BIO
Morgan Mandalay
(b. 1985, Long Beach, California)
Lives and works in Chicago, Illinois
https://www.morganmandalay.com/
Morgan Mandalay (b. 1985), along with being an artist, is the founder and director of the itinerant exhibition project SPF15 and co-organizer of Fresh Bread Gallery in Chicago, IL. Morgan has had solo exhibitions at Klowden Mann (Culver City, CA), Everybody (Chicago, IL), Cat Box Contemporary (Queens, NY), BWSMX (Mexico City, MEX) and Et Al Gallery (San Francisco, CA) among others. His work has been included recently in group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Flag Foundation (New York, NY), Bahamas Biennale (Detroit, MI), DAMA (Turin, ITA), Kimberly Klark (Queens, NY), 0-0 (Los Angeles, CA), David B. Smith Gallery (Denver, CO), Galleria Acapella (Naples, ITA), Left Field (San Luis Obispo, CA), LVL3 (Chicago, IL), and Yautepec (Mexico City, MEX). He was a 2018 Fellow of Shandaken Project’s Paint School in New York, NY. In 2017 he completed his MFA at University of California San Diego, and holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His works has been written about in Artforum, Hyperallergic, Autre Magazine, Artillery Magazine, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles Times.
Education
| 2018 | Fellow, Shandaken, Project’s Paint School, New York, New York |
| 2017 | MFA, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California |
| 2014 | BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois |
| 2004-2007 | San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California |
Solo & Two Person Exhibitions
| 2020 | FAIR, Klowden Mann, NADA Online On Colonus, Extase, Chicago, Illinois |
| 2019 | Dog & Pony, with Chloe Seibert, No Place Gallery, Columbus, Ohio The Sun Hung Low or a Question Loomed, Everybody, Chicago, Illinois Bad Sin Frutas, Klowden Mann, Culver City, California |
| 2018 | Thank Your Squash Banana. I’m Not an Ape, You Are!, BWSMX, Mexico City, Mexico Holy, Holy, Holy, Cat Box Contemporary, Queens, New York Topography of a Terrestrial Paradise, Et Al Gallery, San Francisco, California |
| 2017 | DMA, with Kim-Anh Schreiber, BWSMX, Turin, Italy Norman Amygdala, City Limits, Oakland, California Scene of Shipwreck, VAF Gallery, San Diego, California |
| 2016 | ArtBo Proyectos, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Yautepec, Bogotá, Colombia 8Rows Back, with Audrey Hope, Helmuth Projects, San Diego, California |
| 2015 | Ikebana///Anemone, Common’s Gallery, San Diego, California Happy Little, with Todd Kelly, LVL3, Chicago, Illinois |
| 2014 | Flower Shoppe, Edition Chicago with Yautepec, San Diego, California |
| 2013 | The Futility of Trying, Helmuth Projects, San Diego, California Roses On Your Grave, Yautepec, Mexico City, Mexico |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2020 | Adventure Paintings, 1969 Gallery, New York, New York |
| 2019 | UNTITLED, Klowden Mann, Miami Beach, Florida Collection No. 10, Interior and the Collector, Lyon, France Only Human, H.G. Inn, Chicago, Illinois The Passenger, Klowden Mann, Culver City, California New American Paintings Review: Part 2, Steven Zevitas, Boston, Massachusetts Community, Sibling Toronto, Ontario, Canada Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Klowden Mann, Santa Monica, California Tetsuo, curated by American Fantasy Classics, Bahamas Biennale, Detroit, Michigan |
| 2018 | El terror en lo profundo, curated by Deslave, Human Resources, Los Angeles, California freshly cut and softly bound, curated by Lisa Kehler and Timo Fahler, Vacation, New York, New York Paint School, Flag Art Foundation, New York, New York Gnaw the Bone That Falls to Thy Lot, curated by Sophie Jennis Kimberly Klark, Queens, New York Annex, curated by Jay Ezra Nayssan, M+B, Los Angeles, California Prairie’s Inaugural Auction, Chicago, Illinois Velvet Ropes, R/SF Gallery, San Francisco, California Velvet Ropes, NADA, 0-0 LA, New York City, New York |
| 2017 | Necronomicon Uploaded, Deslave, Tijuana, Mexico GIFC 6, The Hole, New York, New York All the Small Things, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, California A Step Away, curated by Anthony Graham and Lara Bullock, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, California Domestic Tranquility, 0-0, Los Angeles, California AnthroMorphoCene, curated by Lee M. Lavy, Bread and Salt, San Diego, California Cabinet, curated by Adam Milner, David B. Smith Gallery (Project Room), Denver, Colorado |
| 2016 | Float in a Dark Tank, Yautepec, Mexico City, Mexico How High?, Left Field, San Luis Obispo, California Le Domaine Enchanté, curated by Domenico di Chirico, Galleria Acappella, Naples, Italy Felifita, A Ship in the Woods, Escondido, California Quickie Dingler, curated by Audrey Hope, Common’s Gallery, San Diego, California Sugar Talk, LVL3, Chicago, Illinois |
| 2015 | Public Utility, New Capital, Chicago, Illinois Here | Hear, Space 4 Art, San Diego, California Material Art Fair, w/ Yautepec, Mexico City, Mexico The Originals s01 e01, curated by Annie Warhol and Tatjana Pieters, Galerie Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, Belgium Deep Play Fun House, Seed Space, Nashville, Tennessee |
| 2014 | Ducks, curated by Ryan Travis Christian, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn, New York Until Then, Alcatraz, Chicago, Illinois New Soil, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Yautepec, Los Angeles, California |
| 2013 | A Man Walks Into A Bar, Alcatraz, Chicago, Illinois |
| 2012 | On Paper, Galería Yusto/Giner, Marbella, Spain Endless Summer III, curated by Angella D’Avignon, 3rd Space, San Diego, California More Real Than Life, curated by Alexander Jarman, Southwestern College Art Gallery, San Diego, California Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Yautepec, Los Angeles, California |
| 2011 | California is a Girl I Saw Dancing on a Bridge, Gloss Gallery, Portland, Oregon XX, selected by Kathryn Kanjo and Joseph Bellows, The Athenaeum, La Jolla, California Fifth Season, curated by Ben Malcolm-Strauss, Space4Art, San Diego, California …There’s More After We’ve Finished…, Sight School, Oakland, California |
Curatorial Projects
| 2020 | A Little Bit Country, A Little Bit Rock’N’Roll, Circle Contemporary North Shore, Glenview, Illinois |
| 2018 | Topography of a Terrestial Paradise, Et Al Gallery, San Francisco, California |
| 2017 | Plucked, 100% Gallery, San Francisco, California Cell, as part of Mind Control, Alter Space, San Francisco, California |
| 2016 | This Psychodrama, SME Gallery, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California |
| 2015-Present | SPF15, Director, San Diego, California |
| 2015 | DATE NIGHT, co-organized with Trevor Amery, Seth Ferris, & Kim-Anh Schreiber, Horton Plaza Mall, San Diego, California |
| 2014 | Sunday Project, Director, Chicago, Illinois |
| 2010-12 | Space 4 Art, Curatorial Committee Member, San Diego, California |
Selected Bibliography
| 2020 | Kaye, Gareth, “On Colonus,” Journal, February. Filchak, Ryan, “Doubling in the Dark: A Review of Morgan Mandalay at Extase,” Newcity Art, February 19. |
| 2019 | Matthew Stromberg, Morgan Mandalay at Klowden Mann, Contemporary Art Review, Los Angeles, May 1. Osbergm, Annabel, Morgan Mandalay, Artillery Magazine, April 24. Knight, Christopher, Review: In Morgan Mandalay’s new paintings, life carries on as Eden burns, Los Angeles Times, April 23. Bowie, Summer, Bad Sin Frutas: An Interview with Painter Morgan Mandalay, Autre, April 19. |
| 2017 | Grand, Robert, Q&A: Morgan Mandalay’s SPF15 Gallery Avoids Gentrification By Hosting Exhibition on Public Beaches, Artspace, June 30. |
| 2016 | Van Houten Maldonado, Devon, Itinerant and Off-the-Map Galleries Find a Place in Mexico City’s Material Art Fair, Hyperallergic, February 5. |
| 2015 | Morris, Matt, Critics Pick: Todd Kelly and Morgan Mandalay at LVL3, Artforum |