b. 1987, Pennsylvania
EDUCATION
2012 MFA California Institute of the Arts
2009 BFA The Pennsylvania State University
SELECT PERFORMANCES
2024 VENUS, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2024 VENUS 2.0, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA (premiere)
2024 VENUS, AXE Ceremonia, Mexico City, Mexico
2023 Virgo Rising, MAK Center at the Schindler House, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Club 57 Society, The Broad Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Soup & Tart, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2023 VENUS, SPATiF, Warsaw, Poland
2023 VENUS, Roter Salon, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, Germany
2023 VENUS, Pawilon, Poznań, Poland
2023 VENUS, OUTsider Festival, Austin, TX
2022 DIVAS LIVE, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
2022 TMO + Mexican Jihad, Lucid Interval, Paris, France
2022 VENUS, LINK, Bologna, Italy
2022 VENUS, El Puñal Dorao, Madrid, Spain
2022 VENUS, El Cid, Los Angeles, CA
2021 VENUS, Shedhalle, Zürich, Switzerland
2021 VENUS, Yaga Gathering, Yaga, Lithuania
2021 VENUS, Lukiškių Kalėjimas 2.0, Vilnius, Lithuania (premiere)
2020 NO TEMPLE, Axial Age Festival, Coaxial Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2020 BRUTAL LANGUAGE, Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy
2020 BRUTAL LANGUAGE, Vocal Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Wait for me at the Bottom of the Pool or Jack Goes Hollywood, John Sowden House, The Cultivist, Los Angeles, CA
2019 BRUTAL LANGUAGE, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
2019 NO TEMPLE, The Magic Hour, Joshua Tree, CA
2019 NO TEMPLE, Ö2, Stockholm, Sweden
2019 Roy Cohn/Jack Smith/Ron Vawter, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA (premiere)
2019 NO TEMPLE, Théâtre de L’usine, Geneva, Switzerland
2019 NO TEMPLE, Lost & Found, Theatrum Anatomicum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2019 Wait for me at the Bottom of the Pool or Jack Goes Hollywood, John Sowden House, homeLA, Los Angeles, CA (premiere)
2018 RELEASE DELUXE, Cabaret Mademoiselle, Brussels, Belgium
2018 RELEASE DELUXE, Ingensteds, Oslo, Norway
2018 RELEASE DELUXE, The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2018 RELEASE DELUXE, Silencio, Paris, France
2018 Trollkrem Import, Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
2018 RELEASE DELUXE, Spektrum, Berlin, Germany
2018 La Bola Negra, SURGE Festival, Madrid, Spain
2018 RELEASE DELUXE, ALT_CPH, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018 Calling All Divas, MIX NYC, Brooklyn, NY
2017 RELEASE DELUXE, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Mid City Angels with Matt Savitsky, Shoot the Lobster, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Calling All Divas, Pittsburgh Performance Art Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
2017 RELEASE, Artopia curated by LA Weekly + dublab, Union Station, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Exploring the Nowannago with Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle & KREation, The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Calling All Divas, Vermilion Sands, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016 Calling All Divas, In Real Life, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Calling All Divas, Soppen Festival, Ekebergparken, Oslo, Norway
2016 RELEASE, Rogaland Kunstenter, Stavanger, Norway
2016 Incarnata Social Club, curated by Kembra Pfahler, Holland Projects, Reno, NV
2016 TMO, Bebe Huxley, and Julius Smack, PAM, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Exploring the Nowannago with Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
2016 RELEASE, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
2016 X-TRA: Immaterials and Proposals, MOCA Geffen, Los Angeles, CA
2015 BOFFO Performance Festival, Fire Island Pines, NY
2014 RELEASE, Untitled. Art Fair, Miami, FL
2014 BLACKOUT, Chapel Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
2014 TROIS VOIX, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Shimmy Shake Earthquake, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
2014 TROIS VOIX, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA
2014 Shimmy Shake Earthquake, Vogue Fabrics Dalston, London, England
2014 Gone for Gold, Pieterspace, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Calling All Divas, curated by Trollkrem, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway (premiere)
2013 Shimmy Shake Earthquake, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL
2013 100 Years of Noise: Beyoncé is ready to receive you now, New Original Works Festival, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA (premiere)
2013 Gone for Gold, AUNTS, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Calling All Divas, After School Special, Bergen Kunstall, Bergen, Norway
2012 Gone for Gold, Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger, Norway
2012 Gone for Gold, Fredensborgveien 29, Oslo, Norway
2012 Gone for Gold, Liebig12, Berlin, Germany
2012 Gone for Gold, Royal Vauxhall Tavern, London, UK
2012 Gone for Gold, W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2012 Gone for Gold, Toves Galleri, Copenhagen, Denmark
2012 Gone for Gold, 12 Ballads for Huguenot House, dOCUMENTA (13). Kassel, Germany
2012 Gone for Gold, Galarie der Hochschule, Braunschweig, Germany
2012 Gone for Gold, MMXII, LA Mart, Los Angeles, CA
2012 STAGED: Three Crimes in Three Acts (thesis), The Sharon Disney Lund Theater, CalArts, Valencia, CA
2012 SOMEWHEREOVER, Human Resources, Pacific Standard Time, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Hello, Dolly!, High Desert Test Sites, Wonder Valley, CA
2011 BLACKOUT, Main Gallery, CalArts, Valencia, CA
2011 TMO LIVE, Main Gallery, CalArts, Valencia, CA
2010 Glitter Gut, SITE FEST, Chez Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
SOLO* + 2-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023 Togetherness, Galeria Czwartek, Warsaw, Poland*
2023 HOLLYWOOD ANGEL, Carlye Packer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA*
2022 Constellations, CULTUREEDIT Gallery, Los Angeles, CA*
2022 Constelaciones, mexicanjihad & co., Mexico City, Mexico*
2020 Video Retrospective 2008-2020, tmostudio.com, Los Angeles, CA*
2018 Conquest of the Universe or When Queens Collide, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark*
2018 Calling All Divas, OOF BOOKS, Los Angeles, CA*
2017 Conquest of the Universe or When Queens Collide, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA*
2017 Inside Me with Incredible Intensity with Martin Jacob Neilson, Vermilion Sands, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016 RELEASE, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA*
2016 Exploring the Nowannago with Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
2013 Shimmy Shake Earthquake, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA*
2009 Fabulous at Forty, Patterson Gallery, University Park, PA*
2008 GALORE, Patterson Gallery, University Park, PA*
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 BOFFO Retrospective, Times Square EDITION, New York, NY
2023 Illuminate LA, Grand Park, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Lavender City of Dreams, Museo de la Cuidad de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
2022 Lavender City of Dreams, Queer Biennial, Los Angeles, CA
2021 CAMP FIRES, Last Tango, Zürich, Switzerland
2020 Transatlantico, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2020 Sympoiesis, Transart Institute online
2020 Archive Machines, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Failure to Function, VBKÖ, Austria, Vienna
2020 Hollywood Babylon: A Re-Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery & Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 CAMP FIRES, UV Estudios, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2019 Queer Intimacy and States of Emotion, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Summer Camp, Home Alone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Velvet Ropes, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018 Material Art Fair, Harborview and Pole, Mexico City, Mexico
2017 A Matter of Fact, Vermilion Sands, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017 Chapters: Book Arts in Southern California, Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2016 La Biennale di Vista del Oro, Yard Pedro, San Pedro, CA
2015 This is Not a Connection, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Goddag Man! Kunstsamling, Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger, Norway
2015 One After Another, In Succession, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Bad Data, Wolfart, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2012 Queer Pile Up 3, ForYourArt, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Cabin Fever, Mixed Greens, New York, NY
2011 The White Woman with the Brown Skin with a White Name with a Gun on Horse, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Younger than Moses: Idle Worship, Benrimon Contemporary, New York, NY
2010 Bambi Biennial, Bambi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2010 Transitions, MIAD Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2009 After the Pedestal, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH
2008 HARM, Asymmetrick Arts, Rockland, ME
2007 CORE, Zoller Gallery, University Park, PA
2006 Zips, Woskob Gallery, State College, PA
SCREENINGS
2022 BATMAN DRACULA, Drama Queer Media, Istanbul, Turkey
2021 BATMAN DRACULA, Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL
2018 Conquest of the Universe or When Queens Collide, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
2018 Conquest of the Universe or When Queens Collide, Bard College, Annandale-On- Hudson, NY
2017 Queer & Camp, Beacon Sacramento, Sacramento, CA
2015 Calling All Divas: TASKASKASP, &Now Festival curated by Maggie Nelson, CalArts, Valencia, CA
2014 Calling All Divas: TASKASKASP, Afterglow curated by Harry Dodge, Pieterspace, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Dancing on My Own, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
2014 Dancing on My Own, Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Glitter Gutter, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
2010 Maybe This Time, VIDEOHOLICA, Varna, Bulgaria
ARTIST BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS
2024 PORTRAITS 2022-2023, TMO STUDIO
2023 PORTRAITS 2021-2022, TMO STUDIO
2022 PORTRAITS 2019-2021, TMO STUDIO
2021 FACE SIGILS, TMO STUDIO
2020 NO TEMPLE, vinyl EP, TMO STUDIO
2019 Wait for me at the Bottom of the Pool or Jack Goes Hollywood: a reader, TMO STUDIO
2017 RELEASE DELUXE, vinyl LP, Rogaland Kunstsenter editions, Stavanger, Norway
2017 Conquest of the Universe or When Queens Collide: a reader, TMO STUDIO
2017 CALLING ALL DIVAS, Hour Editions, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017 RELEASE, Box of Books volume X, curated by Darin Klein and Jaye Fishel, Bullhorn Press, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Not Myself Tonight: self-portraits 2006-2015, TMO STUDIO
2013 Shimmy Shake Earthquake, Cirrus Editions, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Meditations on Gold Things | Proof of Addiction(?) | A Book of Images, TMO STUDIO
2013 Gone for Gold, Paper Chase Press, Los Angeles, CA
2012 STAGED: Three Crimes in Three Acts, TMO STUDIO
2011 COVERED, TMO STUDIO, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Blackout, TMO STUDIO, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Fractured Fabulist Façade Face, TMO STUDIO
AWARDS & GRANTS
2024 Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, NY
2020 Grant, California Community Foundation + J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, CA
2020 New Music USA Solidarity Fund, New York, NY
2020 Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, NY
2019 Quick Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation, San Francisco, CA
2017 Production Grant, Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation, Baltimore, MD
2012 DAAD, German Academic Research Grant
2010 Diversity Grant, CalArts Provost Fund
2009 The Kara D. Berggren Award, Pennsylvania State University
2008 Brian Betzler Memorial Scholarship, Pennsylvania State University
RESIDENCIES
2024 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2021 Rupert Residency, Vilnius, Lithuania
2020 Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy
2019 Praksis, Oslo, Norway
2019 Fire Island Artist Residency, Fire Island, NY
2019 Tanzhaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
2017 The Home School Poetry Workshop, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA
2016 The Artist Project of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2016 OUTPOST, Brooklyn, NY
2014 PAM, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Performing Arts Forum, St. Erme, France
2008 School of Visual Arts Residency, New York, NY
MUSIC ALBUMS
2023 BERLIN ALIEN: DEEP SPACE DEEP THROAT
2023 BERLIN ALIEN
2022 TENDERNESS
2020 RETEMPLE - No Temple Remixed
2020 NO TEMPLE
2017 RELEASE DELUXE
PUBLISHED WRITING
2020 Nowannago 2020, contemporaryartstavanger.no
2019 Imitation, Idol Worship, and Inheritance, We Spoke, Lightning Press, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Imitation, Idol Worship, and Inheritance, contemporaryartstavanger.no
2018 Jaamil Olawale Kosoko in conversation with Tyler Matthew Oyer, riting.org
2018 Calling All Divas: Batman Dracula, yesfemmes.com
2016 Cross-Climate Spell Search, contemporaryartstavanger.no
2015 Surround Echo Surround Promise, tirjournal.com
2015 Reusable Parts/Endless Love, tirjournal.com
2013 Odds exhibition catalogue, pgs. 84-86, Odda, Norway
2013 Performance Meets Image in Noise: Beyoncé at REDCAT, LA STAGE TIMES
2013 itch dance journal, issue 15
PROMINENT COLLECTIONS
The Museum of Modern Art New York
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Nevada Museum of Art
Tom of Finland Foundation
Los Angeles Contemporary Archive
Beth DeWoody Collection
CURATORIAL
2019 Calling All Divas film program, Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo, Norway
2018 Calling All Divas film program, OOF Books, Los Angeles, CA
2016 S U N, Backhouse Gallery, Los Angeles
2014 Easter, Dinner, Alex Black, Julius Smack, & TMO, Human Resources, Los Angeles
2014 TROIS VOIX, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA
2014 Pre/Cut, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Our Living Room Cabaret, curated with Mette Hersoug, Los Angeles, CA
TEACHING, LECTURES, PANELS, VISITING ARTIST
2024 Visiting Lecturer, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA
2022 Visiting Lecturer, Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich, UK
2021 Visiting Mentor, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
2020 Movement Marks workshop, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2019 Panelist, Gender in Change, Dansens Hus, Oslo, Norway
2019 Panelist, Art X Identity, Soho House, West Hollywood, CA
2018 Visiting Lecturer, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo, Norway
2018 Artist talk, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018 Visiting Lecturer, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
2018 Cultivating Conviction workshop, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2017 Cultivating Conviction workshop, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
2017 tir talk (3) with Jennifer Moon, LAUB, Jasmine Nyende, Shagha Ariannia, and Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal, Pieterspace, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Visiting Lecturer, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2016 Drawing + Painting, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2016 Cultivating Conviction workshop, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
2016 Cultivating Conviction workshop, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2015 Visiting sculpture instructor, Oakwood School, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Just Speak Nearby: The Politics and Practices of Art Writing, organized by Litia Perta 356 Mission Road, Los Angeles, CA
2016 tir talk (2) with Johanna Breiding, Jennifer Moon, LAUB, Marbles Jumbo Radio, Patrick Staff and Litia Perta, Pieterspace, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Visiting photography instructor, Oakwood School, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Visiting Lecturer, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
2015 tir talk (1) with Johanna Breiding, Jennifer Moon, and Cary Cronenwett, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Language in Video Art Now, panel with Maggie Nelson, Harry Dodge, Dylan Mira, &Now Festival, CalArts, Valencia, CA
2015 Visiting Artist, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Cultivating Conviction workshop, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
2014 Panel on video with Deanna Erdmann & Emily Mast, Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Panel on video with Deanna Erdmann & Elana Mann, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
2012 Visiting Artist, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
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