LENA DALY

lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

 

Education

 MFA, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

 Mountain School of Art, Los Angeles, CA

BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

 

Solo Exhibitions

2019

'Night Life', Femmebit, Los Angeles, CA

'Yomi's Saloon', Yamashiro, Hollywood, CA

2018

‘TRADES AiR presents: Lena Daly’ Aupuni Space, Honolulu, Hawai’i

2016

'Night Bell', Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA

2015

'Make ‘Em Do A Backflip', MFA thesis show, University of Southern California,

Los Angeles, CA

 

Group Exhibitions

2021

Compound Gallery, Yucca Valley, CA

2019

'Electric Winter', Inner Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2018

Summer Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA

National Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition 2018-2019, Charleston Riverfront Park, Charleston, South Carolina

2017

'Folklore', SADE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

'All The Small Things', Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2016

Art Basel Miami Beach Film Sector, Miami Beach, FL

'Trix', Balice Hertling, Paris, France (solo project)

Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA

Dallas Art Fair, Various Small Fires, Dallas, TX

2015

'Year of the Goose', Either Way Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

'Deep Dark Submersion', Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA

'Fragment', UCLA New Wright Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2012

'Café Hardcore Metaphor', Tallinn, Estonia

2010

'Tropical Contact High', Mission School of Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

2009

'Justin Beal, Lena Daly, Kate Owens Group Show', Jancar Jones Galley, San

Francisco, CA

'Ulli and Lucrecia’s Lustige Gruppenausstellung Mit Party', Five Thirty Three

Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

'Recovered Reflections', Envoy Enterprises, New York, NY

'Children of the Revolution', Federal Art Project, Los Angeles, CA

'The Last of the Mojitos', Queen’s Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA

'The New Young Turks', Baer Ridgeway Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

Selected Bibliography

2019

Monro, Laura. ‘Five female artists on how Los Angeles influences their work‘. Dazed Magazine. December 8, 2019.

2018

Parker, Adam. ‘N. Charleston announces winners of National Outdoor Sculpture Competition’. The Post and Courier. May 18, 2018.

Wei, Lilly. ‘Lena Daly Battery No.1’, Award for 2018 Charleston Arts Fest, Charleston City Paper. May 15, 2018.

2017

Martina Alemani. ‘Focus on the Other Side’. CACTUS Magazine. Milan, Italy. Issue 004, pgs114-117. Summer 2017.

2016

Sarah Lehrer-Grewair. ‘Lena Daly.’ ArtForum Critic’s Pick. December 2016.

Santi Vernetti. ‘Lena Daly: Night Bell’. SFAQ review. December 30, 2016.

Miranda, Carolina A. ‘Lena Daly, “Night Bell” at Various Small Fires’. Los Angeles

Times. November 3, 2016.

Leah Constantine. ’10 Female Artists to See at Dallas Art Fair’. Adhoc Magazine.

April 13, 2016.

2015

Ryan Linkof, Assistant Curator of Photography, LACMA. ‘Pictures, and Other

Photographs’. Fragment Catalog Essay, pgs 8-11. September 2015.

 

Residencies

2018

TRADES A.i.R, Artist Residency Program, O’ahu, Hawaii. Partnered with the

Honolulu Museum of Art and the Department of Art at the University of Hawai’i

 

Panels and Talks

2020

3 by Four Dinner Party, Panel Discussion, Night + Market, Venice, CA

2019

Visiting Artist to New Genres class, Otis College of Art, Los Angeles, CA

2018

‘Guide to Gallery Representation’ with Jonathan T.D. Neil, Olivia Barrett, and

Andrew Norman Wilson. Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA

‘TRADES AiR presents: visiting artist Lena Daly', Panel with marine biologists from the Hawai’i Institute of Marine Biology and The University of Hawai’i at Maona, Aupuni Space, Honolulu, Hawai’i

Paul Branch Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Artist Talk at CalArts School of Art, Los Angeles, CA