Curriculum Vitae
 
Augustine Kofie (Juxtapox October 2010, #117)
b. November, 1973 in Los Angeles, California USA.
Primarily self taught.
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
 
 
 
Solo exhibitions
 
2024: UNTITLED - Harman Projects - Los Angeles
2023: UNDERCURRENTS - Chenus Longhi Gallery - Paris
2022: PRISMA - Kirk Gallery - Aalborg, Denmark
2022: ROTATIONSHIPS - Heron Arts, San Francisco
2021: State Of Mind - Hashimoto Contemporary - New York
2020: Adventures In Tonality - Galerie Openspace - Paris
2019: A.Kofie X MONKEY TIME - MONKEY TIME Boutique -Harajuku, Japan
2019: Darkest Before the Dawn - STOLENSPACE  -London
2018: MNKZM - Swinton & Grant - Madrid
2017: Build From memory - Gallerie Openspace - Paris
2015: INVENTORY - Jonathan LeVine Gallery - New York
2015: OFF/GRID - David Bloch Gallery - Marrakech
2014: TAKING SHAPE - Gallerie Openspace - Paris
2014: Yesterdays Advance - Celaya Brothers Gallery - Mexico D.F.
2013: Structurally Sound - White Walls Gallery - San Francisco
2013: California Soul - Gallerie Openspace - Paris, France
2012: Working An Angle - Known Gallery - Los Angeles
2011: Circulatory System - White Walls Gallery - San Francisco
2010: RETROFITTED - White Walls Gallery - San Francisco
2009: Vintage Futurism - Zero1 Gallery - Los Angeles
2007: Kofie Vs SURU - SURU Store - Los Angeles
2006: Electric Avenue - Bent Gallery - Pasadena
2006: Hands On - Transport Gallery - Los Angeles
2005: Recent Painting - Still Life Gallery - New York
2005: Claska Gallery Installation - Meguro-Ku, Tokyo, Japan
2004: STREETWISE 3 - Lab 101 Gallery - Santa Monica
2001: MOBILIZATION - 33 1/3 Gallery - Los Angeles
 
 
2 & 3 man exhibitions
 
2019: GRAFFUTURISM: Robert Proch & A. Kofie - Le Vog - Grenoble, France
2014: ASSIOMA: Moneyless & A. Kofie - Avantgarden Gallery - Milan, Italy
2013: 3 The Hard Way: J.Inscoe, CD Bruno, A.Kofie - BreezeBlock - Portland
2012: Conversations: Jaybo & A. Kofie - Soze Gallery - Los Angeles
2012: GATHER: 2 man Exhibition - The Lovell Gallery - Cape Town, S. Africa
2009: Metallum - The Ronin Gallery - Echo Park
2007: THANKS with Frohawk (Umar Rashid), Unitard gallery - Los Angeles
2005: Greg Craola Simkins & Kofie One - FIFTY24SF Gallery - San Francisco
2003: ASSEMBLAGE  - Indigo Flower - Santa Monica

 
Group exhibitions


2023: REFLECTIONS - Open Gallery, Long Beach, CA

2022: DETOUR ART HERNING - Kirk Gallery - Aalborg, Denmark
2022: Inaugural group exhibition - MIRUS Gallery - Los Angeles
2021: Altered States - Sugar Press Art - Online via Los Angeles
2021: Inaugural group exhibition - Hashimoto Contemporary - Los Angeles
2021: INSIDE OUT - Kirk Gallery - Aalborg, Denmark
2021: DETOUR ART HERNING - Kirk Gallery - Aalborg, Denmark
2020: Greetings From Miami - Hashimoto Contemporary - New York
2020: INCOGNITO Benifit- Institute of Contemporary Art - Los Angeles, CA
2020: Multiples - Hashimoto Contemporary - New York
2020: INSIDE OUT - Kirk Gallery - Aalborg, Denmark
2020: IN FORMATION - Hashimoto Contemporary - New York
2019: Hashimoto Contemporary - Context MIAMI / Art Basel
2019: UP THE WALL - KIRK Gallery - Aalborg, Denmark
2019: About Me: Collection of Takuma Kobayashi - CTAG - Tokyo, Japan
2018: Spring Group show - Galerie Matthew Namour - Montreal, Canada 
2018: Wish You Were Here - Stolenspace -London UK 
2018: Group show - MIRUS Gallery  - Denver, Colorado
2018: URVANITY Art Fair - Swinton & Grant gallery - Madrid, Spain
2017: Art Basel:MIAMI
2017: COMPENDIUM - TREASON Gallery - Seattle
2017: East Looking West - Heron Arts, San Francisco 
2017: A Major Minority - MIRUS Gallery - San Francisco
2017: Abstrakt Forum 2 - Krakow Poland
2017: Adventures In Abstraction - Stolenspace - London, UK
2017: Multiples Of Multiples - Jonathan Levine Projects - NYC
2017: Urban Art Fair/ NYC - Jonathan Levine Projects - NYC
2017: Urban Art Fair/ Paris - Gallerie Openspace - Paris, France
2017: WELCOME TO NEW JERSEY @ Jonathan Levine Projects -NYC
2017: RESET - Athen B. Gallery - Oakland
2016: Above The Streets - Exhibit/Honor - ARTSHARE Los Angeles
2016: Please Don't Touch - Gallerie Openspace - Paris, France
2016: Brick To Canvas - Tinney Contemporary - Nashville, Tennessee 
2016: Exceptional - Curated by Remi Rough - Scream Gallery, London
2015: Cosmic Flush - Rammellzee Tribute - Magda Gallery, London
2015: Project P:ear benefit - Stephanie Chefas Projects - Oregon
2015: GO Group Exhibition - Gallerie Openspace - Paris, France
2015: L.A. Muralists: In Their Studios II - Couturier Gallery - Los Angeles
2015: A Study Of Camouflage - Backwoods Gallery - Melbourne
2015: GRAFFUTURISM 5 Year Anniversary - 866 Geary gallery - SF
2014: REWIRED - Gamma Transport Division - Eidenburgh, Scottland
2014: Exhibit Z- Group exhibition - Library Street Collective - Detroit
2014: MCLA Booth - Los Angeles Art Fair - LA Convention Center
2013: L’Avenir / Graffuturism - White Walls Gallery - San Francisco
2013: De La Ligne a L’abstraction - Yves Laroche Gallery - Montreal
2013: Out With The Old - Library Street Collective - Detroit, Michigan
2013: Breeze Block Gallery - Wider Then A Postcard - Portland, Oregon
2012: FUTURISM 2.0_Gamma Proforma - Blackall Studios - London, England
2012: GEOMETRICKS - Brooklyn Street Art - Gallery Brooklyn - New York
2012: Space // Form - Breeze Block Gallery - Portland, Oregon
2012: DABS & MYLA and Friends  - Thinkspace Gallery - Culver City
2012: Streets Of The World - Opera Gallery - New York, NY
2012: Sesame Street: Group Show/ Benefit - Known Gallery - Los Angeles
2012: Well & Good Present: D i s c o v e r y, Toronto, Ontario Canada
2012: LA Freewalls Inside - LA LA Gallery - Los Angeles
2012: White Walls Gallery - Winter Group Show - San Francisco
2011: Rudimentary Perfection - Recoat Gallery - Glasgow
2011: David Bloch Gallery - Group Exhibition - Marrakech
2011: Linear Empires - White Walls Gallery - San Francisco
2011: Unintended Calculations - Becker Galleries - Vancouber
2011: Edifice Cache - Morono Kiang Gallery - Los Angeles
2010: Volta 6 Art Fair -  The LA Art Machine - Switzerland
2010: HACE - Duality - CB GALLERY - Los Angeles
2010: Vox Humana - LA Art Show - LA Convention Center - Los Angeles
2010: Op Straat - Willem Kerseboom Gallery - Amsterdam
2010: L’art Urbain - Addict Gallery - Paris
2010: Scope Art Fair - Williem Kerseboom Gallery - Basel
2010: Urban Avantgarde - STROKE 2.0 Urban Art Exhibition - Munich
2010: Never A Dull Momen - White Walls Gallery - San Francisco
2010: Street Legal - Rivera & Rivera Gallery - Los Angeles
2009: MANIFEST HOPE:DC - Washington, DC
2009: Climb In The Back Window - Philadelphia
2008: Oro Universal - Space Gallery - San Francisco
2008: LA Style 2 - LA Contemporary - Culver City
2007: From La With Love Installation - A+D Museum - Los Angeles
2007: LA Style - LA Contemporary - Culver City
2007: TEMPT: Represent, Represen - URB Gallery - Culver City
2006: MOVEMENT - Department of Cultural Affairs - KGB - Los Angeles
2006: Soul SignIficance - Crewest Gallery - Los Angeles
2005: SCION Install 2 - Track16 - Bergamot Station - Santa Monica
2004: GRA(FF)ITE - Crewest Gallery - Alhambra
2003: Street Dreams - Ghetto Gloss Gallery - Silverlake
2003: Beyond GRAFFITI - Headquarters Gallery - Hollywood
2003: AYER…Still Alive - Subject Matter Gallery - Costa Mesa
2002: Abstract Reality - ICU Art Gallery - Los Angeles
2000: Capital Art - Track 16, Bergamot Station - Santa Monica
2000: SPIT & POLISH with Robbie Conal - Art Place Gallery - Los Angeles
1999: Police Brutality Exhibit - Old County Jail - Los Angeles
1998: MILLENNIUM - Bergamot Station - Santa Monica
1995: Wild Wild West - ICU Art Gallery - Los Angeles
 
 
Museum Exhibitions | Permanent collections


2023: INCOGNITO 2023- Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Ca

2023: All Black Everything - Museum Of Graffiti - Miami, Florida

2022: Pattern & Recognition - Claremont Grad University - Claremont, Ca
2022: Next Wave: New Contemporaries of the Abstract Movement - FWMOA, Indiana, USA
2022: 1970s / GRAFFITI / TODAY - Phillips Gallery - NYC
2019: Permanent collection - Twr y Felin Hotel - St. Davids Pembrokeshire, Wales
2018: Ephemeral Natures - Robert Redford Conservancy - Claremont, Ca
2018: ABSTRACT STREET ART - Spacejunk art center - Bayonne, France
2017: Permanent collection - Microsoft Art collection - United States
2016: URBAN NATION MUSEUM FOR URBAN CONTEMPORARY ART -Berlin, Germany
2015: Beyond Graffiti 2  - A+D Museum - Los Angeles, CA
2015: Urban Art Biennale - Völklinger Hütte  - Völklingen, Germany
2014: SCRATCH - Getty Research Institute - ESMuseum of art, El Segundo
2013: Urban Art Biennale - Völklinger Hütte  - Völklingen, Germany
2011: Street Cred - Pasadena Museum of California Art - Pasadena
2010: Dreams Deferred - The Chinese American Museum - Los Angeles
 
 
Mural Interventions

2023: Mural with EL MAC - Allan Jeffries - Los Angeles, CA

2022: 'Forme(s) Collective' - AOC x 9e Concept - 1872 Maison d’Artistes - France
2021: 'Ekkolokation' mural - OUT IN THE OPEN Festival - Aalborg Denmark
2021: 'MACROfusion' mural - STMicroelectronics campus - Grenoble, France
2019: ‘In Addition’ mural- University Grenoble Alpse  - Grenoble, France 
2019: ’Two-movement’ mural- FourFortyFour South Flower / Coretrust Capital, Los Angeles
2018: MURALU festival- Ludwigshafen, Germany 
2018: Renaud-Bray ARCHAMBAULT HQ, Montreal Quebec
2018: Mind The Wall project - Madrid, Spain 
2018: 'Etxe Hautsi' mural installation with LX.One - Bayonne, France
2017: Mural Invervention - Electric Pony Studios - Central Los Angeles
2017: Interior mural- Workflow' mural - C3 Creative Space - Culver City, CA  
2017: East Norwood Mural Installation - Synthesis festival - London, UK
2016: LOCO Taqueria - South Boston, Massachusetts 
2016: UTI 30th anniversary mural - Westbrass building - Downtown Los Angeles
2016: 'L’esprit Nouveau' mural - Grenoble Street Art Fest -  Grenoble, France
2015: 'GRIDLOCK' Mural - Mana Contemporary - Jersey City, NJ 
2015: MUMFORD Brewery mural installation - Downtown LA
2015: 'Transmission' mural - Punter's - Boston, Massachusetts 
2015: 'LA ABUELA' mural with -EL MAC & NUKE - American Hotel - Los Angeles
2015: 'Icarian Flight' mural with EL MAC - Allan Jeffries -Los Angeles, CA
2015: 'An OFF/GRID attempt' mural - David Bloch Gallery - Gueliz, Marrakech 
2014: 'Geometries of Menilmontant' mural - Art Azoi- Paris, France
2014: Le M.U.R mural n°175 - rue Oberkampf - Paris, France
2014: 'FORUMATIONS' with NAWER - FORUM Przestrzenie - Krakow, Poland 
2014: Zhu Dang restaurant Mural Installation - Seattle, Washington
2014: SPOTIFY Los Angeles offices - Sunset Blvd. - Beverly Hills, CA
2014: Bridge Fest mural installation - Navigle Pavese bridge - Milan Italy
2014: MANA Circulations - Pow Wow Hawaii Mural Festival - Honolulu, HI
2013: 'Assembly Line' Mural - The Z parking structure - Detroit Michigan
2013: Interior mural installation - CBRE Los Angeles Offices atrium - DTLA
2013: 'Circulations in the Tenderloin' mural - Patek Ecklon - Tenderloin SF, CA.
2013: All City Canvas mural, Hermann Miller - Mexico D.F.
2013: Gravillis Creative Office mural installation - Wilshire district, Los Angeles
2013: Wild Card Creative Office mural installation - Traction Ave, Los Angeles
2013: 'Hand With Brush' mural with EL MAC - Downtown Los Angeles
2012: Megaro Hotel mural with Agents Of Change crew - Central London, UK 
2012: Mural Install - Lovell Gallery - Woodstock district -Cape Town, South Africa
2012: 'FUTURINO' mural installation - Picturin Festival - Torino, Italy
2012: Mural & conference - Board Dripper Festival - Queretaro, Mexico
2012: Mural with Smithe & Dhear - Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Mexico
2012: 'Hidden Beauty' mural - Karel de Grootelaan in Eindhoven.
2012: Amplify Campus mural intervention - Venice, California
2012: Tesuque Village mural with EL MAC -  Santa Fe, New Mexico
2011: 'GRAFFUTURISTE' mural - Wynwood Arts District. Downtown Miami, USA
2011: 'Inspired’ mural with EL MAC -  Mid City, Los Angeles
2011: Colaboration mural with EL MAC - Rebull Soundspace - Los Angeles, CA
2011: The Last Bookstore mural installation - Downtown Los Angeles, CA
2011: MODA hotel mural with Remi Rough, Sumi, Joker, Vancouver, Canada
2011: Colaboration mural with Remi Rough - South London, UK
2011: Mural installation - Graffuturism/ Recoat  - Glasgow, Scotland 
2010: Primary Flight mural install -  Miami Design District
2010: 'Trifecta' mural - The Rose Street Artist Market - Fitzroy, Melbourne, AU
2010: TRANSCEND colab mural installation - San Francsco, CA 
2010: 'Justice' mural with El Mac & Retna - Manifest Equality - Hollywood, Calif.
2009: Manual Arts High School mural installation - South Los Angeles, CA
2009: Sunset Blvd retaining wall - with Cache & EYER - East Hollywood, CA
2009: FLOWERS mural with EL MAC - Phoenix AZ
2009: 'Evolution' mural - Berracuda - Melrose - West Hollywood, CA
2008: Obama campaign mural - Culver City, CA
2007: Mural installation- Pegasus book store - Oakland CA
2007: Hidden Trac(k) Vol.1  mural install with RETNA - Downtown Los Angeles 
2005: Mural intervention - LAB 101 - Culver City, CA
2004: Mural installation - Enshala Gallery installation - DTLA, CA
2003: LA LA LA: Design By Design installation - Pacific Design Center - LA
2001: Charizmatik mural - The Treehouse Endeavour, Melrose - Hollywood, CA
1998: ARTSPEAKS! - Live art installation - Vision Theater, Leimert Park, LA
1997: JUSTICE? JUST US - UCLA Wadswourth Theater - Westwood, CA
1997: ‘Big B-Boy’ mural - Studio 9 sound studio - Hollywood, CA
 
 
Press and Publications
 

AUGUSTINE KOFIE: PRINTED MATTER. Zero Publishing, 2023.

9è Concept, "COLLECTIVE FORM(S)" AOC & 9TH CONCEPT Book, Self published, France, 2022

Susan A. Phillips. The City Beneath: A Century of Los Angeles Graffiti. Yale University Press. Cover art & Interview. 2019.
BL!SS #127, Feature Interview and cover, March 2018.
De L’Art Contemporarin Urbain: Le Guide 2018, Graffiti Art Magazine. 2018.
Grenoble Street Art Fest ! 1, 2, 3. Edition 2015-2017, Jerome Catz & Sebastien Pierrefuex of Spacejunk Art Centers, 2018.
Street Art, Lonely Planet Travel Guide, Ed Bartlett, Lonely Planet Books, 2017.
Build From Memory Review, Télérama Paris, 2017.
De L’Art Contemporarin Urbain: Le Guide 2015, Graffiti Art Magazine, Catalog, 2015.
Claudia Walde, Mural XXL: What Graffiti and Street Art Did Next, Thames & Hudson, 2015.
The Art of the Mural Volume 1: A Contemporary Global Movement, Schiffer Books, 2015.
KOFIE: KEEP DRAFTING. Zero Publishing, 2015.
“TAKING SHAPE review,” Graffiti Art #24, France, Spring 2015.
Shoko Tanaka.Artist Interview”, SANE Japan, July 2015.
Featured Artist, REWIRE, Gamma Proforma, 2014.
De L’Art Contemporarin Urbain: Le Guide 2014, Graffiti Art Magazine, Catalog, 2014.
“Artist Feature”, Contrast: Chasing The Dream Issue, 2014.
"Cutting Edge", Ollie Japan, Miyato, Kenshiro;  Issue 12, V. 188, 2014.
GRA(FF)ITE, Exhibition Catalog, Crewest Gallery, 2014.
Kristian Rosén. “Augustine Kofie,” Le Petit Voyeur Magazine, Denmark, 2014.
“The Draftsman,” Feature interview, VNA #26, Roland Henery, 2014.
Jesús Pacheco. “Abre La Roma Nueva Galeria,” Reforum, Mexico City, May 2014.
Nary La. Inspiring Space: CBRE's journey to a new way of working, CBRE Group, 2013.
Rafael Schacter. The World Atlas of Street Art & Graffiti, Yale Press, 2013.
Meinrad Maria Grewenig. Urban Art Biennale Völklingen; Exhibition catalog, 2013.
De L’Art Contemporarin Urbain: Le Guide 2013, Graffiti Art Magazine, Catalog, 2013.
Augustine Kofie: Select Exhibition works 2001-2012, Self published, 2013.
Daniel Feral. Futurism 2.0, Exhibition catalog, Gamma Proforma, 2012.
Art, Design, Life: Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou, Shenzhen, Exhibition catalog, 2012. 
Monokrome: Volume 2, Robert Whitlocke, Monokrome, 2012.
De L’Art Contemporarin Urbain: Le Guide 2012, Graffiti Art Magazine, 2012.
Todd Mazer. “Interview,” Bizarre Beyond Belief 1(6), Fall 2012. 
Feature Interview. Graffiti Art #16, France, Summer 2012.
Maximilliano Ruiz. Walls & Frames: Fine Art from the Streets, Gestaltan, 2011.
Jay Eldin. “Feature,” Graffiti 365, Abrams, 2011.
Michael O’Mara. Street Art: The Best Urban Art From Around the World, KET, Michael O’Mara Books LTD, 2011.
Ji Myeong. “Walking with Art,” ELLE Girl Korea,  June 2011.
Todd Mazer. “Mindshaft Math,” LA Canvas, March 2011.
Jen Laidlaw. “Street artists colour Vancouver hotel in shades of abstraction,” Granville Online, March 2011.
Feature Interview, Juxtapoz Art + Culture #117, October 2010.
Jon M. Gibson. i am 8-bit: art inspired by classic video games of the '80s, Chronicle Books, 2009.
Kiwamu Omai. “Art On The Wall”, Custom Lowriding, Japan 2009.
Ric Blackshaw & Liz Farrelly. Street Art, RotoVision Publishing, 2008.
Kirakos Losifidis. Mural Art: Murals on Huge Public Surfaces Around the World. Pubukat Press, 2008.
Steve Grody. Graffiti LA, Abrams Publishing, 2007.
“Art Review: First Friday Art Walk”, Piedmont Post, Oakland CA, 2007.
“Critics Choice,” East Bay Express, Oakland CA, 2007.
iO Wright. “The Left Coast,” Overspray 2007.
Shelley Leopold. “Obamanation”, LA Weekly, 2007.
Artist Feature, GRAB / Italy #1, Spring 2007.
“Spotlight,” The KGH, #0, 2007.
Cover Story,” COLOR AGENDA Trade Show Exhibition Catalog, 2007.
MOVEMENT: Hip-Hop in L.A. -1980s to Present”, Exhibition Catalog, Department Of Cultural Affairs 2006.
Yasumasu Yonehara. “Office Samasama, Love Yone, August 2004.
Feature interview, The L.A. Issue, Warp JAPAN 5(62), 2004.
“Spotlight,” Free & Easy JAPAN 7(74), 2004.
Reed Johnson.“A Protest In Paint,” Los Angeles Times, February 11, 2004.
“NEXT 100,” URB, Spring 2003.
WALL STREET - Interview and Feature,” Ollie Japan #47, 2003.
“Draftsmen,” Ollie Japan #52, 2003
“Stones Throw & Kofie,” Feature Interview, Kawata, Shize; +81Japan #19, 2003
Dazed & Confused Japan #11, 2003.
Todd Roberts, “Illustration feature,” PUTA, 1(2), 2003.
“Precision Bombing,” Flyer Japan #6, 2002.
“LA Streetz style,” WARP Japan #076, 2002.
“Kofieone, Feature,” Studio Voice Japan #314, 2002.
“Kofieone, Interview, Studio Voice Japan #321, 2002.
“Dilated Peoples” (cover illustration), SP Magazine 2(3), 2002.
“BLACKALICIOUS” (cover illustration), SP Magazine 2(4), 2002.
“Jurassic 5” (cover illustration), SP Magazine 2(5) 2002.
Augustine Kofie. GET ON, GET TUNE. Draftsmen Press, 2001.
Capital Art on the Culture of Punishment  3(2). Exhibition catalog, Bergamont Station, 2001. 
Published art, Big Time, Summer 1999.
“Graff Pages,” Rap Pages, February 1999.