Esther Pearl Watson | VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES

1973: Born in Frankfurt, Germany
: Lives and works in Los Angeles

2012: MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1995: BFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

Selected Exhibitions

2026: Solo Exhibition, Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
2025: "Bombois by Anholt," Galerie Judin, Berlin, Germany
2024: "Generating Auras," Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
: "Reading Room: Zines, Comix, and Other Radical Texts," The Wignall Museum, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
2023: "At Heaven’s Edge: Visions" Museum Krona, Uden, Netherlands
: "Starship Pegasus," Antonio Colombo Gallery, Milan, Italy
: "Sightings," Sun Valley Museum of Art, Ketchum, ID
: "Space Gas," Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, TX
: "Rituals of Devotion," McEvoy Family Collection, San Francisco, CA
: "Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "A Very Luminous Vision," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022: "Guardian of Eden," Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
: "Plants Now!" Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "An Apparent Brightness," Maureen Paley: Morena di Luna, Hove, UK
2021: "Esther Pearl Watson," The Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
: "Esther Pearl Watson," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles. CA (Link)
: "Dust it Off," Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, TX
2020: "Safer at Home: Pandemic Paintings," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2019-2020: "Dream Believer," University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Parkside, WI
2019: "Rural Elements," Contemporary Art Museum of Plainview, Plainview, TX
: "Esther Pearl Watson," Maureen Paley, London, UK
: "April 14, 1561," Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
: "The Moon: Eternal Pearl," Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Concord, MA
2018: "Tire Universe," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: W+K Gallery, Portland, OR
2017: “Starship Pegasus,” Antonio Columbo Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
: Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, TX (solo)
: "Now More Than Ever," LACE Benefit Art Auction, Los Angeles, CA
: "For the Good Times," Sp(a)ce, Pasadena, CA
2016: "The 11th Annual Blab Show," Curated by Monte Beauchamp, Copro Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Furies," Visitor Welcome Center, Los Angeles, CA
: "Cocoon," Arts Factory, Paris, France
: "Galactic Plains," Gregorio Escalante Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
: "Hearsay," Artists Reveal Urban Legends, LosJoCos Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015: "Atrium," Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX
: "New Works," Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, TX
: The Future Arrives, Galleri Galleberg, Norway, (solo)
: Two-Person Exhibition, Family Lexicon, Antonio Colombo Gallery, Milan, Italy (with artist Fred Stonehouse) (catalogue)
2014: "Sky," Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA, (curated by DeWitt Cheng and Elizabeth Ferrer)
: "Amazon Solitaire," Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Eagle Rock, CA
: "Explorers," CSC Gallery, McLennan Community College, Waco, TX
: "Hexenhaus," 495 Alameda St, Altadena, CA
: "With Open Eyes," Grafikens Hus, Mariefried, Sweden (with artist Mark Todd)
: "It’s Not a Circus Without a Big Top," Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, TX
2013: Summer Viewing Rooms, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2012: "Hidden Behind the Stars," Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, TX, (solo)
: Permanent Collection, Nancy Margolis Gallery, NY
: Cal/Arts MFA Graduate Exhibition, LA Mart, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Catherine Taft)
: Fort Beavatron, CalArts Mint Gallery, Valencia, CA, (solo)
2011: CalArts Main Gallery, Valencia, CA, (solo)
: "Incognito," Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
: "Land Of Magic," Lesher Center for the Arts, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
: "Women in Comics," (Curated) Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, TX
2010: "New Works," Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, TX, (solo)
2009: "Visions of the Future," Billy Shire Fine Art, Culver City, CA (with artist Owen Smith)
: "Texas Instruments," Domy, Austin, TX, (solo)
: "When in Texas act like a Texan," Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, TX
2008: "3rd Annual LA Weekly Biennial," Track 16, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Doug Harvey)
: "Failure," The Lab at Belmar, Lakewood, CO
: "Blab Show!," Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Kansas City, MO (curated by Monte Beauchamp)
: "LA Paint," Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA (curated by Phil Linares)
2007: "The Weirding Field," La Luz De Jesus, Los Angeles, CA, (solo)
2006: "What I Remember," Mendenhall Sobieski Gallery, Pasadena, CA (solo)
2005: "Keep On Laughing," Katherine Mulherin Contemporary, Toronto, Canada

Bibliography

2023: Williams, Gisela. "An Exhibition of U.F.O. Art Lands in Idaho," New York Times Style Magazine, September 14 (Link)
2022: Artnet Gallery Network. "5 Talents From the Artnet Gallery Network We’re Keeping an Eye on as the Fall Season Kicks Off," Artnet, September 14 (Link)
2021: Rylah, Juliet Bennet. "Esther Pearl Watson and Pandemic Paintings," The Pool, May 14 (Link)
: "Friday at Frieze New York," Frieze, May 7 (Link)
: McArthur, Roshan. "Pandemic Paintings by Esther Pearl Watson," Boutique Homes, January 22
: Zellen, Jody. "Esther Pearl Watson: ‘Safer at Home: Pandemic Paintings’ Documenting the Everyday," ArtNow LA, January
: Recinos, Eva. "Esther Pearl Watson Channels Strange Pandemic Life in 100 Paintings," Hyperallergic, January 12
2020: Dambrot, Shana Nys "Esther Pearl Watson Paints the Pandemic’s Daily Strangeness," LA Weekly, December 10 (Link)
: Watson, Esther Pearl. "An Artist Captures 4 Months of Sidewalk Chalk Drawings," The New York Times, July 19 (Link)
2019: Drambot, Shana Nys. "ART PICK: THE POST-IT SHOW," LA Weekly, December 6 (Link)
: "Esther Pearl Watson, Mothership, 2019," Elephant, September 4 (Link)
: "Esther Pearl Watson: Mothership," Time Out London, September 18 (Link)
: Biswas, Allie. "Esther Pearl Watson – interview: ‘I really search out moments of awkward humour’" Studio International, September 16 (Link)
: Dawson, Aimee and Ellie Lace, Kabir Jhala. "Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend," Art Newspaper, September 6 (Link)
: Brady, Anna and Margaret Carrigan. "Private view: must-see gallery shows opening in September," Art Newspaper, September 4 (Link)
: Zara, Janelle. "‘Everything Feels More Intimate’: Felix LA Brings New Life to Art-Fair Circuit," ArtNews, February 15 (Link)
: Freeman, Nate. "The Future of Art Fairs Is in a Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard," February 15 (Link)
: Remenchik, Jennifer. "Placing Art in Hotel Rooms Can Yield Genuinely Surprising Results," Hyperallergic, February 16 (Link)
: Smith, Roberta. "What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week," New York Times, January 8 (Link)
: Womack, Catherine. "The assignment: Design a poster that dispels America’s myths about immigrants," Los Angeles Times, December 24 (Link)
2018: Remenchik, Jennifer, "A Painter Illustrates the Charm and Tragedy of the American Dream," Hyperallergic (web), July 9
2014: Lemke, Meg, "Dear Diary: An Interview with Esther Pearl Watson," The Paris Review (web), June 20 (Link)
: Simek, Peter, "This Week’s 5 Best Art Gallery Openings and Events," D Magazine (web), May 28 (Link)
2012: Laughlin, Jamie, "Puppets And Spaceships Invade Waxahachie," Dallas Observer (web), November 15 (Link)
: Morgan, Kendall, "Wacky and whimsical works from Miss Pussycat and Esther Pearl Watson invade Webb Gallery," Culture Map Dalllas (web), November 16 (Link)
: Farr, Kristin, "Esther Pearl Watson," Juxtapoz, February
2011: Hudgens, Christopher, "Episode 323: Esther Pearl Watson," Badatsports (web), November 7 (Link)
2010: Farr, Kristin, "Big Dreams: Esther Pearl Watson at Sandra Lee Gallery," KQED Arts (web), June 11 (Link)
: Enholm, Molly, "Esther Pearl Watson," art ltd. (web), July 10 (Link)
: O’Toole, Meighan, "Esther Pearl Watson: Space is the Place," My Love For You (web), February 18 (Link)
2009: Weeks, Jerome, "Flying Saucers, Teen Angst and Esther Pearl Watson," Art and Seek (web), August 11 (Link)
: Schroeder, Audra, "Building Spaceships in the Yard, Austin Chronicle (web), June 12 (Link)
: Hamada, Jeff, "Esther Pearl Watson," Booooooom (web), February 27 (Link)
2007: Gray, Emma, "L.A Confidential," Artnet (web), January (Link)

Curatorial Projects

2019: "Post-It Show," Giant Robot/GR2 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Public Collections

: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA