Ilana Savdie (b. 1986) was raised between Barranquilla, Colombia and Miami, FL. Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

 

  • 2018 MFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT

    2008 BFA, Rode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

  • 2024

    Ectopia, White Cube, Paris, FR

    2023

    Radical Contractions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

    2022

    In Jest, White Cube, London, UK

    2021

    Entrañadas, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

    Swimming in Contaminated Waters, Deli Gallery, New York, NY

    2018

    Loose Bodies, ltd Los Angeles @ VACATION, New York, NY

  • 2024

    In an effort to be held, Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI

    Rupture and Connection, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX

    Overflow, Afterglow: New Work in Chromatic Figuration,The Jewish Museum, New York, NY

    NON Objectified, KinoSaito, Verplanck, NY

    When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art/History, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

    and Elsewhere, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY

    2023

    The Big Chill, Bernheim Galerie, London, UK

    NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU

    The Rejectionists, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

    Chopped and Screwed, White Cube, New York, NY

    Perhaps the Truth, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX

    Inside/Outside, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA

    Full and Pure: Body, Materiality, Gender, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX

    Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

    Considering Female Abstractions, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX

    Something or Other, Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich, CH

    2022

    Bodyland, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, DE

    Benefit Auction, Society for Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

    Vaster than Empires, Friends Indeed Gallery, San Francisco, CA

    2021

    Abstract Vocabularies: Selections From The Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), San Diego, CA

    THIS IS AMERICA, Kunstraum Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, curated by Albertz Benda in collaboration with Arndt Art Agency

    Dancing in Dark Times, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK

    NXTHVN: Un/Common Proximity, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY

    On the other side of something, We Buy Gold, New York, NY, curated by Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels and Diana Nawi

    Swimming in Contaminated Waters, Deli Gallery, New York, NY

    2020

    Common Expression, Hesse Flatow, New York, NY, curated by Jesse Greenberg

    Envelope, Drawer, New York, NY, curated by Essex Flowers

    2019

    But my heart was awake, Golestani Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany

    ec.dy.sis II,ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA

    ec.dy.sis, Museum aan de Stroom (MAS), Antwerp, Belgium

    ec.dy.sis, CASSTLE, Antwerp, Belgium

    2018

    If I go there, I won’t stay there, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA

    Topical Cream Benefit Auction, Artsy

    Tails, Next to Nothing Gallery, New York, NY

    Summer Hot, Fredrick Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL

    Labyrinths, Nui Galway, Galway, Ireland

    Data Spell, The Border Project, Brooklyn, NY

    Way Out Now, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

    Blended Reality Showcase, Yale Center for Collaborative Arts, New Haven, CT

    Wild Seed, Yale University Green Gallery, New Haven, CT

    Stranger in a Strange Land, Castor Gallery, New York, NY

    2017

    The Sands, B3 Bienale, Frankfurt, Germany

    Reconstruir, Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY The Sands, Essex Flowers, New York, NY

    Languaging the Body, VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY Backyard Biennial, Brooklyn, NY

    All Is Written, Yale University E.I.K Gallery, New Haven, CT

    2016

    New Flesh, Rubber Factory, New York, NY

    Vital Enhancements,Good Work Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

    I’d Rather Be Here Than Almighty, Jack Barrett Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Authority Figure, Knockdown Center, Brooklyn, NY

    2015

    Homeostasis Lab, The Wrong Digital Art Biennale

    2014

    Bahamas Biennale, Art Basel | Mukwonago, Mukwonago, WI 2013 100 NYC Artists, Pop Up Show, Barranquilla, Colombia

  • 2022

    Horizon Artist Residency

    2020

    NXTHVN Fellowship, New Haven, CT

    2018

    HP Blended Reality Grant Recipient, Yale University Center for Collaborative Arts, New Haven, CT 2017

    HP Blended Reality Grant Recipient, Yale University Center for Collaborative Arts, New Haven, CT 2015

    Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Artist in Residence Johnson, VT

  • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

    Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

    Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

    Danjuma Collection, London, UK

    Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA

    Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

    The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, TX

    Burger Collection, Hong Kong

  • 2022 Visiting artist (guest speaker), The Cooper Union, School of Art, New York, NY

    Conversations: Louise Giovanelli, Danica Lundy, Ilana Savdie with Hettie Judah, White Cube, London, UK

    Interview, in conversation with curator Liz Munsell, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

    2021 Visiting artist (guest speaker), Gallery 51, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, MA

    2020 Interview, in conversation with curator Tiffany Ward, Komuna Global Arts Club

    2019 What is present: A panel discussion as part of Of This World Rather, Deli Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

    Visiting artist (guest speaker), Yale University, New Haven, CT

    Visiting artist (guest speaker and visiting critic), Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT Visiting artist (guest speaker), Fordham University, New York, NY

    Artists in Conversation: Convergence & Crash, LaCa Projects, Charlotte, NC

    2018 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Drawing, Yale University, New Haven, CT 2014 On Identifications, Mana Contemporary, Miami, FL

  • 2024 Wychowanok, Thibaut, “La sensation de la peinture Ilana Savdie enflamme la galerie White Cube de Paris,” Numéro, July 9

    Rabb, Maxwell, “Ilana Savdie’s Fluorescent Paintings Conjure a Carnival Chaos,” Artsy, June 27

    2023 Aton, Francesca, “Like an ‘Exposed Nervous System,’ Ilana Savdie’s Whitney Show Captures Collective Dread”, Artnews, July 16

    Glass, Josh, “Artist Ilana Savdie’s Whitney Museum Show Is a Vibrant Response to Dark Times”, W Magazine, July 12

    2022 Cheale, Matthew, “Ilana Savdie: ‘In Jest” Review”, Artforum, September 11

    Eckardt, Stephanie, “In the Studio With Ilana Savdie, the Artist Testing the Body’s Limit,” W Magazine, July 7

    Westall, Mark, “Louise Giovanelli, Danica Lundy, and Ilana Savdie at White Cube Bermondsey,” FAD Magazine, June 30

    2021 Wahi, Jasmine, “‘Euphoric and Grotesque’ : Ilana Savdie on Painting Parasites,” Interview Magazine, December 22

    “Surface: Art: Illana Savdie: Entreñadas,” Surface Magazine, November 6

    Kyermeh, Trey, “Ilana Savdie - Making Your Own Gods,” Metal Magazine, December 1

    Dambrot, Shana Nys, “LAWEEKLY: Pictures of You: Arts Calendar: November 4-10,” LAWEEKLY, November 3

    Selvin, Claire; Solomon, Tessa, “ARTnews in Brief: François Ghebaly To Open New York Space—and More from April 29, 2021,” Artnews, April 29

    Brito, Daniella, “In Thrilling Palettes, Ilana Savdie Maps Electrifying Geographies,” Hyperallergic, March 28

    Budds, Diana, “Murals on 9 City Buildings Will Help You Process Your Pandemic

    Feelings,” Curbed, February 8

    2020 Smith, Melissa, “5 Things to Do This Weekend”, The New York Times, February 4

    Espinosa, Fernanda, “Oral history interview with Ilana Savdie,” Smithsonian Archives of American Art, August 20

    Roach, Amanda, “Artist of the Week: Ilana Savdie,” LVL 3, November 25

    2018 “If I go there, I won’t stay there at ltd los angeles,” Blouin Art Info, October 1

    Kracke, Bernd & Ries, Marc, “On Desire: Positions of time-based and immersive arts,” Transcript Verlag, March 29

    2017 Panko, Ben, “Reach Out and Touch This Virtual Reality Art Installation,” Smithsonian Magazine, August 18

    Sutton, Benjamin, “A VR Exhibition Pays Tribute to a Long-Gone Vegas Casino,” Hyperallergic, August 9

    Johnson, Paddy, “The Backyard Biennial: A Biennial Done on Zero Dollars,” Art F City, September 22

    2016 Butler, Sharon, “Examining Queer at Yale University,” 2 Coats of Paint, October 21 Sargent, Antwaun, “A Look Inside the First Queer Show at Yale,” Vice, October 27 Sherman, Elizabeth, “MFA Annual,” New American Paintings, Issue #129, May Garcia, Adriana Chica, “Savdie Expone Su Arte Conceptual En Miami,” El Heraldo,

    December 3

    “Mossless 4: Public/Private/Portrait,” Mossless, May 2

    Eckhardt, Stephanie, “Inside Authority Figure,” W Magazine, May 22 Herriman, Kat, “A Mysterious Performance Art Show Where the Audience Plays

    Along,” The New York Times, May 18

    Walker, John, “This Dance Performance About Data, Surveillance, and Obedience F-ed

    Me Up,” Splinter, May 20

    Kirsch, Laura June, “‘Authority Figure’ Experiments With Choreo-Politics at Knockdown

    Center,” Village Voice, May 23

    2015 Taylr, Inny, “Ilana Savdie: Exploring Depth of Self,” Metal Magazine

    2014 ”Artist Collaboration: Ilana Savdie,” Print All Over Me

    Czarny, Alejandra, “Art and Technology: An Interview with Ilana Savdie,” Letra Urbana “An Interview with Ilana Savdie,” Bullett Media

    Foronda, Macey J.,“A Powerful Film About Artists Defining Feminism,” Buzzfeed, September 22

    “Ilana Savdie, Artist and Creative Director,” The Coven Magazine, July 1

    2013 “Bib + Tuck Re-invents The Wheel,” Bullett Media “Paintings by Ilana Savdie,” Recaps Magazine

    “Ilana Savdie,” The Coven Magazine, Issue I