AINEKI ANGELITA TRAVERSO
b. 1991, Washington, DC
EDUCATION
2013 Sarah Lawrence College, BA in Liberal Arts, Concentration in Cinema Studies
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Solo presentation with Wolfgang Gallery, The Armory Show, New York, NY
Narcissus’ Pagoda, Wolfgang Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2024 Solo presentation with Burnaway, NADA, Miami, FL
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 EXHIBITIONS
2026 (Upcoming) Keeper, Indigo + Madder, London, UK (curated by Maria Owen)
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
The Middle Distance, SITE Festival at Goat Farm Arts Center, Atlanta, GA
Patterns of Place, Atlanta Art Fair, Atlanta Contemporary Booth
After an Endless Embrace, Spruill Gallery, Dunwoody, GA (two-person show with Kate Burke)
Art of the South 2024, Number Inc. x Stoveworks, Chattanooga, TN (curated by Lauren Nye)
Invisible Forces, Johnson Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Currents, Echo Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA (curated by Jacob O’Kelley)
Colors of Love: Celebrating Diversity and Inclusion, Coca-Cola Headquarters, Atlanta, GA
ATL Imported, The Creative Arts Guild, Dalton, GA
Virens, Commissioned work in 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 (curated by Sarah Higgins)
2022 Being Ourselves, ACE Empowerment, Norcross, GA
Preface, Echo Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA
Of the Fantastic, AE Atlanta x Dashboard, Atlanta, GA (curated by Lauren Jackson Harris)
Eyes Can Only See So Much, TSA GVL, Greenville, SC (curated by Eso Tilín Projects)
&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
2012 Contemporary Painting Practices, Heimbold Gallery, Bronxville, NY
Manual DC, Sova, Washington, DC
AWARDS:
2024 SEEN Awardee; Artadia (recognition award only)
2024 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:
2026 (Upcoming) Bedstuy Arts Residency
2024 Atlanta Contemporary Studio Artist Program (3 year studio residency)
R&F Artist Residency at Brown Pink (residency and fellowship)
Virginia Center for Creative Arts; VCCA 50th Anniversary Fellowship (residency/fellowship)
2023 Vermont Studio Center (residency)
The Hambidge Center (residency)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2025 Lydia Nobles, “Split Bodies, Unstable Flesh”, Impulse Magazine, September 9, 2025.
Karen Lamassone, as told to Oliver Basciano, “Future Greats 2025: Aineki Traverso”, ArtReview, January 30, 2025.
Cinque Hicks, “Atlanta artist is Artadia’s first SEEN award recipient”, The Atlanta Journal- Constitution, February 1, 2025.
2024 Jane Marchant, “In Conversation with Aineki Traverso”, Burnaway, November 26, 2024.
ArtsATL Staff, “Artadia’s 2024 Atlanta awardees have joined a very small club”, ArtsATL, November 19, 2024.
Louise Shaw, “… an Atlanta Biennial …’: The artist-run project that sets a new standard...”, ArtsATL , October 21, 2024.
Lois Reitzes, “Dad’s Garage, Idea Capital, Prop Master…”, City Lights w/ Lois Reitzes; Live WABE 90.1, February 27, 2024.
2023 Helen Cauley, “Taking A Chance on Art”, Simply Buckhead, August 31, 2023.
Blair LeBlanc, “‘No te alcanzan los ojos’: Interview”, Number Inc. Magazine, August 15, 2023.
Jerry Cullum, “Four artists reflect on America’s rapidly changing culture”, Arts ATL, June 26, 2023.
Felicia Feaster, “Global Extremes Shape 2024 Edge Award Winner’s World View”, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 20, 2023.
2022 The Mirror”, The Coastal Post, May 2022.
ARTWORK IN PUBLICATIONS:
2026 (Upcoming) New American Paintings, Issue #178 (South)
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
b. 1991, Washington, DC
EDUCATION
2013 Sarah Lawrence College, BA in Liberal Arts, Concentration in Cinema Studies
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Solo presentation with Wolfgang Gallery, The Armory Show, New York, NY
Narcissus’ Pagoda, Wolfgang Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2024 Solo presentation with Burnaway, NADA, Miami, FL
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 EXHIBITIONS
2026 (Upcoming) Keeper, Indigo + Madder, London, UK (curated by Maria Owen)
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
The Middle Distance, SITE Festival at Goat Farm Arts Center, Atlanta, GA
Patterns of Place, Atlanta Art Fair, Atlanta Contemporary Booth
After an Endless Embrace, Spruill Gallery, Dunwoody, GA (two-person show with Kate Burke)
Art of the South 2024, Number Inc. x Stoveworks, Chattanooga, TN (curated by Lauren Nye)
Invisible Forces, Johnson Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Currents, Echo Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA (curated by Jacob O’Kelley)
Colors of Love: Celebrating Diversity and Inclusion, Coca-Cola Headquarters, Atlanta, GA
ATL Imported, The Creative Arts Guild, Dalton, GA
Virens, Commissioned work in 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 (curated by Sarah Higgins)
2022 Being Ourselves, ACE Empowerment, Norcross, GA
Preface, Echo Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA
Of the Fantastic, AE Atlanta x Dashboard, Atlanta, GA (curated by Lauren Jackson Harris)
Eyes Can Only See So Much, TSA GVL, Greenville, SC (curated by Eso Tilín Projects)
&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
2012 Contemporary Painting Practices, Heimbold Gallery, Bronxville, NY
Manual DC, Sova, Washington, DC
AWARDS:
2024 SEEN Awardee; Artadia (recognition award only)
2024 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:
2026 (Upcoming) Bedstuy Arts Residency
2024 Atlanta Contemporary Studio Artist Program (3 year studio residency)
R&F Artist Residency at Brown Pink (residency and fellowship)
Virginia Center for Creative Arts; VCCA 50th Anniversary Fellowship (residency/fellowship)
2023 Vermont Studio Center (residency)
The Hambidge Center (residency)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2025 Lydia Nobles, “Split Bodies, Unstable Flesh”, Impulse Magazine, September 9, 2025.
Karen Lamassone, as told to Oliver Basciano, “Future Greats 2025: Aineki Traverso”, ArtReview, January 30, 2025.
Cinque Hicks, “Atlanta artist is Artadia’s first SEEN award recipient”, The Atlanta Journal- Constitution, February 1, 2025.
2024 Jane Marchant, “In Conversation with Aineki Traverso”, Burnaway, November 26, 2024.
ArtsATL Staff, “Artadia’s 2024 Atlanta awardees have joined a very small club”, ArtsATL, November 19, 2024.
Louise Shaw, “… an Atlanta Biennial …’: The artist-run project that sets a new standard...”, ArtsATL , October 21, 2024.
Lois Reitzes, “Dad’s Garage, Idea Capital, Prop Master…”, City Lights w/ Lois Reitzes; Live WABE 90.1, February 27, 2024.
2023 Helen Cauley, “Taking A Chance on Art”, Simply Buckhead, August 31, 2023.
Blair LeBlanc, “‘No te alcanzan los ojos’: Interview”, Number Inc. Magazine, August 15, 2023.
Jerry Cullum, “Four artists reflect on America’s rapidly changing culture”, Arts ATL, June 26, 2023.
Felicia Feaster, “Global Extremes Shape 2024 Edge Award Winner’s World View”, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 20, 2023.
2022 The Mirror”, The Coastal Post, May 2022.
ARTWORK IN PUBLICATIONS:
2026 (Upcoming) New American Paintings, Issue #178 (South)
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