Biography 

Born 1975 Miami, Florida

Lives and works in Los Angeles, California

Education 

University of California, Los Angeles, CA.  2004 BFA.

Valand Kunstskolan, Goteborg, Sweden

San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008

Maa-Nupi Wakipi, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand

Uzihektaka Wakipi, (The Cave Project), Los Angeles, CA.

Kraadl, Open Satellite, Seattle, WA. (Upcoming) (Catalog)

Mesler and Hug, Los Angeles, CA. (Upcoming)

2007

Webik: Okori Wakipi, Renwick Gallery, New York, NY.

Laau pi, Atelier Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Waka Mi Cha, Trudi, Los Angeles, CA.

2006

Art Basel Miami, Art Positions, Miami, FL. (Catalog)

Kukadiku, Karma International, Zurich, Switzerland

Makawana Omawaki, Daniel Hug, Los Angeles, CA.

2004

Beneath the Shade of the Trees, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008

Bara, Bernhard Lehner, Chris Lipomi, Forever and a Day Buro, Berlin, Germany

Legende, Domaine de Chamarande, France (Catalog)

Black Dragon Society (closing exhibition), BDS, Los Angeles, CA.

Pruesspress, Rental Gallery, New York, NY.

2007

Koln Show 2,  European Kunsthalle, Koln, Germany (Catalog)

Mongrel, Sixteen:One, Los Angeles, CA.

Maka Watcha Wana, High Desert Test Sites, Wonder Valley, CA.

Palisadenparenchym, Danese, New York, NY.

Kairos,  Kantor Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

Trudi, (No Jerks), Rental Gallery, New York, NY.

2006

Modern Primitivism,  Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL.

Back from the End of the Earth, Ben Kaufmann Gallerie, Berlin, Germany

Group Show, Daniel Hug, Los Angeles, CA.

Volume 1; Breeze Over the Muffin Top, Universal Cube, Leipzig, Germany

Villa Holiday, Warsaw, Poland

Weltkunstsammlung, Centre, Berlin, Germany (Two Person)

2005

Pictures are the Problem, Pelham Art Center, New York, NY.

The February Show, 1103 La Brea, Los Angeles, CA. (Organized)

Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA.

Fastforward, House of Capri, Venice, CA.

2004

Group Show, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA.

Upstream: Idea Drawings, Hayworth, Los Angeles, CA. (Organized)

High Desert Test Sights, Joshua Tree, CA.

Awards

2003 

Edward J. and Alice Mae Smith Award

2002

Lillian Levinson Scholarship Award

1999

Paul Sack Award

Public Collections

Seattle Art Museum

Detroit Museum of Art

Bibliography

Roberta Smith, "Pruesspress", New York Times, July, 2008

Paul Young, "Uzihektaka Wakipi", Los Angeles Times, February, 2008

Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, "Uzihektaka Wakipi", NYFA Current, February, 2008

Isabelle Dupuis, "Webik: Okori Wakipa", Flash Art, January, 2008

Chiara Argentini, "Good Karma", International Auctioneers, Autumn, 2007

Holte, Michael Ned,  “Mongrel”, Art Forum, November, 2007 (Good)

David Pagel,  “Mongrel”, Los Angeles Times, August, 2007 (Bad)

Holte, Michael Ned,  “Makawana Omawaki”, Art Forum, June, 2006

Bluhm, Erik, “Makawana Omawaki”, Art US, Spring, 2006