Zoe Walsh
zoecwalsh@gmail.com
b.1989 in Washington, D.C.
EDUCATION
2016 MFA in Painting and Printmaking, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2011 BA in Art History & Visual Arts, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
GRANTS, RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
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
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Dallas Art Fair, Yossi Milo, Dallas, TX
2023 Untitled Art, Yossi Milo, Miami Beach, FL
Solo Presentation, The Armory Show, Rutger Brandt Gallery, New York, NY
Solo Exhibition, When the breezes start, M+B, Los Angeles, CA
A place to stay, LGBT Center's Advocate & Gochis Galleries, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Pau S. Pescador)
2022 NADA Miami, M+B, Ice Palace Studios, Miami, FL
Young Americans, PM/AM, London, UK
Tom’s Queers, Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Tucker Neel)
Painting: New Approaches, Pomona College Chan Gallery, Claremont, CA
2021 NADA Miami, M+B, Ice Palace Studios, Miami, FL
Art and Hope At The End Of The Tunnel, USC Fisher Museum of Art (curated by Edward Goldman)
Solo Presentation, Felix Art Fair, M+B, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Solo Exhibition, I came to watch the morning rise, M+B, Los Angeles, CA
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)
Felix Art Fair, M+B, The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Los Angeles, CA.
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 Remote Light, Zeit Contemporary Art, New York, NY (curated by Bianca Boragi)
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
Periscope, Virtual Dream Center 2.0, (curated by Jean-Baptiste Lenglet)
Solo Exhibition, Exposures, Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, 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)
Benefit Auction, Field Projects Gallery, New York, NY
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* Awareness Collaborative Art Project, 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
Yale School of Art Silent Auction, FRONT Art Space, New York, NY
2014 First Things, Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
2013 Solo Exhibition, Desire Distilled, Pieter Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Jesse Mockrin)
2012 Third Annual Queer Pile-Up, ForYourArt, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Darin Klein & Friends)
Two-Person Exhibition, Cruising Affect: Peripheral Identifications, Abel Gutierrez Studio, Los Angeles, CA (with Nathan Lam Vuong)
2011 Solo Exhibition, Tomboy, Occidental College Weingart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2019 Assistant Professor, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Lecturer, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA
2018 Lecturer, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
2018 Lecturer, Chapman University, Orange, CA
2017 Lecturer, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
2016 Teaching Assistant, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT (Painting Materials & Methods [Mark Aronson], Spring 2016)
2015 Teaching Assistant, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT (Painting Time [Sam Messer], Fall 2015)
2011-14 Studio Assistant, Linda Besemer, Artist & Professor of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Research Assistant, Dr. Amy Lyford, Professor of Art History, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Teaching Assistant, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA (Introductory Painting [Linda Besemer], Fall 2010)
PRESS
2022 Fishman, Olivia. “Layering Subjectivity: Q&A with Zoe Walsh.” Artillery Mag. September/October.
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.
Robbins, Nick. "Zoe Walsh," Yale Painting/Printmaking MFA Thesis Catalog, July.
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.
PUBLICATIONS
Ep. 8: Curator Susie Ferrell and Artist Zoe Walsh, Art Sense, Podcast
2018 Cracked Screens, Modern Pizza Issue No. 03 (curated by Munro Galloway and James Miller)
LECTURES & PANELS
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.