STEVEN BANKHEAD
Born in Augusta, GA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Education
2001 MFA Otis College of Art and Design
1996 BFA Auburn University
Solo Exhibitions
2016 Campbell
Hall Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Deflowering, Whitney Museum of American Art
Bathroom Stall, New
York, NY
2013 Super A, Elephant, Los Angeles, CA
2012/2013 18th Brumaire, Armory Center
for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2011 18th Brumaire, Steve Turner
Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Sex: A Monument to Malcolm McLaren, Emma
Gray HQ, Los Angeles,
CA
2009 Location, Location, Location, Circus
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Pretty Vacant, Galerie Andreas Binder,
Munich, Germany
2008 Battery, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 SEXY, (S)language, Wilmington, CA
Selected Group
Exhibitions
2016 Patience, Process, Practice, Thomas P. Kelly Art Gallery, Loyola
Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Gesture, Arena 1, Santa Monica, CA
Curated by Carl Berg
2014 Reverb, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Love is in the Air, 2A Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Have
Your Cake, Monk Space, Los Angeles, CA, Curated by Michelle Chong
2013 Steven Bankhead / Britton Tolliver
/ Torbjorn Vejvi, Samuel Freeman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Curated by Amy
Thoner
Prolific Nihilistic
Psychedelic Punks, Post, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Fall Residency II: Welcome,
Summercamp Project Project in conjunction with Side Street Projects, Pasadena,
CA
prince at the forum, Beacon Arts Center, Inglewood, CA.
2011 My House is Your House, Statler and Waldorf
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Playtime, See Line Gallery, West
Hollywood, CA
Abstract Location, Andrew Rafacz
Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010 The Rise of RAD: BODY-MOTION-SPACE-ARCHITECTURE, Torrance Art
Museum, Torrance, CA
Trine Dalton’s Zine/Bookmaking Workshop and Exhibition,
Las Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Room Mobile, See Line Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
Shangrila, Drew’s Place, Joshua Tree, CA
The Real Show, Summer Camp, El Sereno, CA
2009 Concrete
Drawing: Extending the Line, California State University, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles, CA
Multiples, Co-Lab, Copenhagen, Denmark
Disparate Elements, Circus Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA
2008 Delusionarium
4, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
curated by Jesse Benson
Luna Luna In The Sky, Arena 1, Santa
Monica, CA
curated
by Steven Hull
In the Round, Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
curated by Ed Gomez
Reclaiming: Inter-generation, 627 S. Carondelet, Los Angeles, CA
Read This, Organized by Mark Dutcher, Various Locations, Including
LAX
ART, High Energy Constructs, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Artist as Publisher, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
2007 On Death and Drawing, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
curated by Jessica Minckley
Interactions, Armory Center For the
Arts, Pasadena, CA
2006 Building Up From the Left Over, 601 S.
Los Angeles St.,
Los Angeles, CA,
curated by Jesse Benson and Becky Koblick
Love After the Cold War in an Open House of
a (Re) Constructed
Babylon by a Popular Mechanic, MAK Center (Mackey Apartments) Los
Angeles, CA
Delusionarium 3, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
curated by Jesse Benson
2005 Smaller Is, Andrewshire Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA
curated by John
Souza
Speakeasy, Upspace, Los Angeles, CA,
Chris Sicat
groupshowboard, Tiroler Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck, Austria
Brown on Brown, (S)language, Wilmington, CA,
curated by Mario Ybarra and Juan
Capistran
Delusionarium 2, White Box Gallery, Marina del Rey, CA
curated by Jesse Benson
2004 “3 fireplaces and 2 bathtubs”, MAK Center (Schindler House), Los Angeles,
CA
Landmark, Sixteen: One, Santa Monica, CA
2003 Rethinking Drawing, Raid Projects, Los
Angeles, CA
Bibliography
Ohanesian, Liz, “A Painting With
the F-Word on It Creates Controversy in Torrance”, LA Weekly, March 7, 2014;
www.laweekly.com
Green, Nick, “Obscenity or Artwork
at the Torrance Art Museum?”, Daily Breeze, Februaury 22, 2014; www.dalybreeze.com
Benson, Jesse, “The Benefit of
Friends Collected”, catalog, 2013
Enholm, Mollly, “Steven Bankhead /
Britton Tolliver / Torbjorn Vejvi”, Artscene, July/August 2013
Tsatsos, Irene, ed. Art
Throughout Pasadena, Armory Press, Pasadena, 2013.
Wagley, Catherine, “Top 10 Moments
of the Year in L.A. Art,” LA Weekly, December 22, 2011; pg. 40.
Wagley, Catherine, “Five Art
Events to See this Week,” LA Weekly, October 21, 2011; pg. 58.
Daroca, Laura, “18th
Bruamire,” OMAG, Fall 2011, Issue 11; pg. 29.
Image
Phelps, Calvin, “Steven Bankhead
at EGHQ,” a3x10.blogspot.com, April 2011
Tuck Geoff, “Good Lord,”
notesonlooking.com, March 31, 2011
Tryharder, “Steven Bankhead @
EGHQ,” try-har-der.blogspot.com Apr 8, 2011
Wagley, Catherine, “Jukebox
Histories,” dailyserving.com, April, 2011
Tuck, Geoff, “Notes On Looking:
From the Fellows of Contemporary Art,” losangeles.foryourart.com, December 1,
2010
Tumlir, Jan, “Steven Bankhead at
Circus Gallery,” Artforum, March, 2010; p. 256.
Tuck Geoff, “Notes On Looking:
From the Fellows of Contemporary Art,” losangeles.foryourart.com, November 19,
2009
Pomonis, Mary Anna, “Jet Set Saturdays: Steven Bankhead at Circus
Gallery,” artlurker.com, November, 2009.
Lehrer-Graiwer, Sarah, “Steven
Bankhead at Circus Gallery,” Artillery, Nov/Dec, 2009; p.56.
Muchnic, Suzanne, “The Malibu
Contemporary Art Fair: Galleries take art to where the money lives,” Los
Angeles Times, August 28, 2009
Hull, Steven, comp. Luna Luna in the Sky.
Will You Make Me Laugh or Cry?. Canada: Nothingmoments Publishing, 2008.
Myers, Holly, “ A punk take on
visual culture”, Los Angeles Times, April 25, 2008
Benson, Jesse, Delusionarium
Catalog, 2006 (reproductions); pp. 7, 42, 52
Chattopadbyay, Colette.
“‘Delusionarium 2’ at White Box Gallery,” Artweek,
July/August, 2005; pp. 18-19.
Publications
Bankhead, Steven, Battery.
Los Angeles, CA: Circus of Books, 2008
Published Writing
“Duncan,” Seven Pieces, edited by Eileen Myles, El Segundo, CA: El Segundo
Press, 2000. pp. 21-24
Organized events and exhibitions
2004 Landmark, Sixteen: One, Santa Monica, CA (exhibition)
2009-12 mEAT. Various locations. (events)
2012 prince at the forum, Beacon Arts Center,
Inglewood, CA. co-organized with Jesse Benson (exhibition)
2013 Burrito Deluxe, Shangri-La, Joshua Tree, CA. Co-organized with Jesse Benson
(event/exhibition)
2014 picnic invitational, Los Angeles, CA (event/exhibition)
Awards
2006 Fellowship: Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2001 Lari Pittman Award
2001 Otis School of Art
and Design: Otis Grant
2000 Otis
College of Art and Design: Recognition by the Faculty Scholarship
