Education

2006
Master of Fine Arts, Art
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA.

2001
Bachelor of Arts, Visual Arts
University of California San Diego, La Jolla CA.

2001
Bachelor of Science, Physics
University of California San Diego, La Jolla CA.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2019
To Ransom the Prisoners, Elephant, Los Angeles CA

2016
They Ship the Water in Everyday 2 and 3, LAXART, Los Angeles CA.
Invisible Abundance, Harold J Miossi Art Gallery, Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo CA.

2012
Screen, The Contemporary Austin, Austin TX.
Selected Group Exhibitions / Screenings

2017
Parallel City, Ms. Barbers, Los Angeles CA.

2014
Two Fold, South of Sunset, Los Angeles CA.

2013
Abstract Perversion, 5 Car Garage at Emma Gray Gallery, Santa Monica CA.

2012
Hilaria, The End, Los Angeles CA.
The Dependent Art Fair, Regina Rex at the Dependent Art Fair, The Comfort Inn, New York NY.
Narcissism: The Real, The Fake and The Anti-Digital Impulse, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles CA.
Art in the Parking Space, LAXART, Culver City CA.

2011
Sympathetic Magic: Video Myths and Rituals, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena CA.
Return to Zero, Peredon Blanco, Los Angeles CA
FAST-FORWARD II: A Screening of Contemporary Video Art, Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, Santa Barbara CA.

2010
Bourgeois Problems, Francois Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles
The Moving Index 2010, Art-Office, artoffice.org

2009
Welcome to Fake Iraq, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro CA.

2008
A Fixed Formal Arrangement, Book release for Allison Carter by Les Figues Press, Los Angeles CA.
Conventions and Attitudes, Habeas Lounge – CUNY, New York NY.
Northwest Passage, The Armory Northwest, Pasadena CA.

2007
Genre Trouble, The Mandrake, Culver City CA.

2006
Greater LA MFA Show 2, Cal State University Long Beach, Long Beach CA.
Collisions and Pileups, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena CA.
Supersonic 2006, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles CA.

2005
Greater LA MFA Show, Cal State University Long Beach, Long Beach CA.
The Sims Downtown Gallery (Virtual), Her Majesty’s Project Space, Valencia, CA.
No Heroics Please, REDCAT, Los Angeles CA.

Collaborations / Curation / Performances / Events

2015
LAXART 10 Year Anniversary Benefit Auction, LAXART, Los Angeles CA.

2014
FALL BACK: Material Issue 4 Live Auction, Los Angeles Contemporary Auction, Los Angeles CA.

2008
Outpost for Contemporary Art: Monster Drawing Rally, William D. Davies Memorial Building, Altadena CA.
My Footnote to David Askevold, Performance with Hot Knives, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA.

2007
Genre Trouble, Co-curated with Catherine Taft, The Mandrake, Culver City CA.

2006
This River is Our Parade, Valencia CA; Collaboration Partners: Ken Christianson, Kristen English, Fritz Haeg, Dashiell Manley, Ingrid Sydow.

Publications / Writing

2014
Untitled – September Limited Edition, Materialpress.org written by Nikhil Murthy.

2012
The Five Best Hotel Room Installations at the One-Day Fair The Dependent, Blouinartnfo.com.

2010
ASPECT Vol 17: Hi-Tech, ASPECT The Chronicle of New Media Art, written by Catherine Taft.
On Modern Monetary Theory, Marcel, Fall Issue, written by Nikhil Murthy.

Lectures / Panels

2012
Uncanny Valley, Panel discussion at Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles CA.

2009
Artist Lecture, The Art Institute of California, Santa Monica CA.

2006
Greater LA MFA Show 2, Panel Discussion, Cal State University Long Beach, Long Beach CA.

2004
Artist Lecture, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA.

Selected Bibliography

2019
Stromberg, Matthew, “Nikhil Murthy at Elephant”, contemporaryartreview.la, January 23.