Education

2018 MFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2008 BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Selected Solo Exhibition

2025 Glottal Stop, White Cube, New York, NY.

2024 Ectopia, White Cube, Paris, FR

2023 Radical Contractions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

2022 In Jest, White Cube, London, UK

2021 Entrañadas, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2021 Swimming in Contaminated Waters, Deli Gallery, New York, NY

2018 Loose Bodies, ltd Los Angeles @ VACATION, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibition

2025

The Monster, Pace Gallery, Los Angeles, LA

2024

In an effort to be held, Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI

Rupture and Connection, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX

Overflow, Afterglow: New Work in Chromatic Figuration,The Jewish Museum, New York, NY

NON Objectified, KinoSaito, Verplanck, NY

When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art/History, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

Arcadia and Elsewhere, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY

2023

The Big Chill, Bernheim Galerie, London, UK

NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU

The Rejectionists, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

Chopped and Screwed, White Cube, New York, NY

Perhaps the Truth, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX

Inside/Outside, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA

Full and Pure: Body, Materiality, Gender, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX

Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Considering Female Abstractions, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX

Something or Other, Bernheim Galerie, Zurich, CH

2022

Bodyland, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, DE

Benefit Auction, Society for Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Vaster than Empires, Friends Indeed Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2021

Abstract Vocabularies: Selections From The Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), San Diego, CA

THIS IS AMERICA, Kunstraum Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, curated by Albertz Benda in collaboration with Arndt Art Agency

Dancing in Dark Times, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK

NXTHVN: Un/Common Proximity, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY

On the other side of something, We Buy Gold, New York, NY, curated by Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels and Diana Nawi

Swimming in Contaminated Waters, Deli Gallery, New York, NY

2020

Common Expression, Hesse Flatow, New York, NY, curated by Jesse Greenberg

Envelope, Drawer, New York, NY, curated by Essex Flowers

2019

But my heart was awake, Golestani Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany

ec.dy.sis II,ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA

ec.dy.sis, Museum aan de Stroom (MAS), Antwerp, Belgium

ec.dy.sis, CASSTLE, Antwerp, Belgium

2018

If I go there, I won’t stay there, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Topical Cream Benefit Auction, Artsy

Tails, Next to Nothing Gallery, New York, NY

Summer Hot, Fredrick Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL

Labyrinths, Nui Galway, Galway, Ireland

Data Spell, The Border Project, Brooklyn, NY

Way Out Now, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Blended Reality Showcase, Yale Center for Collaborative Arts, New Haven, CT

Wild Seed, Yale University Green Gallery, New Haven, CT

Stranger in a Strange Land, Castor Gallery, New York, NY

2017

The Sands, B3 Bienale, Frankfurt, Germany

Reconstruir, Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY

The Sands, Essex Flowers, New York, NY

Languaging the Body, VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY Backyard Biennial, Brooklyn, NY

All Is Written, Yale University E.I.K Gallery, New Haven, CT

2016

New Flesh, Rubber Factory, New York, NY

Vital Enhancements,Good Work Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

I’d Rather Be Here Than Almighty, Jack Barrett Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Authority Figure, Knockdown Center, Brooklyn, NY

2015

Homeostasis Lab, The Wrong Digital Art Biennale

2014

Bahamas Biennale, Art Basel | Mukwonago, Mukwonago, WI 2013 100

NYC Artists, Pop Up Show, Barranquilla, Colombia

Grants and Residencies

2022

Horizon Artist Residency

2020

NXTHVN Fellowship, New Haven, CT

2018

HP Blended Reality Grant Recipient, Yale University Center for Collaborative Arts, New Haven, CT

2017

HP Blended Reality Grant Recipient, Yale University Center for Collaborative Arts, New Haven, CT 2015

Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Artist in Residence Johnson, VT

Collections

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Danjuma Collection, London, UK

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, TX

Burger Collection, Hong Kong

Artist Talks and Panels

2022

Visiting artist (guest speaker), The Cooper Union, School of Art, New York, NY

Conversations: Louise Giovanelli, Danica Lundy, Ilana Savdie with Hettie Judah, White Cube, London, UK

Interview, in conversation with curator Liz Munsell, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2021

Visiting artist (guest speaker), Gallery 51, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, MA

2020

Interview, in conversation with curator Tiffany Ward, Komuna Global Arts Club

2019

What is present: A panel discussion as part of Of This World Rather, Deli Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Visiting artist (guest speaker), Yale University, New Haven, CT

Visiting artist (guest speaker and visiting critic), Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT

Visiting artist (guest speaker), Fordham University, New York, NY

Artists in Conversation: Convergence & Crash, LaCa Projects, Charlotte, NC

2018

Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Drawing, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2014

On Identifications, Mana Contemporary, Miami, FL

Bibliography (WE NEED TO CHECK THESE**)

2024

Wychowanok, Thibaut, “La sensation de la peinture Ilana Savdie enflamme la galerie White Cube de Paris,” Numéro, July 9

Rabb, Maxwell, “Ilana Savdie’s Fluorescent Paintings Conjure a Carnival Chaos,” Artsy, June 27

2023

Aton, Francesca, “Like an ‘Exposed Nervous System,’ Ilana Savdie’s Whitney Show Captures Collective Dread”, Artnews, July 16

Glass, Josh, “Artist Ilana Savdie’s Whitney Museum Show Is a Vibrant Response to Dark Times”, W Magazine, July 12

2022

Cheale, Matthew, “Ilana Savdie: ‘In Jest” Review”, Artforum, September 11

Eckardt, Stephanie, “In the Studio With Ilana Savdie, the Artist Testing the Body’s Limit,” W Magazine, July 7

Westall, Mark, “Louise Giovanelli, Danica Lundy, and Ilana Savdie at White Cube Bermondsey,” FAD Magazine, June 30

2021

Wahi, Jasmine, “‘Euphoric and Grotesque’ : Ilana Savdie on Painting Parasites,” Interview Magazine, December 22

“Surface: Art: Illana Savdie: Entreñadas,” Surface Magazine, November 6

Kyermeh, Trey, “Ilana Savdie - Making Your Own Gods,” Metal Magazine, December 1

Dambrot, Shana Nys, “LAWEEKLY: Pictures of You: Arts Calendar: November 4-10,” LAWEEKLY, November 3

Selvin, Claire; Solomon, Tessa, “ARTnews in Brief: François Ghebaly To Open New York Space—and More from April 29, 2021,” Artnews, April 29

Brito, Daniella, “In Thrilling Palettes, Ilana Savdie Maps Electrifying Geographies,” Hyperallergic, March 28

Budds, Diana, “Murals on 9 City Buildings Will Help You Process Your Pandemic

Feelings,” Curbed, February 8

2020

Smith, Melissa, “5 Things to Do This Weekend”, The New York Times, February 4

Espinosa, Fernanda, “Oral history interview with Ilana Savdie,” Smithsonian Archives of American Art, August 20

Roach, Amanda, “Artist of the Week: Ilana Savdie,” LVL 3, November 25

2018

“If I go there, I won’t stay there at ltd los angeles,” Blouin Art Info, October 1

Kracke, Bernd & Ries, Marc, “On Desire: Positions of time-based and immersive arts,” Transcript Verlag, March 29

2017

Panko, Ben, “Reach Out and Touch This Virtual Reality Art Installation,” Smithsonian Magazine, August 18

Sutton, Benjamin, “A VR Exhibition Pays Tribute to a Long-Gone Vegas Casino,” Hyperallergic, August 9

Johnson, Paddy, “The Backyard Biennial: A Biennial Done on Zero Dollars,” Art F City, September 22

2016

Butler, Sharon, “Examining Queer at Yale University,” 2 Coats of Paint, October 21

Sargent, Antwaun, “A Look Inside the First Queer Show at Yale,” Vice, October 27

Sherman, Elizabeth, “MFA Annual,” New American Paintings, Issue #129, May Garcia, Adriana Chica, “Savdie Expone Su Arte Conceptual En Miami,” El Heraldo,

December 3

“Mossless 4: Public/Private/Portrait,” Mossless, May 2

Eckhardt, Stephanie, “Inside Authority Figure,” W Magazine, May 22

Herriman, Kat, “A Mysterious Performance Art Show Where the Audience Plays Along,” The New York Times, May 18

Walker, John, “This Dance Performance About Data, Surveillance, and Obedience F-ed Me Up,” Splinter, May 20

Kirsch, Laura June, “‘Authority Figure’ Experiments With Choreo-Politics at Knockdown Center,” Village Voice, May 23

2015

Taylr, Inny, “Ilana Savdie: Exploring Depth of Self,” Metal Magazine

2014

“Artist Collaboration: Ilana Savdie,” Print All Over Me

Czarny, Alejandra, “Art and Technology: An Interview with Ilana Savdie,” Letra Urbana “An Interview with Ilana Savdie,” Bullett Media

Foronda, Macey J.,“A Powerful Film About Artists Defining Feminism,” Buzzfeed, September 22

“Ilana Savdie, Artist and Creative Director,” The Coven Magazine, July 1

2013

“Bib + Tuck Re-invents The Wheel,” Bullett Media “Paintings by Ilana Savdie,” Recaps Magazine

“Ilana Savdie,” The Coven Magazine, Issue I