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Yaron Michael Hakim
1980 Born in Bogotá, Colombia
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Education
2013 MFA, University of California, Irvine, CA
2002 BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Aves Ambigua, Sargent’s Daughters, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Psittaciformes, University Gallery, Cal-State University, Sacramento, CA
2021-2022 Psittaciformes, Cal-State University Fullerton - Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
2021-2022 A Project presented by Elliott Hundley, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Prototipo, Hernando’s Hideaway, Miami Beach, FL
2017 Anthropophagy, ArtWorks Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Atlas Furs, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Sacred White Sculpture, UAG Gallery, Irvine, CA
2012 Drapeau, Flag Pole Gallery, Irvine, CA
2010 A Death Poem II, RUINE, Geneva, Switzerland
2009 Eight Oceans Go Dry, RUINE, Geneva, Switzerland
Selected Two Person and Group Exhibitions
2024 See and Be Seen II, Praise Shadows, Boston, MA
Above & Below: Views from AltaSeas’s Blue Hour, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA
2023 Some Trees, curated by Benjamin Weissman, The Floating Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Have You Seen Me?, Fine Arts Gallery, Cal-State University, San Francisco, CA
2022 Storm Before the Calm, Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, CA
2020 El Castillo de las Junglas Imposibles, Art+Chateau, Ladoix-Serrigny, France
2019 Flat Files, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Las Lenguas, BBQLA, Los Angeles, CA
My Kid Could Do That, The Underground Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Dysfunctional Formulas of Love, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
All the Small Things, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Summer of Love, Wilding Cran, Los Angeles, CA
SguigAlert, Cordesa Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Future Wild, Paragon Art Gallery, Portland, OR
2016 Silver and Vanilla (in collaboration with Isabel Theselius), Elephant, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Living Together (in collaboration with Jay Erker), Eastside International, Los Angeles, CA
Dold Konst, Meteor, Kungsparken & Slottsparken, Malmö, Sweden
2014 Missed Connections, The Veranda, Los Angeles, CA
Dold Konst, Meteor, Göta Kanal, Ljungsbro, Sweden
Public Offerings: 20/20, Autonomie, Los Angeles, CA
2013 MFA Thesis Exhibition, ForYourArt, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Curatorial Exchange, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Curator: Doug Harvey, Irvine, CA
BOOM, Den Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
In Search of the Miraculous: Cipher, Room Gallery, Irvine, CA
Soiling My Royal Oats, Kvartinik 6480, Irvine, CA
So-Cal: A Graduate Introspective, Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA
2011 WET PAINT 3, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Devices, Control Room, Los Angeles, CA
Paramount Reality, Latned Atsär, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Camden Cornucopia, OK BY Gallery, London, UK
2006 Vessel-sur-Siene, CAMAC, Marnay-Sur-Siene, France
2005 B’ART-GNY 05, Libera Accademia di Belle Arti (LABA), Brescia, Italy
2004 B’ART-GNY 04, Bargny, Dakar, Senegal
Neurotic Love, Galerie Expressions, Geneva, Switzerland
Postal, La Post, Chêne-Bougeries, Switzerland
2003 SMF, H. Lewis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2002 North Ave., Charles Theatre, Baltimore, MD
Awards / Residencies
2022 LACMA Art Here and Now: Studio Forum (AHAN) Nominee
2018 Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Emerging Artist Nominee
2016 Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Emerging Artist Nominee
2015 G. Douglas Byers Memorial Fellowship, Portland, OR
Artist-in-Residence, Signal Fire - Verde River, Arizona, Portland, OR
2013 The Awesome Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Graduate Research Award, UC Irvine, CA
Graduate Fellowship, UC Irvine, CA
2012 Phi Beta Kappa International Scholarship, North Hollywood, CA
Medici Foundation Artists Fellowship, Irvine, CA
Miguel Velez Fellowship, UC Irvine, CA
Graduate Fellowship, UC Irvine, CA
2011 Miguel Velez Fellowship, UC Irvine, CA
Graduate Fellowship, UC Irvine, CA
Graduate Research Award, UC Irvine, CA
2010 Graduate Fellowship, UC Irvine, CA
Non-Resident Graduate Fellowship, UC Irvine, CA
2006 Artist in Residence, Centre d’Art-Marnay Art Center, Marnay-Sur-Seine, France
Frank Ténot Foundation Grant, Marnay-Sur-Siene, France
2001-2002 Distinguished International Student, Scholarship, MICA, Baltimore, MD
1998-2002 Presidential Scholarship, MICA, Baltimore, MD
Bibliography
José Luis Blondet, Amy Gerstler, John Spiak, “Psittaciformes” (forthcoming), X Artists’ Books & Grand Central Art Center - California State University, Fullerton, CA, 2023
Ava Morton, “Self-definition in constant flux at SF State’s ‘Have You Seen Me?’”, 24hills, San Francisco, CA, 2023
Santhi Kavuri-Bauer, Laura E. Pérez, Maya Elisa Pérez Strohmeier, “Have You Seen Me?”, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 2023
Ricky Amadour, “Storm Before the Calm” Brings Climate Dystopia to Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles Magazine, Los Angeles, October, 2022
Matt Stromberg, “Yaron Michael Hakim: Psittaciformes”, Hyperallergic, New York, December 2021
Maa, Gerald, “Psittaciformes Forms, Self-Eating Forms”, Georgia Review, Athens, Spring Issue 2021
Folgar, Abel, “Hernando’s Hideaway: An Experimental Art Haven in Miami Beach”, Miami New Times, December 18, 2018
Wagely, Catherine, “Allegorical Cannibals”, LA Weekly, September 6, 2017
Presneill, Max, “Yaron Hakim,” Fabrik, issue 36, Summer 2017
New American Paintings, issue 127, Pacific Coast, December 2016 / January 2017, p54-57
Losh, Jason Bailer. “LA-Based Artist Yaron Michael Hakim,” Seeing is Forgetting with Jason Bailer Losh, July 18, 2016
Burge, Mary, “Yaron Michael Hakim: The Conqueror, The Poet, and The Religious Man,” The Asian American Literary Review, Fort Washington, MD, Volume 5, Issue 2: Fall/Winter 2014
Hill, Taylor, “The Art Of Sailing,” Orange County Register, Santa Ana, CA, June 13, 2013
“Set Sail With LA Awesome Foundation’s Grant Winner, Yaron Hakim,” The Awesome Foundation Blog, Los Angeles, CA, February 28, 2013
Dambrot, Shana Nys, “Steve Turner Contemporary’s Artist Studio Map Shows Where Artists Work in L.A.,” LA Weekly Blogs, October 4, 2011
Poketo, “Art For Art’s Sake,” POKETO Blog, Los Angeles, CA, May 2, 2011
Danilowicz, Nathan, “Yaron Michael Hakim,” ArtUS (issue 28), Los Angeles, CA, Spring 2010
Pubic Collections
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA