Education
2007 MFA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1998 BFA, Skidmore College
1997 Slade School of Fine Art
Solo Exhibitions
2023 “The Reflective Lens”, Southwestern College, San Diego, CA
2022 “Physicality of Joy”, Harold J. Miossi Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA
2019 “Looking Through”, Gallery Also, Los Angeles, CA
2016 “So I Went to a Place”, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
2014 “Innerverse”, Edward Cella, Los Angeles, CA
2013 “Paintings that fit in my car”, POST Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012 “little conversations”, Sam Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011 “New Paintings”, Karl Hutter Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA
2010 “huhch”, Carl Berg Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2009 “makeBelieve”, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibitions
2024 “The Hunger Artist,” Good Naked Gallery (New York, NY) @ 2413 Hyperion, Los Angeles CA
2024 “ARTIX 2.0” art fair, Arushi Arts, Hyderabad, India
2024 “Spring Flowers,” Ochi Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
2022 “SWEPT AWAY”, curated by Warren Neidich, Los Angeles, CA and Hamptons, NY
2020 “Fun House,” RDFA, Los Angeles, CA
2020 “DRIVE BY ART (Public Art in This Moment of Social Distancing)”, curated by Warren Neidich, Los Angeles, CA
2020 “The Gallery is Closed,” curated by Dave Muller, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2020 “A Poem from Home,” curated by Rema Ghuloum, Jacob’s West, Long Beach, CA
2019 “Dreamhouse Vs. Punk House,” Serious Topics, Los Angeles, CA
2019 “Got it for Cheap,” The Hole Gallery, New York, NY
2018 “Looking Through”, Gallery Also, Los Angeles, CA
2016 “SYNAESTHESIA”, 5 Car Garage, Santa Monica, CA
2015 “Unbound”, Edward Cella, Los Angeles, CA
2015 “abstractabstract”, MainSITE Contemporary Art, Norman, OK
2013 “Pretty Vacant”, Lindbrook House, Los Angeles, CA
2013 “14 under 40”, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
2013 “Forms of Abstraction”, curated by Carl Berg, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
2012 “Going Public – Telling it as it is?”, (OJO collective), European Network of Public art
Producers, Bilbao, Spain
2012 “Painting on Edge II“, D.E.N. Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2012 “The Holodeck”, curated by Brad Eberhard, POST Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012 “Passenger”, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX
2012 “Alpaca: Figure, Form, & Abstraction”, traveling show to BB Galerie, Berlin;
1K projectspace- de Ekster, Amsterdam
2011 – 12 “Los Angeles Goes Live”, Pacific Standard Time, LACE, Hollywood, CA
2011 “Hearing Noise/Making Noise” , (OJO collective),, The Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena,
CA
2011 “The Golden Ass”, Annie Wharton Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2011 “Voluminous Sparks”, (OJO collective), The Studio Museum Harlem. Harlem, NY.
2011 “Unfinished Paintings”, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
2011 “Immanent Domain”, curated by Allen Tombello, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2010 “Honeymoon”, two person show with Kristin Calabrese, curated by Micol Hebron, Salt Lake Art
Center, Salt Lake City, UT
2010 “Gray Day”, curated by Noah Davis, Roberts + Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 “Second Story”, artist multiple show, Pepin Moore, Los Angeles, CA
2010 “Hidden Bodies”, curated by Molly Larkey, Stadler/Waldorf, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Summer Group Exhibition, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 “Going Back to Cali”, (OJO collective), LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Group Exhibition curated by Doug Harvey, POST Gallery
2010 “Multiplicity”, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009 “Interactive Lecture Series”, (OJO collective), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2009 “Color Chorus”, (OJO collective), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2009 “Flesh Car Crash”, (OJO collective), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2009 “lovable like bastard children and orphaned kitties”, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2009 “Feelings and Power”, curated by Rowan Wood, 533, Los Angeles, CA
2008 “New Work”, LA Art House, West Hollywood, CA’
2008 “Some Paintings”, LA Weekly Biennial, curated by Doug Harvey, Track 16 Gallery,
Santa Monica, CA
2008 “We”, (OJO collective), Curated by Jen Liu, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 “Fall In, Fall Out, Fall Down, Get Ready!”, Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles, CA
2008 “Gangbusters”, Plane Space, New York, NY
2008 Angstrom Gallery Group Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
2007 “Interconsiderations”, Taylor DeCordoba Gallery, Culver City, CA
2007 “Fractals”, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 “En La Cumbre”, (OJO collective), A+D Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2007 “Collisions”, (OJO collective), The Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2007 “Passin’ Thru The New Amazing”, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
2007 “You Are My”, Bank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 “Good Times for Never”, Queens Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA
2006 “We All, Us Three”, (OJO collective), ESL Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2006 “Rough Trade”, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 “Systemic”, DinnerwareArts, Tuscon , AZ
2006 “Landslide”, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
2006 “Joshua Aster and Maha Saab”, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 ART MIAMI, Basel, MIAMI, FL
2004 “SUPER SALON”, Samson Projects, Boston MA
2004 Two Person Exhibition, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA
2003 “Group Exhibition”, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
2003 “150” X “150”, Green Street Gallery, Boston, MA
2003 “HUBBUB”, Boston Center For the Arts
2001 “Boston Drawing Project”,Bernie Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
2003 “Small Works”, Core Gallery, New York, NY
2000 “AudioVisual” – Allston Skirt Gallery – Boston, MA
1997 “TEST SITES 123”, Gallery A, London, England
Curatorial Projects:
2019 “Making Light”, Serious Topics booth in the Barely Fair at Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL
2019 “Dreamhouse Vs. Punk House”, Serious Topics, Los Angeles, CA
2016 “The Fourth Wall”, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012 “Finds! The Unusual Object”, co-curated with Kristin Calabrese, FOCA Gallery- Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA
2011 “Unfinished Paintings”, co-curated with Kristin Calabrese, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, CA
2010 “LACE Auction 2010”, guest curator, Los Angeles, CA
2009 “Orphans and Kitties Go to the Circus”, LACE event at Circus of Books, Los Angeles, CA
2009 “lovable like bastard children and orphaned kitties”, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Honors and Awards
2015 MacDowell Colony Artist Residency, Peterborough, New Hampshire
2011 FOCA Curators’ Lab award, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Los Angeles Goes Live, year-long residency, LACE, Hollywood, CA
2009 Engagement Party, three month residency, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles, CA
2001 Vermont Studio Center Artist Residency, Johnson, Vermont
1998 Awarded Pamela Weidenmen Prize for Excellence in Printmaking
Articles and Reviews:
Lanham, Camillia. “Joshua Aster offers a fresh take on abstraction and structure”, New Times SLO, 11/10/2022
Scherr, Elana. “Exploring Los Angeles by Jeep, Asking ‘Is That Art?’”, Car and Driver, 6/7/2020.
Zimskind, Lyle, Los Angeles Magazine, 1/16/14
Wood, Eve, Artillery Magazine, Pick of the Week, 1/13/14
Artsy Editorial, 1/10/14
Frank, Peter, Huffington Post, 10/26/13
James Kalm Report. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPg3qmeq4YM
Myers, Holly, Los Angeles Times, Alluring “little conversations” 9/25/13
Harvey, Doug, LAWEEKLY, Seven Abstract Painting Shows 12/20/06
Christie, Tom and Holly Myers, LAWEEKLY, Afterschool Art 9/6/06