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

2026

Beauty is the Best Defense, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA 

Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY

2025

Search for Tomorrow, Bernheim Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland

Toward the Light: Artists for the Ali Forney Center, David Zwirner, New York, NY 

New Acquisitions, Museum of Fine Arts of Montreal, Montreal, Canada

Faktura / Tektonika, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY

Identity, Culture, and Community, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY

2024

Alchemists, Pond Society, Shanghai, CN

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 Gallery, 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

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

Something or Other, Bernheim Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland

2022

Bodyland, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, DE

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

2020

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

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

Summer Hot, Fredrick Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL

Labyrinths, Nui Galway, Galway, Ireland

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

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

2017

The Sands, B3 Bienale, Frankfurt, Germany

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

The Sands, Essex Flowers, New York, NY

2016

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

Authority Figure, Knockdown Center, Brooklyn, NY

Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

2025

Creative Capital Awardee

JFK Terminal 1 Public Art Commission Awardee, curated by Culture Corps

Hirshorn Museum Artist X Artist Benefit Honoree 

2024

Hirshorn 50th Anniversary Gala Honoree

2022

Horizon Art Foundation Residency , Los Angeles, CA

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

Vermont Studio Center Artist in Residence,  Johnson, VT

Artist Talks, Panels, and Podcasts

2026

In Conversation: Ilana Savdie and Ali Gass, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA

2025

In Conversation: Ilana Savdie, Ariana Reines, Jasmine Wahi, White Cube, NY

Artist Talk: Ilana Savdie, Fine Arts Work Center 

2024

Artist Talk: Ilana Savdie, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

Critical Dialogue: Ilana Savdie, Tyler Art + Architecture, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

2023

Podcast: Ilana Savdie, Talk Art, Season 9 - Episode 17

Ilana Savdie: On Her Work, New York Studio School, New York, NY

Ilana Savdie in Conversation With Carmen Maria Machado, Whitney Museum of American Art

In Conversation: Ilana Savdie with María Elena Ortiz, Horizon Artist Residency

2022

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

Podcast: Artist Ilana Savdie: Episode 61, Art Sense Podcast

Podcast: Ilana Savdie at White Cube, Maeve Doyle’s Private View 

2019

What is present: A panel discussion, Deli Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Visiting artist, Yale University, New Haven, CT

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

Visiting artist, Fordham University, New York, NY

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

Collections

Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR. 

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY.

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA 

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA 

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, QC, Canada 

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (Promised Gift) 

The Jewish Museum, New York, NY 

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA 

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA 

RISD Museum, Providence, RI 

The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, TX 

Burger Collection, Hong Kong 

Danjuma Collection, London, UK

Press

2025

Yerebakan, Osman Kan, “In Ilana’s Tumultuous Paintings, the Next Move Always Awaits Around the Corner, Elephant Magazine, July 10.

Carollo, Elisa, “Ilana Savdie Collapses Form, Flesh and Meaning in Her White Cube Debut”, Observer, May 19.

Keenan, Annabel “What Do Carnival, Camouflage, and Cartoons Have in Common? Find Out in Ilana Savdie’s Latest Show” Cultured Magazine, April 15.

Binlot, Ann, “To The Core”, Family Style Magazine, May 6.

Mumford, Patrick, “On the ‘Monstrosity’ of the Human Form”, Provincetown Independent, June 25.

White, Katie, “Ilana Savdie’s Shapeshifting Worlds Thrive on Mimicry and Metamorphosis”, Artnet, May 22. 

Carollo, Elisa, “10 Must See Gallery Shows to Catch in New York This May,” Observer.

Maneker, Marion, “Thursday Night Lights,” Puck, May 2.

Nayyar, Rhea, “Creative Capital Awards $2.4M to 55 Artists,” Hyperallergic, January 21.  

Lawson-Tancred, Jo, “JFK’s New Terminal to Be Stacked With Installations by Contemporary Art Stars,” Artnet, October 29.

Ratliff, Laura, “Officials Unveil Striking Art Program for New Terminal 1 at JFK,” TimeOut, October 23.

Lancelin, Hervé, “The Hallucinatory Baroque of Ilana Savdie,” Art Critic, October 22.

2024

Budick, Ariella, “Overflow, Afterglow - flamboyant coloration at New York’s Jewish Museum,” Financial Times, July 16.

Wychowanok, Thibaut, “La sensation de la peinture Ilana Savdie enflamme la galerie White Cube de Paris,” Numéro, July 9. Aubel, Damien, “Ilana Savdie chez White Cube,” Transfuge, July 1.

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

Sebbag, Justine, “Les métamorphoses d’Ilana Savdie á la galerie White Cube,” Harper’s Bazaar France, June 27.

Javault, Patrick, “Monstre technologique, fêtes carnavalesques et cénotaphe contemporain,” The Art Newspaper France, June 7.

J. Rocca, “The women to watch at the NGV Triennial,” Harper’s Bazaar, February 20.

Bernheim, Maria, “Wet Paint in the Wild: Maria Bernheim Opens the First Show at Her New Space in Mayfair,” Artnet, January 13.

Frank, Annalise, “New exhibition in old church explores surfaces,” Axios Detroit, August 12.

2023

Rosa, Margarita Lila, “Ilana Savide’s Unruly Paintings Embrace the Uncanny.” i-D Magazine, October 18.

Aton, Francesca, “Like an ‘Exposed Nervous System,’ Ilana Savdie’s Whitney Show Captures Collective Dread”, Artnews, July 14. 

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

Schiffman, Rebecca, “Ilana Savdie's Psychedelic Paintings Speak to Political Oppression,” Art and Object, August 27.

Woodward, Josef, “Involuted Perspectives, In Process,” Santa Barbara Independent, December 14.

Jefferson, Dee, “NGV Triennial 2023 review: Plenty of Showstoppers – and Cheek –  in Another Blockbuster Show,” The Guardian, December 12. 

Hill, Judy, “State of Flux-Ilana Savdie’s Paintings—Currently on Exhibit at the 

Whitney—Dazzle, Beguile and Refuse to Stay Put,” RISD Magazine, Oct Issue.

Wu, Jenny, “White Cube New York’s InauguralShow Alludes to 90s Hip-Hop,” Cultbytes, October 23.

Walker, Caroline, “Five Artists That Stepped into the Spotlight This Year,” Mutual Art Magazine, December 20. 

Aton, Francesca, “Five New York Museum Shows to See During Armory Week,” ArtNews, September 5.

“SFMOMA announces acquisition of more than 100 objects that underscore collecting      priorities,” artdaily, August 13.

Di Liscia,Valentina and Lakshmi Rivera Amin,“10 Art Shows to See in New York Right Now,” Hyperallergic, August 11.

Kakar, Arun, “Data Spotlight: Artists to Watch at New York’s May 2023 Fairs,” Artsy, May 4.

Laster, Paul, “10 Standout Artworks Discovered at Expo Chicago 2023,” Galerie, April 17.

Eckardt, Steph, “On View Now: Paul McCartney, Ilana Savdie, Brigid Berlin and More,” Observer, June 1.

Fuchs, Eva, “Ilana Savdie’s Radical Contractions at the Whitney,” OCULA, July 21.

“Artist Ilana Savdie Creates Never-Before Seen Paintings for Upcoming Exhibition at The Whitney,” The City Life, July 10.

2022

Cheale, Matthew, “London | Ilana Savdie,” ARTFORUM, July. 

Eckardt, Stephanie, “In the Studio with Ilana Savdie, the Artist Testing the Body’s Limits,” 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.

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

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

“Surface: Art: Ilana Savdie: Entreñadas,” Surface Magazine, November 6.

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

Ambrose, James, “The Nature of Human Defiance in Painting,” Soft Punk, April 8.

Budds, Diana, “Murals on 9 City Buildings Will Help You Process Your Pandemic Feelings,” Curbed, February 8.

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

2020

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

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

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

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

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.

Publications

2025

Contributed text: “Fake Drips”, Mary Heilmann, Works on Paper 1973 - 2019, Hauser and Wirth.

Giladi, Maia. Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence, Duke University Press.

Luard, Honey and ML Tam, Elaine, Companion (2025), White Cube. September.

2024

Sheleg, Moran. Ilana Savdie’s Shadow Body. White Cube.

Luard, Honey; ML Tam, Elaine, and Bennet, Alex. Companion (2024), White Cube. October. 

2023

Godfrey, Mark. Making Their Mark: Art by Women in the Shah Garg Collection. Gregory R. 

Miller & Co., May 2.

Murib, Zein. Terms of Exclusion: Rightful Citizenship Claims and the Construction of LGBT Political Identity. Oxford University Press, August 4.

2022

Ilana Savdie: Entrañadas, Kohn Gallery, 2022.

2021

Battista, Kathy, and Gay, Roxane, THIS IS AMERICA, Kunstraum Potsdam and DISTANZ