Born 1970, Pasadena, California, USA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California, USA

Selected Press

Brooklyn Rail, Michael Queenland: Rudy’s Ramp of Remainders Redux, Toby Kamps, 4 April 2023

Contemporary Art Review LA, Michael Queenland at Kristina Kite Gallery, Keith J. Varadi, 25 January 2018

Solo Exhibitions

(C) denotes that a catalogue was published with the exhibition

2023

Rudy’s Ramp of Remainders Redux, Maureen Paley, London, UK

2022

House, Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Maureen Paley, London, UK
Rudy's Ramp of Remainders 2012/2022, Visual Arts Center, Austin, Texas, USA

2019

Maureen Paley, London, UK

2017

Roam, Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA

2012

Rudy’s Ramp of Remainders, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA

2007

The MORL or NYC-Apartment, LA><ART, Los Angeles, California, USA
Bread & Balloons, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2006

XX, Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA

2005

Michael Queenland: Photographs, Sculptures and Shaker Classics, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine; travelled to Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

2004

Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA

Group Exhibitions

(C) denotes that a catalogue was published with the exhibition

2025

Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, USA

2023

Where are we now?, FOCA (Fellows of Contemporary Art), Los Angeles, USA

Some Trees, The Floating Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2022

Flanagan’s Wake, Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2021

The Going Away Present, Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2020

Restless Index, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA

2019

Current:LA Food, various locations, Los Angeles, USA
The Foundation of the Museum: MOCA’s Collection, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, California
belonging, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Searching the Sky for Rain, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York, USA
Current: LA Food, Los Angeles Public Art Triennial, Los Angeles, USA

2018

Supplies & Demands, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California, USA
Condo New York, hosted by Bureau, New York, NY, USA
Made In LA 2018, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA
A Page from My Intimate Journal (Part I) —, Gordon Robichaux, New York, NY, USA
Stories of Almost Everyone, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA
Mis (Missing) Information, organized by Jody Zellen and Brian C. Moss, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA

2017

Soil Erosion, curated by Shannon Ebner, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, California, USA
Cinque Mostre: Visions, curated by Ilaria Gianni, American Academy in Rome, Italy

2016

Curated By A Tree, curated by Peter Ballo, 1857, Olso, Norway
New Genealogies, curated by John Edmunds and Jenny Tang, Yale School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut
Conversations I, No Pop, New Haven, Connecticut

2015

Assisted, curated by Jessica Stockholder, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Day Moon, Halsey Mckay Gallery, East Hampton, New York, USA

2014

Soft Target, curated by Phil Chang and Matthew Porter, M + B Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA

2013

10 Years, Wallspace, New York, NY, USA
B.B.S.Q.,Wallspace, New York, NY, USA

2009

The Living and the Dead, Curated by Darren Bader, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY, USA

2008

Malcolm Mclaren: Musical Paintings, ScheiblerMitte, Berlin, Germany (C)
The World Is All That Is The Case, curated by Arthur Ou, Hudson Franklin, New York, NY, USA
Catawampus, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (C)
IdleYouth, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA (C)
Act so that I can speak to you, Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany
2008 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA (C)
Nina in Position, curated by Jeffrey Uslip, Artists Space, New York, NY, USA (C)
Gaping Hole Found In The Universe, Mesler Hug, Los Angeles, California, USA

2007

In Defense of Ardor, curated by Joao Ribas, Bellwether Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2006

Cataract, Wallspace, New York, NY, USA
Trace, Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York, NY, USA
Civil Restitutions, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK

2005

Frequency, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, USA (C)
Happenstance, curated by Lauri Firstenberg, Harris Lieberman, New York, NY, USA
Die Prof. Winler: Kunst – Und Literaturtage, Circus of Books, Los Angeles, California, USA
Put It In Your Mouth/I’ll see you on the dark side of the prune, curated by Darren Bader, Rivington Arms, New York,
NY, USA
Hyperfocal, Five from L.A, curated by Alain Cueff, Galerie Nelson, Paris, France (C)

2004

Fade – A Survey of African American Art 1990-2003, curated by Malik Gaines, Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
Project by Michael Queenland, in conjunction with Notes on Renewed Appropriationisms, The Project, Los Angeles, California, USA
Bell Book Candle, curated by Nancy De Holl, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA

2003

Antisocial, Wallspace, New York, NY, USA

2002

Stuff For Use At Hand, curated by Michael Queenland, The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, California, USA
MFA Thesis Exhibition, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA

2001

After the Diagram, curated by Lauri Firstenberg, Whitebox, New York, NY, USA

Public Commissions

2019

Exposition Park Rose Garden, Los Angeles, USA

Talks and Events

2023

Artist Talk, Payson Library, Pepperdine University, Malibu, USA

2019

California Food Chains, Exposition Park Rose Garden, Los Angeles, USA

Selected Bibliography

2023

–––, Michael Queenland at Maureen Paley, London, contemporaryartdaily.com, 19 April 2023
Kamps, Toby, Michael Queenland: Rudy’s Ramp of Remainders Redux, Brooklyn Rail, 4 April 2023
–––, Must See: Michael Queenland: Rudy’s Ramp of Remainders Redux, Maureen Paley, artforum.com, 25 March 2023
Kite, Kristina, Flanagan’s Wake, ArtForum, Vol. 61, No. 5, January 2023

2022

Griffin, Jonathan, Art, Or the Aftermath Of a Party?, artreview.com, 26 September 2022

2020

Maine, Stephen, Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections, hyperallergic.com, 7 November 2020

2019

Gonzalez, Victoria, Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, Tacos and Palaces: Current:LA Food’s Artists and Installations, kcet.org, 4 October 2019.
G. Wagley, Catherine, What It Means to Talk About the Food Deserts of LA, hyperallergic.com, 30 October 2019.

2018

Mukherji, Ankita, Michael Queenland: Cereals for Space Migration, Artillery, August 2018.
Olman, Leah, Michael Queenland Spins Trash on the Ground into clever canvases for the living, Los Angeles Times, 13 January, 2018.
Varadi, Keith J, Michael Queenland at Kristina Kite Gallery, Contemporary Art Review, LA, 25 January 2018.
Zellen, Jody, Michael Queenland: Kristina Kite Gallery, Artillery Magazine, 6 March, 2018.

2017

Campbell, Andy, Michael Queenland, Critics’ Picks, Artforum.com, December 2017.

2015

Waxman, Lori, Bathtub or mattress, it’s all art to Jessica Stockholde’, Chicago Tribune, 28 October 2015.

2012

Ferguson, Russell, Best of 2012: Michael Queenland, Rudy’s Ramp of Remainders, Artforum, December 2012.
O’Neill Butler, Lauren, Michael Queenland, Rudy’s Ramp of Remainders, Artforum.com, October 2012.
Scarborough, James, Michael Queenland, Rudy’s Ramp of Remainders, Huffington Post, 10 December, 2012.

2010

Richards, Sara, New to Berlin, Michael Queenland Finds Art in the Ordinary, NPR, 1 February, 2010.
Mueller-Kroll, Monika, From Bedroom Artist to Insider, American Artist Finds Inspiration in Berlin, Radio interview, NPR Berlin.

2009

Momin Shamim, Michael Queenland, in: ‘Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation’, London: Phaidon Press, 2009.
McLaren, Malcolm, ed. Malcolm McLaren: Musical Paintings, Zurich: JRP|Ringier, 2009. (C)

2008

Huberman, Anthony, Catawampus, Minneapolis: Midway Contemporary Art, 2008. (C)
Hudson Suzanne, Michael Queenland in: ‘2008 Whitney Biennial’, New York: Whitney Museum of Art,
2008. (C)
Ferguson, Russell, Idle Youth, New York: Barbara Gladstone, 2008. (C)
Uslip, Jeffery, Nina In Position, New York: Artist Space, 2008. (C)
Vogel, Carol, A Biennial Bustin’ Out of the Whitney, The New York Times, 29 February 2008.
Wolin, Joseph R. Idle Youth, Time Out New York, 7-13 August 2008.

2007

Smith, Roberta, Art in Review: Michael Queenland: Bread & Balloons, The New York Times, 9 March, 2007.

2006

Queenland, Michael, The Double Door, in: ‘From You to Me and Back Again: Leslie Hewitt and Matt Keegan’ New York: Wallspace, 2006.
Brockington, Horace, Wavelength (#2), NY Arts Magazine, Vol. 11, No. 3/4, March/April 2006.
Johnson, Ken, Art in Review: Trace, The New York Times, 18 August 2006.
Keegan, Matt, Top Ten, Artforum, February 2006.
Pollack, Barbara, Review: Happenstance, Time Out New York, Issue 536: January 5-11, 2006.
Hainley, Bruce, Michael Queenland at Daniel Hug Gallery, Artforum, September, 2006.
Sholis, Brian, Critic’s Pick: Trace, artforum.com, September, 2006.
Cotter, Holland, Visions from Nigeria and India and a Van Searching for Utopia’ The New York Times, 25 December 2006.

2005

Cotter, Holland, Fanciful to Figurative to Wryly Inscrutable, The New York Times, 8 July 2005.
Cueff, Alain, Hyperfocal, Paris: Galerie Nelson, 2005. (C)
Golden, Thelma, Extremes: A Dialogue Between Michael Queenland and Thelma Golden, in: ‘Frequency’, New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2005 (C)
Kamps, Toby, Michael Queenland, in: ‘Scratch: Artists in Residence 2004-05’, New York: The Studio Museum 2005.
Keyes, Bob, A Sweeping View of the Artist’s Role, MaineToday.com, 18 September, 2005.

2004

Hainley, Bruce, Notes on Renewed Appropriationisms: The Project, Artforum, May 2004.
Roberts, Bryony, All’s Well on the Uptown Front, The L Magazine.

Grants and Awards

2023

FOCA (Fellows of Contemporary Art) Fellowship, Los Angeles, USA

2016

The Rome Prize

2009

American Academy in Berlin Fellowship

2008

Art Matters Grant

2006

United States Artists Fellowship

2005

Peter Norton Family Foundation Exhibition Grant for “Michael Queenland: Photographs, Sculptures and Shaker Classics,” Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA
Helena Rubenstein Foundation Fellowship Award for The Studio Museum in Harlem 2004-2005

2002

The Ed and Marie Shaw Fellowship Award, UCLA

Teaching

Art Center College of Design, Pasadena California, 2017 – present
The California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, Fall 2017
BARD Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, NY, USA, Summer 2017
Assistant Professor in Sculpture, The Yale School of the Arts, New Haven, Connecticut, 2010-2016
Lecturer, Sculpture Department, The Yale School of the Arts, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007-2010

Public Collections

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DS, USA
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
MOCA: Museum Of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, USA