Eric Wesley

For the United States Army general, see Eric J. Wesley.

Eric Wesley (born 1973)[1] is an American artist who works with a variety of media including sculpture and painting.[2][3] He is based in Los Angeles.[4]

Biography

Wesley was born and raised in Los Angeles, California,[5][1][3] the son of two social workers.[6] As a child, he planned to become an aeronaturical engineer.[6] He earned a fine arts degree from University of California, Los Angeles in 1996.[7][8][3] While Wesley primarily works from Los Angeles, he previously had a studio in Berlin.[2][6]

Wesley's work encompasses sculpture and painting, among other media,[2][3] and have been displayed around the world. He has held solo exhibitions at galleries including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Foundation Morra Greco, Naples, Italy.[9] He has participated in group shows at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles;[10] CAPC musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux;[11] Fundación/Colección, Mexico City;[12] ARCOS Museo d’Arte, Benevento, Italy; the Prague Biennial in 2007;[13] Institute of Contemporary Arts, London;[14] P.S. 1, New York;[15] the Whitney, New York;[16] and the Studio Museum in Harlem.[17] His work was part of the collection TV executive Dean Valentine donated to the Hammer Museum in 2007.[18] He has worked extensively with China Art Objects Galleries, Bortolami Gallery, and Maureen Paley.[13][19] He was included on ArtReview's Future Greats list in 2005[20] and 2008.[21]

He is also the co-founder of Mountain School of Art (MSA) in Los Angeles,[22] an artist-run nomadic school that he opened in January 2006 with Piero Golia.[3][23][24] They accept 15 fellows annually to a three-month program. The classes are free and all staff are volunteers.[23][24] In 2008, Wesley told ArtReview that it was less of an art school and more of "an institution patterned on the university model and devoted to general education, with a curriculum grounded in science, philosophy and law."[23]

Solo exhibitions

Year City Gallery Title Notes Refs
1999 Los Angeles China Art Objects Galleries Camper [25]
2000 Kicking Ass [26][27]
2001 Pasadena Caltech Two Story Clock Tower Erected on the Caltech campus [28][1][29]
2002 New York City Metro Pictures Gallery New Amsterdam [27][30][2][31]
Karlsruhe Meyer-Reigger Galerie Enchilada “The Endless Burrito” [32][27][2]
Turin Galeria Franco Noero Ouchi [27]
2003 Basel Art Basel Jeans Theory, Statements [33]
2004 Los Angeles China Art Objects Galleries Pico Youth Center [34]
Miami Locust Projects Eric Wesley I love WW2 [35]
2005 Amsterdam Bowie-Van Valen Gallery [36][2]
2006 Karlsruhe Meyer-Riegger Gallery Audi [37][1][2]
Naples Galleria Fonti You say Tomato, I say Tomato [38][3][2][39]
Los Angeles China Art Objects Galleries Erik Wesley [40][1]
Museum of Contemporary Art MOCA FOCUS: Eric Wesley [16][2][5][1][3][41]
Pacific Design Center Thirty Three Point Three Three Three [42][2][29]
2007 New York City Bortolami Gallery Spaference Room [43][1]
Naples Foundation Morra Greco Spa fice [44][13][1][45][46][2]
Münchenstein Kunsthaus Baselland [2]
Turin Galeria Franco Noero [2]
2008 Berlin Feurig59 Ship Shape Shit Shelf and the Empfang Box [13]
2009 London Maureen Paley New Realistic Figures [13]
2010 New York City Bortolami Gallery D’Carts Blanche and New Paintings [47]
2011 Los Angeles China Art Objects Gallery The Same ‘Ol New Frontier [48]
2012 New York City Bortolami Gallery 2 new works [49]
2015 Los Angeles 356 Mission Some Work [50]
2016 Minneapolis Midway Contemporary Art ISOSCELES TRAPEZOID ARCH [51]
2019 Los Angeles TIMESHARE Turning Tables [52]
Pico Pico Timbuctoo Alternate title: Sticks and stones may break my bones but words fucking kill me [53]
London Sprovieri Gallery Reputation [54]
2022 New York City Bortolami Gallery Eric Wesley/St Louis [55]
2024 Martos Gallery Three Sleeping Philosophers [56]

Group exhibitions

Year City Gallery Exhibition title Notes Refs
1998 Santa Monica Rosamund Felsen Gallery I-Candy
Los Angeles Brent Petersen Gallery Drawings for Works in Progress [57]
1999 L.A. Edge Festival Organized by Simon Watson
2000 ACME Gallery Young and Dumb Curated by Pentti Monkkonen [58]
2001 New York City Studio Museum in Harlem Freestyle Sculpture: Kicking Ass [17][59][60][61][62][63]
Santa Monica Santa Monica Museum of Art [17]
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Ultrabaroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art [64]
Los Angeles UCLA Hammer Museum Snapshot: New Art From Los Angeles [13][27][65][2][66][67]
Miami Museum of Contemporary Art
New York City Artists Space Purloined Ran September 6 - October 13 [68]
Karlsruhe ZKM Center for Art and Media Circles 3: Silver Lake Crossings Curated by Christoph Keller
New Plymouth Govett-Brewster Art Gallery Drive: Power, Progress, Desire Curated by Gregory Burke [69]
New York City Metro Pictures Gallery
2002 Richmond Reynolds Gallery Drive By: Nine Artists from Los Angeles
2003 Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum Fade (1990–2003) Curated by Malik Gaines [70]
China Art Objects Galleries Works for Giovanni
Glasgow Transmission Gallery More Boots = Many Routes With Lee O’Connor and Ryan Doolan
Turin Galeria Franco Noero New Space! New Show!
Guadalajara OPA: Oficina Para Proyectos de Arte Adios Pendejos
London Campoli Presti Eduardo Sarabia and Eric Wesley [71]
2004 New York City Whitney Museum of American Art Whitney Biennial [13][16][2]
Vienna Museum für Angewandte Kunst 3 Fireplaces and 2 Bathtubs [72]
San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum 100 Artists See God Curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston, organized by ICA [14]
2005 New York City Bortolami Dayan Gallery opening event [73]
Closing Down: Thanks
Los Angeles Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions A Walk to Remember Organized by Jens Hoffmann [74]
London Institute of Contemporary Arts 100 Artists See God Curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston, organized by ICA [14][13][2]
Virginia Beach Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art [14]
Reading Freedman Art Center [14]
New York City I-20 Gallery Installations
Having Differences
2006 Minneapolis Midway Contemporary Art Axis of Praxis Curated by Nate Lowman [75][1]
Los Angeles Black Dragon Society Designomite Curated by Parker Jones [76]
London Institute of Contemporary Arts Alien Nation Curated by John Gill, Jens Hoffmann and Gilane Tawadros [13][77][1][2]
Long Island City P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center The Gold Standard [13][15][1]
New York City Bortolami Dayan Survivor Curated by David Rimanelli [78]
Nashville Cheekwood Museum of Art 100 Artists See God Curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston, organized by ICA [14]
2007 Prague Prague Biennale [13][2]
Los Angeles Lizabeth Oliveria Milieu [79]
Angles Gallery
Venice, CA Balmoral Gallery One Foot High and Rising
Athens Kalfayan Gallery Darling, Take Fountain [80][1]
New York City Bortolami Substance & Surface [81]
2008 Los Angeles China Art Objects Gallery The Light of the Virgo
Pougues-les-Eaux Centre d'Art du Parc Saint Léger Los Angeles Confidential [13][1]
San Francisco Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts Amateurs [13][82][1]
Benevento ARCOS Museo d’Arte ITALIA ITALIE ITALIEN ITALY WLOCHY
Los Angeles Kathryn Brennan Gallery Globetrotters Curated by Katie Brennan [83]
New York City Parrish Art Museum Sand- Meaning and Metaphor
2009 Los Angeles Hammer Museum Second Nature: Dean Valentine Collection
China Art Objects Gallery 1999
2010 Museum of Contemporary Art The Artist's Museum
New York City Bortolami Gallery RE-DRESSING [84]
Los Angeles China Art Objects Gallery The Inauguration of China Art Objects in Culver City, Los Angeles [85]
Mexico City Fundación Colección Jumex Les enfants terribles [12]
Los Angeles Cottage Home Video Journeys [86]
2011 Amsterdam Temporary Stedelijk Museum 3 Making Histories – Changing Views of the Collection
New York City 483 Broadway, SoHo Greater LA [87]
Bordeaux CAPC musée d'art contemporain BigMinis: Fetishes of Crisis [11]
2014 Los Angeles Hammer Museum A Public Fiction Part of Made in L. A. 2014 [10][5]
Paradise Garage LIQUOR STORE [88]
2015 Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Out of Office Organized by Grace Deveney [89]
2016 Cahokia Abandoned Taco Bell at 1296 Camp Jackson Road The Bell [7][6]
2019 Long Island City SculptureCenter Searching the Sky for Rain Curated by Sohrab Mohebbi [5]
Los Angeles Hammer Museum Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection [5]
2021 New York City Bortolami Gallery Springweather and people [5]
2022 Whitney Museum of American Art Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet As It's Kept [4]
2023 Bortolami SWIZZLE TWIDDLE FIDDLE STICKS Ran 8 Sep - 4 Nov [90]

Further reading

  • Gaines, Malik (November 2001). "Eric Wesley to the Bone". Artext. No. 75.
  • Kim, Christine Y. (April 2003). "Color Blind". V Magazine. No. 22.

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