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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