VIOLET HOPKINS

born 1973, El Paso, TX.

lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.


EDUCATION

2002
MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA.

1996
BFA, Studio Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX.


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS / 2 PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2008
lux, lumen, Gallery Sora, Tokyo, Japan

2007
Bultungin, BaliceHertling, Paris, France

2006
Entoptically Yours, Foxy Production, New York, New York
Chromatophoric, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Lesley Vance and Violet Hopkins: Against The Sky, Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London, England

2004
Fauna, Golinko Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

2002
Illuminated Echoes, Lemon Sky, Los Angeles, CA.
At the Brimming, Lime Gallery, California School of the Arts, Valencia, CA.

2001
Glow, Lime Gallery, California School of the Arts, Valencia, CA .

1999
Exalted Proxy, Emulsion, New York, NY.


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008
Multiverse, Claremont Museum of Art, Claremont, CA.
Imaginary Thing, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO.

2006
Sunset in Athens II, Vamiali's Gallery, Athens, Greece
Red Eye: Los Angeles Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL.
ART ON PAPER, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC.
6.6.06, curated by Jan Tumlir, Gayle and Ed Roski Fine Arts Gallery, USC, Los Angeles, CA.
LAXed: Paintings from the Other Side , Peres Projects/Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Hotel California , Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA.

2005
Drawn Out, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Rogue Wave 2, LA Louver Gallery Venice, CA. (catalog)
The Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, Luckman Gallery, Cal State L.A., Los Angeles, CA., New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY., Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN., Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX., Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA.

2004
Origins of Harold, Deitch Projects, New York, NY.
Paper, Patricia Faure, Santa Monica, CA.
Happy Days Are Here Again, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY.
Private 1, CRG Gallery, New York, NY.
Tapestry From An Asteroid, Golinko Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
-scopeCircle Committee for Emerging Art, selected by Sam Schwartz, Christie's, Beverly Hills, CA.
Cave Canem, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY.

2003
Inaugural Exhibition, Golinko Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Study, Curated by Jeffrey Rosen, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2002
Das Spyder-Män, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA.
Out of the Ground Into the Sky Out of the Sky Into the Ground, traveling show: Pond, San Francisco,CA.; Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA.
Messy Fingers, Track 16, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA.

2001
Stone Soup-Three Day Weekend, 1234 El Paso Drive, Los Angeles, CA.
Free One Oh Three Retrospective, Good Bad Art Collective, New York, NY.
Renegade, California School of the Arts, Valencia, CA.

2000
Beautiful Stranger, Stevenson Blanche Devereaux Gallery, Valencia, CA.

1998- Present
Flat File Collection, Pierogi, New York, NY.


BIBLIOGRAPHY
(* indicates non-periodical book, catalog, or other publication)

2008
Grigg-Saito, Katrina, "Violet Hopkins: lux, lumen," The Japan Times, May 29, 2008

2006
Spiegler, Marc, “LA art is here to stay,” The Art Newspaper International Edition, December 8, 2006, P1 – P8.
* Doll, Nancy and Eden, Xandra, "Art on Paper 2006", University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC.
Brooks, Amra, “Violet Hopkins,” Artforum, September 2006, pp. 385-386
Knight, Christopher, “Watercolors with an air of mystery,” Los Angeles Times, calenderlive.com, May 19, 2006

2005
Lasarow, Bill, "Rogue Wave," ArtScene, July/August 2005
Owens, Greta, "mint condition", Zink, Summer 2005, pp.96-99
Pagel, David, "Summer sampler has a dark side", Los Angeles Times, July 8, 2005
Finkel, Jori, "First Come the Dealers And Then the Diplomas", New York Times, July 3, 2005, pp.22-23
"L.A. Louver Catches Rogue Wave," Santa Monica Mirror, June 29 - July 5, 2005, p.13
Cotter, Holland, "Dealers Gather at the River, Convenient to Lofts With Bare Walls", The New York Times, March 11, 2005

2004
ed. Scott Hug, "K48 is an Animal", K48, no.5, 2004
Pence, Elizabeth, "Violet Hopkins at Golinko Kordansky Gallery", Artweek, Issue 35 No.6, July-August 2004, p.23
Johnson, Ken. "Happy Days Are Here Again", New York Times, July 23, 2004
Robinson, Walter. "Weekend Update", artnet.com, July 20, 2004
Ollman, Leah. "Showing the power of synergy", Los Angeles Times, May 28, 2004, p.E28s

2003
Bollen, Christopher. "Chelsea With Palm Trees",V Magazine, V26, Winter 2003-2004, p.60

2002
Choit, Barb. "Review", The Calartian, Spring 2002
Myers, Holly. "Turning Impulses Into Works of Art", Los Angeles Times, August 16, 2002
Pence, Elizabeth. "Das Spyder-Man at LACE", Artweek, September 20, 2002

RESIDENCIES

2007

Art Production Fund Giverny Residency Program, Giverny, France