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

Kambui Olujimi

2006: Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
2013: Columbia University, Master of Fine Art

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023: "All I Got To Give," Vielmetter Los Angeles, CA
2021: "When Monuments Fall," Armory Art Show, New York, NY
2020: "Walk With Me," Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ
: "In Your Absence The Skies Are All The Same," Midnight Moments, Times Square Art Alliance, New York City, NY
2019: "Vanishing Lines," Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY
: "Future Continuous (Duo with Andre Wagner)," Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
2018: "Where the Sky Begins," City of New York MTA, Permanent Installation, Brooklyn, NY
: "Skywriters & Constellations," Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
: "Off-Axis (Duo with Yashua Klos)," Time Equities, Art-Buildings, New York City, NY
: "Redshift," Spring/Break, New York, NY
2017: "Where Does the Time Go…," Lincoln Center for the Preforming Arts, New York City, NY
2016: "What Endures," Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: "Solastalgia," Cue Arts Foundation, New York, NY
2015: "What’s Left to Burn?," Bindery Projects, Minneapolis, MN
2014: "Blind Sum," Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, NY
: "A Life in Pictures," MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston, MA
: "The Conspiracy of Good People," Young World, Detroit, MI
2012: "A Life in Pictures," Apex Art, New York, NY
2011: "Love to Lose," Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010: "Wayward North," Art in General, New York, NY
2009: "The Clouds Are After Me," Saatchi & Saatchi, New York, NY
2008: "Winter in America," de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
: "The Clouds Are After Me," Meyers Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH Branch Gallery, Durham, NC, Main Gallery, Las Vegas, NV (multi-city concurrent exhibition)
2007: "The Lost Rivers Dream Index," Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2006: "Walk The Plank," Gallery 138, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026: “61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia: In Minor Keys," Curated by Koyo Kouoh, Arsenale di Venezia Campo de la Tana, Venice, Italy (forthcoming)
2023: "Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics," Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA
: "Inheritance: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1971-2022," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: "Sharjah Biennial: Thinking Historically in the Present,” Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates
2022: "When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting," Zeitz MOCAA, South Africa
: "The Dakar Biennale," Dakar, Senegal
2021: "New Histories, New Futures," The Clevland Art Museum, Cleveland, OH
: "Fantasy America," Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
2020: "This Is America, Art USA Today," Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands
2019: "Street Dreams," Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
: "As Long As We Are Flyin…," Luce Gallery, Torino, Italy
: "A Thousand Plateaus," Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
: "The Wretched of the Screen," Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
: "Destroy, he said," Art Basel: Film, Basel, Switzerland
2018: "The 50 State Initiative," For Freedoms, [national initiative]
: "Shadow Stories & Matters of Time," SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
2017: "More Than A Two Step," MoMA PS1 & For Freedoms Laboratory, New York City, NY
: "Project 107: Long Wolf Recital Corps," Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
: "The Half-Life of Love," MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
: "The Exposed Suture," Rond-Point Project, Marseille, France
: "Sabbath," The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
2016: "Paradoxical Stranger," Momo Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
: "Time+Space: Futures," Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2015: "Draw: Mapping Madness," Inside Out Museum, Beijing, China Dali Contemporary Art Museum in Yunnan, China (traveling exhibition)
: "Winter in America," Jack Shainman Gallery: The School, Kinderhook, NY
2014: "Crossing Brooklyn," Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2013: "Mnemonikos," Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand
: "Rapid Pulse: International Performance Art Festival," Defibrillator, Chicago, IL
2011: "Pictures are Words-Not-Unknown," LiShui Museum of Photography, LiShui City, China
2011-2009: "StreetWise," Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
: "On Screen: Global Intimacy," Krannert Museum of Art, Urbana-Champaign, IL Bermuda National Gallery, Hamilton, Bermuda Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico (traveling exhibition)
2010-2009: "Fax," The Drawing Center, New York, NY, Para/Site, Hong Kong, China
2008: "Videocracy," The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Czech Republic
2007: "Harlem Postcards," Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
: "Float," Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY
: "Night Vision," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: "Dark Matters," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
: "For the Love of the Game Black Light/ White Noise," The Wadsworth Museum, Hartford, CT
: "Black Light/ White Noise," Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX
2006: "UnderPlayed," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
: "The Black Alphabet," The Polish National Gallery: Zacheta Museum
: "The California Biennial," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
2005: "Frequency," Studio Museum in Harlem, New York NY
: "Art Caucasus International," Georgian Trade Center, Tbilisi, Georgia
: "URB Visual Urban Arts in the 21st Century," The Finnish National Gallery: Kiasma Museum, Helsinki, Finland
: "Bay Area Now 4," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2002: "Life of the City," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2001: "Perceptions," Artist Space, New York, NY
2000: "Reflections in Black," Smithsonian Institute: Anacostia Museum, Washington, DC

Bibliography

2023: Volk, Gregory. "A Poignant Meditation on the Dance Marathon," Hyperallergic, December 18
: Okereke-Cox, Christopher. "In Conversation: Kambui Olujimi Explores The Mythic Space of Depression Era Dance Marathons in ‘All I Got to Give’," Black Art And Design, November 28 (Link)
2022: Gill, Jenny. "In The Studio: Kambui Olujimi," Joan Mitchell Foundation, September 14 (Link)
2021: Ridbey, Seph. "Seeing the Armory Art Fair as a Chance to Reconnect," Hyperallergic, September 10
: Boone, Keyaira. "14 Black Contemporary Artists And Curators You Should Know," Essence, January 28
: Mitha, Siddhartha. "In 177 Portraits, an Artist’s Homage to His Bed-Stuy Muse," New York Times, January 8
2020: Bobb, Brooke. "The Wide Awakes Are the Civil War-Era Activist Group Making a Comeback in Bold, Joyful Style," Vogue, October 2
: Dellinger, Matt. "A Civil War Political Movement Reawakens — Complete With Capes," New York Times, September 16
: Elephant Staff. "Out Now! Elephant’s Summer Issue Imagines the Future of Community," Elephant, July 13
: Yerebakan, Osman Can. "How Two Artists Are Using the Subversive Power of Comics to Illustrate Injustice," Observer, June 16
: Mafi, Nick. "Young Black Artists Speak About the Role of Art in This Moment," Architectural Digest, June 16
: Izon, Juliet. "How Artists Are Using Their Work As a Protest Tool," Architectural Digest, June 5
: Sayej, Nadja. "’I want to show solidarity’: how artists have reacted to George Floyd’s killing," The Guardian, June 3
: Simon, Stephanie. "Artists Make Provocative Works As Part of Their Protest," NY 1, June 1
: Brara, Noor. "‘This Is a Revolution’: 18 Artists From Coast to Coast Share What They Saw and Felt at the George Floyd Protests," Artnews, June 1
2019: Burger, Mark Alan. "Artist Kambui Olujimi Wants to Float Free," Interview, November 8
: Purcell, Barbara. "Kambui Olujimi Speaks Art to Power in "Zulu Time"," The Austin Chronicle, March 15
2018: Deshpande, Pia. "Political art set to sweep billboards across 50 US states ahead of 2018 midterms," CNN, September 25
: NJTV News. "Art installation revels in the intersection of art and tech," NJTV Public Broadcasting Service, November 30
: Carey, Brainard. "Kambui Olujimi," Yale University Radio, April 6
: Thomas, Hank Willis. "Hank Willis Thomas and Kambui Olujimi," Bomb Magazine, April 3
: Rodney, Steph. "Watering the Imagination at the Spring Break Art Show," Hyperallergic, March 8
: Cascone, Sarah. "Armory Week 2018: Your Go-To Guide for All the Art Fairs," ArtNet News, March 6
2017: Rodney, Seph. "Water as a Cinematic Metaphor for the Tides of Time," Hyperallergic, November 17
: Gleisser, Faye R. "“unstable objects”," ArtForum, September
: "Artist Kambui Olujimi Explores the Many Dimensions of Time," To The Best Of Our Knowledge, National Public Radio, August 12
: Worland, Gayle. "Artist at MMOCA links time and Power Dynamics," Wisconsin State Journal, May 28
: "Out on the Town: A curated listing of local entertainment," Wisconsin Gazette, May 18
2016: Castro, Jan Garden. "Kambui Olujimi," Sculpture Magazine, Oct
: Lynne, Jessica. "Bearing Witness," Art21 Magazine, March/April
: Castro, Jan Garden. "Solastalgia and Personalizing Displacement at CUE Art Foundation, New York," whitehot Magazine, July
2015: Ryzik, Melena. "Artists Equity to Reopen a Gallery on the Lower East Side," New York Times, October 17
2014: Johnson, Ken. "The Artist Next Door," New York Times, Oct 3
: Steinhauer, Jillian. "A Survey of Art from Across Brooklyn," Hyperallergic, October 1
: Pantuso, Phillip."CROSSING BROOKLYN: KAMBUI OLUJIMI, IN YOUR ABSENCE THE SKIES ARE ALL THE SAME," Brooklyn Magazine, November 7

Publications

2021: "Fantasy America," The Andy Warhol Museum
2020: "Walk With Me," Exhibition Monograph, Project for Empty Space
2017: "Zulu Time," Exhibition Monograph, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
2015: "Draw: Mapping Madness," Exhibition Monograph, Inside/Out Museum, pp.152-3
2012: "Wayward North," Exhibition Monograph, Art in General
2011: "Violence, Visual Culture, & the Black Male Body," Cassandra Jackson, published Routledge /UK
2007: "The Lost River’s Dreamers Index," Exhibition Monograph, Real Art Way
2006: "Frequency," The Studio Museum in Harlem, edited by Thelma Golden pp. 88-9
: "Winter in America," 81 Press [W.I.A. is a collaboration with Hank Willis Thomas]
: "Walk the Plank," Exhibition Monograph, Gallery 138
2003: "25 and Under photographers," PowerHouse/ C.D.S., edited by Iris Tillman Hill
: "Trace Magazine," Vol. 41 pp. 32-36
2000: "Reflections in Black," W.W. Norton, edited by Deborah Willis p.189-90

Residencies

2022: Yaddo, New York, NY
: Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
: Kino Saito Arts Center, Verplanck, NY
2019: Black Rock, Dakar, Senegal
2018: The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
: Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
: Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ
2017: Robert Rauschenberg Residency, Captiva Island, FL
: Open Space Labs, Ottawa, Canada
2015: Civitella Ranieri, Umbertide, Italy
: Meet Factory, Prague, Czech Republic
: LMCC: Process Space Residency, Manhattan, NY
: The Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL
2013: Tropical Lab 7, Singapore
2010-2011: Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mount Desert Island, ME
2009: Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
: Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
2009-2007: Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown (2nd Year Fellow), MA
: Apexart: Outbound Residency to Kellerberin, Australia

Commissions/Awards

2022: Andrew Mellon Foundation Grant
2021: Joan Mitchell Fellowship
2020: Colene Brown Prize
2019: Lighthouse Works Public Art Commission
2018: New York City MTA Arts & Design Commission
2017: NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship
2015: Urban Glass Merit Scholarship
2014: FSP/ Jerome Fellowship
2013: A Blade of Grass, Artist File Grantee
2008-2010: Art in General’s New Works Commission
2006: The Peekskill Project Public Art Initiative
: Roma Independent Film Festival (Best Feature Nominee)
2004: The Brooklyn Icons Project
: Jamaica Flux Public Art Project

Public Collections

: Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
: Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
: Cleveland Art Museum, Cleveland OH
: Light Works, Syracuse, NY
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Nasher Museum, Durham, NC
: Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
: North Folk Bank, Jamaica, NY
: Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA
: Smart Museum, Chicago, IL
: Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
: The Bass, Miami, FL
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Kennedy Yanko

1988: Born in St. Louis, MO
: Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023: Forthcoming Spring 2023, The Warhol Museum. Pittsburgh, PA
2022: "By Means Other Than the Known Senses," Art Basel Unlimited with Vielmetter Los Angeles. Basel, Switzerland
: "Moving Weight," CFHILL, Stockholm, Sweden
2021: "Three Generations," Salon 94, New York, NY
: "Postcapitalist Desire," Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
2020: "alient Queens," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Because it’s in my blood," Galleria Poggiali, Milan, IT
2019: "Before Words," UICA, Grand Rapids, MI
: "HANNAH, "Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
: "HIGHLY WORKED," Denny Dimin Gallery, New York, NY
2018: "Chasing Time," Leyendecker Galería, Tenerife, Canary Islands
2013: "Alchemy in Silent Spaces," Idiosyncrasy Gallery, New York, NY
2012: "Permutations," The Paragon Theater, St. Louis, MO
2010: "Paroxysm," Art Monster, St. Louis, MO
2009: "Wu-Wei," Abstrakt Gallery, St. Louis, MO

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026: “61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia: In Minor Keys," Curated by Koyo Kouoh, Arsenale di Venezia Campo de la Tana, Venice, Italy (forthcoming)
2022: "Brooklyn Abstraction: Four Artists, Four Walls," The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
: "Set it Off," Curated by Racquel Chevremont & Mickalene Thomas—collectively known as Deux Femmes Noires, Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY
: "Skin in the Game," Curated by Zoe Lukov & Produced by Abby Pucker, Pop Up Exhibition, Chicago, IL
: "2022 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts," American Academy of Art and Letters, New York City, NY
2021: The Armory Show, Two Person Presentation with Genevieve Gaignard, New York, NY
2020: "We Are More Than A Moment," MCLA BCRC/Gallery 51, North Adams, MA
: "Life During War Time," University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Fl
: "Arco Madrid," Leyendecker Galería, Madrid, Spain
: "SITE: Art and Architecture in the Digital Space," Library Street Collective
: Armory, Kavi Gupta Gallery, New York, NY
: "ABSTRACT! From Minimalism to Now," Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
: Frieze, Kavi Gupta Gallery, New York, NY
2019: "IMPLIED BODY," ASSEMBLY ROOM, New York, NY
: Frieze LA, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: Expo Chicago, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
: Armory, Kavi Gupta Gallery, New York, NY
: Art Basel, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Miami, FL
: Enter Art Fair, Galleri Jacob Bjørn, Copenhagen, Denmark
: "Harlem Perspectives," The Faction Art Space, New York, NY
: "UNTITLED FOG," Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018: "UNTITLED," Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Miami, FL
2019: "PARALLELS AND PERIPHERIES," MOCAD, Detroit, MI
2018: Art Basel, Kavi Gupta Gallery. Miami, FL.
: "Cry of Victory and Short Walks to Freedom," Projects + Gallery, St. Louis, MO
: "Outside in 2," Michael David Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
: "PARALLELS AND PERIPHERIES," Art Center South Florida, Miami, FL
: The Barn Show 2018, Johannes Vogt Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
: "Arco Lisboa," Leyendecker Galería, Lisbon, Portugal
: "Alchemy," BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn, NY
: "Arco Madrid," Leyendecker Galería, Madrid, Spain
: "Senses and Perceptions," MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
: "The Aesthetics of Matter," VOLTA NY, New York, NY
: "Out of Line," Long Gallery, Harlem, NY
2017: "PULSE," Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Miami, FL
: "PROJECTS," PULSE Contemporary Art Fair, Miami, FL
: "Hidden in Plain Sight," Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015: "AART," Joseph Gross Gallery, New York, NY
2014: "I Kan Do Dat," Rush Art Galleries, New York, NY
: "Art Now," Poppington Gallery, New York, NY

Bibliography

2023: Godfrey, Mark, Katy Siegel, Aria Dean, Laura Owens, Glenn Adamson. “Making Their Mark: Art by Women in the Shah Garg Collection,” Gregory R. Miller & Co, ARTBOOK D.A.P., New York, NY pg 388-389, 2023
2022: Escalante-De Mattei, Shanti. "Dealers Are Footing Towering Bills to Show Monumental Works in Art Basel’s Unlimited Section," ARTnews, June 15 (Link)
: Batycka, Dorian. "In Pictures: See the Best of Art Basel Unlimited 2022, From a Painting Made of Hardware-Store Finds to a Shipping Container-Turned-Sculpture," artnet, June 13 (Link)
: Schwartz, Alexis. "Kennedy Yanko is Moving Weight," L’Officiel, May 19 (Link)
2021: Rynaski, Nate. "Kennedy Yanko | To paint is to love, to love is to scrap metal," Flaunt, August 30 (Link)
: King, Akili. "Inside the Studio Where Artist Kennedy Yanko Creates Her Surreal Sculptures," Vogue, July 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)
: White, Katie. "‘My Whole Body Is Moving With It’: Rising Star Kennedy Yanko on the Performative Way She Makes Her Coveted Sculptures," Artnet, June 15 (Link)
: Fazzare, Elizabeth. "CULTURED COLLECTIONS WITH SUZANNE MCFAYDEN," Cultured Magazine, June 11
: Ologundudu, Folasade. "Kennedy Yanko: Postcapitalist Desire," The Brooklyn Rail, May 2021 (Link)
: Hernandez, Jasmin. "We Are Here: Visionaries of Color Transforming the Art World," Abrams, 2021
2020: Waddoups, Ryan. "Kennedy Yanko Isn’t Afraid to Take Up Space," Surface Magazine, October 20, 2020
: Huzenis, Ella. “Kennedy Yanko’s Sculptures are a Certain Kind of Woman,” Interview, October 2020.
2019: Beers, Kurt. "100 Sculptors of Tomorrow," Thames & Hudson, 2019.
: Becker, Noah. "Interview with Kennedy Yanko by Noah Becker,” White Hot Magazine, June 2019.
: Dunson, Danny. "Kennedy Yanko: In Her Own Words," Art X, July 2019.
: Rosier, J. Howard. “Critic’s Picks,” Art Forum, November 2019.
2018: Sargent, Antwaun. “How artist Kennedy Yanko went from bodybuilding to metalworking,” Vice, 8 March 2018.
: Joseph, Jae. “All the Feels: Nana Ya Asare Boadu and Kennedy Yanko,” Cultured, July 2018.
2017: Hernandez, Jasmin. “Studio Visit with Kennedy Yanko in Bushwick, Brooklyn,” GalleryGurls, 22 October 2017.
: McVey, Kurt. “Three Pulses: Ventiko, Fischer Cherry and Kennedy Yanko,” Visual Art, 22 November 2017.
2013: McVey, Kurt. “It’s A Little About Kennedy Yanko,” Interview Magazine, 8 November 2013.

Public Projects

2019-2021: Sculpture: 3 Ways, Funded by the Helis Foundation. Poydras Corridor, New Orlean, LA
2019-2020: Installation | Film: Our Valence. Art in Buildings by Time Equities. Detroit, MI

Residencies, Scholarships, & Prizes

2021: Artist in Residence. Rubell Museum. Miami, FL
2020: Finalist. Creative Time Open Call. Creative Time
2019: Recipient, Colene Brown Art Prize. BRIC Arts Media.
2018-2019: Nominee, Painters & Sculptors Grant Program, Joan Mitchell Foundation.
2018: Nominee, Emerging Artist Grant. Rema Hort Mann Foundation.
: Artist Residency, Galería Leyendecker. Tenerife, Canary Islands.
2017: Artist Residency, Fountainhead, Miami, FL.
2013: Artist Residency, Idiosyncrasy Gallery. New York, NY.
2010: Artist Residency, Atlantic Center of the Arts. New Smyrna Beach, FL.
2009-2012: Resident Performer, The Living Theatre. New York, NY.

Public Talks, Panels and Juries

2022: Kennedy Yanko in conversation with Saskia Neuman, CFHILL, Stockholm, Sweden
2019: Artist Talk. Philadelphia Academy of the Arts. Philadelphia, PA.
: “Conversations with Artists” series. The Phillips Collection. Washington, DC.

Public Collections

: The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL.
: Espacio Tacuari, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
: MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Rubell Museum, Miami, FL.

Monique Van Genderen

: Born in Vancouver, British Columbia
: Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

1991: MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1987: BA, University of California at San Diego, CA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024-2025: "The Sea Ranch," Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2024: “A Sweet Sidelong Glance,” Galerie Richard, Paris, France
2023: "Monique van Genderen," Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA
: "Monique Van Genderen," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
2022: "Monique van Genderen," Bernier Eliades, Brussels, Belgium
: "After Images", Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany
2021: "Afterimages," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Each of these Paintings Can Be Named After a Famous Painter," Gallery Platform Los Angeles, online
2020: "Paintings are People Too," R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2018: “Festsaal,” Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
: "Monique Van Genderen," Miles McEnery, New York, NY
2017: Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2016: Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York, NY
2015: "Manufactured Paintings," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2014: TAI Modern, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2013: Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany
: Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2012: DAmelio Gallery, New York, NY
: Effearte, Milan, Italy
2011: "Monique van Genderen," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: "Monique van Genderen," Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany
: "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies," Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany
2009: "The Library: Start this Story Over," Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA
: "Personal Exhibition," The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA
2008: Effearte, Milan, Italy
: "Dirty Water," Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany
2007: "New Works," The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA
: "Voges and Partner," Frankfurt am Main, Germany
: Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
2006: "The Sensory Foundations of Mental Life," Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA
: Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
: Hammer Projects, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens, Greece
2005: "Within the same breath," Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
: Le Consortium (with Kirsten Everberg), Dijon, France (Link)
: The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA
: Howard House, Seattle, WA
2004: Locker Plant, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
: The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA
2003: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2002: Sandroni Rey Gallery, Venice, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024-2025: "All Bangers, All The Time," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
2024: "Pedestals for People," Curated by Monique van Genderen, Lompoc, CA
2023: "Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "A Brief Survey Of Shapes And Colors Observed In The Greater Los Angeles Basin," Timothy Hawkinson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2021-2022: "Abstracted Vocabularies," Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
2020: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2019: "The light touch," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "To Start A Painting," Kunstmuseum Rosa Luxembourg Platz, Berlin, Germany
2018: "If I go there, I won’t stay there," ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: “Being Here With You/ Estando aquí contigo: 42 Artists from San Diego and Tijuana,” Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA (Link)
: "Belief in Giants," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
2015: "Jacques Andre, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Monique van Genderen, Ola Rindal, Josh Smith, Kelley Walker," Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
: "Lost in a Sea of Red," The Pit LA, Glendale, CA
: "Be Abstract, Galerie am Markt, Schwabisch Hall, Germany
: "Be Abstract," Ballhaus Ost, Berlin, Germany
: "Stray Edge," Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, DC
2014: "Capture the Rapture," CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Ladies First!" Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany
: "Another Cats Show," 356 S. Mission, Los Angeles, CA
: Galerie Michael Janssen, Singapore
2013: "High Low," Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
: "Painting in Place," Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) at Farmers & Merchants Bank, Los Angeles, CA
: "Garden Party," Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2012: "Burning Colours," HOPSTREET, Brussels, Belgium
: The Venice Beach Biennial, Venice, CA
: "The Planter Show," ForYourArt, Los Angeles, CA
2011: "Dorothea," Ancient & Modern, London, UK
: "Works of Paper," ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Los Angeles Museum of Ceramics," ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010: Ambigu-Zeitgenoessische Malerie zwischen Abstraktion and Narration, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, CH
: Brandstrup Gallery, Oslo, Norway
: Hoehenkoller, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
2008: "Living Flowers: Ikebana and Contemporary Art," Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2007: "Back to Nature," Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
: Twentieth Century Fox Studios, organized by the UCLA/Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: "Fleeing the Scene," The Happy Lion Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Small but Beautiful," Gasser & Grunert, Inc New York, NY
: "Sparkle Then Fade," Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
: "Modern Lovers," Glendale College of Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
: Group Show, Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens, Greece
2006: Art Unlimited, curated by Samuel Keller, Art Basel 37, Basel, Switzerland
: III Edicio del Certamen Internacional de Pintura de Castello, Museum de Belles Arts de Castello, Castello de la Plana, Spain
: Masters & Johnson, Galeria Charro Negro, Guadalajara, Mexico
: "Off the Shelf: New Forms in Contemporary Artists Books," The Frances Lehmna Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
: Los Angeles Art Now, Galeri SE, Bergen, Norway
: Rundumschlag, Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
: Hotel California, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
: "Strictly Painting," presented by Galerie Michael Janssen, Dogenjaus Galerie, Voges + Partner Galerie, David Hunt, KLF-Project Space, New York, NY
2005: "Wall Paintings," curated by Francis Colpitt, University of San Antonio, Texas
: "Strictly Painting III," The Right Side of Painting, Voges + Partner Galerie, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
: "Sight Lines," Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, Germany
: "Closer to Home," The 48th Corcoran Biennial, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
2004: "Full House," curated by David Pagel, Clairmont Graduate Art Gallery, Clairmont, CA
: The sixth annual altoids curiously strong collection, The New Museum, New York, NY
: Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA
: "So few opportunities, so many mistakes," curated by Josh Smith, Champion Fine Art, Brooklyn, New York
: "Wake-up and apologize," Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003: Small Works Margo Victor Presents, Hollywood, CA
: "The greatest album covers that never were," Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
: "The Art of Pain," Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA
: "Fragments," PSprojectspace, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2002: "Art of Paper," APER, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC
: Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: Fake Paintings, Kbond, Los Angeles, CA
2001: "Lineformcolor," Howard House, Seattle, WA
: "Big Plastic," Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
: "Cross-Cuts; Seven Los Angeles Artists," Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College, Los Angeles, CA
: "Snapshot: New Art from Los Angeles," Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
: "De Beaufort, Exposito, van Genderen," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
: "Painting beyond Painting," Christine Rose Gallery, New York, NY
1997: "Trimmings and Scraps," Gavlak Projects, Silverlake, CA
: "Trans Inter Post: Hybrid Spaces," (curated by Pamela Bailey), UC Irvine, Irvine CA
: "Loves Labors Lost," (curated by Sue Spaid), collaboration with John Souza
1993: "Private and public pleasures," curated by Lauren Lesko
: School of Beauty, Los Angeles, CA

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: Kurzner, Lisa, Monique van Genderen: The Sensory Foundations of Mental Life, ACA Gallery of the Savannah College of Art and Design Atlanta, Atlanta, GA (Exhibition catalogue)
: Lombino, Mary Kay, Ed. Off the Shelf, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center of Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
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: Colpitt, Frances. "Wall Painting," University of Texas at San Antonio, TX
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: Fallon, Roberta. "Sketches: Labor Pains," Philadelphia Weekly, October 1-7, p. 42
: Miller, Blake. "What To Do," Philadelphia Magazine, September, p. 180
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: Doll, Nancy and Platt, Ron, Art on Paper 2002, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC (Exhibition catalogue)
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: Lesko, Lauren, Public and Private Pleasures. Lauren Lasko and Nomadic Site, Los Angeles, CA (Exhibition catalogue)

Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books

2017: Batliner, Herbert, "Albertina : Sammlung Batliner Vol 2," Albertina Museum

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2019: Chiaro Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

Public Projects

2020: "Murals of La Jolla," La Jolla Community Foundation, La Jolla, CA

Public Collections

: AIG SunAmerica Inc., Los Angeles, CA
: Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, Peoria, IL
: Eileen Harris and Peter Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
: KB Home, Los Angeles, CA
: IVAM, Institut Valencià dArt Modern, Valencia, Spain
: Le Consortium, Dijon, France
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Montblanc Cutting Edge Art Collection, Hamburg, Germany
: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
: Rita and Herbert Batliner Collection, permanent loan to the Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
: U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.

Lavaughan Jenkins

: B.F.A. Massachusetts College Of Art And Design

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026: "Misfits," Lavaughan Jenkins and Masha Keryan, Trustman Art Gallery, Simmons University, Boston, MA
2024: "Love Liberates," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2023: "Lavaughan Jenkins: The Watcher and the Watchman," Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts at the University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
: "Lavaughan Jenkins: Edward E. Elson Artist-in-Residence," Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
2022: "Weight Of Things," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2021: "Ms. Black America," Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA
2020: "Black America Again," AREA CODE Art Fair, Shelter In Place Gallery, Boston, MA
: "VOLTA NYC," Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, New York, NY
2019: "Reflections of Power," Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Spring/ Break Art Show, New York, NY
2017: "Reflections of Power," Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
2016: "Man Walks Into A Room," Arts research collaborative gallery, Lowell, MA
2003: "Man Walks Into A Room," Beaver County Day School, Chestnut Hill, MA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026: Mary Heaton Vorse House Group Exhibition, Curated by Kate Chertavian Fine Art, Provincetown, MA (forthcoming)
2025: "Icons, Archetypes, and Portraits," North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
2024: "New Works by Lavaughan Jenkins, Mario Joyce, Raffi Kalenderian, Kiriakos Tompolidis," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2023: "Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2021: "The Salon Show, "Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA
: "Black America," David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI
2020: "We Are More Than a Moment," Gallery 51, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, MA
: "Three-Person Show," Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: "Sit Still: Self-Portraits in the Age of Distraction," curated by Patty Horing and Deborah Brown, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, NY
: "Congruency," The Gallery at Prato Capital Management, White Plains, NY
2019: "Woven Profiles," Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA
: "James and Audrey Foster Prize Exhibition," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
: "HumanFigure," Hess Gallery, Pine Manor College, Newton, MA
: "About Face," The Painting Center, New York, NY
2018: "Passage," Galerie C. O. A., Montreal, Canada
: "Relevant," Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
: "Fashion Forward," Kabinett Gallery, Boston, MA
2017: "People Watching," Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
: "Reconfigure," Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA
: "Relay," Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
2016: "Oh Sheets," Beehive, Boston, MA
: "Nakedness," Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
: "Future Arts Boston," Boston Center For The Arts, Boston, MA
: "Establishment Assembly," Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA
: "Profiles," Lens Gallery, Boston, MA
: "I Know just what you are saying," Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
2015: "ReSearch," Massachusetts College Of Art And Design, Boston, MA
2014: "The Introduction," Massachusetts College Of Art And Design, Boston, MA
2013: "Josef Bolt, Li Ning, Lavaughan Jenkins," 666 Artspace, Beijing, China
2012: "Boston vs. Beijing," Oasis Gallery, Beijing, China
2006: "Undressed," Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2005: "Introductions," Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2003: "Man Walks Into A Room," Beaver County Day School, Chestnut Hill, MA
2002: "Norfolk Group Exhibition," Art Barn Gallery, Yale Norfolk, CT

Residencies, Scholarships, & Prizes

2023: Edward E. Elson Artist-in-Residence, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
2022: Fine Arts Work Center Residency, Provincetown, MA
2019: James And Audrey Foster Prize
2015: Blanche E. Coleman Award
: Kingston Gallery Emerging Artist (non commercial)
2002: Rob Moore Grant
: Yale Norfolk Program

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Public Collections

: Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, MA
: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
: Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA
: North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND

Arcmanoro Niles

1989: Born in Washington, D.C.
2025: Lives and works in New York, NY

2018: Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2015: MFA, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2013: BFA, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2010: School of Art and Design at Montgomery Community College, Silver Spring, MD

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025: "Spotlight: Arcmanoro Niles – Times Ain’t What I’d Thought They’d Be: The Stars Don’t Shine Like Before," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "When There’s Nothing I Can Do: I Go to My Heart," Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
2024: "The City Lights Can’t Shine Quite Like the Stars: Got So Far From My Raising I Forgot Where I Come From," Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
2023: "A Moment Alone in the Shade," Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
2022: "You Know I Used To Love You but Now I Don’t Think I Can: There Ain’t No Right Way To Say Goodbye Again," Lehmann Maupin, London, United Kingdom
2021: "Hey Tomorrow, Do You Have Some Room For Me: Failure Is A Part Of Being Alive," Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
2020: "I Guess By Now I’m Supposed To Be A Man: I’m Just Trying To Leave Behind Yesterday," UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA
2019: "My Heart is Like Paper: Let the Old Ways Die," Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY
2018: "Revisiting the Area," Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY
2017: "The Arena," Long Gallery, New York, NY
2016: "AIR Works," Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
: "Life Was A Party To be Thrown," Beez & Honey, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026: "Space is the Place: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2025: "The Outwin 2025: American Portraiture Today," Smithsonian Museum of Art, Washington D.C
: "New York Academy of Art Chubb Fellows and Friends," Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX
: "In Plain Sight," Hexton Gallery, Aspen, CO
: "Visions of the World," Museum Kampa, Prague, Czech Republic
: "Justice and the Inalienable Rights," Tyler Art Gallery at SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY
2024: "A New Subjectivity 1979/2024, Parrish Museum, Water Mill, NY
: "Day for Night: New American Realism," National Galleries of Ancient Art, Rome, Italy
: "Some Dogs Go to Dallas," Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX
2023: "Friends & Lovers," Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY
: "Talk of the Town," Dallas Museum of Art at NorthPark Center, Dallas, TX
: "Labor of Love," Rachel Uffner, New York, NY
2022: "Dark Light: Realism in the Age of Post-Truths," Aïshti Foundation, Jal el Dib, Lebanon
: "Black Melancholia," Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
: "Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami’s Collection," Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
: "A Place for Me: Figurative Painting Now," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
: "Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art," Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA; Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA
2021: "From The Limitations Of Now," Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
: "Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art," Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
2020: "Artists for New York," Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY
: "Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art," Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
2019: "Afrocosmologies: American Reflections," Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
: "Punch," Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA
: "On Refusal: Representation & Resistance in Contemporary American Art," The MAC Belfast, Northern Ireland
2018: "Ten Years," Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY
: "Problem Solving: Highlights from the Experimental Printmaking Institute," Mechanical Hall Gallery, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
: "Portraits of Who We Are," David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD
2014: "Mutual Interest No. 3," Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
2012: "Promising Artists of the 21st Century," Sophia Wanamaker Gallery, San Jose, Costa Rica

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2021: Artist Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
2019: Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
2018: Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant
2017: Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant
: Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant
2016: Scott & Patricia PGTA Award, New York Academy of Art
: Artist in Residence, Guild Hall for the Arts, East Hampton, NY
2014: Artist in Residence, Shanghai University, China
2013: The Lance Roy Lauffer Memorial Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
: Benjamin West Clinedinst Memorial Medal, Artists’ Fellowship, Inc.
2012: The Fred and Naomi Hazel Memorial Art Award for Fine Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
: The Cecilia Beaux Memorial Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Pennsylvania, PA
2010: The American Artists Professional League’s American Artists Fund Award

Bibliography

2023: Olsen, Annikka. “Artists to Watch This Month: 10 Solo Gallery Exhibitions to Seek Out in September in New York,” Artnet, September 6
2022: Maki, Tennae. “ArtSeen: Arcmanoro Niles: You Know I used to Love You but Now I Don’t Think I Can: There Ain’t No Right Way to Say Goodbye Again," Brooklyn Rail, December/January
: Hollis, Phyllis. “Episode 128: A Conversation with Arcmanoro Niles,” Art Talks: A Podcast by Cerebral Women, November 16 (podcast).
: Woodward, Daisy. “Brilliant Things to Do This November,” AnOther Magazine, November 2
: Cotter, Holland. “For Black Artists, the Motivating Power of Melancholia,” The New York Times, June 23
2021: Lakin, Max. “3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now,” The New York Times, August 12
: Semic, Sara, and Baya Simons. “Six international art exhibitions to bookmark for late summer,” Financial Times, August 11
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: “Glitter and Ghosts in the Paintings of Arcmanoro Niles,” Elephant, May 28
: “5 Artists on the Influence of Mark Rothko.” Artsy, April 13
2020: Sutton, Benjamin. “Twenty artists received Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grants, including Tschabalala Self and Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Artsy, May 12
: Cascone, Sarah. “Stir Crazy Already? Feast Your Eyes on 20 Works of Art That Celebrate the Joys of Being at Home,” Artnet News, March 13
: Davis-Marks, Isis. “These 10 Emerging Black Artists Are the Future of Figurative Painting,” Artsy, February 11
: Cascone, Sarah. “In LA for Frieze Week? Here is Our Guide to 33 Inspiring Gallery Shows to See Beyond the Fairs" Artnet News, February 10
2019: Kissick, Dean. "Arcmanoro Niles Paints Our Internal Lives,” Cultured, November
: Redmond, Taylor. "Jeffery Deitch and Nina Chanel Abney on the Zeitgeist of the Digital Age," Cultured, July 1
: Roffino, Sara. "Arcmanoro Niles is a Painter for the Ages," Cultured, June 29
: Bell, Joshua, and Connie H. Choi. “Collecting a Legacy: New Acquisitions,” Studio, Spring/Summer
: Wagner, Virginia. "Paper Heart: Arcmanoro Niles discusses his work with Virginia Wagner," Art Critical, May 29
: Smith, Roberta. “Spring Gallery Guide: Over 40 Art Shows to See Right Now,” The New York Times, April 26
: Freeman, Nate. “What Sold at the Dallas Art Fair,” Artsy, April 15
: Armstrong, Arnie. “Dallas Art Museum Adds Eight Works to Collection with Dallas Art Fair Acquisition Fund,” ARTnews, April 11
: Cowan, Katy. "Paintings which carefully observe how we deal with heartbreak and disappointment," Creative Boom, April 5
: “Featured Exhibition: Arcmanoro Niles,” Contemporary And (C&), March 15
: McClodden, Tiona Nekkia. "10 Artists on their 2018 Discovery," Cultured, January 17
2018: Margulies, Elizabeth. “Elizabeth Margulies Selects Her Top Five Emerging Artists of 2018,” Galerie Magazine, December 17
: “6 World-Class Booths to See at the Dallas Art Fair,” Artnet News, April 12
: Miller, James H. “Dallas Art Fair marries the regional and global," The Art Newspaper, April 9
: Carter, Steve. “Arcmanoro Niles, Rachel Uffner Gallery,” PATRON Magazine, April/May
: Gornik, April. “The April Gornik Conversations: Artist Arcmanoro Niles,” Stay Thirsty Magazine, February 20
: Scott, Andrea. “Arcmanoro Niles,” The New Yorker, January 29
: “9 Artists to Watch in January 2018," Artspace Magazine, January 12
: Cascone, Sarah. “From Gordon Parks to LaToya Ruby Frazier, Here Are 35 Must-See Gallery Shows in New York City This January,” Artnet News, January 5
2017: Corbett, Rachel, and Andrew Goldstein. “From a Surprise ‘Salvator Mundi’ to Tears for Trump: 8 Star-Making Turns at NADA Miami,” Artnet News, December 9
: Zahn, Paul. “Miami Tastemakers Share Their Top Spots To Visit During Art Basel," Ocean Drive, December 4
: Black, Stephanie. “Seek And You Shall Find: Arcmanoro Niles.” Quiet Lunch Nº 5, November 24
: Menendez, Didi. “50 Badass Figurative Painters To Follow On Instagram,” Buzzfeed, November 17
: Scher, Robin. “Joan Mitchell Foundation Announces 2017 Painters & Sculptors Grant Recipients,” ARTnews, November 14
: Dafoe, Taylor. “Joan Mitchell Foundation Announces 2017 Grant Recipients, Making 25 Artists $25,000 Richer,” Artnet News, November 14
: “Arcmanoro Niles at Long Gallery, Harlem, New York,” ARTnews, May 12
: Sargent, Antwaun. “Orange Paint and Glitter Bring a Black Community to Life,” Creators (Vice), May 8
: Ghosh, Sarbani, and Sarah Cascone. “Beyond the Fairs: Your Go-to Guide to Openings and Events During Frieze Week 2017,” Artnet News, April 30
2016: O’Reilly, Brendan J. “Guild Hall’s First Artists-In-Residence Speak At AIR Works," The South Hampton Press, April 14
: Segal, Mark. “Guild Hall Welcomes First Residents,” The East Hampton Star, March 3
: “Arcmanoro Niles—The Party,” The BHoldr, January 29
2013: Booker, Bobbi. “Budding Painter Talks Technique,” The Philadelphia Tribune, June 30

Publications

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.
2025: Gnyp, Marta. "Visions of the World: The Wigam Collection," Prague: Museum Kampa.
2023: Lewis, Arthur. "I Guess By Now I’m Supposed To Be A Man: I’m Just Trying To Leave Behind Yesterday," Beverly Hills: UTA Artist Space.
: Gartenfeld, Alex. "Fire Figure Fantasy. Selections from ICA Miami’s Collection," New York: DelMonico Books.
2022: Gynp, Marta, and Arcmanoro Niles. "You Know I Used To Love You But Now I Don’t Think I Can: There Ain’t Right Way To Say Goodbye Again," London: Lehmann Maupin.
2021: Biswas, Allie, and Anna Stothart. "Arcmanoro Niles: Hey Tomorrow, Do You Have Some Room For Me: Failure Is A Part Of Being Alive," New York: Lehmann Maupin.
2020: Sargent, Antwaun, ed. "Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art," New York: D.A.P.
2019: "I Guess By Now I’m Supposed To Be A Man: I’m Just Trying To Leave Behind Yesterday," Los Angeles: UTA Artist Space.
: Boothe, Berrisford, Claudia Highbaugh, Kristin Hass, et al. "Afrocosmologies: American Reflections," Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, The Amistad Center for Art & Culture.
2018: Cooper Cafritz, Peggy. "Fired Up! Ready to Go!: Finding Beauty, Demanding Equity: An African American Life in Art," The Collections of Peggy Cooper Cafritz. New York: Rizzoli.
: McGee, Julie L. "Portraits of Who We Are," College Park: David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland.
2017: "The Arena: Arcmanoro Niles,." New York: Long Gallery Harlem.

Public Collections

: Aishti Foundation, Jal El Dib, Lebanon
: The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
: David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD
: Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX
: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, NY
: The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
: The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
: Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art, Asbury, NJ
: Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, FL
: Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
: Pond Society, Shanghai, China
: The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
: Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
: Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom

Hannah van Bart

1963: Born in Oud-Zuilen, Maarssen, The Netherlands
: Lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1983-1988: Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1988-1990: Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024: "Inner Homeland," Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
2023: "Hannah van Bart," Centraal Museum Utrecht and Landhuis Oud Amelisweerd, Bunnik, Netherlands
2022: "New Paintings," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2019: "Hannah van Bart: Places and Beings," Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
2017: "Hannah van Bart: The Smudge Waves Back," Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY [catalogue]
2014: "Hannah van Bart," Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
2011: "Hannah van Bart," Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
2008: "Theater of the Mind," Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zürich, Switzerland
2007: "Hannah van Bart," Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
2004: "Hannah van Bart," Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
2002: Solo, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, The Netherlands
: "Schijngestalten/Illuminations," Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
2000: "Dmaged Figures," Galerie de Prakijk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1998: "De ziel gaat te paard, Philip Morris Kunstprijs," Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
1997: Solo, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, The Netherlands
1996: Solo, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025-2026: "When I Was You," Chabot Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2025: "My World," Laren, The Netherlands, Singer Laren, Laren, The Netherlands
: "Boesky in Paris," (Pop-Up Exhibition) Marianne Boesky Gallery, Paris, France
2024: "Boesky in Paris," (Pop-Up Exhibition) Marianne Boesky Gallery, Paris, France
: "Self-Portraits," GRIMM, New York, New York
2023: "Discover the Modern," Kunstmuseum The Hague, The Hague, The Netherlands
: "Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Message of the Forest," Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
: "Unrequited love," Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY
: "Gifted Eye," Teylers Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands
2021: "Towards a More Beautiful Oblivion," Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY
2020-2021: "Collector’s Item," Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
: "Recent Acquisitions from the Chazen Museum of Art Permanent Collection," Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
2020: "On Paper," Yoshii Gallery, New York, NY
: "Sit Still: Self Portraits in the Age of Distraction," Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, NY
: "Xenia: Crossroads in Portrait Painting," Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
2019: "Jeanne Oosting Prijs," De Vishal, Haarlem, The Netherlands
2015: "No Man’s Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection," Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
: Family Collection," Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
: "Face to Face," Galerie Bob Van Orsouw, Zürich, Switzerland
2013: "Van Cobra tot Dumas. Collectie De Heus- Zomer," Singer Laren, Laren, The Netherlands
2012: "Group Show 2012," Yoshii Gallery, New York, NY
2011: "11th Lyon Biennale: A Terrible Beauty Is Born," T.A.S.E Factory, France
2010: "On Paper, works from the Collection," Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
: "Faces," Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy
: "The Pencil Show," Foxy Production, New York, NY
2009: "Works on Paper," Faggionato Fine Art, London, UK
: "The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women," Cheim and Read, New York, NY
: "XXth Century," Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
2005: "Through the Looking Glass," Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zürich, Switzerland
2004: "Seeing Other People," Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
: "Paperi," Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK
2002: "Philip Morris Kunstprijs," Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
: "Per Saldo," Het Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch The ABN AMRO Art Foundation, Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
2001: "Moesorgsky “Pictures at an exhibition project”," Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
: "Dutch Glory," Stedelijk Museum, Kabinet Overholland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1999: "Abraham," Galerie De Praktijk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
: "Sense of Drawing," Galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague, The Netherlands
: "Armando verzamelti," De Vishal, Haarlem, The Netherlands
1997: Group Show, W 139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1996: "Meer lagen diep," Galerie METIS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1995: "Graceland," Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
: "Meaning of drawing," Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1994: "Koninklijke Subsidie voor Vrije Schilderkunst," Koninklijk Palies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands [catalogue]

Bibliography

2024: Ginsburg, Zachary. “The Follies of Memory in Hannah van Bart’s Paintings,” The Visual World, November 21
: Baratta, Franchesca. "Hannah Van Bart | Inner Homeland At Marianne Boesky Gallery," FLAUNT, October 11
2023: van Binsbergen, Sarah. "There is almost no distinction, the woman and the space around her are both painted equally excitingly," de Volkskrant, April 13 (Link)
2020: Sayej, Nadja. "5 New York Galleries Showcase Women Artists In Online Exhibitions," Forbes, April 9 (Link)
2019: Kamensky, Anna. “A visit to Marianne Boesky Gallery to discover Hannah van Bart,” ArtDealer Street, October 4
: “Hannah van Bart: ‘Places and Beings’,” artspeak, September 12
: Cascone, Sarah. “Editors’ Picks: 21 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week,” Artnet News, September 9
: Dijksterhuis, Edo. “Schilderkunst, Dubbele oeuvreprijs voor figuratief werk,” Het Parool, June 22
2017: Creahan, D. “Hannah van Bart: ‘The Smudge Waves Back’ at Marianne Boesky Gallery,” Art Observed, February 2
: Kerr, Merrily. “Hannah van Bart at Marianne Boesky Gallery,” New York Art Tours, January 25
: Ho, Yin. “Critic’s Picks: Hannah van Bart,” Artforum, January 5
: Cascone, Sarah. “Editors’ Picks: 8 Things to Do in New York This Week,” Artnet News, January 3
2016: “‘The Smudge Waves Back’ by Hannah van Bart at Marianne Boesky Gallery,” Blouin Artinfo, December 26
2014: Indrisek, Scott. “5 Must-See Gallery Shows in New York: Darren Bader, Hannah van Bart, and More,” Blouin Artinfo, May 29 (online)
: Kerr, Merrily. “Hannah van Bart,” Time Out New York, June 2 (online)
: Kinsella, Eileen. “New York Gallery Beat: 6 Critics Review 16 Shows,” Artnet News, May 21 (online)
: “Hannah van Bart at Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York,” Mousse Magazine, May 28
: “Hannah van Bart – The story behind an artwork, in the artist’s own words,” Modern Painters, May: Issue 53
2011: "Duponchelle, Valerie. ”La XIe Biennale de Lyon en 10 coups de coeur,” Le Figaro, September 19
: Heinrich, Will. “Paper Goes Gun Crazy: Sarah Frost at PPOW; Hannah van Bart at Marianne Boesky,” The New York Observer, April 26 (online)
: “Spring’s the Time to Art: Here’s a peek at the hottest art shows across the globe,” Aishti, April: Issue A214
2007: Harvey, Michael. “Hannah van Bart,” Art in America, September: Issue 168
: Orden, Abraham. “The Minute,” Artnet, May 7 (online)
: “Hannah van Bart,” The New Yorker, April 30, Issue 20
2005: Robertson, Jessica. “Art Reviews,” Velvetpark, Winter
2002: Bem, Marel. “In hun vreemde eigenheid benijdens waardig,” De Voldkskrant
: Linden, Riet van der. “Een tuintje groeien in je buik,” Opzij
: Smallenburg, Sandra. “Van Bart tekent haar gedachten na,” NRC Handelsblad
: Velde, Paola van de. “Kunst met huid en haar,” De Telegraaf
2000: Ankerman, Karel. “Green ontkomen aan.Schilderijen Hannah van Bart scheppen eigen wereld,” Het Financieele Dagblad
1999: Jager, Hans den Hartog. “Vrijheid en een eigen atelier,” NRC Handelsblad
: Koplos, Janet. “Hannah van Bart at the Cobramuseum,” Art in America
1998: Dik, Iris. “Hannah van Bart heeft geen uitleg nodig’,” Vrij Nederland, March 14
: Dik, Iris. “Kijken in Lijnen’,” Kunstschrift, nr. 3, May – June
: Prins, Wouter. “Hannah van Bart,” Atelierbezoek, Origine, nr. 5
1997: Bierens, Cornel. “Niet versieren, niet pantseren,” Metropolis M, nr. 3

Catalogues and Publications

2023: Bart, Hannah Van, et al. Hannah van Bart. Jap Sam Books, in Collaboration with Centraal Museum Utrecht, 2023
2017: Biswas, Allie. Hannah van Bart: The Smudge Waves Back. New York: Marianne Boesky Gallery, 2017
2015: Hudson, Suzanne. Painting Now. London: Thames & Hudson, 2015
2011: 11th Lyon Biennale: A Terrible Beauty is Born. France: Presses Du Reel, 2011 (exhibition catalogue)
2002: Schijngestalten/Illuminations. The Hague: Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, 2002
1998: Die ziel gaat te paard/The Soul Travels On Horseback. Amsterdam: Philip Morris Finest
: Selection Foundation/Waanders Uitgevers, 1998
1995: Wolf, Deborah. Een Collecite/A Collection. Amsterdam: ABN AMRO Bank N.V., 1995
1994: Koninklijke Subsidie voor Vrije Schilderkunst. Amsterdam: Amsterdam Royal Palace Foundation, 1994 (exhibition catalogue)

Awards & Honors

2019: Jeanne Oosting Prijs, Jeanne Oosting Stichting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1998: Philip Morris Kunstprijs
1994: Royal Award for Fine Art Painting/Koninklijke Subsidie voor Vrije Schilderkunst

Public Collections

: Centraal Museum, Utreccht, The Netherlands
: Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands
: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
: Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
: Teylers Museum, Haarlem, NY

Bari Ziperstein

1978: Born in Chicago, IL
: Lives and Works in Los Angeles, CA

2004: MFA, Studio Art, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2000: WS, Women’s Studies Certificate, Ohio University, Athens OH
: BFA, Painting, Ohio University, Athens, OH

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2026: Solo, Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
2023: "Fantasy Pieces: Decorative Garments for the Home," Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami, FL
: "Set Patterns," Charles Moffett Gallery, New York, NY
2022: "Patterns for Models," Vielmetter Los Angeles, CA
2019: "Patterns of Propaganda," Charles Moffett Gallery, New York, NY
2018: "Propaganda Pots," Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
: "Prop Art," Bethel University, Minneapolis, MN
2017: "Fair Trade," Museum of Art, Architecture, and Design, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
2014: "Doppelgänger," Gaddis Geeslin Gallery, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX (with Elaine Bradford)
2013: "Decorative Protection," Five Car Garage, Santa Monica, CA
2012: "Sheets Of Summer Glass," Passerby Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (with Dana Maiden)
2011: "The Veneer of Decorative Protection," Might Be Good online journal (Link)
2010: "Decorative Protection > Protecting Decoration," Las Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles, CA Bari Ziperstein, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
2009: "Perk," See Line Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Foam," Long Beach City College Project Space, Long Beach, CA (catalog)
2007: "(This Isn’t Happening) Popular Hallucinations For Your Home," Bank, Los Angeles, CA Spatial Variations, Harris Art Gallery, University of La Verne, La Verne, CA (with Jonathan Furmanski) (catalog)
2005: "10 X 10: 8 Week Lease (Reluctant Monument)," San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalog & artist book)
2004: "10 X 20: 1 Week Lease," MFA Thesis, A402 Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025: "Longest Way Round," Charles Moffett, New York, NY
: "The Vessel Revisited: Fundamental Forms in Contemporary Ceramics," Torggler Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA
: "Step & Repeat," LA Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024: "COLA 2024", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: “Raffi and Al’s Legendary Garden Party,” Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles,CA
2022: "Breaking Ground: Women in California Clay," AMOCA, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA (Link)
: "Plants Now!" Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2021: "Dog Days," The Pit, Palm Springs, CA (Link)
: "Ring Down The Curtain," Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
: "Vessels," Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami, FL
: "Clay Pop", Deitch Projects, NYC
2020: "Formations: Artists in the Archive," Wende Museum, Culver City, CA
: "It’s a Sad Beautiful World," Wilding Cran, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Body, The Object, The Other – Ceramic Biennial," Craft Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2019: "Mess: Contemporary Ceramics," The Future Perfect, New York, Los Angeles & San Franscico, CA
: "Chair Show," The Future Perfect, New York, NY
2018: "Designing Women ll: Masters, Mavericks & Mavens," Egg Collective, New York, NY
: "All Hands on Deck," Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA
: "Making It Work: Production by Design," American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA
2017: "Doing Business As," Big Pictures LA, Los Angeles, CA
: "Figured Out," Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL
: "Paper Weight," Fisher Parrish Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016: "Figure as Form," LTD, Los Angeles, CA
2015: "Vision in Motion: CA Women in Craft," Curator’s Cube, Tokyo, Japan
: "Pictures & Vessels," Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Yin Yang: Blurring the Lines Between Art & Design," 99 Cents Plus, Brooklyn, NY
: "Domestic Fair," Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA
2014: "I’m Revolting Ceramic Shop, Off Sight," New York, NY
: "Corporeal Impulse," Vincent Price Art Museum, East LA College, Monterey Park, CA
: "Another Cat Show," 356 Mission Road, Los Angeles, CA
2013: "Wonder Valley Way Station," High Desert Test Sites, Wonder Valley, CA
: "Sculpture Show," Carter & Citizen, Culver City, CA
: "The Oldest Of Rainbows," Control Room, Los Angeles, CA
: "Forêt Intérieure/Interior Forest," 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA LA
: "Ceramics," NCECA Conference, Houston, TX
2012: "Holodeck," POST, Los Angeles, CA
: "Visual High," Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
: "Girls Just Want To Have Fun," Satine, Los Angeles, CA
2011: "Daybreak," Pop-up Shop, Santa Monica, CA
: "Art Within Reach," Google Headquarters, Venice, CA
: "Question And Answer Joke," School of Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT
: "Some People Go Out Dancing," Flag Stop, Torrance, CA
: "Two Fold," The Suburban, Chicago, IL
: "Site As Symbol," Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: "Hack," Statler Waldorf Gallery, Echo Park, CA
: "The Open Daybook Project," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Hollywood, CA (catalog)
: "Pinatas & Busts: Pop-up Dinner," Patrick Painter Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2010: "Summercamp’s Project Project: Fall Residency I," Cypress College, Cypress, CA
: "This Is Where It All Goes On:" Thirty-four Artist Studios, Hayward Gallery, London, England Infected Eye, Post, Los Angeles, CA
: Hollywood Merchm-Art, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Hollywood, CA
: "Concrete Geometries: Spatial Form In Aesthetic Processes," Allen Ziperstein Projects, Architecture Association School of Association, London, England
: "Ladies First," Art Palace, Houston, TX
: "CLOSER 104.7: a selection of live & pre-recorded sound," LACE at ALAC, West Hollywood, CA
2009: "Salon No. 2," Marine, Venice, CA
: "Bitch Is The New Black," Honor Fraser Gallery, Culver City, CA
: "Drama Of The Gifted Child: The Five Year Plan," Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
: "I’ll Be Your Mirror," Bank, Los Angeles, CA
2008: "JMOCA – Collaborative Project," Locust Projects, Miami, FL
: "Architecture Of Perception," Box 13, Houston, TX
: "Truthiness: Photography As Sculpture," California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA (catalog)
: "Edge Of Light," C.A.G. Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
: "Possible Impossible Dimensions," Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, CA
2007: "Reverie + Revolt: Contemporary Collage, Art/Center South Florida, Miami, FL
: "A Spectral Glimpse," Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
: "Notes From The Overpass: New Art From Los Angeles & St. Petersburg," Gallery 18, Helsinki, Finland
: "Modular: New Art From Los Angeles," White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO
: "Multiple Vantage Points: Southern CA Women Artists, 1980-2006," L.A. Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
: "Exquisite Acts & Everyday Rebellions," California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2006: "We Store, Collect & Memorize," Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA
: "Sprawl," Bank, Los Angeles, CA
2005: "LA Art Girls," Anna Helwing Gallery, Culver City, CA
: "3 Person Sculpture Show," Bank, Los Angeles, CA
: "Works On Paper: From Drawings To Ammo," Bank, Los Angeles, CA
2004: "Supersonic," ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA (catalog)
: "No Place Like Place," Tel Aviv, Israel
: "Pareidolia," Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA

Public Art Projects

2020: Campus Sculpture Project, University of California, Riverside, CA
2016: Metro Civic Art Program, preselected artist pool, 2014–16
2014: Los Angeles County Arts Commission Civic Art Program, preselected artist pool
2013: "Totems In Indigo," Arcadia Pool, Arcadia, CA; funder: Los Angeles County Arts Commission
2012: "Mapping History: A Year long Collaborative Project," Marlborough School, Seaver Gallery, Los
: Angeles, CA; funder: Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation
: "Hamburg Vending Machine," Kunst Altonale, Hamburg, Germany
: "1,095: One Year’s Worth Of Other People’s Plates," Bristol Biennial, Bristol, England
: "Artists’ Tower of Protest," Designed by Mark di Suvero and organized by LAXART and the Getty Research Institute for the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival, Los Angeles, CA
2011: "Recollected: longing for a home," Storefront Public Art, Long Beach, CA; funder: Arts Council of Long Beach
: "This House Has A Bright Future," Survey West Collaborative: Jill Newman & Bari Ziperstein, Side
: Street Projects, Pasadena, CA
2010: "1,095: One Year’s Worth Of Other People’s Plates," part of Let Them Eat LACMA curated by
: Fallen Fruit, Los Angeles County Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: "Wall Works: Zippy’s Nicknacks, Tonics And Magical Gadgets," Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
2009: "5 Night Stand," College Art Association annual conference at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites, Los Angeles, CA
2008: "Intersection," Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (with Jed Lind and Jasmin Shokrian)

Curatorial Projects

2018: "Portage Ceramic Prize," Te Uru Gallery, Auckland, NZ (catalog & exhibition)
2015: "Clay Pool," The Platform Experiment, Los Angeles, CA
2011: "Site As Symbol," Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2006: "A Play On Action: 5 Los Angeles Artists Consider Feminism," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Bibliography

2025: Walker, Sylvia. "Top 30 Most Important Ceramic Artists Today," CAI, October 9 (Link)
2022: Martin, Hannah. "The Los Angeles-Based Artist Crafting Brutalist Designs Out of Clay," Architectural Design, February 14 (Link)
2021: Stone, Leilah. "Beyond the Wheel," Metropolis, June 16 (reproductions)
: Dambrot Nys, Shana, "Transformations," LA Weekly, May 6 (reproductions)
: Ritz, Jessica. "The Art of Change," CA Home & Design, Spring 2021 (reproductions)
2020: Shafkind, Erin . "Cause, Effect, & Creativity," Ceramics Monthly, November (reproductions)
2019: ‘State of Clay: Six Los Angeles artists add new energy to California’s celebrated ceramics tradition,’ Produced by Martine Bury, Ryan Waddoups, and Devon Kasarjian, Photography by Yoshihiro Makino. Surface Magazine, Fall 2019
: ‘Working Artists,’ by Lindsay Preston Zappas, Photography by Jeff McLane. CARLA #17 Fall 2019
2018: Campbell, Andy. ArtForum, April (reproductions)
: ‘New Wave in Clay: Ceramic Design, Art & Architecture by Tom Morris, book April 2018
: ‘Ceramic art, once written off as mere craft, wins a brighter spotlight in the L.A. scene,’ by Leah Ollman, LA TIMES, April 25, 2018
: ‘Motherhood and Materiality: Artists Consider Their Altered, Cluttered Surroundings,’ by Shana Nys Dambrot, KCET, April 19, 2018
: Propaganda Pots, self published book, essays by Michael Slensky & Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, March 2018
: Art Talk by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, Bari Ziperstein at Mier Gallery, KCRW Jan 2018
: With ‘Propaganda Pots’, Bari Ziperstein gives Cold War message a new dimension, by Leah Ollman, LA TIMES Feb 12, 2018
: Creative Spirits: Profile in Vogue Living Australia, March / April 2018
2017: These 20 Artists Are Shaping the Future of Ceramics – ARTSY
: Slenske, Micheal. “All Fired Up”, LALA Magazine. pgs 88 – 91 (reproductions)
2016: Javelle, Emmanuelle. Design a compte d’auteur, Elle Decoration France, October 2016 (reproductions)
: Dessent, Blaire. Bari Ziperstein on Trend Tablet, September 1, 2016 (reproductions)
: Wong, Nathan. Ceramics Inspired by Fashion, Design Milk, September 1, 2016 (reproductions)
: Elizalde, Molly. Go Behind the Scenes with LA’s Coolest Ceramic Ceramicist, Sweet Feature (reproductions)
: Keh, Pei-Ru. Fan Fare, Wallpaper, August 19, 2016 (reproductions)
: Silver, Dena. A Ceramic Range, Observer, August 17, 2016 (reproductions)
: Kwun, Aileen. Dwell, Rachel Comey Collection, August 15, 2016 (reproductions)
: Bobb, Brooke. Vogue.com, Rachel Comey Collection, August 10, 2016 (reproductions)
: JUNKO, Inaugural Issue Spring 2016, Essay on Bari Ziperstein Studio (reproductions)
: Design Sponge Home Tour, Feb 2016 (reproductions)
: Allen, Linlee.Purple Magazine, Studio Visit – online, April 2016 (reproductions)
: Editorial Feature on contemporary ceramics, LUXE: Interior + Design, March / April, 2016 (reproductions)
2015: Market Trends, LUXE: Interior + Design, Nov / Dec, 2015 (reproductions)
: SiteUnseen LA Exhibition, DEZEEN online design magazine, Winter 2015
: Ritz, Jessica. Site-Specific, LA Times, Home & Garden, Dec 3, 2015 (reproductions)
: Boone, Lisa. Greystone Mansion Makeover, LA Times, Home & Garden, Nov 14, 2015 (reproductions)
: 3 Avant-Garde Ceramists Create Sculptural Pieces That Look Like Museum-Worthy Art, Architectural Digest.com, (reproductions)
: Market Trends, C: California Style, Winter 2015 / 16 (reproductions)
: Bembenek, Julia. Binary Code, Knit Wit Magazine, Winter 2015 (reproductions)
: Handle with Care: Objects Book, Trademark Publishing, Winter 2015 (reproductions)
: California Gleamin’, Financial Times, Sept 2015 (reproductions)
: Design Review, SightUnseen.com, August 2015 (reproductions)
: Hartman, Eviana. Two Cult Designs Collaborate on a Sculptural Ceramic Line, VOGUE, online, August 2015 (reproductions)
: Women in Craft: Made in USA Catalog, Casa Brutus: Life Design Magazine Japan, May 2015 (reproductions)
: Keeps, David. L.A. designers share refined furniture, accessories at NYCxDesign. LA Times, May 22, 2015 (reproductions)
: Interview with Shop Bird, NYC www.shopbird.com (reproductions)
: Nair, Kaveri. Highlights of the Echo Park Craft Fair, NY Times T Magazine, May 8, 2015 (reproductions)
: Xie, Jenny. A Look at Sight Unseen Offsite’s Most Architectural Designs Saturday, Curbed.com, May 16 (reproductions)
: Borrelli-Persson, Laird. VOGUE, March 12, 2015 (reproductions)
: Allen, Linlee. House Proud: Eclectic Home Goods From an Under-the-Radar L.A. Brand, Style.com, Feb 6, 2015. (reproductions)
2014: Lasky, Julie, Lasky, Julie. ‘The Ring Cycle: Coasters’ Stars Turn,’ New York Times Home Section, Thurs. March 26, 2014
: Unzicker, Allyson, ‘Corporeal Impulse: Contemporary Artists Working in Clay,’ Brooklyn Rail, April 2014 (reproductions)
2013: LA I’M YOURS, interview, Sept 2013
: IN THE MAKE, feature, studio visit with West Coast Artists. May 2013
: SIGHT UNSEEN, feature, studio visit, Feb 2013
2012: Wagley, Catherine. ‘Five Artsy Things to Do This Week,’ LA Weekly, September 12, 2012
: Matt Bua & Maximilian Goldfarb. “Speculative Structures”. Text and reproduction. Published by Mark Batty Publisher. 2012
2011: Geoff Tuck & Michael Shaw, The Untitled Art Podcast. Notes on Looking, November 10, 2011
: Williams, Janette. “Scaffolding art shows history, future,” Pasadena Star News, Wed June 22, 2011 pp. Cover & A5 (reproductions)
: Sunday Dinner Questionnaire featured on eatsundaydinner.com
2010: Americantowns.com, October 30, 2010
: “Artistic Kids,” Santa Monica Daily Press, Friday October 29, 2010 (Cover Image)
: Artist interview on LACMA blog in conjunction with digital commission in response to Fashioning Fashion
: Artist interview on Keep Houston Rich blog in conjunction with Ladies First, Art Palace, Houston, TX
: Casagrande, Reggie. “For Display Purposes Only: Interview with Bari Ziperstein,” Lipsticktracez Blog (reproductions)
2009: Hebron, Micol. “Review: Drama of the Gifted Child: The Five Year Plan,” X-TRA Volume 12 Number 2 Winter 2009, pp. 44 – 47 (reproduction)
: Martens, Anne. “Bring it On Home Los Angeles Art Outside the White Cube,” Artillery Magazine, Nov/Dec 2009, Vol 4 Issue 2 (reproduction)
: Bari Ziperstein, dailyserving.com, December 1, 2009 (reproductions)
: Neel, Tucker. “Bari Ziperstein Review at PDC,” Art Lies, Winter 2009 (reproductions).
: Miles, Christopher. “Nicole Cherubini at Santa Monica Museum of Art,” LA Weekly, October 14, 2009.
: Muchnic, Suzanne. “Design Loves Art program brings dealers, artists to the Pacific Design Center,” LA Times, September 23, 2009 (reproduction)
: Miles, Christopher. “Bitch is the New Black at Honor Fraser,” LA Weekly, August 26, 2009
: Myers, Holly. “Attitude and talent to spare,” LA Times, August 21, 2009
: Neel, Tucker. “Critics’ Picks,” Artillery, July/August 2009, p 32 (reproduction)
: CAA Newsletter, Volume 34 Number 3 Cover May 2009, cover image
2008: Wagley, Catherine. “Thruthiness,”DailyServing.com, August 28, 2008 (reproduction)
: Beil, Kim. ’Young Art: 15 Artists under 35,’ Art LTD, May 2008 (reproductions) p. 60-61.
: Dority, Kendra. ‘Goodbye Realism, Hello Abstraction,’ The Occidental Weekly, Feb. 13, 2008 (reproduction)
: Grider, Nicholas. ‘Artist Interview,’ iheartphotograph.com, Feb. 2008 (reproductions)
: Niederlander, Rebecca. ‘Continuing & Recommended Exhibitions,’ Artscene, February 2008
: Gray, Emma. ‘LA Confidential,’ Artnet, January 25, 2008
: ‘Hermetic in spirit, public in response,’ Artscene Preview Newsletter, February, 2008
2007: Graves, Jen. ‘A Spectral Glimpse,’ The Stranger, Wednesday November 7, 2007 (reproductions)
: Luis, Carlos M. ‘Reverie + Revolt,’ El Nuevo Herald, Sunday October 28, 2007
: Krainak, Paul. Review, Art Papers, July/August, 2007, pp.73-4
: Asher, R. Review, artUS, Issue 18, May/June, 2007, p. 29 (reproduction)
: Coleman, Caryn. “Artist Interview,” Suicidegirls.com, May 2007 (reproductions)
: Beil, Kim. “Bari Ziperstein at Bank,” Artweek, April 2007, pp. 18-19 (reproductions)
: Lo, Melissa. “At the Galleries, Los Angeles,” Flash Art, March/April 2007, p. 73 (reproduction).
: Myers, Holly. “Feminist art exhibit measures magic, beauty “Multiple Vantage Points” dynamically captures the feminist spirit,” LA Times, Tuesday March 13, 2007.
: Mizota, Sharon. Review, Art LTD: West Coast Art & Design, March 2007.
: Bonetti, David. “Galleries showcase the new and the vintage,” St. Louis Today, Sunday February 4, 2007.
: “Hell-Sinky,” Downtown News, Monday January 22, 2007; p. 26 (reproduction).
: Callahan, Teresa. “Raising the flag,” West End Word, Wednesday Jan 24, 2007.
: Bonetti, David. “White Flag unveils LA creativity,” St. Louis Today, Thursday January 4, 2007 (reproduction).
2006: Knight, Christopher. “Artists who stand out from the group,” LA Times, Friday August 11, 2006. 2005
: Roth, Charlene. Review, Artweek, May 2005, p. 19, 20 (reproduction)
: Baker, Kenneth. Review, The San Francisco Chronicle, Saturday July 23, 2005, p. E1
: Windborne, Jamie. Review, Art News Extra, Saturday June 25, 2005 (reproduction)
2004: Knight, Christopher. “Artworks With Wattage,” review & photo, LA Times, Monday June 21, 2004 (reproduction)

Distinctions

2021: Center for Cultural Innovation, Quick Grant, Los Angeles, CA
2020: Los Angeles County Covid Relief Grant, Los Angeles, CA
: LA County Employer Assistance Grant Fund, Los Angeles, CA
2013: Los Angeles County Arts Commission Project Grant, Los Angeles, CA
2012: Center for Cultural Innovation First Quarter Completion Grant, Los Angeles, CA
: Artist in Residence Fellowship, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO
2011: Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation Artist in Residence Grant, Los Angeles, CA
: Arts Council of Long Beach Grant, Long Beach, CA
: Fellows of Contemporary Art Curatorial Grant, Kitty Chester Series of Curator’s Laboratory Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2010: Individual Artist Grant, City of Pasadena Department of Cultural Affairs, Pasadena, CA
2004: ArtTable Curatorial Internship Scholarship, Santa Monica, CA
2003: Institute Scholarships, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2002: Institute Scholarships, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

Residencies

2012: Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, CO
2011: Marlborough School, Los Angeles, CA
: Parkfield Residency, Parkfield, CA
2003: Painting’s Edge, Idyllwild, CA
2001: Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

Teaching and Community Service

2015: Beginning Sculpture, Adjunct Professor, University of California, Riverside, CA
2014: Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, University of California, Riverside, CA
2013: Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, University of California, Riverside, CA
: Children’s Workshop, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
: Lead Teacher, Crafting Community, Palm Springs, CA
: Sculpture Professor, California State Summer School for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
: Advanced Hand Building, Lamp Building, Beginning Sculpture, Xiem Clay, Pasadena, CA
: Lecturer, University of California, San Diego, CA
2012: Advanced Hand Building, Lamp Building, Beginning Sculpture, Xiem Clay, Pasadena, CA
: Sculpture Professor, California State Summer School for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
: Visiting Artist Lecture, Critiques, and Project, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
2011: Board Member, Side Street Projects, Pasadena, CA (since 2007)
: Slip Casting Workshop, Ball-Nogues Studio, Los Angeles, CA
: Beginning Hand Building, Beginning Sculpture, Xiem Clay, Pasadena, CA
: Silkscreen, Mount Saint Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA
: Slip Casting Workshop, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA
: Sculpture Professor, California State Summer School for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
: Andell Family Sunday Youth Workshops, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, University of California, Riverside, CA
2010: Lecturer, University of California, Riverside, CA
: Lecturer, University of California, San Diego, CA
: Sculpture Professor, California State Summer School for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2009: Sculpture Professor, California State Summer School for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2008: Lecturer, University of California, San Diego, CA
2007: Lecturer, University of California, San Diego, CA
2006: Visiting Artist Lecturer, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

Public Collections

2011: Children’s workshops presented in conjunction with This House Has A Bright Future, Side Street Projects, Pasadena, CA
: "Plying the P.E. Trail: Bisecting L.A.’s Edge," a bicycle tour lead by reluctant urbanist and ecological ethicist Claude Willey along the Pacific Electric Inland Trail in conjunction with "Site As Symbol," Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: "An Evening of Projections with Pat O’Neill" in conjunction with "Site As Symbol," Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2006: Curatorial walkthrough for UCLA Extension in conjunction with "A Play On Action: 5 Los Angeles Artists Consider Feminism," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
: Panel discussion with exhibition artists hosted by the Fellows of Contemporary Art in conjunction with "A Play On Action: 5 Los Angeles Artists Consider Feminism," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Shanna Waddell

2010: MFA Drawing and Painting, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
2006: BFA Drawing and Painting, California State University, Long Beach, CA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026: Solo Exhibition, Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
2024: "Chapter Two: the greenhouses of s/heness society," Friends Indeed, San Francisco, CA
2023: "Chapter One: where s/heness society lives …," Spurs Gallery, Beijing, China
: "Preface: she is s/heness society," Jack Barrett Galley, New York, NY
: Fog Design and Art Fair, Friend Indeed, San Francisco, CA
2022: "BOZOMAG," with Conrad Ruiz, Platform, David Zwirner (online)
: "Shanna Waddell: an introduction to s/heness society," M+B, Los Angeles, CA
2017: "VRSONYVR," Curated by Hannah Boone, Galerie La Croix, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
2016: "Good Luck Charm, Cameron Crone and Shanna Waddell," Curated by Alida Barden, Ms. Barbers, Los Angeles, CA
2014: "( it’s like ) roadside stuffed animals," Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY
2013: "The Search for Dipravoslaviye: Shanna Waddell and Rob Matthews," Curated by Rubens Ghenov, Tiger Strikes Astroid, Philadelphia, PA
2011: "Misshapen Chaos of Well-seeming Forms!" Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY

Selected Fair and Group Exhibitions

2026: "Tonia Calderon, Alec Egan, and Shanna Waddell," Frieze Los Angeles with Vielmetter Los Angeles, Santa Monica Aiport, Santa Monica, CA
2025: "Andrea Bowers and Shanna Waddell," Independent Fair with Vielmetter Los Angeles, New York, NY
2024: "Serendipity," curated by Guiyan He, Riverside Art Centre, Chongqing, China
: "7th Annual BOZO MAG Family Hoedown," BOZO Pasadena, Los Angeles, CA
: Westbund Art Fair, SPURS Gallery, Shanghai, China
: Art SG, SPURS Gallery, Singapore
2023: "Untitled," PM/AM Gallery, Miami, FL
: "Descendants," K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong, China
: "Walk Against the Wind, "Micki Meng, Parker Gallery, New York, NY
: Taipei Dangdai Fair, SPURS Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
: Expo Chicago Fair, Micki Meng, Chicago, IL
2022: Galerie Hussenot, Curated by James Bolton, Paris, France
: "Symbiosis," Berkshire Botanical Garden, Curated by Beth Rudin De-Woody, Stockbridge, MA
: "Apple in the Dark," Harkawik, New York, NY
: "BOZO FAMILY HOEDOWN," M+B, Curated by BOZOMAG, Los Angeles, CA
2021: "BOZOMAG," Office Group Show, Los Angeles, CA
2020: "poem from home," JACOB’S WEST, Curated by Rema Ghuloum (online)
: "Hoofprint," TSALA, Curated by J. Makary, Los Angeles, CA
2019: “and I’ll have a pepper-shaker in my cave, so laugh”, ltd Los Angeles, Curated by Kate Eringer, Los Angeles, CA
2018: Odd Ark LA, Barker Hanger, Curated by Hayley Barker, An Art Den, Los Angeles, CA
: "Look at the bird. Look at the nest. Look at the rainbow. Look at the the grass," QUEENS. Los Angeles, CA
: Torrance Art Museum, Curated by Manuel History Machines, Torrance CA
2017: "SPF15," Anna Breininger, Jamie Felton, Shanna Waddell, San Diego, CA
: "GIFC, Traveling Show," Art Athina Fair, Chart Art, Kunst Courtyard, OOLA – Los Angeles, Rod Bianco Gallery, Macaulay & Co Fine Art
: "Amplify Compassion," ACLU Benefit, 356 Mission Rd., Los Angeles, CA
2016: "Benefit Auction," Central Park, Los Angeles, CA
: "Women on the Fence," MOTHERSHIP, Desert Hot Springs, CA
: "Figure as Form," ltd, Los Angeles, CA
: "End of Summer Show," 24 Hour Charlie’s, Malibu, CA
2015: "instar," University of the Arts, Gallery 815, Philadelphia, PA
: "loophole: a show concerning fantasy, desire, and staring " New Boon, Philadelphia, PA
: “Eight Young Figurative Philadelphia Painters,” FJORD, Philadelphia, PA
2014: “Begin Where You Are At,” Ice Box, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA
: “Whitney Houston Biennial: I am every Woman,” Brooklyn, NY
2013: "Project Sapce,” Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY
: “The Engagement Party,” Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
: “Manual History Machines: The Familiar Unfamiliar,” Casa Agave, Twenty-Nine Palms, CA
: “Animal Show,” Pterodactyl Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
: “Pageant,” Soloveev, Philadelphia, PA
: “Benefit Show,” Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
: “Three in Doubles,” FJORD, Philadelphia, PA
2012: "Dirty Pretty Things," Gallery 102, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA
: "Mirror, Mirror," Airplane Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Curated by Brittany Pratter
2011: "Handshakes," Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY
: "Untitled," Philadelphia, Gallery 102, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA
: "15 Years," Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY
: "An Oasis of Thoughts," New Old School Building, Philadelphia, PA
: Summer Faculty Show, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Curatorial Projects

2017: "Alice Throne: Works from the 80’s and 90’s," POST, Los Angeles, CA
2016: "Floating Letters," Manhattan Beach Arts Center, Manhattan Beach, CA
: "Poetry Reading- FIGURE 1, FIGURE 2, FIGURE 3: By Jamie Felton," Manhattan Beach Arts Center, Manhattan Beach, CA
: "Book Release – FIGURE 1, FIGURE 2, FIGURE 3: By Jamie Felton," Manhattan Beach Arts Center, Manhattan Beach, CA
2015: "WIND CHIMES," Bannerette, Brooklyn NY
2014: "Eight Young Figurative Artist Who Live in Philadelphia (with Dona Nelson)," FJORD, Philadelphia, PA

Bibliography

2024: Pepperdine Fine Art Division, Art and Art History Lecture Series, Weisman Museum, Minneapolis, MN
2023: "Shanna Waddell," Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist in Residence, Sausalito, CA
: Davidson, Emily. "Shanna Waddell Interviewed," BOMB, May
: Waddell, Shanna. "An introduction to s/heness society," New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture, Public Lecture Series, New York, NY
2020: J. Makary. "Hoofprint, TSALA," OFluxo, ofluxo.net
2017: "Must See Art Event, VRSONYVR, Galerie La Croix," Curate LA, February 23
2014: Monnier, Annette."Begin Where You Are," Icebox Project Space, November 1
: Seesman, Suzanne. "Begin Where You Are at Crane Arts," The St. Claire, September 13
: Buckingham, Jenna."Begin Where You Are," Title Magazine, September 9
: Fallon, Rebecca. "Begin Where You Are at the Icebox- A Great Chunky Philadelphia Roundup," theartblog.org, September 1
: Schwartz, Chip. "Mindful Meltdown Crane Arts Icebox Begins with You," Knight Foundation, August 26
: Martin, Alison. "Artist Cult Themed Paintings," NY Fine Arts Examiner, examiner.com, , January 3
: Minutella, Erica. "Beginning with Crane Arts," InLiquid, August 22
2013: "2013 Panel Discussion: Temple Gallery," Tyler School of Art, November 5
: Davison, Chris. "Studio Visit," Title Magazine, May
: Fallon, Roberta. "Mixed Doubles @ FJORD – Dona Nelson, Kelly McRaven, and Shanna Waddell," thartblog.org, April 25
: McCartney, Ryan. "Cult Logic – Remote Viewing Sister Pauline Turpin," Title Magazine, January 21
: McMenamin, Allison. "In Search of Dipravoslaviye, Tackle the Idea of Cult at Tiger," theartblog.org, January 19
2012: Schwartz, Chris. "North Philly Abstraction, Dirty Pretty Things, kgnightsarts.org, July 19
2011: Fallon, Roberta. "Studio Visit," theartblog.org, Sept. 28
: Rosenberg, Karen. "Art in Review, Shanna Waddell," New York Times, March 10
: Wilson, Rebecca. "Top International Shows- Editor’s Pick," Saachtii Online, February 21

Public Collections

: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

John Sonsini

1975: BA, California State University, Northridge, CA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026: “Francisco, Roger, Jorge, David, Enrique, Rodney, Carlos, Gabriel, Ramiro, Luis, Fernando, Rian, and Carlos," PARA A, Mexico City, MX
2024: "Still Life Stories," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2023: "Watercolors," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2020: "Cowboy Stories & New Paintings," Vielmetter Los Angeles, CA
2019: "John Sonsini," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
: “A Day’s Labor: Portraits by John Sonsini,” Art Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
2018: “Daywork: Portraits,” Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
2015: “John Sonsini,” Patrick Painter Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013: “John Sonsini: New Paintings,” Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2012: “John Sonsini: Paintings,” Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
: “John Sonsini: New Paintings,” Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
: “John Sonsini: Men,” Hamilton College, Emerson Gallery, Clinton, NY
2011: “Los Vaqueros,” James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2010: “Broad Reminders: The Paintings of John Sonsini,” ACME, Los Angeles, CA
: “Portraits from Los Angeles,” Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT
2008: “New Paintings,” ACME, Los Angeles, CA
2007: “John Sonsini: Paintings and Drawings,” Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA
: “John Sonsini,” Cheim & Read, New York, NY
2006: “New Paintings,” ACME., Los Angeles, CA
2005: “John Sonsini,” Anthony Grant Gallery, New York, NY
: “Cerca Series: John Sonsini,” Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
2003: “Portraits,” ACME, Los Angeles, CA
: “John Sonsini,” Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2002: ACME, Los Angeles, CA
2000: “Gabriel,” ACME., Los Angeles, CA
1999: “Gabriel, New Paintings,” Dan Bernier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998: “John Sonsini, New Photographs,” David Aden Gallery, Venice, CA
1997: “Photographs of John Sonsini,” Tom of Finland Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1995: Dan Bernier Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1986: Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1983: Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982: Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025: "HEADS," Laguna College of Art and Design Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2024-2025: "All Bangers, All The Time," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
2024: "To Move Toward the Limits of the Living: LGBTQ+ Works from the Collection," Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
: "Unfinished," The Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, Fullerton, CA
2023: "Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022-2023: "Order / Reorder: Experiments with Collections," Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
2022: "Where Words Falter: Art and Empathy," Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
: "Some People," Cheim & Read, New York, NY
2021: "Art and Hope at the End of the Tunnel," USC Fisher Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2020: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2019: The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement,” The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C
: “Collecting on the Edge,” Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT
2018: “Belief in Giants,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
: “Modern and Contemporary,” Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
: “From the Collection of Karen & Robert Duncan,” The Assemblage, Lincoln, NE
2017: “The Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American Workers,” National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC
2016: “Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: “Us is Them,” Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
2015: “The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection,” Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
2014: “The Triumph of Love: Beth Rudin DeWoody Collects,” Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
: “Who we are, Selections from the Collection of Karen & Robert Duncan,” Clarinda Carnegie Art Museum, Clarinda, IA
: “Concrete Infinity, Selections from the Permanent Collection,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2013: “Mr & Mrs,” James Salomon Contemporary, New York, NY
: “Art of the West,” Autry National Center of the American West, Los Angeles, CA
: “The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection,” Scottsdale
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2012: “Domestic Relations,” Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: “Mr & Mrs,” James Salomon Contemporary, New York, NY
: “All I Want is a Picture,” Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: “Body Language,” Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
: “SFMOMA: Contemporary Painting, 1960 to the Present: Selections from The Permanent Collection,” SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
: “¡Cuidado! – The Help,” Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
2011: “Mise-en-Scène,” Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
: “Works of Paper,” ACME, Los Angeles, CA
: Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010: “Disquieted,” Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
: “Personal Identities: Contemporary Portraits,” University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
: “Private Display,” New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
: “Think Pink,” Gavklak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
: “The Human Touch,” Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
2009: “Posture,” Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
: “With You I Want to Live,” Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2008: “Other People,” UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: “The Sum of Its Parts,” Cheim & Read, New York, NY
2006: “Art on Paper 2006 ” Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
: “Selected Paintings – Los Angeles,” Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
: “Twice Drawn,” Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2005: “Plip, Plip, Plipity,” Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2004: “Singing My Song,” ACME., Los Angeles, CA
: “Rogelio,” Installation painting, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, curated by JoAnne Northrup
: “About Painting,” Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
: “SPF, Self-Portraits,” Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003: “intimates,” Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
: “ACME. @ Inman,” Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
2002: “nude + narrative,” P. P. O. W. , New York, N Y
: “L.A. Post Cool,” The San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
: “Representing L. A. ,” Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2001: “Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity 1900-2000,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: “Painting: Fore and Aft,” ACME., Los Angeles, CA
: Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999: “Portraits from L. A. ,” Robert and Francis Fullerton Museum of Art, California State University, San Bernardino, C A
1998: “Photographs,” David Aden Gallery, Venice, C A
: “Examining Sexuality,” Marc Arranaga, Los Angeles, CA
1997: “Private Reserve,” Photo Impact Gallery, Hollywood, CA
1996: Rosamund Felson Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, curated by Michael Duncan
1994: “L. A. Nude,” Photo Impact Gallery, Hollywood, CA
: “LAX the L. A. Biennial,” Otis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992: “Contemporary Figure,” Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA, curated by Peter Frank
1991: “L.A. Nude,” Photo Impact Gallery, Hollywood, CA
1990: “Feminine/Masculine,” Christopher John Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
: “Time,” Marc Richards Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
: “Humans Being,” Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1986: “Issues,” Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1985: “Perspectives,” California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA
: “Contemporary Monotypes,” Security Pacific Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
: “Paintings/Invitational Candidate Exhibition,” American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1984: “Pastels,” Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, C A
: “Seventeen Self Portraits,” Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
: “No Finish Line,” Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles,CA
: “From Los Angeles,” Eason Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
: 1983 “Figure Fascination,” Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: “Monoprints from Angeles Press,” Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: “Four L. A. Painters,” The American Gallery, Los Angeles, C A

Selected Projects

2012: “The Extraordinary Life & Times of Bruce of L.A., 1948-1974,” from the Collection of John Sonsini, Pacific Standard Time Gallery Exhibition, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curated by John Sonsini
2007: The Puerto Vallarta Project, Jalisco, Mexico
: The Brooklyn Project, Brooklyn, NY
: The Santa Barbara Project, Santa Barbara, CA
2005: DAYL ABOR/Hollywood Work Center, Los Angeles, CA

Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books

2025: Pagel, David. "John Sonsini + David Pagel: Broad Reminders," Radius Books, Santa Fe, NM.
2021: Pagel, David. "John Sonsini," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
2008: Dini, Jane, The Male Portraits of John Sonsini, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA.
2007: Grove, Jeffrey, John Sonsini, Cheim & Read, New York, NY.
2005: Berry, Ian, John Sonsini: New Paintings, Anthony Grant Inc., New York, NY.
2001: Leddick, David, Male Nude Now, Taschen.
: Made in California: Art, Image, Identity 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
2000: Fuglie, Gordon L., Representing LA, Pictorial Currents in Southern California Art, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA.
1999: Ianco-Starrels, Josine, Portraits From L. A. , Robert V. Fullerton Museum, San Bernardino, CA.
1998: Lucie-Smith, Edward, Adam: The Male Figure In Art, Rizzoli. Leddick, David, The Male Nude – 100 Year History, Taschen.
2016: Berry, Ian, Jeffrey Grove, Allan M. Jalon, John Sonsini, exhibition catalogue, Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York, NY.
2010: Wood, Eve, John Sonsini, exhibition brochure, ACME., Los Angeles, CA.
: Duncan, Michael, Portraits from Los Angeles, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT.
2009: Lippman, Irvin M., The Collection of Gordon Locksley & George Shea, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL.

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Public Collections

: Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, CA
: AD&A Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
: Addison Gallery of American Art, Philips Academy, Andover, MA
: Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
: Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
: The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
: Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
: The Frances Young Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
: Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
: Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
: High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
: Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Marieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
: McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
: The Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, Topeka, KS
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
: Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County College, Overland Park, KS
: Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT
: Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
: Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
: The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
: The Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, NC
: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY