Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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RESUME
Sydney Acosta
b. 1987, Yanaguana aka San Antonio, Texas
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Education
2021 MFA University of California Los Angeles
2015 BA Studio Art and Sociology, California State University, Sacramento
2008 San Antonio College
Selected Exhibitions
Solo exhibition, 121 Art space, Taipei, Taiwan, August - October 2025
Solo exhibition, Sargent’s Daughters, New York City, October - November 2024
Solo exhibition, What’s the Word aka wtw gallery, South Africa, August - September 2024
Lavinia, Hannah Hoffman gallery, Los Angeles, March - May 2024
Group show, South Willard gallery, Los Angeles, March - April 2024
World Beyond World, Gallery 1969, New York City, January 18 - February 24, 2024
“We came to help you carry the sun”, Sydney Acosta, Chris Baliwas, Cherisse Gray, Christos Tejada and Jennifer Tseng, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA, July 21 - 30, 2023
Filled With Song, Kristina Kite gallery, Los Angeles, CA, June 24 - August 19, 2023
Groundwork, Dream Song, Minneapolis, MN, June 22 - August 5, 2023
The Sound of Two Stones Crashing, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA, April 15 - June 3, 2023
The Death of Beauty, Sargent’s Daughters, Los Angeles, CA, February 14 - March 25, 2023
Sydney Acosta, Yutaro Aoki and Ian Rosen, Onsen Confidential with Kristina Kite Gallery, hosted by Aoyama Meguro, Tokyo, September 10 - 25, 2022
of the world, Sydney Acosta and Luz Carabaño, Castle gallery, Los Angeles, CA, August 27 - September 24, 2022
Antes, Lanier Family Gallery at the UCLA Margot Leavin Graduate Studios, July 14 - August 7, 2022
A Joy Unexpected, Root Division, San Francisco, CA, June 9 - 26, 2021
This Land, RiP: Residence in Place, virtual exhibition February 24 - March 27, 2021
Artist Residencies and Programs
MacDowell Fellowship, New Hampshire, Fall 2022
Anderson Ranch, Portraiture and Figuration, Snowmass Village, Colorado, Summer 2021
Residency-in-Place R.I.P, artmusiclit space, Winter 2021
Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, Colorado, Summer 2020
Internationale Sommerakademie fur Bildende Kunst, Salzburg, Austria, Summer 2019
Columbia University Advanced Painting Intensive, Summer 2015
Fellowships and Awards
2022 LA Lakers In The Paint Grant
2021 UCLA Graduate Division Award; Academic Senate Graduate Council Diversity Award; Will Rogers Memorial Fellowship; UCLA Affiliates Scholarship; Helen Frankenthaler Fellowship; Department of Art Award
2020 Faculty and Alumni Award; Department of Art Scholarship; Alfredo Orselli Memorial Scholarship; Graduate Division Award
2020 Elaine Krown Klein Fine Arts Scholarship Award
2019 American Austrian Foundation and Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts
2018 UCLA Graduate Opportunity Fellowship
2015 Peggy Saunders Hall Memorial Scholarship for Art, California State University Sacramento
2015 The Frederick M. Peyser Prize in Painting & Drawing
2011 Robert & Laura Fainter Endowed Memorial Scholarship in Art, San Antonio College