# Kyle Dunn

URL: https://vielmetter.com/biography/wrklst-kyle-dunn-24375/

**b.**

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

**Selected Solo Exhibitions**

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

**Selected Group Exhibitions**

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

**Bibliography**

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

**Awards, Residencies, and Grants**

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

**Public Collections**

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