Jennifer Guidi

Jennifer Guidi was born in Redondo Beach, California, in 1972. She lives and works in Los Angeles.


Intricate in their execution and ambiguous in their reading, Jennifer Guidi’s paintings oscillate across a broad spectrum of association. Beginning with a colourful under-painting or with raw linen, Guidi obscures this initial layer through the application of a cement-like mixture of sand, paint and acrylic polymers. While still wet, this sedimented exterior is then carefully manipulated by hand carved tools, teased and parted to reveal the base-layer beneath through hundreds of small indentations.


Her work furthers Modernist histories of minimalism and spiritual abstraction, recalling perhaps Agnes Martin’s subtle geometric repetitions or Hilma af Klint’s seraphic forms and auratic color gradients: occult renderings that connect earthly material to aether. Guidi’s meditative process of developing compositional radial systems, in which “starting points” generate centrifugal mark-making force that often begin slightly left to represent the heart as an energy source, manifest loose, spherical circulatory systems of elliptic ovals, like blood coursing through veins and arteries, pinning meridian points.


Guidi’s work is included in prominent collections such as the Hammer Museum and the Rubell Family Collection among others.

Jennifer Guidi Photo by Brica Wilcox

Biography

Solo exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2024
USA, Rituals, Gagosian, New York
2023
F, Mountain Range, Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade
USA, And so it is, Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa
2022
USA, Jennifer Guidi | In the Heart of the Sun, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
PRC, Full Moon, Long Museum, Shanghai
2021
F, Points of Harmony, MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique, Paris
2020
USA, Gemini, Gagosian, New York
2019
I, Eclipse, Massimo De Carlo, Milano
2018
HK, Heliocentric, Gagosian, Hong Kong
2017
I, Visible Light / Luce Visibile, Museo d'arte Villa Crocecontemporanea, Genova
USA, San Fernando, Almine Rech Gallery, New York
USA, Jennifer Guidi, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
USA, More Life, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
2016
UK, Radiant, Massimo De Carlo, London
UK, Radiant, Massimo De Carlo, London
USA, Pink Sand, Harper's Apartment, New York
2015
USA, New Paintings, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York
2014
USA, Field Paintings, LAXART, Los Angeles, USA; Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York
2006
USA, The Sunshine Threw His Hat Away, ACME, Los Angeles
2005
USA, Paintings, ACME, Los Angeles
Group exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2022
USA, Artists Inspired by Music: Interscope Reimagined, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
2021
USA, An Ideal Landscape, Gagosian, New York
USA, The Beatitudes of Malibu, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
2020
USA, A Possible Horizon, De la Cruz Collection, Miami
Inner Realm Curated by Jennifer Guidi, Massimo De Carlo, VSpace
2019
USA, From Day to Day, De La Cruz Collection, Miami
2018
D, Generations Female Artist in Dialogue, Part 1, Sammlung Goetz, Munich
USA, One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2017
USA, Unpacking: The Marciano Collection, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
2016
USA, Marinade, BBQLA, Los Angeles
USA, No Man’s Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
2015
USA, The Afghan Carpet Project, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
USA, No Man’s Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami
USA, #crowdedhouse, Harper’s Books, East Hampton
2011
USA, From Where You Just Arrived, Pepin Moore, Los Angeles
2009
USA, The Chef’s Theory, Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles
2008
USA, Friends and Family, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
2006
USA, Landscape, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago
2004
USA, Singing My Song, ACME, Los Angeles
2003
USA, Hidden Agenda or Hide & Seek, ACME, Los Angeles
2002
USA, What a Painting Can Do, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles
2001
USA, Jennifer Guidi, Dave Muller’s Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles

Public collections

Country
Location
China
Long Museum, Shanghai
France
Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris
Germany
Sammlung Goetz, Münich
Hong Kong
K11 Foundation
United States of America
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
De la Cruz Collection, Miami
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Rubell Family Collection, Miami
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

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