Zoe Walsh | VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES

1989: Born in Washington, D.C.

2016: MFA, Painting and Printmaking, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2011: BA, Art History and Visual Arts, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2026: "Spotlight: Zoe Walsh – Outsides", Vielmetter, Los Angeles, CA
2025: "Night Fields," Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
2023: "When the breezes start," M+B, Los Angeles, CA
2020: "I came to watch the morning rise," M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018: "Remote Light," curated by Bianca Boragi, Zeit Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2017: "Periscope," curated by Jean-Baptiste Lenglet, Virtual Dream Center 2.0
: "Exposures," Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, France
2013: "Desire Distilled," curated by Jesse Mockrin, Pieter Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA
2012: "Cruising Affect: Peripheral Identifications," Abel Gutierrez Studio, Los Angeles, CA (with Nathan Lam Vuong)
2011: "Tomboy," Occidental College Weingart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025: "Nowhere but the Night," curated by Gemma Rolls-Bentley, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, Netherlands
: "Out of LA: Contemporary Voices," opa projects, Miami, FL
2024: "Form and Feeling," curated by Ashton Cooper, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "for love, for art, and for being," UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA
2023: "A Place to Stay," curated by Pau S. Pescador, Advocate & Gochis Galleries, Los Angeles LGBT Center, Los Angeles, CA
2022: "Young Americans," PM/AM Gallery, London, UK
: "Toms Queers," 27th Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival, Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
: "Painting: New Approaches," The Chan Gallery of Pomona College, Los Angeles, CA
2021: "Art and Hope At The End Of The Tunnel," curated by Edward Goldman, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2020: "Eleven Figures in II Parts," Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA
: "Brush Against," curated by Munro Galloway, Peppers Art Gallery, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA
2019: "Queer Paranormal (An Exhibition Concerning Shirley Jackson and “The Haunting of Hill House”)," Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
: "You don’t control the witness," ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2018: "I am no bird…," ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "Queering Space," Alfred University Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred, NY
2017: "Virtual Dream Center," La Maison des Arts, Malakoff, France
: "Paysages Intérieurs," Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, France
2016: "Queering Space," Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
: "Stream: Chapter Three," curated by Cindy Smith, Two Chairs, South Windham, VT
: "Merry Go Round," Yve YANG Gallery, Boston, MA
: "Partners," curated by Anoka Faruqee & Michael Queenland, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
: "Double Dip," curated by Sheila Pepe & Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
: "New Genealogies," curated by John Edmonds & Jenny Tang, Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
2015: "Untitled (with Dani Levine and E.E. Ikeler)," Aisling Gallery, New Haven, CT
: "Trans*," Yale Office of LGBT Resources, New Haven, CT
: "Second Coming, Second Life, Second Cousin, Second Base," Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
: "First Things," Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
2012: "Third Annual Queer Pile-Up," curated by Darin Klein & Friends, ForYourArt, Los Angeles, CA

Awards, Residencies, and Grants

2024: Artist-in-Residence, Quinn-Emanuel, Los Angeles, CA
: Artist-in-Residence, Fountainhead Arts, Miami, Florida
2019: Emerging Artist Grant Nominee, Rema Hort Mann Foundation
2016: Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship, Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, France
2015: Al Held Foundation Affiliated Fellow, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
: LGBTQ Studies Graduate Student Workshop Grant, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Bibliography

2025: Çil, Çisemnaz. “Zoe Walsh: Night Fields | Yossi Milo,” Musée Magazine (review), December 10
: Artforum. “Night Fields,” Artguide Must-See listing, Artforum, December 9
: Art Plugged. Artsy Launches “Queer Art Now” in Celebration of Pride Month. June 22
: Artsy Editorial. "30 Artists Defining Queer Art Now," Artsy. June 1
: Rolls-Bentley, Gemma. "What is Queer Art Now?," Artsy. June 1
2022: Fishman, Olivia “Layering Subjectivity Q&A with Zoe Walsh," Artillery Magazine, September 6
2021: Teicholz, Tom. “Edward Goldman’s Own ‘Made In LA’— Pandemic Version,” Forbes, October 19
: Mendelsohn, Meredith. “How Visual Artists Led the Creative Charge for LGBTQ Rights,” 1st Dibs Introspective, June 20
2020: Goldman, Edward. “LA Art Scene During the Lockdown," Art Matters. July 16
: Zellen, Jody. “Pick of the Week: Zoe Walsh,” What’s on Los Angeles. July 16
: Herrick, Debra. "Threshold spaces: Rethinking Eleven Figures during Quarantine," Lum Art Zine. May 8
: Hernandez, Rodrigo. "Artists unknowingly inspired by same theme at Atkinson Gallery," The Channels. February 22
2019: McGeeney, Makayla-Courtney. "Exhibit explores sexual ambiguity in Shirley Jackson’s best known novel," Bennington Banner. October 25
: Tenzer, Harrison. "The New Canon: 7 Queer Painters Who Are Tapping into the History Books," Cultured Magazine. June 20
2018: Ekstrand, Anna Mikaela. "Processes of Seduction. Zoe Walsh Talks About Their Show ‘Remote Light’ at Zeit Contemporary Art," Cultbytes. November 27
2017: Frase Contemporary Art, "Frase Got Talent Catalogue," December
: Manvi, Maya. "Zoe Walsh: Periscope," Virtua Dream Center 2.0, October
2016: Sargent, Antwaun. "A Look Inside the First Queer Art Show at Yale," Vice: Creators Project, October 27
: Butler, Sharon. "Examining Queer @ Yale University," Two Coats of Paint, October 21
: Cummings, Mike. "Exhibit Unites Yale School of Art Students, Faculty, and Alumni Across Generations," YaleNews, January 21
2013: Wagley, Catherine. “Five Artsy Things to Do This Week: Experimental Baby-sitting and the Fuzzy Wild West,” LA Weekly, September 5
2011: Diggins, Claire. “Identity in Art: Zoe Walsh’s Experience As a Studio Art Major,” The Occidental Weekly, February 14