Born 1941, Washington, D.C.
Lives in Los Angeles, CA

EDUCATION
1967
MFA, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
1963
BFA, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Sign Language, Greene Naftali, New York, NY
2018
William Leavitt: Western Movie, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France
2017
William Leavitt, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva, Switzerland
William Leavitt: Cycladic Figures, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
2016
The small laboratory, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
Telemetry, Greene Naftali, New York, NY
2015
The Multiplicity, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France
2014
William Leavitt, ETH Exhibitions, Zurich, Switzerland
2013
Space Junk, Greene Naftali, New York, NY
2012
William Leavitt: Tensile Structures, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011
William Leavitt: Theater Objects, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2010
William Leavitt: A Show of Cards, Jancar Jones Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009
William Leavitt: Warp Engines, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
William Leavitt: Molecules and Buildings, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003
William Leavitt, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996
William Leavitt, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992
Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1990
William Leavitt: Random Trees, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Artist’s Project Series, Santa Monica, CA
William Leavitt: Spectral Analysis, a Performance Tableau, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987
Art & Project Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Kuhlenschmidt/Simon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1984
Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles
1983
Metro Pictures, New York, NY
1982
Jancar/Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1981
Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Metro Pictures, New York, NY
1979
William Leavitt: Tableau and Drawings, Artist’s Space, New York, NY
1977
Claire Copley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1976
Claire Copley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1974
Art & Project Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Francoise Lambert Gallery, Milan, Italy
Claire Copley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1973
Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany
1972
Art & Project Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1970
Eugenia Butler Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
Fade In 2: Ext. Modernist Home — Night, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia
Sunlight arrives only at its proper hour, 356 S. Mission Road, Los Angeles, CA
Vernacular Environments, Part 1, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
Spaces without drama or surface is an illusion, but so is depth, Graham Foundation, Chicago, IL
Los Angeles: A Fiction, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
2016
Los Angeles: A Fiction, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
Tinseltown in the Rain: the Surrealist Diaspora in Los Angeles 1935-1969, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
On Limits: Estrangement in the Everyday, The Kitchen, New York, NY
Fade in: International Art Gallery Day, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2015
Works on Paper, Greene Naftali, New York, NY
America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
Curtains/Blinds, Institut D’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
ALL THE INSTRUMENTS AGREE: an exhibition or a concert, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Theater Objects A Stage for Architecture and Art, curated by Friedi Fischli and Niels Olsen, LUMA Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland
Last Seen Entering the Biltmore, South London Gallery, London, UK
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
Reverb, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Take it or Leave it: Institution, Image, Ideology, co-curated by Anne Ellegood and Johanna Burton, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Made in Space, curated by Peter Harkawik and Laura Owens, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Set Pieces, Cardi Black Box, Los Angeles, CA
Made in Space, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY
2012
She Accepts the Proposition: Women Gallerists and the Redefinition of Art in Los Angeles, 1967-1978, Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads School, Santa Monica, CA
Collection Show, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2011
It Happened at Pomona: Helene Winer at Pomona, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
She Accepts the Proposition: Women Gallerists and the Redefinition of Art in Los Angeles, 1967-1978, Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads School, Santa Monica, CA,
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
2010
The City Proper, curated by James Welling, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Works in Edition, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009
William Leavitt, Allen Ruppersberg, Ger van Elk, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
In and Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960-1976, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Instruments, Solway Jones, Los Angeles, CA
2008
20 Years Ago Today: Supporting the Individual Artists in L.A., Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA
index: conceptualism in california from the permanent collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Painting: Now and Forever, Part II, Greene Naftali, New York, NY
Summer 2008, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
8th Le Havre Biennial of Contemporary Art, Musée Malraux, Le Havre, France
2007
Summer 2007: William Leavitt, Allen Ruppersberg, Mungo Thomson, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Kunst aus Los Angeles, Kunstverein Braunschweig e.v., Braunschweig, Germany
Los Angeles, 1955-1985: Birth of an Art Capital, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
drawings & drawn, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Cerritos, CA
2004
100 Artists See God, The Jewish Museum San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
H2O (x) + 6, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Raid the Icebox, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001
William Leavitt, Santos R. Vasquez, Christopher Williams, Mezzanin, Vienna, Austria
2000
Exhurbia, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA
Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1998
Chairs, Plazas, Faces, Gardens, Rooms: Paintings by Five Artists, curated by William Leavitt, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
TransFiction I: Point Blank, Charim Klocker, Vienna, Austria
90069, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996
Nature Redux: Photographs by Ten Artists, Santa Barbara County Arts Commission at Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.
1995
Dark Memories Hovering Below the Transparent Screen of the Present will Project Images of Reality in Sharp Silhouette to Create the Pleasurable Effect of a Double World, Marc Foxx Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1965-1975: Reconsidering the Object of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
25 Years: An Exhibition of Selected Works, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Untitled (Reading Room), Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Works by Raul Guerrero, Allen Ruppersberg and William Leavitt, Gallery 3770 Park Boulevard, San Diego, CA
In the Field: Landscape in Recent Photography, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991
Los Angeles, 1970-75, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York, NY
1989
The Pasadena Armory Show 1989, Pasadena, CA
1987
LA2DA, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
The Current Landscape, Felicitia Foundation for the Arts, Escondido, CA
1985
Drawings, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1984
William Leavitt and Raul Guerrero, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1983
Considering the Banal, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Hundreds of Drawings, Artists Space, New York, NY
1982
Tableaux: Nine Contemporary Sculptors, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
1981
Tableaux, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York, NY
Drawings, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
1980
Opening Group Show, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Tableaux, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1977
American Narrative/Story Art 1967-1977, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
1976
Exhibitions and Presentations, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Video Projects, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1975
Southland Video Anthology, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1972
Bas Jan Ader, Ger van Elk, William Leavitt, Pomona College Gallery, Claremont, CA

PERFORMANCES & SCREENINGS
2016
Wiliam Leavitt: Behavior, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Habitat, The Kitchen, New York, NY
2012
The Particles (of White Naugahyde), The Annex at Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Pyramid, Lens, Delta, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Spectral Analysis, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2002
The Radio, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
1990
Random Trees, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Spectral Analysis, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1977
Spectral Analysis, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
1976
A Proof of Infinity, LAICA, Los Angeles, CA
1975
The Silk, Barndall Park Theater, Los Angeles, CA

AWARDS
2012
United States Artists Fellowship
1998
J. Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1993
J. Paul Getty Fellowship
1991
NEA Fellowship

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2018
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“William Leavitt: ‘Western Movie’ at Galerie Frank Elbaz.” Blouin Artinfo, April 6
Gasparina, Jill. “William Leavitt ‘Retrospective’ at MAMCO, Geneva.” Mousse Magazine, February
Taft, Catherine. “William Leavitt.” Artforum, January
2017
Simpson, Bennet, “Bennett Simpson on William Leavitt at Honor Fraser, Los Angeles.” Texte Zur Kunst, December
Wagley, Catherine. “5 Free Art Shows to See in L.A. This Week.” LA Weekly, October 11
“William Leavitt.” Wall Street International, October 2
Zellen, Jody. “William Leavitt’s ‘Cycladic Figures’ at Honor Fraser,” Art and Cake, September
“William Leavitt’s ‘Cycladic Figures’ at Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles.” Blouin Artinfo, September 29
“A SMALL Anthology.” Mousse, December 2016 – January 2017
“Spaces without drama or surface is an illusion, but so is depth.” Graham Foundation, January
2016
Gerwin, Daniel. “A Deep Dive into the Legacy of LA’s Surrealists.” Hyperallergic, August 3
Berardini, Andrew. “Artforum Critics’ Pick: William Leavitt: The small laboratory.” Artforum, January
Halle, Howard. “Time Out Loves.” Time Out New York, April, 53
Kaack, Nicole. “Screen life or Real: William Leavitt’s ‘Telemetry’ at Greene Naftali.” Art Critical, May 20
Wagley, Catherine. “5 Art Shows You Should See in L.A. This Week.” LA Weekly, January 27
2015
Sherlock, Amy. “Pot Plant.” Frieze, Vol. 168 – January-February: 117
2013
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Cotter, Holland. “William Levitt: ‘Space Junk’.” The New York Times, May 3
Heinrich, Will. “‘William Leavitt: Space Junk’ at Greene Naftali.” The New York Observer, April 23
Pollack, Maika. “‘State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970’ at the Bronx Museum of the Arts.” GalleristNY, July 16
Russeth, Andrew. “‘Made in Space’ at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise and Venus Over Manhattan.” GalleristNY, July 23
2012
Allen, Gwen L. “Experiments in Print: A Survey of Los Angeles Artists’ Magazines from 1955 to 1986.” East of Borneo, February 6
Bankowsky, Jack. “Best of 2012.” Artforum, December
Knight, Christopher. “Pomona at the edge, and beyond.” Los Angeles Times, 25 January, p. D22-23
Knight, Christopher. “State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970 at OCMA.” Los Angeles Times, January 7, p. D1, 11
Leavitt, William. Interview. “William Leavitt.” Modern Painters, March, 33
Mizota, Sharon. “PST, A to Z: ‘She Accepts,’ ‘It Happened’.” Los Angeles Times, January 6
Pastan, Rachel. “Out of Hollywood: Bennett Simpson on William Leavitt and Kathryn Andrews on Herself.” Miranda (Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania), February 10
2011
“Art Review: ‘William Leavitt: Theater Objects’ At the Museum of Contemporary Art.” Los Angeles Times, March 16
Baldessari, John. “William Leavitt: Theater Objects.” Artforum January, p. 86-87
Bedford, Christopher. “William Leavitt, Los Angeles.” The Burlington Magazine, July, p. 501-502
Buckley, Annie. “Behind the Curtains.” Art in America, May, p. 132-9
Griffin, Jonathan. “California Dreaming.” Frieze, June/July/August, p. 160-165
Griffin, Tim. “William Leavitt: Theater Objects.” Artforum, May, p. 276-277
Holte, Michael Ned. “Best of 2011.” Artforum, December, p. 224-25
Knight, Christopher. “2011 Year in Review: Best in art.” Los Angeles Times, 15 December
Knight, Christopher. “Under the Big Black Sun at MOCA.” Los Angeles Times, 14 October, p. D1, D4
Knight, Christopher. “On center stage: ‘Theater Objects’ shows how William Leavitt transforms the everyday into the mysterious.” Los Angeles Times, 16 March 2011, p. D1, D6
Knight, Christopher. “Faces to Watch 2011: William Leavitt.” Los Angeles Times, January 2, p. E6
Morris, Steven Leigh. “William Leavitt’s Spectral Analysis.” LA Weekly, May 19
Obrist, Hans Ulrich and Stuart Comer, with an introduction by John Baldessari. “William Leavitt: Cutaway View.” Mousse, February/March, p. 48-57
Pagel, David. “Multi-tasker at heart: William Leavitt writes plays, builds sets, takes photographs, paints and draws.” Los Angeles Times, March 6, p. E10
Poundstone, William. “Los Angeles County Museum on Fire: William Poundstone on Art and Chaos.” ARTINFO, March 21
Sanders, Jay. “Best of 2011.” Artforum, December, p. 222-23
Tillmans, Wolfgang. “Best of 2011.” Artforum, December, p. 192-93
2010
Israel, Alex. “Myths of Decline.” Artforum, January, p. 67-70
2009
Buckley, Annie. “Review.” Artforum, April 9
Ellegood, Anne. “Best of 2009.” Artforum, December, p. 204-205
Griffin, Tim, “William Leavitt: Theater Objects.” Artforum, May 20
Lehrer-Graiwer, Sarah. “William Leavitt, LAXART.” Artforum, December, 243
2008
Frankel, David. “Painting: Now and Forever, Part II.” Artforum, 67 No. 2, October, pp. 379
Klonarides, Carol Ann. “William Leavitt, Allen Ruppersberg, and Mungo Thomson.” X-TRA, 10, no. 3, Spring, p. 49-54
Lawes, Viv. “William Leavitt: layers of meaning.” The Art Newspaper, Art Basel Miami Beach Daily Edition, December 5, p. 15
2006
Knight, Christopher. “Between looking and being looked at.” Los Angeles Times, January 27, sec. E, p. 26
2005
Bluhm, Erik. “Minimalism’s Rubble: On William Leavitt’s and Bas Jan Ader’s Landslide (1969-70).” artUS, Issue 10, October-November, pp. 14-17
Leavitt, William. “Organism (a theatrical habitat).” X-TRA 8, No. 1 (Fall 2005), pp. 38-41
2003
Knight, Christopher. “Scrolling through today’s image glut.” Los Angeles Times, June 27, sec. E, p. 19, illus.
2000
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1998
Butler, Connie. “West of Everything.” Parkett 57 December, 189-194
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1996
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1993
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Pincus, Robert. “Three Artists Put Banality up Against a Lively Wall.” The San Diego Union-Tribune, April 22
1984
Drohojowska, Hunter. Flash Art, Summer
1983
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1982
Klein, Michael and Robert Sterns. “Catalogue essay.” Tableaux, Nine Contemporary Sculptors, The Contemporary Arts Center
1981
Levin, Kim. “Catalogue essay.” Tableaux, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York
1979
Lawson, Thomas. “Every Pictures tells a Story Don’t It.” Reallife, No. 2, p. 10-12
1973
Winer, Helene. “Scenerios/Documents/Images I.” Art in America, March
1970
Plagens, Peter. “Review.” Artforum, September, p. 81-82

PUBLICATIONS
2015
Leavitt, William. Alligator Maze Orchard. Los Angeles: Ooga Booga
Fischli, Fredi and Niels Olsen, eds. Theater Objects: A Stafe for Architecture and Art. Zurich: gta Verlag: ETH Zurich
2014
Burton, Johanna, and Anne Ellegood. Take it or Leave it: Institution, Image, Ideology. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum; New York: Prestel Publishing
Huberman, Anthony and Mai Abu ElDahab, ed. A Needle Walks into a Haystack. Cologne: Koenig Books
Young, Paul David. newARTtheatre. New York: PAJ Publications
2013
Highlights: 150 Artists from the Collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Belgium: nai010
2012
Leavitt, William. Theater Objects. Los Angeles: MOCA
Lewallen, Constance. State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970. Los Angeles: University of California Press
Stedelijk Collection Highlights: 150 Artists from the Collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum/nai010 publishers, p. 118
2011
Mark, Lisa Gabrielle and Paul Schimmel. Under The Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981. Los Angeles: MOCA and DelMonic Prestal
McGrew, Rebecca. It Happened At Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973. Claremont: Pomona College Museum of Art
Peabody, Rebecca, Andrew Perchuk, Glenn Phillips, and Rani Singh, eds. Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art 1945– 1980. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute and J. Paul Getty Museum
2009
Blank, Gil. In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955. New York: PPP Editions
2008
CB08: California Biennial 2008. Newport Beach: Orange County Museum of Art.
2007
Williams, Gregory. Kunst aus Los Angeles der 60er bis 90er Jahre. Cologne: Verlag der Buschhandlung
1995
Waldron Brandow, Wendy. Margo Leavin Gallery: 25 Years, vol. 1. Los Angeles: Margo Leavin Gallery
Goldstein, Ann & Anne Rorimer. Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965- 1975. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art
1989
The Pasadena Armory Show 1989. Los Angeles: Fellows of Contemporary Art
1987
Grynsztejn, Madeleine. LA2DA. La Jolla: La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam
The Getty, Los Angeles
Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Born 1958, Los Angeles, CA
Lives in Los Angeles, CA

EDUCATION
1980
BFA, School of the Visual Arts, New York, NY

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
blue blood, TOTAH, New York, NY
2018
Super Pop Universe, Lotte Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Kenny Scharf, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI
Blobz, Opera Gallery, London, UK
Kenny Scharf: Inner and Outer Space, Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai, UAE
Scharftopia: The Far-Out World of Kenny Scharf, Hillstrom Museum of Art, St. Peter, MN
2017
BLOX and BAX, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Kenny Scharf, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY
2015
Hammer Projects: Kenny Scharf, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
SCHOW, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
Kenny Scharf: Cosmic Cavern, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Cosmic donut occurrences, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
Born Again, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Kenny Scharf: Pace Face, Pace Prints, New York, NY
Kenny Scharf, Colette, Paris, France
2013
Pop Renaissance, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
Kolors, Paul Kasmin, New York, NY
2012
Hodgepodge, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
2011
NATURAFUTURA and THREE DOZEN!, Paul Kasmin, New York, NY
2009
Barberadise, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
Kenny Scharf: Armory Show, Paul Kasmin, New York, NY
2008
Kenny Scharf – Superdeluxa, Waddington Galleries, London, UK
Kenny Scharf: 80’s Back, Seomi & Tuus, Seoul, Korea
2007
Kenny Scharf: NEW!, Paul Kasmin, New York, NY
2006
Kenny Scharf, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL
Astor Cumulo Nibus Uber Express, Raleigh Hotel, Art Basel Miami Beach, FL
2005
Kenny Scharf: Superpop, Paul Kasmin, New York, NY
NYC Closet # 24, Paul Kasmin, New York, NY
Kenny Scharf: Outer Limits, , Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA
2004
California Grown, Pasadena Museum of Contemporary Art, Pasadena, CA
Groovenian Drawings, Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SchaBlobz, Kenny Schachter Contemporary, New York, NY
Face Value, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
2003
Kenny Scharf: Night Light, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA
Paintings 1990-1997, Cotthem Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2002
Muted, Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001
Car Nation, UC Fullerton at Grand Central, Santa Ana, CA
Hollywood Stars, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Portraits, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
Pulcherrimae Strade: Group Show, Pordenone, Italy
2000
Universal Offspring, Pucci International Ltd., New York, NY
Closet #18, Young At Art Children’s Museum, Davie, Florida
Kenny Scharf, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
Small Paintings & Bronzes, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
1999
Heads, Small Paintings and Closet #16, Galerie Hans Mayer, Berlin, Germany
New Sculpture, PICA – Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon
Heads & Small Paintings, Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf, Germany
1998
Kenny Scharf, Galeria Ramis Baraque, Monterrey, Mexico
Kenny Scharf, Mcintosh Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Kenny Scharf, Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Kenny Scharf (new paintings), Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Kenny Scharf (new paintings), Gallery Cotthem, Knokke-Zoute, Belgium
Vivid Vision, Tony Shafrazi, New York, NY
1997
Kenny Scharf; Pop – Surrealist, Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, FL
When Worlds Collide, University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Ultralectric, Sony Style, Sony Building, New York, NY
1996
New Sculpture, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Kenny Scharf: New Work, Tony Shafrazi, New York, NY
Home, Fox & Howell Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Kenny Scharf: El Mundo de Kenny Scharf, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
Kenny Scharf, GALERIA 56, Budapest, Hungary
The World of Kenny Scharf, Dorothy Blau Gallery, Bay Harbor Island, FL
Heads, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL
1995
Early Paintings: 1975-78, Yoshii Gallery, New York, NY
Kenny Scharf, Gallery Cotthem, Hedwig Van Impe, Knokke, Belgium
Full Circle, New Paintings, Tony Shafrazi, New York, NY
Scharf-O-Rama Vision: 1978-1995, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
1994
Wildlife, Tony Shafrazi, New York, NY
1993
Closet #11, Café Click, Dusseldorf, Germany
Closet #10, World Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
Works on Paper, Galerie Burkhard R Eikelmann, Düsseldorf, Germany
Jaffe Baker Blau Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
1992
Edward Totah Gallery, London, UK
Tony Shafrazi, New York, NY
Hokin Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL
Galleria Rocca 6, Torino, Italy
Galleria Seno, Milan, Italy
1991
Tony Shafrazi, New York, NY
Sudio Trisorio, Naples, Italy
AC & T Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
Galerie Hans Mayer, Duisseldorf, Germany
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1990
Galerie Beaubourg, Paris, France
1989
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1988
Tony Shafrazi, New York, NY
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1987
Sculptures and Paintings, Tony Shafrazi, New York, NY
1986
Tony Shafrazi, New York, NY
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1985
Kenny Scharf, Tony Shafrazi, New York, NY
Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
1984
Kenny Scharf, Tony Shafrazi, New York, NY
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1983
Kenny Scharf, Tony Shafrazi, New York, NY
American Graffiti Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1982
Fun Gallery, New York, NY
1981
National Studio Artists, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
Customized Appliances, Club 57, New York, NY
The Jetsons, FUN Gallery, New York, NY
1979
Celebration of the Space Age, Club 57, New York, NY
Fiorucci, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
HYSTERICAL, Phillips London Gallery, United Kingdom
Beyond the Streets, 25 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Summer, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
2018
Mickey: The True Original Exhibition, New York, NY
Warhol & Friends, Palazzo Albergati, Bologna, Italy
Dancing Godesses, Dio Horia Gallery, Mykonos, Greece
Under One Roof, Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Donald Baechler, Ross Bleckner, Enoc Perez & Kenny Scharf Inaugural Show, Alloche Benais, Athens, Greece
Summer Group Show, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY
BEYOND THE STREETS, Werkartz, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Inaugural Group Show, Neumann Wolfson Art, New York, NY
Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978–1983, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Fast Forward: Painting from the 1980s, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Animal Farm, The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, CT
2016
Desire, curated by Diana Widmaier-Picasso, Moore Building, Miami, FL
Around the World in 86 Days: The Forum for different worlds – 25 years Ludwig Forum Aachen, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen, Germany
Holdings: Selections from MCASD’s Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
A Selection of Work of the 80’s, Vito Schnabel Gallery, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Cosmic Connections, David Totah Gallery, New York, NY
Piston Head II: Artist Engage the Automobile, Venus Over Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Masters: Urban & Street Art, Galerie Laurent Ripka, Paris, France
Muse, Galerie Hideout, Paris, France
AftermodernisM in the Hamptons, Nicole Ripka Gallery, Watermill, NY
The Neon Wilderness: Voices from Los Angeles, The Conversation, Berlin, Germany
2015
OUTSIDEIN: The Ascendance of Street Art in Visual Culture, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA
She Sells Seashells By The Seashore, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2014
Appropriate Disruption, Jacob Lewis Gallery, New York, NY
Urban Theater: New York in the 1980’s, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
Made By Brazilians, Matarazzo Hospital, São Paulo, Brazil
Fun and Games, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA
Loisaida: New York’s Lower East Side in the ’80s, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
2013
Amerikulture, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
AREA: THE EXHIBITION, curated by Jeffrey Deitch, Serge Becker, Eric Goode, Jennifer Goode & Glenn O’Brien, The Hole, New York, NY
Piston Head: Artist Engage The Automobile, Art Basel Miami Beach, FL
Calligraffiti, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY
Futures Project, Centre for the Living Arts, Mobile, AL
Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, FL; Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA
2012
Tonight We Won’t Be Bored: 10 Years of V1 Gallery, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Thank You Andy Warhol, Benrimon Contemporary, New York, NY
Times Square Show Revisited, Leubsdorf Gallery Hunter College, New York, NY
Portrait of a Generation, The Hole, New York, NY
Tonight We Won’t Be Bored, 10 Years of V1 Gallery, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
ALL FOR YOU, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
The Art of Cooking, Curated by Hanne Mugaas, Royal/T, Los Angeles, CA
2011
FACEMAKER, curated by Kathy Grayson, Royal/T, Los Angeles, CA
Trespass, West of Rome Public Art, Los Angeles, CA
Club57 & Friends, Dorian Grey Gallery, New York, NY
MAKE SKATEBOARDS, I – 20 Gallery, New York, NY
Unfinished Paintings, curated by Kristin Calabrese and Joshua Aster, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Nose Job, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
New York Minute Moscow, curated by Kathy Grayson, The Garage Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
Art in the Streets, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
East Village West, Royal/T, Los Angeles, CA
From Here to Eternity, curated by Kenton Parker, Scion Installation Space, Culver City, CA
2010
25th Anniversary Show, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Sounds in the Distance, Dorian Grey Gallery, New York, NY
Mutant Pop, Curated by Joe Grillo, Laura Grant, and Brandon Joyce, Loyal Gallery, Malmö, Sweden
The Artist’s Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Hot Glue Hullabaloo, The Hole, New York, NY
2009
Too Big to Fail: Big Paintings, Sponsored by La Montagne Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Stages, organized by Lance Armstrong and Nike, Galerie Emannuel Perrotin, Paris, France
Naked!, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
Loveable Like Orphan Kitties and Bastard Children, curated by Kristin Calabrese and Joshua Aster, Green Gallery East, Milwaukee, WI
2008
Four Friends, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
Totally Rad, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
American Standard, Design District, Miami Beach, FL
Juxtapose School, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
2007
Deitch Art Parade, King of Parade, Deitch Gallery, New York, NY
Big Secret Cache, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Surrealism Then and Now, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
Juxtapose Anniversary, Copro Nason, Culver City, CA
2005
Cross Section, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
2004
East Village USA, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Beginning Here: 101 Ways, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
100 Artists See Satan, Grand Central Arts Center, Santa Ana, CA
2003
Quest, Vincent Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Splat, Boom, Pow, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Portraits, Heidi Lee Fine Art, New York, NY
Faces and Figures, Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL
Beauty Stripped Bare/LA Black & White, BGH Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2002
Made in the USA 1970-2000, Ludwig Galerie, Oberhausen, Germany
Juxtapose Anniversary Show, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2001
Seeing, Los Angeles County Museum of Art LAB, Los Angeles, CA
Animations, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
Made in the USA 1970-2001, Ludwig Galerie, Oberhausen, Germany
Pulcherrimae Strade Installation, Pordenone, Italy
2000
Lowbrow Art: Up From The Underground, The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL
UFO Show, University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Arts and Science Center for S.E., Arkansas, AK
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO
1999
Mannequins & Rugs, Pucci International, New York, NY
Portrait Collection of Mr. Chow, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France
Acquisitions, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
The American Century: Art & Culture, 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Road Show, DFN Gallery, New York City, NY
A Room with a View, Sixth @ Prince Fine Art, New York, NY
On the Air, San Francisco International Airport North Terminal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998
Closet #16, Installation at Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Collaboration Transformation, Lithographs from the Hamilton Press, University of Oklahoma
Fashion at the Beach, Bass Museum, Miami, FL
Pop Surrealism, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
80 Artistes Autoui- du Mondial, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France
Closet #16, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
New Acquisitions: Dream Collection… part three, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Normal Editions Workshop-A Print Retrospective, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
1997
Collaboration Transformation, Lithographs from the Hamilton Press, Montgomery Gallery of Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Grins: Humor and Whimsy in Contemporary Art, Millard Sheets Gallery, Pomona, CA
Art and Provocation, Images from Rebels, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
In Your Face: Haring, Basquiat, Scharf, Leo Malca Fine Art, New York, NY
1996
New Figuratio, The Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, TX
Summer Exhibition, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
Hot off the Press – New Editions, Pace Prints, New York, NY
Baseball Show, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
Drawings: Spring, 1996, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY
1995
Altered and Irrational: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Art, Design and Barbie: The Evolution of a Cultural Icon, Liberty Street Gallery the World Financial Center, New York, NY
Recent Acquisitions, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
Art & Architecture, Miami, COCA/Center for Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
A New York Time: Selected Drawings of the Eighties, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
1994
New York Unplugged, Gallery Cotthem-Hedgwig Van Impe, Knokke, Belgium
1993
About Nature, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Art and Environment, The National Arts Club, New York, NY, April 21- May, Organized & curated by Toru Mano & Paul Perkins, Images, in collaboration with Earth Day NY
Extravagant: The Economy of Elegance, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
Extravagant: The Economy of Elegance, Russisches Kulturzentrum, Berlin, Germany
1982-83: Ten Years After, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
Mating Instinct, Penine Hart Gallery, New York, NY
Reanimator, V & RN, Miami, FL
1992
1492, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
Variations Gitanes, A La Grande -Vilette, Paris, France
Objets Trouves, Galerie du Jour, Agnes B., Paris, France
Balade de l’Amour, Halle de l’Union des Arts Decoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Paris, France
1991
American Art of the 80’s, curated by Gabriella Belli and Jerry Saltz, Palazzo delle Albere, Trento, Italy
A Passion for Art: Watercolours and Works on Paper, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
Closet No. 9, Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, NY
Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Home So Different, So Appealing, The Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, NY
The 1980’s; A Selected View From the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of Fine Art, New York, NY
Metropolitan Home Showhouse 2, New York, NY
To Benefit Fashion Moda, Brooke Museum of Art, New York, NY
Children in Crisis, A Benefit Exhibition, Lorence Monk Gallery, New York, NY
1990
The Last Decade: American Artists of the 80’s, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
1989
Don’t Bungle the Jungle, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
The Studio American Collection, Witkacy Theatre, Zakopane, Poland and BWA Art Exhibition Bureau, Suwalki, Poland
1988
Figure a Subject: Revival of Figuration Since 1975, Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Weisman Collection, California State University at Fullerton, Fullerton, CA
1987
Comic Iconoclasm, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
1986
An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture from 1940 to the Present Exhibition, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Homage to Nicolas A. Moufarrage, Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, New York, NY
Picture from the Inner Mind, The Palladium, New York, NY
Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Thomas Cohn Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1985
Biennial 1984, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Drawings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
Eight Artists/Eight Years/SVA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
East Village Artists, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
Investigations, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art of Philadelphia, PA
Sights for Small Eyes, Hecksher Museum, Long Island, NY
Photography and Sculpture, Patrick Fox Gallery, New York, NY
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Vernacular Abstraction, Wacoal Arts Center, Tokyo, Japan
Art in Action, Sogetsu Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Out of the Ooo Cloud, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
Works on Paper, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1984
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
Via New York, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
The Innovative Landscape, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
New Hand Painted Dreams: Contemporary Surrealism, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Arte di Frontiera, Galeria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Aparto 84, Venice Bienalle, Venice, Italy
The Human Condition, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Contemporary Perspectives 1984, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
New Idioms, Robert Fraser Gallery, London, England
New Attitudes: Paris/New York, Pittsburg Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
1983
Champions, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
Champions, Fay Gould Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Surrealist Show, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Morton G. Neuman Family Collection, Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, NU
Intoxication, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
Paintings, Sculptures, Totem and 3D, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
The Comic Art Show, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Back to the U.S.A., Kunst Museum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
Tendencias en Nueva York, Palacio de Cristal, Madrid, Spain
Clocktower Open Studio Show, P.S. 1, New York, NY
Paintings into Sculpture, Bonlow Gallery, New York, NY
Bienalle de Sao Paulo, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Salvatore Als Gallery, Milan, Italy
References, Palais des Beaux-Aits-Charleroi, Charleroi, Belgium
1982
Installation Project Room, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
1981
Open Studio Show, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY
Club 57, New York, NY
The Times Square Show, Times Square, New York, NY
New York, New Nave, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY
Drawing Show, Mudd Club, New York, NY
Beyond Words, Mudd Club, New York, NY
1979
Club 57, New York, NY

SPECIAL PROJECTS
2019
Mural, The Bluffs at Playa Vista, CA
Installation, Space Station Houston, TX
2018
Installation, La Villa UGC, Cannes, French Riviera
Mural, Peanuts Global Artist Collective, Hudson Square, New York, NY
2017
Mural, The Manes Center, New York City, NY
Mural, International Church of Cannabis, Denver, CO
Mural, Hiromi Paper Inc., Culver City CA
2016
Mural, Friends of the East River, FDR Drive and 116th Street, New York, NY
Mural, Safeway SandBlaster, Culver City, CA
Mural, Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools, Los Angeles, CA
Mural, Cross Bronx Expressway on Third Avenue, Bronx, NY
2015
Monstropolis, mural, ArtCenter College of Art and Design, Pasadena, CA
Mural, Downtown Hollywood Mural Project, Hollywood, FL
Mural, MAUS-Málaga Arte Urbano Soho, Málaga, Spain
Coney Island Chunk Pack, mural, Coney Art Walls, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Mural, Wynwood Walls, Miami, FL
HAPPYMADNOSELOCK, mural, 214 Lafayette Street, New York, NY
COSMIGOGO, Scarf design for Louis Vuitton
2013
Tonywood, The Wynwood Walls Memorial Garden, Miami, FL
Back to Supersonica, Spray Painted 1960s Lockeed Jetstar, Pima Air Museum, AZ
MOBLOBZ mural, Centre for the Living Arts, Mobile, AL
2012
Jello Bacchanalia, Art Rio, Rio De Janeiro Brazil
Cedars Sinai Chunk Pack, Cedars Sinai Childrens Wing, Los Angeles, CA
Kiehl’s Since 1851, Limited Edition Crème de Corps
Mural, Salem, MA
Mural Careyes Mexico
Around the Clock: 24 Hour Donut City, Donut truck appearance and pins given away in conjunction with the opening of ForYourArt’s space, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Mediacy Group’s Gatescapes Program, New York, NY
East Village West, curated with Ann Magnuson, Royal/T, Los Angeles, CA
Miami Marlins Arena Mural
WeHo Walls : MOCA Public Library Mural, West Hollywood, CA
Mural Arts Big Picture Project, Philadelphia, PA
Brooklyn Children’s Hospital Mural, Brooklyn, NY
2010
Bowery Mural Wall, in collaboration with Tony Goldman and The Hole NYC, New York, NY
2009
Custom bike designed for Lance Armstrong and ridden in Tour de France
2007
Basil Wolverton, curated by Kenny Scharf, PAC, Portland, OR
2004
Americans for the Arts Awards Installation, Cipriani’s, New York, NY
2002
The Groovenians, animated film, Cartoon Network
2000
Closet #18, Permanent Installation at the Young at Art Children’s Museum, Davie, FL
Haiku Gesundheit, Illustrations for book of poems by Ross Venokur, Simon & Shuster
Portland River District Project, Permanent Installation of five Totem sculptures in public spaces, Portland, OR
1999
Multimundo 2000: Fusion of Art & Fashion, window display for Nordstrom, Portland, OR
Multimundo 2000: Fusion of Art & Fashion, window display for Nordstrom, Seattle, WA
Friuli Venezia Giula wine label, Italy
Absolut Scharf, Au Kurant Billboard for TBWA Chiat/Day Advertising: CA, FL, MI, TX
1998
The Universals mannequin series, Pucci, New York, NY
Absolut Scharf, Au Kurant Billboard for TBWA Chiat/Day Advertising: CA, FL, TX
The Universals Window Display Project for Saks Fifth Avenue, NY, NY
The Universals Window Display Project for Saks Fifth Avenue, GA
The Universals Holiday Window Display Project for Saks Fifth Avenue, Beverly Hills, CA
The Universals Window Display Project for Burdines Dept. Store, Miami Beach, FL
Ultrazoomazipamapopdeluxa (Mura), Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
1997
Ultralectric, Customized electronics show for SONY, SONY Building, New York, NY
MURAL for 10th Annual Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards Installation 130′ x 58′ Mural, Los Angeles, CA
Limited Edition Lithograph, 39th Annual Grammy Awards to benefit N.A.R.A.S. Foundation, NYC
1996
Lifesavers, AIDS memorial installation for DIFFA, Pines Beach, Fire Island, New York, NY
Total Cosmic Caver, Designed Interactive Web environment for Total, NY (Internet magazine @ totainy.com), New York, NY
Absolut Kelly Project, Premier artist: A web based interactive art experiment, Santa Monica, CA
Co-chaired fund-raiser, Inter-Cambios Culturales of El Salvador (with Christy Turlington), New York, NY
Promotional Poster for Humane Society of Broward County
1995
Cosmic Cavern, V.I.P. Room for The Tunnel Nightclub, New York, NY
Porcelain design for Rosenthal China, Selb, Germany
Absolute Scharf, San Francisco billboard project for Absolut Vodka, San Francisco, CA
Signature watch for artist’s series, Swatch, New York/Switzerland
Promotional Poster for Miami Book Fair International
1994
Limited Edition Tapestry collection for Kroner Teppiche, Munich, Germany
Signature watch for artist’s series, Swatch, New York/Switzerland
Textile design for Todd Oldham, New York, NY
1993
Lifeguard Station Design for City of Miami Beach, Miami Beach, FL
Kids Kloset, Dade County Department of Education, collaboration with elementary and high school students, Artworks Gallery, Omni International Mall, Miami, FL
Day Without Art, Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL In collaboration with Sarasota school children for AIDS awareness
te Neues Publications (various projects), New York, NY
1992
Don’t Bungle the Jungle II, fundraiser for the Tropical Rain forest Amazon Club, New York, NY (T-shirts design for Emporio Armani)
1991
City Kids Speak on Growth, Union Square Park, New York, NY, Outdoor mural in collaboration with the City Kids Foundation
1988
Don’t Bungle the Jungle, Benefit Concert and exhibition fundraiser for the Tropical Rain forest, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, and Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, NY
Limited Edition watch design, Lito Watches, Paris, France
1987
Luna Luna, Carousel design for traveling art amusement park, Hamburg, Germany
1986
Absolut Scharf, advertisement commission for Absolut Vodka, Stockholm, Sweden
Tapestry design for Elysee Editions, Paris, France
1985
Installation at The Palladium, New York, NY

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Musto, Michael. “100 Years of New York Nightlife: Megaclubs, Performance Art and Celebutants During the Go-Go ’80s.” Paper, October
“Art-Scaping.” C Magazine, Fall/Winter
Vankin, Deborah. “Spray-paint Revolution: ‘OutsideIn’ Street Art Exhibition Opens at Art Center in Pasadena.” Los Angeles Times, October 9
Daichendt, James G. “Continuing and Recommended: Kenny Scharf.” ArtScene, April
“Kenny Scharf at Honor Fraser.” Art Talk. KCRW, March 19
Wilkes, Rob. “Kenny Scharf.” We Heart, March 19
Cardiner, Brock. “A Look Inside Kenny Scharf’s ‘Born Again’ Exhibition at Honor Fraser Gallery.” Highsnobiety, March 9
Suh, Steven. “Kenny Scharf ‘Born Again’ Exhibition @ Honor Fraser Gallery.” Hypebeast,
Slenske, Michael. “Artist Kenny Scharf Turns an L.A. Gallery into a Recycled Funhouse.” Architectural Digest, March 4
Caro. “Preview: ‘Born Again’ by Kenny Scharf at Honor Fraser Gallery.” Hi-Fructose, February 25
2014
Binlot, Ann. “Kenny Scharf’s Cosmology.” ArtNews, November
Marton, Andrew. “Fort Worth’s Modern Museum of Art hosts exhibit of ’80s New York art.” The Washington Post, October 3
Bailey, Marilyn. “It came from the ’80s: The Modern’s ‘Urban Theater’ show.” dfw.com, October 2
Rees, Christina. “Urban Theater: New York Art in the 1980s.” artnet news, September 22
Pollack, Barbara. “‘Feito Por Brasileiros/Made By Brazilians’ at Matarazzo Hospital.” ArtNews, September 18
Voynovskaya, Nastia. “Kenny Scharf, Saner, Joana Vasconcelos and Other Artists Transform Abandoned Estate in Sao Paulo.” Hi-Fructose, September 17
Matarazzo, Cidade. “‘Made by… Feito por Brasileiros’, a creative invasion.” My Art Guides, September 9
Slonim, Jeffrey. “The Day Kenny Scharf Graffitied My Vintage Wagoneer.” The New York Observer, August 21
“Cidade dos Sonhos: revitalizacao do Hospital Matarazzo reune nata da arte em Sao Paulo.” Vogue Brasil, August 8
2013
Vitello, Gwyneed. “Kenny Scharf.” Juxtapoz, May
2012
Chang, Bee-Shyuan. “Art That’s Not Just on the Face.” The New York Times, October 10
Goldman, Edward. “Medicine for Your Eyes.” KCRW Art Talk, 1 May
Wolff, Rachel. “Where the Radiant Baby Was Born: In a basement on St. Marks Place, Keith Haring Became Keith Haring.” New York Magazine, March 25
Johnson, Alexis M., “Get the Details of Ann Magnuson’s New Performance Around Kenny Scharf’s Cadillac Sculpture on April 14 from 6-8pm.” For Your Art, April 4
2011
Turco, Bucky. “Kenny Scharf Bleeding onto JR’s ‘Face.” Animal, August 29
Eisenberg, Zev. “Inside Kenny Scharf’s ‘Cosmic Cavern.” Arthood, June 29
Slenske, Michael. “The World Catches Up to Kenny Scharf.” Art in America, January 20
Zara, Janella. “Contemporary Art Stars Create a Custom Skate Shop in Chelsea – And Skater Kids Get a Discount.” Artinfo, August 15
Miranda, Carolina A. “Cosmic Comic.” Artnews, June
Phillips, Karin. “Center City Philadelphia Mural Project Gets a Brooklyn Look.” CBS Philly, July 11
Cosic, Muna. “Patch’s Pick-and-Choose Weekend Planner.” Culver City Patch, November 11
Laster, Paul. “Kenny Scarf’s Delectable Donut Paintings.” Flavorwire, February 8
McDonald, Natalie Hope. “Kenny Scharf Paints 13th Street.” G Philly, July 11
“Kenny Scharf: More, Newer, Better, Nower, Funner! From the Levi’s Film Workshop.” Juxtapoz,, May 10
Pincus-Roth, Zachary. “‘Art in the Streets’ Press Preview: Deitch, Gastman, Rose, Fab 5 Freddy and More.” LAWeekly, April 15
Leopold, Shelley. “Street Art at MOCA.” LAWeekly, April 7
Hawthorne, Christopher. “Architecture Review: West Hollywood Library among top works.” Los Angeles Times, September 28
Williams, Janette. “‘Street-Cred’ Exhibit Puts a Fine-Art Spin on Graffiti.” Pasadena Star-News, July 21
McClemont, Doug. “Time to Make the Donuts: Kenny Scharf in Conversation With Doug McClemont.” Saatchi Online, February 9
Piero, W.S. Di, “If You Don’t Dig.” San Diego Weekly Reader, July 20
Uku, Andrea. “Lessons in Street Art, There’s More to it Than Just Banksy.” Style Caster, July 8
Harel, Monica Corcoran, “Exclusive: The Good Life, With Kenny Scharf.” Take Part, October 3
Chang, Richard. “MOCA Celebrates street art in newest show. The Orange County Register, May 13
Scharf, Malia. “Kenny Scharf: More, Better, Newer, Nower, Funner.” Unleashed
Spampinato, Francesco. “Kenny Scharf: Bringing the fantasy into reality.” Uomo Vogue
Michals, Susan. “Art in the Streets Draws a Traffic Jam of Fans.” The Wall Street Journal, April 20
Slenske, Michael. “The World Catches Up to Kenny Scharf.” Art in America, January 20
2010
Ryzik, Melena. “Social Disrobing and Other Party Fare.” The New York Times, June 3
Walder, Joyce. “Kenny Scharf’s Chair at Auction. Those Lips and Eyes!.” The New York Times, May 6
2009
Collins, Linda. “Art Exhibit in Vacant Storefronts, Art Fair at 395 Flatbush Ave. Extension Sunday.” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, October 15
“A Sky filled with Shooting Stars: Robert Ayers in New York City.” Robert Ayers in conversation with Kenny Scharf, Summer
Green, Penelope. “That’s Not a Basemen, It’s Art.” The New York Times, 3 June
Conner, Justin. “Kenny Scharf.” Interview, November
“Kenny Scharf.” Whitewall Magazine, Winter
Cardwell, Diane. “Luring Artists to Lend Life to Empty Storefronts.” The New York Times, October 12
Chabott, Sophia. “Movado Teams With Scharf on Watch Line.” Women’s Wear Daily, August 17
2008
“Kenny Scharf for Afsoun.” Vogue, October
Strong, Lester. “Darkness Bleeding.” A&U Magazine, December
2007
“Talking Fashion: Norwich Notes.” Vogue, November
2006
Douglas, Sarah. “Staying Power.” Art & Auction, November
Leffingwell, Edward. “Kenny Scharf at Paul Kasmin.” Art in America, January
2005
Douglas, Sarah. “Artinfo Talks With Kenny Scharf at Paul Kasmin Gallery.” Artinfo, October 14
2004
Timberg, Scott. “Concrete Canvas.” Los Angeles Times, July 10
Will, Jesse. “Defining Moment.” House & Garden, January
“Kenny Scharf: Back and Better than Ever.” MLoft, December
2003
Verini, James. “Hidden Art and Politics.” Los Angeles Times, January 30, E48
Raden, Lisa. “Kenny Scharf’s Portraits.” Contents, January
2002
Lecka, Steven. “Kenny Scharf.” Flaunt, August
Stern. “Warhols Enkel.” Kultur, October 1
2000
Katz, Vincent. “Kenny Scharf at Tony Scharf at Tony Shafrazi.” Art in America, September
Russel, Candice. “Culture Clash.” The City Link, March 1-7
Quick, Rebecca. “Birdie Is a Dumm, But the Girl Is Onto A Real Hip Thing.” The Wall Street Journal, February 10
1999
Gragg, Randy. “Pop Goes the Artist.” The Oregonian, October 6
Row, D.K. “Persistence and a Smile.” The Oregonian, October 1
Sirgado, Miguel. “Craig Robins.” EI Nuevo Herald, September 18
Parvaz, D. “Scharf Opens Windows on Quirky Pop Art.” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 5
Stuckstatte, Marion. “Graffiti Galaxie Bis Zur Gesellschaft der Maschine.” Dusseldorfer Feuilleton, June 8
Leibowitz, Debra. “California Dreaming.” The Miami Herald, July 1
Muller, Von Michael-Georg. “Formenviefalt und Farbenfre?.” Welt Am Sonntag, July 11
Brooks, Ian/Casadio, Mariuccia. “Funtasy side-art of Kenny Scharf.” L’Uomo Vogue, May/June
Lubow, Arthur. “The Whitney’s Arrested Development.” The New York Times Magazine, April 11
1998
Paglia, Camille. “Rock Around the Clock.” Forbes ASAP (illustration for article), November 30
Sheed, Elizabeth. “Kenny Scharf Plays Up Post Pop.” Cover, Vol.12, #5, December
Austin, Tom. “Alien Supermodels.” Ocean Drive Magazine, November
Kripalani, Jasmine. “Burdines Marks Anniversary with Smart Dummies.” The Miami Herald, October 4
Frank, Peter. “Ed Ruscha’s Light, Kenny Scharf.” LA Weekly, September 4-10, Vol. 20, No. 44
Schultz, Carol Ebert. “Kenny Scharf Looks Sharp at MCN.” La Jolla Village News, August 27
Pincus, Robert. “There’s Big News at La Jolla Museum.” San Diego Union Tribune, August 21
Darling, Michael. “Kenny Scharf at Kantor.” Dart International, Volume 1, No. 3, Fall
Louie, Elaine. “Aliens Take Sacks.” The New York Times, May 31
Jacober, Paul. “A Kenny Scharf Minute.” Miami Go, April 8
Smith, Roberta. “Kenny Scharf.” The New York Times, February 20
“Kenny Scharf.” Visual, No. 72
1997
Kohen, Helen. “Bass Exhibit a Fashionable Look at the Past.” The Miami Herald, January 31
“On Exhibit.” Juxtapose, Winter
“Kenny Scharf Dibuja un Grafito en la cristalera de Barcelona Televisio.” El Pais, Cataluna/ 15
“Carte Blanche, Kenny Scharf’s Show and Tell.” Artis, June-July, pg 41-47.
Hoban, Phoebe. “It’s Deja Vu, Twice, for Art World.” The New York Times, June 28
Milani, Joanne. “Child of the Tube.” The Tampa Tribune, June 3
Sheff, David. “When No Doesn’t Mean No.” (Illustration for article), Playboy, May
Marger, Mary Ann. “Surreal Puzzel: What to Make of it.” St. Petersburg Times, May 30
Cantor, Judy. “Scharf Among the Surrealists.” The New York Times, May 15-21
Sanders, Jacquin. “Your Message Here.” St. Petersburg Times, May 4, Section D, Pg 1
Austin, Tom. “The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World of Kenny Scharf.” Ocean Drive Magazine, May, Pg 145-149
“Why New Sex is the Best Sex.” (Illustration for article), Playboy, March
Weiss, Marion. “Kenny Scharf.” Dan’s Papers, January 27, Pg 10
“Kenny Scharf.” The New York Times, January 10
1996
“The Everglades.” (Illustration for article) Ocean Drive Magazine, September
Machuca, Marcela Garcia. “Es Otro Mundo!.” October 18
McKay, Bob. “Beat Me, Daddy, Five to the Bar.” (Illustration for article) Playboy, October
“Kenny Scharf.” Italian Bazaar, April/ May, Pg 96-99
Brophy, Kitty. “Kenny Scharf.” Juxtapoz, Summer, Pg 38-43
Talbot, Mary. “After Dark.” Daily News, March 1, Pg 49
1995
Smith, Roberta. “Kenny Scharf.” The New York Times, November 24
Robinson, Walter. “Lost in Space.” Manhattan File, October, Pg 68-71
Madry, Eva. “Tops of the Pops.” Elle Decration (British Issue), September, Pg 52-59
Poz, (Illustration for articles), August-September, Pg 40, 72
Beckett, Kathleen. “Kenny’s Scharf Schak.” Hamptons, July 7, Pg 38
Dean, Dahlia. “Swimming With the Scharf.” WWD, June 22, Pg 6
“From Miami, South Beach.” Brutus, June, Pg 78-79
Winified, Nicole. “Art Darling Scharf Resurfaces.” The News Journal, AP, May 30, Pg 3D
Hurlburt, Roger. “Review: Museum of Art-Fort Lauderdale.” Sun Sentinel, May 21, Pg 3D
Lindley, Kristin. “The Pop-Surrealistic World of Kenny Scharf.” The Sun Post, May 18, Pg 4
Hurlburt, Roger. “Art Harmony.” Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, May
Poz, (Illustration for articles), April-May, Pg 68-71, 82
Simon, Arnold. “Kenny Scharf’s Metamorphosis on Spectacular Display.” East Sider, Ft. Lauderdale, April 19
Kohen, Helen. “Scharf on Scharf.” The Miami Herald, April 16, Sec. 1
“Sa sag de st. Goran.” Hast Journalen, March
Talbot, Mary. “Lines for This Club Go Through a Modem.” The Daily News, March 1
1994
Canales, Louis. “Kenny Scharf.” Yes, November 4, Vol.1, No. 6
Ainsworth, Susan. “The Scharfer Image.” South Florida Magazine, November, Pg 22
Cantor, Judy. “Scharfer Image.” The New York Times, November 3-11
Saltz, Jerry. “A Year in the Life: Tropic of Painting.” Art in America, October, Pg 93
“Self-Portrait.” The New Yorker, May, Pg 24
“Arts Alive.” Scholastic Art Magazine, March, Pg 16
1993
“Marge Simpson.” Details (Illustration for article), December
O’Neil, Jon. “Students turn paint and parts into closetful of objects d’art.” The Miami Herald, November 4
Rupercht, Christian/ Siebke, Kathinka. “Closet No. 11 Scnell, Schrill, Kenny Scharf.” Foyer (Germany), November
Kohen, Helen. “Closets of Color.” The Miami Herald, July 9
Bornstein, Lisa. “Trendy Days are Here Again.” (Review of 1982-83: Ten Years After) Downtown Resident,18 June -2 July, Pg 16
“Tough.” The Plain Dealer (Cleveland), April 3, Section D
Bowels, Hamish. “A Vogue Style Living, Miami News,” Vogue, April
Powers, Jacquelynn D. “The Scharf Eye.” Ocean Drive Magazine, March, Pg 48-49
1992
Schulman, Sandra Carole. Kenny Scharf “Whimsically Wacky.”X S, November 18-24, Pg 42
Dutt, Robin. “Kenny Scharf/ Edward Totah Gallery.” What’s On, April 29, Pg 32
Collings, Matthew. “Kenny Scharf at Edward Totah.” City Limits, April 9-16, Pg 18
1991
Leimbach, Dulcie. “For Children.” The New York Times, November 29, g C6
Arias, Joey. “Back in the Closet.” Paper Magazine, November
Adams, Brooks. “Kenny Scharf at Tony Shafrazi.” Art in America, September, Pg 137-138
Mclean, Alex. “Kenny Scharf.” Metropolitan Home, September, Pg 116
Mahoney, Robert. “Kenny Scharf.” Arts Magazine, May, Pg 100
Grillo, Rosemary. “Son of Pop Keeps Up Cover Arts.” Changing Channels, April, Pg 12-13
“Galleries.” The New Yorker, March 25, Pg 14
“This is the House that Love Built.” Newsweek, March 18
“Self-Portrait by Kenny Scharf.” The New Yorker, March, Pg 12
“AA Non-Designer Showhouse Held to Toast Absent Friends.” The New York Times, March 7, Pg C6
“Whose Room is it Anyway?.” New York Daily News, 7 March Pg 83
“ShowHouse 2: The Adventure Continues.” Metropolitan Home, February, Pg 26
1990
Zahm, Oliver. “Kenny Scharf-Beaubourg.” Flash Art International, November-December, Pg 160 (Translated from French by Georgina Barry) Royal Dream, (Illustration)
Howe, John. “Don’t Bungle the Jungle.” Elle Magazine, August, Pg 170-177
“From the Surf to the Space.” BT Monthly Art Magazine, May, Pg 38-46
“Art in the 80’s.” Zoom, April, Pg 42-47
Chevron, Doris. “Echt Scharf.” Elle (Germany), March, Pg 274-279
“Earth 1990: Friend of the Forest.” Harper’s Bazaar, January, Pg 76, 140
1989
Sanders, Luanna. “The Artist in the Funhouse.” Metropolitan Home, December, Pg 104-109
Levin, Kim. “Choices.” Village Voice, June 27, Pg 48
Geer, Susan. “The Galleries.” Los Angeles Times, May 26, Part VI, Pg 18
“East Side Story.” VOGUE, May, Pg 356-401
Raynor, Vivien. “Art, Neo-Expressionist or Neo-Surrealist?.” The New York Times, May 13
Westfall, Stephen. “Reviews.” Flash Art January/February, No. 1144, Pg 120-121
1988
Cyphers, Peggy. “Review.” Arts Magazine, December, Pg 100-101
Sturman, John. “Reviews.” Art News, December, Pg 146
Waisnis, Edward. “Review.” Cover Magazine, November
Johnson, Ken. “Kenny Scharf at Tony Shafrazi.” Art in America, November, Pg 175
“Kenny Scharf. Alles wird Kunst.” Hein, October, No.10 Pg 183
Smith, Roberta. “Kenny Scharf Grows Up.” The New York Times, September 23, Pg 28
Kasuga, Yoshiko. “Pronto.” House and Garden, April, Vol. 5, No.5 Pg 10, 11
1987
Morera, Daniela. Vogue (Italy), October, Pg 248-251
Dowling, Claudia Glenn. “Loony Luna Luna.” Life Magazine, September, Pg 76
“The Next Wave.” Art & Antiques, Summer, Pg 26
1986
“Hang 10 or Hang it on the Wall.” Sports Illustrated, November 17, Pg 14
Heartly, Eleanor. “Reviews.” Art News, October
“Fantasia Tropical.” Casa Vogue (Brasil), May-June, Pg 104-109
Daniels, Demetria. “Bibiddy, Bobiddy, Boo.” Downtown Magazine, May 21, Pg 7A
1985
Ca, Brutus. “Art in Action-Dream.” December 15, Pg 92, 93, 99 (pictorial)
Heiferman, Marvin. “Graffiti Goes Tropical.” House and Garden, October, Pg 202-207
Salkaln, Elaine. “The New Do-It-Your-Selfers.” The Daily News, October 13
Gandee, Charles K. “Heaven’s Gate.” Architectural Digest, Mid-September
Marzorati, Gerald. “Kenny Scharfs’ Fun House Big Bang.” Art News, September, Pg 72-81
S. Walter. “Customize!.” I-D, August, Pg 46
Tompkins, Calvin. “The Art World.” The New Yorker, July 22
Virshup, Amy. “What’s Really Going On: The Night.” New York Magazine, June 17, Pg 38-40
Huges, Robert. “Careerism and Hype Amidst the Image Haze.” Time, June 17, Pg 78-83
Sozanski, Edward. “A Small Sampling of Five Artists.” Philadelphia Enquirer, June 16, Pg 16G
Marzorati, Gerald. “Picture Puzzles: The Whitney Biennial.” Art News, Summer, Pg 74-78
Small, Michael. “Area Art.” People, May 27
McGuigan, Cathleen. “A Garden of Disco Delights.” Newsweek, May 20, Pg 76
Slesin, Suzanne. “New Look Palladium Re-Opens.” The New York Times, May 16,
Adams, Cindy. “Disco Madness Hits 14th Street.” The New York Post, May 16, Pg 29
“Biennial: Caring and Compassionate.” Art World, April, Vol. 9 No. 7
Clushaw, Peter. “Custom Cars.” The Face, April, Pg 12
Russell, John. “Whitney Presents its Biennial Exhibition.” The New York Times, March 22
O’Brien, Glenn. “Review.” Artforum, March
Hager, Steven. “Mutants from Outer Space.” High Times, February, Pg 46-51
Haring, Keith. “Kenny Scharf by Keith Haring.” Interview, February
Levin, Kim. “The Aesthetics of Cute.” Village Voice, February 6
Stem, Jean. “Mutant.” Nitro, January
Engler, Brigette. “Le Jerome Bosh des Annees 80.” ICI New York, January
Scharf, Kenny. “A Talk with Keith Haring.” Flash Art, January, Pg 14-17
1984
Engler, Brigitte. “Art Car.” Paper Magazine, December
“Art: The Sculpture of the New York School.” The New York Times, December 7
Lacayo, Richard. “Returning to the Frame Game.” Time, December 3, Pg 72
Hershkovits, David. “Home is Where the Art Is.” The Daily News, November 29
Cameron, Dan. “Neo-Surrealism: Having it Both Ways.” Arts Magazine, November, Pg 68-73
“A Horse of a Different Color.”(pictorial) The Pennsylvania Gazette, October, Pg 29-31
Chi, Tseng Kwong. “The Ultima Suprema Deluxa.” (pictorial) Brutus, September, Pg 79-81
Moufarrage, Nicolas. “Year After.” Flash Art, Summer
Moufarrage, Nicolas. “Review: Fun Gallery/Tony Shafrazi.” Flash Art, Summer, Pg 68
Chi, Tseng Kwong. “Zena’s Crib.” Artforum International(pictorial), Summer, Pg 49
“Review: Kenny Scharf/Tony Shafrazi.” Artforum International, May, Pg 90
Graffiti Kunst: “Bilder Aus dem Untergrund.” Arts Das Kunstmagazin, February,
Cameron, Dan. “Saint Kenny and the Culture Dragon.” Arts Magazine, January, Pg 93-95
1983
Domus, December
Alinovi, Francesca. “Twenty-First Century Slang.” Flash Art International, November, Pg 23-31
“Openings/Kenny Scharf.” Esquire, November, Pg 199
Moufarrage, Nicolas. “The Mutant International; III: The Last Star…Aurora.” Arts Magazine, November, Pg 85-90
Smith, Roberta. “Aging Well is the Best Revenge.” Village Voice, June
Larson, Kay. “Primal Dreams.” New York Magazine, March 26, Pg 58-62
Moufarrage, Nicolas. “The State of New York Art.” GO, March
Moufarrage, Nicolas. “Electrically Eclectic.” GO, March
Moufarrage, Nicolas. “East Village.” Flash Art, March
Moufarrage, Nicolas. “X&O.” Arts Magazine, February
1982
“Plus C’est La Meme Chose.” Art & Auction, November
Moufarrage, Nicolas. “Lightning Strikes (Not Once But Twice).” Arts Magazine, November
Ricard, Rene. “The Pledge of Allegiance.” Artforum, November
Gablik, Suzi. “Report From New York.” Art in America, October
Baker, Jon. “News from NYC.” Brutus Magazine, September 15, Pg 124-125
Flash Art(Italian Edition), February-March
Moufarrage, Nicolas. “Dada, Domino, and de Millions.” New York Native, February
1981
Chi, Tseng Kwong. “Chrome on the Range.” Soho News, July 22
1980
“Sex and Death and Shock and Schlock: A Long Review of the Times Square Show.” Artforum, October, Pg 50
Deitch, Jeffrey. “Report from Times Square.” Art in America, September, Pg 59

PUBLICATIONS
2019
Basquiat: The Artist and his New York Scene, Amsterdam: Schunck
2018
BLOX AND BAX, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Creative Invasion: Cidade Matarazzo, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL
2015
BORN AGAIN, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Urban Theater: New York Art in the 1980s, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
2013
Kenny Scharf: Kolors, Paul Kasmin, New York, NY
2012
Kenny Scharf: Hodgepodge, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Kenny Scharf: Superdeluxa, Waddington Galleries, London, UK
2007
Kenny Scharf: NEW!, Paul Kasmin, New York, NY
2005
Kenny Scharf: Superpop, Paul Kasmin, New York, NY
1998
The Universals, Pucci International, New York, NY
Kenny Scharf, essays by Carter Ratcliff and Robert Farris Thompson, interview by Dennis Hopper, Tony Shafrazi, New York, NY
Kenny Scharf, essays by Barry Blinderman, Gregory Bowen, Bill McBride, Ann Magnuson and Robert Farris Thompson, University Galleries, Normal, IL
1997
In Your Face, Malca Fine Art, New York, NY
Kenny Scharf, Pop-Surrealist, Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, FL
1996
Pop Art, Jan-de James, Phaidon Press Limited, London, UK
El Mundo de Kenny Scharf, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
Kenny Scharf, essay by Louis Grachos, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL
1995
Kenny Scharf, essays by Brooks Adams and Laurence Pamer, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
1992
Kenny Scharf, essay by Brooks Adams, Edward Totah Gallery, London, UK
1990
Kenny Scharf, Galerie Beaubourg, Paris, France
The Last Decade: American Artists of the 80’s, Tony Shafrazi, New York, NY
Pharmakon 90, Mukuhari Messe Contemporary Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
1989
Kenny Scharf, Jungle Book, Art Random, Kyoto Shoin International Co., Kyoto, Japan
Kenny Scharf, Three Portfolios, AC & T Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
1988
Kenny Scharf, New Paintings, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1986
An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture from 1940 to the Present, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
1985
Art in Action, Sogetsu Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Vernacular Abstraction, Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
1984
Figuration Libre: France U.S.A., Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
New Attitudes: Paris/New York, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
1983
Reference, Palais des Beaux Arts de Charleroi, Belgium
Back to the U.S.A., Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
Kenny Scharf, Tony Shafrazi, New York, NY
Morton G. Neuman Family Collection, Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, MI
Champions, Tony Shafrazi, New York, NY

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT
The Dannheiser Foundation, New York, NY
Eli Broad Foundation, Los Angeles, California
Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
New England Museum for Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, CT
Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ
Patrick Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Sogetsu Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Born in Riverside, CA
Lives in Los Angeles, CA

EDUCATION
2006
MFA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2002
BFA, California State University, Long Beach, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
Affection, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
The Game of Life, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, Belgium
2016
WHAT A FEELING, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
2015
abstracted realities, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Project Series 50: Brenna Youngblood, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
Stairway, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
2014
Brenna Youngblood: Loss Prevention, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
A Phrase That Fits, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
2013
ACTIVISION, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
Spanning Time, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, Belgium
2011
The Mathematics of Individual Achievement, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
2010
WHEN-WIN, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
2009
Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin, Germany
2008
Brenna Youngblood, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Brenna Youngblood, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Murder by the Bank, Project Room, Wallspace, New York, NY
Wignall Museum, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
2006
Hammer Projects: Brenna Youngblood, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Natani Notah / Mitzi Pederson / Lisa Williamson / Brenna Youngblood, /, San Francisco, CA
Summer, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
Open House: Elliot Hundley, MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
STORIES: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
2018
SuperpowerShadowWoman, Five Car Garage, Los Angeles, CA
Out of Easy Reach, DePaul Art Museum, Gallery 400 at University of Illinois, Chicago, and Rebuild Foundation, Chicago, IL
Conceptual Feedback, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
Face to Face: Los Angeles Collects Portraiture, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Big Picture, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Victory Over the Sun: The Poetics and Politics of Eclipse, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY
Artists of Color, The Underground Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Sonic Rebellion: Music as Resistance, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
In the Abstract, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
POWER, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, CA
Signifying Form, Landing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Future is Abstract, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC
Man Alive, Jablonka Maruani Mercier, Brussels, Belgium
Magnetics Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2016
L.A. Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
AFRICA FORECAST: Fashioning Contemporary Life, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
A Shape That Stands Up, Art + Practice, Los Angeles, CA
Wasteland, Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), Paris, France
2015
Surface of Color, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA
Hard Edged, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Saying yes to everything, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
Attunement, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Please Enter, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
TRAINS, curated by Sterling Ruby, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
but that joke isn’t funny anymore…, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Point of View: African American Art from the Elliot and Kimberly Perry Collection, Flint Institute of the Arts, Flint, MI
Rites of Spring, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Black in the Abstract, Part 2: Hard Edges/Soft Curves, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
2013
Demolition Woman, organized by Commonwealth & Council, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Murmurs: Recent Contemporary Acquisitions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Turn of Phrase, Pepin Moore, Los Angeles, CA
Fanatic, Post, Los Angeles, CA
Psychosexual, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL
2012
Dark Flow Lurking, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
Fore, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
What We Do for Fun: Kristin Calabrese with Caitlin Lonegan and Brenna Youngblood, The Green Gallery East, Milwaukee, WI
Made in L.A. 2012, organized by the Hammer Museum in collaboration with LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
Going Public – Telling it as it is?, performance with OJO, organized by the European Network of Public Art Producers, Bilbao, Spain
TAG! you’re it, curated by Amber Noland, Royal/T, Culver City, CA
2011
G.L.O.W. Match Three: Kelly Cline & Brenna Youngblood, Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles, CA
Romare Bearden Centennial Exhibition, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
A Painting Show, Harris Lieberman, New York, NY
Unfinished Paintings, curated by Kristin Calabrese and Joshua Aster, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Suelto, curated by Pilar Tompkins Rivas and Adrian Rivas, La Central, Bogotá, Colombia
The Space Between, curated by Glenn Kaino and Derek DelGaudio, LAXART Annex, Los Angeles, CA
2010
Severed Arrangements, Latned Atsar, Los Angeles, CA
Second Story, Pepin Moore, Los Angeles, CA
50 Artists Photograph The Future, curated by Dean Daderko, Higher Pictures, New York, NY
Works in Edition, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
From My Universe: Objects of Desire Part II, curated by Janet Levy, See Line Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009
With You I Want to Live, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Glue, Paper, Scissors, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Reading Standing Up, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Feelings and Power, Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles, CA
2008
California Biennial, University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Half-Life: Twenty-five Emerging L.A. Artists, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Whatcha See is Whatcha Get, What You Don’t See (Is Better Yet), Five Thirty Three Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Asylum, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Fall In, Fall Out, Fall Down, Get Ready!, Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles, CA
Aspects of Mel’s Hole: Artists Respond to a Paranormal Land Event Occurring in Radiospace, curated by Doug Harvey, Grand Central Art Center, California State University at Fullerton, Fullerton, CA
2007
Hammer Contemporary Collection Part II, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Big Secret Cache, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“hovering over the universe…,” Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
Blacks In and Out of the Box, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Bling, curated by Mark Greenfield, Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Gray Korfmann Youngblood: New Forms in Photography, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
New American Talent: the 21st Exhibition, curated by Aimee Chang, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX
Then and Now and Again, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
25 Bold Moves, House of Campari, Los Angeles, CA
Locale, curated by Kris Kuramitsu, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Good Times For Never, curated by Eamon Ore-Giron, Queen’s Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA
Effacé, curated by Malik Gaines, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
LA25, curated by Ilene Kurtz-Kretzschmar, Skadden Arps, Los Angeles, CA
2005
Handmade, curated by Tim Davis, Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY
Greater LA MFA Exhibition, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
State of Emergence: Unsuspected Cracks in the Art-World Infrastructure, curated by Doug Harvey, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Macrae Semans and Brenna Youngblood, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2015
Seattle Art Museum Gwendolyn Knight/Jacob Lawrence Prize
2014
The Hermitage Artist Retreat, Englewood, FL
2012
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Young Talent Award/AHAN Award

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2018
Jaye Young, Lisa. “When Racism and Sexism Are No Longer Fashionable Magnetic
Fields: Expanding Anerican Abstraction.” Art Pulse, Fall
Knight, Christopher. “Sol LeWitt and ‘Conceptual Feedback’ at Honor Fraser Gallery.” Los Angeles Times, March 28
2017
Khare-Ghose Archana. “Critic Philipp Kaiser on Curating the Public Sector of Art Basel in Miami Beach.” Blouin Artinfo, December 8
Roffino, Sara. “10 Emerging Artists to Watch at Art Basel Miami Beach 2017.” Galerie, December 1
Lackner, Catherine. “Art Basel Miami Beach keynotes an arts rebirth.” Miami Today News, November 21
Delaney, Lashea. “Contemporary Black Artists Are Redefining Portraiture in a Show at CAAM.” LA Weekly, July 21
Kaith, Naima J. “The Power of Now.” LALA Magazine, May
Schwab, Helen. “Art goes Inside|Out in CLT.” The Charlotte Observer, March 4
“Power and African American Women.” KCRW, March 30
Stromberg, Matt. “Eight Decades of Sculpture by African American Woman in LA.” Hyperallergic, March 28
Anderson, Claressinka. “Exquisite L.A.” Carla, March
2016
Colacello, Bob. “The Lure of LACMA.” Vanity Fair, December
“Armory Show Show Show.” Harper’s Bazaar Korea, April
“Black Art Reigns.” Art Talk KCRW, January 21
“The Week Ahead.” The Seattle Times, January 10
Upchurch, Michael. “Digesting Duchamp: A roundup of micro-exhibitions at Seattle Art Museum.” The Seattle Times, January 5
“Brenna Youngblood: abstracted realities.” The Stranger
2015
Langner, Erin. “Museum Admission: Brenna Youngblood at the Seattle Art Museum.” New American Paintings
“Seattle Art Museum presents prize-winner Brenna Youngblood’s solo exhibition.” Artdaily.org, November 15
Ahn, Abe. “Forging Queer Identity with Abstraction.” Hyperallergic, October 19
Tattersall, Lanka. “Ones to Watch.” Sleek, July
Elbaum, Sarah. “Brenna Youngblood at Pomona College Museum of Art.” Artillery, March 3
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Micallef, Carlisle. “Project Series Stars Youngblood.” The Student Life, February 6
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2014
Tung, Robin. “Saying yes to everything at Honor Fraser.” Daily Serving, December 2
Williams, Maxwell. “Meaningful Expression.” Cultured Magazine, Summer
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2012
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2005
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PUBLICATIONS
2016
Wasteland: New Art from Los Angeles. Paris: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
2015
Brenna Youngblood. Claremont: Pomona College Museum of Art
2014
Arning, Bill, Valerie Cassel Oliver, and Dean Daderko. Outside the Lines. Minneapolis: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
2013
Garcia, Cesar, Naima J. Keith, Franklin Sirmans and Brenna Youngblood. The Mathematics of Individual Achievement: Brenna Youngblood. Los Angeles: MISPRINT Press
2012
Ellegood, Anne, Lauri Firstenberg, Malik Gaines, Cesar Garcia, and Ali Subotnick. Made in L.A. 2012. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, University of California; New York: DelMonico Books, Prestel
2008
Aspects of Mel’s Hole. Santa Ana, CA: Grand Central Press
Ore-Giron, Eamon. CB08. Newport Beach: Orange County Museum of Art

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art, Design, and Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara, CA
The Blake Byrne Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Creative Artists Agency, Los Angeles, CA
Eileen Harris Norton, Santa Monica, CA
Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
JP Morgan Chase Art Collection
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
The Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
The U.S. Embassy in Maputo, Mozambique

Born 1972, Los Angeles, CA
Lives in Los Angeles, CA

EDUCATION
1996
MFA, University of California at San Diego, CA
1993
BA, University of California at Irvine, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Glenn Kaino, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2018
With Drawn Arms, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
2017
Glenn Kaino: A Shout Within a Storm, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Sign, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, IL
2016
FOCUS: Glenn Kaino, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
2015
Tank, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
Labyrinths, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Leviathan, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, IL
19.83, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2012
Bring Me the Hands of Piri Reis, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Levitating the Fair (The Flying Merchant Ship), Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL
2010
Safe | Vanish, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
2009
Honor Among Thieves, Creative Time, New York, NY
2008
Transformer: The Work of Glenn Kaino, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Arch, Public Sculpture, Pittsburgh, PA
2007
International Artist-In-Residence New Works: 07.1, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX
2006
Laws Were Made For Rogues, Cerca Series, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
2005
Of Passed Pawns and Communicating Rooks, The Project, New York, NY
2004
Bounce: Glenn Kaino and Mark Bradford, Gallery at REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Simple System For Dimensional Transformation, The Project, New York, NY
Glenn Kaino, The Project, New York, NY
2001
Style Telegraphiqúe, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2000
Blue, Venetia Kapernekas Fine Art, New York, NY
Chasing Perfect, Three Rivers Gallery, Pittsburg, PA
1999
Scratch, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Into Action, Felix LA, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Desert X, Coachella Valley, CA
Third Space /shifting conversations about contemporary art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
2016
Ground Control, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL
L.A. Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Gold Rush, de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
March Madness, Fort Gansevoort, New York, NY
2015
Art In The Age Of…Asymmetrical Warfare, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Piece by Piece: Building a Collection, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX
2014
Prospect.3: Notes for Now, New Orleans, LA
Art on Paper 2014, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
The Avant-Garde Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Alter/Abolish/Address, Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), Washington, D.C.
GOLD, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
Cage & Kaino: Pieces and Performances, World Chess Hall of Fame, St. Louis, MO
2013
Kiss Me Deadly: A Group Show of Contemporary Neo-Noir From Los Angeles, Paradise Row, London, UK
Meanwhile…Suddenly, and Then, 12th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
In Every Grain, 13th International Cairo Biennale, U.S. Pavilion, Cairo, Egypt
The Voyage or Three Years at Sea, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2011
Selections From The Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Trespass, West of Rome Public Art, Los Angeles, CA
Role Model – Role Playing, Museum der Moderne Monchsberg, Salzburg, Germany
2010
The Artists’ Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
New Art For A New Century: Contemporary Acquisitions 2000-2010, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Mapping Identity, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
2009
We Are Time: Seven Installations, Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands
2008
Southern Exposure: Works from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Disorderly Conduct: Recent Art in Tumultuous Times, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
2006
One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now, Asia Society, New York, NY
2005
Only Make-Believe: Ways of Playing, Compton Verney, Warickshire, UK
2004
Blackbelt, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Whitney Gala, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Dreamscape, University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA
California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2003
Blackbelt, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Mine, Lombard+Freid Fine Arts, New York, NY
2001
One Planet Under a Groove, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
2000
Surf Trip, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1999
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1998
Xtrascape, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
i Candy, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Access All Areas, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Los Angeles, CA
1995
Finding Family Stories, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA

PERFORMANCES
2014
The Burning Boards, Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis, Saint Louis, MO
2012
The Trials of Slydini, LACMA Collector’s Weekend, Los Angeles, CA
2011
A.Bandit: Experiments From the [Space] Between, The Kitchen, New York, NY
A.Bandit: A Walk Through China, as A.Bandit, LAXART Annex, Los Angeles, CA
A. Bandit: The Space Between, Soho House, West Hollywood, CA
A.Bandit: Ready To Be Made, LAXART Annex, Los Angeles, CA
A.Bandit: The Mistake Room, LAXART Annex, Los Angeles, CA
A.Bandit: My House Will Be Called A House Of Art, Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA
2008
The Burning Boards, haudenschild Garage, La Jolla, CA
2007
The Burning Boards, Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York, NY

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2018
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MacCash, Doug. “Prospect.3 New Orleans: Everything you need to know for the fall arts event.” The Times Picayune, October 08
Plath, Tara. “25 Artists, 5 Curators // 5×5 Project.” The Seen, October 02
Sutton, Benjamin. “Punchy 5×5 Art Project Electrifies Washington DC.” Artnet news, October 9
“The Americas: New Orleans.” Modern Painters, October
“A Closer Look at the Biennial.” The Art Newspaper, October
“SEE: The Art of Marine Life.” Interview, October
“The World Chess Hall of Fame celebrates art and chess with Glenn Kaino’s The Burning Boards.” artdaily.org, September
Indrisek, Scott. “Glenn Kaino’s Balancing Act in Chicago.” Blouin Artinfo, September 23
Miranda, Carolina A. “From Tahrir Square to Ferguson, artist Glenn Kaino’s rocks of protest.” Los Angeles Times, September 22
Indrisek, Scott. “Highlights from EXPO Chicago.” Blouin ArtInfo, September 22
Boucher, Brian. “Shaquille O’Neal, George Lucas Add Luster to Expo Chicago VIP Preview.” Art in America, September 20
Zhong, Fan. “Glenn Kaino’s Social Experiment.” W Magazine, September 18
Pobric, Pac. “A piece of Ferguson protests come to Chicago.” The Art Newspaper, September 18
Uyeda, Gan. “By Art Is Created That Great Leviathan: Glenn Kaino at Kavi Gupta.” ARTslant, September 18
Capps, Kriston. “Are 25 Temporary Installations Too Scattershot for the Money?” Washington City Paper, September 18
Karman, Tony. “An Unprecedented List of Cultural Exhibitions and Events in Chicago This September.” Huffington Post, September 16
Binlot, Ann. “Artist Glenn Kaino On Ferguson, Equality And Tommie Smith’s Iconic Salute.” Forbes, September 16
Braverman, Emily. “World Chess Hall of Fame.” The Globe, September 15
Green, Jared. “5 x 5: A Powerful Commentary on Gentrification in Washington, D.C..” The Dirt, September 09
DelGiudice, Andy. “Art Itinerary: 5×5.” Brightest Young Things, September 09
Hughes, Sarah Anne. “Map: Where To See 5×5’s Public Art This Weekend.” DC Ist, September 05
Cooper, Annelise. “5×5 Brings a Burst of Public Art to DC.” Blouin ArtInfo, September 04
Arneson, Krystin. “Glenn Kaino’s ‘Burning Boards’ Candle Chess Performance Illuminates the Possible at the World Chess Hall of Fame.” Alive Magazine, September
Dobuzinskis, Caroline. “DC’s 5×5 public art festival: What to see and where to see it.” Elevation DC, August 19
Che, Jenny. “Miami Beach’s Bass Museum of Art Looks at Gold.” Wall Street Journal, August 8
“10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch.” Mutual Art, August 8
“Art on Paper 2014.” Wallstreet International, August 7
Weinman, Sarah. “Exhibit features portraits of chess grandmasters.” St. Louis Jewish Light, July 31
Stalker, Anna. “The World Chess Hall of Fame Attracts… Hip-hop and Fashion Lovers?.” stlcurator, July 16
Peterson, Macauley. “Chess and Art.” A Tempo Magazine, July 5
“Progress moves forward on plans for Sixth Street Bridge.” Los Angeles Wave, July 03 Cooper, Ashton. “LA Taps Glenn Kaino For Major Public Work.” Blouin ArtInfo, July 2
Sutton, Benjamin. “Artist Glenn Kaino Lands LA Bridge Commission.” ArtNet, July 2
Evans, Donna. “New Designs, Including Archway Stairs, for Sixth Street Bridge.” Los Angeles Downtown News, July 02
Watson, Simon. “78 Hours on the Los Angeles Art Scene.” Huffington Post, June 18
Howe, Holly. “Highlights from Art Basel Hong Kong 2014.” Complex, May 16
Baginski, Laura. “Art Basel: Time Out International Picks.” Time Out Hong Kong, May 14
“‘Cage and Kaino: Pieces and Performances’ opens at the World Chess Hall of Fame.” Artdaily, May 9
Jerauld, Brian. “On Chess: New Shows At World Chess Hall of Fame Include Burning Boards.” St. Louis Public Radio, May 8
“World Chess Hall of Fame Debuts Two Groundbreaking Exhibitions May 8.” I Want Pop, May 5
“Contemporary Public Art is Coming to the Capital.” DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, April 21
“The Agenda: This Week in New York.” Art in America, March 25
Vankin, Deborah. “Cesar Garcia’s the Mistake Room opens in downtown L.A.” The LA Times, January 18
2013
Burns, Charlotte. “A Sneak Peek at Prospect.3.” The Art Newspaper, December 6
Michals, Susan. “It’s No Mistake: The Mistake Room Launches as a Landmark Art Organization in Los Angeles.” Huffington Post, October 17
Laurence, Robin. “The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea Part VI addresses the mystery of the maritime world.” Georgia Straight, October 16
“Santa Monica Basks in the After-Glow.” Sacramento Bee, October 1
MacBride, Melissa. “Thousands enjoy ‘Glow’ art festival in Santa Monica.” KABC-TV Los Angeles, September 28
Binlot, Ann. “1968 Black Power Salute: From High Emotion to High Art.” Al Jazeera America, September 27
Castelli, Stefano. “Biennale de Lione: l’arte racconta il mondo.” Artribune, September 26
“The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea Part VI.” Art & Education, September 25
Butt, Ameera. “Get Ready to Glow.” Santa Monica Daily Press, September 24
Momin, Shamim “(Artist) Lunchtime Poll: Glenn Kaino.” Artsy, September 24
Meissirel, Thierry, “La Biennale de Lyon raconte le monde : grave mais pas désenchanté,” Le Progres, September 12
2012
Myers, Holly. “Charting Another Direction.” Los Angeles Times, December 20
Campbell, Clayton. “Glenn Kaino Honor Fraser – Los Angeles.” Flash Art, May/June
“Glenn Kaino Adds Magic To Maps In Exhibition At The Honor Fraser.” Huffington Post, January
Melrod, George. “News.” art ltd., March- April
“Smithsonian Announces Nominees for Contemporary Artist Award.” Auction Central News, August 7
Schad, Ed. “Glenn Kaino: Bring Me The Hands of Piri Reis.” Art Review March
Campbell, Clayton. “Glenn Kaino Honor Fraser – Los Angeles.” Flash Art, May/June
Myers, Holly. “Art Review: Glenn Kaino at Honor Fraser.” Los Angeles Times, January 19
Time Out Israel, January 18, p. 85
2011
Kunitz, Daniel. “Kitbashing the Universe: An Artist’s Conceptual Remixes.” Modern Painters, December, p. 50-51
“Art Public: Art Basel Miami Beach to Transform Collins Park with a Record 24 Public Art Works.” Artdaily, November 10
Mohseni, Yasmine. “Now You See Him…” The Art Newspaper, October, n. 228, p. 48
Wagley, Catherine. “Peter Voulkos, Can I Have Your Autograph?” LAWeekly, September 22
Lindsay, Arto and Tiravanija, Rirkrit. “Present Trespass: A Parade Along Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles.” West of Rome Public Art, September
“The Kitchen Presents Special Collection of Works From A. Bandit Experiments From The [Space] Between, Featuring the Artist Glenn Kaino and Magician Derek DelGaudio.” Evolutionary Media Group, September
Solis, Baby. “The Gold Piece: Wands – Glenn Kaino.” Milenio, June 13
Baum, Gary. “The Conjurers.” Angeleno, June
“A Night of Magic at LAXART’s Annex Space in Hollywood.” ForYourArt, February 8
Berardini, Andrew. “California Dreamin’.” Artforum, February 7
Ma, Amy. “A.Bandit Performs Magic Act ‘A Walk Through China’ at LAXART’s Annex-–Launch Party 2/6/11.” Brand X, February 6
Lovick, John. “Inception Connection.” Magic Magazine, February
2010
Firstenberg, Lauri. “GLENN KAINO: Safe/Vanish.” LAXART
Earhart, Blanka. “From Los Angeles: Safe/Vanish.” Art Practical, November
Buckley, Annie. “Critic’s Picks: Glenn Kaino.” Artforum, October
Korek, Bettina. “LAXART Celebrates Its 5th Anniversary.” Huffington Post, July 8
Karyn Kohl.” Wire Image, September
“Glenn Kaino: Safe/Vanish at LAXART Los Angeles.” Vernissage, October 1
“Glenn Kaino: Safe/Vanish at LAXART, LA: Part of 5th Anniversary Year Prograamming.” Easthong.com, October
Finkel, Jori. “Artist Conjures Up a Bag of Tricks Full of Imagery.” Los Angeles Times, September 23
“LAXART Fêtes Artist Glenn Kaino.” Artinfo, May 6
Lovick, John. “Comings & Goings.” Magic, September
“Limelight Out & About.” Los Angeles Confidential, September
“LAXART Glenn Kaino Secret Gathering at the Magic Castle Hosted By Phil Lord and “We Love Art Paper, April
2009
Murphy, Ries. “The Fishbowl Carnival: Glenn Kaino & Ryan Majestic @ The Slipper Room.” Bombsite, November 20
Thomas, Mary. “Best Art Exhibition of 2008: ‘Life on Mars.'” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 1
2008
Thomas, Ben. “Uber Me!” H, August
Holohan, Meghan. “Kinetic Energy.” Carnegie, summer
Shaw, Kurt. “Industrial Art Project Deserved Funding Nod.” Pittsburg Tribune-Review, July 27
Thomas, Mary. “L.A. Artist’s Work Transforms at Warhol Museum.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 16
Thomas, Mary. “City Receives $1 Million in Art For Its Birthday.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 10
Zlatos, Bill. “‘Transformer’ Statue to Join 250th Party.” Pittsburg Tribune-Review, July 10
Zlatos, Bill. “Four Arts Projects Pegged to City’s 250th Birthday.” Pittsburg Tribune-Review, July 9.
“Pittsburgh Receives $1 Million for Art; French Man Pleads Guilty in Art Theft.” Artforum, July 10.
Nishi, Dennis. “Glenn Kaino, Co-founder, President Uber.com.” Wall Street Journal, July 20
Nishimura, Rachel. “OCMA’s Exhibit Criticizes ‘Tumultuous Times’.” Weekly Hornet, February 13
Mizota, Sharon. “Disorderly Conduct: Recent Art in Tumultuous Times.” Los Angeles Times, February 10
2007
Herbert, Martin. “Africa in the Present Tanse.” Modern Painters, June, p. 81
Gupta, Anjali. “Glenn Kaino + Robert Pruitt + Katja Strunz.” Art Papers, May/June, p. 73
Goddard, Dan. “L.A. Artist Plays with Time.” San Antonio Express News, April 22
Wolff, Elain. “We Shall (Eventually) Overcome (One Way or Another).” San Antonio Current, March 28-April 3, p. 16
Bartley, Christopher. “Check Mates.” V, February 23
Shahade, Jennifer. “Chess on Fire.” United States Chess Federation, February 22
“Artists on Spirituality.” ArtAsiaPacific, January, n. 5, p. 86
Firstenberg, Lauri. “Ninjas and Pirates, Revolution and Revolution.” Art Papers, March/April, p. 40-44
2006
Smith, Roberta. “A Melange of Asian Roots and Shifting Identities.” The New York Times, September 8, p. 27-9
“Best of the Best.” New York, September 4-11, p. 72
Smith, Roberta. “The Week Ahead: Sept. 3-9.” The New York Times, September 3
“Future of Content.” Tokion, February/March, n. 51, p. 94-99
Campagnola, Sonia. “Focus Los Angeles.” Flash Art, January/February, n. 246
2005
“Art Opening.” Flavorpill, November 18–24
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McLaren, Brittany. “Martial Arts Art Mix Is Electric.” Daily Trojan, February 1
Hart, Hugh. “Fists Flying in Goodwill.” Los Angeles Times, Wednesday January 1
2004
McNally, Whitney. “Next Hollywood.” Details, April, vol. 1
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Hoban, Phoebe. “And, of Course, There’s the Art.” The New York Times, March 14
Gouveia, Georgette. “Material World.” The Journal News, March 12
Martens, Anne. “Bounce: Mark Bradford and Glenn Kaino.” Flash Art, March/April, vol. 37, n. 235
2003
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Cotter, Holland. “Art In Review; Glenn Kaino.” The New York Times, October 31
Vogel, Carol. “More Eyes on the Mix For Whitney Biennial.” The New York Times, October 27
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PUBLICATIONS
2016
Switzer, Stacy; Fischer, Annie. Problems and Provocations Kansas City: Grand Arts
2009
Firstenberg, Lauri, Glenn Kaino and the Andy Warhol Museum. Communicating Rooks: The Work of Glenn Kaino. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz
2004
Joo, Eugene. Bounce: Mark Bradford & Glenn Kaino. Valencia: California Institute of the Arts
1995
Higa, Karin. Finding Family Stories. Los Angeles: Japanese American National Museum

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
JP Morgan Chase Art Collection
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Norton Family Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Pittsburgh International Airport, Pittsburgh, PA
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

Born 1967, Okinawa, Japan
Lives in Los Angeles, CA

EDUCATION
2002
MFA, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
1998
BA, California State University, Los Angeles, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
Reformation, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France
A Standard, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Kaz Oshiro, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
Diffuse Reflection, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France
2014
Chasing Ghosts, LACMA’s Charles White Elementary School Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Logical Disjunction, Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong, China
Still Life, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Sunset Drone, Las Cienegas Project, Los Angeles, CA
Zeuxis pop, Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France
2010
Sundowner, Galerie Perrotin, Miami, FL
Home Anthology 2, Las Cienegas Project, Los Angeles, CA
Home Anthology, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France
Never Can Say Goodbye, Tower Records Store, in collaboration with No Longer Empty, New York, NY
2009
False Gestures, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Setting Sun, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Kaz Oshiro, Sorry We’re Closed, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Untitled Recordings, Clear Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2007
Common Noise, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France
Room Acoustics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Kaz Oshiro, Paintings and Works on Paper, 1999-2006, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV
New Works, Project Room, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Driving with Dementia, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Subpar, Steven Wolf Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005
Project Series 27, Kaz Oshiro, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
Drone, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Room Acoustics, Tokyo Hipsters Club, Inart Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2004
Out-n-In, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2002
Pop Tatari (Curse of Pop Music), Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
Conceptual Feedback, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Legacies, Cal State LA Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Working Title: 10,020,000, Sam Francis Gallery at Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences, Santa Monica, CA
Back to Mulholland Drive, La Panacée, Contemporary Art Center of the City of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
2016
Southland, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
David X Levine, Kaz Oshiro, Xochi Solis: Extended Technique, MASS Gallery, Austin, TX
2015
Accrochage, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France
Space Between, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
2014
Transmogrification of the Ordinary, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Heart-Shaped Box, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France
Visual Deception II: Into the Future, Bunkamura: The Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan; Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
2013
Faux Real, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Between Critique and Absorption: Contemporary Art and Consumer Culture, Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI
The Spook Rock Rd, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France
2012
Simulacrum, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH
Okinawa Art in NY, The Nippon Gallery at the Nippon Club, New York, NY
Bruce Conner and the Primal Scene of Punk Rock, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
Lifelike, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Notations: The Cage Effect Today, Hunter College, New York, NY
Twelve, West Los Angeles College Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Object Fictions, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2011
The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, FL
American exuberance, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
California Art : Selections from the Fredrick Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Greater LA, New York, NY
Conversation with Mathieu Mercier, Takaaki Izumi, Yuki Kimura, Soshi Matsunobe, Kaz Oshiro, Koki Tanaka about Abstract Objects, Super Window Project, Kyoto, Japan
New Image Sculpture, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
L’Insoutenable Légèreté de l’être, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris, France
Berlin-Paris, Galerie Frank Elbaz at Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2010
Artist’s Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Crosstown Traffic, Wentrup, Berlin, Germany
Even Better Than the Real Thing, 
Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art at Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
2009
Extending the Line, Fine Art Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
Rogue Wave ’09, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
2008
Like Lifelike : Painting in the Third Dimension, UC Riverside, Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, CA
One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Lure, galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France
Less is less, more is more, that’s all, CAPC-Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Some Paintings, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2007
If Everybody Had An Ocean: Brian Wilson, Tate St. Ives, UK; CAPC-Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery New York, NY
Forged Realities, Universal Studios, Beijing, China
One Way or Another : Asian American Art Now, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
2006
Red Eye: Rubell Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
One Way or Another : Asian American Art Now, Asia Society and Museum, New York, NY
Smoke and Mirrors: Deception in Contemporary Art, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
Banquet : A Feast for the Senses, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA
Deaf « from the Audible to the Visible », galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France
Tina B, Praha, Czech Republic
2005
Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Re-form, Northern Illinois University Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004
Rock, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Giggles, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX
Nothing Compared to This, Contemporary Art Center Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
2004
California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Boundary Creatures, Kansas City Jewish Museum, Kansas City, KS
Swiss Institute, New York, NY
2003
2003 Summer Program, Apex Art, New York, NY
Group Show, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Redux, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Group Show, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2001
A Proper Aesthetics of the War, Gallery Zero One, Los Angeles, CA
Lazy Susan, Long Beach City College Fine Arts Gallery, Long Beach, CA
LA, CA, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA

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Miles, Christopher. “State of the Arts ’05.” LA Weekly, October
Kohno, Haruko. “Gallery Reviews-Tokyo/ Kaz Oshiro: Room Acoustics.” Bijutsu Techou, December
2004
Holte, Michael Ned. “Los Angeles Critics’ Pick.” Artforum.com, April
Bembnister, Theresa. “Creeping and Crawling.” The Pitch, August
Helfand, Glen. Review, “Elsewhere Critics’ Pick.” Artforum.com, December
Robinett, Rae Anne. “Kaz Oshiro at Rosamund Felsen Gallery.” Art Asia Pacific, Fall
“Thing: New Sculpture from L.A.” Artco, May
2003
“In the Galleries: Summer Program.” The New Yorker, July
Cristina Colasanto. “Pop-cultural Immersion at Apex.” review, Nyarts.com, July
Smith, Roberta. “In the Galleries, A Grand Finale of Group Show Fireworks.” The New York Times, July
Robinson, Walter. “Weekend Update.” Artnet.com, July
Seigel, Katy. “2003 Summer Program.” catalogue essay, Apex Art, New York
Robinson, Walter. “Miami Heat.” Artnet.com, December
2002
Matsuyama, Hiro. “Review.” Relax, August

PUBLICATIONS
2014
Duncan, Michael, and Ed Schad. Kaz Oshiro. Bologna: Honor Fraser, Inc; Damiani; Galerie Perrotin
2012
Andrews, Kathryn, Frank Benson, Hannah Greely, Thomas Houseago and Richard Jackson. American Exuberance. Miami: Rubell Family Collection
Pissarro, Joachim, Bibi Calderaro and Julio Grinblatt. Notations: The Cage Effect Today. Milan: Charta Editions
2011
The Martin Z. Margulies Collection: Painting and Sculpture. Seattle: Marquand Books
2005
Elaine, James. THING: New Sculpture from Los Angeles. Los Angeles: Regents of the University of California and the Fellows of Contemporary Art
Chris Kraus, Jan Tumlir and Jane McFadden. LA Artland: Contemporary Art from Los Angeles. London: Black Dog
Duncan, Michael. Kaz Oshiro’s Magic Deceit. Pomona: Pomona College Museum of Art

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Margulies Contemporary Art Collection, Miami, FL
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT
Oakland Museum of California
Peter Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK

Born 1981, Francistown, Botswana
Lives in New York, NY

EDUCATION
2011
MFA, Interdisciplinary Studio, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
BA, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
2006
Affiliate Independent Study Program, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Bread Butter, and Power, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
2018
Double Bind, New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York
Objects of Desire: Reflections on the African Still Life, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
Meleko Mokgosi: Acts of Resistance, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Meleko Mokgosi: Bread, Butter, and Power, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Lex and Love: Meleko Mokgosi, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Pax Kaffraria, The Memorial Art Gallery and Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
2016
Meleko Mokgosi: Democratic Intuition: Lerato and Comrades II, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Comrades, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2015
Meleko Mokgosi: Democratic Intuition, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Meleko Mokgosi, Jack Shainman Gallery: The School, Kinderhook, NY
2014
Positions, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL
Pax Kaffraria, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
2009
Meleko Mokgosi, Williams Club Gallery, New York, NY
2007
In Transit, Charles P. Russel Gallery, Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, MA
2003
Maitisong, Gaborone, Botswana

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
Lines of Influence, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
2017
Conversations: Selections From the Permanent Collection, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL
The Ease of Fiction, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
2016
The Ease of Fiction, Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh, Raleigh, NC; California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Unrealism, Gagosian Gallery, Miami, FL
Schema, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
A Story within a story, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Göteborg, Sweden
Nero su Bianco, American Academy in Rome Gallery, Rome, Italy
African Odysseys, Le Brass, Centre Culturel de Forest, Belgium
Remembering Things Past, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
2014
Kings County, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2013
Meanwhile…Suddenly and Then, The Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France
The Beautyful Ones, Nolan Judin, Berlin, Germany
Migrating Identities, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, CA
Inside This Human Clay, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Made in L.A. 2012, organized by the Hammer Museum in collaboration with LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
Primary Sources, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Capital Offense: The End(s) of Capitalism, Beacon Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Bearden Project, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2011
Look III, The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art Museum, Peekskill, NY
2010
MFA Graduate Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Greater Los Angeles MFA Exhibition, University of California, Long Beach, CA
2009
Without, New Wight Gallery, University of California Los Angeles, CA
Narratives of Now, University of California Los Angeles, CA
Without, Work Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Four Continents, Botswana National Gallery and Thapong Workshop, Gaborone, Botswana
AmericAura, National Library of Cameroon, Yaounde, Cameroon
Pool of Possibilities: Mapping Currents for the 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China
Independent Study Program Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2007
AmeriAura, Hampden Gallery, University of Amherst, MA
AmericAura, Augusta Savage Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Nineteen, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Fellowship Exhibition, The Lichtenstein Gallery, Berkshire Art Association, Pittsfield, MA
2006
Senior Exhibition, Wilde Gallery, Spencer Art Studio, Williamstown, MA
2005
Slade School of Fine Art Student Exhibition, Woburn Square Studios, London, UK
Fellowship Exhibition, Berkshire Art Association, Pittsfield, MA
Berkshire Biennial, Contemporary Artist Center, North Adams, MA
2004
Independent Study Exhibition, Wilde Gallery, Spencer Studio, Williamstown, MA
2002
Thapong International Artists Workshop Group Exhibition, National Gallery, Gaborone, Botswana
2001
Alliance Française Gallery, Gaborone, Botswana
2000
National Gallery, Gaborone, Botswana

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2017
The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, Montreal, QC
Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Fine Arts, Vilcek Foundation, New York, NY
2015-2016
Rauschenberg Residency, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Captiva, FL
2012
Painters and Scuptors Grant Program, The Joan Mitchell Foundation
Mohn Award, presented in conjunction with Made in L.A. 2012
Artist in Residence Program, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS
2011
The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
2008
Eli Broad Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Williams College Theater, Williamstown, MA

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019
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2018
“Baltimore Museum of Art Acquires Forty-Eight Works by Amy Sherald, Melvin Edwards, and Others.” Artforum, December 21
Kaltenbach, Chris. “Baltimore Miseum of Art acquires 48 new works, some with funds from sale of major pieces.” The Baltimore Sun, December 19
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Gyorody, Andrea. “Meleko Mokgosi.” Artforum, June
Limbong, Andrew. “Baltimore Museum Says Goodbye Warhol, Hello Younger, More Diverse Collection.” NPR Illinois, May 19
Knight, Christopher. “The art of daily existence: Meleko Mokgosi’s provocative show at the UCLA Fowler Museum.” Los Angeles Times, May 7
Li, Jennifer S. “Meleko Mokgosi” Art in America, May 1
Zimmerer, Kathy. “Meleko Mokgosi: Bread, Butter, and Power at UCLA Fowler.” Art and Cake, April 25
Ahn, Abe. “Paintings that Question the Promises of Postcolonial Democracy.” Hyperallergic, April 12
Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter. “Meleko Mokgosi at the Fowler Museum.” KCRW, April 5
Angelou, Leah Marie. “The 2018 Armory Show showcased and sold extravagant contemporary artworks.” Born 2 Invest, March 20
Vernali, Cameron. “Alumnus’ art uses novel techniques to portray southern African feminism.” Daily Bruin, February 13
Valentine, Victoria L. “Lines of Influence: Centennial Exhibition Explores Jacob Lawrence’s Connections with Artists Past and Present.” Culture Type, January 30
2017
Dunlap, Anne. “Morning adventures at the Cornell, Morse and Polasek museums in Winter Park.” Orlando Sentinel, October 13
Boucher, Brian. “Here Are the 7 Best Artworks on Offer at EXPO Chicago 2017.” Artnet News, September 14
Siegel, Ed. “From Picasso To Rauschenberg, Williamstown Museums Embrace The Modern World.” wbur, August 2
Reep, Richard. “CFAM curates selections from their permanent collection in eloquent juxtaposition.” Orlando Weekly, July 12
“Motswana Painter Wins American Prize.” The Monitor, February 6
“Two African Immigrant artists honored for contributions to American Society.” African Herald Express February 3
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Greenberger, Alex. “Nari Ward Wins $100,000 Vilcek Prize for Immigrant Artists.” Artnews, February 1
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Flanigan, Robin L. “Mokgosi’s art comes to joint MAG and RoCo exhibit.” Democrat & Chronicle, January 26
“Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester Contemporary Art Center Collaborate on Exhibit.” Brighton-Pittsford Post, January 13
2016
Gyorody, Andrea. “Critics’ Picks: The Ease of Fiction.” Artforum, December
Plagens, Peter. “New York Gallery Shows for the Weekend.” The Wall Street Journal, October 7
“In Conversation: Meleko Mokgosi with Allie Biswas.” The Brooklyn Rail, October 4
Lesser, Casey. “16 New York Gallery Shows Where You’ll Find Exciting Young Artists This October.” Artsy Editorial, September 30
Young, Allison. “Critics’ Picks: Meleko Mokgosi.” Artforum, September 16
Embuscado, Rain. “Your Ultimate Guide to New York Gallery Crawls.” Artnet News, September 10
D’Angelo, Madelaine. “Back to School for the Art World: 6 Must-See Exhibitions in Chelsea.” The Huffington Post, September 9
Embuscado, Rain. “A Lot Happened in Jack Shainman’s Basement with Artist Meleko Mokgosi.” Artnet News, September 8
Helmke, Juliet. “Q&A: Meleko Mokgosi on His Dual Presentation at Jack Shainman Gallery.” Blouin Artinfo, September 7
“New York Gallery Guide: The Fall Shows Not to Miss.” Artslant New York, September 7
“9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week.” Artnews, September 6
Embuscado, Rain. “Editor’s Picks: 8 Art Events to See in New York This Week. From Performances to Open Bars, See What’s Coming Up.” Artnet, September 5
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2015
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Farley, Michael Anthony. “Postcolonial Cinema in Oil on Canvas, After Canvas: Meleko Mokgosi at the ICA Boston.” ArtFCity, July 10
Haider, Faheem. “Paintings that Get (Kind of) Close to South Africa’s Colonial Aftermath.” Hyperallergic, April 10
Loos, Ted. “Cedar Grove, Peabody Essex and Other Niche Museums Foray Into Contemporary Art.” New York Times, March 16
2014
Kinsella, Eileen. “Art Basel in Miami Beach Blasts Out of the Gate.” Artnet News, December 3
Scheffler, Daniel. “Brooklyn Inspires African Artists.” The New York Times, October 14
Indrisek, Scott. “The Definitive Top 11 Booths at Art Basel Miami Beach.” Blouin Artinfo, December 3
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2013
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2012
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Clothier, Peter. “Made in LA.” Huffington Post, July 18
Kennedy, Randy. “Hammer Museum Awards Its Crowdsourced Art Prize.” The New York Times, August 16
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Stoilas, Helen. “Work dealing with African resistance wins $100,000 prize.” The Art Newspaper, August 16
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“Hammer Museum Selects Meleko Mokgosi as Recipient of the Mohn Award.” Fabrik, August 17
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2011
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2009
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PUBLICATIONS
2016
Morrill, Rebecca, Kathryn Rattee, and Julia Hasting. Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting. London, New York: Phaidon Press Limited
Farago, Jason. Meleko Mokgosi: Comrades. Cape Town: Hansa Print
2015
Harris, Lyle Ashton, Peter Benson Miller, and Robert Storr. Nero Su Bianco. Rome: American Academy in Rome
Ose, Elvira Dyangani. A Story Within A Story. Stockholm: Art and Theory
2014
Binstock, Jonathan P. and Malik Gaines. Meleko Mokgosi: Pax Kaffraria. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum
Cole, Teju. Kings County. Cape Town: Hansa Print
2013
Van Rensburg, Storm Janse. The Beautyful Ones. Berlin: Nolan Judin
2012
Ellegood, Anne, Lauri Firstenberg, Malik Gaines, Cesar Garcia, and Ali Subotnick. Made in L.A. 2012. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum
Haynes, Lauren, Jessica Lott, Samir S. Patel, and Romare Bearden. The Bearden Project. New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art for Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
The Eckard Collection, The Hague, Netherlands
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

Born 1978, Los Angeles, California
Lives in Los Angeles, CA

EDUCATION
2006
MFA, Sculpture, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2001
BFA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1996-98
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Food Group: Genesis, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Ry Rocklen in Residence: Pixievision, Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, Ojai, CA
2017
Food Group, Team Gallery, New York, NY
2016
Ry Rocklen: L.A. Relics, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
My Metropolitan, Feuer/Mesler, New York, NY
2015
Trophy Modern: Legacy Collection, VAROLA at the Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
Ry Rocklen: Trophy Modern, National Work Table, Clocktower, New York, NY
Condominium pancake, Albert Baronian, Brussels, Belgium (with Derek Boshier)
2014
Local Color, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
UNTITLED, New York, NY
A Living, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
2013
Trophy Modern, Absolut Bureau, Miami Beach, FL
2011
Believe You Me, UNTITLED, New York, NY
2010
ZZZ’s, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin, TX
2009
Art Kabinette, BERNIER/ELIADES, Art Basel Miami, FL
House of Return, Parker Jones, Los Angeles, CA
Good Heavens, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, NY
2008
Good Grief, BERNIER/ELIADES, Athens, Greece
Time After Time, Baronian Francey, Brussels, Belgium
2007
Half Craft, Medium, St. Barthélemy, French West Indies
Just Us, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Land of Super Neutral, B.U.G. Gallery, Bangkok University, Thailand
Soft Ice, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Lost & Found, Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Grounded 4 Life, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
This is a Pipe: Resalism and the Found Object in Contemporary Art, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018
An Homage to Hollis Benton, Over the Influence, Los Angeles, CA
2017
L’Institut d’esthétique Dans le cadre de La Manutention, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Dress Me Up, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Oliver Twist, Chapter 2, Rental Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Ancient Art Objects, Whitespace, Atlanta, GA
Summer Show, Carl Kostyál, Stockholm, Sweden
Concrete Island, Venus Over Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
I Love L.A., Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, CA
The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin, Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Cross Currents, COMA Gallery, Rushcutters Bay, New South Wales
2016
L.A. Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Sculpture from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Wasteland, Los Angeles Nomadic Division, Paris, France
2015
Thirty Shades of White, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Prototypology – An Index of Process and Mutation, Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Italy
2014
please enter, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
Burned By The Sun, Mallorca Landings, Palma De Mallorca, Spain
2013
Murmurs: Recent Contemporary Acquisitions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Jew York, Zach Feuer and UNTITLED, New York, NY
Stand-in, Albert Baronian, Brussels, Belgium
Merci Mercy, Feedback Ltd., Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld, New York, NY
2012
YOUR HISTORY IS OUR HISTORY, curated by Rene-Julien Praz, Praz-Delavallad, Paris, France
For the Martian Chronicles, curated by Yael Lipschutz, L+M Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Coquilles Mecaniques, Crac Alsace, Altkirch, France
Baker’s Dozen, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Made in L.A. 2012, organized by the Hammer Museum in collaboration with LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
Maybe it’s the light that has to change and not much else, curated Janine Armin and Susie Halajian, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
Venice Beach Biennial, Venice Beach, CA
Changing States of Matter, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
Torrance Biennial, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2011
Nothing Beside Remains, Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), Marfa, TX
Home Alone, Sender Collection, Miami, FL
Jersey Bounce, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
Knock, Knock! From the Collection of Paul and Sara Monroe, The Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA
Home Show, Revisited, Santa Barbara, CA
No Swan So Fine, curated by Joanna Fiduccia, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA
2010
Group Show, Rental Gallery, New York, NY
Country Music, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Baker’s Dozen, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Rive Gauche/ Rive Droite, Marc Jancou, Paris, France
2009
Second Nature: The Valentine-Adelson Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Athens Bienniale 2009 HEAVEN, Athens, Greece
Nothing is Permanent, Albert Baronian, Brussels, Belgium
Profession: galeriste, European Centre for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium
2008
That Was Then…This Was Now, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY
The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
In Geneva No One Can Hear You Scream, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland
2007
LA Bodies: Figuration in Sculpture, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Sculptors Drawings: Ideas, Sketches, Proposals, and More, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Warhol &. . ., Kanter/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Oliver Twist, Rental Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Red Eye, The Rubell Collection, Miami, FL
LA Trash & Treasure, Milliken Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Fall, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
From LA, Barronian Francey, Brussels, Belgium
In Between Bandwidths: Bart Exposito & Ry Rocklen, with wording by Michael Ned Holte, Black Dragon Society, NADA Art Fair, Miami, FL
2005
LA Juried Show, LA Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Drive-By & reLAX, Upspace, Los Angeles, CA
Christmas in July, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
2004
BLACK DRAGON SOCIETY, Apex Art, New York, NY
2003
3D 7DEEP, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
Golden, Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, Germany
Cluster Fuck, The Latch, Los Angeles, CA
Something Else, The Latch, Los Angeles, CA
Win, Lose or Draw/Smoking Pencils, Rolling Papers, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
2002
I’m from Orange County and I Drink Johnny Walker Red, curated by Hubert Schmalix, Galerie Julius Hummel, Vienna, Austria
The Daily Circus, The Latch, Los Angeles, CA
Low Overhead, Todd Hughes Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
A Well Rounded Appetite, The Latch, Los Angeles, CA
2001
Face-Off, curated by Hannah Greely, The Smell, Los Angeles, CA
Big Trouble in Little China, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
The Backyard Show, The Hatch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Battle for the Greatest Drawing in the World Title, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
Something of That Nature, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
2000
Chocolate Thunder, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA

RESIDENCIES
2012
Montalvo Art Center Irvine Fellow, Saratoga, CA
2007
Medium, St. Barthélemy, French West Indies
2006
Bangkok University School of Fine & Applied Arts, Thailand

CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2003
Trance Plants, The Latch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001
Spoils, Sarah Coleman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

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2019
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2013
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2012
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Honingman, Ana Finel. “Interview with Ry Rocklen.” Artslant
2011
Goldstein, Andrew and Douglas, Sarah. “Bargains Were the New Bling at the Armory…” Artinfo, March
Donelan, Charles. “CAF’s Home Show, Revisited: Ten Los Angeles Artists Take On Santa Barbara’s Homes.” Santa Barbara Independent, June 2
“Scary Clowns and Wet Feet at Ry Rocklen’s Opening at Untitled.” The New York Observer, September 8
Birnbaum, Brent. “Featured Artist: Ry Rocklen.” Artcards Review, October 11
“Scary Clowns and Wet Feet at Ry Rocklen’s Opening at Untitled.” New York Observer, September
“This weekend: LAND takes over Marfa.” Ballroom Marfa, December
2010
Anania, Katie. “Ry Rocklen, Visual Arts center, The University of Texas.” Art Lies, Issue 66
Geha, Katie. “500 Words: Ry Rocklen.” Artforum, November 26
2009
Carlin, T.J. “Reviews: Ry Rocklen – Good Heavens.” Art Review, May
Sholis, Brian. “Reviews: Ry Rocklen at Marc Jancou.” Artforum, Summer
Wharton, Annie. “Ry Rocklen.” Flash Art, November-December
Shaw, Michael. “Ry Rocklen at Parker Jones Gallery.” Artscene
2008
Goldberg, RosaLee. “Performance Anxiety: Political currents at the Whitney Biennial.” Modern Painters, May
Anuradha, Vikram. “Los Angeles Artists Sweep the Whitney Biennial.” Artillery, May
Dorment, Richard. “Whitney Biennial: sunk by its big ideas” Telegraph, April
Cotter, Holland. “Art’s Economic Indicator.” The New York Times, March 7
Lehrer-Graiwer, Sarah. “Ry Rocklen – Studio Visit.” FlashArt Online, March 11
Huldisch, Henriette. “Lessness: Samuel Beckett in Echo Park, or an Art of Smaller, Slower, and Less.”
2007
Hargreaves, Kathryn. “Ry Rocklen and Nick Lowe.” Artillery, Summer
“Ry Rocklen at Medium Gallery.” St Barth Weekly, num. 116
Sherwin, Skye. “Future Greats: Twenty-Five Artists to Look Out For in 2007.” Artreview, March
2006
Spiegler, Marc. “American Renaissance.” The Art Newspaper, July 27
Pines, Ethan. “Art Tsunami.” The Men’s Book, Spring
Hargreaves, Kathryn. “Real Live Art: Possessed & Transcendeant.” The Arts District Citizen, February
2005
Holte, Michael Ned. Exhibition poster with text: In Between Bandwidths, Black Dragon Society at The NADA Art Fair
Studer, Margaret. “Shopping Spree: Buying is Strong in Basel.” The Wall Street Journal Europe, June 24 – 26