KEVIN SULLIVAN ARTWORK
Kevin Sullivan
Education: Bachelor of Arts, UCLA 1988, Painting / Performance Art
Solo Exhibitions:
2019 6 or 7 Paintings, 2 or 3 Sculptures, 1 Rock and Roll Band, LSH Colab, Los Angeles, CA
2015 24 Views of Bolsa Chica, Alias Books East, Los Angeles, CA
2000 This is Bruxism, Gallery 207 West Hollywood, CA
1995 Jose Freire Fine Art, New York, NY.
1994 AB Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993 Jose Freire Fine Art, New York, NY.
1992 E. Krokus Crock, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
1991 Residuum, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Guest Room, Los Angeles, CA
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Performance:
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2018 Towards an Ape Theatre, Part VI, Darmstadt, Germany
2016 Towards an Ape Theatre, Pasadena, CA
2010 Art Procedure in Movement, Los Angeles
2000 The Fashion Show, George's, Los Angeles
Bobblehead Andy, California Plaza, Los Angeles
1998 Ippolit, Paris, France
1991 Conversation with Paul Varnac, Art Talk Art, Foundation for Art Resources (FAR),
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
1988 Diaries of Paul Varnac, LACE, Los Angeles
Varnac Radio Broadcast, KCRW Radio, Santa Monica, CA
1987 Introducing Paul Varnac, Livestock, Los Angeles
1986 Gutterball, UCLA Campus, Los Angeles
Performance for my Father, UCLA Campus, Los Angeles
1985 Dum Dum, Santa Monica, CA
Fountain Piece, UCLA Campus, Los Angeles
In Memory of Heat, Circumstance, Culver City, CA
High Performance Magazine Benefit (with collective Eisenhower), Los Angeles
1984 Zoo Truth, UCLA Campus, Los Angeles
Artists Books:
2016 Towards an Ape Theatre, Parts I-V
2014 old taco bells
2010 Art Procedure in Movement
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Selected Group Exhibitions:
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2018 9th International Waldkunstpfad, Darmstadt, Germany
2011 Tapestry, Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona, CA
Judge’s Award of Merit
2000 The Fashion Show, George’s, Los Angeles, CA
The White Album curated by Jan Tumlir
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1999 Paintings; fore and aft, ACME, Los Angeles, CA
Motion Studies curated by Michael Darling
Performance Festival Odense, Denmark
Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Daydreaming, curated by Leonard Bravo
George’s, Los Angeles, CA
1998 Stupid Humans, Ron Dickles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
1996 Be Specific, curated by Michael Duncan
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Sugar Mountain, curated by Paul Ha and Andrea Scott
White Columns, New York, NY
1995 It’s Only Rock and Roll: Rock and Roll Currents in Contemporary Art,
curated by David S. Rubin, catalogue and traveling exhibition through 1998 including The Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona; The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; The Milwaukee Art Museum, WI and others
Center for International Grievances, Lotus Motel, Inglewood, CA
collaboration with Erik Otsea and Bernardo Zavatini
Apex Art, New York NY
1994 Nancy Solomon Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Jose Freire Fine Art, New York, NY
Altered Egos, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Interdisciplinary, curated by Sue Spaid
Woodbury University Art Gallery, Burbank, CA
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1993 Heaven Missing, Jose Freire Fine Art, New York, NY
The Elegant, Irreverent and Obsessive, California State University, Fullerton, CA
1992 The Adrenaline Scan, curated by Marnie Weber
Otis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Max Hetzler Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Real Tears, curated by Glen Helfand
Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Industrial Heros, Los Angeles, CA
PTYX, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
1991 Ovarian Warriors vs. Knights of Crissum, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
1988 LACE, Los Angeles, CA
Barnsdall Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
1987 Kevin Sullivan and Jan Tumlir Collaborative Works, Livestock, Los Angeles, CA
Artlandish, Los Angeles, CA
Top Art, Better Homes/Living End galleries, Los Angeles, CA
1986 Gilbert Brebes/Carter Potter/Kevin Sullivan, Living End Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Bibliography:
2019 Hanlon-Hall, Kathryn, "Kevin Sullivan: The Performative Consciousness of Residuum, LAMA Los Angeles Modern Auctions, October 2019, p. 128-129
2018 Ritschel, Ute, editor, 9th International Waldkunstpfad (exhibition catalogue), p. 52-53
2000 Tumlir, Jan, “The Fashion Show” Art Text, No. 69
1999 Knight, Christopher, “Imaginative Daydreaming Alters Familiar
Narratives”, Los Angeles Times, Aug.20, p. F26
Darling, Michael, “Motion Studies”, Performance Festival Odense
(exhibition catalogue)
1997 Tumlir, Jan, “On Young Art in L.A.” Art Muscle, March, p.7-9
1995 Mahoney, Robert, “Kevin Sullivan”, Time Out New York, #12, Dec.13
Rubin, David S., “Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)”, It’s Only Rock
and Roll (exhibition catalogue)
1994 Cullum, Jerry, “Witty Pop-Culture Meditations Hit the Mark”
The Atlantic Journal/Constitution, Nov. 11
Duncan, Michael, “Kevin Sullivan at A/B Gallery”, Art in America
June, p.108 (with illustration)
Duncan, Michael, “L.A. Rising”, Art in America, Dec. p. 77 & 79
1993 Pagel, David, “Kevin Sullivan at Sue Spaid Fine Art”, Art Forum, Feb.
pp.104-105 ( with illustration )
Smith, Roberta, “Nine Visitors from California”. The New York Times
Sept. 10, p.C26 (with illustration)
Hess, Elizabeth, “Mona Lisa’s Smile”, The Village Voice, Feb. 9, p.77
Fox, Marisa, “The Aesthetics of Rock, Part Two” Option, #53 , Nov.
pp. 83-85 ( with illustration)
Devine, Rory, “Heaven Missing” picturebook, pp.23-25
(with Illustration)
1992 Bonetti, David, “A Generation Traces Tracks of Real Tears”
San Francisco Examiner, March 11
Linwood, Elliott, “Enchantingly Cheap Flamboyance”,
Bay Area Reporter, March 5, p. 27
Powers, Ann, “Class Sissy”, SF Weekly, March 4
-------, SF Weekly, Feb. 26 ( illustration)
-------, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Feb. 26 (illustration)
1991 Feineman, Neil, “Wheels”, Beach Culture, May/June
1990 Clearwater, Bonnie, “Lettre de Los Angeles”, Art Press, Fall Issue
Woodard, Joseph, “Fudging the Boundaries”, Artweek, May 10
1989 Zellen, Jody, “U.C. Installation/Performance”, High Performance,
Spring Issue