2276 E. 16th Street, Los Angeles, California 90021 nightgallery.ca SAMARA GOLDEN Born 1973 in Ann Arbor, MI. Lives in Los Angeles, CA. EDUCATION 2009 M.F.A., Columbia University, School of the Arts, New York, NY 1995 B.F.A., Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2022 Solo exhibition, The Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC (forthcoming) 2020 Samara Golden: Upstairs at Steve's, Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia, PA 2016 A Trap in Soft Division, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2015 A Fall of Corners, CANADA, New York, NY Always smile at the mask of hate for it covers a sad face, Frieze Projects, New York, NY 2014 The Flat Side of the Knife, MoMA PS1, New York, NY Mass Murder, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2013 Brinkman / Golden, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden 2012 Bad Brains, Night Gallery at Frieze Frame, New York, NY 2011 Rape of the Mirror, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2010 Busts: My Personal Winter, Workspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2009 There’s more but it’s invisible, Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY Penumbra II, Ferenbalm Gurbru Station, Karlsruhe, Germany 2005 Sugar, (collaboration w/ Reynold Reynold and Patrick Jolley), Roebling Hall, New York and Galerie Alexandra Saheb, Berlin, Germany SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2020 Majeure Force, Part One & Part Two, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2019 Extreme Present, Organized by Deitch and Gagosian, Moore Building, Miami, FL Psyche and Politics, Staadliche Kunsthalle Baden Baden, Germany 2018 Pine Barrens, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY 2017 The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY A Break with Dolphins, organized by Artsy Projetcs, The Beach Club, Miami, FL 2016 Overpop, YUZ Museum, Shanghai, China (Adaptation of The Flat Side of the Knife, originally shown at MoMA PS1) Puf Pieces, curated by Feelings, Rachel Ufner Gallery, New York, NY Please Have Enough Acid In The Dish!, organized by Vinny Dotolo, M+B, Los Angeles, CA 2015 Between Discovery and Invention: 20 Years of Collecting, Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom (Adaptation of Bad Brains, originally shown at Frieze New York 2012) 2014 Grey skies and sunny dispositions, organized by The Ister, Castillo/Corrales, Paris, France Golden State, curator Drew Heitzler, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ Made in L.A., The Hammer Museum, curators Connie Butler and Michael Ned Holte, Los Angeles, CA There is nothing personal of yours to exhibit, Galerie Crèvecoeur, Paris, France Mondays, et al., curator Keith J. Varadi, Chin’s Push, Los Angeles, CA 2276 E. 16th Street, Los Angeles, California 90021 nightgallery.ca Wrong’s What I Do Best, curators Hesse McGraw and Aaron Spangler, SFAI, San Francisco, CA CHERUB, 2nd Cannon, curators Andrew Berardini and Brian Kennon, Los Angeles, CA The Last Brucennial, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, NY 2013 Room To Live: Recent Acquisitions and Works from the Collection, Curator Bennett Simpson, MOCA (Grand Ave), Los Angeles, CA Truck Baby, Rachel Ufner Gallery, New York, NY Endless Bummer II / Still Bummin’, curators Jan Tumlir and Drew Heitzler, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY Nevermore, On Steller Rays, New York, NY Set Pieces, Curators Andrew Berardini and Lauren Mackler, Cardi Black Box, Milan, Italy 2012 Treating Shadows As Real Things, Curator Public Fiction, ARTISSIMA Lido, Church of the Holy Shroud, Turin, Italy Modern Painters (w/ Davida Nemerof), Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA Lick It Into Shape, Curator Marcus Herse, Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University Orange County, CA Dirty Funk, Curator Mark A. Rodriguez, ACME, Los Angeles, CA Hot Tub Time Machine, CANADA Gallery, New York, NY Sweet Distemper, Curator Isaac Lyles, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY 2011 The Eternal Telethon, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, CA My House is Your House, Curator Molly Larkey, Statler Waldorf, Los Angeles, CA Two Fold, Curator Colleen Asper, The Suburban, Chicago, IL Fancy Finger, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Staf Curated Video Show, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA The Dependent, (w/ Silvershed), Sheraton Hotel, New York, NY Collective Show (w/ Night Gallery), Human Resources L.A., Los Angeles, CA 2010 Cut/Paste: Collage as Methodology in Video Art, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA The Indistinct Seeing: Artists from Berlin and Los Angeles, Curator Sonja Gerdes, Infernoesque, Berlin, Germany An Immaterial Survey of Our Peers, Sullivan Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Samara Golden, Dave Miko, Kaari Upson, curator Mieke Marple, 1144 11th St, Los Angeles, CA 2009 H.T.A.D.I.T.F. Curator Per Billgren, 25CPW, New York, NY Beyond Process, Renwick Gallery, New York, NY Cutting Edge Framing, 11 NE 39th St, Miami, FL Evading Customs, Brown Gallery, London, United Kingdom (PDF Catalogue) Whitney’s Biennial, (Curated by Whitney), Cream Projects, Brooklyn, NY Borderline Pleasure, Galerie Michael Jensen, Berlin, Germany In Practice / Winter 2009, Sculpture Center, New York, NY 2008 First Impressions, Video screening at NADA ofce, New York, NY 2005 Meme: Romanticism (Sugar), Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY SUGAR Screenings, feature length film collaboration between Reynold Reynolds, Patrick Jolley and Golden 2005-09 Festival Bologna, Mar del Plata Independent Film Festival, Argentina, Lisbon Film Festival, Dublin Film Festival, Dubai Film Festival, Gijon Film Festival, Edinburgh Film Festival, Split Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, New York Underground Film Festival, Sundance International Film Festival 2276 E. 16th Street, Los Angeles, California 90021 nightgallery.ca AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS 2015 Los Angeles Artist Prize, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, CA 2009 Morty Frank Award, Columbia University, School of the Arts, New York, NY USC Travel Residency with Andrea Zittel and James Trainer, USC Roski School of Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA. 2008 Joan Sovern Sculpture Award, Columbia University, School of the Arts, New York, NY Viar Merit Fellowship, Columbia University, School of the Arts, New York, NY 2007 Digital Media Fellowship, Columbia University, School of the Arts, New York, NY PUBLICATIONS Samara Golden: The Flat Side of the Knife, 2015. Published by MoMA PS1, New York, NY. Edited by Mia Locks with foreword by Klaus Biesenbach. Text by Mia Locks, Samara Golden, Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer. PUBLIC COLLECTIONS The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom YUZ Collection, Shanghai, China ARTIST LECTURES Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA The Box, “Anatomy of Subversion”, panel discussion Hosted by Donatien Grau, with Paul McCarthy, Sylvere Lotringer, Samara Golden, Barbara T. Smith, Karri Upson, Jefery Spier, Vanessa Place and Judith Bernstein, Los Angeles,CA Chapman University, Orange, CA California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA California Institute of Arts, Valencia, CA California State University, Long Beach, CA Claremont College, Claremont, CA Columbia University, School of the Arts, New York, NY Hauser and Wirth, exhibition walkthrough of Mike Kelly: Kandors 1999-2011, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Contemporary Art (Grand Avenue), Los Angeles, CA Otis College of Art and Design, Venice, CA Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL University of California, Davis, CA University of California, Irvine, CA University of California, Los Angeles, CA 2276 E. 16th Street, Los Angeles, California 90021 nightgallery.ca University of California, Riverside, CA University of California, San Diego, CA University of Southern California, Roski School of Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2017 “2017 Whitney Biennial”, The New Yorker, April 24 Ariella Budick, “Whitney Biennial, New York - a bracing sense of purpose”, Financial Times, March 21 Roberta Smith, “Why The Whitney’s Humanist, Pro-Diversity Biennial Is a Revelation”, The New York Times, March 16 Tess Thackara, “The Whitney Biennial is a Pitch-Perfect Survey of Art Today”, Artsy, March 14 Ben Davis, “The Whitney Nails a Balancing-Act Biennial”, ArtNet News, March 14 Benjamin Sutton, “An Omnivorous Tour of the 2017 Whitney Biennial”, Hyperallergic, March 13 Diane Solway, “An Early Look at the 2017 Whitney Biennial, Arriving in Time to Tackle America’s Turmoil”, W Magazine, March 13 Jerry Saltz, “The New Whitney Biennial is the most political in decades”, Vulture, March 13 Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal, interview, Art Los Angeles Reader, January 2016 Robin Pogrebin, “Here Comes the Whitney Biennial, Reflecting the Tumult of the Times”, The New York Times, Nov 17 Katherine McMahon, “L.A. Habitat Series: Samara Golden”, ArtNews, June Elaine Tan, “Samara Golden: The Portal of the Sixth Dimensions”, Art World Magazine, June Editors of AUTRE, “Samara Golden ‘A Trap in Soft Division’ at The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco”, AUTRE (online), March 28 Robin Pogrebin, “Philadelphia Museum of Art Finally Gets a Hopper...”, The New York Times - Inside Art, Preview, Feb 25 Alara Kap, “Feature: Upsidown - Samara Golden”, Based Istanbul Magazine, April Sami Emory, “Artist Builds 18 Upside Down Rooms into a Gallery's Ceiling”, Vice Magazine / Creators Project, Mar 22 Catherine Damman, “Samara Golden”, Artforum Critic's