Rodney McMillian

1969: Born in Columbia, South Carolina
: Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

2002: MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2000: Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, Presidential Scholar
1998: BFA Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1991: BA Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

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

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026: "Space is the Place: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: "Into the Time Horizon," Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
: "Material Witness," Rubell Museum DC, Washington DC
2025: "Master Class: Inside the Last American Museum School with SAIC Painting Alumni," Secrist Beach, Chicago, IL
2024: "RETROaction," Curated by Kate Fowle in collaboration with Homi K Bhabha, Charles Gaines, and Ellen Tani, Hauser and Wirth, Los Angeles, CA
2023-2024: "de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas," KADIST, San Francisco, CA
: "The 14th Shanghai Biennale: Cosmos Cinema," Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
2023: "Affective Resistance," University of Irvine, Irvine, CA
: "Customs Cars Cultures," UncleBrother, Hancock, NY
: "The Collection," Haubrok Foundation, Fahrbereitschaft, Berlin, Germany
: "Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: "Re-Materialized: The Stuff that Matters," kaufmann repetto, New York, NY
: "Old Wounds, Dark Dreams," Art Galleries at Black Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
: "13 Women: Variation II," Curated by Heidi Zuckerman, Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA
: "It’s Time," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022: "Black Sounds Project," Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO
: "Plants Now!" Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "2022 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts," American Academy of Art and Letters, New York City, NY
: "Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: "Dustress Tolerance," Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
: "The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse," Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
: "Nocturnal," Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2021-2022: "Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow," The Hancock Whitney Welcome Center, New Orleans, LA
: "The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse," Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston, TX
2021: "Time-Slip," Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
: “I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality,” Bemis Center, Omaha, NE
: "Church for Sale," The Haubrok Collection and the National Gallery Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
: "Yesterday we said tomorrow," Prospect.5, New Orleans, LA (Link)
: "AB.7: Eclipse," Athens Biennial, Athens, Greece (Link)
: "Altered States," Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco, CA
: “Pushing the Margins: A Survey of LA Artists," curated by Charles Gaines, Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger, Norway (Link)
: "Hiding in Plain Sight," Pace Gallery, New York, NY (Link)
: "Our House: Selections from MoCA’s Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles, CA
: "20 Years Anniversary," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Not I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE – 2020CE)," curated José Luís Blondet, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2020: “Post Performance Video, prospective 1: Los Angeles,” Carré d’art, Nîmes, France
: “States of Mind: Art and American Democracy,” Moody Center for the Arts, RICE University, Houston, TX
: "Mojo Rising," CalState LA Ronald Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "20 Years Anniversary," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2019: "New Order: Art and Technology in the Twenty-First Century," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: "Parts of Speech," MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL (Link)
: "Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: "Inaugural Exhibition," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2018: "West by Midwest," MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
: "Say It Loud," 22 London, Asheville, NC
: ”One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art," Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles, CA
: "Welcome to the Dollhouse," Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
: “Bounty,” Grice Bench, Los Angeles, CA
: "Painting Now and Forever Part III," Greene Naftali Gallery and Matthew Marks, New York, NY (Link)
2018-2020: “Michael Jackson: On the Wall,” National Portrait Gallery, London, UK; travelled to: Grand Palais, Paris, France; Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany; Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland
2017: “Never Free to Rest,” kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
: “Pivotal: Highlights from the Collection,” Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: “Looking at the Overlooked,” curated by Sally Frater, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
: “Living Apart Together: Recent Acquisitions from the Hammer Contemporary Collection,” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
: “Midtown,” Lever House, New York, NY
: “In the Abstract,” MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (Link)
: “Black Light,” CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA; travelling to Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
: “Regarding the Figure,” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2016: “Making & Unmaking,” curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
: “Los Angeles – A Fiction,” Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway, travelling to Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France (Link)
: “After Pop Life,” curated by Glen Helfand, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
: “Frozen World of the Familiar Stranger,” KADIST, San Francisco, CA
: “L.A. Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2015: "Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
: "Misappropriations: Recent Acquisitions," curated by Dan Cameron, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: "Reproduction, Reproduction," California Museum of Photography, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA
2014: "When the Stars Begin to Fall," The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; traveling to the NSU Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL; and the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)/ Boston, Boston, MA
: "Ruffneck Constructivists," curated by Kara Walker, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
: "Outside the Lines: Black in the Abstract, Part 2," Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston, TX
2013: "Room to Live: Recent Acquisitions and Works from the Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, Organized by Bennett Simpson
: "bald eagle," haubrok foundation, Berlin, Germany (Link)
: "Homebodies," MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
: "Selections from the Grunwald Center and the Hammer Contemporary Collection", UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: "Selections from the Permanent Collection," organized by Bennett Simpson, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
: "no desaster: sammlung haubrok bei falckenberg," Phoenix-Hallen, Harburg, Germany
: "The Black Mirror," Diane Rosenstein Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2012: "Blues for Smoke," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
: "my.LA," haubrok foundation, Berlin, Germany
2011: "VideoStudio," The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
: "The Bearden Project," The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
: "Human Nature," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: "Seven Los Angeles Artists," Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: "shapes," haubrok foundation, Berlin, Germany
: "Agitated Histories," Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD; SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
2010: "Summer Group Show," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: Edgar Arceneaux, Andrea Bowers, Olga Koumoundouros, Rodney McMillian, Charles Gaines, Nery Gabriel Lemus, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
: "The Artists Museum: Los Angeles Artists 1980-2010," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: "About Us (Summer Group Show)," Johann Koenig, Berlin, Germany
: "New Art for a New Century: Contemporary Acquisitions 00-10," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
2009: "The Moving Image: Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection II," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: "MONITAUR", Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
: "Out of School," City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA
2008: "30 Americans," Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL. Traveling to: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
: "it’s about sculpture," haubrok foundation, Berlin, Germany
: "California Biennial 2008," Orange County Museum of Art, CA; curated by Lauri Firstenberg
: "Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection," The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA
: "Whitney Biennial 2008," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: "BLACK IS, BLACK AINT," The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI; H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO; Temple Gallery At the Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
: "Mannerfantasien II," Centre for Opinions in Music and Art, Berlin, Germany; curated by Ellen Blumenstein
: "Disorderly Conduct: Recent Art in Tumultuous Times," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; curated by Karen Moss
2007: "An Atlas of Events," Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal; curated by Antnio Pinto Ribeiro, Debra Singer, and Esra Sarigedik
: "Touched: Artists and Social Engagement," Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
: "Philosophy of Time Travel," Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; collaboration with Edgar Arceneaux, Vincent Johnson, Matthew Sloly, Olga Koumoundouros
: "Hammer Contemporary Collection," UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: "stop.look.listen: an exhibition of video works," Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI; Orlando Museum, Orlando, FL; curated by Andrea Inselmann
: "Rodney McMillian and Olga Koumoundouros: On A Porch," LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
: "USA: American Video Art at the Beginning of the 3rd Millennium," 2nd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia; curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Daniel Birnbaum, and Gunnar Kvaran
: "Silicone Valley, PS1," Long Island City, NY; curated by Nick Stillman
2006: "USA Today," The Royal Academy of Art, London, UK
: "Black Alphabet: conTEXTS of Contemporary African American Art," Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland; curated by Maria Brewińska
: "Ordinary Culture: Heikes/Helms/McMillian," Medtronic Gallery at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; curated by Doryun Chong
: "Painting in Tongues," Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA; curated by Michael Darling
: "Everybody Dance Now," EFA Gallery, New York, NY; curated by Kathleen Goncharov
: "ARCO," Project Booth selected by Christopher Miles; presented by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Madrid, Spain
2005-2008: "Uncertain States of America," Astrup Fearnley Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway; Bard Museum Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland; Herning Kunstmuseum, Copenhagen, Denmark; Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland; Le Muse de Srignan, Srignan, France; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic; curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Gunnar Kvaran
2005: "Happenstance," Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY; curated by Lauri Firstenberg
: "Menschensgladbach – Neue Ankufe und Leihgaben", Stdtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
: "Rouge Wave," LA Louver, Venice, CA
: "Thing – New Sculpture from Los Angeles," UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: "Frequency," Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, NY
2004: "White Noise," REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA; curated by Clara Kim
: "Central Station," the collection of Harald Falckenberg, La Maison Rouge / Foundation Antoine de Galbert, Paris
: "Currents: African American Video Art Today," Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
: "Seeds and Roots: Selections from the Permanent Collection," The Studio Museum Harlem, Harlem, NY
: "New Balance Frontier," No Name Exhibitions @ The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN; curated by Aimee Chang
: "First Person," a Video Art Exhibition on DVD (with Carla Herrera-Prats and Anne-Julie Raccoursier), Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros, Mexico City, Mexico; curated by Pilar Villela
: "Powering Up/Powering Down," a Technica Radica Conference, University of California, San Diego, CA
: "New," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA; collaboration with Edgar Arceneaux; inaugural exhibition
: "Now is a good time," Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY; curated by Dean Valentine
: "FADE – African American Artists in Los Angeles – A Survey Exhibition," Luckman Gallery and University Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State Los Angeles, CA; curated by Malik Gaines
2003: "Gibt’s mich wirklich – Vier Raeume aus der Sammlung Schuermann," K21, Duesseldorf, Germany
: "aufgeschraubt & abgestaubt," Il Die Sammlung im Prozess der Neuprasentation, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
: "Veni Vidi Video," The Studio Museum Harlem, Harlem, NY; curated by Christine Kim
: "Urban Aesthetics," California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA; curated by Sandra Rowe
2002: "A Show That Will Show That A Show Is Not Only A Show," The Project, Los Angeles, CA; curated by Jens Hoffman
: "Messy Fingers," Track 16, Santa Monica, CA; curated by Charles Gaines and Martin Kersels
: "#9," 5301 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA; with Olga Koumoundouros

Guest Lectures

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

Bibliography

2026: "Rodney McMillian brings civil rights history to Capitain Petzel," Art Daily, May 1 (Link)
: 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.
: Dunlap, Sydney. "SC native, nationally recognized artist returns home with solo exhibit at Columbia art museum," Post and Courier Free Times, March 20 (Link)
: Thomas, Victoria. "The Call of the Wild at Descanso Gardens," Local News Pasadena, March 11 (Link)
: Dubberly, Mercedes. "CMA brings work of local artist to life," Cola Daily, February 28
: Stringer, David. "Rodney McMillian returns for major CMA spring exhibition," COLA Today, February 26 (Link)
: Kim, Delaney. "The 19 Gallery Shows You Shouldn’t Miss During Frieze Los Angeles 2026," Cultured Magazine, February 23 (Link)
: "8 Must-See Shows of Black Art Across the U.S. This Black History Month," Artsy, January 29 (Link)
2025: Bunker, Daphne. "Henry Art Gallery fall opening celebration hums with color and conversation," The Daily, October 9 (Link)
: Vann, Audrey. "October Things to Do: Visual Art," The Stranger, October 1 (Link)
: Keimig, Jas. "5 must-see Seattle art shows and festivals in October 2025," The Seattle Times, September 22
: jill moniz, Kathleen Rahn, Tanja-Bianca Schmidt. Conversation with Rodney McMillian, Anna Roberta Goetz. "Rodney McMillian The Land: Not Without a Politic," Spector Books, Leipzig, Germany, 2025
: Picard, Caroline. "The Poetics of Dimensions," Artforum, March (Link)
2024: e-flux staff. "Rodney McMillian: The Land—Not Without a Politic Marta Herford Museum of Art and Design," e-flux, March 14 (Link)
2023: Dambrot, Shana Nys. "Cultural Labor Day: Arts Calendar August 31 – September 6," LAWeekly, August 30
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: Mousse Magazine Staff. "“It’s Time” at Vielmetter, Los Angeles," Mousse Magazine, February 18 (Link)
: Nys Dambrot, Shana. "A Pair of Exhibitions Renovate Portraiture and Perfection at Vielmetter Los Angeles," LA Weekly, February 9 (Link)
: Clayton, Dominique. "The Best Black Art Shows in Los Angeles Right Now," Cultured, January 30
: Platt, Stacy J. "The Dirty South Comes to Denver," Hyperallergic, January 12 (Link)
2022: Kelsey, Meret. "UB Art Galleries’ latest exhibition explores the absurdities of the human body," The Spectrum, November 17 (Link)
: "Church for Sale Works from the Haubrok Collection and the Nationalgalerie Collection," Exhibition Catalogue, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
: Art Institute of Chicago. "Rodney McMillian: The Great Society," The Art Insitute of Chicago, August 9 (Link)
: Clayton, Jace. "Whitney Biennial 2022," Artforum, June (Link)
: Diehl, Travis. "‘The Bodywork of Hospitality’ Sees Communal Care as a Civic Obligation," Frieze Magazine, February 28 (Link)
: Davis, Ben. "The Prospect 5 Triennial Reflects Contemporary Culture’s Hunger for Widespread Yet Specific Historical Reckoning," Artnet, January 19 (Link)
2021: Williams, Michael Paul. "‘The history of the African American South is really the history of this country’: "The Dirty South" at VMFA opens Saturday," Richmond Times-Dispatch, May 20 (Link)
: "The Act of Surviving is Enough" UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, January
2020: Wagner, Josh. "Rodney McMillian: ‘Body Politic’ The Enduring Necessity of Memory," Art Now LA, December
: Piejko, Jennifer. "The Crushing Weight of the Comfortable: Rodney McMillian," Mousse Magazine, November 13
: Murray, Yxta Maya. "Art Seen: Rodney McMillian, Body Politic," Brooklyn Rail, November
: Miranda, Carolina. "Newsletter," Los Angeles Times, October 31
: Haddad, Natalie. "Rodney McMillian Deftly Treads the Line Between Politics and Aesthetics," Hyperallergic, October 30
: Preston-Zappas, Lindsay. "Black lives, immigration and politics are focal points of new LA art exhibits," KCRW, October 27
: Pogrebin, Robin. "Black Gallerists Press Forward Despite a Market That Holds Them Back," New York Times, June 25
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: Schwendener, Martha. "2 Art Gallery Shows to Explore From Home," The New York Times, May 6 (Link)
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: Fateman, Johanna. "Goings on About Town: Rodney McMillian," The New Yorker, April
: Laster, Paul. "Upcycling: 5 Artists Inventively Using Reclaimed Materials," Art & Object, April 6 (Link)
: "Petzel Gallery opens a solo exhibition of recent paintings by artist Rodney McMillian," ArtDaily, March 8
: Durón, Maximiliano. "2020 Prospect New Orleans Triennial to Consider America’s ‘Unprecedented’ Political Moment," ArtNews, March 2 (Link)
: Valentine, Victoria L. "Artist List for Prospect New Orleans Triennial Includes Mark Bradford, Willie Birch, Simone Leigh, Dawoud Bey, Glenn Ligon, Karon Davis, Naudline Pierre, and Kevin Beasley," CultureType, March 2 (Link)
: "Prospect New Orleans Announces Artist List for Prospect.5," Artforum, March 2 (Link)
: Angeletti, Gabriella. "Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend," The Art Newspaper, February 27 (Link)
: Cascone, Sarah. "In LA for Frieze Week? Here Is Our Guide to 22 Mind-Expanding Museum Shows to See If You Want to Venture Beyond the Fairs," artnet, February 11 (Link)
: Aldridge, Taylor Renee. "Critics’ Picks: Rodney McMillian at The Underground Museum," Artforum, February (Link)
: Kane, Ashleigh. "Art shows to leave the house for this month," Dazed, February 8 (Link)
: "Top shows to see during Frieze Los Angeles," Art Newspaper, February 6 (Link)
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: Pieterson, Mark. "This Hammer Museum Curator Uses Cinema to Educate and Empower," Surface, December 12 (Link)
: Desmarais, Charles. "Rodney McMillian’s cyclorama of displacement at SFMOMA," SF Chronicle, April 29 (Link)
: Gardner, Drake. "Professor’s new exhibition explores homelessness, inequality in America," Daily Bruin, April 30 (Link)
: Shindel, Dan. "A New, Highly Eclectic Space for Arthouse Films in Los Angeles," Hyperallergic, April 19 (Link)
: "The Twenty Five," Cultured, February/March
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: Ambramovich, Alex. "Termite Art and the Modern Museum," New Yorker, February 28 (Link)
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: Raji, Michelle, "Artist Rodney McMillian Wants Viewers to Grapple with Race — and Register to Vote," Texas Observer (web), July 6 (Link)
: Eckart, Stephanie, "How Nearly 50 Artists’ Attempted to Do the Impossible: Illustrate Michael Jackson’s Enormous Influence and Legacy," W Magazine (web), July 8 (Link)
: Raji, Michelle, "Artist Rodney McMillian Wants Viewers to Grapple with Race — and Register to Vote," Texas Observer (web), July 6 (Link)
: Jean, Melany, “’Rodney McMillian: Against a Civic Death’ at the Contemporary Austin,” The Austin Chronicle (web), March 16 (Link)
: Bass, Shermakaye, “Exhibit at Contemporary explores the architecture and politics of race,” My Statesman (web), March 14 (Link)
: Olsen, Ivy, "Antidotes for apathy: Rodney McMillian’s Austin show is a ‘call to action’," The Art Newspaper (web), February 20 (Link)
: Petrossiants, Andreas, "’I hear it everywhere I go’ at Franklin Street Works," Brooklyn Rail (web), February 7 (Link)
: Greenberger, Alex, "San Antonio Museum of Art Acquires Works by Kevin Beasley, Rodney McMillian, Martine Syms," ArtNews (web), January 25 (Link)
: Miranda, Carolina A., “L.A. artist Rodney McMillian peels back the façade on the ultimate symbol of power: the White House,” Los Angeles Times, January 10 (Link)
2017: Maldonado, Devon Van Houten, “ ‘Never Free to Rest’ at kurimanzutto, Mexico City,” art agenda (web), November 27 (Link)
: Hunter, Becky Huff, “Waging an Artist’s War,” Sculpture, January / February (Cover and Feature) (Link)
: Curtis, Frieda, “SLAM spotlight: Rodney McMillian’s ‘A Migration Tale’,” Student Life (web), February 20 (Link)
2016: Hine, Thomas, “Two shows at ICA: One head-scratcher, one sly use of space,” Philly.com (web), March 12 (Link)
: Moon, Kavior, “Previews: Rodney McMillian,” Artforum, January
: Plokarz, Tina, “Rodney McMillian’s sinister The Black Show at the ICA,” artblog (web), March 9
: Kennedy, Randy, “Turning Discarded Items into Art About Race in America,” The New York Times, March 23 (Link)
: Kaplan, Isaac, “If You Don’t Understand Conceptual Art, It’s Not Your Fault,” Artsy (web), March 31 (Link)
: Smith, William S., “Post-Consumer Report: A Conversation with Rodney McMillian,” Art in America (web), April 25 (Link)
: Harren, Natilee “Knight’s heritage: Karl Haendel and the Legacy of Appropiration, Episode 2, 2012,” Art Journal Open (web), April 22 (Link)
: Quinton, Jared, “Rodney McMillian’s Sobering, Irreverent Take on Race in America,” art21 magazine (web), May 2
: Pobric, Pac, “Rodney McMillian and the Poetry of the Past,” The Art Newspaper (web), May 4
: Standley, Michelle, “Rodney McMillian: Views of Main Street,” The Brooklyn Rail (web), June 3
: Blair, Courtney Willis, “4Questions: Rodney McMillian,” Forbes (web), June 23
: Gopnik, Blake, “THE DAILY PIC: The Studio Musuem in Harlem shows his domestic minimalism,” ArtNet News (web), June 27
: Sutton, Kate, “Through the Portal,” Cultured, June (Link)
: Wagner, Sandra, “Sweat Equity: A Conversation with Ruben Ochoa,” Sculpture Magazine, September
: Harris, Jane Ursula, “Rodney McMillian,” Art in America (web), September 17
: Mizota, Sharon, “Review: How white tables set with black vases serve as a reminder of the struggler for civil rights,” Los Angeles Times, September 19
: van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire, “Rodney McMillian wins inaugural $100,000 Suzanne Deal Booth art prize,” Austin American-Statesman (web), October 30
: Crow, Kelly, “Rodney McMillian Wins Inaugural Suzanne Deal Booth Art Prize,” The Wall Street Journal (web), October 31
: Cascone, Sarah, “Rodney McMillian Wins First $100,000 Suzanne Deal Booth Prize,” artnet news (web), November 3
: Lynch, Scott, “New Art & Notorious MSG at PS1 Spring Open House,” Gothamist (web), April 4
: Moffitt, Evan, “Rodney McMillian,” frieze (web), June 23
2015: Zuckerman, Heidi. "Rodney McMillian: Landscape Paintings," Aspen Art Museum, Aspen Art Press, Aspen, Colorado, Distributed by Artbook, D.A.P., New York, NY
: Travers, Andrew. "Aspen Times Weekly: Current Events," The Aspen Times, March 26
: Benedetti, Christine. "Landscape Paintings and Second Chances Make AAM Debut," Aspen Daily News, March 27
: Travers, Andrew. "Rodney McMillian puts landscapes to bed in Aspen Art Museum show," The Aspen Times, May 22
: Weatherford, Mary. "The Artists Artists: Mary Weatherford," Artforum, December
2014: Bader, Graham. "Review: Outside the Lines at Contemporary Art Museum Houston," Artforum, April
: Lax, Thomas. "Rodney McMillian, catalogue for When the Stars Begin to Fall," Studio Museum Harlem, Spring
2013: Petry, Michael, "Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still Life," London: Thames & Hudson, October
: Ise, Claudine, "There is nothing cozy about MCA’s ‘Homebodies’," The Chicago Tribune, July 17
: Soto, Paul. "Rodney McMillian," Flash Art, May
: Cotter, Holland, Mood Indigo: A Playlist for the Mind. Blues for Smoke at the Whitney Museum, New York Times, February 7
: Friedwald, Will, "The Jazz Scene: Even Uptown Gets the Blues," The Wall Street Journal, February 7
: Kiyoizumi, A.J., Artist Rodney McMillian Discusses Process: Los Angeles Artist Melds the Political and Artistic with Keen Performances, The Daily Californian, April 9
: Mizota, Sharon, Rodney McMillian on the puppets of politics, Los Angeles Times, January 24 (Link)
2012: Wilson, Michael, Rodney McMillian at Maccarone, Art Forum, December
: Schultz, Charles Marshall, New York: Rodney McMillian at Maccarone, Art in America, December
: Schwarting, Jen, Rodney McMillian Prospect Ave, The Brooklyn Rail, November
: Knight, Christopher, Blues Reverberates at MOCA, The Los Angeles Times, October 29
: Johnson, Reed, MOCA’s ‘Blues for Smoke’ riffs on a wider aesthetic, The Los Angeles Times, October 27
: Wood, Mikael, "MOCA Examines Blues Music", Los Angeles Confidential, October
: Boucher, Brian, Maccarone to Expand in West Village, Art in America, March 13
: "The Bearden Project", exhibition catalogue; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
: Simpson, Bennett, Blues for Smoke, exhibition catalogue; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2011: Simpson, Bennett, And Your Mind Will Follow, Artforum, October
: Muchnic, Suzanne, 50 years of support- and changing tastes- at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Los Angeles Times, May 15
2010: Miles, Chris, Rodney McMillian at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, LA Weekly, February 11
: Ollman, Leah, Around the Galleries, Los Angeles Times, February 5
: Civin, Marcus, Succulent in Culver City, Artslant, January 26
2009: Rodney McMillian features new commission by the artist in his first solo museum exhibition, artdaily.org, August 1
: Sholis, Brian, Rodney McMillian: The Kitchen, Artforum, January
: Hobbs, Robert, Franklin Sirmans and Michele Wallace, 30 Americans, exhibition catalogue; Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
2008: Chang, Richard, Visual art/ Top 5 events, Orange County Register, December 26
: Stacy, Greg, OCMAs 2008 California Biennial Is the Gift That Keeps On (and On and On) Giving, OC Weekly, November 6
: Buitron, Michael, 2008 California Biennial at the OCMA and Beyond, Leap Into the Void, October 25
: Copeland, Huey, The Blackness of Blackness, ArtForum, October
: Markle, Leslie, Disorderly Conduct, artUS, Summer
: OConnell, Brian, Ghostly Media: What Would an Invoking Media Look Like?, Art & Research, Summer
: Dambrot, Shana, Report: New York City, The Ghost of Jason Rhoades, Art Ltd, July
: Menzies, Michelle, Black Is, Black Aint, Flash Art, July
: Goldner, Liz, Opening Review: Disorderly Conduct, Artillery, May/June
: Vikram, Anuradha, The LA Annual, Artillery, May/June
: Grabner, Michelle, Black Is, Black Aint, Time Out Chicago, May 22
: Salsbury, Britany, Critics Picks: Black Is, Black Aint, ArtForum, May
: Volk, Gregory, Spring In Dystopia, Art In America, May
: Schjeldahl, Peter, Lessness: The Whitney Biennial, New Yorker, March 17
: Cohn, Marilyn, The Big Apple: Whitney Biennial, For Your Art, March 13
: Schuker, Lauren A.E., The Fine Art of Less, The Wall Street Journal, March 7
: Holland Cotter, Arts Economic Indicator, The New York Time, March 7
: Cohen, David, Whitney Biennial Has Adopted A Boho Vibe, The New York Sun, March 5
: Mizota, Sharon, World in Upheaval, Los Angeles Times, February 10
: Inselmann, Andrea, stop.look.listen: an exhibition of video works, exhibition catalogue; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
: Thompson, Nato, A Guide to Democracy in America, exhibition catalogue; Creative Time, New York, NY
2007: Vogel, Carol, Whitney Biennial Stretches to Armory, New York Times, November 16
: Artists Announced for 2008 Whitney Biennial, Artforum.com, November 16 Continuing and Recommended, Art Scene, September
: Myers, Holly, Social issues leave imprint in Touched, Los Angeles Times, August 22
: Finkel, Jori, A Reluctant Fraternity, Thinking Post-Black, New York Times, June 10
: Brancusi Report: Last Days in LA, artslant.com, March
: Firstenberg, Lauri, Rodney McMillian: Los Angeles, Art Papers, January/February
: Ellis, Patricia, Catching up with Charles (Saatchi), FlashArt, January/Februrary
: 2nd Moscow Biennale, FlashArt Online News, January/February
: Kim, Christine Y, Philosophy of Time Travel, exhibition catalogue; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
: Molok, Nikolai, and Rodney McMillian, Footnotes on Geopolitics, Market, and Amnesia: 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, exhibition catalogue; ArtChronika and Moscow Biennale Art Foundation, Moscow, Russia
: Sholis, Brian, Rodney McMillian, exhibition catalogue from An Atlas of Events; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, London, UK
2006: Fair Report: Art Basel Miami Beach & Satellite Fairs, artinfo, December 15
: Smith, Roberta, More Than You Can See: Storm of Art Engulfs Miami, New York Times, December 9
: Searle, Adrian, Rebels without a cause, The Guardian, December 9
: The AI Eye (Miami): Editors Picks of Art for Sale, artinfo, December 8
: Nys Dambrot, Shana, Rodney McMillian: Odes, ArtReview, December
: Lawson, Thomas, Best of 2006, Artforum, December
: Morgan, Jessica, Best of 2006, Artforum, December
: Nys Dambrot, Shana, Rodney McMillian: Odes, Lifescapes Magazine, November
: Knight, Christopher, Falling short of a Great Society, Los Angeles Times, October 6
: Krasny, Marcin, Czarno na białym (Black on White), Obieg Magazine, Poland, October 6
: Brooks, Amra, Must See Art: Rodney McMillian, LA Weekly, October 5
: Bedford, Christopher, Rodney McMillian, Artforum.com, October 5
: CG, Rodney McMillian: Odes, Artkrush, October 4
: Muchnic, Suzanne, The Art Explosion, Los Angeles Times, October 1
: Kenning, Dean, Uncertain States of America, Art Monthly, October
: Kent, Sarah, States of the Art, Time Out, September 20
: Berardini, Andrew, Scene & Herd: On the Road, artforum.com, September 15
: Glover, Michael, An Orgy of Appropriation, The Independent, September 13
: Abbe, Mary, Ordinary becomes extraordinary, Star Tribune Minneapolis, August 17
: Smith, Roberta, Endgame Art? Its Borrow, Sample and Multiply in an Exhibition at Bard College, NYTimes, July 7
: Art in LA: Then & Now, Artkrush, May 31
: Hip New Buyers Boost Sales at Armory Show, Artnews, March 28
: Landi, Ann, Multiple Personalities, ARTnews, April
: Harvey, Doug, Glossolalia for Dummies, LA Weekly, February 22
: Knight, Christopher, "Painting Can Speak In Many Tongues", The Los Angeles Times, February 3
: Campagnola, Sofia, Focus Los Angeles, Flash Art, January/February
: Kastner, Jeffrey, Frequency, Artforum, January
: Frequency, Color Image: The Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine, Collectors Issue, Fall/winter
: Brewińska, Maria, Black Alphabet: conTEXTS of Contemporary African American Art, exhibition catalogue; Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
: Chong, Doryun, Ordinary Culture, exhibition catalogue; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
: Darling, Michael, and Wolfram, Heubach, Friedrich, Painting in Tongues, exhibition catalogue, pg. 66-77; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Horowitz, Noah and Sholis, Brian, The Uncertain States of America Reader, Serpentine Gallery, London
2005: Chang, Aimee, Rodney McMillian, Exhibition Catalogue, Frequency, The Studio Museum in Harlem, p.58-59
: Cotter, Holland, Happenstance, New York Times, December 30
: Boston, Nicolas, Give Them the Chair, The New York Observer, December 5
: Smith, Roberta, Where Issues of Black Identity Meet the Concerns of Every Artist, New York Times, November 18
: Zox, Rogue Wave at LA Louver Gallery, art/design, July 11
: Pagel, David, Summer sampler has a dark side, Los Angeles Times, July 8
: Lasarow, Bill, Rogue Wave, Art Scene, July
: Forgacs, Eva, Thing, artUS, July
: Firstenberg, Lauri, Thing, Frieze, June
: Frank, Peter,The Dish: Art, Angeleno, May
: Almela, Ramon, Sculpture in Los Angeles. Truth, Reality, and Objects, critic@rte, May 15
: Mack, Joshua, Sculpture from Los Angeles, Modern Painters, April
: Mack, Joshua, Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles, Modern Painters, April
: Chang, Richard, Maybe the Next Big Thing, The Orange County Register, March 6
: Arriola, Magali, Thing, March
: Ned Holte, Michael, "West Coast Thing", Artforum.com, February 10
: Knight, Christopher, "The next big ‘Thing’ in L.A.", Los Angeles Times, February 9
: Cotter, Holland, "Rodney McMillian at Triple Candie", New York Times, January 21
: Tumlir, Jan, "THING: New Sculpture from Los Angeles", Artforum, January
: Golden, Thelma, "A Beautiful Thing", exhibition catalogue; The Studio Museum Harlem, NY
: Birnbaum, Daniel, Kvaran, Gunnar, Obrist, Ulrich, Uncertain States of America: American Art in the Third Millennium, exhibition catalogue; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
: Chang, Aimee, "Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles – Rodney McMillian", exhibition catalogue; Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2004: Myers, Holly, "Disposable Society", Los Angeles Times, October 13
: Friedrich, Christine, "White Noise at RedCat", downtownartnews, October 13
: Kim, Clara, "White Noise", Exhibition Brochure, RedCat, September
: Myers, Julian, "Edgar Arceneaux – Rodney McMillian at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects", Frieze, May
: Davis, Phillip, "What we saw at ArtBasel Miami Beach", Dwell Magazine, April
: Worthington, Peter, " Eye of the beholder – you gotta see what some people call ‘art’", Toronto Sunday Sun, March 14
: Knight, Christopher, "A chronicle of race, rage, ritual", Los Angeles Times, February 17
: Harvey, Doug, "Color Theory – Fade to black", LA Weekly, February 13
: Barry, Dave, "Call me clueless, but I’m working toward my artistic license", Miami Herald; re-published in: International Herald Tribune Paris; Detroit Free Press; and Houston Chronicle, January 17
: Adamski, Stephan, Kunstforum, January
2003: Kunde, Harald, "aufgeschraubt und abgestaubt", Ludwig Forum fuer Internationale
: Kunst, Aachen, exhibition text Scarborough, James, artcritical.com, June 17

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

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

Public Collections

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

Whitney Bedford

: Lives and works in Los Angeles

2003: MFA, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
1998-2000: Fulbright Visiting Artist under Professor Wolfgang Petrick, Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
1998: Art and Architecture of Rome at RISDE European Honors Program, Palazzo Cenci, Rome, Italy
1996: Pont-Aven School of Art, Pont-Aven, France
: Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
1994-1998: BA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
1993: Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026: "Sunsetting," Secrist Beach, Chicago, IL (forthcoming)
: "Sunsetting," Art:Concept, Paris, France (forthcoming)
: "Sunsetting," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
2025: "Sunsetting," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2024: "Whitney Bedford: The Window" San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA
2023: "Whitney Bedford: Veduta," Miles McEnery, New York, NY
: "Whitney Bedford: Vedute," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022: "Imaginary," Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
: "Whitney Bedford: Vedute," Art:Concept, Paris, France
2021: "Whitney Bedford," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
: "Whitney Bedford: Greenhouse," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2020: "Nevertheless," Carrie Secrist Gallery (online)
: "Nevertheless," Starkwhite (online)
: "Nevertheless," Vielmetter Los Angeles (online)
: "Reflections on the Anthropocene," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2018: "Numinous," Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL (Link)
: "Bohemia," Starkwhite Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2017: "The Left Coast," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: “Bardo Parade,” Art:Concept, Paris, France
2016: “East of Eden,” Carrie Secrist, Chicago, IL
: “Lost and Found,” Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
2015: "Night and Day," Taymour Grahne, New York, NY
: "West of Eden," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2014: "Whitney Bedford," Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
: "Love Letters," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2013: "This for That," Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
2011: Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2010: "Whitney Bedford (here and there)," Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
2009: Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2008: "Whitney Bedford," Art:Concept, Paris, France
2007: "Whitney Bedford: The Escape Artist Series," Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, USA
2006: Art:Concept, Paris, France
2005: DAmelio Terras, New York, NY
: Cherrydelosreyes, Los Angeles, CA
2004: Art:Concept, Paris, France
2000: "Whitney Bedford," Hotel de Ville, Biot, France
1999: "Whitney Bedford," Fulbright-Kommission, Berlin, Germany
1998: "Whitney Bedford," BEB Gallery, Providence, RI
1997: "Whitney Bedford," Sokolofska #124 Space, Prague, Czech Republic

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026-2027: "Feels Natural," Heartland Whole Health Institute, Bentonville, AR (forthcoming)
2025: "Natura Non Constristatur," Secrist Beach, Chicago, IL
2024-2025: "All Bangers, All The Time," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
2024: "In the Making: Contemporary Art at SBMA," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
: "Overserved," Miles McEnery, New York, NY
: "Olio e pepe," Galerie Art: Concept, Paris, France
2023: "New Landscapes Part I," Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA
2023-2024: "Inside/Outside," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (Link)
2023: SWQT Group Show, Starkwhite Queenstown, Queenstown, New Zealand
2022: "Plants Now!," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2021: "Was/Is/Ought," Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL (Link)
2020: "Only Connect," Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
: "Do You Think It Needs A Cloud?”, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
: "Slippery Painting," Starkwhite, Auckland, NZ
: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2019: "Shall we go, you and I while we can," Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
: "Kaleidescope," Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2018: "How They Ran," Over the Influence, Los Angeles, CA
: “Evolver,” LA Louver, Los Angeles, CA
: “New on the Wall (N.O.W.),” Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH (Link)
: "C’est Comme Vous Voulez – As You Like It," Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
2017: “Anniversary Show,” Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
2016: "A Verdant Summer," Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York, NY
: “Painting: A Transitive Space,” ST PAUL ST Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2015: "La femme de trente ans," Galerie Art: Concept, Paris France
2014: "Lovers," Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
: "Sargent’s Daughters," Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY
2013: "Summer Group Show," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2012: "Facing the Sublime in Water, CA," Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2011: "Everything Must Go," A Project with Ceramica Suro Guadalajara, Mexico, organized by Jose Noe Suro and Eduardo Sarabia, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY
2010: "The Gleaners: Works from the Sarah and Jim Taylor Collection," Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, CO
: "Five from LA," Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
: "Bagna Cauda," Gallerie Art: Concept, Paris, France
: "Houdini: Art and Magic, 1919-1949," The Jewish Museum, New York, NY; Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
2009: "This Is Killing Me," Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
2007: "PX – Snow Falls in the Mountains," curated by Jan Bryant, St Paul’s Gallery, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
: "Poker," Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy
2006: "Melancholy in Contemporary Art," Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel
: "Step Into Liquid," Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
: "Peindre des images," Galerie de l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Quimper, France
2005: "CUT," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: "Evidence," Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
: "The Third Peak," Galerie Art: Concept, Paris, France
: "Rogue Wave," LA Louver, Venice, CA
: "Wunderkammer 2," Nina Menocal, Mexico City, Mexico
: "Sad Songs," University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
: "Project Room: A Show Without Works," curated by Daniele Perra, Spazio Lima, Milan, Italy
2004: "summer group show," Cherry de los Reyes, Los Angeles, CA
: "Carpet Bag and Cozyspace," Healing Arts Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
: "Rimbaud," Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
2003: Black Dragon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
: "MFA Exhibitions Show #1," UCLA New Wight Gallery/Kinross, Los Angeles, CA
1998: "New England Connection," Lanning Gallery, Columbus, OH
: "Woods-Gerry Invitational Exhibition," Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
1997: Inagurative Show, Space 1026 Space, Philadelphia, PA
1996: L’ecole Nouveau de Pont-Aven (The New Pont-Aven School Painters), Hotel de Ville, Pont-Aven, France
: Salon de Refuses, Gallerie M, Pont-Aven, France
1995: "Common Threads," Rites and Reasons Gallery, Providence, RI

Bibliography

2025: Zellen, Jody. "Whitney Bedford: ‘Sunsetting’," ArtNowLA, June 26 (Link)
: Billing, Karen. "Local art advisors launch pop up art exhibit in Rancho Santa Fe village," San Diego Union Tribune, April 11
2024: Lanham, Camilla. "Whitney Bedford’s solo show at SLOMA highlights what’s been lost by looking back at historic landscapes," New Times, October 31 (Link)
: Frieze Staff. "Association of Professional Art Advisors’ Top 10 Picks from Frieze Los Angeles Viewing Room 2024," Frieze, February 26 (Link)
: Pound, Cath. "11 Contemporary Artists Channeling Pierre Bonnard’s Post-Impressionist Vision," Artsy, January 22 (Link)
2023: Woodard, Josef. "Rethinking, Re-tilling Landscape Art," Santa Barbara Independent, November 26 (Link)
2020: Dambrot, Shana Nys. "Review: Whitney Bedford at Vielmetter Los Angeles," Artillery, March 5 (Link)
: Finkel, Jori. "Artist Whitney Bedford is drawing a portrait of Elizabeth Warren every day until she is elected president," The Art Newspaper, March 3 (Link)
: Diehl, Travis. "The Best Shows to See in LA," Frieze, February 11 (Link)
: Cascone, Sarah. "In LA for Frieze Week? Here Is Our Guide to 33 Inspiring Gallery Shows to See Beyond the Fairs," artnet, February 10 (Link)
2019: Sritharan, Abi. "5 Wonderful Things To Do In London This Weekend (15-17 March 2019)," Luxury London, March 12 (Link)
2018: Jean Black, Ezhra, "Refuge from the Inferno: L.A.’s Best Summer Group Shows," Artillery (web), August 8 (Link)
: Riechert, Elliot, "Art Top 5: June 2018," New City Art (web), May 30 (Link)
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: De Santis, Sophie, “Le ‘La-La-Land’ de Whitney Bedford,” Figaroscope, February 22
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: De Santis, Sophie, “Visite virtuelle de l’exposition Whitney Bedford à Paris,” Le Figaro (web), March 3
: Gil, Virginia, “The must-see Art Basel Miami 2017 galleries,” Time Out Miami, November 20
: "Sea, art & money,” Beaux Arts Magazine, December
: “Travel: Hot tickets,” Net-A-Porter (web), December
: Zevitas, Steven, “Making it to the Big Stage: New American Paintings Alumni on View at Art Basel Miami 2017,” New American Paintings, December
2016: Vallecorse, Victoria, “Alumna showcases art worldwide, stays in LA for dynamic environment,” Daily Bruin, February 26
: Zarley, B. David, “Whitney Bedford: The Sinister Sublime,” New American Paintings (web), June 6 (Link)
: Rigou, Vasia, “Painting Raging Nature and the Powerful Sublime, Whitney Bedford in Profile,” NewCity Art (web), June 10 (Link)
: Yood, James. “Whitney Bedford: “East of Eden” at Carrie Secrist Gallery, art ltd., July/August
2015: Hess, Hugo, "Whitney Bedford," WideWalls, February 2
: La Femme de trente ans, Contemporary Art Daily, July 21
: Pick of the Week: Whitney Bedford, Artillery Magazine (web), December 17
2014: Karman, Tony, "An Unprecedented List of Cultural Exhibitions and Events in Chicago This September," September 16
: "Preview the 2014 Expo Chicago Art Fair," ARTnews, September 15
2013: McNamara, T.J., "Colour Heightens Vivid Drama," The New Zealand Herald, April 20
2012: Mizota, Sharon, "Facing the Sublime in Water, CA delves deep," Los Angeles Times, December 20
2011: Goodrich, John, Five From L.A., City Arts, January 26
2009: Tran, Khanh T.L., Memo Pad: A Portrait of the Artist, Womens Wear Daily, Vol. 197, Iss. 49, p. 12, March 9
2007: Freeman, Tommy, Reviews, Artweek, December/January
: Bedford, Christopher, Whitney Bedford at Cherry and Martin, Art In America, Vol. 95, Iss. 11, p. 168, December
: Mizota, Sharon, Whitney Bedford at Cherry and Martin, Art Ltd., November, p. 17
: Wilder, Matthew, Critics Pick, Artforum, October
: Myers, Holly, Gallery World: Making a Scene, Los Angeles Times, October 17
: Brooks, Amra, Must See Art, LA Weekly, October 10
: Knight, Christopher, Around the Galleris, Los Angeles Times, October 5
2006: Mendelsohn, Meredith, The New Romantics, ARTnews, February, pg. 123
2005: Freeman, Tommy, Art Review, December
: Baldessari, John, 100 Future Greats: Whitney Bedford, Art Review, December
: News & Features, Art Basel Miami: Theyre a Steal!, ARTINFO, December
: Bennou, Kassiani, The risk of Art: Yorgos Tsibiridis Collection, Ozon, July/August
: Rogue Wave 05, exhibition catalog, LA Louvre, Venice, CA
2004: Fertiles Textiles, Jalouse, November
: Brochard, Yves, Mixed Paint: A Survey of Contemporary Painters, Flash Art, November
: Dagan, Philippe, Le allusions fantomatiques de Whitney Bedford, Le Monde, October
: Brochard, Yves, Whitney Bedford, Louise, September 11- November 6
: Selbach, Gerard, Whitney Bedford, paris-art.com, September
: Bedford, Whitney, Self Portrait, Tema Celeste, May/June, pg. 84-85

Catalogues and Publications

2023: Schwabsky, Barry and Sarah Whitfield. "Bonnard: The Experience of Seeing," Acquavella Galleries, New York, NY, 2023
2021: Schwabsky, Barry. “Whitney Bedford,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY 2021

Teaching Experience

2020: Visiting Artist, University of Texas, Austin, TX
2018-2024: Adjunct Professor, Chapman University, Orange, CA
2018-2021: Adjunct Professor, University of California, Riverside
2018: Visiting Artist, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2016-2017: Adjunct Professor, University of California, San Diego
2016: Visiting Artist, Otis College of Design, Los Angeles, CA
2014: Visiting Artist, University of California, Los Angeles
2012: Visiting Artist, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2015: Pollock Krasner Award
2000-2003: UCLA Darcy Hayman Award
2001: UCLA Hammer Museum Drawing Biennial Winner
1998-2000: Fulbright Graduate Fellowship, Hoschule der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
1998-1999: Karl-Hoffer Gesellschaft Atelier, Kunstler Werkstatt Banhoff Westend
1997: Peggy Guggenheim Collection Studentship, Venice, Italy

Public Collections

: Eric Decelle, Brussels, Belgium
: Francois Pinault Collection, Paris, France
: Ginette Moulin and Guillaume Houzé Contemporary Art Collection, Paris, France
: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
: Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
: Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
: Pizutti Collection, Columbus, OH
: Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz, Miami, FL
: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
: The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

Edgar Arceneaux

1972: Born in Los Angeles, CA
: Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

2001: MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2000: Fachhochschule Aachen, Aachen, Germany
1996: BFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026: "We Are Gods," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2025: "Edgar Arceneaux," A Joyner/Giuffrida Visiting Artist Program, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
: "Edgar Arceneaux: Viewing Room," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2024: "Until Until, Until…" Performance, MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
: "Boney Manilli" Performance, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2022: "Skinning The Mirror," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: Sneak Peek of Boney Manilli Performance, Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2021: "Skinning The Mirror," Greenhouse, Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2020: "Edgar Arceneaux: Until, Until, Until… The Presidential Bookend Series," (online), Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
: "Edgar Arceneaux," Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2018: "Library of Black Lies," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2017: “Until, Until, Until…,” Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: "Edgar Arceneaux," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (Link)
: “Library of Black Lies,” The Main Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2016: “Cockeyed Eddie,” Galerie Natalie Obadia, Paris, France
: “Written in Smoke and Fire,” MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (Link)
2015: "Until, Until, Until…" Performa 15, New York NY
: Papillion Institute of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2014: "A Book and a Medal: Disentanglement Equals Homogenous Abstractions," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2012: "Building Loving and Distrustful Relationships", Maccarone Gallery, New York, NY
2011: Hopelessness Freezes Time 1967 Detroit Riots, Detroit Techno and Michael Heizer’s Dragged Mass Museum fr Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
: "Blind Pig City," Praz-Delavallade , Paris, France
: "Miracles and Jokes, Circle Disk Rotation and 22 Lost Signs of the Zodiac," The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Michigan
2010: "The Algorithm Doesn’t Love You", an ongoing series, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2009: "Disfigurement in the Face of Illusion: The Detroit Riots, Michael Heizer and Drexciya, Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin, Germany
: Albion Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2008: "Correlations and Isomorphisms," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: "The Agitation of Expansion," Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA
2007: "Jesus and Dinosaurs," PrazDelavallade, Paris, France
: "The Agitation of Expansion," Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany
2006: "Alchemy of ComedyStupid," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
: Snake River, REDCAT, Los Angeles and Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria, curated by Clara Kim and Stella Rollig, Collaboration with Charles Gaines and the LA Philharmonic
: "Alchemy of ComedyStupid", Gallery 400, University of Illinois Chicago, Illinois, collaboration with David Allan Grier
: Edgar Arceneaux- New Work, – Alchemy of Comedy,Stupid, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX
: "An Arrangement without Tormentors," Lentos Kunstmuseum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria, curated by Stella Rollig
2005: "Borrowed Sun," The Kitchen, New York, NY, curated by Debra Singer
: "Borrowed Sun," San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA,curated by Jill Dawsey
: Adamski Gallery of Contemporary Art, Aachen, Germany
: ArtBasel Miami Beach, Project Booth, presented by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
2004: "Borrowed Sun," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: "Negative Capability. The Michael Jackson Project," Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany
: "An Arrangement Without Tormentors," Witte de With Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2003: "Drawings of Removal," Project Space, UCLA Hammer Museum, Santa Monica, CA
: "Library as Cosmos," Kunstverein Ulm, Germany
: "Library as Chaos," Frehrking Wiesehoefer, Cologne, Germany
: "107th Street, Watts," Revolver Verlag, Frankfurt, Germany
2002: "Rootlessness," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: "Drawings of Removal," Studio Museum Harlem, NY
: "The Trivium," Gallery Kamm, Berlin, Germany
2001: "The Trivium," Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, curated by Rebecca McGrew
1999: The Project, New York, NY
1998: "The Remnants Project," Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026: "Mindset Los Angeles – Frank Gehry, the Cool School and the Followers," Marta Herford Museum, Herford, Germany (forthcoming)
: "Weather Stress Index," The Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
: "Space is the Place: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2024: "A Wing and a Prayer," The Bunker Art Space, West Palm Beach, FL
: "Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics," LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
: "In Memory," Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT
: "RETROaction," Curated by Kate Fowle in collaboration with Homi K Bhabha, Charles Gaines, and Ellen Tani, Hauser and Wirth, Los Angeles, CA
: "Re-Iterative II," curated by John David O’Brien, Terminal 5, LAX Airport, Los Angeles, CA
2023-2024: "Small World," The 13th Taipei Biennial, The Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
2023: "Artist’s Choice: Grace Wales Bonner – Spirit Movers," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: "Exercises in Imagination," National Academy of Design, New York, NY
: "The Collection," Haubrok Foundation, Fahrbereitschaft, Berlin, Germany
2022: "Boil, Toil & Trouble," Curated by Zoe Lukov, West Palm Beach, FL
2022-2023: "A Gateway to Possible Worlds. Art + Science Fiction," Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France (Traveling Exhibition) (Link)
2022: "Enter the Mirror," Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
: "Plants Now!" Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Rituals of Resilience," Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (Link)
2021: "Church for Sale," The Haubrok Collection and the National Gallery Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
: "ALI to LA," Transformative Arts, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: COLA Fellowship Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG), Los Angeles CA (Link)
: "Pushing the Margins: A Survey of LA Artists," curated by Charles Gaines, Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger, Norway
: "Land Art: Past, Present, Futures ," Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
: "A New Iconography: Artists Raising Children," The Landing, Los Angeles, CA
2020: "The Biblical Imagination," Mission Gathering, Pasadena, CA
: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "An Earth Song, A Body Song: Figures with Landscape from the OCMA Permanent Collection," Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA
: "Countermythologies," NXTHVN, New Haven, CT
: "In the Meanwhile…Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
: "NINETY / THREEHUNDRED," ArtCenter DTLA, Los Angeles, CA
2019-2020: "The Foundation of the Museum: MOCA’s Collection," The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: "Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power," MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
2019: "Sculpture," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Inaugural Exhibition," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2018: "26 on 3rd," LBMAx, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
: “Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press,” Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
2017: “Pivotal: Highlights from the Collection,” Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: “Performa: Commissions from Performa’s Archives,” Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (Link)
: “Starless Midnight,” Baltic Mill, Newcastle, UK
: “Unsettled,” curated by JoAnne Northup, Nevada Art Museum, Reno, NV; travelling to Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK; Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA (2018)
: “As a text differs from a book, an image differs from an archive,” MAK Center, Mackey Garage Top, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
: “Chapters,” Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
: “Urban Planning: Contemporary Art and the City 1967 – 2017,” curated by Kelly Shindler, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
: “20/20: The Studio Museum in Harlem and Carnegie Museum of Art,” Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
2016: “Wasteland,” curated by Shamim M. Momin, Paris Pantin (Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris France), Mona Bismarck American Center, Paris, France
: “Current: LA Water,” Public Art Biennial of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: “LA Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists,” Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2015: "SiteLab8," collaboration with Wangechi Mutu, SITE Santa Fe, NM
: "After Living in the Room of Ralits Nouvelles," Sonce Alexander Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Misappropriations: Recent Acquisitions," curated by Dan Cameron, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: "Laugh-In: Art, Comedy, Performance," Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
: "Russian Doll," M+B, Los Angeles, CA
: "Daily Memories," Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany
: “Until, Until, Until,” special commission for Performa 15, New York, NY
2014: 2014 Le Biennale de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
: Shanghai Bienniale, Shanghai, China
: "Recurrence," Fridman Gallery, New York, NY
: "Word Bites Picture," Design Matters Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "A Thousand of Him Scattered: Relative Newcomers in Diaspora," Scotlands Centre for Photography, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom (Link)
2013: "The Shadows Took Shape," The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
: "The Zero Hours," Art Sheffield 2013, Sheffield, England
: "The Present Order is the Disorder of the Future" Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
: "bald eagle," haubrok foundation, Berlin, Germany (Link)
: "You Should’ve Heard Just What I Seen: Selections from the collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg," Riverview School, Cape Cod, MA
: "The Armory Show and Tell," The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
: "Perhaps all that is left of the world is a wasteland covered with rubbish heaps," Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH
: "Hook, Line and Sinker: Contemporary Drawings from the Collection of Debra and Dennis Scholl", Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
: "Selections from the Grunwald Center and the Hammer Contemporary Collection", UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: "Etched in Collective History," Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
: "Approximately Infinite Universe," Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
2012: "my.LA," haubrok foundation, Berlin, Germany
: "Pairings, The Collection at 50," The Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County, CA
: "Mutatis Mutandis," Secession, Vienna, Austria
: "Marking Time", Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2011: Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil
: "The Bearden Project", The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
: "Greater LA," curated by Benjamin Godsill, Eleaonor Cayre and Joel Mesler, New York, NY
2010: Inaugural Group Exhibition, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: "New Art for a New Century: Contemporary Acquisitions, 2000-2010," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: "Moving Images. Artists & Video/Film," Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
: Summer Group Show, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Artists Museum: Los Angeles Artists 1980-2010," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: "Edgar Arceneaux, Andrea Bowers, Olga Koumoundouros, Rodney McMillian, Charles Gaines, Nery Gabriel Lemus," Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
: "Huckleberry Finn," CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA (Link)
2009: "California Calling: Works from Santa Barbara Collections, 1948-2008," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
: "Installations Inside/Out 20th Anniversary Exhibition," Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena CA
: "30 Seconds Off an Inch," curated by Naomi Beckwith, The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
: "MONITAUR", Aspen Art Museum, Colorado
: "PLOT/09: This World & Nearer Ones," curated by Mark Beasley, Public Art Quadrennial, presented by Creative Time, Governors Island, NY
: "Wallworks," curated by Betti-Sue Hertz, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
: "Code Share: 5 continents, 10 biennales, 20 artists," curated by Simon Rees, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
: "Collection in Context: Four Decades," The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
2008: "California Biennial 2008," curated by Lauri Firstenberg, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: "Whitney Biennial 2008," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: "Black Is, Black Aint," The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, IL; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, MI; H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO; Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
: "From and Bout Place: Art from Los Angeles," curated by Alma Ruiz, Center of Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, Israel
: "The Lining of Forgetting," curated by Xandra Eden, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; The Austin Museum of Art, Austin Texas (May 30–August 23, 2009)
2007: "Sculptors Drawings: Ideas, Studies, Sketches, Proposals, and More," Angles Gallery, Los Angeles
: "Touched: Artists and Social Engagement," curated by Noel Korten, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena
: "Philosophy of Time Travel," Studio Museum, Harlem, NY, collaboration with Rodney McMillian, Olga Koumandouros, Vincent Johnson, Matthew Sloly
: "USA: American Video Art at the Beginning of the 3rd Millennium," curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Gunnar Kvaran, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, 2nd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
: "southwestNET: drawing outside the lines," Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2006: "Materialization of Sensibility: Art and Alchemy," curated by Klaus Ottman, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY
: "Black Alphabet: conTEXTS of Contemporary African American Art," curated by Maria Brewińska, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
: "Tomorrowland: CalArts in Moving Pictures," Museum of Modern Art, New York
: "Symmetry," curated by Kimberly Meyer, and Nizan Shaked, MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, Los Angeles, CA
2005-2008: "Uncertain States of America," curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Gunnar Kvaran, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway
: Bard Museum Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
: Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
: Herning Kunstmuseum, Copenhagen, Denmark
: Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
: Le Muse de Srignan, Srignan, France
: Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
2005: "Cut," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Imaginary Number," KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
: "Mixed Doubles," Forum Gallery, Carnegie Museum of Art
: "Displaced," curated by Kathrin Becker, KnstlerInnen, Berlin, Germany
: "The Need to Document," Halle fr Kunst e.V., Lneburg, Germany
: "Monuments for the USA," curated by Ralph Rugoff, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
: "Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970," curated by Valerie Cassel, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
2004: "Art and the Afterall Effect," PlaySpace, California College of the Arts Graduate Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: "Quicksand," de Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
: "Upside Down: Neueingerichtete Raeume zur Gegenwart," Ludwigforum Aachen, Aachen, Germany
: "Remembering", Sweeny Art Gallery, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA, curated by Charles Gaines
: "The Michael Jackson Project", Collaboration with Rodney McMillian, Inaugural Exhibition
: Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: "Fade – African American Artists in Los Angeles – A Survey Exhibition," curated by Malik Gaines, Luckman Gallery and University Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State Los Angeles
2003: "Korrekturen," Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany
: "The Summer of 2003," Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, Netherlands
: "True Stories," Witte de With Museum, Rotterdam, curated by Catherine David and Jean Perre Rehm, in the context of the International Film Festval Rotterdam, Netherlands
: "Social Strategies: Redfining Social Realism," curated by Pamela Achincloss, University Art Museum Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
: DePaul University Art Museum, Greencastle, IN
: Illinois State University, Normal, IL
: Skidmore College, Schick Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
: The Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
: "The Fifth Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection", traveling exhibition to: Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA; Soo Visual Arts, Minneapolis, MN; Art Center, South Florida, Miami, FL; Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA; The New Museum, New York, NY
: "Urban Aesthetics: California Artists 2003", The African American Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2002: "Lateral Thinking", San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
: "Persoenliche Plaene," curated by Christina Vegh, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Germany
: "Mass Appeal: The Art Object and Hip Hop Culture", curated by Franklin Sirmans, Gallery 101, Ottawa; Montreal Arts Intercultires, Montreal; The Kyber Center for the Arts, Halifax; Owens Art Gallery, Sackville
: "Prophets of Boom," Kunsthalle Baden Baden, Baden Baden, Germany
: "Unjustified," curated by Kerry James Marshall, Apex Art, New York, NY
2001-2002: "One Planet Under a Groove," curated by Franklin Sirmans and Lydia Yee, Bronx Museum, New York, NY; traveled to: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
2001: "Profiler," curated by Astrid Mania and Peter Robinson, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
: "Prosthetics, Camouflage & War," Adamski Frehrking Wiesehoefer Gallery, Koln, Germany
: "Superman in Bed," curated by Wilhelm Schurmann, Museum Am Ostwall, Dortmunt, Germany
: "Rappers Delight," curated by Arnold Kemp, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2000: "<hers> Video as Female Terrain," curated by Stella Rollig, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
: "Sitegeist," curated by Edgar Arceneaux and Dwayne Moser, Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA
: "Pierogi Flat Files #148," curated by Susan Joyce, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Veni, Vidi, Video," Kunstfaktor, Berlin, Germany.
1999: "Paradise 8," Exit Art, New York, NY
: "Spaceship Earth," curated by Katherine Ruello, Art in General, New York, NY
: "Permanent Collection of 1999," San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
: "I, Me, Mine," curated by Julie Joyce and Mike Mehring, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998: "Warming," The Project, New York, NY
: "Triangle of Nice, Book of Lies, Vol.II," Los Angeles and Fullerton, CA.
: "Round 9," Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
1997: "1997 Annuale," curated by Elizabeth Armstrong, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA
: "Uncommon Sense," The Geffen Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Kwangju Biannale, Kwanju, Korea
: "Fantasy, Desire and Memory," Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA.
1996: "9 Hours at Bliss," curated by Laura CooperBliss Gallery, Pasadena, CA
: "Open House," Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

Video Screenings

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

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

Catalogues

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

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

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

Public Collections

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

Genevieve Gaignard

1981: Born in Orange, Massachusetts
: Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

2007: BFA, Photography, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2014: MFA, Photography, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024: "Thinking Out Loud," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022: "To Whom it May Concern," Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, NJ
: "Genevieve Gaignard: Strange Fruit," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Genevieve Gaignard, This is America: The Unsettling Contradictions in American Identity," Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
2020: "A Long Way From Home," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (online)
: "A Long Way From Home," Gallery 51, North Adams, MA
: "Art in Focus: Genevieve Gaignard," Rockefeller Center, New York, NY
: "Bloom Projects: Genevieve Gaignard, Outside Looking In," Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
2019: "I’m Sorry I Never Told You That You’re Beautiful," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "In Passing," The Art Galleries at Black Studies, University of Texas, Austin, TX
: "Black White and Red All Over," Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018: "Hidden Fences," Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
: "Counterfeit Currency," The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
2017: "Grassroots," Prospect.4, New Orleans, LA
: "In Passing," Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
: "The Powder Room," Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA
2016: "Smell the Roses," California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2015: "Us Only," Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA
: "A Golden State of Mind," Diane Rosenstein Presents at The Cabin LA, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026: "Day-to-Day: Rhythm, Routine, Resistance," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA (forthcoming)
2025: "America (Soy Yo!)," Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Coming Into Focus: A Snapshot of Photography at the Nasher," Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
2024-2025: "Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2024: "In an effort to be held," Library Street Collective, Los Angeles, CA
: "I’d Love To See You: Juxtapoz 30th anniversary show," Rusha & Co, Los Angeles, CA
: "Culture Diaries," Rele Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Collage Culture," Monique Meloche, Chicago, IL
: "Stop & Stare," UTA Artist Space, Curated by Genevieve Gaignard, Los Angeles, CA
2023-2024: "Dueling Consciousness," Zidoun-Bossuyt, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
: "Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage ," Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN; Traveling to Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (2024); The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. (2024)
2023: "Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Colliding Visions: Contemporary California Collage," Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
: "Resting Our Eyes," Curated by Tahirah Rasheed and Autumn Breon, Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
: "Our Lips Are Sealed," University Art Gallery CSU Dominguez Hills, Dominguez Hills, CA
: "It’s Time," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022: "Adorned," Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
: "Continuum," SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, CA in partnership with Residency Art Gallery and The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection
: "51 @ 51," Rennie Museum, Vancouver, Canada
: "From Near and Far: Collage and Figuration in the Contemporary Age," Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
: "Known & Understood," Benton Museum of Art Pomona College, Pomona, CA
: "This is Not America’s Flag," The Broad Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: "Salvation: A State of Being," Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, NY (Link)
2021-2022: "Our whole, unruly selves," San José Museum of Art, San José, CA (Link)
2021: The Armory Show, Two Person Presentation with Kennedy Yanko, New York, NY
2021-2022: "Family Album: Dannielle Bowman, Janna Ireland and Contemporary Works from LACMA," Charles White Elementary School, Los Angeles, CA
: "Assembly: New Acquisitions by Contemporary Black Artists," Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
2021: "Portraits," Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
: "Black American Portraits," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: "Altered States," Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco, CA
: "Facing Forward: Photographic Portraits from the Collection," The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (Link)
: "This is America," Kunstraum Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
: "Beyond the Looking Glass," UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA
: "Photo Flux: Unshuttering LA", Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2020: "Set in Motion," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
: "Visions in Light: Windows on the Wallis," Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Los Angeles, CA
: "South East North West: New Works from the Collection," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
: For Freedoms 2020 Awakening Billboard, Gardner, ND
: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Village Motel," Galerie Blanc, Montreal, Quebec
: "Good Trouble," Mint Gallery, Atlanta, Ga
: "Doro Olowu: Seeing Chicago," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: "F as in Frank," Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
2019: "Vernacular Interior," Hales New York, NY
: "Time for Change: Art and Social Unrest in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection," El Espacia 23, Miami, FL
: "The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today," Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
: "Presence," Fullerton College Art Gallery, Fullerton, CA
: "To Reclaim," Kavi Gupta, Chicago, IL
: "Shifting Aesthetics: A Selection of 11 Contemporary L.A. Artists," Millard Sheets Art Center, Pomona, CA
: "Still I Rise," MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
: "Politically Private – The interplay of personal identity and public performance," Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA
: "In This Imperfect Present Moment," Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
: "Quiet As Its Kept: Passing Subjects, Contested Identities," Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
: "Lost and Found in America," Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, FL (Link)
2018-2019: "Parallels and Peripheries," ArtCenter South Florida, Miami, FL
: "Terres de femmes," Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, CA
2018: "Daegu Biennale," Daegu, South Korea
: "Personal Space," Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AK
: "Radically Ordinary: Scenes from Black Life in America Since 1968," Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
: "People Get Ready," Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
: "Fun House," Josh Lilley Gallery, London, UK
: ‘Shaq Loves People," Curated by Shaquille O’Neal, EXPO Chicago, Chicago, IL
: "Talisman in the Age of Difference," Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
: "In This Imperfect Present Moment," Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
: "Industry," dc3 Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
2017: "Fictions," Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
: "Face to Face: Los Angeles Collects Portraiture," California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: "Comm | Alt | Shift," Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
2016: "Other Spaces," dc3, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
: "Summer School," The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
2014: "13 Artists," Yale School of Art, Alternative Space, New Haven, CT
: "Deep End," Yale MFA Photography Thesis, Yale School of Art Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
: "Deep End," Yale MFA Photography Thesis, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
: "Deep End," Yale MFA Photography Thesis, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "The New New," Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013: "Yale MFA Second-Year Student Exhibition," Yale School of Art Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
: "Yale MFA First-Year Student Exhibition," Yale School of Art Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT

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2018: Woolridge, Jane, "Art Basel Week Action Goes Beyond Fairs. You’ll Want These Happenings On Your List," Miami Herald, December 1 (Link)
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: Lavelle, Ciara, "Art Basel and Miami Art Week 2018 Winners and Losers," Miami New Times, December 10 (Link)
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: Shepherd, Harriet. "The Bi-Racial Artist Using White-Passing Characters to Talk About Blackness," Sleek Magazine, June 7 (Link)
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2017: Eler, Alicia. "An Artist Reinvents Herself to Mine the Fictions of America," Hyperallergic, January 9 (Link)
: Scout, Sabo. "How One Artist Explores Biracial Identity Through Elaborate Self-Portraits," Interview Magazine, December 11 (Link)
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: Pasori, Cedar. "At EXPO CHICAGO, Not-for-Profits Make the Running," VICE, October 2 (Link)
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: West, Allyn. Self-Portraits in the Age of Selfies, Houston Chronicle, September 7
: Delaney, Lashea. "Contemporary Black Artists Are Redefining Portraiture in a Show at CAAM," LA Weekly, July 21 (Link)
: "Feminist Artists," Harper’s Bazaar Japan, June
: Slenske, Michael. Take Me to Church, CULTURED Magazine, April
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: Stevens, Anise. "Genevieve Gaignard," Artillery, January 10 (Link)
2016: Alessi, Andrea. "2016’s Best Artist Interviews," Artslant, December 14 (Link)
: "17 Emerging Artists to Watch in 2017," Artsy, December 13 (Link)
: Davis, Ashlyn. "Rule Breakers: Genevieve Gaignard," Don’t Take Pictures, November 21 (Link)
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: Coughlin, Sara. 9 Self-Portraits Challenge Mainstream Perceptions of Beauty & Race, Refinery29, May 26
: Genevieve Gaignard, The Art Gorgeous, April 12
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: Indrisek, Scott. "Need To Know: Genevieve Gaignard’s Colorblind Character Studies," Out Magazine, March 22 (Link)
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: Frank, Priscilla. "Artist Explodes Racial Stereotypes in Shape-Shifting Photographs," The Huffington Post, October 20 (Link)
: "9 Top Art Influencers," Modern Luxury Magazine, November 23
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2015: Err, Alicia. Genevieve Gaignard: Us Only, Crave Online, November 26
: "This Artist Is Taking a Fresh Look at Femininity Through Drag," Broadly, November (Link)
: Nimptsch, Emily. "I Just Got Mad Seeing the Machines Ripping Up the Woods," Flaunt Magazine, May 9 (Link)
: Knight, Christopher. "Around the Galleries," Los Angeles Times, January 17 (Link)
2014: Deep End: Yale MFA, Artsy Magazine, August
: Out of the Box (The Yale Project), New York Magazine, May 19
: Barnes, Alexis. Yale University is Having Its First All Black Art Show, VICE, April 17 (Link)

Catalogues

2024: Tommasino, Akili. "Look Inside Flight into Egypt Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now," Yale University Press and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2021: Bell, Phillips, and Anna Lena. "Ecotone," University of North Carolina Whilmington, Whilmington, NC
: Moger, Kate & Thorsten Albertz. THIS IS AMERICA, Exhibition catalogue, Kunstraum Potsdam, Published by DISTANZ Verlag, Albertz Benda, pp 13; 40-41; 93.

Residencies & Studio Programs

2023: "The Lunder Institute for American Art," Colby College, Waterville, ME
2020: "MCLA Artist Lab Residency," North Adams, MA
2019: "Fountainhead," Miami, FL

Public Collections

: Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, OH
: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
: California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
: The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
: Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC
: OZ Art NWA, Bentonville, AR
: Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL
: Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art
: Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
: San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
: SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, CA
: Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

Ruben Ochoa

1974: Born in Oceanside, CA
: Lives and works in Los Angeles

2003: MFA, University of California, Irvine
1997: BFA, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
1996: Parsons School of Art and Design, New York

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2020: "Ruben Ochoa," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2017: “Sampled and Surveyed,” Art + Practice, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
2016: "Tripping the Light Fantastick," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: “Ruben Ochoa: watching, waiting, commiserating,” Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA (Link)
2014: "MATRIX 169: Ruben Ochoa, ‘Cloudless Day,’" The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT (Link)
2013: "Dislocated Masses," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2011: "Cores and Cutouts", Locust Projects, Miami, FL
2010: Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
2009: Charles H. Scott Gallery at Emily Carr University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
: "Crooked Under the Weight," Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
: Collapsed, Peter Blum, Soho, New York, NY
: three the hard way, Peter Blum Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY
2008: Fall of the Wall [paper], Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin, Germany
2007: A Recurring Amalgamation, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: Clastic Rupture, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
2006: Extracted, LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA
: Freeway wall next to a, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005: Borrowed Ladders, ESL Ι Esthetics as a Second Language, Los Angeles, CA
2004: Greyscale, Voz Alta Projects, San Diego, CA

Two and Three Person Exhibitions

2018: "Forty and Nine," 49 South Van Ness Forum Sculpture Public Art Project, San Francisco, CA
2013: "Duet: Ruben Ochoa and B.J. Vogt", Duet St. Louis, MO, curated by Daniel McGrath
2011: Beta-Space: Kevin Appel and Ruben Ochoa, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2009: ArtBasel Miami, two person presentation with Tam Van Tran, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects Booth
2007: Swap, collaboration with Mark Bradford, LACMA: On-Site, Charles White Elementary Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006: Storage, collaboration with Marco Rios, 4-F Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: Embryonic Loop, collaboration with Marco Rios, LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA
2005: Caltransposed with Peter Tavera, Gallery 727, Los Angeles, CA
2004: Rigor Motors, collaboration with Marco Rios, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA, CA
: Projects by Ruben Ochoa and Michael Queenland, The Project, Los Angeles (curated by Lauri Firstenberg)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026: "Day-to-Day: Rhythm, Routine, Resistance," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2023: "Outside: In," Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, FL
: "The Land of Milk and Honey / La tierra queue mana leche y miel," Organized by the MexiCali Biennial, The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2022: "Lonesome Crowd West: Works from MOCA’s Collection," The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2021: "Church for Sale," The Haubrok Collection and the National Gallery Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: COLA Fellowship Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG), Los Angeles CA (Link)
: "Church for Sale," Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
2020: "South East North West: New Works from the Collection," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "To Tame a Wild Tongue: Art After Chicanismo," Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
2019-2020: " Bound to the Earth: Art, Materiality, and the Natural World," Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
: "Open Space," BACKSPACE, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Sorcerer’s Burden," The Contemporary Austin, Texas
2019: "Sculpture," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Centennial: 100 years of Otis College Alumni," Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
: "Common Bonds: Artists and Architects on Community," Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA (Link)
2018: "Maker Faire San Diego," San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
2017: “Vantage,” Finishing Concepts, Los Angeles, CA
: “Down These Mean Streets: Community and Place in Urban Photography,” Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC (Link)
: “Mi Tierra: Contemporary Artists Explore Space,” Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
2016: "Artworks for Change," Online Exhibition (Link)
2015: "Apparitions: Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; travelled to the Menil Collection, Houston, TX
2013: Nasher XCHANGE: 10+ Celebration, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX, curated by Jeremy Strick
: "Reverberations," Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA
: "Hook, Line and Sinker: Contemporary Drawings from the Collection of Debra and Dennis Scholl", Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
2012: Lost Line: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: "no desaster: sammlung haubrok bei falckenberg," Phoenix-Hallen, Harburg, Germany
: The Very Large Array: San Diego/Tijuana Artists in the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Downtown, Jacobs Building, San Diego, CA
: "my.LA," haubrok foundation, Berlin, Germany
2011: Greater LA, curated by Benjamin Godsill, Eleaonor Cayre and Joel Mesler, New York, NY
: The Future Generation Art Prize @ Venice Collateral Event of the 54th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo Papadopoli, Venice , Italy
2010: Summer Group Show, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: The Artists Museum: Los Angeles Artists 1980-2010, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Future Generation Art Prize, PinchukArtCenter, Kiev, Ukraine
: Inaugural Group Exhibition, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: Between Here and There: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
: Invisible City, Instituto Cervantes, Madrid, Spain (Curated by Kris Kuramitsu and Christopher Miles) traveling to: Instituto Cervantes, New Delhi, India; Instituto Cervantes, Berlin, Germany; Instituto Cervantes, Tokyo, Japan
2009: Counter Intelligence, Luckman Gallery at California State University, Los Angeles, CA
: Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
: Collectors XXIV, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
: Dibujar es Pensar Proyecto Magenta, Monterrey, Nuevo Len, Mexico
2008: "it’s about sculpture," haubrok foundation, Berlin, Germany
: From and About Place: Art from Los Angeles, The Center for Contemporary Arts, Tel Aviv, Israel, Curated by Alma Ruiz (catalogue)
: In the Round: The 90th Anniversary of OTIS College of Art & Design, Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: Puerto Vallarta Arte Contemporneo 08, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (organized by Pilar Perez)
: WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2008, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Phantom Sightings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (curated by Rita Gonzalez,Howard Fox and Chon Noriega) travelling to: Tamayo Art Museum, Mexico City, Mexico; Mexico Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX; Museum Alamdea, San Antonio, TX; El Museo del Barrio / Americas Society, New York, NY; Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico
2007: Multifaceted Lens, Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN
: Performance Z-A, 25th Anniversary for the Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY
: Viva Mexico! Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, curated by Magda Kardasz, traveling to BWA Wrocław Contemporary Art Gallery, Wrocław, Poland.
: Latitude, Artcore, Los Angeles (organized by Pilar Tompkins)
: Range, d.e.n Gallery, Los Angeles (curated by Kristi Lippire)
2006: Mexicali Biennial, La Casa de la Tia Tina, Mexicali, Mexico
: The Newsstand Project, newsstands throughout Los Angeles (organized by Dan Bayles)
: Agent Once, Acuna-Hansen, Los Angeles (organized by Jason Keller)
: 25 Bold Moves: Emerging Artists Exhibit, House of Campari, Los Angeles, CA
: An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life, REDCAT Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: Otis: Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005: Happenstance, Harris-Lieberman Gallery, New York (curated by Lauri Firstenberg)
: Drive by and relax, UPSPACE, Los Angeles (curated by Chris Sicat)
: Borderless Dreams, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
: Drive Time, Wignall Museum, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
: Empire.Style, ART2102, Boyle Heights, CA (curated by Peter Zellner)
: passerby, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA (curated by Cassandra Cobelentz)
2004: FREEWAVES_Inter-State: Video on a Go, REDCAT Theater, Los Angeles, CA
: 2004 California Biennial, Arist-in-residence, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: Land of the Free: Americana, City of Brea Gallery, Brea, CA (curated by Tyler Stallings)
2003: Picarte! Photography Beyond Representation, Heard Museum, Phoeniz, AZ
: Recess, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles (curated by Brienne Arrington and Dan Bayles)
: Happy Beautiful Desirable, Track 16, Santa Monica, CA
2002: Better Look Twice, Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA
: Whacked, Los Angeles (curated by John Souza)

Selected Projects

2006-2007: Fwy Wall Extraction, 10 fwy eastbound below Soto St and Marengo Blvd intersection, Los Angeles (produced by Creative Capital Foundation)
2006: Disrup, LA><ART Billboard Project, La Cienega Blvd between Venice and Washington, Los Angeles
: aint that revolutionary, LA><ART Billboard Project, corner of Santa Monica Blvd and Highland Ave, Hollywood, CA (in conjunction with the exhibition An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life, REDCAT, Los Angeles)
2001-2005: CLASS: C, mobile artist space featuring over 75 artists, curators, and collaborators throughout Southern California

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2021: COLA Fellowship Grant, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
2013: California Community Foundation, Getty Fellow, Mid-Career Artist (Link)
2010: Future Generation Art Prize Nomination, Victor Pinchuk Foundation
2008: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
: Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) Investing in Artist Grant
2006: Rockefeller Fellowship: New Media
2005: International Studio and Curatorial Program Residency (ISCP-NYC), August-November 2007
: Creative Capital Foundation: Visual Arts Grant
2004: Nimoy Foundation, California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art: Artist-in-Residence
: California Community Foundation: Emerging Artist Fellowship
: The Durfee Foundation: Artists Resource for Completion Grant
2002: University of California Institutional Research Award (UCIRA)

Teaching Experience

2018: Associate Professor of Practice, USC Roski School of Art and Design

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: Pincus, Robert L., Echoes of Duchamp at the MCASD, San Diego Union Tribune, April 11
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: Myers, Holly, Ruben Ochoa: In a construction zone, Los Angeles Times, March 7
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: Momin, Shamim, Ruben Ochoa essay in Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculptures and Installation, Phaidon Press
: Art & Space: Ruben Ochoa, BOB International Magazine of Space Design, Issue #062, Fall
: Davis, Kathryn M., Santa Fe, Art Ltd., July
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: Fairfield, Douglas, Art In Review, Santa Fe New Mexican Pasatiempo, July 10
: Fischer, Zane, Pssst! Hey, Mom: SITE has an art exhibition that mothers (and others) will love, Santa Fe Reporter, July 8
: Tobin, Richard, Critical Reflections: Ruben Ochoa/ Crooked Under the Weight, THE Magazine, July 2009
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: Saltz, Jerry, This Road Goes Somewhere, New York Magazine, April 6
: Von Taube, Annika, Los Angeles, Sleek Magazine, Winter
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: Chang, Richard, California Biennial reaches beyond the Golden State, The Arts Blog, ocregister.com, October 24
: Young, Paul, The Radar Art, Angeleno, October
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: Paterson, Carrie, Ruben Ochoa: A Recurring Amalgamation, Art Circles, Issue #5, Fall
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: Campagnola, Sonia, Live from Los Angeles, Flash Art, November/December
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: Continuing and Recommended: Ruben Ochoas A Recurring Amalgamation at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Art Scene, October
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: Myers, Holly, When nature and urban life conflict, Los Angeles Times, September 14
: Becker, Jack; Slade, George, Multifaceted Lens: Photography and Public Art, Public Art Review, Spring/Summer
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: Kim, Clara, Ruben Ochoa: Extracted, Contemporary, Issue 88, p.73
: West, Kevin, The Van Man, WWDscoop, September, p. 60
: Myers, Holly, Freeways connect and divide, Los Angeles Times, September 15, p. E22
: Gray, Emma, L.A. Confidential, Artnet, October 13
: Satorius, Katherine, Ruben Ochoa at LA><ART, Artweek, November, p. 17
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: Willis, Holly, State of the Art: A Field Guide from Acken to Zittel, LA Weekly, October 28, p. 52
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: Knight, Christopher, Biennial arrives, and so does a museum, Los Angeles Times, October 13, p. E1, E7
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Public Collections

: Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
: Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
: Perez Art Museum, Miami, Florida
: Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, CA
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Andrea Bowers

1965: Born in Wilmington, Ohio
: Lives and works in Los Angeles, California

1992: M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA.
1987: B.F.A., Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2027: Solo, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy (forthcoming)
2026: Solo, Andrew Kreps, New York, NY (forthcoming)
: Solo, kaufmann repetto Milan, Milan, Italy (forthcoming)
: "Andrea Bowers," Glenstone Museum, Potomac, MD
2025: "Hope is Never Silent," Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2024: "Recognize Yourself as Land and Water," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Exist, Flourish and Evolve," MoCA Cleveland, Cleveland, OH (Link)
2023: "Joy is an Act of Resistance," Andrew Kreps, New York, NY
: "Drink The Wild Air," two-person show with Mary Weatherford, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany
2022-2023: "Moving in Space without Asking Permission," Fondazione Furla and Galleria d’Arte Moderna (GAM), Milan, Italy
2022: "Can the world mend in this body?," Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: "Andrea Bowers," (Traveling Exhibition) Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: "you must not turn your head away in grief," kaufmann repetto milan, Milan, Italy
2021-2022: "Andrea Bowers," (Traveling Exhibition) Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL
2021: "Energy With Intention," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2020: "Grief and Hope," curated Susanne Titz, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
: "Think of Our Future," Andrew Kreps, New York, NY
2019-2020: "Light and Gravity," Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany (Link)
2018: "Open Secret," Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany
: “Disrupting and Resisting,” Kauffman Repetto, Milan, Italy (Link)
2017: “Andrea Bowers and Marcos Erre,” Westmont Ridley Tree Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
: “Andrea Bowers,” curated by Steven Matijcio, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
: "Bureau of Feminism," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2016: "Triumph of Labor," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: “Andrea Bowers: Sanctuary,” curated by Sofia Hernandez Chong Chuy, Bronx Museum, New York, NY
: "Whose Feminism is it Anyway?" Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
: "The United State v. Tim DeChristopher," Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2015: "Self-Determination," Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, Italy
2014: "Andrea Bowers: #sweetjane," Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
: "In Situ-1: Andrea Bowers, Espace culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
2013: "Cultivating the Courage to Sin", Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany
: "Transformer Display for Community Fundraising: Phase 4," Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (two-person show with Olga Koumoundouros)
2012: "Help the Work Along," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2011: "Ni Una Muerta Mas," curated by Anna Karetsi, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
: "The New Womens Survival Guide," Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
2010: "Andrea Bowers," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2009: "Mercy Mercy Me," Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
: "An Eloquent Woman," Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
2008: "Sanctuary," Van Horn, Dusseldorf, Germany
: "The Weight of Relevance," ZKM/Zentrum fr Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
2007: "The Weight of Relevance," The Power Plant, Toronto, curated by Gregory Burke
: "The Weight of Relevance," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, CA
: "The Weight of Relevance," Secession, Vienna, Austria
2006: "Nothing is Neutral: Andrea Bowers," REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Eungie Joo, traveling to: ArtPace, San Antonio, TX; St. Louis Museum,St. Louis, MO
: "Vows," Halle fuer Kunst, eV, Lneburg, Germany
: "Eulogies to One and Another," Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
: Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany
: "Letters to an Army of Three," Core Program, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, curated by Mary Leclre
2005: "Culture of Choice," Van Horn, Dsseldorf, Germany
2004: "Soft Blockades Part 2," Magazin 4, Voralberger Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria
: "Soft Blockades," Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Training," Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
2003: "Magical Politics," Chouakri Brahms, Berlin, Germany
2002: "Virtual Arena (catalogue)," Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
: "From Mouth to Ear, Goldman Tevis, Los Angeles, CA
: "Box with Dance of Its Own Making, Chouakri Brahms, Berlin, Germany
2001: "Democracys Body Dance Dance Revolution, Art 32 Basel, Art Statements,
: Basel, Switzerland, presented by Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
2000: "Intimate Strangers, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
: "I Need a Hero, Institute of Visual Arts (INOVA), University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
: "One and the Same Body, ARCO Project Room, Madrid, Spain, presented by Sara Meltzers on view, New York, NY 1301 PE, Los Angeles, CA
1999: "Moving Equilibrium, Sara Meltzers on view, New York, NY
1998: "Ohio (two-person show with Sam Durant), Dogenhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany
: "Spectacular Appearances, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
1997: "Spectacular Appearances in the Food Court, A project with the Santa Monica Museum of Art
: Video Installation, Santa Monica Place Mall, Santa Monica, CA
: Spanish Box, Santa Monica, CA
1994: "Damaged Goods, Bliss, Pasadena, CA
1993: FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2027: "Art and Feminisms," Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid, Spain (forthcoming)
: "California Dreaming," Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy (forthcoming)
2026: "Day-to-Day: Rhythm, Routine, Resistance," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA (forthcoming)
: "Future Geographies: Art in the Century of Climate Change," Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia (forthcoming); Traveling to Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada (2027)
: "Into the Time Horizon," Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
2025: "Icons, Archetypes, and Portraits," North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
: "wild thinX," Galerie5020, Salzburg, Austria
: "Engaged, Sculptors 2," Foundation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France
: "Trees We Breath," Wave Hill Public Garden & Cultural Center, The Bronx, NY
: "We. The Body as Sign," Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr, Mülheim, Germany
2024-2026: "Get in the Game," SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA; Traveling to Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, AR (2025); Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL (2026).
2024-2025: "Making Their Mark," BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA; Traveling to Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (2025).
2024: "Body Freedom for Every(body)," Project for Empty Space
: "PROJECTIONS III. RETHINKING THE WORLD," Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Ravensburg, Germany
: "Too Much Future," Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
: "Art for a Safe and Healthy California," Gagosian, Beverly Hills, CA
: "Incandescence: The Chandelier in Contemporary Art," Shirley Fiterman Art Center at Bronx Community College, New York, NY
: "Survival In The 21st Century," Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
: "A Model: Prelude – Rayyane Tabet. Trilogy," MUDAM, Luxembourg
: "Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968," MoCA, Los Angeles, CA
: "Wrongs & RIGHTS," Kniznick Gallery, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
: "2024 INAUGURAL EXHIBITION," The Campus, Claverack, NY
: "Mother Earth," Meridian Center for Cultural Diplomacy, Washington D.C.
: "Rewilding” Kunsthaus Baselland, Münchenstein/Basel, Switzerland
2023-2025: "Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing," The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; Traveling to Norton Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (2024-2025)
2023: "The Feminist Art Program (1970-1975): Collective Cycles," REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
: "Dawn of Humanity," Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
: "How to Survive," Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, Alaska (Link)
: "What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection," Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Berkeley, CA
: "(Chosen) Family/ (Wahl) Famile: Who We Are," Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Ravensburg, Germany (Link)
: "Dear Earth: Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis," Hayward Gallery, London, UK
: "Rohkunstbau 28: Finally Peace! Caring For Yourself And Others," Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany
: "Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Mouvement et Lumiére," Fondation Villa Datris, Paris, France (Link)
: "Euroluce," Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy
: "Imperfect Paradise," Barbati Gallery, Venice
: "Visual Language: The Art of Protest," Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: "Language in the Time of Miscommunication," Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2022-2023: "Paint The Protest," Off Paradise, New York, NY
: "Empowerment," Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
2022: "Wrongs & RIGHTS," The Rudin Family Gallery, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM Strong), Brooklyn, NY
: "Calling To Our Future: LA Climate Art Action," Emerson Collective, Downtown Los Angeles, CA
: "51 @ 51," Rennie Museum, Vancouver, Canada
: "Plants Now!," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Working Thought," The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
2021-2022: "Omelette Papier," Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany
2021: "Who will Write the History of Tears," MoMa Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
: "Vogliamo Tutto," Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Torino, Italy
: "New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century," University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
: "We Are Here." Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA
: "In the Meanwhile… Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Stories of Resistance," CAMSTL, St. Louis, Missouri
: "Wayne Thiebaud: Influencer," Thiebaud Centennial Exhibition, Manetti Shrem Museum, UC Davis, Davis, CA
2020: "Rhizome 7/7," Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany (online)
: "Conversational Spirits," Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA
: "F as in Frank," Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
: "Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change," Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
: "Don’t Let This Be Easy," Walker Art Center, Minneaplis, MN
: Permanent Collection, National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens, Greece
: "What is Nature?," Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany
: "Drawing 2020," Gladstone Gallery, NY
: "South East North West: New Works from the Collection," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Time for Outrage: Art in Times of Social Anger," Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany (Link)
: "Vent’anni – 20 years," Kaufmann Repetto, New York (Link)
: "In the Meanwhile…Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (Link)
2019-2021: "Waking Dream," Ruby City, San Antonio, TX
2019-2020: "In Plain Sight," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2019: "Inaugural Exhibition," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
: "F-Bomb", Daniel Arts Center, Bard College, NY (Link)
: "How the Light Gets In," Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
: "United by AIDS," Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
: "Damn! The Defiant," Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY
: "STORIES: Selections from the Permanent Collection," Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
: "Queer California: Untold Stories," Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
2018-2019: "The Street. Where the World is Made," MAXXI, Rome, Italy (Link)
: "Parking on Pavement," The School, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
: "Terres de femmes," Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, CA
2018: "What Is Enlightenment? 200 Years of the Print Room of the University of Warsaw Library," Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
: "Climate Change Is Real," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
: "Art & Activism: Drawing the line," Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
: "Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection," Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (Link)
: "West by Midwest," MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
: "After Posada: Revolution," El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas
: “The Un-Heroic Act. Representations of Rape in Contemporary Women’s Art in the US,” Shiva Gallery, John Jay College, CUNY
: "Kinship," Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: "Artists and Their Books / Books and Their Artists," The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
: “Mis (missing) Information,” organized by Jody Zellen and Brian C. Moss, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
: “Agora,” The High Line, New York, NY (Link)
: “Power to the People. Political Art Now,” Schirn Kunsthalle Franfurt, Frankfurt, Germany (Link)
: “Nothing Stable under Heaven,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (Link)
: "¿¡Welcome?!," Manetti Shrem Museum, University of California, Davis, CA (Link)
: "Manifesto: A Moderate Proposal," curated by Ciara Ennis and Jennifer Vanderpool, Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont, CA (Link)
2017: “Really?” curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody,Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940 – 2017," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (Link)
: “Sonic Rebellion: Music as Resistance,” Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
: "Marching to the Beat," Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: “Women to the Front: Works from the Miller Meigs Collection,” Lumber Room, Portland, OR
: “I Plan to Stay a Believer,” Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
: documenta 14, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
: “Graphic Witness,” The Drawing Room, London, UK
: “Resistance Training,” curated by Glen Helfand, Mills College, Oakland, CA
: “Occupancy,” Boston University art Galleries, Boston, MA
: “The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin,” The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
: “The Intersectional Self,” The 8th Floor, The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, New York, NY
: “LA TERRA INQUIETA,” curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
: “Unfinished Conversations,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2016: “Displacement: Symbols and Journeys,” Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
: "The Revolution Will Not Be Gray,” Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
: “Take Me (I’m Yours),” Jewish Museum, New York, NY
: “The Gildless Age,” curated by Denise Johnson, Torrance Art Museum, Torrence, CA
: "Let There Be Light,” curated by Jens Hoffman, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: “Frozen World of the Familiar Stranger,” KADIST, San Francisco, CA
: “The Gildless Age,” Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2015: "Drawing Now," Albertina, Vienna, Austria
: "Unpacking Our Library," Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany
: "When Artists Speak Truth…" The 8th Floor, New York, NY
: "The Bottom Line," S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium
: "Citizen," Tate Modern, London, UK
: “Agitprop!” Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
: "A Voice Remains," Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
: "Words, Words, Words," Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2014: "Grip friheten! Take Liberty! Museum of Contemporary Art," Nationalmuseum, Oslo, Norway
: "Pace Gems," Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, TX
: "Lavenir (looking forward)," La Biennale de Montreal, curated by Gregory Burke, Peggy Gale, Lesley Johnstone and Mark Lanctt, Montral, Quebec, Canada
: "Burning down the house," 10th Gwangju Biennale, curated by Jessica Morgan, South Korea
: 2014 SITE Lines: SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, NM
: "Post-Picasso: Contemporary Artists Responses to his Life and Art," Museu Picasso, Barcelona, Spain
: "The Sunken Living Room," Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT
: "If I can’t dance to it, it’s not my revolution," Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, PA
: "Andrea Bowers and Susanne Lacy," The Drawing Center, New York, NY
: "The Other Side: Chinese and Mexican Immigration to America," USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA; traveled to Asia Society Texas Center, Houston TX (2015)
2013: "Arctic, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
: "The Past is Present," Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
: "Labour and Wait", Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
: "Approximately Infinite Universe", Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
: Utah Biennial of Contemporary Art, In collaboration with Cori Redstone, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Mondo, UT
: "Selections from the Grunwald Center and the Hammer Contemporary Collection", UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2012: "Make Liverpool a City of Sanctuary," Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, England, UK
: "The Living Years: Art after 1989" Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
: "The Residue of Memory," Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
: "Audience as Subject Part 2: Extra Large," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
: "No Person May Carry a Fish into a Bar," curated by Julian Hoeber and Alix Lambert, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
: "Drawn from Photography," DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
: "Malas Artes," Galera Nieves Fernndez, Madrid, Spain
: "Go Tell It On The Mountain," Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Five Acts: Chronicles of Dissent," Marginal Utility, Philadelphia, PA
: "Femmescapes," Lenore Pereira & Rich Niles private gallery, San Francisco, CA
: "Nothing Beside Remains," collaboration with Shizu Saldamando, a project with LAND, Marfa, TX
2011: "Why I Never Became a Dancer," Sammlung Goetz im Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
: "Drawn from Photography," The Drawing Center, New York, NY
: "Body Gesture", Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
: "I Am Still Alive: Politics and Everyday Life in Contemporary Drawing," The Museum of Modern Art, NY
: "Word Is.," Luckman Art Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
: "Greater LA," curated by Benjamin Godsill, Eleaonor Cayre and Joel Mesler, New York, NY
: "In Process," Ann 330 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010: "The Artists Museum: Los Angeles Artists 1980-2010," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Politics of Art," National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
: "The Last Newspaper," The New Museum, New York, NY
: "Sisters, Brothers & Others," Claremont University East Gallery, Claremont, CA
: "Everything is Political," FOCA Fellowship exhibition, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: "In the Balance: Art for a Changing World," Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
: "The Seventh House, Edgar Arceneaux, Andrea Bowers, Olga Koumoundouros, Rodney McMillian, Charles Gaines, Nery Gabriel Lemus," Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
: "The Road to Hell is Paved," Las Cienega Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: "Cycle 8: Stowaways, The Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Araba, Spain, curated by Elke Krystufek," part of the exhibition series PASSWORDS, New Representation on Femininity
: "Collection: MOCAs First Thirty Years (1980 Now)," The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA
: Inaugural Group Exhibition, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: "Love in a Cemetery," 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, CA
2009: "Andrea Bowers and Suzanne Lacy: Your Donations Do Our Work," University of California, Riverside, CA
: "DAS GESPINST", collection Schrmann at Museum Abteilberg, Mnchengladbach, Germany
: "Multitud Singular: El arte de resistir," Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
2008: "Wunderkammer Lneburg, Halle fr Kunst, Lneburg, Germany
: "California Biennial 2008," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (October 26, 2008 – March 15, 2009)
: "Progress, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: "Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection, The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA
: "nach/sichten. Video works from the Goetz Collection, Edith Russ Site for Media Art in Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany, curated by Sabine Himmelsbach and Stephan Urbaschek
2008-2009: "Proyecto Civico / Civic Project, Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT), Tijuana, Mexico, curated by Lucia Sanroman and Ruth Estevez
2008: "Memory is your image of perfection, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
: "Southern Exposure: Works from the Collection of the MCA San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Art, Syndey, Australia, curated by Rachel Kent and Dr. Stephanie Hanor
: "Currents: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC
: "The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art and Politics, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
: "We Remember The Sun, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
: "Amateurs, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, curated by Ralph Rugoff
: "La Mirada Iracunda / The Furious Gaze," Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, co-curated by M. Reiley
: "Small Things End," Great Things Endure, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA (curated by Jill Dawsey and Maria Del Carmen Carrion)
: "Furious Gaze," Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2007: "Read me! Text in Art," The Armory Center for the Arts, Los Angeles
: "Radical Hospitality," The Suburban, Chicago, IL
: "Nothing Moments Projects," Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Steven Hull and Tami Demaree
: "space.gaze.desire,"Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, curated by Sanne Kofod Olsen
: "Classe de Danse," Madonna fust Galerie, Bern, Switzerland, curated by Alessio Fransoni and Ilari Valbonesi
: "The California Files: Re-Viewing Side Effects of Cultural Memory," CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, curated by Ariane Beyn
: "Tanzen Sehen," Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Seigen, Germany
: "The Evil," Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden, Germany, curated by Raimar Stange
: "OHIO, Gahlberg Gallery, McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
: "Encore," Gallery 40000, Chicago, IL, curated by Huey Copeland and Hannah Feldman
2006: "Personal Affairs," Morsbroich Museum, Leverkusen, Germany
: "particulate matter," Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA (curated by Glen Helfand)
: "20 jahre NAK," Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen
: "Prevailing Climate," Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
: "First Artist Defines Meaning," Camera Austria, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
: "Human Game," Fondazione Pitti Discovery, Florence, Italy (curated by Francesco Bonami, Maria Luisa Frisa, and Stefano Tonchi)
: "This is not a Love Song," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City,
: "Anticipation," Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL (curated by Karen Irvine)
: "Art for our sake!," Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
: "Welcome Home," Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York
: Jump Cut—Nights (a symposium on choreographic structures in moving images) and Videoperformance—stories told through movement, Cinema of Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (curated by Georg Elben)
2005: "Monuments for the USA," curated by Ralph Rugoff, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, traveling to White Columns, New York, NY
: "REALIT;-)T," curated by Andreas Meier with Dr. Stephan Urbaschek, Sammlung Goetz, Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Switzerland
: "Estacion Tijuana," Tijuana, Mexico
: Mary Goldman, Los Angeles, CA
: "Old News," curated by Jacob Fabricius, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
: "New Tapestries," Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
: "Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Training," (screening), Kunsthalle Basel, Art/Film, Art/ 36/Basel, Switzerland
: "Fast Forward, Media Art From the Goetz Collection," Conde Duque Centro Cultural, Madrid, Spain
2004: "100 Artists See God," curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston; The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA; Albright College Freedman Art Gallery, Reading, PA; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
: "Dance Dance Revolution," curated by Matthew Lyons & Lanka Tattersall, The Leroy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University, New York, NY
: "Victory 2004," Ronald Felman, New York, NY
: "kurzdavordanach," curated by von Wilhelm Schrmann, Die Photographische Sammlung/ SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany
: "The Freedom Salon," Deitch Projects, New York, NY
: "Drawings," Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
: Whitney Biennial, curated by Chrissie Iles, Shamim Momin, and Debra Singer, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2003: "Fast Forward, Media Works from the Goetz Collection between Ethno-Narration and Formal Innovation," ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
: "Rendered," Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
: "Yard: An exhibition about the private landscape that surrounds suburban domestic architect," curated by Robyn Donohue and Alyson Baker, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
: "Extended Play: Art Remixing Music," curated by Simon Rees, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
: "C.O.L.A. 2003," Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
: "Conversations," curated by Connie Butler, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2002: "Videodrome II," curated by Dan Cameron, Anne Barlow, Johanna Burton and Anne Ellegood, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME
: "Time-Share," Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
: "Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop," curated by Simon Wallis, Tate Liverpool, England
: "DV Noir: Video Art from Under the Shadow of Hollywood," curated by Rodolfo Sanchez, Museum at California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
: "LA On My Mind: Recent Acquisitions from MoCA’s Collection," curated by Michael Darling, MOCA at The Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
: Gallery Group Show, Goldman Tevis, Los Angeles, CA
: "New Heimat," curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
: "Retake," curated by Susanne Titz and Ulrike Groos, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
: "Untitled (Bowers, Hamilton, Schwarz, Steinfeld)," curated by Christine Bisetto and Steffen Boddeker, Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving, TX
: "Casino 2001," curated by Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, Stedelijk Museum for Actual Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
2001: "Everybody Now," curated by Katy Siegel, The Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York
: "Subject Plural," curated by Paola Morsiani, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
: "False Start," curated by Cecilia Brunson, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
: "Making Time: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Film & Video," curated by Amy Cappellazzo, Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; PBICA, Palm Beach, FL
2000: "Video Take," Stuc en Hedendaagse Kunsten, De Openabare Bibliotheek, Leuven, Belgium
: "Radar Love," curated by David Pagel, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy
: "Game On," curated by Sara Meltzer. Essay by Jenelle Porter and Conny Purtill, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
: "Moving Pictures," Galerie Tommy Lund, Copenhagen, Denmark
1999: "Painting: Fore and Aft," ACME, Los Angeles, CA
: "Drawing the Line," curated by Kirk Delman, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
: "Venus," curated by Habib Kheradyar, Arc, Vienna, Austria
: "Motion Studies," curated by Michael Darling, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
: "Transfer," curated by Rosanne Alstatt Videonale-Intermezzo, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
: "Living Theatre," curated by Diana Thater and Hildegund Amanshauser, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
: "Im the Boss of Myself," curated by Sara Meltzer. Essay by Amy Cappellazzo, Sara Meltzer, New York, NY
: "Me Mine," curated by Julie Joyce and Mike Mehring, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
: Group Exhibition, curated by Susie Allen for Virgin Atlantic Airways, Virgin Atlantic VIP Lounge, Newark Airport, Newark, NJ
: "Video Cult/tures," ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
: "More Than Meets the Eye," curated by Wilhelm Schuermann, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
1998: "Unfinished History," curated by Francesco Bonami, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: "Guarene Arte 98," Selected by Douglas Fogle, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per larte, Torino, Italy
: "In the Polka Dot Kitchen," curated by Sally Elesby and Anne Ayres, Otis Gallery and Armory Center, Los Angeles, CA
: "Time Dilates," Three Day Weekend, New York, NY
: "Kamikaze," curated by Monica Bonvicini, Marstall, Berlin, Germany
: "Phoenix Triennial," curated by David Rubin, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
: "Love at the End of the Tunnel, or the Beginning of a Smart New Day," curated by Marilu Knode, Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA (catalogue)
: "Wings of Desire," curated by Michelle Guy, Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
: "Three Day Weekend," curated by Dave Muller, Los Angeles, CA
: "Youth Studies," curated by Brad Spence, POSTdowntown, Los Angeles, CA
1997: "Places That Are Elsewhere," curated by Diana Thater, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY
: "Quartzose," curated by Michael Darling, Galleri Tommy Lund, Copenhagen, Denmark
: "The Summer of Love," Fotouhi Cramer Gallery, New York, NY
: "Hot Coffee," curated by Thomas Lawson, Artists Space, New York, NY
1996: "True Bliss," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
: "Trying/Pattern, Chance," a project by Art Center College, Whisky Petes, NV
: "Open House," curated by John OBrien, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
: "Space Space," curated by Stephen Hartzog, POST, Los Angeles, CA
: "Ether," curated by Michelle Guy, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
: "Report from Spring Training," Spanish Box, Santa Barbara, CA
1995: "Neotoma," Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
: "Redevelopment," curated by Stephen Hartzog & Rick Pirro
: "Couldnt Get Ahead (catalogue & CD)," curated by Adam McEwen, Independent Artists Space, London, England
: "Three Day Weekend Takes an Extended Working Vacation," In Rezone at Diverse Works, Houston, TX
: "People-Going Places-Doing Things," N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL
: "Pretty," FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA
1994: "Thanks-The Works Is Not For Sale But Up For Barter," Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, CA
: "Daves Not Here," Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, CA
: "Thanks Again," FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA
: "Second Skin," curated by Charles LaBelle, Espace, San Francisco, CA
: "Bad Girls (catalogue)," curated by Marcia Tucker, New Museum, New York, NY
: "Utter Realities," curated by Randy Sommer, Cerritos College Fine Art Gallery, Cerritos College, Norwalk,
: "PARANOID," co-organized by Sam Durant, M*Y*T*H* Series at the Brewery, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Power of Positive Thinking," curated by Sam Durant, FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA
1993: "Loose Slots," curated by Richard Kuhlenshmidt, Temporary Contemporary, Las Vegas, NV
: "Heaven Missing," Jose Freire Gallery, New York, NY
: "Melancholic Consolation and Cynicism," Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
: Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
: "Thank You," FOOD HOUSE, Santa Monica, CA
: "FOOD HOUSE Visits the Art Store Gallery," curated by FOOD HOUSE The Art Store, Los Angeles, CA
: "Public & Private Pleasure," curated by Lauren Lesko, Nomadic Sites, Los Angeles
: "Cherry Bomb," Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
: "Imp of the Perverse," curated by Alisa Tager, Sally Hawkins Gallery, New York, NY
1992: "Skinned Eyes/Skin Dye," curated by Tyler Stallings, The Bridge Gallery, Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles, CA
: "The FAR Bazaar," Foundation for Art Resources Inc., Federal Reserve Building, Los Angeles, CA
: "Good Design," organized by Jorge Pardo & Pae White,Nomadic Sites, Pasadena, CA
: "Afterthought," San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1991: "Window on L.A.," curated by David Pagel, L.A. Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
: "Tales From The Creeps," Marc Richards Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

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

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

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2011: Anonymous Was a Woman, Grant Recipient Art Matters, Grant Recipient
2010: FOCA Fellowship, Grant Recipient
2009: The California Community Foundation Arts Fellowship
: Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award
2008: United States Artists Broad Fellow
2003: City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Fellowship Recipient for Visual Arts
1998: Nominee, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per larte Prize
: WESTAF/NEA, Regional Fellowship for Visual Arts in Sculpture

Performances

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

Public Collections

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

Hugo McCloud

1980: Born in Palo Alto, CA
: Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

2002: Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama

Selected Solo Exhibitions

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: “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: 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
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: Schultz, Charles M. "Hugo McCloud with Charles M. Schultz," The Brooklyn Rail, June 3 (Link)
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: 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)
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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
: “Last Chance: Hugo McCloud at the Sean Kelly Gallery, New York,” Blouin Art Info, January 17
: 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
: Biswas, Allie. “Hugo McCloud: ‘I Respect the Beauty in the Things That Are Overlooked’,” Studio International, January 2
2015: “The Year in Black Art: January 2015,” Culture Type, December 31
: “Art: A Constellation,” The New Yorker, December
: “Art Scene: Hugo McCloud,” Architectural Digest, December
: “The Curator Cure,” Artforum, November 16
: Wallis, Stephen and Sam Cochran, Michael Slenske, and Pernilla Holmes, "8 Incredible Artists on the Rise," Architectural Digest, November 10
: McKeough, Tim. “Andre Mellon Likes Drawing Rooms,” Introspective Magazine, September 14
: “Yankee Artists Help London Arts Club Thrive,” The Observer, September 3
: Schoefer-Wulf, Maxine. “Hugo McCloud,” Little Paper Planes Shop Blog, May 25
: Burris, Asia. “Watch Melo-X’s ‘McCloud in Process,’ Short Film,” Saint Heron, April 9
: “McCloud in Process by Melo-X,” Purple Fashion Magazine, April 4
: Evans, Ayana. “Hugo McCloud,” Gallerina Diaries, February 25
: Pasquarella, Sheri. “’Palindrome’ at Sean Kelly, 30 Jan 2015 – 14 Mar 2015,” SLP, February 13
: Kim, Deanna. “The Best Art Exhibitions to See This Month,” Complex, February 7
: Simmon, William J. “Action painting: The body electric,” Christie’s, February 2015
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: “Top Exhibitions Opening This Week In New York (January 26 – February 1),” Whitewall, January
2014: Anderson, Charlotte and David Bazner. “10 GQ-Approved Artists You Should Know at Art Basel Miami: Hugo McCloud,” GQ, December
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: Makoma, Portia. “From Pre-History to Post Everything,” The Examiner.com, July 23
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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

Gio Swaby

: Born in Nassau, The Bahamas
: Lives and works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2022: MFA, OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario
2016: BFA, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, British Columbia
2012: The College of The Bahamas, Nassau, New Providence

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025: "How We Go," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2023: "Gio Swaby: Fresh Up," Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
: "Gio Swaby: Fresh Up," Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Il
: "Gio Swaby: I Will Blossom Anyway," Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY
2022: "Gio Swaby: Fresh Up," Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, St Petersburg, FL
2021: "Both Sides of The Sun," Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY
: "Another Side to Me," 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London, UK
2018: "Rooted," The Current, Nassau, Bahamas
2017: "We All Know Each Other," Unit/Pitt Projects, Vancouver, BC

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026: "Icons, Archetypes, and Portraits: From the Mythic to the Everyday," North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
2025: "Change Makers: A Dedicated Exhibition of Prints from Gallery Artists," Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY
2024: "Art Toronto," Claire Oliver Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
: "Crosscurrents," Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
: "Domestic Idols," Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
: Expo Chicago, Claire Oliver Galler, Chicago, IL
: "The Experience of Expression," Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
: "Fabric of a Nation," Cummer Museum, Jacksonville, FL
: "Shared Vision," African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
: "Thread: Making Patterns," Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO
2023: "Daughter/ Mother/ Ancestor: Threads of Connection," Indianapolis Museum of Art, Galleries at Newfields, Indianapolis, IN
: Expo Chicago, Claire Oliver Galler, Chicago, IL
: "Fabric of a Nation," Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2022: Expo Chicago, Claire Oliver Galler, Chicago, IL
: "National Exhibition 10," National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
2021: "Fabric of a Nation," Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA
: "Rituals of Resilience," Minneapolis Institute of Artt, Minneapolis, MN
: "Untitled Art Fair," Claire Oliver Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
2020: "Four Now," Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY
: "Net Worth," United Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2018: "Die Textile: Stoffsuche," Kunsthaus Alte Mühle, Schmallenberg, Germany
2017: "Übersee: Cuba and The Bahamas," Halle 14, Leipzip, Germany
2016: "National Exhibition 8," National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
2015: "Map of the New Art," Giorgio Cini Foundation, San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy
: "Nassau Calling," HilgerBROTKunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
2014: "National Exhibition 7," National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas

Bibliography

2026: Willis Whylly, Natalie. "Gio Swaby: Love, Drawn Through The Eye Of A Needle," Burnaway Magazine, April 28 (Link)
: Tenorio-Pearl, Gracia. "Gio Swaby’s Resistance Through Joy," National Gallery Of Canada, February 26 (Link)
2024: Armstrong, Byron. “Gio Swaby in ‘Focus’ at Art Toronto," Whitehot Magazine, October (Link)
: Hanna, Yolanda. “Gio Swaby – Visual Artist," Up and Away: Bahamasair Inflight Magazine, April
2023: Pecci, Alexandra. "Artist Gio Swaby’s First Solo Show Brings Stunning Fabric Portraits to the Peabody Essex Museum," Northshore Magazine, October 4 (Link)
: Whyte, Murray. “At Peabody Essex Museum, Gio Swaby’s Virtuosic Portraits of Black Women in Thread and Fabric," The Boston Globe, August 23 (Link)
: Edquist, Grace. "Gio Swaby’s Stitched Portraits Reveal the Beauty of the Undone," Vogue, June 8 (Link)
: Mothes, Kate. "Gio Swaby Embarks on an Exploration of Self-Love and Acceptance in Her Vibrant Textile Portraits," Colossal, May 23
: WayneGuite, Jacqueline. “An Ode to Black Women," Chicago Reader, April 19 (Link)
: Belmont, Sarah. "Gio Swaby’s First Museum Solo Show is a Celebration of Blackness and Womanhood," ARTnews, April 14 (Link)
: Rigou, Vasia. “Styling as a Form of Resistance: A Review of Gio Swaby ‘Fresh up’ at the Art Institute of Chicago," Newcity Art, April 11 (Link)
: Team EBONY. “Amazing Exhibits by Black Artists to Check out This Spring and Summer," EBONY, April 10 (Link)
: "Gio Swaby: Freshen Up," The Art Institute Chicago, April (Link)
2022: Mothes, Kate. "Embodying Vibrance and Joy, Gio Swaby’s Patterned Portraits Celebrate Blackness and Womanhood," Colossal, December 28 (Link)
: Jones, Okla. “Visual Artist Gio Swaby Wants to Leave a Legacy of Love through Her Work," Essence, September 27 (Link)
: Jones, Okla. "8 Must-See Black Art Exhibitions To Check Out This Summer," Essence, September 7 (Link)
: Holliday, Kayla. “Fiber Optics," Vanity Fair, June
: DeYoung, Bill. “‘Fresh Up’: MFA Artist Gio Swaby Tells Personal Stories through Textiles," St Pete Catalyst, May 27 (Link)
: Hannah-Jones, Nikole. “Nikole Hannah-Jones and Gio Swaby on Portraiture That Uplifts Black Women," Literary Hub, May 26 (Link)
: Zhekova, Dobrina. “Gio Swaby’s Textile Portraits Are a Love Letter to Black Womanhood," Harper’s Bazaar, April 6 (Link)
2021: Long, Stephanie. "The Black Vanguards Who Inspired Us In 2021," Refinery29, December 16 (Link)
: Cascone, Sarah. “In Miami, Buyers Hit the Beach for Untitled Art Fair-to Gallerists’ Palpable Relief. Here’s What’s Sold so Far," Artnet News, November 30 (Link)
: Cascone, Sarah. "Meet Artist Gio Swaby, the 29-Year-Old Phenom Whose Sold-Out Debut Boasted Buyers Including Eight Museums (and Roxane Gay)," Artnet, June 4 (Link)
: Louis, Pierre-Antoine. "A Love Letter to Black Women," The NY Times, April 10 (Link)

Selected Awards & Grants

2024: Canada Council for the Arts, Explore and Create: Concept to Realization
2023: Canada Council for the Arts, Explore and Create: Research and Creation
2022: Canada Council for the Arts, Explore and Create: Concept to Realization
: OCAD University, Dean’s Scholarship
: Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2021: BC Arts Council Scholarship 2021
: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship
: OCAD University, Dean’s Scholarship
: Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2020: British Columbia Arts Council, Individual Arts Grant: Visual Artist
: British Columbia Arts Council, Scholarship
: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship
: OCAD University, Dean’s Scholarship

Public Collections

: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
: Central Bank of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
: Harper House, Detroit, MI
: Indianapolis Museum of Art Galleries at Newfields, Indianapolis, IN
: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
: MSU Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
: Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
: Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA
: National Gallery of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
: North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
: Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
: RBC Art Collection, Toronto, ON, Canada
: Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
: The Baha Mar Collection, Nassau, Bahamas
: Weisman Art Museum , Minneapolis, MN

Deborah Roberts

1962: Born in Austin, TX
: Lives and works in Austin, TX

: MFA, Syracuse University Research Fellow, Syracuse, NY
: San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
: Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art, (Summer Session) Pont Aven, France
: University of North Texas, Denton, TX

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025: "The consequences of being," FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; Traveling to: Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY (2026)
2023: "come walk in my shoes," SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
2022: "Deborah Roberts: I have something to tell you," Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
: "Deborah Roberts: I’m," Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, FL
: "Deborah Roberts: I’m," Art + Practice, in collaboration with the California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2021-2022: "A look inside," Bluecoat, Liverpool, England
2021: "O’ Say Can’t You See," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Deborah Roberts: I’m," The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX
2019: "Deborah Roberts: If They Come," Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
: "Native Sons: Many Thousands Gone," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2018: "Fragile but Fixable," Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Uninterrupted," Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: "Deborah Roberts: The Evolution of Mimi," Spelman Museum, Atlanta, GA
2017: "Ingenue," Fort Gansevoort Gallery, New York, NY
: "Nobody’s Darling: New Works by Deborah Roberts," Christian-Green Gallery, Austin, TX
2016: "Coil, Coarse, Twist, Re-twist," Art Palace, Houston, TX
2014: "One and Many," Art Palace, Houston, TX
: "Domestic Disturbance," Diverse Art Gallery, Austin, TX
: "Consensual Marks," SDCC, Dallas, TX
2013: "When We Just Existed," Community Folk Art Center, Syracuse, NY
2011: "Resistance Begins at Home: Rethinking Otherness," Dallas, TX
2008: "Forks and Spoons," South Dallas Culture Center, Dallas, TX
2006: "Bearing Witness," Stone Metal Press, San Antonio, TX
: "Reconstructing, Rethinking, Reacting," O’Kane Gallery, Houston, TX
2004: Chicago Culture Center (South Shore) Chicago, Ill
: Center for African & African American Studies, Austin, TX

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026: "To My Best Friend," Curated by Fotene Demoulas and Tom Coté, ICA Boston, Boston, MA
2025: "Icons, Archetypes, and Portraits," North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
: "Silver Linings: Celebrating the Spelman Art Collection," Spelman College Museum of Modern Art, Atlanta, GA
2024-2025: "The Time Is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure," Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (Link)
2024: "When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art/History," Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
2023: "The Speed of Grace," Simões de Assis, São Paulo, Brazil
2023-2024: "Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage ," Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN; Traveling to Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (2024); The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. (2024)
2023: "Creative Sources," Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
: "Deborah Roberts and Niki de Saint Phalle: The Conversation Continues," Two Person Exhibition, Galerie Mitterand, Paris, France
: "Deborah Roberts and Niki de Saint Phalle: The Conversation Continues," Galerie Mitterand, Paris, France
2022-2023: "Put It This Way: (Re)Visions Of The Hirshorn Collection," Hishhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
: "True Believers: Benny Andrews & Deborah Roberts," McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
: "To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
2022: "51 @ 51," Rennie Museum, Vancouver, Canada
: "Women Painting Women," The Modern, Fort Worth, TX
: "From Near and Far: Collage and Figuration in the Contemporary Age," Co curated by Deborah Roberts, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London UK
: "Rituals of Resilience," Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
2021-2022: "Assembly: New Acquisitions by Contemporary Black Artists," Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
2021: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
: "The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse," Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), Richmond, Virginia
: "The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time," Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (Link)
2020: "Drawing 2020," Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY (Link)
: "The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today," National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri; touring to Alaska State Museum, Juneau, Alaska
: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "100 Drawings from Now," The Drawing Center, New York, NY
: "25 Years," Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
: "Artists for New York," Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY
: "True Likeness," Van Every/ Smith Galleries, Davidson College, Davidson, NC
: "Allied with Power: African and African Diaspora Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection," Pérez Art Museum, Miami, Florida
: "Doro Olowu: Seeing Chicago," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: "LA stories," Brenau University Art Gallery, Gainesville, GA
2019-2020: "Re/Devaluing Colorism: Intersections of Skin Color and Currency at Southwest School of Art," Texas
: "Pop Stars! Popular Culture and Contemporary Art," 21c Lexington, Kentucky
: "The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today," National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. (touring exhibition)
2019: "Melissa Cody, Bethany Collins, and Deborah Roberts: Heritage," Rebecca Camacho Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: "Charles White and the Legacy of the Figure: Celebrating the Gordon Gift," Art Galleries at Black Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
: "Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage," Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
: "Get Up, Stand Up Now – Generations Of Black Creative Pioneers," Somerset House, London, UK
: "Seeing Now," 21c Museum Hotel Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City, OK
: "Plumb Line: Charles White and the Contemporary," Californian African American Museum (CAAM), Los Angeles, CA
: "Still I Rise," MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, USA
2018: "Sidelined," Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
: "In the Eye of the Beholder," Tarble Art Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
: "Go Figure," Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
: "Reclamation! Pan- African from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection," Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
: "Talisman In The Age Of Difference," Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
: "Soul Recordings," Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Legacy of the Cool: A Tribute to Barkley L. Hendricks," Mass Art, Boston MA
: "Constructing Identity in America (1766-2017)," Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
2017: "Fictions," Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY
: "Your Body is Your Battleground," Volta Art Fair, New York, NY
: "March Madness," Fort Gansevoort, New York, NY
2016: "I know why the caged bird sings," Carver Museum, Austin, TX
2015: "Gently Fried," MACC, Austin, TX
: "The House on Mango Street," National Mexican American Museum, Chicago, Ill
2014: "The Way Out- MFA," Rogue Space, New York, NY
2013: "Gender Is A Kind of Doing," MCCLA Galleries, San Francisco CA
2011: The Drawing Center, Viewing Program, New York
: "Mirame: 21st century portraits for Latino/a America," Sacramento, CA
2009: "Women of Color," Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, CA
: "Her Stories," Park School, Baltimore. MD
2007: "Taking Possession," University of Arkansas at Little Rock
: "Counter Intuitive," Chicago State University, Chicago, Ill
2006: "Uncle Tom to Peeping Tom," University of Milwaukee UGA, Milwaukee, WI
: "Boundless, Perceptions from Within," DAC, Austin, TX
2005: Museum of Science and Industry Juried Exhibition. Chicago, Ill
: Woman Made Gallery, Juried Exhibition, Chicago, Ill
: "Subjective Visions," UTSA, San Antonio, TX
: "Figure It Out," Art Palace Austin, TX
2004: Susan Woodson Gallery, Chicago, Ill
: "Unmasked: A Collective Statement on Beauty," Butridge Gallery Austin, TX
2003: "Bird," Juried Exhibition, Concordia University, Austin, TX
: "Our Heritage–Creating New Legacies," Juried Exhibition, Butridge Gallery, Austin, TX
: Austin Bergstrom International Airport Juried Exhibition, Austin, TX
2002: Center for African American Studies, University of Texas, Austin, TX

Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books

2023: Gilman, Claire and Roger Malbert. "Drawing in the Present Tense," Thames & Hudson, New York, NY, pg 185-187, 2023.
2020: Ringle, Hallie. “Deborah Roberts and Questions of Power,” Collecting Black Studies. University of Texas Press, Austin, TX.
: 25 Years, Exhibition catalogue, edited by Gerrie van Noord and Jonathan Horrocks, published by Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
2019: Elliot, Patrick, Dr. Freya Gowrley, and Yuval Etgar. "Cut and Paste 400 Years of Collage," Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland.
: Get Up, Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers, Somerset House, London, England, p. 127
: Rose King, Daniella. "If they come," London: Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
: Barnwell Brownlee, Andrea. "Deborah Roberts: The Evolution of Mimi," Atlanta: Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
2018: Washington, Terence. “Deborah Roberts: At the Edge of White Spaces,” Fictions. New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY

Bibliography

2026: Belasco, Daniel. "Deborah Roberts: The FLAG Art Foundation," Artforum, April 30 (Link)
: Wilson, Samaira. "Letters to Deborah Roberts," Elephant, April 13
: Graver, David. "In ‘Consequences of being,’ Deborah Roberts Explores The Ways Black Bodies are Seen, Positioned, and Understood," Surface Magazine, February 24 (Link)
: "Deborah Roberts debuts first ceramic works of career," See Great Art, February 6
2025: Kelly, Keyaira. "In Highest 2 Lowest, Black Art Is the Main Character," Elle Magazine, September 8 (Link)
2024: 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
: Artnet News. "A New Show of Collage by African-American Artists Finds Multiplicity in Black Identity," Artnet News, July 4
2023: Renkl, Margaret. "Piecing Together a Black Identity, and a Whole Black World," The New York Times, December 11 (Link)
: Valentine, Victoria L. "On View: Deborah Roberts is Presenting Mixed-Media Collages that Consider Black Boyhood at SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico," CultureType, October 16 (Link)
: Tribune Staff. "Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage September 15–December 31, 2023," Tennessee Tribune, September 19 (Link)
: SITE Santa Fe. "SITE Santa Fe Presents Deborah Roberts: Come walk in my shoes," Hyperallergic, August 18 (Link)
: Hessel, Katy. "‘Black kids deserve to grow old’: collage legend Deborah Roberts on unjust America," The Guardian, February 6 (Link)
2022: Szaroleta, Tom. "Multimedia show at Cummer Museum puts spotlight on Black children," The Florida Times-Union, September 25 (Link)
: Scott, Chadd. "‘Deborah Roberts: I’m’ Opens At Cummer Museum of Art And Gardens In Jacksonville For Final Stop Of National Tour," Forbes, September 18 (Link)
: Grant, Colin. "‘The story enraged me’ – US artist Deborah Roberts on her Child Q collage," The Guardian, June 7 (Link)
: Knight, Christopher. "Review: Five pandemic-postponed art shows worth seeing right now," The Los Angeles Times, May 12 (Link)
: Wilbekin, Emil. "This Is Deborah Roberts’ America," ESSENCE, April 29 (Link)
: Harren, Natilee. "Reviews: Houston, The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, Contemporary Arts Museum," Artfourm, pg 162, February
: White, Aude. "New York Magazine Special Issue: Ten Years After Trayvon Martin," New York Magazine, January 31 (Link)
: Rathe, Adam. "How And Just Like That… Made Lisa Todd Wexley’s Apartment a Shrine to Modern Black Art Charlotte York Goldenblatt, meet Mickalene Thomas," Town and Country, January 6 (Link)
2021: Robinson, Shantay, "Deborah Roberts’ Investment in Time Pays Off," Black Art In America, September 30 (Link)
: Ghassemitari, Shawn. "Deborah Roberts Collages the Strength and Plight of Young Black Children," HypeArt, 27 September
: Valentine, Victoria L., "Best of September: 13 New Museum Exhibitions Feature Artists Ulysses Jenkins, Adam Pendleton, Deborah Roberts, Naudline Pierre, Arthur Jafa, Lorna Simpson & More," Culture Type, Sept 21 (Link)
: Valentine, Victoria L., "5 New Art Gallery Exhibitions to See Now Feature Deborah Roberts, Carla Jay Harris, Jarrell Gibbs, LaKela Brown, and Brittney Leeanne Williams," CultureType, September 10 (Link)
: Bachetepe, Hilal. "Deborah Roberts’ “I’m” Debuts at the Museum of Contemporary Art This Weekend," 303 Magazine, September 8 (Link)
: Gipson, Amarie. "The Museum Now, Part II: Deborah Roberts: Contemporary Austin," Artfourm, September
: In Collaboration with Jo Malone London, Frieze Magazine. "Dr. V. Joy Simmons’ Los Angeles is ‘a place of possibility’," Frieze, July 23 (Link)
: Hernandez, Jasmin. "Magic, Joy and Celebration: New Art Examines the Eminence of Blackness," Sotheby’s, May 19 (Link)
: Little, Colony. "Deborah Roberts’s Intricate and Thoughtful Depictions of Black Childhood," Hyperallergic, May 3 (Link)
: Bennett, Joshua. "I Will Not Be Taught How To Behave," Art in America, May/June (Link)
: Ragbir, Lise. "Deborah Roberts Shines a Light on the Mistreatment of Black Girls," Frieze, March 19
: Artnet News. “26 Art-World Women Celebrate the Women Who Inspire Them, From Feminist Art Critic Linda Nochlin to Arte Povera Legend Marisa Merz,” Artnet, March 8 (Link)
: Friel, Katie. "Dazzling San Antonio art museum adds landmark Texas artist to collection," Culture Map, February 26
: Jarrett, Renae. "Where the Black girls are: A review of Deborah Roberts’ ‘I’m’," Sight Lines, February 27
: Purcell, Barbara. "Deborah Roberts: I’m," The Brooklyn Rail, February 19
: Faires, Robert. "Deborah Roberts: I’m" at the Contemporary Austin," The Austin Chronicle, February 19
: Barnes, Michael. "Austin artist Deborah Roberts’ Contemporary show ‘I’m’ concerns the art of being seen," Austin 360, February 9
: Lloyd-Smith, Harriet. "The powerful collages of artist Deborah Roberts," Wallpaper, January 25
: Florsheim, Lane. "Artist Deborah Roberts—a Favorite of Beyoncé and Barack Obama—Gets Her Due," Wall Street Journal, January 23
: Marius, Marley. "In Deborah Roberts’s Art, an Interrogation of What Society Imposes on Black Children," Vogue Magazine, January 21
: Brand, Heather. "With Fans Like Barack Obama and Beyoncé, Deborah Roberts Opens a New Exhibition in Her Hometown of Austin," Texas Highways, January 21
: Oyeniyi, Doyin. "Deborah Roberts Has Exhibited Art Worldwide. She Hasn’t Had a Solo Museum Show in Her Hometown—Until Now," Texas Monthly, January 14
2020: Crable, Devorah. "Deborah Roberts, The Worst Of Times Are The Best Of Times," Pigment Magazine (print), Fall/Winter
: Valentine, Victoria. "‘Deborah Roberts: The Evolution of Mimi’ Exhibition Catalog Wins Publication Award," Culture Type, December 15
: Roberts, Deborah. "Remembering Juneteenth," Hyperallergic, June 21
: Pogrebin, Robin. "With Her First Solo Museum Show Delayed, an Artist Stands Fast," The New York Times, April 12 (Link)
: Cohen, Alina. "Why Some Artists Turn Away Would-Be Buyers," Artsy, March 27 (Link)
: Jones, Lauren. "6 must-see art exhibitions coming soon to Austin museums," CultureMap Austin, February 6 (Link)
2019: Fullerton, Elizabeth. "Deborah Roberts Renders the Complexity of Black Childhood in Collage," Art in America, October 7 (Link)
: Valentine, Victoria L. "Black Female Artists Are Headlining Exhibitions Throughout London," The Culture Type, July 21 (Link)
: Lee, Erin. “10 art exhibitions to see in July,” Royal Academy of Arts Magazine, July 1
: Hutton, Belle and Daisy Woodward. “A List of Great Things to Do This July,” AnOther, July 1
: Epps, Philomena. "Deborah Roberts at Stephen Friedman," Artforum, July 1 (Link)
: Jansen, Charlotte. "The Artist Disrupting Perceptions of Black Youths," Elephant, June 25 (Link)
: Barrie, Lita. "Deborah Roberts Explores The Fragility of Black Masculinity in Native Sons," Riot Material, June 5 (Link)
: Grant, Colin. “Get Up Stand Up Now: Black British art’s response to the Windrush scandal,” The Guardian, June 2
: Brady, Anna and Margaret Carrigan. “Private view: must – see gallery shows opening this June,” The Art Newspaper, May 31
: Valentine, Victoria L. "Artist Deborah Roberts Joined Susanne Vielmetter Projects Los Angeles and Has an Exhibition at Gallery’s New Downtown Space," CultureType, April 23 (Link)
: Marcoci, Roxana. "Young Heroines: Deborah Roberts," Mousse Magazine, Spring (Link)
2018: Roberts, Deborah. "The Lives They Lived: Linda Brown," The New York Times Magazine, December 30 (Link)
: Sheets, Hilarie M. "A Collector Who Grew Up With Art Now Fosters Its Makers," The New York Times, December 26 (Link)
: Greenberger, Alex. "Long-Running ‘Anonymous Was a Woman’ Grants Awarded for 2018, With Betty Tompkins and Deborah Roberts Among 10 Winners," ArtNews, December 11 (Link)
: Valentine, Victoria L. "Art Basel Miami Beach 2018: Select Galleries Throughout the Mega Fair are Showing Works By African and African American Artists, Here’s Where to Find Them," The Culture Type, December 6 (Link)
: Williams, Margaret. "People of the Year: Deborah Roberts," Tribeza Artists Curated, November 29 (Link)
: Onyewuwnyi, Ikechukwu Casmir. "Deborah Roberts at Luis de Jesus," Carla, Issue 13, August. (Link)
: Dambrot, Shana Nys. "Deborah Roberts at Luis de Jesus," Art and Cake, June 10 (Link)
: Luke, Ben. "Artist Deborah Roberts on Yinka Shonibare exhibition and why ‘black is not a colour any more," Evening Standard, June 6. (Link)
: Mizota, Sharon. "Roberts’ powerful statement of black female identity," LA Times, May 29 (Link)
: Miller, Ashia. “Deborah Roberts’ #EvolutionOfMimi art tackles heavy topic of colorism,” RollingOut, May 25. (Link)
: Amirkhani, Jordan. "Art Review: ‘The Evolution of Mimi’ at Spelman Museum," BURNAWAY, April 25. (Link)
: Cochran, Rebecca. "Deborah Roberts: The Evolution of Mimi," Art Papers, March 17.
: Sargent, Antwaun. “The Artist Changing the Face of Black Girlhood,” VICE, March 6 (Link)
: Feaster, Felicia. “The power and pathos of girlhood defines Deborah Roberts’ collages,” The Atlantic Journal Contribution, March 6.
: Van Proyen, Mark. “Deborah Roberts @ Jenkins Johnson,” Square Cylinder, February 19. (Link)
: Larocca, Amy. “Portfolio: Her Breakthrough Women,” The New York Magazine, February 5 (Link)
: Green, Tyler. “Deborah Roberts, Anita Witek,” Modern Art Notes Podcast, February (Link)
: Johns, Myke. “Artist Deborah Roberts ‘Emancipates’ Black Girlhood In Spelman Exhibit,” National Public Radio, January 25 (Link)
2017: Twersky, Carolyn. “New Studio Museum Show,” ARTNEWS, August 23. (Link)
: Marino, Rebecca. “Q+A with Deborah Roberts,” Conflict of Interest, July 17 (Link)
: Scott, Andrea K. “March Madness in the Meatpacking District,” The New Yorker, April 10 (Link)
: Anspon, Catherine D. “Austin Gets Its Own Art Fair,” Papercity Magazine, March 30 (Link)
: Kamm, Rebecca. “You Can’t Deny Us: The Artists Showcasing the Power if Female Athletes,” Broadly, March 28 (Link)
: Evans, Dayna. “What Does It Mean to Be a Woman in Sports?,” The Cut, March 20. (Link)
2016: Knudson, Rainey. “Naming and Shaming: Deborah Roberts at Art Palace”, Glasstire, November 21 (Link)
: Ryzin, Jeanne Claire van. “Contemporary art exhibit probes African-American identity," Statesmen, September 19 (Link)
2014: Huete, Betsy. “Deborah Roberts: One and Many,” Glasstire, November 29 (Link)
: Ward, Jeff M. “Deborah Roberts: Reconstructing, Reacting and Rethinking at O’Kane Gallery,” Fluent Collaborative, issue 79, November 17 (Link)

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2019: Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Finalist
2018: Anonymous Was a Woman, NY
2017: Artist of the Year, Austin, TX
2016: Pollock Krasner Foundation, Grantee
2014: SU MFA Exhibition “Best in Show”
2012-2014: Creative Opportunity Grant, Syracuse University
2010: San Francisco African American Legacy Scholarship
2008: Artist of the Year, Austin, TX
1991: President Point of Light Recipient, President George H. Bush

Residencies, Scholarships, & Prizes

2019: Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency, Captiva, FL
2018: Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL
2014: Ginsberg-Klaus Award Fellowship, Los Angeles, CA
2011-2014: Syracuse University Graduate Research Fellow
2006: Coronado Studios Austin, TX
: Stone Metal Press, San Antonio, TX
2005: Ox –Bow Art Residency, MI

Public Collections

: 21c Museum Hotels, Louisville, KY
: Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
: American Patrons of the National Library and Galleries of Scotland, Brooklyn, NY
: Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
: Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL
: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
: Chazen Museum of Art, Wisconsin
: The Contemporary Austin, Austin, Texas
: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
: The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
: ICA Boston, Boston, MA
: Let Freedom Ring Vol. 2, Lafayette and Flatbush Avenues, New York (digital billboard)
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston
: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
: Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington, DC
: North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
: Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
: Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, FL
: Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
: Ruby City, San Antonio, TX
: Scottish National Galleries, Edinburgh, UK
: The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

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

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: "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)
: D’Souza, Aruna. "Samuel Levi Jones," 4Columns, June 16 (Link)
: 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
: Edwards, Adrienne, “Blackness in Abstraction,” Art in America, January 5
: Ollman, Leah, “Unbinding the System,” Art in America, April 1
: Heddaya, Mostafa, “Bookworm: Samuel Levi Jones,” Blouin Artinfo, April 7
: Willis Blair, Courtney, “4 Questions: Samuel Levi Jones,” Forbes, March 26
: Martraire, Marie, “Talk to Me: Samuel Levi Jones at ProArts,” Daily Serving (web), September 13
: 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