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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

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

Bibliography

2023
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2022
Serrell, Mathilde. "L’art ‘ultra contemporain’ prend le pouvoir," RadioFrance, October 22
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2021
Ardenne, Paul. “Roméo Mivekannin. Du blanc au noir,” ICTUS, n°1, September
“Roméo Mivekannin plonge avec ‘Hosties noires’ dans l’archétype colonial à la Galerie Cécile Fakhoury de Dakar,” On Art, April 8
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2020
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Aly Helyer

MA Painting, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025
"Weight of Love," Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium
2024
"Everything is Borrowed," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022
"The Look of Love," The Cabin, curated by Danny First, Los Angeles, CA
"How to Fight Loneliness," PM/AM Gallery, London, UK
2020
"Silent Charmers," The Cabin, curated by Danny First, Los Angeles, CA
2019
"The Forerunners," Draw Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, New Art Projects, London, UK
2017
"Nobody’s Business," Angus-Hughes, London, UK
2014
"Soft Subversions," Herrick Gallery, London, UK

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023
"Celebrating Picasso Today: Infinite Modernism," Almine Rech, London, UK
"Group Show: Alec Egan, Aly Helyer, Sylvia Ong," Almine Rech, Paris, France
"The Artist as Beast," Project Space on the Inside, a curated selection of paintings from the collection of Edwin Oostmeijer, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"The Cabin Presents: A Curated Flashback," Green Family Foundation, Dallas, TX
"Feeling of Light," Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium
2022
"A Play of Features," Union Gallery, co curated by Aly Helyer and William Gustaffson, London, UK
"The Power to Dream," Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France
2021
"10," PM/AM Gallery, London, UK
“Holding Hands,” Union Gallery, London, UK
2020
"Melancholympics," The Wunderwall, curated by Sasha Bogojev, Antwerp, Belgium
2019
"What Spirit is This?," Sim Smith Gallery, London, UK
2017
"DUMB," Mercer Chance Gallery, curated by Kris Day London, UK
2016
"The Good,The Bad and The Ugly," Charlie Smith Gallery London, UK
"Endgame," Turps Gallery, London, UK
2015
"Ludic," (Two person show with Joel Tomlin), at Herrick Gallery, London, UK
"Lucy In The Sky," Transition Gallery, London, UK
2013
"SPEAK, CLOWN!," Fold Gallery, curated by Hotel Swirly-Whirly, London, UK
"HARTMANN. HELYER. LYDDON. BONILLA. & BAJT," We sell pornography here, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London, UK
"Unknown Sitter," Lion & Lamb Gallery, curated by Covadonga Valdes, London, UK
"This Me of Mine," APT London, curated by Jane Boyer, London, UK (Traveling exhibition)
2009
"Configuration," curated by Day and Gluckman, London, UK
2002
"The Jerwood Drawing Prize," (Traveling exhibition)

Residencies, Scholarships, & Prizes

2022
La Brea Residency, Los Angeles, CA

Bibliography

2024
Nys Dambrot, Shana. "GALLERY ROUNDS: Aly Helyer Vielmetter Los Angeles," Artillery, May 9 (Link)
2021
Artelove Staff. "Aly Helyer: The Stunning Expressionism Of A Great Brush," Artelove, December 13
2020
Bogojev, Sasha. "Silent Charmers: Aly Helyer @ The Cabin, LA," Juxtapoz Magazine, November 13
2019
Irvin, Rebecca. "Painter Aly Helyer reinterprets traditional portraiture with expressionistic colour," Its Nice That, July 4
Irwin, Rebecca. "Its Nice That," The Forerunners, July 4 (Link)
2018
"Interrogating representations of the self," ArtMazeMag, Issue 8, Summer Edition, September 1 (Link)
2013
Boyer, Jane. "This Me of Mine: Self, Time & Context in the Digital Age," Xlbris, October 25
2012
Boyer, Jane. "ANCHORS OF OBSERVATION," This Me Of Mine, March 7

Awards, Residencies, and Grants

2012
Exeter Contemporary Audience Choice Award

Celia Paul

Born 1959 in Trivandrum, India
Lives and works in London, UK
1981
Slade School of Art, London, UK

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024
"Life Painting," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2023
"Celia Paul: Myself Among Others," Victoria Miro Gallery, Venice, Italy
"Celia Paul: 26 Years of Portraiture with Studio Prints, 1985-2011," Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
2022
"Celia Paul: Memory and Desire," Victoria Miro, London, UK
2020
"Celia Paul: Self Portrait, an extended reality (XR) exhibition on Vortic Collect," Victoria Miro, London, UK
2019
"Celia Paul," Victoria Miro, London, UK
2018
"Celia Paul," curated by Hilton Als, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA; The Huntington, San Marino, CA
2017
"The Sea and the Mirror," Victoria Miro, Venice, Italy
2016
"Celia Paul: Desdemona for Hilton by Celia," Victoria Miro, London, UK
2015
"Celia Paul: Desdemona for Hilton by Celia," Gallery Met at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, NY
2014
"Celia Paul," Victoria Miro, London, UK
2012
"Celia Paul: The Separation series and recent work," Chichester Cathedral, UK; Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
"Gwen John and Celia Paul: Painters in Parallel," Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK
2011
"Celia Paul: Identity, Paintings and Watercolours," Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
"Celia Paul: Mothers and Daughters, Etchings and Drawings," Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
2010
"Celia Paul: Mothers, Daughters and Sisters," University Gallery and Baring Wing, Newcastle, UK
"Celia Paul," De Queeste, Brussels, Belgium; touring to Abeley-Watou, Flanders, Belgium
2009
"Celia Paul: Where I am now," Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
"Celia Paul: Etchings 2004-6," Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
2006
"Celia Paul, Where I am now," Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
2005
“Celia Paul Paintings and Works on Paper,” Graves Art Gallery, Sheeld, UK
2004
“Celia Paul: Stillness – Paintings and Etchings 1990-2004,” Abbot Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Kendal, UK
“Celia Paul: Prints and Watercolours,” Marlborough Graphics, London, UK
2002
“Celia Paul, Corner,” Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2002-2004)
1999
“Celia Paul: Recent Drawings and Prints,” Marlborough Graphics and Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
“Celia Paul: Etchings 1995-1999,” Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
1995
“Celia Paul: Etchings 1991-1995,” Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
1991
“Celia Paul: Paintings and Drawings,” Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK 
“Celia Paul: Etchings,” Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
1986
"Celia Paul,” Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023
"Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Face to Face: A Celebration of Portraiture," Marlborough Gallery, London, UK
2022
"The Story of Arts as it’s Still Being Written," Victoria Miro, London, UK
"Intimacy," Victoria Miro, London, UK
"Pictus Porrectus: Reconsidering the Full-Length Portrait," "Isaac Bell House," Rhode Island, US
"Figuration," Marlborough Gallery, London, UK
"Me, Myself, I – Artists’ Self-Portraits," Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK
2021
"The Sublime in Nature," Daniel Malarkey, London, UK
2020
"I See You, an extended reality (XR) exhibition on Vortic Collect," Victoria Miro, London, UK
"Parley for the Oceans x Vortic," online exhibition, Vortic Going Home, Marlborough Graphics, London, UK
2019
"Works on Paper," Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, Denmark
"Unparalleled Journey through Contemporary Art of Past 50 Years," RUBELL MUSEUM, Miami, FL
2018
"Contemporary Dialogues with Tintoretto," Ca’ d’Oro, Venice, Italy
"Studio Prints: a Survey," Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
All Too Human, Tate Britain, London, UK; Painting Life: Bacon, Freud and the School of London, MFA Budapest, Hungary
2017
"House Work," Victoria Miro, London, UK
2016
"NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection," National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), Washington; Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
"Forces in Nature," Victoria Miro, London, UK
"Inspired by Soane: I found this and thought of you…," Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, UK

Bibliography

2025
Payne, Cynthia. "Celia Paul: Colony of Ghosts," The Brooklyn Rail, April (Link)
Goodpasture, Eliza. "Celia Paul Paints Her Place in the World," Hyperallergic, March 27 (Link)
Ove Knausgaard, Karl. "The World-Changing Gaze of Celia Paul," The New Yorker, January 27 (Link)
2024
Osberg, Annabel. "Critics Pick: Los Angeles, Celia Paul," Artforum, February 21 (Link)
Laster, Paul. "8 Must-See Solo Gallery Shows in February 2024," Galerie, February 5 (Link)
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2023
Hodgkin, Beatrice. "Artist Celia Paul’s debt to Venice," Financial Times, October 25
2022
Marius, Marley. “An Enthralling Exhibition in Newport Puts the Full-Length Portrait in Focus,” VOGUE, July 15
Payne, Cynthia. "Celia Paul’s Letters to Gwen John," The Brooklyn Rain, June
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Scholes, Lucy. "Can you be an artist’s muse without ruining your own career?," The Telegraph, April 4
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Mendelsohn, Meredith. "In Newport, Artists Turn Tables on the Gilded Age," The New York Times, July
2021
“Celia Paul, “The Trauma and Talent of Some of History’s Greatest Women Artists”,” The New York Times, October
2020
Szalai, Jennifer. "‘I Am My Own Subject’: Celia Paul on Lucian Freud, Motherhood and a Life in Art," The New York Times, Nover 20
“Diary: Painting in the Dark,” London Review of Books, December 12
“Lockdown review– Celia Paul: My Studio at Victoria Miro and Vortic,” Splash, July 10
“The power of creativity: friends of Bazaar share imaginative responses to crisis,” Harper’s Bazaar, July
Wullschläger, Jackie. “London lockdown paintings are raucous and lyrical,” Financial Times July 8
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2019
Adams, Tim. "Celia Paul on life after Lucian Freud: ‘I had to make this story my own’," The Guardian, October 27
“Women of the Year’, ‘Artist of the Year: Celia Paul,” Harpers Bazaar, December
Mclaughlin, Rosanna. “A Muse in Her Own Words: Celia Paul’s Self-Portrait”,” Frieze, November 26
“Review, ‘Holding up a Mirror’,” The Daily Telegraph, November
“Can a Woman Who Is an Artist Ever Just Be an Artist?” The New York Times, November
“Self-Portrait by Celia Paul, review: stepping out of Lucien Freud’s shadow,” The Telegraph, November
“How do women become more than objects in art? The painters Celia Paul and Cecily Brown navigate a medium historically dominated by men. Where the body is buried,” The New York Times, November
“Self-Portrait by Celia Paul, review: stepping out of Lucien Freud’s shadow,” The Telegraph, November
2018
“Celia Paul, "Gwen John",” Frieze Masters, October
“Celia Paul,” Apollo, April
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“Celia Paul, ‘Acclaimed artist Celia Paul on painting from life – and loss,” Financial Times, March 16
Neyeri, Farah. “A muse steps out of the shadows,” The New York Times, March 10
2016
Cumming, Laura. "Celia Paul: Desdemona for Hilton by Celia; Maggi Hambling: Touch – review," The Guardian, September 11
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Cumming, Laura. “It’s always the quiet ones…” The Observer, September 11
Wullschlager, Jackie. “Artist Celia Paul explores the beauty of melancholy,” Financial Times, September 2

Public Collections

Abbot Hall Art Gallery & Museum, Kendal, UK
British Museum, London, UK
Carlsberg Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Frissiras Museum, Athens, Greece
Metropolitan Museum, New York, USA
Morgan Library, New York, USA
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge, UK
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
Saatchi Collection, London, UK
The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, Texas, USA
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

József Csató

1980
Born in Mezőkövesd, Hungary
Lives and works in Budapest, Hungary
2000-2006
University of Fine Arts, Budapest, class of Dóra Maurer
2004
University of Fine Arts, Nürnberg, Germany class of Peter Angermann

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025
"Behind The Curtain, A New Landscape Again," Double Q Gallery, Hong Kong
"Siren Hospitality," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2023
“Secret Sized Garden," Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin, Germany
“My Memory Foam Keeps Forgetting,” Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2022
“Hair Hours, Skin Minutes, Bone seconds,” Plus One Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
“Treasures, Trees, Fire and Bones,” Doubleq Gallery, Hong Kong, HK
“Lush Ferns in Empty Wells,” Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX
“ Crickets in the Carpet,” Plus One Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
“Crossing the Invisible,” Sean Horton (Presents), New York, NY
2021
“Kiss of the Leopard,” Semiose Gallery, Paris, France
“Broken bones of the heart,” Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
“Balancing on the Top of the Fountain,” Ravnikar Gallery Space, Ljubljana, Slovenia
“Diary of Open Secrets,” Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX
2019
“Not Enough Buckets to Hold the Tears of Joy,” ENA Viewing Space , Budapest, Hungary
“Interesting Collection from the Universe,” Schloss Esterhazy, Eisenstadt, Austria
“Each And Every Kiss,” Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
“Easy Ways of Breathing,” Vunu Gallery, Kosice, Slovakia
2018
“Selfminerals/Under my shoe,” AQB Project Space , Budapest, Hungary
2017
“Patches and Drips,” Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2014
“József Csató Malerei,” Kreis Galerie, Nürnberg, Germany

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
"Aesthetic Echoes," PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
"Paper View II.,"The Hole, New York, NY
"Art Palm Beach," Galleri Urbane, West Palm Beach, FL
"Dream Paper," Galerie Masurel, Lyon, France
CAN Art Fair, Plus-One Gallery, Ibiza, Spain
2023
"Think Pinker," Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody)
“Face Time,” Plus One Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
ACK Art Fair, Galleri Urbane, Kyoto, Japan
"Art Rotterdam," PLUS-ONE Gallery and Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
"Place-World," Sean Horton, Chelsea, New York, NY
2022
“Best In Show,” Hyperbien Galerie, Paris, France
“Different Solar Settings,” David Kováts Gallery/Longtermhandstand – London, UK
“Place Value – New aquisitions by Ludwig Museum,” Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
“Infinite Flowers,” Plus One Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
"Summer Collective," Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX
Art Basel, Galerie Krinzinger, Paris, France
UNTITLED Art Fair, Galleri Urbane, Miami Beach, FL
CAN Art Fair, PLUS-ONE Gallery, Ibiza, Spain
Parallel Vienna, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
Art Antwerp, PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Art Brussels, Deák Erika Galéria, Brussels, Belgium
2021
“Islands of Happiness,” CHB, Berlin, Germany
“Six Solo Shows,” Krinzinger Schottenfeld, Vienna, Austria
“Traces,” Haverkampf Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2020
“Softer Softest,” Curated by Domenico de Chirico, Andrea Festa Fine Arts, Rome, Italy
“The Wunderwall – Melancholympics,” Curated by Sasha Bogojev, Plus One Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
“No Time like the Present – online exhibition,” Public Gallery, London, UK
2019
”Flower Centerpiece,” Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2018
“Hey-Ho Christmas Show,“ Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna Austria
“AIR Show,“ Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria
2015
”Derkó Now,” Kunsthalle Budapest, Hungary

Bibliography

2025
Pricco, Evan. "József Csató Eyes a "Siren Hospitality"," Juxtapoz Magazine, April 15 (Link)
2024
Hornyik, Sándor. "Perspective Morphology: József Csató’s Art of Painting," Essay
Double Q. "JÓZSEF CSATÓ NEW BOOK RELEASE: “MY FAVOURITE PLACE IS THE GARDEN IN MY HEAD”," Double Q Gallery, May 16
2023
Fuchs, Eva. "Queenie Rosita Law on Championing Central and Eastern European Art in Asia," Ocula, April 20
Vanderbosch, Femke. "József Csató, ‘Hair hours, Skin minutes, Bone seconds’," Plus One Gallery, March
2022
"Art Brussels 2022: The Fair for Art Lovers," L’Echo, April
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2021
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"The Drawer #20 – 10 Years," The Drawer, June
2020
Kostarias, Yannis. "József Csató Develops An Aesthetic Battle Between Distortion And Flexibility," Art Verge, April 30
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2018
"Csató József x Bomo Art," Hype and Hyper, May
"Selfminerals / Under My Shoe by József Csató at aqb Project Space," Blok Magazine, April
2017
"We visited the studio – Csató József," We Love Budapest, January
2015
"Csató," Stilblog, December

Residencies, Scholarships, & Prizes

2023
Soart Residency, Millstatter See, Austria
2022
SARP Residency, Linguaglossa, Sicily, Italy
2019
Wien Alte Scmiede/Budapest Gallery – Residency, Vienna, Austria
2017
Krinzinger Projekte Residency, AIR Petőmihályfa, Hungary
2015
Derkovits Gyula Scholarship III. Grade
2013
Esterhazy Art Award
Derkovits Gyula Scholarship II. Grade
Derkovits Gyula Scholarship I. Grade
2004
Erasmus, Nürnberg, Germany

Public Collections

The Bunker, Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, West Palm Beach, FL
Hungarian National Bank Contemporary Collection, Budapest, Hungary
Hungarian National Gallery, Contemporary Collection, Budapest, Hungary
Ludwig Museum Collection, Budapest, Hungary

Kyle Dunn

b.

1990
Livonia, MI
Lives and works in Queens, NY
2012
BFA Interdisciplinary Sculpture at Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2011
Option SCIE at La Haute Ecole d’art et de désign de Genève (HEAD), Switzerland

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025
"Devil in the Daytime," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2024
"Kyle Dunn / Matrix 194," Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
2023
"Night Pictures," P·P·O·W, New York, NY
2021
"The Fool," Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich, Switzerland
2020
"Into Open Air," P·P·O·W, New York, NY
2018
"Always," Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY
"Night In," Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL
2017
"Leaves Don’t Thank the Sun," Sardine, Brooklyn, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
"The Sphere of Reality and Fantasy – Inheritance and Exploration of the Tangible and the Imagined," Corridor Foundation, Shenzen, China
"FULL DISCLOSURE: Selections from the Thomas-Suwall Collection," The Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
"When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art/History," Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
2023
"SIRANI," Galerie Judin, Berlin, Germany
2022
"Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami’s Collection," ICA Miami, Miami, FL
"Love is the Devil: Studies after Francis Bacon," Marlborough Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2021
"Equal Affections," GRIMM Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Tidal Motion," P·P·O·W and Joe Sheftel, Provincetown, MA
"Body Double," Galerie Maria Bernheim, London, United Kingdom
2019
"Do You Love Me?," P·P·O·W, New York, NY
"Cruise Kidman Kubrick," Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich, Switzerland
"Body Parts," Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich, Switzerland
2018
"A Scratch in Time," Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY
"RE_ARRANGE," Juxtapoz Projects at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
"Skins," Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
"Hickey," Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
"Thick on the Ground," two person show with Christian Rogers at NATIONALE, Portland, OR
"Interrupting Lines," Pt. 2: Gallery, Oakland, CA
"Strange Looks," Gildar Gallery, Denver, CO
"Fugue," Honey Ramka, Brooklyn, NY

Bibliography

2025
Stevens, M. Charlene. "Kyle Dunn at Vielmetter," Artillery, April 8
2024
Alessandrini, Christopher. "Kyle Dunn’s Paintings Portray Games of Anticipation," Frieze, July 4
White, Katie. "‘There’s a Coyness’: Inside Kyle Dunn’s Symbol-Rich Cinematic Interiors," artnet, June 27
2023
Saltz, Jerry. "Kyle Dunn’s Night Fever," Vulture, May 11
Brown-Ewens, Millen. "These paintings depict a complex, shadowy view of masculinity," Dazed, May 5
Judin, Juerg, "Pay Matthis Karstens." SIRANI, Galerie Judin, Berlin
2021
Yerebakan, Osman Can. "Emerging Artist Kyle Dunn Is Causing a Stir with His Sensuous, Sculptural Paintings," Galerie, April 23
Oostmeijer, Edwin. "Equal Affections." GRIMM Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2018
Jovanovich, Alex. "PROJECT: KYLE VU-DUNN," Artforum, November
Artmaze Mag. "Summer Edition 8," curated by Sara Maria Salamone and Tyler Lafreniere, Founders and Head Curators of Mrs. Gallery, NYC
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2017
Soldi, Rafael, "Q&A: Kyle Vu-Dunn," Strange Fire, November 9
The New Yorker, "Kyle Vu-Dunn," November 3
"Studio Visit with Kyle Vu-Dunn," Inertia, August 17
"Work In Progress Publication," March
"Young Space," March

Awards, Residencies, and Grants

2014
Elizabeth Greenshields Full Grant Recipient, Montreal, Canada
2013
Artist in Residence at the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, hosted by The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Woodstock, NY

Public Collections

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
ICA Miami, Miami, FL
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
Sunpride Foundation, Hong Kong
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
X Museum, Beijing, China

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