Koplin Del Rio

Solo Exhibitions:

2012 Spirits, Koplin Del Rio, Culver City, CA
2011 Trance Farm Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Solo project, booth I-03, Pulse, NY
Morgan Lehman Gallery, NY
The Philosopher’s Garden
Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA
2008 The Good Land Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
2007 HISTROY!Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Group Exhibitions:

2011 Re/Deconstructing History Like The Spice Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
View From Here: Santa Barbara Artists in the Permanent Collection
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Recrafting History (curated by Ellen Caldwell)
Taylor De Cordoba, Los Angeles, CA
Domestic Goods (curated by Ryan Wallace)
Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
The Nature of Drawing
Anthony Giordano Gallery, Dowling College, Oakdale, NY
Rendered, A Stark Unreal
Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
2010 Stranger Than Fiction (curated by Julie Joyce)
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Opening Ceremony
Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Superfine
Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
Sister Cities
Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Berlin, Germany
All American
Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
The Old, Weird America (curated by Toby Kamps) [touring]
Frye Museum, Seattle, WA
The Old, Weird America (curated by Toby Kamps) [touring]
Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
2008 Looky See (curated by Meg Linton)
Ben Maltz Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Old, Weird America (curated by Toby Kamps)
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Tree Service (curated by Jeanne Patterson & Michael Gold)
Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA
Failing Nature (curated by Habib Kheradyar)
Long Beach City College Art Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Harry Smith Anthology Remixed [touring]
Sensoria Festival, Sheffield, UK
Harry Smith Anthology Remixed [touring]
The Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK
2007 Highlights of LA and NY’s Distinctive Messengers
House of Campari, Miami, FL
Promised Land (curated by Elizabeth M. Grady)
Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York City, NY
The Porch Show Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Distinctive Messengers (curated by Simon Watson & Craig Hensala)
House of Campari, Los Angeles, CA
Harry Smith Anthology Remixed
Alt.Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2006 Flaunt
Junc Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Draw, Paper, Scissors (curated by Meg Linton)
Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA

Bibliography:

2011 Ollman, Leah. “Eric Beltz at Morgan Lehman”. Art In America, October, p. 188.
Woodard, Josef. “Down The Block”. Santa Barbara News-Press, October 14-20,
Scene, p. 46.
McClemont, Doug. “Doug McClemont’s Top 10 New York Shows: May, 2011.” Saatchi
Online Magazine, May 3.
Duncan, Michael. “Soul Searching In The U.S.A.” Art In America, March, pp. 134-138.
2010 Woodard, Josef. “The Importance of Backstory.” Santa Barbara News-Press, October 1-7, Scene, p.45.
2009 Despain, Cara. “All American: Defining Ourselves in a Time of Change.” Art Pulse, Oct/Nov.
Worssam, Nancy. “Frye Offers ‘The Old, Weird America,’” The Seattle Times, Sept 27.
Garza, Evan J. “Folk My Brains Out: Wild and Weird,” Boston Phoenix, May 19.
"New & Notable," American Artist: Drawing Magazine, Winter, pp. 14-15.
"The Aesthetes: Eric Beltz," Flaunt Magazine, no. 100, p. 89.
2008 Larkin, Daniel. "Eric Beltz at Morgan Lehman," Artcat.com, November 19.
Ollman, Leah, “A Sprawling, Satisfying Show,” Los Angeles Times, August 22, sec. E, p.22.
Lee, Sahsa. “Review: Tree Service,” Beautiful/Decay Anthology Online.

Duncan, Michael. "Eric Beltz at Acuna-Hansen," Art In America, June/July, p.203.
Zehler, Mara. "Eric Beltz," Flaunt Magazine, no. 94, p. 103.
Britt, Douglas. “CAMH Exhibit Relates Skewed History,” Houston Chronicle, July 9.
2007 Ollman, Leah. “Sending Clear And Subversive Messages,” Los Angeles Times,
November 16, sec E, p. 22.
Schwendener, Martha. “Art In Review: Promised Land,” New York Times, July 20, sec.B, p. 25.
Baker, R. C. “Best In Show: Promised Land,” Village Voice, July 17.
2006 Frank, Peter. “Draw, Paper, Scissors,” Art On Paper, September/October, p. 89.
Ollman, Leah. “What This Group Can Do With Paper,” Los Angeles Times, June 2, sec. E, p. 19.
2005 Woodard, Josef. “The Secret Psychedelic Life of Plants,” Santa Barbara News-Press, May 20-26, Scene section, p. 15.

Publications:

2008 Fuck It, Flaunt Magazine, no. 94, cover. Labbé, Armand. “Pre-Columbian Artistic Expressions of Indigenous Concepts of Soul in Cross-Cultural Perspective,” from The Ontology of Consciousness, Helmut Wautischer, ed.
M.I.T. Press, Massachusetts. (figure illustrations, pp. 143, 147, 149)
2007 Blessfuck This Shitmess. Flaunt Magazine, no. 88, p. 115.