MARTINE SYMS b. 1988 Los Angeles, California
EDUCATION 2007 BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
EXHIBITIONS 2015 Nite Life, curated by Franklin Sirmans, Locust Projects, Miami, FL ‡ The Unreliable Narrator, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL ‡ How We Work, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX Open House, Todd Madigan Gallery, CSUB, Bakersfield, CA Martine Syms/Candice Lin, Chan Gallery, Pomona College, Pomona, CA Vertical Elevated Oblique, Bridget Donahue, New York, NY ‡ The Daily Show, Bureau, New York, NY Avant-Noir, ICA London, London, UK Intangibles, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN 2015 Triennial: Surround Audience, New Museum, New York, NY Martine Syms, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO ‡
2014 Rhetoric, Aran Cravey, Los Angeles, CA Speaking of People, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY Another Cats Show, 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA The Queen’s English, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA‡ Small New Films, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA Black Radical Imagination, Cooper Union, New York, NY
2013 First Look: Reading Trayvon Martin, New Museum, New York, NY gURLS, Transfer Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Science Fiction..., Actual Size, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Props, Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA First Among Equals, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA How to Download a Boyfriend, Badlands Unlimited, Apple iTunes The Didactic Possibilities of Film Titles, Acid Rain TV, New York, NY Mise-En-Scéne, Young Art, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Alpha’s Bet Is Not Over Yet, New Museum, New York, NY We Are Here: Art & Design Out of Context, MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL Three Card Monte, Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2010 Permanent Collection, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO A Cultural Reader, MoMA PS1, New York, NY Hot Off The, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
LECTURES 2015 Misdirected Kiss, Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY A Pilot For A Show About Nowhere, PNCA, Portland, OR Seven on Seven, Rhizome, New York, NY Lessons of the Tradition, Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach, CA Quality Television, Light Industry, New York, NY Lessons of the Tradition, Pomona College, Pomona, CA Nite Life, O, Miami Poetry Festival, Miami, FL In the Archives, Contemporary Artists Books, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Lessons of the Tradition, VCU, Richmond, VA Black Radical Imagination, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA Lessons of the Tradition, LCC, London, UK Do You Follow? Art in Circulation, Rhizome/ICA London, London, UK Black Vernacular, Oberlin College & Observatory, Oberlin, OH Most Days, Moogfest, Asheville, NC Black Vernacular, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Direct Design, MCAD, Minneapolis, MN Most Days, Arts Incubator, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Direct Design, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA Becoming Artists, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2013 New Paradigms of Art, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD Conceptual Entrepreneurism, MICA, Baltimore, MD Black Vernacular: Reading New Media, SXSW, Austin, TX
2012 Real Talk, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA Reading Politics, Summer Forum, Chicago, IL
2011 The Didactic Possibilities of Film Titles, HMAAC, Houston, TX Artist/Authors, The Gregory School, Houston, TX Implications & Distinctions, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
BIBLIOGRAPHY 2015 Mass Effect, ed. by Lauren Cornell and Ed Halter, New Museum/MIT The Unreliable Narrator, Mousse #49 A Pilot For A Show About Nowhere, Art Papers, May/June The Problems of Representation, Flash Art May/June I Am A Meme, Art in America, May/June The Animated Reader, edited by Brian Droitcour, New Museum
2014 Most Days, Mixed Media Recordings The Future of Money and the Techonology of Capitalism, Omni Reboot
2013 The Mundane Afrofuturist Manifesto, Rhizome.org Book of Fate, Miniature Garden Is Good Business Bad Art (Publishing)?, Paperweight
2012 Fools, Dominica Publishing Showpaper 135, edited by Ethan Swan, Showpaper Why You Watch What You Watch When You Watch, Bodega Press And In Case I Don’t See Ya, Video on Paper
2011 Reference Work, Golden Age/MCA Chicago Implications and Distinctions, Future Plan and Program Black by Distribution, Rhizome.org
COLLECTIONS Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, NY Museum of Contemporary Art Library, Chicago, IL Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Chicago, IL
533 S. Los Angeles St. #506, Los Angeles, CA 90013 [email protected] MARTINE SYMS b. 1988 Los Angeles, California
CHECKLIST 1. Vertical Elevated Oblique, Bridget Donahue Gallery, 2015, installation view
2. Still from Notes on Gesture, 2015, HD video, 10:27
3. Vertical Elevated Oblique, Bridget Donahue Gallery, 2015, installation view
4. S1:E1, 2015 Triennial: Surround Audience, New Museum, 2015, installation view
5. S1:E1, 2015 Triennial: Surround Audience, New Museum, 2015, installation view
6. S1:E1, 2015 Triennial: Surround Audience, New Museum, 2015, installation view
7. For Nights Like These, 1979 (1), 2014, archival pigment print, 24 x 36”
8. For Nights Like These, 1979 (2), 2014, archival pigment print, 24 x 36”-
9. For Nights Like These, 1979 (3), 2014, archival pigment print, 24 x 36”
533 S. Los Angeles St. #506, Los Angeles, CA 90013 [email protected]