Greg Ito
Greg Ito
- 1987
- Born in Los Angeles, CA
- Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Education
- 2008
- BFA, San Francisco Art Institute – SFAI
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
- 2024
- Sink or Swim, Anat Ebgi, New York, NY (Forthcoming)
- 2023
- Greg Ito: The Weight of Your Shadow, Friends Indeed, San Francisco, CA
- 2022
- All You Can Carry, ICA San Diego, San Diego, CA
- 2021
- Apparition, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
- 2019
- Enchantment, Division Gallery, Montreal, QC
- Lock and Key, Smart Objects, Los Angeles, CA (two person w/ Michael Stasis)
- The Garden, Penske Projects, Los Angeles, CA
- A Swamp Tale, No Place Gallery, Columbus, OH
- One Way Out, The Drake Hotel, Toronto, ON
- Enchantment, Arsenal Contemporary, Toronto, ON
- 2018
- Time Traveller, Public Lands, Sacramento, CA
- Hallowed Ground, ArtCubed, Los Angeles, CA
- Sun Sprawl (w/ Mario Ayala), Club Pro, Los Angeles, CA
- 2017
- Lullaby, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 2016
- Soothsayer, Steve Turner, Los Angeles, CA
- 2015
- THE ORDER OF SHADOWBOXING (w/ Alex Ito), Et al., San Francisco, CA
- AFTER GRUEN (w/ Alex Ito), S-A-D-E, Los Angeles, CA
- 2014
- CHILDREN (w/ Chris Lux), Mission Comics, San Francisco, CA
- Heavy Withdrawals, City Limits, Oakland, CA
- Something Other Than, (w/ Jonah Susskind) – The Hills Esthetic Center, Chicago, IL
- 2013
- and when you thought it would last forever…, The Popular Workshop, San Francisco, CA
- There is No Telling What…, (w/ Carey Lin), Truesilver Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 2012
- Moonstruck, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 2011
- Horizon’s Passing, Water McBeer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Point of Vision, Gallery Hijinks, San Francisco, CA
- Story of the Time Tellers, Free Gold Watch, San Francisco, CA
- 2010
- The Path to Dyad (w/ Korakrit Arunanondchai), Kokoro Studio, San Francisco, CA
- 2008
- At Lands’ End, (w/ Christian Ebert), The Klimm Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2024
- The First Taste, Anat Ebgi, New York, NY
- 2023
- Levity, Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY
- Rooted, Museo Museum and Cultural Center, Anaheim, CA
- The Moon and I, GRIMM, New York, NY
- 2022
- Come As You Are, Anthony Gallery, Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago, IL
- Hot Concrete LA to HK, Woaw Gallery, Hong Kong, co-organized by Sow & Tailor and Melanie Ouyang
- Loveline, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
- I Dwell in Possibility, SPURS Gallery, Beijing, China
- Disembodied, Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
- The Natural World: Part II, Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY
- Mouthed Echos, Lyles and King, New York, NY
- Group Exhibition, Commune, Tokyo, Japan
- 2020
- L.A. Views, Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- Good Company: Pt. 1, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
- Group Exhibition, Patel Gallery, Toronto, ON
- 2019
- The Passenger, Klowden Mann, Los Angeles, CA
- Sanctuary, Fused Space, San Francisco, CA
- Biophilia, Maake Magazine, Yucca Valley, CA
- Temporary Resting Place, Three Four Three Four, New York, NY
- 2018
- The Private Collection of Water McBeer, Jeffery Deitch, New York, NY
- Divided Brain (group), Lava Projects, Los Angeles, CA
- Innocence, Super Dutchess, New York, NY
- Note G, Chicago Manual of Style, Chicago, IL
- Sun Kissed Chokehold, Y53, Los Angeles, CA
- 2017
- Broken Language, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA
- EXPAT, R/SF, San Francisco, CA
- Made in San Francisco, Romer Young, San Francisco, CA
- 2016
- It Started With A Rose, 315 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Curated by Cecilia Salama
- Summer Fling: The Barn Show, Johannes Vogt, East Hampton, NY
- 8) Lauren Elder, Greg Ito, Kara Joslyn, SPF15, San Diego, CA
- Over and Under (w/ Adam Cruces and Louisa Gagliardi), MON CHÉRI, Brussels, Belgium
- 2015
- Time Flies Like A Banana (w/ Ron Ewert & Josh Reames), Johannes Vogt, New York, NY
- Casual Friday, VACANCY, Los Angeles, CA
- PRTY PPL, Circuit 12, Dallas, TX, Curated by Josh Reames
- 2014
- Effeminaries, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL, Curated by Matt Morris
- BAN7, YBCA – Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
- Battery Vol. III – The Battery, San Francisco, CA
- 2013
- Another APP Store, Sol, Sacramento, CA
- 2012
- New World, New Sequence, YBCA – Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
- Ancient-Future-Super-Natural, Ictus Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Nothing is True, Nothing is Untrue, Sherwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 2011
- Seven years of MoPA, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
- Bay Area Currents, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA
- Linear Empires, White Walls, San Francisco, CA
- 2010
- Mountain’s Folding, Mountain Fold, New York, NY
- So Much is Burning, Heist Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 2009
- MoPA, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
- Introductions, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
- 4th National Juried Exhibition, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA
- Joyride – BFF09, San Francisco, CA
- When Times Converge, Empire Seven Studios, San Jose, CA
- 2008
- We, Oakland, CA
- Architects of the Unknown, San Francisco, CA
- Ways and Means, San Francisco, CA
- 2007
- Camera 1 Camera 2, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- International Karaoke, San Francisco, CA
Fairs
- 2022
- Art Basel Miami Beach, Anat Ebgi, Miami, FL
- 2021
- Art Basel Hong King, with Anat Ebgi, Hong Kong, China
- 2020
- Frieze Los Angeles, with Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA.
- 2019
- Art Toronto, with Galerie Division, Canada.
- NADA, with Galerie Division, Canada.
- FOG Design+Art w/ Park Life, San Francisco, CA.
- 2018
- ALAC w/ Club Pro, Los Angeles, CA.
- Material Art Fair w/ R/SF, San Francisco, CA.
Selected Press
- 2021
- Brosnihan, Anna. "In Conversation With Greg Ito." Flaunt. 15 November 2021. (Link)
- Osberg, Annabel. "Critic’s Pick: Greg Ito." Artforum. 24 October 2021. (Link)
- "Artist Spotlight: Greg Ito." BOOOOOOOM! 8 October 2021. (Link)
- Nys Dambrot, Shana. "Meet Painter and Sculptor Greg Ito." LA Weekly. 27 September 2021. (Link)
- Lew, Agnes. "Agnes Lew Interviews AAPI Artist Greg Ito." Reach Further/East West Bank. June 3, 2021. (Link)
- Nauman, Nicholas. "Artist Greg Ito and gallerist Anat Ebgi on family, collaboration, and their ambitious Hong Kong plans." ArtBasel.com. May 2021 (Link)
- Hill-choi, Lee. "Art Basel Hong Kong: everything you need to know about Asia’s largest art fair." South China Morning Press. 19 May 2021. (Link)
- Bailey, Stephanie. "Art Basel Hong Kong: Artist Highlights." Ocula. 12 May 2021 (Link)
- 2020
- Ito, Greg. "The Seer." LALA Magazine. Summer 2020. [Print] (Link)
- Preston Zappas, Lindsay. "Art Insider: Artist sets up sign-making stations at LA protests." KCRW. June 9, 2020. (Link)
- Voon, Claire. "7 Artists on Creating New Work during Quarantine." Artsy. May 5, 2020. (Link)
- Freeman, Nate. "Frieze Los Angeles Opens With Big Sales to Mega-Celebrities and Hollywood Muscle Alike." artnet. February 14, 2020. (Link)
- Reizman, Renée. "This Year, Frieze Los Angeles Feels Grand, Celebratory, and Actually Kind of Fun." Hyperallergic. February 14, 2020. (Link)
- Sutton, Benjamin. "The Ten Best Booths at Frieze Los Angeles." Artsy. February 14, 2020. (Link)
- 2019
- Boddington, Ruby. "Greg Ito’s meticulous portfolio of paintings explores ‘time, love, loss, hope, and tragedy’," It’s Nice That. (Link)
- Ghassemitari, Shawn. "All the Interesting Things Happen at the Transitions," Amadeus. (Link)
- Fischer, Jim. "Arts Preview: Greg Ito: ‘A Swamp Tale’," Columbus Alive. (Link)
- 2018
- Kelley, Sonaiya. "When artist Greg Ito collaborates with ‘Top Chef’s’ Richard Blais, you get ArtxFood," Los Angeles Times. (Link)
- 2017
- Anderson, Alex. "Greg Ito Offers a Pictoral Language for our Dreams," Artslant. (Link)
Awards/Residencies
- 2019
- The Macedonia Institute Residency, Hudson Valley, NY. (forthcoming)
- 2013
- LOOP Arts Award, Oakland, CA.
- Truesilver Residency, San Francisco, CA.
- 2011
- SECA Honorary Committee Member, San Francisco, CA.
Collections
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Institute of Contemporary Art Miami
- Crocker Art Musem
- The Fidelity Collection
- Hallmark Art Collection