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. In 2018, she presented the final exhibition at 356 Mission, an important artist-run space in Los Angeles, and her work is held in the permanent collection of the Hammer Museum, where it was showcased in the 2019 exhibition Dirty Protest. She participated in Fun House at Josh Lilley in the Summer of 2018, and represented the gallery at the inaugural Felix Fair in Los Angeles in February 2019.
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, CA
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
2021
The Hippest Trip in America - By Land, Air and Sea, Jeffrey Deitch, New York, NY
2018
Monsoon Lagoon, 356 Mission, Los Angeles
2016
Alake Shilling, Maitland Foley, Los Angeles
Group Exhibitions
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
2019
GO AWAY ROAD, LOYAL, Stockholm
Dirty Protest, Hammer Contemporary Collection, Los Angeles
Punch, Curated by Nina Chanel Abney, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles
Group Shoe, Organized by Mario Ayala, in lieu, Los Angeles
2018
New Acquisitions, Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Body, Curtain, Advance, LOYAL, Stockholm
Fun House, Josh Lilley Gallery, London
ALAC Art fair, Club Pro, Los Angeles
Group Exhibition, BBQLA, Los Angeles
2017
Group Exhibition, Club Pro, Los Angeles
Group Exhibition, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
Group Show, Unclebrother, Hancock
MECA Art Fair, 356 Mission, San Juan
2015
Group Exhibition, Spectrum, BG Gallery, Santa Monica
Scholarship Exhibition, Da Vinci Gallery, LACC, Los Angeles
DTLA Art Walk, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Los Angeles
Now Trending PVA, The Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes
2014
Pop-Up Gallery Show Online Vol.2, @internet-art.net
2012
“Art Bash” SAIC Columbus Dr. Building, Chicago
2008
Animated Film Another Day in a Crazy World, Reeves Contemporary, New York
Press
CV
Exhibitions
Fun House
Group Show