Biography

CV

BORN

1971, Deep River, Connecticut, United States

 

SELECTED SOLO + TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS + INSTALLATIONS

2024

heart beats dust, Gaa Gallery, New York, NY, USA

 

2023

Interior Exotics, VAN HORN, Düsseldorf, Germany

Interior Exotics (The Talk), Le Bureau, Düsseldorf, Germany

 

2022

Sunset Drift, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA

Low Relief, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Soft Focus, galerie lange + pult, Zürich, Switzerland

 

2021

Low Pressure, Museum Goch, Germany

Mark and Phil, Denny Dimin, New York, NY, USA

Airlok or Gazing into the Void, with Julia Wachtel, Von Ammon Co, Washington DC, USA

 

2020

Suk it Kevin, New Release, New York, NY, USA

Peace/L♡ve, COUNTY, Palm Beach, FL, USA

Sea Foam (Convertible), solo booth, Shulamit Nazarian, The Armory Show, New York, NY

 

2019

Racetrack Playa, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA, USA

 

2018

Natural Light, Andrew Rafacz, Chicago, IL, USA

Rainbow Bridge, Kaikai Kiki, curated by Takashi Murakami, Tokyo, Japan

American Idyll, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, USA

Oil Slicks, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL, USA

Loves, Gallery 1600, SCAD Atlanta, GA , USA

 

2017

Kelly Girl, VAN HORN, Düsseldorf, Germany

Brian Calvin | Wendy White, Cabinet, Milan, Italy

Gypsy Wagon, with Justin Adian, CAPITAL, San Francisco, CA, USA

 

2016

Santa Cruz, Eric Firestone,, New York, NY, USA

 

2015

Skiing, Galerie Jérome Pauchant, Paris, France

Double Vanity, Sherrick & Paul, Nashville, TN, USA

12th Man, David Castillo, Miami, FL, USA

What a Letdown, solo booth, Rawson Projects, NADA Miami Beach, Miami, FL, USA

 

2014

El Campo, VAN HORN, Düsseldorf

 

2013

CURVA, M Building, Miami, FL, USA

Pick Up a Knock, Andrew Rafacz, Chicago, IL, USA

Wendy White, Maruani Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium

Solo booth, Kustera Projects, UNTITLED Miami Beach, Miami, FL, USA

 

2012

Pix Vää, Leo Koenig, Inc., New York, NY, USA

En Asfalto, Galeria Moriarty, Madrid, Spain

Radio Lampor, VAN HORN, Düsseldorf, Germany

So Athletic, with Henning Strassburger), Kunstverein Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, curated by Suzanne Prinz

Performing Painting, with José Parlá, curated by Melissa Messina and Isolde Brielmaier Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA, USA

Solo booth, Galeria Moriarty, ARCO Madrid, Madrid, Spain

 

2011

6 Years/6 Works, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

 

2010

French Cuts, Andrew Rafacz, Chicago, IL, USA

Up w/Briquette, Leo Koenig, Inc., New York, NY, USA

 

2009

Feel Rabid or Not, Galeria Moriarty, Madrid, Spain

 

2008

Autokennel, Leo Koenig, Inc., New York, NY, USA

 

2006

Chunk Lite, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA, USA

 

2006

Wendy White, Sixtyseven, New York, NY, USA

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

Hollywood Dream Bubble: Ed Ruscha’s Influence in Los Angeles and Beyond, The Hole, Los Angeles, CA, USA

 

2023

Dallas Art Fair, Gaa Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA

Resistance Training: Arts, Sports, and Civil Rights, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI, USA

 

2022

It Takes a Village, Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI, USA

SOWIESO (Anyhow), Omstand, Arnhem, Netherlands

10 Years, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA, USA

 

2021

Fade to Fade, Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI, USA

EXPEDITION, curated by John Newsom, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT, USA

Coloring, UK Art Museum, Lexington, KY, USA

Una Farfalla Nello Spazio, Arte 92, Madrid, Spain

Fight Like a Girl, VAN HORN, Düsseldorf, Germany

100 Sculptures, Anonymous Gallery, New York, NY, USA

 

2021

Recent Acquisitions, Abroms-Engel Institute for Visual Arts, Birmingham, AL, USA

For Calder (in Motion), Launch F18, New York, NY, USA

Home and Away: Selections from Common Practice, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY, USA

 

2020

Hold on Tight, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA, USA

 

2019

ACE: Art on Sports, Promise, and Selfhood, University at Albany Art Museum, Albany, NY, USA

Wide World of Sports, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY, USA

Downtown Painting, curated by Alex Katz, Peter Freeman Inc., New York, NY, USA

Globe as a Palette: Contemporary Art from the Taguchi Art Collection, Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art, Obihiro; Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido; Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido; Sapporo Art Museum, Japan

The Celebration of Painting, curated by Christina Kang, Sophis Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Notebook, curated by Joanne Greenbaum, 56 Henry, New York, NY, USA

Highs & Lows, curated by Justin Adian, Mast Books, New York, NY, USA

 

2018

The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art, curated by Franklin Sirmans and Jennifer Ignacio, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA

BURNT, curated by Leo Fitzpatrick, Marlborough Contemporary, New York, NY, USA

The Strangeness Will Wear Off, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL, USA

100 Sculptures, curated by Joseph Ian Henrikson and Todd von Ammon, Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico

Grafik, curated by Ryan McGinness, Harper’s Books, East Hampton, NY, USA

Xeriscape, Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI, USA

Focus III: I’ll see it when I believe it; works in the private collection of Jack and Rebecca Drake, Abroms Engel 

Institute for the Visual Arts, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA

 

2017

The Art Show: Art of the New Millenium in Taguchi Art Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan

No burden as heavy, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL, USA

Broken Language, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Man Alive, Maruani Mercier Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

 

 

2016

Mount Analogue, curated by Neville Wakefield, Performance Ski, Aspen, CO, USA

Temporary Highs, curated by Lindsay Howard, bitforms, New York, NY, USA

 

2015

Full of Peril and Weirdness: Painting as a Universalism, M Woods, Beijing, China

Painting is Not Doomed to Repeat Itself, curated by John Yau, Hollis Taggart, New York, NY, USA 

All Killer No Filler, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY, USA

Outta Town Sh*t, curated by Nina Chanel Abney, Kravets & Wehby, New York, NY, USA

Taguchi Hiroshi Art Collection: A Walk around the Contemporary Art World after Paradigm Shift, The Museum of Fine Arts Gifu, Japan

Power Objects: The Rogers & Weisenbacher Collection, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI, USA

Any Given Sunday, Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA

 

2014

Fútbol: The Beautiful Game, curated by Franklin Sirmans, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Amerika, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL, USA

Thinking Through Painting, Royal Swedish Academy, Stockholm, Sweden

Go With the Flow, The Hole, New York, NY, USA

Frameshift, Denny Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Metabolic Bodies, David Castillo, Miami, FL, USA

 

2013

The Digital Divide, curated by Henning Strassburger, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany

Seventh-Inning Stretch, curated by Carlo McCormick, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, New York, NY, USA

All Fucking Summer, Gavlak, Palm Beach, FL, USA

XSTRACTION, The Hole, New York, NY, USA

After Hours 2: Murals on the Bowery, Art Production Fund, New York, NY, USA

 

2012

Hue & Cry, curated by Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld, Space S2, Sotheby’s, New York, NY, USA

Idealizing the Imaginary: Invention and Illusion in Contemporary Painting, curated by Dick Goody, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI, USA

 

2011

A Painting Show, Harris Lieberman, New York, NY, USA

Informal Relations, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN, USA

 

2010

Third Thoughts, CCA Andratx, Mallorca; curated by Barry Schwabsky and Carol Szymanski

Graphic Abstraction, SCAD Hong Kong

I’ll Let You Be in my Dreams if I Can Be in Yours, Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY, USA

Shape Language, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY, USA

Borderland Abstraction, curated by Hesse McGraw, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE, USA

Vivid: Female Currents in Painting, curated by Janet Phelps, Schroeder Romero, New York, NY, USA

 

2009

Maximal Minimal, curated by Nini Bonavoglia, Primopiano, Lugano, Italy

Rattled by the Rush, Andrew Rafacz, Chicago, IL, USA

Mergers & Acquisitions, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, USA

 

2008

Pure Optic Ray, Fred, Leipzig, Germany

Insideout, Galeria Moriarty, Madrid, Spain

 

2007

Late Liberties, curated by Augusto Arbizo, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY, USA

 

2006

Norf*kneasters Take Pluto, curated by Nicole Eisenman, Pluto, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA

Twist it Twice, curated by Franklin Evans, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Twenty Eight Days, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA

 

2004

Too Few the Opportunities, curated by Josh Smith, So Many the Mistakes, Champion Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY, USA

 

PROJECTS + COMMISSIONS

2022

Commission, Raincloud(Neon Signs on Overcast Days), SCAD Lacoste, France

 

2021

Commission, Rainbow Drift, hand-painted mural, Kranzberg Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO, USA

 

2019

Free Beer Tomorrow, UNTITLED VIP Lounge, Miami Beach, FL, USA

Body Shop, CLEA RSKY, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Commission, Rocket Mortgage Field House, Cleveland; Detroit Pistons Practice Facility, Detroit, MI, USA

Rainbow Bridge (Bifrost), site-specific painting, The Belt, Detroit, MI USA

 

2017

Commission, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, GA, USA

JEANS, Rawson Projects, New York, NY, USA

 

2016

OVERRIDE | A Billboard Project, presented by EXPO Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

No Pressure, site-specific installation, Drake One Fifty, Toronto, Canada

 

2015

Redidas®, Rawson Projects, New York, NY, USA

 

2014

We, Incubate Festival Arts Program, Tilburg, Netherlands

Madrid Me Mata, Arts & Leisure, New York, NY

 

2013

After Hours 2: Murals on the Bowery, Art Production Fund, New York, NY, USA

 

AWARDS, GRANTS, + FELLOWSHIPS

2019

Tieger Mentor in the Arts, Cornell University

 

2012

Painting Fellowship, NYFA

 

2008

Grant, Artists’ Fellowship, Inc. 

 

2005

Grant, George & Helen Segal Foundation

 

2004

The Space Program, Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, NYC

 

2001

Leon Golub Scholarship, Rutgers University

 

EDUCATION

Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA - MFA, 2003

Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA, USA - BFA, 1993

 

PUBLIC Collections

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, USA

Museum Goch, Germany

Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA

Savannah College of Art & Design

Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, AL, USA

Jiménez-Colón Collection, Puerto Rico

Takashi Murakami, Tokyo, Japan

Art Museum at the University of Kentucky, KY, USA

Taguchi Art Collection, Japan

UBS Art Collection, Zurich

ARCO Foundation, Madrid

Tulip Collection, UK

Progressive Art Collection

Saks Fifth Avenue

Red Bull North America

Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI, USA

Shinola Hotel, Detroit, MI, USA