KELLY AKASHI

Kelly Akashi was born in 1983 in Los Angeles. She received a BFA from Otis College of Art & Design in 2006 and an MFA from the University of Southern California in 2014. She also studied at the prestigious Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Städelschule) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 2010. Recent solo exhibitions of Akashi’s work include ‘Long Exposure’ at SculptureCenter, Queens, NY, USA (2017), and ‘Cultivator’, a commissioned sculpture at the Aspen Art Museum (2020). Her ten year survey, ‘Formations’, began at the San José Museum of Art in 2022, traveled to the Frye Art Museum in Seattle and then to the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, on view through 2024. ‘Kelly Akashi: Encounters’ will open at Henry Art Gallery in Seattle on September 30, 2023. Recent group exhibitions include ‘Ecstatic: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection’, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA (2023); ‘Ground/work’ at Clark Institute, Williamston, MA, USA (2020); ‘Possessed’, MO.CO Panacée, Montpellier, France; ‘Take Me (I’m Yours)’, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, USA (2016); and ‘Made in LA: a, the, though, only’, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA (2016).

Akashi’s work can be found in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, USA; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, USA; Sifang Museum, Nanjing, China, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and X Museum, Beijing, China, among others.

Courtesy Lisson Gallery