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Alake Shilling

Alake Shilling (b. 1993, Los Angeles, CA) is a painter and sculptor of creatures, in a gelatinous rainbow style in debt to Lisa Frank as much as Peter Saul, bearing carefully coded emotions and driving rich narratives about companionship, risk and reward. Her work is held in the permanent collection of the Hammer Museum, where it was showcased in the 2025 Made in L.A. Biennial and 2019 exhibition Dirty Protest. In 2024 she held a solo exhibition at Palm Springs Art Museum, California and in 2023 carried out a mural commission for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Alake Shilling lives and works in Los Angeles.

Education

2015, Studio Art, Los Angeles City College
2012, BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Solo Exhibitions

2024
OUTBURST, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California

2023
Buggy Bear Goes on a Cool Cruise, Mural Commission for the Whitney Museum of American Art, Gansevoort Landing Plaza, New York
A Bugs Life, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, California

2021
The Hippest Trip in America - By Land, Air and Sea, Jeffrey Deitch, New York

2018
Monsoon Lagoon, 356 Mission, Los Angeles, California

2016
Alake Shilling, Maitland Foley, Los Angeles, California

Group Exhibitions

2025
Made in L.A. Biennial, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
Cupped, The Wolford House, Los Angeles, California

2023
Funk You Too!, Museum of Arts and Design, New York

2021
Clay Pop, Curated by Alia Williams, Jeffrey Deitch, New York
Hot Concrete: L.A. Arrangement, Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles, California

2019
Punch, Curated by Nina Chanel Abney, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, California
Group Shoe, in lieu, Los Angeles, California
Go Away Road curated by Adrienne Rubenstein, LOYAL, Stockholm, Sweden
Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California

2018
New Acquisitions, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida
Body, Curtain, Advance, LOYAL, Stockholm, Sweden
Fun House, Josh Lilley Gallery, London, UK
ALAC Art fair, Club Pro, Los Angeles, California
right, BBQLA, Los Angeles, California

2017
Cool World, Club Pro, Los Angeles, California
Myth Envy: Alake Shilling and Theresa Touma, No Place Gallery, Columbus, Ohio (two-person exhibition)
All the Small Things, Steve Turner, Los Angeles, California
Unclebrother, Hancock, New York
MECA Art Fair, 356 Mission, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2015
Spectrum, BG Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Scholarship Exhibition, Da Vinci Gallery, LACC, Los Angeles, California
DTLA Art Walk, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Los Angeles, California
Now Trending PVA, The Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, California (juried art show)

2014
Pop-Up Gallery Show Online Vol.2, @internet-art.net

2012
Art Bash, SAIC Columbus Dr. Building, Chicago, Illinois

2008
Animated Film Another Day in a Crazy World, Reeves Contemporary, New York

Press

Group Exhibition: Made in LA Biennial, Hammer Museum, 2025

Wonderland: Into Her Studio and Her World, Metal Magazine, 2025

Paloma Elsesser And Marni’s Francesco Risso Gush About Their New Collaboration – And Each Other, British Vogue, 2024

Walk across the beautiful new pedestrian mural in Meatpacking curated by the Whitney, Time Out, 2023

See the Meatpacking District’s new public plaza with street mural curated by the Whitney Museum, 6sqft, 2023

8 Women Artists Using Ceramics to Subvert Art Traditions, Artsy, 2023

Run, don’t crawl to this exhibit full of ceramic bugs, The Los Angeles Times, 2023

Group Exhibition: Funk You Too!, Museum of Arts and Design, 2023