b. 1980, New York, NY
Education
2006
MFA Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
2004
BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2003
The New York Studio Program, New York, NY
2000
The Cooper Union, New York, NY
Collections
CNAP - Centre National Des Arts Plastiques, National Collection of the French Government, France
Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, FL
US Department of State
Awards/Grants
2006
Barry Cohen Scholarship Recipient, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Selected solo exhibitions
2021
Elephant, Campoli Presti, Paris, FR
Kianja Strobert: when is brunch?, Art Omi, Ghent, NY
2017
Kianja Strobert, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
The Button, Marinaro, New York
2016
Kianja Strobert: Giant, Tilton Gallery, New York
2014
Of this Day in Time, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2012
Nothing to Do but Keep Going, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
2011
Going On Foot, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Selected group exhibitions
2022
Reciprocity, curated by David Pagliarulo, Marinaro, New York, NY
The Agreement: Chromatic Presences, Zürcher Gallery, New York, NY
2021
Subliminal Horizons, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY
Light, Stone, and String, Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY
Hôtel Le Lièvre #3: Nick Mauss and Kianja Strobert, Campoli Presti, Paris, France
Shaking the Trees, Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
Grouper, Broadway, New York, NY
Ten Years, Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY
Art and Soul, curated by Reginald Madison, Hudson Hall, Hudson, NY
2020
Blue Flowers, Le Maximum, Venice, CA
Abstract! Minimalism to Now, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Surely Some Revelation Is At Hand, Marinaro, New York, NY
2019
Yellow, September, Hudson, NY
Flat Out II, MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
Sit-In, University of Arkansas Fine Arts Center, Fayetteville, AR
Baba Yaga Group Show, Pulvers Glass/ Grand Buffet, New York, NY
2018
Gardening on the Moon, George Lawson, Emeryville, CA
Sit-In, September, Hudson, NY
2017
Immigrancy, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
Magnetic Fields: National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC (traveling exhibition)
Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
12 x 12, Black Ball Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Post-Election Show, September Gallery, Hudson, NY
She, Tambaran, New York, NY
2016
I Cyborg, Gazelli Art House, London, UK
Harvard Faculty Exhibition, The Carpenter Center, Cambridge, MA
Sub Rosa, LOUDHAILER, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Call and Response, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY
River Crossings, Olana State Historic Site and Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill and Hudson, NY
2014
Alluvial Constructs, Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Reliable Tension – In Re: JJ, Edgewood Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
but that joke isn’t funny anymore…, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
2013
Deep Cuts, Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, NY
Catch as Catch Can, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Outside the Lines: UIA (Unlikely lterations of the Abstract), The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Dark Star, Basilica, Hudson, NY
2012
Fore, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2011
Quadruple-Consciousness, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
A Painting Show, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY
Kianja Strobert/Robert Žungu, Fitzroy Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Painting and Sculpture, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
Grass Grows by Itself, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
30 Seconds Off an Inch, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Be Your Own Placebo, Berkshire Cultural Resource Center at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, MA
2009
Histories, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY
2008
Full of Light, Phantom Galleries LA on Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, CA
November Again, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY
2007
November, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Joe Deutch, Jay Heikes, Chris Moukarbel, Kianja Strobert, Jeffrey Wells, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
Effacé, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Art in Perpetuity, Studio 18 Gallery, New York, NY
School Days, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Between the Lines, Daniel Reich Gallery Chelsea Hotel Project Space, New York, NY
2004
Home School, American Fine Arts & Co., New York, NY
First Year Exhibition, Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
2003
Last Dance, Seminal Gallery, Chicago, IL