Devin Troy Strother (American, born )

Timeline

1986
Born in West Covina, CA
2009
Received BFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
2009
Awarded Art Center Scholarship
2010
Studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

Exhibitions

2015
Devin Troy Strother Exhibitions in 2015:
They Should’ve Never Given You Niggas Money, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo exhibition)
Space Jam, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Behold! The Blob, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Hard Edged: Geometrical Abstraction and Beyond, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Negative Hand, Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
Wavvy Wavvy, The Drain, Los Angeles, CA
You Won’t Believe (…), Galerie Division, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2014
Devin Troy Strother Exhibitions in 2014:
New Shit, Bendixen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo exhibition)
NSFW, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Walk-ins Welcome, Marlborough Broome Street, New York, NY
Early Man, The Hole, New York, NY
Splinter Field, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Broadway Morey Boogie, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY
In the Office of the Drunken Monkey, TSA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Positivilly Marvillainous, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
#MiniMansion, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Joyride, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY
Barn Swallows, Art Speak, Vancouver, BC
2013
Devin Troy Strother Exhibitions in 2013:
Look at all my Shit, Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo exhibition)
I Just Landed in Rome, Marlborough Broome Street, New York, NY CA (solo exhibition)
Dance Dance Dance, Galeria Marlborough, Madrid, Spain (solo exhibition)
Streching Mind and Space, Bendixen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark
It's Your World, Boo, Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada
The Christmas Show, Bendixen Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Miami Project, Richard Heller Gallery, Miami, FL
Summer Reading, The Hole, New York, NY
The Armory Show, Richard Heller Gallery, New York, NY
Chicken or Beef?, The Hole, New York, NY
In Case We Don’t Die, Curated by Bibi Katholm, Torrance Museum of Art, Torrance, CA
Faux Life, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
S’ren Assenholt, Art Herning Fair, Bendixen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark
Meet Your Maker, Bleeker Street Arts Club, New York, NY
Different Strokes, Small Paintings and Intimate Performances, Louis, Louis B. James, New York, NY
2012
Devin Troy Strother Exhibitions in 2012:
Front, Back, Side to Side, Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo exhibition)
My Nigga and I, Bendixen Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo exhibition)
She Think She Cute and Shit / Pictures from Africa, Art Copenhagen, Bendixen Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo exhibition)
Gurrrrrl You Know I’m Just Talking About That Composition, Gurrrl what’chu You Know About that Post Contemporary, Bendixen Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo exhibition)
The Armory Show, Richard Heller Gallery, New York, NY
The Miami Project, Richard Heller Gallery, Miami, FL
Untitled Art Fair, Monya Rowe Gallery, Miami, FL
Art Platform, Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Voices of Home, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY
Yeah, We Friends and Shit, Josee Bienvenu Galllery, New York, NY
Zagga Zow, Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Jacolby Satterwhite and Devin Troy Strother, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Devin Troy Strother Exhibitions in 2011:
The Me and You, Your Mother and Maybe Even Your Cousin Too & The Hey Sister, Soul Sister, Go Sister, Woah Sister, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Art Platform, Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
December Group Show, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Harlem Postcards Project, The Studio Museum in Harlem, November
From Where You Just Arrived: Paintings from New York & Los Angeles, organized by Ryan Schneider & Jonas Wood, Pepin Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Move, Bendixen Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Human Nature, Curated by Richard Heller, Galeria Espacio Minimo, Madrid, Spain
The February Show, , Ogilvy and Mather, New York, NY
The Armory Show, Richard Heller Gallery, New York, NY
First Class/Second Class, Curated by Leah Oates, Asya Geisberg, New York City, NY
2010
Devin Troy Strother Exhibitions in 2010:
Don’t Be Actin’ A Fool in the Club/Stuntin’ Like My Daddy, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo exhibition)
Peaceable Kingdom, Curated by David Pagel, Beacon Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Stranger Than Fiction, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
The Pulse Fair, Richard Heller Gallery, Miami, FL
The Armory Show, Richard Heller Gallery, New York, NY
2009
Devin Troy Strother Exhibitions in 2009:
Pulse Fair, Richard Heller Gallery, Miami, FL
Graduate Front Wall, Art Center Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2008
Devin Troy Strother Exhibitions in 2008:
Art Center Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2007
Devin Troy Strother Exhibitions in 2007:
Art Center Gallery, Pasadena, CA
Mendahal Sobeski Gallery, Pasadena, CA

Public Collections

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY

Literature

2016
Lee, Lila, SFAQ, “Devin Troy Strother In Conversation with Lindsay Preston Zappas,” Volume 2, Issue 4 Contrast Magazine, “Devin Troy Strother – The Name of Things,".
2015
Pagel, David, “Artist Devin Troy Strother’s raucous, rollicking extravaganza in Santa Monica,” LA Times, Critic’s Choice, November 3, 2015.
2015
Considine, Austin, “Devin Troy Strother,” Art in America , April 3, 2015.
2015
Smith, Roberta,“Devin Troy Strother: ‘Space Jam’,” The New York Times , February 5, 2015.
2015
Pasori, Cedar, “Jumpman: Artist Devin Troy Strother Takes Off,” Complex , January 15, 2015.
2015
Sokol, Zach, “Artist Devin Troy Strother Doesn’t Want to Talk About Being Black,” Vice, January 12, 2015.
2015
Indrisek, Scott, “5 Must See Gallery Shows in New York: Devin Troy Strother, Lucy Kim, and More,” BLOUINARTINFO , January 12, 2015.
2015
Symonds, Alexandria, “The Artist Devin Troy Strother Turns to Michael Jordan – and Joan Miró,” T Magazine - The New York Times Style Magazine , January 8, 2015.
2015
Duray, Dan, “Devin Troy Strother Will Transform Marlborough Chelsea Into a Basketball Court this Saturday,” Artnews , January 7, 2015.
2015
“Devin Troy Strother “Space Jam” @ Marloborough Chelsea, NYC,” Juxtapoz, January 7, 2015.
2014
Indrisek, Scott, “Afros, Abstraction, and Photographic Experimentation at Untitled,” BLOUINARTINFO , December 3, 2014.
2014
Bodick, Noelle, “Artist Devin Troy Strother on Why Michael Jordan and Gerhard Richter Belong in the Same Conversation,” Artspace , July 18, 2014.
2013
Johnson, Ken, “Devin Troy Strother: ‘I Just Landed in Rome,’” The New York Times , December 5, 2013.
2013
Pagel, David, “Devin Troy Strother’s comical works exude smart exuberance,” The Los Angeles Times, Review, October 3, 2013.
2013
“New Artists We Love", GQ Magazine, October 15, 2013.
2013
Baritaux, Zio, “Artist Devin Troy Strother on Race, the American Experience, and ‘Goosebumps,’” Bullett, Art & Design, September 6, 2013.
2013
Frank, Priscilla, “Devin Troy Strother talks Beyoncé, Punk Music and the expectations of making ‘Heavy Black’ art,” The Huffington Post , Arts & Culture, April 3, 2013
2012
Pagel, David, “We’re all just paper dolls in Devin Troy Strother’s hands,” The Los Angeles Times , Review, September 28, 2012.
2012
Harnish, Tracy, “Not Dead Yet: 10 Questions for Devin Troy Strother,” The Huffington Post , Arts, March 28, 2012.
2012
Indrisek, Scott, “Introducing: Devin Troy Strother", Modern Painters , May, reproduction.
2012
Editors, “Shot at Armory: Devin Troy Strother,” Modern Painters : Artinfo.com/blog : Modern Painters Daily , March 9, 2012, reproduction.
2012
Garza, Evan J., “30 Artists To Watch in 2012: Part III,” NY Arts Magazine , March, reproduction
2012
Editors, “Devin Troy Strother,” Modern Painters, Reviews in Brief, Vol. XXIV No. 1, , February.
2011
Editors, “‘Arts,’ Critic’s Picks,” Time out New York, Issue 830, September 29, 2011.
2011
Cotter, Holland, “‘Weekend Arts,’ Devin Troy Strother,” The New York Times , September 16, 2011.
2010
Pagel, David, “Art Review: Devin Troy Strother at Richard Heller Gallery,” The Los Angeles Times, September 23, 2010.
2009
West, Kayne, "“Artist Devin Troy Strother", Kayne West's Blog, October 1, 2009.