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FriendsWithYou

Samuel Albert Borkson 1979, Plantation, FL

Arturo Sandoval III 1976, Havana, Cuba

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022

Starchild – Henry Leibman Square at 41st St. & Pine Tree Dr., Miami Beach, FL

Opened on November 30, 2022

Permanent Installation

Beautiful War – Nanzuka Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

May 15 – June 12, 2022

Quantum Garden – Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL

February 10 – March 13, 2022

2021

My Little Playhouse Dongtan Gallery, South Korea

November 28, 2021 – February 20, 2022

FriendsWithYou’s Little Cloud Sky – Espanola Way, Miami Beach, FL

December 2, 2021 – April 8, 2022

Happy World Hong Kong - West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong

September 23 – October 6, 2021

Happy World – On a Cloud - Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

June 11 – May 29, 2022

2020

Little Cloud – Nanzuka 2G Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

October 23 – November 15, 2020

The Dance and Recent Works – Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX

January 12 – March 15, 2020

Little Cloud & The Dance - Aspen Snowmass, Aspen, CO

December 2020 – December 2021

2019

Rainbow City Shreveport (via NEA Grant) – Shreveport, LA

November 2– December 8, 2019

Into the Clouds – Brookfield Place, Toronto, Canada

July 24 – September 3, 2019

Follow Me – Avalon Hotel, Palm Springs, CA

April 13 – 14, 2019

2018

Rainbow City Roller Rink – Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI

November 30, 2018 – January 27, 2019

Playworks: Forever & Ever – The Hole ON CANAL, New York, NY

November 17 – December 15, 2018

Playworks: The Golden Age – Arsham/Fieg Gallery, New York, NY

November 20, 2018 – January 7, 2019

Pop World – ComplexCon, Long Beach, CA

November 3 – 4, 2018

Into the Clouds – Westfield San Francisco Centre, San Francisco, CA

May 14 – October 21, 2018

Happy Rainbow – Singapore

May - June 2018

Play Works – Solo booth with The Pit @ ALAC

January 25 – January 28, 2018

2017

Nature’s Gift: Humans, Friends & The Unknown – Oakland Museum of California

October 7, 2017 – January 21, 2018

Little Cloud – The Street, Chestnut Hill, MA

August 1, 2017 – May 2018

2016

Super Moon – Seokchon Lake in Seoul, Korea

September 1 – October 3, 2016

Light Wave – The Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles, CA

July 7– September 8, 2016

2015

Light Spirit – Art Basel Miami Beach, FL

December 2 – 6, 2015

Rainbow City – Central Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand

May 28 – June 25, 2015

Light Cave – Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX

April 8 – 12, 2015

2014

Light Cave – The Standard, High Line, New York, NY

Commissioned by Art Production Fund & The Standard Hotel

September 8 – October 1, 2014

Universal Reversal – Marine Projects, Santa Monica, CA

March 22 – May 31, 2014

2013

Somewhere Over the Rainbow – Mondrian South Beach, Miami Beach, FL

December 5, 2013 – January 7, 2014

Psychic Stones – Paul Kasmin’s PK Shop, New York, NY

October 24 – November 9, 2013

Inner Vision in Between – MCLEMOI Gallery, Sydney, Australia

February 16 – April 11, 2013

2012

Happy Rainbow – Tuen Mun Town Plaza, Hong Kong, China

July 22 – September 2, 2012

2011

Inner Space, The Secrets of the Unknown – The Hole Annex in Miami, FL

December 1, 2011 – January 28, 2012

Sweet Dreams – de la Cruz Collection, Wynwood, FL

October 21– October 23, 2011

In The Beginning – Colette, Paris, France

August 29 – September 24, 2011

:) – The Hole Gallery, New York, NY

June 10 – August 6, 2011

Rainbow City – The High Line Park, New York, NY

June 8 – July 5, 2011

2010

Rainbow City – Art Basel Miami Beach, FL

December 3 – December 5, 2010

Building Blocks – Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach, FL

December 2, 2010 – January 8, 2011

Rainbow City – Luminato Festival of Art & Creativity, Toronto, Canada

June 15 – June 20, 2010

Day Dreamers – Narwhal Art Projects, Toronto, Canada

June 10 – July 14, 2010

2009

Pictopia Fun House – Haus der Kulturen der Welt Museum, Berlin, Germany

March 19 – May 3, 2009

2008

Fun House – Scope Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL

December 3 – December 7, 2008

Dream Maker – Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

May 2 – November 3, 2008

2007

Wish Come True – Soovac, Minneapolis, MN

September 28 – October 27, 2007

We Are Friends – Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

September 16, 2007

2006

Rainbow Valley Permanent Playground – Turnberry for the Arts, Aventura, FL

Permanent Installation

Opened on December 21, 2006

Skywalkers – Art Basel Miami Beach, FL

December 7, 2006

Birds Of Prey – Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

February 4 – March 4, 2006

Power Pond – Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL

January 28, 2006 – January 20, 2008

2005

Cloud City – MOCA @ The Goldman Warehouse, North Miami, FL

December 1, 2005 – January 29, 2006

2004

Get Lucky – Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

November 20, 2004 – January 15, 2005

Get Lucky – The Box Space, Miami, FL

August 28 - September 25, 2004

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023

Group Shoe 3 – House of Seiko, San Francisco, CA

August 5 – mid-September 2023

Storage Wars – The Hole, Los Angeles, CA

June 24 – August 19, 2023

Just Phriends

June 20 – 24, 2023 at 8 Avenue Matignon, Paris France

June 19 – 27, 2023 on JOOPITER Auction Platform

2022

Jerry Gogosian’s Suggested Followers: How the Algorithm is Always Right – Sotheby’s, New York

Art Basel Hong Kong – Nanzuka Gallery booth, Hong Kong

2021

Pt. 2: Invasive Species – Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

March 23 – May 22, 2021

2019

Happy! – NSU Art Museum, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

October 27, 2019 – July 5, 2020

Blow Up II – Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

July 14 – September 15, 2019

Something in the Water – Virginia Beach, VA

April 26 – 28, 2019

J. Balvin stage visuals – Coachella main stage, Indio, CA

April 12 – 14 & April 19 – 21, 2019

2018

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade featuring Little Cloud – New York, NY

November 22, 2018

Flashpoint: An Intersection of History, Perseverance, and Joy – Chaos Theory, Sag Harbor, NY

Curated by Joyce Varvatos with Alexandra Hayden

July 28 – September 2, 2018

Peanuts Global Artist Collective – Hudson Square, New York, NY

April 16 – May 16, 2018

Clay Today – The Hole, New York, NY

April 10– May 6, 2018

2016

Light Cave – ArtPrize, Grand Rapids, MI

September 21– 28, 2016

Light Spirit – Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Toronto, Canada

June 24 – 26, 2016

Art Los Angeles Contemporary – The Hole NYC Gallery booth, Los Angeles, CA

January 28– 31, 2016

2015

Nuit Blanche featuring Light Cave – City of Toronto, Canada

October 3 – 4, 2015

She Sells Seashells by the Seashore – Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY

July 11 – August 2, 2015

Animotion featuring “Light Cave” – Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

June 19, 2015

2014

Gilded Holiday Paul Kasmin’s PK Shop, New York, NY

November 5 – December 23, 2014

This is Not a ToyDX Canada’s Design Museum, Toronto, Canada

February 7 – May 19, 2014

2013

Cast of Characters – 709 Gallery of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh, PA

April 5 – May 17, 2013

2012

Cast of Characters – Clarion University Art Gallery, Clarion, PA

November 6, 2011 – March 25, 2012

Flux Screening Series – The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

August 7, 2012

Flights from Wonder – Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA

February 26 – April 22, 2012

2011

Pictoplasma: Post Digital Monsters – La Gaite Lyrique, Paris, France

December 7 – December 31, 2011

NADA Art Fair – Miami, FL

December 1 – December 4, 2011

Rainbow Friends – Coletivo Amor de Madre, Sao Paulo, Brazil

August 29– September 2, 2011

NADA Art Fair – New York, NY

July 30 – July 31, 2011

The South Florida Cultural Consortium – The Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL

May 25 – August 21, 2011

Party Animals – Royal/T Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

July 9 – September 24, 2011

FACEMAKER – Royal/T Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

April 14 – May 31, 2011

Dadarhea – Canada Gallery, New York, NY

February 25 – March 27, 2011

2010

It Ain’t Fair – OHWOW Gallery, Miami, FL

December 2nd – December 5, 2010

Dadarhea - OHWOW Gallery, Miami, FL

August 13 – August 27, 2010

Re:Form School presented by REDU– New York, NY

October 9 – October 11, 2010

Manifest Equality – Los Angeles, CA

March 3 – March 7, 2010

2009

Thing: Beware the Material World – Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

April 18 – July 5, 2009

2008

Hexagone – Miami Art Space, Miami, FL

May 10 – May 31, 2008

2007

Art Parade– Deitch Projects, New York, NY

September 8, 2007

Guild – Emmanuel Galerie Perrotin, Miami, FL

May 12 – July 21, 2007

2006

The Official FriendsWithYou Bootleg Show – Helium Cowboy, Hamburg, Germany

September 23 – October 20, 2006

Pictoplasma 2 – Berlin, Germany

October 11 – October 14, 2006

Demons to Diamonds – Locusts Projects, Miami, FL

March 18 – April 22, 2006

2005

Hanging By a Thread– The Moore Space, Miami, FL

September 8 - October 22, 2005

Everywhere Show – Mendenhall Sobeiski Gallery, Pasadena, CA

July 23 – August 16, 2005

Project FOX – Copenhagen, Denmark

April 2 – April 22, 2005

Optic Nerve –Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL

Official selection

August 5, 2005

MOVE Conference: Stories in Motion – New York, NY

April 29 – April 30, 2005

2004

Pictoplasma – Berlin, Germany

October 11 – October 14, 2004

Characters at War – Zentralbuero, Berlin, Germany

October 1 – November 6, 2004

Aqui Uzumaki – HPGRP Hanna, Ginza Tokyo, Japan

May 23– August 31, 2004

Pictoplasma – Future is Now Gallery, New York, NY

October 28 – October 30, 2004

2003

Appetite for Mutilation –111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA

FWY and David Choe

October 3 – November 15, 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

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL

Tony Goldman Family Collection, Miami, FL

Beth Rudin DeWoody, Palm Beach, FL

Montblanc International, Hamburg, Germany

Aventura Mall, Miami, FL

Soho Beach House, Miami Beach, FL

NSU Art Museum, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

CitizenM, Miami, FL

City of Miami, Miami, FL

Cedars-Sinai Geurin Children’s, Los Angeles, CA

MONOGRAPHS & GROUP CATALOGUES

We Are FriendsWithYou, 2014. Published by Rizzoli, New York. Contributions by Pharrell Williams and Alejandro Jodorowsky, introduction by Peter Doroshenko.

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