Caleb Lyons is an artist living in Los Angeles, California
EDUCATION
2004 BFA with emphasis in Art Education, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Ox-Bow Summer School of Art, Saugatuck, MI
EXHIBITIONS
2020 Painting About Nothing, 3043 Berkeley, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Man Sweeping a Desert Island, Adult Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Elephant, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Foreign Interior, DIG, Chicago, IL
Abstraction in the Twenty-First Century, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2008 You Just Can’t Win, i-cabin, London, UK
Slow Dance, Threewalls, Chicago, IL
2007 Hot Mess, The Green Lantern, Chicago, IL
2006 Paintings, JMOCA, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Three’s Company, Dan Graham, Los Angeles, CA
Other Places Art Fair, San Pedro, CA
2017 Squig Alert, Cordesa Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
We Need To Talk…, Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
2016 Beach Bodies, Mount San Jacinto College Gallery, San Jacinto, CA
Rob Pruitt's Flea Market, Los Angeles, CA
ROOTS, Roots and Culture, Chicago, IL
Exquisite Corpse, Planthouse, New York, NY
2015 Shoot The Lobster at the Deauville, Miami Beach, FL
Tribal Tats, Arturo Bandini, Los Angeles, CA
The Outside Museum, Portland Museum of Modern Art, Pioneertown, CA
2014 Another Cats Show, 356 Mission Road, Los Angeles, CA
Louie, Louie, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Fridge, Control Room, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Permanent Collection, Regina Rex at NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NY
Lifestyle Appropriate, New Capital at the Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL
2010 Haunted JMOCA, JMOCA, Los Angeles, CA
Adult Contemporary - Dirty Black Summer, Kavi Gupta, Berlin, Germany
The Mirror Act, Sihlhallenstrasse Neunzehn, Zürich, Switzerland
2009 Danger Zoners, President’s Gallery, Harold Washington College, Chicago, IL
Artists Run Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Gone Obviously Into Cheap Romancing, Spudnik Press, Chicago, IL
2008 Bellwether, Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, Canada
Inevitable Continuum, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
Three Hundred Six, Hoffman Lachance Contemporary, St. Louis, MO
Bellwether, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
Milwaukee International Art Fair, Chicago, IL
NEXT Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art, Chicago, IL
Dropped Frames, Elk Gallery, New York, NY
2007 End Times, Lasso Gallery at the Butcher Shop, Chicago, IL
Raise High the Roof Beam, Rainbo Club, Chicago, IL
Location, Location, Location, UICA, Grand Rapids, MI
Clothesline, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
What Is It?, Wysing Arts, Cambridge, UK
Spring Break Chicago 2007, Roots & Culture, Chicago, IL
2006 Neo Dolce, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA
Vomitorium with Agitprop, 40000, Chicago, IL
Milwaukee International Art Fair, Chicago, IL
Satellites, Tanya Bonakdar, New York, NY
Direct Currency Exchange, A.T.C., Chicago, IL
To London, from Chicago, with Love, i-cabin, London, UK
Trading Post, Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA
Temporary Allegiance, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
Peace Tower, Whitney Museum, NY, NY
High School Style, VONZWECK, Chicago, IL
All Eyez On Me, Booster and Seven, Chicago, IL
2005 Transcengressdension, 40000, Chicago, IL
Collective Instillation, Bemis Underground, Omaha, NE
Young Artists Fair, Network of Visual Art, Chicago, IL
Spring Break Chicago 2005, Butcher Shop, Chicago, IL
2004 Talent, A.T.C., Chicago, IL
Stray Show, General Store, Chicago, IL
Drunk vs. Stoned, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY
Bachelor of Fine Arts Thesis Show, Gallery 2, Chicago, IL
Contemporary Feelings, A.T.C., Chicago, IL
Chicago Student Exhibit, Mexican Cultural & Educational Institute, Chicago, IL
2003 The Dirty Future, Gallery 2, Chicago IL
Skin Tight, Buddy Gallery, Chicago, IL
Recreation Ground, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Stray Show, Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago, IL
Stray Show, Milhaus Collective, Chicago, IL
CURATORIAL PROJECT SPACES
2018- Stone Chisel, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Adult Contemporary , Los Angeles, CA
2009-10 Lake Opeka, Des Plaines, IL
2007-10 Old Gold, Chicago, IL
2004-07 artLedge, Chicago, IL
PERFORMANCES
2016 Exhaust Fruit Performance with JPW3, LAND, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Baby Wipes, 356 Mission Road, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Lick The Wound, Adult Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Baby Wipes, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, IL
Baby Wipes, Club Nutz, NEXT Invitational, Chicago, IL
2008 RPM, ThreeWalls, Chicago, IL
ARTIST TALKS
2016 Mount San Jacinto College Gallery, San Jacinto, CA
2011 Mountain School of Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, IL
2008 Beloit College, Beloit, WI
AWARDS
2017 Artist Community Engagement Grant, Rema Hort Mann Foundation
2004 Merit Scholarship, Ox-Bow Summer School of Art