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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; self-portraits depicted as cowboys and now an expressionistic intuitive approach to abstraction. Painting is medication.
BIO
Kyle Orlando is a self-taught artist based in Jersey City, New Jersey, working primarily in painting and drawing. His current body of work switches gears on his past work with an exploration in intuitive mark making creating abstract pictures with no set outcome. The movement of color against color creating natural forms and line work undetermined until the paint hits the canvas. In recent he has deepened his exploration using his recurring cheetah figures, expanding a visual language that has previously included screaming cheetahs, car wrecks, and cowboys. Often incorporating found objects, canvas, and layered compositions, Orlando’s works blur the boundaries between painting, drawing, and collage, forming dynamic, emotionally charged hybrids.
Rooted in personal experiences of anxiety, depression, and the alienation of exclusivity, his imagery functions as both a cathartic release and an open invitation for viewer interpretation. Whether through visceral abstraction, iconography or chaotic assemblages of cheetah limbs and intertwined vehicles, Orlando creates a raw visual narrative that speaks to the complexities of internal struggle and identity. His evolving practice invites audiences to project their own meanings while navigating the emotional terrain embedded in each piece.
CV
Kyle Orlando
b. 1989 New Jersey
lives and works in Jersey City, NJ
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 'My Own Summer', Deep Space Special Projects, (July-October), Jersey City NJ
2025 'Scratch Fever', Deep Space Gallery, (June-September), Jersey City NJ
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
PRESS
Kyle Orlando 'Scratch Fever' - by Tris McCall, Eye Level, August 2025
'The Sixteen Best Jersey City Art Shows of 2025' - by Tris McCall, The Jersey City Times, December 2025
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
'Trail Rider', Zine Published by Nervous Books, Kyle Orlando 2025
'Second Hand', Zine Published by Nervous Books, Kyle Orlando 2025
'Scratch Fever' , Catalog Published by Nervous Books in collaboration with Deep Space Gallery, Kyle Orlando 2025
'My Own Summer', Zine Published by Nervous Books in Collaboration with Deep Space Gallery, Kyle Orlando, July 2025
'What's For Leftovers?', Self Published Zine, Kyle Orlando, June 2025
'Origin Of The Stick Figure', Book Published by Junior Publishing, curated by Eliot Greenwald, Various Artists 2025
‘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