b. 1983, Flagstaff, AZ
lives and works in Los Angeles and Berlin
Education
2011 MFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2007 BFA, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2005 École National Supérior des Beaux-Arts, Paris, FR
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
irrealis, Veda, Florence, Italy
Max Payday, Moran Moran, Mexico City, MX
2022
Dying Play, Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Failure of the Imagination Cafe Players, Jeffery Stark, New York, NY
2021
Golden Shower, Jan Kaps, Cologne, Germany
window where we, Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw, Poland
2020
BEAT ME BITE ME WHIP ME FUCK ME, S_y_d_n_e_y_S_y_d_n_e_y_, Australia
Teller, Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Scripts from the Pageant, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
The Square at Noon bis, Jan Kaps, Cologne, Germany
The Square at Noon, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin, TX
2018
No Country for Old Men, Antenna Space, Shanghai, CN
2017
All Always Already, Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Parent and Parroting, The Swiss Institute, New York, NY
2015
The Third Badger, 1857, Oslo, NO
Art Statements, Basel, CH
Not S.A.D., Wallspace, New York, NY
2014
Old Zoo Food, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Hats and Balls, Soloway Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2012
PET, Reynolds!s Gallery, Richmond, VA
2010
A DESIRE TO LEARN ESPERANTO: HAVING A THING to do with Esperanto, Ballantine Beer, both or neither, curated by Olivian Cha, Works-Sited at Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Group and Two Person Exhibitions
2024
A Reflection on the Sublime, conceived by Kazuna Taguchi with choreography by Shoshiro Matsubara, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan.
2023
Northern Renaissance Fair, organized by Liz Craft and Penti Monokkhinan at Berlin Art Week.
Venus und Sonne im 10. Haus, Mehdi Chouakri Galerie, Berlin, Germany.
In First Person Plural, MACRO Museum, Rome, Italy
Man in House, Institut Funder Bakke, Silkeborg, Denmark
Tsinamdzgvrishvili 49 / Mazniashvili 10, LC Queisser, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Something or Other organized by Isabel Yellin, Maria Bernheim, Zurich,Switzerland.
2022
Destiny Cornucopia (with Monique Mouton), Veda, Florence, Italy
Flotsam, Jeston, Lagan and Derelict, Art Lot, New York, NY
In Heat, Wind, Wounds, Holes, LC Queisser, Tbilisi, Georgia
2021
Autohaus St. Marx curated by Benjamin Hirte, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna, Austria
sub/dominium curated by SoiL Thornton, Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles, CA
Emblazoned World curated by Lucy Bull, Bel Ami, Los Angeles, CA
Rites of Passage: 4th Oxygen Biennial curated by Ser Serpas and Ketevan (Keti) Shavgulidze, Tbilisi, Georgia
Antwerp (with Benjamin Hirte), MAK Center of Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
Lichtenfels Sculpture curated by Olivia Thurn-Valsassina, Vienna, Austria
2020
Mere Skyn Curated by Cory John Scozzari, CAPC, Bordeaux, France
2019
Current: LA Public Art Triennial, Los Angeles, CA
La Piscine, Zero Gallery, Milan Italy
2018
Pond and Waterfall, organized by Julia Trotta and Rochelle Feinstein, The Gallery at Michael’s, Santa Monica, CA
Grand Opening (Summer Rhapsody), KURA. at Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Milan, IT Fences & Windows, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK
Made in L.A. 2018, curated by Anne Ellegood and Erin Christovale, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
Orality: Or, a General Assembly on Delay, Jan Kaps, Cologne, DE
The Lulennial II: A Low-Hanging Fruit, curated by Andrew Berardini and Chris Sharp, Lulu, Mexico City, MX (catalog)
2017
Camille Henrot: Days are Dogs, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
Sequences, curated by Margot Norton, Reykjavík, IS
The Forecast, curated by Laura McLean-Ferris, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, AT
Cells, Marianne Boesky, New York, NY (catalog)
Los Angeles – A Fiction, MAC Lyon, FR (catalog)
2016
Los Angeles – A Fiction, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, NO (catalog)
When Did Intimacy Begin Width, curated by Torey Thornton, Jeffery Stark, New York, NY
The Poet, The Critic, and the Missing, curated by Lauren Mackler, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
It Can Howl, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
2015
Assisted, curated by Jessica Stockholder, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, IL (catalog)
Our Lacustrine Cities, curated by Laura McLean-Ferris, Chapter NY, New York, NY
I Am Attracted Nonetheless..., Casey Kaplan, New York, NY
A New Rhythm: Charles Atlas, Benjamin Carlson, Nancy Lupo, Silke Otto-Knapp, Park View, Los Angeles, CA
Apple of Earth, High Art, Paris, FR
2014
Musique Concrète, Michael Thibault, Los Angeles, CA
Rockaway!, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
Light Night, curated by Kristina Kite, Wallspace, New York, NY
Mineral Spirit, Laurel Gitlen, New York, NY
LITTLE MESSAGES FOR MODERN SHUT-INS, curated by Olivian Cha and Eli Diner, Aran Cravey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Taster’s Choice, curated by Christopher Lew, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY
The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of, C-L-E-A-R-I-N-G, New York, NY
2013
As We Had All Been Flesh Together, Now We Were Mist, curated by KChung, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Nancy Lupo, Asha Schechter, Brendan Fowler and Trevor Schmizu, Michael Thibault Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
CULM, curated by Sayre Gomez and J. Patrick Walsh, III, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Homes & Gardens, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles, CA
Works Sited Reprise, Cleopatras, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Bibliography
2022
Andreani, Lisa, ““Destiny Cornucopia”: Nancy Lupo and Monique Mouton at Veda, Florence”: Mousse Magazine”: November 2, 2022.
Hadland, Gracie, “Nancy Lupo is Spiraling”: Frieze, July 20, 2022.
2021
Caldana, Leonardo, “Rites of Passage”: The 4th Oxygen Biennial, Tbilisi”, Flash Art, 8 October 2021, 9:00 am CET.
Earhart, Nick, “Antwerp at Garage Top at the Mackey Apartments”,September 28, 2021
2018
Wells, Emily, “Nancy Lupo Upends the Everyday at Made in L.A. and Beyond,” Cultured, 2018.
Griffin, Jonathan, “Made in L.A. 2018,” Art Agenda, July 2018.
Cepeda, Gaby, “Stranger Things: A Ghostly Fog of Mysticism Hangs Over Exhibitions Around Mexico City,” ARTnews, June 2018.
2017
Hudson, Suzanne, “Nancy Lupo,” Artforum, May 2017.
“Nancy Lupo at Kristina Kite & Yuji Agematsu at Miguel Abreu,” Contemporary Art Writing Daily, April 1, 2017.
Puppies Puppies and Nancy Lupo, “Do You Love Me?” Flash Art, Issue 313, March -April 2017.
2016
Claflin, Whitney, "Nancy Lupo: Parent and Parroting,” Topical Cream, April 6, 2016 Lehrer-Graiwer, Sarah, "Nancy Lupo,” Cura, No. 22, Summer 2016.
Lupo, Nancy, "Film Clowns of the Depression,” Flash Art, Issue 307, Summer 2016. Speed, Mitch, "Nancy Lupo,” Frieze, April 2016.
Tasman, David Andrew, "Parent and Parroting: Nancy Lupo,” DIS Magazine, April 8, 2016.
2015
Lupo, Nancy, “The Artist!s Artists”, Artforum, December 2015,
McLean-Ferris, Laura, "You Are What You Eat,” Mousse Magazine, Summer 2015. McLean-Ferris, Laura, "Nancy Lupo,” Artforum, June 2015.
Nayssan, Jay Ezra, "Nancy Lupo,” Kaleidoscope, Issue 24, S/S 2015. Smythe-Johnson, Nicole, "Nancy Lupo,” Flash Art, November-December 2015.
2014
"Mineral Spirit,” Art in America, August 2014.
Rosetti, Chloe, "500 Words,” Artforum, March 21, 2014.
Tasman, David Andrew, "Meet Nancy Lupo,” Kaleidoscope, June 2014. "Taster's Choice,” Mousse, May 2014.
2013
"Nancy Lupo,” The New Yorker, June 2013.
Awards and Residencies
2023
Callie’s, Berlin, Germany
Casa Wabi Residency, Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico
2021
Friends Art Prize, Friends of Friends Art Festival, Warsaw, Poland
2020
Propaganda Network International Artist Residency, Tbilisi, Georgia
2015
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Artist Grant
2013
The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME
Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Art
2012
Fountainhead Fellowship, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2011
Susan H. Whedon Award, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Robert Storr Scholarship, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2007
Sarah Cooper Hewitt Prize, Cooper Union, New York, NY Public Collections
Public Collections
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Whitney Museum, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
Teaching and Lectures
2017 - Present
Lecturer, Sculpture, University of California, Los Angeles
2023
Gallery Talk, Mehdi Chouakri Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Visiting Artist, Klasse Nikolas Gamberoff, Kunsthochschule Mainz
Artist Lecture, Casa Wabi, Puerto Escondido, Mexico
Artist Talk, MACRO Museum, Rome, Italy
2020-2021
Visiting Artist & Lecturer, VAADS Free University, Tbilisi, Georgia
2020
Visiting Artist, University of California, Long Beach
2019
Visiting Artist, University of California, Riverside
2019-2020
Guest Advisor, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA
2018
Visiting Artist, University of California, Irvine
2014-2016
Lecturer, University of Southern California
2017
Visiting Artist, University of California, Los Angeles
2015
Visiting Artist, Columbia University
2015
Visiting Artist, Otis College of Art and Design
2014
Visiting Artist, University of California, Riverside
Visiting Artist, California Institute of the Arts
2011-2012
Fountainhead Fellow, Virginia Commonwealth University
2010
Teaching Assistant to Michael Queenland, Sculpture, Yale
Teaching Assistant, Yale Norfolk
2007-2009
Props Independent Project Seminar, California Institute of the Arts
2008 - 2009
Interim, California Institute of the Arts