NAYLAND BLAKE

Born: New York, 1960

Education: California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, Calif., M.F.A., 1982–84
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., B.F.A., 1978–82

Currently lives and works in New York.


Selected One-Person Exhibitions:

2011
Nayland Blake - Objects and Images, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

2008
Nayland Blake: Behavior, Location One, New York
What the Whiskey Said, What the Sun Is Saying, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

2007
Three photographs, three mirrors, a sculpture and a sign, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

2006
The Expulsion from the Garden, FRED, London

2004
Reel Around, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

2003
Nayland Blake, Some Kind of Love: Performance Video 1989–2002, Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore. Traveled to The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (catalogue)
Swag, Rhodes + Mann Gallery, London

2000
Nayland Blake: Double Fantasy, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, Calif.

1999
Gorge, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

1998
Feeder 2 and Corollary, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

1997
Nayland Blake: The Black/White Album, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Hare Follies, Brooklyn Academy of Music
April Hare, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

1996
Hare Attitudes, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (catalogue)
Hare Holes, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, Calif.

1995
Video, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco

1994
The Philosopher's Suite, Thread Waxing Space, New York
El Dorado, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, Calif.

1993
The Philosopher's Suite, San Francisco Artspace
Stoney End, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco

1992
Residency and Exhibition, Milch Foundation, London
Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco

1990
Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco
Punch Agonistes, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Santa Monica, Calif.
Low, Petersberg Gallery, New York (catalogue)

1989
The Schreber Suite, Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum, Berkeley, Calif.
Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Santa Monica, Calif.
The Elision of Failed Effect, Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco

1988
From Paths of Pain to Jewels of Glory, Media Gallery, San Francisco

1987
Boredom of the Hyperboreans, San Francisco Camerawork Bookstore
Inscription, XS Gallery, Western Nevada Community College, Carson City, Nev., and Media Gallery, San Francisco

1985
The New Testament, Book One: Der Spinnen, New Langton Arts, San Francisco


Selected Group Exhibitions:

2011
Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Carter / Nayland Blake, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
Two Colors, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York
The Air We Breathe, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

2010
Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles
”Nobody Gets to See the Wizard. Not Nobody. Not Nohow”, Anna Kustera Gallery, New York
Owen Smith and Nayland Blake: Two One-Person Shows, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis
Time Capsule, Age 13 to 21: The Contemporary Art Collection of Jason Rubell, Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami

2009
Imagination Noir, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, N.Y.
Scores, Lawrimore Project, Seattle
Consider the Lobster, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.
Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Nothingness and Being: Seventh Interpretation of La Colección Jumex, Fundación/Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico

2008
Disentangle, Andreas Grimm Gallery, New York
Intimacy, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, N.Y.
The Puppet Show, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

2007
NeoIntegrity, Derek Eller Gallery, New York

2006
Into Me/Out of Me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, N.Y. Traveled to Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome
Twice Drawn, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

2005
I AM 5: Parker's International Art Market, Parker's Box, New York
Heavenly or Slice of White, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York (catalogue)
Log Cabin, Artists Space, New York
White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art, International Center of Photography, New York (catalogue)
Zoo Story: An exhibition of animals in art—for the young and young at heart, Fisher Landau Center for Art, New York

2004
Needful Things: Recent Multiples, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Mike Kelley: The Uncanny, Tate Liverpool (catalogue)
Infinitely Specific, Montserrat College Art Gallery, Beverly, Mass. (catalogue)
Repulsion, University Galleries at Illinois State University, Normal, Ill.
Neoqueer, Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle
Open House, Brooklyn Museum (catalogue)
Perspectives @ 25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (catalogue)
Termite Art Against White Elephants, ICO Foundation, Madrid (catalogue)

2003
Acts of Futility, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Wash.
Skowhegan Faculty 2002–03, The Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Game Over, Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich
Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art, Center for Art and Visual Culture, Baltimore

2002
Something, Anything, (curator) Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
AA Bronson: Mirror, Mirror, Bakalar Gallery, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Mass.
Gardens of Violence, Swiss Expo 02, Murten/Morat, Switzerland

2001
Uncommon Threads: Contemporary Artists and Clothing, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. (catalogue)
Drawings: 3 Solo Exhibitions, Rhodes + Mann, London
Play's the Thing: Critical and Transgressive Practices in Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
Brooklyn, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Fla.
Angst, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany. Traveled to Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria, and The Studio Museum, New York
OutArt 2001: Stand Fast Dick and Jane, Project, Dublin
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 100 Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)

2000
Bestiary, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, Calif.
Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900–2000, Section 5, 1980–2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)

1999
Were You There?, Artis and TU/e, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Through the Looking Glass, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, New York

1996
Intermission, Basilico Fine Art, New York

1995
In a Different Light, University Art Museum, Berkeley, Calif. (catalogue)
Into a New Museum—Recent Gifts and Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

1994
Body and Soul, Baltimore Museum of Art
Outside the Frame: Performance and the Object, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Don't Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age of AIDS, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (catalogue)
Black Male, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)

1993
Mr. Sterling's Neighborhood, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, Calif.
Building a Collection: The Department of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
I Am the Enunciator, Thread Waxing Space, New York
The Uncanny, Sonsbeek, Arnhem, The Netherlands (catalogue)
I Love You More Than My Own Death, Venice Biennale
Sick Joke, Kiki Gallery, San Francisco
Up, Up (and Away), Here Art, New York

1992
Translation, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
California: North and South, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colo.
Recent Narrative Sculpture, Milwaukee Art Museum
Facing the Finish, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, Calif. (catalogue)
Nayland Blake, Richmond Burton, Peter Cain, Gary Hume, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Effected Desire, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Dissent, Difference and the Body Politic, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Ore.
The Auto Erotic Object, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York
Group Show, Tanja Grunert und Michael Janssen Galerie, Cologne
Without, The Lab, San Francisco
The Clinic, Rosamond Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles

1991
Third Newport Biennial: Mapping Histories, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, Calif. (catalogue)
Facing the Finish, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Traveled to Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, Calif.
The Rock Show, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco
Louder, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago
Erotic Drawings, San Francisco Artspace
The Interrupted Life: On Death and Dying, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, N.Y. (catalogue)
Transformations, Transamerica Pyramid Lobby, San Francisco
Anni Novanta, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Bologna. Traveled to the Musei Comunali, Rimini, Italy, and Le Navi, Cattolica, Italy
Nayland Blake, Ross Bleckner, Donald Moffet, Simon Watson Gallery, New York
Toward a New Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Group Exhibition, Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
Telekinesis, Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco
Artists' Books, Lorence/Monk Gallery, New York
The Library of Babel: Books to Infinity, White Columns Gallery, New York. Traveled to the Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo
Currents, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Something Pithier and More Psychological, Simon Watson Gallery, New York

1990
Mind Over Matter, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
Stendhal Syndrome: The Cure, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
SECA Award Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Clinic, Simon Watson Gallery, New York
New Work: A New Generation, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
This Symphony Will Remain Always Unfinished, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco
The Koln Show, Cologne
Constructive Anger, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston

1989
The Second Second, Althea Viafora Gallery, New York
Remainders, White Columns Gallery, New York
Image World, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
The New Narratology, Artspace Annex, San Francisco. Traveled to Santa Cruz County Art Museum, Santa Cruz, Calif.; Miami Center for the Fine Arts; and the Center for Contemporary Art, Arlington, Tex.
Erotophobia, Simon Watson Gallery, New York
Restrain/Intent/Manipulation, Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco
Retro Future, Richard/Bennet Gallery, Los Angeles
AIDS Timeline, Matrix Program, University Art Museum, Berkeley, Calif.
Invitational, Stux Gallery, New York
Against Nature, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Group Exhibition, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.
Summer Group Show, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles
Art Against AIDS on the Road, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

1988
Group Exhibition, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago
Assemblage '88: The Recontextualized Object, San Francisco Art Institute
Group Exhibition, Fuller-Gross Gallery, San Francisco
Beyond the Camera Obscura, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
Group Exhibition, 303 Gallery, New York
Group Exhibition, American Fine Arts, New York
Ways in Being Gay, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo

1987
Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves, Works Gallery, San Jose, Calif.
Chain Reaction 3, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
Art Installs, ProArts, Oakland, Calif.
Reconnaissance, Media, San Francisco

1986
Artists and Models, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Bookstore
Inscription, XS Gallery, Western Nevada Community College, Carson City, Nev., and Media Gallery, San Francisco