Kim Dingle

: Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

1990: MFA, Claremont Graduate Univesity, Claremont, CA
1988: BFA, California State University, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023: "Open Call For Blue Lemons," Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
2021: "Pudgey Pomona Presents," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Dingle Does O’Flaherty’s," O’Flaherty’s, New York City, NY (Link)
2020: "Restaurant Mandala," Andrew Kreps, New York, NY
2019: "I Will Be Your Server (the Lost Supper Paintings)," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Culver City, CA
2018: "Kim Dingle: Painting Blindfolded," Sperone Westwater, New York, NY (Link)
2017: "YIPES," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2013: "Wine Bar For Children at Mister Ling’s Market,” Coagula Curatorial, Los Angeles, CA
2012: "Kim Dingle: still lives,” Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
2008: "Cake," Lightbox, Los Angeles, CA
2007: "Studies for the Last Supper at Fatty’s,” Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
2000: "Kim Dingle Bell Gallery,” Brown University, Providence, RI
: "Never In School,” Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
1998: "Fatty,” Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy
: "Fatty and Fudge,” Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
1997: "The Prisspapers,” Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
1996: "Kim Dingle: A Survey,” The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1995: "Kim Dingle,” Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
: "A Glimpse of the Norton Collection as Revealed by Kim Dingle,” Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
: SITE Santa Fe, NM
: "Kim Dingle,” Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
1994: "Kim Dingle,” Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
1993: Jason Rubell Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
1992: Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Romance and Drama of the Rubber Industry,” Closet of Modern Art (COMA), California State University Los Angeles, CA
1991: "Portraits from the Dingle Library,” Richard/Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Dingle Library Presents Paintings of the West with Horse Drawings by Teenage Girls,” Parker Zanic, Los Angeles, CA
1985: "pre-History A Dog’s Bach is Worse Than it Sounds,” Double Rocking G Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982: "Remembering Pencil,” Double Rocking G Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025: “Blindfolded,” Kim Dingle and Ranee Henderson, Phase Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "In the Midst,” JDJ Gallery, New York, NY
: "The Kids Are Alright," Timothy Taylor Gallery, New York, NY
2024: "The Café," O’Flaherty’s, New York, NY
2023: “People of the Otherworld: Ken Kiff in Dialogue,” albertz benda, New York, NY
: "Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022: “For The Love Of Dog,” A.E. Sobieski Project Space, Studio44, Pasadena, CA
: "Don’t Fuck with Our Human" Galerie Fabian Lang, Zurich, Switzerland
: "Plants Now!" Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Women Painting Women," The Modern, Fort Worth, TX
2021: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Wood Works: Raw, Cut, Carved, Covered," Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
2020: "The Biblical Imagination," Mission Gathering, Pasadena, CA
: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "WOMAHR," Fondazione Molise Cultura, Campobasso, Italy
: "Home Depot Coloring Books—Anyone Can Do It," Gallery Platform LA, online
: "Double Take," CMAY Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019: "Coordinates: Maps and Art Exploring Shared Terrain." David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
2018-2019: "Terres de femmes," Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, CA
2018: "Re-celebration," Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Cal State LA, Los Angeles, CA
: "Shift," Denk Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
2014: "Secrets and Lies” Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
: "The Avant Garde," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emillia, Italy
2013: "Untitled (Giotto’s O),” Sperone Westwater, Lugano, Switzerland
2005: "Light Options; A Selection,” Lightbox, Los Angeles, CA
2001: "Lateral Thinking, Art of the 1990’s,” Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
: "Uncomfortable Beauty,” Jack Tilton/Anna Kustera, New York, NY
: "Pop & Post-Pop (On Paper),” Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
2000: "Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection,” Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
: Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: "Arte Americana; Ultimo Decennio," Museo d’Arte della Citta di Ravenna, Ravenna, Italy
: "The End," Exit Art, New York, NY
: "Emotional Rescue,” The Contemporary Art Project Collection, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
1999: "Almost Warm & Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art,” curated by Susan Lubowsky Talbott and Lea Rosson DeLong, organized and circulated by Independent Curators International (ICI), Des Moines Art Center, IA; traveled to Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ; MoMA PS1, New York, NY; Fundació "la Caixa”, Barcelona, Spain; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Cleveland Center for the Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH "Almost Warm and Fuzzy; Childhood and Contemporary Art," Des Moines Art Center, Iowa
: "I’m the Boss of Myself", Sara Meltzer’s on View, New York, NY
: "Looking at Ourselves: Works by Women Artists from the Logan Collection," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1998: "Family Viewing," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: "Presumed Innocence," Anderson Gallery, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
: "Sunshine and Noir: Art in L. A. 1960–1997,” Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; traveled to Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany; Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy; Hammer Museum, Los Angles, CA
: "My Little Pretty: Images of Girls by Contemporary Women Artists," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: "Women’s Work: Examining theFeminine in Contemporary Painting," Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
: "Narcissism: Artists Reflect Themselves," California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA
: "American Kaleidoscope," National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
: "Early Learning," Entwistle, London, UK
: "Between Reality and Abstraction: California Art at the End of the Century," Scottsdale Center for the Arts, AZ
: "Playtime: Artists and Toys," Whitney Museum of America Art at Champion, Stamford, CT
: "Space of Time," Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
: "Inside Out: Psychological Self Portraiture in the 90’s," The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
: "Gender, Myth and Exploration," University of North Texas, Denton, TX
: "Wallpaper Works," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
1994: "Mapping," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, curated by Robert Stor
: "Bad Girls West," UCLA Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Francis Colpitt; traveled to University of Texas at San Antonio, TX; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, CA
: "Arrested Childhood," Center for Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
1993: "Fourth Newport Biennial: Southern California 1993," The Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
1992: "Déjà vu," Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "I Thought California Would Be Different, New Work in the Permanent Collection," Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
: "Fever," Exit Art, New York, NY
: "Space of Time," America Society, New York, NY
: "The Imp of the Perverse, Eight Artists from Los Angeles," Sally Hawkins Gallery, New York, NY
: "Group Show: Mary Beyt, Kim Dingle, David Dupuis, Scott Grodesky," Rubenstein/Diacono Gallery, New York, NY
: "Contemporary Identities: 23 Artists. The 1993 Phoenix Triennial," Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
: "Corcoran Gallery of Art Biennial," Washington, DC
1991: "The Store Show," Richard Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles
: "Les Fleurs," Parker/Zanic Gallery and Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
: "Synthetic Histories," Parker/Zanic Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1990: "Con-Text," Richard/Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

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2020: Canova, Lorenzo. “Womahr: Women_Art_Human Rights for Peace,” Museum Laboratory of Contemporary Art, University of Molise. Gangemi Editore, Rome, Italy, 2020
: Avgikos, Jan. "Art Review: Kim Dingle at Andrew Kreps Gallery," Artforum, December
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: "Frieze Los Angeles Kicks Off Inaugural Edition at Paramount Pictures Studios This Week," Artfix Daily, February 13 (Link)
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: Wolff, Natasha, “Change Agents Erin Christovale, Kim Dingle, and Maggie Kayne,” Muse, April 2 (Link)
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: Pashaie, Natalie, "Kim Dingle ‘YIPES’: From Playful to Notorious," Art Now LA, November 16 (Link)
: Miranda, Carolina, “Q&A: How Ed Sullivan, girls gone wild, an alligator and blindfold painting shaped the art of Kim Dingle,” Los Angeles Times, November 8 (Link)
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: Goldman, Edward, “Sizzling weather, cool art,” KCRW Art Talk (web and radio), October 25 (Link)
: Short, Alice, “Inside Rand Corp.’s impressive art collection,” Los Angeles Times (web), July 30 (Link)
2016: Norman, Lee Ann, “EXPO 201: Critic’s Picks by Lee Ann Norman,” NewCity Art (web), September 25
: Goldstein, Andrew M., “5 Artists to Discover at EXPO Chicago 2016,” Artspace (web), September 23
2014: Snyder, Garrett, "Hide & Seek – Chinatown’s Secret Wine Shop,” tastingtable.com, February 4
: Miranda, Carolina, "Crazy Babies and Pantyhose: 5 must-see works at OCMA’s ‘Avant-Garde’”, Los Angeles Times, September 10
2013: Tiberghien, Giles A, "The Imaginary Cartographic World in Contemporary Art,” Espace, Spring / Summer Farabee, Mindy, "The Many Lives of Kim Dingle,” pasadenamonthly.com, June 20
: Vankin, Deborah, "Kim Dingle debuts ‘Wine Bar for Children’ at Coagula Curatorial,” Los Angeles Times, October 27
: Eisler, Maryam, Ed, "Art Studio America – Contemporary Artist Spaces,” London: Thames & Hudson
2012: McLean, Madeline, "Dollies of Folly & Frolic: Kim Dingle at Sperone Westwater.” Daily Serving, April 11
: Cembalest, Robin, "Having her cake and eating it too?” Let My People Show, April 12
: Herzlinger, Jamie, "Kim Dingle-So Interesting! Feminist Artist,” Jamie Herzlinger.com, April 24
2011: "Goldmine,” Exhibition Catalogue: University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach
2010: Gleason, Mat, "The Ten most UNDERRATED Los Angeles Art World Stars,” Huffington Post, August 17
2009: Jacobs, Frank, "Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities,” New York: Penguin Group, p. 26
2008: Evangelisti, Silvia, "Arte Fiera/ Art First,” Bologna: Renografica edizioni d’arte, p. 366
2007: Cohen, David, "Art in Brief: Studies for The Last Supper at Fatty’s,” The New York Sun, April 7, p. 20
: "Kim Dingle,” The New Yorker, April 16, p. 24
: Guest, Anthony, "Something personal this way comes,” The Financial Times, April 21
: Kreimer, Julian, "Kim Dingle at Sperone Westwater,” Art in America, June/July, p.196
: Pagel, David, "Dingle’s Return is Delicious,” Los Angeles Times, November 23, p. E30
: Dingle, Kim, "Guest Lecture.” Artillery, Vol. 2, No. 2, Nov/Dec
2006: "Heart of Palm; Sustainable wood and sensational art define George Yu’s addition to a 1920’s Los Angeles bungalow,” Interior Design, Volume 77, Issue 10 (1 August 2006), p. 232.
2003: Harmon, Katherine, "You are Here,” New York: Princeton Architectural Press
: Tyler, Stallings, and Amelia Jones, David R. Roediger, "Whiteness: A Wayward Contruction,” Exhibition Catalogue, Laguna Art Museum
: Hackett, Regina, "Contemporary Art Project Vividly Takes on Hot Button Issues,” Seattle Post- Intelligence, January 3
: Chang, Richard, "Shining a light on white // A Laguna Art Museum show explores the meaning of whiteness. Series: whiteness.0331,” The Orange County Register, March 31
2002: Corrin, Lisa, "SAM Collects Contemporary Art Project,” Seattle: Seattle Art Museum
: "Denver Art Museum gets highly sought after art collection,” Associated Press Newswires, February 8
: Burch, Peggy, "Snooty Art Ideas get a Dose of the Warm and Fuzzy (Almost),” Commercial Appeal Memphis, TN, June 23
: Phelps-Fredetter Suzanna, "Take a Kid to See ‘Warm and Fuzzy’; No ‘Serious’ art here so just enjoy it,” The Commercial Appeal Memphis, TN, July 7
: Aernst, Mark, "The Art of Now/ Exhibit Challenges traditional Views, Viewers early Notions,” The Gazette, October 4
: Voeltz Chandler, Mary, "Back to the Present; 25 Years of Contemporary and Modern Art Collecting Resurface in the in Dam Exhibit,” Rocky Mountain News, November 15
: Jana, Reena, "Kim Dingle,” Artnews, May
: "Retorno al País de las Maravillas, El arte contemporáneo y la infancia.” Barcelona: Centre Cultural de la Fundació "la Caixa”, Exhibition Catalogue
: Honigman, Ana, "Kim Dingle,” Frieze, May
2000: Siegel, Katy, "The Long List,” Artforum, January
: Stevens, Mark, "Built for Comfort," New York, Vol. 33, no.13, April 3
: Schjeldahl, Peter, "Pragmatic Hedonism," The New Yorker, April 3
: Kramer, Hilton, "Artgoers ! Avoid Deadly Esthetic Virus at Whitney," The New York Observer, April 3
: Knight, Christopher, "Not Enough Reasons to Celebrate," Los Angeles Times, March 24
: Reichert, Herbert, "The Search for Life in an Alien Universe," Review, April 1
: Gopinath, Gabrielle, "A Patchwork Labyrinth," Review, April 1
: Maxwell, Douglas F., "Biennal Lite," Review, April 1
: Markham, Pamela, "Monumentalizing to a Fault," Review, April 1
: Berdé, Olga, "Ants Flies & Blondes in the Global Village," Review, 1 April 2000, pp. 83-86.
: Spadoni, Claudio, Alan Jones, Roberto Daolio, and Fernanda Pivano "Arte Americana; Ultimo Decennio,” Exhibition catalogue. Ravenna, Italy: Museo d’Arte della Citta di Ravenna/Edizioni Gabriele Mazzotta
: "Whitney Biennial,” Exhibition catalogue, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art
: Richard, Paul, "Whitney’s Sampler; For Browsers, Biennial 2000 Goes Down Easy: Leaves no Aftertaste,” The Washington Post, March 31
: Siegel, Katy, "Biennal 2000; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York" Artforum, May
: Kutner, Janet, "New Looks; Whitney goes national with biennial survey of modern scene," The Dallas Morning News, April 23
: Gilman-Sevcik, "New York’s Mega-Shows; Whitney Biennial and Greater New York," Flash Art, Vol. XXXIII, no. 212, May-June 2000
: "Gian Enzo Sperone; Torino, Roma, New York; 35 Anni di Mostra tra Europa e America,” Torino, Italy: Hopeful Monster
: Zeraman, John, "Time to take out the garbage? Mixing business with Politics, at Art’s Expense,” The Record, Northern New Jersey, March 24
: Hall, Emily, "Childhood Art for More Than Children,” The Stranger, August
: "The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection,” Exhibition catalogue, San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
: "With a Child’s Eyes,” The News Tribune, Tacoma, Washington, July 9
: Clayton, Alec, "Almost warm and fuzzy at TAM,” Fort Lewis Ranger, August 3 – 9
: Mahoney, Robert, "Emotion Detectors,” ARTnews, October 2000, p. 42.
: Gray, Channing, "Art Scene – Evil brats in party dresses,” The Providence Journal, November 30
: "Kim Dingle,” The New Yorker, November 27
: "Kim Dingle,” The New Yorker, December 4
: Glueck, Grace, "Kim Dingle, ‘Never in School’,” The New York Times, December 1
: Minola, Anna, Maria Cristina Mundici, et. al "da Warhol al 2000: Gian Enzo Sperone,” exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Cavour, Regione Piemonte,Turin, Italy:Hopeful Monster
: Johnson, Ken, "’Uncomfortable Beauty’,” The New York Times, December 29
1999: Mahoney, Robert, "Miracles of Girldom," Artnet, January 12
: Spada, Sabina, "Kim Dingle," Tema Celeste, no. 72, January–February
: Siegel, Katy, "Kim Dingle: Sperone Westwater," Artforum, vol. 37, no. 6, February
: Muchnic, Suzanne, "’Sunshine & Noir’," Artnews, vol. 98, no. 2, February
: Salvioni, Daniela, "Looking at Ourselves: Works by Women Artists from the Logan Collection,” Exhibition catalogue, San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
: D ‘Souza, Aruna, "Kim Dingle at Sperone Westwater," Art in America, vol. 87 no. 3, March
: Lovelace, Carey, "Kim Dingle at Sperone Westwater” Art in America, vol. 87 no. 3, March
: Cho, Christina, "Kim Dingle” ARTnews, Volume 98, Issue 4, April
: "ZOO,” July, Purple House Limited
: Vogel, Carol, "Choosing a Palette of Biennal Artist," The New York Times, December 9
: Plagens, Peter, and Corie Brown, "Hollywood’s Big Art Deal," Newsweek, 6 December
1998: Pagel, David, "Kim Dingle: Blum & Poe, Santa Monica." Art/Text, no. 60, February–April
: Duncan, Michael, "Import/Export: Variations in Noir," Art in America, vol. 86, no. 4, April
: Crutchfield, Jean, "Presumed Innocence,” Exhibition catalogue, essays by Kathryn Hixson and Robert Hobbs, Richmond, VA: Anderson Gallery, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Seattle and London: University of Washington Press
: Newhall, Edith, "Art Preview: Galleries," New York, 14 September
: Gilbert, David, "Interior Design’s Guide to Fall in New York," Interior Design, vol. 69, no. 11, September
: Ichihara, Kentaro, "New Figurative Painting in the 90s," Bijustu-Techo, vol. 50, no. 763, November
: Boodro, Michael, "People Are Talking about Art: Home Alone," Vogue (New York), November
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: Wallach, Amei, "Malevolent Babies Busting Up Walls, Sharpening Darts," The New York Times, 1 November
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: Wallach, Amei, "Vision of the Void Behind the California Sun," The New York Times, 29 November
: Schwendener, Martha, "Kim Dingle, ‘Fatty and Fudge’," Time Out New York, 10–17 December
: Willette, Jeanne S. M., "Kim Dingle and Cohorts: The Writer, The Bad Girl, and The Seamstress," Artweek, vol. 29 no. 11, November
: Willette, Jeanne S. M., "The Little White Dress," Dutch, no. 19
: "Arte e Mercato," Arte, No. 304, December
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: Grisham, E, "Kim Dingle; Kara Walker.” Art Papers, v. 21, May/June
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: Kandel, Susan, "Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice? Not Quite," Los Angeles Times, September 19
: Frank, Peter, "Pick of the Week," L. A. Weekly, September 19–26
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: Harvey, Doug, "Kim Dingle at Blum & Poe," Art Issues, November/December
1996: Greenstein, M. A., "A Conversation with Kim Dingle, Artist.” Artweek, January
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: Schjeldahl, Peter, "The Dingle Flap,” Village Voice, January 30
: Rugoff, Ralph, "Crate Expectation," L. A. Weekly, January 12–18
: Pincus, Robert L. "Dreaming of Me,” February 11
: Lewis, Jo Ann, "Kaleidoscope, Pieces of a Dream," Washington Post, October 10
: Jones, Joyce, "American Art, Through a Prism," Washington Post, October 11.
: Artner, Alan, "Critic’s Choice," Chicago Tribune, November 24
: Artner, Alan, "Critic’s Choice," Chicago Tribune, December 1
1995: Schaffner, Ingrid, "Kim Dingle: Jack Tilton Gallery," Artforum, vol. 34 no. 6, February
: Cameron, Dan. "Kertess’s List," Art & Auction, February
: Pagel, David, "Mayhem, Mischief & Little Girls," Los Angeles Times, February 7
: Kandel, Susan, "Naughty Dolls Don’t Make for Bad Girls," Los Angeles Times, February 8
: Darling, Michael. "Kim Dingle at Blum & Poe," Art Issues, March/April
: Pagel, David, "Kim Dingle: Blum & Poe, Los Angeles," Frieze, no. 21, March–April
: Zellen, Jody, Art Press, April 1995
: Kutner, Janet, "Artists Explore the Issues of Human Gender," The Dallas Morning News, April 30
: Pagel, David, "Kim Dingle," Bomb, no. 52, Summer
: Hoving, Thomas, "Art for the Ages," Cigar Aficionado, Summer
: Morgan, Susan, "Little Miss Mayhem," Elle, November
: Knode, Marilu and Peter Schjeldahl, "Kim Dingle,” Exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles: Otis College of Art and Design
: Greene, David, "Born to Be Bad," Los Angeles Reader, December 8
: Knight, Christopher, "Exposing the Inner Child of U.S. Politics," Los Angeles Times, December 3
: Wilson, William, "Eccentric ‘Glimpse’ at Norton Collection," Los Angeles Times, December 12
: Wilson, William, "Canvassing the Year of Brilliance," Los Angeles Times, December 31
: Gamblin, Noriko, "A Glimpse of the Norton Collection as Revealed by Kim Dingle,” Exhibition brochure, Santa Monica Museum of Art
: Gauthier, Jennifer, Angela Kramer Murphy, and Cynthia Roznoy, "Playtime: Artists and Toys,” Exhibition catalogue, Whitney Museum of America Art
1994: Cohen, Jean Lawlor, "43rd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting,” Art News, vol. 93 no. 2, February
: Knight, Christopher, "’Bad Girls’: Feminism on Wry, Tone Bemusedly Subversive in West Coast Edition of N.Y. Show," Los Angeles Times, February 8
: "The Space of Time," Art Nexus, no. 1, February–March
: Edelman, Robert. "The Figure Returns," Art in America, vol. 83 no. 3, March
: Roth, Charlene, "Bad Girls," Artweek, March 10–17
: Lumpkin, Libby, "Bad Girls West," Art Issues, no. 32, March–April
: LaBelle, Charles, "Biggest, Badettes," Cover, April
: Weissman, Benjamin, "Bad Girls Blues: Los Angeles (Sigh)," Artforum, vol. 33 no. 9, May
: Bertei, Adele, "Kim Dingle’s Wild Girls," Vibe, May
: Clearwater, Bonne, "Arrested Childhood,” Exhibition catalogue, Miami, FL: Center for Contemporary Art
: Kohen, Helen, "Naughty and Nice Show at COCA Explores Emotions of Childhood," The Miami Herald, May 22
: DeLeon, Jessica, "Reshaping the Globes," Denton Record-Chronicle, September 25
: Storr, Robert, "Mapping,” Exhibition catalogue, New York: Museum of Modern Art, and Harry N. Abrams
: Smith, Roberta, "Mapping," New York Times, 14 October
: The New Yorker, November 7–13
: Schjeldahl, Peter, "Bringing Up Baby," Village Voice, November 5
: Auerbach, Lisa Anne, "Kim Dingle’s Cherubic Brats," Vernacular, Winter
: Duncan, Michael, "L. A. Rising," Art in America, vol. 83, no. 12, December
: Cameron, Dan, "The Easel Way Out," Art & Auction, December
: Weil, Benjamin, "Mapping," Art Monthly, December 1994 – January 1995
: Young, Geoffrey, "Kim Dingle," Lingo, no. 3
1993: Curtis, Cathy, "Upstairs Invigorate Art Scene," Los Angeles Times, January, Orange County Edition
: Scarborough, James, Art Press, no. 178, March
: Cottingham, Laura, "Fever," Frieze, March/April
: Crockett, Tobey, "Violent Femmes," Visions, Summer
: Hodges, Karen C, and Bruce D. Kurtz, "Contemporary Identities: 23 Artists,” The 1993 Phoenix Triennial, Exhibition catalogue, Phoenix, AZ: Phoenix Art Museum
: Wilson, William, "Biennial’ Uses Humorous Paradox to Tackle Issues," Los Angeles Times, October 9
: Curtis, Cathy, "Painting Pictures," Los Angeles Times, October 14
: Dash, Phillip, "Kim Dingle at Jason Rubell Gallery," Beach Weekly, vol. 1 no. 4
: Guenther, Bruce, "Forth Newport Biennial: Southern California,” Exhibition catalogue, Bruce Newport Beach, CA: Newport Harbor Museum
: Demos, Alison V., "Bodies Galore," Lear’s, October
: Richard, Paul, "What’s Wrong With This Picture?" Washington Post, October 31
: McWilliams, Martha, "Go Figure," Washington City Paper, November 12
: Russell, John, "The Corcoran Gives New Meaning to ‘Biennial’," The New York Times, November 21
: Pagel, David, "43rd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting,” Exhibition catalogue, Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art.
: Willette, J. S. M., "Kim Dingle.” Exhibition brochure, Miami Beach, FL: Jason Rubell Gallery
: 1992 Curtis, Cathy, "Young Artists in Laguna Spotlight," Los Angeles Times, February 17
: Littlefield, Kenny, "California Culture Clash," The Register, March 8
: Pagel, David, "Kim Dingle," Art Issues, March/April
: Kandel, Susan, "Sly Homage," Los Angeles Times, June 26
: Crockett, Tobey, "Kim Dingle at Richard/Bennett and Parker Zanic." Art in America, vol. 6 no. 7, July
: Scarborough, James, "The Pun Also Rises," Artweek, September 3
: Curtis, Cathy, "Hers Is Unfinished Business," Los Angeles Times, September 23, Orange Country Edition
: Plochere, Michelle, "Visions,” Fall
: Pagel, David, "What Little Girls Are Made Of,” Los Angeles Times, November 5
: Crockett, Tobey, "Art Angeles," Venice, December
: Hess, Elizabeth, "Give Me Fever,” Village Voice, December 29
1991: Curtis, Cathy, "Les Fleurs, Snipes at Flowery Tradition," Los Angeles Times, May 17
: Frank, Peter, "Pick of the Week,” L. A. Weekly, May 17-23
: Kandel, Susan, "Skewed Portraits," Los Angeles Times, September 12
: Frank, Peter, "Pick of the Week." L. A. Weekly, September 20
: Scarborough, James, "Dressing up the Idea," Artweek, October 3
: Pagel, David, "Kim Dingle," Arts Magazine, December
: Zellen, Jody, "Kim Dingle," Artscene, December
1990: Frank, Peter. "Pick of the Week." L. A. Weekly, 26 October–1 November

Public Collections

: Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
: Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
: Denver Museum Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
: Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
: Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
: San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
: Seattle Museum of Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
: Sheldon Museum of Art in Lincoln, NE
: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Zoe Walsh

1989: Born in Washington, D.C.

2016: MFA, Painting and Printmaking, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2011: BA, Art History and Visual Arts, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2026: "Spotlight: Zoe Walsh – Outsides", Vielmetter, Los Angeles, CA
2025: "Night Fields," Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
2023: "When the breezes start," M+B, Los Angeles, CA
2020: "I came to watch the morning rise," M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018: "Remote Light," curated by Bianca Boragi, Zeit Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2017: "Periscope," curated by Jean-Baptiste Lenglet, Virtual Dream Center 2.0
: "Exposures," Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, France
2013: "Desire Distilled," curated by Jesse Mockrin, Pieter Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA
2012: "Cruising Affect: Peripheral Identifications," Abel Gutierrez Studio, Los Angeles, CA (with Nathan Lam Vuong)
2011: "Tomboy," Occidental College Weingart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025: "Nowhere but the Night," curated by Gemma Rolls-Bentley, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, Netherlands
: "Out of LA: Contemporary Voices," opa projects, Miami, FL
2024: "Form and Feeling," curated by Ashton Cooper, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "for love, for art, and for being," UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA
2023: "A Place to Stay," curated by Pau S. Pescador, Advocate & Gochis Galleries, Los Angeles LGBT Center, Los Angeles, CA
2022: "Young Americans," PM/AM Gallery, London, UK
: "Toms Queers," 27th Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival, Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
: "Painting: New Approaches," The Chan Gallery of Pomona College, Los Angeles, CA
2021: "Art and Hope At The End Of The Tunnel," curated by Edward Goldman, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2020: "Eleven Figures in II Parts," Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA
: "Brush Against," curated by Munro Galloway, Peppers Art Gallery, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA
2019: "Queer Paranormal (An Exhibition Concerning Shirley Jackson and “The Haunting of Hill House”)," Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
: "You don’t control the witness," ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2018: "I am no bird…," ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Queering Space," Alfred University Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred, NY
2017: "Virtual Dream Center," La Maison des Arts, Malakoff, France
: "Paysages Intérieurs," Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, France
2016: "Queering Space," Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
: "Stream: Chapter Three," curated by Cindy Smith, Two Chairs, South Windham, VT
: "Merry Go Round," Yve YANG Gallery, Boston, MA
: "Partners," curated by Anoka Faruqee & Michael Queenland, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
: "Double Dip," curated by Sheila Pepe & Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
: "New Genealogies," curated by John Edmonds & Jenny Tang, Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
2015: "Untitled (with Dani Levine and E.E. Ikeler)," Aisling Gallery, New Haven, CT
: "Trans*," Yale Office of LGBT Resources, New Haven, CT
: "Second Coming, Second Life, Second Cousin, Second Base," Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
: "First Things," Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
2012: "Third Annual Queer Pile-Up," curated by Darin Klein & Friends, ForYourArt, Los Angeles, CA

Awards, Residencies, and Grants

2024: Artist-in-Residence, Quinn-Emanuel, Los Angeles, CA
: Artist-in-Residence, Fountainhead Arts, Miami, Florida
2019: Emerging Artist Grant Nominee, Rema Hort Mann Foundation
2016: Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship, Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, France
2015: Al Held Foundation Affiliated Fellow, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
: LGBTQ Studies Graduate Student Workshop Grant, Yale University, New Haven, CT

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Hayv Kahraman

1981: Born in Baghdad, Iraq
: Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

2006: University of Umeå, Sweden
2005: Accademia di arte e design di Firenze, Florence, Italy

Selected Solo Exhibitions

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

Selected Group Exhibitions

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

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: Benzine, Vittoria. "In Pictures: A Texas Exhibition Shines a Light on Paintings of Women, by Women," Artnet, September 14 (Link)
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: Sherwin, Skye. "Hayv Kahraman: ‘I was brainwashed into thinking anything Euro-American-centric is the ideal’," The Guardian, February 21 (Link)
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: D’Souza, Aruna. "The body as spectacle: Hayv Kahraman’s contorted female forms personify trauma and resistance," Document, December 9 (Link)
: Ye, Fiona. "New exhibition ‘In Plain Sight’ powerfully brings unheard voices into public sphere," The Daily, November 27 (Link)
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: Hohail Shehmir Shaikh, Ayesha. "We Review Four New Books On Middle Eastern Art, Femininity And Empowerment," Harper’s Bazaar, September 25 (Link)
: Vartanian Collier, Lizzy. "Challenging Stereotypes by Contorting the Female Form," Hyperallergic, September 9 (Link)
: Cascone, Sarah and Caroline Goldstein. "21 Gallery Shows You Won’t Want to Miss in New York This Fall, From Amy Sherald’s Star Turn to a Historic Cuban Artist’s US Debut," artnet, September 3 (Link)
: Belcove, Julie. "How This Artist Is Using Female Contortionists to Represent the Plight of Minorities," Robb Report, August 4 (Link)
: "The Third Line summer show at Alserkal Avenue," Arab News, May 25 (Link)
: Okamura, Sara Farrell. "A Wake-Up Call at MASS MoCA: Suffering from Realness," Greylock Glass, May 5 (Link)
: Hodgson, Emma. "How Art Dubai’s Inclusive New Direction Is A Win For Us All," Grazia Middle East, March 13 (Link)
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: Judah, Hettie. "Frieze London review – women on top at the #MeToo art fair," The Guardian, October 4 (Link)
: Shaikh, Ayesha, "5 Art Books That Will Immediately Upgrade Your Coffee Table," Harper’s Bazaar Arabia (web), September 27 (Link)
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: "Top London Art Shows this Week: Justin John Greene to Tomma Abts," Blouin ArtInfo, September 3 (Link)
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: Da Silva, Jose, Gareth Harris, and Emily Sharpe,"Three to See: London," The Art Newspaper (web), June 29 (Link)
: Lescase, Zoe, “13 Artists On: Immigration,” The New York Times Style Magazine (web), June 19 (Link)
: “These Artists and Designers Have Made the Shortlist for Jameel Prize 5,” Harper’s Bazaar (web), June 19 (Link)
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: Lowry, Vicky. “Art of War: Iraqi-born artist Hayv Kahraman captures the effects of conflict in her hauntingly beautiful paintings.” Architectural Digest. November 2016: p. 92, illustrated.
: Biswas, Allison. “Ladies in Waiting: Glass meets seminal Iraqi artist Hayv Kahraman.” Glass Magazine. Issue 28. Winter 2016: pp. 122-127, illustrated.
2015: Zafiris, Alex. “Hayv Kahraman: Inside / Outside, The artist discusses refugee trauma, female oppression, and her new show, How Iraqi Are You?.” Guernica – a magazine of global arts & politics, March 16
: Monica, Lauren P. Della, "Bodies of Work – Contemporary Figurative Painting," [S.l.]: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
: Roselione-Valadez, Juan, Tami-Katz Freiman, and Anna Stothart, "No Man’s Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection"
: Smith, Roberta, “Hayv Kahraman: How Iraqi Are You?”, The New York Times, March
2014: Bryant, Eric. “In the Studio: Defying Definition: Hayv Kahraman’s New Work Pushes Beyond Gender Roles and Geopolitics into Fresh Territory.” Art + Auction (March 2014): 73–77, illustrated.
: Mohammed, Sehba, “Hayv Kahraman”, Modern Painters, March
2013: Mohammad, Sebha. “Hayv Kahraman” (Jack Shainman Gallery exhibition review). Modern Painters (December 2013): 118, illustrated.
: Mignolo, Walter, “Sensing Otherwise” Ibraaz, September
: Siegal, Nina, “Dark Memories of War Illuminate an Artist’s Work," New York Times, January 11
: Cembalest, Robin, “Let It Bleed: The Frightening Scene on the Met’s Roof,” ArtNews, May
: Tully, Judd, “Frieze New York Sales: Ropac, Lisson, Kasmin Score Ma- jor Deals," Artinfo, May
2012: Brodsky, Judith, Olin Ferris, Kelly Baum, and Margot Badran, "The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art and Society," Rutgers University Institute for Women and Art
: Soulez, Juliette, “Le Top 10 Des Meilleures Artistes Feministes Arabe,” ArtInfo, August
: Mohseni, Yasmine, “The Rich Mosaic of Hayv Kahraman’s Art and Life,” The Huffington Post, March
: Mohseni, Yasmine, “Of Violence and Beauty,” Modern Painters, April
2011: Gavin, Francesca, "100 New Artists," London: Laurence Kind Publishing Ltd.
: Liao, Vicky, “Hayv Kahraman,” My Dpi Magazine
2009: Farjam, Lisa, "Saatchi Gallery Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East," London: Booth-Clibborn Editions
: Martin-Gropius-Bau, Taswir, "Pictorial Mappings of Islam and Modernity," Berliner Festspiele, Berlin
: Shabout, Nada, "New Vision: Arab Art and the Twenty-First Century," London: Transglobe Publishing Ltd.
: Ailyn, Agonia, “Hayv Kahraman Exhibition,” Qatar Tribune, May
: Berwick, Carly, “Critic’s Pick,” ARTnews, October
: Gleadel, Colin, “Art Sales: A Round-up of the Contemporary Art Fair in Dubai,” The Telegraph, March
: Glover, Michael, “Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East,” The Independent, February
: Goldie, Kaele Wilson, “Package Deal,” The National, February
: Grossi, Beatrice, “Hayv Kahraman in Doha,” l’Agenda, May-June
: Honigman, Ana Finel, “Interview with Hayv Kahraman,” ARTslant
: Loha, Nethal, “Hayv Kahraman,” Marie Claire, August
: Mohseni, Yasmine, “Inner Travels,” Canvas, November
: Pitman, Joanna, “Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East at Saatchi Gallery,” The Sunday Times, January
: Rosenberg, Karen, “Toplessness and Taxidermy in a Bottomless Mar- ket,” The New York Times, March 6
: Wallace-Thompson, Anna, “Smile, You’re in Sharjah,” Canvas, May
2008: Fekri, Reem, “Urban Artists,” Browbook, May-June
: Vali, Muratza, “Life Drawing: Review,” Bidoun, Spring-Summer
: White, Lucy, “Arty Investments,” Wafi Collection, July

Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books

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

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

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

Public Collections

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

Mary Reid Kelley

: Born in Greenville, South Carolina
: Lives and works in Saratoga Springs, New York

2009: MFA, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
2001: BA, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, Magna cum Laude

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026: "Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley: Best Femmes Forever," Pilar Corrias, London, UK
2024: "Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley: Best Femmes Forever," La Ferme Du Buisson, Noisiel, France
2022: "Night Kitchen," Contemporary Dayton, Dayton, OH
: "Unrefined Verbiage," Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY
2021: "Blood Moon," The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
: "The Rape of Europa," The Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts
2019: Studio Voltaire, London, UK
2018: "I Smelled A Raw Recruit: The World War Films of Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley," Butler Gallery, The Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland
: "We Are Ghosts," Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (Link)
: "Mary Reid Kelley," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2017: "Mary Reid Kelley," MUDAM, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg (Link)
: "We Are Ghosts," Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK (Link)
2016: "We’re Wallowing Here In Your Disco Tent," The High Line, New York, NY
: "Screen Space: Mary Reid Kelley," Art Gallery Of Western Australia, Perth
: “The Minotaur Trilogy,” Arratia Beer, Berlin, Germany
: “A Marquee Piece of Sod: The WWI Films of Mary Reid Kelley,” Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
: "Mary Reid Kelley," Museum Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (Link)
2015: "Mary Reid Kelley," Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
: "The Thong of Dionysus," Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY
: "Hammer Projects: Mary Reid Kelley," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
2014: "Swinburne’s Pasiphae," Pilar Corrias Gallery, London UK
: "Mary Reid Kelley," Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna, Austria
: "Mary Reid Kelley: Working Objects and Videos," Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY; traveling to SUNY Albany, NY
2013: "Mary Reid Kelley," The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Boston, MA
: "The Syphilis of Sysiphus, Mary Reid Kelley with Patrick Kelley," The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX
: "Priapus Agonistes," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2011: "The Syphilis of Sisyphus," Fredericks and Freiser, New York, NY
2010: "Mary Reid Kelley," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: "You Make Me Iliad, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, England
2009: "Sadie, The Saddest Sadist," Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY
2007: "Bring Superior Forces to Bear," Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
2006: Paper Union Augsburg College Christensen Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Groups and Spots: Contemporary Art at Baloise," Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland
2019: "the rest of history," Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA
: "Damn! The Defiant," Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY
2018: "The Classical Now," Somerset House East Wing Kings College, London, UK
: FRONT Triennial, Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
: “Blind Faith: Between the visceral and the Cognitive in Contemporary Art,” Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2017: "Commercial Break," Public Art Fund, New York, NY
: Artists’ Film International 2017, ‘This Is Offal’, sponsored by Hammer Museum, LA. Multiple international locations throughout 2017, including Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
: "Life a User’s Manual," Art Encounters Contemporary Art Biennale, Timisoara and Arad, Romania
: “The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin,” The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
: “Gray Matters,” Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
: “The Humors,” MUMA, Melbourne, Australia
: “Blind Faith,” Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
: Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY
2016: "Mixtape 2016," Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, UK
: "Sexting," Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
: "World War I And American Art," Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
: “Inaugural Exhibition,” Romeo, New York, NY
: "Objects Do Things," Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland (Link)
2015: "Not Really," curated by Sue Canning, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
: "Making Histories," curated by Raechell Smith and David Cateforis, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, KS
: "Classicicity: Ancient art, contemporary objects," BREESE LITTLE, London, UK
: "The Beast and the Sovereign," MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany
: "By the Book," Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
: "Whos Speaking?," KLEMMS, Berlin, Germany
: "SITE 20 Years / 20 Shows," SITE, Santa Fe, NM
: "Pratfall Tramps," Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
: "Homespun," Marlborough School, Seaver Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014: "Pale Fire," The LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, NY
: "Tightened As If By Pliers," curated by Joshua Bienko and Leeza Meksin for Ortega y Gasset Projects, Knockdown Center, Queens, NY
: Art Rotterdam Fair, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
: "Rose Video 03: Maria Lassnig and Mary Reid Kelley," Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, South Waltham, Massachusetts
2013: "Through the Eyes of Texas: Masterworks from the Alumni Collections," Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX
2012: "Pencil Pushed," University of Tennessee: Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, Knoxville, TN
: "Buy Me Bananas," Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
: "Rear View Mirror," Space B, New York, NY
: "Weighted Words," Zabludowiz Collection, London, UK
: "Re-Generation," MACRO Testaccio, Rome, Italy
2011: "StageCraft; Brian Bress, Deville Cohen, Kate Gilmore and Mary Reid Kelley, University of Southern Florida, Tampa, FL
: "Doublespeak," Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
: "Texture.Txt," Regina Rex, Brooklyn, NY
: "Images From a Floating World," Fredericks and Freiser, New York, NY
: "Words," Brand 10 Art Space, Fort Worth, TX
2010: "The Dissolve," SITE Santa Fe Eighth International, Biennial, Santa Fe, New Mexico
: Signal & Noise Media Art Festival, VIVO Media Arts Center, Vancouver, CA
: "Fast Forward 2 The Power of Motion," ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
: "Ludicrous!", Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
2009: "Will Happiness Find Me?" Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY
2008: Interval(le)s, Journal, University of Liege Publications
2006: "Uncle Tom to Peeping Tom," Wisconsin African American Womens Center, Milwaukee, WI
2005: "Pinko Commies," Altered Esthetics Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2004: "Draw," Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN

Bibliography

2026: Abrams, Amah-Rose. "Marie Antoinette finds her voice in London exhibition ‘Best Femmes Forever’," Wallpaper*, February 1
2022: Jenelle Porter, Robert Storr, Jackie Murray, Catherine Wood, and Kathy Noble. Foreword by Christina Vassallo. "Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley," Co-published by The Fabric Workshop and Museum and Gregory R. Miller & Co, New York, NY
: Wilk, Elvia. "Corpus Meets Corpse," The New York Review Of Books, New York, NY (Link)
: Larios, Pablo. "The Village People," Mousse Magazine, January
2021: Watlington, Emily. "The Fate Of Europa: Mary Reid Kelley And Patrick Kelley At The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum," Art in America, December 22 (Link)
: Breaux, JT. "Titian’s ‘Women, Myth, and Power’ at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum pits classical art versus modern morality," The Berkeley Beacon, October 7 (Link)
: Cascone, Sarah. "Titian’s ‘Poesie’ Paintings Transformed Western Art. One U.S. Museum Is Showing Them All Together—and It Will Never Happen Again," Artnet, August 26 (Link)
: Goldstein, Caroline. "‘I Didn’t Want to Fictionalize’: Watch Mary Reid Kelley Explain How Her Eerie Videos Reanimate Forgotten Women’s History," Artnet, August 19 (Link)
: Cotter, Holland. "Can We Ever Look at Titian’s Paintings the Same Way Again?," The New York Times, August 12 (Link)
2019: Fullerton, Elizabeth. "’They’re our female supervillains!’ Artists mash up Ayn Rand and Gwyneth Paltrow," The Guardian, July 2 (Link)
: Watson, Denise. "MOCA’s new exhibition fills in the "The Rest of History," the stories often discarded in the telling of America’s story," The Virginian-Pilot, March 22 (Link)
: Campbell, Andy. "Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley," Artforum, February (Link)
: Wood, Eve. "Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley," Artillery, January 2 (Link)
2018: Knight, Christopher. "Review: Harry S. Truman at the center of this wonderfully weird, strangely poignant art show," Los Angeles Times, November 30 (Link)
: Horst, Aaron. "Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley at Susanne Vielmetter," Carla, November 29 (web) (Link)
: Dunne, Aidan, "Kelleys’ bizarre creations crackle with energy of early cinema," The Irish Times (web), August 4 (Link)
: Thorne, Harry, "The Burlesque Worlds of Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley," frieze, April 5 (Link)
: Cromwell, Tim, “From Hirst’s Medusa to Quinn’s marble bust: new London show explores how classical art inspires contemporary artists,” The Art Newspaper, March 6 (Link)
: Culpan, Daniel, "Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley at Tate Liverpool," Artforum, January (Link)
2017: Searle, Adrian, “Drag acts and drunken sailors – Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley: We Are Ghosts review,” The Guardian (web), November 21 (Link)
: Sharp, Sarah Rose, “Artists Embrace the Grayscale,” Hyperallergic (web), July 20 (Link)
: Wallace, David, “Walter Benjamin’s Unfinished Magnum Opus, Revisited through Contemporary Art,” The New Yorker (web), May 9 (Link)
: Pinto, Ana Teixeira, “Review: Mary Reid Kelley at Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany,” frieze (web), January 14 (Link)
2016: Jeppesen, Travis, “Critics’ Pick: Mary Reid Kelley at Arratia Beer,” Artforum (web), April 1 (Link)
: Teixeria Pinto, Ana, “Mary Reid Kelley’s ‘The Minotaur Trilogy’,” art agenda (web), April 11 (Link)
: Scher, Robin, “Sara Cwynar and Mary Reid Kelley Named Winners of the Baloise Art Prize,’ ArtNews (web), June 14 (Link)
: Gleisner, Jacquelyn, “MacArthur Fellow Mary Reid Kelley on Dismantling Sexual Taboos with Humor,” Hyperallergic (web), October 26, (Link)
: Lamon, Madeleine, “Meet the Penn Design critic who snagged a MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’,” The Daily Pennsylvanian (web), October 27
: “Vincent Fecteau, Kellie Jones, Mary Reid Kelley, Maggie Nelson, Claudia Rankine, and Joyce J. Scott Among 2016 MacArthur Fellow,” Artforum (web), September 22
: Segal, Corinne, “Video artist, MacArthur fellow Mary Reid Kelley on recovering history’s lost narratives,” PBS News Hour (web), October 2
: Chiaverina, John, “Kellie Jones, Vincent Fecteau, and Mary Reid Kelley Named MacArthur Fellows,” ArtNews (web), September 22 (Link)
: Frank, Priscilla, “Video Artist Mary Reid Kelley on Why the Urge to Apply Makeup is Fundamentally Human,” The Huffington Post (web), September 23 (Link)
2015: Heartney, Eleanor, Sex, Mayhem, and Ghosts of the Unconscious, ArtNews, January
: Jadrnak, Jackie, Site Sante Fe celebrates 20th Anniversary, Albuquerque Journal, March 6
: Lampe, Lilly, The Work of Four Seriously Funny Women Artists, Hyperallergic, March 26 (Link)
: Detweiler, Henry, Review: Artists fuse funy-haha, funny-odd and existential angst in ACACs Pratfall Tramps, Arts ATL, March 26
: Carver, Jon, Santa Fe: 20 Years / 20 Shows at SITE Santa Fe, art ltd, May/June
: Cahill, James, A Wandering Will: Mary reid Kelley Discusses Swinbrunes Pasiphae, Los Angeles Review of Books, May 25
: IX Moscow International Biennale, Fashion and Style in Photography 2015, Multimedia complex of Actual Arts, Moscow, Russia
: Reid Kelley, Mary, Sam Messer, BOMB Magazine, Summer
: Lord, Benjamin, Mary Reid Kelley at The Hammer, Carla, Fall
: Boucher, Brian, Mary Reid Kelleys Lush Videos Take on the Minotaur and Nicki Minaj, ArtNet News (web), October 23
: Rees, Allyson, Mary Reid Kelley Reimagines Mythology from a Womans POV, LA Confidential, May 12
2014: Applin, Jo, Reviews: Mary Reid Kelley, ArtForum, December
: Cuir, Raphael, Mary Reid Kelley, Art Press, December
: Boucher, Brian, "Guggenheim Foundation 2014 Fellows Include Mary Reid Kelley, La Toya Ruby Frazier," Art in America online, April 10 (Link)
2013: Thomson, Allese, "500 Words: Mary Reid Kelley," Artforum.com, August 14 (Link)
: Yurkevich, Vanessa, "Mary Reid Kelley Debuts at the ICA Boston," Artinfo, October 2 (Link)
: McQuaid, Cate, Images speaking of desire and fear at the ICA, The Boston Globe, August 1 (Link)
: Frank, Priscilla, Mary Reid Kelleys 3D Historical Tableaux Come To ICA Boston, The Huffington Post, July 29 (Link)
: Cheh, Carol, Review: Mary Reid Kelley: Priapus Agonistes, Pastelegram, July 26 (Link)
: Vitamin D2: New Perspective in Drawing, Phaidon Press, May
2012: Art:21 Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 6, PBS Television Series and Companion Volume
: Searle, Adrian, How performance art took over, The Guardian, July 3
: McClemont, Doug, Reviews: Mary Reid Kelley, ARTNews, March
: Goings On About Town: Art, Mary Reid Kelley, The New Yorker, January
: Davis, Ben, Finding the Reason In Mary Reid Kelleys Mad Rhymes About French History, Artinfo, January 6
2011: Johnson, Ken, Mary Reid Kelley: The Syphilis of Sisyphus, New York Times, December 1
: Beckman, Ericka, Mary Reid Kelley, Sadie the Saddest Sadist, Artforum, December
: Boucher, Brian, Mary Reid Kelley, In Plain Frenglish, Art in America, November 11
2010: Robecchi, Michele, Mary Reid Kelley, Pilar Corrias-London, Flash Art, November
: the dissolve, Site Santa Fe Biennial Catalogue, curated by Sarah Lewis and Daniel Belasco
: Allen, Emma, Verbal Play and Venereal Disease: A Q & A with Mary Reid Kelley, ArtInfo, June 15 (Link)
: Mizota, Sharon, Modern girl, Los Angeles Times, May 21 (Link)
: Ryan, Bartholomew, Marx On My, Lenin Mary Reid Kelley, Metropolis M, April (Link)
: Kazanjian, Dodie. The Body Eccentric. Vogue, February 2010. p. 188-193.
2009: Smith, Roberta, Make Room for Video, Performance and Paint, New York Times, December 31
: Madoff, Steven Henry, Openings: Mary Reid Kelley, Art Forum, November
: Storr, Robert, So it Goes, Frieze, Issue 127, November/December
: Boucher, Brian, Mary Reid Kelley, Art in America, November 13
: Vilas, Amber, Mary Reid Kelley in New York, Art Info, September 25
2008: Pearse, Emma, Artist Mary Reid Kelley Goes to War, New York Magazine, July 14

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2016: Baloise Art Prize, Art Basel
: MacArthur Fellowship
2015: AICA Award: Best Time-Based Format, Second Place: Mary Reid Kelley: Working Objects and Videos at SUNY New Paltz, Dorsky Museum
2014: Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
2013: Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
2012: The Shifting Foundation Grant
2011: Production Residency at EMPAC, Renessalear Polytechnic Institute
: Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome
2009: Alice Kimball English Travel Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven, CT
: Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant
2008: CAA Visual Arts Fellowship
: Schoelkopf Travel Grant, Yale University, New Haven, CT
: Beinecke Library Research Fellowship, Yale University New Haven, CT
: Guest Lecturer, Women and Art at Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2004: Jerome Foundation Artist Residency Fellowship at Blacklock Nature Sanctuary, Moose Lake, MN
2001: Art Apprenticeship, St. Olaf College Department of Art and Art History, Northfield, MN

Teaching Experience

: Senior Critic, UPenn School of Design
: Critic, Yale University School of Art

Public Collections

: Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
: Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
: Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany
: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: Kadist Foundation, San Francisco, CA
: Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
: The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
: MUDAM, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
: Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Boston, MA
: UBS Art Collection, New York, NY
: University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
: Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK

Sadie Benning

1973: Born in Madison, WI
: Lives and works in New York, NY

1997: MFA, Milton Avery School of Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026: "Sadie Benning: Daily Forecasts: October 28th, 2020–September 6th, 2021," Maxwell Graham, New York, NY
2025: "Underwater," Kaufmann Repetto Milano, Milan, Italy
2024: "The Touch, the Amulet and the Saltation," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2023: "Intangible cigarette," Air de Paris, Romainville, France
2022: "Face on earth," Kaufmann Repetto Milano, Milan, Italy
2021: "This is Real," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2020-2021: "Blow ups," Kaufmann Repetto Milano, Milan, Italy
2020: "Pain Thing 2," Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
: "Pain Thing," Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (Link)
2018: "Sleep Rock," Camden Arts Centre, London, UK (Link)
2017: "Blinded by the Light," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: "Shared Eye," Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (Link)
2016: "Green God,” Callicoon Fine Arts and Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
: “L’oeil de l’esprit,” Air de Paris, Paris, France (Link)
: "Shared Eye," Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL (Link)
: “Excuse Me Ma’am,” Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, Italy (Link)
2015: "Fuzzy Math," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2014: "Patterns," Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY
2013: "War Credits," Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY
2011: "Transitional Effects," Participant Inc., New York, NY
2009: "Play Pause," The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2008: "Play Pause," The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
2007: "Form of… a Waterfall," Orchard Gallery, New York, NY
: "Play Pause," Dia Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
: "Sadie Benning: Suspended Animation," Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
2005: "Sadie Benning’s Early Pixelvision Videos," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2004: "Sadie Benning Retrospective Series," Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025: "The Journey Continues," Wisch Family Gallery, Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
: "go to the limits of your longing," Ryan Lee Gallery, New York, NY
2024: "Place des Vosges," Paris, France
2023: "Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022: "Plants Now!" Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2021: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2020: "Ways of Being," Landmarks (online)
: "100 Drawings from Now," The Drawing Center, New York City, NY
: "Don’t let this be easy," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2019-2020: "Surrounds: 11 Installations," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (Link)
: "The Body Electric," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; traveled to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2019: "The Light Touch," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: “Kiss My Genders,” Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, UK
: "Inaugural Exhibition," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2017: “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon,” New Museum, New York, NY (Link)
: “Press Your Space Face Close to Mine,” curated by Aaron Curry, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA
2016: “Figurative Geometry,” curated by Bob Nickas, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
: “A Shape That Stands Up,” curated by Jamillah James and organized by Hammer Museum, Art + Practice, Los Angeles, CA
: "Certain Skins," James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
: “Making & Unmaking,” curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
2015: Greater NY, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
: "Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age," Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
: "The Painter of Modern Life," Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
: "Watch This! Revelations in Media Art," Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
2014: "Pictures, Before and After – An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp," Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
: "Readykeulous by Ridykeulous: This is What Liberation Feels Like," Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO
: "Groupshow," Christian Lethert Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2013: "Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault," Artists Space, New York, NY
: "2013 Carnegie International," Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
: "NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star," New Museum, New York, NY
: "Sadie Benning, Thomas Kovachevich, Dona Nelson," Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY
: "Tell It To My Heart: The Collection of Julie Ault," Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
2011: "DANCE DRAW," The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Boston, MA
: "Paper A-Z," Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY
: "cinq tranges album de famille," Le Bal, Paris, France
: "Reflection Abstraction," curated by Dean Daderko, Vogt Gallery, New York, NY
2010: "OFF Series, Part II," Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
: "Love on Film," Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, England
: "Benning, Kobayashi, Linzy," Centre de Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona, Spain
2008: "Annual Report: A Year in Exhibitions," 7th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
2007: "Animated Painting," San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
2006: "MoMA: American Documentary: 1920s to Now," Taiwan International Documentary Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
2005: "Bidibidobidiboo," Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
: "To Die of Love (Voluntary Permanence)," Museo Universitario de ciencias y arte, Rome, Italy
2004: "Building Identities," Tate Modern, London, UK
2003: Womens International Film Festival, Seoul, Korea
: "Remembrance + the Moving Image," Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
: Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
: "Video Viewpoints: A Selection From the Last Decade," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: "Image-Movement Cinematheque," Taipei, Taiwan
2001: "Big as Life: An American History of 8mm Film," Museum of Modern Art, NY, San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA
: Videonale 9 Festival, Bonn, Germany
2000: Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: "MoMA 2000: Open Ends," Modern and Contemporary Art Since 1980, Museum of Modern Art, NY
: "Presumed Innocent," Monsiur le Maire de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
1999: "Loves Body," Tokyo Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
: "Videodrome," New Museum, New York, NY
1998: Rotterdam International Film Festival, Holland
: New York Video Festival, Film Society of Lincoln Center, NYC
: "Message to Pretty," Threadwaxing Space, NYC
: Seoul International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Korea
1996: "Scream and Scream Again: Film in Art," Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
1995: Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan
1994: "Videotheque: Video Text," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1993: Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Venice Bienniale, Venice, Italy
: "Sadie Benning," Film Forum, Los Angeles, CA
: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1992: New Queer Cinema Panel, Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT
: "Videorama: A Celebration of International Video Art," New York Film Festival, NYC
: Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
1991: Amsterdam International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, The Netherlands
: "Sadie Benning," Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
: "Sadie Benning Videos," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: "Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center," Screening, Buffalo, New York

Videos

2013: War Credits (16 minute loop, single channel black and white video, sound)
2012: In Parts (28min., single channel black and white video, sound)
2011: Old Waves, Record One (30min., single channel black and white video)
: Old Waves, Record Two (30min., single channel black and white video)
2006: Play Pause (29:21, two channel video installation from hard drive, color digital video/drawings on paper)
2003: One Liner (5:07, installation, black & white video/ Pixelvision, sound)
: The Baby (5:40, installation, color digital video/ drawings on paper)
1999: Aerobicide, co-director, Kathleen Hanna (5:00, color digital video)
: Le Tigre, recorded with Kathleen Hanna and Johanna Fateman (vinyl & cd) 1998 Flat is Beautiful (56:00, v black & white video/ Pixelvision, 16mm, and Super 8)
1995: German Song (6:00, black & white video/ super 8 film)
: The Judy Spots (12:30, color video/ 16 mm film)
1992: Girl Power (15:00, black & white video/ Pixelvision)
: It Wasnt Love (19:06, black & white video/ Pixelvision)
1991: A Place Called Lovely (13:40, black & white video/ Pixelvision)
1990: Jollies (11:18, black & white video/ Pixelvision)
: Welcome to Normal (20:00, color video/ Hi 8)
: If Every Girl Had a Diary (8:56, black & white video/ Pixelvision)
1989: Living Inside (5:06, black & white video/ Pixelvision)
: Me & Rubyfruit (5:31, black & white video/ Pixelvision)
: A New Year (5:57, black & white video/ Pixelvision)

Bibliography

2026: Bacon, Alex and Sadie Benning. "SADIE BENNING’S WATERCOLORS," Artforum, February 10 (Link)
2024: Molesworth, Helen & Jason Simon. "STARING BACK: A conversation with Bill Horrigan," Artforum, October 1 (Link)
2022: Piepenburg, Erik. "The Day New Queer Cinema Said: Let’s Do This," The New York Times, January 22 (Link)
2021: Hurriyet Daily News Staff. “Sadie Benning films at Pera online,” Hurriyet Daily News, March 9 (Link)
: Preston Zappas, Lindsay. "Native American and pop references commingle in beaded tapestries," KCRW, January 12
2020: Allen, Dan. "16 LGBTQ art shows worth traveling for in early 2020," NBC News, January 10 (Link)
: Downing, Andy. "Staff Pick: Sadie Benning’s ‘Pain Thing’ at the Wex," Columbus Alive, January 24 (Link)
2018: Casadio, Mariuccia. "I quadri di Sadie Benning," Vogue Italia, April 16 (Link)
: O’Falt, Chris, "Pixelvision: How a Failed ‘80s Fisher-Price Toy Camera Became One of Auteurs’ Favorite ’90s Tools," IndieWire (web), August 9 (Link)
: Sussman, Anna Louie, “What Sold at Art Basel,” Artsy (web), June 17 (Link)
: Masterson, Piers, "Sadie Benning: Sleep Rock," this is tomorrow Contemporary Art Magazine (web), May 10 (Link)
: Lloyd, Kathryn, "Sadie Benning, Sleep Rock," The White Review (web), May (Link)
: Luke, Ben, "Sadie Benning/Ian White review: Playing tricks on a sense of time," Evening Standard (web), April 30 (Link)
: Waugh, Rosemary, “Sadie Benning: Sleep Rock,” Time Out London, April 24 (Link)
2017: Goldsmith, Leo, “Reality Stars: ‘The Non-Actor’ Surveys Amateur Perforamance in the Movies,” The Village Voice (web), November 25
: Saltz, Jerry ,”The New Museum’s ‘Trigger’ is Radical in Content, Retrograde in Form: What Should We Make of That?” Vulture (web), October 23 (Link)
: Budick, Ariella, “Review: ‘Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon’ at the New Museum,” Financial Times (web), October 10 (Link)
: Sheets, Hilarie M., “Gender-Fluid Artists Come Out of the Gray Zone,” New York Times, September 15 (Link)
: Pagel, David, “Review: At the Pit, artists mine the emotions behind the machine,” Los Angeles Times (web), August 11
: Scheper, Moritz, “Public View: Moritz Scheper über Sadie Benning in der Kunsthalle Basel,” Texte zur Kunst, June
: Campbell, Andy, “Sadie Benning at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects,” Artforum, May (Link)
: Helphenstein, Hilde, “5 Artists to Know from Frieze New York,” Topshop Blog (web), May 10
: Cha, Olivian, "Between Seeing and Touching," Flash Art, January – February, (Cover and Feature) (Link)
: Riva, Catarina, “Review: Sadie Benning at Kaufmann Repetto,” frieze (web), January 11 (Link)
: Waxman, Lori, “Last chance to see 3 noteworthy Chicago art shows,” Chicago Tribune (web), January 11
: Judah, Hettie, “Figurative Geometry at Collezione Maramotti,” ArtReview, January/February
: Zürcher, Isabel, “Überleben im Schatten der Politik,” Basellandschaftliche Zeitung, February
: “Kulture – Tipps: Shared Eye,” azkent magazine, February – March
: “Sadie Benning und ihre Rythmussequenzen in der Kunsthalle,” Radio X, February 19
: Roeschmann, Dietrich, “Die Kunsthalle Basel zeigt Bildobjekte von Sadie Benning,” Badische Zeitung, February 20
2016: "Best in Show 2015," Artillery, January – February (Link)
: Boucher, Brian, “VIDEO: What’s Really Cool at the 2016 Armory Show?” artnet news (web), March 4
: Korman, Sam, “Armory Show and Independent,” art agenda (web), March 4
: Indrisek, Scott, “10 Must-See Booths at the Armory Show,” Blouin ArtInfo (web), March 3
: Gangitano, Lia, “Artists in Conversation: Sadie Benning by Lia Gangitano,” Bomb, Spring (Link)
: Corral, Alexis, “15 Blockbuster Gallery Shows You Need to See in New York This May,” Artsy (web), April 29
: Salway, Diane, “Transgender Artist Sadie Benning is Not Afraid,” @W Magazine (web), May 13
: Gilbert, Alan, “Sadie Benning’s ‘Green God’ at Callicoon Fine Arts, New York and Mary Boone, New York,” art agenda (web), July 5
: Istomina, Tatiana, “Sadie Benning: New York, at Mary Boone and Callicoon,” Art in America (web), October 20
: Shi, Diana, “Mixed-Media Artist and Gender Provocateur Dismantles the Word ‘Ma’am’,” The Creators Project (web), October 22
: Estorick, Alex, “Sadie Benning at kaufmann repetto / Milan,” Flash Art, November
: Matyus, Allison, “’Shared Eye’ latest exhibit at Renaissance Society,” Hyde Park Herald (web), November 23
: Day, Robyn, “Sadie Benning’s Shared Eye at Renaissance Society,” Sixty, December 14
2015: Myers, Terry R., Sadie Benning: Fuzzy Math, The Brooklyn Rail, February 5
: Schwendener, Martha, Review: The 2015 Armory Show Overlaps History and Cultures, The New York Times, March 5
: Zellen, Jody, Sadie Benning: Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Artillery, March (Link)
: Molesworth, Helen, Best of 2015, Artforum, December
: Edmark, Alison, Top 5: January 7, 2015, Glasstire, January 7
: Treilhard, Marieke, Art & Culture: Politics in the Abstract, Angeleno Magazine, February
: Miranda, Carolina, Datebook: Cuba photography, a Fictional TED Talk, Chicano Portraiture, Los Angeles Times, January 8
: Pagel, David, Review: Sadie Benning, Fuzzy Math, at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles Times, January 23
: Osborne-Bartucca, Kristen, Review: Sadie Benning, ArtScene, February
2014: Zevitas, Steven, 15 Artists to Watch in 2015 (+3), Huffington Post, December 16
: Smith, Roberta, The Paintbrush in the Digital Era: The Forever Now, a Survey of Contemporary Painting at MoMA, The New York Times, December 11
: Sadie Benning at Callicoon Fine Arts, The New Yorker, October 13
: Smith, Roberta, Sadie Benning Patterns at Callicoon Fine Arts, The New York Times, October 10
: Durbin, Andrew, Review: Sadie Benning, Artforum, October 2
: Johnson, Paddy, Recommended Shows Pt3: Sadie Benning, Patterns, Art Fag City, September 24
: Weaver, Rachel, Carnegie Internationals Success Keeps it as One of Pittsburghs Art Gems, Trib Live, April 15
: Rich, Sarah, 2013 Carnegie International, Artforum, January
: Yates, Christopher, 2013 Carnegie International, The Columbus Dispatch, January 5
2013: Bryant, Eric, The Breakout Art Stars of 2013, Artspace, December 27
: Russeth, Andrew, 2013 Carnegie International Acquisitions Announced, The Gallerist, December 16
: Benning, Sadie. Recording Notes, Art In America, May
: Smith, Roberta, Global Extravaganza, but on a Human Scale: The Carnegie International Keeps Its Survey Small, The New York Times, October 10
: Smith, Roberta. Art in Review. Sadie Benning: War Credits, New York Times, May 3
: Russeth, Andrew, A Playground in Pittsburgh: The 2013 Carnegie International Is a Quiet Triumph, The New York Observer, October 8
: Marcus, Sara. Sadie Benning: Callicoon Fine Arts, Artforum.com. May 6
: Stamp, Elizabeth, The 2013 Carnegie International Opens in Pittsburgh, Architectural Digest, October 4
: Barliant, Clair. Sadie Benning, The New Yorker, April 29
: Benning, Sadie, Top 10, Artforum, Summer
: Mack, Joshua, Exhibition Reviews, Sadie Benning: War Credits, Art Review, Summer
: McCemont, Doug, The Next Most Collectible Artists: Sadie Benning, Art + Auction, June
2012: Jones, Kristin M., Sadie Benning, Frieze, January – February
2011: Kukielski, Tina. Transitory States (Interview with Sadie Benning), Mousse, December
: Hirsch, Faye. Jigsaw Paintings: Sadie Benning at Participant, Art in America, October
2009: Smith, Roberta. Play Pause, Animating the Everyday Sublime, New York Times, April 30
2007: Cooke, Lynne. Best of 2007, Artforum, December
: ONeill Butler, Lauren. Sadie Benning: Orchard, Artforum, December
: Hirsch, Faye. A Day in the Life, Art in America, September
: Howe, David Everitt. Former Le Tigre Members Stuttering Sexuality, Village Voice, September 25
: Bryan-Wilson, Julia. Flat Out: Sadie Benning, Artforum, January

Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books

2019: Sadie Benning: Shared Eye. Texts by Solveig Øvtebo, Elena FIlipovic, Christine Mehring, and John Corbett. Renaissance Society and University of Chicago Press, Chigago, IL (exh. cat)
2018: Sadie Benning: File Note. Texts by Leopoldine Core, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK (exh. cat)
2017: Burton, J., and Bell, N. (2017). Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon. Pg 28-31. New Museum.
2016: Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting, Phaidon, London, UK
2013: 2013 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (exh. cat)
2007: Sadie Benning: Suspended Animation. Wexner Center for the Arts/ D.A.P. (exh. cat)

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2005: Guggenheim Fellowship
2003: Wexner Center for the Arts, Visiting Artist Residency Award
2000: National Alliance for Media Arts & Culture Merit Award
1999: Andrea Frank Foundation Fellowship
1994: Grande Videokunst Prize, Kahrlsrule, Germany
1993: Film/Video Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation for the Arts
: Midwest Regional Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
1992: Los Angeles Film Critics Award, Best Independent/Experimenta

Public Collections

: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
: Assocazione Culturale, Bologna, Italy
: Beit Berl College, Kfar Saba, Israel
: British Film Institute, London, UK
: Brown University, Providence, RI
: Castello Di Rivoli, Museu DArte Contemporanea, Rivoli/Torino Italy
: Center for Arts, Neuchatel, Switzerland
: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
: Chungmuro Subway Station, Seoul, Korea
: Duke University, Durham, NC
: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
: Fundacio la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
: Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Landmarks, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
: Museum D’art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
: Museum of Modern Art, NY
: Nagoya Multimedia Institution, Nagoyashi, Japan
: National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
: New York University, NY
: Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
: Projects/NRW Forum, Dusseldorf, Germany
: RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
: Stanford University, Stanford, CA
: Tapies Foundacion, Barcelona, Spain
: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
: Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Mary Kelly

: Born 1941
: Lives and works in Los Angeles, California

1968-1970: St Martin’s School of Art, London, Postgraduate Certificate in Painting
1963-1965: Pius XII Institute, Florence, Italy, MA, Studio Art and Art History
1959-1963: College of Saint Teresa, Winona, Minnesota, BA, Art Major, Music Minor

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025: "We don’t want to set the world on fire," Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
2022-2023: "Mary Kelly: To Witness the Future," Curated by Alby Miner, Maria & Alberto De La Cruz Art Gallery, Washington D.C.
2022: "Mary Kelly: Interim Pt I: Corpus," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2018: "Mary Kelly: Face-to-Face," Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK (Link)
: "Nucleus: Mary Kelly’s ‘Extase’ and the birth of a women’s art collection," New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge, UK (Link)
2017: "The Practical Past," Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY (Link)
2016: "Nightcleaners, Berwick Street Collective (Marc Karlin, Mary Kelly, James Scott and Humphry Trevelyan)," Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown
: "Mary Kelly: Early Work, 1973-76," Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
: "CIRCA TRILOGY," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: “Women and Work: A Document On the Division of Labor in Industry, 1975,” Switch House Gallery, Tate Modern, London, UK
2014: "On the Passage of a Few People through a Rather Brief Period of Time," Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
2012: "Mary Kelly," Rosamund Felsen, Los Angeles, CA
: "Mary Kelly," Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
2011: "Mary Kelly: Projects, 1973-2010," The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, curated by Maria Balshaw, Dominique Heyse-Moore, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
2010: "Mary Kelly: Four Works in Dialogue," Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, curated by Cecilia Widenheim
2008: "Mary Kelly: Words are Things," Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, curated by Milada Slizinska
2007: "Circa 1968," The University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA, curated by Juli Carson
2006: "The Ballad of Kastriot Rekhepi," ESPACIO AV, Consejeria de Educacin y cultura, Regin de Murcia, curated by Isabel Tejeda
: "Love Songs," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2005: "Love Songs," Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
2004: Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes, Mexico City Installation, live performance and interactive archive, curated by Trisha Ziff
2003: “The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi,” including live performance and interactive archive, curated by Trish Ziff, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City
2002: The Arthur A Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
: Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2001: "The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi," musical score for the exhibition by Michael Nyman; live performance by Sarah Leonard and The Nyman Quartet, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
: "Mary Kelly: Mea Culpa," Robert Sandelson, London, UK
2000: "Social Process / Collaborative Action: Mary Kelly 1970-75," Norwich Gallery and Leeds City Art Gallery, UK
1999: Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
1998: "Post-Partum Document, The Complete Work 1973-79," curated by Sabine Breitweiser, The Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
: The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
1997: "Social Process/Collaborative Action: Mary Kelly 1970-75," curated by Judith Mastai, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, and Agnes Etherington Art Center, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
: Galerie Paula Bottcher, Berlin, Germany
: Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
: Knoll Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1996: Konstmuseet, Mälmo, Sweden
: Knoll Gallery, Vienna, Austria
: Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
1994: "Mary Kelly: 1973-89," curated by Gertrud Sandquist, Galleri F 15, Alby, Norway; traveled to Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden; Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
: Gloria Patri, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University and Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; traveled to Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; Milwaukee Art Museum, University of Wisconsin; and Konstmuseet, Malm, Sweden
1993: Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
: Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
: Milwaukee Art Museum, University of Wisconsin, WI
: Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
1992: Gloria Patri, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University (catalog), traveled to Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University; Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina
1991: Knoll Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
: Knoll Gallery, Vienna, Austria
: The Powerplant, Toronto, Canada
1990: "Interim, The Complete Work 1984-89," New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; traveled to Vancouver Art Gallery and The Powerplant, Toronto, Canada
1989: Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
: CEPA, Buffalo, NY
: Todd Madigan Gallery, California State University, CA
1988: LACE, Los Angeles
1985: “Interim, Part I: Corpus,” The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; traveled to Kettle’s Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge, and Riverside Studios, London, UK
1982: "Mary Kelly and Ray Barrie," George Paton Gallery, Melbourne and University Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia
1981: Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1979: University Gallery, Leeds, UK
: New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh
1977: "Post-Partum Document, I-V," Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK, curated by Mark Francis
1976: "Post-Partum Document, I-III," Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK, curated by Barry Barker
1975: "Women and Work: A Document on the Division of Labor in Industry," South London Art Gallery, UK
1970: "An Earthwork Performed," with Steven Rothenberg, New Arts Laboratory, London, UK

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025-2026: "Ideas Into Action: 1965-1980," Tate Britain, London, UK
2025: "ECHO DELAY REVERB: American Art, Francophone Thought," Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (Link)
2024: "Vital Signs: Artists and the Body," MoMA, New York, NY
: "The Whitney Biennal 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: "On the Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Period of Time," Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) Gallery, UC Irvine
2023: "Women in Revolt!: Art, Activism and the Women’s Movement in the UK 1970-1990," Tate Modern, London, UK
: "Inheritance: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1971-2022," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2023-2025: "La Répétition (Méthode)," Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
2023: "Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: "Desert X at Christie’s," Christie’s Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, CA
2022-2023: "To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
2022: "The Double: Identity and Difference in Art Since 1900," National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C.
: "The Condition of Being Addressable," "Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles , CA
: "Picturing Motherhood Now," The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
2021: "Lines of Thought: Kenturah Davis, Mary Kelly, Agnes Martin," Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
: "Mother!" Louisana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
2020: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2019-2020: "Theater of Operations The Gulf Wars 1991–2011," MoMA PS1, New York, NY
2019: "Mary Kelly: Peace is the Only Shelter in Desert X," Artistic Director, Neville Wakefield, Co-curators, Amanda Hunt and Matthew Schum, Coachella Valley
2018: "Nucleus: Mary Kelly’s Extase and the Birth of the Women’s Art Collection," Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge
: "West By MidWest," MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
2018-2019: "Power & Imagination," National Gallery of Australia, Parkes Place, Australia
2018: "Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by her Writings," Tate St. Ives, UK (Link)
: "Actions…the image of the world can be different," Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK (Link)
2017: "ISelf Collection: The End of Love," Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (Link)
: “An Incomplete History of Protest,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (Link)
: “Wherever the Wind Carries,” Malmö Art Academy and Lunds konsthall, Lund, Sweden
2016: “Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection,” Whitney Museum, New York, NY
: “Of Other Spaces: Where does gesture become event?” Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee, Scotland
: “Conceptual Art in Britain 1964-1979,” Tate Britain, London, UK
: “A Lesson in Sculpture with John Latham,” Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
2015: "A Voice Remains," Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
: "The Slick and The Sticky," Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA
: “The Great Mother: Women, Maternity, and Power in Art and Visual Cutlure, 1900 – 2015,” curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
2014: "Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image Ideology," curated by Anne Ellegood and Johanna Burton, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2013: "Against Method," curated by Gertrud Sandqvist, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
: "All you need is Love," Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
: "Women and Work, Mary Kelly, Margaret Harrison, Kay Hunt, BP Spotlight," Tate Britain, London, UK
2012: "Ends of The Earth: Land Art to 1974," co-curated by Philipp Kaiser and Miwon Kwon, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA; Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
: "This Will Have Been: Art, Love and Politics in the 1980s," curated by Helen Molesworth, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
: "Breaking In Two: Pacific Standard Time," curated by Bruria Finkel, Arena 1, Los Angeles, CA
: "Art as Idea, Language and Process in Art," curated by Cecilia Widenheim, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
: "Tracing the Century: Drawing from the Tate Collection," Liverpool Tate, London, UK
: "Left, Right, Center," Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
: "Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980," Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
: "The Hidden Mother," Berthe Morrisot Hotel Particlier, Paris, France
: "Sweethearts: Artist Couples," curated by Kathy Battista, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
: "Family Matters: The Family in British Art," Tate Britain, London, UK; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle; Millennium Gallery, Museum Sheffield; Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, UK
: "About Menocchio we know many things," Betonsalon, Paris, France
2011: "The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1992," co-curated by Nancy Princenthal and Helaine Posner, Nuerberger Museum of Art, New York, NY; traveled to Nasher Museum, North Carolina; traveled to Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
: "The Experimental Impulse: Pacific Standard Time," co-organized by Thomas Lawson and Aram Moshayedi, Redcat: Roy and Edna Disney Hall/Cal Arts Theater, Los Angeles, CA
: "Colorific," Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
: "Holding the Grey Card," The New Hall Art Collection Biennale, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, MA
: "Incognito," Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2010: "The Artists Museum," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: "Incognito," Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: "Panorama: Los Angeles at ARCOmadrid 2010," co-curated by Kris Kuramitsu and Christopher Miles,
: Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Is Only the Mind Allowed to Wander?," Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
: "Torrent of Words: Contemporary Art and Language," John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheybogen, WI
: "IASPIS," Open House, Stockholm, Sweden
2009: "British Subjects: Identity and Self Fashioning, 1967-2009," curated by Louise Yelin, Nueberger Museum of Art, New York, NY
: "The Moving Image, Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: "Love in the Age of Postponed Democracy," The Critical Crisis, curated by Lilian Fellman, Kunsthalle Luzerne, Switzerland
: "Mary Kelly, Christian Capurro, Klaus Mosettig," Simon Preston Gallery, New York, NY
2008: "Sydney Biennale: Revolutions Forms That Turn," curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
: 2008 California Biennial, curated by Lauri Firstenberg, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; installation, Queens Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA
: "Not Quite How I Remember It," The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
: "Mother Cuts: experiments in film and video," The Visual Arts Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
: "Coup de Grace," Simon Preston Gallery, New York, NY
: "Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art," CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, New York, NY
2007: Documenta 12, Kassel, curated by Roger Buergel and Ruth Noack; installations, Neue Gallerie and Aue Pavillion; happening, Bergpark Wilhelmshhe
: "WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution," curated by Cornelia Butler, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC; PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, New York, NY; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
: "Past Over," Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
: "A Batallia Dos Xeneros," curated by Juan Vicente Aliaga, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea,Santiago de Compostela, Spain
: "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," Arte Eta Feminismoaren 45 Urte, 45 Anos de Arte y Feminismo / 45 Years of Art and Feminism, curated by Xabier Arakistain, Bilbao Museum of Fine Arts, Spain
: "Read Me! Text in Art," curated by Malik Gaines, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
: "Nina in Position," curated by Jeffery Uslip; Artists Space, New York, NY
2006: "Full House: Video of the Whitneys Collection at 75," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: "Civil Restitutions," curated by Jeffrey Uslip and Simon Preston, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
: "Academy," Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
: "State of Emergency," election night screening, Alias, New York, NY
: "Concept Has Never Meant Horse," Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
: "The Look of the Law," curated by Simon Leung, University Art Gallery, University of California Irvine, CA
: "Technologized Bodies/ Embodied Technologies, Art Interactive," College Art Association, Cambridge, MA
: "Sixty Years of Sculpture in the Arts Council Collection," Longsdale Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, London, UK
: "Sixteen Tons," curated by Michael Darling, New Wight Gallery, Broad Art Center, University of California Los Angeles, CA
: "How To Improve the World: British Art 1946-2006," Hayward Gallery, London, UK
: "Making History: Art and Documentary in Britain 1929 to Now," (Berwick Street Film Collective),curator, Tanya Barson, Liverpool Tate, London, UK
2005: "Occupying Space: Generali Foundation Collection," Haus der Kunst, Munich; Museum Borjmans van Beuningen, Nederlands Fotomuseum and Witte de with, Rotterdam
: Selected Works From The Collection, Colorado University Art Museum, Boulder, CO
: "Work/Labor," curated by Silvia Eiblmayr, Galerie in Taxipalais, Tirol, Austria; traveled to Centroa Andaluz de Arte Contemporanea, Sevilla, Spain
: "At the Mercy of Others," The Art Gallery of The Graduate Center, City University of New York, NY
: "Family," The Photographers Gallery, London, UK
: "Mixed-up Childhood," Auckland City Art Gallery, Toi o Tamaki, New Zealand
2004: 2004 Whitney Biennial, curated by Debra Singer, Shamim Momin, Chrissie Iles, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: "100 Artists See God," curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL; traveled to The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA; Laguna Art Museum, CA; Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK (2005); Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, VA (2005)
: "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
: "Maternal Metaphors," The Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, NY
: "Dass die Krper sprechen, auch das wissen wir seit," Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
: "The Shadow of Production," Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2003: "Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism," curated by Pamela Auchingeloss and Klaus Ottmann, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL; DePauw University Art Gallery, Greencastle, IN
: "Identitt schreiben Autobiographie in der Kunst," curated by Hemma Schmutz, Galerie Fűr Zeitgenossische, Leipzig, Germany
: "Works from the Permanent Collection," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: "Crimes and Misdemeanors: Politics in US Art of the 1980s," Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
: "Intimates," Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002: "Gloria: Another Look at Feminist Art of the 1970s," White Columns, New York; traveled to The Galleries, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, RI
: "Self Evident: The Artist as the Subject," Tate Britain, London, UK
: "On General Release: Artists and Film in Britain, 1968-1972," curated by Lynda Morris and David Curtis, Norwich Gallery, Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich, UK; John Hansard Gallery, The University, Highfield Southampton; George Rodger Gallery, KIAD, Maidstone; Institute of Visual Culture, Cambridge, MA
: "Fetish: Art and the Word," UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2001: "Works From the Collection," Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
: "Visual Worlds," Richard L Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
: "The Presence of Absence," Ezra and Cecile Zilka Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
: "Camera Women," curated by Carol Armstrong, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
: "Recent Acquisitions: Photograph Works," Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2000: "Die verletzte Diva," curated by Silvia Eiblmayr, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Kunstverein,Munich, Siemens Kulturprogramm, Stdtische Galerie, Munich, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden
: "Tempus Fugit," curated by Jan Schall, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
: "Around 1984," curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
: "Carnival in the Eye of the Storm," Phillip Feldman Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
: "Dairy," Cornerhouse, Manchester, Firstsite and The Minories Art Gallery, Colchester, UK
: "Les Semiophores," curated by Philippe Mouillon, Faade of the Town Hall, Lyon, France
: "Nude / Body / Action," curated by Iwona Blazwick, The Tate Modern, London, UK
: "Snapshot," The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
: "Minimal Politics: Hans Haacke, Mary Kelly, Robert Morris, Adrian Piper, Yvonne Rainer," Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
: Live in Your Head: Concept and Experiment in Britain 1965-75, Whitechapel Gallery, London; traveled to Museu Do Chiado, Lisbon
: Artworkers, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, and Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales, UK
1999: The American Century: Arts & Culture 1900-2000 Part II, 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Einbliche in Die Sammlung, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
: Pencils of Nature: A Dialogue, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
: Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s – 1980s, Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY; traveled to The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; traveled to MIT Visual Arts Center, Boston, MA (2000)
: La Mmoire, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Laurence Boss, Academie de France, Rome, Italy
: Xmas Xhibition, curated by Andrea Frank, Kent Gallery, New York, NY
: Sotheby’s 8th Biennial Exhibition and Auction, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1998: Addressing the Century: 100 Years of Art and Fashion, curated by Peter Wollen, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
: Works from the Permanent Collection, curated by John Pultz, The Spencer Museum, Kansas University, Lawrence, KS
: Works from the Permanent Collection, curated by Elizabeth Sussman and Eugene Tsai, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: 1950 Gallery, Independent Curators Incorporated Biennial, New York, NY
: Sculpture Urbaine, Grenoble, Pacaembu Stadium Facade Project, Sao Paolo, Brazil
: The Older Body, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
: Heaven – Private View, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
1997: Critical Images, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY
: Minimal Politics: Hans Haacke, Mary Kelly, Robert Morris, Adrian Piper, Yvonne Rainer, curated by Maurice Berger, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
: A Gift for India, Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust, New Delhi, India
: Ten Years of Collecting: 1987 1997, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada
1996: Making Pictures: Women and Photography, Part II, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
: Baby Exhibition, Part I, 1708 Gallery, Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, FL; traveled to Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA
: NowHere, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebk, Denmark
: Body as Membrane, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
: Documents, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebk, Denmark
: Sexual Politics, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
: Laughter Ten Years After, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD; traveled to Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
1995: Temporarily Possessed, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
: The Division of Labour: Women and Work, Museum of Contemporary of Art, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to The Bronx Museum, New York, NY
: Social Strategies in the 1970’s, The Tate Gallery, London, UK
: Desiring Authors, Enveloping Myths, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
: Works by Artists in the New Museum Semi-Permanent Collection, Salon of Rebecca Cooper, New York, NY
: Anti-Slogans, Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, UK
: Laughter Ten Years After, The Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middleton, CT; traveled to Houghton House Gallery, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva
: Auf den Leib Geschrieben, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
: Ciphers of Identity, Art Museum, University of Southern Florida, Tampa, FL
: The Masculine Masquerade, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
1994: Written/Spoken/Drawn in Lacanian Ink, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
: Nine Months, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
: Ciphers of Identity, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
: Mistaken Identities, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
: Voicing Today’s Visions, Mary Delahoyd Gallery, New York, NY
: One Hundred Hearts Benefit, The Contemporary, New York, NY
1993: Camera Politic, curated by Carlo Frua and Joyce Nereaux, The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA; traveled to La Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
: Empty Dress, Independent Curators Incorporated, New York, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY; traveled to Virginia Beach Center for the Arts; University Gallery, University of North Texas; Mackenzie Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada; The Gallery/Stratford, Ontario, Canada; Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art & Design
: I am the Enunciator, Threadwaxing Space, New York, NY
: Songs of Retribution, Richard Anderson Gallery, New York, NY
: Abjection in American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, UK
: Contacts/Proofs, Jersey City Museum 
: Ciphers of Identity, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD
: Benefit Exhibition, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY Benefit Exhibition, Blast Magazine, New York, NY
: Benefit Exhibition, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1992: Mis/taken Identities, University Art Museum, Santa Barbar, CA; traveled to Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria; Neues Museum Weserburgh Bremen im Forum Langenstrasse, Bremen, Germany; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark
: The Spatial Drive, Blast, Contributor, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
: Cross Section, The World Financial Center, New York, NY
: So Order So Nicht Sein, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
: Effected Desire, Carnegie Museum of Art , Pittsburgh, PA
: Womens Art at New Hall, New Hall, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
1991: Works from the Permanent Collection, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
: 1991 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: The Realm of the Coin, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
: Gender and Representation, Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania University, PA
: Shocks to the System, The South Bank Centre, London, UK; traveled to Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Switzerland; Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne; Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; City Museum Plymouth; Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayre
1990: Inquiries-Language in Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; traveled to McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay; Laurentian University Museum and Arts Center, Sudbury; Rodman Hall Arts Center, St Catherines
: The Decade Show, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY
: Word as Image-American Art 1960-1990, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; traveled to Oklahoma City Art Museum; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
: In Her Image, Barbara Toll Fine Art, New York , NY
1989: Fashioning Feminine Identities, University Gallery, Essex 
1988: Modes of Address, Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown, New York, NY
: Mixed Meaning, Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
1987: Conceptual Clothing, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, AL; traveled to Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston; Peterborough City Museum and Art Gallery; Aberdeen Art Gallery; Spacex Gallery Exeter; Camden Arts Center, London, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, State of the Art, Tour: The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
: The British Edge, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
: Propositions: Work from the Permanent Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
: Aspects of Voyeurism, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York, NY 
: Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
: State of the Art,(exhibition, book, and television series), Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
1986: The Fairy Tale: Politics, Desire and Everyday Life, Artist’s Space, New York, NY
: Identity/Desire: Representing the Body, Collins Gallery, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow; traveled to Crawford Center for the Arts, St Andrews; McLaurin Art Gallery
: Electro-media, Public Access Project, Toronto, Canada
1984: Difference, curated by Katherine Linker, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; traveled to The Renaissance Society; University of Chicago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA; Institute of Contemporary Art, London, MA
: The Critical Eye/I, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (Mary Kelly, the complete Post-Partum Document), Victor Burgin, Richard Long, Bruce McLean, David Tremlet
: The British Art Show, City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Tour: Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Southhampton Art Gallery
1983: The Revolutionary Power of Woman’s Laughter, Protetch-McNeil, New York; traveled to Art Culture Resource Center, Toronto, Canada; Washington College Art Gallery, Maryland
1982: The 4th Biennale of Sydney, Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
: Sense and Sensibility, Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham
1981: Typisch Frau, Bonner Kunstverein and Gallery Magers, Bonn, Germany
: 9th Kracow Meetings, Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, Kracow 
: Touring Exhibition, Greater London Arts Association
1980: Issue, curated by Lucy Lippard, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1979: Un Certain Art Anglais, ARCII, Museum d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
: Europa ’79, Heztler, Muller & Schurr, Stuttgart, Germany
: Feministische Kunst Internationaal, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands; traveled to de Oosterpoort, Groningen; Nooedbrabants Museum, Den Bosch; de Vleeshal, Middleburgh; Le Vest, Alkmar; de Beyerd, Buda; Nijmeegs Museum, Nijmegen
: Both Sides Now, Artmesia Gallery, Chicago, IL
: Verbiage, Kettles Yard, University of Cambridge
: “Art, Politics, and Ideology,” Dartington College of Art, Devon, UK
1978: Art for Society, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London and Ulster Museum, Belfast
: The Hayward Annual, The Hayward Gallery, London, UK
1977: Radical Attitudes to the Gallery, Art Net, London, UK
1975: “Women and Work: A Document on the Division of Labour in Industry,” South London Art Gallery, London, UK
: Sexuality and Socialization, Northern Arts Gallery, Newcastle, UK
: Independent Filmmakers Festival, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
1974: Women’s Workshop/Artists Union, Arts Meeting Place, London, UK
1970: Group Exhibition, St Martin’s School of Art Gallery, London, UK

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Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books

2024: Carson, Juli. "Mary Kelly’s Concentric Pedagogy: Selected Writings," Bloomsbury, London
2023: de Chassey, Éric. "La Répétition Éditions du Centre Pompidou-Metz," Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France. Pg 50-51
2022: Deutsche, Rosalyn. "Not Forgetting," University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL
2021: Liebert, E., Fellah, N. R., Griswold, W., Liebert, E., Keith, N. J., Wexler, L., Lax, T. J., and Griswold, W. (2021). Picturing Motherhood Now. Pg 14-15, 23, 47,111, 123. Cleveland Museum of Art.
2018: Lamm, Kammy. "Addressing the other woman: Textual correspondences in feminist art and writing," Manchester University Press
2017: Nacking, Åsa, Emil Nilsson, and Gertrud Sandqvist, “Whither the Winds,” Lunds konsthall, Lund, Sweden
: Smith, Sidonie and Julia Watson, "Life Writing in the Long Run: A Smith and Watson Autobiography Studies Reader," Michigan Publishing, Ann Arbor, MI
2016: Nixon, Mignon, “October Files: Mary Kelly,” MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (Link)
2012: Widenheim, Cecilia and Ruth Noack, “Dialogue – On the Politics of Voice,” Iaspis, Stockholm
: McCloskey, Paula, “Studies in the Maternal,” Birkbeck University, London
: Smith, Terry, “Contemporary Art: World Currents,” Laurence King Publishing and Pearson Prentice Hall, New Jersey
: Mesch, Claudia, “Art and Politics: A Small History of Art for Social Change after 1945,” I.B. Tauris, London
: Yuen-Yi, Lo, “Drawing the Writing,” Kubrick, Hong Kong
1992: “The Spatial Drive, BLAST,” Pocket Dictionary, New Museum, New York
: “Gloria Patri,” (catalog), Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University
: "AM LIT,” Neue Literatur aus den USA, Edition Druckhaus III, Berlin, Germany
: "Vag Document I,” Vancouver Art Gallery, June 1989
: "Now Time No 2,” Art Press, DAP Publications
: "Follow Me" (white t-shirt with black ink, L, XL), Artists Space, New York
: Harrison, Charles and Paul Wood, “Art in Theory: An Anthology of Sources on Art Theory in the 20th Century,” Blackwell, Oxford and Cambridge, MA
1991: "Interim Part I Supplication," Social Text No 28 (cover)
: “The Female Body,” an anthology of MQR (Michigan Quarterly Review) publications, The University of Michigan Press
: Donald, James "Psychoanalysis and Cultural Theory,” St Martin’s Press, New York, NY
: Turyn, Anne, "Pecunia Olet," City Lights Books, San Francisco
1990: "Interim,’ The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
: "instabili,” La Galerie Powerhouse, Centre d’information Artexte, Montreal, Canada
1989: Forman, Frieda, "Taking Our Time,” Pergamon Press, Oxford, UK
: “Between Signifiers: A Report by the Participants on The Critical Practice of Art,” a summer intensive held at the Simon Fraser University Centre for the Arts
: Mulvey, Laura, “Visual and Other Pleasures,” University of Indiana Press, Bloomington, IN
: Pollock, Griselda, “Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism, and the Histories of Art,” Routledge, London, UK
1987: Parker & Pollock, "Framing Feminism,” Pandora Press, London, UK
: Nairne, Sandy, “State of the Art: Ideas and Images in the 1980’s,” Chatto and Windus, London, UK
1986: “Interim,” Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh; Riverside Studios, London; Kettles Yard, Cambridge University
: Foster, Hal, “Endgame: Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting and Sculpture,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
1985: “Menace,” Talking Back to the Media, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
: Appignanesi, Lisa, "Woman-Desire-Image," ICA Documents, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
1984: "The Critical Eye/I,” Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT
: Wallis, Brian, "Art After Modernism,” New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, DR Godine, Boston
: Foster, Hal, “The Anti-Aesthetic,” Bay Press, Seattle, WA
: Lippard, Lucy, “Get the Message,” E.P. Dutton, New York
1983: “Post-Partum Document,” Routledge & Kegan Paul, London
1982: Sense and Sensibility, Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham, UK
1981: Parker, Rozsika and Griselda Pollock, “Old Mistress: Women, Art, and Ideology,” Routledge and Kegan Paul, London
1980: "Post-Partum Document,” Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
: “Art and Politics,” Winchester School of Art Press  1977
: Brighton and Morris, "Towards Another Picture,” Midland Group, Nottingham
1976: “Post-Partum Document,” Institute of Contemporary Art, London

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2024: Creative Capital Award
2018: Honorary Doctorate, Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland
2017: Honorary Doctorate, Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, Lund University, Sweden
2015: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
2012: Anonymous Was a Woman Award
: The Distinguished Artists’ Interviews, College Art Association
2004: Honorary Doctor of Arts, University of Wolverhampton, England
2001: Council on Research Award, University of California, Los Angeles
1998: Council on Research Award, University of California, Los Angeles
1987: National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship
1985: New Hall, Cambridge University, Artist-in-Residence Award
1980: Greater London Arts Association Visual Arts Award
1979: Hans Jorgen Muller Award, Europa 79, Stuttgart
1978: Lina Garnade Memorial Foundation Award
1977: Arts Council of Great Britain Visual Arts Award
1973: Greater London Arts Association Fellowship

Public Collections

: Arts Council of Great Britain
: Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada
: Australian National Gallery
: Burger Collection, Zurich, Switerland
: Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
: Centre Pompidou Foundation, Paris, France
: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
: Colorado University Art Museum, Boulder, CO
: Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
: Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
: Helsinki City Art Museum , Finland
: Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, NY
: Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
: Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
: Moderna Musset, Stockholm, Sweden
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
: Museum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland
: National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
: New Hall, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
: New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
: Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
: Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: Progressive Corporation
: Rachofsky House, Dallas, TX
: Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
: Tate Britain, London, UK
: Tate Modern, London, UK
: Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada
: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
: Weil, Gotshal and Manges Collection 
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
: Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK

Lyne Lapointe

1957: Born in Montreal, Québec, Canada
: Lives and works in Mansonville, Québec

1978: University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025: "Spotlight: Lyne Lapointe," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Lyne Lapointe: Becoming Animal," Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2022: "Lyne Lapointe: La femme enceinte," Curated by Sylvie Lacerte, Arts Sutton, Sutton, QC, Canada
2021: "Lyne Lapointe: De la soie aux poils de porc-épic / From Silk to Porcupine Quills," Curated by Lesley Johnstone and Stéphane La Rue, Galeries Bellemare Lambert, Montréal, QC, Canada
2017: "Lyne Lapointe and La Fontaine’s Fables by Marc Chagall," Galeries Bellemare Lambert, Montréal, QC, Canada
2015: "Lyne Lapointe," Galeries Bellemare Lambert, Montréal, QC, Canada
: "Lyne Lapointe: Perches/Perchoirs," The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John’s, NL, Canada
2012: "Lyne Lapointe: Oeuvres Choisies," Pierre-Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montréal, QC, Canada
: "Lyne Lapointe: Selected Work," Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2011: "Lyne Lapointe: Cabinet," Musée D’Art De Joliette, Joliette, QC, Canada
2008: "Lyne Lapointe: La Clef," SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Montréal, QC, Canada
2007: "Lyne Lapointe: La Perle," Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON, Canada
2004: "Lyne Lapointe: The Blind Spot," Yukon Arts Centre Public Art Gallery, Whitehorse, Canada; Travelled to: Musée du Nouveau-Monde, La Rochelle, France (2004); Galerie d’art du Centre culturel de l’Université de Sherbrooke Québec, QC, Canada (2005); Maison Hamel-Bruneau, QC, Canada (2005); Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada (2006)
2003: "Lyne Lapointe:The Blind Spot," Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
2002: "Lyne Lapointe: La Tache aveugle," Musée d’art contemporain, Montréal, QC, Canada
1997: "Lyne Lapointe," Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
1996: "Martha Flemming & Lyne Lapointe," Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
1995: "Martha Fleming & Lyne Lapointe: Work 1984-1994," Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
1994: "Lyne Lapointe," Museu de zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1993: "Eat Me/Drink Me/Love Me," Galerie Rochefort, Montréal, QC, Canada
1989: "Eat Me/Drink Me/Love Me," Curated by Bill Olander, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1988: "Lyne Lapointe/ Martha Fleming," Atelier Roger Bellemare, Montréal, QC, Canada
: "New Work," Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
1981: "Lyne Lapointe," Galerie France Morin, Montréal, QC, Canada

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024: "Echoes of Circumstance," Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
: "Soft Focus," Bradley Ertaskiran, Montréal, QC, Canada
2022: "Stressed World," The School, Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, NY
: "Over the Rainbow: A Selection of Works by LGBTQ2S+ Artists," National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
2021: "Anti/Body," Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2020: "Les feuilles – Qu’on foule – Un train – Qui roule – La vie -·S’écoule (Guillaume Apollinaire)," Curated by Pierre Bourgie, Catalogue Gallery, Montréal, QC, Canada
2019-2020: "Peindre la nature avec un miroir," Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
2019: "Dunkle Energie. Feministisch organisieren, kollektiv arbeiten = Dark Energy. Feminist Organizing, Working Collectively," Curated by Veronique Boilard, Andrea Haas, Nina Hochtl and Julia Wieger, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien /Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria
2018: "Travelogue," The School, Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, NY
: "Terræ Incognitæ," Galerie Catalogue, Montréal, QC, Canada
: "Beginning with the Seventies: GLUT," Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
: "En avant la Musique!," Galeries Bellemare Lambert, Montréal, QC, Canada
2017: "The Coffins of Paa Joe and the Pursuit of Happiness," The School, Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, NY
: "Canadian and Indigenous Art: 1968 to Present," Curated by Jos.e Drouin-Brisebois, Greg Hill, Christine Lalonde, Rhiannon Vogl and Adam Welch, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
: "Rien de moins," Galeries Bellemare Lambert, Montréal, QC, Canada
: "The Hold: Studies in the Contemporary Collection," Curated by Sunny Kerr, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s, University, Kingston, ON, Canada
2016: "Mutations," Galeries Bellemare Lambert, Montréal, QC, Canada
: "De Ferron à BGL: art contemporain du Québec," Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, QC, Canada
2015: "Chemin faisant," Galeries Bellemare Lambert, Montréal, QC, Canada
2014: "The Beauty of Gesture," Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
2013: "Collection Luciano Benetton," Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy
2010: "Femmes artistes. L’éclatement des frontières, 1965-2000," Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, QC, Canada
2009: "Above and Below," Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
2008: "À la croisée de l’art et de la médecine," Galerie d’art du Centre culturel de l’Universit de Sherbrooke, QC, Canada (Travelled to: Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada)
2007: "Coup d’éclat: Acquisitions 2006-2007," Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, QC, Canada
: "Finding the Bard in Contemporary Portraiture," Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON, Canada
2006: "Illumination Escapade," Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, Lennoxville, QC, Canada
2005-2006: "Dessins de la Collection," Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
2005: "Science," National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
: "Animal Nature," Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2004: "La Sculpture et le vent: Femmes sculpteures au Québec," Centre d’exposition CIRCA, Montréal, QC, Canada
2000: "Concordia Collects: Selected Art Acquisitions, 1974-2000," Galerie d’art Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montréal, QC, Canada
1999: "Les Bouches ouvertes, Maison Hamel-Bruneau, Québec, QC, Canada
1997: "Exquisite Corpses," Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
: "Telling Stories: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art," Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON, Canada
: "En cause: Brancusi, une fiction de l’atelier," Axené07, Gatineau, QC, Canada
: "Présences: l’art contemporain au féminin," Galerie de l’UQAM, Montréal, QC, Canada
1996: "La Collection: OEuvres-phares," Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
1995-1996: "Seeing in Tounges: A Narrative of Language and Visual Arts in Québec," Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
1995: "Pervert," The Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA
1994: "Dreaming of You," Garnet Press Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
: "Well-Spring," Bath Festival Trust, Bath, England, UK
: "La Collection Lavalin du Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal," Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
: "Biennale de São Paulo," São Paulo, Brazil
: "De causis et tractatibus," Axené07, Gatineau, QC, Canada
1993: "Objets choisis," Galerie Rochefort, Montréal, QC, Canada
1992: "Queues, Rendezvous, Riots: Questioning the Public in Art and Architecture," Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB, Canada
: "La Collection: Tableau inaugural," Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
: "Pour la suite du Monde," Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
: "Edge 92 Bienniale," London, UK and Madrid, Spain
1991: "Outrageous Desire: The Politics and Aesthetics of Representation in Recent Works by Lesbian and Gay Artists," Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ
1990-1992: "Team Spirit. — An Independent Curators Incorporated," Curated by Susan Sollins and Nina Castelli Sundell, New York, NY (Travelled to: Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, NY (1991); Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH (1991); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada (1991); The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL (1991); Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC (1992); Davenport Art Museum, Davenport, IA (1992); Laumeier Sculpture Park, Saint Louis, MO (1992))
1990: "Queer," Wessel O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY
: "The Collector’s Cabinet," Curated by Carol Anne Klonarides, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
1989: "Une histoire de collections: dons 1984-1989," Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
1988: "Installations: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection," National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
1984: "Face à face: Auto-portraits," Powerhouse, Montréal, QC, Canada
1983: "Künstler aus Kanada: Räume und Installationnen," Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
1982: "Photographs by Artists," Galerie France Morin, Montréal, QC, Canada
1981: "Betty Goodwin, Jene Highsteen, Lyne Lapointe, Marcel Lemyre, Keith Sonnier," Galerie France Morin, Montréal, QC, Canada

Awards, Residencies, and Grants

2012: Québec studio in New York, Council of Arts and Letters of Québec, Montréal, QC, Canada
1998: Prix Graff, Duo Lapointe/Fleming, Montréal, QC, Canada
1997: Prix Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY

Bibliography

2025: Clement, Eric. "In Lyne Lapointe’s studio The resilient," La Presse, May 18
: Worthington, Corinne. "Separating the Art from the Artist," Impulse, March 25 (Link)
: Martinovic, Jelena. "Lyne Lapointe’s New Body of Work Explores the Body in Flux," Loophole, March 24 (Link)
: Mavrikakis, Nicolas. "Exhibitions in New York: fruitful metamorphoses," LeDevoir, March 22
: Cultured Staff. "This Month, Show Up for These 12 Unmissable New York Solo Shows by Women Artists," March 3 (Link)
2022: ArtsSutton. "Lyne Lapointe exhibits The Pregnant Woman," Westmount Mag, July 28 (Link)

Public Collections

: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON
: Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, ON
: Brown University Art Museum, Providence, RI
: Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, Treviso, Italy
: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
: Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, QC
: Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montréal, QC
: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, QC
: Rennie Museum, Vancouver, BC
: The Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON
: Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC
: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
: Windsor Art Gallery, Windsor, ON

Sara Marlowe Hall

2013: BA Honors Degree: Drawing, 2.1, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL, London, UK
2012: Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig, Germany
2010: Foundation Diploma, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL, London, UK

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025: "Spotlight: Sara Marlowe Hall – Pink Morongo," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2024: "Lovers Talk Volume 2," Etesian Gallery, Menorca, Spain
2023: "Lost Summer," Single Person Galerie, Shanghai, China
: "Nature Studies," Pallas Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: "Lovers Talk Volume 1," Sade Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022: "Underneath There Is Color," Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015: "Blink," Ketchum, London, UK

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025: "Embers," Meier St, Mar Vista, CA
: "We Got Lost For A While," Etesian Gallery, Menorca, Spain
: "Forward," Tappan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "L.A. Rise," Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024: "In Hybrid Moments," Last Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2023: "L.A. MADE," Tappan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "L.A.ND," NeueHouse Venice, Venice, CA
: "Temporal," Tappan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Offline," Tappan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Two Weeks," Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022: "Open Spaces," Pallas Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2021: Group Show, Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Mars Blueberries," PADA, Barreiro, Portugal
2020: "In Real Life," Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019: "Showcase," Merchant Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Nourishment," Guest Projects, London, UK
2018: "Still," Merchant Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "To The Desert," Merchant Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Bent," Merchant Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "L.A. Femme," Merchant Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Lion, Woman, Man, Water, Sand," Etihad Modern Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi
2017: "Lion, Woman, Man, Water, Sand," Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
: "Material," BAM, Los Angeles, CA
2015: "Reliquary," Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014: "Wish You Were Here," Merchant Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Good Art," Merchant Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Face Value," Merchant Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013: "Residence of Bussey Building," Copeland Park Gallery, London, UK
2012: "Rundgang," Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig, Germany
: "The Wall That Sucks," Academy of Visual Art, Leipzig, Germany

Residencies

2024: Etesian Gallery, Menorca, Spain
2022: Salmon Creek Farm, CA
2021: PADA, Barreiro, Portugal
: Poco A Poco, Oaxaca, México
2020: Varda Artists Residency, Sausalito, CA

Tariku Shiferaw

: Lives and works in New York, NY

2019: Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program, New York, NY
2015: MFA, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2007: BFA, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025: "Spotlight: Tariku Shiferaw, Defiant Imaginations" Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Maps and Borders," New York Print Center, New York, NY
2023: "Marking Oneself in Dark Places," Galerie Lelong & Co. New York, NY
: "Making Space: One of These Black Boys," curated by Storm Ascher, Southampton African American Museum, Southampton, NY
2021: "It’s a love thang, it’s a joy thang," Galerie Lelong & Co. New York, NY
2018: "This Ain’t Safe," Cathouse Proper, Brooklyn, NY
2017: "Erase Me," Addis Fine Art, London, UK
: "One of These Black Boys," Anthony Philip Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025: "Summer Reads," curated by Grace Hong, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
: "The Abstract Future," curated by Alia Dahl, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA
2024: "Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics," curated by Dhyandra Lawson, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: "Midsommar", Bodé Gallery, Berlin, Germany
: "Coalescent Lights," curated by Kami Gahiga, 1-54 at Christie’s, Hong Kong
2023: "Spectrum: On Color & Contemporary Art," curated by Key Jo Lee, Museum of The African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
: "The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century", co-organized by Asma Naeem, Dorothy Wagner Wallis, Hannah Klemm, and Andréa Purnell, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (Travelled to: St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (2023))
: "Color Coded," curated by Dexter Wimberly, Bodé Projects, Berlin, Germany
: "A Love Letter to LA," Superposition Gallery in collaboration with Phillips Auction House, Los Angeles, CA
: "Ümwelt," curated by Jonny Niesche, Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
: "The Oyster is Your World," Coma Gallery, Sydney, Australia
: "Color Effects," Galerie Lelong & Co, New York, NY
2022: "You’d Think By Now," curated by Rachel Vera Steinberg, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
: "Geometries," curated by Damien Davis, Sugar Hill Museum, New York, NY
: "What You See Is What You Get," MASSIMODECARLO, Milan, Italy
: "Summer of Possibilities," curated by Alteronce Gumby, Bode Projects, Berlin, Germany
: "DIGS," curated by Kim Donaldson and Sean Lowry, Project8, Melbourne, Australia
: "Resilience," curated by Storm Ascher, Eastville Community Historical Society, Hamptons, NY
: "What is Past is Prologue," 21cMuseum Hotel, Louisville, KY
: "In Spite of Modernism: Contemporary Art, Abstract Legacies, and Identity, Curated by Haley Clouser, Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA
: "Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth.," Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Organized by The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Baltimore, MD
2021: "Witness: African Diaspora," Piero Atchugarry, Miami, FL
: "From Modern to Contemporary," CFHill Art Space, Stockholm, Sweden
2020: "Abstraction in the Black Diaspora," False Flag Projects, co-curated by Ayanna Dozier and Tariku Shiferaw, Queens, NY
: "Unbound," Zuckerman Museum of Art, curated by Nzinga Simmons, Kennesaw, GA
: "Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth.," California African American Museum (CAAM), Organized by The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Los Angeles, CA
: "BLACK VOICES/BLACK MICROCOSM," CF Hill, curated by Destinee Ross, Stockholm, Sweden
: "A Muffled Sound Underwater," Latchkey Gallery, New York, NY
2019: "Implied Body," Assembly Room, Curated by Emily Alesandrini, New York, NY
: "Wu-Tang Clan X Absolute Art," Curated by Oliver “Power” Grant and Diya Vij, New York, NY
: "Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth.," National Underground Railroad, Organized by The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Cincinnati, OH
: "What’s love got to do with it," The Drawing Center, curated by Lisa Sigal and Rosario Güiraldes, New York, NY
: "6 Plus 1: Featuring Tariku Shiferaw," Hammond Harkins Galleries, Columbus, OH
2018: "To Dream Avant-Garde," Hammond Harkins Galleries, curated by Alteronce Gumby, Columbus, OH
: "Without Qualities," Organized by Alaina Simone, Addis Fine Art, New York, NY
: "Hyphen America, Gallery 102," curated by Tsedaye Makonnen and Alexandra Delafkaran, Washington, D.C.
: "People I Love Who Are Far Away," E.Tay Gallery, curated by Christina Papanicola and Gina Malek, New York, NY
: "Into Action," Organized by For Freedoms, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Paddock III: Postedto Paris," Organized by the Paddock group, Galerie Abstract Project, Paris, France
2017: "A Poet*hical Wager," Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Curated by Andria Hickey, Cleveland, OH
: "2017 Whitney Biennial," Whitney Museum of American Art, part of Occupy Museums’ Debtfair, Curated by Mia Locks and Christopher Lew, New York, NY
: "Black Magic: AfroPasts/AfroFutures," Honfleur gallery, curated by Niama Sandy, Washington, DC
: "Leaving Home: Cathouse FUNeral Migrates North," curated by David Dixon, Beacon, NY
: "Woe-nderland," Art in Flux Artfairs, Curated by Henone Girma, New York, NY
: "Hard Cry, Lubov," Curated by Gabriel H. Sanchez, New York, NY
2016: "Life Sized," Anthony Philip Fine Art, Curated by Anthony Philip, Brooklyn, NY
: "Introductions 2016," Trestle Gallery, Curated by Jim Osman, Brooklyn, NY
2015: "Off Pink", Parsons MFA Thesis Exhibition, The Kitchen, curated by Tina Kukielski, New York, NY
: "New Work New York, 1st MFA Biennial Presented by St. Nicks Alliance & Arts@Renaissance," curated by Kat Griefen, Brooklyn, NY
2013: "States of Becoming," 25 East Gallery, curated by Rujuta Rao and Lilly Handley, New York, NY

Residencies & Studio Programs

2025: Hermitage Artist Residency, Manasota, FL
2023: Experimental Print Residency at Lafayette College, Easton, PA
: Arc-Athens artist residency, Athens, Greece
2022: Silver Art artist residency at the WTC, New York, NY
2020: LES Studio Program, New York, NY
: Open Sessions, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2018: Vermont College of Fine Arts, Winter Residency, Montpelier, VT

Bibliography

2025: Joseph, Melissa. "Tariku Shiferaw by Melissa Joseph," BOMB, November 10 (Link)
: "This momentous LACMA exhibition called for a group portrait — to the tune of Roberta Flack," LA Times, April 11
2024: Ruznic, Maja. "Tariku Shiferaw," The Brooklyn Rail, September
2023: Pierson, Jack and Lyle Rexer. "Tariku Shiferaw with Charles M. Schultz," The Brooklyn Rail, September
2022: Dozier, Ayanna. "With Spectacular Installations and Abstractions, Artists Redress Colonial Violence and History," July 5
: Zornosa, Laura. "These Artists’ Hunt for Studio Space Ended at The World Trade Center," March 26
: Jenkins, Mark. "In the galleries: Connecting modern abstraction with personal identity," The Washington Post, March 11
: Cole, Carolyn. "The Take: The faces of Frieze LA during the art fair’s bustling 2022 opening day," LA Times, February 18
2021: Cardwell, Erica. "The Artsy Vanguard: Tariku Shiferaw," December 1
: Moore, Charles. "Tariku Shiferaw: It’s a love thang, it’s a joy thang," The Brooklyn Rail, May
: White, Katie. "‘Joy Can Be an Act of Resistance’: Rising-Star Artist Tariku Shiferaw on the Provocatively Happy Ideas Behind His Abstractions," ArtNet News, April 26
: Mor, Ricardo. "Five Contemporary Black Artists You Should Know," Cultured, March 16
2020: Rodney, Seph. "Black Artists Claim Their Birthright of Abstraction," Hyperallergic, Dec 3
: Buhe, Elizabeth. "Abstraction in the Black Diaspora," The Brooklyn Rail, November
: Barré, Martin. "Transatlantique," ER Publishing
: Proctoer, Rebecca Anne. "Five African artists demonstrating creative resilience in challenging times," Wallpaper*, October 10
: Gerlis, Melanie. "Could the Art World’s Experiment with Online Fairs Force A Healthy Rethink?," Financial Times, April 30
: Rodney, Seph. "What Does It Mean To Exhibit “Black Excellence”?," Hyperallergic, April 2
: Schultz, Abby. "Contemporary Artists on Art and Society," Barron’s, March 23
2019: Mitic, Ginanne Brownell. "An Ethiopian Gallery Enriches a Global Art Conversation," The NY Times, Dec 3
: Tonguette, Peter. "N.Y. artist Tariku Shiferaw draws from his surroundings in Short North show," The Columbus Dispatch, April 8
: Vogel, Maria. "Tariku Shiferaw Investigates Abstract Expressionism’s History," Art of Choice, February 14
2018: Goodman, Jonathan. "Tariku Shiferaw: This Ain’t Safe at Cathouse Proper," ArteFuse, April 10
: Kerlidou, Gwenael. "Taking the Painter Out of Painting," Hyperallergic, January 20
2017: Sharp, Sarah Rose. "Low-Risk Aesthetics: Institutional Critique at MOCA Cleveland," Art in America, November 9
: Carroll, Angela N. "Afro Pasts / Afro Futures," Bmore Art, September 14
: Jenkins, Mark. "In the galleries: ‘Afrofuturism,’ defined in the moment, by nine artists," The Washington Post, September 7
: Rodney, Seph. "How To Embed a Shout: A New Generation of Black Artists Contends with Abstraction," Hyperallergic, August 23
2016: Lowry, Sean. "Paratext and the world of a work in public space: Eisenbach and Mansur’s Placeholders," Academic Paper, August

Publications

2025: "Tariku Shiferaw: One of These Black Boys," Frank Publishing
2024: "Tariku Shiferaw: Marking Oneself in Dark Places," Galerie Lelong & Co. New York, NY
2020: "Martin Barré Transatlantique," edited by Molly Warnock with texts by Max Estenger, Julia Fish, Joe Fyfe, Laura Lisbon, Tariku Shiferaw, Cheyney Thompson, ER Publishing, Paris, France

Selected Talks, Lectures and Panels

2025: Panel Discussion, New York Print Center, New York, NY
: Seminar, Addis Ababa University: Alle School of Fine Arts and Design, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2024: Panel Discussion, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
: Panel Discussion, Christies, Hong Kong
2023: Artist Lecture, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
: Art, Knowledge, and Cultural Production: Conversation Between Tariku Shiferaw and Larry Ossei-Mensa, New York, NY
2022: "A Strange Place to Cast Our Dreams," panel discussion, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
: Panel Discussion, 21cMuseum Hotel, Louisville, KY
: Artist Lecture, Brown University, Providence, RI
: Panel Discussion, Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA
: Artist Lecture, Rutgers University (VMPA), Camden, NJ
2021: Artist Lecture, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
: Guest speaker for "Virtual Art &Architecture Student Exhibition" at Cornell University and Syracuse University
: "Abstraction: Investigations of Social Change" moderated by Seph Rodney at Galerie Lelong & Co. NY
: "Let My Hair Down" conversation with Charles Moore at Galerie Lelong & Co. NY.
: "Behind the Canvas: Tariku Shiferaw" conversation with Larry Ossei-Mensah on Clubhouse
: "Tariku Shiferaw: Making Space" Guest lecturer at Rhode Island School of Design
: "Men of Change: Taking it to the Streets," Smithsonian Institution – Anacostia Community Museum
2020: Visiting Lecture Series: Parsons The New School Fine Art MFA/BFA
: "Round Table Response: Abstraction in the Black Diaspora" at False Flag
: Guest Lecturer at Cornell University, Art Department
2018: Prizm Panels at Prizm Art Fair, Miami, FL
: Visiting Artist lecture at Vermont College of Fine Art
2017: ‘Bearden and Genealogies of Abstraction’ at Neuberger Museum of Art.
: A Poet*hical Wager, panel discussion at Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland

Roméo Mivekannin

1986: Born in Bouaké, Ivory Coast
2025: Lives and works between Toulouse, France and Cotonou, Benin

2017: Doctorate in progress at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpellier, France
2015: Graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Toulouse, France

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025: "Roméo Mivekannin," Kunsthalle Gießen, Gießen, Germany (forthcoming)
: "Roméo Mivekannin: Correspondances," Fondation H, Antananarivo, Madagascar
: "O Avesso do Tempo," Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil
: "Spleen," Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany
: "Black Mirror," Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2024: "L’Envers du Temps," Musée du Louvre Lens, France
: "Human in motion," Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany
2022: "Effractions," Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
2021: "Hosties noires," Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Dakar, Senegal
: "Béhanzin," Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris, France
2020: "Les Âmes du Peuple Noir," Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
: "Peaux noires, masques blancs," Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris, France
2016: "Forêt de ville," Atelier A, Toulouse, France

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025: "When We See Us," Bozar Center for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
: "Rois et Reines d’Afrique: formes et figures du pouvoir," Louvre Abu-Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
: "Gillet et Compagnie," Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
2024: "When We See Us," Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
: "The True Size of Africa," Völklinger Hütte, Völklingen, Germany
: "15 Jahre Villa Schöningen," Villa Schöningen, Berlin, Germany
: "Exiles. Regards d’Artistes," Musée du Louvre, Lens, France
: "Dig Where You Stand," Fondation Zinsou Musée, Ouidah & Les Ateliers Coffi, Cotonou, Benin
: "Signifying the Impossible Song," Southern Guild, Los Angeles, CA
: "Mythologies," Ville de Saint-Raphaël, Saint-Raphaël, France
: "Révélation! Art Contemporain du Bénin," La Conciergerie, Paris, France
2023: "Can You Feel The Space That Space Occupies," Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Dakar, Senegal
: "International Exhibition of Contemporary Textiles," Vilnius, Lithuania
: "Une autre Histoire du Monde," Mucem, Marseille, France
: "Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present," Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
: "When We See Us," Zeitz Mocaa, Cape Town, South Africa
: "Senghor et les arts: Réinventer l’universel," Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France
: "Picasso: Sin Título," La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
2022: "Imagine!," Musée Bargoin, Clermont-Ferrand, France
: "Contextile," Paço dos duques, Saison croisée France-Portugal, Guimaraes, Portugal
: "ExodeS," Centre Culturel, Saint-Raphaël, France
: "Horizons d’eaux #6," Former paper mill site, Montech, France
: "Ce que le monde doit à la nuit," Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Paris, France
: "Regarde-moi," Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
: "Biennale de Dakar, Official Selection," Ancien Palais de Justice, Cap Manuel, Dakar, Senegal
: "Prenez garde à la peinture!," Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris, France
: "Picasso Remix," Galerie Le Manège, Dakar, Senegal
2021: "Traversées Africaines," l’Enseigne des Oudin – Fonds de dotation, Paris, France
: "Magies-Sorcelleries," Muséum de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
: "La déconniatrie," Musée des Abbatoirs, Toulouse, France
: "Zoo Humain: Au temps des exhibitions coloniales," Curated by Pascal Blanchard, AfricaMuseum, Tervuren, Belgium
: "ALEPH," Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris, France
2020: "Dans la tête c’est Mexico," Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris, France
2019: "Confort des étranges," Hôtel de Pierre, Toulouse, France
2018: "Habiller l’architecture," ENSA, Toulouse, France
2016: Group show, La Chapelle de Villematier, Villematier, France
: "Replik’Art," Contemporary Art Fesival, Toulouse, France

Public Collections

: Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
: Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
: Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
: Musée National du Quai Branly, Paris, France
: Cité de la Musique, Paris, France
: Collection Leridon, Paris, France
: Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
: Fondation Zeitz, Cape Town, South Africa
: Fondation H, Antananarivo, Madagascar
: Groeninghe Art Collection, Bruges, Belgium
: Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Germany
: Galerie Nationale d’art contemporain du Bénin, Cotonou, Benin
: Musée des Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
: Sharjah Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
: The Bunker – Collection Beth Rudin Dewoody, Palm Beach, FL
: Verbund Collection Vienna, Austria

Exhibition Catalogues and Publications

2023: Senghor et les arts: Réinventer l’universel, Exh. cat., Éditions du musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris 2023
: When we see us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, Exh. cat., Zeitz MOCAA, Thames & Hudson, London 2023
2022: Durand, Guillaume: Déjeunons sur l‘herbe – Prix Renaudot de l‘essai 2022, Éditions Robert Laffont, France 2022
2021: Béhanzin, Exh cat., Galerie Éric Dupont, Paris 2021
2020: Les Âmes du Peuple Noir, Exh. cat., Editions Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan 2020
: Peaux Noires, masques Blancs, Exh. cat., Galerie Éric Dupont, Paris 2020

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