b. 1984, Paducah, KY

Chelsea Culprit explores the performance of gender in the labor market and the expression of gender in the natural world. The artist reinvents subjects and techniques of historical painting, recoding the latent symbols of patriarchy toward an expanded social imaginary. Composed of feelings as much as descriptions and drawing from histories of labor, gender, dance, craft, folk spirituality, and personal ancestry, Culprit’s work entangles representations of the body’s capacity for work, play, display, expression, the performed authenticity of identity, and the intractability of freedom and personal bondage. Moving freely between the pictorial imagery of folk art and the materiality of the real world, and modes of abstraction and symbolism, the artist works with various mediums including neon light, sculptural assemblage, and installation, while grounding the practice in painting. Culprit finds the painted subject in characters who express their sexuality and gender with raucous freedom. These figures respond to the desire to live in a society where such freedoms could be possible. They exist after or outside of a male gaze and are sited in spaces where those expressions are possible; the nightclub, the garden, the forest. These bodies are rendered with hard edges, but also morph into one another, into plants, into abstract color fields, into objects on the kitchen table— they are the laborers and high priestesses of the artist’s life, and embody myths ofbecoming and the fantasies, or reimagined archetypes of the present, that lead from the past, into the future.Chelsea Culprit was born in 1984 in Paducah, KY. Culprit lives and works in upstate New York and Guadalajara, Mexico. She is currently Artista Invitado at Ceramica Suro and will have a solo presentation at PLATAFORMACONTEMPORANEO in October of 2025. Past exhibitions include PSYCHOPOMP, Mariposa, Paris, FR (2024), Ask the Cinders, Solito Gallery, Naples, IT (2024); Pole on Break, Queer Thoughts, NewYork, NY (2022); Amygdala in Repose, Morán Morán, Los Angeles, CA(2022); Malas Madres, Lulu, Mexico City, Mexico (2019); Fear ofSeduction, Queer Thoughts at Maureen Paley, London, ENG (2019). Culprit’s work has been featured in group exhibitions at StavangerArt Museum, Stavanger, NOR (2023); Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico (2020), Museo Arte deZapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico (2020); TANK Shanghai, Shanghai,China (2020); Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2019); Museum ofModern Art Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland (2019); Australian Centre forContemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia (2018); Museo de ArteCarrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico (2018); and Bienal X Nicaragua, León, NI (2016). Culprit’s work is also part of the public collections of DallasMuseum of Art, Dallas, TX; Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami FL; Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, NOR.

EDUCATION Bachelor of Fine Arts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Bachelor of Arts in Art History, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2025 Tres Lunas, PLATAFORMA, Guadalajara, Mexico 2024 Aeromancy Ekstasis/ Ask the Cinders, Solito Gallery, Naples, Italy PSYCHOPOMP, Mariposa Drive, Paris, France 2023 Dallas Art Fair, Morán Morán, Dallas, Texas

2022 Art Basel Miami Beach, Queer Thoughts, Miami, Florida Pole on Break, Queer Thoughts, New York, New York Expo Chicago, Revolver Galería, Chicago, Illinois Amygdala in Repose, Morán Morán, Los Angeles, California

2021 Susurro Sibila, Revolver Galería, Buenos Aires, Argentina Goddess Head, Revolver Galería, Lima, Perú

2020 Nothing to Wear, Morán Morán|Collect

2019 Malas Madres, Lulu, CDMX, México Fear of Seduction, Queer Thoughts at Maureen Paley, London, England

2018 DMing From Purgatory, Queer Thoughts, New York, New York

2017 Fishnets, Uma Certa Falta de Coerencia, Porto, Portugal Right to Remain Elegant, Galería La Esperanza at Barba Azul, CDMX, México

2016 Miss Universe, Yautepec, CDMX, México Blessed with a Job, Queer Thoughts, New York, New York

2015 Cloud Illusions I Recall, Born Nude, Chicago, Illinois PAGAN SLUTzzzz, Spf15, Blacks Beach, California

2014 In the Flesh, Important Projects, Oakland, California

2011 Reason Where It Comes From, Seerveld Gallery at Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, Illinois

2010 Dream On Hair Salon, Heraclitian Topologies, A.C.R.E. Projects, Chicago, Illinois

2009 Laughing from the Other Side of Your Face, Links Hall, Chicago, Illinois

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2024 Infinite Regress: Mystical Abstraction from the Permanent Collection and Beyond, curated by Kevin Moore, The Kemper Museum, Kansas, Missouri Extraños en el Paraíso, Alma Collectiva, Guadalajara, Jalisco It Never Entered My Mind, Galería Mascota, CDMX, México ArtCrush, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado Culprit/Rivas, OSMOS Station, Stamford, New York Channeling, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, New York Basel Social Club, Mariposa Drive, Basel, Switzerland 2023 La Subasta del Castillo de Chapultepec, El Castillo de Chapultepec, CDMX, México Go Tell It On the Mountain, organized by Camille Sproesser, Prattsville Art Center, Prattsville, New York Ravens and Crows, Winter Street Gallery and Brigitte Mulholland, Paris, France beneath the color there was the shape, Winter Street Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts Two x Two for AIDS and Art, Rachofsky House, Dallas, Texas OBSELFED, Klemm’s, Berlin, Germany Drunk vs Stoned 3, Max Levai and The Ranch, Montauk, New York SYSTEMA, organized by KUNSTHALLE FREEPORT, Palais Carli, Marseille, France The Five-Year Itch, Liberal Arts Roxbury, Roxbury, New York Evening of the Day, curated by Ernesto Burgos, Cadet Capela, Paris, France BLINK | Trond Mohn Art Collection, Stavanger Art Museum, Norway, Stavanger 2022 I Sing The Body Electric, DIJULIOVARDAN Project, East Hampton, New York Everyday Heroes, The Circle Gallery at Arts of Life, Chicago, Illinois Person(A), Venus Over Manhattan, New York, New York Ce qui emporte la décision, curated by Exo Exo, Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France High Priestess, Revolver Galería, Perú, Lima Neurocisne, Moderno y Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina Body en Thrall, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, Rugby, England I is Other, Lyles & King, New York, New York 2021 Devastation, Queer Thoughts, New York, New York PLATFORM, David Zwirner, New York, New York 2020 Thank Your Lucky Stars, Oleksanderssssssss, New York, New York and Brussels, Belgium Otrxs Mundxs, curated by Humberto Moro, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, CDMX, México 2020 Monster / Beauty: An Exploration of the Female/Femme Gaze, curated by Marcelle Joseph, Lychee One, London, England Myselves, curated by Joshua Friedman, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, California Open Air, Tong Art Advisory, East Hampton, New YorkEncarno Todo Lo Que Temes y Odias, No Hacer Nada, CDMX, México La Diosa Verde, curated by Dorothée Dupuis, Museo Arte de Zapopan, Guadalajara, México More, More, More, TANK Shanghai, Shanghai, China 2019 Prince.ess.s de Villes, curated by Hugo Vitrani, Fabien Danesi, and Eva Vaslamatzi Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France The Green Goddess, curated by Dorothée Dupuis, Lille 3000, Lille, France Paint Also Known As Blood, curated by Natalia Sielewicz, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland Call Giovani, curated by Dorothée Dupuis, Revolver Galería, Lima, Perú 2018 Dwelling Poetically, curated by Chris Sharp, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia Pintura Reactiva, curated by Carlos Palacios, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, CDMX, México Breaking Shells, curated by Justine Do Espirito Santo, The Koppel Project, London, England Chimera, Organized by Cudelice Brazelton, No Place Gallery, Columbus, Ohio 2017 Marching to the Beat, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, California Meshes of the Afternoon, curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini, Roman Road, London, England Lucky Draw, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York The New Normal, curated by Hiba Farhat and Murat Adash, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon Paroxysm of Union, curated By Kunsthalle Freeport, Leonidou 21, Athens, Greece Dawning, curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini, Capitán Gallo, Mexico City, Mexico Ozone Flowers, Michael Assiff, Galerie Mascota, CDMX, México 2016 Trauma Sauna, ASHES/ASHES, Los Angeles, California Venusia, Preliminary Group, curated by Mohamed Almusibi, Bologna, Italy Baby, I’m a Star, Romeo, New York, New York Europa and the Bull, curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini, LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina, Kosovo Stoneroses #4, curated by Santiago Tacetti and Mirak Jamal, Stockholm, Sweden Opals, curated by Vincent Honoré, Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger, Norway I AM SILVER, Foxy Production, New York, New York By Hand, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, Illinois X Bienal de Nicaragua, curated by Oliver Martinez Kandt, Fundación Ortíz Gurdián, León, Nicaragua 2015 Power Objects: The Future Has a Primitive Heart, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, Michigan Buying Friends, The Kortman Collection, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, Michigan 2015 Re: a memo to peregrine staff, Organized by Peregrine Program, Lodos Contemporáneo, CDMX, México Rainbow, Queer Thoughts, San Juan del Sur, La Virgen, San José de los Remates, Nicaragua Asperity Economy Asymmetry Austerity Intimacy, curated by Kate Sierzputowski, The Franklin, Chicago, Illinois The Great Good Place, Brandon Warren Alvendia, Threewalls, Chicago, Illinois The Arroyo Seco Garden Golf Classic, TARP, Los Angeles, California Detail, Wanusay, Montréal, QC, Canada 2014 Meet Me at The Soho House, organized by Night Club at Iceberg Projects, Chicago, Illinois Meta Morph Isis, curated by Ben Foch, Black Paper, Los Angeles, California Uptown Choreography for Albers (mural) with Amanda Williams, organized by Tricia Van Eyck for the Chicago Transit Authority BrushCrusher, organized by Quintessa Matranga and Gerasimos Floratos, 353 W 48th St., New York, New York 2013 Madam, Thou Art Bonkers, The Hills Esthetic Center, Chicago, Illinois Absurdist Burgers, Trailer Park Proyects and Institute of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture, Chicago, Illinois Being A Woman in an All-Women Show, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, Illinois The Power of Ten, Threewalls at Salvage One, Chicago, Illinois Sunday Afternoon on Le Grande Block, The Hills Aesthetic Center, Chicago, Illinois No Snow, No Show, organized by Lauren Anderson, East Pilsen Sculpture Garden, Chicago, IllinoisArt and Design #6, Dock 6, curated by Dan Sullivan and Edra Soto, Chicago Illinois Two of a kind, LVL3, Chicago, Illinois 2012 Home; Public or Private, 6018 North, Chicago, Illinois 2011 Exhibition in Motion; Objects Performed, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue WashingtonBeach Party IV Forbidden Dice (The Final Chapter), The Hills Esthetic Center, Chicago Illinois The Happiness Project, curated by Tricia Van Eck, 6018 North, Chicago, Illinois 2009 Substance and Shadow, Vega Estates, Chicago, Illinois Huttendong, organized by Assume Vivid Astro Focus, After the Butcher, Berlin, Germany Neus Museum, BASSO, Berlin, Germany SELECTED COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCES/PARTICIPATING PERFORMER 2014 APOCALYPSE FOREVER presented by Chicago CD Music, The Mutiny, Chicago, Illinois 2013 FREE THE UNIVERSE presented by Chicago CD Music, The Mutiny, Chicago, Illinois 2012 Contemporary Art Club, with Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Stedelijk at Trouw/ de Verdieping, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2011 Donna Haraway’s Expanded Benefits Package, with Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, New Museum, New York, New York BCC #5: A Retrospective of Remixed Dreams, with Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, -1, Paris, France72010 Mrs. Hound at Club Nutz, Here/Not There, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois Mrs. Hound, Mischief Night, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois Living'Newspapers, Mark Jeffrey and Judd Morrissey, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois 2009 DIVA, B.E.E.R., BEN RUSSELL, Chicago, Illinois W.A.G., Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada Give It To Mamma, with Kandis Williams, BASSO, Berlin, Germany Unveiling Ceremony, Wooden Veil, Alte Kindle Brauerei, Berlin, Germany Reframing Creatures, Tony Conrad, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany 2008 Uprising, Nicole Garneau, Jane Adams Hull House, Chicago, Illinois Revolutionary Love, Sharon Hayes, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, Florida Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway AWARDS 2016 Production and Presentation Grant (1.5 Rooms), Graham Foundation, Chicago, Illinois 2011 Propeller Fund Award (NEW CAPITAL Projects), Threewalls, Gallery 400, and The Andy Warhol Foundation, Chicago, IL 2002-07 Art Institute of Chicago Merit Scholarship, Chicago, Illinois CURATORIAL 2016-17 1.5 Rooms for Art and Architecture, Brooklyn, New York 2010-16 NEW CAPITAL Projects, Chicago, Illinois 2013-17 NextArtNow at Starcom MediaVest Group, Chicago, Illinois 2014-16 Boyfriends, Chicago, Illinois BIBLIOGRAPHY Crillo, Serena. “La prima delle opere di residenza d’artista’: “Ask the cinders”, di Chelsea Culprit” Cityweek. 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