Trulee Hall’s work presents a surreal geography drawing on motifs of the domestic, the decorative, and the erotic.
The artist’s creative practice spans video, sculpture, painting, audio composition, and choreographed dance. Hall integrates these mediums into immersive installations. These vignettes offer multiple representations of a non-narrative visual subject, replayed through painting, sculpture, and video amalgams of CGI, claymation, and live action performance.
Hall received her BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 1999 and her MFA from CalArts in 2006. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Rubell Family Collection, the Hammer Museum, Deitch Projects, The Armory Show, Paramount Studios for Frieze Art Fair, Redcat, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), Barrick Museum of Art, Maccarone Los Angeles, Michael Benevento Gallery, and the Billy Wilder Theatre, among numerous other exhibitions and film screenings internationally.
The artist recently had solo exhibitions at Zabludowicz Collection, London, Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, and Los Angeles Nomadic Division.
TRULEE HALL
b. 1976
EDUCATION
2004–2006 MFA, CalArts
1995–1999 BFA, Atlanta College of Art
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND FILM SCREENINGS
2024 François Ghebaly, She Shells, Los Angeles
Villa Schöningen, Fabric: Textile and the Female Nude, Vienna
Shrine, Blue Dream, Los Angeles
The Pit, Halfway to Sanity, Los Angeles
2023 Kunsthalle Wien, Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat, Vienna
Rubells Museum, Singular Views: Los Angeles, Miami
The Bunker Art Space, Family Affair, Palm Beach
Bas Fisher International, Making Miami, Miami
QAGOMA, Fairy Tales, Brisbane
Honor Fraiser and EPOCH, Catalyst, Los Angeles
Outfest, LACMA, Rusha & Co., and LAND, Ladies' Lair Lake
Screening and Performance at REDCAT, Los Angeles
Rusha & Co., Plays on Foreplays, Los Angeles
Art in Common, Boil, Toil & Trouble, Los Angeles and Chicago
2022 Harkawik, Works on Paper on Fridges, New York City
LAND, Ladies’ Lair Lake, Los Angeles
MOCA, Old and New Dreams, Los Angeles
LACMA, AHAN Studio Forum, Los Angeles
Torrance Art Museum, Lynchland, Torrance
2021 domicile (n), All Tomorrow’s Parties, Los Angeles
Psychosomatic, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles
Ochi Gallery, Ring Down the Curtain, Los Angeles
Villa Schöningen, The Seer and the Seen, Potsdam
2020 The Armory Show, New York City
Deitch Projects, All Them Witches, Los Angeles
Zabludowicz Collection, Tongues Duel the Corn Whores, an Opera, London
Zabludowicz Collection, Annual Solo Commission, London
2019 Maccarone Gallery, The Pleasure Principle, Los Angeles
Redcat, Platinum Shorts, Outfest, Los Angeles
FRIEZE Los Angeles, Infestation, Los Angeles
Maccarone Gallery, The Other and Otherwise, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Benefit Art Auction 2019, Chicago
CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions, Female Trouble 2, San Francisco
Pace University, Jubilation Inflation, New York City
Aurora Picture Show, Powerful Vulnerable, Dallas
Echo Park Film Center, Animation Brüt, Los Angeles
Barrick Museum of Art, Jubilation Inflation, Las Vegas
San Diego Underground Film Festival, Animation Brüt, San Diego
2018 Rubell Family Collection, New Acquisitions, Miami
Michael Benevento, BOO featuring: Dan Finsel/Trulee Hall/Chris Peters/Kaari Upson, Los Angeles
Maccarone Gallery, Pussy, King of the Pirates, Los Angeles
BBQLA, Nose Job, Los Angeles
LTD Gallery, I am no bird, Los Angeles
2017 BBQLA, Mr. Green Genes, Los Angeles
Human Resources, Drivers Impulsers, Los Angeles
Human Resources, Supercaliforniagilisiticexpialidcious, Los Angeles
Redcat, Outfest, Platinum Showcase, Los Angeles
2016 LAND, On the Verge of an Image: Considering Marjorie Keller, Los Angeles
Central Park Gallery, Black on Black, Los Angeles
Druid Underground Film Festival, Los Angeles and New York City
2015 Pieter Space, Afterglow Summer Video Series 3.1, Los Angeles
2012 Harry Dodge’s studio, Afterglow Summer Video Series, Los Angeles
2011 Video Art Taxi, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach
2010 Druid Underground Film Festival, Los Angeles, New York City
2009 LACE, Lust 4 LACE: My Bloody Valentine, Los Angeles
2008 .HBC, ARTBANG!, Berlin
.HBC, .BHC Kollektiv Project II, Berlin
CalArts, Exquisite Acts and Everyday Rebellions, Valencia
2007 Hammer Museum, Billy Wilder Theatre, Duster’s Undoing, Los Angeles
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, For Snowball, Paris
2006 Armory Center for the Arts, Pileups, Pasadena
Barnsdall Art Center, Decoration and You!, Los Angeles
Supersonic, Los Angeles