The labyrinthine basement under the snack bar —
Ido Radon is an artist and writer who grapples with abstractions that structure the social real even as they remain nearly impossible to figure. Recent works focus on technologies and infrastructures (hard and soft) that mediate contemporary life. Radon’s practice is hyper-aware of the material conditions of the production of art and reproduction of the artist. These concerns are necessarily feminist. An autodidact, she holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia. And with family and friends, she makes SOCIETY.
In 2023, Radon was a finalist for the Seattle Art Museum Betty Bowen Award and was selected for a Mass MOCA Residency Fellowship. Radon has made solo exhibitions at Afternoon Projects, (Vancouver, BC), Artspeak (Vancouver, BC), Air de Paris (Paris), Ditch Projects (Springfield, OR), Et al. (San Francisco), ILY2 (Portland), Jupiter Woods (London), Pied-à-terre (San Francisco), Romance (Pittsburgh), and Veronica (Seattle) and shown work at Canton Sardine (Vancouver, BC), Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, RONGWRONG, the Belkin Art Gallery, and the Henry Art Gallery.
C.V.
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
California, Afternoon Projects, Vancouver, BC
California, ILY2, Portland, OR
2023
KILL SYSTEM, Romance, Pittsburgh, PA
SOCIETY, Veronica Project Space, Seattle, WA
2021
Count Zero Interrupt, Air de Paris, Paris
Mother of Pearl Gasoline Slick, Melanie Flood Projects, Portland
2020
QRV, SAND, Phoenix, AZ
2018
Gate, The Orchards, Boring, OR
2019
LANDER, PANEL.LA, Los Angeles
2017
Joy Stick, Et al., San Francisco
2016
Wholeness Engine, Jupiter Woods, London The sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere, Muscle Beach, Portland
2015
The Condition of the Waters, Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR
[ ], Artspeak, Vancouver, B.C.
2014
INFINITY INCREASER, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
The Plumb and The Wave, Pied-à-terre, San Francisco
2013
Prototyping Eutopias, Littmann Gallery
2012
ἐπί ἡμέρα, White Box Gallery, University of Oregon
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023
Inhuman/Alien, Canton Sardine, Vancouver, British Columbia
2016
Holding a Cup on a Boar, RONGWRONG, Amsterdam
2015
Peripheral Array, S1, Portland
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
And down below the earth shown bright, ILY2, Portland, OR
2022
Protean Lattice, Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2021
Untitled, Audain Art Gallery, UBC, Vancouver BC
Immaterial Salon at ART-O-RAMA, Marseilles with Air de Paris
Fragments of a Hologram Rose, FeralFile
2019
phreak, Institute for Speculative Research, Portland, OR
A good way to invent the future, Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR
WOOBA Presents: The 2015 Honda Fit Transmission, CoLab, Austin, TX
Louwrien Wijers: Zeppelin Rooms, RONGWRONG, Amsterdam
Touch[ing] down lightly, Moonmist, Houston
Everything’s Raw: Everything is Raw, Cranium Suite, Portland Speculative Frictions, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland
2018
The Poster Show, Phyllis Gill Gallery, Riverside, CA
2017
Discretion, CASTIGLIONI, São Pãolo, Brazil
Core, Out of Site, Seattle
2016
Zero Day, Six Weeks, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Portland2016 Biennial, Oregon Contemporary (Disjecta) Parantola, Titanik offsite at Alvar Aalto’s Paimio Sanatorium, Finland
Unveiling (you embrace me, as I am), Jupiter Woods, London
2015
GG at the Helm, Bronco Gallery/Portland Women’s Forum
2013
The City and the City, LxWxH Gallery, Seattle
Green Gothic, Hedreen Gallery, Seattle
2011
Shred of Light, Worksound Gallery, Portland
Reading.Writing, Gallery HOMELAND, Portland
Broad Strokes, Carhole Gallery, Portland
2010
Doing It To It, gallery HOMELAND, Portland
EDUCATION
2022 MFA in Visual Art, University of British Columbia