Parker Ito
Parker Ito
Parker Ito
b. 1986
b. 1986
b. 1986
Parker Ito is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles whose practice spans painting, sculpture, video, installation, printmaking, drawing, websites, NFTs, and books. His work is as much about the lines between disparate media and forms—in effect, the network itself—as it is about discrete pieces. Rooted in an early art-driven internet community, its elasticity reflects that of the web, and Ito’s website often serves as its own ever-evolving work-cum-exhibition-space: a mirror for the themes and images contained within the rest of his work. Rather than centering on specific subjects, Ito’s art is occupied with things, embodying ideas rather than illustrating them; he is fascinated by the effects that the internet exerts on physical objects, and by the notion of artworks or ideas whose twisty, interconnected intricacy makes them impossible to take in from a single angle. Throughout his practice, he explores the unstable flow of meaning, focusing specifically on sites where interior and exterior worlds absorb, digest, and reformat each other.
He studied at the California College of the Arts.
Awards, Grants & Residencies include Studio of the South, LUMA Arles, Arles (2021); Malevich Como residency, Cernobbio, Italy (2021); MGM Art and Culture Residency, Las Vegas (2019); Fountainhead Residency, Miami (2012); People’s Gallery Summer Residency, San Francisco (2011); Yozo Hamaguchi Printmaking Award, California College of the Arts (2010); All College Honors, California College of the Arts (2009); Jerrold B. Whitney Memorial Scholarship, California College of the Arts (2007); Trustees’ Scholarship, California College of the Arts (2007).
His works are included in collections at Aishti Foundation, Beirut; Booth School of Business, University of Chicago; Deji Museum, Nanjing; Domus Collection, New York; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; M+ Museum, Hong Kong; MGM, Las Vegas; New Century Art Foundation, Shanghai; PCP Collection, Taipei; Princeton University, New Jersey; Rachofsky Collection, Dallas; Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing; The Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; United Talent Agency, Los Angeles; Wesleyan University, Connecticut; X Museum, Beijing; YUZ Museum, Shanghai.
Parker Ito is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles whose practice spans painting, sculpture, video, installation, printmaking, drawing, websites, NFTs, and books. His work is as much about the lines between disparate media and forms—in effect, the network itself—as it is about discrete pieces. Rooted in an early art-driven internet community, its elasticity reflects that of the web, and Ito’s website often serves as its own ever-evolving work-cum-exhibition-space: a mirror for the themes and images contained within the rest of his work. Rather than centering on specific subjects, Ito’s art is occupied with things, embodying ideas rather than illustrating them; he is fascinated by the effects that the internet exerts on physical objects, and by the notion of artworks or ideas whose twisty, interconnected intricacy makes them impossible to take in from a single angle. Throughout his practice, he explores the unstable flow of meaning, focusing specifically on sites where interior and exterior worlds absorb, digest, and reformat each other.
He studied at the California College of the Arts.
Awards, Grants & Residencies include Studio of the South, LUMA Arles, Arles (2021); Malevich Como residency, Cernobbio, Italy (2021); MGM Art and Culture Residency, Las Vegas (2019); Fountainhead Residency, Miami (2012); People’s Gallery Summer Residency, San Francisco (2011); Yozo Hamaguchi Printmaking Award, California College of the Arts (2010); All College Honors, California College of the Arts (2009); Jerrold B. Whitney Memorial Scholarship, California College of the Arts (2007); Trustees’ Scholarship, California College of the Arts (2007).
His works are included in collections at Aishti Foundation, Beirut; Booth School of Business, University of Chicago; Deji Museum, Nanjing; Domus Collection, New York; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; M+ Museum, Hong Kong; MGM, Las Vegas; New Century Art Foundation, Shanghai; PCP Collection, Taipei; Princeton University, New Jersey; Rachofsky Collection, Dallas; Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing; The Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; United Talent Agency, Los Angeles; Wesleyan University, Connecticut; X Museum, Beijing; YUZ Museum, Shanghai.
