dianna molzan
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Dianna molzan: biography, selected museum exhibitions, public collections and shows at kaufmann repetto
biography
Dianna Molzan was born in 1972 in Tacoma. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
Dianna Molzan experiments with new sculptural approaches to painting while maintaining an anchor in classical materials such as creating a handle out of canvas or restricting the painting to only the stretcher bars. These new approaches allow Molzan to marry the high brow of canonical painting materials with kisch, or as curator Laura Hoptman called it in 2014, a contemporary “reenactment” of traditional painting.
selected museum exhibitions
Molzan’s solo museum exhibitions include Grand Tourist, ICA Boston (2012) and Bologna Meissen, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2011).
Recent group exhibitions in which Molzan’s work has been exhibited are Less is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design, ICA Boston (2019); The Conscientious Objector, curated by Lauren Mackler and Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey, Mak Center, Los Angeles (2018); No Man’s Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington (2016); The Campaign for Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (2016); Forever Now: Painting in the New Millennium, Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by Laura Hoptman with Margaret Ewing (2014)
public collections
Her work is a part of numerous public collections including the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; ICA Boston; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; University of Chicago; Rubell Family Collection, Miami; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others.
shows at Kaufmann Repetto
Vent’anni – Twenty Years, 2020, group show at kaufmann repetto Milan
Hubris, Pubis, Scatis, 2018, solo show at kaufmann repetto New York
Earthquake Weather, 2015, solo show at kaufmann repetto Milan
Limoz, 2015, solo show at kaufmann repetto Milan
upcoming solo exhibitions
2020 kaufmann repetto, New York
Selected solo exhibitions
2019 Fizzz, Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles
2018 Hubris, Pubis, Scatis, kaufmann repetto, New York
2017 Usurpico, kristina kite, Los Angeles
2015 Earthquake Weather, kaufmann repetto, Milan Limoz, kaufmann repetto, Milan
2013 La Jennifer, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles
2012 Grand Tourist, ICA Boston, Boston
2011 Bologna Meissen, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2009 The Case of the Strand, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles A Diamond in the Square, USC Roski Gallery, Los Angeles
Selected group exhibitions
2020 Vent’anni – Twenty Years, 20th anniversary exhibition, kaufmann repetto, Milan
2019 Less Is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design, ICA, Boston
2018 The Conscientious Objector, curated by Lauren Mackler and Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey, MAK Center for Art And Architecture, Los Angeles Gallery share, presented by Kristina Kite Gallery, Park View, Los Angeles
2017 Gallery share, presented by Kristina Kite Gallery, Park View, Los Angeles
2016 NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, National Museum of Women in The Arts, Washington South Loop, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago The Campaign for Art, SFMOMA, San Francisco
2015 NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, curated by Juan Roselione-Valadez, Rubell Family Collection, Miami Painting @ the very edge of art, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, curated by Barry A. Rosenberg About Face, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, curated by Kristina Kite and Sarah Lehrer Graiwer JEFF, Grice Bench, Los Angeles Matters of Pattern, Skarskedt, New York Speed Space, Tif Sigfrids, Los Angeles, curated by Alexandra Gaty
2014 The Forever Now: Painting in the New Millennium, MoMA, New York, curated by Laura Hoptman with Margaret Ewing Variations: Conversations in and Around Abstract Painting, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, curated by Franklin Sirmans and Nancy Meyer Animal Mineral Vegetable, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York Another Cat’s Show, 356 Mission, Los Angeles The White Album, Richard Telles, Los Angeles
2013 Xstraction, The Hole, New York Expanding the Field of Painting, ICA Boston, Boston Painter Painter, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis 2012 The Piano Lesson, Vilma Gold, London Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid Il Regalo, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles
2011 The Rose-Colored Room, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles Progression Minus Progress, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco All of this and nothing, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2010 How Soon Now, Rubell Family Collection, Miami
2009 Rogue Wave ’09: 10 Artists from Los Angeles, LA Louver, Venice CAA Los Angeles MFA Exhibition, USC Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles
2008 Some Paintings, LA Weekly Annual Biennial, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles
Public collections
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, Chicago Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Awards and grants Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York Education
education
Molzan graduated from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles with an MFA in 2009 and from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA in 2001
prizes
Molzan was awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York