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BIO
Farrell is a queer, trans non-binary painter who lives and works in Chinatown on the LES, New York City. Conversations around portraiture often focus on identity, gaze, style, and expression. Their paintings touch on these but further delve into how the human psyche is affected by relationships, selfhood, place, architectural spaces, gender dysphoria, existing in a changing body, and memory. They grapple with a complex tenderness, light piercing through a brooding sadness. Farrell presents queer individuals through a lens of understanding and connection, a context shielded from a society eager to erase or enact violence. Their paintings depict more than a moment; rather, time itself unfurling before our eyes—shifting light, shifting weight, the emergence of the inner world. Furthermore, Farrell paints thoughtfully and attentively from life. They describe inviting sitters into the studio as an adrenaline rush—having to work with time as a restriction and the challenge of attempting to capture what is full of life and motion into a singular image. — BL
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ALANNAH FARRELL — B. 1988 in Kingston, NY.
Lives and works in New York, NY.
EDUCATION Cooper Union, New York, NY, 2011.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
forthcoming: Fall 2024, Alexander Gray Gallery, Germantown, NY
2023
Serenade, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
2022
I Want To Thank You, Harper's, New York, NY
2021
History of Violence, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
2020
A Night in June, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY (online)
Alannah Farrell and The Linocut, London: benefit for The Ali Forney Center, NY (online)
2019
Worlds Without Rooms: Works by Alannah Farrell, The Painting Center, New York, NY,
2018
After All...Do You Remember?, Ghost Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
The First Taste, Anat Ebgi Gallery, New York, NY.
2023
Armory Show, New York, NY. (Anat Ebgi Gallery)
Place—World, Sean Horton, New York, NY.
Between Us, Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown, NY.
For Dorothy, Half Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Ripe, Harper’s, Los Angeles, CA.
2022
Armory Show, New York, NY. (Anat Ebgi Gallery)
Sotheby’s New York x JG
Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX.
25 Years, Harper’s, East Hampton, NY.
Stiltsville, Miami, (Half Gallery, NY.)
Public Displays of Queer Affection, Artsy x MTA, New York, NY.
2021
MELROSE, Harper’s, Los Angeles, CA.
Dallas Art Fair, (Anat Ebgi, LA.)
NADA Miami, (Harper’s, NY.)
Stiltsville, Miami, (Half Gallery, NY.)
Armory Show, New York, NY. (Anat Ebgi Gallery)
My Sweet Doppelgänger, Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
It’s Much Louder Than Before, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
EXPO Chicago, (Harper’s, NY.)
Frieze New York, (Anat Ebgi, LA.)
Good Company, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
CURE/rated: Bigotry, A Societal Cancer, an exhibition curated by Fadi Braiteh and Dan Nguyen, HOFA, London, UK.
Nightlife, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
36 Paintings, Harper’s, East Hampton, NY.
Monya Rowe, New York, NY (online)
We Stand Together to Stop AAPI Hate, A Fundraising Exhibition Against AAPI Hate, Prejudice, and Violence, Makeroom, Los Angeles, CA (online)
2020
Al Fresco, curated by Erin Goldberger, New Release Gallery, New York, NY
Everyday is Sunday, curated by John Wolf, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA
Ensemble: Together Again, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Life Still organized by Jonathan Travis, New York, NY
2019
Every Woman Biennial La MaMa La Galleria, New York, NY
Paraíso Perdido Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY
25th Anniversary exhibition The Painting Center, New York, NY.
2018
Mutual Aid Kent State University, Kent, OH.
Sum Of All Parts Brilliant Champions Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2016
Artisans Series Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY.
SELFISH: The Beauty of Introspection, Brilliant Champions Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2014
Polish: an exhibition curated by Emerald Gruin Rox Gallery, New York, NY.
2013
Audiograph: curated by Candice Fortin Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center, New York, NY.
AWARDS
2024
Silver Art Residency, New York, NY.
2023
Denniston Hill Residency, Woodridge, NY.
2017
The Painting Center, New York, NY.
SELECTED PRESS
2023
Brown-Ewens, Millen. "Alannah Farrell's oil paintings contemplate the anxiety of modern queer life." i-D. 2022 Peacock-Berardini, Stella. "A Rich Somber Undercurrent: An Interview of Alannah Farrell," Autre.
2021
"8 LGBTQIA+ Artists on Self-Portraiture and Expressions of Pride." Artsy. June 8.
Angelos, Ayla. "Alannah Farrell meticulously paints the experiences of their subjects." It's Nice That. 2020 Nafziger, Christina. "Creating Portraits, Communicating Emotion: An Interview With Alannah Farrell." Create Magazine.
2019
"OTP short-forms: Alannah Farrell." OTP.
Romero, Marta. "Alannah Farrell: Curious Strangers." Metal.
D'Agostino, Paul. "The Painting Center, Present Company, Talking Pictures, NURTUREart, Slag, SOHO20, M. David & Co., Fresh Window, Studio 10." Art Spiel.
Chan, Mar. "Worlds Without Rooms." Office.
"Image of the Day." Elephant.
Panda Bear, BJ. "ALANNAH FARRELL." Flaunt.
D'Agostino, Paul. "The Painting Center, Present Company, Talking Pictures, NURTUREart, Slag, SOHO20, M. David & Co., Fresh Window, Studio 10." Art Spiel.
"Alannah Farrell." Wall Street International Magazine.
Cowan, Katy. "Alannah Farrell's Worlds Without Rooms pulls back the curtain on millennial struggles and insecurities." Creative Boom.
"Alannah Farrell's Portraits of the Lower East Side." Art & Object.
OTHER
2022
Instructor, Drawing Intensive, CUSAI, Cooper Union, NY.
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