Nayland Blake is an artist, writer, educator, and curator. Born in New York City in 1960, they attended Bard College and then California Institute of the Arts. After receiving their MFA, they moved to San Francisco in 1984. They have had one-person exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; University Art Museum, Berkeley; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in SanFrancisco; and the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College. Their Retrospective, “No Wrong Holes – 30 years of Nayland Blake,” opened in 2019 at the ICALA and closed in 2021 at the MIT LIst Center. Their book, “My Studio is a Dungeon is the Studio,” was published in 2025 by Duke University Press.
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