Zoe Walsh (b. 1989, Washington D.C.) mines queer archival material to create shimmering, layered paintings that vibrate between formal abstraction and figurative landscape. Walsh earned their BA from Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA; and their MFA from Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT. They have held solo exhibitions at M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, the Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, France, and Pieter Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA. Walsh’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in group shows at USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA; Peppers Art Gallery, Redlands, CA; Usdan Gallery, Bennington, VT; La Maison des Arts, Malakoff, France; Alfred University Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred, NY, and Chan Gallery, Pomona, CA, among others.
Walsh was nominated for the prestigious Emerging Artist Grant from Rema Hort Mann Foundation, they were awarded the Al Held Foundation Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, and they were awarded a Harriet Hale Woolley Fellowship at the Fondation des États-Unis in Paris. Recently, Walsh was awarded a residency at Fountainhead in Miami, which took place in February of 2024. Their paintings have been written about in Artillery Magazine, Art Matters, What’s on Los Angeles, Cultured Magazine, Vice, LA Weekly, The Occidental Weekly, and Lum Art Zine. Zoe Walsh lives and works in Los Angeles.
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