Glenn Kaino
Individual Works
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b. 1972 Los Angeles, California Lives and works in Los Angeles
Glenn Kaino (born 1972) is an American conceptual artist based in Los Angeles. By integrating innovative methodologies with established art historical traditions, Kaino orchestrates spectacular aesthetic phenomena that engage with, and offer critical commentary on the collective contemporary consciousness.
Kaino’s oeuvre is omnidisciplinary. It predominantly includes sculpture, painting, filmmaking, performance, installation, and large scale public work. But since his practice is fundamentally idea based, Kaino is committed to engaging any techniques, processes, materials, tools, technologies, environments or collaborators necessary to manifest the concept at hand.
As an art student in the 1990s at UC Irvine and UC San Diego, Kaino adopted a layered, philosophical approach to art making, founded on the primacy of ideas. Simultaneously, he also immersed him self in the study of computers and digital technology. His dual, high-level grasp of creativity and technology have brought Kaino into the orbit of influential figures within the broader culture and resulted in multiple noteworthy professional opportunities within the internet, entertainment and communications industries.
Solo Exhibitions, Projects, and Performances
2021
Glenn Kaino, In The Light Of A Shadow, upcoming exhibition, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA
2020
Radical Empathy, upcoming exhibition, Compound Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
2019
When A Pot Finds Its Purpose, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
With Drawn Arms: Glenn Kaino And Tommie Smith, San José Museum of Art, CA
2018
With Drawn Arms, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
2017
Sign, Kavi Gupta CHICAGO | Washington, Chicago, IL
In & Of Itself, Created by Derek Delgaudio, directed by Frank Oz and produced by Neil Patrick Harris, Daryl Roth Theatre New York, NY, April 5 – September 3
2016
FOCUS, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
2015
Labyrinths, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
Tank, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
2014
Leviathan, Kavi Gupta CHICAGO | Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL
19.83, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2013
In Every Grain, U.S. Pavilion, 13th International Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt. U.S. Commissioner: Cesar Garcia
2012
Bring Me The Hands of Piri Reis, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
The Trials of Slydini, Performance Commission with Derek DelGaudio for LACMA
Collector’s Weekend, Private Residence, Los Angeles, CA.
2011
Levitating The Fair (The Flying Merchant Ship), Art Public, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL. Curator: Christine Y. Kim
A.Bandit: The Space Between, The Kitchen, New York, NY.
A.Bandit: A Walk Through China, LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA. Curator: Lauri Firstenberg
2009
Honor Among Thieves, Performa09 in collaboration with Creative Time, New York, NY. Curator: Nato Thompson
2008
Transformer: The Work of Glenn Kaino, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA. Curator: Tom Sokolowski
The Burning Boards, Hausdenchild Garage, La Jolla, CA.
2007
New Works 07.1: Glenn Kaino, Artpace, San Antonio, TX. Curator: Debra Singer
The Burning Boards, Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York, NY. Curator: Shamim Momin
2006
Laws Were Made For Rogues, Cerca Series, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, San Diego, CA. Curator: Stephanie Hanor
2005
Of Passed Pawns and Communicating Rooks, The Project, New York, NY.
2004
Bounce: Glenn Kaino and Mark Bradford, Gallery at REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA. Curator: Eungie Joo
2003
Simple Systems for Dimensional Transformation, The Project, New York, NY.
Glenn Kaino, The Project, New York, NY.
2001
Style Télégraphique, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
2000
Blue, Venetia Kapernekas Fine Art Inc., New York, NY.
Chasing Perfect, Three Rivers Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA.
1999
Scratch, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
Group Exhibitions, Projects, and Performances
2018
Parallel Lives, Kavi Gupta | Washington, Chicago, IL
2017
Desert X Coachella Valley, CA
Third Space /shifting conversations about contemporary art Birmingham Museum of Art,
Birmingham, AL
Observatories Center for the Arts, Jackson Hole, WY
2016
March Madness Fort Gansevoort Gallery, New York, NY
Ground Control Art Basel Miami Beach Public 2016, The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL
L.A. Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA, CA
Gold Rushde Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
2015
Come As You Are: Art of the 1990s, Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Art In The Age Of…Asymmetrical Warfare Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Piece by Piece: Building a Collection, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2014
Prospect.3: Notes for Now, New Orleans, LA Curator: Franklin Sirmans
Art on Paper 2014, Weatherspoon Art Museum Greensboro, NC
The Avant-Garde Collection Orange County Museum of Art Newport Beach, CA
ALTER/ABOLISH/ADDRESS Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND)Washington, DC
GOLD, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL Curator: Jose Carlos Diaz
Come As You Are: Art of the 1990s, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Cage & Kaino, World of Chess Hall of Fame, St. Louis, MO
2013
Kiss Me Deadly: A Group Show of Contemporary Neo-Noir From Los Angeles, Paradise Row, London, England
Meanwhile…Suddenly, and Then, 12th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
13th International Cairo Biennale, U.S. Pavilion, Cairo, Egypt
The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea Part VI, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver, Canada
12th Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France.
2011
The Mistake Room, as A.Bandit, LAXART Annex, Los Angeles, CA
Selections From The Hammer Contemporary Collection, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The [Space] Between, as A.Bandit, The Kitchen, New York, NY
Trespass, West of Rome Public Art, Los Angeles, CA
Role Model – Role Playing, Museum der Moderne Monchsberg, Salzburg, Germany
A Walk Through China, LAXART Annex, Los Angeles, CA
2010
The Artists’ Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.
New Art For A New Century: Contemporary Acquisitions 2000-2010, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA.
Mapping Identity, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.
2009
We Are Time: Seven Installations, Impakt Festival, Utrech, Netherlands.
2008
Southern Exposure: Works from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia.
Disorderly Conduct: Recent Art in Tumultuous Times, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA.
2006
One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now, Asia Society, New York, NY. Curators: Karin Higa, Susette Min, and Melissa Chiu
2005
Only Make Believe: Ways of Playing, Compton Verney, Warickshire, UK.
2004
Untitled, Whitney Gala, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
Dreamscape, University Art Gallery, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA.
California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA. Curators: Elizabeth Armstrong and Irene Hoffman
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Curators: Chrissie Isles, Shamim Momin, and Debra Singer
2003
Blackbelt, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY and Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA. Curator: Christine Y. Kim Mine, Lombard + Fried Fine Arts, New York, NY.
2001
One Planet Under a Groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art, The Bronx Museum of Art, New York, NY and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. Curators: Franklin Sirmans and Lydia Yee
2000
Surf Trip, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
1999
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
1998
Xtrascape, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Curator: Tania Martinez-Lemke
iCandy, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
Access All Areas, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Los Angeles, CA. Curator: Joseph Santarromana
1997
Faculty Exhibition, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
Blood, Sweat, and Tears, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
The Zapatistas are Coming!, CSO 3rd Floor Hall, Los Angeles
1996
Radius, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA.
Riverfront Properties, Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Los Angeles, CA. Curator: Robert Hori
Testimony: Reconstructing Histories, Montgomery Gallery, Pomona, CA.
1995
Finding Family Stories, Japanese American National Museum and Korean American Museum, Los Angeles, CA. Curator Clement Hanami
Treasure in the House, Highways Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
Boomtown: The Explosive Nature of our Relationship to the Urban, Site-Specific Works, City of San Diego, CA. Curator: Susan Schuppli
1994
Japanese American Family Expo, Los Angeles Convention Center and Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
California, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA.
Third Generation Japanese-American Exhibition, Gallery IV, Los Angeles, CA.
Strategizing Cultures, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
FAR Bazaar, The Brewery, Los Angeles CA. Organized by Foundation for Art Resources.
1993
Computer Influence, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA.