Martine Syms

**Martine Syms** (bɛ dɔɣi o la yuuni 1988) ka o nyɛ nuuni tuunbaŋda ŋun ʒi Los Angeles, ka sabiri lahabaya, shiniinima, ka lahi nyɛ deen-dɛmda. O tumanima pam tooi dalimla paɣaba ni gbansabila. Syms tooi deeri niriba haŋkali o tuma ni. Yuuni 2007, o daa yina ni yɛltɔɣa niɣinli "**Conceptual Entrepreneur**" ni o zaŋli buɣisi nuuni tuunbaŋsim.

Martine Syms nira ŋun zaani tiri o n-nyɛ Sadie Coles HQ mini Sprüth Magers.

## Maŋmaŋa biɛhigu
Syms daa nyɛla ŋun ŋmeri bolli ka ŋmeritiri bol'ŋmeri yili yuli booni Sativa Football Club, ka daa nyɛ ŋun ŋmeri sunsuuni.

## Collections, Lectures and Exhibitions

### Public Collections

* Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
* Carré d'Art, Musée d'art contemporain, Nîmes, France
* Guggenheim Museums and Foundation, New York NY, USA
* Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA, USA
* JFABC Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, Chicago IL, USA
* Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, Chicago IL, USA
* KADIST, Paris and San Francisco CA, USA
* LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA, USA
* Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, England
* MCA Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
* MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, USA
* MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA
* Museum of Modern Art Library, New York  NY, USA
* Perez Art Museum, Miami FL, USA
* San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio TX, USA
* Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal
* Studio Museum in Harlem, New York NY, USA
* Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN, USA
* Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA

### Lectures and Conferences

* William Greaves: Psychodrama, Interruption, and Circulation, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University, Princeton NJ, co-organized with Fia Backström, Feb 21, 2020
* with Colin Self, Sadie Coles HQ, London, Oct 1, 2018
* *March Meeting 2018: Active Forms*, Sharjah Art Foundation, Shuwaihen, Sharjah, UAE, Mar 17-19, 2018
* *Experience It: Martine Syms*, A conversation with Martine Syms, Sharon Hayes and Jon Rafman, The Lab with California College of the Arts, San Francisco CA, USA, February 26, 2018
* *Lounge* Talk, *Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions*, Tokyo Photographic Museum, Tokyo, Japan, February 9, 2018
* Martine Syms and Rizvana Bradley in conversation, Raven Row, London, England, April 23, 2017
* *Friday Flights at the Getty*, Getty Center, Los Angeles CA, USA, August 26, 2016
* *Martine Syms*, Todd Madigan Gallery & Department of Art at California State University, Bakersfield CA, USA, February 16, 2016
* *Tip of Her Tongue: Martine Syms 'Misdirected Kiss*', The Oculus Hall at The Broad, Los Angeles CA, USA, January 21, 2016
* A Pilot For A Show About Nowhere, PNCA Mediatheque, Portland OR, USA, May 12, 2015
* *Seven on Seven*, 7th Edition: Empathy & Disgust, Rhizome, New York NY, USA, May 2, 2015
* *Lessons of the Tradition*, California State University at Long Beach, Long Beach CA, USA, 2015
* *Quality Television*, Light Industry, New York NY, USA April 28, 2015
* *Lessons of the Tradition*, Pomona College, Claremont CA, USA, 2015
* *Nite Life*, O, Miami Poetry Festival, Miami FL, USA, 2015
* *In the Archives, Contemporary Artists Books*, Los Angeles CA, USA, 2015
* *Lessons of the Tradition*, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA, USA, 2014
* *Black Radical Imagination II*, REDCAT, Los Angeles CA, USA, November 14, 2014
* *Black Vernacular: Lessons of the Tradition*, London College of Communication, London, England, October 17, 2014
* *Do You Follow? Art in Circulation*, Rhizome/ICA Institute of Contemporary Art London, London, England, Oct 15-17, 2014
* *Black Vernacular: Lessons of the Tradition*, Oberlin College & Observatory, Oberlin OH, USA, April 29, 2014
* *Most Days*, Moogfest Biennial, Asheville NC, USA, April 26, 2014
* *Black Vernacular*, Insights 2014 Design Lecture Series, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN, USA, March 18, 2014
* *Direct Design*, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis MN, USA, 2014
* *Most Days*, Arts Incubator, University of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA, 2014
* *Direct Design*, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles CA, USA, 2014
* *Becoming Artists: Critique, Originality & Identity - Managing Biography: Negotiating Audience*, Yale University, New Haven CT, USA, February 8, 2014
* *New Paradigms in Digital Media 'Mainstreaming' a DIY Culture*, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD, USA, April 13, 2013
* *Conceptual Entrepreneurism*, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD, USA, 2013
* *Black Vernacular: Reading New Media*, SXSW, Austin TX, USA, 2013
* *Science Fiction & What It Feels Like To (Already) Live In the Future*, Actual Size, Los Angeles CA, January 11, 2013
* *Real Talk*, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA, USA, November 5, 2012
* *Reading Politics*, Summer Forum, Chicago IL, USA, 2012
* *The Didactic Possibilities of Film Titles*, Houston Museum of African American Art, Houston TX, USA, 2011
* *Artist/Authors*, The Gregory School, Houston TX, USA, 2011
* *Implications & Distinctions*, Project Row Houses, Houston TX, USA, 2011
* *Future Plan and Program* - Lecture by Steffani Jemison and Martine Syms, Prairie View A & M University, Prairie View TX, USA, April 19, 2011

### Solo exhibitions
* Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena, CA), *Martine Syms, The Queen's English,* 2014
* Locust Projects (Miami), *Art on the Move: Nite Life,* 2015**
* White Flag Projects  (Saint Louis, Missouri), *Martine Syms,* 2015
*Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA), *Notes on Gesture,* 2015
* Bridget Donahue (New York), *Martine Syms: Vertical Elevated Oblique,* 2015
*Audain Gallery (Vancouver, Canada), *Borrowed Lady*, 2016
* Human Resources (Los Angeles), *Martine Syms: Black Box,* 2016
* Karma International (Beverly Hills, California), *Martine Syms: com port ment,* 2016
* Institute of Contemporary Art (London, England), *Martine Syms: Fact & Trouble*, 2016
* Museum of Modern Art (New York), *Projects 106: Martine Syms,* 2017
*Camden Arts Centre (London, England), *VNXXCAS: Martine Syms,* 2017
*CONDO: Bridget Donahue hosted by Sadie Coles HQ (London, England), *The Easy Demands,* 2017
* Bridget Donahue (New York), *Martine Syms: Big Surprise,* 2018
*Graham Foundation (Chicago IL), *Incense Sweaters & Ice*, 2018
*Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago IL), *SHE MAD: Laughing Gas,* 2018
*Sadie Coles HQ (London, England), *Grand Calme,* 2018
*Serralves Foundation (Porto, Portugal), *Contemporary Projects: Martine Syms,* 2018
*Secession (Vienna, Austria), *Boon,* 2019
*Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond VA), *Shame Space*, 2019
*Sadie Coles HQ off-site: 24 Cork Street (London, England), *Ugly Plymouths*, 2020
*SLAM | Saint Louis Art Museum (St. Louis MO), *New Media Series*, 2020
*5239 Melrose Avenue (Los Angeles CA), New York, and Sadie Coles HQ (London, England), *Ugly Plymouths,* presented by Bridget Donahue, 2020
*Bergen Kunsthall (Bergen, Norway), 2021

### Group exhibitions
* The Green Gallery (Milwaukee), *YOU CAN DEPEND ON THE SUNSHINE: Paul Cowan, Marco Kane, Martine Syms*, 2007
*New Museum (New York), *Museum as Hub: Alpha's Bet Is Not Over Yet*, 2011
* MCA Chicago, *We Are Here: Art & Design Out of Context,* 2011
*The Green Gallery (Milwaukee), *Three Card Monte*, 2011 
*Public Fiction (Los Angeles), *Act II: The Props*, 2012
* Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia), *First Among Equals,* 2012 
*Badlands Unlimited, Apple iTunes, *How to Download a Boyfriend*, 2012
*Acid Rain TV (New York), *The Didactic Possibilities of Film Titles*, 2012
*Young Art (Los Angeles), *Mise-En-Scéne*, 2012
*Transfer Gallery (New York), *gURLs*, 2013
*Aran Cravey (Los Angeles), *Rhetoric*, 2014
*New Museum (New York), *First Look: Martine Syms: Reading Trayvon Martin*, 2014
*356 Mission (Los Angeles), *Another Cats Show*, 2014
*REDCAT (Los Angeles), *Small New Films*, 2014
*Cooper Union (New York), *Black Radical Imagination*, 2014
* Studio Museum (Harlem, New York), *Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art*, 2014–2015
*Project Row Houses (Houston, Texas), *How We Work*, 2015
*Todd Madigan Gallery (California State University), *Open House*, 2015
*ACTRE TV acretv.org, *Tele-novela,* 2015
*Chan Gallery, Pomona College (Claremont), *Candice Lin/Martine Syms*, 2015
*ICA Institute of Contemporary Art London (London, England), *Artists' Film Club: Avant-Noir, Volume 2*, 2015
*Bureau (New York), *The Daily Show*, 2015
*Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), *Intangibles*, 2015
* New Museum (New York), *2015 Triennial: Surround Audience*, 2015
*The Coming Community, Artspace NZ (Auckland, New Zealand), *Potentially Yours*, 2016
*Astrup Fearnley Museet (Oslo, Norway), *Los Angeles - A Fiction*, 2016
*Galerie Conradi (Hamburg, Germany), *Umwelt Inversion*, 2016
*Oakville Galleries (Oakville, Canada), *Down To Write You This Poem Sat*, 2016
*Occidental Temporary (Paris, France), *Cool Memories*, 2016
*International Center of Photography (New York), *Public, Private, Secret*, 2016
* Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), *Made in L.A. 2016: a, the, though, only*
*Atlanta Contemporary (Atlanta), *It Can Howl*, 2016
*HOME (Manchester, England), *Imitation of Life: Melodrama and Race in the 21st Century*, 2016
*Whitechapel Gallery (London, England), *Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966)*, 2016
*Index Stockholm- The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation (Stockholm, Sweden), *Autobiography*, 2016
*Franklin Street Works (Stamford), *Cut-Up: Contemporary Collage and Cut-Up Histories through a Feminist Lens*, 2016
*K11 Art Foundation pop-up space (Hong Kong), *.COM/.CN*, presented by K11 Art Foundation and Klaus Biesenbach and Peter Eleey, 2017
*Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (Lisbon, Portugal), *Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966)*, 2017
*ICA Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia (Philadelphia), *Speech/Acts*, 2017
*Artspace (Sydney, Australia), *The Public Body*, 2017
*The Mistake Room (Los Angeles), *Analog Currency*, 2017
*Chateau Shatto (Los Angeles), *At This Stage*, 2017
*Palazzo Contarini Polignac (Venice, Italy), *Future Generation Art Prize @ Venice 2017*, organised by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, 2017
*The Kitchen (New York), *That I am reading backwards and into for a purpose, to go on:*, 2017
*Trinity Square Video (Toronto, Canada), *What does one do with such a clairvoyant image?*, 2017
*Raven Row (London, England), *56 Artillery Lane*, 2017
*Galerie PCP (Paris, France), *Our Words Return in Patterns (Part 1*), 2017
*Whitney Museum (New York), *Whitney Biennal*, as part of the John Riepenhoff installation, 2017
*Musée d'art Contemporain de Lyon (Lyon, France), *Los Angeles - A Fiction*, 2017
*Pinchuk Art Centre (Kyiv, Ukraine), *Exhibition of 21 Artists Shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize 2017*, 2017
*Public Art Fund (New York), *Commercial Break*, 2017
*Dazibao (Montreal, Canada), *I Am the Organizer of My Own Archive*, 2017
*Team Gallery (New York), *The Love Object* *(organized by Tom Brewer)*, 2017
*University of Michigan Museum of Art (Ann Arbour MI), *Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 To Today*, 2018
*Madre museo d'arte contemporanea Donnaregina (Naples, Italy), *Per_forming a collection. The Show Must Go_ON*, 2018
*FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial For Contemporary Art, Toby Devan Lewis Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, *An Evening of Queen White*, 2018
*Gwangju (South Korea), *The 12th Gwangju Biennale Exhibition: Imagined Borders*, 2018
*Grunwald Gallery, School of Art, Architecture + Design (Bloomington IN), *Out of Easy Reach*, 2018
*Kunstverein (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), *Succession Sounds*, 2018
*Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), *Eckhaus Latta: Possessed*, 2018
*Allen Memorial Art Museum (Oberlin OH), *Radically Ordinary: Scenes form Black Life in America Since 1968*, 2018
*Art Basel (Basel, Switzerland), *Unlimited*, 2018
*The Gallery, Michael's (Santa Monica CA), 2018
*Gallery 400 and DePaul Art Museum (Chicago IL), *Out of Easy Reach*, 2018
*Kadist Foundation (Paris, France), *This is Utopia, to Some*, 2018
**A Lone*, installed adjacent to Capitol Hill Link rail station within city-wide project, Seattle WA, 2018
*Gordon Robichaux (New York), *A Page from My Intimate Journal (Part 1)*, 2018
*Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan), Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions 2018, *Mapping the Invisible*, 2018
*ICA Institute of Contemporary Art Boston (Boston MA), *Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today*, 2018
*The Shed (New York), *Manual Override*, 2019
*Yuz Museum (Shanghai, China), tongewölbe T25 (Ingolstadt, Germany), *In Production: Art and the Studio System*, 2019
*Stony Island Arts Bank (Chicago IL), *In the Absence of Light: Gesture, Humor and Resistance in The Black Aesthetic: Selections from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection*, 2019
*Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco CA), *The Body Electric*, 2019
*Luma Westbau, (Zürich Switzerland), *It's Urgent! – Part II*, 2019
*Gladstone Gallery (New York), *Dry Land*, 2019
*Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), *Celebration of Our Enemies: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection*, 2019
*Los Angeles, *The Foundation of the Museum: MOCA's Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art*, 2019
*R & Company (New York), *Chairs Beyond Right & Wrong*, 2019
*Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), *Whitney Biennial 2019*, 2019
*Schinkel Pavillon (Berlin, Germany), *Straying from the Line*, 2019
*FuturDome (Milan, Italy), *Hypertimes*, 2019
*Lismore Castle Arts (Waterford, Ireland), *Palimpsest*, 2019
*Walker Art Centre (Minneapolis MN), *The Body Electric*, 2019
*ICA Institute of Contemporary Art at University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia PA), *Colored People Time: Mundane Futures*, 2019
*MDC MOAD Miami Dade College Museum of Art and Design (Miami FL), *The Body Electric*, 2020
*The Luminary online (St. Louis MO), *Self Maintenance Resource Center 2020*, 2020
*TOWER MMK, MMK Frankfurt, (Frankfurt am Main Germany), *Sammlung*, 2020
*Gucci x Daelim Museum (Seoul, South Korea), *No Space, Just a Place. Eterotopia*, 2020
*Auckland Art Gallery (Auckland, New Zealand), *Honestly Speaking: The Word, the Body and the Internet*, 2020
*de Young Museum (San Francisco CA), *Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI*, 2020
*Princeton University (Princeton NJ), *William Greaves, Sondra Perry, Martine Syms,* organized by Martine Syms, 2020
*MIT List Visual Arts Center (Cambridge MA), *Colored People Time: Mundane Futures, Quotidian Pasts, Banal Presents*, 2020
*Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, UC University California Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz CA), *We Are Not Aliens: Arthur Jafa, Martine Syms, and Afro-Futurism 2.0*, as part of *Beyond the End of the World: Approaches in Contemporary Art Seminar*, 2020

## Kundivihira

## Further reading
* Hunt, Amanda. "Martine Syms." a*perture: The Magazine of Photography and Ideas.* Ed. Michael Famighetti. New York: Aperture Foundation, 2016. 132–137.
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* St. Félix, Doreen. "How to Be a Successful Black Woman." *The New Yorker*, July 8, 2018. Retrieved August 11, 2020.

## External links
*Official website
*Martine Syms | HOW TO SEE Projects 106 with Martine Syms, The Museum of Modern Art
*Flashartonline.com 
*Archive.kchungradio.org
*Vimeo.com
*Dominica Publishing