Jasper Marsalis

b. 1995, Los Angeles, CA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

Education

  • 2017

    BFA, The Cooper Union, New York, NY

Solo and two-person exhibitions

  • 2023

    Jacket and Shadow and Jacket and Shadow and Jacket and Shadow, Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

  • 2022

    A tear, sliver, and eyelet, Emalin, London, UK

  • 2020

    Stadium, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN, offsite project
    ♫ A star like any other —, Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

  • 2019

    A star like any other —, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN (catalogue)

  • 2018

    Flash blindness, Svetlana, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2023

    Zurich Biennial, Kunsthall Zurich, CH
    Recent Acquisitions and Eternal Loves - Part I, Nicoletta Fiorucci Collection, Monaco, MC

  • 2022

    Bells, Gallery Buchholz, Köln, DE
    Real Corporeal, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY

  • 2021

    Chewing Fat, curated by Nancy Lupo, Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
    Hand to your ear, Part 1 (presence/surplus), curated by Gabriella Nugent, Emalin, London, UK
    The Language in Common, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

  • 2020

    Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY (catalogue)

  • 2019

    For My Lovers Only, cfcp, Brooklyn, NY
    Drawing A Blank, 64 Charing Cross Road, London, UK 

  • 2018

    Approaches, Svetlana, New York, NY

  • 2017

    CLUB, The Cooper Union, New York, NY (with Maja Griffin) 

Selected Performances

  • 2022

    Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX
    Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
    Michael in Black book launch at The Palace Theater, Los Angeles, CA (as Slauson Malone 1)

  • 2020

    Blur, 98 Orchard Street, New York, NY (as Slauson Malone)

  • 2019

    Holiday After Party, The Underground Museum, Los Angeles, CA (as Slauson Malone)
    Injury Reserve US Tour (as Slauson Malone)

Selected Recordings

  • 2020

    Vergangenheitsbewältigung (Crater Speak), Slauson Malone

  • 2019

    A Quiet Farwell 2016–2018, Slauson Malone 

  • 2018

    Red Burns, Standing On The Corner

Selected Bibliography

  • 2023

    Dexter, Henry. “Young Artists 2023: Jasper Marsalis is an Artist and Musician Who Trusts Neither Eye Nor Ear,” Cultured Mag, December 2023
    Onyewuenyi, Ikechúkwú. "Critics Pick: Jasper Marsalis at Kristina Kite Gallery," Artforum, October 2023.
    Araya, Estelle. “Pick of the Week: Jasper Marsalis at Kristina Kite Gallery,” Artillery Magazine, October 2023.
    Marsalis, Jasper. “Drawing is Ultimate Trust,” Los Angeles Times: Images, March 2023.

  • 2022

    Holiday, Harmony. “Michael Backstage,” Black Music and Black Muses, October 2022.
    Miller, Nicole, and Lauren Mackler, eds., PF11: Michael in Black by Nicole Miller, Public Fiction and CARA NYC.

  • 2020

    Mackler, Lauren, Jasper Marsalis, Artforum, May/June 2020.
    Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art, published by ARTBOOK | D.A.P.
    Ihaza, J, ‘Smile at the Past When I See It,’ Secret Magazine, January 31.

  • 2019

    Crater Speak, published by Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN.
    Hoppe, Katherine, “An Interview with Jasper Marsalis, aka Slauson Malone,” Passion of the Weiss, September 11, 2019.

Awards, Grants, and Residencies

  • 2020

    NTS Work in Progress, London, UK

  • 2017

    Laura Miller Margolius Prize

  • 2016

    Sylvia Appelman Painting Award

  • 2015

    Bill Morrison Cooper Fund Scholar
    Jacqueline B. Augustson Cooper Fund Scholar