Lucas Blalock
Biography
Born Asheville, NC, 1978
Education MFA, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA USA, 2013
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, 2011
BA, Photography, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 2002
Resides Brooklyn, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Lucas Blalock in T-E-L-E-P-H-O-N-E, Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts (AEIVA), Birmingham, AL
Florida, 1989, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, New York, NY
2020 Insoluble Pancakes, rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium
2019 Lucas Blalock ... or, Or, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
Lucas Blalock: An Enormous Oar, ICA, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Ketchup As A Vegetable, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
2017 Making Memeries, Espace Images Vevey à la Ferblanterie, Vevey, Switzerland
2016 Low Comedy, Ramiken Crucible, New York, NY
2015 A Farmer’s Knowledge, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
2014 Lucas Blalock: Late Work, White Flag Projects, Saint Louis, MO
2013 Inside the White Cube, White Cube, London, UK
Assisted Camera, Peder Lund, Oslo, Norway
Id, Ed, Ad, Od, Ramiken Crucible, New York, NY
2011 xyz, Ramiken Crucible, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Sausage Party, rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium
2021 Interior Scroll or What I Did on My Vacation, organized by Soft Network, Stanley and Sons, The Art Building, Springs, NY
Breakfast Club, rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium
2020 New Visions, The Henie Onstad Triennial for Photography and New Med, Høvikodden, Norway
2019 Whitney Biennale 2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Extreme Present, organised by Jeffery Deitch and Larry Gagosian, Moore Building, Miami, FL USA
2018 You Are Looking at Something That Never Occurred, Curated by Paul Luckraft, MAMM, Moscow, Russia
roesler hotel #28: screenspace, curated by Vik Muniz, Lucas Blalock and Barney Kulok, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil
Ami Omo, Barbara Walters Gallery, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
2017 Lucie Fontaine: A Show Yet to be Titled, 83 Pitt Street, New York, NY
Optical Illusions, Contemporary Still Life, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany
More Simply Put, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY
Vanishing Points, James Cohan Gallery, curated by Andrianna Campbell, New York, NY
You Are Looking At Something That Never Occurred, The Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Homo Mundus Minor, T293, Rome, Italy
Commercial Break, Public Art Fund, New York, NY
2016 Trans-Dimensional, Aichi Trienniale 2016, Aichi, Japan
C.Ar.D: Contemporary Art and Design 2016, Pianello Val Tidone , Italy
Fabulous Failures (curated by Erik Kessels), Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France
A Modest Proposal, Hauser & Wirth New York, New York, NY
See Sun, And Think Shadow, Barbara Gladstone, New York, NY
Good Dreams, Bad Dreams - American Mythologies (curated by Massimiliano Gioni), Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
Ordinary Pictures, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
The 5th of July, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
Image Support, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
2015 Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Part Pictures, Curated by Chris Wiley, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), Toronto, Canada
Perfect Likeness : Photography and Composition, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Give a man a mask and he will tell you the truth – Oscar Wilde, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Walks and displacements, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
Camera of Wonders, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico
Reconstructions: Recent Photographs and Video from the Met Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Pure Products of America / Go Crazy, (curated by Joshua Chuang), Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
2014 Tongue Mops and Bunny Pictures, Ramiken Crucible, New York, NY
Fixed Variable, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY
Never Enough: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Rites of Spring (curated by Dean Daderko), Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
Depression, François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Time Machine, M-ARCO, Marseille, France
Lens Drawings (curated by Jens Hoffmann), Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
Made In Space (curated by Peter Harkawik and Laura Owens), Gavin Brown’s enterprise & Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY
Of Love, Pain, and Passioned Revolt. (Then Farewell, My Beloved, ‘til It’s Freedom Day), ZERO…, Milano, Italy
Camp Paradox Days, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
B.B.S.Q, Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY
Made In Space (curated by Peter Harkawik and Laura Owens), Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
New Pictures of Common Objects (curated by Christopher Y. Lew), MoMA PS1, Queens, NY
2012 Coquilles mécaniques (curated by Joanna Fiduccia), Crac Alsace, Alt kirch, France
It’s When It’s Gone That You Really Notice It, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY
Mexico City Blues (curated by Chris Sharp), Shanaynay, Paris, France
Lucie Fontaine : Estate, 2012, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
Formwandler, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
second nature: abstract photography then and now, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
Towards a Warm Math (curated by Chris Wiley), On Stellar Rays, New York, NY
Photography Is, Higher Pictures, New York, NY
2011 Talent, Foam Photography Museum Annex, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Wax Apple, Bodega, Philadelphia, PA
Chinese Take-Out, New Commissions Program, Art In General, New York, NY
Lucas Blalock and Jessica Eaton, Contact Gallery, Toronto, Canada
WIN LAST DON’T CARE, Ramiken, New York, NY
2010 Mouthful of Poison, Ramiken Crucible, New York, NY
Things Just Aren’t The Way They Used To Be (curated by Beth Camp bell), Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
New Genre Pictures, Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC
Green Honey (curated by Andrea Cashman and Borden Capalino), Ramiken Crucible, New York, NY
Self Publish, Be Happy, Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK
50 Artists Photograph the Future, curated by Dean Daderko, Higher Pictures, New York, NY
Use Me Abuse Me, curated by Erik Kessels, Photo Festival, Smack Melon, BK, NY