KEVIN APPEL
Assistant Professor (MFA 1995, University of California,
Los Angeles), teaches painting. His artwork occupies spaces within and
between the practices of painting, architecture, and design.

His solo exhibitions include Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City (2003);
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica (2002, 1999, 1998); Marianne Boesky
Gallery, New York (2001); and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles (1999). Among the group exhibitions Appel has participated in
are: Trespassing: Houses x Artists, MAK Center for Art and
Architecture, Los Angeles (2003); Drawing Now: Eight Propositions,
Museum of Modern Art, New York (2002); Painting at the Edge of the
World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2001); 010101: Art in
Technological Times, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San
Francisco, California (2001), Against Design, Museum of Contemporary
Art, San Diego, La Jolla; Farve Volumen / Color Volume, Kunsthallen
Brandts Klædefabrik, DK-Odense, Denmark (1999); and Abstract Painting
Once Removed, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (1998). Appel’s
bibliography includes catalogs for: Drawing Now: Eight Propositions,
Museum of Modern Art (Laura Hoptman); Trespassing: Houses x Artists,
Hatje Cantz (Alan Koch, Linda Taalman, Cara Mullio, L.D. Riehle);
01.01.01: Art in Technological Times, San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art, San Francisco (David A Ross, et al); Painting at the Edge of the
World, Walker Art Center (Douglas Fogle, Ed.); Kevin Appel, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (Jeremy Strick, Paul Schimmel, Jan
Tumlir). Other critical essay can be found in: Architecture, May:
98-99 (“Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction” by Glen Helfand);
Frieze, Issue 46, May 1999 ('Drive-by: New Art from LA' by Alex
Farquharson); Artforum XXXVII, No. 1, September: 126-173 ('Virtually
Formal' by Lane Relyea).

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