BIOGRAPHY
Born Ontario, California, 1974
Lives and Works in Los Angeles
EDUCATION
2005
Master of Fine Arts, Vermont College, Montpelier, VT 2001
UCLA, Dept. of Arch. and Urban Design, Los Angeles, CA 1998
B.A., UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 1997
UC Irvine, Irvine, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH Fast-formal Object: Big Blue, Prism, Los Angeles, CAFast-formal Object: Act Two, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CAFast-formal Object: Big White, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA2007 What's the Big Idea?, The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
Plentitude, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX2010
It Ain’t Fair, OHWOW, Miami, FLBaker's Dozen, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA You Can Heal Your Life, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA2008 L.A. Confidentiel, Centre d'art contemporain du Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux, France2007 One Foot High and Rising, The Balmoral, Venice, CA
The Happy Lion at MACO, (site specific sculptural project) Mexico Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City2006 One of these things is not like the Other, Angela Hanley Gallery, Los AngelesSculpture, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, group sculpture showCarmada, MAK Center for Art & Architecture, Schindler House, Los Angeles, CA Five Sculptors, Workspace @ 91 Meserole St., Brooklyn, NYYoung Americans, Chinatown Project Space, Los Angeles, CADrawing and Sculpture, The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA (2-person show with Doug Crocco)2005 TBA, Angela Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles, CAA Single Channel Video Show, The Glendale College Art Gallery,Glendale,CASmall Works, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VAUncontained, Wood Art Gallery, Vermont College, Montpelier, VT 2004
General Store: The Four Color Pen Show, Locust Projects, Miami, FL General Store: The Four Color Pen Show, General Store Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 2002
Public Space: Artist/Architect Collaboration, UCLA 1999 En LA Casa home takeover installation, West Hollywood, CA 1998 Gustavo Godoy: Paint/Wood, Fine Arts Gallery, UCSB
Honors Last Show, UCSB 1997 Inside Out public installation, University of California, IrvineCentered Around the Center, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA 1996 Orange Crush, Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine
EXHIBITIONS CURATED
2007 Fleeing the Scene, The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010
Bedford, Christopher. "Gustavo Godoy", Frieze, Issue 131, May
Myers, Holly. "Gustavo Godoy, Fast-Formal Object: Big White", ArtReview.com, February 17
Schad, Ed. "Godoy at Honor Fraser", Artslant, February 1
Nys Dambrot, Shana. "Gustavo Godoy", Flavorpill, February 32008
Wulffson, Jennifer. “Contemporary Sculpture in Los Angeles”, Sculpture Journal, Vol. 17.1, Spring2007
Bedford, Christopher. “Gustavo Godoy at The Happy Lion”, Art in America, No. 11, December
Buckley, Annie. “Gustavo Godoy at The Happy Lion”, Artillery, June
Knight, Christopher. “Constructed Free of Tension”, Los Angeles Times, Friday, March 13
Nys Dambrot, Shana. “Gustavo Godoy: What’s the Big Idea?” ArtReview, June
Sara. “Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown”, Artslant, April
Sartorius, Katherine. “Gustavo Godoy – The Happy Lion”, artUS, Issue 19, Summer
Lives and Works in Los Angeles
EDUCATION
2005
Master of Fine Arts, Vermont College, Montpelier, VT 2001
UCLA, Dept. of Arch. and Urban Design, Los Angeles, CA 1998
B.A., UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 1997
UC Irvine, Irvine, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH Fast-formal Object: Big Blue, Prism, Los Angeles, CAFast-formal Object: Act Two, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CAFast-formal Object: Big White, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA2007 What's the Big Idea?, The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
Plentitude, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX2010
It Ain’t Fair, OHWOW, Miami, FLBaker's Dozen, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA You Can Heal Your Life, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA2008 L.A. Confidentiel, Centre d'art contemporain du Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux, France2007 One Foot High and Rising, The Balmoral, Venice, CA
The Happy Lion at MACO, (site specific sculptural project) Mexico Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City2006 One of these things is not like the Other, Angela Hanley Gallery, Los AngelesSculpture, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, group sculpture showCarmada, MAK Center for Art & Architecture, Schindler House, Los Angeles, CA Five Sculptors, Workspace @ 91 Meserole St., Brooklyn, NYYoung Americans, Chinatown Project Space, Los Angeles, CADrawing and Sculpture, The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA (2-person show with Doug Crocco)2005 TBA, Angela Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles, CAA Single Channel Video Show, The Glendale College Art Gallery,Glendale,CASmall Works, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VAUncontained, Wood Art Gallery, Vermont College, Montpelier, VT 2004
General Store: The Four Color Pen Show, Locust Projects, Miami, FL General Store: The Four Color Pen Show, General Store Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 2002
Public Space: Artist/Architect Collaboration, UCLA 1999 En LA Casa home takeover installation, West Hollywood, CA 1998 Gustavo Godoy: Paint/Wood, Fine Arts Gallery, UCSB
Honors Last Show, UCSB 1997 Inside Out public installation, University of California, IrvineCentered Around the Center, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA 1996 Orange Crush, Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine
EXHIBITIONS CURATED
2007 Fleeing the Scene, The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010
Bedford, Christopher. "Gustavo Godoy", Frieze, Issue 131, May
Myers, Holly. "Gustavo Godoy, Fast-Formal Object: Big White", ArtReview.com, February 17
Schad, Ed. "Godoy at Honor Fraser", Artslant, February 1
Nys Dambrot, Shana. "Gustavo Godoy", Flavorpill, February 32008
Wulffson, Jennifer. “Contemporary Sculpture in Los Angeles”, Sculpture Journal, Vol. 17.1, Spring2007
Bedford, Christopher. “Gustavo Godoy at The Happy Lion”, Art in America, No. 11, December
Buckley, Annie. “Gustavo Godoy at The Happy Lion”, Artillery, June
Knight, Christopher. “Constructed Free of Tension”, Los Angeles Times, Friday, March 13
Nys Dambrot, Shana. “Gustavo Godoy: What’s the Big Idea?” ArtReview, June
Sara. “Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown”, Artslant, April
Sartorius, Katherine. “Gustavo Godoy – The Happy Lion”, artUS, Issue 19, Summer
