Pippa Garner

Pippa Garner is an artist and author based in Long Beach, California. For more than five decades her cross-disciplinary practice of drawing, performance, sculpture, photography, video, and installation has continued to push back against systems of consumerism, marketing, and waste. Recent solo exhibitions include, Act Like You Know Me at Kunstverein Munich (2022), Kunsthalle Zúrich (2023), and FRAC Lorraine, Metz (2023); Immaculate Misconceptions at JOAN, Los Angeles (2021) and Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento (2022); The Bowels of the Mind at STARS, Los Angeles and Jeffrey Stark, New York (both 2021); and A Shadow of My Future Self at O-Town House, Los Angeles (2019). Her solo exhibition $ELL YOUR $ELF, on view at Art Omi through October 29, 2023, premieres her latest conceptual car Haulin’ Ass! (2023) and is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue co-published with Pioneer Works Press. In collaboration with Art Omi, Pippa Garner: I’m With Me opens at OCD Chinatown on September 22, 2023: a tattoo parlor featuring queer/trans tattoo artists who have chosen texts and drawings by Garner to inject directly into the skin of her biggest fans, and sartorial fan art by fashion house Eckhaus Latta. Her work will also be included in the Hammer’s Made in L.A., 2023 Biennial, Acts of Living, and the Yokohama Triennale, 2023. For its fourth stop, Act Like You Know Me will take place at White Columns in New York, NY from November 3-December 16, 2023; timed with the release of an accompanying monograph published by Bierke Books. Garner is the author of several books, including the Better Living Catalog, republished by Primary Information this year.

Fiona Alison Duncan is a Canadian-American author and organizer. She is the co-curator of Act Like You Know Me, a touring retrospective of Pippa Garner’s work, launched at the Kunstverein München (Munich, Germany) in September 2022 with stops at the Kunsthalle Zürich (Zurich, Switzerland), FRAC Lorraine (Metz, France), and soon: White Columns (New York, NY, US)—opening November 3, 2023. An accompanying monograph co-edited by Duncan and Maurin Dietrich with contributions from Shola von Reinhold and Dodie Bellamy is forthcoming from Bierke Books in October 2023. Duncan is the LAMBDA award winning author of Exquisite Mariposa (Soft Skull, 2019) and the founder of Hard to Read, a literary social practice. Her experimental biography of Pippa Garner and her communities is in the works.