Nayland Blake
Mess for Success: examples from my confusing career
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Nayland Blake is an artist, writer, educator and curator. Born in New York City in 1960, they attended Bard College and then California Institute of the Arts. After receiving their MFA, they moved to San Francisco in 1984. They have had one-person exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; University Art Museum, Berkeley; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in SanFrancisco, and the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College. Their retrospective No Wrong Holes – 30 years of Nayland Blake opened in 2019 at the ICALA and closed in 2021 at the MIT List Center. They are the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. They are currently the co-director of the studio art program at Bard College.
