Krysten Cunningham bio
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Krysten Cunningham
Gold Trapezoid, 2014
coloured pencil on museum board
51 x 51 cm

Bio

Born 1973 
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Lives and works in Los Angeles

EDUCATION
       
2003       
MFA University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2000       
BFA University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010
Krysten Cunningham, Ritter/Zamet, London (upcoming)
2009  
Tangental, Dispatch, New York
Krysten Cunningham/Raffi Kalenderian, Parks Exhibition Center, Idylwilld Arts Academy, Idylwild
2008 
Time Machines, Thomas Solomon Gallery@Cottage Home, Los Angeles,
Krysten Cunningham, Sies + Hoeke, Dusseldorf, Germany
2006       
Krysten Cunningham: The Field, Ritter/Zamet, London
2005        
Untitled Play, about Gravity, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (Offsite) Los Angeles

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010
Undone: Making and Un-making in Contemporary Sculpture, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

2009  
Practicing Moving with Fritz Haeg at the Sundown Schoolhouse, Eagle Rock Arts Center, Los Angeles
Bitch is the New Black, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
Comfortably Numb, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles
Yield, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis
1999, China Art Objects@Cottage Home, Los Angeles
This is the Future Before it Happened, Glendale College Art Gallery, Los Angeles
Feelings and Power, 533 Gallery, Los Angeles

2008  
Yo, Mo' Modernism, Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Brussels, Belgium
HEAVY CORNER, Creative Arts Agency, curated by Kristin Calabrese, Los Angeles
New Weave, SITE LA, curated by Cammie Staros, Los Angeles
Sculpture Trail, Grieder Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland
Beyond Measure, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge

2007       
ROCK PAPER SCISSORS, Handling Contemporary Sculpture, Andre Buchmann Gallerie, Berlin, Germany
Minimalism and Applied I, DaimlerChrysler Collection, Berlin, Germany
Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
Redistribution of the Sensible, Magnus Müller, Berlin, Germany
Big Secret Cache, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
KAIROS! Kantor/Feuer, Los Angeles, CA

2006       
Material Space: John Chamberlain, Krysten Cunningham, Fred Sandback, Alan Secret
(curated by Tom Solomon), Rental Gallery, Los Angeles,
UBS Collection, London

2005       
THING: New Sculpture from Los Angeles, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
   
2004       
Magic Show Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles
Rock, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles
Exhibition for New Space, Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles
Upstream: Idea Drawings, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles
2003       
UCLA MFA Thesis Exhibition #5, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles
What Do You See at Night, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica
The Sundown Salon, curated by Pipilotti Rist, Fritz Haeg, Asdis Gunnarsdottir and Skylar Haskard, Los Angeles

2001       
Emerging New Mexico Artists, Van De Griff Marr Gallery, Santa Fe
Stasis: Conditions of Being Still , Plan B Evolving Arts, Santa Fe

1999       
New Mexico Women Artists Lewallen Contemporary, curated by Lucy Lippard, Ma Lin
Wilson & Susan Fisher Sterling, Santa Fe

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009    
The New Yorker, Short list, Galleries downtown, Krysten Cunningham at Dispatch, December 7, 2009
Rosenberg, Karen. Krysten Cunningham 'Tangental' at Dispatch, New York Times, Novemebr 27, 2009
Miles, Christopher. 'Bitch is the new Black' at Honor Fraser, LA Weekly, August 27, 2009
Meyers, Holly. "Attitude and talent to spare" Los Angeles Times, August 21, 2009
Taubman, Lara. Endless Summer, Artnet.com, August 7, 2009 (illustrated) 
Miles, Christopher. Krysten Cunningham at Tom Solomon Gallery, Art Forum, March 2009
2008   
Miles, Christopher. Best in Show 2008, LA Weekly, December 18, 2008
Pagel, David.  Sculptures with a grunge formalism, Los Angeles Times, November 21, 2008
2007   
Tanz, Jason. Fine Art Flourishes in Tinseltown, Fortune Small Businsess, March, 2007
2006   
Daimler Chrysler Collection 'Minimalism and After' Hatje Cantz, (cat.)
Knight, Christopher. There's power in the abstract, Los Angeles Times, December 1, 2006
2005   
Miles, Christopher. The Idolaters' Revenge Flash Art, May/June 2005 pp.105 (review)
Firstenberg, Lauri, Thing, Frieze, Summer 2005, Issue 92, pp. 163 (review)
Chang, Aimee, THING: New Sculpture from Los Angeles, UCLA Hammer Museum (cat.)
Harvey, Doug, Good Thing, Emerging LA Sculptors at the Hammer, The LA Weekley, February 3 (review)
Knight, Christopher The Next Big 'Thing' in LA, Los Angeles Times, February 9 (review)
2003   
Cunningham, Krysten. LA Letter A Companion Guide to Rooftop Films (essay)
Speyer, Ariana, Fritz Haeg, Index Magazine September (interview)
2001   
Berkovitch, Ellen, New Sign, New Time The New Mexican May  (review) 
Radcliffe, Laura, Behind the Glass Curtain The Window Project (photo essay)
2000   
Mead, Christopher, Stasis in Space. Plan B Evolving Arts (catalog)
Carver, John, Stasis is the Basis, The Santa Fe Reporter August, 24 (review)
1999   
Wilson, Ma Lin, Women Artists in the Land of Enchantment, New Mexico Council for Women in the Arts
(cat.)
                           
AWARDS

2003           
Hoyt Scholarship, UCLA
2002       
California Art Council Award, UCLA            
D’Arcy Hayman Award, UCLA
2001          
McCune Charitable Foundation of New Mexico Grant, NM
1999       
New Mexico Council for Women in the Arts Award, NM       
Clyde & Elizabeth T. Hill Foundation Scholarship, UNM
1997       
Change Inc. Individual artist grant, NYC   
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