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Kevin Wingate is an artist living in Los Angeles. He grew up in Missouri, Texas, Georgia, and back again in Missouri; always following the trail of building materials and leaving fresh roots and unsold homes. He moved to Los Angeles in 1999. With wide thorough fares and a semi-unhealthy “marine layer”, it presented itself as a city full of transplants, a place where his Chevy Pickup could make u-turns and the image of an almond fade in the sky could allure like a siren. Currently, Kevin resides next to a mountain in the north east corner of LA. His once perfect trapezoid, pushed pinned to a cork map of America, is now skewed between cultural markers such as custom fetish paint schemes, country music, themed megaplexes and his own term of honorary geometry.

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Biography
Born 1975 in Jefferson City, MO
Lives and works in Los Angeles

Education
2003 MFA, University of California, San Diego
1999 MA, Webster University
1997 BFA, Webster University

Solo Exhibitions
2007 Black pools darling, I make it rain., Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca.

Selected Exhibitions
2007 Aqua Art Miami, Wynwood with Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Miami, FL.
Are you sure Hank done it this way?, Water Garden Building, Santa Monica, Ca.
Material Concern, California State University San Bernardino Gallery, San Bernardino, Ca.
(re)turn, East Central College Gallery, Union, MO.
Modular, White Flag, St. Louis, MO.
2006 Aqua Art Miami with Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Miami, FL.
Bridge Art Fair with Faufitown Projects, Miami, FL.
2004 Vanilla Bomb, Class: C Gallery, California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art. catalogue
Supersonic, Art Center College of Design’s Wind Tunnel, Pasadena, CA. catalogue
2003 Girl I Like the Way You Comb Your Hair, Marcuse Gallery, San Diego, CA.
9th Floor, 8601 Wilshire, Los Angeles, CA.
RS2, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA.
de fatal, New York City, NY and Los Angeles, CA.
2002 Road Warrior, Class: C Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Rival Sound, UCI, Mesa Parking Structure, Irvine, CA.
Exhibition One, sweetboyprojects, Los Angeles, CA.
Realtime Brainstorming, Marcuse Gallery, San Diego, CA.
Vanning, Russell Space, San Diego, CA.
Love Hotel, The Bubble, San Diego, CA.
Ornatasize, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
1999 Art is Good, A.D. Brown Building, St. Louis, MO.
1998 One Night Stand, St. Louis, MO.
1997 (Subtitled), Mossa, St. Louis, MO.

Bibliography
Modular: New Art From Los Angeles, Art Papers, Paul Krainak, July/August 2007.
White Flag Projects, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, David Bonetti, February 03, 2007.
White Flag Unveils LA Creativity, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, David Bonetti, January 04, 2007.
Experiencing the California Biennial, X-tra Contemporary Art Quarterly, Kristina Newhouse, Spring 2005, Volume 7 Number 3.
Super-California, Artnet.com, Patrick Deegan, August 16, 2004.
Artwork with Wattage, Los Angeles Times, Christopher Knight, June 21, 2004.
Kevin Wingate, Yourtruehero.org, Sang Kum, 2001.
Arts Abounds All Around Town, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jeff Daniel, November 9, 1997.

Grants
Russell Grant
University of California, San Diego Graduate Research Grant
University of California, San Diego Teaching Assistantship