# Bart Exposito URL: https://vielmetter.com/biography/wrklst-bart-exposito-11748/ Lives and works in Lamy, NM 1970 Born in Amarillo, TX 2000 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA 1998 BFA, University of Texas, Austin, TX **Selected Exhibitions** 2015 "Strange Alphabet," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA 2014 Bart Exposito, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2011 Paper Primitives, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2010 Bends, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; travelled to Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS 2008 Strange Loops, Finesilver Gallery, Houston, TX 2007 Figure Looks a Lot Like Me In Paint, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA New Work, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA 2005 Paintings, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA 2003 Paintings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2002 Paintings & Drawings, curated by Libby Lumkin, Donna Beam Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV Paintings & Drawings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Paintings & Drawings, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY 2001 Bart Exposito, curated by Anna Helwing, Hot Cocoa Lab, Venice, CA Roomtone, Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA **Group Exhibitions** 2015 Back to the Real, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO 2013 Forty Years at the Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Ambach & Rice Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Amarillo Entropy, Powerstation Gallery, Dallas, TX 2012 Summer Group Exhibition, Michael H. Lord Gallery, Palm Springs, CA Abstraction, Michael H. Lord Gallery, Palm Springs, CA Architectural Disposition, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Vous Play, JB Jurve Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2011 Greater LA, organized by Eleanor Cayre, Benjamin Godsill and Joel Mesler, New York, NY GOLDMINE: Contemporary Works from the Collection of Sirje and Michael Gold, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA (catalogue) 2010 Painting, curated by Roger Herman, LA Art House, West Hollywood, CA Ecstatic Structure, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS 2009 Fantastic LA, curated by Barry Blinderman, University Galleries, College of Fine Arts, Illinois State University, Normal, IL An Exhibition of Selected Skills of the Unemployed, WPA, Los Angeles, CA Summer Group Show, Cottage Home/ Thomas Solomon Gallery @ Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA, co-organized with Sister and China Art Objects Abstract America, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (catalogue) Loveable Like Orphan Kitties and Bastard Children, curated by Kristen Calabrese and Joshua Aster, Green Gallery East, Milwaukee, WI 2008 Keeping it Straight, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA Pruess Press @ RENTAL Gallery, New York, NY Heavy Corner, curated by Kristen Calabrese, Creative Artists Agency, Los Angeles, CA LA Potential, curated by Lioba Reddeker, Hangart 7, Salzburg, Austria (catalogue) 2007 No Jerks, Trudi at Rental Gallery, Rental Gallery, New York, NY Automatons, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA Painting ! Design, curated by David Pagel, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA (catalogue) Paper Bombs, organized by Bart Exposito, Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2006 Picture Postcards From a Neon Wilderness, Lukas Feichtner Gallery, Vienna, Austria Bring the War Home, curated by Drew Heitzler, Qed Gallery, Los Angeles, CA and Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY Three Paintings, Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2005 Christmas in July, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA In the Abstract, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2004 Painting & Sculpture, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Wake Up & Apologize, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2003 Small Work, Margo Victor Presents, Los Angeles, CA Game Over, Galerie Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich, Germany Bart Exposito, Aaron Parazette, Susie Rosmarin, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX 2002 Summer Invitational, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY Pierogi 2000, Flat Files, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2001 Sketchy, Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA The Stuff Dreams is Made of, curated by David Pagel, Frankfurt Art Fair, Frankfurt, Germany Cloud 9, curated by David Pagel, Ginsler Architecture, Santa Monica, CA Ars Moralis, Bea Schlingelhoff/Galerie fur Gegenwarstkunst, Bremen, Germany Jacques de Beaufort, Bart Exposito, Monique van Genderen, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2000 For Example, Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Proun, organized by Bart Exposito, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA New School, Works on Paper Gallery, Los Angeles, CA **Bibliography** 2015 Steer, Emily, 5 Questions with Bart Exposito, Elephant Magazine (web), July 10 Wagley, Catherine and Ed Schad, Not Liking Everything: Catherine and Ed on Bart Exposito & A.L. Steiner, Glasstire (web), July 17 Pagel, David, Review: Bart Exposito displays a love of line and a certain playfulness at Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Times, August 7 Smith, Claude, Deciphering Bart Expositos Strange Alphabet, New American Paintings (web), August 21 2014 Pagel, David, Review: Bart Exposito refined lines at Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles Times, March 12 Zevitas, Steven, Must See Painting Shows: March, New American Paintings, March 2011 Kaplan, Ilee, GOLDMINE: Works from the Collection of Sirje and Michael Gold, University Art Museum, College of the Arts, California State University, Long Beach, CA 2010 Suh, Grace, Ecstatic Exposito, Pitch, October 15 Thorson, Alice, Uniformity, be gone, The Kansas City Star, October 17 Melrod, George, Los Angeles: Bart Exposito: Bends at Thomas Solomon Gallery, Art Ltd., July/August Shaw, Michael, Bart Exposito at Thomas Solomon Gallery, Visual Art Source, May 27 Knight, Christopher, Lines swoop in to divide expanses, Los Angeles Times, May 14 2009 Abstract America, exhibition catalogue, published by Saatchi Gallery/Rizzoli 2008 Reddecker, Lioba, LA Potential, exhibition catalogue 2007 Frank, Peter, Figure Looks A Lot Like Me In Paint, Art Ltd., May Pagel, David, Painting  Design, exhibition catalogue, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA 2005 Knight, Christopher, Slippery by Design, Los Angeles Times, February 18 Sholis, Brian, Critics Picks: Los Angeles, Artforum.com, February 18 Orden, Abraham, Circus Without A Tent, Artnet, February 18 2003 Frank, Peter, Review of Exhibition, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Art Weekly Pagel, David, Review of Exhibition, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles Times 2002 Frank, Peter, Review of Exhibition, Bart Exposito at Bill Maynes Gallery, New Yorker Magazine, October 14 Clark, Joseph, Driven To Abstraction, Las Vegas Mercury News Crosby, Gregory, Pleasures of the line, of the plane, Las Vegas City Life Newspaper Hainley, Bruce, Bart Exposito, ArtForum, Summer Issue Lumpkin, Libby, Exhibition Essay, Bart Exposito at Donna Beam Gallery. Pagel, David, A Specialist in Confidently Out-of-Whack Geometry, Los Angeles Times Twardy, Chuck, Something for Nothing, Donna Beam Gallery, Las Vegas Weekly White, Ken, Reversing Field, Neon Review Journal