Annie Lapin in her studio, 2022, Los Angeles, CA
ANNIE LAPIN (b. 1979, Washington, D.C.) received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles, CA, a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Recent solo exhibitions include "Bones of Light," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Strange Little Beast,” Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA; “The Art of Heads and Hands,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Watchers and Winks,” Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA; “How To Bury Your Stuff,” Josh Lilley, London, United Kingdom; “Various Peep Shows,” Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; “See?,” Annarumma Gallery, Naples, Italy; “Annie Lapin: Falk Visiting Artist,” Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; “Amnesiacs,” Josh Lilley Gallery, London, United Kingdom; “Find Finding ing,” Yautepec Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico; “History=ing,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA; “Ideal Idyl Idol,” Annarumma Gallery, Naples, Italy; “The Pure Space Animate,” Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; “Parallel Deliria Iteration,” Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA; “Parallel Deliria,” Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO; “Gruppology,” Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, and “Paintings and Prints,” Davenport Studio 54, New Haven, CT.
Recent group exhibitions include “FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANONYMOUS,” North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND; “Art and Hope at the End of the Tunnel,” USC Fischer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; “Hold On Tight,” Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA; “All Together Now,” Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA; “Do You Think it Needs a Cloud?” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Procession,” Shulamit Nazarian at VACATION, New York, NY; “L.A. Painting: Five Year Survey,” Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA; “Belief in Giants,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “The Ecstasy of Mary Shelley,” Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA; “Her Crowd: New Art by Women from Our Neighbors’ Private Collections,” Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT; “Tribal Tats,” Arturo Bandini, Los Angeles, CA; “Angels With Dirty Faces,” Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, Austria; “Lost in a Sea of Red,” The Pit, Los Angeles, CA; “Sincerely Yours,” Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA; “The Go-Between,” Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy; and “Dee Ferris, Barnaby Furnas, Annie Lapin,” Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY.
Her work is included in the collections of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Minnesota Museum of American Art, Saint Paul, MN; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; North Dakota Museum of Art, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL; Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, CA; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; and the Zabludowicz Collection, London, England.
She is the recipient of awards and residences including the Falk Visiting Artist Award, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; Residency, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO; Residency, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO; Residency, Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughn, Ireland, and Residency, Chatauqua Institute, Chatauqua, New York, NY.
Lapin lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Miles McEnery Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of works by gallery artists at the 2023 edition of EXPO CHICAGO.
By Shannon Lee
This January, Artsy is launching a series of three features to spotlight the trends we’re watching in 2021. The artists here are making works that range from aquatic tapestries and abstracted landscape paintings to lush drawings and vegetal ceramics. Their works are prime examples of what we expect to be a growing trend in 2021.
"Annie Lapin’s paintings are like portals. Step inside, and you find yourself in a disquieting landscape, unfamiliar and yet eerily familiar at the same time. They shimmer with possibilities, almost in a quantum state, to the point that if you look, turn away, and then look again, you could swear that something has moved. In her works, which are basically acrylic on canvas with some mixed media elements, the compositions are discontinuous, so that fragments of landscape are interspersed with passages of pure color and form, so that it’s impossible to categorize the paintings as figurative or abstract."
