John Felix Arnold | http://johnfelixarnold.com | feliarn@unc.edu
Education
Current University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, MFA Studio Art Program, expected 25’
2002 Pratt Institute, BFA
Select Solo & Two Person Exhibitions
2025 Forthcoming, UNC Chapel Hill MFA Thesis Exhibition, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2023 The Space Between, Aquarius Project Space, Queens, NY
2022 Folding Space, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2021 Time as a Sanctuary, Anchorlight Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2016 Language of Memory, Superchief Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015 From Here, Joseph Gross Gallery, New York, NY
More Than Just Time, Black Book Gallery, Denver, CO
2014 No Destination, FFDG, San Francisco, CA
Pilgrimage, White Walls, San Francisco, CA
Excorrigia, Superchief Gallery, New York, NY
2013 In Memory Of…, curated by Renee De Cossio, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Bright on Time, Spes-Lab Experimental Art Space, Tokyo, JP
2012 The Love of All Above, Queens Nails Projects, San Francisco, CA
Should I Stay or Should I Go?, Old Crow Gallery, Oakland, CA
Found in Darkness, Book & Job Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011 Past From the Blast, Queens Nails Projects, San Francisco, CA
Select Interdisciplinary Projects & Performances
2024 Entrypoint to Outpouring, with Jesi Cook, Amari Jones, and Leo Ryan, curated by SiSi Chen Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Echoes : From Here, with Michelle Dorrance and Byron Tittle, Duke University Arts, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC
Trace, with Leo Ryan, Cassilhaus, Chapel HIll, NC
Select Group Exhibitions
2025 Forthcoming, Ackland Museum of Art, Chapel Hill, NC
2024 Rhapsody Tentacular curated by SiSi Chen, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY
Loom, Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, NC - Forthcoming
Fresh, Artspace, Raleigh, NC
Begin Transmission, Satellite Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2023 (Remix) Domestic Materiality, A.D.Gallery, University of North Carolina Pembroke, NC
Throwing Shade, RVCA Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2022 Wunderdonk, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
Antidote, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA
BASEMENT X PEEL, Basement Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
2021 Group Show, Shrine, New York, NY
2020 Art on Paper Art Fair, Heliotrope Foundation Booth, curated by Swoon, New York, NY
By Yourself With Everyone, Good Mother Gallery, Oakland, CA
Everything That Rises Must Converge curated by Carolyn Haidu, Metalhause Gallery, Oakland, CA
2019 Orium III curated by Shaghayegh Cyrous, Aggregate Space, Oakland, CA
2018 Orium II curated by Shaghayegh Cyrous, Aggregate Space, Oakland, CA
Scope Art Fair Juxtapoz Clubhouse, Miami, FL
2017 Orium, Aggregate Space, Oakland, CA
A Group Thing, Stephanie Chefas Projects, Portland, OR
Scope Art Fair Juxtapoz Clubhouse, Miami, FL
2016 Art on Paper New York, Joseph Gross Gallery, New York, NY
Pearly’s Beauty Shop curated by Swoon, Superchief Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
ONE, Stephanie Chefas Projects, Portland, OR
2015 Six Degrees curated by Rachel Ralph, FFDG, San Francisco, CA
Project P:Ear, Stephanie Chefas Projects, Portland, OR
2014 Art Into Music curated by Elizabeth Ferrar, BRIC Arts, Brooklyn, NY
Salt the Skies curated by John Trippe, FFDG, San Francisco, CA
Scope Art Fair, Joseph Gross Gallery Booth, Miami, FL
2013 Bright on Time, Spes-Lab Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2012 Art Now, Joseph Gross Gallery, New York, NY
The City We Love, 941 Geary, San Francisco, CA
2011 In The Moment, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA
Select Awards, Fellowships & Residencies
2024 Southern Oral History Program Artist Residency Award, Center for Study of the American South, UNC Chapel Hill, NC
Wassaic Projects, Artist in Residence, Wassaic, NY
2023 Southern Futures Fellowship, Mellon Foundation
Wilson Library Incubator Grant Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
Peter Bullogh Foundation, Artist in Residence, Winchester, VA
2022 Duke University Arts Grant for Echoes : From Here
Cassilhaus, Artist in Residence, Chapel Hill, NC
2021 Rubenstein Arts Center Visiting Artist Program, Artist in Residence, Duke University, Durham, NC
Rubenstein Arts Center Site Specific Sculpture Commission, Duke University, Durham, NC
2020 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Covid 19 Emergency Relief Grant
2019 City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Art Grant
2018 Shibuya 109 Magnet Building, Mural Award, Tokyo, JP
I-Magnin Building/Goldman Sachs, Commission, Oakland, CA
Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant Nominee
2017 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant Nominee
2016 Goldenbelt Studios, Artist in Residence, Durham, NC
City of Oakland Public Art Grant
2013 Spes-Lab Experimental Arts Space, Artist in Residence, Tokyo, JP
Collections
Duke University Rubenstein Arts Center Commissions
University of North Carolina Sloane Art Library
Kai Kai Ki Ki Ltd.
Select Bibliography
The Daily Tar Heel, Kathryn Bragg, Visual Artists Reflect on a Year of Creativity and Community, Dec. 4th, 2023
Duke Today, Bill Snead, Tap Like This to Feel Joy, June 2022
Nasher Museum of Art Online Articles, “Echoes:From Here…”, May 18th, 2022
Walter Magazine, Courtney Napier, 5 Questions with John Felix Arnold III, Aug. 15th, 2021
The Microscopic Giant, Olivia Huntley, Time as a Sanctuary : Q&A with Artist John Felix Arnold III, August 15th, 2021
Duke Arts, Robert Zimmerman, Bits and Pieces of Durham and LIfe, as Art, Sept. 21, 2020
Paradice Palase, Lauren Hirshfield, Artist Residency vs Global Pandemic, April 26th, 2020
Wide Walls, Elena Martinique, A Group Thing, Nine Artists Take Over Stephanie Chefas Projects, May 17, 2017
Juxtapoz (Print Edition), Kristin Farr, Fall Exhibition Picks, December 2015
New York Art Beat, John Felix Arnold III “From Here”, Nov. 5th, 2015
Juxtapoz, Kristin Farr, John Felix Arnold : No Destination at FFDG, Oct. 10, 2014
SF Chronicle/ 96 Hours (Print), Kimberly Chun, John Felix Arnold III: Scavenged Materials Inspire Art, May 21, 2014
Fecal Face Dot Com, Rachel Ralph John Felix Arnold III at the Shooting Gallery, May 19th, 2014
Wide Walls, Maximillian Braun, Pilgrimage, April 25, 2014
Art News, Elizabeth Fullerton, How Artists Are Using Music to Seduce, Confound (and Entertain) Us, April 23, 2014
Juxtapoz, Kristin Farr, BRIC Presents John Felix Arnold III in ‘Art Into Music’, March 6, 2014
Fecal Face Dot Com, John Trippe John Felix Arnold III at BRIC House Brooklyn, February 6, 2014
Fecal Face Dot Com, Rachel Ralph, John Felix Arnold & SFMOMA’s Windows, June 21, 2013
Hi-Fructose, Nastia Voynovskaya, John Felix Arnold III at SFMOMA, June 4, 2013
Impose Magazine, Sjimon Gompers John Felix Arnold III Exhibit to Hit SFMOMA, Plus Japan Tour, June 1, 2013
Hi-Fructose, Ken Harman, Studio Visit With John Felix Arnold, March 1, 2011
Impose Magazine, Sjimon Gompers, John Felix Arnold III, Artist of the Apocalypse, March 1, 2011