Modern Art

Born in 1990
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA

Education
2012

BFA, Cooper Union

New York, NY, USA

Solo Exhibitions
2024

Further Down the Line

Liverpool (forthcoming)

2023

Choosing Suitor

Secession, Vienna, Austria

Painting, the shorter of the longest, 2023. In The Office

Maxwell Graham/Essex Street, New York, NY, USA

2022

Decomposition Evaluation

Bielefeld Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany

2021

Moreover, does productivity know what it’s named, maybe it calls itself identity?

Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany

My Child will be named after me, Invasive, or was it Prayer? I need to check my notes.

Morán Morán, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2020

Does productivity know what it's named, maybe it calls itself identity?

Essex Street, New York, NY, USA

2019

Subdominium Edges Y Assumed Legalities

Modern Art, London

Sustenance Traversing Foundational Urgencies (STFU [Some]) (Re-Faux Outing)

Essex Street, New York, NY, USA

2018

Sir Veil’s Faux Outing

Jeffrey Stark, New York, NY, USA

Rose and Torey on Paper (with Rose Wylie)

The Journal, Brooklyn, NY, USA

2017

When you look in eyes you can only look into one at a time, unless you’re further away and aligned perfectly with mirrored feature spacing

Moran Bondaroff, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2016

Rapport Vroom

Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA

Sir Veil

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA

2015

Kneed a Sea Ware Groin

Modern Art, London

2014

Some Narrow Sleeping

OH WOW, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Oh Strange, That's Your Name

TORRI, Paris, France

2013

Agro Fiddling

Karma, New York, NY, USA

Selected Group Exhibitions
2023

Dowsing, curated by Nick Irvin

Layr, Vienna, Austria

Customs Cars Cultures, curated by Kyle Thurman

Unclebrother, Hancock, NY, USA

The Collection, curated by Krist Gruijthuijsen

Haubrok Fahbereitschaft, Berlin, Germany

We Smell Gas

Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, NY, USA

In Defense of Symbolic Value: Artistic Procedures in the Resort

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany

2022

Ghostscript

Modern Art, London

Spatial Manifestation A Conversation Between Olivier Mosset And SoiL Thornton

No Name, Paris, France

Pooky’s Reform

Fri-Art, Kunsthalle Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

Hamishi Farah, Ser Sepas, SoiL Thornton

Essex Street, New York, NY, USA

2021

Niloufar Emamifar, SoiL Thornton, and an Oral History of Knobkerry

SculptureCenter, New York, NY, USA

Autohaus St. Marx

Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna, Austria

Sustainable Museum: Practical Action Plans

Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan, South Korea

Benefit of the Doubt, curated by Franziska Sophie Wildförster

Deborah Schamoni, Munich, Germany

Group show

Modern Art, London

Sharing a (S)hell, curated by Bob Linder

Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco, CA, USA

2020

They lifted me into the sun and packed my skull with cinnamon, Torey Thornton and Jason Dodge

Gern en Regalia, New York, NY, USA

Bleecker & West 11th Bienniale

Bleecker St. & West 11th St., New York, NY, USA

Pedestrian Profanities, curated by Eric N. Mack

Simon Lee, New York, NY, USA

I Yield My Time. Fuck You!

Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA, USA

Prix Jean-François Prat 2020

Fonds de dotation Bredin Prat pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France

2019

Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2018

Objects to Identify

Morán Morán, Los Angeles, CA, USA

The Vitalist Economy of Painting, curated by Isabelle Graw

Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany

Eckhaus Latta: Possessed

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA

Crossroads: Carnegie Museum of Art’s Collection, 1945 to Now

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

The Gallery at Michael’s

Michael’s Santa Monica, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2017

Abstract/Not Abstract

Moore Building, Miami Design District, Miami, FL, USA

The Trick Brain, curated by Massimiliano Gioni

Aïshti Foundation, Antelias, Lebanon

Trip of the Tongue, curated by Piper Marshall

Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong, China

Living Apart Together: Recent Acquisitions from the Hammer Contemporary Collection

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Whitney Biennial 2017

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA

Horror Vacui, or The Annihilation of Space

Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan

Thinking Out Loud: Notes for an Evolving Collection

The Warehouse, Dallas, TX, USA

Third Space /Shifting Conversations about Contemporary Art

Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, USA

2016

High Anxiety: New Acquisitions

Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, USA

Olympia, organised by Karma, New York

Patrick Seguin, Paris, France

Extensions Made To Trouble Transformation, two-person exhibition with Eric Mack

Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France

Before Sunrise

Karma, New York, NY, USA

Goulding the Lolly, curated by Brian Belott

Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY, USA

Theories of Modern Art

Modern Art, London

Paper in Practice

Moran Bondaroff, Los Angeles, CA, USA

With Institutions Like These, curated by Victor Wang and Alex Meurice

The Averard Hotel, London

A Shape That Stands Up

Art + Practice in partnership with Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

SURRREAL

König Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2015

A Constellation

The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, USA

We will begin by drawing, we shall continue to draw, and then we shall draw some more

Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

Rigor Raging Rigger, Colin Foster and Torey Thornton

Freddy Gallery, Baltimore, MD, USA

Love for Three Oranges

Karma at Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

Third Heat: Gina Beavers, Brian Belott, Annie Pearlman, Torey Thornton

CANADA, New York, NY, USA

CALL AND RESPONSE

Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY, USA

Eagles II

Marlborough, Madrid, Spain

2014

The Great Figure

The Journal, New York, NY, USA

Live And Let Die

Modern Art, London

Don't Look Now

Zach Feuer, New York, NY, USA

New Image Painting

Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA

Forever

Metropolitan Art Society, Beirut, Lebanon

Still Life With Woodpecker

Halsey Mckay, East Hampton, NY, USA

Beware Of The Stares

247365, Brooklyn, NY, USA

2013

Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast

Rod Barton, London

Draw Gym, curated by Brian Belott

247365/KnowMoreGames, Brooklyn, NY, USA

2012

Infamous Amplification

Hpgrp, New York, NY, USA

Burnt Grits Where I Died

41 Cooper Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Ten Ten

Jason Alexander, New York, NY, USA

Selected Collections

Birmingham Museum of Art

Birmingham, AL, USA

Booth School of Business

The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Buffalo, NY, USA

Carnegie Museum of Art

Pittsburgh, PA, USA

The CIFO Collection, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation

Miami, FL, USA

Dallas Museum of Art

Dallas, TX, USA

Hammer Museum

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Marciano Art Foundation

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

Durham, NC, USA

The Rachofsky Collection

Dallas, TX, USA

Rubell Family Collection

Miami, FL, USA

Whitney Museum of American Art

New York, NY, USA

Zabludowicz Collection

London