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Bio
Thomas Whittaker Kidd is a Los Angeles based artist born in Fall River, Massachusetts, who exhibits paintings, drawings, sculpture and installations internationally. His solo exhibitions in Los Angeles were at ACME and Carl Berg Gallery and BG Gallery.
Kidd’s work was in group exhibitions at The Hole, Shrine and Lombard Freid Projects in New York, Western Exhibitions in Chicago, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, L’INCONNUE, Montreal, Canada, Galleri Golsa in Oslo, Norway and Gnes B. Galerie Boutique, Tokyo, Japan.
Kidd was curator of the exhibit, The Unruly and the Humorous, at Angles Gallery in Los Angeles, California. Kidd was also curator of Created Worlds and Altered Histories at JK Gallery, Los Angeles, CA and Dirty Minds: Life On Earth at BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
He lectured on his artwork at UCLA, California Polytechnic State University and San Jose State University. His work was included in To Live and Paint in LA, at the Torrance Art Museum in Torrance, CA in 2012.
More information and images at thomaswhittakerkidd.com
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Thomas Whittaker Kidd Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Born in Fall River, Massachusetts
Artist Residency 2015: Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Solo Exhibitions
Upcoming 2023 February, BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, paintings, drawings, and installations
2016 BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Fantastic Settings For Real Events paintings, and drawings
2007 Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, High Tide, paintings
Kruglak Gallery, Mira Costa College, Oceanside, CA, Love and Casualty paintings
2004 ACME. Los Angeles, CA, Building and Dumping, paintings
2001 Cuesta College Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA, New Earth, paintings
1997 Frederick Spratt Gallery, San Jose, CA, Released In The Dark, paintings
1993 ASI/University Union Gallery, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA, Internal Images, paintings
Selected Group Exhibitions
Upcoming May 2022 Indecent Exposure-Exposed and Unconscious, paintings, BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2021 Torrance Art Museum hosting, Nomad, paintings, drawings and installations, Torrance, CA
Shit Art Club, Shit Art Show 4: School’s Out, paintings,
Los Angeles, CA
2020 The Hole, GIFC Velvet Ropes, New York, NY, drawings
Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA,
5×5: Celebrating Westmont College’s 80th Anniversary, drawing
2019 LAVA Projects at Wolf & Galentz, Berlin, Germany, B-LA Connect, painting
Swab Barcelona Contemporary Art Fair, paintings and drawings
The Church, Troy, NY, Hail Mary, drawings
Ten Year Anniversary, BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, painting and drawings
GIFC Velvet Ropes, Traveling works on paper show organized by Chris Rexroad and Charlie Roberts of 0-0 LA, Los Angeles;
The Hole, New York, NY
Western Exhibitions,Chicago, IL
Shrine, New York, NY
Soulland Store, Copenhagen, Denmark
Galleri Golsa, Oslo, Norway
Horton Gallery in Dallas, TX
First Amendment, San Francisco, CA
gnes b. galerie boutique, Tokyo, Japan
Nevven Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden
Agnes B Headquarter, Paris, France
2018 LAVA Projects, Alhambra, CA, L.A. Looking, painting, drawings
Readywipe, Holyoke, MA, Human Shape, painting
GIFC, Traveling works on paper show;
Patrick Parrish Gallery, New York, NY
Fisher Parrish Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
L’INCONNUE, Montreal, Canada
Pt 2 Gallery, Oakland, CA
Galleri Golsa, Oslo, Norway
BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Ocean Park Opening Party, paintings
BG Gallery, LA Art Show 2018, Los Angeles, CA, painting
Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA,
5×5: Celebrating Westmont College’s 80th Anniversary, drawing
2017 BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Daydreamers, painting
Durden & Ray, Los Angeles, CA, Sense of Things, paintings
curated by David Leapman
El Barrio’s Artspace PS109 Gallery, New York, NY, Epiphany/No Instructions Included, curated by Antony Dodds
2016 BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, NEW Year NEW Work, paintings and drawings
2015 Durden & Ray, Within The Cave, Los Angeles, CA
curated by Susan Lizotte
2014 Edward Cella Art and Architecture, 6018 Wilshire, painting
BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Three-Winged Chrysalis, painting
BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Dirty Minds: Life On Earth, paintings, curated by Thomas Whittaker Kidd
Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, 5×5: Celebrating Five Years, drawing
BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Orgone Accumulators, paintings
2013 BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, HaHa The Art of Humor, painting
BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Objectified II, painting
2012 JK Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Created Worlds and Altered Histories, paintings curated by Thomas Whittaker Kidd
Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, To Live and Paint in LA, painting
2010 Creative Arts Center, Manhattan Beach, CA, A Step Beyond, paintings
The Huffington Post, 7 Rings (web exhibit), drawing
2008 Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, The Unruly and the Humorous, paintings,
curated by Thomas Whittaker Kidd
Narrows Gallery, Fall River, MA, Canvas and Cocktails, painting and drawings
2007 Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA, Mar Vista, paintings and drawings
Aqua Art Miami-Wynwood, Miami, FL, paintings
2006 Pharmaka Art, Los Angeles, CA, Small Wonders, drawing,
juried by Tyler Stallings
2002 Lombard-Freid Projects, New York, NY, Friends and Family, paintings
2001 Bert Green Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, Intrinsic Vision, paintings
Long Beach City College Art Gallery, Long Beach, CA, All Systems Go: New Millennium-New Works, paintings
1998 Museum of Arts Downtown Los Angeles, CA, Love Hate and the Absence of Either, paintings
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, paintings
1996 LRC Art Gallery, Allan Hancock College, Santa Maria, CA, paintings
1995 First Street Gallery, New York, NY, National Competition Exhibition, paintings,
curated by Sidney Goodman
Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA, Lifelines, painting,
curated by James Steward
Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA, paintings
1994 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, paintings
8th Street Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, Dark Side, paintings,
curated by John Pacheco
1993 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, paintings
1989 Alchemy Gallery, Boston, MA, The Absinth Society, paintings
Bibliography
Kidd, Thomas Whittaker, Fantastic Settings For Real Events, catalogue with poems, BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2016
Dambrot, Shana Nys, “Within The Cave at Durden Ray”, Huffington Post, Sept. 18, 2015
Pagel, David, ”6018 Wilshire’ at Edward Cella: Last show before the wrecking ball”, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 3, 2014
Wagley, Catherine, “Don’t Take it Too Seriously”, ARTslant, September 22, 2008
Pagel, David, “Ordinary folks in odd situations”, Los Angeles Times, October 26, 2007
Pagel, David, “The Delight Is In The Details”, Los Angeles Times, July 2, 2004
Gottlieb, Shirley, “Open To Interpretation”, Press Telegram, Long Beach, CA, March 2, 2001
La Barbera, Jeanne, “Social Undercurrents Guide Show”, San Luis Obispo County Telegram-Tribune, Jan. 2, 1993
Selected Private Collections
Patrick Morris,, Oslo, Norway, former guitarist for STRFKR (Star Fucker),
Beth Swofford, New York, Former Board Member of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Susan Goodman, New York NY
Robert Nix, Santa Monica, CA and New Orleans,LA
Susan Lizotte, Los Angeles, CA
Harry Yasumoto San Luis Obispo, CA
Carl Berg, Los Angeles, Director at PRJCTLA, Los Angeles
James P. Rielly, Phd. Psychologist, New Bedford, MA
Raymond Ashley, San Jose, CA
Thomas Burkhardt, Los Angeles CA,
Katherine Kim, New York, NY