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Alison O'Daniel

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Alison O'Daniel (b. 1979, Miami; lives and works in Los Angeles) received an MFA from University of California, Irvine (2010), a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths College, University of London (2005), and a BFA from Cleveland Institute of Art (2003). She is currently faculty at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Solo exhibitions have been held at Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2022); Kunsthalle Osnabrück (2021); McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco (2019); Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha (2019); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2019); Los Angeles Nomadic Division (2018); Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles (2018); Nightingale, Chicago (2017); Centre d'Art Contemporain Passerelle, Brest (2015); Aspen Art Museum (2014); and High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree (2014). Selected group exhibitions have been held at Centro Centro, Madrid (2020); Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2019); Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson (2019); FLAX, Los Angeles (2018); Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (2018); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2018); Garage Contemporary Art Museum, Moscow (2018); The Drawing Center, New York (2016); Serpentine Gallery, London (2016); and Bergen Council (2016). O’Daniel is the recipient of the U.S. Artists Disability Futures Fellowship (2022), John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2022), Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2019), Speranza Foundation Lincoln City Fellowship (2020), Creative Capital Award for Visual Artists (2019), Sundance Creative Producing Lab Fellowship (2019), Department of Cultural Affairs Grant for Artists (2018), Mike Kelley Foundation Grant (2018), Center for Cultural Innovation Investing in Artists Grant (2014), Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant (2014), Art Matters Grant (2012), and Critical Disabilities Studies Artist Residency, University of California, Irvine (2012). Her film, Tube Thieves,  has been included in Sundance Film Festival (2023), MOCA Artist Film Screening (2023) and MoMA’s Festival of International Nonfiction Film and Media (2023).