{{Short description|American artist (born 1973)}} {{about||the United States Army general|Eric J. Wesley}} {{use American English|date=September 2025}} {{use dmy|date=September 2025}} '''Eric Wesley''' (born 1973)<ref name=vitamin3d/> is an American artist who works with a variety of media including sculpture and painting.<ref name=soniacampagnola/><ref name=rochettesaunders/> He is based in Los Angeles.<ref name=quiet2022/>
==Biography== Wesley was born and raised in Los Angeles, California,<ref name=emergentmagazine/><ref name=vitamin3d/><ref name=rochettesaunders/> the son of two social workers.<ref name=chicagotribune>{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2016/07/28/eric-wesleys-quest-for-high-art-leads-to-a-taco-bell/|title=Eric Wesley's quest for high art leads to a Taco Bell|date=2016-07-28|publisher=Chicago Tribune|last=Dampier|first=Cindy|access-date=2025-09-24}}</ref> As a child, he planned to become an aeronaturical engineer.<ref name=chicagotribune/> He earned a fine arts degree from University of California, Los Angeles in 1996.<ref name=thebell/><ref>{{cite news|last=Haithman|first=Diane|title=$1 Million New Year's Gift to the Hammer|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-05-et-hammer5-story.html|date=2007-01-05|access-date=2025-09-23}}</ref><ref name=rochettesaunders>{{cite magazine|last1=Rochette|first1=Anne|last2=Saunders|first2=Wade|title=Place Matters: Los Angeles|magazine=Art in America|date=November 2006|url=http://wadesaunders.net/blog/los-angeles-place-matters/|volume=94|number=10|pages=168–191, 224|access-date=2025-09-23}}</ref> While Wesley primarily works from Los Angeles, he previously had a studio in Berlin.<ref name=soniacampagnola>{{cite magazine|url=https://flash---art.com/article/eric-wesley/|last=Campagnola|first=Sonia|title=Eric Wesley: Let's Do A Trade|magazine=Flash Art|number=253|date=March 2007|access-date=2025-09-23}}</ref><ref name=chicagotribune/>
Wesley's work encompasses sculpture and painting, among other media,<ref name=soniacampagnola/><ref name=rochettesaunders/> and have been displayed around the world. He has held solo exhibitions at galleries including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Foundation Morra Greco, Naples, Italy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bortolamigallery.com/artists/undefined/artists/eric-wesley|title=Eric Wesley — BORTOLAMI|website=Eric Wesley — BORTOLAMI}}{{Dead link|date=February 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref> He has participated in group shows at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles;<ref name=madeinLA2014/> CAPC musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux;<ref name=bordeaux/> Fundación/Colección, Mexico City;<ref name=jumex/> ARCOS Museo d’Arte, Benevento, Italy;{{cn|date=September 2025}} the Prague Biennial in 2007;<ref name=maureenpaley2009/> Institute of Contemporary Arts, London;<ref name=100Artists/> P.S. 1, New York;<ref name=goldstandard/> the Whitney, New York;<ref name=mocafocus/> and the Studio Museum in Harlem.<ref name=culturalev/> His work was part of the collection TV executive Dean Valentine donated to the Hammer Museum in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|last=Robinson|first=Walter|title=Hammer Museum Gets Dean Valentine Art|website=Artnet.com|date=2007|url=http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/artnetnews/artnetnews1-9-07.asp|access-date=2025-09-23}}</ref> He has worked extensively with China Art Objects Galleries, Bortolami Gallery, and Maureen Paley.<ref name=maureenpaley2009/><ref>{{cite web|last=Sholis|first=Brian|title=Show Business|website=artforum.com|date=2007-02-24|url=https://www.artforum.com/columns/brian-sholis-on-the-adaa-and-armory-fairs-175236/|access-date=2025-09-23}} </ref> He was included on ''ArtReview''{{'}}s Future Greats list in 2005<ref>{{cite magazine|title=100 Future Greats 2005|magazine=ArtReview|date=December 2005}}{{page needed|date=September 2025}}</ref> and 2008.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Schimmel|first=Paul|author-link=Paul Schimmel (curator)|title=Future Greats|magazine=ArtReview|date=March 2008|page=87}}</ref>
He is also the co-founder of Mountain School of Art (MSA) in Los Angeles,<ref>{{cite web|title=West Side Story|url=http://moussemagazine.it/articolo.mm?id=47|publisher=Mousse Magazine|access-date=2012-05-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510235917/http://moussemagazine.it/articolo.mm?id=47|archive-date=2012-05-10|url-status=dead}}</ref> an artist-run nomadic school that he opened in January 2006 with Piero Golia.<ref name=rochettesaunders/><ref name=fritzhaeg/><ref name=francesstark>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.artforum.com/features/frances-stark-172836/|last=Stark|first=Frances|author-link=Frances Stark|title=Frances Stark On: Los Angeles|magazine=ArtForum|date=December 2005|page=226|access-date=2025-09-23}}</ref> They accept 15 fellows annually to a three-month program. The classes are free and all staff are volunteers.<ref name=fritzhaeg/><ref name=francesstark/> In 2008, Wesley told ''ArtReview'' that it was less of an art school and more of "an institution patterned on the university model and devoted to general education, with a curriculum grounded in science, philosophy and law."<ref name=fritzhaeg>{{cite magazine|url=https://mail.fritzhaeg.com/webpdf/press/artreview0308.pdf|title=Go tell it on the mountain: LA's new nomadic art schools|newspaper=Art Review|issue=20|date=March 2008|page=73|last=Myers|first=Holly|access-date=2025-09-23|via=Fritz Haeg}}</ref>
==Solo exhibitions== {| class="wikitable unsortable" |- ! Year !! City !! Gallery !! Title !! Notes !! Refs |- | 1999 || rowspan="2" | Los Angeles || rowspan="2" | China Art Objects Galleries || ''Camper'' || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.contemporaryartlibrary.org/project/eric-wesley-at-china-art-objects-los-angeles-1296|title=eEric Wesley: Camper|publisher=Contemporary Art Library|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref> |- | 2000 || ''Kicking Ass'' || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chinaartobjects.com/exhibitions/kicking-ass|title=Eric Wesley: Kicking Ass|date=2000|publisher=China Art Objects Galleries|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref><ref name=friezekicks>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.frieze.com/article/just-kicks|last=Myers|first=Julian|title=Just for Kicks|work=Frieze |date=January 2003 |issue=72 |publisher=Frieze|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref> |- | 2001 || Pasadena || Caltech || ''Two Story Clock Tower'' || Erected on the Caltech campus || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.contemporaryartlibrary.org/project/eric-wesley-1294|title=Eric Wesley: Two Story Clock Tower|publisher=Contemporary Art Library|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref><ref name=vitamin3d/><ref name=mikerogers2006/> |- | rowspan="3" | 2002 || New York City || Metro Pictures Gallery || ''New Amsterdam'' || || <ref name=friezekicks/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.contemporaryartlibrary.org/project/eric-wesley-at-metro-pictures-new-york-1291|title=Eric Wesley: New Amsterdam|date=2002|publisher=Contemporary Art Library|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref><ref name=soniacampagnola/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.artforum.com/events/eric-wesley-178917/|last=Ammirati|first=Domenick|title=Critic's Pick: Eric Wesley|website=artforum.com|date=2003}}</ref> |- | Karlsruhe || Meyer-Reigger Galerie || ''Enchilada “The Endless Burrito”'' || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.contemporaryartlibrary.org/project/eric-wesley-at-meyer-riegger-karlsruhe-1292|title=Eric Wesley: Enchilada|date=2002|publisher=Contemporary Art Library|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref><ref name=friezekicks/><ref name=soniacampagnola/> |- | Turin || Galeria Franco Noero || ''Ouchi'' || || <ref name=friezekicks/> |- | 2003 || Basel || Art Basel || ''Jeans Theory, Statements'' || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.contemporaryartlibrary.org/project/eric-wesley-1290|title=Eric Wesley: Jeans Theory, Statements|date=2003|publisher=Contemporary Art Library|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref> |- | rowspan="2" | 2004 || Los Angeles || China Art Objects Galleries || ''Pico Youth Center'' || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chinaartobjects.com/exhibitions/pico-youth-center|title=Eric Wesley: Pico Youth Center|date=2004|publisher=China Art Objects Galleries|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref> |- | Miami || Locust Projects || ''Eric Wesley I love WW2'' || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.contemporaryartlibrary.org/project/eric-wesley-at-locust-projects-miami-1289|title=I love WW2|date=2004|publisher=Contemporary Art Library|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref> |- | 2005 || Amsterdam || Bowie-Van Valen Gallery || || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.contemporaryartlibrary.org/project/eric-wesley-at-bowie-van-valen-amsterdam-1287|title=Eric Wesley|date=2005|publisher=Contemporary Art Library|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref><ref name=soniacampagnola/> |- | rowspan="5" | 2006 || Karlsruhe || Meyer-Riegger Gallery || ''Audi'' || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://artmap.com/meyerriegger/exhibition/eric-wesley-mario-garcia-torres-2006|title=Eric Wesley {{!}} Mario Garcia Torres|publisher=ArtMap|date=2006|access-date=2025-09-02}}</ref><ref name=vitamin3d/><ref name=soniacampagnola/> |- | Naples || Galleria Fonti || ''You say Tomato, I say Tomato'' || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.artforum.com/events/eric-wesley-2-182671/|title=Eric Wesley|last=Romeo|first=Filippo|date=2006|publisher=ArtForum|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref><ref name=rochettesaunders/><ref name=soniacampagnola/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.artforum.com/events/eric-wesley-2-182671/|last=Romeo|first=Fillippo|title=Critic's Pick: Eric Wesley|website=artforum.com|date=2006|access-date=2025-09-23}}</ref> |- | rowspan="3" | Los Angeles || China Art Objects Galleries || ''Erik Wesley'' || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chinaartobjects.com/exhibitions/erik-wesley|title=Eric Wesley: Erik Wesley|date=2006|publisher=China Art Objects Galleries|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref><ref name=vitamin3d/> |- | Museum of Contemporary Art || ''MOCA FOCUS: Eric Wesley'' || || <ref name=mocafocus>{{cite web|url=https://www.bortolamigallery.com/publications/eric-wesley-moca-focus-series|title=Eric Wesley (MOCA Focus Series)|publisher=Bortolami Gallery|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref><ref name=soniacampagnola/><ref name=emergentmagazine/><ref name=vitamin3d/><ref name=rochettesaunders/><ref>{{cite book|last=Butler|first=Cornelia|chapter=Thesis Show|series=MOCA Focus|title=Eric Wesley Catalogue|date=March 2006|publisher=Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles}}{{page needed|date=September 2025}}</ref> |- | Pacific Design Center || ''Thirty Three Point Three Three Three'' || || <ref>{{cite news|last=Knight|first=Christopher|title=After a Bold Takeover a Weak Message Is Sent|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=2006-04-21|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times/181629586/|page=61|via=newspapers.com|access-date=2025-09-23}}</ref><ref name=soniacampagnola/><ref name=mikerogers2006>{{cite magazine|last=Rogers|first=Mike|title=Eric Wesley|magazine=ArtUS|date=July 2006|pages=16–17|issue=14|issn=1546-7082}}<!--accessed a scan via EBSCO 2025-09-23--></ref> |- | rowspan="4" | 2007 || New York City || Bortolami Gallery || ''Spaference Room'' || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bortolamigallery.com/exhibitions/spaference-room|title=Eric Wesley: Spaference Room|date=2007|publisher=Bortolami Gallery|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref><ref name=vitamin3d/> |- | Naples || Foundation Morra Greco || ''Spa fice'' || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fondazionemorragreco.com/en/eric-wesley-2007/|title=Spafice: Eric Wesley|last=Fassi|first=Luigi|publisher=Fondazione Morra Greco|date=2007|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref><ref name=maureenpaley2009/><ref name=vitamin3d/><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.artforum.com/events/eric-wesley-3-199714/|last=Burton|first=Johanna|title=Eric Wesley|magazine=ArtForum|date=March 2008|page=362-363|access-date=2025-09-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.frieze.com/shows/review/eric_wesley/|last=Bovino|first=Emily Verla|title=Eric Wesley|magazine=Frieze|date=2007-10-27|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071203235550/http://www.frieze.com/shows/review/eric_wesley/|archive-date=2007-12-03}}</ref><ref name=soniacampagnola/> |- | Münchenstein || Kunsthaus Baselland || || || <ref name=soniacampagnola/> |- | Turin || Galeria Franco Noero || || || <ref name=soniacampagnola/> |- | 2008 || Berlin || Feurig59 || ''Ship Shape Shit Shelf and the Empfang Box'' || || <ref name=maureenpaley2009/> |- | 2009 || London || Maureen Paley || ''New Realistic Figures'' || || <ref name=maureenpaley2009>{{cite web|url=https://www.maureenpaley.com/exhibitions/eric-wesley-new-realistic-figures/press-release|title=Eric Wesley: New Realistic Figures|date=2009|publisher=Maureen Paley|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref> |- | 2010 || New York City || Bortolami Gallery || ''D’Carts Blanche and New Paintings'' || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/arts/design/21galleries-003.html|title=Eric Wesley: D'Carts Blanche and New Paintings|last=Johnson|first=Ken|date=2010-05-21|work=The New York Times|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref> |- | 2011 || Los Angeles || China Art Objects Gallery || ''The Same ‘Ol New Frontier'' || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://artmap.com/chinaartobjects/exhibition/eric-wesley-2011|title=Eric Wesley: The Same 'Ol New Frontier|date=2011|publisher=ArtMap|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref> |- | 2012 || New York City || Bortolami Gallery || ''2 new works'' || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/eric-wesley-“2-new-works”-at-bortolami-gallery-new-york/|title=ERIC WESLEY, "2 new works" at Bortolami gallery, New York|publisher=Mousse Magazine|date=2012-02-11|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref> |- | 2015 || Los Angeles || 356 Mission || ''Some Work'' || || <ref>{{cite web|url=http://356mission.com/item/eric-wesley-some-work/?tab=Media|title=Eric Wesley: Some Work|publisher=356 Mission|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref> |- | 2016 || Minneapolis || Midway Contemporary Art || ''ISOSCELES TRAPEZOID ARCH'' || || <ref>{{cite web|url=http://inreview.org/isosceles-trapezoid-arch/|title=Eric Wesley: ISOSCELES TRAPEZOID ARCH|last=Cluggish|first=Sara|date=2016|publisher=InReview|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref> |- | rowspan="3" | 2019 || rowspan="2" | Los Angeles || TIMESHARE || ''Turning Tables'' || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://artreview.com/eric-wesley-turning-tables-timeshare-los-angeles-review-gracie-hadland/|title=Eric Wesley's Funny Money|date=2024-10-17|last=Hadland|first=Gracie|publisher=ArtReview|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref> |- | Pico Pico || ''Timbuctoo'' || Alternate title: ''Sticks and stones may break my bones but words fucking kill me'' || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/eric-wesley-timbuctoo-at-pio-pico-los-angels-2019/|title=Eric Wesley "Timbuctoo" at Pio Pico, Los Angels [sic]|date=2019|publisher=Mousse Magazine|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref> |- | London || Sprovieri Gallery || ''Reputation'' || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://sprovieri.com/exhibitions/27-eric-wesley-reputation/|title=Eric Wesley: Reputation|date=2019|publisher=Sprovieri|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref> |- | 2022 || rowspan="2" | New York City || Bortolami Gallery || ''Eric Wesley/St Louis'' || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wallpaper.com/art/bortolami-gallerys-progressive-artistcity-platform-places-artists-in-cities-for-a-year-long-presentation|title=City limits: Bortolami Gallery's 'Artist/City' upends the traditional exhibition model|date=2022-10-25|last=Keh|first=Pei-ru|publisher=Wallpaper*|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref> |- | 2024 || Martos Gallery || ''Three Sleeping Philosophers'' || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.martosgallery.com/eric-wesley/|title=Eric Wesley: Three Sleeping Philosophers|date=2024|publisher=Martos Gallery|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref> |}
==Group exhibitions== {| class="wikitable unsortable" |- ! Year !! City !! Gallery !! Exhibition title !! Notes !! Refs |- | rowspan="2" | 1998 || Santa Monica || Rosamund Felsen Gallery || ''I-Candy'' || || {{cn|date=September 2025}} |- | rowspan="3" | Los Angeles || Brent Petersen Gallery || ''Drawings for Works in Progress'' || || <ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/la-weekly/180305744/|title=Drawings for Works in Progress|newspaper=LA Weekly|location=Los Angeles, California, US|date=1998-04-02|page=156|via=newspapers.com|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref> |- | 1999 || L.A. Edge Festival || || Organized by Simon Watson || {{cn|date=September 2025}} |- | 2000 || ACME Gallery || ''Young and Dumb'' || Curated by Pentti Monkkonen || <ref>{{cite news|title=Young and Dumb|newspaper=The Los Angeles Times|location=Los Angeles, California, US|date=2000-01-23|page=360|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times/180305847/|via=newspapers.com|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref> |- | rowspan="9" | 2001 || New York City || Studio Museum in Harlem || rowspan="2" | ''Freestyle'' || Sculpture: ''Kicking Ass'' || <ref name=culturalev>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-oct-02-ca-52218-story.html|title=Cultural Evolution in ''Freestyle''|last=Knight|first=Christopher|work=Los Angeles Times|date=2001-10-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last=Schjeldahl|first=Peter|title=Breaking Away|magazine=The New Yorker|date=2001-06-11|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/06/11/breaking-away|access-date=2025-09-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last=Saltz|first=Jerry|author-link=Jerry Saltz|title=Post-Black|magazine=Village Voice|date=2001-05-22|url=https://www.villagevoice.com/post-black/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250903055411/https://www.villagevoice.com/post-black/|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 September 2025|via=newspapers.com|access-date=2025-09-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last=Plagens|first=Peter|author-link=Peter Plagens|title=Harlem Goes 'Freestyle'|url=https://www.newsweek.com/harlem-goes-freestyle-153133|magazine=NEWSWEEK|date=2001-05-13|access-date=2025-09-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Cotter|first=Holland|title=ART REVIEW; A Full Studio Museum Show Starts With 28 Artists and a Shoehorn|newspaper=New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/arts/art-review-a-full-studio-museum-show-starts-with-28-young-artists-and-a-shoehorn.html|date=2001-05-11|access-date=2025-09-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Dailey|first=Meghan|title=Preview: Freestyle|website=artforum.com|date=2001-05-03|url=https://www.artforum.com/events/freestyle-176523/|access-date=2025-09-24}}</ref> |- | Santa Monica || Santa Monica Museum of Art || || <ref name=culturalev/> |- | San Diego || Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego || ''Ultrabaroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art'' || || <ref>{{cite news|title=Different perspectives|last=Knight|first=Christopher|newspaper=The Los Angeles Times|location=Los Angeles, California, US|date=2001-10-02|page=44|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times/181621870/|via=newspapers.com|access-date=2025-09-23}}</ref> |- | Los Angeles || UCLA Hammer Museum || rowspan="2" | ''Snapshot: New Art From Los Angeles'' || || <ref name=maureenpaley2009/><ref name=friezekicks/><ref>{{cite news|last=Knight|first=Christopher|title=A Snapshot of L.A. Artists|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times/181630431/|via=newspapers.com|date=2001-06-06|access-date=2025-09-23}}</ref><ref name=soniacampagnola/><ref>{{cite magazine|last=Tumlir|first=Jan|title=Snapshot - LA Exhibit of Work of 25 Artists|magazine=ArtForum International|volume=40|number=2|page=155|date=October 2001|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A79826075/LitRC?u=northwestern&sid=bookmark-LitRC&xid=a91f5f2a|via=Gale Literature Resource Center|access-date=2025-09-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last=Von Schlegell|first=Mark|title=Review: Snapshot: New Art from Los Angeles|magazine=Artext|number=75|date=November 2001}}</ref> |- | Miami || Museum of Contemporary Art || || {{cn|date=September 2025}} |- | New York City || Artists Space || ''Purloined'' || Ran September 6 - October 13 || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://artistsspace.org/exhibitions/purloined#documents|title=Purloined|publisher=Artists Space|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref> |- | Karlsruhe || ZKM Center for Art and Media || ''Circles 3: Silver Lake Crossings'' || Curated by Christoph Keller || {{cn|date=September 2025}} |- | New Plymouth || Govett-Brewster Art Gallery || ''Drive: Power, Progress, Desire'' || Curated by Gregory Burke || <ref>{{cite book|last=Intra|first=Giovanni|title=Too Autopoeitic to Drive|publisher=Govett Brewster Art Gallery|location=New Zealand|date=2000}}{{page needed|date=September 2025}}</ref> |- | New York City || Metro Pictures Gallery || || || {{cn|date=September 2025}} |- | 2002 || Richmond || Reynolds Gallery || ''Drive By: Nine Artists from Los Angeles'' || || {{cn|date=September 2025}} |- | rowspan="6" | 2003 || rowspan="2" | Los Angeles || Craft and Folk Art Museum || ''Fade (1990–2003)'' || Curated by Malik Gaines || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-feb-17-et-knight17-story.html|title=A chronicle of race, rage, ritual|last=Knight|first=Christopher|date=2004-02-17|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref> |- | China Art Objects Galleries || ''Works for Giovanni'' || || {{cn|date=September 2025}} |- | Glasgow || Transmission Gallery || ''More Boots = Many Routes'' || With Lee O’Connor and Ryan Doolan || {{cn|date=September 2025}} |- | Turin || Galeria Franco Noero || ''New Space! New Show!'' || || {{cn|date=September 2025}} |- | Guadalajara || OPA: Oficina Para Proyectos de Arte || ''Adios Pendejos'' || || {{cn|date=September 2025}} |- | London || Campoli Presti || ''Eduardo Sarabia and Eric Wesley'' || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newexhibitions.com/e/38251|title=Eduardo Sarabia Eric Wesley|date=2003|publisher=New Exhibitions|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref> |- | rowspan="3" | 2004 || New York City || Whitney Museum of American Art || ''Whitney Biennial'' || || <ref name=maureenpaley2009/><ref name=mocafocus/><ref name=soniacampagnola/> |- | Vienna || Museum für Angewandte Kunst || ''3 Fireplaces and 2 Bathtubs'' || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.makcenter.org/exhibitions/3-fireplaces-and-2-bathtubs|title=3 Fireplaces and 2 Bathtubs|publisher=MAK Center|date=2004|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref> |- | San Francisco || Contemporary Jewish Museum || ''100 Artists See God''|| Curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston, organized by ICA || <ref name=100Artists/> |- | rowspan="8" | 2005 || rowspan="2" | New York City || rowspan="2" | Bortolami Dayan || || Gallery opening event || <ref>{{cite web|last=Wang|first=Michael|title=Pop Shop|website=artforum.com|url=https://www.artforum.com/columns/michael-wang-on-bortolami-dayan-gallery-172439/|date=2005-09-26|access-date=2025-09-23}}</ref> |- | ''Closing Down: Thanks'' || || {{cn|date=September 2025}} |- | Los Angeles || Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions || ''A Walk to Remember'' || Organized by Jens Hoffmann || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://welcometolace.org/lace/a-walk-to-remember/|title=A Walk to Remember|publisher=Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions|date=2005|access-date=2025-09-23}}</ref> |- | London || Institute of Contemporary Arts || rowspan="3" | ''100 Artists See God''|| rowspan="3" | Curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston, organized by ICA || <ref name=100Artists>{{cite web|url=https://curatorsintl.org/exhibitions/9018-100-artists-see-god|title=100 Artists See God|publisher=Independent Curators International|access-date=2025-09-23}}</ref><ref name=maureenpaley2009/><ref name=soniacampagnola/> |- | Virginia Beach || Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art || <ref name=100Artists/> |- | Reading || Freedman Art Center || <ref name=100Artists/> |- | rowspan="2" | New York City || rowspan="2" | I-20 Gallery || ''Installations'' || || {{cn|date=September 2025}} |- | ''Having Differences'' || || {{cn|date=September 2025}} |- | rowspan="6" | 2006 || Minneapolis || Midway Contemporary Art || ''Axis of Praxis'' || Curated by Nate Lowman || <ref>{{cite press release|url=https://midwayart.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2006_Lowman_Press_Midway.pdf|title=Nate Lowman: Axis of Praxis|date=2006|publisher=Midway Contemporary Art|access-date=2025-09-23}}</ref><ref name=vitamin3d/> |- | Los Angeles || Black Dragon Society || ''Designomite'' || Curated by Parker Jones || <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/lapierre/lapierre5-25-07.asp|title=Artnet Design|last=LaPierre|first=Sheldon|access-date=2025-09-23}}</ref> |- | London || Institute of Contemporary Arts || ''Alien Nation'' || Curated by John Gill, Jens Hoffmann and Gilane Tawadros || <ref name=maureenpaley2009/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.ica.art/whats-on/alien-nation/index.html|title=Alien Nation|date=2006|publisher=Institute of Contemporary Arts|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref><ref name=vitamin3d/><ref name=soniacampagnola/> |- | Long Island City || P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center || ''The Gold Standard'' || || <ref name=maureenpaley2009/><ref name=goldstandard>{{cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/4869|title=The Gold Standard|date=2006|publisher=MoMA|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref><ref name=vitamin3d>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/vitamin3dnewpers0000unse/page/348/mode/2up?q=wesley|title=Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture|publisher=Phaidon|date=2009|last=Pedrosa|first=Adriano|pages=326, 348|via=Internet Archive|isbn=9780714849744}}</ref> |- | New York City || Bortolami Dayan || ''Survivor'' || Curated by David Rimanelli || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.frieze.com/article/survivor|title=Survivor|publisher=Frieze|last=Sonnenborn|first=Katie|date=2006|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref> |- | Nashville || Cheekwood Museum of Art || ''100 Artists See God''|| Curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston, organized by ICA || <ref name=100Artists/> |- | rowspan="6" | 2007 || Prague || Prague Biennale || || || <ref name=maureenpaley2009/><ref name=soniacampagnola/> |- | rowspan="2" | Los Angeles || Lizabeth Oliveria || ''Milieu'' || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-03-et-galleries3-story.html|title=Living friskily is the best revenge|last=Knight|first=Christopher|date=2007-08-03|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2025-09-23}}</ref> |- | Angles Gallery || || || {{cn|date=September 2025}} |- | Venice, CA || Balmoral Gallery || ''One Foot High and Rising'' || || {{cn|date=September 2025}} |- | Athens || Kalfayan Gallery || ''Darling, Take Fountain'' || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/50464/depicting-life-in-los-angeles/|title=Depicting life in Los Angeles|last=Koroxenidis|first=A.|date=2007-07-10|publisher=Ekathimerini.com|access-date=2025-09-23}}</ref><ref name=vitamin3d/> |- | New York City || Bortolami || ''Substance & Surface'' || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bortolamigallery.com/exhibitions/substance-and-surface|title=Substance & Surface|publisher=Bortolami Gallery|date=2007|access-date=2025-09-23}}</ref> |- | rowspan="6" | 2008 || Los Angeles || China Art Objects Gallery || ''The Light of the Virgo'' || || {{cn|date=September 2025}} |- | Pougues-les-Eaux || Centre d'Art du Parc Saint Léger || ''Los Angeles Confidential'' || || <ref name=maureenpaley2009/><ref name=vitamin3d/> |- | San Francisco || Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts || ''Amateurs'' || || <ref name=maureenpaley2009/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://wattis-archive.cca.edu/exhibitions/amateurs|title=Amateurs|publisher=Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts|date=2008|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref><ref name=vitamin3d/> |- | Benevento || ARCOS Museo d’Arte || ''ITALIA ITALIE ITALIEN ITALY WLOCHY'' || || {{cn|date=September 2025}} |- | Los Angeles || Kathryn Brennan Gallery || ''Globetrotters'' || Curated by Katie Brennan || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kathrynbrennan.net/exhibitions/globetrotters|title=Globetrotters|publisher=Kathryn Brennan Gallery|date=2008|access-date=2025-09-23}}</ref> |- | New York City || Parrish Art Museum || ''Sand- Meaning and Metaphor'' || || {{cn|date=September 2025}} |- | rowspan="2" | 2009 || rowspan="3" | Los Angeles || Hammer Museum || ''Second Nature: Dean Valentine Collection'' || || {{cn|date=September 2025}} |- | China Art Objects Gallery || ''1999'' || || {{cn|date=September 2025}} |- | rowspan="5" | 2010 || Museum of Contemporary Art || ''The Artist's Museum'' || || {{cn|date=September 2025}} |- | New York City || Bortolami Gallery || ''RE-DRESSING'' || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/new-york-re-dressing-at-bortolami-gallery/|title=New York – RE-DRESSING at Bortolami Gallery |date=2010-09-28|publisher=Mousse Magazine|access-date=2025-09-23}}</ref> |- | Los Angeles || China Art Objects Gallery || || The Inauguration of China Art Objects in Culver City, Los Angeles || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://artmap.com/chinaartobjects/exhibition/video-of-the-new-china-art-objects-in-culver-city-2010|title=Video of the new China Art Objects in Culver City |date=2010|publisher=artmap|access-date=2025-09-23}}</ref> |- | Mexico City || Fundación Colección Jumex || ''Les enfants terribles'' || || <ref name=jumex>{{cite web|url=https://www.fundacionjumex.org/en/exposiciones/58-les-enfants-terribles|title=LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES|publisher=Museo Jumex|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref> |- | Los Angeles || Cottage Home || ''Video Journeys'' || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/culture-monster-blog/story/2009-06-19/review-video-journeys-at-sister-gallery-at-cottage-home|title='Video Journeys' at Sister Gallery at Cottage Home|date=2009-06-19|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2025-09-23}}</ref> |- | rowspan="3" | 2011 || Amsterdam || Temporary Stedelijk Museum 3 || ''Making Histories – Changing Views of the Collection'' || || {{cn|date=September 2025}} |- | New York City || 483 Broadway, SoHo || ''Greater LA'' || || <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/01/arts/design/greater-la-california-artists-in-a-soho-loft-review.html|title=A Bit of Hollywood, Minus the Tinsel|work=New York Times|date=2011-05-31|last=Smith|first=Roberta|access-date=2025-09-23}}</ref> |- | Bordeaux || CAPC musée d'art contemporain || ''BigMinis: Fetishes of Crisis'' || || <ref name=bordeaux>{{Cite web|url=https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/robert-breer-and-bigminis-at-capc-bordeaux/|title=Robert Breer and BigMinis at CAPC – Bordeaux |date=2010-11-30|publisher=Mousse Magazine|access-date=2025-09-23}}</ref> |- | rowspan="2" | 2014 || rowspan="2" | Los Angeles || Hammer Museum || ''A Public Fiction'' || Part of ''Made in L. A. 2014'' || <ref name=madeinLA2014>{{cite web|url=https://hammer.ucla.edu/made-in-la-2014/public-fiction|title=Public Fiction|date=2014|publisher=Hammer Museum|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref><ref name=emergentmagazine/> |- | Paradise Garage || ''LIQUOR STORE'' || || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sfaq.us/2014/03/sfaq-pick-liquor-store-group-exhibition-at-paradise-garage-los-angeles/|title=SFAQ pick: "LIQUOR STORE" group exhibition at Paradise Garage, Los Angeles|date=2014-03-10|publisher=SFAQ|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref> |- | 2015 || Chicago || Museum of Contemporary Art || ''Out of Office'' || Organized by Grace Deveney || <ref>{{cite web|url=https://mcachicago.org/exhibitions/2015/out-of-office|title=Out of Office|publisher=Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago|date=2015|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref> |- | 2016 || Cahokia || Abandoned Taco Bell at 1296 Camp Jackson Road || ''The Bell'' || || <ref name=thebell>{{cite news|title=Abandoned restaurant now serves fine art|last=Hodges|first=Jaye|newspaper=The Belleville News-Democrat|location=Belleville, Illinois, US|date=2016-07-21|page=B1|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-belleville-news-democrat/181621186/|via=newspapers.com|access-date=2025-09-23}}</ref><ref name=chicagotribune/> |- | rowspan="2" | 2019 || Long Island City || SculptureCenter || ''Searching the Sky for Rain'' || Curated by Sohrab Mohebbi || <ref name=emergentmagazine/> |- | Los Angeles || Hammer Museum || ''Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection'' || || <ref name=emergentmagazine/> |- | 2021 || rowspan="3" | New York City || Bortolami Gallery || ''Springweather and people'' || || <ref name=emergentmagazine>{{cite web|url=https://www.emergentmag.com/exhibitions/springweather-and-people-at-bortolami|title=Springweather and people at Bortolami|publisher=Emergent Magazine|date=2021|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref> |- | 2022 || Whitney Museum of American Art || ''Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet As It's Kept'' || || <ref name=quiet2022>{{cite web|url=https://whitney.org/exhibitions/2022-biennial/art|title=Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet As It's Kept|publisher=Whitney Museum of American Art|date=2022|access-date=2025-09-03}}</ref> |- | 2023 || Bortolami || ''SWIZZLE TWIDDLE FIDDLE STICKS'' || Ran 8 Sep - 4 Nov || <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bortolamigallery.com/exhibitions/swizzle-twiddle-fiddle-sticks|title=SWIZZLE TWIDDLE FIDDLE STICKS|date=2023|publisher=Bortolami Gallery|access-date=2025-09-23}}</ref> |}
==Further reading== <!--please work these as sources into the text if you are able to find a link!--> * {{cite magazine|last=Gaines|first=Malik|title=Eric Wesley to the Bone|magazine=Artext|number=75|date=November 2001}} * {{cite magazine|last=Kim|first=Christine Y.|title=Color Blind|magazine=V Magazine|issue=22|date=April 2003}}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.bortolamigallery.com/past/eric-wesley/ Eric Wesley at Bortolami Gallery]
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