Nancy Lupo
born 1983 in Flagstaff, USA. LA-artist Nancy Lupo intentionally manipulates and combines different materials in her artistic practice. She explores the nature of everyday objects and highlights the existence of sculptures that already exist in their environment but often go unnoticed. Her installations and objects incorporate familiar objects such as furniture, dog bowls, and trash cans, shifting their perception and inviting a reevaluation of the objects they encounter. By challenging traditional sculpture, her works serve as "activators" that subvert the interplay between physical space and subjective perception. Her works have been shown internationally at venues like Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna; Oxygen Biennial of Contemporary Arts, Tbilisi; MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; Sydney Gallery; Los Angeles Public Art Triennial, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Visual Arts Center University of Texas, Austin; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; MAC Lyon; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Atlanta Contemporary; Swiss Institute, New York; Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles and MoMA PS1, New York.
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Lives and works in Los Angeles Born 1983 in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
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2024 Our Villas, Apollo@Ollohof, Mainz [Solo]
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 Irrealis, Veda, Florence Max Payday, Móran Móran, Polanco, Mexico City
2022 Dying Play, Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles The Failure of the Imaginative Cafe Players, Jeffrey Stark, New York
2021 Golden Shower, Jan Kaps, Cologne
2020 Beat Me Bite Me Whip Me Fuck Me, Sydney Gallery, Sydney Teller, Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles
2019 Scripts for the Pageant, MCA San Diego, San Diego The Square at Noon bis, Jan Kaps, Cologne The Square at Noon, Visual Arts Center University of Texas, Austin
2018 No Country for Old Men, Antenna Space, Shanghai
2017 All Always Already, Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles
2016 Parent and Parroting, The Swiss Institute, New York
2015 The Third Badger, 1857, Oslo Not S.A.D., Wallspace, New York
2014 Old Zoo Food, LAXART, Los Angeles
2013 Hats and Balls, Soloway Gallery, Brooklyn
2012 PET, Reynolds’s Gallery, Richmond
2010 A Desire to Learn Esperanto: Having a Thing to do with Esperanto, Ballantine Beer, both or neither, curated by Olivian Cha, Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 New Project Spaces, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich In the House of the Trembling Eye, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen A Reflection on the Sublime, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima Zurückgewiesen, Galeria Dawid Radziszewski, Vienna
2023 In Prima Persona Plurale, MACRO, Rome Something or Other, Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich Tsinamdzgvrishvili 49 / Mazniashvili 10, LC Queisser, Tbilisi Dirt Bag, Coastal Signs, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa Venus und Sonne im zehnten Haus, Mehdi Choukri, Berlin
2022 Destiny Cornucopia, Veda, Florence In Heat Wind Wounds Holes, LC Queisser, Tbilisi
2021 Happy Mechanics, Hollybush Gardens, London Autohaus St. Marx, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna Emblazoned World, Bel Ami, Los Angeles Rites of Passage, Oxygen Biennial of Contemporary Arts, Tiblisi Antwerp, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles Lichtenfels Sculpture, Ruine Lichtenfels, AT-Friedersbach
2019 Open Mouth: Pershing Square, Los Angeles Public Art Triennial, Los Angeles
2018 Made in L.A., (curated by Anne Ellegood and Erin Christovale), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Grand Opening (Summer Rhapsody), (curated by KURA), Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Milan Fences & Windows, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London Pond and Waterfall, (organised by Julia Trotta), The Gallery at Michael’s, Santa Monica (a.) Orality; or, a general assembly on delay, Jan Kaps, Cologne The Lulennial II: A Low-Hanging Fruit, (curated by Andrew Berardini and Chris Sharp), Lulu, Mexico City
2017 Camille Henrot: Days are Dogs, Palais de Tokyo, Paris Sequences VIII: Elastic Hours, (curated by Margot Norton), Reykjavík The Forecast, (curated by Laura McLean-Ferris), Croy Nielsen, Vienna Cells, Marianne Boesky, New York Los Angeles – A Fiction, MAC Lyon
2016 Los Angeles – A Fiction, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo When Did Intimacy Begin Width, (curated by Torey Thornton), Jeffery Stark, New York The Poet, The Critic, and the Missing, (curated by Lauren Mackler), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles It Can Howl, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta
2015 Assisted, (curated by Jessica Stockholder), Kavi Gupta, Chicago Our Lacustrine Cities, (curated by Laura McLean-Ferris), Chapter NY, New York I Am Attracted None The Less..., Casey Kaplan, New York A New Rhythm: Charles Atlas, Benjamin Carlson, Nancy Lupo, Silke Otto-Knapp, Park View, Los Angeles Apple of Earth, High Art, Paris
2014 Musique Concrète, Michael Thibault, Los Angeles Rockaway!, MoMA PS1, New York Light Night, (curated by Kristina Kite), Wallspace, New York Mineral Spirit, Laurel Gitlen, New York LITTLE MESSAGES FOR MODERN SHUT-INS, curated by Olivian Cha and Eli Diner, Aran Cravey Gallery, Los Angeles Taster’s Choice, curated by Christopher Lew, MoMA PS1, Queens The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of, CLEARING, New York
2013 As We Had All Been Flesh Together, Now We Were Mist, curated by K. Chung, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Nancy Lupo, Asha Schechter, Brendan Fowler and Trevor Schmizu, Michael Thibault Gallery, Los Angeles CULM, curated by Sayre Gomez and J. Patrick Walsh III, Night Gallery, Los Angeles A Round World Distorts a Flat Map, curated by Isaac Resnikoff, Lot in Highland Park, Los Angeles - Homes & Gardens, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles Works Sited Reprise, Cleopatras, Brooklyn
2012 On Walls, organized by Nancy Lupo, VCU FAB Gallery, Richmond