Evan Nesbit
Profile
1985 Born
2012 MFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2009 BFA San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Lives and works in Neveda City, CA
Solo Exhibitions
19..2023 "/ˈsɪn.kə.sɨs/“ Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, CA
“Marbled and Bewildered” Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY
2021 “Appelative Lines” Koki Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2020 “Tumble Cycle” Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY
“Open Objects” Roberts Projects, Culver City, CA
2019 “Evan Nesbit 2019” Weiss Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2018 “Articular Aspiration” Koki Arts, Tokyo, Japan
“Ever Dissonant Futures” James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Perishable Gestures” at Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 “Cellophane Grip” Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY
“Superstratum” Weiss Berlin, Berlin, Germany
“Elective Hip Replacement” Annarumma Gallery, Naples, Italy
2016 “Fields” Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA
“Headset / Peripheral Vision” Koki Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2015 “Headstand” James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Porosity” Eleven Rivington, New York, NY
2014 “Variable Dimensions” Koki Arts, Tokyo, Japan
“/ˈkaɪˑæzəm/” Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA
2013 “Light Farming/Heavy Gardening” Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 “JESTORIAL” Motus Fort Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Selected Group Exhibition
2023 “Moment Momentum” James Harris Gallery, Dallas, Tx
“Color Fields” Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
“California Art: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, CSUN Art Galleries. Northridge, CA
2022 “We are LA,” Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery. Cal State University, Los Angeles, CA
“On Jupiter” Olin Hall Galleries, Roanoke College. Salem, VA
“Wish You Where Here 2” Roberts Projects, Culver City, CA
“Ten Year Aniversary Show” Koki Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2020 “Talking to a Stranger” James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
2019 “The Weight of Matter” Roberts Projects, Culver City, CA
“Chroma” Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY
2018 “One Way Or Another” Roberts Projects, Culver City, CA
2017 “California Dreaming…” Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
“The Coverly Set” Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY
2015 “Bloody Red Sun of Fantastic L.A.” Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
“Mona” 86 Projects, Berlin, Germany
“Some New American Paintings” Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“And There Is An End 2” James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
“And There Is An End” Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA
“Winter Show” KOKI ARTS, Tokyo, Japan
“Made in California: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation
"2015 Miami Edition” Mana Contemporary, Miami, FL
“New Vibrations” Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
“Tatiana Berg, Evan Nesbit, Brendan Smith” Koki Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2014 “The Go Between” Museo Di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
“&” collaboration with Michele Fitzhugh, Roberts and Tilton, Culver City, CA
“Tectonic Dynamics” James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Pablo Jansana, Evan Nesbit, Letha Wilson” Eleven Rivington, New York, NY
“From Pre-History to Post-Everything” Sean Kelly, New York, NY
“The Next Level” Annarumma Gallery, Naples, Italy
2013 “Une exposition de peinture” Portmanteau, Geneva, Switzerland
“Practicing to Pretend” Alterspace, San Francisco, CA
“Floater” BravinLee programs, New York, NY
“Winter Group Show” Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Untitled-Sandy” Motus Fort, Tokyo, Japan
2012 “Surfaces, Supports” Tatiana Berg / Evan Nesbit, Storefront Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
“Superpositions” New Wight Biennial, UCLA New Wight Gallery, Los Angels, CA
“A Gleeful and Relentless Forward Moving of Time” Carmichael Gallery, Culver City, CA
“Summer Group Show” Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Eyes off the Flag” Motus Fort, Tokyo, Japan
“Eyes off the Flag” Koki Arts, Tokyo, Japan
“MFA Painting Thesis” Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
2011 “Water McBeer” Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“MFA 2012” Yale University School of Art
2010 “Strange and Constant” Marissa Textor / Evan Nesbit, Park Life, San Francisco, CA
2009 Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 “Camera one, Camera Two” Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Awards and Honors
2012 Ely Harwood Schless Memorial Fund Prize, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Public Collection
Orange County Museum of Art
Crocker Art Museum
Long Beach Museum of Art
Fredrick R. Weisman Art Foundation
The Pizzuti Collecton of the Columbus Museum of Art
Columbus Metropolitan Library
Bibliography
2022 On Jupiter, Works for the Beth DeWoody Collection. Olin Hall Galleries, Roanoke College
2021 Van Duhren, Andreas. “Evan Nesbit, Open Air” Text Van Duhren Interviews.
2020 Bacon, Alex. “Gathering Grid” Evan Nesbit, Open Objects. Roberts Projects
2019 louisa, Elderton. “In Brief, Evan Nesbit at Weiss Berlin” Frieze. 17 April 2019
Van Duhren, Andreas. “Evan Nesbit” 17 Text Magazine. 2019
Kherbek, William. “The Presence of Presence” Evan Nesbit, Weiss Publications
2017 Ambrosia, David. “Michael Berryhill and Evan Nesbit Are the Warp and Woof of Miro’s Thead” White Hot Magazine. October 2017
Bacon, Alex. “Between Image And Object” Evan Nesbit, Cellophane Grip. Van Doren Waxter
Troncone, Alessandra. “Evan Nesbit @ Annarumma”, Napoli. Flash Art (IT). Feb - Mar, 2017 #331
2015 Rhodes, David. “Evan Nesbit Porosity” The Brooklyn Rail. September 8, 2015
Pagel, David. “And There is an End” The Los Angeles Times
2014 Fernandez, Gaby Collins. “Sensitive Surfaces” Evan Nesbit, /ˈkaɪˑæzm/. Roberts and Tilton
Phelps, Calvin. “Evan Nesbit /ˈkaɪˑæzm/“at Roberts and Tilton, Art Ltd. July 2014
Cadwell, Ellen C. “Painting Backwards: Evan Nesbit at Roberts and Tilton” New American Paintings.
2013 “In Conversation with Evan Nesbit” - San Francisco Arts Quarterly