains a Foothold," Art and Cake, September 23 (Link)
Drambot, Shana Nys. "Art Guide: Saturday, September 7th in Downtown," LA Weekly, September 4 (Link)
2017
Adams, Lisa. "Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2016: Through the Eyes of a Painter," January 29
2016
Jadrnak, Jackie. "Enchanting art," Journal North, October 21
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"The City of Angels in A Starring Role," Art Auction, January
2014
King, Jennifer. "Nick Aguayo at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects," Artforum, October (Link)

Exhibition Catalogues and Publications

2023
Aguayo, Nick. "Quarantine Drawings," La Loma Projects, Los Angeles, CA

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2014
Emerging Artist Grant, Rema Hort Foundation, New York, NY
2009-2012
Fees Fellowship, University of California, Irvine
2007
Edward J. and Alice Mae Smith Award, UCLA Department of Art

Public Collections

MAC3, Los Angeles, CA
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA

Alec Egan

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

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026-2027
Solo Exhibition, Eames Foundation, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
2026
Solo Exhibition, Maki Collection, Tokyo, Japan (forthcoming)
"Groundskeeper," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2023
"Drawing Room," Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
"Blue Setting," Charles Moffett, New York, NY
2022
"Look Out," Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
2021
"The Study," Charles Moffet, New York, NY
"Miro’s Corner," Maki Collection, Tokyo, Japan
2020
"August," Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
2019
"Pets," Charles Moffet, New York, NY
"Living Room," Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IA
2018
"Viewing Room," Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
"Welcome Home," California Heritage Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2016
"Sanctuary House," Ampersand Gallery, Portland, OR
"Close To Home," Freight and Volume, New York, NY
2014
"Luminous Opera," Western Project, Culver City, CA
2013
"You Should’ve Asked Your Dad About That," Bolsky Gallery, Los Angles, CA
2010
"Look," Room Gallery, Hartford, CT
2009
"Tranny," Box Eight, Los Angeles, CA
"Secret Agents," Sebrof International Gallery, New York, NY
"Recent Work," Studio 2507, Portland, OR

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026
"Ongoingness," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2025
"The Wave," Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
2024
"The First Taste," Anat Ebgi, New York, NY
2023
Group Show, Almine Rech, Paris, France
2020
"Good Company: Pt. 1," Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
"L.A. Views," Maki Collection, Tokyo, Japan
"Staycation," Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
2019
"The Conversation," Anat Ebgi at Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2016
"Memory Theater," Upfor Gallary, Portland, OR
"Sincerely Yours," Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2014
"Unknowable," Jaus, Los Angeles, CA
"The Status of Portraiture," Autonomy, Culver City, CA
2013
"Shutter Speed," De Service Garage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Untitled," Western Project, Culver City, CA
"MAS Attack," Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA Five, California Heritage Museum, Los Angeles, CA
"Chess," Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012
"All My Gilberts," Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011
"Voices," Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IA
2010
"NOHIO," Poor Dog Studio, Los Angeles, CA
2007
"Salt Shaker," Horn, Gambier, OH

Residencies & Studio Programs

2026
Eames Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
2016
DNR Residency, Cape Cod, MA
2015
Millwork Residency, Dubuque, IA

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2026
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2025
Jacobs, Harrison. "The Best Booths at Art Basel Hong Kong 2025, From a Gold-Digging Video Game to Extravagant Installations," ARTnews, March 27 (Link)
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2021
Waddoups, Ryan. "We All Live Inside Alec Egan’s Freakish Floral Paintings," SURFACE Magazine, September 6
2020
Zellen, Jody. "Alec Egan at Anat Ebgi Gallery," Artillery, September/October, Print
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Goldstein, Caroline. "Painter Alec Egan’s Luscious Interiors and Brightly Lit Landscapes Are the Subject of a New Show at Anat Ebgi," artnet, July 24
2019
"Alec Egan at Anat Ebgi," Patron Magazine, April: p. 78-79. Print.
2018
"Vividness in Alec Egan’s ‘Viewing Room’ at Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles," Artinfo
2013
“Studio Visit With Alec Egan,” 3 Cities Productions,
2012
Herod, Regina. “Interview with Alec Egan,” Object Cathexis MFA Publication: p. 32- 38. Print.
2010
“Kara Chats with Artist Alec Egan,” Better Connecticut, Daily Motion, Television.
2006
“The Heather Stalks," Chanterelle’s Notebook, a poetry e-zine.
2005
“Untitled," The Horn Magazine: p. 18-23. Print

Public Collections

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