Nikita Gale
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Nikita Gale is an artist living and working in Los Angeles, California and holds a BA in Anthropology with an emphasis in Archaeological Studies from Yale University and earned an MFA in New Genres at UCLA. Gale's practice is often structured by long-term obsessions with specific objects and the ways these objects gesture towards particular social and political histories. Gale uses ubiquitous consumer technologies as frameworks to consider how individuals potentially reproduce their relationships to objects within their relationships to psychic space and political, social, and economic systems. For Gale, the term “reproduction” is as much a mechanical, technical process as it is a process rooted in sex, biology and the organic.
Recent Exhibitions:
EDUCATION
2019
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME
2016
MFA New Genres, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2006
BA, Yale University, New Haven, CT
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
AUDIENCING, Performance, MOMA PS1, New York, NY
2019
HOT WORLD, Reyes | Finn, Detroit, MI
EASY LISTENTING, University of Texas – Austin Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX
EMPTY/OPEN, Coaxial, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Keynote Drift, Atlanta Contemporary, Chute Space, Atlanta, GA (upcoming)
DESCENT, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, CA
Extended Play, 56 Henry, New York, NY
2016
LOW MAINTENANCE: i only believe in horsepower now (Graduate thesis exhibition), UCLA New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Autographs, PARMER, Brooklyn, NY
2013
White Player, Niki, The Front, New Orleans, LA
2012
1961, {Poem88}, Atlanta, GA
2010
BOOLESH1T, Mint Gallery, Atlanta, GA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
Cult of the Crimson Queen, Ceysson & Bénétière, New York, NY
Dear Delia, Shoot the Lobster, New York, NY
SOUND OFF, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
Independent New York, Reyes | Finn, New York, NY
2019
Mud Muses, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Rosebud, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
In the Historical Present, The New School Kellen Gallery at Parsons, New York, NY
Inner Ear Vision: Sound as Medium, Bemis Center, Omaha, NE
Formula 1, CUE Foundation, New York, NY
Notebook, 56 Henry, New York, NY
Structures that Cooperate: Get Paid! (CCCO #2), Cubitt, London, UK
Fall Apart, Martos Gallery, New York, NY
Independent New York, Reyes | Finn, New York, NY
2018
Made in L.A. 2018, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Relics, Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France
Soft Focus, curated by Ellie Rines, Reyes Projects, Detroit, MI
Demolition WoManhood, Skibum MacArthur, Los Angeles, CA
2017
CULTURAL CAPITAL COOPERATIVE OBJECT #1 & 2, Rodeo Gallery, London, UK Fictions, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Race, Love, and Labor, Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook, NY
Earputty, 56 Henry, New York, NY
Regrouping, LUX, London, UK
2016
CULTURAL CAPITAL COOPERATIVE OBJECT #2, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
2015
The Middle Future, Public Fiction, Paris, France
Rachel's Killin' It, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA
2014
As We Were Saying, EFA Project Space (Elizabeth Foundation), New York, NY (cur. Claire Barliant)
Race, Love, and Labor, Samuel Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY (cur. Sarah Lewis)
Hearsay, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA
Rooted Movements, LMAK Projects, New York, NY
Foreword, Gallery 72, Atlanta, GA
The Last Brucennial, Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, NY
2013
WORD!, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (Decatur Book Festival), Atlanta, GA
Consuming Passions, Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, GA (cur. Amanda Parmer)
BLOW-UP, {Poem88}, Atlanta, GA
(in)complete, {TEMP}, New York, NY
2012
Made in Woodstock VI, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
Shared Southern Stories, Emily Amy Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Living Walls (Street Art Conference), Atlanta, Georgia
Still Figuring It Out, RAC, New York, NY
Linearity, Mint Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Breathing Room, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Under the Influence, Kianga Ellis Projects, New York, NY
The Future is Behind Us, Atlanta Preservation Center, Atlanta, A
2011
*Ground Floor | Dashboard Co-op |, Atlanta, GA
Irrational Exuberance: A Recession Art Show, The Invisible Dog Gallery, New York City, NY
AWARDS & HONORS
2019
Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL
UT Austin Artist-in-Residence, Austin, TX
Coaxial Artist-in-Residence, Los Angeles, CA
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME
2018
NADA Acquisition Gift for Pérez Art Museum Miami
2017
Rema Hort Mann Emergining Artist Grant
2016
Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship Award, UCLA
2015
Robert J. Webster Scholarship, UCLA
D'arcy Hayman Scholarship, UCLA
Smith Scholarship, UCLA
2014
Graduate Division Award, UCLA
D'arcy Hayman Scholarship, UCLA
Resnick Scholarship, UCLA
2013
National Endowment for the Arts Southern Constellations Fellowship, Elsewhere, Greensboro, NC
Artist-in-Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2012
Studio Artist Program, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
2011
Artist-in-Residence | Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
SPECIAL PROJECTS
2020
MoMA PS1 VW Sunday Sessions: AUDIENCING
2018 - Present
Omniaudience co-organized with Triple Canopy, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Open Spaces Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
2017
ICA LA Inaugural Gala Video Honoring Carrie Mae Weems, commission, Los Angeles, CA
Dashboard US Confluence Sculpture Project, commission, Kansas City, MO