Artist

ANTONIA KUO
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biography / VACANCY exhibitions

Antonia Kuo (b. 1987, New York, NY) is an interdisciplinary artist working with photography, film, sculpture, drawing, painting and printmaking. She received an MFA from Yale University, her BFA from School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Tufts University, and a one-year certificate from the School of the International Center of Photography under the Alan L. Model Grant. Antonia was awarded the Robert and Stephanie Olmsted Award as a MacDowell Colony Fellow, as well as fellowships at Mass MoCA, The Banff Centre, Center for Photography at Woodstock, The Vermont Studio Center and Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto. Her work has exhibited internationally at the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA PS1, Eyebeam, Microscope Gallery, Pioneer Works, and the Knockdown Center in New York; the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal in Montreal; and the West Bund Art Fair in Shanghai, among others. Her work is in private collections and the permanent collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art and Centre Pompidou.​

Image: Antonia Kuo, Elevator, 2019
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Solo & Two-person Exhibitions

2018    Collapsed Field, Rubber Factory, New York, NY, US
2016    Total Object, Complete With Missing Parts, MuseumofAmericaBooks,Brooklyn, NY, US
2014    Black Is A Blind Remembering (w/ Niall McClelland), Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, US
2012    Conatus, Kreft Center for the Arts, Concordia University, Ann Arbor, MI, US 
2011    Into the Mist (w/ Cody DeFranco), Primetime Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, US


Group Exhibitions

2019    Burn Show, Safe Gallery @ Folly Tree Arboretum, Easthampton, NY, US
2019    Nesting Habits, ltd los angeles @ Vacation, New York, NY, US 
2019    I-N-T-O-T-O, Kunstverein am Rosa–Luxemburg–Platz, Berlin, DE
2019    Axxon N, Essex Flowers, New York, NY, US
2019    Reading Painting, Treasure Town, Brooklyn, NY, US
2018    WAY OUT NOW, Diane Rosenstein, Los Angeles, CA, US
2018    Set Adrift on Memory Bliss, Pablo’s Birthday, New York, NY, US
2018    I-N-T-O-T-O, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris, FR
2018    Heads/Tails, Next to Nothing, New York, NY, US
2018    Wild Seed, Yale University, New Haven, CT, US
2017    The Sands, B3 Biennial of the Moving Image, Frankfurt, DE; Essex Flowers, New York, NY, USA
2017    I-N-T-O-T-O, Essex Flowers, New York, NY, US
​2017    Nots al Futuro, Espacio el Pasajero, Bogota, CO; Galeria Breve, Mexico City, MX 
2017    Third Hand Mary, Emma Geller Green, New York, US
2016    Dreamlands, immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016, The Whitney Museum of American Art, NewYork, NY, US
2016    I-N-T-O-T-O, Galerie Joseph Tang, Paris, FR
2016    The Ongoing Erosion of Magic, Greenpoint Terminal Galley, Brooklyn, New York, US 
2016    Too Much of a Good Thing, Basilica Hudson, Hudson, NY, US
2015    Parallel Vienna, Alte Poste, Vienna, AT
2015    Fields Like Waves, Songs for Presidents Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, US
2015    Yin Yang, HJGS/99 Cent Plus, Brooklyn, NY, US
2015    Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Robert Blackburn Print Show, 20/20 Gallery, New York, NY, US
2014    Psycho Futurism, Scandinavian Institute, New York, NY, US
2014    Galaxy, Man, Sensei Gallery, New York, NY, US
2014    Map Car Man (Video Collaboration w/ Jakob Boeskov), Ryan Lee Gallery, New York, NY, US
2013    Monkey Town 3, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, New York, NY, US 
2013    AD BOOK, Express Visual Edition, Gloria Maria Gallery, Milan, IT 
2013    Kairos, Red Bull Music Academy, New York, NY, US
2013    Astronomical Ring, Drifter Projects, New York, NY, US
2013    The View From Here, Rita K. Hillman Gallery, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, US
2013    I’ll Be Your Mirror, Rita K. Hellman Gallery, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, US
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Awards & Fellowships

2019    Salzburg Summer Academy, Fürstenbrunn, AT
2018    Mass MoCA A-I-R, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA, US
2017    Hewlett Packard/Yale University Blended Reality Research Grant, Center for Collaborative Arts and 2017 Media, Yale University, New Haven, CT, US
2016    LIFT International A-I-R, Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto, Ontario, CAN
2016    Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Johnson, VT, US
2015    The Banff Centre A-I-R, Banff, Alberta, CAN
2015    CPW A-I-R, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY, US
2015    Arteles A-I-R, Haukijärvi, FI
2015    FID International Drawing Prize, Paris, FR
2014    MacDowell Colony Fellow, Robert and Stephanie Olmsted Award, Peterborough, NH 2013 Alan L. Model Grant, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, US
2007    Mary and Frank Rassieur Prize in Drawing, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, US


Selected Screenings / Performances

2019    Dark Geographies, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY, US
2018    Burn, Zumzeig Cine, Barcelona, ES
2017    Optipus, The Owl Flies at Twilight - Dreamlands [Expanded]: Knockdown Center, Brooklyn, NY, US (in 2019 partnership with the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, US)
2017    Optipus, The Watery Owl of Minerva: Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY, US
2017    OptoSonic Tea, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY, US
2017    Merge Vol. 3 Video / Interactive Art, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, JP
2016    Ways of Seeing - Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016, The Whitney Museum of 2018 American Art, New York, NY, US
2016    Yes: Antonia Kuo & Lily Jue Sheng, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, US
2016    Seeing Double: Antonia Kuo & Lily Jue Sheng, Cinecycle, Toronto, Ontario, CAN
2016    Super Group, Experimental Intermedia, New York, NY, US
2015    Super Group, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY, US
2015    Generations Unlimited, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY, US
2015    Cut-Up Femme Pop, INOVA, Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, WI, US
2015    Cure the Night, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, US
2015    Avant-Gif, AC Institute, New York, NY, US
2015    Modular Equinox, Silent Barn, Brooklyn, NY, US
2014    Begin / End / Loop, BYOB Shanghai, 1933 Shanghai, Shanghai, CN 
2014    Shanshui: The Gallery, West Bund Art and Design Fair, Shanghai, CN
2014    Material Flux, The Bibliorium, Beijing Design Week, Beijing, CN
2014    Light and Sound, Fugitive Arts, Easthampton, MA, US
2014    On The Timeline, Na Linii Czasu International Art-House Film Festival, Lublin, PL 

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