Nick Aguayo | VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES

1984: Born in Palm Springs, California
: Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

2012: MFA, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA
2007: BA, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Exhibitions

2026: "Nick Aguayo," Miles McEnery, New York, NY
2025: "Until Next Time!," Blue Door Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "A to L and Back Again: Nick Aguayo & Dan Levenson," Oolong Gallery, San Diego, CA
2024-2025: "All Bangers All The Time," Miles McEnery, New York, NY
2024: "Erasing A Flower," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2023: “Some Trees,” The Floating Gallery, Auto Brake Center, Los Angeles, CA
: "Nick Aguayo," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
: "The Trial," Good Naked Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022: "Art at Tamarisk," Tamarisk Country Club, Rancho Mirage, CA
: Group Show, Blue Door Gallery, Guerneville, CA
2021: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Via Cafe," Tif Sigfrids, Comer, GA
2020: "poem from home," curated by Rema Gholum, online
: "LA In Bloom: Seven Approaches to Abstraction," curated by Maryam Parsi, Werkartz, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Vista: Abstract Painting," Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
: "Glyph," Unpaved Gallery, Yucca Valley, CA, Curated by Ryan Schneider
2019: "Wake the Town and Tell the People," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: “Synthesis: Some Abstraction in Los Angeles,” Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
: "Works on Paper," The Pit, Los Angeles, CA
2017: “Crystal Flowers,” Index, Los Angeles, CA
: “Wrong II,” PØST, Los Angeles, CA
: “Vantage,” Finishing Concepts, Los Angeles, CA
: “Objective / Non Objective,” Gallery Also, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
2016: "Be With Me, a Small Exhibition of Large Paintings,” New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
2015: "Black / White," curated by Brian Alfred, Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York, NY
2014: Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2013: "Black Rabbit, White Hole," Samuel Freeman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Paradox Maintenance Technicians," Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2012: UC Irvine Graduate Exhibition, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
: "A Romantic Measure," Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: UC Irvine Thesis Exhibition, Irvine, CA
: "Traumatic Materiality," Autonomie, Los Angeles, CA
2011: "My head is falling out, so Im standing on my stomach," Artist Curated Projects, The Armory Center for The Arts, Pasadena, CA
: "Ne Me Quitte Pas," University Art Gallery, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA
2010: "Action (Un)Packed: Abstraction After Action," Commonspace, Los Angeles, CA
: "GLAMFA," California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
: "Workspace Selects," House on Genesee, Los Angeles, CA
2007: Undergraduate Scholarship Exhibition, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
: "No Art Today," INMO Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Nick Aguayo Painting Exhibition," UCLA Undergraduate Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: Hillel Juried Exhibition, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
: Senior Show, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Bibliography

2025: "April 24 issue: RSF local and regional events," San Diego Union Tribune, April 23
: Kim, Sarah. "Art Talks Series Returns to Brand Library with LA Artists Sharing Creative Insights," Hoodline, February 14
2022: Aguyao, Nick. "Why This Art: ‘Montauk Highway’," Alta, June 29 (Link)
2019: Akers Point-Dexter, Kathryn. "Nick Aguayo at Vielmetter Los Angeles," Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, October 2 (Link)
: Heitzman, Lorraine. "Vielmetter and Nicodim: 1700 South Santa Fe – Art Gains a Foothold," Art and Cake, September 23 (Link)
: Drambot, Shana Nys. "Art Guide: Saturday, September 7th in Downtown," LA Weekly, September 4 (Link)
2017: Adams, Lisa. "Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2016: Through the Eyes of a Painter," January 29
2016: Jadrnak, Jackie. "Enchanting art," Journal North, October 21
: Jansen, Char. "Artists’ Desks," Artslant, January 27
: "The City of Angels in A Starring Role," Art Auction, January
2014: King, Jennifer. "Nick Aguayo at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects," Artforum, October (Link)

Exhibition Catalogues and Publications

2023: Aguayo, Nick. "Quarantine Drawings," La Loma Projects, Los Angeles, CA

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2014: Emerging Artist Grant, Rema Hort Foundation, New York, NY
2009-2012: Fees Fellowship, University of California, Irvine
2007: Edward J. and Alice Mae Smith Award, UCLA Department of Art

Public Collections

: The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
: Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA