Rose Easton

Parker Ito

The work of the Los Angeles-based artist Parker Ito is perhaps best defined as a whole, paradoxically, by its very slippery mutability. His practice, which spans painting, sculpture, video, installation, printmaking, drawing, websites, NFTs and books, is as much about the lines that exist between disparate media and forms—in effect, the network itself—as it is about discrete pieces. Rooted in an early art-driven internet community, its elasticity reflects that of the web, and Ito’s website often serves as its own ever-evolving work-cum-exhibition-space: a mirror for the themes and images contained within the rest of his work. Rather than centering on specific subjects, Ito’s art is occupied with things, embodying ideas rather than illustrating them; he is fascinated by the effects that the internet exerts on physical objects, and by the notion of artworks or ideas whose twisty, interconnected intricacy makes them impossible to take in from a single angle. Throughout his practice, he explores the unstable flow of meaning, focusing specifically on sites where interior and exterior worlds absorb, digest, and reformat each other.

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b. 1986, Ventura, California
Lives and works in Los Angeles

Education

2010

BFA, California College of the Arts

Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions

2025

A Lil’ Taste of A Lil’ Taste of Cheeto in the Night, Wesleyan Center for the Arts, Connecticut

2024

The Pilgrim’s Sticky Toffee Pudding Gesamtkunstwerk in the Year of the Dragon, À La Mode, Rose Easton, London

I.B.S., Scatalogical Rites of All Nations, London

medievl Times IV, The Community/Dover Street Market/NADA Salon, Paris

12 Dancing Princesses (with Juliana Halpert), Climate Control, San Francisco

ParkerIto.net, Zien.io, online

White Sands ATS-3, The Pole Gallery, Paris

Sprite X Parker (with Henry Sprite), The Handbag Factory, London

2023

Poets, Gamblers, Fools, (with Jon Rafman), Lubov, New York

Au Jus (with Juliana Halpert), Bel Ami, Los Angeles

Medievl Times 3, Xela Art Institute, Long Beach

Carrot Cake, Imperial, Los Angeles

2022

medievl Times [2], YAYA / viable.istanbul, Istanbul

Kimono Wednesdays with Greg Shimada, Society of Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles

Romeo Must Die, Savage Garden, Melbourne

2021

medievl Times, DEEP, Colonno

2020

PPP, Mother’s Tank Station, London

Longevity Buns, Château Shatto, Los Angeles

2019

Parker Ito, Born 1986, Lives And Works In Los Angeles, Galeria Mascota, Mexico City

Citronbiskvier, CFHILL, Stockholm

Condo London, Sadie Coles HQ, London

2018

PII, Primary, Nottingham

P, Team Gallery, New York

p, Team Bungalow, Los Angeles

2017

Art Basel Miami Beach, Team Gallery, Miami

Art021, (with Helen Johnson), Château Shatto, Shanghai

#17, Beijing Art Now Gallery, Beijing

2016

Genes, (with Ann Hirsch), Holiday Forever, Jackson

Eastern District Savings Bank, (with Body by Body), La Paix, Paris

Capitol Records Shit Toots x8, Three Star Books, Paris

live from the capitol records b.– i am not a human i am a disgusting piece of shit, Château Shatto, Los Angeles

2015

Epilogue: PBBVx4.521341850524040671430546 2110190527 PPPPPPPPPPPPPP, Château Shatto, Los Angeles

Part 3: A Lil’ Taste of Cheeto in the Night, Château Shatto (off-site), Los Angeles

2014

I Can’t Fuck You Tonight I’m Reading Proust, The Ardmore Hollywood, Los Angeles

Prelude: Cheeto Returns (Rainbow Rose Still Lifes at Kaldi Coffee and Tea), Kaldi Coffee and Tea, Los Angeles

Part 1: Parker Cheeto’s Infinite Haunted Hobo Playlist (A Dream to Some, A Nightmare to Others), Smart Objects, Los Angeles

Part 2: Maid in Heaven / En Plein Air in Cheeto Hell (My Beautiful Dark and Twisted Cheeto Problem), White Cube, London

2013

FIAC, with New Galerie, Paris

Nothing Was the Same (John Boehner Rameses III), Luce Gallery, Turin

Air to Surface, (with Helen Johnson), Prism, Los Angeles

Parker Cheeto: The Net Artist (America Online Made me Hardcore), IMO Gallery, Copenhagen

See Also: Lai Fun, List of Pasta, Soba, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles

2012

The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stadium, New York

Vice Versa, Tomorrow Gallery, Toronto

Anime Betty Page Fucked by Steampunk Horse Warrior (with Body by Body), Headquarters, Zurich

2011

Creative Suite (with Paint FX), Antena Pilsen, Chicago

2010

RGB Forever, Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, San Francisco

Barely Furtive Pleasures, Nir Altman, Munich

Paint FX Live (with Paint FX), The Future Gallery, Berlin

Group Exhibitions

2024

The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970 –2020 (with Paint FX), Museum Contemporary Art, Chicago

Out of Silence, Yuz Museum, Shanghai

Winter in America, Pop Gun, New York City

PLANT/ED: DRAWING FROM OBSERVATION, Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts

At Home in the Neon, 2200 Brier, Los Angeles

Sprezzatura, As It Stands, Los Angeles

2023

Blank. Raw. Illegible... Artists’ Books as Statements (1960-2022), Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Duren

Studio of the South, Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, Arles

White Sands ATS-3, Baleno International, Rome

Smart Pawn, Smart Pawn, Los Angeles

2022

In Bloom, MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique, Paris

Machines of Desire, Simon Lee, Hong Kong

Straight Ahead and Pose to Pose, Japanese American Cultural Center, Los Angeles

2021

Dürer and After, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown

Felix Art Fair, Los Angeles, Château Shatto

2019

Frieze, Los Angeles, Château Shatto

2018

... of ..., at...h, at..., in..., Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing

LA Dreams, CFHILL, Stockholm

2017

On Plane Air, Château Shatto at Air de Paris, Paris

Botánica, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco

Welcome Too Late, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen

2016

Mould Map 6 - Terraformers, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham

Bodacious, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver

Redefine: Multiple Perspectives and Possibilities in Network Era, Times Museum, Guangzhou

2015

CO-WORKERS Network as Artist, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Yarat Contemporary Art Space, Baku

EVERYTHINGS: Hayden Dunham, Parker Ito, Timur Si-Qin, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York

2014

Beware Wet Paint, ICA London, London

2013

Time Machine, M-Arco, Marseille

Trending, Untitled, New York

Lips Painted Red, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim Space Whole Karaoke, Middlemarch, Brussels

TECTONIC, The Moving Museum, Dubai

2012

Mythology Online, Polytechnical Museum, Moscow

[Internet Art Future] – Reality of Post Internet Era, NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo

Ghost in the Puka Shell, CourtneyBlades, Chicago

Astral Projection Abduction Fantasy, Monster Truck Gallery, Dublin

BYOB MOCA LA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

2011

*new jpegs*, Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmo, Sweden

Random Rotations, The Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley

Rat Piss Virus Give It To Me, Yautepec Gallery, Mexico City

Award, Grants & Residencies

2021

Studio of the South, LUMA Arles, Arles

Malevich Como residency, Cernobbio, Italy

2019

MGM Art and Culture Residency, Las Vegas

2012

Fountainhead Residency, Miami

2011

People’s Gallery Summer Residency, San Francisco

2010

Yozo Hamaguchi Printmaking Award, California College of the Arts

2009

All College Honors, California College of the Arts

2007

Jerrold B. Whitney Memorial Scholarship, California College of the Arts

Trustees’ Scholarship, California College of the Arts

Collections

Aishti Foundation, Beirut
Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Deji Museum, Nanjing
Domus Collection, New York
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
M+ Museum, Hong Kong
MGM, Las Vegas
New Century Art Foundation, Shanghai
PCP Collection, Taipei
Princeton University, New Jersey
Rachofsky Collection, Dallas
Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing
The Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
United Talent Agency, Los Angeles
Wesleyan University, Connecticut
X Museum, Beijing
YUZ Museum, Shanghai

Internal Exhibitions

Parker Ito

‘The Pilgrim’s Sticky Toffee Pudding Gesamtkunstwerk in the Year of the Dragon, À La Mode’

2 Nov – 14 Dec 2024

Fairs

External Exhibitions

‘Poets, Gamblers, Fools’

Lubov, New York

4 Nov – 31 Dec 2023

‘PPP’

Mother's Tankstation, London

30 Sep – 12 Dec 2020

‘Longevity Buns’

Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles

8 Feb – 4 Apr 2020

‘Parker Ito, born 1986, lives and works in Los Angeles’

Galería Mascota, Mexico

23 Nov 2019 – 21 Jan 2020

‘A Lil’ Taste of Cheeto in the Night’

Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles

24 Jan – 9 May 2015

Parker Ito, The Pilgrim’s Sticky Toffee Pudding Gesamtkunstwerk, in the Year of the Snake, À La Mode, 2025, ink, acrylic, modeling paste, gac 100, water soluble pastel, ink aid, and varnish on canvas, 121.9 x 182.9 cm

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Parker Ito, The Pilgrim’s Sticky Toffee Pudding Gesamtkunstwerk, in the Year of the Snake, À La Mode, 2025 (detail)

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Parker Ito, The Pilgrim’s Sticky Toffee Pudding Gesamtkunstwerk, in the Year of the Snake, À La Mode, 2025 (detail)

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