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. 1972, lives and works in Los Angeles
Education
2005 MFA Art - Art Center College of Design
2000 MA Fine Art – Print Making, California State University
Fullerton
1995 BA – California State University Fullerton
Publishing
Founder and publisher, 2nd
Cannons Publications
Solo
Exhibitions
2011
LTD, Los Angeles, CA
2nd Floor Projects, San Francisco, CA
BQ, Berlin, Germany
2010
Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2009
White Columns, New York, NY
Mesler&Hug, New York, NY
2007
Trudi, Los Angeles, CA
Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Solo Exhibition, Liste, the young Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
2006
TRUDI Los Angeles, California
2005
Hello Victims, MFA exhibition, Art Center College, Pasadena, CA
Selected
Group Exhibition
2011
Freaks and Geeks, curated by Castillo/Corrales, Air de Paris, Paris, France
Inglorious Days, curated by Severin Dünser & Christian Kobald, COCO Kunstverein, Vienna
The Fake: Forgery and its Place in Art, curated by Andrew Berardini and Lesley Moon, LA><ART, Los Angeles
Greater Los Angeles, curated by Benjamin Godsill, Joel Mesler, and Eleanor Cayne, New York, NY
A Selection of Bookworks by Brian Kennon and Sharon Kivland, organized by Michael Corris, Free Museum of Dallas, Dallas, TX
Keep the Doors and Passages Clear, curated by Tom Godfrey, White Columns, NY
Progression Minus Progress, curated by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco
The Shortest Distance Between Two Points Is Often Intolerable, curated by Andrew Berardini, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
2010
Thoughts for a Book: Raymond Pettibon and Brian Kennon, Organized by Lynda Bunting, USC Roski School of Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
General Public Library, Organized by Mylinh Trieu Nguyen, Art in General, New York, NY
No Soul For Sale, Curated by Maurizio Cattelan, Cecilia Alemani, Massimiliano Gioni, Tate Modern London, UK
Current Trends in Modern Painting, curated by Sayre Gomez, Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA
2009
Ooga Booga Reading Room, curated by Wendy Yow, Swiss Instiitute Contemporary Art, New York
Is a Show, Is a Shop, Is a Book, curated by Egija Inzule and Maja Wismer, Latvian Center for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia
Keep Floors and Passages Clear, Moot, Nottingham, England
Beyond Kiosk, curated by Christoph Keller, Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg
Under a Vanishing Light: New Work from L.A. Fourteen30, Portland,
OR
2008
To Illustrate and Multiply: An Open Book, curated by Lynda Bunting
and Lisa Gabrielle, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Artist as Publisher, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
Beyond Kiosk, curated by Christoph Keller, Chaumont, Chaumont France
Desertshore, curated by Jan Tumlir. Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles,
CA
Against the Grain, curated by Christopher Russell. Los Angeles Contemporary
Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Beyond Kiosk, curated by Christoph Keller, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
Germany
Machine for Living Color, organized by Jennifer Tobias. Museum of
Modern Art, New York, NY
A Dead Serious Group Show. Sister, Los Angeles, CA
You, Who’s Beauty Was Famous In Rome, curated by Andrew Berardini
& Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer. Mandarin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Gaping Hole Found In Universe, Danial Hug Gallery, Los Angeles,
CA
Beyond Kiosk, curated by Christoph Keller, Institute of Contemporary
Art, Philadelphia, PA
2007
The Wi-Tang/Googolplex Show (Congress), curated by Darren Bader.
Gavin Brown Enterprise @ passerby. New York, NY
Don't Torture the Rotten Ducklings, organized by Gean Moreno and
Nicholas Frank. Institute of Visual Arts. Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Trudi: No Jerks, curated by Matthew Chambers and Catherine Taft.
Rental Gallery, New York, New York
Corpus Humorous, curated by Katie Herzog. Shatford Library, Pasadena
California
2006
Deitch Paper Store, Art Basel Miami Beach
6+6+06, curated by Jan Tumlir, USC Graduate Fine Arts Studios, Los
Angeles, California
2005
Post-Postcard, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Supersonic, Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles, California
2003
New Wight Biennial, UCLA Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, Califorrnia
Publications
Alice/Suzi, 2nd Cannons Publications, 2011
Best of 2010 - Club Donny (book pick), Artforum, December 2010
Forest, 2nd Cannons Publications, 2010
Charley Independents, edited by Cecilia Alemani, Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, Josha Altman. Published by Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2010
A Wikipedia Reader, edited by David Horvitz and Mylinh Trieu Nguyen. Published by Art Libraries Society of New York, 2009
She Has a Hot Ass (w/ Darren Bader & Chris Lipomi), 2nd Cannons
Publications, 2009
Desertshore (w/ Jan Tumlir), 2nd Cannons Publications, 2008
Leisure: An Art Journal: Issue #0 a questionnaire, 2nd Cannons Publications,
January 2007
Television Could Be Much Better: On the Work of Brian Bress, NY
Arts Magzine, Nov/Dec, 2006
Untitled #1, 2006 (Mike Kelley, Silver Ball), 2nd Cannons Publications,
August 2006
Bedwetter Magazine Issue 11, Bedwetter Pubs Dec 2005
Hello Victims: Ad Reinhardt, 2nd Cannons Publications, 2005
Good Boy, self-published, 2005
The Cindy Shermans I’d Like to Fuck, self-published, 2003
Black and White Reproductions of the Abstract Expressionists, self-published,
2003
Press
Smith, Roberta, "A Bit of Hollywood, Minus the Tinsel" New York Times, May 31, 2011
Griffin, Jonathan, "Spread the Word" Mousse Issue 27, February - March 2011
Taft, Catherine, review Artforum, Oct 2010
Taft, Catherine "Love it to Death: Brian Kennon's Lust for Icons" Kaleidoscope, issue 3 Sept-Oct 2009
Campagnola, Sonia "Live From Los Angeles" Flash Art, issue
258 Jan-Feb 2008
Lehrer-Graiwer, Sarah & Langer, Eli "Brian Kennon: Thoughtless (I'm With You in Rockland)" Art Review, Feb, 2008
Holte, Michael Ned "On the Ground- Los Angeles" Artforum,
Dec 2007
Johnson, Paddy, Art Fag City Likes Books, Art Fag City http://artfagcity.blogspot.com
Nov 16, 2006
Russell, Christopher. Kennon’s Cannons, Artillery, Issue 2
October 2006
Johnson, Paddy, Myspace Featured Friend or I Heart Darkness, Art
Fag City http://artfagcity.blogspot.com May 30, 2006
Russell, Christopher. Sucking Ass: SoCCAS and SoCal Art Schools,
artUS, Issue 13 May-June 2006
Hoffberg, Judith. Review of Hello Victims: Ad Reinhardt , Umbrella
Magazine, vol. 28, No. 2-3 October 2005
Taft, Catherine. Hello Victims, Supersonic: LADC website. June,
2005
Hoffeberg, Judith. Review of Black and White Reproductions of the
Abstract Expressionists. Umbrella Magazine, 2003
Lavitt, Lauren. Cira Circa, The 2003 Wight Biennial Catalog, 2003 |