Born 1989, Washington, D.C.
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
2016 MFA, Painting and Printmaking, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2011 BA, Art History & Visual Arts, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2027 Solo Exhibition, Vielmetter, Los Angeles, CA, forthcoming April 2027
2026 Gathering, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA LA), Los Angeles, CA
Outsides, Vielmetter, Los Angeles, CA
2025 Night Fields, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
2023 When the breezes start, M+B, Los Angeles, CA
2020 I came to watch the morning rise, M+B, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Remote Light, Zeit Contemporary Art, New York, NY (curated by Bianca Boragi)
2017 Periscope, Virtual Dream Center 2.0 (curated by Jean-Baptiste Lenglet)
Exposures, Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, France
2013 Desire Distilled, curated by Jesse Mockrin, Pieter Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Cruising Affect: Peripheral Identifications, Abel Gutierrez Studio, Los Angeles, CA (with Nathan Lam Vuong)
2011 Tomboy, Occidental College Weingart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Nowhere but the Night, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam (curated by Gemma Rolls-Bentley)
Out of LA: Contemporary Voices, opa projects, Miami, FL
2024 Form and Feeling, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Ashton Cooper)
for love, for art, and for being, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA
2023 A Place to Stay, Advocate & Gochis Galleries, Los Angeles LGBT Center, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Pau S. Pescador)
2022 Young Americans, PM/AM Gallery, London, UK
Tom’s Queers, 27th Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival, Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Painting: New Approaches, The Chan Gallery of Pomona College, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Art and Hope At The End Of The Tunnel, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Edward Goldman)
2020 Eleven Figures in II Parts, Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA
Brush Against, Peppers Art Gallery, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA (curated by Munro Galloway)
2019 Queer Paranormal (An Exhibition Concerning Shirley Jackson and “The Haunting of Hill House”), Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
You don't control the witness, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2018 I am no bird..., ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Queering Space, Alfred University Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred, NY
2017 Virtual Dream Center, La Maison des Arts, Malakoff, France
Paysages Intérieurs, Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, France
2016 Queering Space, Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
Stream: Chapter Three, Two Chairs, South Windham, VT (curated by Cindy Smith)
Merry Go Round, Yve YANG Gallery, Boston, MA
Partners, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY (curated by Anoka Faruqee & Michael Queenland)
Double Dip, Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, CT (curated by Sheila Pepe & Molly Zuckerman-Hartung)
New Genealogies, Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, CT (curated by John Edmonds & Jenny Tang)
2015 Untitled (with Dani Levine and E.E. Ikeler), Aisling Gallery, New Haven, CT
Trans*, Yale Office of LGBT Resources, New Haven, CT
Second Coming, Second Life, Second Cousin, Second Base, Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
First Things, Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
2012 Third Annual Queer Pile-Up, ForYourArt, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Darin Klein & Friends)
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2024 Artist-in-Residence, Quinn-Emanuel, Los Angeles, CA
Artist-in-Residence, Fountainhead Arts, Miami, Florida
2019 Emerging Artist Grant Nominee, Rema Hort Mann Foundation
2016 Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship, Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, France
2015 Al Held Foundation Affiliated Fellow, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
LGBTQ Studies Graduate Student Workshop Grant, Yale University, New Haven, CT
SELECTED PRESS
2026 Bernstein, Isabella. “Meet the Five Artists Bringing a Queer Art Residency to West Hollywood.” Cultured. June 17.
Gross, Rena. “West Hollywood EDITION Marks Pride Month with Artist-in-Residency Program.” Galerie Magazine. June 16.
Pokovba, Victoria. “11 Must-See Los Angeles Art Exhibitions for Frieze Week.” Whitewall. February 24.
Bekele, Isabel. “This brightly coloured art anthology is ending the age of beige.” Dazed. March 17.
Otero, Liam. “Chelsea Highlights: Berry Campbell, Yossi Milo, Sean Kelly, Rosebud Contemporary, Tenri Cultural Institute, A Hug from the Art World.” Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, January 4, 2026.
2025 Çil, Çisemnaz. “Zoe Walsh: Night Fields | Yossi Milo,” Musée Magazine (review), December 10, 2025.
Artforum. “Night Fields,” Artguide Must-See listing, Artforum, December 9, 2025.
Art Plugged. Artsy Launches “Queer Art Now” in Celebration of Pride Month. June 22.
Artsy Editorial. 30 Artists Defining Queer Art Now. Artsy. June 1.
Rolls-Bentley, Gemma. What is Queer Art Now? Artsy. June 1.
2022 Fishman, Olivia “Layering Subjectivity Q&A with Zoe Walsh”, Artillery Magazine, September 6
2021 Teicholz, Tom. “Edward Goldman’s Own ‘Made In LA’— Pandemic Version.” Forbes, October 19.
Mendelsohn, Meredith. “How Visual Artists Led the Creative Charge for LGBTQ Rights.” 1st Dibs Introspective, June 20.
2020 Goldman, Edward. “LA Art Scene During the Lockdown.” Art Matters. July 16.
Zellen, Jody. “Pick of the Week: Zoe Walsh.” What’s on Los Angeles. July 16.
Herrick, Debra. "Threshold spaces: Rethinking Eleven Figures during Quarantine." Lum Art Zine. May 8
Hernandez, Rodrigo. "Artists unknowingly inspired by same theme at Atkinson Gallery." The Channels. February 22.
2019 McGeeney, Makayla-Courtney. "Exhibit explores sexual ambiguity in Shirley Jackson's best known novel." Bennington Banner. October 25.
Tenzer, Harrison. "The New Canon: 7 Queer Painters Who Are Tapping into the History Books." Cultured Magazine. June 20.
2018 Ekstrand, Anna Mikaela. "Processes of Seduction. Zoe Walsh Talks About Their Show 'Remote Light' at Zeit Contemporary Art." Cultbytes. November 27.
2017 Frase Contemporary Art, "Frase Got Talent Catalogue," December. Manvi, Maya. "Zoe Walsh: Periscope." Virtual Dream Center 2.0, October.
2016 Sargent, Antwaun. "A Look Inside the First Queer Art Show at Yale." Vice: Creators Project, October 27.
Butler, Sharon. "Examining Queer @ Yale University," Two Coats of Paint, October 21.
Cummings, Mike. "Exhibit Unites Yale School of Art Students, Faculty, and Alumni Across Generations," YaleNews, January 21, 2016.
2013 Wagley, Catherine. “Five Artsy Things to Do This Week: Experimental Baby-sitting and the Fuzzy Wild West,” LA Weekly, September 5.
2011 Diggins, Claire. “Identity in Art: Zoe Walsh’s Experience As a Studio Art Major,” The Occidental Weekly, February 14
MEDIA
2021 “Ep. 8: Curator Susie Ferrell and Artist Zoe Walsh.” Art Sense Podcast.
PUBLICATIONS
2026 Rei, Olga, and Valentine Uhovski, eds. Rainbow Dreams: Color and Light in Contemporary Art. New York: Monacelli Press/Phaidon.
2022 100 Queer Poems, eds. Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillian. Vintage / Random House UK. Cover artist.
Davids, Nadia. “Surf Boys.” Astra Magazine, November 2, 2022. Featuring The Peripheries of Love, 2019.
2021 Gertrude, Issue 35, “Hunger,” Exposition Review, Vol. VI. Cover artist.
2018 Cracked Screens, Modern Pizza Issue No. 03 (curated by Munro Galloway and James Miller)
LECTURES, PANELS, and CONVERSATIONS
2026 Artist Talk: Zoe Walsh and Linda Besemer. Vielmetter Los Angeles. February 14, 2026.
Artist Talk: Zoe Walsh in Conversation with Didier William. Yossi Milo Gallery, January 8, 2026.
2024 Queer Art Panel: Didier William, Zoe Walsh, Kyle Dunn & Celeste Dupuy-Spencer (moderated by Jasmine Wahi), Basel, Switzerland, June 12.
Visiting Artist Lecture, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA, November 6.
2021 Visiting Artist Lecture, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, November 18.
Visiting Artist Lecture, Windward School, Los Angeles, CA, November 17.
2020 Visiting Artist Lecture, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA, November 6.
Visiting Artist Lecture, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, November 2.
Visiting Artist Lecture, The Cooper Union, New York, NY, October 5.
2019 Artist Panel (moderated by Catherine Taft), ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA, July 28.
2018 Temp Talk, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
2017 Visiting Artist Lecture, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA, October 31.
2016 The Tactile and the Visible: Bjorn Sparrman & Zoe Walsh, Yve YANG Gallery, Boston, MA, July 28.
2015 Perspectival Systems and Gender in Rome, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, September 21.
2011 Tomboy, Queer Horizons Conference, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, April 30. The Oxy Street Art Project, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, April 18.