Kori Newkirk is known for transforming found materials into installations that conjure moments of unexpected beauty, and even magic.
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Bio
Kori Newkirk received his MFA from the University of California, Irvine in 1997 and his BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1993. In addition to a monographic survey at The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Pasadena Museum of California Art, Newkirk has had solo exhibitions at LAXART, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; and Locust Projects, Miami.
Group exhibitions include Blues for Smoke, MOCA, Los Angeles; the 2006 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and DAK’ART: 7th Dakar Biennial, Dakar, Senegal; the 2004 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California; Freestyle at The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, among many others.
In February 2019, Newkirk will debut a commissioned project for the inaugural edition of Frieze Projects in Los Angeles.