C.V

1989 Born Los Angeles, CA.

Lives and works in Brooklyn,NY

Education

2014 Bachelor of Fine Art, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

Residencies and Awards

2024 Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Carraig-na-gCat, West Cork, Ireland

2023 Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, New York

Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, MT

2019 Center for the Book Arts Residency, New York

2018 Plop Residency, London

Artist in Residence, SÍM Residency, Reykjavik

Solo Exhibitions

2024 “Kevin Umaña: Mother’s Dream,” Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, 7 November – 21

December

2023 “Kevin Umaña: Wayfinding,” Sperone Westwater, New York, 6 January – 25 February

2022 “A New Devotional: Crystalle Lacouture and Kevin Umaña,” Praise Shadows Art Gallery,

Brookline, MA, 7 January – 6 February

2021 “Kevin Umaña: Wax and Wane,” David Richard Gallery, New York, 28 September – 22 October

Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, MO

2020 “Taking Shape: Mary Laube & Kevin Umaña,’ Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, 17 April – 16

May

2017 “Front-Room: Kevin Umaña and Christina Martinelli,” 80WSE Gallery, New York, closed 16

August

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 “Uncharted: Artists as Wayfinders,” Sun Valley Museum of Art, 11 April – 5 July

“Infinite Horizons,” The Pit, Los Angeles, 15 March – April 19

“All That Remains,” curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud and Cecilia Jurado Chueca, Sugar Hill

Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling, New York, 8 March – 25 May

“Just a Song Before I Go,” curated by Michael De Feo, Last Days Gallery, New York, 22 January

– 22 February

2024 “Fruit and Fruition,” curated by Angela Heisch, Grimm Gallery, New York, 28 June – 9 August

“New, Newer, Newest!,” Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, 1 June – 1 September

“Tooth for a Tooth,” LVL3 Gallery, Chicago, 9 March – 14 April

“Looking Back / The 14th White Columns Annual – Selected by Randy Kennedy,” White

Columns, New York, 19 January – 2 March

“NEOGEONEOGEO: Johnny Abrahams, Elise Ferguson, Sarah Hotchkiss, Jonathan Runcio,

Kevin Umaña & Nancy White,” Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, 18 January – 2

March

2023 “Rose Tinted Glasses,” Ojiri Gallery, London, 24 November – 22 December

“Chromatics: Otto Piene and Kevin Umaña,” Sperone Westwater, New York, 9 November – 16

December

“Universal Transmission,” curated by Christopher Daharsh, Field of Play, Brooklyn, 20 May – 9

July

“Jonathan Ryan Storm, Kelly Ording, & Kevin Umaña,” pt.2 Gallery, Oakland, CA, 13 May – 17

June

“Presence As Object,” Cecille R. Hunt Gallery at Webster University, St. Louis, MO, 10 February

– 11 March

2022 “Lamplighters,” Vulpes Bastille, Kansas City, MO, 7 – 22 October

“Material Investment,” curated by Leslie Roberts, The Bank, Newark, OH, 9 September – 16

October

Plug Gallery at MdW Assembly, Mana Contemporary and Co-Prosperity, Chicago, 9 – 11

September

“Little Windows,” Praise Shadows Art Gallery, Brookline, MA, 7 – 30 September

“La Onda: A Migrating Exhibition,” curated by Rodolfo Marrón III, Crossroads Hotel, Kansas

City, MO, 2 – 30 September

“Pattern Recognition,” curated by Amy Lincoln, Sperone Westwater, New York, 23 June – 29

July

“Dial Tone,” LVL3, Chicago, 18 June – 7 August

“Joy and Other Feats of Strength,” Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 10 June – 23

July

“ArteLatinX,” Gallery 1516, Omaha, NE, 11 March – 7 April

“OUTCROPPING - Indigenous Art Now,” curated by Jeremy Dennis, Southampton Arts Center,

Southampton, NY, 4 February – 10 April

“DUOS,” online exhibition, Peripheral Space, Los Angeles, 2 – 28 January

2021 “Grass is Green,” Sapien Gallery, Kansas City, MO, 29 October – 5 November

“2021 Kansas City Flatfile & Digitalfile,” H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO, 23 July – 14

October

“Strike,” Pulp, Holyoke, MA, opened 17 July

“All the Pieces Matter,” online exhibition curated by Leslie Roberts, Studio Archive Project, New

York, opened 12 July

“New Book Art: 2019 Artists in Residence,” Center for Book Arts, Brooklyn, NY, 15 January –

27 March

2020-21 “Resilience Reflection Rebuilding: Artists Respond to Covid-19,” presented by Arts Council of

Johnson County, Johnson County Arts & Heritage Center and Johnson County Museum,

Johnson County Arts & Heritage Center, Overland Park, KS, 6 August 2020 – 22 January

2021 (catalogue)

2020 “Together in Distance: An Online Benefit Exhibition for COVID-19 Relief,

” Artspace, New York,

8 – 20 July

“2020 Benefit Art Auction,” Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts,” Omaha, NE

2019 “The Unusual Suspects: A View of Abstraction,” curated by Richard Kalina, DC Moore Gallery,

New York, 13 June – 9 August

“color, texture, design, pattern + diversity,” Brilliant Champions Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 22 May

– 2 June

“Line, Signs,” In Live, Taipei, Taiwan, 11 May – 30 June

“Postcards from the Edge: A Benefit for Visual Aids,” Bortolami, New York, 22 – 24 February

“Sincere Forms,” Hit Gallery, San Francisco, opened 9 February

2018 “Endless Editions Biennial: Optimism,” curated by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, EFA Project

Space, New York, 7 – 21 December

“HREI∂UR,” Sîm Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland

“Re_Arrange,” Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine, Jersey City, NJ, 14 October – 30 November

“End of Summer,” The Koppel Project Hive Gallery, London

“9th Annual Altered Book Exhibit and Fundraiser,” Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato,

CA, 28 April – 2 June

“Recollected Forms,” Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, 26 April – 2 June

“Design on a Dime,” Element Design + Aaron Mapp, New York, 25 – 28 August

“Superposition,” curated by Johnny Abrahams, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, 22 March – 21

April

“Mail Art,” Lawrence & Clark Gallery, Chicago

2017-18 “Endless Editions,” Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, New York, 15 December 2017 – 28

January 2018

2017 “Holiday Artist Book Show,” Deanna Evans Projects, New York, 30 November – 17 December

“2017 Art Book Show,” Bass & Reiner Gallery, San Francisco, 15 July – 19 August

“Western Decoy,” curated by Angela Heisch and James McDevitt-Stredney, No Place Gallery,

Columbus, OH, 14 July – 8 August

General Assembly, United Nations Headquarters, New York

“GIFC,” The Hole, New York

“Blankets as Art,” Legion SF, San Francisco

2016 “Endless Editions Biennial,” Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York

“Winter Group Exhibition,” Athen B. Gallery, Oakland, CA, opened 12 November

“2016 Art Book Show,” Bass & Reiner Gallery, San Francisco, 18 July – 3 September

“Obstacle,” Merchants of Reality, San Francisco, 18 June – 29 July

“Vision/Perception,” Forthrite Gallery, Oakland, CA

“Sorry Dudes,” Good Mother Gallery, Oakland, CA

“Tomorrow, Today,” The Luggage Store Project, San Francisco

“Welcome Baek,” Abode Books, San Francisco

2015-16 “A Walk with Friends,” Everyday Gallery, San Francisco, 3 December 2015 – 3 January 2016

2014 “Herradura Barrel Pop-Up, Public Works, San Francisco

“Lexical Features,” Art Primo SF, San Francisco, opened 6 September

“Beyond Consciousness,” Cellspace Gallery, San Francisco, opened 11 July

“No Show,” Lobot Gallery, Oakland, CA

“Folgen Dem Führer Nicht,” MOCO Gallery, Oakland, CA, opened 10 May

“Spring Fling,” Fur Ball Collective, San Francisco

“Joe’s Room,” Mary Weather, Oakland, CA

“Selfie,” The Art Gallery, Cesar Chavez Student Center at San Francisco State University, San

Francisco, closed 9 April

2013 “Summer Fling,” San Franspycho, San Francisco

“La Gran Pachanga,” 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco

“Among Us,” F8 Gallery, San Francisco

“4/20 Group Show,” San Franpsycho, San Francisco

Curatorial Projects

Contributor for the Coastal Post

The Erku Project

Site Series

Collections

Center for Book Arts Library, New York, NY

Dwight Lee Art Collection

Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

Fidelity Mutual Funds Collection

Fuin Real Estate Collection

Jim and Karen Linder Art Collection

Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA

Munson, Utica, NY

San Francisco Public Library

The United Nations Art Collection

Selected Bibliography

2024 Feature, New York Times

2024 Feature, Hyperallergic

2024 Feature, New City Art

2023 Feature,  Women Seeking Art

2023 Feature, Five Artists To Watch, Artsy

2023 Feature, Cultured Magazine

2023 Interview, Sound And Vision

2022 Feature, Two Coats Of Paints

2022 Feature, Oen

2022 Feature, Widewall

2021 Interview, Kansas City Magazine

2021 Interview, The Pitch

2021 Interview, Lvl3

2021 Feature, Missouri Arts Council, March Featured Artist

2021 Interview, The Nelle

2021 Interview, Speaking Of The Artist, Radio Interview

2021 Feature, In Kansas City

2020 Interview, The Coastal Post

2020 Feature, The Racket Sf

2019 Feature, Floor Magazine

2019 Feature, Juxtapoz “Unusual Suspects: A View Of Abstraction

2019 Feature, New York Art Tours

2019 Feature, Skillshare: 10 More Books Every Artist Should Read

2019 Print, Poetry Broadside, Center For Book Arts

2019 Feature,  Magasinet P

2018 Collaboration, Children's Cancer Therapy Development Institute

2018 Feature, Juxtapoz "Recollected Forms" 

2018 Collaboration, Anyone Worldwide

2017 Collaboration, Lovers And London College Of Music

2017 Collaboration, Slowdown Studio

2017 Feature, Wired Magazine, July 2017

2017 Interview, It's Nice That

2017 Feature, Odd Pears

2016 Feature, Moma Ps1 Studio Visit

2016 Feature, Occasional Piece

2016 Radio Segment, Fools Of Love, Bbf.Com

2015 Feature, Sfmoma Friday Featured Artist 

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