Drawing in the Continuous Present

Featured Artists

• Michael Armitage

  Michael Armitage (b. 1984, Nairobi, Kenya) lives and works in Nairobi and London. He received his BA in Fine Art from the Slade School of Fine Art, London (2007) and has a Postgraduate Diploma from the Royal Academy Schools, London (2010). Selected solo exhibitions include: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen (2021); Royal Academy, London (2021); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2020); Norval Foundation, Cape Town (2020); Projects 110, Studio Museum in collaboration with MoMA, New York City (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney (2019); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2019); South London Gallery, UK (2017); Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, San Francisco (2016); and Royal Academy Schools Studios, London (2010). Selected group exhibitions include Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London (2021); British Art Show 9, Aberdeen Art Gallery (2021); Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (2021); Drawing Room, London (2021); The Warehouse, Dallas (2020); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2020); 58th Venice Biennale (2019); Nasher Museum of Art, Durham (2018); Prospect.4, New Orleans (2017); Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2017); HOME, Manchester (2016); Yuan Art Museum, Beijing (2015); 13th Biennale de Lyon (2015); Palazzo Capris, Turin (2015); South London Gallery (2014); and Drawing Room, London (2013).

• Javier Barrios

  Javier Barrios (b. 1989, Guadalajara, Mexico) lives and works in Mexico City. His solo exhibitions have appeared at the Art and Culture Center, Hollywood (2021); LADRÓNgalería, Mexico City (2017); Páramo, Guadalajara (2017); and Fundación Calosa, Mexico City (2017). His work has also been included in group exhibitions at Fundación Casa Wabi, Oaxaca (2021); N.A.S.A.L., Mexico City (2021); Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City (2020); Aoyama Meguro, Tokyo (2020); and Salón Silicón, Mexico City (2019), among others.

• Jesse Darling

  Jesse Darling (b. 1981, Oxford, United Kingdom) attended Central St. Martins College of Art and Design and Slade School of Fine Art. Recent solo exhibitions include Gravity Road, Kunsteverein Freiburg (2020); Crevé, La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille (2019); and The Ballad of Saint Jerome, Art Now at Tate Britain, London (2018). Darling’s works have featured in numerous group exhibitions such as Crip Time, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2021); 100 Drawings from Now, The Drawing Center, New York City (2020); Transcorporealities, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2019); May You Live In Interesting Times, 58th Venice Biennale (2019); Give Up the Ghost, Baltic Triennial 13, Tallinn (2018); Occasional Geometries, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2017); and Bread and Roses, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2016). Darling has authored texts for publications including Art After the Internet (Cornerhouse Books, 2014); Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the 21st Century (MIT Press, 2015); Documents of Contemporary Art: Translation (Whitechapel Press, 2020); as well as written for Frieze, Artforum, Granta, and The New Inquiry. Their chapbook VIRGINS was published by Monitor Books in 2022.

• Maren Karlson

  Maren Karlson (b. 1988, Rostock, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. She has had solo exhibitions at Ashley, Berlin (2021); in lieu, Los Angeles (2020); and Interstate Projects, Brooklyn (2017). Karlson’s work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions, including Hissing Haze, in lieu, Los Angeles (2020); Counsel, Springsteen, Baltimore (2020); HU, Real Pain Fine Arts, Los Angeles (2020); Perhaps a Window?, stadium, Berlin (2020); and Fantasia, Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2019).

• Helen Marten

  Helen Marten (b. 1985, Macclesfield, UK) lives and works in London. In 2016, she was the recipient of the Turner Prize and the inaugural Hepworth Prize for Sculpture. Recent solo exhibitions include those at Greene Naftali, New York City (2021, 2016); Serpentine Gallery, London (2016); Fridericianum, Kassel (2014); Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson (2013); Kunsthalle Zürich (2012); and Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012). Her work is in the collections of the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf; The Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and Tate, London, among others.

• Jean Katambayi Mukendi

  Jean Katambayi Mukendi (b. 1974, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo) had his first solo exhibition in the United States in 2020: Quarantaine at Ramiken in New York City. Other solo exhibitions of Mukendi’s work have been held at Intemporal, Antwerp (2017); Stroom Den Haag, The Hague (2017); and trampoline, Antwerp (2016). His work has been shown in group exhibitions at Centre Pompidou-Metz (2021); Museum für Völkerkunde, Hamburg (2018); M HKA, Antwerp (2017); Palazzo Reale, Milan (2016); WIELS, Brussels (2016); and the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels (2015). Mukendi has exhibited in the Biennale de Lubumbashi since 2008 and serves as the Biennale's technical director.

• Julien Nguyen

  Julien Nguyen (b. 1990, Washington D.C.) lives and works in Los Angeles. His work was included in the 2017 Whitney Biennial and has been the subject of one-person exhibitions including Pictures of the Floating World, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York City (2021); Returns, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (2019); and Evil in the Defense of the Good, Swiss Institute, New York City (2018).

• Sanou Oumar

  Sanou Oumar (b. 1986, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso) lives in the Bronx and works in Harlem in New York City. He graduated from the University of Ouagadougou in 2007 with a major in English literature. In 2015, Oumar moved to the United States to seek asylum. His work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Gordon Robichaux, New York City (2021) and Herald St, London (2021, 2019) and in numerous group shows, including a two-person exhibition with Elisabeth Kley at South Willard, Los Angeles (2019); at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (2019), where his work is also held in the permanent collection; Karma, New York City (2020); Parker Gallery, Los Angeles (2020); Maroncelli 12, Milan (2019); Joost van den Bergh, London (2018); and Mormor Studio, New York City (2016). His art has been celebrated by The New Yorker on two occasions, The New York Times, and Artforum, and a book of Oumar’s drawings published by Pre-Echo Press was released in December 2018 at Karma Bookstore in New York City. Most recently, his work was included in Vitamin D3: Today’s Best in Contemporary Drawing (Phaidon, 2021).

• Walter Price

  Walter Price (b. 1989 Macon, United States) lives and works in New York City. Price served in the U.S. Navy en route to art school. Recent solo exhibitions include those at Camden Art Centre, London (2021); The Modern Institute, Glasgow (2020); Greene Naftali, New York City (2020); Aspen Art Museum (2019); Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2018); The Modern Institute, Glasgow (2018); and MoMA PS1, Long Island City (2018). Significant group exhibitions include those at the Whitney Biennial, New York City (2019); The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City (2017); and LUMA Foundation, Zürich (2017). His work is in the collections of the Aïshti Foundation, Lebanon; Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson; The Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, among others.

• Florencia Rodríguez Giles

  Florencia Rodríguez Giles (b. 1978, Buenos Aires, Argentina) lives and works in Buenos Aires. She studied at Escuela nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredón and continued her training under the mentorship of artists Nicola Costantino, Diana Aisenberg, and Guillermo Kuitca through the Kuitca-Di Tella Scholarship. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions internationally, including at the 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art hosted by KW Institute for Contemporary Art (2020); Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris (2020); Bienal de Performance, Buenos Aires (2019); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2018); Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo (2018); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2016); Arcus Studio, Ibaraki (2015); and Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (2013).

• Christine Sun Kim

  Christine Sun Kim (b. 1980, Orange County, United States) lives and works in Berlin. She has exhibited and performed internationally, including at the Whitney Museum, New York City (2018); Art Institute of Chicago (2018); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2017); De Appel, Amsterdam (2017); Rubin Museum of Art, New York City (2017); 9th Berlin Biennale (2016); 11th Shanghai Biennale (2016); SoundLive Tokyo (2015, 2013); MoMA PS1, Long Island City (2015) and the Museum of Modern Art, New York City (2013), among others. Her work is held in numerous public collections, including LACMA, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Tate, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.. Kim is the recipient of a MIT Media Lab Fellowship, a TED Senior Fellowship, and has presented at numerous conferences and symposia.

• Johanna Unzueta

  Johanna Unzueta (b. 1974, Santiago, Chile) lives and works in New York City and Berlin. Unzueta studied art at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and has exhibited extensively throughout Europe, North, and South America. In 2020 she had a major solo exhibition, Tools for Life, at the Modern Art Oxford, and in 2019, Field Station: Johanna Unzueta, From My Head to My Toes, to My Teeth to My Nose was presented by MSU Broad . Unzueta was recently featured in the group exhibitions O rio e uma Serpiente, 3rd Frestas Art Triennial, São Paulo (2020); Searching the Sky for Rain, Sculpture Center, Long Island City (2019); What’s Love Got to Do With It? as part of the 2018–20 Open Sessions program at The Drawing Center, New York City (2019); and was included in We Do Not Need Another Hero for the 10th Berlin Biennale (2018). Other solo exhibitions have been shown at Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City (2017); Jewett Art Gallery, Wellesley College (2017); and Queens Museum of Art, Flushing (2009). Residencies include Launch Pad LaB, La Boissière, France (2019); La Tallera, Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros in Cuernavaca, Mexico (2015); DIVA, Danish Arts Council Committee for International Visual Arts (2012); and Capacete, Rio de Janeiro (2007). In 2021, Unzueta received the support of Akanemie der Künste, Berlin, with funding from the Federal Government's Commissioner for Culture and Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR program.

• He Xiangyu

  He Xiangyu (b. 1986, Kuandian County, China) lives and works in Beijing and Berlin. From the Cola Project (2009–2011), the Lemon Project (2014–2019) to the ongoing Palate Project (2012–), He Xiangyu’s conceptual practice manifests in multi-year projects that span sculpture, drawing, installation, video, feature-length documentary, and publication. Emerging as part of a generation of artists who have experienced the post-socialist state of China, He’s work looks to shift the perception of cultural signifiers through an examination and manipulation of a diversity of materials. Divergent in aesthetic and forms, He’s projects aim to investigate personal, social, and political themes, addressing the institutionalized status of contemporary art, the archeological aspect of the everyday and various post-human conditions. He Xiangyu lives and works in Beijing and Berlin. He’s recent solo exhibitions include: Soft Dilemma, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York City (2021); Hard Palate, White Space Beijing (2020); Who Are Interested in Us, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo (2019); Evidence, White Cube, London, (2018); and New Directions: He Xiangyu, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2015).