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CV

b. 2002, San Antonio, TX. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Education

2024

Bachelor of Fine Arts - Drawing and Painting, Laguna College of Art and Design, Laguna Beach, CA

Solo Exhibitions

2024

Fruiting Body, Megan Mulrooney Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2023

Flora II, Estia’s Little Kitchen in collaboration with The Watermill Center, Sag Harbor, NY

2022

Flora, The Watermill Center, Water Mill, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions & Presentations

2025

Floating World: Bed, Bath, Bus, Sehwa Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea

A String in the Maze, Megan Mulrooney x Martha's, Los Angeles, CA

Solar Music / Lunar Revel, Uffner & Liu, New York, NY

NADA New York with Megan Mulrooney Gallery, New York, NY

Aspen Art Fair with Megan Mulrooney Gallery, Aspen, CO

California Cool Art Auction, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

2024

NADA Miami with Megan Mulrooney Gallery, Miami, FL

Surrealism in the Service of Distraction, curated by Alyce Mahon, Galerie Raphael Durazzo, Paris, France (catalog)

Arcus, curated by Lucy Liu, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY

Superbloom, curated by Evan Trine, The Pit, Palm Springs, CA

Art Brussels with Nino Mier Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2023

Thus Spoke the Rabbit, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Game Show, curated by Connor Marley, Curve Line Space, Los Angeles, CA

Red Dot Exhibition & Fundraiser, The Contemporary at Blue Star, San Antonio, TX

Flora of California, Kennedy Contemporary, Newport Beach, CA

2022

Art Market Hamptons with Kasper Contemporary, Water Mill, NY

AXA Art Prize, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

Youth #8, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea

2021

Red Dot Exhibition & Fundraiser, The Contemporary at Blue Star, San Antonio, TX

Awards and Honors

2025

Mack Art Foundation Artist Residency Prize, New York, NY

2023

Vermont Studio Center Artist Residency, Johnson, VT

YoungArts Creative Microgrant, National YoungArts Foundation, Miami, FL

Albert K. Murray Grant, Albert K. Murray Fine Art Educational Fund, Adamsville, OH

2022

Honorable Mention, AXA Art Prize, New York, NY

Albert K. Murray Grant, Albert K. Murray Fine Art Educational Fund, Adamsville, OH

2021

Albert K. Murray Grant, Albert K. Murray Fine Art Educational Fund, Adamsville, OH

2020

Merit Award, National YoungArts Foundation, Miami, FL

Selected Publications and Press

2024

Belcove, Julie. "3 New Art Galleries Opening This Fall, From Manhattan to Tokyo." Robb Report, September 8, 2024.

Divacorp, "Piper Bangs at Megan Mulrooney." Divacorp (2024).

Greenberger, Alex. "Former Nino Mier Senior Director to Open Her Own Gallery in Dealer's Closed LA Spaces." ARTnews, July 4, 2024.

Guilford, Lauren, "Gallery Rounds: Piper Bangs." Artillery (2024).

Kim, Leena, "Introducing the 2024 Creative Aristocracy." Town & Country (2024).

Olsen, Annikka, "Piper Bangs Just Graduated from College. Now Her Fantastical Fruit Paintings Are Captivating the Art World." Artnet (2024).

Porterfield, Carlie. "Megan Mulrooney, a former director at Nino Mier, will open her own gallery in his former Los Angeles space." The Art Newspaper, July 4, 2024.

Reddy, Sid. "Conversations with Piper Bangs." Voyage LA, June 10, 2024.

White, Katie. "2024’s Rising Stars: 5 Emerging Artists Who Made a Lasting Impression." Artnet, December 13, 2024.

2023

James Lane Post, "The Watermill Center & Estia's Little Kitchen Present Exhibition by Artist Piper Bangs." James Lane Post, 2023.

2022

Elizondo, J.D. "Episode 4." SAPL Variety, August 10, 2022.

2021

Art Renewal Center. "15th International ARC Salon: International Realism." Art Renewal Center, 2021.

Butterworth, Hillary and Denis Delasio et al. "Portraits & Figures." Artit, April 2021.

Wackenhut, Celeste and Joan Wyatt. "Holdsworth Center Art Collection Catalog." French & Michigan, 2021.

2019

LaBerge, Peter and Heidi Seaborn. Issue 30, Adroit Journal, October 2019.

Public Collections

The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL

Groeninghe Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium

The Holdsworth Center, Austin, TX

Sehwa Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea

The Watermill Center, Water Mill, NY

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