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SHIO KUSAKA
(b. 1972, lives in Los Angeles, CA)
EDUCATION
2001 BFA Ceramics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2014 greengrassi, London, UK
Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
2013 Shio Kusaka, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
2012 The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2011 greengrassi, London, UK
2010 Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, MI
Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 Tortoise, Venice, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Jonas Wood and Shio Kusaka, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands
Recent Acquisitions in Asian Art, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
HILL PEOPLE, curated by Benjamin Godsill, Performance Ski, Aspen, CO
2016 Going Public: The Napoleone Collection - International Art Collectors in Sheffield, Graves Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Please Have Enough Acid in the Dish!, M+B, Los Angeles, CA
SexPot, Visual Arts Gallery, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA
Implosion 20, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Small Sculpture, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
Shio Kusaka and Jonas Wood, KARMA, New York, NY
Jonas Wood and Shio Kusaka, Blackwelder, Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2014 2014 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Shio Kusaka, Jonas Wood, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
Displayed, curated by Matthew Higgs, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
FIRE!, curated by de Pury de Pury, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY
2013 Tenth Anniversary Show, Wallspace, New York, NY
Shio Kusaka and Jonas Wood: Still Life with Pots, Glen Horowitz Booksellers, East Hampton, NY
2012 Verlangsamte Performance, Van Horn, Dusseldorf, Germany
East and West Shift to the Middle, Bill Brady, Kansas City, MO
2011 Paul Clay, Salon 94, NYC
dwelling, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
Banquet of the Black Jackal, The Harriet and Charles Luckman Fine Arts Complex, California State University,
Los Angeles, CA
2010 Multiple Pleasures: Functional Objects in Contemporary Art, curated by Nathalie Karg, Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York, NY
A Harmonious Mix of Objects, Mihai Nicodim, Los Angeles, CA
Not Extractions, but Abstractions, curated by Michael Clifton, Karma International, Zurich, Switzerland and
Clifton Benevento Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Objects, Furniture & Patterns, Art Since the Summer of ’69, New York, NY
2008 Friends and Family, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
2004 FAITH, Champion Fine Art, Culver City, CA
164 ½, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2017 “Jim Lambie and Shio Kusaka at The Modern Institute, Glasgow.” Mousse Magazine, Jan. 2017.
2016 Eckardt, Stephanie, “At Home and in the Studio with Shio Kusaka and Jonas Wood.” W Magazine, July 7, 2016.
Slenske, Michael. “Playful clay: Shio Kusaka’s vibrant vessels arrive at LA’s Blum & Poe.” Wallpaper*, July 6, 2016.
2015 Miller, Chris. "Review: Shio Kusaka/Shane Campbell Gallery." Newcity Art, Jan. 7, 2015.
Crow, Kelly. "Jonas Wood and Shio Kusaka: Each Other's Artistic Muses." Wall Street Journal, Jan. 23, 2015
Wee, Darryl. “Jonas Wood and Shio Lusaka at Gagosian Hong Kong.” Blouin Artinfo, Jan. 2015.
Sanchez-Kozyreva, Cristina. “Shio Kusaka and Jonas Wood.” Artforum, Feb. 2015.
2014 Dambrot, Shana Nys. “California Artists in the 2014 Whitney Biennial.” KCET, Jan. 17, 2014.
“2014 Whitney Biennial Changes the Game with Three Curators.” Hamptons Art Hub, Mar. 3, 2014.
Vartanian, Hrag. “Whitney Biennial 2014: Michelle Grabner on the Fourth Floor.” Hyperallergic, Mar. 4, 2014.
Russeth, Andrew. “The 2014 Whitney Biennial Disappoints, With Misfires, Omissions, Only Glimmers of Greatness.”
Gallerist, Mar. 6, 2014.
Mcgarry, Kevin. “Art Matters: The Whitney Biennial’s Last Upper East Side Hurrah.” The New York Times Style
Magazine, Mar. 7, 2014.
Schjeldahl, Peter. “Get With It: The Whitney Biennial.” The New Yorker, Mar. 17, 2014: pp. 76-77.
Haskell, Rob. “Artist Shio Kusaka’s Mesmerizing Ceramic Pottery.” Architectural Digest, Apr. 2014.
Herbert, Martin. “Martin Herbert picks ten shows on through summer you won’t want to miss.” Art Review,
June 2014.
Bryant, Eric. “Generation Next: Joshua and Sonya Roth Collect With an Eye Toward the Future.” Art+Auction,
Aug. 23, 2014.
Smith, Roberta. "'Fire!'." The New York Times, Oct. 2, 2014.
Mahaney, Mark. "Modern Family." Elle Magazine, Dec. 2014: pp. 277-278.
2013 Selz, Gabrielle. “Art Review: Subject and Object in the art of Jonas Wood and Shio Kusaka.” Hamptons Art Hub,
June 6, 2013.
2012 Kusaka, Shio. “The Artists’ Artists.” Artforum, Dec. 2012: pp. 120.
Schürmann, Wilhelm. Verlangsamte Performance. Dusseldorf: Van Horn, 2012.
2011 Herbert, Martin, “Shio Kusaka,” Time Out London, July 1, 2011.
2010 Smith, Roberta. “When the Art Stared Back and Other Trends.” The New York Times, Dec. 16, 2010.
Yablonsky, Linda. “Shio Kusaka: Artifacts | Feats of Clay.” The New York Times Style Magazine, Aug.
12, 2010.
Doran, Anne. “Shio Kusaka.” Time Out New York, Aug. 9, 2010.
Smith, Roberta. “Varieties of Abstraction.” The New York Times, Aug. 5, 2010.
“Not Extractions, but Abstractions (Part 2), Clifton Benevento, New York, NY,” Minus Space, July 23, 2010.
2009 Ned Holte, Michael. "Best of 2009.” Artforum, Dec. 2009.