Nikita Gale

Nikita Gale (born 1983, Anchorage, Alaska)[2][3] is an American visual artist based in Los Angeles, California.

BIG BAD PICKUP, 2017. Exhibited at The Studio Museum in Harlem exhibition Fictions.[1]

Education

Gale received a BA in Anthropology with a focus on Archaeological Studies from Yale University.[4][5] The artist received a Master of Fine Arts degree (MFA) in New Genres from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2016.[6]

Career

Gale's work AN ABUNDANT LOSS was recently acquired by the Pérez Art Museum in Miami.[7]

In 2022 Gale was commissioned by BMW to create new artworks for BMW Open Work at Frieze London.[8]

As of 2021, Gale has served on the Board of Directors for GREX, the West Coast affiliate of the A. K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems (AKRI).

Exhibitions and Projects

Solo exhibitions

  • IN A DREAM YOU CLIMB THE STAIRS, Chisenhale, London, UK, 2022
  • TAKERS, LAXART, Los Angeles, California, 2022
  • Nikita Gale: END OF SUBJECT, 52 Walker (David Zwirner), New York, NY, 2022. Curated by Ebony L. Haynes.[9] Reviewed in Art in America.[10]
  • Wild Frictions. Politische Poesien der Störung (Wild Frictions. Political poetries of disorder), Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany, 2021
  • BENEATH TONGUES, Swiss Institute, New York, NY, 2022
  • Nikita Gale: PRIVATE DANCER, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 2021

Selected performances

  • Nikita Gale, AUDIENCING, MoMA PS1, New York, NY, 2020

Selected group exhibitions

  • Made in L.A. 2018, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 2018
  • Fictions, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, 2017-2018

References
  1. Thackara, Tess (September 19, 2017). "The Exhibition Series That Launched Some of the Most Famous Artists of Color Gets Its Latest Chapter". Artsy. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  2. Williams, Wyatt. "Conceptual artist Nikita Gale explores the language of advertising, one photograph at a time". Retrieved March 4, 2016.
  3. wall, Clocks, paint on. "Nikita Gale: END OF SUBJECT". 52walker.com. Retrieved February 24, 2023.
  4. "Nikita Gale – Southern Constellations Fellow". Elsewhere. Retrieved March 4, 2016.
  5. "ABOUT". Nikita Gale. Retrieved February 24, 2023.
  6. "MFA 2016 Exhibitions". UCLA Department of Art. Retrieved March 4, 2016.
  7. "The Pérez Art Museum Miami Nabs Works by Two Emerging Young Artists With Its NADA Acquisition Fund—See Them Here". artnet News. December 6, 2018. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  8. "Nikita Gale's Artwork For BMW Open Work At Frieze London Explores The Politics Of Sound". Forbes. October 5, 2022. Retrieved November 6, 2022.
  9. wall, Clocks, paint on. "Nikita Gale: END OF SUBJECT". 52walker.com. Retrieved February 24, 2023.
  10. Valinsky, Rachel (May 1, 2022). "Nikita Gale". Art in America. 110 (3): 87–88.
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