IMAGES: COMING SOON!
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS: Margo Leavin Gallery, December 22 - January 16, 2010
Group installation with Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Mel Kendrick, John M. Miller, Brenna Youngblood
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS: ARCOmadrid February 17 – 21, 2010
Jack Tilton Gallery NY, NY October 2010
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Hammer Projects: 1999-2009, ANGELENO: The Arts and Power Issue, December 2009 p. 50
CONTACT: info@brennayoungblood.com
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BRENNA YOUNGBLOOD
Lives and works in Los Angeles
2006
MFA, University of California, Los Angeles
2002
BFA, California State University, Long Beach
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin, Germany, 16 January – 14 February
2008
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 13 September – 11 October
2007
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 19 May - 23 June
Murder by the Bank, Project Room, Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY, 23 March - 21 April
Wignall Museum, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, 22 January - 3 March
2006
(Project Space) Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA, 16 December 2006 - 20 January
Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, 14 January - 12 April
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
With You I Want to Live, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 18 April – 12 October
Glue, Paper, Scissors, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, 4 April – 23 May
Reading Standing Up, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 31 January – 6 March
Feelings and Power, Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles, CA, 3 – 25 January
2008
California Biennial, in collaboration with Eamon Ore-Giron, Estacion Tijuana, Mexico
Shana Lutker, Anna Sew Hoy, and Brenna Youngblood: CB08, the California Biennial, University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara, 29 October 2008 - 1 March 2009
Half-Life: Twenty-five Emerging LA Artists, LACE: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 8 October - 16 November
Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get, What You Don't See (Is BetterYet), 533 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Asylum, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 31 May - 9 August
Fall in, Fall out, Fall down, Get ready!, Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles, 27 April – 24 May
Aspects of Mel’s Hole: Artists Respond to a Paranormal Land Event Occurring in Radiospace, curated by Doug Harvey, Grand Central Art Center, California State University at Fullerton, 6 September - 19 October
2007
Hammer Contemporary Collection Part II, Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Big Secret Cache, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"hovering over the universe I aim my laser pistol into the eye of the universe and time slows down, is splayed out so I can see the interlocking spirals and splatted fractal glowing shapes, all different sizes and moving different speeds, but when seen from this vantage point, their spiney glorious and gorgeous perfection when seen alltogether...",, curated by Kristin Calabrese, Honor Fraser Gallery, Venice Beach, CA, 28 July – 27 September
Blacks In and Out of the Box, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Bling, curated by Mark Greenfield, Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Gray Korfmann Youngblood: New Forms in Photography, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
New American Talent: the 21st Exhibition, curated by Aimee Chang, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX
Then and Now and Again, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
25 Bold Moves, House of Campari, Los Angeles, CA
Locale, curated by Kris Kuramitsu, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Good Times For Never, curated by Eamon Ore-giron, Queen's Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA
Effacé, curated by Malik Gaines, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
LA25, curated by Ilene Kurtz-Kretzschmar, Los Angeles, CA
2005
Handmade, curated by Tim Davis, Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY
Greater LA MFA Exhibition, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
State of Emergence: Unsuspected Cracks in the Art-World Infrastructure, curated by Doug Harvey, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Macrae Semans and Brenna Youngblood, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
PUBLICATIONS
2008
Ore-Giron, Eamon. “Brenna Youngblood.” CB08, Newport Beach, CA:Orange County Museum of Art), p. 212 - 213.
Miles, Christopher. Review. Artforum 47. no. 4 (December), p. 310 -311.
Beil, Kim. "Artist Profile: Brenna Youngblood." art ltd.(November/December), p. 68 - 69.
Aspects of Mel's Hole, Santa Ana, CA: Grand Central Press, CSUF GrandCentral Art Center
Donohue, Marlena. Review, ArtSceneCal.com (October 2008)
Mizota, Sharon. "The details tend to accumulate," Los Angeles Times(Calendar), 10 October 2008, p. E19
“Brenna Youngblood: Light Bulb; Color Checker; Horses,” BLIND SPOT no. 37, n.p.
Psyllos, Steven, "USA Today:A Visual Mixtape, The Best of the Best From Our Neck of the Woods", Trace Magazine, Issue 8, February 2008
2007
Miles, Christopher, "Our Favorite Shows and Artifacts, by L.A. Weekly Art Critics," LA Weekly, December 26, 2007
Kim, Christine, "3 Questions," STUDIO, Fall 2007
ArtNews, November 2007
Pagel, David, "Kristin Calabrese show at Honor Fraser Gallery invites the imagination into action", Los Angeles Times, August 31, 2007
Brooks, Amra, "Hovering Over the Universe... at Honer Fraser," Honor Fraser Gallery, LA Weekly, August 8, 2007
Summers, Robert, "Brenna Youngblood," ARTUS, Summer 2007
Miles, Christopher, "Brenna Youngblood," Flaunt, June 2007
2006
Beil, Kim, “Powers of Ten,” Art Ltd., December 2006
Christie, Tom and Myers, Holly, “L.A. Weekly’s Annual Biennial”, LA Weekly
Brooks, Amra, "Must See Art," LA Weekly, December 27, 2006
Brooks, Amra,"Los Angeles Roundup: A Report on Current Gallery, Museum Shows," Art Info, http://www.artinfo.com/News/Article.aspx?a=13632, July 21, 2006
Brooks, Amra, "Must See Art," LA Weekly, July 26, 2006
Muchnic, Suzanne, "Giving Local Artists a Good First Shot," Los Angeles Times, July 7, 2006
Myers, Holly, "Photo Installations That Aim High," Los Angeles Times, June 23, 2006
Harvey, Doug, “A full serving of Rauschenberg, with a side of Youngblood and Hundley”, LA Weekly, May 24, 2006
Peponides, Meropi, "From College to Collages," Daily Bruin, January 12, 2006
2005
Harvey, Doug, “State of Emergence: Undiscovered Cracks in the Art-World Infrastructure: A Catalog”, LA Weekly, October 27, 2005
COLLECTIONS
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center at UCLA
The Blake Byrne Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Creative Artists Agency, Los Angeles, CA
Eileen Harris Norton, Santa Monica, CA
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY