Born 1991, Montclair, NJ. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
EDUCATION
2013
B.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024
Marisa Takal: Unconscious Research, Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
2022
Page (NYC), New York, NY
2021
Euphoric Recall, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020
SHARING, Del Vaz Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2018
People People People People People Building, Jeffrey Stark Gallery, New York, NY
2017
Beyond Oy to Scared to Ha-Ha, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
I Wish I Was a Telephone, with Nora Jane Slade, Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Heekin Toonutsi, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015
My Pet Lizard, SADE, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Z1, Rock512Devil, Baltimore, MD
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Form and Feeling, curated by Ashton Cooper, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Celestial Songs, curated by Adrianne Rubenstein, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY
2023
Purple Prose, Marianne Boesky, New York, NY
More Coming Back & More Returning, Bad Water, Knoxville, TN
Spring ‘23, Alicia, Los Angeles, CA
2022
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, curated by Mosie Romneym, Nicodim Gallery, New York, NY
Holy Sparks: Celebrating Fifty Years of Women in the Rabbinate, organized in partnership with The Braid, Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, New York, NY; Skirball Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Looking Back / The 12th White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York, NY
2021
Flame of Love, Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art, Fall River, MA
Blossom, Artron Art Center, Shenzhen, China
2020
Honest Gravy, presented by JAG Projects in collaboration with Marinaro Gallery, New York, NY
Salon de Normandy by The Community, Paris, France
Majeure Force, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
100! An exhibition commemorating Loyal’s 100th show, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2019
Last Call, The Gallery at Michael’s, Santa Monica, CA
NADA’s Chicago Invitational, presentation with Night Gallery, Chicago, IL
Grey Garden, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Contemporary Landscape, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018
Body, Curtain, Advance, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
CONDO, Company Gallery, New York, NY
2017
Bicostal, Meyer Vogl Gallery, Charleston, SC
2016
Your Face In The Mirror Isn’t Your Face, Similar To Plastic Silverware, Moran Bondaroff, Los Angeles, CA
Please Have Enough Acid in the Dish!, M+B, Los Angeles, CA
Wrath Pin Face Binned, Springsteen at Minnesota Projects., San Francisco, CA
When Did Intimacy Begin Width, Jeffrey Stark, New York, NY
An Increasingly Desperate Man, Alter Space, San Francisco, CA
2015
Nut's Palace, Ladybug House, San Francisco, CA
My Heart is Empty, The Hills Aesthetic Center, Chicago, IL
Centre for Style Tour: LA, Chin's Push, Los Angeles, CA
Narrow Waves, Interstate Projects/Springsteen Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Box Lunch, Skylab Gallery, Columbus, OH
2014
LAND Presents "Rock512Devil: Our Union," Saint Elizabeth's, Washington, D.C.
Brushcrusher, Basement Show NY, New York, NY
HaFo SaFO, Secret Recipe/3DaysAwake, Los Angeles, CA
Becky, Mission Comics and Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Louie, Louie, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
The End, sophiajacob, Baltimore, MD
Wacky Worlds, Mission Comics and Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013
Smalls, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2012
Nu Body, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
AWARDS
2016
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Award
Stanley Hollander Award
COLLECTIONS
JPMorgan Chase Collection
Rema Hort Mann Foundation
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021
Nick Earhart, "Marisa Takal at Night Gallery," Carla, Fall
Shana Nys Dambrot, "Meet Painter & Sculptor Marisa Takal," LA Weekly, March 29
2020
Artsy Editorial, "20 Artists on the Work They Made in 2020," Artsy, November 20
2018
Marieke Treilhard, “Marisa Takal: Modestly on the Run From Awards to Residencies,” Flaunt Magazine, January 22
2017
Olivia Whittick, “Beyond Oy Too Scared to Ha-Ha at Night Gallery”, the Editorial Magazine, December
Kathy Zimmer, “Marisa Takal at Night Gallery”, Art and Cake LA, December
Shana Nys Dambrot, “Marisa Dakar: Beyond Oy Too Scared to Ha-Ha”, White-hot Magazine, December
2016
Editors of ARTnews, “Consumer Reports: Marisa Takal”, ARTnews, August 31
Francesca Sonara, “An Increasingly Desparate Man”, Modern Painters, April
Catherine Wagley, “Marisa Takal: Heekin Toonutsi”, LA Weekly, April
“Marisa Takal: ‘Heekin Toonutsi’ at Night Gallery,” Sex Magazine, April 27
2015
L'Officiel Art, Los Angeles by Brian Lee Hughes, March