Arden Surdam CV

ARDEN SURDAM | CV

b. 1988 New York, NY
Lives & works in Los Angeles, CA

EDUCATION

2015 MFA, Photo and Media, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2010 BA, Environmental Studies & Visual Arts, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022
Autopoiesis, Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick, New York, NY (forthcoming)

2021
Ligature, Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY

2019
Offal EAST, satellite exhibition with ABXY Gallery, Montauk, New York
Offal, ABXY Gallery, New York, NY
NAUSEA, Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston, Texas

2017
Real Shadows for Mere Bodies, College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita, CA
Hold Your Breath, SLOAN Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2016
Solid Liquid, The Situation Room, Los Angeles, CA

2015
Focus Photo, Photo Basel, Ackermannshof Basel, Switzerland
How to Tell When Its Done, MFA Thesis Exhibition, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
To Tempt the Most Reluctant Appetites, MFA Mid-Residency Solo Exhibition, CalArts, Valencia, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021
Expanded Field, Ochi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Built-In, curated by Marta & Erik Benjamins, Neutra VDL House, Los Angeles, CA

2020
NADA Art Fair, Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick, New York, NY
Seating Chart for a Fall Dinner Party in a Pandemic, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
ISD- International Sleep Disorder / Internationale Schlafstörung, BENZENE, Hamburg, Germany
Intersect Aspen Art Fair, ABXY Gallery, Aspen, CO

2018
La Biennale di Vista del Oro II curated by Santi Vernetti in collaboration with Haena Yoo, featuring Sarah McMenimen, Sterling Wells, and Haena Yoo, San Pedro, CA
Other Places Art Fair (OPAF) with Laura Schawelka and Yola Monakhov Stockton, Garden LA, San Pedro, CA
Garden Variety curated by Katie Bode, Brand Library, Los Angeles, CA
Not All There organized & curated by Emily Mast, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
A Curious Herbal with Brian Khek, Dwyer Kilcollin, Naoki Sutter-Shudo, & Alice Wang, Garden LA, Los Angeles, CA

2017
Exposed; The Female Lens in a Post Identity Era with Jo Ann Callis, California Museum of Art (CMATO), Los Angeles, CA
Fourth World curated by Leonardo Bravo with Lindsay August-Salazar, Sonja Gerdes, Karen Lofgren, Galia Linn, Saskia Wilson-Brown, Amanda Yates Garcia, The Institute for Art & Olfaction, Los Angeles, CA
Month of Photo Los Angeles, Lucie Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

2016
Thus Spake the Fungus curated by Santi Vernetti, Arturo Bandini, Los Angeles, CA 2017 with Camille Weiner, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Seconds, SLOAN Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Photo LA, 25th Annual International Photographic Exposition, Los Angeles, CA

2015
Studio Cooking in collaboration with Meghan Gordon, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Fragment, UCLA Wight Biennial, Los Angeles, CA
GLAMFA, 10th Annual Greater Los Angeles Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, Long Beach, CA
Photo LA, 24th Annual International Photographic Exposition, Los Angeles, CA
Art about Agriculture, Santa Paula Art Museum, CA

2014
The Body is a Machine, Queer Arts Collective, CalArts, Valencia, CA

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Moya Ford, Lauren, What Artists Cook Up in Their Kitchens, Hyperallergic, 2021
Gaskin, Sam, Are Contemporary Artists Any Good in the Kitchen?, Ocula, 2021
Bathurst, Matilda, Built In at The Neutra VDL House, CEREAL, 2021
Keh, Pei-Ru, A ‘house party of a group show’ at Neutra VDL House in LA, Wallpaper*, 2021
Budds, Diana, The Neutra VDL House Reopens With a Design Exhibition, CURBED NY Magazine, 2021
Kand, Zara, Domestic Bliss, Dispatches Magazine, 2021
Cohen, Alina, 17 Contemporary Artists Reimagining the Still Life, Artsy, 2020
Guadagnino, Kate, In Los Angeles, a Historic Home Becomes an Experimental Kitchen, T Magazine, 2020
Lakin, Max, Arden Surdam’s Photography Is Not for the Faint of Heart, Garage Magazine, August 2019
Binlot, Ann, Inside Arden Surdam’s licentious world of seafood, sex, and status, Document Journal, August 2019
Brown, Caroline, Ready for the Slaughter, Office, August 2019
Donoghue, Katy, Arden Surdam Experiments with the Volatility of Taste, Whitewall Magazine, June 2019
THE EYE OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Arden Surdam: NAUSEA, L’oeil de la Photographie, March 2019
Schwartz, Erin, What Luxury Marijuana Means for Weed’s Original Entrepreneurs, GARAGE Magazine, September, 2018
Crippa, Karim, LA (Un)confidential - Exhibitionary Goes West!, Exhibitionary, February 2018
Davis, Genie, Garden Variety: Growing Great Art the Brand, Art and Cake, February 2018
Simmons, Jessica, A Curious Herbal at Garden, Contemporary Art Review LA (CARLA), February 2018
A Curious Herbal, TERREMOTO, February 2018
Sloan, Hannah, Rule Breakers: Arden Surdam, Don’t Take Pictures, February, 2018
A Curious Herbal: A Group Show at Garden, Tzvetnik, February 2018
A Curious Herbal at Garden / Los Angeles, DAILYLAZY, February 2018
Garden: A Curious Herbal, Kubaparis, Zeitschrift fur junge Kunst, January 2018
Sydney, Georgia, A Return to Witch Mountain: Q&A with Arden Surdam, (UN)published, January 2018
Parallax 4, Untitled with Khalil Huffman, Singing Saw Press, October, 2017
Nys Dambrot, Shana, The Fourth World: Institute of Art and Olfaction, Art and Cake, October 2017
Sydney, Georgia, Real Shadows for Mere Bodies, (UN)published, September 2017
Ferri, Graziano, Arden Surdam: Selected Works, FotoRoom, 2017
Smithson, Aline, Arden Surdam: Hold Your Breath, LENSCRATCH, January 2017
Barral, Xavier, Paris Photo 1997-2016 Parcours, catalog by / Paris Photo, Paris, France
Bode, Katie, Solid Liquid, Contemporary Art Review LA (CARLA), September 2016
Wagley, Catherine, In the Studio: Arden Surdam, Photograph Magazine, August 2016
Alessi, Andrea, TASTE, ArtSlant Los Angeles, June 2016
Dennis, Caitlin, Emerging Los Angeles Artists, FLAUNT Magazine, March 2016
Howard, Ellie, Studio Cooking at Armory Center for the Arts, Elephant Magazine, November 2016
Alessi, Andrea, What Do Artists Eat?, ArtSlant Los Angeles, November 2016
Yurshanksy, Jenny, Mystic Pizza, Notes On Looking, November 2016
Linkof, Ryan, Fragment, UCLA Fragment Exhibition Catalog, September 2015
Bartlett, Claudia, Special Exhibition: Focus Photo, Photo Basel Catalog, June 2015
Lehrer-Graiwer, Sarah, The New Just-Past: 2015, The 2015 CalArts MFA Catalog, June 2015
Weisner, Christoph, INTRODUCING! PARIS PHOTO J. P. MORGAN, Paris Photo Catalog, April, 2015
Mermea, Jacqueline, Highlights from Paris Photo LA, BlouinArtInfo, May 1st, 2015
Paris Photo: Introducing! Finalist: Arden Ellis Surdam, The Eye of Photography, April 28, 2015

AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS

2023
Nested Ecologies: Algae, Bacteria, Fungi, co-edited by former MIT curator, Alise Upitis; artist, Anicka Yi; and Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies, UC Berkeley, Mel Y. Chen (forthcoming)

2021
The Kitchen Studio: Culinary Creations of Artists edited by Phaidon Press Artist Relief Grant
Artists’ Fellowship Grant
Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grant

2020
Houston Center for Photography, Conversation with Kendra Jayne Patrick: Glut
Foundation for Contemporary Art, Emergency Grant
LA Art Workers Relief Fund
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Alumni Microgrant

2017
Finalist, Lucie Foundation, Photograph Made Scholarship
Lenswork Publication Skills Grant, The Luminous Endowment

2015
Grand Prize Winner, JP Morgan, Focus Photo LA, Los Angeles, CA

RESIDENCIES

2021
Kunstdepot Göschenen, Göschenen, Switzerland
Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, New York

2020
ICA Miami: Knight Foundation Art + Research Center Summer Intensive with Dina Gilio-Whitaker

2018 - 2019
Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston, Texas

2015
Parlor Residency at the Armory with the Women’s Center for Creative Work, Los Angeles, CA ArtFarm, Marquette, NE

2014
A Lived Practice: Artists as Changemakers, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2010
Fulbright Recipient, English Teaching Assistant, Istanbul, Turkey

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

J.P. Morgan Collection, New York, NY

Los Angeles County Museum of Art