Bio
Axel Wilhite has shown his artwork in the United States, France, the Netherlands, and Taiwan.
He is the co-director and curator at Space Ten, an artist-run gallery in Hawthorne, California.
He is a co-founder of 7x7.la, an online magazine that facilitates and publishes creative collaborations between artists and writers.
He lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Contact
axel.wilhite@gmail.com
Exhibitions
Solo
December 9, 2017 - January 6, 2018, Virtual Memory, Launch LA, Los Angeles, California
December, 2015, Prends l'oseille et tire toi, La Manutention Gallery, Paris, France
October 18 - November 18, 2014, Axel Wilhite, The Public Trust, Dallas, Texas
September 4 - October 4, 2014, Axel Wilhite, Kunstverein/Bob's Your Uncle, Amsterdam, Netherlands
January, 2014, Sayonara, Vegetables, private exhibition space, Venice, California
December, 2013, Un Jeu de Cartes, La Manutention Gallery, Paris, France
Group
November 9 - December 7, 2019, Aerials (with Robert Wilhite), KP Projects, Los Angeles, California
November 11 - December 10, 2018, THIS IS A PIPE SHOW, The Old Arcade, Los Angeles, CA
November 18 - 25, 2017, They Think They Think, Jace Space, Los Angeles, CA
November 17 - 20, 2017, Art Square Taipei, Art Curator Japan, Taipei City, Taiwan
December 15 - 18, 2016, Art Square Taipei, Art Curator Japan, Taipei City, Taiwan
December 3, 2016 - January 8, 2017, All That Glitters, KP Projects, Los Angeles, CA
November 19 - December 9, 2016, South Bay Focus 2016, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
June 4 - October 2, 2016, Iles de la Seine, Pavillion de l'Arsenal, Paris, France
May 10 - 31, 2015, iris.time, L'Inlassable Museum, New York, New York
March 20 - April 19, 2015, Micro Salon #5, L'Inlassable Galerie, Paris, France
February 14 - 28, 2015, Salon Hang 2015, Kunstverein, Amsterdam, Netherlands
March - May, 2014, Micro Salon #4, L'Inlassable Galerie, Paris, France
March - April, 2014, Venez Fruits Pressés, La Manutention Gallery, Paris, France
Illustrations
“Telepaphone,” by Adam Soldofsky, Maudlin House Press, December, 2021
California Prose Directory 2017, Outpost19 Books, March, 2017
"Five Micros by Fortunato Salazar", The Offing, October, 2016
"Menko", Stonecutter Journal, Issue 5, June, 2016
"Her Human Costume", by Cynthia Marie Hoffman, Gold Line Press, May, 2014
"Whip & Spur", by Iver Arnegard, Gold Line Press, May, 2014
Publications
“Beers of the World”, with Adam Soldofsky, drDOCTOR, October, 2020
“Between a Beer & an Ice Cream Cone”, with Adam Soldofsky, drDOCTOR, September, 2020
“More Than Cold Beer”, with Adam Soldofsky, drDOCTOR, August, 2020
“A Lightweight Spirituality”, with Adam Soldofsky, drDOCTOR, July, 2020
“AXEL WILHITE’S BIBLIODROME 2020”, exhibition catalog, designed by Ben Schwartz, GBI, November, 2019
“THIS IS A PIPE SHOW”, exhibition catalog, ed. Axel Wilhite, The Old Arcade, November, 2018
"Chronologos", in collaboration with Amy Bonnaffons, 7x7 LA, October, 2015
“Monsters”, in collaboration with Amy Bonnaffons, self-published, 2011
Education
Budo Specialization Certification Program, Kendo – 国際武道大学 (International Budo University), Katsuura City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, 2013
MFA, Fiction Writing – New York University, New York, New York, 2010
BA, Comparative Religion, Mythology, and Literature – New York University, New York, New York, 2007
Press
“Art Out of E-Waste - Poetry? Sci-Fi? Whimsy?”, Made Out of WHAT, March, 2019
"Susan Feldman and Axel Wilhite at Launch LA", ART AND CAKE, December, 2017
“The Editors of 7x7 on 7x7”, The Poetry Society of America: Site Visits, 2017
"Californian Talents", Vogue Italia, March, 2017
"Channeling Whistler's 'Peacock Room' at Launch LA", ART AND CAKE, September, 2016
"Illuminated from Above: Hawthorne's Cordary Avenue Glows with Artists", The Easy Reader, May, 2014
"All the World’s a Stage, Even the Back of a Truck", The New York Times, April, 2011