KELLY AKASHI WORKS CV/INFO




Represented by François Ghebaly Gallery - Los Angeles and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery - New York



Coming up / On view:
Cultivator (postponed)
Crown Commons commission at Aspen Art Museum, CO
Mar 20 - Oct 4 2020

Ground/work
Clark Art Institute
August 2020 - August 2021

Viral Lens curated by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer
Gallery Platform LA
May 15 - 21, 2020

Mood Organ ebook
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Feb 27 - Apr 18, 2020



Recent Press:
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"Reach Inside"
Kelly Akashi and David Muenzer
, April 15, 2020
The Brooklyn Rail
"Kelly Akashi: Mood Organ"
written by Ann C. Collins
, April 2020
Flaunt
"Kelly Akashi: The Corporal Temporal"
written by Shana Nys Dambrot
, Mar 24, 2020
Frieze
"The Best Shows in New York During Armory Week"
written by Evan Moffitt
, Mar 4, 2020
Artsy
"9 Must-See Shows in New York This March "
written by Casey Lesser
, Mar 3, 2020
Artsy
"L.A. Artist Kelly Akashi Uses Glass to Create Primordial, Emotive Sculpture"
written by Alexxa Gotthardt
, Dec 31, 2019
Artnet
"Which Emerging Artist Dominated 2019?"
contribution by Molly Epstein
, Dec 21, 2019
Art in America
"Reviews: Kelly Akashi at Francois Ghebaly"
written by Leah Ollman
, Apr 1, 2019
ARTnews
"Kelly Akashi Wins Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Art Prize"
written by Claire Selvin
, Jan 15, 2019
The Artsy Vanguard
"Breakout Talents"
written by Artsy Editors
, Apr 30, 2018
Garage Magazine - Vice
"Hedi Slimane Photographs a New Class of Los Angeles Artists"
written by Kevin McGarry
, Feb 7, 2018
The New York Times
"What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week"
written by Will Heinrich and Martha Schwendener
, Dec 12, 2017
AQNB
"Gravity, fire, light, sound + liquid: Kelly Akashi on the material concerns of integrating art-making into daily life"
interview with Laura Brown
, Dec 11, 2017
The Village Voice
"Under the Spell of Sculptor Kelly Akashi’s Eerie, Tactile Elegance"
written by Jennifer Krasinski
, Nov 24, 2017
Cultured Magazine
"Growing Underground"
written by Travis Diehl
, Sept 2017, in print and online
The Guardian
"Dreamers Awake review – a sublime anatomy of female surrealism"
written by Olivia Laing
, June 28 2017, online
Artforum: Openings
"Kelly Akashi" written by Suzanne Hudson
, March 2017, in print
Frieze: Review
"Kelly Akashi: François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles" written by Evan Moffitt
, January 10, 2017, in print and online
art ltd.: Artist Profile
"Kelly Akashi" written by George Melrod
, January/February 2017, in print and online
Los Angeles Times: Review
"In L.A. galleries now" written by Sharon Mizota
, December 14, 2016, in print and online
Artforum: Critics' Picks
"Kelly Akashi" written by Honora Shea
, December 2, 2016, online
Cultured Magazine: 30 Under 35
"Kelly Akashi" written by Maxwell Williams, Dec 2016, in print and online
Kaleidoscope Magazine: Highlights
"Kelly Akashi" written by Franklin Melendez, October 2016, in print

The New York Times
"Four Up-and-Coming Angeleno Artists to Know Now" written by Kevin McGarry,
June 15, 2016, online
Art Review Magazine
"Kelly Akashi" selected and written by Andrew Berardini,
January/February 2016, in print and online
Mousse Magazine
"Unbound" interview with Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer
, October/November 2015, Issue 50, in print and online



Selected exhibitions:
2020
Mood Organ *solo* at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, NY
Beyond Embodiment curated by Laura Darlington + Selwa Sweidan, Brand Library & Art Center
Blue Flowers curated by Liam Considine and Becca Mann, Le Maximum, Los Angeles
An Undeniable Love curated by Elias Hansen at Pilchuck Glass Gallery, Seattle
2019
a thing among things residency and *solo* exhibition at ARCH, Athens, Greece
Project Space residenct and *solo* exhibition at Headlands Center for the Arts
Brave New Worlds: Explorations of Space Palm Springs Art Museum
Living in a Lightbulb Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, NY
Centennial: 100 Years of Otis Alumni Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design
Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Figure Shifter *solo* at François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles
Eclipse in collaboration with Cayetano Ferrer Private Places, Portland
Alchemistry IK Lab, Tulum
Away Message at Sweetpass Sculpture Park, Dallas, TX
2018
Sculpture Center Edition - Hand/Stand
The Tissue of Memory at Simon Lee Gallery, NY, organized by James Michael Shaeffer
Seeing Believing Having Holding at i8 Gallery, Reykjavík organized by Dan Byers
...of..., at...h, at..., in... at Sifang Museum, Nanjing
Total Meltdown at Mother Culture, Los Angeles
Liquid Dreams at François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles
Pine Barrens at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, NYC
Gut Friends at Porch Gallery, Ojai, CA, curated by Ry Rocklen and Frederick Janka
The Lulennial II: A Low-Hanging Fruit at Lulu, D.F./Mexico City, Mexico, curated by Andrew Berardini and Chris Sharp
Art Basel Hong Kong *solo* with François Ghebaly Gallery in Hong Kong
2017
Long Exposure *solo* at Sculpture Center, NY
Stray at Times Square Space, NY
Skip Tracer at M. LeBlanc, Chicago
Lyric on a Battlefield at Gladstone Gallery, NY
Dreamers Awake at White Cube, London
99 Cents or Less at MOCA Detroit
Au revoir, jewelled alligators and white hotels, hallucinatory forests, farewell. at Galerie Crevecoeur, Paris
Vertical Gardens at Antenna Space | 天线空间 in Shanghai, curated by Franklin Melendez
Concrete Island at Venus Over Los Angeles
Ours is a City of Writers at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park in Los Angeles
Poison Apple at East Hampton Shed in New York
2016
Being as a Thing *solo* at François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles
Take Me (I'm Yours) at The Jewish Museum in New York - Click here to listen to Cavelike.
LA: A Fiction at Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo, Norway
Heavy Metal at Carl Louie in London, Ontario
Streams of Warm Impermanence at David Roberts Art Foundation in London
Made in LA 2016: a, the, though, only at the Hammer Museum, curated by Aram Moshayedi and Hamza Walker
A Sieve Itself May Sieve at Shanaynay in Paris, curated by Curated by Jenni Crain (Topless) and Lydia Glenn-Murray (Chin's Push)
Design & Crime at Galerie Hussenot in Paris, organized by Franklin Melendez
Roman à Clef And/Or The Appetite Of The Chef at Rainbow in Spanish, Los Angeles
Eva at Interstate Projects, Brooklyn
Fear of a Blank Pancake at White Flag Projects, Saint Louis
ClayNation at Paramount Ranch III, Los Angeles
2015
& *solo* at Tomorrow Gallery, New York
Blind Mime in Reverie curated by Keith J Varadi at Know More Games, Brooklyn
Can't Reach Me There curated by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer at Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis
HxVxT *solo* at Between Arrival & Departure in Düsseldorf
SSOftllY *solo* at Michael Jon Gallery in Miami
Kelly Akashi & Sean Raspet at Château Shatto in Los Angeles
SOGTFO at Ghebaly Gallery in Los Angeles
Paramount Ranch with Artist Curated Projects
Face It at Full Haus in Los Angeles
Speed Space curated by Alexandra Gaty at Tif Sigfrids in Los Angeles
2014
Seau Banco Carbon curated by Bobby Jesus and BSLA at Tomorrow Gallery, NY
Slippery at Martos Gallery in NY
Summer & sUMMER at Michael Jon Gallery in Detroit
The Remains of the Day at Michael Thibault in Los Angeles
Light Night curated by Kristina Kite at Wallspace in NY
Mirror Image *MFA thesis show* in Los Angeles
2013 - 2010
Thought Bungalow at Artist Curated Projects in Los Angeles
Hit Me Lightning *solo* at Chin's Push in Highland Park
Kottabos curated by Marina Pinsky in Los Angeles
w’o mhnwa e mx mjgg nxc dxojm twae wok xhmam tjhj solo show at Beige Cube in Frankfurt am Main