AINEKI  
TRAVERSO


AINEKI ANGELITA TRAVERSO
b. 1991, Washington, DC


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026    de profundis, Half Gallery, New York, NY

2025    Narcissus’ Pagoda, Wolfgang Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2024     to see you around here in the solitude, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2023    Casita, Elsewhere, Atlanta, GA
            No te alcanzan los ojos, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA


SELECTED GROUP & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2026    White Columns Benefit Auction (presented by MARCH Gallery), New York, NY
            Ides of March, MARCH Gallery, New York, NY
            Keeper, Indigo + Madder, London, UK

2025    Yamas!, KDR, Mykonos, GR
            In this here place, we flesh, Gallery 495, Catskill, NY
            Fever Dream, Pulse Projects x Studio Underground, New York, NY
            Daphne’s Daughters, MEY Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2024    An Atlanta Biennial, Temporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
            SITE, Goat Farm Arts Center, Atlanta, GA
            After an Endless Embrace, Spruill Gallery, Dunwoody, GA (two-person w/ Kate Burke)
            Art of the South 2024, Number Inc. x Stoveworks, Chattanooga, TN
            Invisible Forces, Johnson Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
            Currents, Echo Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA
            Colors of Love: Celebrating Diversity & Inclusion, Coca-Cola Headquarters, Atlanta, GA
            ATL Imported, The Creative Arts Guild, Dalton, GA
            Virens, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Intl. Airport, Atlanta, GA

2023    December Show, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA
            Offerings, Offerings Project Space, Atlanta, GA
            Butterfly Marmalade, Baba Yaga Gallery x Tennessee Project Space, Atlanta, GA
            A Tremulous Force, Art Papers x Temporary Studios, Atlanta, GA

2022    Being Ourselves, ACE Empowerment, Norcross, GA
            Preface, Echo Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA
            Of the Fantastic, AE Atlanta x Dashboard, Atlanta, GA
            Eyes Can Only See So Much, TSA GVL & Eco Tilín Projects, Greenville, SC
            &yet again, Dalton Gallery at Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, GA

2021    The Privilege of Getting Together III, Regular Normal x Swivel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2020    I’m looking forward to tomorrow, Good News Arts, High Springs, FL
            Little Things, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2019    Canto DC, District Irish Dance, Washington, DC
            Everything/Nothing, Salon Suburbia, Atlanta, GA

2017    The Imaginary Million, Wonderroot, Atlanta, GA


FAIRS:

2026    Group presentation with Wolfgang Gallery, Friends Fair, Austin, TX

2025    Solo presentation with Wolfgang Gallery, The Armory Show, New York, NY
            Group presentation with Wolfgang Gallery, Arrival Art Fair, North Adams, MA

2024    Solo presentation with Burnaway, NADA, Miami, FL


AWARDS:

2024    SEEN Awardee from Artadia (recognition award)
            Atlanta Artadia Award (grant)
            Nexus Fund: Regional Regranting Program (grant)
            Idea Capital: Susan Antinori Visual Artist Grant (grant)

2023    Edge Award Recipient; Forward Arts Foundation (grant)


RESIDENCIES:

2024    Atlanta Contemporary Studio Artist Program (3 year subsidized studio)
            R&F Artist Residency at Brown Pink
            Virginia Center for Creative Arts; VCCA 50th Anniversary Fellowship

2023    Vermont Studio Center
            The Hambidge Center


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2025    Lydia Nobles, “Split Bodies, Unstable Flesh”, Impulse Magazine, Sept. 9, 2025.
            Karen Lamassone & Oliver Basciano, “Future Greats 2025: Aineki Traverso”, ArtReview, Jan. 30, 2025.

2024    Jane Marchant, “In Conversation with Aineki Traverso”, Burnaway, Nov. 26, 2024.
            ArtsATL Staff, “Artadia’s 2024 Atlanta awardees...”, ArtsATL, Nov. 19, 2024.
            Louise Shaw, “'an Atlanta Biennial’: The artist-run project sets a new standard...”, ArtsATL , Oct. 21, 2024.

2023    Helen Cauley, “Taking A Chance on Art”, Simply Buckhead,  Aug. 31, 2023.
            Blair LeBlanc, “‘No te alcanzan los ojos’: Interview”, Number Inc. Magazine, Aug. 15,  2023.
 

EDUCATION

2013 Sarah Lawrence College, BA in Liberal Arts


ARTWORK IN PUBLICATIONS:

2026    Cover Feature for New American Paintings, Issue #178 - South

2025    Cover Feature for 54th Annual Writers’ Festival Literary Magazine, Agnes Scott College

2020    Bat City Review - www.batcityreview.com, Issue 15

2017    WUSSY MAG - www.wussymag.com, The Fight Issue 2
            Rivulet - rivulet.net, rivulet 3: Landswept