Hugo McCloud | VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES

1980: Born in Palo Alto, CA
: Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

2002: Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2022: "tiempo," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Art in Focus: Hugo McCloud," Rockefeller Center, New York, NY
2021: "translated memories," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "from where i stand," The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
: "Hugo McCloud: Burdened," Sean Kelly, New York, NY
2018: "This and Everything Else," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: "Hugo McCloud: Metal Paintings," Sean Kelly, Brooklyn, NY
2016: "Hugo McCloud: Veiled," Sean Kelly, New York, NY
2015: "Hugo McCloud," The Arts Club, London, UK
: "Timeline," Fondazione 107, Turin, Italy
2014: "Hugo McCloud: Palindrome," Sean Kelly, New York, NY
: "Hugo McCloud: Muted Noise," Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy
: "Hugo McCloud: Put in Place," Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022: "Plants Now!," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2021: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2020: "100 Drawings from Now," The Drawing Center, New York
2019: "Sculpture," Vielmetter Los Angeles, CA
2017: "No Evidence of Sign," Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy
: "On The Road: American Abstraction," David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI
2015: "A Constellation," Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
: "I Know You Got Soul," ARNDT Singapore Gallery, Singapore
2014: "From Pre-History to Post-Everything," Sean Kelly, New York, NY
: "De Generation Of Painting," Fondazione 107, Turin, Italy
: "OPEN," Papillion, Los Angeles, CA
2013: "Pattern Recognition," MoCADA, Brooklyn, NY
2012: Art Basel Miami, N’Namdi Contemporary Gallery, Miami, FL
: "Ryan Keeley and Hugo McCloud: From the mind of Mateo Mize," ArtNowNY, New York, NY
: "Young Curators New Ideas IV, Beautiful Refuse: Materiality," Meulensteen Gallery, New York

Bibliography

2023: Waga, Nel-Olivia. "Art For The Oceans: How Parley And Art Basel Create Impact," Forbes, December 12 (Link)
2022: Can Yerebakan, Osman. "Hugo McCloud Turns Plastic Bags into Blossoming Paintings on Invisible Labor," Artsy, September 7 (Link)
: Scheider, Julie Smith. "Art in Focus: For Artist Hugo McCloud, There’s Beauty in Struggle," Rockerfeller Center Magazine, April 15 (Link)
: "Rockefeller Center Kicks Off 2022 Public Art Program With a 125-Foot Mural, New Line-Up of Artists," Artfix Daily, January 18
2021: Yang, Catherine. "Pick of the Week: Hugo McCloud," artillery, December 15 (Link)
: Seymour, Tom & Gareth Harris. "Portrait of a pandemic: five works at Art Basel that confront Covid-19," The Art Newspaper, September 24 (Link)
: Donoghue, Katy. "Hugo McCloud: Using Plastic to Paint, Draw Connections, and Ask Questions," Whitewall Art Magazine, August 11 (Link)
: Staff, Artsy. "What I Buy and Why: Bronx Museum Trustee Richard Torres on Supporting Artists of Color, and the Picasso He’d Most Love to Pilfer," Artsy, June 28 (Link)
: Valluzzo, Andrea. "Painting with plastic: Artist builds his paintings with experimental mediums in Aldrich show," New Haven Register, June 17 (Link)
: Wallis, Stephen. "The Painterly, Provocative Art That Uses Humble Plastic Bags," Wall Street Journal Magazine, June 2 (Link)
: McLoud, Hugo. "Hugo McCloud on Painting With Plastic," Art in America, February 3
: Hernandez, Jasmin. "We Are Here: Visionaries of Color Transforming the Art World," Abrams, 2021
: Fontaine, Pearl. "Hugo McCloud Paints with Single-Use Plastic in “Burdened”," Whitewall, January 18
2019: Boucher, Brian. "Cracking the Millennial Market: How Art Businesses Are Tweaking Their Strategies to Target the Next Generation of Collectors," artnet, July 8 (Link)
2018: Nash, David. "Kendall Wilkinson Outfits the $15.5 Million Penthouse at San Francisco’s 181 Fremont," Architectural Digest, October 30 (Link)
: Miranda, Carolina, "Datebook: A new performance festival, art about sound and a museum’s Friday night party," LA Times (web), July 19 (Link)
: Carrigan, Margaret, "How Artist Hugo McCloud Is Taking Metal to New Heights," Galerie Magazine (web), June 11 (Link)
: "How to Wear Workwear Right Now," GQ Magazine (web), May 23 (Link)
: Johnson, Noah, "Get Back to Workwear," GQ Magazine, May
: Winston, Randy, "Hugo McCloud: An Interview," Brooklyn Magazine, March 23
: Lucien, Lyne, “Meet Hugo McCloud, the Artist Who Makes Metal Beautiful,” Daily Beast (web), March 23
: Carrigan, Margaret, "6 Tips for Artists on How to Talk about Their Art," Artsy, March 13
: "A Conversation With Hugo McCloud," Master and Dynamic, March 9
: Cooke, Riley, "Cy Twombly, Cyprien Gaillard, Hugo McCloud: Must See New York Shows," White Wall, March 7
2017: Browne, Alix, "Meet the Victorious Minotaurs: D’Angelo Russell, Halima Aden, Hugo McCloud, Ducki Thot and More Stars of Riccardo Tisci’s Dream Team," W Magazine, October 10
: Najjar, Christina, "Three New York City Artists to Follow on Instagram This Month," Hamptons (web), June 5 (Link)
: Battaglia, Andy. “Traveling Exhibition and Brooklyn Museum Fete to Honor Joyner / Giuffrida Collection of African- Diasporan Art,” ARTnews, March 7
: Sussman, Anna Louie. “What Sold at the Armory Show,” Artsy, March 5
: Palon, Nina. “Hugo McCloud Owns His Mistakes | Studio Visits,” The Creators Project, Februrary 2
: “Last Chance: Hugo McCloud at the Sean Kelly Gallery, New York,” Blouin Art Info, January 17
: Cascone, Sarah. “See How Hugo McCloud Makes a Painting,” ArtNet News, January 11
: Binolt, Ann, “Artist Hugo McCloud Searches for Overlooked Beauty in ‘Veiled’.” Forbes, January 11
: Rosen, Miss. “Made You Look: Hugo McCloud Transforms the Detritus of Life into Works of Art,” Crave Magazine, January 9
2016: Jurgensen, John. “2017 Resolutions: Cultural Goals For the New Year,” The Wall Street Journal, December 20
: McMahon, Katherine. “Scenes from Art Basel, Miami Beach, Part 5”, December 2
: Sargent, Antwaun. “The Welder’s Paintbrush,” Cultured Magazine, December
: “Looking Ahead: December/January 2017.” Surface Magazine, November
: Loos, Ted. “Righting Wrongs and Generating Attention for Art of the African Diaspora.” The New York Times, October 16
: Deutsch, Anna. “A Quality Cut with Hugo McCloud,” The Window, March 1
: “Studio Visit with Hugo McCloud in Bushwick, Brooklyn,” Gallery Gurls, February 23
: Biswas, Allie. “Hugo McCloud: ‘I Respect the Beauty in the Things That Are Overlooked’,” Studio International, January 2
2015: “The Year in Black Art: January 2015,” Culture Type, December 31
: “Art: A Constellation,” The New Yorker, December
: “Art Scene: Hugo McCloud,” Architectural Digest, December
: “The Curator Cure,” Artforum, November 16
: Wallis, Stephen and Sam Cochran, Michael Slenske, and Pernilla Holmes, "8 Incredible Artists on the Rise," Architectural Digest, November 10
: McKeough, Tim. “Andre Mellon Likes Drawing Rooms,” Introspective Magazine, September 14
: “Yankee Artists Help London Arts Club Thrive,” The Observer, September 3
: Schoefer-Wulf, Maxine. “Hugo McCloud,” Little Paper Planes Shop Blog, May 25
: Burris, Asia. “Watch Melo-X’s ‘McCloud in Process,’ Short Film,” Saint Heron, April 9
: “McCloud in Process by Melo-X,” Purple Fashion Magazine, April 4
: Evans, Ayana. “Hugo McCloud,” Gallerina Diaries, February 25
: Pasquarella, Sheri. “’Palindrome’ at Sean Kelly, 30 Jan 2015 – 14 Mar 2015,” SLP, February 13
: Kim, Deanna. “The Best Art Exhibitions to See This Month,” Complex, February 7
: Simmon, William J. “Action painting: The body electric,” Christie’s, February 2015
: “In NYC This Weekend? Here Are 4 Art Exhibitions You Must See,” Blackbook, February
: Miller, M.H. “Hugo McCloud joins Sean Kelly Gallery,” ArtNews, January 7
: “Top Exhibitions Opening This Week In New York (January 26 – February 1),” Whitewall, January
2014: Anderson, Charlotte and David Bazner. “10 GQ-Approved Artists You Should Know at Art Basel Miami: Hugo McCloud,” GQ, December
: “August in Pictures: From Pre-History to Post-Everything,” Art Haps, August 6
: Makoma, Portia. “From Pre-History to Post Everything,” The Examiner.com, July 23
: “Various artists, From Pre-History to Post-Everything, Sean Kelly New York, USA,” Aesthetica, July
: “From Pre-History to Post-Everything,” UnDo.Net, June 26
: Boatright, Kristen. “VIDEO: Hugo McCloud Takes His Place in the Art World,” Artinfo, June 6
: “’From Pre-History to Post-Everything’ opens at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York,” Artdaily, June
: Anderson, Stacey. “Hugo McCloud: Artist by Design,” The New York Times, May 28 (Link)
: Small, Rachel. “A Room Full of Roof: Hugo McCloud,” Interview, May 16 (Link)
: Silver, Leigh. “Interview: Hugo McCloud Talks Inventing a Whole New Way to Paint,” Complex, May 10
: Shiffman, Allyson. “Hugo McCloud Is On a Journey,” W Magazine, May 9 (Link)
2013: “Pattern Recognition Opens at MoCADA,” Huffington Post, September 25
: Sutton, Benjamin. “Looking for the Tradition of Black Abstraction at MoCADA,” Blouin Art Info, August 5
: Thorne, James. “Pattern Recognition at MoCADA,” Cool Hunting, July 18
: Jones, Allison Channing. "The Next Generation: Hugo McCloud, Kambui Olujimi and E.J. Hill," The Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine, Winter/Spring 2013, p. 34

Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books

2017: Brielmayer, Isolde, and Sean Kelly, "Hugo McCloud: Paintings," Hatje-Cantz-Verlag, Berlin
2016: Martin, Courtney J. "Four Generations: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art," New York
: Phaidon Editors, "Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting," London, UK

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2016: Artist in Residence, Bellas Artes Projects, Manila, Philippines

Public Collections

: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
: Hort Family Collection, New York, NY
: Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
: National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington D.C.
: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
: The Joyner Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art, San Francisco, CA
: The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, Florida