EDUCATION
2000 Master of Fine Arts, University of California, Davis
1998 Bachelor of Arts, University of California, Davis
SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023 Second Nature, Morton Fine Art, Washington, DC
2022 Search/Party, Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Krazy Times, Morton Fine Art, Washington, DC
Burning Down The House, KP Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Only Painted Fire, Morton Fine Art, Washington, DC
2018 Strange Days, KP Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Bread and Circuses (and Walls), Morton Fine Art, Washington, DC
2016 To Be Seen, KP Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2015 New Ancient Pictures, Morton Fine Art, Washington, DC
I is an Other, Cypress College Fine Art Gallery, Cypress, CA
2014 Gravity And Other Lies, Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Somewhere Else, Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012 This Makes Sense, Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Stages, The Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College, PA
Late Empire Style, Morton Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
2010 Paintings, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 The Other Side of Here, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2007 Secret Society, Bert Green Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Arrival, 50 California St.(Bank of America), San Francisco, CA
2000 MFA Thesis Show, Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis
1998 Paintings, Northern California Center for the Arts, Grass Valley, CA
Still Life, Tahoe Tallac Association, South Lake Tahoe, CA
1997 18 Months, Basement Gallery, University of California, Davis
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Portraits, Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery, Pima College, Tucson, AZ
2021 Wayne Thiebaud Influencer: A New Generation, Manetti Shrem Museum of Art,
University of California at Davis
2019 Circle of Truth, Museum of Art and History (MOAH), Lancaster, CA
Faculty Exhibition, Idyllwild Arts Park Exhibition Center, Idyllwild CA
Chinatown Summer Nights, KP Projects/Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA
New Work, Gallery B, Bethesda, MD
2018 Circle of Truth, NUMU/New Museum of Los Gatos, CA
Meridian, KP Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Portraiture, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
2016 All that Glitters, KP Projects/Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA
Portraits, Lindsay Museum and Gallery, Lindsay, CA
2015 UC Davis Alumni, Elliott Fouts Gallery, Sacramento, CA
CreateLA, Space 1520, Los Angeles, CA
Aqua Art Miami (Morton Fine Art), Miami, FL
2014 Me and You and Someone Else, Jamie Brooks Fine Art, Costa Mesa, CA
Aqua Art Miami (Morton Fine Art), Miami, FL
2013 Double Feature, Main St. Gallery/Pomona Arts Colony, Pomona, CA
Beyond Yesterday, Morton Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
2012 Big Names, Small Art, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Works with Paper, Morton Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
2011 Big Names, Small Art, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2010 Thanks for Being With Us: Contemporary Art from the Douglas Neilsen Collection,
Tucson Art Museum, Tucson, AZ
Small Works on Paper, Morton Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
San Francisco Fine Arts Fair (Paul Thiebaud Gallery), San Francisco, CA
I Dream Awake, Morton Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
Art Chicago (Paul Thiebaud Gallery), Chicago, IL
2009 Fresh, auction for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Self-Portraits in the Age of My-Face-Space-Book, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Twenty-Five Treasures, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Modern Day Characters, J. Flynn Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
Venice Art Walk, Venice, CA.
2007 Bridge Art Fair (Bert Green Fine Art), London, UK
Then/Now, Pharmaka, Los Angeles, CA
Oceana, Oceana Society, San Francisco, CA
2006 Introductions, Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Portraits, Pharmaka, Los Angeles, CA
Figure/Form, Coastline College, Costa Mesa, CA
The Peaceable Kingdom, Kortman Center for Design, Rockford, IL
Summer Survey, Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Art International Los Angeles, Santa Monica, CA
2005 Incognito, Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica, CA
!All California!, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Venice to Venice, V & A Gallery, Venice, Italy
-Scope Hamptons, Southhampton, NY
Pharmaka: Inside the Box, Bert Green Fine Art, Los Angeles
Pharmaka: Outside the Box, Pharmaka, Los Angeles, CA
2004 The OsCene, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Dualities, Lewallen Contemporary, Sante Fe, NM
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Artposition 04, Murten-Morat, Switzerland
IGNITE! (Gen Art), Los Angeles, CA
-Scope Los Angeles (Stevenson FIne Art), The Standard, Hollywood, CA
Form, Fragments and Folly, Seven Degrees, Laguna Beach, CA
Pharmaka, (three concurrent exhibitions) Bedlam Art/ Corridor Gallery/ Bedlam Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2003 -Scope Miami (Stevenson Fine Art), Miami Beach, FL
Art 21, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
-Scope Los Angeles, The Standard, Los Angeles, CA
First Annual Invitational, Square Blue Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
Valentine’s Exhibition, Nelson Gallery, U.C. Davis
2002 Texas Artist's Museum, Port Arthur, TX
An American Experience, Associated Artists, Winston-Salem, NC
2000 Blind Date, Worth-Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1999 Miniatures, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA
Blind Date, Manchester Metropolitan University, England, UK
1998 Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
PUBLICATIONS & REVIEWS
2023 The Washington Post, An artist’s modern visions of a classic cartoon character, p.E3 /ART: in the galleries, Sunday April 2
Le Monde Diplomatique, featured artist, (p.1, 19, 20, 21, 22), issue No.829, April 2023
PRINT Magazine/ The Daily Heller: Krazy Kat’s Existential Public Persona by Steven Heller, March 16
Creative Boom, Vonn Cummings Sumner uses Krazy Kat to explore the natural world in his new series of paintings, by Dom Carter, March 20
2021 Hyperallergic, Explore Wayne Thiebaud's Evolving Influence at Manetti Shrem Museum
Dan Nadel, Exhibition Essay: Vonn Sumner Revives the Iconic Krazy Kat for the Pandemic Age,
(for the exhibition Wayne Thiebaud: Influencer/ A New Generation, at the Manetti Shrem Museum, UC Davis)
Artillery Magazine, Vonn Sumner and Holly Elander at KP Project, May 4, 2021, Genie Davis
The Nob Hill Gazette, At 100: Wayne Thiebaud is still making art, teaching, and influencing, March 2, Arts Features, Catherine Bigelow
Sactown Magazine, A Lasting Impression, p.77-79, Jan/Feb 2021 issue
2020 The Sacramento Bee, Wayne Thiebaud Turns 100..., Nov. 15, Arts&Theater
UC Davis Magazine, Painted from Memory, Vol.38, No.1, p.20-25
Archive 00, Archive 01: BLM Issue, August
2018 ArtScene, March, Vol. 37, No.6, p.21, Continuing and Recommended (reviews)
OC Weekly, Feb.09-15, p.22, Trash Can Scholar
2017 The Washington Post, In the Galleries/Vonn Sumner, Sunday, Oct.1, p.E7
2016 The Huffington Post, Vonn Sumner: The Crowd Within, John Seed, August 9
Artsy, See Freak Flags Flown and Not Flown in Vonn Sumner's New LA Show, Bridget Gleeson, July 28
Diversions LA, KP Projects Dazzles, August 27
The Houston Chronicle, Fall Art Fair Fever, September 8
2015 Vice, Art Basel Review, December 11
The Washington Post, In The Galleries, November 13
The Huffington Post, Hot Off The Easel, November edition
Sacramento News & Review, Aggie Legends, p.23, Vol.26, Issue 43, Feb.12
2014 ArtScene, Mercedes Helnwein, Kim Kimbro, Vonn Sumner, p. 21, Vol. 34 No. 3, November
Beautiful Surface, Paintings by Vonn Sumner, (artist profile), October 16
Plastaloux, Portraits/Vonn Sumner, (artist profile), July 17
2013 The Huffington Post, Interview with John Seed, May 18
Hi Fructose, Preview: Vonn Sumner Somewhere Else, May 15
The Huffington Post, Haiku Reviews/Peter Frank, January 2
Rooms Magazine (UK), Featured Artist, June 3
Glamcult Magazine (Netherlands), Artist Profile and Interview, Fall issue
Trendhunter, Art & Design, Featured Artist, June 5
Design Collector, Staff Picks, July 9
Inland Empire Weekly, Arts & Culture, Volume 8, Issue 11, p.11
Artweek LA, Featured Articles & Previews, May 13
2012 The Washington Post, Taking Art Beyond the Frame, September 28, Style Section C8
Poets And Artists Magazine, Vonn Sumner: The Complexities of Simplicity, p.15-19
Hi Fructose, The Art of Vonn Sumner, July, 2012
Juxtapoz, Preview: Vonn Sumner/This Makes Sense, August, 2012
The Huffington Post, Vonn Sumner: This Makes Sense, August 6, 2012
Artweek LA, Vonn Sumner: This Makes Sense, August 2012
Cartwheel Art, The New Traditionalists, August 13, 2012
ArtScene, War Paint: Vonn Sumner & John Scane, November issue, Vol.32, No.3, p.28
2010 Tucson Weekly, An Art Less Ephemeral, September 2-8 2010, p. 29
Thanks for Being With Us, (Exhibition Catalog), Tucson Museum of Art
The Washington Post, Friday, April 2, p. 19
2008 Inland Empire Weekly, Beam Me Backward, Scotty, Volume 3, Issue 29, p.13
Vonn Sumner: The Other Side of Here, Exhibition Catalogue, essays by Peter Frank, Simon Herbert,
Interview by Christopher Monger, Riverside Art Museum
Twenty-Five Treasures, Exhibition Catalogue, Paul Thiebaud Gallery
Riviera magazine, April Issue, Modern Day Characters, p. 42
2007 Art Ltd., Artist Profile, March issue, p. 72
2006 Quickfiction, Cover Image (and statement inside), Issue 9
Trendsetter magazine, Artist Profile and Interview, n.46, Volume 4, p. 54-57
Blade Magazine, March 2006, p. 24
2005 LA Weekly, Pick of the Week review and image, April 22-28, p.56
Lifescapes magazine, June/July Issue, p. 11-13
2004 BOOM magazine, Issue 7, Spring, cover and p.17-18
ISM, Volume 1, Spring
2003 NY Arts Magazine, November/December, Volume 8, Number 11, p.57
2002 New American Paintings, # 43, Pacific Coast Edition
2002 Winston-Salem Journal, American Experience, Sunday, November 10, p. F4
AWARDS & HONORS
2010 Gamblin Oil Color Torrit Grey Competition First Prize
2003 Curator’s Choice Award, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
2002 Featured Artist, New American Paintings, 43/Pacific Coast Competition, Jessica Morgan, Curator, ICA Boston, juror.
2002 American Experience Show Award, Hanes Art Gallery/ Wake Forest Univeristy, Winston-Salem, NC
1999-2000 U.C. Davis Graduate Study Fellowship
1998 Purchase Award, Buehler Alumni Center, U.C. Davis
Tahoe Tallac Association Artist Residency, South Lake Tahoe, CA
1997 John and Terry Kubota Scholarship, U.C. Davis
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Branner Hall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
University Circle, East Palo Alto, CA
Stanford Children’s Hospital, Palo Alto, CA
Shields Main Library Collection, University of California, Davis
University of California, Davis Buehler Alumni Center
EXHIBITION INSTALLATION PHOTOS:
Installation shot of “Search/Party” at Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2022
Installation shot of “Search/Party” at Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2022.
Installation shot of “Search/Party” at Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2022.
Installation shot of “Search/Party” at Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2022.
Installation shot of “Search/Party” at Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2022.
Installation view of “Wane Thiebaud Influencer: A New Generation” at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis. Photo credit: Cleber Bonato, 2021.
Installation view of “Wayne Thiebaud Influencer: A New Generation” at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis. Photo credit: Cleber Bonato, 2021.
Installation of drawings-case at the “Wayne Thiebaud Influencer: A New Generation” exhibition at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis. Photo credit: Cleber Bonato, 2021.
Installation view of drawing-cases in the “Wayne Thiebaud Influencer: A New Generation” at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis. Photo credit: Cleber Bonato, 2021.
Installation of “Krazy Year” exhibition at the Painters Room gallery in Santa Ana, CA. Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer, 2021.
Installation of “Krazy Year” at the Painters Room gallery, Santa Ana, CA. Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer, 2021.
Installation of “Krazy Year” at the Painters Room gallery in Santa Ana, CA. Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer, 2021.
Installation of the exhibition “Vonn Sumner: Stages” at the Philips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College, PA. Photo credit: Toby Richards, 2011.
Installation of the exhibition “Vonn Sumner: Stages” at the Philips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College, PA. Photo credit: Toby Richards, 2011.
Visitors at the “Stages” at the Philips Museum of Art, Pennsylvania. Photo credit: Toby Richards, 2011.