BART EXPOSITO
BORN
Amarillo, Texas, USA
Lives and works in Dixon, New Mexico
EDUCATION
2000 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
1998 BFA, University of Texas, Austin
AWARDS
2018 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant Recipient
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Bart Exposito, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2015 Strange Alphabet, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, California
2014 Bart Exposito, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2011 Paper Primitives, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2010 Bends, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
Exhibition travelled to Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas
2008 Strange Loops, Finesilver Gallery, Houston, Texas
2007 Figure Looks a Lot Like Me In Paint, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, California
New Work, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California
2005 Paintings, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, California
2003 Paintings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2002 Paintings & Drawings, curated by Libby Lumkin, Donna Beam Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada
Paintings & Drawings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Paintings & Drawings, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York City, New York
2001 Bart Exposito, curated by Anna Helwing, Hot Cocoa Lab, Venice, California
Roomtone, Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, California
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Return of the Dragons, Curated by Roger Herman and Duc Phan, Blossom Market LA, Los Angeles, CA
Via Cafe, Curated by Jasmine Little and Tif Sigfrids, Tif Sigfrids Gallery, Athens, GA
2018 21st Century Cyphers, Curated by Claude Smith, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM
100X Handpicked, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Nothing Pretty a selection of drawings from the collection of Paul Rickert, George Lawson Gallery, Emeryville, CA
2017 Bart Exposito and Monique van Genderen, Tai Modern, Santa Fe, NM
2015 Back to the Real, Curated by Whitney Carter, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2014 Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2013 Forty Years at the Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Ambach & Rice Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Amarillo Entropy, Powerstation Gallery, Dallas, Tx
2012 Oppenheimer Collection, A 20th Anniversary Celebration, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas
Summer Group Exhibition, Michael H. Lord Gallery, Palm Springs
Abstraction, Michael H. Lord Gallery, Palm Springs
Architectural Disposition, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Vous Play, JB Jurve Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2011 Unfinished Paintings, curated by Kristin Calabrese and Joshua Aster, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California ………
Greater LA, organized by Eleanor Cayre, Benjamin Godsill and Joel Mesler, New York City
GOLDMINE: Contemporary Works from the Collection of Sirje and Michael Gold, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, California (catalogue)
2010 Painting, curated by Roger Herman, LA Art House, West Hollywood, California
Ecstatic Structure, with Warren Isensee and Stanley Whitney, Nerman Museum of
Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas
2009 Fantastic LA, curated by Barry Blinderman, University Galleries, College of Fine Arts, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
An Exhibition of Selected Skills of the Unemployed, WPA, Los Angeles, California
Summer Group Show, Cottage Home/ Thomas Solomon Gallery@Cottage Home, Los
Angeles, California, co-organized with Sister and China Art Objects
Abstract America, Saatchi Gallery, London, England (catalogue)
Cut, Thomas Solomon Gallery at artLA, Santa Monica, California
Loveable Like Orphan Kitties and Bastard Children, curated by Kristen Calabrese and Joshua Aster, Green Gallery East, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2008 Keeping it Straight, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California
Pruess Press @ RENTAL Gallery, New York City, New York
Heavy Corner, curated by Kristen Calabrese, Creative Artists Agency, Los Angeles,
California
LA Potential, curated by Lioba Reddeker, Hangart 7, Salzburg, Austria (catalogue)
2007 No Jerks, Trudi at Rental Gallery, Rental Gallery, New York City, New York
Automatons, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, California
Painting Design, curated by David Pagel, Claremont Graduate University,
Claremont, California (catalogue)
Paper Bombs, organized by Bart Exposito, Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles,
California
2006 Picture Postcards From a Neon Wilderness, Lukas Feichtner Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Bring the War Home, curated by Drew Heitzler, Qed Gallery, Los Angeles,
California and Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York City, New York
Three Paintings, Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2005 In Between Bandwidths: Bart Exposito & Ry Rocklen, with text by Michael Ned Holte, Black Dragon Society, NADA Art Fair, Miami, Florida
Christmas in July, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, California
In the Abstract, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2004 Painting & Sculpture, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Wake Up & Apologize, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2003 Small Work, Margo Victor Presents, Los Angeles, California
Game Over, Galerie Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich, Germany
Bart Exposito, Aaron Parazette, Susie Rosmarin, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
2002 Summer Invitational, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, New York
Pierogi 2000, Flat Files, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2001 Sketchy, Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, California
The Stuff Dreams is Made of, curated by David Pagel, Frankfurt Art Fair, Frankfurt, Germany
Cloud 9, curated by David Pagel, Ginsler Architecture, Santa Monica, California
Ars Moralis, Bea Schlingelhoff/Galerie fur Gegenwarstkunst, Bremen, Germany
Jacques de Beaufort, Bart Exposito, Monique van Genderen, Rosamund Felsen
Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2000 For Example, Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Proun, organized by Bart Exposito, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, California
New School, Works on Paper Gallery, Los Angeles, California
ONLINE EXHIBITIONS
2020, Patterns, Ahava Shemesh Gallery
2019, Bart Exposito, Air in Space Gallery
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016 Paglia, Michael, Critics Picks: Bart Exposito at David B. Smith Gallery, Art Ltd
2015 Frank, Peter, Bart Exposito: Strange Alphabet at Susanne Vielmetter, Fabrik Magazine
2015 Steer, Emily, 5 Questions With Bart Exposito, Elephant Magazine, UK
2015 Pagel, David, Bart Exposito Displays a Love of Line at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles Times
2015 Schad, Ed and Wagley, Catherine, Not liking Everything, Glasstire
2015 Smith, Claude, "Deciphering Bart Exposito's Strange Alphabet", New American Paintings Blog
2014 Pagel, David, Bart Exposito at Thomas Solomon Gallery Los Angeles times
Zevitas, Steven, Bart Exposito at Thomas Solomon Gallery, March & April Publisher’s Pick
2011 Kaplan, Ilee, editor. GOLDMINE: Works from the Collection of Sirje and Michael Gold.
Essays by Christopher Scoates, Christopher Miles, and George Melrod. Long Beach,
California, University Art Museum, College of the Arts, California State University, Long Beach (illustrated).
2010 Suh, Grace. “Ecstatic Exposito,” www.pitch.com, October 15, illustrated.
www.pitch.com/ecstatic-structure-1548685/
Thorson, Alice. “Uniformity, be gone,” The Kansas City Star, October 17: G1, G2
(illustrated).
Melrod, George. “Los Angeles: Bart Exposito: “Bends” at Thomas Solomon Gallery,”
Art Ltd., July/August 2010 (illustrated).
Shaw, Michael. “Bart Exposito at Thomas Solomon Gallery,” Editorial
Recommendations, Visual Art Source,
www.visualartsource.com/index.php?page=editorial&pcID=26&aID=440 May 27
(illustrated).
Knight, Christopher. “Lines swoop in to divide expanses,” Los Angeles Times, May 14:
D12 (illustrated).
2009 Abstract America, exhibition catalogue, published by Saatchi Gallery/Rizzoli.
2008 Lioba Reddecker. LA Potential, exhibition catalogue.
2007 Frank, Peter. “Figure Looks A Lot Like Me In Paint,” review of exhibition, Black
Dragon Society, Art Ltd. May.
Pagel, David. Painting Design. “The Best Defense,” essay by David Pagel; “The
Redemption of Practice,” essay by Libby Lumpkin. Claremont, California: Claremont
Graduate University (Illustrated).
2005 Knight, Christopher. “Slippery by Design,” review of exhibition at Black Dragon
Society, Los Angeles Times, Feb. 18.
Sholis, Brian. “Critics’ Picks: Los Angeles,” Artforum.com, Feb. 18.
Orden, Abraham. Circus Without A Tent, Arnet, Feb. 18.
2003 Frank, Peter. Review of Exhibition, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Art Weekly.
Pagel, David. Review of Exhibition, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles Times.
2002 Review of Exhibition, Bart Exposito at Bill Maynes Gallery, New Yorker Magazine, October 14th & 21.
Clark, Joseph. “Driven To Abstraction,” Donna Beam Gallery, University of Nevada,
Las Vegas, Las Vegas Mercury News.
Crosby, Gregory. “Pleasures of the line, of the plane,” Donna Beam Gallery,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas City Life Newspaper.
Hainley, Bruce. Review of Exhibition, Paintings and Drawings, Daniel Weinberg
Gallery, ArtForum, Summer Issue.
Lumpkin, Libby. Exhibition Essay, Bart Exposito at Donna Beam Gallery.
Pagel, David. “A Specialist in Confidently Out-of-Whack Geometry,” Daniel Weinberg
Gallery, Los Angeles Times.
Twardy, Chuck. “Something for Nothing,” Donna Beam Gallery, University of Nevada,
Las Vegas, Las Vegas Weekly.
White, Ken. “Reversing Field,” Donna Beam Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas,
Neon Review Journal.
2001 Frank, Peter. Art Pick of the Week: Roomtone, Acuna-Hansen Gallery, LA Weekly.
Marie, Annika. Review of Roomtone Exhibition, Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Art Issues,
Summer Issue.
Pagel, David. Review of Roomtone Exhibition, Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles
Times.
COLLECTIONS
Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, California
West Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Bank of America
Neiman Marcus
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio
TEACHING
2012 -2014 Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing, University of New Mexico
2009-11 Lecturer, University of California, Los Angeles
2008-09 Full-Time Lecturer, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2006-07 Part-Time Lecturer, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2001-06 Lecturer, University of California, Los Angeles
