Trisha Baga was born 1985 in Venice, Florida.
Lives and works in New York.
EDUCATION
2010
MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
2007
BFA, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy (upcoming)
2019
Winter’s Springs, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
2018
Mollusca & the Pelvic Floor, Greene Naftali, New York
Biologue, Gallery TPW, Toronto, Canada
2017
Trisha Baga: CCC, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard, Cambridge
Biologue, 356 Mission, Los Angeles, California
2016
LOAF, Société, Berlin, Germany
2015
Orlando, Greene Naftali, New York
2014
Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom
FREE INTERNET, Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy
2013
Gravity, Peep-Hole at Fonderia Battaglia, Milan, Italy
Florida, Société, Berlin, Germany
2012
Holiday, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland
The Biggest Circle, Greene Naftali, New York
Plymouth Rock 2, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
World Peace, Kunstverein Munich, Munich, Germany
Rock, Vilma Gold, London, United Kingdom
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
The Body Electric, Pavel Pyś with Jordan Carter, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnestota
2018
PLAY & REWIND: Ode to Summer on Film, Katonah Museum of Art, Westchester County, New York
3D: Double Vision, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Das verflixte siebte Jahr, Fürstenberg Contemporary, Donaueschingen, Germany
Condo: Pilar Corrias hosting Société, London, United Kingdom
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
Inside Intensity, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
Eighteen Hundred Flowers, curated by Oto Hillen and Phillip John Velasco Gabriel, Simone Subal Gallery, New York
Futurefarmers: Errata — Brief Interruptions, curated by Rebecca Uchill, CCVA, Harvard, Cambridge
Sinister Feminism, curated by Piper Marshall and Lola Kramer, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (Participating with ceramics club (cc))
2016
A Composition of Intimate and Public Truths, curated by Michele Fiedler, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, Oregon
Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016, organized by Chrissie Illes, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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
default, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Secret Surface, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Ceramics Now, Greenwich House Pottery, New York
2015
Works on Paper, Greene Naftali, New York
Co-Workers The Network as Artist, Musée D’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France
Strange Pilgrims, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, Texas
Concentrations 59: Mirror Stage – Visualizing the Self After the Internet, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Sorry, I’ve been trying to teach a peacock how to act, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York
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
Cadence Exits, Proxy Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island
2014
Private Settings, Art After the Internet, curated by Natalia Sielewicz, Museum of Modern Art Poland, Warsaw
Sequence 5, Miguel Abreu, New York
Dark Velocity1, CCS Bard, Annadale-on-Hudson, New York
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
Frieze Sounds Program, London, United Kingdom
Speculations on Anonymous Materials, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Freak Out, Greene Naftali, New York
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
2012
Paraphantoms, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, France
New Pictures of Common Objects, curated by Christopher Y. Lew, MoMA PS1, New York
Troubling Space, curated by Helga Just Christoffersen and Natasha Marie Llorens, Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdoms
2011
Hasta Mañana, Greene Naftali, New York
14 & 15, The Lipstick Building, curated by David Muenzer, New York
The Great White Way Goes Black, Vilma Gold, London, United Kingdom
Rectangle with the Sound of Its Own Making, The Fourth Wall at Vox Populi, curated by Cecilia Dougherty, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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
In the Company of, Housatonic Museum, curated by Terri Smith, Bridgeport, CT
The Pursuer, Greene Naftali, New York, NY
Beside Himself, curated by Terri Smith, Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR Hardcorps: Movement Research Festival 2010, Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY
A Failed Entertainment: Selections from the Filmography of James O. Incandenza, The Leroy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University, New York
2009
Los Solos II, curated by Bonnie Jones, The Load of Fun Theater, Baltimore, Maryland
Then and Now, LGBT Community Center, New York
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
Salad Days 3, Artists Space, New York
Intermission, Art-In-General’s Audio in the Elevator Program, New York
2007
Thank God for My Beautiful Black Locks of Golden Black Hair, Cooper Union’s Houghton Gallery, New York
SCREENINGS & PERFORMANCES
2018
Madonna y El Nino, The Paradiso Cinema, organized by Baron and Baroness Magazine, The London Edition, London
2017
The Voice (2D), Screening, Cinémathèque Robert Lynen, Paris
Courtisane Festival, Ghent, Belgium
2013
Mae Fatto | Das Ding!, Performance, Swiss Institute, New York
2012
Migrating Forms, Screening, Anthology Film Archives, New York
Pedestrian Mysticism, Performance, Cornerhouse, Manchester
2011
Trisha Baga: Performative Screening, EAI, New York
2010
Greater New York Cinema Program, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York
Alphabet Soup, The Creative Alliance, Baltimore, Maryland
2009
Adventures Close to Home, curated by Peggy Ahwesh, Anthology Film Archives, New York
The Fuzzy Set, curated by Pilar Conde, LAXART, Los Angeles, California
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, FL
2007
MFA Fellowship, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Burckhardt Foundation Award, The Cooper Union, New York
2003-2007
Cooper Union Full Tuition Scholarship, The Cooper Union, New York
WORKSHOPS, RESIDENCIES
2017
Ceramics Club, Josep Lluis Sert Practitioner in the Arts, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge
COLLECTIONS
Aïshti Foundation, Beirut
Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo
Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson
Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, Rovereto
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Zabludowicz Collection, London