Whitney Vangrin
Born 1987, Marin, California
Education
MFA, The University of California, Davis, CA, 2022
BFA, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY, 2011
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Dejálos Creer // Let them Believe: Works in Progress during The Lab Program. Calle Tlaxcala #3, Roma Sur, Mexico City.
2014 Fan Breathe, Salted Foam, Macie Gransion Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Tongue in Ice, WallRiss, Fribourg, Switzerland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
topophilia, Arts and Humanities 2022 Graduate Exhibition, Manetti Shrem Museum, Davis, CA
And Salt the Earth Behind You, NCECA Conference, Sacramento, CA
2021
Creative Nature of TotalSynthesis, LAB Gallery Foresight Institute, SanFrancisco, CA
Free Fall, Brittany,Vallejo, CA
2020
Still Life, AreaA, Berlin, Germany
2019
Pittsburgh Performance Art Festival, Millvale, PA
NightTea, Bond Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2018
Our Frame is a Scaffold, 182 Ave C. NewYork, NY
US,The Swiss Institute, New York, NY
Twin Stranger, AC Institute, New York, NY
Nocturnal Submissions, American Medium, New York, NY
2017
Spoiled Shell, MX Gallery, New York, NY
Sweet Ice, ACID Gallery, New York, NY
NIGHTWOOD, SPR, Brooklyn, NY
ENCOUNTERS,Pfizer Building Brooklyn, NY
Incarnata Social Club, Knockdown Center, Queens, NY
Election,SEPTEMBER Gallery Hudson, NY
2016
Endless Shout, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
SOAKED,curated by Whitney Vangrin, Company Gallery, New York
The Pleasure Principle, curated by Courtney Malick, FARAGO,Los Angeles
A Hole or Something like the Sun, Curated by ChrisHanke, Joshua Tree Desert
XPR/M/E/N/T/A/L,MoMA PS1, Queens, NY
2015
The Feminine Wrath, Trans-Pecos, Brooklyn, NY Space:Face,IDIO Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Murdered Word, E.M.P Collective, Baltimore, MD
Telestrations,Gowanus Swim Society, Brooklyn, NY
XPR/M/E/N/T/A/L,The Spectrum, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Night Tide, Gallery Diet, Miami
2013
Come Together: Surviving Sandy Year 1, Industry City,Brooklyn, NY
Cerberus,Meridian Gallery, San Francisco
All the Best People, 1:1 Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Everything, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Ejected, Aaronson Gallery, New York, NY
GUT FLORA, The New School, New York, NY
2010
The Innovative Camera, The New School, New York, NY
2009
UNATTACHED:The Body’s Memory, curated by Courtney Malick, 47 Canal,NY
Performances
2022
Coagulation Incarnate, CORE Greenhouse Complex, UC, Davis, CA
2021
The Cephalophore, The Reliquary and The Rye, Davis, CA
2020
In Bloom, Davis, CA
Perennial, Wildflower, Myrtacea , Napa, CA
Imbolc, Area A, Berlin Germany
2019
Pittsburgh Hymn, Honey's, Brooklyn, NY
Pittsburgh Hymn, Panza Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Dough in the Tide, Fire Island, NY
2018
Red Mound. 182 Ave C. New York, NY
The Dream Passes by the Windows, Swiss Institute, New York, NY
The Saccharose Husk, AC Institute, New York, NY
GALL, American Medium, New York, NY
2017
Spoiled Shell, MX Gallery, New York, NY
Sweet Ice, ACID Gallery, New York, NY
Gilded Echo, Pfizer Building Brooklyn, NY
Adorn Tongue, Knockdown Center, Queens, NY
2016
Mother of Vinegar, ICA, Philadelphia,PA
Sunken Fall, The Dreamhouse, Queens, New York
Mother of Vinegar: 1st Sequence, Honey’s, Brooklyn, NY
Nothings Nothing, Korner, Taipei, Taiwan
Ice Tear, Company Gallery, New York, NY
Cerulean Ice Chips, Incarnata Social Club at Berlin Bar, New York, NY
Sugared,1st Gate, Brooklyn, NY
Tangerine Blue as part of XPR/M/E/N/T/A/L, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY
2015
FEMM,Trans-Pecos, Brooklyn
Space:Face,IDIO Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Murdered Word, E.M.P Collective, Baltimore, MD
Pump Screen Fragment, Gowanus Swim Society, Brooklyn, NY
Pump Screen, MX Gallery, New York
Inflate Tube, Arts Letters and Numbers Residency, Averill Park, NY
Chocolate Counter, Sunview Luncheonette, Brooklyn, NY
COCK_PITTED, Otion Front Studio, Brooklyn, NY
BOD(E)SOFTWARE, Art Helix, Brooklyn, NY
Heel Yourself, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Sea Foam, Gallery Diet, Miami, FL
Fan Breathe, Macie Gransion Gallery, New York
Fan Breathe Bedsport, In Collaboration with Dachi Dreaa, Candice Williams, and Richard Kennedy, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY
2013
Tongue in Ice (IceFan13). WallRiss, Fribourg, Switzerland
Cerberus,Meridian Gallery, San Francisco
Sand and Tar, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco
2012
Blood,Sweat, and Tears, Performance Trilogy, 1:1 Gallery, New York
Performance with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, MoMA PS1, Queens,NY
2011
Everything, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
The Joan Cycle, The New School, New York
2010
Foil Mouth: A Performance by Whitney Vangrin, Chelsea Piers, New York
Film Festivals
2021
Boden International Film Festival
Film Fest at UC Davis
Awards and Honors
2022
Graduate Fellow, Marin Headlands for the Arts
Artist in Residence, The Lab Program, Mexico City
The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
2021
The Collegiate Recovery Leadership Academy(CRLA)
2021 Fay NelsonAward
2020
Jurors choice, University of Montana, MFA OnlineExhibition, “RAW”
Provost’s Fellowships in theArts, Humanities and Social Science University of California,Davis
2015
Arts Letters andNumbers Residency,Averill Park, NY
Publication
Piel Vibrante // Vibrant Skin, 2022, The Lab Program
Replacing the Ritual: Recipes in Recovery, 2022
Selected Press
Kordoski,Kyra, “Whitney Vangrin is part of your World”, White Fungus Magazine, August 2016
Walker,Lily, “Whitney Vangrin”, Wonderland Magazine, April 2016
Mallet,Whitney, “Forever After”Art Forum, January 2016
P-Orridge,Genesis, “Genesis P. Orridge Talks With Whitney Vangrin About The History ofPerformance Art,” Topical Cream, October, 2015
Mallet,Whitney, “Go See These Brooklyn Body Artists Perform,” Bullet,December,2014
P.Orridge,Genesis, “Genesis Breyer P-Orridge on NYC’ IRL Crew,” Dazed and
Confused,May 2013
Busta,Carolina, “All the Best People,” Artforum, May 2013