T H E B R E E D E R

Kalup Linzy

Born 1977, Florida, USA
Lives and works in New York, NY

Education

2003 Master of Fine Arts, Studio Art, University of South Florida, Tampa FL
2002 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegen, ME

Solo shows

2009
The Breeder, Athens
Revelation 23:9, The trade in our life, Taxter & Spengemann, New York
If it Don't Fit, Studio Museum Harlem, New York

2008
The Moore Space, Miami, Florida

2007
Kalup Linzy and Wardell Milan, Context Galleries, Derry, North Ireland
Melody Set Me Free and That's Wassup, Taxter & Spengemann, Art Positions, Art Basel Miami Beach

2006
Revelation 23:7, His Rod Got in It, Taxter and Spengemann, New York, NY
All My Churen, curated by Michael Gaines, LAXART, Los Angeles, LA
Kalup Linzy: Shades of Black and White, International & National Projects, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY

2005
Project Room, Taxter and Spengermann, New York

2004
Le Petit Versailles, East Village, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009
This is killing me, MASSMoCA, North Adams, MA
Talk Dirty to Me, Larrisa Goldston Gallery, New York
Butt in Ass, Asia Song Society, New York
Hydra Art Walk, Hydra, Greece curated by Dimitrios Antonitsis

2008
Disguise, The Art of Attracting and Deflecting Attention, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Prospect 1 New Orleans, New Orleans curated by Dan Cameron
The Program, Video Association of Dallas at Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
Whatever is whatever, Hydra School Project, Hydra, Greece curated by Dimitris Antonitsis
Summer Mixtape, Exit Art, New York, NY
Bedtime Stories, The Red House, Syracuse, NY
Is You Is or Is You Ain't, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN
Glasgow International, Festival of Contemporary Visual Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Air Kissing: an exhibition of Contemporary Art about the Art World, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside,PA
Laughing in a Foreign Language, The Hayward Gallery, Southbank Center, London

2007
Television Delivers People, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
El Salvador Biennial, Here and Now: Transculture, El Salvador
Playback, Musee d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, France
Distinctive Messengers, curated by Simon Watson and Craig Hensala of Scenic, House of Campari, West Hollywood, CA
Ceci n'est pas..(This is not...), Sara Meitzer gallery, New York, NY
Role Exchange, Sean Kelly gallery, New York, NY
Art World Etiquette, curated by Ruba Katrib, Three Walls, Chicago, IL
Vocal Verbal, curated by Lala Rascic, Studentski Center, Zagreb, Croatia
Uncertain States of American- American Video Art in the 3rd Millenium, Moscow Biennial, Moscow, Russia

2006
Kalup Linzy and Charles Nelson, Romo Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Emplathetic, curated by Elizabeth Thomas, Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Black Alphabet, curated by Maria Brewinska, Zacheta National Gallery, ArtWarsaw, Poland
No More Drama: The Saga Continues, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
Mid-Life Crisis, curated by Tara Subkoff and Ivana Salander, Salander-O'Reilly, New York, NY
Masquerade: Representation and the self in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporart Art, Sydney, Australia
Do you think I'm Disco, Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos, Bronx, NY

2005:
Frequency, curated by Thelma Golden and Christine Kim, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
African Queen, curated by Thelma Golden, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

2004
Mommy! I'm! Not! An! Animal! curated by Andrew Guenther, Capsule Gallery, New York
Faith curated by Matt Johson, Champion Fine Art, Culver City, CA
Ben Addiction, Goliath Gallery, New York, NY

2003
Blue Acier, curated by Erika Greenberg, Tampa, FL
Group Show curated Derrick Adams, Kenny Schachte Contemporary Art, New York, NY
All Together Now curated by Derrick Adams, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY
The Remote Lounge curated by Camilo Alvarez. New York

2002
Group Show, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
Sunday in the Arts, Scarfone/Hartley Gallery, Tampa, FL
4th Annual Valentine's Peep Show, curated by Catherine Thompson, Hyde Park Gallery,Tampa, FL

Performance and Screenings

2009
Splendid Isolation, Athens, curated by Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, 2nd Athens Biennial, Heaven, Athens
If it dont fit, Studio Museum Harlem
The Breeder, Cantina Social, Athens
Insitute of Contemporary Art, KunstWerk, Berlin
Kalup Linzy & Shaun Leonardo, Audio Visual Arts, New York
An Evening with Kalup Linzy, Play Circle Theater, Memorial Union, Madison, WI
Comedy, Tragedy and Sketches of Me, curated by Rashida Bumbray, The Kitchen, NY

2008
Modern Mondays, An Evening with Kalup Linzy, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, British Film Institute, London, UK
Performing Proximities, Beaursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium

2007
CRG Open Video Series, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
Small Works for a Big Change: To Benefit the Work of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, Sara Metzer Gallery, New York, NY
Wow and Now: A Celebration of Feminist and Queer Performance, Joe's Pub, New York
The Editions/Artists' Book Fair to benefit Art Radio WPS1.org New York, NY
Eden's Edge: videos selected by Harry Dodge & Stanya Kahn, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
alt.pictureshows, The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
The 2007 Black Out Series, Black Pride 2007, sponsored by people of color in crisis (P.O.C.C.)
Ceci n'est pas... (this is not...), curated by Rachel Gugelberger and Jeffrey Walkowiak, Sara Meltzer gallery, New York
Variations on a Rainbow, Le Petit Versailles, New York
Soft Targets v.2.1, The Kitchen, New York, NY
Sout of the Other, 53rd Annual Robery Flaherty Film Seminar, Vassar College, Roughkeepsie
Fear of Whiteout, the substance of things hoped for evaporates in the blink of an eye, programmed by Marc McElhatten, The Orchard New York, NY
Spotlight Film and Video Series, curated by JJ Murphy, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin

2006
Kick it one time, curated by Derrick Adams and Carmen
Hammons,Rush Arts Gallery, Art Basel, Miami Beach,FL
AFI FEST 2006, Los Angeles, CA
Vertical Hold at Gallery 1 , The Ellensburg Film Festival,
Ellensburg, WA
KunstFilmBiennale at Art Cologne, Cologne, DE
Kalup Linzy’s Birthday party, P.S.1 Contemporary Art
Center, Long Island City, NY
Totally P.C., presented by The Open Eye Club at the Centre
For Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

2005
Barefoot Tina Turner and Play Wit de Churen, Le Petit
Versailles, New York, NY

2004
Naked and Waiting, Dinah Cole, curated by Derrick Adams,
Rush Arts Gallery ,New York, NY
Le Petit Versailles, “ Diva in Distress” and “ All my Churen”,
East Village, New York, NY
Saturday Night Live, “ Appalachian Emergency Hospital”
(Extra), May 8
Saturday Night Live, “Friendly Debate”(Extra), March 6

2003
The Educational Channel’s 10th Annual Independent’s Film
Festival, Tampa, FL

2002
The Florida Film Festival, Orlando, FL
The Black Dot Film Festival Ongoing

2001
The Florida Film Festival, Orlando, FL

Awards

2008
Creative Capital Foundation Grant

2007
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
Award

2005
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, The Space Program,
Studio Residency, New York, NY

2002
Matching Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and
Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
Matching Fellowship, University of South Florida CPVA,
Tampa, FL

2001
Scholarship, University of South Florida, Study Abroad
Program (Paris, France), Tampa, FL

Bibliography

2009
Dress Codes, The Third ICP Triennial of Photography & Video, edited by Eli J. Spindel, ICP/Steidl, Germany 2009
ICP Showcases Artists with Fahion Cred, Kate Scheyer, Vanity Fair, October 2009
Outer Spaces, Frank Rodriquez, Artillery Magazine, Vol 4 Issue 1 Sept/Oct 2009
Kalup Linzy, Time Out London, August 20-26 2009
Kalup Linzy, Time Out London, August15-21 2009
Going on about town: Museums: the studio museum in Harlem, The New Yorker, May 4th, 2009
30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Jonathan T.D. Neil, Art Review, March 2009
Kalup Linzy, Focus, Steven Stern, Frieze Magazine, April 2009
Prospect 1 New Orleans, Kate Fowle, Modern Painters, Marc 2009
Prospect 1 New Orleans, Steven Stern, Frieze Magazine, February 2009
Video Artist as Video:Art: Glimpses of an Alter-Ego Trip, by Karen Rosenberg, New York Times, April 2009
If it don't fit, Studio Museum Harlem, New York, by Thomas Lax, Exhibition Brochure, April 2nd-June 28 2009
500 Words, by Kalup Linzy, Art Forum. June 2009

2008:
Labeisha the Diva and the Other Potty-Mouthed Hoochies,
Sheri Pasquerella, Tar, Fall 2008, pp. 94-95
Kalup Linzy, by Nick Stillman, BOMB,
Summer 2008, pp. 44-51
Hot List: Art: Queer Art comes into Focus at Summer Shows
Around the Globe, Jordan Hruska Out, June 2008
Under the Influence: Kalup Linzy on Soap Operas, Art Review,
March 2008, p.46
Television Delivers People, The Whitney Museum of American
Art, Celilia Alemani, Artforum.com, January 2008
Video Art Thinks Big: That’s Showbiz, Holland Cotter,
The New York Times, January 6, 2008, pp.AR1 & AR18
Jay Herikes: Marianne Boesky Gallery, Nick Stillman,
Artforum, January 2008, pp.280-281

2007
The Top-Five Online Art Videos of 2007, by Rachel
Wolff,New York Magazine, November 12, 2007
Young Masters, by Rachel Wolff, photographs by Gareth
McConell, new York Magazine, October 15, 2007, p.49
Molly Shannon: How to pretend to be Other People…
And How to Imiitate Yourself, Useless No 6, October
2007, pp.9-10
Role Exchange, Sean Kelly Gallery, David Velasco,
Artforum, October 2007, pp. 372-373
Ryan Trecartin: I- Be Area, Holland Cotter, The New York
Times, September 28, 2007, p.E37
Best in Show: Your Face or Mine?, R.C. Baker, The
VillageVoice, July 25-31, 2007, p. 48
Striking a Pose For The Sake of Art, Deborah Garwood,
The New York Sun, July 19, 2007
Museum and Gallery Listings: Galleries: Chelsea: Role
Exchange, Roberta Smith, the New York Times, July 13,
2007, p.E22
Art in Review: Role Exchange, Roberta Smith, The New
York Times, July 6, 2007, p. E31
Streaming Creatures: A New Generation of Queer Video
Art, Michael Wang, Modern Painters, June 2007, pp. 101-
105, 126
Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art: Footnotes on
Geopolitics, Market and Amnesia, Moscow: Artcronika,
2007, p.191
VIVA, Carrie Moyer, Modern Painters, March 2007,
pp. 70-77
First Takes: Debra Singer on Kalup Linzy, Artforum,
January 2007, pp.196, 204-205

2006

The Artists’s Artists and Best of 2006: Elizabeth Schambelan,
Artforum, December 2006, p.111 and pp.284-285
Atlanta-Kalup Linzy, Susan Richmond, Art Papers,
November / December, 2006, pp.50-51
Art: Empathy, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Friday, December 8
Feel The Pain: Tears and Tribulations at Temple Gallery,
Roberta Fallon, Philadelphia Weekly, November 15-21
Going on About Town: Art Galleries – Chelsea, Kalup Linzy,
The New Yorker, November 13, 2006, p.19
Empathetic, exh. Pamphlet, Elizabeth Thomas, Philadelphia,
PA : Temple Gallery, November 4, 2006 – February 17, 2007
Outside the Soap Box: Kalup Linzy Twists the Tele-Novella,
Joshua Seidner, Useless, Issue no.4 – “ Fiascorama”,
November 2006, p.61
Black Alphabet : Contexts of Contemporary African American
Art, Maria Brewinska at al. Warsaw: Zacheta Narodowa Sztuki,
September 23 – November 19, 2006, pp.92-95, 195
Kalup Linzy :Romo Gallery, Atlanta, Philip Auslander, Artforum,
October 2006, P.271
Art’s a Drag, Jo-Ey Tang, Out, August 2006, p.22
Masquerade: Representations and the Self in Contemporary
Art, exh. Catalog, eds. Isolde Brielmaier, Rachel Kent, Shelley
Rice, Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, p.62
NYFA Interactive: News : Rants and Raves, malik Gaines,
Accessed at http://www.nyfa.org/level3.asp?id=472&fid=6&sid=17,
May 12, 2006
Conversations…with Kalup Linzy, Nick Stillman, NYFA
Interactive : News, accessed at : http://www.nyfa.org/level3.asp?
id=468&fid=6&sid=17, April 21, 2006
Identity Crisis, Sebastian Smee, The Weekend Australian, accessed
At http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,18708519-16947,
00.HTML, April 8, 2006
More, More, More : Susan Ross asks “ Do You Think I’m Disco?”,
Michalene Thomas, NYARTS Magazine, May/June 2006, Vol.11,
No.5/6
Report from New York: Bling and Beyond, Sarah Valdez, Art in
America, April 2006, pp. 60-63
Do You Think I am Disco at Longwodd Art gallery @ Hostos,
Holland Cotter, The New York Times, Weekend Arts, Fine Arts
And Leisure, The Listings, Friday, March 3, 2006
Color Field: The Studio Museum in Harlem surveys the state of
young “post black” Art , Martha Schwendener,Time Out, New York,
issue 543, February 23- March 1, 2006
Frequency, exh. Catalog, Eds Thelma Golden, Christine Kim,
New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, p.54
Art Review: Exploring the Effects of Disco’s Beat, Benjamin
Genocchio, The New York Times, February 19, 2006.
Emerging Artists: The Impact of Paik on Today’s Video Art,
Joribas, artinfo.com, News & Features, February 11, 2006
Review: Do You Think I’m Disco, Claire Barliant, artforum.com,
Critics’ Picks, Week of February 6, 2006
Emerging Artists: Kalup Linzy, Joshua Mack on Persiflage and
Family Values, Joshua Mack, Modern Painters, February 2006,
pp.54-55
Looking Back at 2005: Emerging Artists, Peter Eleey, Frieze,
Issue 96, January- February 2006, p.122 and table of contents.

2005
Art and Architecture: The New York Scene, Holland Cotter,
The New York Times:: Weekend Arts, Fine Arts and Leisure,
December 25, 2005, p.36
Artforum, Best of 2005, Robert Storr, December 2005, p. 242-3
Art in Review: Kalup Linzy, Holland Cotter, The New York
Times, Weekend Arts, Fine Arts and Leisure, March 25th,2005,
p.E33

2004:
“Mommy!I’m!Not!An!Animal!”, James Wagner, Jameswagner.com

2003
“Creating a home for the arts in Tampa Heights”, Babita Persaud,
St.Pete Times, November 21
“Bright Futures”, Adrienne M. Golub,
Weekly Planet, may 21, 2003

2002
“USF Student Chills Wit De Churen”, Andrew Pina, Oracle,
December 05