Born in Florida in 1977; lives and works in Tulsa, OK

 

EDUCATION

 

2003
Master of Fine Arts, Studio Art, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

 

2002
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine

 

2001
University of South Florida Study Abroad Program, Paris, France

 

2000
Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2020
Relations: Discord, Melodrama, and the Intimate in the work of Kalup Linzy, Gallery221, Hillsborough Community College, Tampa, FL

 

2019
Kalup Linzy: Conversations wit de Churen V: As da Art World Might Turn, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, NY

 

2018
Tangled Up, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, FL

 

2016
Queen Rose Family (da stories), Sundance Film Festival, New Frontier, Park City, Utah

 

2015
Art Jobs and Lullabies, Philip J. Steele Gallery, RMCAD, Lakewood, CO
Art.Jobs.Lullabies, Garis and Hahn, New York, NY

 

2014
Characters and Situations, Ugente, Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

2011
Melodies, Dramas, Limerents, La Conserva Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Murcia, Spain

 

2010
L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAMPFA, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Kalup Linzy, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA

 

2009
At The Playroom: Kalup Linzy, The Breeder, Athens, Greece
Revelation 23:9, The Trade in Our Life, Taxter & Spengemann, New York, NY
If it Don’t Fit, Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY
Recessed, Depressed…Child, Just Tell Me…, Parisian Laundry, Montréal, Canada

 

2008
The Moore Space, Miami, FL

 

2007
Kalup Linzy and Wardell Milan, Context Galleries, Derry, Northern Ireland
Melody Set Me Free and That’s Whassup, Taxter & Spengemann, Art Positions, Art Basel: Miami Beach, Miami, FL

 

2006
Revelation 23:7 – His Rod Got Gold in It, Taxter & Spengemann, New York, NY
All My Churen, curated by Malik Gaines, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
Kalup Linzy and Charles Nelson, Romo Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Kalup Linzy: Shades of Black and White, International & National Projects, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY

 

2005
Taxter and Spengemann, New York, NY

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021

Kindred Solidarities: Queer Community and Chosen Families, New York, NY
New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century, BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA
CURRENTS, David Castillo, Miami, FL
ArtNow 2021, Oklahoma Contemporary, Oklahoma City, OK
LEAN, Curated by Legacy Russell, Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
Walk On By, Global Public Art Exhibition
Skyway 20/21: A Contemporary Collaboration, The Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
Up Close & Personal, The Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA

 

2020
Life During Wartime: Art in the Age of the Coronavirus, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT

 

2019
Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
30 Americans, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Lost and Found in America, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, FL
TRANSAMERICAN: Gender, Identity, Appearance Today, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX

 

2018
Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow, University of Albany Art Museum, Albany, NY
In terms of collage, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs and tête-à-tête, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
30 Americans, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

 

2017
Color: Coded, New Art Center in Newton, Newtonville, MA
Elements of Vogue. A Case Study in Radical Performance, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain

2015
Family Affair, curated by Megan Voeller, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

 

2012
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver, Houston, TX
Regarding Warhol, curated by Mark Rosenthal with Maria Prather, Ian Alteveer, and Rebecca Lowery, New York, NY

 

2011
Living Live, curated by David Louis Fierman and RJ Supa, The LGBT Center, New York, NY

 

2010
100 Years of Performance, curated by Klaus Biesenbach, The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
Off the Wall: Part 1—Thirty Performative Actions, curated by Chrissie Iles, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Contemporary Art from the Collection, Curated by Kathy Halbreich, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Soaps Flukes and Follies, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
Greater New York 2010, PS1 MoMA, Long Island City, NY
At Home / Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, curated by Matthew Higgs, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

 

2009
Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, ICP, New York, NY
JIGSAWMENTALLAMA, David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, CA
Splendid Isolation, Athens Biennale, Palaio Faliro, Athens
This is Killing Me, MASSMoCA, North Adams, MA
Chaperone: Eight Artists, Eight Movies, EFA Project Space, New York, NY
BIG APPLE, Galerie Nordne Zidoun, Paris, France
Celebration, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany
Talk Dirty to Me, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
Butt in Ass, Asia Song Society, New York, NY

 

2008
30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Prospect.1 New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
THE PROGRAM, Video Association of Dallas at Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
Disguise: The Art of Attracting and Deflecting Attention, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Whatever is Whatever, Hydra School Project, Hydra Greece
Summer Mixtape, Exit Art, New York, NY
Bedtime Stories, The Red House, Syracuse, NY
Is You Is or Is You Ain’t, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN
Glasgow International: Festival of Contemporary Visual Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Air Kissing: An Exhibition of Contemporary Art about the Art World, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
Laughing in A Foreign Language, The Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, UK

 

2007
Television Delivers People, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
El Salvador Biennial, Here and Now: Transculture, El Salvador
Playback, Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, France
Distinctive Messengers, curated by Simon Watson and Craig Hensala of Scenic, House of Campari, New York, NY
Ceci n’est pas… (This is not…), Sara Metzer Gallery, New York, NY
Role Exhange, Sean Kelly gallery, New York, NY
Art World Etiquette, curated by Ruba Katrib, ThreeWalls, Chicago
Vocal Verbal, curated by Lala Rascic, Studentski Center, Zagreb, Croatia
Uncertain States of America – American Video Art in the 3rd Millennium, Moscow Biennial, Moscow, Russia

 

2006
Kalup Linzy and Charles Nelson, Romo Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Empathetic, curated by Elizabeth Thomas, Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Black Alphabet, curated by Maria Brewinska, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
No More Drama: The Saga Continues, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
Mid-Life Crisis, curated by Tara Subkoff and Ivana Salander, Salander- O’Reilly, New York, NY
Masquerade: Representation and the Self in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Do You Think I’m Disco, Longwood Art Gallery@Hostos, Bronx, NY

 

2005
Frequency, curated by Thelma Golden and Christine Kim, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
African Queen, curated by Thelma Golden, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

 

2004
!Mommy! I’m! Not! An! Animal!, curated by Andrew Guenther, Capsule Gallery, New York, NY
Faith, curated by Matt Johnson, Champion Fine Art, Culver City, CA
BenAddiction, Goliath Gallery, New York, NY

 

2003
Group show, curated by Erika Greenberg, Blue Acier, Tampa, FL
Group Show, curated by Derrick Adams, Kenny Schachter Contemporary Art, New York, NY
All Together Now, curated by Derrick Adams, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY
The Remote Lounge, curated by Camilo Alvarez, New York, NY

 

2002
Group Show, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
Sunday in the Arts, Scarfone/Hartley Gallery, Tampa, FL
4th Annual Valentine’s Peep Show, curated by Catherine Thompson, Hyde Park Gallery, Tampa, FL

 

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

 

Writer/Director/Performer/Cinematographer/Orator

 

2021
Walk on By

 

2017
Ozara and Katessa (collaboration w/ James Franco)

 

2016
Art Jobs and Lullabies (Covered), Video Suite 3

 

2015
As Da Art World Might Turn Season 2
Conversations Wit De Churen IX XI XII: Dayz of Our Ego
Art Jobs and Lullabies (Covered and Remixed), Video Suite 2

 

2014
Art Jobs and Lullabies, Video Suite 1

 

2013
As Da Art World Might Turn Season 1
Conversations Wit De Churen X: One Life To Heal
Romantic Loner

 

2012
Francophrenia (Or Don’t Kill Me I Know Where The Baby Is) (self only)
Melody Set Me Free Season 2 & 3 (web series)

 

2010
Melody Set Me Free Free Season 1 (web series)
General Hospital (Daytime soap opera/Performer only/ 4 episodes)
Conversations Wit De Churen VIII: Notes From A Limerent
Labisha’s Bonus Track and Sit Down Child

 

2009
Conversations Wit De Churen VII: Lil Myron’s Trade
Sampled and LeftOva and Fuck U

 

2008
SweetBerry Sonnet (Remixed)
SweetBerry Sonnet
Keys To Our Heart

 

2007
Pursuit of Gay (Happyness)
Melody Set Me Free

 

2006
Lollypop
Conversations Wit De Churen V: As Da Art World Might Turn

 

2005
Conversations Wit De Churen III: Da Young and da Mess
Conversations Wit De Churen IV: Play Wit De Churen
KK Queens Survey

 

2003
Conversations Wit De Churen II: All My Churen

 

2002
Conversations Wit De Churen: Ramone Calls Julietta, Ramone Calls
Julietta Again: Booty Call, Ride To Da Club, Girl, He Tasted My Cherry, and Julietta Call Ramone

 

PERFORMANCES AND SCREENINGS

 

2015
A Lullaby, A Job, and An Ass To Hope For, RMCAD VASD, Colorado

 

2014
Art Jobs and Lullabies, Video Suite 1, New York, NY

 

2013
Canvas of Characters and Conversations Wit De Churen X: One Life To Heal, commissioned by Yana Pael, Hong Kong, China
Romantic Loner, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

 

2012
Romantic Loner (feature), Private Work-In-Progress Screening, Tribeca Cinemas, New York, NY
A Warhol Cabaret, Introducing Kaye:  Romantic Loner (performance), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

 

2010
General Hospital, “Kalup Ishmael” (recurring role), ABC
The Warm-Up, PS1 MoMA, Long Island City, NY
150 Years of Campari, (with James Franco), Bowery Hotel, New York, NY

 

2009
Outfest, RedCat Theater, Los Angeles, CA
If it Don’t Fit, Conversation with Curator followed by a performance, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Kalup Linzy & Shaun Leonardo, Audio Visual Arts, New York, NY
An Evening with Kalup Linzy, Play Circle Theater, Memorial Union, Madison, WI
Comedy, Tragedy and Sketches of me, curated by Rashida Bumbray, The Kitchen, New York, NY

 

2008
Modern Mondays: An Evening with Kalup Linzy, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, British Film Institute Southbank, London, UK
Performing Proximities, Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium

 

2007
CRG Open Video Series, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
Small Works for A Big Change: To Benefit the Work of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
Wow and Now: A Celebration of Feminist and Queer Performance, Joe’s Pub, New York, NY
The Editions/Artists’ Book Fair to benefit Art Radio WPS1.org, New York, NY
Eden’s Edge: Videos Selected by Harry Dodge & Stanya Kahn, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
alt.pictureshows, The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
The 2007 Black Out Art Series, Black Pride 2007, sponsored by People of Color in Crisis (P.O.C.C.)
Ceci n’est pas… (This is not…), curated by Rachel Gugelberger and Jeffrey Walkowiak, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
Variations on A Rainbow, Le Petit Versailles, New York Soft Targets v. 2.1, The Kitchen, New York, NY
South of the Other, 53rd Annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
FEAR OF WHITEOUT- the substance of things hoped for evaporates in the blink of an eye, programmed by Mark McElhatten, The Orchard, New York, NY
Spotlight Film and Video Series, curated by JJ Murphy, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin

 

2006
Sagamore/LMAK projects, Miami Beach, FL Kick it one time, curated by Derrick Adams and Carmen Hammons, Rush Arts Gallery, Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL
AFI FEST 2006, Los Angeles, CA
Vertical Hold at Gallery 1, The Ellensburg Film Festival, Ellensburg, WA
KunstFilmBiennale at Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Kalup Linzy’s Birthday Party, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
Totally P.C., presented by The Open Eye Club at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

 

2005
Barefoot Tina Turner and Play Wit de Churen, Le Petit Versailles, New York, NY

 

2004
Naked and Waiting, Dinah Cole curated by Derrick Adams, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY
Diva in Distress and All My Churen, Le Petit Versailles, New York, NY
Saturday Night Live, “Appalachian Emergency Hospital” (Extra), May 8
Saturday Night Live, “Friendly Debate” (Extra), March 6

 

2003
The Educational Channel’s 10th Annual Independents’ Film Festival, Tampa, FL

 

2002
The Florida Film Festival, Orlando, FL
The Black Dot Film Festival Ongoing Series, Oakland, CA

 

2001
The Florida Film Festival, Orlando, FL

 

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

2018
Art Omi, Ghent, NY

 

2017
MacDowell Colony Residency, Peterborough, NH

 

2016
Tempus Projects Artist Residency, Tampa, FL
Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL

2015
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Film/Video, NY

 

2014
Graphicstudio, Tampa, FL

 

2013
Arts@29 Garden Harvard, Cambridge, MA

 

2012
Alumni Awards Residency, Headlands Center for The Arts, Sausalito, CA

 

2010
Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

 

2009
Harpo Foundation Grant

 

2008
Creative Capital Foundation Grant
Jerome Foundation Grant
Art Matters Grant

 

2007
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship Award

 

2005
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, The Space Program Studio Residency, New York, NY

 

2002
Matching Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
Matching Fellowship, University of South Florida CPVA, Skowhegan, ME

 

2001
Scholarship, University of South Florida CPVA, Tampa, FL
Scholarship, University of South Florida Study Abroad Program (Paris, France)

 

TEACHING, SEMINAR, and WORKSHOPS

2017
Part Time Professor, Critiques, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

 

2016
Part Time Professor, Critiques, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Part Time Professor, Studio, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Part Time Professor, Music Melodrama and Performance Art, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Visiting Artist, Kalup (Linzy) Art Lesson U Perform Workshop, ICA Miami, FL

 

2015
Visiting Artist, Kalup (Linzy) Art Lesson U Perform Workshop, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA
Visiting Artist, Art.Jobs.Lullabies Workshop, RMCAD in Denver, CO
Visiting Faculty, Minute Experiments Workshop, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA
Visiting Faculty, Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Projects in Studio Art:
Photo/Video, Performance, Installation, New York University, New York, NY

 

2013
Visiting Faculty, Music Melodrama, and Performance Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Visiting Faculty, A Soap Opera Within Itself, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

 

2011
Visiting Artist, Graduate Level Compositions, New York University, New York, NY

 

SELECTED VISITING ARTIST, CRITIC, and LECTURER

 

2015
Arts Jobs and Lullabies workshop, Philip J. Steele Gallery, RMCAD, Lakewood, CO
Discussion w/ Julia Brown and Studio visits. Phillips Collection and George Washington University, Washington, DC
Lecture, Studio Visits, Ox-Bow School of Art and Art Residency, Ox Bow, Chicago, IL
Workshop, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

 

2013
Reframing Post Black, CAA Conference 2013, New York, NY
Studio Critiques New York University, Steinhardt New York, NY
Visiting Artist Lecture, Glassell School of Art, Houston, Texas
Visiting Lecturer and Studio Critiques, MICA, Baltimore, Maryland

 

2012
Visiting Lecturer and Studio Critiques, UC Davis, Davis, California

 

2011
Visiting Lecturer and Studio Critiques, Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Performance and Discussion w/ Hasan Elahi, Cocoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Visiting Lecturer, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois

 

2010
Visiting Lecturer, Parsons, The New School, New York, NY

 

2009
Visiting Lecturer and Studio Critique, Mason Gross Rutgers, News Brunswick, New Jersey
Visiting Lecturer and Studio Critiques New York University, Steinhardt New York, NY
Visiting Lecturer and Studio Critiques, SVA, New York, NY
Visiting Lecturer and Studio Critiques, Columbia University, New York, NY

 

2008
Visiting Lecturer and Studio Critiques, Yale, New Haven, Connecticut
Visiting Lecturer and Studio Critique, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

2007
Visiting Lecturer and Studio Critiques, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Visiting Lecturer and Studio Critiques, Chicago Institute, Chicago, Illinois

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Lent, Caitlin, “Kalup Linzy Isn’t Ready to Say Goodbye”, Interview Magazine, July 28, 2022.
“Punchline (New York)”, Artforum, July 2022.
Finkel, Jori. “Gender Alchemy’ Is Transforming Art for the 21st Century”, New York Times, September 8, 2021.
Linzy, Kalup. “On the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre”, BOMB, May 31, 2021.
Irish, Anni. “Kalup Linzy: Identity Politics, COVID-19, and the Future of Performance Art”, Observer, January 8, 2021.
“Want to Shop for a Cause? These 8 Benefit Sales Enable You to Give the Gift of Art This Holiday Season While Doing Good”, Artnet News, December 21, 2020.
Papadatos, Markos. “Kalup Linzy talks about ‘Ozara and Katessa series, digital age”, Digital Journal, July 18, 2020.
Sheets, Hilarie M. “Feminists Arm Themselves With Art”, The New York Times, March 8, 2020.
“A Class of Their Own: 30 Americans X Creative Class”, Newsone, November 13, 2019.
Duffy, Maggie. “What’s Happening in Tampa Bay Art: ‘The Fabric of India,’ Florida of Photographic Arts Exhibit”, Tampa Bay Times, July 17, 2019
“Among Others: Blackness at MoMA”, Darby English, July 10, 2019.
Adno, Michael. “A Miami Gallery Joins the Top Ranks at Art Basel”, The New York Times, December 4, 2018.
“Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem to Begin National Tour in 2019”, ARTFIXdaily, November 20, 2018.
Lescaze, Zoe. “8 Artists on the Influence of Carrie Mae Weems”, The New York Times Style Magazine, October 17, 2018.
Sutnick, Simone. “Kalup Linzy and the Spirituality of Performance”, Cultured Magazine, April 2018.
“Delaware Art Museum to receive $15 million gift”, Apollo Magazine, January 25, 2018.
Hanson, Sarah P. “Artists get down to work at the fair”, The Art Newspaper, December 8, 2017.
Cascone, Sarah. “Kalup Linzy Is Performing Live as His Art-Making Alter Ego ‘Katonya’ at Art Basel Miami Beach”, ArtNet News, December 7, 2017.
Gottschalk, Molly & Scott Indrisek. “The 15 Best Booths at Art Basel in Miami Beach”, Artsy, December 6, 2017.
Viglucci, Andres. “Is Art Basel bigger and better than ever? The early reviews are in”, The Miami Herald, December 6, 2017.
Gates, Anita. “Art Basel Miami Beach: New Show Design, New Energy”, The New York Times, December 5, 2017.
Rea, Naomi. “For Frieze Week, Marina Abramovic Distills Her Art and Life Into…a Macaron”, ArtNet News, October 4, 2017.
Tang, Jo-ey. “From the Vaults: Kalup Linzy’s Campy Soap Operas Explore Race & Sexuality”, Out Magazine, August 9, 2017.
Sommer, Halee. “Kalup Linzy: Producing the Art of Living”, Artborne Magazine, Volume 2: Issue 5, May 2017.
“Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver and Naomi Beckwith”, exhibition catalog by Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 2013.
“Regarding Warhol, curated by Mark Rosenthal with Maria Prather, Ian Alteveer, and Rebecca Lowery”, exhibition catalog by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012.
“Big Minis: Fetishes of crisis”, CAPC, Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux. Sternberg Press, 2011.
Wolff, Rachel. “Made for Each Other: In Kalup Linzy, James Franco met his performance art match”, New York Magazine, January 30, 2011.
Hutson, Laura. “Funny as Hell”, Nashville Scene, 2010.
“Re: Collections, Selected Works from The Studio Museum in Harlem”, Studio Museum in Harlem, 2010.
Nyong’o, Tavia. “Brown Punk: Kalup Linzy’s Musical Anticipations”, TDR: The Drama Review (T2017), Fall 2010, pp 71-86.
Als, Hilton. “Camera Action, Critic’s Notebook”, The New Yorker, July 26, 2010.
“Off the Wall: Q and A with Whitney Curator Chrissie Iles”, ARTINFO.com, July 13, 2010.
Orden, Erica. “At MoMA, All New Views of the Permanent” The Wall Street Journal, June 28, 2010.
Lee, Carol. “The Beautiful People”, PAPER, April 2010.
“Strike a Pose”, V Magazine, Winter 2009/10, pp 44-45.
Munoz, Jose Esteban. “Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity”, 2009: NYU Press.
Uchill, Rebecca. “This is Killing Me”, Art Papers, November 2009, p. 64.
“The Nifty 50”, The New York Times Style Magazine, Holiday 2009, p. 92.
Scheyer, Kate. “I.C.P. Showcases Artists with Fashion Cred”, Vanity Fair, October 7, 2009.
Rodriguez, Frank. “Outer Spaces”, Artillery Magazine, Vol 4 Issue 1, September/October 2009, p.26.
“Kalup Linzy”, Time Out London, August 20-26, 2009.
Falconer, Morgan. “Kalup Linzy at the Studio Museum in Harlem”, Art Review, Summer 2009, p. 130.
Rosenberg, Karen. “Video Artist as Video Art: Glimpses of an Alter Ego Trip”, The New York Times, April 2009. C23 & C26.
“Goings on About Town: Museums; The Studio Museum in Harlem”, The New Yorker, May 4th, 2009, p. 9.
Neil, Jonathon T.D. “30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami”, Art Review, March 2009, p.129.
Stern, Steven. “Kalup Linzy, Focus”, Frieze Magazine, April 2009, pp. 92-93.
Fowle, Kate. “Prospect. 1 New Orleans…”, Modern Painters, March 2009, p. 69.
Stern, Steven. “Prospect. 1 New Orleans”, Frieze Magazine, February 2009, pp.116-119.
Rosenberg, Karen. “Video Artist as Video: Art: Glimpses of an Alter-Ego Trip”, New York Times, April 2009, p. C23-C26.
Lax, Thomas. “If it don’t fit, Studio Museum Harlem, New York, NY”, Exhibition Brochure, April 2nd-June 28, 2009.
Stern, Steven. “Kalup Linzy”, Frieze Magazine, April 2009, p. 92-93 500.
“Words, By Kalup Linzy”, Art Forum, June 15th, 2009.
DeWoody, Beth Rudin. “Prospect. 1 New Orleans, LA, Photographs”, November 2008.
“30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection”, Exhibition catalogue. pp.114-117.
Pasquerella, Sheri. “Labisha the Diva and the Other Potty-Mouthed Hoochies”, Tar, Fall 2008, pp. 94-95.
Wolff, Rachel. “Carry a Big Shtick”, Artnews, September 2008, pp. 128-129.
Stillman, Nick. “Kalup Linzy”, BOMB, Summer 2008, pp. 44-51.
“Laughing in a Foreign Language”, Exh. Catalogue, Hayward Gallery, Hayward Publishing, pp. 100-103.
Hruska, Jordan. “Hot List: Art: Queer Art Comes into Focus at Summer Shows Around the Globe”, Out Magazine, June 2008.
“Under the Influence: Kalup Linzy on Soap Operas”, Art Review, March 2008, p.46.
Alemani, Cecilia. “Television Delivers People, The Whitney Museum of American Art”, Artforum.com, January 2008.
Cotter, Holland. “Video Art Thinks Big: That’s Showbiz”, The New York Times, January 6, 2008.
Woods, Kelly. “Hot in the City New Orleans Hosts a New Biennial”, Useless Magazine, May 2008.
Wolff, Rachel. “Top-Five Online Art Videos of 2007”, New York Magazine, November 12, 2007.
Wolff, Rachel. “Young Masters”, New York Magazine, October 15th, 2007, p.49.
“Molly Shannon: How to Pretend to be Other People…And How to Imitate Yourself, Molly Shannon and Kalup Linzy in Conversation”, Useless #6, October 2007, pp. 9-10.
Velasco, David. “Role Exchange”, Artforum, October 2007, pp. 372-373.
Cotter, Holland. “Ryan Trecartin: I-Be Area”, The New York Times, September 28th, 2007, p. E37.
Baker, RC. “Best in Show: Your Face or Mine?”, The Village Voice, July 25-31, 2007, p. 48.
Garwood, Deborah. “Striking a Pose for the Sake of Art”, The New York Sun, July 19, 2007.
Smith, Roberta. “Museum and Gallery Listings: Galleries: Chelsea: Role Exchange”, The New York Times, July 13, 2007, p. E22.
Smith, Roberta. “Art in Review: Role Exchange”, The New York Times, July 6, 2007, p. E31.
Wang, Michael. “Streaming Creatures: A New Generation of Queer Video Art”, Modern Painters, June 2007, pp. 101-105, 126.
“Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art: Footnotes on Geopolitics, Market and Amnesia”, Moscow: Artchronika, 2007, exh. catalog p.191.
Carrie Moyer. “VIVA”, Modern Painters, March 2007, pp. 70-77.
“First Takes: Debra Singer on Kalup Linzy”, Artforum, January 2006, pp. 196, 204-205.
Schambelan, Elizabeth. “The Artists’ Artists and Best of 2006”, Artforum, December 2006, p. 111 and pp. 284 -285.
Richmond, Susan. “Atlanta—Kalup Linzy”, Art Papers, November/December 2006, pp. 50-51.
“Art: Empathy”, The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 8, 2006.
Fallon, Roberta. “Feel the Pain: Tears and Tribulations at Temple Gallery”, Philadelphia Weekly, November 15-21, 2006.
“Goings on About Town: Art: Galleries – Chelsea, Kalup Linzy”, The New Yorker, November 13, 2006, p.19.
Thomas, Elizabeth. “Empathetic” (exh. pamphlet), Philadelphia, PA: Temple Gallery, November 4, 2006.
Seidner, Joshua. “Outside the Soap Box: Kalup Linzy Twists the Tele-Novella”, Useless, Issue no. 4 – “Fiascorama,” November 2006, p. 61.
Brewinska, Maria. “Black Alphabet: Contexts of Contemporary African American Art”, et. al. Warsaw, Poland: Zacheta Narodowa Sztuki, September 23 – November 19 2006, exh. catalog pp. 92-95, 195.
Auslander, Philip. “Kalup Linzy: Romo Gallery, Atlanta”, Artforum, October, p. 271.
Brielmaier, Isolde. “Masquerade: Representations and the Self in Contemporary Art”, exh. catalog, 2006.
Rachel Kent, Shelley Rice. “Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney”. p. 62.
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Stillman, Nick. “Conversations…with Kalup Linzy”, NYFA Interactive, April 21, 2006.
Smee, Sebastian, “Identity Crisis”, The Weekend Australian, April 8, 2006.
Thomas, Mickalene. “More, More, More: Susan Ross asks “Do You Think I’m Disco?”, NYARTS Magazine, May/June 2006, Vol. 11, No. 5/6.
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Genocchio, Benjamin. “Art Review: Exploring the Effects of Disco’s Beat”, The New York Times, February 19, 2006.
Ribas, João. “Emerging Artists: The Impact of Paik on Today’s Video Art”, Art Info, February 11, 2006.
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SELECTED COLLECTIONS

 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL