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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.
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Kyle Orlando
b. 1989 New Jersey
lives and works in Jersey City, NJ
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 ‘Middle Seat’, Belhaus, (April-May), Phoenix AZ
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
2024 ‘Beneath The Paving Stones', StoneAge, (March), Los Angeles, CA
2023/24 'The Gigantic Miniature Show', Deep Space Gallery (Dec/Jan), Jersey City, NJ
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'), (Nov-Jan.), Mana Contemporary / Mana BSMT, Jersey City, NJ
2019 'BSMT CROP' ('with a sawed-off .410 on my lap'), (Sept.-Oct.), Mana Contemporary / Mana BSMT, Jersey City, NJ
2019 'Nine Lives', (spring/summer), Artsy.net / Deep Space Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2019 Mana Contemporary Open House (spring), 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
‘Cigarettes In The Last Seat’, Self Published Zine, Kyle Orlando, February, 2024
‘Trouble With Living’, Self Published Painting Catalog, Kyle Orlando, February, 2024
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
‘5 Paintings’, Self Published Zine, Kyle Orlando, November, 2022
‘Salt Water Taffy, Watch Us Make It’, Self Published Drawing Catalog, Kyle Orlando, November, 2022
‘More Lexapro, Please’, Self Published Painting Catalog, Kyle Orlando, April, 2021
‘Travel In Fear’, Self Published Painting Catalog, Kyle Orlando in collaboration with Deep Space Gallery, September, 2020
Saltz, Jerry: “Good morning from..”, Instagram post, December 10, 2018