CV
b. 1992 Florida, USA
Vaughnspannart@gmail.com
EDUCATION:
2018 Yale School of Art, New Haven, Ct, Master of Fine Arts in Painting & Printmaking
2014 Rutgers State University, Newark, NJ Bachelor of Fine Arts: Studio Art
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2021 Pups!, Almine Rech Shanghai (OCTOBER 2021)
Vaughn Spann, Samek Art Museum, Lewisburg PA (Forthcoming 2021)
Vaughn Spann: OPEN ONTO, Kemper Museum, Kansas City MO (CURRENT)
2020 Chapel Paintings, David Castillo, Miami FL
Smoke Signals, Almine Rech, Brussels
The Heat Lets Us Know We’re Alive, Almine Rech NYC
2019 Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, David Castillo, Miami, FL
Scorched Earth and The Weeping Sun, Kaikai KiKi, Tokyo, Japan
Dalmatian Paintings, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Orange, Yellow, Purple, Blue Skies, half Gallery, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2021 Objects Reimagined by American Artists, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair NJ (Forthcoming)
June Presentation, Almine Rech, Aspen CO
A possible Horizon, De La Cruz Collection, Miami FL (CURRENT)
Present Generations, Columbus Museum, Columbus OH (CURRENT)
Salon de Peinture, Almine Rech, New York NY
‘Un Hiver à Paris’, Paris FR
VIEWING DEPOT EXH#02 – SPOTLIGHT, Vanhaerents Collection, Brussels BE
Polyphonic, Perez Art Museum, Miami FL
2020 Painting Someone, Almine Rech, Shanghai CN
We aim to live, The Zuzans collection, Riga, LV
Sympathetic Magic. Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Polyphonic: Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL
2019 Unparalleled Journey through Contemporary Art of Past 50 Years, RUBELL MUSEUM, Miami, FL
Disembodiment, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA
Painting is its own country, Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, NC
NXTHVN: FIRST YEAR FELLOWS, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
LINEUP, curated by ALEX BACON, Almine Rech Gallery, New York, NY
Young, Gifted and Black, Selections from the Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection, Concordia College, Bronxville, NY
Domestic Horror, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
The Barn Show, Johannes Vogt Gallery, East Hampton, NY
As Long as We’re Flying… Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy
2018 Rubell Family Collection: New Acquisitions, Miami, FL
The Strangeness Will Wear Off, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
Early 21st Century Art, Almine Rech, London, UK
Familiar Boundaries. Infinite Possibilities, August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Shifting Gaze: Selections from the Collection of Dr. Robert B. Feldman , Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL
A Scratch In TIme, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY
If I Go There, I Wont Stay There, LTD Los Angeles, CA
Paradise, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Four Artists (Felipe Baeza, Anja Solonen, Jenna Gribbon and Vaughn Spann), Fredericks & Freiser, Chelsea, NY
Eight Emerging Artists, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA
Way Out Now, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The New Contemporaries, Residency Gallery, Inglewood, CA
Countervisuality, Bellevue College Gallery, Bellevue, WA
Kaleidoscope, Kravets and Wehby Gallery, Chelsea, NY
2017 Universal Belonging, Prizm, Miami, FL
Feast, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
Higher Ground, Mercer Contemporary, New York, NY
Exchange, Rush Gallery, Chelsea, NY
2016 First Time, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
Black Joy, Edgewood Gallery, New Haven, CT
2015 Power, Protest and Resistance, Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
After Afropolitan, Weeksville Heritage Center/CCCADI, Brooklyn, NY
2014 For Whom it Stands, Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Baltimore, MD
RESEDENCIES/HONORS
2019 Titus Kaphar’s NEXT HAVEN RESIDENCY
2018 New American Paintings Cover Artist (Issue No.135)
2017 Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellows hip
Leopoldo Villareal III Scholarship, Yale University
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Hirschhorn Museum
ICA MIAMI
The North Carolina Museum of Art
Montclair Art Museum
Perez Art Museum Miami
Albright-Knox Museum
Deji Art Museum
The Cornell Fine Arts Museum
The Columbus Museum of Art
The Hammer Museum
Aishti Foundation
The Pond Society
Longlati Foundation
Cc Foundation
The Zuzeum
Birmingham Museum of Art
High Museum of Art
UBS Art Collection
Rubell Museum
De La Cruz Collection
Vanhaerents Art Collection
Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection (The Bunker)
Jimenez-Colon Collection
Credit Suisse Corporate Collection
SELECTED PRESS
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/vaughn-spann-at-almine-rech-1760085
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-boundary-busting-artist-seeks-to-learn-through-the-chaos-11579111114
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/breakout-artists-2019-1710882
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/breakout-artists-2020-1710885
https://www.forbes.com/profile/vaughn-spann/?list=30under30-art-style#2d8843d54afc
https://www.laweekly.com/disembodiment-paintings-from-the-black-vanguard/
https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/201909/vaughn-spann-81144
https://www.galeriemagazine.com/vaughn-spann-gagosian/
http://www.artnews.com/2019/07/25/vaughn-spann-almine-rech/
https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/vaughn-spann-interview/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/arts/design/yale-new-haven-titus-kaphar.html
https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/magazine/the-rising-star-vaughn-spann-has-arrived/
https://www.wmagazine.com/story/young-artists-to-watch-2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/arts/painting-multimedia-dealers-museums.html
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-artists-talked-art-basel-miami-beach
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artists-to-watch-art-basel-miami-beach-1405960
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/editors-picks-november-26-1394260
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-17-frieze-week-london
http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2018/11/if-i-go-there-i-wont-stay-there-at-ltd-los-angeles/
http://www.galeriemagazine.com/highlights-expo-chicago-2018/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/arts/design/street-block-brooklyn.html
https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/must-see-art-guide-boston-3-1323434
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/editors-picks-july-9-1304870
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/summer-group-shows-new-york-1312952
https://www.newamericanpaintings.com/blog/tags/vaughn-spannn
https://artefuse.com/2018/06/26/gallery-hopping-on-opening-night-in-chelsea-june-22-2018/
http://artrealny.com/artist-spotlight-vaughn-spann/
http://www.sia.edu/news-and-events/news/tracking-the-curation-process-road-trip/
https://www.newark.rutgers.edu/about-us/have-you-met-rutgers-newark/vaughn-spann
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