Paige K. B.
Paige K. B. is an artist and writer from Los Angeles based in New York. She has staged solo exhibitions at Blade Study, KAJE, and Lubov and been included in thematic and group exhibitions at Somerset House in London as well as Simone Subal, Kai Matsumiya, the Broodthaers Society of America, and Theta in New York, in addition to contributing to Canal Street Research Association’s installation for the 2021–22 iteration of “Greater New York” at MoMA PS1. Her work has been featured numerous times on Contemporary Art Daily and written about in The New Yorker, Cultured, e-flux Criticism, and Artforum, among other publications, and her own writing has been featured in numerous magazines, catalogues, and online platforms for over a decade including The New York Review of Books, Artforum—where she was formerly an associate editor—Texte zur Kunst, Frieze, Viscose, GARAGE, Topical Cream, Triple Canopy, and Spike. She authored the monograph Suellen Rocca: In Dreams, The Last Works (Matthew Marks, 2022) and her second book, Drive It All Over Me, was published by S*I*G-Verlag in Berlin and released at Maxwell Graham in New York in October 2023. She has participated in readings at Artists Space, the Drawing Center, McNally Jackson, and on Montez Press Radio.
Exhibitions
Selected Works
Chair Does Not Care :D feat. "Drive It All Over Me," 2023
30" x 19" x 21"Single Rowland 40/4 chair with book snakes, artist’s book, preserved cherry blossoms, and pair of Di Gi Charat slippers
you’re finally awake! it’s morning, 2022
36" x 31" x 2"Latex paint, oil, acrylic, graphite, charcoal, water soluble colored pencil, watercolor, Urban Decay “ZERO” pigment, preserved cherry blossom, eggshell, gampi paper, flashe paint, enamel paint, ink-jet prints on paper, handmade abaca paper, oil-based woodcut print on handmade abaca paper, oil pastel, wax, hand-marbled mulberry paper, glassine, rock, PVA, collage, book super, and book-cloth on wood panel
NO STEP, but cornered, so I take ownership of it—I turn tail and leave a memorable line in the wake, 2023
16" x 11"Acrylic, graphite, and ink-jet print on paper in silver leaf frame
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Of Course, You Realize, This Means War
Blade Study, New York
2022
CHAPTER 33
KAJE, Brooklyn, NY
laugh(RIOT)Lubov, New York
2021
Free Fall Savings and Loans
Canal Street Research Association, New York
2020
Happy Birthday
13 East 31st Street, New York
It’s About Time
167-169 Canal Street, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
CUTE
Somerset House, London, United Kingdom
2023
CHRISTLESS TREE starring BRAD PHILLIPS
Blade Study, New York
Objects of Virtu
ROMANCE, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Off Script
Simone Subal Gallery, New York
Weathering
Kai Matsumiya, New York
2022
Montez Press Radio Fundraiser 2022
Kai Matsumiya
Reworking: a coda
Broodthaers Society of America, New York
The Patriot
O’Flaherty’s, New York
Reworking
Broodthaers Society of America
You’re Finally Awake!
Theta, New York
2021
Greater New York in collaboration with Shanzhai Lyric / Canal Street Research Association
MoMA PS1, Queens, NY
2020
New York Biennale
Bleecker Street & West 11th Street, New York
When We First Arrived...
The Corner at Whitman-Walker, Washington, D.C.
2019
Routine à la mode
Kimberly-Klark, Queens, NY
2012
Multiples
Bluestockings, New York
It’s a small, small, world
Family Business, New York
New Prints 2012 / Winter
International Print Center New York, New York
Residencies
2019
Rupert
Vilnius, Lithuania
2013
Manhattan Graphics Center
New York
Selected Press
2024
Joshua Citarella
Charlotte Jansen, "The Power of 'Cute' in Contemporary Art"
Artsy
Günseli Yalcinkaya, "How cute became the defining aesthetic of the internet age"
Dazed
Stuart Heritage, "The Cuteness Curse"
Air Mail
Rosa Lyster, "The Power of Cute: Sweet, Cuddly and Taking Over the World"
New York Times
Financial Times
Artnet
Oliver Wainwright, "Cute review – the world is on fire, but just look at that smol round boi!"
The Guardian
Eddy Frankel, "Cute"
Time Out
The London Evening Standard
The London Evening Standard
Paige K. Bradley, "January 1 2024"
S/FJ
2023
Dean Kissick, "Tops & Flops 2023"
Spike
Hettie Judah, "Our culture highlights for 2024"
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Travis Diehl, "The Year of the Horse"
Cultured
India Lawrence, "London is getting an exhibition all about cuteness in 2024"
Time Out
Matilda Lin Berke, "PAIGE K BRADLEY: DRIVE IT ALL OVER ME"
THE WHITNEY REVIEW of New Writing
Josh Kline, "TOP TEN: Best of 2023"
Artforum
Collette Grimes, "Somerset House Celebrates All Things 'Cute' With New Exhibition"
Hypebae
Contemporary Art Daily
Paige K. Bradley, "Band of Outsiders: Paige K. Bradley around new York"
Artforum
Travis Diehl, "Paige K.B.’s ‘Of Course, You Realize, This Means War’"
e-flux Criticism
Domenick Ammirati, "Frieze Week: Let’s Fucking Gooooooooooo?"
Spigot
Contemporary Art Daily
2022
Jerry Saltz, "The Best New York Art Shows of 2022"
New York
Artforum
New Models
Max Lakin, "Divine Excess on Avenue C"
New York Times
Artnews
Geoffrey Mak, "Documenta Fifteen: Whose Side Are You On Anyway?"
Spike
Contemporary Art Daily
Kate Fowle, Ruba Katrib, Inés Katzenstein, Moses Serubiri, "Greater New York"
New York: MoMA PS1
Glenn Adamson, Connie Butler, Tamara Schenkenberg, Hayv Kahraman, Nadia Myre, Jeanine Oleson, Catherine Opie, "Hannah Wilke: Art for Life’s Sake"
Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Saint Louis, MO
Do Not Research
Contemporary Art Daily
Johanna Fateman, "Goings On About Town: ‘You’re Finally Awake'"
The New Yorker
2021
Terence Trouillot, "The Top 10 Shows in the US of 2021"
Frieze
Geoffrey Mak, "7PM in Manhattan"
Spike
Matthew Shen Goodman, Paige K. B., Steve MacFarlance, "And Besides, It’s True"
Triple Canopy
Dean Kissick, "Hello Darkness"
New Models / Stolbun Institute
Adam Keith, "Shanzhai Lyric: Canal Street Research Association"
Baited Area 3
2020
Rahel Aima, "COVID Biennial"
ArtReview
Diarmuid Hester, "Wrong: A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper"
University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, Iowa
Randy Kennedy, "Suellen Rocca, Founding Member of the Hairy Who, Dies at 76"
New York Times
The Guardian
Hyperallergic
2019
Jacob Edmond, "Make It the Same: Poetry In the Age of Global Media"
Columbia University Press, New York
"Routine à la mode, a Group Show at Kimberly-Klark"
Tzvetnik
Kyle Chayka, "The Decisive Moment"
Columbia Journalism Review
Dean Kissick, "Kimberly-Klark and the Great Art Conspiracy"
Cultured
Dean Kissick, "The Downward Spiral: The Euphoric Conspiracy"
Spike
2016
2015
Casey Michael Henry, "How Dennis Cooper Turns GIFS Into Fiction"
The New Yorker
2014
Heidi MacDonald, "Paper Jam, a New Small Press Show in NYC in February"
Comics Beat
The New Yorker
2013
2012
New York
Selected Publication History
2024
Marley Freeman: Piecing Together the Luster
Kathy Butterly, Lynne Drexler, and Marley Freeman
Karma Gallery, New York
Endless Summer
Jan Vorisek: No Sun
Swiss Institute, New York
2023
Drive It All Over Me
Frac Lorraine, France
MFC-Michèle Didier, Belgium
S*I*G-Verlag, Germany
2022
Suellen Rocca: In Dreams, The Last Works
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2021
Vitamin D3: Today's Best in Contemporary Drawing
Phaidon, UK
Readings / Events / Talks
2023
Press Play 2023, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
"30th Anniversary Reissue and Reading of Dave Hickey’s The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty and Other Matters" with Gary Kornblau, Felix Berstein and Gabe Rubin, Domenick Ammirati, Christopher Bollen, and Laura Ortman
McNally Jackson SoHo, New York
"Book Release and Reading of Paige K. Bradley’s Drive It All Over Me" with writers Felix Bernstein, Geoffrey Mak, and Stephanie LaCava
Maxwell Graham / Essex Street Gallery, New York
"Signs and Symbols" a reading with writers Geoffrey Mak, Matilda Berke, Camonghne Felix, and Drew Zeiba
Blade Study, New York
Off Script a reading with artist Joel Dean and curator Jeanette Bisschops
Simone Subal Gallery, New York
Visiting Artist, "Studio Writing 3: Contexts, Counterpoints, and Exercises" with Professor Tim Simonds
Humanities and Media Studies Department. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
"Dodie Bellamy / Paige K. B." Segue Reading Series Winter/Spring 2023
Artists Space, New York
2022
"Ecce Homo: The Drawings of General Idea" a reading with Wayne Koestenbaum, Nayland Blake, Leidy Churchman, Paige K. Bradley, and Maryam Hoseini. Organized by Alex Kitnick
The Drawing Center, New York
KAJE, Brooklyn, NY
2021
And Besides, It’s True an online panel and curated screening in collaboration with Tiffany Sia, Triple Canopy, and Spectacle Theater
Triple Canopy
2020
Art Forum with Geoffrey Mak, Cade Diehm, and Andrew Thompson
Components
2019
Exhibition walkthrough with writer Dean Kissick, “Marnie Weber & Justin John Greene”
Simon Lee Gallery, New York
2015
The Strand, New York
2014
Paper Jam Small Press Festival
Silent Barn, New York
Resident Artist’s Talk
Manhattan Graphics Center, New York
"The Art of Femininity" with Petra Collins, Caitlin Keogh, Martine Gutierrez, and Marlene McCarty
Company, New York
Radio / Podcasts
Montez Press Radio, New York
New Models Podcast, Berlin, Germany
Montez Press Radio
Montez Press Radio
Montez Press Radio
Failed Architecture Podcast
Montez Press Radio
Montez Press Radio
Montez Press Radio
Dissociation Café with Dean Kissick and Ada Gafter O’Higgin
Montez Press Radio
Education
2011
BFA Printmaking with Honors
Rhode Island School of Design
2010
Fine Art Print
National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland
2008
Fine Art, Marty & Leah Sklar Merit Scholarship
California Institute of the Arts