AINEKI ANGELITA TRAVERSO
b. 1991, Washington, DC
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Silencio en el fondo, McLennon Pen Co. Gallery, Austin, TX
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 Half Gallery, Untitled Fair, Houston, TX
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:
2026 Bedstuy Arts (Brooklyn, NY)
Cobertizo (Jilotepec, MX)
McLennon Pen Co. Gallery Summer Artist-in-Residence (Austin, TX)
2024 Atlanta Contemporary Studio Artist Program (Atlanta, GA)
R&F Artist Residency at Brown Pink (Kingston, NY)
Virginia Center for Creative Arts; VCCA 50th Anniversary Fellowship (Amhert, VA)
2023 Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT)
The Hambidge Center (Rabun Gap, GA)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2026 Heather Haya, “Let There Be Light”, The Austin Chronicle, Sept. 24, 2026.
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
b. 1991, Washington, DC
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Silencio en el fondo, McLennon Pen Co. Gallery, Austin, TX
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 Half Gallery, Untitled Fair, Houston, TX
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:
2026 Bedstuy Arts (Brooklyn, NY)
Cobertizo (Jilotepec, MX)
McLennon Pen Co. Gallery Summer Artist-in-Residence (Austin, TX)
2024 Atlanta Contemporary Studio Artist Program (Atlanta, GA)
R&F Artist Residency at Brown Pink (Kingston, NY)
Virginia Center for Creative Arts; VCCA 50th Anniversary Fellowship (Amhert, VA)
2023 Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT)
The Hambidge Center (Rabun Gap, GA)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2026 Heather Haya, “Let There Be Light”, The Austin Chronicle, Sept. 24, 2026.
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