SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
PLAYS ON FOREPLAYS
Ruscha & Co., Los Angeles, 2023
This show purposefully mines the gold of new-age clichés, twisting them to funnier and juicier effect. A suite of paintings plays with the forced fantasy relationships we bestow upon animals, the unspeakable subtexts coming out to sun themselves. Each is accompanied by a video.
LADIES’ LAIR LAKE
Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), 2022
Hall’s most expansive body of work to date, Ladies’ Lair Lake narrates a creation myth that begins not with man but with woman, and explores themes of disobedience and loss of innocence; the clash between patriarchal religion and matriarchal goddess worship; the complexities and loss of autonomy that accompany motherhood; and the interplay of free will and fate, of human desire and divine intervention.
THE SEER AND THE SEEN
Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, 2021
Trulee Hall's solo exhibition showcased work exploring gender and sexuality, as well as subject and object, alongside works by Marcel Duchamp, Albrecht Dürer, Evard Munch, Diana de Rosa, and Franz von Stuck.
ZABLUDOWICZ COLLECTION ANNUAL COMMISSION
Zabludowicz Collection, London, 2020–2021
Zabludowicz Collection’s 2020 Annual Commission is the first UK exhibition of American artist Trulee Hall, following her sold-out operatic performance at Zabludowicz Collection in March 2020. Debuting her newly commissioned project alongside works from the Collection and a number of videos, paintings, and sculptures, the exhibition presents work made over the past two years.
ALL THEM WITCHES
Deitch Projects, Los Angeles, 2020
All Them Witches is an exhibition organized by Laurie Simmons and Dan Nadel, and curated according to a shared “witchy” sensibility shared between certain artists. Hall’s contribution is “Seance of the Umbilical Coven,” an installation composed of found objects, Hall’s signature serpentine sculptures, and a corresponding video work, which visitors can view upon entering the structure.
TONGUES DUEL THE CORN WHORES, AN OPERA
Zabludowicz Collection, London, 2020
Tongues Duel the Corn Whores, An Opera is an exploration of ritual and sexuality, composed of Hall’s original score, libretto and choreography and featuring the artist’s set, costume, and prop design. The opera revolves around two female archetypes: the conservative and spiritual Madonna and the hedonistic and provocative Whore. Hall’s filmed preview will become video content for an installation to be exhibited in her solo exhibition at the Zabludowicz Collection in September 2020.
THE OTHER AND OTHERWISE
Maccarone, Los Angeles, 2019
Hall’s debut solo exhibition premiered in January 2019. The Other and Otherwise is a series of multimedia installations, arranged as dissonant room-like tableaus and animated with kinetic mechanics, composed soundtrack, and video. Hall’s interdisciplinary layering works as an unraveling of sexual consciousness: a deeply psychological dissection of erotic tropes and fetishes.
THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE
Maccarone, Los Angeles, 2019
The artist displayed two multifaceted installations in The Pleasure Principle, Maccarone’s pan-generational, sexually-focused group show. Eves’ Mime Ménage and SexyTime Rock Variations each center an erotic female collective, engaged in ball-tossing and rock-humping, respectively. The installations highlight Hall’s work as a choreographer and director of live-action films, that which feature the sets and props comprising the installation itself.
INFESTATION
Frieze Art Fair, Los Angeles, 2019
Infestation is a sprawling serpentine installation, which Hall erected on a New York City set at Paramount Pictures’ backlots. Infestation enveloped the faux city block, weaving in and out of a mock SoHo brownstone. Hall accompanied the life-size installation with a two-channel video counterpart, animating Infestation’s imminent arrival with CGI and claymation.
THE DOPE ELF
The Lab, San Francisco, 2020
Yale Union, Portland, 2019
The Dope Elf is a traveling play by Asher Hartman — a six-hour absurdist saga about white supremacy and its everyday manifestations of psychic suffering. Hall was commissioned to construct The Dope Elf’s set. The result: a mobile dwelling composed of found objects.
PUSSY, KING OF THE PIRATES
Maccarone, Los Angeles, 2018
Pussy, King of the Pirates is guided by Kathy Acker’s 1996 novel of the same name — and Acker’s irreverent advocacy for non-male self-characterization. The exhibition unites the work of 20 female artists, engaged with the concept and figuration of the feminine form. Hall’s contribution, “The Fertile Blue,” is an installation comprised of painting, video, and sculptural tableaus.
