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STATEMENT
Kyle Orlando paints too much. He uses the same imagery obsessively; repetition is self-worth. Orlando's anxiety has super glued itself to American iconography and disguised itself as a fetish. His fetishistic language is translated via recurring symbols that include the likes of, screaming cheetahs; automobiles set ablaze; and self-portraits depicted as cowboys. Painting is medication.
BIO
Kyle Orlando lives and works in Jersey City, New Jersey. He is a self-taught artist who works primarily in painting and drawing. His most recent works are a revision on cars and car collisions. In the past, Orlando’s visual language has fluctuated between images of screaming cheetahs; car wrecks; and cowboys. Sometimes using combines of found objects, canvas, and discarded wooden pallets. Currently his paintings and drawings mash-up, and intertwine multiple vehicles in forms of painting/drawing and painting collage. Orlando’s works feed on personal feelings of anxiety and depression attributed to notions of exclusivity. His works can be seen as some sort of personal catharsis, but his hope is that viewers will garner their own interpretations.
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Kyle Orlando
b. 1989 New Jersey
lives/works in Jersey City, NJ
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 'Tennis Elbow #103', The Journal Gallery, (June-July), New York NY
2022 Solo Booth (Room), AHAF Taipei, FNG-Art (April-May), Taipei, CN
2022 ‘Late Night Rental Hours’, Lorin Gallery (March-April), Los Angeles CA
2020 'Always Nervous', Deep Space Gallery (September), Jersey City NJ
2020 'More Lexapro, Please', Artist's own backyard during quarantine, physically hung, digitally displayed, Jersey City NJ
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 'The Patriot', O'Flaherty's, (July-August), New York, NY
2021 'THE BIG SHOW', My Pet Ram (Nov-Dec), New York, NY
2021 'Lost The Plot', The Art Kollective in collaboration w/ Tchotchke Gallery (Nov-Dec), Online (Brooklyn, NY Based)
2021 'Green Exhibition', FNG-Art (Oct), National Taiwan Arts Education Center, Taiwan, CN
2021 'Art Taipei Booth #J04', FNG-Art (Oct), Taipei, CN
2020/21 'The Gigantic Miniature Show', Deep Space Gallery (Dec/Jan), Jersey City, NJ
2019/20 'Subworld Rising' ('you, me and all that stuff we're so scared of'), exploring installations by multiple artists hosted by Mana Contemporary, curated by Mariana Smith, (Nov-Jan.), Mana Contemporary / Mana BSMT, Jersey City, NJ
2019 'BSMT CROP' ('with a sawed-off .410 on my lap'), a group showing of select BSMT artists hosted by Mana Contemporary (Sept.-Oct.), Mana Contemporary / Mana BSMT, Jersey City, NJ
2019 'Nine Lives', an online-based group show hosted on Artsy presented by Deep Space Gallery (spring/summer), Artsy.net / Deep Space Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2019 Mana Contemporary Open House (spring), a group artist exhibition within the Mana Decentralized Gallery, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
RESIDENCIES
MAD54, Brooklyn NY, Sept.-Oct. 2023
The Macedonia Institute, Chatham NY, April 2023
The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT, March 2020/Sept 2022
BIBLIOGRAPHY
HEADS Magazine Revival Edition, with House of Miracles and U.D.L.I. Editions for New Art Dealers Alliance, printed for NADA Miami, December, 2022
Saltz, Jerry: “Good morning from..”, Instagram post, December 10, 2018