Education
1999
MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
1996
Akademiebrief at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf
1995
Master Student, Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Lazy Eye Gallery, Yucca Mesa
2023 Black Holes - In Front Of LALOMA Projects
2019 Display Systems of the Los Angeles Museum of Art, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles
2018 MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Mackey Garage Top, Los Angeles, Bove Düsseldorf
2017 Das LAMOA präsentiert: Mülheim/Ruhr und die 1970'er Jahre, Museum der Stadt Mülheim an der Ruhr,
Circle Chairs, Triangle Chairs,
Main Museum, Beta Main, Los Angeles
2016 Commonwealth, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles
Pistachio Concern, DXIX Projects, Venice, CA
2015 * Dr Gundula's Office*, Nächst St Stephan, Vienna
2012 The Wall House Mystery, Wall House, Groningen
2011 Peter Könitz & Alice Könitz, Familientreffen, Kunstverein Norden
2010 WDF, Long Beach City College Art Gallery
2009 “Arthur Ou & Alice Könitz: Resort, A Station for Display, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Stay Calm, Walk Home, and Induce Low Stress, Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin
2006 Two Proud Society Spouses Are Reclining on Contemporary Furniture As A Golden-Eyed Ghost Lady Looks Over The Coffee Tables, Hudson Franklin, New York Public Sculpture, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2004 Centric 66, University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach, curated by Mary-Kay Lombino Owl Society Part II, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA Pan American Nightclub Sculptures, boom editions, Chicago, IL
2003 Owl Society, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA Owl Society Part II, Hudson and Franklin, New York, NY
2002 Beautiful Ornaments as Shadows, Crashed Down and a Video of Flickering Light in a 70’s Office Tower, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
2001 Chicago Project Room, Los Angeles
1998 Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, Utah
1996 Luis Campaña Gallery, Cologne
Group Exhibitions
2023 Microlgies, Gregory Allicar Museum, Fort Collins; Supermodels, Kunstraum Super, Vienna
2022 Microloges, Irenic Projects, Pasadena
2021 SUBSTRATA, EPOCH.Gallery https://epoch.gallery
2019 COLA 2019, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery; Avalanche Dynamics, Forest Island Project, Mammoth Lakes; Micrologies, DXIX Projects/Real Complutense College, Havard University and Schauraum, Berlin; Synthesis, Claremont Graduate University
2018 Manifesto: A Modest Proposal, Pitzer College Art Galleries. Commonwealth and Council at Tina Kim Gallery, New York
2017 Europe in China/OpusII, German Sculpture Today, Qingdao Sculpture Museum, Qingdao,
Knowledges, Mount Wilson Observatory, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Beton, organized by Betonbar at Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
LAMOA's Display System#4 Eastern Star Gallery of the Archer School for Girls, Los Angeles,
Home Depot, DXIX Projects, Venice, CA
2015 Re|Production - DOCUMENT, Chicago, IL
Wunderkammer - Pitzer Art Galleries, Claremont, CA
2014
'The Fifth Wall', Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena
Made in LA, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Redefining Modernity, Art in Embassies, United States of America Embassy, Berlin, Germany
Encounter, Mumok Kino, Vienna
2013
Conlang, mumok kino, Vienna
Demolition Woman, Guggenheim Gallery at the Chapman University, Orange County (catalog)
Masters of Irreverence, Arena1, Santa Monica
Alice Könitz, Pamela Jorden, Jeff Ono at Samuel Freeman Gallery, Los Angeles
Alice Könitz, Nicolau Vergueiro. Tyler Vlahovich at Wharton + Espinosa, Los Angeles
Black Rabbit, White Hole, Samuel Freeman Gallery, Los Angeles
Schindler House/For Your Art, Los Angeles
Dialogues:
Art and Architecture in between Paris and Los Angeles
A MAK Center and For Your Art event bringing together artists and
architects from both cities.
Collective Field Office
L.A.Mart, Los Angeles
Ve.sch -Verein für Raum und Form in der bildenden Kunst, Vienna
2012
The Artist Theater Program: A Group Show of Film and Video Work by Visual Artists, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles , CA
Project Papier, Zatoka Sztuki, Sopot, Poland, Project Papier, Souterrain, Berlin, Germany
Performance with Stephanie Taylor at Motto, Berlin, Germany Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Saucy Leechcraft, JBJurve, Los Angeles, CA
Paper Space: Drawings by Sculptors - Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
2011
Matryoshka, Galeria Perdida/Recess Activities, New York , NY "Side Project" Pøst, Los Angeles, CA
Picture This, screening curated by John Pearson at Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Artist Theater Program: A Group Show of Film and Video Work by Visual Artists
curated by Erika Vogt, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
2010
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything Galeria Perdida/EFA Project Space, New York “Sun Zoom Spark”, WPA, curated by Pamela Jorden, Los Angeles, CA
Mostly Sculpture Show, curated by Alice Clements, Sea and Space Explorations, Los Angeles, CA
The Secret (Still) Knows, Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), Los Angeles, CA
2008
California Biennial 2008, High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, CA, off-site project location in association with the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (catalog)
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Musuem of American Art, New York, NY (catalog)
We construct the chorus, I-Space, Chicago, IL
2007
Hug Fu: Kathryn Andrews, Alice Könitz, Stephanie Taylor, Daniel Hug Gallery
Young artists from St Petersburg and Los Angeles, Gallery G18, Helsinki, Finland, curated by Emily Newman
Time Writers from the Mirror Horizon, curated by Gabie Strong, David Patton Los Angeles
Cock: Kathryn Andrews, Alice Könitz, Stephanie Taylor, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China, curated by Zhao Gang
Laying Bricks, Wallspace Gallery, NY, curated by Michael Ned Holte
Blockbuster Summer, Taxter and Spengemann, New York
Aspects, Forms, and Figures, curated by Joao Ribas, Bellwether, New York
Being There, curated by Richard Wearn, Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State LA
Half Square Half Crazy, Villa Arson, Nice, France (catalog)
2006
Reality is an August Imagination, Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, curated by Andrew Hahn
Bring the War Home, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York and QED, Los Angeles, curated by Drew Heitzler
New Ghost Entertainment Entitled, Or Gallery Vancouver, Kunsthaus Dresden, curated by Katrin Pesch
Material Witness, gallery at University of California, Riverside, curated by Ciara Ennis
2005
Celine and Julie Go Boating, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, organized by Michael Ned Holte
Kicking Rocks, curated by Anna Sew Hoy, Champion Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Bull's Eye, Hudson Franklin, New York, NY
2004
Brown Constructions, LemonSky Miami, Miami, FL, curated by Amir Zaki.
Backstage Tourismus, with Corinna Schnitt and Isabell Spengler, Forum Stadtpark, Graz (catalog)
Upstream: Idea drawings, curated by Chris Lipomi, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles
2003
Sundown Salon at the Schindler House presented by the MAK Center for Art & Architecture at the Schindler House
International Paper, curated by James Elaine, Claudine Isé, and Ann Philbin, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Win, Loose, or Draw, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
If the Hippies Cut Their Hair, I Don’t Care, I Don’t Care, Galerie Michael Hall, Vienna, Austria
2002
Play it as it Lays, 17 Artists from Los Angeles, The London Institute, London
Out of the Ground Into the Sky Out of the Sky Into the Ground, A Detour show organized by Kopp/Kordansky at Pond in San Francisco, Black Dragon Society in Los Angeles
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Low Gallery, Los Angeles
2001
Sharing Sunsets, curated by Julie Deamer, MOCA Tucson
Drawn from LA (Home is where the Heart is), curated by Julie Deamer, Midway Initiative, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Tirana Bienniale, Albania (catalog)
2000
Guggenheim Gallery of the Chapman University in Orange County
The Closet Show, organized by Kimberly Varella, Los Angeles, 3424 Council ST. Los Angeles
Legal Paper Work, curated by John Geary, Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles
DRS Project Wall, organized by Dispute Resolution Services, 2000, Los Angeles
1999
Colab at 240 South Broadway, Los Angeles
Expanding Limited Space, curated by Andrea Bowers, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
Touring the Frame, curated by Charles Gaines, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
Remaining Speculations, curated by Stefan Zucker, 926 Chung King Road, Los Angeles
The Temptations, curated by Dennis Cooper, Mark Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
The CAA Show, Barnsdall Building, Los Angeles
1998
Anwander Bazaar de Cologne, Cologne
1997
Das Leben in der Wüste kj, Cologne
1995
Papier, Bärbel Grässlin Gallery, Frankfurt
1994
Zwischenbilanz, curated by Heiner Schepers, Kunstverein Lingen
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Grants/Awards/Residencies
2019 Forest Island Residency
2018
COLA Individual Artist Fellowship
2017
Kreativkraftpreis der Stadt Mülheim an der Ruhr
2014
Mohn Award (jury award, honoring artistic excellence)
2013
Faculty Enrichment Grant (FEG), Art Center College od Design, Fountainhead residency, Miami
2012 Wall House residency, Groningen, Holland
2007 Tong Xian Art Center residency, Beijing, China
1999 Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) residence program
1997 DAAD Jahresstipendium für Nordamerika Förderpreis zum Ruhrpreis für Kunst und Wissenschaft der Stadt Mülheim an der Ruhr