Biography
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
EDUCATION
2004 MFA University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
2001 BFA Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
2008
Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
2000
Filter Gallery, Kansas City, MO
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
H&R Block Space, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Contemporary Art from the Collection of Sarah and Jim Taylor, Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, Denver, CO
2009
Beg Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL (catalog)
Heads Up, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA
Second Nature: The Valentine-Adelson Collection at The Hammer, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles: Aspects of the Archaic Revival, Galerie Uschi Kolb, Karlsruhe, Germany
1999:10 Year Anniversary Show, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA
All That Was, Is, The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA
LA Woman, Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC.
2008
L.A. Now, curated by David Pagel, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV (catalog)
Take Me There (Show Me The Way), Haunch of Venison, New York, NY (catalog)
Weighing and Wanting: 25 Years of Collecting, Museum of Contemporary Art San
Diego, San Diego, CA
Idle Youth, curated by Russell Ferguson, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY (catalog)
Kabul 3000: Love Among The Cabbages, Galleria Zero, Milan, Italy
Past Forward, curated by Vincent Honoré, 176, London, UK (catalog)
Apocalypse Yesterday, curated by David Pagel, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
2007
Fearful Objects, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
Sculptors' Drawings, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Hammer Contemporary Collection, Part II, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Distinctive Messengers, House of Campari, Los Angeles, CA
Kairos, Kantor / Feuer Galllery, Los Angeles, CA
Aspects, Forms and Figures, Bellwether, New York, NY
2006
Red Eye: Los Angeles Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL (catalog)
Bold Moves, curated by Simon Watson, House of Campari, Los Angeles, CA
The Beginning of The End of The Beginning, Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005
Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
Rogue Wave ‘05, LA Louver, Venice, CA (catalog)
WivesHusbands, domestic setting, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Cornceptual Popstraction, cherrydelosreyes, Los Angeles, CA (artist book)
summer group show, cherrydelosreyes, Los Angeles, CA
Supersonic, Windtunnel/Artcenter, Pasadena, CA (catalog)
2003
I Am Human And I Deserve To Be Loved, Overtones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001
The Cube, Kansas City, MO
Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO
H&R Blockspace, Kansas City, MO
2000
Holding, KCAI Gallery, two person show, Kansas City, MO
Gordon Gallery, Yountville, CA
Richard Carter Projects, Napa, CA
SPECIAL PROJECTS
2009
CAArt: Public Works: Drooling Muse installed at Creative Artists Agency, 2000 Avenue of the Stars, Los Angeles, CA
Process Art (Dead Men Don't Make Sculpture) installed at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Process Art (Dead Men Don't Make Sculpture) installed in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
2006
Nathan Mabry: Old Fashioned Fourth of July Celebration and Parade, Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen, CO
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