Debuting on ICA LA’s 7th street facade is a commissioned, site-specific mural by artist Zoe Walsh (b. 1989, Washington D.C.; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA). As a painter, Walsh refuses and expands the bounds of their chosen medium. They disrupt the containers of canvas and paint; bend figure and ground; entwine deep research and embodied practice. Their process includes digital modeling, meticulous hand-weeded stencils, and screen printing—all of which coalesce into dreamy scenes of silhouetted bodies in nature and in pleasure. Gardens, parks, and urban landscapes appear throughout Walsh’s paintings as sites for queer intimacy and possibility, reclaimed in the face of systemic erasure. In composing their montages, Walsh combines material from queer archives, topographic maps, and other found images with photographs of their own community staged in their garden. Refracted through Walsh’s prismatic hand, these references—once stamped in time—become emergent visions of queer and trans connection. Oscillating between vibrancy and concealment, Walsh’s work confounds legibility, inviting ways of seeing that shift, shimmer, and unfold. Their forthcoming mural will formally and conceptually expand upon these lines of inquiry, focusing in particular on the ecologies of Los Angeles.
Zoe Walsh (b. 1989; Washington, D.C.) is a Los-Angeles-based artist holding an MFA from Yale University and a BA from Occidental College.
Walsh has mounted solo and two-person exhibitions at Vielmetter, Los Angeles, CA; Yossi Milo, New York, NY; M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Pieter Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA; and Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, France, among others.
Walsh’s work has been featured in group exhibitions at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Peppers Art Gallery, Redlands, CA; Usdan Gallery, Bennington, VT; La Maison des Arts, Malakoff, France; Abrons Art Center, New York, NY, and UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA.
In 2019, the artist was a nominee for the Emerging Artist Grant from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation. In 2015 they received the Al Held Foundation Fellowship to the American Academy in Rome, Italy and they were a Harriet Hale Woolley Scholar at the Fondation des États-Unis in Paris, France the following year. In 2024, ...
Zoe Walsh (b. 1989; Washington, D.C.) is a Los-Angeles-based artist holding an MFA from Yale University and a BA from Occidental College.
Walsh has mounted solo and two-person exhibitions at Vielmetter, Los Angeles, CA; Yossi Milo, New York, NY; M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Pieter Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA; and Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, France, among others.
Walsh’s work has been featured in group exhibitions at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Peppers Art Gallery, Redlands, CA; Usdan Gallery, Bennington, VT; La Maison des Arts, Malakoff, France; Abrons Art Center, New York, NY, and UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA.
In 2019, the artist was a nominee for the Emerging Artist Grant from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation. In 2015 they received the Al Held Foundation Fellowship to the American Academy in Rome, Italy and they were a Harriet Hale Woolley Scholar at the Fondation des États-Unis in Paris, France the following year. In 2024, Walsh was awarded a residency at Fountainhead in Miami.