FriendsWithYou

Samuel Albert Borkson 1979, Plantation, FL

Arturo Sandoval III 1976, Havana, Cuba

Live and work in Los Angeles, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021 Happy World Hong Kong - West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong

September 23rd – October 6th, 2021

Happy World – On a Cloud - Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

June 11th – May 29th, 2022

Little Cloud & The Dance - Aspen Snowmass, Aspen, CO

December 2020 – current

2020 Little Cloud Bronze – Nanzuka 2G Gallery Japan

October 23rd – November 15th, 2020

The Dance and Recent Works – Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX

January 12th – March 15th, 2020

2019 Rainbow City Shreveport (via NEA Grant) – Shreveport, LA

November 2nd – December 8, 2019

In to the Clouds – Brookfield Place, Toronto, Canada

July 24th – September 3rd, 2019

Follow Me – Avalon Hotel, Palm Springs, CA

April 13 – 14, 2019

2018 Rainbow City Roller Rink – Library Street Collective (at 1001 Woodward Avenue) Detroit, MI

November 30th, 2018 – January 27th, 2019

Playworks: Forever & Ever – The Hole ON CANAL, New York, NY

November 17th – December 15th, 2018

Playworks: The Golden Age – Arsham/Fieg Gallery, New York, NY

November 20th, 2018 – January 7th, 2019

Pop World – Complex Con, Long Beach, CA

November 3 – 4, 2018

In to the Clouds – Westfield San Francisco Centre, San Francisco, CA

May 14th – October 21st, 2018

Happy Rainbow – Singapore

May - June 2018

Play Works – Solo booth with The Pit @ ALAC

January 25th – January 28th, 2018

2017 Nature’s Gift: Humans, Friends & The Unknown – Oakland Museum of California

October 7th, 2017 – January 21st, 2018

Little Cloud – The Street, Chestnut Hill, MA

August 1st – May 2018

2016 Super Moon – Seokchon Lake in Seoul, Korea

September 1st – October 3rd, 2016

Light Wave – The Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles, CA

July 7th – September 8th, 2016

2015 Light Spirit – Art Basel Miami Beach, FL

December 2nd – 6th, 2015

Rainbow City – Central Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand

May 28th – June 25th, 2015

Light Cave – Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX

April 8th – 12th, 2015

2014 Light Cave – The Standard, High Line, New York, NY

Commissioned by Art Production Fund & The Standard Hotel

September 8th – October 1st, 2014

Universal Reversal – Marine Projects, Santa Monica, CA

March 22nd - May 31st, 2014

2013 Somewhere Over the Rainbow – Mondrian South Beach, Miami Beach, FL

December 5th, 2013 – January 7th, 2014

Psychic Stones – Paul Kasmin’s PK Shop, New York, NY

October 24th - November 9th, 2013

Inner Vision in Between – MCLEMOI Gallery, Sydney, Australia

February 16th - April 11th, 2013

2012 Happy Rainbow – Tuen Mun Town Plaza, Hong Kong, China

July 22nd - September 2nd, 2012

2011 Inner Space, The Secrets of the Unknown – The Hole Annex in Miami, FL

December 1st, 2011 - January 28th, 2012

Sweet Dreams – de la Cruz Collection- Wynwood, FL

October 21st - October 23rd, 2011

In The Beginning – Colette, Paris, France

August 29th - September 24th, 2011

:) – The Hole Gallery, New York, NY

June 10th - August 6th, 2011

Rainbow City – The High Line Park, New York, NY

June 8th - July 5th, 2011

2010 Rainbow City – Art Basel Miami Beach, FL

December 3rd - December 5th, 2010

Building Blocks - Art Basel Miami Beach, FL

December 2nd, 2010 - January 8th, 2011

Rainbow City – Luminato Festival of Art & Creativity, Toronto, Canada

June 15th - June 20th, 2010

Day Dreamers – Narwhal Art Projects, Toronto, Canada

June 10th - July 14th, 2010

2009 Pictopia Fun House - Haus der Kulturen der Welt Museum, Berlin, Germany

March 19th - May 3rd, 2009

2008 Fun House – Scope Art Fair, Art Basel Miami Beach, FL

December 3rd - December 7th, 2008

Dream Maker - Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

May 2nd - November 3rd, 2008

2007 Wish Come True - Soovac, Minneapolis, MN

September 28th - October 27th, 2007

We Are Friends - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

September 16th, 2007

2006 Rainbow Valley Permanent Playground – Turnberry for the Arts, Aventura, FL

December 21st, 2006 – Current

Skywalkers - Art Basel Miami Beach, FL

December 7th, 2006

Birds Of Pray - Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

February 4th - March 4th, 2006

Power Pond – Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL

January 28th, 2006 - January 20th, 2008

2005 Cloud City – Museum of Contemporary Art @ The Goldman Warehouse, North Miami, FL

December 1st, 2005 - January 29th, 2006

2004 Get Lucky - Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

November 20th, 2004 - January 15th, 2005

Get Lucky - The Box Space, Miami, FL

August 28th - September 25th, 2004

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 Pt. 2: Invasive Species – Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, March 23rd – May 22nd, 2021

2019 Happy! - NSU Art Museum, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, October 27th, 2019 – July 5th, 2020

Blow Up II - Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, July 14th – September 15th, 2019

Something in the Water – Virginia Beach, VA, April 26th – 28th, 2019

J. Balvin stage visuals - Coachella main stage, Indio, CA, April 12th – 14th & Apr. 19th – 21st, 2019

2018 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade featuring Little Cloud – New York, NY, November 22nd, 2018

Flashpoint: An Intersection of History, Perseverance, and Joy – Chaos Theory, Curated by Joyce Varvatos with Alexandra Hayden, Sag Harbor, NY, July 28th – September 2nd, 2018

Peanuts Global Artist Collective - Hudson Square neighborhood, NYC, April 16th – May 16th, 2018

Clay Today – The Hole, New York, NY, April 10th – May 6th, 2018

2016 Light Cave – Artprize, Grand Rapids, MI, September 21st – 28th, 2016

Light Spirit – Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Toronto, Canada, June 24th – 26th, 2016

Art Los Angeles Contemporary w/ The Hole NYC - Los Angeles, CA, January 28th – 31st, 2016

2015 Nuit Blanche featuring Light Cave – City of Toronto, Canada, October 3rd – 4th, 2015

She Sells Seashells by the Seashore – Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY, July 11th – August 2nd, 2015

Animotion featuring “Light Cave” - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, June 19, 2015

2014 Gilded Holiday – Paul Kasmin’s PK Shop, New York, NY, November 5 – December 23rd, 2014

This is Not a Toy – DX Canada’s Design Museum, Toronto, Canada, February 7th – May 19th, 2014

2013 Cast of Characters – 709 Gallery of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh, PA, April 5th – May 17th, 2013

2012 Cast of Characters – Clarion University Art Gallery, Clarion, PA, November 6th - March 25th, 2012

Flux Screening Series – The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, August 7th, 2012

Flights from Wonder – Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA, February 26th - April 22nd, 2012

2011 Pictoplasma: Post Digital Monsters – La Gaite Lyrique, Paris, France, December 7th - December 31st, 2011

NADA Art Fair – Miami, Fl, December 1st - December 4th, 2011

Rainbow Friends – Coletivo Amor de Madre, Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 29th - September 2nd, 2011

NADA Art Fair – New York, NY, July 30th - July 31st, 2011

The South Florida Cultural Consortium – The Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL, May 25th - August 21st, 2011

Party Animals – Royal/T Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, July 9th - September 24th, 2011

FACEMAKER – Royal/T Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, April 14th - May 31st, 2011

Dadarhea – Canada Gallery, New York, NY, February 25th - March 27th, 2011

2010 It Ain’t Fair – OHWOW Gallery, Miami, FL, December 2nd - December 5th, 2010

Dadarhea - OHWOW Gallery, Miami, FL, August 13th - August 27th, 2010

Re:Form School presented by REDU - New York, NY, October 9th - October 11th, 2010

Manifest Equality – Los Angeles, CA, March 3rd - March 7th

2009 Thing: Beware the Material World – Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia , April 18th - July 5th, 2009

2008 Hexagone – Miami Art Space, Miami, FL, May 10th - May 31st, 2008

2007 Art Parade– Deitch Projects, New York, NY, September 8th, 2007

Guild – Emmanuel Galerie Perrotin, Miami, FL, May 12th - July 21st, 2007

2006 The Official FriendsWithYou Bootleg Show – Helium Cowboy, Hamburg, Germany, September 23rd - October 20th, 2006

Pictoplasma 2 - Berlin, Germany, October 11th - October 14th, 2006

Demons to Diamonds - Locusts Projects, Miami, FL, March 18th - April 22nd, 2006

2005 Hanging By a Thread - The Moore Space, Miami, FL, September 8th - October 22nd, 2005

Everywhere Show - Mendenhall Sobeiski Gallery, Pasadena, CA, July 23rd - August 16th, 2005

Project FOX - Copenhagen, Denmark, April 2nd - April 22nd, 2005

Optic Nerve - Official selection – Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, August 5th, 2005

MOVE Conference: Stories in Motion - New York, NY, April 29th - April 30th, 2005

2004 Pictoplasma - Berlin, Germany, October 11th - October 14th, 2004

Characters at War - Zentralbuero, Berlin, Germany, October 1st - November 6th, 2004

Aqui Uzumaki - HPGRP Hanna, Ginza Tokyo, Japan, May 23rd - August 31st, 2004

Pictoplasma - Future is Now Gallery, NY, NY, October 28th - October 30th, 2004

See This and Die - The Creek, Miami, F, August 2003

AWARDS & GRANTS

2018 NEA Grant to bring Rainbow City to Shreveport, Louisiana in 2019

2010 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists

COLLECTIONS

Museum of Contemporary Art - Miami, FL

Tony Goldman Family Collection – Miami, FL

Montblanc International – Hamburg, Germany

Aventura Mall - Miami, FL

Soho Beach House – Miami Beach, FL

NSU Art Museum – Ft. Laud