Brenna Youngblood  (American, 1979) 

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Brenna Youngblood Biography
1979   Born Riverside, CA
2002   BFA, California State University, Long Beach
2003   UCLA Graduate Fellowship
2004   Lillian Levinson Award
2004   Bette Midler Award
2004   UCLA Affiliates Award
2004   College Art Association Fellowship
2005   D’Arcy Hayman Award
2006   MFA, University of California, Los Angeles
  Lives and works in Los Angeles
Selected Exhibitions
2009   Reading Standing Up, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, 31 January – 6 March (group)
2009   Susanne Vielmetter, Berlin Projects, Germany, 9 January - February (solo)
2008   Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, 13 September – 11 October (solo)
2008   Shana Lutker, Anna Sew Hoy, and Brenna Youngblood: CB08, the California Biennial, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. 29 October 2008 – 1 March 2009 (group)
2008   Half-Life: Twenty-five Emerging LA Artists, LACE: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 8 October – 16 November (group)
2008   Aspects of Mel’s Hole: Artists Respond to a Paranormal Land Event Occurring in Radiospace, curated by Doug Harvey, Grand Central Art Center, California State University at Fullerton, 6 September - 19 October (group)
2008   Summer 2008, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, 31 May - 9 August (group)
2008   Fall in, Fall out, Fall down, Get ready!, Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles, 27 April - 24 May (group)
2008   Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get, What You Don’t See (Is Better Yet), Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles, 23 February – 21 March (group)
2007   Blacks In and Out of the Box, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, 13 September – 30 December (group)
2007   Some People Will Faint, curated by Kristin Calabrese, Honor Fraser, Venice, CA, 28 July – 27 September (group)
2007   Big Secret Cache, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, 14 April - 26 May (group)
2007   Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, 19 May - 23 June (solo)
2007   Murder By the Bank, Project Room, Wallspace Gallery, New York, 23 March - 21 April (solo)
2007   Wignall Museum, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, 22 January – 3 March (solo)
2007   Hammer Contemporary Collection Part II, Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles (group)
2006   Group Show, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, Fall (group)
2006   LA25, curated by Ilene Kurtz-Kretzschmar, Los Angeles, October (group)
2006   Effacé, curated by Malik Gaines, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, 16 September – 14 October (group)
2006   Group Show, Queen's Nails Annex, San Francisco, September (group)
2006   Locale, curated by Kris Kuramitsu, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, 15 July – 19 August (group)
2006   25 Bold Moves, House of Campari, Los Angeles, 14 July - 4 August (group)
2006   Then and Now and Again, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, 8 July – 12 August (group)
2006   Supersonic 3, Barnsdale Art Center, Hollywood, 30 June – 16 July (group)
2006   New American Talent: the 21st Exhibition, curated by Aimee Chang, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX, 17 June - 20 August (group)
2006   (Project Space), Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, 16 December 2006 – 20 (solo)
2006   Hammer Project, UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 14 January - 12 April (solo)
2006   Gray Korfmann Youngblood: New Forms in Photography, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, 3 June -1 July (group)
2006   U.S. Love Affair, Arden2 Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA, 18 February – 3 March (group)
2006   Bling, curated by Mark Greenfield, Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, 3 February – 30 March (group)
2005   State of Emergence: Unsuspected Cracks in the Art-World Infrastructure, curated by Doug Harvey, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, 15 October -12 November (group)
2005   Greater LA MFA Exhibition, California State University, Long Beach, CA 28 August -7 September (group)
2005   Character Traits, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, 3 June -27 June (group)
2005   Handmade, curated by Tim Davis, Wallspace Gallery, New York, 8 January -12 February (group)
2004   Macrae Semans and Brenna Youngblood, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, 12 November -9 December (group)
Literature
2008   Ore-Giron, Eamon. “Brenna Youngblood.” CB08, Newport Beach, CA: Orange County Museum of Art), p. 212 - 213.
2008   Miles, Christopher. Review. Artforum 47. no. 4 (December), p. 310 - 311.
2008   Beil, Kim. "Artist Profile: Brenna Youngblood." art ltd. (November/December), p. 68 - 69.
2008   Aspects of Mel's Hole, Santa Ana, CA: Grand Central Press, CSUF Grand Central Art Center
2008   Donohue, Marlena. Review, ArtSceneCal.com (October 2008)
2008   Mizota, Sharon. "The details tend to accumulate," Los Angeles Times (Calendar), 10 October 2008, p. E19
2008   “Brenna Youngblood: Light Bulb; Color Checker; Horses,” Blind Spot no. 37, n.p.
2008   Psyllos, Steven. “USA Today: A Visual Mixtape: The Best of the Best From Our Neck of the Woods.” Trace Magazine no. 81 (March 2008), p. 82 – 105.
2007   Miles, Christopher. “Our Favorite Shows and Artifacts.” LA WEEKLY, 26 December.
2007   Pagel, David. “Kristin Calabrese show at Honor Fraser Gallery invites the imagination into action.” Los Angeles Times, 31 August.
2007   Brooks, Amra. “Hovering Over the Universe … at Honor Fraser.” LA WEEKLY, 8 August.
2007   , Robert. "Brenna Youngblood," (exhibition review) artUS, Summer 2007, p. 21.
2007   Miles, Christopher. "Brenna Youngblood." Flaunt, No. 85, p. 182.
2007   Mizota, Sharon. “Brenna Youngblood, Margo Leavin, Los Angeles,” (review), ARTnews, vol.106, no.10 , November 2007, p. 230
2006   Brooks, Amra. “Must See Art.” LA WEEKLY, 27 December.
2006   Beil, Kim. “Powers of Ten.” Art Ltd. (December 2006).
2006   Muchnic, Suzanne. "Giving Local Artists a Good First Shot," Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2006.
2006   Myers, Holly. "Photo Installations That Aim High," Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2006, Section E, p. 14.
2006   Brooks, Amra. “Must See Art.” LA WEEKLY, 26 July.
2006   Harvey, Doug. “A full serving of Rauschenberg, with a side of Youngblood and Hundley,” LA WEEKLY, 24 May 2006
2006   Brooks, Amra. "Los Angeles Roundup: A Report on Current Gallery, Museum Shows,” Art Info, www.artinfo.com
2006   , Meropi. "From College to Collages," Daily Bruin, 12 January 2006.
2005   Harvey, Doug. “State of Emergence: Undiscovered Cracks in the Art- World Infrastructure: A Catalog”, LA WEEKLY, 27 October 2005.