b. 1983, Austin, Texas. Currently living and working in Los Angeles
EDUCATION
2010
M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts
2005
B.F.A., Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
"By Any Possibility," Meliksetian Briggs, Los Angeles, CA
2015
"Remainder," Meliksetian Briggs, Los Angeles, CA
2014
"From Both Moments As Another," Meliksetian Briggs, Los Angeles, CA
2010
"Uncertainty Twice," California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2009
"Eventually Everything," California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2006
"(for Alan Turing)," Gulf and Western Gallery, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
"Civil Sunset," Open House, Los Angeles, CA
2015
"Above/Below/Within," Meliksetian Briggs, Los Angeles, CA
2014
"Finding a Form," POST, Los Angeles, CA
"Itch Scratch Scar," Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
"The Cartographer," Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013
"Turn of Phrase," Pepin Moore, Los Angeles, CA
"WE SPEAK EASY," PØST, Los Angeles, CA
"InterTextual States," PØST, Los Angeles, CA
"Searchin’: Los Angeles and the Quest for the Sublime," Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
2012
"Echo of Echo," Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Go Ask A.L.I.C.: Testing Artificial Intelligence Since Turing," Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
"A War of Words," Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
"LAMENT for altered, erased, and lost histories," Platform, Winnipeg
"Made in L.A.," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
"Dualities, Omissions, Loops, and Ruptures,” Luis de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Knowledges," Mount Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, CA
"Its Endless Undoing," Thierry Goldberg, New York, NY
2011
"In - and outside - writing," Voorkamer, Lier, Belgium
2010
“Inscription,” Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA
“A Feast of Fools,” Second Floor, Brooklyn, NY
"Illiterature," University Art Gallery, California State University, Chico, CA
"Wet Paint II," Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
"Love Letters To a Surrogate," Torrance Art Museum, CA
"Box Scheme: CalArts Graduate Exhibition," Dan Graham, Los Angeles, CA
“S(l)umm(er)ing on Madison Avenue,” The Notary Public, New York
“Volume,” AT1 Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"Full Disclosure," Tompkins Projects, Brooklyn, NY
"Eternal Return," Nurture Art, Brooklyn, NY
2009
"Left to Chance," Firehouse 13, Providence, RI
"Manipulating Reality," Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Florence, Italy (catalog)
"Character Generator," Eleven Rivington, New York
"The Lining of Forgetting," Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
"In Real Time," Capricious Space, Brooklyn, NY
"DiSoRgAnizEd," Museum 52, New York
"Illiterature," Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind," SPAS Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
2008
"Illiterature," Limn Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"The Lining of Forgetting," Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC (catalog)
"At Arms Length," Nurture Art, Brooklyn, NY
2007
"12,5," Kunstverein INGAN, Berlin
"END WISE ," Current Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
"Hidden Hands," White Box, New York
"Open Book," Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York
2006
"Cabin Comfort," Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, New York
"Fluxus Party," Monkey Town, Brooklyn, New York
2005
"Dreamland," Galleria Illy, New York City
“Transforming the Grid,” Opensource Art, Champaign, Illinois
“BFA Thesis Exhibition,” Tisch Photography & Imaging Gallery, NYU
"NEW.MASS.ART," Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, Massachusetts
“One Year of Archived Email,” Tisch Photography & Imaging Gallery, NYU
2004
"closer in," Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, Massachusetts (catalog)
"The Infinite Fill Show," Foxy Production Gallery, New York City
"In Our Minds We Have Images, Called Ideas," GAGA Gallery, New York City
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2011
"On The Line," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA, including Meg Cranston, Larry Johnson, Sarah Seager, and Mitchell Syrop.
PANELS AND TALKS
2011
"Language and Uncertainty: Artist talk with Kim Schoen and Cody Trepte," LM Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"Artist talk with Sarah Seager," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
2008
"Craft Hackers," New Museum, New York, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Decoding Turing," Bill Clarke, ARTnews, March 2014
"Picturing Paradoxes: An Interview with Cody Trepte," Kyle Fitzpatrick, LA I'm Yours, 20 August, 2012
"MADE in LA," Amy Howden Chapman, Chartwell.org.nz, July 2012
"Minimalism as Relic," John Haber, Haberarts.com, July 2012
"Cody Trepte", Kurt Mueller, Made in LA: 1st Los Angeles Biennial, Hammer Museum/Delmonica Prestel
"Contemporary Absences," What Is Contemporary?, April 2012
"Box Scheme," Artinfo, July 2010
"Character Generator," Artforum, November 2009
"Manipulating Reality," exhibition catalog, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Florence, Italy, 2009
"Lining of Forgetting," Austin American Statesman, 25 June, 2009
"Lining of Forgetting," ...might be good, 19 June, 2009
"Illiterature Mixes Messages," Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 6 March, 2009
"Creating Memories," Tom Patterson, Winston-Salem Journal, 19 May, 2008
"The Lining of Forgetting," Amy White, Art Papers, May/June 2008
"On Computable Numbers," SLEEK Magazine, Spring 2008
“The Lining of Forgetting,” exhibition catalog, Weatherspoon Art Museum, 2008
"Systems, Pathos, Self-Reference," ...might be good, 7 March, 2008
“10 digits,” Marisa Olson, Rhizome.org, 19 December, 2007
“This is how I cope with my neuroses,” SLEEK Motion, Winter 2007
“Structure|Chaos,” SLEEK Magazine, Winter 2007
"Alan Turing," New York Times 1 January, 2007
“Reality Byte,” New York Press 20 December, 2006
“Installations Debut,” NYU Today 27 November, 2006
“Rosenberg Grant Recipient,” NYU Alumni September 2006
"Cabin Comforts," NY Arts Magazine September/October 2006
“Artist Turns Email Into Notoriety,” Herald Banner 28 April, 2005
“Returned Email,” New York Times 20 February, 2005
“BFA Catalog,” New York University’s Department of Photography and Imaging, 2005
“closer in” exhibition catalog, Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, Massachusetts 2004
WRITING
Untitled (Something Clever Here), The Highlights, (October 2009)
Review of MTAA's Our Political Work, ...might be good (October 2008)