Edgar Arceneaux - Artist, Director, Writer, Organizer
Born in 1972, Los Angeles-based artist Edgar Arceneaux received a BFA from the Art Center College of Design and a MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Arceneaux constructs drawings, installations, video and film works as complex arrangements of association that examine adjacencies and points of contact between implausible relations. Arceneaux received the prestigious Mike Kelley Foundation Award in 2019 and the COLA Individual Artist Fellowship in 2020.
In 2024, Edgar was an artist-in-residence with the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and for the summer of 2025, he joined the Pamela Joyner and Fred Giuffrida artists residency program in Reno, Nevada and the Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e. V., in Berlin, Germany.
Edgar has three solo exhibitions in the fall of 2025 at the Nevada Museum of Art, Dreamsong Gallery, Minneapolis and 68projects in Berlin, Germany.
Constantly working in new modes, Arceneaux directed his first play Until, Until, Until.. at the Performa Biannual in NYC in November 2015 and was awarded the Malcolm McLaren, Best of Show Award. Until… celebrated its 10th year of touring in 2024 at the MCA Chicago Theater. One of his newest three plays Boney Manilli, loosely inspired by the infamous pop duo Milli Vanilli, was staged in Nigeria at the Lagos Theater Festival in 2019. US premieres were in 2023 at REDCAT and the Walker Art Center in 2025. The Mirror is You, co-written and directed by Arceneaux premiered at the Nuit Blanche Festival in Paris, France and The Western Auditions, centered on the extraordinary lives of Samuel and Edmonia Lewis, is slated to play at Tin Works in 2026.
He has participated in the Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva Island, Florida, Art Pace in San Antonio; Skowhegan: Banff Center in Canada, the Fachhochschule Aachen, in Germany and most recently the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Solo exhibitions have been presented at the Vera List Center at MIT in Cambridge, Mass, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; The Studio Museum in Harlem and Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, Switzerland. His work is in major museum collections at the Whitney Museum, MOMA NY, Carnegie Museum, Museum Ludwig in Köln, Germany, the Hammer Museum and LACMA to name a few. He is represented by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects in Los Angeles and Nathalie Obadia in Paris, and is an Associate Professor of Art for Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California. Recognized as a national leader in the arts, Arceneaux also serves on the Board of Directors at Creative Capital.
Represented by: Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Project and Nathalie Obadia Gallery, Paris.
Studio Edgar Arceneaux - Pasadena, CA