NADA Chicago Invitational
Blair Whiteford, Dylan Vandenhoeck, Rasmus Myrup, Molly Soda

September 18 - 21, 2019

Blair Whiteford (b. 1990; lives and works in New York) received his MFA from Yale University and BFA from Ringling College of Art and Design. Recent solo and two person exhibitions include Sowing a Seed On a Field Made of Ash at Jack Barrett, NY; Flesh Beloved, Slipping Window, Union Pacific, London, UK, 2019; and Hoodwinked with Rory Rosenberg, Gern NY, New York, NY, 2017. Recent group exhibitions include Home Alone at Jack Barrett NY, 2020, and the Chicago Invitational Presented by NADA, 2019. Whiteford is a recipient of the Cape Ann Art Museum Award for Excellence in Landscape Painting (2018), and the Joan Mitchell Foundation fellowship (2013). In 2021 he will be an artist-in-residence at the Fountainhead in Miami, FL. His work is in the collection of the X Museum, Beijing, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, and Pond Society, Shanghai.

Dylan Vandenhoeck (b. 1990; lives and works in New York) is a painter and musician living in Brooklyn. He received his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2012 and MFA in visual art from Columbia University in 2017. Recent solo exhibitions include Reality Show at Matthew Brown Los Angeles, 2021 and What Do You See When You Close Your Eyes and Nod Yes? at Jack Barrett, 2020. Recent group exhibitions include High Art (Paris), Downs & Ross (New York), Office Baroque at Art Brussels (Brussels), The FLAG Art Foundation (New York), and Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery (New York). He was a recipient of the 2017 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant and most recently was a fellow in Shandaken Projects' "Paint School", a color discussion group. His work is in the collection of the X Museum, Beijing.

Rasmus Myrup (b. 1991, Frederiksberg, Denmark) is a Danish artist currently living and working in Copenhagen. His work is at once a synthesis of big and the small narratives. Myrup investigates the big concepts of humanity’s existence, such as evolution and history, through the smaller lens of personal emotions and experiences. Through his sculptures, installations and drawings, he seeks to understand species and worlds since past, and uses vast subject matter from Neanderthals, to trees, and folklore in order to provide new perspectives on our understanding of death, sex and power. Recent solo exhibitions include Folx at Nicolai Wallner (DK); Re-member me at Jack Barrett (US); Homo Homo at Tranen Contemporary Art Center (DK); and Loving those we lost but never knew at Galerie Balice Hertling (Paris, France).

Molly Soda was born Amalia Soto in 1989 in San Juan, Puerto Rico and currently lives and works in New York. She received her B.F.A in Photography and Imaging from Tish School of Art, New York University in 2011. Previous solo shows include You Got This at Jack Barrett (2020); Me and My Gurls, Annka Kultys Gallery, London (2018); I’m just happy to be here, Brooklyn (2017); Comfort Zone, Annka Kultys Gallery, London (2016) and From My Bedroom to Yours, Annka Kultys Gallery, London (2016). She has participated in several group shows internationally. Recent group shows include Alone Together, Artefact, STUK Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (2020); NADA Miami, Daata Editions, Miami, FL (2019); Eye to I, National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C (2018); Virtual Normality: Women Net Artists 2.0, Museum der bildenden Künste, Liepzig, Germany, (2018); digital_self, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, (2017); Your Digital Self Hates You, Stadt Bern, Bern, Switzerland (2016); Doubly So, Detroit, (2016).