| KELLY AKASHI | WORKS | CV/INFO |
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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: x-tra "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 |