EDUCATION

1997    
MFA from Yale University, School of Art, New Haven, CT

1995    
BFA from California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA

 
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS


2024    
Ultraviolet Catastrophe, Laura Berger and Marina Kappos, The Pit Palm Springs (Dec-Jan)


Spooky Action, SHRINE, NYC (May-June)


2022    
Sun Up Sun Down, Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, New York (June-July)

You You You, SHRINE, NYC (March-April)


2020    
Transfigured: Marina Kappos and a film by Maya Deren, Foyer/LA, Los Angeles

2011    
Peep Show, China Art Objects, Los Angeles

2008    
Politicus, The Happy Lion, Los Angeles

2007    
Tokyo Paintings, Tokyo Wonder Site, Institute of Contemporary Art, Japan

2005    
A Murder of Crows, The Happy Lion, Los Angeles

2003    
Yellow Fever, Sutton Lane, London

2002    
Flora and Fauna, I-20 Gallery, New York

2001    
Panorama, Galeria Marabini, Bologna, Italy

1999    
Marina Kappos: Fade to Grey, I-20 Gallery, New York


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025
Small Paintings Show: XXS curated by Wendy White, COUNTY Gallery, Palm Beach, FL


2024

Saints and Poets curated by Jon Pylypchuk, Megan Mulrooney Gallery, LA, CA

Tone Poem, The Hole, LA, CA


2023
White Columns 2023 Benefit Exhibition + Auction, White Columns, NYC, NY

Death of an Outsider, SHRINE/LA, CA

2022    
Painting As Is II, curated by Heidi Hahn and Tim Wilson
Nathalie Karg Gallery, NYC, NY

2021    
Return of the Dragons, Blossom Market, Chinatown Central Plaza, LA, CA

Resonant Frequencies, Jonathan Levine Projects (online exhibition)
Jersey City, NJ

2020    
Show Me The Signs, Blum & Poe, LA, CA

Animal Crossing, Inman Gallery (online exhibition) Houston, TX

Connections, SHRINE (online exhibition) NY

2018     
Precurse, Park Place Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2017     
Selections from the Artist Pension Trust, NeueHouse, LA, CA
 
2014    
Daughter of Bad Girls, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, NY

2013    
Pet Shapes, China Art Objects, LA, CA
            
For Ed: Splendor In The Grass, Green Hall Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

2011    
MAKE Skateboards, I-20 Gallery, NY

Taguchi Art Collection-Global New Art, Sompo Japan Museum of Art Tokyo

The Open Daybook Exhibition, LACE, LA, CA

ART RESIDENCIES AND SPECIAL PROJECTS


2025

Retina Residence Artistique
Paris, France (Jan-March)


2024
Arts Connected Residency
Maxx Royal Bodrum Resort, Bodrum, Turkey (September)

2020
Artist-In-Residence Fellowship Program
Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY (November-December)

2013
Artist-In-Residence, Tokyo Wonder Site, Japan (April-June)

2007    
Artist-In-Residence, Tokyo Wonder Site, Japan (May-October)

2005    
Painting installation for the lobby of the law firm of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, Harrisburg, PA

1998
Painting Installation for Jeff Sulkin Architects, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA