SoiL Thornton
Painting, the shorter of the longest, Morán Morán, Los Angeles, California, 2024
Installation view
SoiL Thornton
Painting, the shorter of the longest, Morán Morán, Los Angeles, California, 2024
Installation view
SoiL Thornton
Masked foundational Issues on mass microscopic Level (oops), 2024
Caution spray paint on “oops” paint mixed by and purchased from 5600 W Sunset Boulevard Home Depot on wood panel
6 x 16 x 40 ½ inches (15.2 x 40.6 x 102.9 cm)
SoiL Thornton
pink, blue, white, 2024
Archival inkjet print, Phosphorescent Green (glow in the dark) acrylic {which has ability to absorb and store natural and artificial light. When the light source is removed (i.e. : when the lights are turned off or the painted object is taken into a dark area), a bright, greenish glow is emitted for up to 15 minutes. The glow steadily diminishes as the stored light energy is released}, and acrylic Gel Topcoats w/UVLS {thick acrylic gel mediums containing Ultra Violet Light Filters and Stabilizers (UVLS) to protect materials from fading and deterioration caused by exposure to UV radiation} on canvas
114 x 56 inches (289.6 x 142.2 cm)
SoiL Thornton
Splinter from bouquet of each year of me as you under them (painting), 2024
Epoxy and mirror tiles on acquired pre-painted hunter green (as mandated by The City of New York’s Local Law No. 47 of 2013) wood scaffold/fence piece originally from 57 Essex Street, Manhattan
59 ¾ x 1 ½ x 1 ¾ inches (151.8 x 3.8 x 4.4 cm)
SoiL Thornton
Husband Chair (VS), 2023
Vinyl stitched, velcro, blower, insulated wood quiet box constructed and painted pink by Secession install team
1,013 × 64 ⅛ × 64 ⅛ inches (2574 x 163 x 163 cm)
SoiL Thornton
Choosing Suitor, Secession, Vienna, Austria
Installation view
SoiL Thornton
Choosing Suitor, Secession, Vienna, Austria
Installation view
SoiL Thornton
Choosing Suitor, Secession, Vienna, Austria
Installation view
SoiL Thornton
Spot your rectum versus mine, untitled Political aliens (top fifty US babies 2023 gender mashed to make my new)(with four typos from embroidery name tag producer), 2023
Plush toys, embroidered name tags and dental floss
Dimensions variable
SoiL Thornton
Reconstituting the anatomy through exchanging info, 2023
Nail polish on archival inkjet print on canvas
56 × 90 × 9 ¾ inches (142.24 × 228.60 × 24.77 cm)
SoiL Thornton
Splinter from bouquet of each year of me as you under them (painting), 2023
Epoxy and mirror tiles on acquired pre-painted hunter green (as mandated by The City of New York’s Local Law No. 47 of 2013) wood scaffold/fence piece originally from 127 10th Ave, Manhattan
101 × 2 ⅜ × ⅞ inches (256.54 × 6.03 × 2.22 cm)
SoiL Thornton
Choosing Suitor, Secession, Vienna, Austria
Installation view
SoiL Thornton
Name that Grisaille, 2018–2023
Nail polish and commercial grade chromakey paint on paper in 39 parts
Each 24 x 30 x 2 inches (60 x 76.5 x 5 cm) (framed)
SoiL Thornton
merry christmas splintered bouquet (IS, MS., MR.), 2023
VINTAGE 1950S PLYWOOD LARGE MERRY CHRISTMAS CUTOUT LETTERS YARD DOOR DECORATION, livestock ear tags and hardware, wood screw-in supports constructed and painted hunter green (as mandated by The City of New York’s Local Law No. 47 of 2013) by Secession install team
Dimensions variable
SoiL Thornton
Decomposition Evaluation, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Installation view
SoiL Thornton
Decomposition Evaluation, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Installation view
SoiL Thornton
Decomposition Evaluation, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Installation view
SoiL Thornton
actualizing implications of self care through world care via capitals regenerative processes, i mean earths, 2022
Voucher for my purchase of Loop mycelium coffin for self, mycelium material sample choices to be used for coffin, letter from the owner of Loop, mat and wood frame
15 ⅜ × 22 inches (39 × 56 cm)
SoiL Thornton
“Husband” chair (SC), 2021
16-oz. brown vinyl, d-rings, blower tube, Quiet Box blower
132 × 96 × 69 inches (335.28 × 243.84 × 175.26 cm)
SoiL Thornton
“Husband” chair (SC), 2021
16-oz. brown vinyl, d-rings, blower tube, Quiet Box blower
132 × 96 × 69 inches (335.28 × 243.84 × 175.26 cm)
SoiL Thornton
A Foundational amalgam of supposed 7 deadly sins today, 2021
Seven IKEA Virgil Abloh bags, petroleum
16 × 34 × 31 inches (40.64 × 86.36 × 78.74 cm)
SoiL Thornton
State your name (wedded dress after American Express Gold card dress of Lizzy Gardiner), 2021
Copper wire, 254 jingle bells dressed in oxidization and hung on designer garment hanger on plastic acrylic
93 × 22 × 15 inches (236.22 × 55.88 × 38.10 cm)
SoiL Thornton
State your name (wedded dress after American Express Gold card dress of Lizzy Gardiner), 2021
Detail
SoiL Thornton
Does productivity knows what it’s named, maybe it calls itself identity?, Maxwell Graham/Essex Street, New York, New York, 2020
Installation view
SoiL Thornton
Does productivity knows what it’s named, maybe it calls itself identity?, Maxwell Graham/Essex Street, New York, New York, 2020
Installation view
SoiL Thornton
Does productivity knows what it’s named, maybe it calls itself identity?, Maxwell Graham/Essex Street, New York, New York, 2020
Installation view
SoiL Thornton
Dematerialize now but as self portrait to whom (1990-2020 Labor Cont(r)act), 2020
Used paint sticks on wood and formica with silk screen ink
23 × 363 × 1 inches (58.42 × 922.02 × 2.54 cm)
SoiL Thornton
Dematerialize now but as self portrait to whom (1990-2020 Labor Cont(r)act), 2020
Used paint sticks on wood and formica with silk screen ink
23 × 363 × 1 inches (58.42 × 922.02 × 2.54 cm)
SoiL Thornton
What Is Sexuality, Is The Scale Infinite Similar To A Line (new modes of press and chromakey) (TT-ES-00022), 2020
Acrylic paint, pressed smashed elongated pennies on cotton and foam with wood frame
108 × 90 × 12 inches (274.32 × 228.60 × 30.48 cm)
SoiL Thornton
What Is Sexuality, Is The Scale Infinite Similar To A Line (new modes of press and chromakey) (TT-ES-00022), 2020
Acrylic paint, pressed smashed elongated pennies on cotton and foam with wood frame
108 × 90 × 12 inches (274.32 × 228.60 × 30.48 cm)
Detail
SoiL Thornton
What Punk, 2018-2020
52 pages, digital offset print, 100# gloss cover paper stock, plexi cover bound with Chicago screws and die cut sticker
Presented atop loaned table from Karma books for the duration of show
25 3⁄4 × 21 1⁄4 × 3⁄4 inches (65.41 × 53.98 × 1.91 cm) (closed)
SoiL Thornton
What Punk, 2018-2020
52 pages, digital offset print, 100# gloss cover paper stock, plexi cover bound with Chicago screws and die cut sticker
Presented atop loaned table from Karma books for the duration of show
25 3⁄4 × 21 1⁄4 × 3⁄4 inches (65.41 × 53.98 × 1.91 cm) (closed)
SoiL Thornton
Subdominium Edges Y Assumed Legalities, Modern Art, London, UK, 2019
Installation view
SoiL Thornton
Isolation from fallen halt and intelligence in mirroring (remember Allen), 2019
Aluminum protective enamel paint and spray paint on wood panel
61 ⅜ × 85 ⅞ × 2 ½ inches (156 × 218 × 6.5 cm)
SoiL Thornton
Masked Foundational Issues On Mass Microscopic Level (XY Coordinates Doomed On Entry), 2019
Acrylic paint and spray paint on wood panel
85 ⅜ × 96 ½ × 2 inches (217 × 245 × 5 cm)
SoiL Thornton
Subdominium Edges Y Assumed Legalities, Modern Art, London, UK, 2019
Installation view
SoiL Thornton
Labor Cont(r)act, 2019
Spray paint on wall
Dimensions variable
SoiL Thornton
Sustenance Traversing Foundational Urgencies (STFU [some])(Re-Faux Outing), Maxwell Graham/Essex Street, New York, New York, 2019
Installation view
SoiL Thornton
Endangered Cabbie Named Bumble (Practitioners Raw material), 2019
Eyewear retainers and plastic hardware
54 × 45 inches (137.16 × 114.30 cm)
SoiL Thornton
Untitled Political Aliens (Top Fifty US Babies 2018 Gender Mashed To Make My New)(Charming), 2018
Gourds, plastic, copper military I.D. dog tags, rubber silencers, galvanized steel cable, hardware
13 × 24 × 1,200 inches (33.02 cm × 60.96 cm × 30.48 cm)
SoiL Thornton
Legally Undone, Curbside, 2018
Reading material and plexiglass
2 × 11 ¾ × 230 inches (5.08 × 29.85 × 584.20 cm)
SoiL Thornton
Untitled Political Aliens (Top Fifty US Babies 2018 Gender Mashed To Make My New)(Charming), 2018
Gourds, plastic, copper military I.D. dog tags, rubber silencers, galvanized steel cable, hardware
13 × 24 × 1,200 inches (33.02 cm × 60.96 cm × 30.48 cm)
SoiL Thornton
Legally Undone, Curbside, 2018
Reading material and plexiglass
2 × 11 ¾ × 230 inches (5.08 × 29.85 × 584.20 cm)
SoiL Thornton
Untitled Political Aliens (Top Fifty US Babies 2018 Gender Mashed To Make My New)(Charming), 2018
Gourds, plastic, copper military I.D. dog tags, rubber silencers, galvanized steel cable, hardware
13 × 24 × 1,200 inches (33.02 cm × 60.96 cm × 30.48 cm)
SoiL Thornton
Legally Undone, Curbside, 2018
Reading material and plexiglass
2 × 11 ¾ × 230 inches (5.08 × 29.85 × 584.20 cm)
SoiL Thornton
How Many Ways To Understand Moving Image, How Many For Vanity, 2018
Found color photo prints, found cardboard with polished aluminum frame
40 × 71 ¼ × 3 inches (101.60 × 180.98 × 7.62 cm)
SoiL Thornton
How Many Ways To Understand Moving Image, How Many For Vanity, 2018
Found color photo prints, found cardboard with polished aluminum frame
40 × 71 ¼ × 3 inches (101.60 × 180.98 × 7.62 cm)
Detail
SoiL Thornton
Maxwell Graham/Essex Street, Art Basel: Miami Beach, Miami, Florida, 2017
Installation view
SoiL Thornton
Dear Help, Help, 2015-2017
Acrylic paint, paper, wood, plastic and hardware and on wood
64 × 12 × 2 ½ inches (162.56 × 30.48 × 6.35 cm)
Maxwell Graham/Essex Street, Art Basel: Miami Beach, Miami, Florida, 2017
Installation view
SoiL Thornton
Dear Help, Help, 2015-2017
Acrylic paint, paper, wood, plastic and hardware and on wood
64 × 12 × 2 ½ inches (162.56 × 30.48 × 6.35 cm)
SoiL Thornton
Painting, 2017
Found painted rock (Waring Ave and El Centro, LA), found painted rock (Marcy and Park Ave, NY), found painted rock (Flushing Ave and 54 Pl, NY) found painted rock (Van Wyck Expy and 106 Ave, NY), found painted rock (Etsy), found painted rock (Etsy), found painted rock (N Avenue 52 and Lincoln Ave, LA), found painted rock (Maya’s Westbeth gift, NY), found painted rock (Stanton and Norfolk, NY), and hardware on steel saw blade
104 inches diameter (264 cm diameter)
SoiL Thornton
Painting, 2017
Found painted rock (Waring Ave and El Centro, LA), found painted rock (Marcy and Park Ave, NY), found painted rock (Flushing Ave and 54 Pl, NY) found painted rock (Van Wyck Expy and 106 Ave, NY), found painted rock (Etsy), found painted rock (Etsy), found painted rock (N Avenue 52 and Lincoln Ave, LA), found painted rock (Maya’s Westbeth gift, NY), found painted rock (Stanton and Norfolk, NY), and hardware on steel saw blade
104 inches diameter (264 cm diameter)
Detail
SoiL Thornton
What Is Sexuality, Is The Scale Infinite Similar To A Line, 2017
Acrylic paint, metallic paint, copper wire, galvanized steel wire, aluminum military dog tags, and plexiglass on cotton and foam with wood frame
111 × 96 × 11 in. (281.9 × 243.8 × 27.9 cm)
Whitney Biennial 2017, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2017
Installation view
SoiL Thornton
What Is Sexuality, Is The Scale Infinite Similar To A Line, 2017
Acrylic paint, metallic paint, copper wire, galvanized steel wire, aluminum military dog tags, and plexiglass on cotton and foam with wood frame
111 × 96 × 11 in. (281.9 × 243.8 × 27.9 cm)
Detail
Exhibitions:
SoiL Thornton
candidate screening methods
Progetto, Lecce, Italy
July 13 – December 31, 2024
— Flash Art
SoiL Thornton
Choosing Suitor
Secession, Vienna, Austria
September 15 – November 23, 2023
— Observer 2023
— Publication by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther & Franz König
— PW-Magazine
SoiL Thornton
Decomposition Evaluation
Solo Exhibition
Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
August 19 – October 30, 2022
— Artists' Talk, August 20, 12PM
— Texte zur Kunst
SoiL Thornton
Niloufar Emamifar, SoiL Thornton, and an Oral History of Knobkerry
SculptureCenter, New York, New York
October 14 – December 14, 2021
— Artforum
— New York Times
— New Yorker
SoiL Thornton
Does productivity know what it's named, maybe it calls itself identity?
November 20, 2020 - January 9, 2021
— Press Release
— Checklist
— Interview Magazine
— Hyperallergic
— Contemporary Art Writing Daily
— Art Agenda
Elsewhere:
2025
2024
2023
SoiL Thornton
SoiL Thornton: Vug Culturing, Swallet Thinking
By Alex Bennett
Flash Art
November 2023
SoiL Thornton
In Defense of Symbolic Value: Artistic Procedures in the Resort
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
April 27 – June 10, 2023
— Booklet
SoiL Thornton
Painting, the shorter of the longest, 2023
In The Office
January 13 – February 25, 2023. Opening Friday, January 13, 6-8PM
— Checklist
— New York Times
2022
SoiL Thornton
Moreover, does productivity know what it’s named, maybe it calls itself identity?
Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
November 26, 2021 – January 22, 2022
— Welt am Sonntag
— Berliner Zietung
— Der Tagesspiegel
2021
SoiL Thornton
My child will be named after me, invasive, or was it prayer? I need to check my notes
Solo Exhibition
Moran Moran, Los Angeles, California
August 21 – September 11, 2021
— Texte zur Kunst
SoiL Thornton
Sharing a (S)hell
Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco, California
January 15 – March 12, 2021
— Journal.fyi
2020
SoiL Thornton
Pedestrian Profanities
Simon Lee, New York, New York
October 29 – December 19, 2020