Dustin Metz   
Smoke Skies .  2020-2018  .  Bibles  .  Collages  .  Belief Me  .  2017-2015  CV  .  contact  .
Currently living in Los Angeles CA

Exhibitions


2023
A Rose Has No Teeth, Mollie White Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022
The Fruit, Hunter Shaw Fine Art (solo show), Los Angeles, CA
2021
Meet You at the Garden Gate, curated by Katie Hector and Adam Sabolick, Peripheral Space, Los Angeles, CA
2020
Good Pictures, curated by Austin Lee, Jeffery Deitch, New York, NY 
The Biblical Imagination, curated by Mike Hernandez, Irenic Projects, Pasadena, CA 
2019
Flavor Profile, curated by Meg Hahn, Border Patrol, Portland, ME
2018
Tatzpit, Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (two person show with Roni Shneior)
American Fine Arts: Part 1, curated by Timo Fahler, BBQLA, Los Angeles, CA
Optimist Prime, curated by Mike Shoudt, New City Galerie, Burlington, VT
...feel it....feel it...curated by Kira Shewfelt, The Diogenes Club, Los Angeles, CA
Frame Work, curtated by Lauren Whearty, Ortega Y Gasset Projects. Brooklyn, NY
2017
DOGS Show, curated by Austin Lee and Olly Clegg, pop-up space, Brooklyn NY ANGSTZEITEN. curated by Don Edler, Elevator Mondays. Los Angeles CA
Polaroid Black, curated by Doug CroccoBig Pictures Los Angeles. Los Angeles CA
2016
Night Spots and a Dirty Sun Clock. Chicken Coop Contemporary. Portland OR (solo)
The Thing Itself, curated by Karen Seapker. COOP. Nashville TN
CAVIAR, curated by Jared Dyer and Mary Hill, Central Park. Los Angeles CA
Bomb Pop-Up Show, curated by Drea Cofield. Brooklyn NY
2015
GAZING INLAND. curated by Karen Seapker. COOP. Nashville TN
Little Motorcycles. curatred by Phil Davis. Infinity Room . Los Angeles CA
Girl Boy Girl Boy. curated by Zach Seeger.  This Friday or Next Friday. Brooklyn NY
WIND CHIMES. curated by Shanna Waddell.  Bannerette. Brooklyn NY
“I think I see…”. curated by Adam Novak. The Property. Los Angeles CA
Thinking and Touching Time. curtated by Zahar Vaks.  Ortega y Gesset Projects. Brooklyn NY
2014
Who Sees the Past Sees the Future. Jones Gallery. Bakersfield CA (two person show with Kiki Johnson)
Future One Night Only Show. PØST. Los Angeles CA (solo)
Super Fog. curated by Kati Gegenheimer. Great Jones Space. New York NY
Incognito. Santa Monica Museum of Art. Los Angeles CA
2012
We Don’t Have All Night. curated by Lauren Whearty. Ohio State University Urban Art Space. Columbus OH



 Education

2017
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; Skowhegan ME
2012
Masters of Fine Arts. Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers University; New Brunswick, NJ
2007
Bachelors of Fine Arts. Tyler School of Art, Temple University; Elkins Park, PA
2005
Temple University Rome; Rome, Italy


Awards/ Residencies

2023
Yaddo ; Saratoga Springs, NY
2021
MacDowell Fellow, Josephine Mercy Heathcote Fellowship; Peterborough, NH
2010-2012
TA/GA Fellow, Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers University; New Brunswick, NJ
2011
Vermont Studio Center; Johnson, VT *Mason Gross School of Art Dean’s Residency Scholarship
2008
Project Portal Residency; Historic Yellow Springs, PA.
Discovery Grant from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage; Philadelphia, PA
2007
Faculty Award. Tyler School of Art, Temple University. Elkins Park, PA


Writing


Snap Review for Christina Quarles at Regen Projects. Co-written with Christina Mesiti CARLA. May 8, 2019 link

Snap Review for Oily Doily at BBQLA . CARLA. August 4, 2016
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Review for Mernet Larsen: Chainsawer, Bicyclist, and Reading in Bed at Various Small Fires. Staring at the Wall. April 9, 2015
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