b. June 28, 1978

Aurora, Missouri

Wrinkle is an independent artist, writer and performer based in New York, New York and Southwest Missouri. He received his BFA in painting from the Kansas City Art Institute (2004) and an MFA from CalArts (2008). Generally regarded as an artist’s artist or conceptual artist, at KCAI he developed his practice through push-pull abstraction, printmaking, sculpture and performance videos. While never fully abandoning painting, CalArts' heavy emphasis of conceptualism and social critique led him to various spoken word, guitar and object-orientated performances pertaining to utilitarianism, capitalism, pop culture and the art institution. For his final project as an art student he restored CalArts’ former dean Douglas Huebler’s 1977 Volvo with his father. Upon graduating he founded the gallery Dan Graham as a nod to Michael Asher's teaching influence on him pertaining to content and context specificity but chose Asher's conceptual peer for the marquee, forming a new mentor-friendship between Wrinkle and Graham. The gallery as an artwork facilitated and proposed making the most content and context specific artwork possible and was completed when the two artists spoke publicly through the gallery at Art Los Angeles Contemporary in 2011. Since then his focus has returned to intuitive drawing, painting, sculpture and photography with interests in post dada and surrealism, writing and performance. He has collaborated with Michael Decker as Wrinkle/Decker, L.E. Kim in DG ( Drums Guitar), Raymond Pettibon, Dan Graham, Chris Johanson and acted in William Leavitt's films. Wrinkle often cites older generations of artists, genres and movements over peer or contemporary influence. His work was published in the New Museum’s ‘Younger than Jesus Artist Directory’ by Phaidon Press in 2009 and his works and projects have been featured and reviewed in ‘Artforum,’ ‘ArtJournal,’ ‘Artnet,’ ‘ArtScene,’ ‘Autre Magazine’, ‘Interview Magazine,’ ‘LA WEEKLY,’ ‘Modern Painters,’ ‘Notes on Looking’ and ‘The New York Times.’ He has written extensive essays on Paul and Damon McCarthy and Dan Graham. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Kansas City, Los Angeles, New York, Japan and Europe with works housed in private and public collections including the Nerman Museum of Art in Johnson County, Kansas. Wrinkle lived and worked in Chinatown, Los Angeles for nearly a decade where he worked with the community on the preservation of its historic architecture through blue collar labor. He has an annex studio, his archive and part time residence in Aurora, Missouri situated in a retired and remodeled pig barn neighboring his father’s auto body shop. In 2020 Wrinkle moved to New York from Los Angeles.