Born    New Haven, CT 1973

Education

2003    MFA in Sculpture, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2000    BFA in Sculpture, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 


Solo Exhibitions/Projects

2010    Krysten Cunningham, Ritter/Zamet, London UK (upcoming)
           Krysten Cunningham, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (upcoming)
2009    TANGENTAL, Dispatch, New York, NY
           Krysten Cunningham/Raffi Kalenderian, Parks Exhibition Center, Idyllwilld Arts Academy, Idyllwild, CA
2008    TIME MACHINES, Thomas Solomon Gallery@Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA 
           KRYSTEN CUNNINGHAM, Sies + Höke, Dusseldorf, Germany
2006    The Field, Ritter/Zamet, London, UK
2005    Untitled Play, About Gravity Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, (Offsite-project) Los Angeles, CA


Selected Group Exhibitions

2010   Undone: Making and Un-making in Contemporary Sculpture, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK (upcoming)
2009   Practicing Moving with Fritz Haeg at the Sundown Schoolhouse, Eagle Rock Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA
          Bitch is the New Black, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
          Comfortably Numb, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
          Yield, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
          1999, China Art Objects@Cottage Home, Los Angeles CA
          This is the Future Before it Happened, Glendale College Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
          Feelings and Power, 533 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008   Yo, Mo' Modernism, Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Brussels, Belgium
          HEAVY CORNER, Creative Arts Agency, curated by Kristin Calabrese, Los Angeles, CA
          New Weave, SITE LA, curated by Cammie Staros, Los Angeles, CA
          Sculpture Trail, Grieder Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland
          Beyond Measure, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK
2007   ROCK PAPER SCISSORS, Handling Contemporary Sculpture, Andre Buchmann Gallerie, Berlin, Germany
          Minimalism and Applied, Objects for Imaginative and Real Use, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
          Summer Show, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin TX
          Big Secret Cache, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles CA
          The Re-distribution of the Sensible, Magnus Muller, Berlin, Germany
          Kairos, Cantor/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles CA 
          Between thought and Expression, Sweeny Art Gallery, Riverside, CA 
          Is that all there is to Fire ?, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA
          The Dream Show, Circus of Books, Los Angeles, CA
2006   Material Space, Tom Solomon Gallery @Rental Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2005   THING: New Sculpture from Los Angeles UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2004   Magic Show Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
          Rock Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
          Sunday Best Gatov Gallery, Long Beach, CA
2003   UCLA MFA Thesis Exhibition #5 New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
          What Do You See at Night ?, Track 16, Santa Monica, CA
          #006 Instant Installations, The Sundown Salon, Curated by Pipilotti Rist, Fritz Haeg, Asdis Gunnarsdottir and Skylar Haskard, Los Angeles, CA

Bibliography

2009   The New Yorker, Blurb, Krysten Cunningham at Dispatch, December 7, 2009
           Rosenberg, Karen. Krysten Cunningham 'Tangental' at Dispatch, New York Times, Novemebr 27, 2009 p35
           Miles, Christopher. 'Bitch is the new Black' at Honor Fraser, LA Weekly, August 27, 2009 (illustrated)
           Meyers, Holly. 'Attitude and talent to spare' Los Angeles Times, August 21, 2009
            Taubman, Lara. Endless Summer, Artnet.com, August 7, 2009 (illustrated)  
          Miles, Christopher. Krysten Cunningham at Tom Solomon Gallery, Art Forum, March 2009
2008   Miles, Christopher. Best in Show 2008, LA Weekly, December 18, 2008
          Pagel, David.  Sculptures with a grunge formalism, Los Angeles Times, November 21, 2008
2007   Tanz, Jason. Fine Art Flourishes in Tinseltown, Fortune Small Businsess, March, 2007
2006   Daimler Chrysler Collection 'Minimalism and After' Hatje Cantz, (catalog)
          Knight, Christopher. There's power in the abstract, Los Angeles Times,December 1, 2006
2005   Miles, Christopher. The Idolaters' Revenge Flash Art, May/June 2005 pp.105
          Firstenberg, Lauri. Thing, Frieze Magazine, Summer 2005, Issue 92. pp, 163
          Chang, Aimee & Chris Miles THING: New Sculpture from Los Angeles, UCLA Hammer Museum (catalog)
          Harvey, Doug. Good Thing, Emerging LA Sculptors at the Hammer, The LA Weekly,February 3, 2005
          Knight, Christopher The Next Big 'Thing' in L.A. Los Angeles Times, February 9, 2005
          Gordon, Fay. First Things First, Daily Bruin, February 3, 2005
          Chattopadhyay, Collette Thing, New Sculpture in Los Angeles, Sculpture Magazine, November 2005