Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
B. 1987, Los Angeles, CA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
2009
BA, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY
2008
Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Hollyhock House, Los Angeles, CA
2024
Yesterday’s, Chapter NY, New York
2022
Prima Facie, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2020
Park La Brea, Bel Ami, Los Angeles, CA
Bachelorette, Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR
2018
Milano Chow & Torkwase Dyson, Howard’s, Athens, GR
These Buildings are Rated X, Chapter NY, New York
2017
Sightlines, Galleria Acappella, Naples, IT
2016
Egg and Tongue, Mary Mary Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2015
The Painted Screen, Chapter NY, New York
Mode Pratique, Young Art, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Milano Chow, Will Rogan, Greg Carideo, 1226 Gallery, Dallas, TX
Models, Bel Ami, Los Angeles, CA
2023
Petits Formats, ADZ Gallery, Lisbon, PT
Palai with Bel Ami, Lecce, IT
2022
Wonder Women, Jeffrey Deitch, New York, NY and Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA
XX Perfect Souls, curated by Natalie Smith, Bad Water, Knoxville, TN
2021
What in the actual fuck? I can’t believe I said that! I’m going home., u’s at Badlands Art Department, Drumheller, CA
3.0, Chapter NY, New York
The Interior, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY
Striving After Wind, Chapter NY, New York
Therein / Thereof / Thereto, STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo, NO
2020-21
Winterfest: An Exhibition of Arts and Crafts, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
2020
Paper, Chapter NY, New York
100 Drawings from Now, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2019
Loitering is delightful, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
people moving through things and things that make people move, curated by Ethan Tate, Kate’s Little Angel, Los Angeles, CA
The Props assist the House, Bel Ami, Los Angeles, CA
For Mario, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, NY
Whitney Biennial 2019, curated by Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Rubus Armeniacus (Himalayan blackberry), Jessica’s Apartment, New York, NY
2018-19
The Beyond: Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Art, Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, AR; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; and New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
2018
A Slice through the World: Contemporary Artists’ Drawings, Drawing Room, London, GBE & Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
A pointed finger draws the line, curated by Good Weather, Interface, Oakland, CA
The Case Against Reality, Marinaro Gallery, New York, NY
Line and Verse, Andréhn-Shiptjenko, Stockholm, SE
2017
Hanging With Friends, The Finley, Los Angeles, CA
Milano Chow/Ann Greene Kelly/Daniel Rios Rodriguez, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Inaugural Exhibition, Romeo, New York, NY
2015
I hope to God you’re not as dumb as you make out, Mary Mary, Glasgow, UK
Their little stickers, like fig leafs [sic], shielding the nakedness of these gourds, Chin’s Push, Los Angeles, CA
STAPLES (and Doodles), The Vanity Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA
2014
Openings, Fused Space, San Francisco, CA
Another Cats Show, 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA
Ambulance Blues, Basilica Hudson, Hudson, NY
Two rocks do not make a duck, LVL3, Chicago, IL
Light Night, Wallspace, New York, NY
2013
Near Dark, Young Art, Los Angeles, CA
Breaking Night, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
2012
VTA, Sophia Jacob, Baltimore, MD
The Real Conquests, Favorite Goods, Los Angeles, CA
2009
Blind Carbon Copy, 179 Canal, New York, NY
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2018
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2013
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
2011
Printed Matter Awards for Artists
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024
Aton, Francesca. “Seven Tribeca Shows to Catch This Week,” ARTnews, May 1, 2024.
2022
“Sharón Zoldan Shares Her Miami 2022 Highlights,” Whitewall, December 7, 2022.
Keenan, Annabel. “Milano Chow: Prima Facie,” The Brooklyn Rail, May 12, 2022.
2021
Valluzzo, Andrea. “History and mystery play out in Aldrich’s two new exhibitions for 2022,” CT Insider. December 30, 2021.
Phaidon Editors. Vitamin D3: Today’s Best in Contemporary Drawing. New York: Phaidon Press, 2021.
2020
Rees, Lucy. “Next Big Things: Milano Chow,” Galerie Magazine, December 18, 2020.
Stromberg, Matt. “Milano Chow at Bel Ami,” Contemporary Art Review, Los Angeles, November 25, 2020.
Osberg, Annabel. “Milano Chow Pulls Back the Curtain of Society’s Window Dressing, Peeking into Strangers’ Inner Lives,” AEQAI, November 25, 2020.
Tyler, Grant. “Milano Chow at Bel Ami.” Caesura, November 24, 2020.
Zappas, Lindsay Preston. “Artist uses store-bought objects to allude to the inner workings of the mind.” KCRW, November 10, 2020.
“SLANT: Daily Drawings: Week Three.” Artforum (online), May 6, 2020.
Reiner-Roth, Shane. “Loitering takes center stage in Los Angeles.” The Architect’s Newspaper, January 14, 2020.
2019
Ferguson, Eraina. “Loitering is Delightful.” Thrive Global, November 15, 2019.
Farago, Jason. “New York Galleries: What to See Right Now.” The New York Times, August 7, 2019.
Small, Zachary. “The Apprehensive Politics of a Generation Surface at the 2019 Whitney Biennial.” Hyperallergic. May 15, 2019.
2018
“The Case Against Reality,” The New Yorker, March 2018.
2017
Kimora Moore, Lucy. “Milano Chow,” Luncheon Magazine, Spring 2017.
Krug, Simone. “Milano Chow, Ann Greene Kelly, Daniel Rios Rodriquez, Michael Benevento,” Critic’s Pick, Artforum, July 2017.
Van Melkebeke, Maxime. “11 booths at Frieze NY That Stopped Me in My Tracks,” Curating the Contemporary, May 11, 2017.
Lucero II, Louis. “Frieze New York Presents Global, Cutting-Edge Art,’” The New York Times, May 4, 2017.
“Frieze New York 2017: Artistic Director Abby Bangser’s 9 Can’t-Miss Booths,” W Magazine, May 3, 2017.
2016
Gottschalk, Molly. “6 Artists to Watch at Independent Brussels,” Artsy, April 22, 2016.
Gat, Orit. “Milano Chow,” Frieze Magazine, January/February 2016.
2015
Sagat, Lara. “The Painted Screen: In Real Space and Time,” On-Verge.com,
December 8, 2015.
Irvin, Nick. “First Look,” Art in America, October 2015.
Herbert, Martin. “Previews,” ArtReview, September 2015.
“Interview with Martine Syms,“ ==, vol. 2, edited by Matt Keegan, published by Capricious Publishing, New York, NY.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
2009
BA, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY
2008
Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Hollyhock House, Los Angeles, CA
2024
Yesterday’s, Chapter NY, New York
2022
Prima Facie, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2020
Park La Brea, Bel Ami, Los Angeles, CA
Bachelorette, Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR
2018
Milano Chow & Torkwase Dyson, Howard’s, Athens, GR
These Buildings are Rated X, Chapter NY, New York
2017
Sightlines, Galleria Acappella, Naples, IT
2016
Egg and Tongue, Mary Mary Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2015
The Painted Screen, Chapter NY, New York
Mode Pratique, Young Art, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Milano Chow, Will Rogan, Greg Carideo, 1226 Gallery, Dallas, TX
Models, Bel Ami, Los Angeles, CA
2023
Petits Formats, ADZ Gallery, Lisbon, PT
Palai with Bel Ami, Lecce, IT
2022
Wonder Women, Jeffrey Deitch, New York, NY and Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA
XX Perfect Souls, curated by Natalie Smith, Bad Water, Knoxville, TN
2021
What in the actual fuck? I can’t believe I said that! I’m going home., u’s at Badlands Art Department, Drumheller, CA
3.0, Chapter NY, New York
The Interior, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY
Striving After Wind, Chapter NY, New York
Therein / Thereof / Thereto, STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo, NO
2020-21
Winterfest: An Exhibition of Arts and Crafts, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
2020
Paper, Chapter NY, New York
100 Drawings from Now, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2019
Loitering is delightful, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
people moving through things and things that make people move, curated by Ethan Tate, Kate’s Little Angel, Los Angeles, CA
The Props assist the House, Bel Ami, Los Angeles, CA
For Mario, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, NY
Whitney Biennial 2019, curated by Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Rubus Armeniacus (Himalayan blackberry), Jessica’s Apartment, New York, NY
2018-19
The Beyond: Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Art, Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, AR; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; and New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
2018
A Slice through the World: Contemporary Artists’ Drawings, Drawing Room, London, GBE & Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
A pointed finger draws the line, curated by Good Weather, Interface, Oakland, CA
The Case Against Reality, Marinaro Gallery, New York, NY
Line and Verse, Andréhn-Shiptjenko, Stockholm, SE
2017
Hanging With Friends, The Finley, Los Angeles, CA
Milano Chow/Ann Greene Kelly/Daniel Rios Rodriguez, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Inaugural Exhibition, Romeo, New York, NY
2015
I hope to God you’re not as dumb as you make out, Mary Mary, Glasgow, UK
Their little stickers, like fig leafs [sic], shielding the nakedness of these gourds, Chin’s Push, Los Angeles, CA
STAPLES (and Doodles), The Vanity Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA
2014
Openings, Fused Space, San Francisco, CA
Another Cats Show, 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA
Ambulance Blues, Basilica Hudson, Hudson, NY
Two rocks do not make a duck, LVL3, Chicago, IL
Light Night, Wallspace, New York, NY
2013
Near Dark, Young Art, Los Angeles, CA
Breaking Night, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
2012
VTA, Sophia Jacob, Baltimore, MD
The Real Conquests, Favorite Goods, Los Angeles, CA
2009
Blind Carbon Copy, 179 Canal, New York, NY
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2018
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2013
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
2011
Printed Matter Awards for Artists
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024
Aton, Francesca. “Seven Tribeca Shows to Catch This Week,” ARTnews, May 1, 2024.
2022
“Sharón Zoldan Shares Her Miami 2022 Highlights,” Whitewall, December 7, 2022.
Keenan, Annabel. “Milano Chow: Prima Facie,” The Brooklyn Rail, May 12, 2022.
2021
Valluzzo, Andrea. “History and mystery play out in Aldrich’s two new exhibitions for 2022,” CT Insider. December 30, 2021.
Phaidon Editors. Vitamin D3: Today’s Best in Contemporary Drawing. New York: Phaidon Press, 2021.
2020
Rees, Lucy. “Next Big Things: Milano Chow,” Galerie Magazine, December 18, 2020.
Stromberg, Matt. “Milano Chow at Bel Ami,” Contemporary Art Review, Los Angeles, November 25, 2020.
Osberg, Annabel. “Milano Chow Pulls Back the Curtain of Society’s Window Dressing, Peeking into Strangers’ Inner Lives,” AEQAI, November 25, 2020.
Tyler, Grant. “Milano Chow at Bel Ami.” Caesura, November 24, 2020.
Zappas, Lindsay Preston. “Artist uses store-bought objects to allude to the inner workings of the mind.” KCRW, November 10, 2020.
“SLANT: Daily Drawings: Week Three.” Artforum (online), May 6, 2020.
Reiner-Roth, Shane. “Loitering takes center stage in Los Angeles.” The Architect’s Newspaper, January 14, 2020.
2019
Ferguson, Eraina. “Loitering is Delightful.” Thrive Global, November 15, 2019.
Farago, Jason. “New York Galleries: What to See Right Now.” The New York Times, August 7, 2019.
Small, Zachary. “The Apprehensive Politics of a Generation Surface at the 2019 Whitney Biennial.” Hyperallergic. May 15, 2019.
2018
“The Case Against Reality,” The New Yorker, March 2018.
2017
Kimora Moore, Lucy. “Milano Chow,” Luncheon Magazine, Spring 2017.
Krug, Simone. “Milano Chow, Ann Greene Kelly, Daniel Rios Rodriquez, Michael Benevento,” Critic’s Pick, Artforum, July 2017.
Van Melkebeke, Maxime. “11 booths at Frieze NY That Stopped Me in My Tracks,” Curating the Contemporary, May 11, 2017.
Lucero II, Louis. “Frieze New York Presents Global, Cutting-Edge Art,’” The New York Times, May 4, 2017.
“Frieze New York 2017: Artistic Director Abby Bangser’s 9 Can’t-Miss Booths,” W Magazine, May 3, 2017.
2016
Gottschalk, Molly. “6 Artists to Watch at Independent Brussels,” Artsy, April 22, 2016.
Gat, Orit. “Milano Chow,” Frieze Magazine, January/February 2016.
2015
Sagat, Lara. “The Painted Screen: In Real Space and Time,” On-Verge.com,
December 8, 2015.
Irvin, Nick. “First Look,” Art in America, October 2015.
Herbert, Martin. “Previews,” ArtReview, September 2015.
“Interview with Martine Syms,“ ==, vol. 2, edited by Matt Keegan, published by Capricious Publishing, New York, NY.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA