Dakota Noot
b. 1993, Bismarck, North Dakota
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
EDUCATION
MFA, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, 2017
BFA and Teaching License, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, 2015
EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions
2023
“Put Me Out to Pasture,” Los Angeles Valley College, Los Angeles, CA
“Medora: Queen of Steaks,” Coaxial, Los Angeles, CA
2022
“Watch Me Fish,” Camera Obscura Art Lab, Santa Monica, CA
2021
“Children of the Corn-fed,” Art Produce, San Diego, CA
2018
“Meat Market: Tender Flesh,” MuzeuMM, Los Angeles, CA
“Meat Market,” Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA
“Dakota Noot,” Slamdance Film Festival, Park City, UT
“Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad,” Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA
2017
“My Failure as a Horse,” Hibbleton, Fullerton, CA
“My Flesh is Your Pasture,” Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont, CA
2015
“Dakota Noot,” Bismarck Art & Galleries Association, Bismarck, ND
“Create/Consume,” Bismarck Downtown Artist Cooperative, Bismarck, ND
“Create/Consume,” Colonel Eugene E. Myers Art Gallery, Grand Forks, ND
Two Person Exhibitions
2023
“Father and Son: The Beast Within Us” (with Paul Noot), Bismarck Downtown Artist Cooperative, Bismarck, ND
2022
“Father and Son: The Beast Within Us” (with Paul Noot), Taube Museum of Art, Minot, ND
“Father and Son: The Beast Within Us” (with Paul Noot), MonDak Heritage Center, Sidney, MT
“Father and Son: The Beast Within Us” (with Paul Noot), The James Memorial Art Center, Williston, ND
“Father and Son: The Beast Within Us” (with Paul Noot), The Arts Center, Jamestown, ND
2021
“Father and Son: The Beast Within Us” (with Paul Noot), Northwest Arts Center at Minot State University, Minot, ND
“A Top in a Bottom’s Skin” (with Christopher Velasco), Coaxial, Online stream
“Father and Son: The Beast Within Us” (with Paul Noot), Bismarck Art & Galleries Association, Bismarck, ND
2020
“Father and Son: The Beast Within Us” (with Paul Noot), Spirit Room, Fargo, ND
2018
“At Dawn, They Feast” (with Christopher Velasco), UCSB Glassbox Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2017
“The Cherry on Top” (with Chelsea Boxwell), PØST, Los Angeles, CA
Select Group Exhibitions
2023
“High Beams #7: Cruising,” Plummer Park, West Hollywood, CA
“Connect,” Art Produce & San Diego City College Gallery, San Diego, CA
“QT Embodied,” Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA
“Faculty Exhibition,” California State Summer School for the Arts, Valencia, CA
“Mapping My Queer,” GlendaleOUT at Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale, CA
“Mapping My Queer,” GlendaleOUT at Adams Mini Square Park Gas Station, Glendale, CA
“QPlusProject,” California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
”Brief and Spectacular,” SCRANCH, Wonder Valley, CA
“KCHUNG PUBLIC: Care,” KCHUNG at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
2022
“NSFW Film Fest,” Planet Queer at Akbar, Los Angeles, CA
“Coaxial Fundraiser,” Robinson S.P.A.C.E., Los Angeles, CA
“Faculty Exhibition,” Golden West College Art Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA
“Homosurrealism Hollywood,” QVO Lab, Los Angeles, CA
“Magically Thinking,” Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
“Fashion for Bank Robbers,” Maximiliansforum, Munich, Germany
“Faculty Exhibition,” California State Summer School for the Arts, Valencia, CA
”Art is in Bloom” LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA
“Fluffy Digital,” Fluffy Crimes, Chicago, IL
“It’s Queer Up ‘Ere,” Pineapple Black Arts, Middlesbrough, England
“The Last Under: The Fetish Issue,” Ocaña, Barcelona, Spain
“Selected Drawings,” San Diego City College Gallery, San Diego, CA
2021
“Halloween,” Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
“What Will Remain: Art in the Time of Human Dominion,” Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion at Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
“Los Angeles Edition,” M_M_Artspace, Kattendijke, Netherlands
“In Good Company,” Art Produce, Online exhibition
“What’s Blood Got to Do with It?” Scream Queen for Other Places Art Fair, San Pedro, CA
“Zoom Talk,” Museum Adjacent for Other Places Art Fair, San Pedro, CA
“Faculty Exhibition,” California State Summer School for the Arts, Online exhibition
“Daddies Day,” Cuddlechunk, Online stream
“Supermoon 8,” Supermoon / LAST Projects, Online stream
“Zone V: Recency by Us,” Nan Rae Gallery at Woodbury University, Online exhibition
“Lydia Takeshita Legacy Series: Exhibit 2,” LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA
2020
“Supermoon 7,” Supermoon, Online stream
“Meme!2020,” Underdonk, Online exhibition
“Artists and Poems,” Durden and Ray, Online exhibition (suturo.com)
“Sentinels,” Site-specific works throughout the City of Long Beach, CA
“LOIMBY” for Other Places Art Fair, Online exhibition
“High Beams,” Bendix Building, Los Angeles, CA
“Blemishes” for MAIDEN LA, The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA
“Museum Adjacent Plays Itself” for MAIDEN LA, Online exhibition
“We Are Here / Here We Are,” Durden and Ray across LA County, CA
“Head on Collision,” LAST Projects, Los Angeles, CA
“Los Angeles Landscapes,” USC Roski Graduate Building, Los Angeles, CA
“QiPO Art Fair,” Mexico City, Mexico
“Faculty Exhibit” McNish Gallery at Oxnard College, Oxnard, CA
2019
“Adjacent, Adjacent,” Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
“Pay to Play,” California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
“Cerritos Collects: Highlights from the Permanent Collection,” Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA
“Districtly Speaking,” Coastline College Art Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
“Museum Adjacent,” Finishing Concepts, Monterey Park, CA
“LOVE &/OR FEAR: A Celebration of Genders,” LA Freewaves on Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
“Offal,” Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Generational Aesthetics,” Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA
“Artist and Researcher,” USC Hoyt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Multimodal Performance Festival,” UCSB Glassbox Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2018
“Office Hours,” The Main Museum, Los Angeles, CA
“100 Projects,” Otis College, Los Angeles, CA
“Other Worlds,” Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Heat of the Moment,” ESXLA, Los Angeles, CA
“Let Me Eat Cake,” PØST, Los Angeles, CA
“Spell Check,” PØST, Los Angeles, CA
“Queer Biennial: What if Utopia?” LAST Projects, Los Angeles, CA
“What’s Too Silly to be Spoken, Must Be Sung,” ESXLA, Los Angeles, CA
“Introspection,” Sam Francis Gallery at Crossroads School, Santa Monica, CA
2017
“Mind's I,” Dalton Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
“Salon,” Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Trapper Keeper,” ESXLA, Los Angeles, CA
“SoCalMFA,” Millard Sheets Art Center, Pomona, CA
“Bolt from the Blue,” FAR Bazaar at Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA
2016
“MAS ATTACK 13,” Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
“The Dead Are Not Quiet,” San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA
“Shared Value,” Visitor Welcome Center, Los Angeles, CA
“SoCalMFA,” Millard Sheets Art Center, Pomona, CA
PUBLIC ART
Crown Castle Utility Box, Long Beach, CA
Bismarck BoxArt Project, Bismarck, ND
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Taube Museum of Art, Minot, ND
Cerritos College (Robert Summers Queer Art Collection), Norwalk, CA
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2023
“The Body by Design: LGBTQ+ Chicanx Art,” Hyperallergic, Online exhibition
2022
“For some memory or some land,” Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion at Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA
2019
“Re-Queering Fan Fiction” for Lambda LitFest, ESXLA, Los Angeles, CA
“Useless Man,” Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA
“Girl, It Was Camp,” Angel City Brewery in partnership with Art Share L.A., Los Angeles, CA
Scream Queen (with Christopher Velasco)
2021
“Hair-pulling Between Good and Evil,” Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
“In the Realm of the Senses,” Film Maudit / Highways Performance Space, Online exhibition
2020
“El espejo de la bruja,” _flatline, Long Beach, CA
“Seven Wonders” for Other Places Art Fair, Online exhibition
“Kentucky Fried Pop-Up” for MAIDEN LA, Online exhibition
“Out of the Closet, Into the Internet,” Online exhibition
2019
“Scream Queen,” AMAX Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2023 Artist in Residence, Coaxial, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Hyperallergic Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators
2022 Artist in Residence, Camera Obscura Art Lab, Santa Monica, CA
2021 Artist in Residence, Art Produce, San Diego, CA
2020 Nominee, Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant
2019 TAM Forum Residency, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2017 Walker Endowed Fellowship, Claremont Graduate University
2016 Albert B. Friedman Grant, Claremont Graduate University
2016 Merit Fellowship, Claremont Graduate University
2015 Emma Preporia Scholarship, University of North Dakota
LECTURES AND PANELS
2023 North Hollywood High School
2022 San Diego City College
2022 University of North Dakota
2021 University of California, Santa Barbara (with Christopher Velasco)
2021 Minot State University (with Paul Noot)
2021 Los Angeles Valley College
2021 Oxnard College
2021 “The Skin I Live In” (with Christopher Velasco), Freewaves, Dismiss Interviews on IG Live (Link to recording)
2021 “Manufacturing Nature” panel; LA Artcore; moderated by Andrea Guerrero (Link to recording)
2020 Santa Barbara City College
AFFILIATIONS
Scream Queen, Co-founder (2019-present)
Museum Adjacent, Founding member (2019-2021)
Monte Vista Projects, Member (2019-20)
TEACHING/PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
* Co-Director / Directer of Programming: Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Costa Mesa, CA (August 2023-present)
* Instructor: Oxnard Performing Arts Center, Oxnard, CA, Installation Art (Spring 2022)
* Instructor: California State Summer School of the Arts, Valencia, CA, Figurative Drawing & Design (Summer 2021-present)
* Adjunct Faculty: Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA, Beginning Drawing (Spring 2019-present)
* Adjunct Faculty: Oxnard College, Oxnard, CA, Drawing and Composition I/II/III, 3-D Foundations, Multicultural Children’s Art (Fall 2018-present)
* Gallery Assistant/Preparator: Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Costa Mesa, CA (August 2018-May 2019)
* Art Teacher: LAMusArt, Los Angeles, CA (August 2018-April 2019)
* Lab Instructional Assistant: Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA (April-December 2018)
* Adjunct Faculty: Mt. San Jacinto College, San Jacinto, CA, Beginning Drawing (Spring 2018)
* Teaching Assistant: Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, Beginning Watercolor (Spring 2017)
* Woodshop Assistant: Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA (July 2016-June 2017)
* Gallery Assistant: Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA (January-December 2016)
* Teaching Assistant: Pomona College, Claremont, CA, Beginning and Figurative Painting (Spring-Fall 2016)
* Teaching Assistant: University of La Verne, La Verne, CA. Fundamentals of Design (Fall 2015)
* Discussion Leader: Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, Body as Canvas (Fall 2015)
* Student Teacher: Central High School, Grand Forks, ND School, Art I and Art II (Spring 2015)
PRESS/PUBLICATIONS
“For some memory or some land at OCC,” Art and Cake, November 2022.
“OCC artists celebrate Chicanx heritage in new installation at The Doyle,” The Coast Report, October 2022.
“Father and son showcase their art at Taube Museum in Minot,” KX News, September 2022.
“Evolve,” Bait/Switch, Vol 3 No 3, Summer 2022.
“Shower with Affection,” Raw Meat Collective, June 2022.
“Sensitive Content Magazine,” HappyDevilBoy, June 2022.
“City Gallery to host closing reception Saturday evening,” City Times, February 2022.
“Dakota Noot,” Hi-Fructose Magazine, September 2021.
“When the Sun Goes Down,” LUM Art Magazine, Summer/Fall 2021.
“Dakota Noot’s Performative Explorations of Queerness,” Visual Art Source, December 2020.
“LGBTQ Artists: Dakota Noot,” The Fight Magazine, November 2020.
“Background Noise, Episode 95: Dakota Noot,” Bomarr Blog, October 2020.
“New queer hybrids: Welcome to the gothic and colourful world of Dakota Noot,” The Fourdrinier, October 2020.
“Art Insider: Maiden LA welcomes all creatives and aims to break down hierarchies,” KCRW, September 2020.
“City of Los Angeles LGBT Heritage Month Guide,” Department of Cultural Affairs, June 2020.
“Outdoor exhibition offers chance to find art in some unusual places,” Long Beach Post, May 2020.
“Adjacent, Adjacent at Torrance Art Museum,” Art and Cake, December 2019.
“Most Artful Time of the Year,” Artillery, December 2019.
“Art Event: Scream Queen,” LA Weekly, October 2019.
“A Screening of Short Horror Films Celebrating Queerness,” Hyperallergic, October 2019.
“Love &/Or Fear with Freewaves,” Art and Cake, October 2019.
“In LA, Artists Serve Up a Diverse Take on Food Culture,” Hyperallergic, September 2019.
“Event Pick: LOVE &/OR FEAR: A Celebration of Genders,” LA Weekly, September 2019.
“LOVE &/OR FEAR takes gender expression to the streets,” Los Angeles Blade, August 2019.
“Art Pick: Useless Man at Highways Performance Space,” LA Weekly, August 2019.
“City of Los Angeles LGBT Heritage Month Guide,” Department of Cultural Affairs, June 2019.
“The Interpenetrate,” FULL BLEDE Issue Eight, April 2019.
“Performance Art at UCSB,” VOICE Magazine, February 2019.
“Two Out-of-the-Ballpark Shows at Charlie James Gallery,” Art and Cake, August 2018.
“62 Polaroids of Queer Folk — A Warholian take of L.A.” The Advocate, June 2018.
“City of Los Angeles LGBT Heritage Month Guide,” Department of Cultural Affairs, June 2018.
“Queer Biennial: What If Utopia?” Artillery, June 2018.
“100 Images Explore a Queer Utopia at the Queer Biennial 2018,” The Advocate, June 2018.
“Evocative Art All Around Town,” Artillery, February 2018.
“Cerritos College Gallery: Window Dressing,” Art and Cake, January 2018.
“It Starts with the Art,” Slamdance, September 2017.
“Trapper Keeper,” Art and Cake, August 2017.
“Dakota Noot,” Balaclava.Q, May 2017.
“Fullerton Art Walk brings back color to the heart of Downtown Fullerton,” The Hornet, April 2017.
“Blue lips travel across FAR Bazaar leaving an imprint,” Talon Marks, February 2017.
“Our Ever Changing World: Through the Eyes of Artists,” Karrie Ross, April 2016.