Analia Saban

Analia Saban (b. 1980, Buenos Aires, Argentina) deconstructs the elements of painting, leaning into semantics, science and play in her multifaceted work, which she executes with unbridled experimentation and scientific rigour. Saban studied under John Baldessari in the New Genres MFA department at the University of California, Los Angeles, between 2002 and 2005, and presented her first solo exhibition at Josh Lilley in 2010. Her works are represented in, among others, the permanent collections of the Hammer Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art and LACMA, Los Angeles; Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, New York; and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Analia Saban lives and works in Los Angeles.

Education

2005, MFA, New Genres, University of California, Los Angeles
2001, BFA, Visual Arts, Loyola University New Orleans

Solo Exhibitions

2021
View Count, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Line to Thread to Wire to Cable to Line, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
Save As, Galerie Sprüth Magers, Berlin

2020
Analia Saban: Point to Line the Object to Stack, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York
Analia Saban: Point to Line to Object to Stack, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles

2019
Particle Theory, Arario Gallery, Seoul
Analia Saban: Dry Clean Only, Mixografia, Los Angeles
FOCUS: Analia Saban, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

2018
Punched Card, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

2017
Where We Start From, Gemini G.E.L, Los Angeles
Canvas on Paint, Qiao Space, Shanghai
Pigmente, Galerie Sprüth Magers, Berlin
Folds and Faults, Galerie Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles
The Warp and Woof of Painting, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris

2016
Analia Saban is Broken, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
Analia Saban, Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, Houston
Paper on Plastic Mixografia, Los Angeles

2015
Interiors, Galerie Sprüth Magers, London
Backyard, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

2014
Outburst, Praz-Delavallade, Paris

2013
Datum, Josh Lilley, London
Bathroom sink, etc. Sprueth Magers, Berlin

2012
Gag, Tanya Bonakdar, New York

2011
Derrames, Galleria 11 x 7, Buenos Aires
Grayscale, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles
Dig, Praz-Delavallade, Paris

2010
Information Leaks, Josh Lilley, London

2009
Light Breaks Out of Prism, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles
Living Color, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris

2007
When Things Collapse, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
Wet Paintings in the Womb, Galerie Spruth Magers Projekte, Munich

2005
Bit by Bit, Kim Light Gallery / Lightbox, Los Angeles

Group Exhibitions

2022
A Sieve for Infinity, Slash, San Francisco, CA
Ars Memoriae: The Art to Remember, 601Artspace, New York

2021
Fowler in Focus: Communication Systems in a Global Context,
Fowler Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles
The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Alfond Inn, Winter Park, FL Contemporary Gallery Reinstallation, Cleveland Art Museum, Cleveland, Ohio The Art of Food, University of Arizona Museum of Arts, Tucson, AZ
Heather Cook and Analia Saban: Blurring the Lines between Painting, Imagery and Objecthood, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles
IRL, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Mirrors and Windows, Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, Germany
Cleveland Art Museum Permanent Collection, Cleveland Art Museum, OH

2020
45 at 45 - L.A. Louver Celebrates 45 Years with 45 Artists, LA Louver, Venice, CA
Ground/Work, The Clark, Williamstown, Massachusetts Restless Index, curated by Kelly Akashi and Cayetano Ferrer, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles Songs in the Dark, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York Under One Roof, Gemini G.E.L at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York

2019
Nowhere Better than this Place, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (ongoing) B.A.T. State III: Women Artists in Conversation with El Nopal Press, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
All Black & White: Contemporary Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
Process + Pattern, Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Stanford, CA (ongoing)
Starting Something New: Recent Acquisitions and Gifts, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA
Selections from the Marciano Art Collection, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
Free Range, Blinky the Friendly Hen: 40th Anniversary Exhibition, California State University, Northridge Art Gallery, Los Angeles
Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Stains on a Decade, Josh Lilley, London

2018
Art Safiental: Horizontal - Vertical, Biennale für Land und Environmental Art, Senna
She Sees the Shadows, DRAF x MOSTYN, Llandudno
Black & White & In Between - Contemporary Art From the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard

2017
NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Latin American Artists in the Marciano Collection, The Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
Unpacking: The Marciano Collection, The Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
Concrete Island Venus Los Angeles, Los Angeles

2016
Progressive Praxis, De la Cruz Collection, Miami
L.A. Exuberance, LACMA Museum, Los Angeles
Good Dreams, Bad Dreams - American Mythologies, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut
Paper in Profile: Mixografía and Taller de Gráfica Mexicana, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens
Return to a Particular Moment, 601 Art Space, New York
Wasteland, Mona Bismarck American Center, Paris and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin

2015
You've Got to Know the Rules... to Break Them, De la Cruz Collection, Miami
No Man's Land - Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection / Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami
Picture the Cricket's Legs Apart, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago
Free Admission, Galerie Praz-Delavallade. Paris ack to the Real, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver
Forgetting the Future: Entropy in the Reflective Age, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance
Theories on Forgetting, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
Vibrant Matter,KIOSK, Gent
Back to the Real, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver
The Silence of Ordinary Things in The TMR Benefit Exhibition, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles

2014
Here There Be Tygers, Gallery Lara Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Control Lapse, Josh Lilley, London
Prospect.3 New Orleans, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
An Appetite for Painting, National Museum of Norway, Oslo
Expanding on an expansive subject, Part 2: Analia Saban, Is this a Painting?, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena
Variations: Conversations in and Around Abstract Painting, LACMA Museum, Los Angeles
Next, Arsenal, Montreal
Some Artists' Artists, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Between the Lines, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

2013
Sur: Biennial II, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance
Objective, Thomas Soloman Gallery, Los Angeles
Le Club des Sous L’Eau, in Nouvelles Vagues / Young Curator Season, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Transforming the Known, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague
Painting in Place, LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division), Farmers and Merchants Bank, Los Angeles
Alchemy, The Arts Club, London
The Ecstasy of the Image (or the Communicability of an Unusual One), Hessel Museum of Art, New York
The New Now, Carter & Citizen Gallery, Los Angeles
4 Artistas + 11 Preguntas a Martin Minuji, Galeria 11×7, Buenos Aires

2012
Lost Line: Selections from the Permanent Collection, LACMA, Los Angeles
Group Exhibition, FRI-ART, Centre d’art contemporain de Fribourg, Fribourg
Le Club des Sous l’Eau, Le Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Mentors Exhibition, Loyola University New Orleans, New Orleans
On Sincerity, 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston
Stretching the Limits: Fibers in Contemporary Painting, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah
La Ballena Negra, MARCO Museum, Vigo
Weights and Measures, Eleven Rivington Gallery, New York
Dark Matters, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange County
Rudin Prize for Emerging Photographers, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach

CV

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Woven Rectangle as Warp (Black) #2 by Analia Saban, 2019
Study for Decant by Analia Saban, 2013
Fade Out (From Blue) by Analia Saban, 2011
Study for Circuit Board #3 by Analia Saban, 2012
Slab Foundation #12 by Analia Saban, 2012
Installation View: Information Leaks by Analia Saban, 2010
Circuit Board #3 by Analia Saban, 2012
Acrylic in Canvas with Ruptures: Grid by Analia Saban, 2010
Acrylic in Canvas with Ruptures: Green Dot by Analia Saban, 2010
Installation View: Information Leaks by Analia Saban, 2010
Magnetic Core Memory Structure #3, courtesy of Tanya Bonakdar Gallery by Analia Saban, 2018
Magnetic Core Memory Structure #1, courtesy of Tanya Bonakdar Gallery by Analia Saban, 2018
Pocket Watch #3, courtesy of Tanya Bonakdar Gallery by Analia Saban, 2016
Installation View: Datum by Analia Saban, 2013
Bouquet of Flowers with Broken Vase (One-Continuous-Blue Line) by Analia Saban, 2018
Fade Out (From White) by Analia Saban, 2011
Diamond Decant (Black and White) by Analia Saban, 2011
Erosion (Parquet Floor) by Analia Saban, 2012
Installation View by Analia Saban, 2019
Installation View: Focus by Analia Saban, 2019
Fade Out (From Black) by Analia Saban, 2011
Slab Foundation with Glass Openings by Analia Saban, 2014
Installation View: Datum by Analia Saban, 2013
Installation View: Made in L.A.  by Analia Saban, 2012
Circuit Board #5 by Analia Saban, 2012
Slab Foundation #14 by Analia Saban, 2012
Study for Circuit Board with Architectural Details by Analia Saban, 2012
Installation View: Incredulous Zealots by Analia Saban, 2011
Slab Foundation #10 by Analia Saban, 2012
Circuit Board Sequence by Analia Saban, 2012
Slab Foundation #10 by Analia Saban, 2012
OFFSET: Vase by Analia Saban, 2010
Acrylic in Canvas with Ruptures: Grid - Detail by Analia Saban, 2010
OFFSET: Two Pipes (one faces up, one face down) by Analia Saban, 2010
Acrylic in Canvas with Ruptures: Pipes (In Perspective) by Analia Saban, 2010
Acrylic in Canvas with Ruptures: Grid by Analia Saban, 2010
Acrylic in Canvas by Analia Saban, 2010
Acrylic in Canvas with Ruptures: Paint Drip by Analia Saban, 2010
OFFSET: Tree by Analia Saban, 2010
Acrylic in Canvas with Ruptures: Vase by Analia Saban, 2010
Acrylic in Canvas with Ruptures: Dotted Grid (detail) by Analia Saban, 2010
Acrylic in Canvas with Ruptures: Pipes (In Perspective) – Detail by Analia Saban, 2010
Acrylic in Canvas with Ruptures: Brushstrokes by Analia Saban, 2010
Acrylic in Canvas with Ruptures: Dotted Grid by Analia Saban, 2010
Eyeball by Analia Saban, 2007

Exhibitions

Stains on a Decade at Josh Lilley,presenting Tom Anholt, Brian Bress, Peter Linde Busk, Gareth Cadwallader, Sarah Dwyer, Derek Fordjour, Nick Goss, Nicholas Hatfull, Christof Mascher, Rebecca Nassauer, Sarah Pichlkostner, Benedetto Pietromarchi, Belén Rodríguez , Kathleen Ryan, Analia Saban, Vicky Wright, Ryan Mosley, Celeste Rapone, Hurvin Anderson, Jack Burton, Ian Davis, Svenja Deininger, Holly Hendry, John Houck, Aliza Nisenbaum, Conrad Shawcross, Leon Kossoff, Tal R, Paula Rego, Euan Uglow & Kaari Upson

Stains on a Decade

Group Show

Control Lapse at Josh Lilley,presenting Analia Saban, Nicholas Hatfull, Kathleen Ryan, Patrick Jackson, Kelly Kleinschrodt, Ruairiadh O’Connell, Jesse Greenberg, Niall Macdonald & Anissa Mack

Control Lapse

Group Show

Datum at Josh Lilley,presenting Analia Saban

Datum

Solo Show

Something New at Josh Lilley,presenting Analia Saban, Nicholas Hatfull, Belén Rodríguez , Christof Mascher, Nick Goss, Gabriel Hartley, Marita Fraser, Ruairiadh O’Connell & Robert Pratt

Something New

Group Show

Incredulous Zealots at Josh Lilley,presenting Analia Saban, Annie Lapin, Asad Faulwell & Jeni Spota

Incredulous Zealots

Group Show

Gifted at Josh Lilley,presenting Nick Goss, Rebecca Nassauer, Belén Rodríguez , Benedetto Pietromarchi, Sarah Dwyer, Carla Busuttil, Christof Mascher, Analia Saban, Michael Huey & Clara S Rueprich

Gifted

Group Show

Information Leaks at Josh Lilley,presenting Analia Saban

Information Leaks

Solo Show