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Trisha Baga was born 1985 in Venice, FL, USA. 

Lives and works in New York, NY, USA.

 

 

Education

2010

MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, NY, USA

 

2007

BFA, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY, USA

Solo Exhibitions

 

2020

Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy

 

2019

Winter’s Springs, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain

 

2018

Mollusca & the Pelvic Floor, Greene Naftali, New York, NY, USA

Biologue, Gallery TPW, Toronto, Canada

 

2017

Trisha Baga: CCC, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA

Biologue, 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA, USA

 

2016

LOAF, Société, Berlin, Germany

 

2015

Orlando, Greene Naftali, New York, NY, USA

 

2014

Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK

FREE INTERNET, Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy

 

2013

Gravity, Peep-Hole at Fonderia Battaglia, Milan, Italy

Florida, Société, Berlin, DE

 

2012

Holiday, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, UK

The Biggest Circle, Greene Naftali, New York, NY, USA

Plymouth Rock 2, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA

World Peace, Kunstverein Munich, Munich, Germany

Rock, Vilma Gold, London, UK

 

 

Group Exhibitions

                                                                                        

2019

The Body Electric, Pavel Pyś with Jordan Carter, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA

 

2018

PLAY & REWIND: Ode to Summer on Film, Katonah Museum of Art, Westchester County, New York, USA

3D: Double Vision, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Das verflixte siebte Jahr, Fürstenberg Contemporary, Donaueschingen, Germany

Condo: Pilar Corrias hosting Société, London, UK

 

2017

.com/,cn, curators Klaus Biesenbach and Peter Eleey, K11, Shanghai, China

The Trick Brain, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon

I Go, You Go, Good To Go, Unclebrother, Hancock, New York, USA

Inside Intensity, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany

Eighteen Hundred Flowers, curated by Oto Hillen and Phillip John Velasco Gabriel, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Futurefarmers: Errata — Brief Interruptions, curated by Rebecca Uchill, CCVA, Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA

Sinister Feminism, curated by Piper Marshall and Lola Kramer, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (Participating with ceramics club (cc)), NY, USA

2016

A Composition of Intimate and Public Truths, curated by Michele Fiedler, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR, USA

Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016, organized by Chrissie Illes, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA

Biennial of Moving Images 2016, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Genève, Switzerland

Nam June Paik Award, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany

/Development, curated by Liam Gillick, Okayama Art Summit, Okayama, Japan

Art Basel Parcours, curated by Maxa Zoller, Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland

Perfect Lives, Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Nothing Conceptual: la Meme Era, La Barra de Paquito, San Juan, Puerto Rico

What People Do For Money: Some Joint Ventures, Manifesta 11, Zurich, Switzerland

Onion By The Ocean, organized by Essye Klempner and Elisa Soliven, Underdonk, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA

default, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Secret Surface, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany

Ceramics Now, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY, USA

 

2015

Works on Paper, Greene Naftali, New York, NY, USA

Co-Workers The Network as Artist, Musée D’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France

Strange Pilgrims, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, Texas, USA

Concentrations 59: Mirror Stage – Visualizing the Self After the Internet, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA

Sorry, I’ve been trying to teach a peacock how to act, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, USA

DIDING An Interior That Remains an Exterior?, Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria

The New Human: You and I in Global Wonderland, curated by Joa Ljungberg, Moderna Museet, Malmö, SwedenA Strong Desire, PS120, Berlin, Germany

Yes We’re Open, Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy

Jane Harstook Gallery, New York, USA

Cadence Exits, Proxy Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

 

2014

Private Settings, Art After the Internet, curated by Natalia Sielewicz, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Poland

Sequence 5, Miguel Abreu, New York, USA

Dark Velocity1, CCS Bard, Annadale-on-Hudson, New York, USA

High Performance, curated by Bernhard Serexhe und Julia Stoschek, Julia Stoschek Collection at ZKM, Dusseldorf, Germany

That Singing Voice, curated by Matt Moravec, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain

Abscess, Rectum, Septum, Cave, Puerto Rico

 

2013

The Stand In (or A Glass of Milk), Public Fiction, Los Angeles, California, USA

Frieze Sounds Program, London, UK

Speculations on Anonymous Materials, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany

Freak Out, Greene Naftali, New York, USA

Trisha Baga & No Brow, curated by Katharina Zimmer, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna, Austria

Meanwhile... Suddenly and Then, Lyon Biennale, 2013, Lyon, France

Hercules Radio, Frieze Sounds Program, New York, USA

 

2012

Paraphantoms, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, France

New Pictures of Common Objects, curated by Christopher Y. Lew, MoMA PS1, New York, USA

Troubling Space, curated by Helga Just Christoffersen and Natasha Marie Llorens, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK

 

2011

Hasta Mañana, Greene Naftali, New York, USA

14 & 15, The Lipstick Building, curated by David Muenzer, New York, USA

The Great White Way Goes Black, Vilma Gold, London, UK

Rectangle with the Sound of Its Own Making, The Fourth Wall at Vox Populi, curated by Cecilia Dougherty, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Alias, Bunker Sztuki, Contemporary Art Museum of Krakov, curated by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Krakow, Poland

 

2010

En el Barrio de Gavin Black through eyas arche un der feminist, curated by Pati Hertling, Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York, USA

In the Company of, Housatonic Museum, curated by Terri Smith, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA

The Pursuer, Greene Naftali, New York, New York, USA

Beside Himself, curated by Terri Smith, Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR Hardcorps: Movement Research Festival 2010, Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, New York, USA

A Failed Entertainment: Selections from the Filmography of James O. Incandenza, The Leroy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University, New York, USA

 

2009

Los Solos II, curated by Bonnie Jones, The Load of Fun Theater, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Then and Now, LGBT Community Center, New York, USA

 

2008

Our Bodies, Our Selves, curated by A.L. Steiner, El Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

Between Us..., curated by Meghan Dellacrosse, Leo Koenig Gallery, Andes, New York, USA

Salad Days 3, Artists Space, New York, USA

Intermission, Art-In-General’s Audio in the Elevator Program, New York, USA

 

2007

Thank God for My Beautiful Black Locks of Golden Black Hair, Cooper Union’s Houghton Gallery, New York, USA

 

 

Screenings and Performances

2018

Madonna y El Nino, The Paradiso Cinema, organized by Baron and Baroness Magazine, The London Edition, London, UK

 

2017

The Voice (2D), Screening, Cinémathèque Robert Lynen, Paris, France

Courtisane Festival, Ghent, Belgium

 

2013

Mae Fatto | Das Ding!, Performance, Swiss Institute, New York, USA

 

2012

Migrating Forms, Screening, Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA

Pedestrian Mysticism, Performance, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK

 

2011

Trisha Baga: Performative Screening, EAI, New York, USA

 

2010

Greater New York Cinema Program, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, USA

Alphabet Soup, The Creative Alliance, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

 

2009

Adventures Close to Home, curated by Peggy Ahwesh, Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA

The Fuzzy Set, curated by Pilar Conde, LAXART, Los Angeles, California, USA

 

 

Commissions

2009

Love Affair of the Painter Balla and a Chair, Futurist Life: Redux for Performa09, Anthology Film Archives and SFMoMA

iShowU09, Alexander McQueen for Target Launch Event, curated by Sofia Hernandez

Awards and Scholarships

2016

Nam June Paik Award nominee

 

2008

Joan Mitchell Foundation Scholarship, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, USA

 

2007

MFA Fellowship, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA

Burckhardt Foundation Award, The Cooper Union, New York, USA

 

2003-2007

Cooper Union Full Tuition Scholarship, The Cooper Union, New York, USA

Workshops, Residencies

2017

Ceramics Club, Josep Lluis Sert Practitioner in the Arts, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 

Collections

Aïshti Foundation, Beirut

Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo

Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson

Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf

Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, Rovereto

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Zabludowicz Collection, London

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