Joshua Hagler, Devin B. Johnson, Nicola Samorì, Hugo Wilson

Los Angeles

April 8 – May 13, 2023

Joshua Hagler, Devin B. Johnson, Nicola Samorì, Hugo Wilson

Installation View

Nicodim, Los Angeles, 2023

Joshua Hagler, Devin B. Johnson, Nicola Samorì, Hugo Wilson

Installation View

Nicodim, Los Angeles, 2023

Joshua Hagler, Devin B. Johnson, Nicola Samorì, Hugo Wilson

Installation View

Nicodim, Los Angeles, 2023

Joshua Hagler, Devin B. Johnson, Nicola Samorì, Hugo Wilson

Installation View

Nicodim, Los Angeles, 2023

Joshua Hagler, Devin B. Johnson, Nicola Samorì, Hugo Wilson

Installation View

Nicodim, Los Angeles, 2023

Joshua Hagler, Devin B. Johnson, Nicola Samorì, Hugo Wilson

Installation View

Nicodim, Los Angeles, 2023

Joshua Hagler, Devin B. Johnson, Nicola Samorì, Hugo Wilson

Installation View

Nicodim, Los Angeles, 2023

Joshua Hagler, Devin B. Johnson, Nicola Samorì, Hugo Wilson

Installation View

Nicodim, Los Angeles, 2023

Joshua Hagler, Devin B. Johnson, Nicola Samorì, Hugo Wilson

Installation View

Nicodim, Los Angeles, 2023

Joshua Hagler, Devin B. Johnson, Nicola Samorì, Hugo Wilson

Installation View

Nicodim, Los Angeles, 2023

Joshua Hagler, Devin B. Johnson, Nicola Samorì, Hugo Wilson

Installation View

Nicodim, Los Angeles, 2023

Joshua Hagler, Devin B. Johnson, Nicola Samorì, Hugo Wilson

Installation View

Nicodim, Los Angeles, 2023

Joshua Hagler, Devin B. Johnson, Nicola Samorì, Hugo Wilson

Installation View

Nicodim, Los Angeles, 2023

Press Release

Mihai Nicodim does not care for novelty in contemporary art. If one looks back far enough for reference points for any particular artist, he says, there’s someone—or even many ones—who have attempted to create art in a similar vein. He doesn’t care for narrative, either. An artwork should speak its own language and convey its own truth and meaning without over explaining itself. A great artwork will confuse him through technique, material, texture, composition, and/or mark making in a way that compels him to stand in front of it for an hour, and still contemplate it over his evening coffee and cigarette. The four artists in Joshua Hagler, Devin B. Johnson, Nicola Samorì, Hugo Wilson are some of his favorite examples of artists whose work he continues to consider days, weeks, and years after his first introductions.

 

Joshua Hagler (b. 1979, Mountain Home AFB, Idaho) is a first-generation graduate with a graphic design degree from The University of Arizona. A 2018 grant recipient of the Roswell Artist in Residence Program, Hagler has since made New Mexico his permanent home. Recent exhibitions include: Joshua Hagler, Devin B. Johnson, Nicola Samorì, Hugo Wilson, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2023); DISEMBODIED, Nicodim, New York (2023); Unmatter, Secci, Milan (2022); The Living Circle Us, Unit, London (2021, solo); Witness or Pretend, Bode Projects, Berlin (2021); Drawing in the Dark, Cris Worley Fine Arts, Dallas (2021, solo); Figure as Form, Hollis Taggart Gallery, New York (2020); Love Letters to the Poorly Regarded, Roswell Museum and Art Center (2018, solo), and The River Lethe, Brand Library and Art Center, Los Angeles (2018, solo). I Would Not Speak of the Mountain, his first solo exhibition with Nicodim and the first devoted to his Nihil project, opens at Nicodim Los Angeles in November.

 

Devin B. Johnson (b. 1992, Los Angeles) obtained his BA in Fine Arts from the California State University of Channel Islands (2015) and received a Masters of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute (2019). In addition to being named a 2023 Artist-in-Residence for Fountainhead, Miami, he was selected as an Artsy Vanguard (2022), named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Art and Design (2022) list, was included in Cultured’s “Young Artists 2021,” and was one of sixteen artists from around the world selected for the inaugural year of the Black Rock Senegal residency (2020). His work is collected by Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art;  the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Pond Society, Shanghai; the Rubell Museum, Miami; the Columbus Museum of Art; Longlati Foundation, Shanghai; and many others. Recent exhibitions include Ritornellos, Nicoletti Contemporary, London (forthcoming, 2023); Joshua Hagler, Devin B. Johnson, Nicola Samorì, Hugo Wilson, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2023); Night Owl, Massimo de Carlo (2022); Dak’Art Biennial, Dakar, Senegal (2022); Between Ground and Sky, Nicodim, New York (2022), My Heart Cries, I Set Out an Offering for You, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2021, solo); Long Walk, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest (2021, solo); Melody of a Memory, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2020, solo); When You Waked Up the Buffalo, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2020); Hollywood Babylon: A Re-Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, Jeffrey Deitch, Nicodim, AUTRE Magazine, Los Angeles (2020); Atmosphere of Certain Uncertainty, Residency Gallery, Inglewood (2019, solo); and Incognito, ICA LA, Los Angeles (2019).

 

Nicola Samori (b. 1977, Forlì, Italy) lives and works in Bagnacavallo, Italy. His work was included as a part of the Italian Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale. Recent exhibitions include Joshua Hagler, Devin B. Johnson, Nicola Samorì, Hugo Wilson, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2023); DISEMBODIED, Nicodim, New York (2023); Le Ossa della Madre, Villa d’Este, Tivoli (2022, solo); On the Wall, Building Gallery, Milan (2022); MONO, Galerie EIGEN+ART, Lipsia (2022, solo) Sfregi, Palazzo Fava, Bologna (2021, solo); ROMA(Manuale della mollezza e la tecnica dell’eclisse), Monitor Gallery, Rome (2021, solo); Danae Revisited, Fondazione Francesco Fabbri, Pieve di Soligo (2021); 141 – Un secolo di disegno in Italia, Fondazione del Monte, Bologna (2021); Black Square, Fondazione Made in Cloister e Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples (2020, solo); In abisso, Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin (2020, solo); Lucìe, MART- Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto (2020, solo); Stand 1D08, Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin (2020); Collective Care: A House with Many Guests, M WOODS, Chaoyang, Beijing (2020)  Cannibal Trail, Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Caotun (2019, solo); Solstizio d’Inferno, Biblioteca Classense, Ravenna (2019, solo); Metafysica, Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tønsberg (2019); Preparing for Darkness – Vol. 3: I’m Not There, Kühlhaus, Berlin (2019); Iscariotes: Matteo Fato/Nicola Samorì, Casa Testori, Milan (2018, solo); Malafonte, Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin (2018, solo); BILD MACHT RELIGION: Kunst zwischen Verehrung, Verbot und Vernichtung, Kunstmuseum, Bochum (2018).

 

Hugo Wilson (b. 1982, United Kingdom) lives and works in London. His work has been exhibited at the The National Museum, Stockholm, Busan Metropoli­tan Art Museum, the National Por­trait Gallery, and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Wilson is collected by the New York Pub­lic Library, the Deutsche Bank Col­lec­tion, the Janet de Bot­ton Col­lec­tion, the United States Library of Congress and many others. Recent exhibitions include Joshua Hagler, Devin B. Johnson, Nicola Samorì, Hugo Wilson, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2023); Carnal Agreement, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2022, solo); Hollow Moon, Nicodim, New York (2021); Hugo Wilson, Parafin, London (2020, solo); Coincidental Truths, Galerie Judin, Berlin (2020, solo); When You Waked Up the Buffalo, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2020); Iconic Works, The National Museum, Stockholm; Ateneum Art Museum, Finnish National Museum, Helsinki (2020); Crucible, Galerie Isa, Mumbai (2019, solo); Skin Stealers, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2019); Hugo Wilson, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2018, solo); Dialogues / New Paintings from London, GASK, Kutná Hora Museum, Czech Republic Frieze Sculpture Park, Regent’s Park, London (2018). Wilson will present his first solo exhibition in New York, and his fourth with Nicodim, at Nicodim New York in May 2023.

Selected Works

Selected Works Thumbnails
Joshua Hagler

God is a Woman, 2023

mixed media on linen

304.80h x 284.48w cm

120h x 112w in

Joshua Hagler

God is a Woman, 2023

mixed media on linen

304.80h x 284.48w cm

120h x 112w in

Joshua Hagler

I Would Not Speak of the Mountain (Peradam), 2022

Mixed Media on Collaged Canvas

304.80h x 284.48w cm

120h x 112w in

Joshua Hagler

I Would Not Speak of the Mountain (Peradam), 2022

Mixed Media on Collaged Canvas

304.80h x 284.48w cm

120h x 112w in

Devin B. Johnson

City Slicker, 2023

oil on linen

62h x 60w in

157.48h x 152.40w cm

Devin B. Johnson

City Slicker, 2023

oil on linen

62h x 60w in

157.48h x 152.40w cm

Devin B. Johnson

Nothing Gold Can Stay, 2023

oil on canvas

48h x 60w in

121.92h x 152.40w cm

Devin B. Johnson

Nothing Gold Can Stay, 2023

oil on canvas

48h x 60w in

121.92h x 152.40w cm

Nicola Samorì

Santiera II, 2023

French red marble

55h x 90w x 40d cm

21.65h x 35.43w x 15.75d in

Nicola Samorì

Santiera II, 2023

French red marble

55h x 90w x 40d cm

21.65h x 35.43w x 15.75d in

Nicola Samorì

Dirty Dogs, 2023

oil on linen

300h x 200w cm

118.11h x 78.74w in

Nicola Samorì

Dirty Dogs, 2023

oil on linen

300h x 200w cm

118.11h x 78.74w in

Hugo Wilson

Tacit, 2022

oil on panel

121.50h x 99.40w cm

47.83h x 39.13w in

Hugo Wilson

Tacit, 2022

oil on panel

121.50h x 99.40w cm

47.83h x 39.13w in

Hugo Wilson

Bind, 2023

mixed media on paper laid on aluminum

193h x 141w cm

75.98h x 55.51w in

Hugo Wilson

Bind, 2023

mixed media on paper laid on aluminum

193h x 141w cm

75.98h x 55.51w in

Joshua Hagler

God is a Woman, 2023

mixed media on linen

304.80h x 284.48w cm

120h x 112w in
Joshua Hagler

I Would Not Speak of the Mountain (Peradam), 2022

Mixed Media on Collaged Canvas

304.80h x 284.48w cm

120h x 112w in
Devin B. Johnson

City Slicker, 2023

oil on linen

62h x 60w in

157.48h x 152.40w cm
Devin B. Johnson

Nothing Gold Can Stay, 2023

oil on canvas

48h x 60w in

121.92h x 152.40w cm
Nicola Samorì

Santiera II, 2023

French red marble

55h x 90w x 40d cm

21.65h x 35.43w x 15.75d in
Nicola Samorì

Dirty Dogs, 2023

oil on linen

300h x 200w cm

118.11h x 78.74w in
Hugo Wilson

Tacit, 2022

oil on panel

121.50h x 99.40w cm

47.83h x 39.13w in
Hugo Wilson

Bind, 2023

mixed media on paper laid on aluminum

193h x 141w cm

75.98h x 55.51w in