Trisha Baga was born 1985 in Venice, FL, USA.
Lives and works in New York, NY, USA.
Education
2010
MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, NY, USA
2007
BFA, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY, USA
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Contact, Société, Berlin
2022
TIME MACHINE, Gió Marconi, Milan
There’s No “I” in Trisha, Beacon, Munich
Grainy Pixels, Société, Berlin
2021
Hive Mind, Société, Berlin
2020
HOPE, Illumination of the Fridericianum on U.S. Election Day, Fridericianum, Kassel
Pirelli Hangar, Bicocca, Milan, Italy
2019
Winter’s Springs, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
2018
Mollusca & the Pelvic Floor, Greene Naftali, New York, NY, USA
Biologue, Gallery TPW, Toronto, Canada
2017
Trisha Baga: CCC, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
Biologue, 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2016
LOAF, Société, Berlin, Germany
2015
Orlando, Greene Naftali, New York, NY, USA
2014
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
FREE INTERNET, Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy
2013
Gravity, Peep-Hole at Fonderia Battaglia, Milan, Italy
Florida, Société, Berlin, DE
2012
Holiday, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, UK
The Biggest Circle, Greene Naftali, New York, NY, USA
Plymouth Rock 2, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
World Peace, Kunstverein Munich, Munich, Germany
Rock, Vilma Gold, London, UK
Group Exhibitions
2024
Dog Days of Summer, Timothy Taylor Gallery, New York
Ida Reading A Letter, GEMS, New York
2023
Like a Little Disaster with the Pino Pascali Museum, Polignano a Mare
HOPE, Museion, Bolzano
THE IRREPLACEABLE HUMAN, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek
2022
Fervor, Cibrian gallery, San Sebastián
Future Ages Will Wonder, Fact, Liverpool
Vertigo, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus
The Dreamers: An Echoing—Film Program, 58th October Salon, Belgrade
How (Not) To Fit In - Metaphors of Adolescence, Villa Merkel, Galerie der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen
Biennial at Basement Roma, Rome
2021
The Modern Dog Painter, curated by Martin Bethenod and Charles Hascöet, New Galerie, Paris
Coil Pot Show, Jane Hartsook Gallery, Greenwich House Pottery, New York
Wild Frictions: The Politics and Poetics of Interruption, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Wild Frictions: Politische Poesien der Störung, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin
Clay Pop, curated by Alia Williams, Jeffrey Deitch, New York
Ceramics Now, Jane Hartsook Gallery, Greenwich House Pottery, New York
State of Motion, Marina One, Singapore
John Dewey, Who? New Presentation Of The Collection Of Contemporary Art, Museum Ludwig, Köln
2020
Magical Soup, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
2019
The Body Electric, Pavel Pyś with Jordan Carter, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
2018
PLAY & REWIND: Ode to Summer on Film, Katonah Museum of Art, Westchester County, New York, USA
3D: Double Vision, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Das verflixte siebte Jahr, Fürstenberg Contemporary, Donaueschingen, Germany
Condo: Pilar Corrias hosting Société, London, UK
2017
.com/,cn, curators Klaus Biesenbach and Peter Eleey, K11, Shanghai, China
The Trick Brain, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
I Go, You Go, Good To Go, Unclebrother, Hancock, New York, USA
Inside Intensity, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
Eighteen Hundred Flowers, curated by Oto Hillen and Phillip John Velasco Gabriel, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Futurefarmers: Errata — Brief Interruptions, curated by Rebecca Uchill, CCVA, Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
Sinister Feminism, curated by Piper Marshall and Lola Kramer, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (Participating with ceramics club (cc)), NY, USA
2016
A Composition of Intimate and Public Truths, curated by Michele Fiedler, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR, USA
Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016, organized by Chrissie Illes, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Biennial of Moving Images 2016, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Genève, Switzerland
Nam June Paik Award, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
/Development, curated by Liam Gillick, Okayama Art Summit, Okayama, Japan
Art Basel Parcours, curated by Maxa Zoller, Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland
Perfect Lives, Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Nothing Conceptual: la Meme Era, La Barra de Paquito, San Juan, Puerto Rico
What People Do For Money: Some Joint Ventures, Manifesta 11, Zurich, Switzerland
Onion By The Ocean, organized by Essye Klempner and Elisa Soliven, Underdonk, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA
default, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Secret Surface, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Ceramics Now, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY, USA
2015
Works on Paper, Greene Naftali, New York, NY, USA
Co-Workers The Network as Artist, Musée D’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France
Strange Pilgrims, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
Concentrations 59: Mirror Stage – Visualizing the Self After the Internet, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA
Sorry, I’ve been trying to teach a peacock how to act, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, USA
DIDING An Interior That Remains an Exterior?, Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria
The New Human: You and I in Global Wonderland, curated by Joa Ljungberg, Moderna Museet, Malmö, SwedenA Strong Desire, PS120, Berlin, Germany
Yes We’re Open, Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy
Jane Harstook Gallery, New York, USA
Cadence Exits, Proxy Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
2014
Private Settings, Art After the Internet, curated by Natalia Sielewicz, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Poland
Sequence 5, Miguel Abreu, New York, USA
Dark Velocity1, CCS Bard, Annadale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
High Performance, curated by Bernhard Serexhe und Julia Stoschek, Julia Stoschek Collection at ZKM, Dusseldorf, Germany
That Singing Voice, curated by Matt Moravec, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
Abscess, Rectum, Septum, Cave, Puerto Rico
2013
The Stand In (or A Glass of Milk), Public Fiction, Los Angeles, California, USA
Frieze Sounds Program, London, UK
Speculations on Anonymous Materials, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Freak Out, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
Trisha Baga & No Brow, curated by Katharina Zimmer, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna, Austria
Meanwhile... Suddenly and Then, Lyon Biennale, 2013, Lyon, France
Hercules Radio, Frieze Sounds Program, New York, USA
2012
Paraphantoms, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, France
New Pictures of Common Objects, curated by Christopher Y. Lew, MoMA PS1, New York, USA
Troubling Space, curated by Helga Just Christoffersen and Natasha Marie Llorens, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
2011
Hasta Mañana, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
14 & 15, The Lipstick Building, curated by David Muenzer, New York, USA
The Great White Way Goes Black, Vilma Gold, London, UK
Rectangle with the Sound of Its Own Making, The Fourth Wall at Vox Populi, curated by Cecilia Dougherty, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Alias, Bunker Sztuki, Contemporary Art Museum of Krakov, curated by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Krakow, Poland
2010
En el Barrio de Gavin Black through eyas arche un der feminist, curated by Pati Hertling, Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York, USA
In the Company of, Housatonic Museum, curated by Terri Smith, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
The Pursuer, Greene Naftali, New York, New York, USA
Beside Himself, curated by Terri Smith, Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR Hardcorps: Movement Research Festival 2010, Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, New York, USA
A Failed Entertainment: Selections from the Filmography of James O. Incandenza, The Leroy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University, New York, USA
2009
Los Solos II, curated by Bonnie Jones, The Load of Fun Theater, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Then and Now, LGBT Community Center, New York, USA
2008
Our Bodies, Our Selves, curated by A.L. Steiner, El Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Between Us..., curated by Meghan Dellacrosse, Leo Koenig Gallery, Andes, New York, USA
Salad Days 3, Artists Space, New York, USA
Intermission, Art-In-General’s Audio in the Elevator Program, New York, USA
2007
Thank God for My Beautiful Black Locks of Golden Black Hair, Cooper Union’s Houghton Gallery, New York, USA
Screenings and Performances
2018
Madonna y El Nino, The Paradiso Cinema, organized by Baron and Baroness Magazine, The London Edition, London, UK
2017
The Voice (2D), Screening, Cinémathèque Robert Lynen, Paris, France
Courtisane Festival, Ghent, Belgium
2013
Mae Fatto | Das Ding!, Performance, Swiss Institute, New York, USA
2012
Migrating Forms, Screening, Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA
Pedestrian Mysticism, Performance, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
2011
Trisha Baga: Performative Screening, EAI, New York, USA
2010
Greater New York Cinema Program, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, USA
Alphabet Soup, The Creative Alliance, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
2009
Adventures Close to Home, curated by Peggy Ahwesh, Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA
The Fuzzy Set, curated by Pilar Conde, LAXART, Los Angeles, California, USA
Commissions
2009
Love Affair of the Painter Balla and a Chair, Futurist Life: Redux for Performa09, Anthology Film Archives and SFMoMA
iShowU09, Alexander McQueen for Target Launch Event, curated by Sofia Hernandez
Awards and Scholarships
2016
Nam June Paik Award nominee
2008
Joan Mitchell Foundation Scholarship, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, USA
2007
MFA Fellowship, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
Burckhardt Foundation Award, The Cooper Union, New York, USA
2003-2007
Cooper Union Full Tuition Scholarship, The Cooper Union, New York, USA
Workshops, Residencies
2017
Ceramics Club, Josep Lluis Sert Practitioner in the Arts, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Collections
Aïshti Foundation, Beirut
Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo
Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson
Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, Rovereto
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Zabludowicz Collection, London