CV
FriendsWithYou
Samuel Albert Borkson 1979, Plantation, FL
Arturo Sandoval III 1976, Havana, Cuba
Solo Exhibitions
2022
Quantum Garden – Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
February 10th – March 13th, 2022
2021
FriendsWithYou’s Little Cloud Sky – Espanola Way, Miami Beach, FL
December 2nd – present
Happy World Hong Kong – West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong
September 23rd – October 6th, 2021
Happy World – On a Cloud – Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
June 11th – May 29th, 2022
Little Cloud & The Dance – Aspen Snowmass, Aspen, CO
December 2020 – current
2020
Little Cloud Bronze – Nanzuka 2G Gallery Japan
October 23rd – November 15th, 2020
The Dance and Recent Works – Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX
January 12th – March 15th, 2020
2019
Rainbow City Shreveport (via NEA Grant) – Shreveport, LA
November 2nd – December 8, 2019
In to the Clouds – Brookfield Place, Toronto, Canada
July 24th – September 3rd, 2019
Follow Me – Avalon Hotel, Palm Springs, CA
April 13 – 14, 2019
2018
Rainbow City Roller Rink – Library Street Collective (at 1001 Woodward Avenue) Detroit, MI
November 30th, 2018 – January 27th, 2019
Playworks: Forever & Ever – The Hole ON CANAL, New York, NY
November 17th – December 15th, 2018
Playworks: The Golden Age – Arsham/Fieg Gallery, New York, NY
November 20th, 2018 – January 7th, 2019
Pop World – Complex Con, Long Beach, CA
November 3 – 4, 2018
In to the Clouds – Westfield San Francisco Centre, San Francisco, CA
May 14th – October 21st, 2018
Happy Rainbow – Singapore
May – June 2018
Play Works – Solo booth with The Pit @ ALAC
January 25th – January 28th, 2018
2017
Nature’s Gift: Humans, Friends & The Unknown – Oakland Museum of California
October 7th, 2017 – January 21st, 2018
Little Cloud – The Street, Chestnut Hill, MA
August 1st – May 2018
2016
Super Moon – Seokchon Lake in Seoul, Korea
September 1st – October 3rd, 2016
Light Wave – The Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles, CA
July 7th – September 8th, 2016
2015
Light Spirit – Art Basel Miami Beach, FL
December 2nd – 6th, 2015
Rainbow City – Central Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand
May 28th – June 25th, 2015
Light Cave – Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX
April 8th – 12th, 2015
2014
Light Cave – The Standard, High Line, New York, NY
Commissioned by Art Production Fund & The Standard Hotel
September 8th – October 1st, 2014
Universal Reversal – Marine Projects, Santa Monica, CA
March 22nd – May 31st, 2014
2013
Somewhere Over the Rainbow – Mondrian South Beach, Miami Beach, FL
December 5th, 2013 – January 7th, 2014
Psychic Stones – Paul Kasmin’s PK Shop, New York, NY
October 24th – November 9th, 2013
Inner Vision in Between – MCLEMOI Gallery, Sydney, Australia
February 16th – April 11th, 2013
2012
Happy Rainbow – Tuen Mun Town Plaza, Hong Kong, China
July 22nd – September 2nd, 2012
2011
Inner Space, The Secrets of the Unknown – The Hole Annex in Miami, FL
December 1st, 2011 – January 28th, 2012
Sweet Dreams – de la Cruz Collection- Wynwood, FL
October 21st – October 23rd, 2011
In The Beginning – Colette, Paris, France
August 29th – September 24th, 2011
🙂 – The Hole Gallery, New York, NY
June 10th – August 6th, 2011
Rainbow City – The High Line Park, New York, NY
June 8th – July 5th, 2011
2010
Rainbow City – Art Basel Miami Beach, FL
December 3rd – December 5th, 2010
Building Blocks – Art Basel Miami Beach, FL
December 2nd, 2010 – January 8th, 2011
Rainbow City – Luminato Festival of Art & Creativity, Toronto, Canada
June 15th – June 20th, 2010
Day Dreamers – Narwhal Art Projects, Toronto, Canada
June 10th – July 14th, 2010
2009
Pictopia Fun House – Haus der Kulturen der Welt Museum, Berlin, Germany
March 19th – May 3rd, 2009
2008
Fun House – Scope Art Fair, Art Basel Miami Beach, FL
December 3rd – December 7th, 2008
Dream Maker – Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
May 2nd – November 3rd, 2008
2007
Wish Come True – Soovac, Minneapolis, MN
September 28th – October 27th, 2007
We Are Friends – Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
September 16th, 2007
2006
Rainbow Valley Permanent Playground – Turnberry for the Arts, Aventura, FL
December 21st, 2006 – Current
Skywalkers – Art Basel Miami Beach, FL
December 7th, 2006
Birds Of Pray – Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
February 4th – March 4th, 2006
Power Pond – Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
January 28th, 2006 – January 20th, 2008
2005
Cloud City – Museum of Contemporary Art @ The Goldman Warehouse, North Miami, FL
December 1st, 2005 – January 29th, 2006
2004
Get Lucky – Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
November 20th, 2004 – January 15th, 2005
Get Lucky – The Box Space, Miami, FL
August 28th – September 25th, 2004
Group Exhibitions
2021
Pt. 2: Invasive Species – Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
March 23rd – May 22nd, 2021
2019
Happy! – NSU Art Museum, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
October 27th, 2019 – July 5th, 2020
Blow Up II – Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
July 14th – September 15th, 2019
Something in the Water – Virginia Beach, VA
April 26th – 28th, 2019
J. Balvin stage visuals – Coachella main stage, Indio, CA
April 12th – 14th & Apr. 19th – 21st, 2019
2018
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade featuring Little Cloud – New York, NY
November 22nd, 2018
Flashpoint: An Intersection of History, Perseverance, and Joy – Chaos Theory, Curated by Joyce Varvatos with Alexandra Hayden, Sag Harbor, NY
July 28th – September 2nd, 2018
Peanuts Global Artist Collective – Hudson Square neighborhood, NYC
April 16th – May 16th, 2018
Clay Today – The Hole, New York, NY
April 10th – May 6th, 2018
2016
Light Cave – Artprize, Grand Rapids, MI
September 21st – 28th, 2016
Light Spirit – Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Toronto, Canada
June 24th – 26th, 2016
Art Los Angeles Contemporary w/ The Hole NYC – Los Angeles, CA
January 28th – 31st, 2016
2015
Nuit Blanche featuring Light Cave – City of Toronto, Canada
October 3rd – 4th, 2015
She Sells Seashells by the Seashore – Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
July 11th – August 2nd, 2015
Animotion featuring “Light Cave” – Albright-Knox Art Gallery
June 19, 2015
2014
Gilded Holiday – Paul Kasmin’s PK Shop, New York, NY
November 5 – December 23rd, 2014
This is Not a Toy – DX Canada’s Design Museum, Toronto, Canada
February 7th – May 19th, 2014
2013
Cast of Characters – 709 Gallery of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh, PA
April 5th – May 17th, 2013
2012
Cast of Characters – Clarion University Art Gallery, Clarion, PA
November 6th – March 25th, 2012
Flux Screening Series – The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
August 7th, 2012
Flights from Wonder – Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
February 26th – April 22nd, 2012
2011
Pictoplasma: Post Digital Monsters – La Gaite Lyrique, Paris, France
December 7th – December 31st, 2011
NADA Art Fair – Miami, Fl
December 1st – December 4th, 2011
Rainbow Friends – Coletivo Amor de Madre, Sao Paulo, Brazil
August 29th – September 2nd, 2011
NADA Art Fair – New York, NY
July 30th – July 31st, 2011
The South Florida Cultural Consortium – The Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
May 25th – August 21st, 2011
Party Animals – Royal/T Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
July 9th – September 24th, 2011
FACEMAKER – Royal/T Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
April 14th – May 31st, 2011
Dadarhea – Canada Gallery, New York, NY
February 25th – March 27th, 2011
2010
It Ain’t Fair – OHWOW Gallery, Miami, FL
December 2nd – December 5th, 2010
Dadarhea – OHWOW Gallery, Miami, FL
August 13th – August 27th, 2010
Re:Form School presented by REDU – New York, NY
October 9th – October 11th, 2010
Manifest Equality – Los Angeles, CA
March 3rd – March 7th
2009
Thing: Beware the Material World – Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
April 18th – July 5th, 2009
2008
Hexagone – Miami Art Space, Miami, Fl
May 10th – May 31st, 2008
2007
Art Parade– Deitch Projects, New York, NY
September 8th, 2007
Guild – Emmanuel Galerie Perrotin, Miami, FL
May 12th – July 21st, 2007
2006
The Official FriendsWithYou Bootleg Show – Helium Cowboy, Hamburg, Germany
September 23rd – October 20th, 2006
Pictoplasma 2 – Berlin, Germany
October 11th – October 14th, 2006
Demons to Diamonds – Locusts Projects, Miami, FL
March 18th – April 22nd, 2006
2005
Hanging By a Thread – The Moore Space, Miami, FL
September 8th – October 22nd, 2005
Everywhere Show – Mendenhall Sobeiski Gallery, Pasadena, CA
July 23rd – August 16th, 2005
Project FOX – Copenhagen, Denmark
April 2nd – April 22nd, 2005
Optic Nerve – Official selection – Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
August 5th, 2005
MOVE Conference: Stories in Motion – New York, NY
April 29th – April 30th, 2005
2004
Pictoplasma – Berlin, Germany
October 11th – October 14th, 2004
Characters at War – Zentralbuero, Berlin, Germany
October 1st – November 6th, 2004
Aqui Uzumaki – HPGRP Hanna, Ginza Tokyo, Japan
May 23rd – August 31st, 2004
Pictoplasma – Future is Now Gallery, NY, NY
October 28th – October 30th, 2004
2003
Appetite for Mutilation – FWY and Dave Choe Exhibition – 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
October 3rd – November 15th, 2003
SHIFT MOV Animation Festival – Tokyo, Japan
June 2003
Mr. Wizard the Legend of Speed – Los Angeles, CA // New York, NY
April 2003
Russian Doll Show – The Wurst Gallery, Portland, OR
September 2003
Stick em’ up – OBJEX Art Space, Miami, FL
September 2003
See This and Die – The Creek, Miami, FL
August 2003
Awards & Grants
2018
NEA Grant to bring Rainbow City to Shreveport, Louisiana in 2019
2010
South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists
Collections
Museum of Contemporary Art – Miami, FL
Tony Goldman Family Collection – Miami, FL
Montblanc International – Hamburg, Germany
Aventura Mall – Miami, FL
Soho Beach House – Miami Beach, FL
NSU Art Museum – Ft. Lauderdale, FL