BIOGRAPHY
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| JOEL KYACK | |
| 1972 | Born in Abington, Pennsylvania |
| Lives and works in Los Angeles | |
| Education | |
| 2008 | MFA, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2004 | Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, East Madison, Maine |
| 1995 | BFA, Printmaking, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI |
| 1994 | European Honors Program, Rhode Island School of Design, Rome, Italy |
| 1992 | Boston University, Film Studies, Boston, MA |
| Solo Exhibitions | |
| 2013 | Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France |
| Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy | |
| 2011 | Escape to Shit Mountain, Francois Ghebaly, Los Angeles, CA |
| River / Stream / In-Between, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY | |
| In my dreams I don’t go to sleep until the sun comes up, Hilary Crisp, London, UK | |
| 2010 | Flow River Flow!, NADA Art Fair w/ Francois Ghebaly, Miami, FL |
| Superclogger, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Superclogger, Ongoing public project with LA> | |
| 2009 | The Knife Shop, Kunsthalle-LA, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2008 | Design a Future or Fuck It, USC Roski Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2007 | Proposition for a New Mountaineer, USC Roski Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| Selected Group Exhibitions | |
| 2012 | Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK |
| Cave-IN, Ramiken Crucible, Chueva Archillas, Puerto Rico | |
| Los Angeles Contemporary Tendencies, curated by Annka Kultys, Elene Bailly Gallery, Paris, France | |
| 2011 | American Exuberance, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL |
| Trespass / Parade, West of Rome, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Adult Contemporary / Family Romance, Kavi Gupta, Berlin, Germany | |
| God Only Knows Who the Audience Is, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco | |
| The shortest distance between 2 points is often intolerable, curated by Andrew Berardini, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy | |
| Synthetic Ritual, Pitzer Art Gallery, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA | |
| 2010 | A chi ti stai rivolgendo, curated by Lorenzo Bruni, Astuni Public Studio, Bologna, Italy |
| Dead Letter Office, Annual Benefit Auction, LACE, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2009 | Not Los Angeles, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| Perform! Now!, performance festival, Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Desert Sexy, The Constant Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Material Boundaries, Deborah Page Projects, Austin, TX | |
| 2008 | California Biennial, High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, CA |
| Allan Kaprow – Art as Life (in collaboration with Lee Lynch), MOCA, Los Angeles, CA | |
| The Silence of Infinite Space, Glendale College Gallery, Glendale, CA | |
| One Shot: 100><100, LA> | |
| Host, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA | |
| 8 is Enough, USC Roski Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2007 | My Buddy, UCLA Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| I Do You Do Me, USC Roski Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2006 | I Never Meant to Hurt You, Buzzer Thirty, Queens, NY |
| Material Matters, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD | |
| Make Over, Tastes Like Chicken, Brooklyn, NY | |
| Wunderground, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI | |
| 2004 | High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, CA |
| re:source, Art in General, New York, NY | |
| Skowhegan Projects, Skowhegan State Fair, Skowhegan, ME | |
| Rowdy Remix, ATM, New York, NY | |
| Parakeet Salon No. 2, The Parakeet Salon, Brooklyn, NY | |
| 2003 | Spring Fling, The Trash Compactor, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2002 | Parakeet Salon No. 1, The Parakeet Salon, Brooklyn, NY |
| Smokey Wind, Fume Room, Providence, RI | |
| Performances | |
| 2011 | Growing Pains Leave Stains, Kaleidoscope Arena, MACRO Testaccio, Rome, Italy |
| Wattis Up with this Guy?, Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA | |
| Queering Sex (w/ Dawn Kasper and Street Buddy), Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Cowboys don’t care, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy | |
| 2010 | Crossing the Line, Piazza del Nettuno, Bologna, Italy |
| 2009 | Hill Street Blues, Perform! Now!, performance festival, Francois Ghebaly, Los Angeles, CA |
| Knifemasters 2009, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH | |
| 2008 | Genesis Project 2008, workshop, Sea and Space Explorations, Los Angeles, CA |
| Feel the Love 2008 (w/ Jack Wilmarth), Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA | |
| The Waterfall, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA | |
