Anthony Lepore
works exhibitions news about
b. 1977, Burbank, California
Lives and works in Los Angeles
EDUCATION
2005 Master of Fine Arts, Yale University
2004 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
2000 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Fordham University
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Moskowitz Bayse, Time’s A Taker, Los Angeles
2019 Moskowitz Bayse, Performance Anxiety, Los Angeles
2018 Left Field Gallery, Seeing Each Other, Collaboration with Michael Henry Hayden, Los Osos, CA
2017 Del Vaz Projects, The Green Curtain, Collaboration with Michael Henry Hayden, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Chan Gallery, Pomona College, Anthony Lepore and Samira Yamin, Claremont, CA
Left Field Gallery, Square Hole, Round Peg, Collaboration with Michael Henry Hayden, San Luis Obisbo, CA
2015 François Ghebaly Gallery, Bikini Factory, Los Angeles, CA
Public Fiction, Splash, Glow, Fullflex, at the Bikini Factory, Curated by Lauren Mackler, Los Angeles, CA
The Finley Gallery, Sleepy Head, Collaboration with Michael Henry Hayden, Los Angeles, CA
2014 California Museum of Photography, Flash, Riverside, CA
2013 Paris Photo LA Solo Project, Nocturne, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Night Walk, Artists Respond Series (Online interactive commission), Los Angeles, CA
2011 François Ghebaly Gallery, New Wilderness, Los Angeles, CA
M+B Gallery, New Wilderness Part Two, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Los Angeles Central Library, Paper Surrogate, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Restoration, Kansas City, MO
2007 Marvelli Gallery, Bird Shop, New York, NY.
2006 Marvelli Gallery, I Would Make You My Own, New York, NY
2005 Groeflin Maag Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 You Are Here: California Photography Now, Los Angeles County Museum of Art at Millard Sheets Art Center, Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona, CA
Sculpture Into Photography, Moskowitz Bayse, CA
2022 Donald Moffet + Nature Cult + The McNay, The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
In Focus: Writing for the Camera, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
Golden Hour: California Photography from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, CA
State University, Northridge (CSUN), Main University Art Gallery, Northridge, CA
2021 Golden Hour: California Photography from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Lancaster Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Golden Hour: California Photography from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
2020 Moskowitz Bayse, Grammars of Creation, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Dorsky Gallery, Distance, New York, NY
The Pit Presents, Left Field, Glendale, CA
2018 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Selections from the Reinstein Collection, Los Angeles, CA
2017 DXIX Projects, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Josh Lilley Gallery, New Builds, London
2015 J. Paul Getty Museum, In Focus: Animalia, Los Angeles, CA
Team Gallery, Bad Boys Bail Bonds Adopt a Highway, Curated by Amanda Ross-ho, New York,
M+B Gallery, Russian Doll, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Armory Center for the Arts, Attunement, Los Angeles, CA
356 Mission, Another Cats Show, Los Angeles, CA
Xippas, Me and Benjamin, Paris
2013 Josh Lilley Gallery, The Scandalized Mask, London
Cardi Blackbox Gallery, Sets, Milan, Italy
Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, October 18, 1977, New York, NY
Cleopatra’s, Works Sited, Reprised, Brooklyn, NY
2012 The Church of the Holy Shroud, Treating Shadows as Real Things, Curated by Andrew Berardini and Lauren Mackler, Artissima Lido, Turin, Italy
Ramiken Crucible, Cave-In, Puerto Rico
Helene Bailly Gallery, Los Angeles Contemporary Tendencies, Paris, France.
François Ghebaly Gallery, Deep Space, Los Angeles, CA
DAAP Gallery, Photogenus, University of Cincinnati, Ohio
For Your Art Gallery, Queer Pile-Up, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, (Un)Natural Histories, Kansas City, MO
LAXART, On Forgery: Is One Thing Better Than Another?, Los Angeles, CA
Statler Waldorf Gallery, My House Is Your House, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Roberts & Tilton, Gray Day, Los Angeles, CA
Portugal Biennial, The Billboard Project, Lisbon, Portugal
Luis de Jesus, Group Show, Santa Monica, CA
2009 Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, The Poetics of Space, Kansas City, MO
The Constant Gallery, Desert Sexy, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation. Organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Shanghai, China
Jail Gallery, Pie in the Face, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Guggenheim International Gala, Guggenheim Pictures: A Conceptual Portfolio, New York, NY
2005 Bernard Toale Gallery, The Once Over. Curated by David Hilliard, Boston, MA
Ingalls Gallery, Monstrously Tranquil, Curated by Christian Curiel, Miami, FL
2003 Art Space, For The Birds. Curated by Denise Markonish and Michael Crewdson, New Haven, CT
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2018 AWHRHWAR gallery, Spectator Sport: Terra-cotta Tableaux by Steve Rogers, Los Angles, CA.
2015 Paris Photo LA, California Unedited: The Photographs of R.J. Arnold, Los Angeles, CA
2014 El Paso de Robles Area Historical Society, Shared Histories Part II, Paso Robles, CA
2013 El Paso de Robles Area Historical Society, Shared Histories: R.J. Arnold’s Portraits of the Central Coast, Paso Robles, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
The Getty Museum, Los Angeles
The Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
The Fitchburg Museum of Art, Massachusetts