Ángeles Agrela, Isabelle Albuquerque, Samantha Joy Groff, Joshua Hagler, Devin B. Johnson, Rae Klein, Katherina Olschbaur, Nicola Samorì, Will Thornton, Hugo Wilson

Art Basel, Miami Beach

December 8 – 10, 2023

Selected Works

Selected Works Thumbnails
Ángeles Agrela

Tess, 2023

acrylic and pencil on paper

200h x 152w cm

79h x 60w in

Ángeles Agrela

Tess, 2023

acrylic and pencil on paper

200h x 152w cm

79h x 60w in

Isabelle Albuquerque

Orgy For Ten People In One Body: 9, 2022

Bronze, gold wedding band, shaker broom, hallucinogenic flying ointment

39h x 36.50w x 20d in

99h x 93w x 51d cm

Isabelle Albuquerque

Orgy For Ten People In One Body: 9, 2022

Bronze, gold wedding band, shaker broom, hallucinogenic flying ointment

39h x 36.50w x 20d in

99h x 93w x 51d cm

Samantha Joy Groff

Soul Purgation, 2023

acrylic and oil on canvas

167.64h x 238.76w cm

66h x 94w in

Samantha Joy Groff

Soul Purgation, 2023

acrylic and oil on canvas

167.64h x 238.76w cm

66h x 94w in

Joshua Hagler

The Dreaming Game (Ars Amatoria), 2023

mixed media on canvas

94h x 76w in

239h x 193w cm

Joshua Hagler

The Dreaming Game (Ars Amatoria), 2023

mixed media on canvas

94h x 76w in

239h x 193w cm

Devin B. Johnson

In a World of Angst, 2023

oil on linen

203.20h x 228.60w cm

80h x 90w in

Devin B. Johnson

In a World of Angst, 2023

oil on linen

203.20h x 228.60w cm

80h x 90w in

Rae Klein

Life Is Not What It Used To Be, 2023

oil on linen

72h x 84w in

182.88h x 213.36w cm

Rae Klein

Life Is Not What It Used To Be, 2023

oil on linen

72h x 84w in

182.88h x 213.36w cm

Rae Klein

Liar's Dream II, 2023

oil on linen

182.88h x 274.32w cm

72h x 108w in

Rae Klein

Liar's Dream II, 2023

oil on linen

182.88h x 274.32w cm

72h x 108w in

Katherina Olschbaur

Sweet Expulsion, 2023

oil on linen

154.94h x 142.24w cm

61h x 56w in

Katherina Olschbaur

Sweet Expulsion, 2023

oil on linen

154.94h x 142.24w cm

61h x 56w in

Nicola Samorì

Marlene, 2023

oil on linen

150h x 200w cm

59h x 79w in

Nicola Samorì

Marlene, 2023

oil on linen

150h x 200w cm

59h x 79w in

Will Thornton

The Worry, 2023

oil on linen

9h x 8w in

22.86h x 20.32w cm

Will Thornton

The Worry, 2023

oil on linen

9h x 8w in

22.86h x 20.32w cm

Hugo Wilson

ReCentric, 2023

mixed media on paper laid on aluminum

190h x 210w cm

74.80h x 82.68w in

Hugo Wilson

ReCentric, 2023

mixed media on paper laid on aluminum

190h x 210w cm

74.80h x 82.68w in

Ángeles Agrela

Tess, 2023

acrylic and pencil on paper

200h x 152w cm

79h x 60w in
Isabelle Albuquerque

Orgy For Ten People In One Body: 9, 2022

Bronze, gold wedding band, shaker broom, hallucinogenic flying ointment

39h x 36.50w x 20d in

99h x 93w x 51d cm
Samantha Joy Groff

Soul Purgation, 2023

acrylic and oil on canvas

167.64h x 238.76w cm

66h x 94w in
Joshua Hagler

The Dreaming Game (Ars Amatoria), 2023

mixed media on canvas

94h x 76w in

239h x 193w cm
Devin B. Johnson

In a World of Angst, 2023

oil on linen

203.20h x 228.60w cm

80h x 90w in
Rae Klein

Life Is Not What It Used To Be, 2023

oil on linen

72h x 84w in

182.88h x 213.36w cm
Rae Klein

Liar's Dream II, 2023

oil on linen

182.88h x 274.32w cm

72h x 108w in
Katherina Olschbaur

Sweet Expulsion, 2023

oil on linen

154.94h x 142.24w cm

61h x 56w in
Nicola Samorì

Marlene, 2023

oil on linen

150h x 200w cm

59h x 79w in
Will Thornton

The Worry, 2023

oil on linen

9h x 8w in

22.86h x 20.32w cm
Hugo Wilson

ReCentric, 2023

mixed media on paper laid on aluminum

190h x 210w cm

74.80h x 82.68w in

Press Release

Ángeles Agrela (b. 1966, Úbeda, Spain) has resided in Naples, La Habana, and Berlin, and currently lives and works in Granada. Her recent works seek to conceptualize the role of women within the History of Art by creating a contemporary representative view. Following this theme, the key feature of her drawings becomes the hair, which has important cultural and historical connotations within representation of the feminine. She uses the symbolic charge and communicatory capacity of hair to create an exaggerated mass that often substitutes the face or hides it completely, as a playful way to divert attention away from the face and towards how women choose to represent themselves. Recent exhibitions include Ángeles Agrela, Nicodim, New York (solo, forthcoming); The Paradoxes of the Aura, CICA, Vancouver (2023, solo); Immaculate Heart of Margaritaville curated by Devendra Banhart, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2023); MATERNITY LEAVE: NONE OF WOMEN BORN, Nicodim in collaboration with the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas (2023); Kiaf Seul, Yusto Giner Gallery (2023); Art Busan, Yusto Giner Gallery (2023); Art Chicago, Yusto Giner Gallery (2023), Art Basel Miami, Nicodim Gallery (2022); Le Regard, Perrotin Gallery, Dubai (2022); FAUNA, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles (2022, solo); Facial Recognition, Fabien Fryns Fine Art, Dubai (2022); DISEMBODIED, Nicodim, Bucharest (2022); Summer Nights, Stems Gallery, Paris (2022); Around the world, WOAW Gallery, Hong Kong (2022); Fanzination, Galería Yusto/Giner, Madrid (2021, solo); Art021 Shanghai, Galería/Yusto Giner (2021, solo). Agrela is collected by CAC Málaga; Colección Banco de España; the National Library of Spain; the L´Oréal Collection; and many others.

 

Isabelle Albuquerque (b. 1981, Los Angeles) Isabelle Albuquerque’s formally powerful and psychologically charged sculpture invites multiple, simultaneous readings and perspectives. With a background in performance, Albuquerque uses her own body to investigate the protean nature of identity and to create a cross-temporal conversation that centers the experiences of women and their own connection to desire, sexuality and embodiment.  In her latest series of sculptures, Orgy for 10 People in One Body, Albuquerque marries ancient and contemporary technologies such as 3D scanning and robotic carving, rendered across multiple materials each with their own agency and complex history. These life size sculptures transition from bronze, wood, plaster, rubber, and wax to synthetic resins and human hair.  Empathetic, subversive, confrontational and steeped in cultural memory, these works are often caught in an intangible state of transformation that speaks to the dynamics of sexuality, violence and power throughout human history and to our present volatile moment - where the very idea of the human and the limits of the body are being confronted with unprecedented metamorphosis. 


Isabelle Albuquerque was born in 1981 in Los Angeles where she lives and works today. Albuquerque studied architecture and theater at Barnard College. As a founding member of the music and performance duo Hecuba, she released three albums between 2006 and 2012 and performed at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Recent sculptural exhibitions include MATERNITY LEAVE: NONE OF WOMEN BORN, Nicodim in collaboration with the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas (2023); Orgy for 10 People in One Body, Jeffrey Deitch, New York (2022, solo); BodyLand, curated by Lauren Taschen, Max Hetzler, Berlin (2022); Skin in the Game, curated by Zoe Lukov, Chicago (2022) and South Beach, Miami (2021); The Emerald Tablet, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles (2021); Nuestrxs Putxs, Human Resources, Los Angeles (2021).  Sextet, Albuquerque’s critically acclaimed first solo exhibition with Nicodim opened in September of 2020 with six  sculptures from Orgy for 10People in One Body. Albuquerque’s work has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, Artforum, L’officiel and  Flash Art.  This year she will be releasing her first monograph  Orgy for 10 People in One Body (Nicodim, Pacific, Jeffrey Deitch, 2023) a 450 page in depth book about the series that includes conversations with the artists Miranda July and Arthur Jafa.

 

Samantha Joy Groff (b. 1993, Pennsylvania) received her MFA from Yale School of Art and earned a dual undergraduate degree from Parsons School of Design in integrated fashion design and film studies. Recent exhibitions include Samantha Joy Groff, Devin B. Johnson, Katherina Olschbaur, Nicodim, New York (2023, forthcoming); Dark Pastures, Half Gallery, Los Angeles (2023, solo); Samantha Joy Groff: True Riches, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2022, solo); Town Gossip, Martha’s Contemporary, Austin (2022, solo); Stilltsville, Half Gallery, Miami (2022); YOU ME ME YOU curated by Rachel Keller, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2022); Vibrant Matters, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, New York (2022); Noise for Now x Phillips, Phillips Benefit Auction, New York (2022); Eve Presents #2, Eve Liebe Gallery, London (2022); Hunting Season, Adhesivo Contemporary, Mexico City (2021, solo); and Good Taste, Dinner Gallery, New York (2021).

 

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. Currently, he lives with his wife and daughter in the high desert village of Placitas at the foot of the Sandia Mountains. In recent years, his practice has been guided by an approach he calls Nihil, a set of nine self-imposed principles that have grown out of solitary excursions throughout the state. These principles determine all aspects of the work from its imagery and process, to the media and objects comprising it. Concept and meaning, as such, naturally unfold out of synchronistic experiences occurring over time. Recent exhibitions include: I Would Not Speak of the Mountain, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2023, solo); Togetherness, For Better or Worse, Green Family Art Founation, Dallas (2023); The Descendants, K11 Musea, Hong Kong (2023); MATERNITY LEAVE: NONE OF WOMEN BORN, Nicodim in collaboration with the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas (2023); 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).

 

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 Devin B. Johnson, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2024, solo, forthcoming); Samantha Joy Groff, Devin B. Johnson, Katherina Olschbaur, Nicodim, New York (2023, forthcoming); Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest: 10 Years, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest (2023); PRESENT ‘23, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus (2023); Ritornellos, Nicoletti Contemporary, London (2023);  MATERNITY LEAVE: NONE OF WOMEN BORN, Nicodim in collaboration with the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas (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 YouWaked 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).

Rae Klein (b. 1995) lives and works in Michigan. She graduated from Eastern Michigan University in 2017 with a BFA in Painting. Recent exhibitions include DISEMBODIED, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2024, forthcoming); POWERPLAY, Nicodim, New York (2023, solo); Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest: 10 Years, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest (2023); Last Night I Dreamt I Was Running, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest (2023, solo); DISEMBODIED curated by Ben Lee Ritchie Handler, Nicodim, New York (2023); LOW VOICE OUT LOUD, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2022, solo); The Comfort in Calamity, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco (2022, solo); BODYLAND, curated by Lauren Taschen, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (2022); End of Eden, Galerie Wolfsen, Aalborg (2022); Todo es de Color, The Curator’s Room, Amsterdam (2022); Paper., BEERS London (2022); Waiting in the Field, The Valley, Taos, New Mexico (2021, solo); I Have My Eye On You, Everyday Gallery, Antwerp (2021); and When Shit Hits The Fan Again, Guts Gallery, London (2021). 

 

Katherina Olschbaur (b.1983, Bregenz, Lake Constance, Austria) lives and works in Los Angeles, California. She graduated from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria. Recent exhibitions include Samantha Joy Groff, Devin B. Johnson, Katherina Olschbaur, Nicodim, New York (2023, forthcoming);  October+, Perrotin, Paris (2023); Katherina Olschbaur, Dangxia Art Space, Beijing (solo); Galeria Nicodim, 10 years, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest (2023); Midnight Spill, Perrotin, Hong Kong (2023, solo); Somatic Markings, Kasmin, New York (2022); Prayers, Divinations, Nicodim, New York (2022, solo); Dak'Art: African Contemporary Art Biennale, Dakar (2022); Live Flesh, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2021–2022, solo); Dominique Fung and Katherina Olschbaur: My Kingdom and a Horse, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest (2021, two-artist); Night Blessings, Union Pacific, London (2021, solo), Tortured Ecstasies, Nicodim Upstairs, Los Angeles (2020, solo); Dirty Elements, Contemporary Arts Center Gallery, UC Irvine, Irvine (2020, solo); Hollywood Babylon: A Re-inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, Jeffrey Deitch, Nicodim, AUTRE Magazine, Los Angeles (2020); The Divine Hermaphrodite, GNYP Gallery, Berlin (2019, solo); and Horses, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2018, solo). In 2021, she was selected for the second year of Kehinde Wiley’s Black Rock residency in Dakar, Senegal.

 

Nicola Samorì (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 Nicola Samorì, Nicodim, New York (2024, solo, forthcoming); 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).

 

Will Thornton (b. 1990, Crossville, Tennessee) lives and works in Charleston, South Carolina. Following a two-artist booth with Ricco/Maresca at the 2023 Independent Art Fair that was glowingly covered by the New York Times, the Art Newspaper, and Artnet, Will Thornton: Hypnagogic Sex Idols is the artist's first solo exhibition.

 

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 SIRANI, Galerie Judin, Berlin (2023); Whatever Gets You Thru the Night, Nicodim, New York (2023); 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).