Stanya Kahn

1968: Born in California
: Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

2003: MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, Red Hook, NY
1992: BA, Magna Cum Laude, Interdisciplinary Social Science/ Minor in History, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2023: "PERIPHERIE #1: Detouring with Traction: Stanya Kahn," Screenings of "Stand in the Stream" and "No Go Backs," Kunstmuseum Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany
: Stanya Kahn, “For the Birds,” “Friends in Low Places,” “Happy Song for You,” “No Go Backs,” “So Low You Can’t Get Over It,” “Winner,” &"Stand in the Stream," International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands
2022: "Forest for the Trees," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2020-2021: "Stanya Kahn: No Go Backs," ICALA, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
2020: "No Go Backs," Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
2018: "Stand in the Stream," The Box at Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (Link)
: “Stanya Kahn: Friends in Low Places,” Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
2017: “Stand in the Stream,” MoMA PS1, New York, NY (Link)
: “Stand in the Stream,” Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2016: “Heatstroke,” The Pit, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
: "Stanya Kahn," Weiss Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2015: "Stanya Kahn: Die Laughing," Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY
2014: "Don’t Go Back To Sleep", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: "Stanya Kahn," Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
: "Blood, Paper, and Mud (leave your slippers at the door)", curated by Kendra Paltz, University Galleries, University of Illinois, Normal, IL
2013: "Downer (but your ass looks huge from down here)," Curated by Emi Fontana, Pigna Project Space, Rome, Italy
2012: "I can clearly see yer nuts," The New Museum, New York, NY
: "It’s Cool, I’m Good," Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
: "A cave walks into a bar," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2011: Galleria Perdida/Recess Activities, New York, New York
2010: "It’s Cool, I’m Good," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2008: Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY, with Harry Dodge
2007: "No Ins and Outs," Carlier | Gebauer Gallery, Berlin, Germany, with Harry Dodge
2006: Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY, with Harry Dodge

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024: "Wild Grass: Our Lives," 8th Yokohama Triennale’s Second Chapter, Yokohama, Japan (Link)
2023: “Some Trees,” The Floating Gallery, Auto Brake Center, Los Angeles, CA
: "Unbound: Performance as Rupture," Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin, Germany
: "Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: "Full Burn: Videos from the Hammer Contemporary Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2020: "A Sculpture, A Film, AND Six Videos," Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "All of Them Witches," Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA
2019-2020: "Get well soon," Kunsthaus, Nuremberg, Germany
2019: "Fruitful Labors," Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA
2018: "TEN," Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: Gwangju Biennale 2018, Gwangju, South Korea
2017: “Crossroads,” Anren Biennale, Anren, Sichuan Province, China
: “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon,” New Museum, New York, NY (Link)
: “Sea Sick in Paradise,” curated by Amy Yao, Depart Foundation, Malibu, CA
: “Teeter: Stanya Kahn, Anna-Sophie Berger, Aleksander Hardashnakov, Dena Yago,” Carl Louie, London, Ontario, Canada
: “Greater works than these shall he do…,” Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
2016: “Los Angeles – A Fiction,” Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway, travelling to Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France (Link)
2015: Looking Back / The 9th White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York, NY
: Stand Up!, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
: Laugh-In: Art, Comedy, Performance, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
2014: "Real Emotions: Thinking in Film," KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (with Harry Dodge)
: "Cherub," curated by Andrew Berardini and Brian Kennon, 2nd Cannons, Los Angeles, CA
: "Artadia’s 15th Anniversary exhibition," curated by Gianni Jetzer, Longhouse Projects, New York, NY
: "Special Madness: Aaron Garber-Maikovska, Stanya Kahn, Chloe Seibert, Jesse Stecklow, and Ian Swanson," curated by Keith J. Varadi, David Shelton Gallery, Houston, TX
2012: "Between a Run and a Cascade: Constraint, Desperation, and Optimism in Water, CA," Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
: "Sunday @ 4," Todd Madigan Gallery, California State University, Bakersfield, CA
2011: "Two Schools of Cool," curated by Sarah Bancroft, FOCA, Los Angeles, CA
: "Suelto," curated by Pilar Tompkins Rivas and Adrian Rivas, La Central, Bogota, Colombia
: "Keren Cytter, Stanya Kahn, Dafna Maimon, and Shana Moulton," Future Gallery, Berlin, Germany
: "Electromediascope: Inside/Out," curated by Gwen Widmer, Nelson-Atkins Museum, MO
2010: California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: "Ludicrous!" Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
: "Virtuoso Illusions," curated by Michael Rush, MIT, Cambridge, MA
: "45 Years of Performance Video from EAI," PS1 NY, NY
: "45 Years of Performance Video from EAI," Wiels, Brussels, Belgium
: "Slightly Unbalanced," curated by ICI, Harnett Museum, Richmond, VA
: "Queer Voices," Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2009: "Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video," curated by Lauren Ross, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
: "Code Share: 5 continents, 10 biennales, 20 artists," CAC Vilnius, Lithuania, curated by Simon Reese
: "Videonale 12," Kunstalle Bonn, Bonn, Germany
: "Unusual Behavior," Santa Barbara Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA
2008: "Desert Shore," Luckman Fine Arts, curated by Jan Tumlirm, Cal State, LA
: Whitney Biennial 2008, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: "California Video," Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: "Laughing in a Foreign Language," Hayward, London, UK
2007: "Between Two Deaths," ZKM/Center for Art and Media, Karlsrhe, Germany, curated by Ellen Blumenstein and Felix Ensslin
: "Edens Edge," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Gary Garrels
: "Shared Women," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Eve Fowler, Emily Roysdon and A. L., Steiner
2006: "Defamation of Character," PS 1, New York, NY
: Locale Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "VIDEO MARATHON 2006," Art in General, New York, NY
: "Fair Exchange," Millard Sheets Gallery, LA County Fair, Los Angeles, CA
2005: "Marking Time," Getty, Los Angeles, CA; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA
: "Sugartown," Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York and Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX
: "The Early Show," White Columns Gallery, New York, NY
: "Films/Stills," New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
2004: Backyard Invitational Video Competition, group show and competition (winner), sponsored by the Believer Magazine, Hollywood Hills House and Lazy-J
: "Pilot: 1," Old Limehouse Town Hall, London, UK
: "LTTR Show: Fail More," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
: "Inside of Inside," The Lab, San Francisco, CA
2003: "Fail Better," Ocularis, New York, NY
: "Soft Machines," Brewery Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Performances

: (Evening-length works, unless indicated by )
2016: Die Laughing, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2006: Jimbo Cherry and Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005: Lois Live Sundown Salon, Los Angeles, CA
2004: Let the Good Times Roll Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2003: Ballad of Crappy and Seapole Diverseworks, Houston, TX
2002: Delirium, production of 1996 one-person play Yale School of Drama, CT
: Nobble Reading series curated by Lydia Lunch, Los Angeles, CA
2001: The Ballad of Crappy and Seapole National Queer Arts Festival, San Francisco, CA
: The Ballad of Crappy and Seapole Jack Tilton Gallery, NY, NY
: The Ballad of Crappy and Seapole Stromereien Festival of Performance, Zurich, Switzerland
: The Ballad of Crappy and Seapole University Settlement, NY, NY
2000: The Ballad of Crappy and Seapole Performance Space 122 (P.S. 122), NY, NY
: The Ballad of Crappy and Seapole Galapagos Performance Space, NY, NY
1999: Rank Stranger Dixon Place, NY, NY
: Rank Stranger Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Philadelphia, PA
: Rank Stranger Mad Alex Presents, NY
: Rank Stranger Links Hall, Chicago, IL
1998: Specimens, collaborative work w/ P.S. 122, NY and Christ Church Philadelphia, PA
: Ishmael Houston-Jones
: Delirium SUSHI Performance Space, San Diego, CA
: Delirium Cleveland Performance Art Festival, Cleveland, OH
: Delirium Default Propaganda, HERE Space, NY
: This is Not Enough P.S. 122, NY, NY
: Movement Research/Judson Church, NY
: Entertainment for the Apocalypse, Pfefferberg, Berlin, Germany
: collaborative work w/ performance Fabrik, Potsdam. Germany
: company CORE (as co-founder Lot Theater, Braunshweig, Germany
: and performer)
: Various Excerpts Sister Spit Spoken Word Tour, 30 Venues, US
1997: Delirium Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
: Delirium The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX
: Delirium WOW Caf, NY
: Delirium P.S. 122, NY
: Delirium San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
: New Work, reading Brooklyn Museum, NY
: Entertainment for the Apocalypse P.S. 122, NY
: Entertainment for the Apocalypse Highways, Los Angeles, CA
: Entertainment for the Apocalypse SUSHI Performance Space, San Diego, CA
: Entertainment for the Apocalypse Brady St. Dance Center, San Francisco, CA
1996: Delirium New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
: Delirium Dixon Place, NY, NY
: Delirium Climate Theater, San Francisco, CA
: Entertainment for the Apocalypse Bay Area Dance Series, Lainey College, Oakland, CA
: Utility Beast P.S. 122, NY, NY
: Utility Beast WOW Caf, NY, NY
1987-1995: Selected performances and readings at Theater Artaud, Intersection for the Arts, New College of California, New Performance Gallery, Southern Exposure Gallery, SOMARTS, all in San Francisco. Selected live action street performance events with Theater Action Group.

Video Screenings

2023: "It’s Cool, I’m Good," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
: "PERIPHERIE #1: Detouring with Traction: Stanya Kahn," Screenings of "Stand in the Stream" and "No Go Backs," Kunstmuseum Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany
: Short Profile: Stanya Kahn, “For the Birds,” “Friends in Low Places,” “Happy Song for You,” “No Go Backs,” “So Low You Can’t Get Over It,” “Winner,” &"Stand in the Stream," International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands
2020: "No Go Backs," BFI London Film Fesitval
2018: "Don’t Go Back to Sleep," Canada, New York, NY
: "Stand in the Stream," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: "Happy Song for You," ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
: "Stand in the Stream," National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (Link)
2017: "Stand in the Stream," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: "Stand in the Stream," School, Vienna, Austria
2016: Lookin’ Good, Feelin’ Good, Dortmund I Cologne International Women’s Film Festival, Cologne, Germany
2015: Its Cool, Im Good, TOTAL WORK, Los Angeles, CA
2013: Always Worried, video screening, Institute for Contemporary Art, London, GB
: Always Worried, video screening, Temple Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
: "Happy Song For You", New Museum, New York, NY (with Llyn Foulkes)
2002: Winner, Slamdance, New York; Best of Slamdance, Los Angeles; Mix Festival, New York; Los Angeles Film Festival; New Festival, New York; Slamdance Film Festival, Utah; London Lesbian/Gay Intl Film Festival; OUTFEST Film Festival, LA; Silverlake Film Festival, Los Angeles; Hallwalls Art Space, Buffalo, NY, Flaming Festival, Minneapolis, MN
2001: By Hook or By Crook (Contributing writer, actor, performance consultant: Independent feature film, written and directed by Harry Dodge and Silas Howard. DVD distributed by Wolfe Video. On cable TV, Sundance Channel. Selected Film Festival Screenings:
: Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah; South by Southwest, Austin, TX; OUTFEST, Los Angeles, CA; New Festival, New York, NY; San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay, CA; Cleveland International, OH; Paris International Lesbian and Gay, Paris, France

Bibliography

2024: Valie, Elaine. "Bid on an Artist’s Kite to Aid Gaza," Hyperallergic, January 30 (Link)
2023: Wojtowicz, Kathrin. "Candid Real Life Spaces; An interview with Stanya Kahn," Publics And Publishings, September 1 (Link)
: Westall, Mark. "Unbound: Performance As Rupture Curated By: Lisa Long At The Julia Stoschek Foundation.," FADMagazine, August 14
: "Stanya Kahn," The Hoosac Institute, February 7 (Link)
: Westall, Mark. "Stanya Kahn Selected for 2023 R.U.IN.Art Commision at Frieze Los Angeles 2023," FAD Magazine, January 27 (Link)
: Lloyd-Smith, Harriet. "Stanya Kahn’s Frieze Los Angeles commission to unearth the ‘understory’ of human intervention in nature," Wallpaper*, January 27 (Link)
: Frieze Los Angeles. "Harambe, Fallen Trees and a Mutant Duck: Stanya Kahn’s R.U.in.ART Commission," Frieze, January 17 (Link)
2022: Dawson, Aimee. "Let it snow, let it snow: wintry works bring the temperature down at Art Basel in Miami Beach," The Art Newspaper, December 1 (Link)
2021: Staff, Frieze. "The Top 7 Shows to See in the UK and Ireland," Frieze EU, November 17 (Link)
: Fheorais, Iarlaith Ni. "Love, Longing and George Michael at TULCA Festival of Visual Arts," Frieze, November 17 (Link)
2020: Tumlir, Jan. "Stanya Kahn’s Communication Breakdown," Frieze, November 17
: Reizman, Renée. "A Surreal and Eerie Look at Los Angeles Over the Past Decade," Hyperallergic, November 3
: Simmons, William. "Portfolio: Stanya Kahn," Bomb, October 26
: Beckhurst, Gabriella. "Against Inheritance: Stanya Kahn’s ‘No Go Backs’", Another Gaze Journal, August 20
: Diehl, Travis. "Teens Wander a Postapocalyptic World in Stanya Kahn’s New Film," Art in America, May 14
: Regensburger, Jeff. "Art Review: Stanya Kahn – No Go Backs," Columbus Underground, March 23 (Link)
: Oliphint, Joel. "Teens lead the way forward in ‘No Go Backs’," Columbus Alive, January 24 (Link)
: Aguirre, Abby. "Inside the Los Feliz Home of Frieze’s Bettina Korek," W, January 29 (Link)
2019: Kahn, Stanya. "Sally Spitz of French Vanilla Likes her language deviant," Interview, July 2 (Link)
2018: Brown, Laura, "Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon at New Museum (LA in NY)," CARLA, February 28 (Link)
2017: Gritz, Anna, “And I Stop and I Turn and I Go for a Ride,” Mousse Magazine 60, November (Link)
: Lehrer, Adam, “‘Trigger’ Exhibition at thew New Museum Tackles Gender but Ponders So Much More,” Forbes (web), October 5 (Link)
: Cotter, Holland, "When It Comes to Gender, Let Confusion Reign," The New York Times (web), September 28 (Link)
: Taubin, Amy, “A River Runs Through It,” Artforum (web), August 31 (Link)
: Diehl, Travis, “Stanya Kahn at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects,” frieze (web), May 11 (Link)
: Mizota, Sharon, "Chat rooms, home movies, life, death: A tangled, touching video at Susanne Vielmetter," Los Angeles Times, May 4 (Link)
: Shaw, Michael, “Stanya Kahn,” ArtScene, May (Link)
: “Views: Stanya Kahn at Weiss Berlin,” Spike Quarterly, Winter (Link)
2016: Whiteford, Meg, “Critics’ Pick: Stanya Kahn at The Pit,” Artforum (web), September 29
: Peterson, Jennifer, “Stanya Kahn at the Pit,” Contemporary Art Review LA (web), October 12
: Schneider, Hans, “Stanya Kahn’s ‘Don’t Go Back to Sleep’ at Weiss Berlin,” Blouin ArtInfo (web), November 9
2015: McGarry, Kevin, In San Diego, Art is a Laughing Matter, New York Times T Magazine Blog, January 23
: Chute, James, Art imitates comedy, UT San Diego, February 18
: Connor, Michael, Eight Big Ideas from Seven on Seven, Rhizome, May 4
: Rosenthal, Tracy Jeanne, Stanya Kahn: In the Studio, Art in America, June / July
: Wyma, Chloe, Marina Abramovic, Meet Chelsea Handler? How Standup Comedy Became the New Performance Art, Artspace (web), August 28
: Emory, Sami, Mansions, Gore, and Party Food: The Apocalyptic Delights of Die Laughing, The Creators Project (web), September 12
: Indrisek, Scott, The Apocolypse is Hilarious: Stanya Kahns Bleak Laughter at Marlborough Chelsea, ArtInfo (web), September 23
: Stanya Kahn, Malibu Magazine, November / December
: Indrisek, Scott, The Apocalypse Will Be Hilarious, Modern Painters, December
: Something to Laugh About: La Jolla exhibit to explore stand-up comedy in contemporary art, La Jolla Light, January 21
2014: Kahn, Stanya, Stanya Kahns Favorite Moving Pictures Experiences of 2014, ArtInfo, December 31
: Yue, Genevieve, "The 6th Annual Migrating Forms at BAMcinmatek," New York, art agenda, December 12
: Indrisek, Scott, "Waking Up to Stanya Kahns Oddly Moving Drama," ArtInfo, December 10
: Lehrer-Graiwer, Sarah, Best of 2014: Sarah Legrer-Graiwer, ArtForum, December
: Jovanovic, Rozalia, "Artadias 15th Birthday Adventure in NYC," ArtNews, October 16
: Thorson, Alice, " ‘Don’t Go Back To Sleep’: The time for change is now," Kansas City Star, May 24 (Link)
: Halter, Ed, "Body Bags," essay on Stanya Kahn’s ‘Don’t Go Back To Sleep,’ commissioned by Grand Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, Summer (Link)
: Cook, Liz, "Stanya Kahn visits the suburbs for Grand Arts’ ‘Don’t Go Back To Sleep,’" The Pitch, May 20 (Link)
: Guthery, Summer, "Critic’s Pick: Stanya Kahn at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects," Artforum.com, May 19 (Link)
: Beck, Chelsea, "Review: Selfing Togetherment Naturally," ArtSlant, May 11 (Link)
2013: Michno, Christopher, Review: Facing the Sublime in Water, CA, Artillery, January/February
2012: Myers, Holly, Llyn Foulkes’ art of raw emotion, The Los Angeles Times, October 28
: Allsop, Laura, "Stanya Kahn: It’s Cool, I’m Good", Art Monthly, No. 359, September
: Rahman, Sophia, "Interview: ‘It’s cool, I’m good’ artist discusses first UK solo exhibition at Manchester’s Cornerhouse", Mancunian Matters, June 21
: Yablonsky, Linda, Womens Work, New York Times, May 10
: Mohebbi, Sohrab, Stanya Kahns A cave walks into a bar, Art Agenda, April 3
: Wiley, Chris, Stanya Kahn, Artforum Critics Picks, March
: Myers, Holly, Art review: Stanya Kahn at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles Times, March 8
: Wagley, Catherine, Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Penis Costume Film, LA Weekly, Februrary 29
: Stanya Kahn Exhibition Navigates the Art of the Joke, Huffington Post, February 14
2011: Bancroft, Sarah, Two Schools of Cool, Orange County Museum of Art / Fellows Of Contemporary Art, DelMonico Books
: Clothier, Peter, PST/OC, The Huffington Post, October
: Kramer, David Jacob, Stanya Kahn, A Video Artist Who Defies Characterization, Paper Magazine, April
2010: Kilston, Lyra, First View: Stanya Kahn Its Cool, Im Good, Artreview.com, March 26 (Link)
: Pagel, David, Around the galleries: A film fest that is all her own, Los Angeles Times, April 9 (Link)
: Hebron, Micol, Critics Pick: Stanya Kahn at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Artforum.com, March 25 (Link)
: Berardini, Andrew, Scene & Heard: Tour of Duty, ArtForum.com, March 19 (Link)
: Smee, Sebastian, MIT Exhibit bends More Thank Gender, Boston Globe, February 14 (Link)
: Proctor, Roy, Harnett Museum is Time-Based Art, February 14
2009: Woodard, Josef,Off the Off Radar Art, Santa Barbara News Press, November 20
: Smith, Michael, Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, Bomb Magazine, No. 108, Summer
2008: Bedford, Christopher, Focus: Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, Frieze Magazine, Nov-Dec
: Finkel, Jori, Unsettling in a Funny Sort of Way, New York Times, March 2
: Kushner, Rachel 1,000 Words, Artforum, January
: "Art reviews, defamation of character", New Yorker, November
: Halle, Howard, "Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn," Time Out NY, July
: Schambelan, Elizabeth, "Whitney Biennial," Art Forum, Summer
: Armetta, Amoreen, "Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn," Artforum.com, June
: Volk, Gregory, "Spring in Dystopia," Art in America, May
: Saltz, Jerry, Whitney Biennial, Village Voice, April
: Alemani, Cecilia, "Whitney Girls", Mousse Magazine, March
: Cotter, Holland, Whitney Biennial, New York Times, March
: Schjeldahl, Peter, Lessness: The Art World, New Yorker, March
: Halle, Howard, Whitney Biennial, Time Out NY, March
: Shaffer, Grant, "Art Review", Harry Dodge & Stanya Kahn", New Yorker, March 18
: Cornell, Loren, "Art Picks: Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn," Time Out NY
: Mellis, Miranda, California Video, Exhibition Catalogue, January
2007: Blumenstein, Ellen, Between Two Deaths, Exhibition Catalogue, July
: Garrels, Gary, Edens Edge, Exhibition Catalogue, July
: Art and Politics in LA, Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, Modern Painters, January
2006: Catalogue, Fair Exchange Show, Sept-Oct
: Smith, Roberta, Art in Review: Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, New York Times, May 12
: Arts About Town: Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, New Yorker, May 15
: Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, Time Out New York, May 11
: Kushner, Rachel, Openings: Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, Artforum, February
2005: Van, Tran Duc, Scene and Heard: The Artforum Diary: Houses Proud, December
: Bailey, Cindy, Radar Reading Series, LitRave, September 9
: Johnson, Ken, Stanya Kahn and Harriet (Harry) Dodge, New York Times, August 5
: Cornell, Lauren, Notes from Underground, NYFA Interactive News, April
: Gilani, Nadia, Selected Shorts, Gingerbeer, April
: Weissman, Benjamin, Slaves to the Visual, The Believer, Dec 2004/January
2004: Halter, Ed, A Few Odd Girls Out, Village Voice, November 19-25
: Hall, Phil, Winner, Film Threat, February 16
2003: Specht, Mary, Crappy Theater, Houston Press, Volume 15, Number 19, May 8-14
2002: Kehr, Dave, By Hook or By Crook, New York Times, Friday October 25
: Anderson, Melissa, Tracking Shots, Village Voice, October 23-29
2001: Success: By Hook or By Crook, Seattle Gay Standard, November 2-8
2000: Covan, Ellie, Politics, Nakedness, and Other Hot Topics, New York Times, September 20
: Pilger, Faith, The Absurdist Brilliance of Shempco AKA Stanya Kahn, Dance Insider, January 19
1999: Soloski, Alexis, Rank Stranger, Village Voice, May 25
: Rasmusson, Erika, Rank Stranger, Shout Magazine, May
: A Bit of Strangeness in Rank Stranger, Philadelphia Inquirer, September 30
: Molzahn, Laura, Magnificent Irreverence: Ladylike Performance Festival, Chicago Reader, February 5
1998: Jast, Frank, Exciting Political Stage Art (translation), Potsdamer Neuste Nachrichten Wochenendausgabe, September 19
: Wild, Political and Exciting (translation), Neus Deutschland- Berlin, October 8
: Seidel, Miriam, Opening up to Interrogation and Self-Interrogation in Specimens, Philadelphia Inquirer, June 13
: Dunning, Jennifer, Fallen Angels in Energetic Theatricality, New York Times, December 12
: Campello, Lennox, Stanya Kahns Delirium, Echo Magazine Online, April
: Jackson, Merilyn, Thoughtful Gestures, Philadelphia Weekly, June 12-18
: Rudstrom, Sten, Delirium: Stanya Kahn, P-Form, Number 44 Fall1997/ Winter
1997: Knaff, Deborah, COREs Activist Artists try to bring sense to the Millenium, San Diego Union Tribune, April 10
: Critics Pick, Dallas Observer, December 8
: Lloyd, Carol, Intelligent Carnality, San Francisco Weekly, Arpil 30 – May 8
: Entertainment for the Apocalypse, San Francisco Weekly, April 16 – 22
: Guerilla Dance: Among the Ruins, San Francisco Focus Magazine, July
1996: Murrin, Tom, Probing Mars, Paper Magazine Online, December
: Chonin, Neva, Art Revolution, San Francisco Bay Guardian, September 25 – October 2
: Chonin, Neva, Utility Beast, San Francisco Bay Guardian, by October 4 – 10
1995: Noyes, Katia, Whos That Tomgirl, Dykespeak, April
1994: Bussa, JJ, Face Lift, P-Form, January15

Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books

2017: Burton, J., and Bell, N. (2017). Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon. Pg 100-103. New Museum.
2015: Dawsey, Jill, Laugh-In: Art, Comedy, Performance, exhibition essay, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, January 23
2010: Bryant, Tisa, Miranda Mellis, Kate Schatz, eds., Hell, Encyclopedia Project, Vol. 2, SPD Press
2007: Cooper, Dennis, Ed. Hell, Userlands: New Fiction from the Blogging Underground, Akashic Press, January
: Hull, Steven, Ed., Let the Good Times Roll, performance text in Nothing Moments, collection of art and fiction, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles
: Let the Good Times Roll, performance text, Soft Targets Journal of Theory, Art and Literature, Vol. 1
: Lois and Conan, short story, LTTR Journal of Art and Writing, #4
2002: Athey, Ron, Interview, POZ Magazine, June
: 7:15 AM: On Timothy McVeigh, Movement Research Journal, 23, August
2000: The Ballad of Crappy and Seapole According to Shempco, chapbook of performance text, December
1999: Rank Stranger, chapbook of performance text, April
1998: Delirium, chapbook of performance text, March
: Terminatrix Progeny, Poetry and Performance Texts, Abundant F*CK Press, with M. Mellis and Anah-K
1995: Utility Beast, chapbook of performance text, September

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2021: MacDowell Fellowship
2015: San Francisco Art Institute Artist in Residence
2014: Investing in Artists grant, Center for Cultural Innovation
2013: Artadia Award, Los Angeles Awardee
2012: Guggenheim Fellowship, Film/Video
2011: ARC Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation
2010: Jury Prize: Best Short, Narrative Fiction, Migrating Forms Film Festival
2009: Durfee Foundation, Artists Resource Grant
: Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, nomination
2008: United States Artists Fellowship, nomination
: Durfee Foundation, Artist’s Resource Grant
2007: Rockefeller Film/Video Fellowship Nomination
: California Community Fund Fellowship for Mid-Career Artists
2006: Durfee Foundation, Artist’s Resource Grant
2004: Winner, Backyard Invitational Video Competition, sponsored by Lazy-J, Hollywood Hills House, and the Believer Magazine

Medrie MacPhee

: Born in Edmonton, Alberta
: Lives and works in New York, NY

: BFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024: "Qualia, I Feel You," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2023: "Seeing is Knowing," Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2022: "Words Fail Me," Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
2021: "The Weight of Matter," Nicholas Metivier Gallery , Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2017: Barbara Edwards Contemporary, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, New York
2015: Barbara Edwards Contemporary, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2014: Barbara Edwards Contemporary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2012: Barbara Edwards Contemporary, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2011: Art 45, Montreal, Canada
2010: "What It Is," Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
: Art 45, Montreal, Canada
2008: Keith Talent Gallery, London, UK
2006: Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York, NY
: ArtCore Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2003: "Kunstkabinet Hespert," Reichshof Hespert, Germany
: Stadtische Galerie Haus, Siegen, Germany
: Trier Galerie Haus, Trier, Germany
2002: "Double Vision," Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Colombia, Canada
2001: "Dreamland," Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AlbertaPari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1999: "Flight in the Variable Zone," National traveling one person show with catalogue: Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada
: Art Gallery of Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal, Canada
: University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
: Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, Canada
: Espace 502, Montreal, Canada
1997: Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York, NY
1995: Linda Genereux Gallery, “Ora/Labora”, Toronto, Canada
1994: Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York, NY
: Art and Living Gallery, Seigen, Germany
1993: Baldacci-Daverio Gallery, New York, NY
1992: Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
: 1991 Phillipe Daverio Gallery, New York, NY
: 1990 Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1988: 49th Parallel, New York, NY
: Concordia University Art Gallery, Montreal, Canada
: Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023: “Pattern Language," Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
: “Come A Little Closer," DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
: “Travels with Don Quixote," Armory Show, Tibor de Nagy Booth 235, Hall 3E, Javits Center, New York, New York
: “SHIFT: Ecologies of Fashion, Form + Textile," Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2022: “RE: visiting," Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
2021: “Inner Workings: Works on Paper by David Humphrey and Medrie MacPhee," The New York Studio School, New York, NY
2020: “Old Friends Part II," Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
: “On Paper | Part I," Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (virtual exhibition)
: “American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational," American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2019-2020: “Painting Nature with a Mirror," Musee d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
2019: “Or Both,” The Galleries at Moore, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
2018: “Interventions,” Galerie McClure, 31 Women Artists, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
: “Summertime,” Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
2017: “99 Cents or Less,” Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), Detroit, MI
2015: The American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational, New York, NY
2013: “Rewilding Modernity”, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
: “Land Reformed,” The Canada Council, Ottawa, Ontario
2012: “Waiting Ground,” Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
2010: “Vivid,” Shroeder Romero and Shredder, New York, NY
2009: “Objects in the Forest,” Sadler Wells, London, UK
2008: “Carte Blanche,” Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
: “The Empire of This,” Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY
2007: “Horizon,” The Elizabeth Foundation, New York, NY
2006: The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
2005: “Somewhere Out There,” Shroeder RomeroGallery, Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY
2004: “Strange Relationship,” Keith Talent Gallery, London, UK
: “Invitational,” 150 Cubic Meter Largas, Cologne, Germany
: “A Dot That Went for a Walk,” Plus Ultra Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
: “Exquisite Corpse,” Bowdoin College Museum of Art, ME
: “In Polytechnicolor”, Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York, NY
: “Slippage,” Collaborative Concepts, Beacon, NY
2003: “Future Species,” D.U.M.B.O, Brooklyn, NY
: “Recent Acquisitions,” Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
2002: “Short Stories,” Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
: “Recent Acquisitions,” National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
2001: “Pushing Paint,” Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY
1999: “Hunter Selects”, Bertha and Karl Luebsdorf Art Gallery, New York, NY
: “MAD,” Stadtische Galerie Haus,Siegen, Germany
: “Inscape”, The State of Art, Brooklyn, NY
: “Rapture”, 529 West 20th St., 8th Floor, New York, NY
: Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
: “25 American Artists,” Campo Campo, Antwerp, Belgium
: “Peinture, Peinture”, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, Canada
: “Your Place or My Place”, Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, Canada
: Starwood Urban Investments, Washington, DC
: “Private Eye,” Mabel Smith Douglass Library, Rutgers University, NJ
1998: “The Mind is a Beast”, Workspace, New York, NY
: “Food”, Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, Canada
: 1997 Art Gallery of North York, Toronto, Canada
: “In the Spirit of Landscape,” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1996: “L’Oiel du collectionneur,” Musée d’art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
: “Two Rooms,” Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York, NY
1995: Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York, NY
: “Four American Painters,” Medrie MacPhee, James Hyde, Donna Moylan and Christopher Lucas, Milan, Italy
1994: “MacPhee, Osler, Hoskin, Harcourt,” Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York, NY
: Baldacci-Daverio Gallery, New York, NY
1991: Phillipe Daverio Gallery, New York, NY
1990: “The Technological Muse,” Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY
: “Work Sites,” Concordia University Art Gallery, Montreal, Canada
: “The Urban Landscape,” Phillipe Daverio Gallery, New York, NY
: “Contemporary Environment,” G.E. Gallery, Organized by Museum of Modern Art, CT
1988: “Canada Nouveau,” Liberty’s, London, UK
: “New York City Works,” One Penn Plaza, New York, NY
: “Medrie MacPhee/Susanna Heller,” Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
: “Landscape Anthology,” Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
1987: “The Drawing Concern,” Katzen Brown Gallery, New York, NY
: “Vistas,” Einstein Gallery, New York, NY
: “Immigrants and Refugees,” Exit Art, New York, NY
1986: Winter Olympics National Billboard Project, Canada
: “Mainly on the Plane,” 56 Bleeker Street, New York, NY
: “4 X 4,” Jus de Pomme Gallery, New York, NY
: “Short Stories”,” One Penn Plaza, New York, NY
1985: The Ted Greenwald Gallery, New York, NY
: The Barbara Toll Gallery, New York, NY
: “Actual Size,” Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Bibliography

2023: Mark Godfrey and Katy Siegel (ed.), Making Their Mark: Art by Women in the Shah Garg Collection, Gregory R. Miller & Co., New York, NY, 2023, 432 pgs.
2021: Eisenman, Nicole (essay), Sillman, Amy and MacPhee, Medrie (in interview), Words Fail Me: Medrie MacPhee (exhibition catalog), Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, 2021, 43 pages.
: Wilkin, Karen, “Medrie MacPhee: Works on Paper”, The Hopkins Review, Volume 14, Number 2, Spring 2021, pp. 267-276.
: Fateman, Johanna, “Medrie MacPhee”, The New Yorker, n.d., 2021.
: Smith, Roberta, “4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now: Medrie MacPhee”, The New York Times, February 17, 2021.
: Stevenson, Jonathan, “Medrie MacPhee, David Humphrey, and the power of recognition”, The NYC blogazine, February 14, 2021
: Smith, Roberta, “A Bouquet of Group Art Shows Near Houston Street”, Critics Notebook, New York Times, August 13, 2020
: Wilkin, Karen, “The Covid Chronicle”, The New Criterion, September 2020
2020: Waltemath, Joan (ed), with writings by Nancy Princenthal, Raphael Rubinstein, Jutta Koether, Barry Schwabsky, Rethinking Painting, MICA, 2020, page 75
: Shields, Andrew (poems) and MacPhee, Medrie (paintings), “The Castles of America”, Evergreen Review, Summer 2020
2018: Interventions: 31 Women Artists (exhibition catalogue), Galerie McClure, Montreal, Quebec
2017: Wayne, Leslie, “Comfort Clothing for Fraught Times” (Medrie MacPhee in conversation with Leslie Wayne), Artcritical: the online magazine of art and ideas, July 20th, 2017
: Maine, Stephen, “The Clothes Make the Painting”, Hyperallergic, July 8, 2017
: “Goings on About Town: Medrie MacPhee”, The New Yorker, New York, July 2017
: Butler, Sharon, “Medrie MacPhee: Flat-out at Tibor de Nagy”, Two Coats of Paint Blog, New York, June 17, 2017
: Hoffman, Jens, 99 Cents or Less (catalogue), Karma, New York, 2017
: Gopnik, Blake, “Medrie MacPhee Paints With a Tailor’s Shears”, The Daily Pic, Artnet News, June 20, 2017
: Mudd, Elena, and the G-Module Team, “Review: Medrie MacPhee ‘Scavenge’”, G-Module Art Advisory, August 1, 2017
: “Medrie MacPhee at Tibor de Nagy, New York”, Blouin Art Info: International, June 13, 2017
2016: Butler, Sharon, “Interview: Medrie MacPhee in Ridgewood”, Two Coats of Paint Blog, New York, March 17, 2016
2014: Hunt, Stephan, “Fictional Spaces”, The Calgary Herald, Calgary, December 12, 2014
: Baldissera, Lisa, “Rewilding Modernity”, e Catalogue, Mendal Art Gallery, 2014, Sask., Saskatchewan
2011: Smith, Roberta, “Vivid”, New York Times, January 20, 2011
2010: Christine Kee, “Futuristic Species”, artcritical.com, July 16, 2010
: Wilkin, Karen, “At the Galleries”, Hudson Review, Volume LXIII, No. 2 Summer 2010
2009: McLean-Ferris, Laura, “Reviews, Marathon, London”, Art Review, January/Feb, 2009
2008: Tully, Judd, “Chelsea’s Silver Lining”, ARTINFO ( www.artinfo.com) January 23, 2008
2006: Dault, Gary Michael, “To Know or Not to Know: That is The Question”, Medrie MacPhee, Toronto Globe & Mail, November 4, 2006
: Goodman, Jonathan, “Under My Skin, Medrie MacPhee”, Art In America, May 2006
2004: Biro, Mathew, “In Polytechnicolor”, Contemporary, Issue #66, Oct. 2004, London UK
: Genocchio, Ben, “A Backup Plan With Refined Results”, New York Times, May, 30, 04
2003: Peden, Paul “It’s the New Thing”, Miser and Now Issue #1, Nov. 14, 2003, London UK
: “Zukunft ist interdisziplinar: Medrie MacPhee Architeckturkonstrukte und Korperbaustellen”, Seigener Zeitung, Oct.4, 2003
2002: Dahle, Sigrid, “Short Stories, Captivating Addictive Exhibit”, Winnipeg Free Press, 7/02
2001: Bouchard, Gilbert, “Between Reality and Our Dreams”, Edmonton Journal, Nov. 30/01
: Thorkelson, Erila ADreamland, SEE Magazine, Issue # 417, November 29, 2001
: Johnson, Ken, APushing Paint, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York Times, Sept.14, 2001
: Enright, Robert, Ungrounding Science, Medrie MacPhee’s Meditations on Survival, Border Crossings, Volume 20 Number, Issue No.78, Summer 2001
: Dault, Gary Michael, “Medrie MacPhee at Pari Nadimi”, Globe & Mail, Toronto, April 14, 2001
: Hanna, Deidre, A Surreal Deal, Medrie MacPhee at Pari Nadimi Now Magazine, April 18-24, 2001
: Theberge, Pierre, Director’s Notebook, Vernissage, National Gallery of Canada, 2001
2000: Newlands, Anne, Canadian Art From Its Beginnings to 2000, Firefly, Ottawa, 2000
1999: Lambrecht, Mark, “26 American Artists”, catalogue essay, Campo, Antwerp, 1999
: Mackay, Gillian, “Medrie MacPhee at Pari Nadimi Gallery”, Globe & Mail, June 19, 1999
: Laurence, Robin, “Medrie MacPhee, An Interview”, Canadian Art, Summer 1999
: Jordan, Betty Ann, “Future Swirl”, Toronto Life, Toronto, June 1999
: Lamarche, Bernard, “Recyclage pictural: Des univers machiniques suranné”, Le Devoir, Montreal, May 16, 1999
: Houpt, Simon, “Dual Citizenship”, Toronto Globe & Mail, May 15, 1999
: Lehmann, Henry, “Artist Animates Life’s Nuts and Bolts”, Gazette, Montreal, May 1, 1999
: Goodman, Jonathan, “Medrie MacPhee: Unnatural Selection”, Medrie MacPhee, Charles H.Scott, Gallery Publications, 1999
: Laurence, Robin, “MacPhee Meditates on Modernism’s Failings”, The Georgia Straight, Vancouver, March 11-18, 1999
: Goodman, Jonathan, “Medrie MacPhee and Amy Sillman; Two Painters From New York City” Contemporary Visual Arts, January 1999
1998: Mumford, Steve, “Exquisite Corps: On The March Again”, Review: The Critical State of Visual Art in New York, Volume 4, Number 2, Oct. 1, 1998
: MacKay, Gillian, “Gallery Going”, Globe & Mail, Sat. March 14, 1998
1996: Thomsen, Christian, Bauen Fur Die Sinne – Erotik und Sexualitat in der Architektur, Prestel, 1996 (English edition 1998) New York, NY Summer 1996, Vol. 55 No.2, Artist’s Pages
: Wilkin, Karen, “At The Galleries”, Partisan Review, Volume LXIII, No.1, 1996
: Goodman, Jonathan, review, Canadian Art, Volume 13, No.1, Spring 1996
1995: The Paris Review, Issue 137, Winter 1995 (Cover) Balken, Debra Bricker, Owen Drolet and Donna Masini, Medrie MacPhee, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, 1995
1994: Swain, Robert, Hidden Values; Contemporary Canadian Art in Corporate Collections, Douglas & McIntyre Vancouver, Toronto,1994
: The Paris Review, Issue 129, Winter, 1994, Artist’s Pages
1993: Johnson, Ken, “Medrie MacPhee/ Baldacci Daverio”, Art In America, July, 1993
: Scott, Susan, “Medrie MacPhee/Baldacci Daverio”, Art News, New York, June, 1993
: Clarkson, David, “Medrie MacPhee/Paolo Baldacci Gallery”, Canadian Art, Summer 1993
1992: Taylor, Kate, “Art About”, Globe & Mail, Toronto, Sept. 18, 1992
: Hanna Deidre, “Medrie MacPhee/Mira Godard Gallery”, Now, Toronto, Sept. 10, 1992
: Raven, Arlene, “The Doctor Is In”, The Village Voice, New York, June 30, 1992
: Negri, Massimo, La Fabbrica Romantica, catalogue, Kriterion, Milano, 1992
1991: Cohen, Ronny, “Medrie MacPhee/Daverio Gallery”, Artforum, New York, Oct., 1991
: Ottenbrite, Phillip, “Medrie MacPhee”, catalogue, Phillipe Daverio Gallery, NYC
1990: Fillin-Yeh, Susan, The Technological Muse, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY: catalogue, 1990
: “As 6 Artists Saw Cities Since 1910”, New York Times, July 19, 1990
: Thomsen, Christian, “Personal Metaphors: Medrie MacPhee’s Magical-Fantastical Realism”, PARNASS, Vienna, January, 1990
1989: Freedman, Adele, “Medrie MacPhee’s Industrial Poetics”, Canadian Art, Fall, 1989
: Thomsen, Christian, LiterArchitekture, Dumont Buchwerlag, Koln, 1989
: Sturman, John, “Medrie MacPhee/49th Parallel”, review, Art News, New York, June, 1989
: Berlind, Robert, “Medrie MacPhee/49th Parallel”, review, Art In America, April, 1989
: Clark, John, “No Apologies”, Vanguard, review, No.18(1) 1989
1988: Tully, Judd, “Medrie MacPhee”, Taxi, preview, Oct. 1988
: Lehmann, Henry, “Poetry In Ruins: MacPhee’s Luminous Art Elected member of the National Academy of Design, New York”, Daily News, Montreal, 1988

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2020: American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Program Award, New York, NY
2019: Elected member of the National Academy of Design, New York, NY
2018-2019: Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2016: Anonymous Was A Woman Award
2015: American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Program Award
2009: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
2004: Canada Council Established Artist Grant
2000: Canada Council Established Artist Grant
1996: Canada Council Established Artist Grant
1990: Canada Council B Grant
1988: New York Foundation For The Arts
1985: New York Foundation For The Arts
: The National Endowment for the Arts
: Elizabeth Greenshields Award

Public Collections

: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
: Asheville Museum, Asheville, NC
: Bank of Canada
: Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick, Canada
: Blackburn Group, London, UK
: Canada Council Art Bank
: Canada House, London, UK
: Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec, Montreal, Canada
: Chase Manhattan Bank, NY
: Concordia University Art Gallery, Quebec, Canada
: Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Prince Edward Island, Canada
: Deloitte’s, UK
: Deutsche Bank
: Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada
: Memorial University Art Gallery, Newfoundland, Canada
: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: Musee d’ Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
: The National Academy of Design, New York, NY
: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
: Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, Canada
: North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
: Nova Corporation
: Tricon Residential, Toronto, Canada
: The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
: Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, Toronto, Canada
: The Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University
: Prudential Insurance of America
: Royal Bank, NY
: Starwood Urban Investments, Washington, D.C.
: Sun Life Assurance
: Swiss Bank Corporation
: Toronto Dominion Bank, NY

Reginald O’Neal

1992: Born in Miami, FL
: Lives and works in Miami, FL

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024: "Souled Out," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
: "Forever Fleeing," Festival del Arte Contemporáneo de Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain
2023: "And I Think to Myself," Spinello Projects, Miami, FL
: "The Cellist," Meridians, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL
2021: "They Dreamt of Us," Spinello Projects, Miami, FL
: "As I Am," Rubell Museum, Miami, FL
2020: "At The Feet of Mountain," Spinello Projects, Miami, FL
2019: "Sun Beneath The Soil," L.E.O., Portland, OR

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024: ""Mirror of the Mind: Figuration in the Jorge M. Perez Collection," El Espacio 23, Miami, FL (forthcoming)
: "American Vignettes: Symbols, Society, and Satire," Rubell Museum, Miami, FL
: "To Be as a Cloud: Recent Acquisitions," NSU Art Musuem Fort Lauderdale, FL
: "A Landscape Longed For: The Garden As Disturbanc," Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, FL
: "Selections of the Marquez Family Collection," Marquez Art Projects, Miami, FL
2023: "2023 Florida Prize in Contemporary Art," Orlando Musuem of Art, Orlando, FL
: "Gimme Shelter," Historic Hampton House, Miami, FL
: "It Was Always About You…," Oolite Arts, Miami, FL
2022: "By the Skin of Your Teeth," NOVA Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL
: "Open Storage," The Bass, Miami, FL
: "Lean-To," Oolite Arts, Miami, FL
2021: "Selections from Permanent Collection," ICA Miami, Miami, FL
2019: "Grounded," Spinello Projects, Miami, FL
: "Homeless," Void Projects, Miami, FL
: "South Florida Cultural Consortium," Miami, FL
: "Collabo 6," Miami, FL
2018: "Homeless," Void Projects, Miami, FL
: "Afterglow," The Frank, Pembroke Pines, FL
: Laundromat 2.0, Miami, FL
2017: Youth Concept Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL
: Street Art For Mankind, Miami, FL
2016: Profiles Exhibition, Hollywood, FL
2014: Artesano collective show, Miami, FL
: Urban Art Clash, Berlin, Germany

Residencies

2024: Festival del Arte Contemporáneo de Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain
2022: Anderson Ranch Arts Center, CO
2020: Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2019: Forest for the Trees Curated Field Trip, Tokyo, Japan
2018: Bed-Stuy Art Residency, Brooklyn, NY
: Creença, Catalonia, Spain
2017: Konvant Art Residency, Catalonia, Spain

Mural Festivals

2019: In Wall We Trust Mural Festival, Airola, Italy
: Maya Angelou Mural Festival, Los Angeles, CA
: Forest For The Trees, Seattle, WA
: San Isidro Mural Festival, Havana, Cuba
2018: Emancipation Exhibition, Marseille, France
: Transfert & Co, Nantes, France
: City Year MLK Day of Service, Miami, FL
2017: Shine Street Art Festival, St. Petersburg, FL
: Slash and Burn, Sumatra, Indonesia
2016: Artesano Street Art Festival, San Pedro, Dominican Republic
2015: Urban Art Experience, Miami, FL
: Artesano Street Art Festival, Nagua, Dominican Republic
: 352 Walls, Gainesville, FL
2014: Artesano Street Art festival, Rio San Juan, Dominican Republic
: Artesano Collective Show, Miami, FL
: Desordes Creativas Galicia, Spain

Bibliography

2023: Markoqitz, Douglas. "Reginald O’Neal, Cara Despain, and Other Artists Nominated for 2023 Florida Prize," Miami New Times, May 31
2022: Akers, Torey. "Miami artist billboard project puts justice in the spotlight," The Art Newspaper, November 28
2021: Davis-Marks, Isis. "The Artsy Vanguard 2021: Reginald O’Neal," Artsy, December 1
: del Busto, Carolina. "Reginald O’Neal Searches for Inspiration From His Family and Overtown Neighborhood," Miami New Times, October 1
: Villa, Angelica. "At the Rubell Museum, Reginald O’Neal Pictures Miami’s Overtown Neighborhood," ArtNews, November 29
: Juste, Carl. "Local artist Reginald O’Neal is emerging as an art star painting his community," Miami Herald, November 25

Public Collections

: Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL

Joseph Olisaemeka Wilson

1999: Born in Los Angeles, California
: Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

2020: Silver Art Projects Residency at 4 World Trade Center, New York, NY
2017: NYU Gallatin, Art History and Environmental Design, New York, NY

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024: "Songs About War," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2023: "A Witness to the Rub," Asia Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
: "Wali’s Farm," Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
: "Joseph Olisaemeka Wilson," Tiwani Contemporary, Lagos, Nigeria
2022: "After me, the flood," Derek Eller Gallery, New York City, NY
: "Everything go scatter," Tiwani Gallery, London, UK
: "OMG (how to find God)," Fergus McCaffrey, Saint Barthelemy
2021: "Olisaemeka," Simchowitz Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Jaga-Jaga," Freedom Gallery, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023: Lyles & King, New York, NY
2022: "Seven/Seven: The Fraught Landscape," Fergus McCaffrey. Tokyo, Japan
: "Narrative Minds," Asia Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2021: "Poetic Sustenance, Ryan Christopher, Miranda Forrester, Joseph Olisaemeka Wilson," Tiwani Gallery, London, UK
: "The Loneliest Sport, Spazio Amanita Gallery," New York, NY
: "Animal Instincts," Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA

Bibliography

2024: Heath, Shaquille. "Not in Charge: An Interview with Joseph Olisaemeka Wilson," Juxtapoz Magazine, September 25
2023: Wang, Jenny. "Joseph Olisaemeka Wilson: Wali’s Farm at Derek Eller Gallery, NYC (Review)," ArteFuse, August 18 (Link)
: Pricco, Evan. "Joseph Olisaemeka Wilson Takes Us to "Wali’s Farm"," Juxtapoz Magazine, August 15 (Link)
: Dolan, Maegan. "Joseph Olisaemeka Wilson," Artforum, July (Link)
: Bishara, Hakim. "What Kim Kardashian Taught Me About Art Fairs." Hyperallergic, May 12
: Schwendener, Martha. "The Independent, More Inclusive Than Ever," The New York Times, May 11
2022: Galleries Now Staff. "Joseph Olisaemeka Wilson: Everything Go Scatter," Galleries Now, January (Link)
: “Our Selection of Galleries to Visit During London Gallery Weekend," 1-54 Contemporary Art Fair, February 2
2021: Ocula Staff. "Joseph Olisaemeka Wilson: Olisaemeka," Ocula, May (Link)
: Bogojev, Sasha. “The Loneliest Sport Group Exhibition @ Spazio Amanita, NYC,” Juxtapoz Magazine, November 16
: Weiss, Lois. “Empty NYC office floors are taking on new life as art studios," New York Post, April 22
: Petrarca, Emilia. “A Rooftop Artists’ Salon: Figure drawing alfresco," Vulture, April 15
: McCaffrey, Fergus. "Seven/Seven: The Fraught Landscape," Mutual Art, January 20

Maya Kabat

1971: Born in Portland, OR
: Lives and works in Oakland, CA

2000: MFA, University of California, Davis, CA
1993: BA, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

One and Two Person Exhibitions

2024: "Always Already Anew," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2023: "Super Spatial," Los Angeles, Los Angeles Art Association Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
: "Always Already Again," SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2022: "Re:Configuration," SLATE Contemporary Off-Site Exhibition, San Jose, CA
2021: "Maya Kabat Selected Works," Post Montgomery Center, San Francisco, CA
2019: "California Modern," SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2018: "Maya Kabat and Peter Dreyfuss," 555 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2016: "Maya Kabat and Andrzej Michael Karwacki," SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2015: "Urban Abstraction," SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2013: “City and Place,” SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2012: “The Lab,” Caffe Museo, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2011: “InSight, 5 Claude Lane Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: “Infinite Expansion Inward,” Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA
: “Small Waters Seeping Upwards,” Victorian Rat Gallery, Oakland, CA
2010: “Living Cities,” B. Rogers Gallery, Portland, OR
: “This Living Process,” Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA
2009: “Thin Cities,” SFMOMA Artist Gallery Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
: “Cities and Desire,” Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA
2008: “New Urban Landscape,” B. Rogers Gallery, Portland, OR
: “Invisible Cities,” Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA
2007: "Maya Kabat: New Work," Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022: "The Non-Objective Moment," Los Angeles Art Association Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
: "Cosmic Geometries," Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
: "New Abstracts," SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2021: Berkeley Art Center, Selections, The Mills Building, San Francisco, CA
: Crocker Kingsley Museum National, Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA
2020: "Black And White," SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2019: "Aqueous," Tubac Center For The Arts, Tubac, AZ
: "Ink And Clay," Kellogg University Art Gallery, Cal Poly, Pomona, CA
: "Analog/Digital," Beacon Gallery, Boston, MA
: "Made in Paint," The Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY
: "140 Characters," Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2018: "About A Box," Shoebox Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: "Let Me Eat Cake," P0ST, Los Angeles, CA
2017: "Color: Primary to Tertiary," Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
: "Moderna, SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2016: "The London Intensive," Camden Arts Centre, London, England
: "Abstract Women," San Ramon Valley Convention Center, San Ramon, CA
2015: SLATE Contemporary Booth 223, Art Market Art Fair, San Francisco, CA
: “Botanica," Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2014: "Spring Collection," SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA
: "Drawing Invitational," Conocophillips Gallery, Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, AL
2013: "Scouting Oakland," Compound Gallery, Oakland, CA
: “Introductions," SLATE Contemporary, Oakland, CA
: "After the Fall," Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA
2012: "Terra Incognito:Imaginary Landscapes," The Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO
: “Cartographies," Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA
2011: "True Paint," Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA
2010: "Landscape in the 21st Century," Brad Rogers Gallery, Portland, OR
: "Strange Nature," Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA
2006: "Referencing Nature," Seattle Art Museum Rental Gallery, Seattle, WA
2004: “Meditations,” Los Medanos Community College, Pittsburg, CA

Bibliography

2023: Kendal, Gracie. "Artist Spotlight: Maya Kabat," Art and Cake, August 14
: Corbin, Mary. "Maya Kabat Paints the Crazy Quilt of Urban Patterns and Puzzles," 48 Hills, San Francisco, July
2019: Cheng, Dewitt. "Ye Olde Moderne," East Bay Monthly, June
: "Attempt To Cross: Six Paintings," with essays by George Lawson and Danielle Fox, SLATE 2017
: "Contemporary," Edition One Books, January
2013: Bigman, Alex."Surfaces of Oakland," East Bay Express, September 4
2012: Holt, Devin. "Maya Kabat Exhibit in SFMOMA Cafe distracts," SF Weekly Blog, December
: Kerr, Ross Todd. "Neiman Marcus purchases works of Berkeley artists," Berkeley Times, February
2011: Cheng, DeWitt. "Maya Kabat at 5 Claude Lane," Art Ltd. Magazine, September
2010: Modenessi, Jennifer. "Bay Area Galleries Explore Visions of Home," San Jose Mercury News, September 9
: Cheng, DeWitt. "Critic’s Pick," The East Bay Express, June
2009: Cheng, DeWitt. "Critic’s Pick," The East Bay Express, August
2008: "Both Here and There:," KQED Gallery Crawl, February
2007: Kerr, Ross Todd. "First Friday Art-Walk,” Piedmont Post, February 7
2005: "Artists of Collective 9," San Francisco Chronicle, February
2004: Modenessi, Jennifer. "Meditations puts passion into the landscape," Contra Costa Times, April 2
2000: "‘Four in One’ Fills Sacramento Gallery," Davis Enterprise, June 22

Awards, Fellowships, and Grants

2022: The Gambrel Gallery Artist Residency, Ashland, OR
2018: The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation, Inc, Artist Residency, New Berlin, NY
2016: The London Intensive, Artist Residency, Camden Art Centre, London, England
2015: Fljotstunga Art Farm, Artist Residency, Reykolt, Iceland
2013: Quick Grant, Creative Capacity Fund, San Francisco, CA
2011: Quick Grant, Creative Capacity Fund, San Francisco, CA
2004: Finalist, Berkeley Art Center Members Show, Berkeley, CA

Public and Private Collections

: ABS Capital, San Francisco, CA
: American Campus Communities, San Antonio, TX
: Arthur Huang, Tokyo, Japan
: Brian Thomson, Denver, CO
: Charlot Malin, San Francisco, CA
: Cisco Systems, Santa Clara, CA
: Headlands Hotel and Spa, Pacific City, Oregon
: Hodo Soy Beanery, Oakland, CA
: The Hotel Adagio, San Francisco, CA
: Hunter Potter, Brooklyn, NY
: Kaiser Hospital Oakland, Oakland, CA
: Kaiser Permanente Medical Offices, Berkeley, CA
: The Kaiser Center, Oakland, CA
: Kristine Schomaker, Los Angeles, CA
: Leo Michelson, Portland, OR
: Neiman Marcus Collection, Dallas, TX
: Neiman Marcus Collection, Short Hills, NJ
: Neiman Marcus Collection, St. Louis, MO
: Philip Seel and Serena Mah, New York, NY
: The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY
: Stanford Hospitals, Palo Alto, CA
: Vantage Point Ventures, San Bruno, CA
: Wood Partners, Oakland, CA

Paul Mpagi Sepuya

1982: San Bernardino, CA
: Based in Los Angeles, lives and works in Los Angeles

2016: MFA Photography, University of California, Los Angeles
2004: BFA Photography & Imaging, New York University Tisch School of the Arts

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2024: "Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Infinite Like Night," DOCUMENT, Chicago, IL
: "Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Exposure," Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
2023: "Push/Pull," Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich, Switzerland
: "Lustrer," Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Paris, France
2022: "Daylight Studio/Dark Room Studio," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "144 Powers," Alice Austen House, New York, NY
: "D.R.M.P.," Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
2021: “The Hamilton Public Art Project,” University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2020: “Drop Scene,” Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
: "Paul Mpagi Sepuya," Peter Kilchmann Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
: "Paul Mpagi Sepuya: A conversation <strike>about</strike> around pictures," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "CONDO," Stuart Shave Modern Art, London, UK
2019: “Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO; traveled to: Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX
: “The Conditions,” Team Gallery, New York, NY
2018: DelVaz Projects at Avant Premiere, Palais Royale, Paris, France
: “Double Enclosure,” FOAM Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
: “Dark Room,” Document, Chicago, IL
2017: “Dark Room,” Team (Bungalow), Los Angeles, CA
: “Figures, Grounds and Studies,” Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
: “Portraits / Positions,” KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY
2015: “Figures / Grounds / Studies,” DOCUMENT, Chicago, IL
2014: “STUDIO WORK,” Platform Centre for Photography, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
2013: “RECENT PICTURES / a journal,” Clough-Hanson Gallery at Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
: “STUDIO WORK,” Artspeak, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2011: “STUDIO WORK,” Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, MN
2010: “Portraits / Positions,” NP Contemporary Art Space, New York, NY
2009: “Alexandria,” Envoy Enterprises, New York, NY
2007: “Beloved Object and Amorous Subject,” Envoy Gallery, New York, NY

Two and Three Person Exhibitions

2022: "Paul Mpagi Sepuya," 2-Person show with Alix Marie, PHOXXI, the Temporary House of Photography at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2019: "The Autopoets," Cooley Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR
: "Sheree Hovsepian and Paul Mpagi Sepuya," Team (bungalow), Venice, CA
2016: "MFA Thesis Show #3," New Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
: "storefront: Public Fiction," Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024: "FULL DISCLOSURE: Selections from the Thomas-Suwall Collection" Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND (forthcoming)
: "Before You Now: Capturing the Self in Portraiture" Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA (forthcoming)
: "Nineteenth‐Century Photography Now," Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
: “Fragmented Bodies," Galleria Lorcan O’Neill Roma, Rome, Italy (forthcoming)
: "Hypnopomp," Canepa Selling Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today," Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA; Traveling to: Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI (2024)
: "Taken Apart & Put Back Together Again," Tlön Projects at A Tale of A Tub, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Netherlands
: “ICP at 50: From the Collection, 1860–2019” International Center for Photography, New York, NY
: “Contemporary Photography: Highlights from the Collection” Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
: “Studio/Archive” The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
: “Seen Together: Acquisitions in Photography” The Morgan Library & Museum New York, New York,NY
2023-2026: “The Way We Are” Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany
2023-2024: "Creative Spaces: The Studio as Inspiration," MFA Boston, Boston, MA
: "Copy Machine Manifesto: Artists Who Make Zines," Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Traveling to Vancouver Art Gallery Vancouver, BC, Canada (2024)
: "Photography Now," V & A Photography Centre, London, UK
: “Long Story Short”, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2023: "The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today," Auckland Art Museum, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC
: "Queer-ish," Ruth Chandler Williamson Art Gallery, Scripps College, CA
: "De Profundis," L’Hotel, Paris, France
: "The Long Century: Beginners," Dunes Gallery, Portland, ME
: "Not Gay," Cathy & Jesse Marion Art Gallery at the State University of New York at Fredonia, Fredonia, NY
: "Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Kinship: Photography and Connection," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
: "Energy: Sparks from the Collection," The Photography Centre, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
: “In First Person Plural” MACRO, Rome, Italy
: "Rooms of Resonance," Cloud Seven, Brussels, Belgium
: “SEEING STARS: Works from the Fischer/Shull Collection of Contemporary Art,” Harvey Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC
: “Queer Love: Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art” Lehman College Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
: “Queer Love: Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art” La MaMa Galleria, New York, NY
: “Are We Not Drawn Onward to New Era,” Mandeville Gallery at UCSD, San Diego, CA
: “handle with care,” Edouard Merlier Photo Gallery, Cypress College, Cypress, CA
: "Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: “The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today,” Orlando Museum of Art Orlando, FL
: "It’s Time," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Minotaur’s Daydream," Semiose Galerie, Paris, France
2022-2023: "Sightlines: Photographs from the Collection," SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2022: "Daylight Studio/ Dark Room Studio," PHOXXI, the Temporary House of Photography at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
: "Plants Now!," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Queering The Narrative," Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
: "The Dividual," Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
: “Meia-Noite. Parte 2.” Anozero’21/22 Bienal de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. Curated by Elfi Turpin and Filipa Oliveira
: "Being Human," PHOTO 2022 International Festival of Photography Biennial, Melbourne, Australia (Link)
: “Elegies: Still Lifes in Contemporary Art,” Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
: “In Dialogue,” The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: “A Century of the Artist’s Studio 1920-2020," Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
: "This basic asymmetry," Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, CA
: "Olvido, Sombra, Nada,” Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Mexico City, Mexico
: “A Través," James Cohan, New York, NY
2021: "Black American Portraits," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: “Athens Biennial 7: ECLIPSE,” Athens, Greece
: “Queer/Dialogue,” Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell, IA
: "Between,” Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
: "Ridykes Cavern of Fine Gay Wine and Videos: Hauser & Werk Bitch: Don’t Be Mad At Us!," Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY. Curated by Ridykeulous. (Link)
: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: “f/stop 9: TRUST/vertrauen”, Festival für Fotografie, Leipzig, Germany
: "Momentum Biennale 11: House of Commons,” Moss, Norway
: “Portals,” NEON Foundation, Athens, Greece
: "Mirror, Mirror," Nathlie Karg, New York, NY
: “Love in the Times of…,” Hotel Europe, Zürich, Switzerland
: "Photo Flux: Unshuttering LA", Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: “Remake,” Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA (online)
: “Queerness Out T/Here” Tonga Art Advisory, New York, NY. Organized by James Shaeffer
: “Face Forward,” Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell, IA
: "A Beautiful America – Works By Afro-America Artists From The Vermeire-Notebaert Collection," Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium (Link)
: “Taken Together: Collaborative Actions in Photography,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
: "FOAM," Amsterdam, Netherlands
: “MOMENTUM 11: House of Commons,” MOMENTUM Biennale, Moss, Norway
2020-2022: “Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography,” LUMA Foundation, Arles, France
2020: “Intimacy: New Queer Art from Berlin and Beyond,” Schwules Museum, Berlin, Germany
: “i’m yours: Encounters with Art in Our Times,” ICA Boston, Boston, MA.
: "Rear Window," White Cube, online
: “The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing,” Diamond Valley, Alberta, Canada
: “Picture in Picture,” Cassilhaus Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC.
: “myselves,” Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Joshua Friedman.
: “Grace Before Jones: Camera, Disco, Studio,” Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK. Curated by Cédric Fauq with Olivia Aherne.
: “Stand at the Window,” Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Eve Fowler.
: "Constellations,” David Lewis Gallery, New York, NY
: “Interiors,” Document, Chicago, IL
: “Intimate Companions,” Mary Heaton Vorse House, Provincetown, MA. Curated by Joe Sheftel.
: “The Artist and the Self,” James Fuentes, New York, NY.
: “Art at Time Like This,” Online eponymous exhibition. Curated by Barbara Pollack and Anne Verhallen.
: "Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago," Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
: “Fragmented Bodies,” albertz benda, New York, NY.
: “New Visions Triennial,” Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
: “Tell Me Your Story,” Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands
: "Dancing Machines,” FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
: “Mapping Black Identities,” Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
2019-2020: "The Foundation of the Museum: MOCA’s Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: "Orlando," Aperture, New York, NY; travelled to the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Literaturhaus, Munich, Germany
: "The Body Electric," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; traveled to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2019: “Better Nights,” Bass Art Museum, Miami, FL. Organized by Mickalene Thomas
: “Must’ve Been A Wake-Dream: Guadalupe Rosales,” Gordan Parks Foundation, Pleasantville, NY
: "Personal Private Public," Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY
: "Studio Photography: 1887-2019," Simon Lee Gallery, New York, NY
: "Umbilicus," Galeria Sultana, Paris, France
: "In Focus: The Camera," Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: "Artists I Steal From," Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London, UK
: "Forging Territories: Queer Afro and Latinx Contemporary Art," San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
: “BeSeen: Portrait Photography Since Stonewall,” Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT
: Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: “Stonewall 50!,” Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
: "Smart to the Core: Embodying the Self," Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: “Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now,” Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
: "Fire," Company Gallery, New York, NY
: "Nobody’s World," Gordon Robichaux, New York, NY
: "Circus of Books," Fierman, New York, NY
: "Your Mirror: Portraits from the ICP Collection," International Center of Photography, New York, NY
: "Grace Wales Bonner," Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, UK
: "Smart to the Core: Embodying the Self," Smart Art Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2018: “Groundings,” MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
: "Tipping Points," Palmer Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
: “Positioner,” Matthew Marks Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
: “Echoes: Reframing Collage,” Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL. Opening October 11
: “The Violators,” Leslie Lohman Project Space, New York, NY. Organized by Gio Black Peter
: "This is Not a Prop,” David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY.
: “Intimacy,” Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY.
: “Both, and,” Stevenson Galleries, Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa.
: “Being : New Photography 2018,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
: “Tag: Proposals on Queer Play and the Way Forward,” ICA Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. Curated by Nayland Blake.
2017: “Trigger : Gender as a Tool and a Weapon,” The New Museum, New York, NY.
: “Discursive Selves,” Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY.
: “A Sag, Harbored,” Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL.
: “Encounters I may or may not have had with Peter Berlin,” Vamiali’s, Athens, Greece. With Mariah Garnett and Neal Tait, curated by Caroline May.
: “Over the Rainbow,” Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, CA.
: “Visual Notes for an Upside-Down World,” P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY.
: “The Coffins of Paa Joe and the Pursuit of Happiness,” Jack Shainmann Gallery’s The School, Kinderhook, NY.
: “Regarding the Figure,” The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.
: “Picturing Love: Photography’s Pursuit of Intimacy,” Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY.
: “Deana Lawson, Judy Linn and Paul Mpagi Sepuya, “ Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY.
: “Compassionate Protocols,” Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY. Curated by Moyra Davey and Jason Simon.
2016: “Tête-à-tête,” David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL. Curated by Mickalene Thomas.
: “Protuberances,” LAXART, Los Angeles, CA.
: “Occupy Space Differently,” Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA.
: “A Subtle Likeness,” ONE Archive, Los Angeles, CA.
: “James Baldwin / Jim Brown and the Children,” The Artists’ Institute, New York, NY. Curated by Hilton Als.
: “Jack Pierson: Tomorrow’s Man,” University of Nevada, Reno, NV. Curated by Jack Pierson.
: “storefront: Public Fiction,” MOCA, Los Angeles, CA. With Litia Perta, curated by Lauren Mackler.
: “MFA Thesis Show #3,” University of California, Los Angeles, CA. With Nikita Gale and Sarah Sarchin.
: “Queering the Biblioproject,” Center for Book Arts, New York, NY. Curated by John Chaich.
: “Terms of Use : Reproducing the Photographic Image,” Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL. Curated by Aron Gent.
2015: “Record. Collect. Compose,” Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Masood Kamandy (catalogue)
: “I Am a Camera,” Houston Foto Fest, Houston, TX.
: “A Room of One’s Own,” Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY.
: “Nine Artists,” Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
: “Introducing! Young California Photographer Award,” Paris Photo LA, Los Angeles, CA.
: “In Profile: Portraits from the Permanent Collection,” the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.
2014: “Kings County,” Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. (catalogue)
: “Spain & 42 St.,” Foxy Production, New York, NY.
: “Something Beautiful,” Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY.
: “Beyond the Pale,” Interstate Project, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Sam McKinniss. (catalogue)
: “Race, Love, and Labor,” Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY. Curated by Sarah Lewis. (catalogue)
: “The Thing Itself,” Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY.
: “Lighting Speed of the Present,” Boston University, Boston, MA. Curated by Lynne Cooney.
2013: “Tête-a-Tête,” QF Gallery, East Hampton, NY. Curated by Mickalene Thomas.
: “Body Language,” The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.
: “The Kids Are All Right,” Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC.
: “White Boys,” Cantor-Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College, Philadelphia, PA. Curated by Hank Willis Thomas and Natasha Logan. (catalogue)
2012: “The Kids Are All Right,” Koelher Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI.
: “BENEATH,” VOGT Gallery, New York, NY.
: “B-OUT,” Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY.
: “Surface Tension,” Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY.
2011: “Pride & Prejudice Reprise,” Mason Gross Galleries at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Curated by LaToya Ruby Frazier.
: “Evidence of Accumulation: Simone Leigh, Kamau Amu Patton, Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY. (catalogue)
: “Portraits,” I-20 Gallery, New York, NY. Curated by Simon Watson.
2010: “Quadruple-Consciousness,” Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA. Curated by Malik Gaines. (catalogue)
2018: 2010 “In Translation (Portraiture),” Skylight Projects, New York, NY. Curated by Joe Sheftel.
2010: “Lost Horizon / Head Shop,” Exile Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Billy Miller.
: “The Accidental Egyptian and Occidental Arrangements,” Façade/Fasad, Brooklyn, NY.
: “50 Artists Photograph the Future,” Higher Pictures, New York, NY. Curated by Dean Daderko.
: “Printed Matter’s Queer Zines,” Office for Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway.
2009: “Compassion,” Union Theological Seminary, New York, NY. Curated by AA Bronson
: “30 Seconds Off an Inch,” The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.
: “Buddy List,” Space 414, Brooklyn, New York, NY.
: “Lyst,” Overtaden Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen, Denmark.
: “Inside of Me,” PHIL, Los Angeles, CA.
: “My Bloody Valentine,” Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Darin Klein.
2008: “Artist as Publisher,” Center for Book Arts, New York, NY.
: “LEADAWARDS2008,” Deichterhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
: “Male: photographs, drawings, paintings and ephemera from the collection of Vince Aletti,” White Columns, New York, NY. (book)
2007: “Come Join The Brotherhood,” Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney and Neon Parc Galery, Melbourne, Australia
: “The Male Gaze,” The powerHouse Arena, Brooklyn, New York, NY.
2006: “When Fathers Fail,” Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, NY.
: “Six Degrees of Separation,” Stefan Stux Gallery, NY.
: “When Artists Say ‘We’,” Artist Space, New York, NY. Curated by Andrea Geyer.

Boards and Service

2019-2020: Printed Matter Board
: Hammer Museum Artist Council
2018-2020: Los Angeles Artist Advisory Committee
2009-2020: The Robert Giard Foundation

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: Wist, Audra. “The Pornography of Images,” Autre, Volume 2, Issue 8, pp. 138-143
: Bonilla-Edgington, Jennifer Rose. “Personal Private Public,” The Brooklyn Rail, October 8
: Allen, Brian T. “Time for a Riot: Camp Fashion at the Met, and a Real Riot at the Stonewall,” National Review, August 31
: Eckhardt, Stephanie. "The Problem With Robert Mapplethorpe," W, July 27 (Link)
: Lescaze, Zoë. “13 Artists Reflect on the Stonewall Riots,” The New York Times Style Magazine, July 27 (Link)
: Schwabsky, Barry. "The Whitney Biennial’s Flimsy Promises," The Nation, July 22 (Link)
: Morlet, Madeliene. "Paul Mpagi Sepuya," Teeth Magazine Issue 8, July
: Weitzman, Jordan. "Episode 32: Paul Mpagi Sepuya," Magic Hour, July 8 (Link)
: Jackson, Danielle. "What the Whitney Biennial Tells Us About the Future of Photography—and the Artists Who Will Shape It," arnet, July 3 (Link)
: Irvin, Rebecca. "Deconstructed bodies: The photography of Paul Mpagi Sepuya," It’s Nice That, June 21 (Link)
: "Confessions on the Dance Floor: Reveries From The Gay Bar," Artforum, Summer (Link)
: Howe, David Everitt. "The Conditions," Art in America, May (Link)
: Loos, Ted. "Inspired by Virginia Woolf, Curated by Tilda Swinton," New York Times, May 22 (Link)
: Henderson, Jane. "Q&A: Intimate portraits by Paul Mpagi Sepuya revise notion of ‘dark rooms’," St. Louis Today, May 22 (Link)
: Goldstein, Caroline and Eileen Kinsella. "A Buyer’s Guide to the Whitney Biennial: What You Need to Know About the Exhibition’s Brightest Rising Stars," artnet, May 22 (Link)
: Moffitt, Evan. "The 2019 Whitney Biennial Is Unafraid to Be Beautiful," Frieze, May 20 (Link)
: King, Chris. "New CAM shows fulfill every challenge of contemporary art," St. Louis American, May 20 (Link)
: Aletti, Vince. "Previews: Paul Mpagi Sepuya at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis," Artforum, May (Link)
: Gilbert, Alan. "Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s “The Conditions,” Art-Agenda, April 5 (Link)
: Scott, Andrea K. "Paul Mpagi Sepuya Mines the Queer History of the Portrait Studio," New Yorker, March 29 (Link)
: Schwendener, Martha. "New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now," New York Times, March 28 (Link)
: Mellin, Haley. "Sheree Hovsepian and Paul Mpagi Sepuya Take Over Venice Beach," Garage, March 25 (Link)
: Manatakis, Lexi and Ashleigh Kane. "Art shows to leave the house for this month," Dazed, March 15 (Link)
: "9 Art Events in New York: Isaac Julien, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Gretchen Bender, Arakawa, and More," ArtNews, March 4 (Link)
: Velasco, David. "Project: Paul Mpagi Sepuya," Artforum, March (Link)
: "Photographer Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s Blurred Lines," Garage, February 20 (Link)
: Cavaluzzo, Alexander and Daniel Avery. "THE 12 BEST ART EXHIBITS TO SEE IN 2019," Newsweek, February 13 (Link)
: Malone, Callan. "The LALA List," LALA Magazine, Winter 2019, p. 51
: "In the Studio with Paul Mpagi Sepuya," SIXTY Hotels (blog), January 9 (Link)
: Selvin, Claire. "Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects Now Represents Paul Mpagi Sepuya,’ ARTnews, January 8 (Link)
: Pahules, Anastasia. "Artists on Art: Paul Mpagi Sepuya on Lorna Simpson," LACMA Unframed (blog), January (Link)
2018: Cooper, Ashton. "Critics’ Picks: Positioner at Matthew Marks," Artforum, October (Link)
: Christon, Jimmy. "’Tipping Points’ exhibit reflects changing political world," The Miscellany News, October 24 (Link)
: Haris, Gareth. "Can an increase in two-artist booths spur sales at Paris’s Fiac?" Art Newspaper, October 17 (Link)
: Lubow, Arthur. "What’s New in Photography? Humanism, MoMA Says," New York Times, March 9 (Link)
: Allegretto, Dan. "We All Wear the Mask: New Photography at the Museum of Modern Art," Art in America, April 2 (Link)
: Jones, Gregory Eddi. "Picture, Paper, Friend, and Flesh: An Interview with Paul Mpagi Sepuya," In the In-Between, March 12 (Link)
: Onyewuenyi, Ikechukwu Casmir. "Paul Sepuay at team (bungalow," Carla, February 14 (Link)
: Oldweiler, Cory. "MoMA’s new photography exhibit focuses on identity in 2018," AM New York, March 18 (Link)
: Woodward, Richard B. "MoMA’s Human Focus," Wall Street Journal, March 14 (Link)
: Wheeler, André-Naquian. "moma’s ‘new photography’ series asks what it means to be human," i-d, March 27 (Link)
: Aubry, Lisa. "MoMA to Display UCLA Alum’s Work Exploring Identity, Portraiture," Daily Bruin, March 14 (Link)
: Norman, Lee Ann. "Intimate Moves In A Dark Room: Paul Mpagi Sepuya at Document," New City Art, April 19 (Link)
: Goldberg, Ariel. "In the Room," Art in America, April 1 (Link)
: "Image of the Day," Elephant, September 12 (Link)
: Wheeler, André. "In the Studio, in the Nude: An Artist Capturing Queer Masculinity," AnOther, October 12 (Link)
: Eckardt, Stephanie. “The 7 Photographers Proving that the Self-Portriat is 2018’s Most Exciting Genre,” W Magazine, April 6 (Link)
: Campbell, Andy. “Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Aperture, Fall
: “Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Unseen, Issue 5, Fall
: Quinton, Jared. “Paul Mpagi Sepuya at DOCUMENT,” Artforum, March (Link)
: Norman, Lee Ann. “Intimate Moves In A Dark Room, Paul Mpagi Sepuya at Document,” Newcity Art, April 19 (Link)
: Goldberg, Ariel. "The Room,” Art In America Magazine, April 1 (Link)
: Allegretto, Dan. “We All Wear The Mask : New Photography at the Museum of Modern Art,” Art In America Magazine, April 2 (Link)
: Wheeler, André-Naquian. “MoMA’s ‘New Photography’ Series Asks What It Means to be Human,” i-D Magazine, March 27 (Link)
: Indrisek, Scott. “At MoMA, Photography Doesn’t Have to Reinvent Itself to be Radical,” Artsy, March 20 (Link)
: “Five Questions with Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Cultured Magazine, March 20 (Link)
: Woodward, Richard B. “MoMA’s Human Focus,” The Wall Street Journal, March 14 (Link)
: Jones, Gregory Eddi. “Picture, Paper, Friend and Flesh: An Interview with Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” The In-Between, March (Link)
: Schwabsky, Barry. “Without Warning: Margins and the Mainstream at the New Museum’s ‘Trigger’” The Nation, January 26 (Link)
: Lubow, Arthur. “What’s New in Photography? Humanism, MoMA Says,” The New York Times, March 9 (Link)
2017: "Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Figures, Grounds and Studies" The Eye of Photography, February 20
: Eckardt, Stephanie. "Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s Photo Studio is Sexier Than Yours," February 25 (Link)
: Dykstra, Jean. "PAUL MPAGI SEPUYA: FIGURES, GROUNDS AND STUDIES AT YANCEY RICHARDSON GALLERY," Photograh Magazine, February (Link)
: Sargent, Antwuan. "Picture Yourself in the Queer Photographic Space of Paul Mpagi Sepuya," Creators, March 23 (Link)
: Bradley, Rizvana. “Aesthetic Inhumanisms : Toward an Eroritcs of Otherworlding,” The New Museum
: Onyewuenyi, Ikechukwu Casmir. “Paul Mpagi Sepuya at team (bungalow),” Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, issue 15
: Pieterson, Mark. “The sinuous nature of desire + alternative ways of seeing with Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s photographic explorations of queer presence,” AQNB, October 31 (Link)
: Pofalla, Boris. “Zeigen und Verbergen,” Monopol Magazine, October
: Cunningham, Vinson. “How Radical Can A Portrait Be?,” The New Yorker, May 5 (Link)
: Schwabsky, Barry. “Playing with Mirrors: Two artists push the limits of what cameras can do,” The Nation, May 2
: Dafoe, Taylor. “Paul Mpagi Sepuya at Yancey Richardson Gallery,” Modern Painters, March
: Bourland, Ian. “Critic’s Pick: Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Artforum, March 3 (Link)
: Griffith, Phillip. “Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Figures, Grounds and Studies,” The Brooklyn Rail, March 1 (Link)
: Small, Zachary. “The Solitude and Sensuality of an Artist’s Studio,” Hyperallergic, February 17 (Link)
: Rachel, T. Cole. “Paul Sepuya on finding your form,” The Creative Independent, February 9 (Link)
: Yau, John. “Three Photographers and What They Show Us About Everyday Life: Deana Lawson, Judy Linn, Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Hyperallergic, February 12 (Link)
: “Goings On About Town: Deana Lawson, Judy Linn and Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” The New Yorker, February 1
2016: Als, Hilton. “James Baldwin / Jim Brown and the Children,” The Artists Institute
: Garcia, Lindsay. “The Autonomous Limbs of Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Tiger Strikes Asteroid
: Malick, Courtney. “From the Singular to the Indexical in Contemporary Portraiture,” San Francisco Art Quarterly
: Reznik, Eugene. “Enter the Private World of Photographers’ Studios,” American Photo Magazine, August 13
2015: Malick, Courtney. "Paul Mpagi Sepuya In Conversation with Courtney Malick," SFAQ, December 3 (Link)
: “Goings On About Town: A Room of One’s Own,” The New Yorker, August 8
: “Goings On About Town: Spain & 42 St.,” The New Yorker, January 6
2014: Russeth, Andrew. “To Bushwick! Shows to See Right Now…,” Artnet News, October 30
: Scheffler, Daniel. “Brooklyn Inspires African Artists,” The New York Times, October 14 (Link)
: “Goings on About Town: The Thing Itself,” The New Yorker, August 19
: ArtReview Magazine : “The Expanded Photograph,” by David Everett Howe, May 2014
2013: Fialho, Alex. “Nuggets of Queerness: Year 3 of the Fire Island Artist Residency,” ARTFCITY, August 29 (Link)
: Koestenbaum, Wayne. "My 1980s and Other Essays," Eric’s Stubble, 2013
: Benderson, Bruce. “Petits Portraits Entre Amis,” Têtu Magazine, March
2012: Akel, Joseph. “500 Words: Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Artforum, May 15
2011: Lopes, Fabiola. “Review: Portraits, at I-20 Gallery,” Flash Art International Magazine, October
: Bronson, AA and Lauren Haynes. “Evidence of Accumulation,” The Studio Museum in Harlem
2010: “Goings On About Town: 50 Artists Photograph the Future,” The New Yorker, June 10
: Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review – 50 Artists Photograph the Future,” The New York Times, May 28
: Cotter, Holland. “In Books and Fine Arts, Filling the Down Time of New Year’s,” The New York Times, December 31
2009: Cotter, Holland. “All the Books You’ll Never Catch on a Kindle,” The New York Times, October 2
: Forteza, Pepo Moreno. “Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Natural Light Portrait,” Revista Metal Magazine, April 15
: Ryzik, Melena. “At a Clinic, Artists Reflecting on Home,” The New York Times, May 10
: Blagojevic, Bosko. “Paul Sepuya’s ‘Alexandria’ at envoy,” ArtCat, February 10
: Gartenfeld, Alex. “Jack Pierson interviews Paul Sepuya,” Interview Magazine, January 30
: Courtney, Kenneth. “Alexandria,” This.Hearts.On.Fire, January 5
2008: Bronson, AA. “Queer Zines” Printed Matter, NY
: Limnander, Armand. “Fine Print: Beloved Object and Amorous Subject, Revisited,”The New York Times Style Magazine, April 4
: Il Terzo Occhio : “La fotografia americana,” by Umberto Mancini January 28
2007: Packam, Monte. “Clean Sheets: Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” SLEEK Magazine, Autumn
: Trebay, Guy. “Gay Art: A Movement, or at Least a Moment”, The New York Times , May 6
2006: van Benekom, Jop and Gert Jonkers. “BUTT BOOK,” BUTT Magazine
: Polly, John. “Art Zines Rule! Part One,” LOGO New Now Next Blog, September 20
: Tierney, Paul. “Zine Scene,” V Man Magazine, September
: Klein, Darren. “Thing: New Penis Art from America,”
: Weskott, Aljoscha. “Designing Men- Shoot,” de:bug, July
: “Weniger ist mehr: Paul Sepuya besticht mit eindrucksvollen Portraits,” GAB-Frankfrut Magazin, April
: White, David. “He SHOOTs, He Scores,” Instinct Magazine, March
: Frame, Allen. “Slide Slam” Teaching Photo Magazine, February
: “Boys,” BUTT Magazine : issue 15
2005: Boston, Nick. “Canadian Professor in New York gets hyper-realistic portrait taken by young photographer,” BUTT Magazine, issue 14
: “Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” EYEMAZING Magazine, issue 08

Publications

2024: Perrée, Rob. "A Black Collage: My History With African-American Art," Jap Sam Books, Prinsebeek, The Netherlands
: Joseph, Branden W. and Drew Sawyer. "Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines," Brooklyn Museum, Phaidon, New York, NY 2024, pp 354-357
: Hellman, Karen and Carolyn Peter. "Hippolyte Bayard and the Invention of Photography Hardcover," Published by J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2024
2023: McNamara, Ryan. "Setups and In-Betweens," DOCUMENT, No 23., 2023
: Bullock, Michael. "Paul Mpagi Sepuya," Apartamento Magazine Issue #31, Spring/Summer 2023, Pg 340 – 361
2022: "Orifice + Aperture | Paul Mpagi Sepuya," TBW Books, Oakland, CA 2022
: “Flora Photographica: the Flower in Contemporary Photography”, Edited by William Ewing and Danae Panchaud, Published by Thames & Hudson, 2022
2021: "STILL LIFE: Reflections from Confinement", Organized by Roya Sachs, Mafalda Millies, Lizzie Edelman and Matthias Kliefoth, Text by Jennifer Higgie, Published by TRIADIC and DISTANZ Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2021
2022: "Prime Art’s Next Generation," Phaidon Press Limited, London, UK 2022, pp 360-363
2021: “Humans: Photographs That Make You Think” By Henry Carroll, Published by Abrams, 2021
: “The Extreme Self” Edited by Shumon Basar, Douglas Copeland, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Published by Buchhandlung Walther König, 2021
: “Off Camera” Edited by Steven Humblet, Published by Roma Publishers, 2021
: "What Artists Wear" by Charlie Porter, Published by Penguin, 2021
: “Photography Now: Fifty Pioneers Defining Photography” By Charlotte Jansen, Published by Ilex; Tate, 2021 (Link)
2020: Sargent, Antwaun. "Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art," The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art, D.A.P. Publishing, New York, NY, 2020
: "Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” with texts by Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Grace Wales Bonner, Lucy Gallun, Ariel Goldberg, and Evan Moffitt, published by CAM St. Louis in association with Aperture, April 7, 2020
: "Why Photography?” edited by Bjarne Bare, Behzad Farazollahi, and Christian Tunge, published by Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in association with Skira Editore and Melk, May 28, 2020 (pp. 44-51)
2019: “The Image of Whiteness: Contemporary Photography and Racialization,” edited by Daniel C. Blight, published by SPBH Editions & Art on the Underground, 2019
: “Contact Sheet 202: Light Work Annual 2019,” artist portfolio and text by Alex Jen, Published by Light Work, 2019, pp. 76-83
: “Body” by Nathalie Herschdorfer, Published by Thames & Hudson, 2019
: “Art & Queer Culture (Edition II),” by Catherine Lord and Richard Meyer, Published by Phaidon, 2019
2017: Burton, J., and Bell, N. (2017). Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon. Pg 152-155. New Museum.

Public Talks, Panels and Juries

2024: 19th-Century Photography Now Artist Panel with Wendy Redstar and Laura Larson, Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
: Darkroom A To Z: Paul Mpagi Sepuya In Conversation, Expo Chicago, Chicago, IL (forthcoming)
2023: The Catalyst Speaker Series: In conversation with Rodney Diverlus, Toronto Metropolitan University, Virtual (artist talk)
: DPI Alum Panel Honoring Lorie Novak, New York, NY + Virtual (artist talk)
2022: 2022 Monsen Photography Lecture, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2020: San Diego State University, San Diego, CA (artist talk)
: University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. (artist talk)
: Yale University, New Haven, CT. (artist talk)
: Los Angeles Art Book Fair, Los Angeles, CA. (in conversation with Wassan Al-Khudhairi)
: Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX. (artist talk)
: Robert Giard Foundation Grant, New York, NY. (juror)
2019: Art Basel Conversations, Miami Beach, FL. (panel)
: University of California Los Angeles, Graduate Art History Symposium, Los Angeles, CA. (keynote lecture)
: Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY. (panel)
: Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, St. Louis, MO. (artist talk)
: Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston, TX. (artist talk)
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. (panel)
: International Center for Photography, New York, NY. (artist talk)
: CSS Bard, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. (in conversation with Lauren Cornell)
: Cal State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA. (artist talk)
: Cal State University Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA. (artist talk)
: University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA. (artist talk)
: California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA. (panel)
2018: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (artist talk)
: Columbia College, Chicago, IL
: The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA. (In conversation with Hilton Als)
: The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL. (artist talk)
: The Society for Photographic Education, Northeast Chapter, New Paltz, NY. (keynote lecture)
: Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. (artist talk)
: Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR. (artist talk)
: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. (panel)
: Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. (artist talk)
: The New Museum, New York, NY. (screening and artist talk with A.K. Burns)
: The Palm Springs Museum of Art, Palm Springs, CA. (artist talk)
2017: KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY. (artist talk)
: Denison University, Granville, OH. (artist talk)
: Parsons The New School, New York, NY. (artist talk)
: Photo LA, Los Angeles, CA. (panel with Kelly Nipper, Carter Mull and Russell Ferguson)
3000: Analogue Dissident at South of Sunset, Los Angeles, CA. (artist talk)
2015: Document, Chicago, IL. With Megha Ralapati (artist talk)
2014: The Pitch Project, Milwaukee, WS. (artist talk)
: Latitude, Chicago, IL., With Elijah Burgher. (artist talk)
: Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL. (artist talk)
2013: School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. (visiting artist talk)
: Haverford College, Philadelphia, PA. (artist talk)
: “Black Male Revisited,” Danspace Project, New York, NY. With niv Acosta, Rich Blint, and Thomas Lax. (artist talk)
: Fire Island Artist Residency, Cherry Grove Arts Center, Fire Island, NY. With Laurel Sparks, Baker Overstreet and Grey Day. (artist talk)
: Artspeak, Vancouver (artist talk)
2012: Pride Photo Award, Amsterdam (juror)
2011: Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY. With Simone Leigh and Kamau Amu Patton. (artist talk)
: Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (juror)
2010: Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY.
2011: New York Photo Fest (panelist)
: Rhode Island School of Design (visiting artist)
2009: Printed Matter Artist Grant (juror)
2006: “Slide Slam,” International Center for Photography, New York City. With Leigh Ledare and Phyllis Galembo. (artist talk)

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2021: Artadia Award, Los Angeles, CA
2019: Finalist, City of Miami Beach Legacy Purchase Program, Miami Beach, FL
: Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation 2019 Biennial Grant
: Rauschenberg Residency, Captiva Island, FL
2018: Artist-in-Residence, Lightwork, Syracuse, NY
2017: The Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant for Emerging Los Angeles Artists
2015: Finalist, Paris Photo Los Angeles inaugural Introducing! Young California Photographer Award
2014: Jackman Goldwasser Artist-in-Residence, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago
2013: Artist-in-Residence, Fire Island Artist Residency (Sikkema Fellow Award)
2010-2011: Artist-in-Residence, Studio Museum in Harlem
2010: Artist-in-Residence, Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY
2009-2010: Artist-in-Residence, Workspace, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
: Visiting Artist, New York University
2009: Artist-in-Residence, HomeBase, New York
2008: LEAD Academy, Hamburg

Teaching Experience

2019-2023: Associate Professor in Media Art, University of California San Diego
2019: Visiting Artist, California State University Bakersfield
: Visiting Artist, California State University Long Beach
: Visiting Artist, University of California Riverside
2017-2019: Visiting Artist Faculty, CalArts
2018: Visiting Artist, California College of Art
: Visiting Artist, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
: Visiting Artist, MFA Lecture Series, Yale University School of Art
: Visiting Artist, Ben Maltz Lecture Series, Rhode Island School of Design
: Visiting Artist Faculty, Bard College MFA
: Visiting Artist, Pacific Northwest College of Art
: Visiting Artist, Virginia Commonwealth University
: Visiting Artist, Georgia State University
: Visiting Artist, University of Georgia, Athens
2017: Guest Critic, Cal State University, Long Beach
: Visiting Artist, Denison University
: Visiting Artist, Otis College of Art & Design
: Visiting Artist, Parsons The New School
2016: Summer Arts Academy, University of California, Los Angeles

Library Collections

: Brooklyn Museum Library Collection, Brooklyn, NY
: Fotomuseum Winterthur Library Collection, Winterthur, Switzerland
: Hirsch Library, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
: Mills College Library, Oakland, CA
: Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, NY

Public Collections

: American Friends of the Israel Museum, West Hollywood, CA
: Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
: Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
: Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
: Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
: Center for Photography at Woodstock Collection at SUNY New Paltz, NY
: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
: Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
: Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell, IA
: Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
: Henry Art Museum, Seattle, WA
: The Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University, Orange, CA
: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
: Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
: International Center for Photography, New York, NY
: Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
: JP Morgan Collection, New York, NY
: Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY
: Light Work, Syracuse, NY
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
: Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA
: Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA
: Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Desert, CA
: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
: Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
: Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Smith College, Northampton, MA
: Speed Art Museum, New Orleans, LA
: The Speed Museum, Louisville, KY
: Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
: Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
: University of New Mexico, La Cruces, NM
: University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV
: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
: Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT
: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Felipe Baeza

1989: Born in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico
: Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

2018: M.F.A. Yale University, New Haven, CT
2009: B.F.A. The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2022: Fortnight Institute, New York, NY (forthcoming, Sept 22’)
2021: "Unruly Suspension," Maureen Paley, London, UK
2020: "Through the Flesh to Elsewhere," The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, CA
2019: "La Emergencia de Hacer Memoria," Fortnight Institute, New York, NY
2018: "FELIPE BAEZA," Maureen Paley, London, UK

Selected Group Exhibitions, Performances and Video Screenings

2022: "Plants Now!," Vielmetter, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia," Venice, Italy
: "Aqux," the Mistake Room, Los Angeles, CA
2021: "Our Whole, Unruly Selves," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
: "RAÍZ," Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Quito, Ecuador
: "Prospect.5 New Orleans: Yesterday We Said Tomorrow," New Orleans, LA
: "Present Generations: Creating the Scantland Collection," Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
: "RED," Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
: "The Displaced Image," Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
: "Desert X," Coachella Valley, CA
: "Genesis Baez, Felipe Baeza, Danielle Bowman, Jonathan Chacon, Justine Melford-Colegate, Kathryn Kerr, And Now," Dallas, TX
: "De Por Vida," Company Gallery, New York, NY
: "On the Other Side of Something + Walls for a Cause NYC," Orange Barrel Media and We Buy Gold, New York, NY
2020: “A Time of Monsters,” Fort Gansevoort, New York, NY
: “The Future is Latinx,” Eastern Connecticut State University Art Gallery, Windham, CT; traveled to Schitkamp Art Gallery, Clark University, Worcester, MA
: “We Live! Memories of Resistance,” OXY Arts, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
: “View from Here,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: “A Very Anxious Feeling: Voices of Unrest in the American Experience; 20 Years of the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection,” Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
2019: “NXTHVN: First Year Fellows,” Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
: “Queer Forms,” Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
: “Right Behind Your Eyes,” Capsule, Shanghai, CHI
: “They Gaze,” James Fuentes, New York, NY
: “Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall Era,” Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; traveled to Center for Creativity and Arts, Fresno State University, Fresno, CA
: “Nesting Habits,” LTD Los Angeles, New York, NY
: “Four,” Yossi Milo, New York, NY
: “Underlying Borders,” The Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, DC
2018: “The Least Orthodox Goddess IV,” Jenkins Johnson Projects, Brooklyn, NY
: XL Catlin Art Prize, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA; traveled to Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL; and New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
: “Tails,” Next to Nothing, New York, NY
: The New Contemporaries Vol. 1, Residency, Los Angeles, CA
: “Four Artists,” Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY
: “Way Out Now,” Diane Rosenstein, Los Angeles, CA
: “Demolition WoManhood,” Skibum MacArthur/Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, CA
: “No Longer Yours,” The Mistake Room/Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City, MEX
: “Internalized Borders,” Presidents Gallery, John Jay College, New York, NY
: “Wild Seed,” MFA Thesis, Yale University Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
: “Manifesto: A Moderate Proposal,” Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont, CA
: “Kaleidoscope,” Kravets Wehby, New York, NY
: “Le Male,” O’Connor Art Gallery, Dominican University, River Forest, IL
: “Proxemics,” Mass Gallery, Austin, TX
2017: “Reconstruir,” 41 Cooper Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
: “Feast,” Yale University Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
: “Kink and Politics: The Ties That Bind,” David Nolan, New York, NY
: New Prints 2017/Summer-Selected by Katherine Bradford, International Print Center New York, New York, NY
2016: MFA 2018, Yale University Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
2015: “Acting On Dreams: The State of Immigrant Rights, Conditions, and Advocacy in the United States,” Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT
: “Translations,” Feldenheimer Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR
2014: “Residual Impression,” Abrazo Interno Gallery, New York, NY
: “(Un)Mediated,” Kunsthalle Projects, Brooklyn, NY
: “Carving Through Borders,” Galería de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
: “Queer Communities In Print,” AIRSPACE Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
: “Carving Through Borders,” Mullowney Printing, San Francisco, CA
: “Queer Communities In Print,” Adobe Books Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: “Queer Communities In Print,” SGC International, San Francisco, CA
2013: “Exuberant Politics,” Zenzic Press, Iowa City, IA
: “Pulso: Arte de las Americas/Art of the Americas,” Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
: “Uprisings: Images From Labor,” UWM Union Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2012: New Prints 2012/Summer-Selected by Shahzia Sikander, International Print Center New York, New York, NY
: “DIVERGENCE,” Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY
: “Know Gays Aloud,” Art for Change Gallery, New York, NY
: “Postcards from the Edge,” Cheim & Read, New York, NY
2011: “KEYED,” Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY
: “AKT,” GALLERY 77, Kromeriz, Czech Republic
: “Alternate Routes: New Work by Keyholder Artists in Residence,” Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY
: “The Reawakening Series,” MC Gallery, New York, NY
: “QUEEROCRACY Art,” The New School, New York, NY
2010: New Prints Part II/Philagrafika, Meyerson Hall Gallery UPENN, Philadelphia, PA
: New Prints 2010/Winter, International Print Center New York, New York, NY
2009: “The Book as its Own Addendum,” Marwen Alumni Gallery, Chicago, IL
: “End of Year Show,” The Cooper Union, New York, NY
: “Alumni @ 22,” Marwen Alumni Gallery, Chicago, IL
: “Si me Niegas Antes los Hombres, Te Negaré Ante mi Padre,” Great Hall Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2008: “Publication-Schmublication,” Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
: “Alumni @ 21,” Marwen Alumni Gallery, Chicago, IL
: “End Of Year Show,” The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2007: “New Work-New York,” Marwen Alumni Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005: “Felipe Baeza,” Meztli Gallery, Chicago, IL

Awards, Fellowships, and Grants

2023: Rauschenberg Residency, Captiva, FL
: 2022-23
: Artist in Residence, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
2019: NXTHVN Studio Fellowship Program, New Haven, CT
2018: Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant Recipient
2017: The Robert Schoelkopf Memorial Traveling Fellowship
: The Josef & Anni Albers Foundation Traveling Fellowship
2013: Anderson Ranch Arts Center Presidential Scholarship, Snowmass Village, CO
2010: Lower East Side Keyholder Residency, New York, NY
2009: Michael S. Vivo Prize for Drawing

Public Collections

: Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA
: San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

Sara Berman

1975

1975: Born in London, England
: Lives and works in London, UK

1995-1999: Saint Martins School of Art and Design, London, UK
2014-2016: MFA Slade School of Art, London, UK

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2024: "Solo," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
2023: "No Visible Means of Support," Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
2022: “Home is where the art is”, The Kunsthal Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
: "Armoured," Kristin Hjellegerde Gallery, London, UK (Two Person)
2021: "Taking Space," Kristin Hjellegerde, London, UK
: "Inside / Outside," Janet Rady Gallery, London, UK
2020: "Scene Unscene," Gallery 46, London, UK (Two Person)
2018: "Solitaire," Sapar Contemporary NYC, New York, NY (Two Person)
: "Matter Out Of Place," curated by VO Curations and supported by Outset, 93 Baker St London, UK
: "Between Community and Commerce," curated by Tamar Dresdner, ZAZ10TS 10 Times Square, New York, NY
: "Double Ententre," Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
2017: "Big Cactus Little Cactus," Galerie Huit Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023: "Where the Wild Roses Grow," Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Schloss Görne, Germany
: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London UK
: Miart Art Fair, With Mimmo Scognamiglio, Milan, Italy
: Eye of The Collector Art Fair, with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK
: "Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022: Untitled Miami Beach, Art Fair, Miami, FL
: "Home s where the Art is," De Kunsthal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
: "Armoured," Dual-show with Luella Bartley, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK
: "Like there is hope and I can dream of another world," Hospital Rooms in collaboration with Hauser & Wirth, Hauser & Wirth, London, UK
2021: Untitled Art Fair, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Miami, FL
: "Facing the Sun," Schloss Goerne, Germany
: Enter The Art Fair, Copenhagen, Demark
2020: "Supastore," NIDA Art Colony, Lithuania
: "We Could Apply Our Lipstick," C&C Gallery, London, UK
: "Isolated Observations," Candida Stevens Gallery, Sussex, UK
: Cure3 Exhibition, Bonhams, London, UK
2019: Exeter Contemporary Open, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter, UK
: Hauser and Wirth Hospital Rooms Fundraising Auction, London, UK
: "Think In Pictures with Amelchenko," Curated by John Newsom Orchard Street, New York, NY
2017: "Dark Wood," Transition Gallery, London, UK
: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK
: "Young Gods," Charlie Smith Gallery, London, UK
2016: "Topophobophilia," Gallery 46, London, UK
: "Names," Transition Gallery, London, UK
2015: "Imagine," Londonewcastle Project Space, London, UK
: "Symposium for Drawing," BAK Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
: "BP Portrait Prize," National Portrait Gallery, London, UK

Public Collections

: The House of KOKO, London, UK
: Montparnasse Collection, Canada
: Poort Vissner Collection, The Netherlands
: RO2 Art Collection

Medrie MacPhee

Education

: Born in Edmonton, Alberta
: Lives and works in New York, NY

: BFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024: "Qualia, I Feel You," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2023: "Seeing is Knowing," Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2022: "Words Fail Me," Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
2021: "The Weight of Matter," Nicholas Metivier Gallery , Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2017: Barbara Edwards Contemporary, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, New York
2015: Barbara Edwards Contemporary, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2014: Barbara Edwards Contemporary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2012: Barbara Edwards Contemporary, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2011: Art 45, Montreal, Canada
2010: "What It Is," Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
: Art 45, Montreal, Canada
2008: Keith Talent Gallery, London, UK
2006: Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York, NY
: ArtCore Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2003: "Kunstkabinet Hespert," Reichshof Hespert, Germany
: Stadtische Galerie Haus, Siegen, Germany
: Trier Galerie Haus, Trier, Germany
2002: "Double Vision," Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Colombia, Canada
2001: "Dreamland," Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AlbertaPari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1999: "Flight in the Variable Zone," National traveling one person show with catalogue: Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada
: Art Gallery of Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal, Canada
: University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
: Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, Canada
: Espace 502, Montreal, Canada
1997: Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York, NY
1995: Linda Genereux Gallery, “Ora/Labora”, Toronto, Canada
1994: Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York, NY
: Art and Living Gallery, Seigen, Germany
1993: Baldacci-Daverio Gallery, New York, NY
1992: Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
: 1991 Phillipe Daverio Gallery, New York, NY
: 1990 Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1988: 49th Parallel, New York, NY
: Concordia University Art Gallery, Montreal, Canada
: Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023: “Pattern Language," Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
: “Come A Little Closer," DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
: “Travels with Don Quixote," Armory Show, Tibor de Nagy Booth 235, Hall 3E, Javits Center, New York, New York
: “SHIFT: Ecologies of Fashion, Form + Textile," Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2022: “RE: visiting," Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
2021: “Inner Workings: Works on Paper by David Humphrey and Medrie MacPhee," The New York Studio School, New York, NY
2020: “Old Friends Part II," Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
: “On Paper | Part I," Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (virtual exhibition)
: “American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational," American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2019-2020: “Painting Nature with a Mirror," Musee d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
2019: “Or Both,” The Galleries at Moore, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
2018: “Interventions,” Galerie McClure, 31 Women Artists, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
: “Summertime,” Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
2017: “99 Cents or Less,” Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), Detroit, MI
2015: The American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational, New York, NY
2013: “Rewilding Modernity”, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
: “Land Reformed,” The Canada Council, Ottawa, Ontario
2012: “Waiting Ground,” Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
2010: “Vivid,” Shroeder Romero and Shredder, New York, NY
2009: “Objects in the Forest,” Sadler Wells, London, UK
2008: “Carte Blanche,” Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
: “The Empire of This,” Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY
2007: “Horizon,” The Elizabeth Foundation, New York, NY
2006: The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
2005: “Somewhere Out There,” Shroeder RomeroGallery, Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY
2004: “Strange Relationship,” Keith Talent Gallery, London, UK
: “Invitational,” 150 Cubic Meter Largas, Cologne, Germany
: “A Dot That Went for a Walk,” Plus Ultra Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
: “Exquisite Corpse,” Bowdoin College Museum of Art, ME
: “In Polytechnicolor”, Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York, NY
: “Slippage,” Collaborative Concepts, Beacon, NY
2003: “Future Species,” D.U.M.B.O, Brooklyn, NY
: “Recent Acquisitions,” Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
2002: “Short Stories,” Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
: “Recent Acquisitions,” National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
2001: “Pushing Paint,” Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY
1999: “Hunter Selects”, Bertha and Karl Luebsdorf Art Gallery, New York, NY
: “MAD,” Stadtische Galerie Haus,Siegen, Germany
: “Inscape”, The State of Art, Brooklyn, NY
: “Rapture”, 529 West 20th St., 8th Floor, New York, NY
: Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
: “25 American Artists,” Campo Campo, Antwerp, Belgium
: “Peinture, Peinture”, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, Canada
: “Your Place or My Place”, Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, Canada
: Starwood Urban Investments, Washington, DC
: “Private Eye,” Mabel Smith Douglass Library, Rutgers University, NJ
1998: “The Mind is a Beast”, Workspace, New York, NY
: “Food”, Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, Canada
: 1997 Art Gallery of North York, Toronto, Canada
: “In the Spirit of Landscape,” Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
1996: “L’Oiel du collectionneur,” Musée d’art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
: “Two Rooms,” Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York, NY
1995: Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York, NY
: “Four American Painters,” Medrie MacPhee, James Hyde, Donna Moylan and Christopher Lucas, Milan, Italy
1994: “MacPhee, Osler, Hoskin, Harcourt,” Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York, NY
: Baldacci-Daverio Gallery, New York, NY
1991: Phillipe Daverio Gallery, New York, NY
1990: “The Technological Muse,” Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY
: “Work Sites,” Concordia University Art Gallery, Montreal, Canada
: “The Urban Landscape,” Phillipe Daverio Gallery, New York, NY
: “Contemporary Environment,” G.E. Gallery, Organized by Museum of Modern Art, CT
1988: “Canada Nouveau,” Liberty’s, London, UK
: “New York City Works,” One Penn Plaza, New York, NY
: “Medrie MacPhee/Susanna Heller,” Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
: “Landscape Anthology,” Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
1987: “The Drawing Concern,” Katzen Brown Gallery, New York, NY
: “Vistas,” Einstein Gallery, New York, NY
: “Immigrants and Refugees,” Exit Art, New York, NY
1986: Winter Olympics National Billboard Project, Canada
: “Mainly on the Plane,” 56 Bleeker Street, New York, NY
: “4 X 4,” Jus de Pomme Gallery, New York, NY
: “Short Stories”,” One Penn Plaza, New York, NY
1985: The Ted Greenwald Gallery, New York, NY
: The Barbara Toll Gallery, New York, NY
: “Actual Size,” Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Bibliography

2023: Mark Godfrey and Katy Siegel (ed.), Making Their Mark: Art by Women in the Shah Garg Collection, Gregory R. Miller & Co., New York, NY, 2023, 432 pgs.
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2020: Waltemath, Joan (ed), with writings by Nancy Princenthal, Raphael Rubinstein, Jutta Koether, Barry Schwabsky, Rethinking Painting, MICA, 2020, page 75
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2018: Interventions: 31 Women Artists (exhibition catalogue), Galerie McClure, Montreal, Quebec
2017: Wayne, Leslie, “Comfort Clothing for Fraught Times” (Medrie MacPhee in conversation with Leslie Wayne), Artcritical: the online magazine of art and ideas, July 20th, 2017
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2016: Butler, Sharon, “Interview: Medrie MacPhee in Ridgewood”, Two Coats of Paint Blog, New York, March 17, 2016
2014: Hunt, Stephan, “Fictional Spaces”, The Calgary Herald, Calgary, December 12, 2014
: Baldissera, Lisa, “Rewilding Modernity”, e Catalogue, Mendal Art Gallery, 2014, Sask., Saskatchewan
2011: Smith, Roberta, “Vivid”, New York Times, January 20, 2011
2010: Christine Kee, “Futuristic Species”, artcritical.com, July 16, 2010
: Wilkin, Karen, “At the Galleries”, Hudson Review, Volume LXIII, No. 2 Summer 2010
2009: McLean-Ferris, Laura, “Reviews, Marathon, London”, Art Review, January/Feb, 2009
2008: Tully, Judd, “Chelsea’s Silver Lining”, ARTINFO ( www.artinfo.com) January 23, 2008
2006: Dault, Gary Michael, “To Know or Not to Know: That is The Question”, Medrie MacPhee, Toronto Globe & Mail, November 4, 2006
: Goodman, Jonathan, “Under My Skin, Medrie MacPhee”, Art In America, May 2006
2004: Biro, Mathew, “In Polytechnicolor”, Contemporary, Issue #66, Oct. 2004, London UK
: Genocchio, Ben, “A Backup Plan With Refined Results”, New York Times, May, 30, 04
2003: Peden, Paul “It’s the New Thing”, Miser and Now Issue #1, Nov. 14, 2003, London UK
: “Zukunft ist interdisziplinar: Medrie MacPhee Architeckturkonstrukte und Korperbaustellen”, Seigener Zeitung, Oct.4, 2003
2002: Dahle, Sigrid, “Short Stories, Captivating Addictive Exhibit”, Winnipeg Free Press, 7/02
2001: Bouchard, Gilbert, “Between Reality and Our Dreams”, Edmonton Journal, Nov. 30/01
: Thorkelson, Erila ADreamland, SEE Magazine, Issue # 417, November 29, 2001
: Johnson, Ken, APushing Paint, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York Times, Sept.14, 2001
: Enright, Robert, Ungrounding Science, Medrie MacPhee’s Meditations on Survival, Border Crossings, Volume 20 Number, Issue No.78, Summer 2001
: Dault, Gary Michael, “Medrie MacPhee at Pari Nadimi”, Globe & Mail, Toronto, April 14, 2001
: Hanna, Deidre, A Surreal Deal, Medrie MacPhee at Pari Nadimi Now Magazine, April 18-24, 2001
: Theberge, Pierre, Director’s Notebook, Vernissage, National Gallery of Canada, 2001
2000: Newlands, Anne, Canadian Art From Its Beginnings to 2000, Firefly, Ottawa, 2000
1999: Lambrecht, Mark, “26 American Artists”, catalogue essay, Campo, Antwerp, 1999
: Mackay, Gillian, “Medrie MacPhee at Pari Nadimi Gallery”, Globe & Mail, June 19, 1999
: Laurence, Robin, “Medrie MacPhee, An Interview”, Canadian Art, Summer 1999
: Jordan, Betty Ann, “Future Swirl”, Toronto Life, Toronto, June 1999
: Lamarche, Bernard, “Recyclage pictural: Des univers machiniques suranné”, Le Devoir, Montreal, May 16, 1999
: Houpt, Simon, “Dual Citizenship”, Toronto Globe & Mail, May 15, 1999
: Lehmann, Henry, “Artist Animates Life’s Nuts and Bolts”, Gazette, Montreal, May 1, 1999
: Goodman, Jonathan, “Medrie MacPhee: Unnatural Selection”, Medrie MacPhee, Charles H.Scott, Gallery Publications, 1999
: Laurence, Robin, “MacPhee Meditates on Modernism’s Failings”, The Georgia Straight, Vancouver, March 11-18, 1999
: Goodman, Jonathan, “Medrie MacPhee and Amy Sillman; Two Painters From New York City” Contemporary Visual Arts, January 1999
1998: Mumford, Steve, “Exquisite Corps: On The March Again”, Review: The Critical State of Visual Art in New York, Volume 4, Number 2, Oct. 1, 1998
: MacKay, Gillian, “Gallery Going”, Globe & Mail, Sat. March 14, 1998
1996: Thomsen, Christian, Bauen Fur Die Sinne – Erotik und Sexualitat in der Architektur, Prestel, 1996 (English edition 1998) New York, NY Summer 1996, Vol. 55 No.2, Artist’s Pages
: Wilkin, Karen, “At The Galleries”, Partisan Review, Volume LXIII, No.1, 1996
: Goodman, Jonathan, review, Canadian Art, Volume 13, No.1, Spring 1996
1995: The Paris Review, Issue 137, Winter 1995 (Cover) Balken, Debra Bricker, Owen Drolet and Donna Masini, Medrie MacPhee, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, 1995
1994: Swain, Robert, Hidden Values; Contemporary Canadian Art in Corporate Collections, Douglas & McIntyre Vancouver, Toronto,1994
: The Paris Review, Issue 129, Winter, 1994, Artist’s Pages
1993: Johnson, Ken, “Medrie MacPhee/ Baldacci Daverio”, Art In America, July, 1993
: Scott, Susan, “Medrie MacPhee/Baldacci Daverio”, Art News, New York, June, 1993
: Clarkson, David, “Medrie MacPhee/Paolo Baldacci Gallery”, Canadian Art, Summer 1993
1992: Taylor, Kate, “Art About”, Globe & Mail, Toronto, Sept. 18, 1992
: Hanna Deidre, “Medrie MacPhee/Mira Godard Gallery”, Now, Toronto, Sept. 10, 1992
: Raven, Arlene, “The Doctor Is In”, The Village Voice, New York, June 30, 1992
: Negri, Massimo, La Fabbrica Romantica, catalogue, Kriterion, Milano, 1992
1991: Cohen, Ronny, “Medrie MacPhee/Daverio Gallery”, Artforum, New York, Oct., 1991
: Ottenbrite, Phillip, “Medrie MacPhee”, catalogue, Phillipe Daverio Gallery, NYC
1990: Fillin-Yeh, Susan, The Technological Muse, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY: catalogue, 1990
: “As 6 Artists Saw Cities Since 1910”, New York Times, July 19, 1990
: Thomsen, Christian, “Personal Metaphors: Medrie MacPhee’s Magical-Fantastical Realism”, PARNASS, Vienna, January, 1990
1989: Freedman, Adele, “Medrie MacPhee’s Industrial Poetics”, Canadian Art, Fall, 1989
: Thomsen, Christian, LiterArchitekture, Dumont Buchwerlag, Koln, 1989
: Sturman, John, “Medrie MacPhee/49th Parallel”, review, Art News, New York, June, 1989
: Berlind, Robert, “Medrie MacPhee/49th Parallel”, review, Art In America, April, 1989
: Clark, John, “No Apologies”, Vanguard, review, No.18(1) 1989
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Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2020: American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Program Award, New York, NY
2019: Elected member of the National Academy of Design, New York, NY
2018-2019: Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2016: Anonymous Was A Woman Award
2015: American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Program Award
2009: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
2004: Canada Council Established Artist Grant
2000: Canada Council Established Artist Grant
1996: Canada Council Established Artist Grant
1990: Canada Council B Grant
1988: New York Foundation For The Arts
1985: New York Foundation For The Arts
: The National Endowment for the Arts
: Elizabeth Greenshields Award

Samuel Levi Jones

1978: Born in Marion, IN
: Lives and works in Chicago, IL

2012: MFA, Mills College, Oakland, CA
2009: BFA, Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2024: "Savage Elite," Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA
2023: "Samuel Levi Jones: Longing," Galerie Lelong Paris, Paris, France
: "Conscious Intuition," Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
2021: "No color in the pages," Patron Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019: "Mass Awakening," Galerie LeLong, New York, NY
: "No More Tokens," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Samuel Levi Jones – Left of Center," Newfields, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
: "Let Us Grow," Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
2018: “Nexus,” Patron Gallery, Chicago, IL (Link)
2017: "One Blood," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2016: “Burning all illusion,” Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
: “Reciprocity,” PATRON, Chicago, IL
: "Samuel Levi Jones," The Arts Club, London, UK
: "Samuel Levi Jones," Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY
: “48 Portraits (Underexposed),” EXPO Projects, PATRON, Chicago, IL
2015: “After Fred Wilson,” IMOCA, Indianapolis, IN
: “Unbound,” Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
2014: “Black White Thread,” PAPILLON, Los Angeles, CA
2013: DELETE, Los Angeles, CA
: “48 Portraits (Underexposed),” Harrison Center for the Arts, Indianapolis, IN

Selected Group Exhibitions

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

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: Sussman, Anna Louie, “What Sold at Art Basel,” Artsy (web), June 17 (Link)
: Chi, Paul, “Blu Ivy Bid $10,000 at an Art Auction, and Won,” Vanity Fair (web), March 18 (Link)
: Rodney, Seph, "The Political Truths that Ground our Athletic Heroes," Hyperallergic (web), February 9 (Link)
2017: Valentine, Victoria L., “Artist Samuel Levi Jones is Joining Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects,” Culture Type (web), October 12 (Link)
: Sargent, Antwaun, “Kara Walker, Juliana Huxtable, and More Challenge False White Recordings of Black History,” Creators, Vice (web), April 12
: Rodney, Seph, “An Artist Gives Us a Vision of the Future Through Books,” Hyperallergic (web), January 10 (Link)
: Sargent, Antwaun, “Striking Deconstructed Book Paintings Challenge American History,” The Creators Project (web), January 2 (Link)
: Sheets, Hilarie M., “Samuel Levi Jones Unbinds Fractured History of Justice,” Introspective Magazine, January 2
2016: Volkening, Laura, “Tearing Up Power One Book at a Time, Samuel Levi Jones at PATRON Gallery,” Newcity Art (web), April 1
: Lowe, Rhiannon, “Ripped,” CCQ Magazine, April 18
: Steadman, Ryan,” 10 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before July 1,” Observer Culter (web), June 28
: Lesser, Casey, “15 New York Group Shows You Need to See This July,” Artsy (web), June 28
: Freeman, Nate, “EXPO Chicago 2016 Announces Roster for Special Projects Sectors,” ARTnews Magazine, August 23
: Cataldo, Angelica, “‘A Dark Matter’ Artists Discuss Wor for ‘Artists-in-Dialogue’,” The Daily Eastern News, September 29
: Helmke, Juliet, “Samuel Levi Jones on Raising Consciousness and Standing Rock,” Blouin Artinfo (web), November 23
: Lesser, Casey, “20 New York Shows to See Over the Holidays,” Artsy (web), December 20
: Pobric, Pac, “Three to see: New York,” The Art Newspaper, December 20
: “9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week,” ARTnews (web), December 20
2015: Keith, Naima and Dana Liss, “Artist x Artist: Mark Bradford and Samuel Levi Jones,” Studio: The Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine, January 1
: Edwards, Adrienne, “Blackness in Abstraction,” Art in America, January 5
: Ollman, Leah, “Unbinding the System,” Art in America, April 1
: Heddaya, Mostafa, “Bookworm: Samuel Levi Jones,” Blouin Artinfo, April 7
: Willis Blair, Courtney, “4 Questions: Samuel Levi Jones,” Forbes, March 26
: Martraire, Marie, “Talk to Me: Samuel Levi Jones at ProArts,” Daily Serving (web), September 13
: Cristello, Stephanie, “Chicago’s Concept-Based Group Exhibitions Show Strength in Numbers,” Art Slant (web), October 20
: Winkelman, Timothy, “Review: Theory of Forms at Patron Gallery,” Hairy Rainbow (web), December 17
2014: Dragovich, Sarah, “New Works at Recology San Francisco,” Art Nerd San Francisco, September 22
: Ollman, Leah, “Review: Works of Defiant Beauty (Samuel Levi Jones),” Los Angeles Times, November 26

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

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

Catalogues and Publications

2021: Cunningham, Nijah. “Samuel Levi Jones,” Galerie Lelong & Co., New York & Paris, 2021
2020: Sargent, Antwaun. "Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art," The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art, D.A.P. Publishing, New York, NY, 2020

Curatorial Projects

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

Public Collections

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