May 3 – 31, 2014
Steve Turner Contemporary is pleased to present Drawings, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Yung Jake, featuring a new series of computer-generated drawings. Yung Jake was born on the Internet in 2011. He is best known for his rap videos that integrate the worlds of hip-hop, technology, social media and contemporary art. Datamosh (2011) parodied the trend in music video of datamoshing (a digital technique that distorts images) while playing to a contemporary digital art audience. In E.m-bed.de/d (2012), he commented on the pursuit of Internet fame. His work has been screened at Sundance (2013) and he has performed in Los Angeles at the Hammer Museum and Redcat (2013) and at MOCA (2014). He earned a BFA at CalArts in 2012.
Born 2011, Internet
Lives and works in Los Angeles
Education
2012
BFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
Selected Exhibitions and Performances
2014
Drawings, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles
Unfollow, MOCA, Los Angeles
2013
Performance at Art Basel, Miami
Water, Tripoli Gallery, Southampton, NY
Datamosh, Shorts Program at AFI fest (won Special Jury Mention), Los Angeles
Performance at Time Warner Storytellers Summit, Laguna, California
Performance at The Future of Story Telling Conference, Staten Island
Performance at Redcat, Los Angeles
Performance at Augmented World Expo, Silicon Valley
Performance at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
E.m-bed.de/d, New Frontier exhibit. Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah
Augmented Real, New Frontier, exhibit Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah
Datamosh. New Frontier Short Films, Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah
2012
Workshop at New Frontier Story Lab, Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah
Datamosh, Off the Air, Adult Swim, TV
Datamosh, Bruciennial, New York
2011
Datamosh, gli.tc/h screening, Chicago and Amsterdam
Bibliography
2014
Frank, Priscilla.“Ten Rappers Who’ve Dipped Their Toes In the Art World’s Water,” The Huffington Post, March 28
2013
Williams, Maxwell. “Yung Jake,” Flaunt, October 29
Wright, James, “Augmented Reality,” So It Goes magazine, Issue 1, Volume 1
Johnson, Paddy, “Yung Jake, Video Prankster and Meta-Rapper, Turns the Hustle into Art,” SPIN, November 14
Burnett III, Zaron. “Notes from the Avant-Garde: 5 Artists Pushing Today Into Tomorrow,” Thought Catalog, April 17
Lewis, Amanda. “Yung Jake, a Recent CalArts Grad, Could Be the Breakout Art Star of Sundance,” LA Weekly, Jan 16
2012
Galperina, Marina. “11 Net Artists You Should Know,” Flavorwire, September 4
Moore, Jacob. “Video: Yung Jake E.m-bed.de/d,’” Complex, March 19