Born 1963 in Pasadena, CA
MFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, 1991
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, MI, 1990
BA, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, 1985
Lives and works in Pasadena, CA
Solo exhibitions
2025
Plataforma de Arte Contemporáneo Guadalajara, Mexico [forthcoming]
2024
manamalia, Galería Elvira González, Madrid, Spain
2023
Slow Winter Sun, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA
2022
Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, China
bugs, drugs, a crab and maybe, some…rain, Jesteburg Kunstverein, Jesteburg, Germany
Attractive Nuisance, Kaufmann Repetto Gallery, Milan, Italy
2021
Friendship is Magic, STPI, Singapore
~ ~ ~ ~~~~~~~v2, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
2019
Beta Space: Pae White, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2018
Presumptive Close, greengrassi, London, UK
Small World, Galería Elvira González, Madrid, Spain
Motherflocker, Berlin Art Weekend 2018, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
2017
Spacemanship, Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, Germany
Demimondaine, Kaufmann Repetto Gallery, Milan, Italy
Qwalala, Le Stanze del Vetro, Venice, Italy
2015
Command Shift 4, The Henry Gallery, Seattle, WA
2014
Special No. 127, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
And then you know what?, Kaufmann Repetto Gallery, Milan, Italy
Genau or Never, greengrassi, London, UK
2013
Too much night, again, The South London Gallery, London, UK
In Love with Tomorrow, Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany
O R L L E G R O, MAK, Vienna, Austria
2012
Summer XX, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2011
Restless Rainbow, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Here Today, 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA
Material Mutters, Site Santa Fe, Sante Fe, NM
A piece of the almost grey sky…Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, Ital
Dying Oak/Elephant and Wild Rasberry Bush/Ballerina – Urban Video Project – Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
2010
Material Mutters, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Dying Oak/Elephant, St. Louis Art Museum, New Media Series, St. Louis, MO
2009
Point, Counterpoint, Cloud, (2 Person exhibition with Daniel Buren), Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
Smoke Knows, 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA
Lisa Bright and Dark, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
Between the Outside-In, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Between the Inside–Out, Mills College, San Francisco, CA
Casa Iteso Clavigero, Guadalajara, Mexico
China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Lisa Bright and Dark, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2 Person show with TJ Wilcox, Gavlak, West Palm Beach, FL
Mr. Baci e Abracci, galleria francesca kaufmann, Milan, Italy
Too Much Night, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
2007
Directions – Virgil Marti and Pae White, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Get Well Soon, greengrassi, London, UK
2006
New Work for NZ, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Midnight, Skestos Gabriele Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005
another cherry blossom, greengrassi, London, UK
Cottonmouth, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
Bazar, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
Periwinkles, 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA
In no particular order, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
2004
Hammer Projects: Pae White, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Amps and Ohms, centre d’art contemporain la Synagogue de Delme, Delme, France
Ohms and Amps, Le Salle de Bains, Lyon, France
2003
Giraffes, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
(untitled), Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Fire ‘n’ Nice, 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA
Chamois, Sespe and Foggy, galleria francesca kaufmann, Milan, Italy
2002
Ghost Towns, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
A grotto, some nightfish and a second city, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
The Actual Tigers, greengrassi, London, UK
2001
Pae White: 10, 11, II 1993, 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA
Thoughts on Owls by Men of Letters, Antiquariat Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Metro Pictures, New York, NY
blue city, kaufmann repetto, Milan, Italy
Birds and Ships, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
2000
Pae White, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
Web Samplers and Bahee Clock Village, 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA
Birds and Ships, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
1999
Steve Hanson and Pae White, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
WPEP, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Neapolitan City, 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA
1998
Pae White, greengrassi, London, UK
1997
Animal Flood, I-20 Gallery, New York, NY
1995
Summer Work, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1993
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1991
Graduate Exhibition, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
1990
10, 11, W.C. Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
1989
Bliss Gallery, Pasadena, CA
Group exhibitions
2025
Centre Pompidou Museum, Paris, France [forthcoming]
2024
Interiors, Opelvillen Rüsselsheim Art and Culture Foundation, Rüsselsheim, Germany [forthcoming]
Inaugural Exhibition, The Campus, Hudson, NY
Nikos Alexiou. The Collection, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
Geometrie a mano, Circolo, Via della Spiga 48, Milan, Italy
Born Digital, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Hollywood Dream Bubble: Ed Ruscha’s Influence in Los Angeles and Beyond, The Hole, Los Angeles, CA
Prospect, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
2023
To Weave the Sky: Textile Abstractions from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, El Espacio 23, Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Miami, FL
Ecstatic, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
INT. DAVID BAUER’S APARTMENT – NYC – EVENING, Jackson Design, Stockholm, Sweden
Everybody talks about the Weather, Fondazione Prada, Venice, Italy
Ordine e Disordine, MASSIMODECARLO, Hong Kong
Tondo, Anton Kern, New York, NY
The Tate Collection, Osaka, Japan
The Tate Collection, Tokyo, Japan
Group exhibition, 1301pe, Los Angeles, CA
Cerámica suro: a story of collaboration, production and collection in the contemporary arts, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX
The power and pleasure of books and possessions, neugerriemsschneider, Berlin, Germany
Light from Tate: 1700s to Now, The Tate Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Toda sangre llega al lugar de su quietud, Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico
Toda sangre llega al lugar de su quietud, Museo Cabañas, Museo de Arte Moderno, CDMX
Think Pinker, GAVLAK, Los Angeles, CA
Re-Materialized: The Stuff that Matters, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, Italy
Re-Materialized: The Stuff that Matters, Kaufmann Repetto, New York, NY
A Growing Season, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA
the last thing you first see, greengrassi, London, United Kingdom
2022
The Tate Collection, ACMI, Melbourne, Australia
Miniarttextil, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy
Paradise Room, curated by Johannes Fricke Waldthausen, GOODROOM, Berlin, Germany
Extrano, Colleciòn Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain
2021
The Tate Collection at the Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Installative Textiles: From Medium to Place, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain
LANDS END, FOR-SITE Foundation, curated by Cheryl Haines, Cliff House, San Francisco, CA
Global Groove, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
The Tate Collection at the Museum of Art Pudong, Museum of Art Pudong, Shanghai, China
2020
Vent’anni – Twenty Years: 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, Italy and New York, NY
CONDO London, greengrassi, London, UK
Material Witness, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA, online
The LSD Portfolio, Georg Kargl, Vienna, Austria
Reactional Aesthetics: Art of the 1990s from the Robert J. Shiffler Collection & Archive, Clay Street Press, Cincinnati, OH
The Future, presented by Jeffrey Deitch and Gagosian, online
2019
Keith Mayerson: Friends and Family, Peter Mendenhall Gallery, Pasadena, CA
LA on Fire, Curated by Michael Slenske, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Les Fleurs du Mal, All too Human, Boston, MA
The Return of Guests: Selections from the PSA Collection, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
Group exhibition of work by Fiona Connor, Petra Cortright, Kirsten Everberg, Jorge Méndez Blake, and Pae White, 1301pe, Los Angeles, CA
Here Today: Posters from 1301pe, Los Angeles, Stanford Art Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
Less Is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design, ICA Boston, MA
5779, BUILDINGBOX, Milan, Italy
Negative Space, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
BUILDING LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Holz, Metall, Gewebe, Farbe, Glas, Ton, Stein, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
The Human Condition, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2018
Inaugural Group Exhibition, Gavlak, Palm Beach, FL
Born at home: Revenues and events of the office of the Alto Liso Tapestry in Jalisco 1968-2018, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
The World on Paper, Museum Palais Populaire, Berlin, Germany
Walking on the Fade Out Lines, The Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
n.c.n.d.n.t, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
Generations: Female Artists in Dialogue Part One, Sammlung Goetz, Münich, Germany
Exhibiting the Exhibitions; from the Cabinet of Curiosities to the Curatorial Situation, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden- Baden, Baden- Baden, DE
GIANT SIZE, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany
Viewing the Other, Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, Münich, Germany
2017
NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Behold Man, with Frances Stark and Karin Gulbran, China Art Gardens, Los Angeles, CA
SUR/FACE, Curated by Dr. Mahret Kupka, Juliane Duft, Dr. Christine Nippe and Matthias Wagner K., Museum of Angewandt Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Sense of Smell, Elvira Gonzalez, Madrid, Spain
The Kindness of Strangers: Recent Acquisitions and Conservation Projects, The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
LSD, Kunsthalle Oslo, Oslo, Norway
2016
A Weed is a Plant out of Place, Lismore Castle, Waterford, Ireland. Curated by Allegra Pesenti
Big Yellow Taxi, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey. Curated by Paolo Columbo
Present, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany, Curated by Tobias Rehberger
Permanent Collection, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Anton Kern & Andrew Kreps at Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, CA
Weaving and We, 2nd Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art, Zhejiang Art Museum Exhibition Space, Hangzhou, China
Intermission, 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA
Brain Multiples at 25, 1301PE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
8868, Project 88, Mumbai, India. Curated by Diana Betancourt
2015
Magnificent Obsessions, Barbican Centre, London and Sainsbury Center for Visual Art, Norwich, UK. Curated by Lydia Yee.
The Mapmaker’s Dream, Cheryl Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Super Superstudio, Padiglione Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy. Curated by Andreas Angelidakis, Vittorio Pizzigoni and Valter Scelsi
Le Souffleur. Schürmann meets Ludwig, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen, Germany
Pushing the Press, A&D Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Aïshti Foundation Opening, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
Spin-Off. Works from Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Centro de Arte Contempoaneo de Quito, Quito, Eucador
Good for Nothing, Cracks in the Mirror, GOODROOM, Munich, Germany. Curated by Johannes Fricke Waldthausen
Going Public: International Collectors in Sheffield, (The Sandretto Collection) Sheffield Cathedral, Sheffield, UK
Open House, Todd Madigan Gallery, University of Bakersfield, curated by Jedediah Ceasar, Bakersfield, CA
Sweet 16, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Still Moves, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Curated by Diana Cambell Betancourt
La Casa Morbida, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy, Curated by Beppe Finessi
Cross Section: Recent Acquisitions, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
DECORUM, The Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China Curated by Anne Dressen
Project LSD, White Columns, New York. Curated by Rob Tufnell
NY Times project exhibition, New York, NY
Ideal Estándar, Oficina de Proyectos Culturales, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Curated by Jaime Ashida
Impulse, Reason, Sense, Conflict. Abstract Art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, US
ArtC new media program 2014, Phoenix Market City, Chennai, India
Me and Benjamin, Galerie Xippas, Paris, France
2013
HAROLD ANCART, KRISTIN BAKER, MARK BARROW, NINA BEIER, ANNA BETBEZE, MARK FLOOD, THILO HEINZMANN, JOHN HENDERSON, SCOTT LYALL, JAYSON MUSSON, RENAUD REGNERY, PAE WHITE, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
This Will Destroy That! Design Matter, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Davey Whitcraft
Selections from the Grunwald Center and the Hammer Contemporary Art Collection, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Pet Shapes, International Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA
Soft Pictures, Foundazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy
frm vs fnctn nd bck gn, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
Trama y Urdimbre,In memory of Fritz Riedl (1923-2013), Raúl Anguiano Museum, Guadalajara, Mexico. Curated by Carlos Ashida.
Post Post Anxiety, International Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
DECORUM, Museé d’Art Moderne, Paris, France. Curated by Anne Dressen
DIALOGUES, Schindler House and For Your Art, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Francois Perrin
P & Co., Thomas Duncan, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Carter Mull and P & Co.
Pattern: Follow the Rules, Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, Michigan and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO. Curated by Ali Gass.
A Point of View: Selected Gifts from the Laurence A. Rickels Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
A r t & T e x t i l e – Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
SPOT #1, Hôtel de Miramion, Balice Hertling, Paris, FranceWar, Women and Industry, The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, curated by Amy Galpin
Display @, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France
2012
Once Again Particular, Control Room, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Kevin Hanley
Mind the Map: Inspiring Art, Design and Cartography, The London Transport Museum, London, UK
Double Take, Mardin Biennial, various venues, Mardin, Turkey. Curated by Paolo Columbo and Lara Sariaslan
Print Out, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Organized by Christophe Cherix.
Others (curated by Pae White), MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria
Kristin Baker, Mark Barrow, Nina Beier, Scott Lyall, John Henderson, Fredrik Vaerslev, Pae White, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
International Orange, Fort Point, San Francisco, CA. Organized by Cheryl Haines and For Site Foundation
Behold, America! Art of the United States from Three San Diego Museums, The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Make it Work: Material Matters in Art and Design, Palm Springs Art Museum. Palm Springs, CA
Organic, Centre d’art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland. Curated by Paolo Columbo
International Orange: Artists Respond to the Golden Gate Bridge at 75, San Francisco, CA
2011
Marea de Nudos, MUAC, Mexico City, Mexico
Suspense. Suspended Sculpture, EX3, Florence, Italy. Curated by Lorenzo Guisti and Arabella Natalini
For Love or Money, Kumu Estonian Art Museum, Estonia. Curated by Simon Rees
Paradise Lost, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey, Curated by Paolo Colombo
Spirit and Space, Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Sala de Arte Santander, Madrid, Spain
Painting, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Greater LA, New York, NY, Curated by Benjamin Godsill and Joel Mesler
Everything Must Go, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, NY
Trespass Parade, West of Rome, Los Angeles, CA
Alles Gerade lügt- Straight Lines Always Lie, Rahn Comtemporary, Zurich, Switzerland. Curated by Oliver Zybok
Paper Cuts, Fullerton College Art Gallery, Fullerton, CA
Between a Rock and a Hard Place, 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, The State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece. Curated by Paolo Columbo, Mahita El Bacha Urieta and Marina Fokidis.
2010
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Contemplating the Void, curated by Nancy Spector, The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Pièces à vivre, curated by Violaine Daniels, Centre d’art contemporain, Chamarande, France
PLUS ULTRA. Opere dalla Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
Königstraum und Massenware, “Utopia Daily” section curated by Katia Baudin Porzellanikon, Selb, Germany
Alchemy, Reed College, Portland, OR
King Rat, curated by Tessa Giblin, Project Arts Center, Dublin, Ireland
The Tale of a Blind Resistance Fighter, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, Netherlands
One Work, One Room, 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA
The Artist’s Museum – Los Angeles Artists 1980 – 2010, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Marea de Nudos, Galería Jesús Gallardo, León, Guanajuato, Mexico
The More Things Change, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Five Year Anniversary Exhibition, Gavlak Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL
Songbirds and Elephants for Sale: Two works from the Collection, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
2009
Fare Mondi/Making Worlds, 53rd La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Mind The Step, 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA
Notation. Calculation and Form in the Arts, curated by Dieter Appelt and Peter Weibel, ZKM Media Museum, Karlsruhe, Germany
1999, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
House is Not a Home, curated by Ingrid Bruchard, La Calmeterie, Nazelles, France
Summer Group Show, Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA
Installations Inside / Out: Armory 20th Anniversary Exhibition, curated by Jay Belloli and Sinéad Finnerty-Pyne, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
In Bed Together, curated by Jane Glassman, Royal/T, Los Angeles, CA
From My Universe: Objects of Desire, See Line Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Rock Garden, Salon 94, New York, NY
Group Show, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Flower Power, curated by Andrea Busto, Villa Giulia – CRAA Centro Ricerca Arte Attuale, Verbania, Italy
2008
Cohabitation, 13 artists and collage, galleria francesca kaufmann, Milan, Italy
Shhoener Wohner, neugerreimschneider, Berlin, Germany
MEXICO: Expected/Unexpected, Collection of Agustín et Isabel Coppel, Maison Rouge, Paris, France
Shoes, Gavlak, West Palm Beach, FL
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, curated by Lydia Yee and Francesca Manacora, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
Introduction, About Change Collection, Berlin, Germany
100 Years, 100 Artists, 100 Works of Art, Rochelle School, Shoreditch, London, UK
Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection, Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Los Vinilos, curated by Henry Coleman, Zoo Art Fair, Burlington Gardens, London, UK
Tales of Time and Space, curated by Andrea Schlieker, Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone, UK
Aesthetics of Similarities, Another History of Future; Prague Triennale – Re-reading the Future, curated by Oliver Zybok, Veletrzni Palace, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Variation 1, Wiener Konzerthausses, Vienna, Austria
Smoke, curated by Implicasphere, Pump House Gallery, London, UK
Construction, 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA
It’s about Sculpture, Sammlung Haubrok, Berlin, Germany
The Light of the Virgo, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
Under the Influence, curated by Francie Bishop Good, Jane Hart and Michelle Weinberg, Art and Culture center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL
COLOR, curated by Stephanie Skestos, Gabriele Rena Sternberg Gallery, Glencoe, IL
run run, curated by Alex Frost and Sorcha Dallas, Collins Gallery at University of Scotland, Glasgow International, Glasgow, Scotland
Legende, curated by Alexis Vaillant, Domaine Departemental de Chamarande, Chamarande, France
2007
Half Square, Half Crazy, curated by Vincent Pecoil, Villa Arson, Nice, France
Skulpture Projekte Münster 07, Münster, Germany
If Everybody Had an Ocean, curated by Alex Farquarson, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, UK; CAPC, Bordeaux, France
New Materials as New Media, curated by Kippy Stroud, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Los Vinilos, curated by Henry Coleman, El Basilico, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Shadow Cabinet – part II; Route A1, curated by Petra Heck, de Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Six, Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Alone in the Jungle, curated by George Porcari, Mandarin, Los Angeles, CA
L.A. Desire, curated by Wilhelm Schürmann, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Dusseldorf, Germany
Collector’s Choice: Collection 2, Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, South Korea,
Darling, Take Fountain, curated by Konstantin Kakanias, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens, Greece
Uneasy Angel, curated by Johannes Fricke Waldthausen, Spreuth Magers, Munich, Germany
No Room for the Groom, An exhibition with Douglas Sirk, curated by Gregorio Magnani, Herald Street, London, UK
An Archeology, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Sound Art Limo, curated by Holly Crawford, The Armory, New York, NY
Sculptors’ Drawings: Ideas, Studies, Sketches, Proposals, and More, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Michel und seine Freunde, curated by Jean and Edith Majerus, Studio of Michel Majerus, Berlin, Germany
Running around the Pool, Contemporary Drawings, curated by Terry Lindbloom, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
2006
Kit-O-Parts, CAN, Centre d’Art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Collage Effect, 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA
We Can do this Now, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
New Acquisitions, Tate, London, UK
Glass, Material Matters, curated by Howard Fox, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (cat.)
HyperDesign, curated by Jonathan Watkins, Gianfranco Maraniello, Xiao Xiaolan, Lin Shu Min and Huang Du, Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
Angela Bulloch, Judy Ledgerwood, Diana Thater and Pae White, 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA
Domestique, curated by Eivind Furnesvik and Salome Sommer, Gallery Standard, Oslo, Norway
Raid Triumverate 4, Pae White, Machine Histories and Amy Robinson, curated by Pae White, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Il diavolo del focolare, curated by Claudia Gian Ferrari, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, Italy
Idylle – Traum und Trugschluss, curated by Oliver Zybock and Martje Schulz, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg and Kulturstiftung Phoenix Art, Hamburg, Germany
Shape without form, galleria francesca kaufmann, Milan, Italy
Light X 8, curated by Ali Gass, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Group Show: Pae White, JP Munro, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
Accommodate, curated by M.J. Karr, St. Paul St, School of Art and Design, AUT University, Aukland, New Zealand (cat.)
Among the Ash Heaps of Millionaires, Ancient & Modern, London, UK
Complexities & Heterogeneity, curated by Alma Ruiz, Colección Jumex México, Mexico
four decades of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery collection, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
2005
Extreme Abstraction, curated by Louis Grachos and Claire Schneider, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
The Lateral Slip, curated by Jan Tumlir, Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA
Life on the Screens, curated by Vincent Pecoil, Les Filles du Calvaire, Brussels, Belgium
Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, ZKM, Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany
Tracking and Tracing – Contemporary Acquisitions 2000 – 2005, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Bidibidobidiboo, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
2004
The Secret History of Clay, curated by Simon Groom, Tate, Liverpool, UK
Strike, curated by Gavin Wade, ICA, Philadelphia, PA
Strange Weather, Modern Art, London, UK
The Raw and the Cooked, curated by David Pagel, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
The Hollows of Glamour, curated by Martin Clark, Herbert Read Gallery, Cantebury, UK
Game, Ferragamo, Milan, Italy
Past Present Future: Contemporary Art 1950-present, 2003/2004. The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Sign Language, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Werke aus der Sammlung Boros, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
2003
Watershed, curated by Diane Shamash, Minetta Brook, New York, NY
Breathing Water, curated by Ugo Rondinone, Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Utopia Station, curated by Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rirkrit Tiravanija, Venice Bienale, Venice, Italy
Black Rainbow, curated by Anne Collier, Lucky Tackle, San Francisco, CA
Popstraction, Deitch Project, New York, NY
160 Master Drawings, curated by Michael Neff, Oldenburg Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany
Works for Giovanni, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
LEI ….Women in Italian Collections, curated by Francesco Bonami, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy
Hover, curated by Pamela Meredith, The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Artist’s Gifts, Musuem of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Game, Ferragamo, New York, NY
From the Flat Files, curated by Brian Butler and Amada Cruz, Ramp Gallery, Wakaito Institute of Technology, Hamilton, New Zealand
3-D, curated by Mark Fletcher, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
2002
hell, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
Richard Hawkins, Stan Kaplan and Pae White, Richard Telles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Group Show, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Strike, curated by Gavin Wade, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK
Intangible, exposición homenaja a Luis Barragán, curated by Carlos Ashida, Casa ITESO Clavigero, Guadalajara, Mexico
2002 Cola Grants, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
Strolling Through and Ancient Shrine and Garden, Acme, Los Angeles, CA
Bosco, Brain Multiples, JRP éditions, Small Noise, Air de Paris, Paris, France
Shimmering Surfaces, curated by Catsou Roberts, Arnolfini Museum, Bristol, United Kingdom and Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
Center of Attraction, curated by Tobias Berger, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
2001
August 1 – 31, 2002, LA Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
John Miller, Pae White and Fred Wilson, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
New Work, New Spaces, curated by Jay Belloli, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
featherweight, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, Canada
The Americans. New Art., curated by Mark Sladen, Barbican Gallery, London, UK
Extra Art: A Survey of Artist’s Ephemera 1960-1999, curated by Steven Leiber, The California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA
The Cult, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
Deaedalic Convention, curated by Liam Gillick and Annette Kosak, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Zero Gravity, Kunstverein, Düsseldorf, Germany
Rogue Wave, LA Louver, Los Angeles, CA
Over…, Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
2000
LA, Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers, Cologne, Germany
Cheeseburger, Jürgen Becker Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
Circles ˚3, Zentrum für Kunst and Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Made in California, 1900 – 2001. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Redrawing the Line, curated by Monica Amor, Art in General, New York, NY
Sex in the Country, curated by Mai Tu Perret, Forde, Espace d’art contemporain L’Usine, Geneva, Switzerland
Works on Paper, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
What if, curated by Maria Lind, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Against Design, curated by Stephen Beyer, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
1999
OldNewTown, curated by Liam Gillick, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY
Papermake, Modern Art, Inc., London, UK
After the Goldrush, curated by Lia Gangitano and Joseph Wolin, Threadwaxing Space, New York, NY
1998
Abstract Painting, Once Removed, curated by Dana Friis-Hansen, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Color Fields, curated by David Pagel, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State LA, Los Angeles, CA
Biomorphic Abstraction, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
L.A. Current Looking at the Light, 3 Generations of LA Artists, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
WAHLVERWANDTSCHAFTEN, Art & Appenzel, Appenzell, Switzerland
Hirsch Farm Project Now: Speculative Environment, Theme Song and Wisconsin Open House, MCA, Chicago, IL
PhotoImage: Printmaking 60’s to 90’s, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
LA or Lilliput?, curated by Michael Darling, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Flaming June, curated by Sarah Gavlak, works on paper, inc., Los Angeles, CA
Love at the End of the Tunnel, or the Beginning of a Smart New Day, curated by Marilu Knode, COCA, Seattle, WA (cat.)
Time Dilates at Three-Day Weekend, curated by Dave Muller, Tomas Studios, New York, NY
The Unreal Person, curated by Irit Krygier, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA
Three Day Weekend, curated by Dave Muller, Krinzinger Gallery, Vienna, Austria
In the Polka Dot Kitchen, curated by Sally Elesby, Otis Art Gallery, Los Angeles and The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
[Re] Mediation: The Digital in Contemporary American Printmaking, East Gallery, Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
1997
Enterprise, curated by Christoph Grunenberg, ICA, Boston, MA
Elusive Paradise, curated by Connie Butler and Stacia Payne, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Best of the Season, curated by Harry Philbrick, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
New Acquisitions and Work from the Permanent Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
No Small Feet, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
[re] – meditation: The Digital in Contemporary American Printmaking, 22nd International Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Her Eyes are a Blue Million Miles, curated by Dave Muller, Three Day Weekend, Mälmo, Sweden
Ten Los Angeles Artists, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
New Grounds, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
1996
Landscape Reclaimed, curated by Harry Philbrick, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Just Past: The Contemporary in MOCA’s Permanent Collection, Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
True Bliss, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
Muse-X Editions recent publications, Santa Monica Museum, CA
Sally Elesby/Pae White, curated by Lisa Overduin, Four Walls, San Francisco, CA
Mod Squad, curated by Michael Darling, Spanish Box, Santa Barbara, CA
Ginny Bishton Richard Hawkins Pae White, Richard Telles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Open House, curated by John O’Brien, Williamson Gallery, Art Center College, Pasadena, CA
1995
HAWAII, with Jorge Pardo, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
Saturday Night Fever, curated by Michael Cohen and Catherine Liu, Tom Solomon’s Garage Los Angeles, CA
filmcuts, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
neotoma, curated by Renée Petropoulos and Ann Ayers, Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Youth Culture ate My Dog (but I don’t really mind), curated by Kathryn Hixson, Joe Scanlan and Irene Tsatsos, TBA, Chicago, IL (cat.)
Smells Like Vinyl, curated by Sarah Seager and Thad Strode, Roger Merians Gallery, New York, NY
Message is the Medium, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, NY
1994
Pure Beauty, curated by Ann Goldstein, The American Center, Paris, France and MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
Notational Photography, curated by Friedrich Petzel, Petzel/Borgmann and Metro Pictures, New York, NY
The Art of Seduction, curated by Bonnie Clearwater, The Center Gallery at Miami Dade Community College, Miami, FL
Watt, curated by Goose Oosterhof and Chris Dercon, Witte de With, Rotterdam and the Kunsthal, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Identity: The Logic of Appearance, curated by Shoshana Blank, Krinzinger Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Bad Girls, curated by Marcia Tucker, The New Museum, New York, NY
Plane Structures, curated by David Pagel, Otis Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA; White Columns, New York, NY; Wesleyan University Center, Middletown, CT; Nevada Institute for the Advancement of Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV; The University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, TX
The Green Show, curated by Wendy Adest, Bradley Building, Los Angeles, CA
Transtextualism, curated by Sabina Ott, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1993
Cherry Bomb, curated by Mike Blockstein and Meg Mack, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
TIMES, curated by Andrew Cross, Anderson O’Day Gallery, London, UK
Home Alone, curated by Michael Cohen Bliss Gallery, Pasadena, CA
The Imp of the Perverse, curated by Alisa Tager, Sally Hawkins, New York, NY
Sugar n’ Spice, curated by Carolanne Klonirides and Noriko Gamblin, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA (cat.)
Into the Lapse, curated by Brian D. Butler and Jean Rasenberger. Karsten Schubert, London, UK; Friesenwall 120, Cologne, Geramny; Dogenhouse, Leipzig, Germany; Bruno Brunnet Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany; The Royal Danish Academy of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark (cat.); Société des Expositions du Palais des Beaux- Arts, Brussels, Belgium
1992
Summer Show, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Group Show, Elizabeth Koury, New York, NY
Recent Purchases From the Roseview Collection, curated by Sally Elesby, Roseview Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Detour, curated by Barbara Duncan and Sandra Antelo-Saurez, International House, New York, NY
1991
The Lick of the Eye, curated by David Pagel, Shoshana Wayne, Santa Monica, CA
Sam Durant, Ed Suman, Andrew Winer and Pae White, Parker Zanic, Los Angeles, CA
Window on L.A., curated by David Pagel, L.A. Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
1990
Mixed Media, Mixed Messages, curated by Paul Darrow, Lang Art Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
The White Show, curated by Tom Dolan and Mark Stritzel, W.C. Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Art Center and UCLA at Cal Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Projects and Public Commissions
2024
Public Marketplace, Emeryville, CA [in development]
Somethinging, Paddington Station, London, United Kingdom
2023
Qwalala, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA
sunset in your pocket, Murano illumine il mondo, St Mark’s Square, Venice, Italy
2020
Day for night for day and Moonsets for a sunrise, The Beverly Center, Los Angeles, CA
Four Walls, Milbank LLP, New York, NY
Noisy Blushes, San José Museum of Art, San José, CA
2018
¡Hi!¡Jinx!, Hollenbeck Police Station, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Qwalala, Le Stanze del Vetro, San Giorgio Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Pomona, Bloomberg International Headquarters, London, UK
2016
please & thank you and Mistral, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, iL
2015
CMAS® Under Duress, LAX, New Bradley Terminal, Los Angeles, CA
North Embarcadero Visionary Plan, San Diego, CA
2014
FAUXCILITATOR, Portland State University, Portland, OR
THE Magic Carpet, Berlin Brandenburg Airport, Berlin, Germany
2013
Frieze, NY Sculpture Park, curated by Tom Eccles, New York, NY
2011
Restless Rainbow, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2010
Bloomberg Foundation, New York, NY
2009
Wind Thing, W Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
Artist Residency, For-Site Foundation, Nevada City, CA
Self Roamimg, Oceanfront, Miami Basel, Miami Beach, FL, commissioned by Creative Time, New York, NY
2008
MetaFoil, Stage Curtain for New Opera House, Oslo, Norway
Bugscreen, Celebreeze Plaza, GSA Excellence in Art and Architecture Program Cleveland, OH
DLD07, Munich Germany Artist Project
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Honorable Mention in the Skin of Corian competition, sponsored by DuPont
Kultur Spiegel, Artist Page, pp. 24 – 25
2005
Unknown Celebration, billboard project, Barts and the London NHS Trust, London, UK
Essences in Sensées, St. Germain des Prés, arranged by Anne-Pierre d’Albis and Parcours, Paris, France
temporary mural commission, The Big Wall, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
corner to column – a crawling painting…., mural commission, Deka Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
2004
Rover Momentum, artist’s project for the Frieze art fair, London, UK
2003 MultipliCity, Metro Rapid Line with Tom Marble, AIA
Chiacchere, Ter et Bantine, Milan, Italy
Feast, Selfridge window display, curated by Pablo La Fuente, London, UK
Ferragamo shoe project
2002
Ex-Machina, exhibition design with Jorge Pardo, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne, Germany
artist’s spread, Pavement magazine, (August/September) pp. 152-153
“Double Vision”, collaborative photo project with Mario Testino, V magazine (July/August)
2001
Thoughts on Owls by Men of Letters, Window project for Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Capitol East End Complex, Block 174, with Tom Marble, AIA, Sacramento, CA
Des Plaines Public Library, Des Plaines, IL
Palermo Building, Pasadena, CA
2000
The New Now Sounds of Today! Songpoems by Twenty-one Contemporary Artists, Limited Edition CD produced by Art Issues Press
1999
Incidental Illumination, design of a children’s reading room, temporary commission by Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
1997
ArtPix II, curated by David Pagel, Houston, TX
Windows on Wilshire, window installation for Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Advertising campaign for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2009
Presidential Scholar, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Teaching Positions
2007
Art Center College of Design, Spring/Summer 2007
2005
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, Spring 2005
2004
Krabbesholm Hojskole, Skive, Denmark, Spring 2004
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, Fall 2004
2003
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, Spring, 2003
2002
Claremont Graduate University, CA, Fall 2002
2001
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, Spring 2001
1998
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, Spring/Summer 1998
1995
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, Spring/Summer 1995
Grants, Awards, and Fellowships
2020
Commendation, City of San José, CA
Honoree, San José Museum of Art, San José, CA
2017
Australian Tapestry Workshop Fellow, Melbourne, Australia
2016
CODA Award (Collaboration of Art and Design) with CO Architects and SERA Architects for the Collaborative Life Sciences Building, Portland, OR
Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts (D.F.A.), Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
2011
Rising Stars of Design: Art, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
2010
Creative Spirit Award, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
2009
Getty mid-career Fellowship
Winner in Environments category of I.D. Magazine’s Annual Design Review
Scripps College Distinguished Alumna
Citation for Excellence in Art and Architecture, “Bugscreen,” Celebrezze Plaza, Cleveland, OH
2007
Durfee Artist Resource for Completion Grant
2003
City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A) Fellowship
2003
Durfee Artist Resource for Completion Grant
1997
Art Here and Now Purchase, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
1995
Pasadena Cultural Affairs Individual Artist Grant
Public and Private Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Tate Modern, London, UK
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Centre Pompidou Museum, Paris, France
The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
San Diego Museum of Art, CA
The Henry Gallery, Seattle, WA
Musée de Chamarande, France
Bloomberg Foundation, New York, NY
Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, Germany
Ferragamo, Italy
Ziff Collection, London, UK
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
UC San Francisco Medical School, CA
Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Fondazione Sandretto re Rebaudengo, Milan, Italy
Köln Stadtmuseum, Cologne, Germany
Palm Springs Museum, CA
Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Collezione La Gaia, Busca, Italy
Lambert Art Collection, Geneva, Italy
Fondazione Teseco, Pisa, Italy
United Talent Agency, Los Angeles, CA
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, NY
Rakib Collection, Israel
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Köln, Germany
Museum of the City of Borås, Sweden