ACME.
6150 Wilshire Blvd., Spaces 1 & 2
Los Angeles, California 90048
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www.acmelosangeles.com
TOMORY DODGE
Born 1974 in Denver, CO
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
2004
1998
1997
MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Rhode Island School of Design European Honors Program, Rome, Italy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2004
2003
1999
1998
The Outside Therein, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
CRG Gallery, New York, NY
Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
ACME., Los Angeles, CA
Tomory Dodge & Denyse Thomasos: Directions to a Dirty Place, Southeastern Center for
Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
ACME., Los Angeles, CA
Monica De Cardenas Galleria, Zuoz, Switzerland
CRG, New York, NY
Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
Works on Paper, ACME., Los Angeles, CA & CRG Gallery, New York, NY
After Forever, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
CRG, New York, NY
Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
ACME., Los Angeles, CA
New Paintings, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
Tomory Dodge, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
ACME., Los Angeles, CA
Taxter and Spengermann, New York, NY
MFA Thesis Exhibition, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
A402 Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
CORE New Art Space, Denver, CO
Pirate Contemporary Arts Oasis, Denver, CO
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
NOW-ISM: Abstraction Today, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
Lost in a Sea of Red, The Pit, Glendale, CA
One Foot on the Ground, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2000
1998
Mona, 68 Projects, Berlin, Germany
Remains, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
An Appetite for Painting, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark
Paintersʼ Painters, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
INCOGNITO 10, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
20 Years of ACME., ACME., Los Angeles, CA
Odd Harmonics, Judith Charles Gallery, New York, NY
Tomory Dodge & Denyse Thomasos: Directions to a Dirty Place, Southeastern Center for
Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
Pulp: Works on Paper, Works with Paper, Beta Pictoris, Birmingham, Alabama
To Live and Paint in LA, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Chasm of the Supernova, Center for the Arts Eage Rock, Los Angeles, CA
Visions: Ali Banisadr, Jules de Balincourt, Tomory Dodge, Barnaby Furnas and Ryan Mosley,
Monica De Cardenas Galleria, Milan, Italy
Works of Paper, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
Palm Paintings, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
The Language of Flowers, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
Library of Babel/In and Out of Place, 176/Zabludowicz Collection, Camden, UK
The Summer Show, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
Slow Magic, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK
Opportunities, Bravin Lee Programs, New York, NY
Surveillance, Affirmation Arts, New York, NY
Art on Paper 2008, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
New Prints 2008/Spring, International Print Center, NY
New Prints 2008/Spring, New York School of Interior Design Gallery, NY
Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
The Prom - A Survey of Contemporary Painting Strategies, Lawrimore Project, Seattle, WA
Some Paintings: The Third LA Weekly Annual Biennial, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
American Soil, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
Mirage, Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Koln, Germany
Tug Boat, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
Endangered Wasteland, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
The Joan Mitchell Foundation, 2004-05 MFA Grant Recipients, CUE Art Foundation
New Prints 2006/Summer: COLOR, International Print Center New York, NY
Fast Forward: A Passion for the New, House of Campari, Venice, CA
Rogue Wave, LA Louver, Venice, CA
New View, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
Evidence, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Super Sonic, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Singing My Song, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
Surface Tension, Lombard Freid Fine Arts, New York, NY
Field Trip, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Lordship and Bondage, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
Yesterday There Was a Disaster, but Today is OK, Studio 18 Gallery, California Institute of the
Arts, Valencia, CA
ArtWeird, Stevenson Blanche Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Paper Weight, Stevenson Blanche Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
The Book As Art, Boulder Public Library Exhibition Space, Boulder, CO
EHP Mostra Finale, Plalazzeto di Cenci, Rome, Italy
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2015
2014
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
Langer, Erin, “Grounding the City of Angels: Erin Morrison and Tomory Dodge at James Harris
Gallery, www.newamericanpaintings.com
“An Appetite for Painting” Interview: Tomory Dodge,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdozN3wAfyY
Beers, Kurt, 100 Painters of Tomorrow, Thames & Hudson, London
Rogers, Brett Cody. “Tomory Dodge. Explosions, Failures, Mistakes,” Flash Art, May/June
Reust, Hans Rudolf. “Tomory Dodge,” Artforum
Valdez, Adrin. “Dance and Breaks on Canvas,” ArtSlant
Gee, Alison. “High-Rising!” Angeleno, September, pp. 136-137
Nickas, Bob, “Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting,” Phaidon Press, New
York
Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter. “Rosette in Bloom,” Art + Auction, July/August
Miles, Christopher, “Tomory Dodge at ACME.,” LA Weekly, March 6-12, p. 82
Myers, Holly, “Tomory Dodge at ACME.,” Los Angeles Times, February 27, pp. E16-7
“New Work Extra,” ArtWorld, December, 2008, p. 60.
OʼNeill- Butler, Lauren, “Tomory Dodge,” Artforum, September 2008.
McAdams, Shane, “Tomory Dodge,” The Brooklyn Rail, June 2008.
Rosenberg, Karen, “Tomory Dodge,” The New York Times, May 9.
Knight, Christopher, “Some Paintings exhibition is singularly diverse,” Los Angeles Times,
January 25.
Harvey, Doug, “Some Paintings: The artists in the third L.A. Weekly Annual Biennial,” LA
Weekly, January 11-17, pp. 30-3.
Hackett, Regina, Never fear, painting is here: ʻThe Promʼ and “Last Daysʼ crank up the wow
factor,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 17.
Luke, Ben. Art World, Issue 1, Oct. - Nov., pp. 106-9.
Thorsen, Alice. Nerman Museum Opens to the Public Saturday, Kansas City Star, Oct. 24.
Knight,Christopher. “Painting Get a Broader Brush,” Los Angeles Times, December 2,
Calendar, pp. F 1, 10 -11.
Ehrenreich, Ben. Fata Morgana: Watercolors by Tomory Dodge, Portia Hein, Monica Majoli,
Aaron Morse, Melissa Thorne, and Tam Van Tran. Los Angeles: Galerie
Schmidt Maczollek.
Ryan, Jeffrey. “Tomory Dodge,” Frieze, April, p. 169.
Diaz, Karla. “Tomory Dodge,” Beautiful Decay, Issue 5, p. 34.
Bedford, Christopher. “Los Angeles Picks: Tomory Dodge, ACME.,”Artforum.com,
January 25.
Goldman, Edward. “LA Art Exhibitions: Familiar and New Names,” Art Talk, KCRW, January 9.
Lehmbeck, Leah. “Artist and Craft,” C Magazine, January/February, p.18.
Taft, Catherine. “Apocalypse Wow: Tomory Dodge,” ArtReview, January.
Myers, Andrew. “Art Tsunami: A wave of attention-worthy artists washes over L.A.,” The
Menʼs Book, Spring.
Campagnola, Sonia. “Focus Los Angeles: A Survey of Contemporary Los Angeles Art,” Flash
Art, January-February.
Nys Dambrot, Shana. “Tomory Dodge,” Modern Painters, February.
Kunitz, Daniel and Ribas, Joao. “The Art Review 25 Emerging U.S. Artists,” Art Review
International Ed., vol. V3n3, p. 115.
Finkel, Jori. “First Come the Dealers, And Then the Diplomas,” New York Times, July 3.
Pence, Elizabeth. “Tomory Dodge at ACME.,” Art Week, February, p. 19.
Miles, Christopher. “Tomory Dodge,” Artforum, p. 188.
Douglas, Sarah. “Tomory Dodge,” Flash Art.
AWARDS
2004
Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Promised gift to Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX