Education
2008 Claremont Graduate University, M.F.A.: Painting
2002 College of Creative Studies at U.C.-Santa Barbara, B.A.: Painting, Minor: Art
History
Bio/Affiliation
Roni Feldman creates paintings that encourage exploration. Through his choices of
colors, iridescent materials, and obscured imagery, he prompts viewers to move about,
look closely, and engage with contemplative discovery.
His work has been featured extensively in many solo and group shows both in the U.S.
and abroad. Exhibitions include the Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts, SLATE Art
in Oakland, CA; AMcE in Seattle, WA; Sloan Fine Art, New York; Garboushian Gallery,
Beverly Hills; Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney, Australia, and has exhibited at the
Istanbul, Yokahama, and Mexicali Biennials. His work is in the permanent collections
of the Guangzhou City Art Museum in China, the Long Beach Museum of Art in California,
as well as numerous private collections. He has been awarded multiple prizes including
the Durfee ARC Grant and a Faculty Development Grant to conduct research and produce
an exhibition in Rome. He co-founded the art collective, Durden & Ray, in 2009. The
group has gone on to organize hundreds of exhibitions in both LA and around the world.
Feldman lives and works in Oakland, CA. He is a professor at Otis College of Art &
Design where he teaches courses in color theory, painting, drawing, and design. He
loves hiking in the California hills, cooking, traveling, and writing.
Quicksilver 45
acrylic on canvas
48 x 84 inches
2023
acrylic on canvas
48 x 84 inches
2023
36 x 36 inches
2022
2022
Quicksilver 32
acrylic on canvas
36 x 46 inches
2022
acrylic on canvas
36 x 46 inches
2022
Quicksilver 40
acrylic on canvas
48 x 48 inches
2022
acrylic on canvas
48 x 48 inches
2022
Quicksilver 44
acrylic on canvas
48 x 84 inches
2023
acrylic on canvas
48 x 84 inches
2023
Quicksilver 36
acrylic on canvas
36 x 48 inches
2022
acrylic on canvas
36 x 48 inches
2022
Awards and Honors
- 2021 Otis College Teaching Excellence Award
- 2018 Otis College Faculty Development Grant
- 2011 CCI ARC Grant (formerly the Durfee Grant)
Professional Accomplishments/Exhibitions
- 2024
- Weather Patterns, SLATE, Oakland, CA
- Au Natural, AMcE Gallery, Seattle WA
- 2023
- Seattle Art Fair, SLATE Gallery, Seattle, WA
- Seattle Art Fair, AMcE Gallery, Seattle, WA
- Stasis, AMcE, Seattle, WA
- The Passing Storm, SLATE, Oakland, CA (solo)
- Art Market SF, SLATE, San Francisco
- 2022
- Summer Show, SLATE, Oakland, CA
- SUPERMARKET, Stockholm, Sweden
- Tieze, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
- 2020
- Personal Contacts #5, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles
- Return to Aus, Galerie Pompom, Sydney, Australia
- Spring Break, Los Angeles, CA
- QiPo, Mexico City, Mexico
- We Are Here/ Here We Are, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
- Suturo, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
- 2019
- Escapism from LA, SOIL, Seattle, WA
- Drawings, Kalashnikov Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
- SUPERMARKET, Stockholm, Sweden
- CO/LAB IV, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
- Transiting 2, Joseph Glass Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
- Arcadia: Visions and Prophecies, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
- Regime of Images, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
- 2018
- Los Angeles is, Once Again, Temple University Gallery, Rome, Italy, curated by Camilla Boemio
- In the Stillness Between Two Waves, Paros Art Center, Paros, Greece
- ASIA/LA ← → LA/ASIA, ARA Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
- Dragnet 832, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
- Other Places Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
- Odd Convergences: Steps/Missteps, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
- Kan, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
- 2017
- The Collectivists, Hilbert Raum, Berlin, Germany
- The Sense of Things, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
- Upsurge, University of Salford, Manchester, Manchester, U.K
- The Collectivists, Brand Library, Los Angeles, CA
- Far Bizarre, Cerritos College, Los Angeles, CA
- LA Invasion, Fine Arts Exhibition Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
- Beset on All Sides, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
- 2016
- Roni Feldman, Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney, Australia (solo)
- In Remembrance of Elie Wiesel, BLAM, Los Angeles, CA
- MAS Attack, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
- Slippery Stories, Strange Neighbours, Melbourne, Australia
- Slippery Stories, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
- Alone Again Or, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
- Fabrik Expo, ATRA, Los Angeles, CA
- 2015
- Miami Projects, Durden and Ray, Miami, FL
- From the Barricades, Kreuzberg Pavillion, Berlin, Germany
- Evolution, Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney, Australia
- LA in CV 2, Coachella Valley Art Center, Coachella, CA
- Soul, Sequins, and Gold, BLDG, Covington, KY
- Soul, Sequins, and Gold, Northern Kentucky University Gallery, Highland Heights, KY
- Icon, Duplex Gallery, Portland, OR
- Dragnet, Manhattan Beach Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
- 2014
- An American Water Margin, University City Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China, curated by Artra Curatorial and Sijia Chen Yokohama Trieniale, i:23, Yokohama, Japan
- Mas Attack VIII, Santa Monica Studios, Los Angeles, CA, curated by ARTRA
- Project LALO, Project/Number, London, U.K., curated by Grant Vetter
- Welcome to LA/ Please Come Again, LAX Airport, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Milo+McLean
- The Status of Portraiture, Autonomie Projects, Los Angeles, CA
- The Beautiful, California Lutheran University Rolland Gallery, Thousand Oaks, CA
- Portraits of the Fallen, Nixon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Portraits of the Fallen, USC Roski Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Some New Great Things, Toomey-Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
- 2013
- Homing Pigeon, Gallery Lara, Tokyo, Japan
- Roni Feldman, Albemarle Gallery, London, U.K. (solo)
- Marginal Revolutions, Official Satellite Exhibition to Istanbul Biennial, Kuad Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey, curated by Gul Cagin and Max Presneill
- Mexicali Biennial, Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
- Art of Fusion, Miami, CA, curated by Wil Phearson
- Highway 61 Revisited, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
- MAS Attack, Mutual Appreciation Society, ARTRA, Los Angeles, CA
- London Art Fair, Albemarle Gallery, London, U.K.
- Séance, Coagula Curatorial, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Mario Vasquez
- Overload, Garaboushian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
- 10th Anniversary Exhibition, L2Kontemporary, Los Angeles, CA
- 2012
- Roni Feldman, Garboushian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA (solo)
- In the Dark, Durden and Ray @ 12th Floor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- The Gang’s All Here, Central Utah Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT, curated by Max Presneil
- Durden and Ray: Year II, Autonomie Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- CO/LAB II, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
- Portrait of Antarctica, Autonomie Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Oasis, Shangrila, Joshua Tree, CA
- Material Manifestations, L2Kontemporary, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Hoojung Lee
- Beyond Nowness, McNish Gallery at Oxnard College, Oxnard, CA, curated by Gul Cagin
- The New Cool School, White Box Contemporary, San Diego, curated by Chris Trueman
- 2011
- XOXO, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY (solo)
- Shadowlighter, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA (solo)
- Trio, Wilson Street Gallery (now Janet Clayton Gallery), Sydney, Australia (solo)
- Black, Negro, Schwartz, Consorcio, Buenos Aires, Argentina (solo)
- Platform LA Fair/ CO/LAB, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
- Platform LA Fair/ CO/LAB, Monte Vista projects, Los Angeles, CA
- Pacific Standard Time: Black is the Color of True, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Jay Lizo
- Keeping an Eye on Surveillance, Performance Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, curated by Hanna Regev
- Costra Nostra, Gallery Rheeway, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Grant Vetter
- Re:Present, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
- Plus 1, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY
- Film: Shorts, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Kiel Johnson
- The 6th International Inviting Exhibition, Namseoul University Art Center Gallery IANG, Seoul, Korea
- Polemically Small, Garboushian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, curated by Edward Lucie-Smith and Max Presneill
- Portraits of the Fallen, Paley Media Center and Museum, Beverly Hills, CA
- New Moon, Shangri-La, Joshua Tree, CA, curated by Michelle Chong and Andrew Dunlap
- Tel-Art-Phone, Beacon Art Building, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Mat Gleason
- Red, Toomey-Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
- Year One, Commonspace, Los Angeles, CA
- Year One, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA
- 2010
- Eclipse, Toomey-Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA (solo)
- Black Flash, L2Kontemporary, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
- Polemically Small, Charlie Smith Gallery, London, UK, curated by Edward Lucie-Smith
- L_ove A_lways, Gallery Lara, Tokyo, Japan
- L_ove A_lways, Gallery Eitoeiko, Tokyo, Japan
- Nice to Meet You, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY
- Aqua, Toomey- Tourell Fine Art, Miami, FL
- Inaugural Exhibition, Kaycee Olsen Gallery, Culver City, CA
- Optimistic American Dischords, Werkstatt Gallery, Berlin, Germany, curated by Edward Lucie-Smith
- Spring Fling, L2Kontemporary, Los Angeles, CA
- Trade Show, Zirrat Bankasi Gallery, Ankara, Turkey (catalog)
- Cacophonic, RAID Projects, Los Angeles, CA
- Cacophonic, Bentley Projects, Phoenix, AZ
- New Paintings, Wilson Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia (catalog)
- Art San Diego, Durden & Ray, San Diego, CA
- Durden & Ray Presents, Phantom Galleries, Long Beach, CA
- 2009
- Here and Now, ARTRA, Los Angeles, CA (solo, catalog)
- Collective Dissolve III, Wilson Street Gallery (now Janet Clayton Gallery), Sydney, Australia (solo)
- Zoom, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA (catalog)
- Nel Vostro Spazio/ In Your Space, Giacomo Projects, Venice, Italy
- Trade Show, Isfa University Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey (catalog)
- Over/Flow, Cerritos College Gallery, Cerritos, CA
- Fourth of July Show, Jancar/McCorckle Projects, Los Angeles, CA
- Wide Angle III, Cal State Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
- Discovered/ Undiscovered, Smog Shoppe, Culver City, CA (catalog)
- Supersonic, Los Angeles Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
- The 210 Show, Project 210, Pasadena, CA
- 2008
- Collective Dissolve II, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont, CA (solo, catalog)
- Collective Dissolve, Toomey-Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA (solo)
- Ten, Toomey-Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
- Overhung, Concrete Walls, Los Angeles, CA
- Don't Be Shy, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont, CA
- Black and White, Wilson Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia
- New Paintings, Canvas Gallery, Seattle, WA
- Us vs. Them, See Line Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- Portable A3, Front Magazine and Artists Helping Artists, Antwerp, Belgium
- Political Disco, Santee Project Space, Los Angeles, CA
- The Benefit Exhibition, Duncan Miller Gallery, Culver City, CA
- 2007
- Flow Fair, Toomey-Tourell Fine Art, Miami, FL
- Portable A3, Front Magazine and Artists Helping Artists, Portland, OR
- Velocity, Claremont Art Museum, Claremont, CA
- The Fourth Leg, East Gallery, Claremont, CA
- The Media, City of Brea Gallery, Brea, CA
- Art Chicago, Toomey-Tourell Fine Art, Chicago, IL
- Things that are in the News or Should Be, Second City Gallery, Long Beach, CA
- Figurations, Claremont City Hall, Claremont, CA
- Red Dot, Toomey-Tourell Fine Art, New York, NY
- 2006
- The Space of Heaven, Stanford University Art Spaces, Stanford, CA (solo)
- Flow Fair, Toomey-Tourell Fine Art
- 2005
- From LA to SF, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA (solo)
- 2004
- Big, Toomey-Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
- Lumen, Felix Kulpa Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
- The Clockwatchers, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
- Scope Arts, Toomey-Tourell Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
- Women Union Gallery, Cal State Sacramento University
- 2003
- What You See Is What You Get, Temple Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2002
- The Girls of Isla Vista, Sullivan-Goss Fine Art, Santa Barbara, CA (solo)
- Angel Show, Reynolds Gallery, Montecito, CA
Publications
Books and Catalogs:
- 2016 Duplex Gallery: 2015 Exhibition Catalog, Duplex Gallery
- 2015 Launching Your Art Career: A Practical Guide for Artists, Alix Sloan
- 2012 Roni Feldman: Changing Narrative, Edward Lucie-Smith, ibook monograph
- 2011 Trio, Wilson Street Gallery
- 2010 Trade Show, Zirrat Bankasi Gallery
- 2009 Zoom, Catalog, Torrance Art Museum
ARTRA, Catalog, Torrance Art Museum and RAID Projects
Wide Angle III, Catalog, Long Beach Art Museum
Collective Dissolve, Wilson Street Gallery
Selected Reviews and Articles:
- 2021 Shout Out to Roni Feldman, Voyagaes LA, Alex Wilson
- 2020 Review: Miss Seeing Art? 100 Artists Come to the Rescue…, LA Times, Christopher Knight, May 22
Essential Arts, LA Times, Carolina Miranda, May 16 - 2019 Escapism from LA, Seattle Times, Brendan Kiley, Jan 18
- 2018 Eye on Art: LBMax Feature’s Long Beach Museum’s Permanent Collection, The Grunion, Nancy Berkoff, Dec 8
- 2017 Beset on All Sides, Artillery, June
Round Won, Artillery Magazine, February
Round Won, Fabrik Magazine, February
The Collectivists, Diversions LA, February - 2016 Slippery Stories, Art and Cake, Genie Davis, November 17
- 2014 Roni Feldman: Visual Explorer, Beautiful Decay, Russ Crest, January 21
Exchange Rates, BK Magazine, Nicole Disser, October 28 - 2013 Mexicali Biennial, LA Times, Christopher Knight, January 28
- 2012 Roni Feldman at Garboushian Gallery, Ramona Magazine, Conde Samos, March 23
- 2011 Shadowlighter, Artweek.com, Bill Bush
In The Dark, Ramona Magazine, Conde Samos - 2010 Black Flash, Art Ltd., Constance Mallinson