IVA KINNAIRD

b. 1991, Dallas
Lives in Houston

EDUCATION
2014  BFA University of Texas, Austin

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022  Elizabeth Warren’s Ear, F, Houston
2020  I Would Love You If You Looked Like This:, Maximillian William, London
2019  Good One Too, Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart, Houston
2018  IV (pronounced like Intravenous Therapy but this is also the fourth fountain), Culture Hole, Dallas
          A Two Page Paper on Impasse, The Reading Room, Dallas
2017  Screenshots, 3823 Commerce Street, Dallas
          Art Show!, Art League Houston, Houston

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022  Last Laugh, SP/N Gallery, Dallas
2020  LGBTQIA+, 500x, Dallas
2019  Texas Toast, Co-Lab Projects, Austin, TX
          Chaos!!!!!!!, Ro2 Art Gallery, Dallas
          Intermediate, The Modern, Fort Worth, TX
2018  Chaos!!!!!, Ro2 Art Gallery, Dallas
          New Texas Talent, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas
          Loomis, Thomas Kinkade Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
          Oasis, Matchbox Gallery, Rice University, Houston
          Banana Splint, Solar Studios, Rice University, Houston
2017  The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston
2016  Not Like the Other, Performance Art Houston, Instagram
          Make Time, East/West Galleries, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX
          The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston
          Substance and Substrate, 500x, Dallas
          Dimpled, Twisted, and Buried, Fresh Arts, Houston
2015  Debtfair, Art League Houston
          Aurora Residency Exhibition, Sojourn Montrose, Houston
          The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston
          Typically Esoteric, galleryHomeland, Houston

SELECTED PRESS
2022  Bell, Graham. "'Iva Kinnaird: Elizabeth Warren's Ear' at F, Houston," Glasstire, December 21
          Boyd, Robert. "Iva Kinnaird at F," The Great God Pan is Dead, December 17
2020  Sanders, Fay. “Selected Paintings from SPRING/BREAK NYC 2020,” Two Coats of Paint, March 9
2018  Blay, Christopher. “Glorious Art Nerds and the Lecture, Smecture: Tuesday Evenings at the Modern,” Glasstire, December 8
          Huete, Betsy. “”Oasis” at Matchbox Gallery,” Glasstire, March 12
          Copeland, Colette. “Iva Kinnaird,” Eutopia, March 7
          Smart, Jennifer. “A Quest for Meaning Meets impasse at The Reading Room,” D Magazine, Feb 21
          Avram, Danielle. “Finding the Personal in the Truly Ubiquitous,” Dallas Morning News, DATE
2016  Rees, Christina. “Shelby David Meier & Iva Kinnaird: Make Time,” Glasstire, October 9
          Knudson, Rainey and Rees, Christina. “Top Five,” Glasstire, October 6
          Jameson, Joelle. “Judge for a day: The “Big Show” and its “Refuses”,” AEQAI, Summer
          Huete, Betsy. “Dimpled, Twisted, and Buried at Fresh Arts,” Glasstire, March 1
2015  Anspon, Catherine D. “Going Underground: Edgy Alternative Gallery Shakes Up Houston’s Art Scene,” Paper City, July 14
2014  Davenport, Bill. “TX Contemporary Cycle-O-Rama,” Glasstire, September 9
          Boyd, Robert. “Hardly Necessary,” The Great God Pan is Dead, September 9
          Hardy, Michael. “Overheard at the Texas Contemporary Art Fair,” Houstonia, September 8

RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2018  New American Paintings #138 West
2016  Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund, Dallas Museum of Art
          February Bitres, Co-Lab Projects, Austin
2015  Aurora Residency, Sojourn Heights of Houston
2014  Undergraduate Professional Development Travel Grant, University of Texas, Austin
2013  Summer Residency, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Ox-Bow
2012  Undergraduate Research Fellowship, University of Texas, Austin