Shio Kusaka
 
Born: Japan, 1972
Education: University of Washington, Seattle, WA, B.F.A.
Lives and works in Los Angeles.
 
One-Person Exhibitions

2012
Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK
Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, CA 

2011
greengrassi, London
 
2010
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
 
2009
Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, MI
Shane Cambell Gallery, Chicago, IL
 
2005
Tortoise, Venice, CA
 
 
Group Exhibitions

2013
Jonas Wood and Shio Kusaka: Still Life with Pots, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, NY

2012
Verlangsamte Performance, Van Horn, Dusseldorf, Germany

2011
Paul Clay, Salon 94, NYC
Dwelling, Marianne Boesky Gallery
Banquet of the Black Jackal, The Harriet and Charles Luckman Fine Arts Complex, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
 
2010
Not Extractions, but Abstractions (Part 2), Clifton Benevento, New York
Multiple Pleasures: Functional Objects in Contemporary Art, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Not Extractions, but Abstractions, Karma International, Zurich
 
2009
Objects, Furniture & Patterns, Art Since the Summer of ’69, New York, NY
 
2008
Friends and Family, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
 
2004
FAITH, Champion Fine Art, Culver City, CA
164 1/2, Los Angeles, CA
 
 
Selected Bibliography

2012
Kusaka, Shio. "The Artists' Artists." Artforum 51, no. 4 (December 2012): 120.             

2011
Herbert, Martin. “Shio Kusaka,” Time Out (London), July 1, 2011.

 2010

Doran, Anne. “Shio Kusaka,” Time Out, (New York), August 9, 2010.
Jovanovich, Alex. “Shio Kusaka.” Artus, no. 30 (2010-2011): 82.
“Not Extractions, but Abstractions (Part 2), Clifton Benevento, New York, NY,” Minus Space, July 23, 2010.
Smith, Roberta. “Varieties of Abstraction,” New York Times, August 5, 2010.
Smith, Roberta. “When the Art Stared Back and Other Trends,” New York Times, December 16, 2010.
Yablonsky, Linda. “Artifacts: Feats of Clay,” New York Times Style Magazine, August 12, 2010.
 
2009
Holte, Michael Ned. “Best of 2009.” Artforum 48, no. 4 (December 2009): 193.