JOE SOLA

Officer McGinty Writes a Ticket and Other Works

March 8th - April 12th 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday,  March 8th 6 - 8pm

Joe Sola is a Los Angeles-based artist known for his conceptual and often humorous approach to painting, video, and performance. His work challenges the conventions of the art world, frequently incorporating satire, physicality, and unexpected juxtapositions. He has many art works that continue to be exhibited around the world including: Studio Visit (2005) in which he jumped out his studio window crashing through breakaway glass, Portraits: An exhibition in the ear of TIF SIGFRIDS (2013), in which he built a small gallery that fit in his gallerist’s ear, and six microscopic oil paintings which he hung in the gallery, and The Painted Horse by Joe Sola (2015), in which converted the gallery to a collector’s dining room filled with contemporary abstract paintings. For Sola’s contribution he painted a geometric painting directly on a miniature horse which roamed freely in the dining room during gallery hours.

National institutional exhibitions include:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2020, 2016, 2009); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC (2013), Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA (2011), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, (2007, 2009), The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (2002). Internationally: Yuz Museum Shanghai, China (2023) Kunsthaus Graz, Austria (2014), Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg (2014), Vancouver Biennale (2009-10), Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico (2002) among others.

Most recent gallery exhibitions: i drove to san francisco and back, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles (2020), The Barely Fair, Chicago, TIF SIGFRIDS, 2023. Currently he is in the exhibition Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography and Film at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art curated by Britt Salversen and Staci Steinberger, open through July 13, 2025.