Tristan Unrau
Tristan Unrau (b. 1989) holds an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Unrau was a 2013 resident at the Banff Centre, and in 2015 & 2017 was a finalist for the Royal Bank of Canada Painting Competition. He has held recent solo & two-person exhibitions at 56 Henry in New York City, Sebastian Gladstone & Phil Gallery in Los Angeles, as well as Towards in Toronto. Group exhibitions that have shown Unrau’s work have taken place at Kasmin Gallery in New York City; Clint Roenisch Gallery in Toronto, Canada; FLAG Art Foundation in New York City, among others. In 2016 Unrau participated in the survey group exhibition Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures at the Vancouver Art Gallery. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
Exhibitions
Writing & Press
Record of Creative Work (2017)
Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (2020)
Juxtapoz Magazine (2021)
Frieze (2022)
The Problem With Pictures, 2013, oil on canvas, 213.3 x 213.3cm
A new day, 2018, oil on canvas, 121.2 x 90.8cm
Amsterdam Tramway Offices, 2017, oil on canvas, 193 x 157.5cm
Deluge, 2018, oil on canvas, 232.4 x 200cm
Storm (after Henri Rousseau), 2018, charcoal on paper, 66.7 x 54cm
Universal-motor-gerät, 2015, oil on canvas, 127 x 101.6cm
Giverny, 2015, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 45.7cm
Doggy Dog Afternoon, 2018, oil on canvas, 183 x 211cm
Palms, 2015, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 45.7cm
Vessel, 2016, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 45.7cm
Yesterday's Girl 2, 2016, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 40.6cm
Young Chestnut Leaves, 2015, oil on canvas, 198.1 x 177.8cm
Beckmann at Cannes, 2015, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 45.7cm
The earth not a globe, 2016, oil on canvas, 213.4 x 182.9cm
Landscape Painting, 2015, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 40.6cm
Arrangement, 2016, oil on canvas, 104.1 x 83cm
Birdform 1, 2015, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 45.7cm
Banana Leaves, 2016, oil on canvas, 121.9 x 97.8cm
Dew, 2017, oil on canvas, 116.8 x 87.6cm
Garden, After Burle Marx, 2017, oil on canvas, 203.2 x 207cm
Ideal Mammoth, 2015, oil on canvas, 121.9 x 104.1cm
Anti Philifor, 2017, oil on canvas, 229.8 x 172.7cm
Cockodrill, 2017, oil on canvas, 121.9 x 243.8cm
installation view Unit 17 2017
installation view Unit 17 2017
installation view Unit 17 2017
installation view Unit 17 2017
Construction 8, 2017, oil and watercolour on cardboard, 47 x 43.2 x 11.4 cm
Construction 8, 2017
Construction 8, 2017 (detail)
Construction 9, 2017, oil and collage on cardboard, 44.4 x 44.4 x 30.5cm
Construction 9, 2017
Construction 9, 2017 (detail)
Construction 7, 2017, oil on cardboard, 36.8 x 50.8 x 55.9cm
Construction 7, 2017 (detail)
Construction 10, 2018, oil, charcoal, inkjet print on cardboard, 35.5 x 35.5 x 35.5 cm
Construction 10, 2018
Construction 11, 2018, oil, charcoal, inkjet print on cardboard, 48.5 x 28 x 31.75 cm
A new day, installation view, Phil Gallery (Los Angeles)
A new day, installation view, Phil Gallery (Los Angeles)
A new day, installation view, Phil Gallery (Los Angeles)