KRYSTEN CUNNINGHAM

Born
New Haven, Connecticut
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California

Education
2003 MFA, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

2000
BFA, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Individual Exhibitions
2010 Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles (forthcoming)
Ritter/Zamet, London, United Kingdom (forthcoming)

2009 TANGENTAL, Dispatch, New York City, New York
Visiting Artist Exhibition, with Raffi Kalenderian, Parks Exhibition Center, Idyllwild Arts Academy, Idyllwild California

2008
Time Machines, Thomas Solomon Gallery @ Cottage Home, Los Angeles, California
Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany

2006
The Field, Ritter/Zamet, London, United Kingdom

2005
Untitled Play, About Gravity, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions,
(off-site project), Los Angeles, California

2003
Sight Unseen, Sandroni Rey, Venice, California

Group Exhibitions
2010 Undone: making and un-making in contemporary sculpture, Henry Moore Institute,
Leeds, England (forthcoming)


2009
Bitch is the New Black, curated by Emma Gray, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, California
Comfortably Numb, curated by Helen Varola, Pacific Design Center, 
West Hollywood,
California
Yield, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri

2008
Yo, Mo’ Modernism, Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Brussels, Belgium
HEAVY CORNER, curated by Kristin Calabrese, Creative Arts Agency,
Los Angeles,
California
New Weave, curated by Cammie Staros, SITE LA, Los Angeles,
California
Sculpture Trail, Grieder Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland
Beyond Measure: conversations across art and science, Kettle’s
Yard, Cambridge,
United Kingdom

2007
ROCK PAPER SCISSORS, Handling Contemporary Sculpture, Andre Buchmann Galerie,
Berlin, Germany
Minimalism and After V, Daimler Chrysler Collection, Berlin,
Germany
Summer Show, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
Big Secret Cache, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, California
The Re-distribution of the Sensible, Magnus Müller, Berlin, Germany
Kairos, Kantor/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Is that all there is to Fire, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles,
California
The Dream Show, Circus of Books, Los Angeles, California

2006
Material Space, Thomas Solomon Gallery @ Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2005
THING: New Sculpture from Los Angeles, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles,
California (catalogue)
Magic Show, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Rock, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Sunday Best, Gatov Gallery, Long Beach, California

2003
What Do You See at Night, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, California
#006 Instant Installations, The Sundown Salon, curated by Pipilotti
Rist, organized by
Asdis Sif Gunnarsdottir and Skylar Haskard, Los
Angeles, California

2000
Stasis: Conditions of Being Still, Plan B Evolving Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico (catalogue)

Bibliography
2009 __.  “Krysten Cunningham at Dispatch,” The New Yorker, December 7.
Rosenberg, Karen.  “Krysten Cunningham 'Tangental' at Dispatch,” The New York Times,
November 27 (illustrated).
Miles, Christopher.  “'Bitch is the new Black' at Honor Fraser,” LA Weekly, August 27
(illustrated).
Myers, Holly.  “Attitude and talent to spare,” Los Angeles Times, August 21.
Taubman, Lara.  “Endless Summer,” Artnet.com, August 7 (illustrated).
Miles, Christopher.  “Krysten Cunningham at Thomas Solomon Gallery,” Art Forum, March.

2008 Miles, Christopher.  “Best in Show 2008,” LA Weekly, December 18.
Pagel, David.  “Sculptures with a grunge formalism,” Los Angeles Times,
November 21, pp. E20 - E21.
Tanz, Jason.  “Fine Art Flourishes in Tinseltown,” Fortune Small Business, March.

2006 Knight, Christopher.  “There’s power in the abstract, Material Space: Thomas Solomon at
Rental Gallery,” Los Angeles Times, December 1.

2005 Miles, Christopher.  “The Idolaters’ Revenge,” Flash Art, May/June, p. 105.
Firstenberg, Lauri.  “Thing,” Frieze, Summer Issue 92. p. 163.
Harvey, Doug.  “Good Thing, Emerging LA Sculptors at the Hammer,”
LA Weekly,
February 3.
Knight, Christopher.  “The Next Big ‘Thing’ in L.A.,” Los Angeles
Times, February 9.
Gordon, Fay.  “First Things First,” The Daily Bruin, February 3.
Chattopadhyay, Collette.  “Thing, New Sculpture in Los Angeles,”
Sculpture Magazine,
November.

2000
Carver, John.  “Stasis is the Basis,” The Santa Fe Reporter, August 24.

Exhibition Catalogues
2006 Wiehager, Renate. Minimalism and Applied I.  Ostfildern/Berlin, Germany:  Hatje Cantz
and Daimler Chrysler Collection.

2005
Chang, Aimee & Chris Miles.  THING: New Sculpture from Los Angeles.  Los Angeles,
California: UCLA/Hammer Museum.

2000
Mead, Christopher.  Stasis in Space.  Santa Fe, New Mexico: Plan B Evolving Arts.