EDGAR ARCENEAUX

A Los Angeles native, Edgar Arceneaux (BFA 96 Fine Art) was named one of the 30 most exciting artists in North America today by Artnet News at the end of 2015.

An artist who pulls from many influences and arenas of knowledge in his work, Edgar Arceneaux made the art world take notice with his 2003 Drawings of Removal installation at the Hammer Museum, which focused on the impermanence of work and memory through the constant re-rendering and re-assemblage of images and objects. In his 2006 Alchemy of Comedy . . . Stupid installation, actor David Alan Grier tested a comedy routine in a variety of venues. His first live piece, Until, Until, Until . . ., was for performance art festival Performa 15 in New York, at the conclusion of which he won the Malcolm McLaren award.

His most recent solo exhibition, in 2016, was Cockeyed Eddie at the Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Paris. Other solo exhibitions took place at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s List Visual Arts Center; Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; Museum of Contemporary Art, Basel, Switzerland; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit; Lentos Art Museum, Linz, Austria; and Studio Museum, Harlem.

One of the artists highlighted in the 2008 Whitney Biennial at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art, Arceneaux has art in numerous public collections, including those of Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; New York Public Library; Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany; Utah Museum of Fine Arts; and Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris. He has been awarded a Rauschenberg Residency, United States Artists Fellowship, William H. Johnson Prize, Artpace International Artist-in-Residence Program, Joyce Award, Creative Capital Grant, Banff Centre Creative Residency and other honors.

Over his career, Arceneaux has appeared in many publications and radio programs, including The Village Voice, Art in America, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Modern Painters, Artforum, KCET’sArtbound, ArtSlant, Los Angeles Times, The Detroit News, The International Review of African American Art,L.A. Weekly and The Guardian.

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