Xavier McFarlin
xaviermcfarlin@gmail.com
(210) 612-7159

B
. 1994, Landstuhl, Germany 
Based in New York, NY

Education 

2019 
BFA: Photography, Minor: Museum/Curatorial Studies, Parsons, The New School, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions 

Forthcoming 
Incidental Container, Pioneer Works Administration, NY, Opening September 7th, 7-10pm.

2024
Hues of Identity, Strand Art Center, Plattsburgh, NY, June 7 - August 10, 2024.

2023
Queer Visions, Studio Place Arts, Barre, VT, March 15 - April 29, 2023.

2021-2022
2021 Texas Biennial: A New Landscape / A Possible Horizon, The McNay Museum of Art, September 1, 2021 - January 31, 2022.

2021
Digital Rights are Civil Rights: Race and Technology, Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy, Minneapolis, MN, began February 19, 2021. 

2020
Art Gallery: 40 Emerging, Tejas Made, 2020 (virtual exhibition)

Until Then, Osseous Matter, September 10 - November 4, 2020.  

FUTURES, Studio Place Arts, Barre, VT, March 17 - August 15, 2020.  

All Together Now: Starting from Scratch, Top Cat, New York, NY, January 2 - January 31, 2020. 

2019-2020
Unsettling Time, Curated by Alejandro T. Acierto, The Wrong Biennale, November 1, 2019 - March 1, 2020. 

2019
Unsettling Time, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, November 4 - 20, 2019. 

The Other is You: Brooklyn Queer Portraiture, BRIC Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, April 23 - May 12, 2019.

Parsons BFA Photography, Aperture Gallery, New York, NY, May 14 - 18, 2019. 

WERQ: We’ve Been Doing This Our Whole Lives, NOGO Arts hosted by Cluster Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, June 8 - 30, 2019. 

2018
Dissociations: Land, Water, Flesh, Skybridge Gallery, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at the New School, New York, NY, December 2018. 

Press
Polston, Pamela, In 'Queer Visions,' LGBTQ+ Artists Explore Contours of Identity, Seven Days, April 19, 2023.

Chávez, Caitlin, Review: 2021 Texas Biennial at SAMA and the McNay Art Museum, Southwest Contemporary, November 15, 2021.

Lynch, David, Texas Biennial returns with massive San Antonio footprint and a multifaceted showcase for contemporary art, Kens5, October 17, 2021.

Sauers, Camille, All you need to know about San Antonio's upcoming Texas Biennial art shows, August 30, 2021. 

ArtForum, TEXAS BIENNIAL ANNOUNCES ARTISTS, VENUES, May, 21, 2021.

Ryzin, Jeanne Claire van, The 2021 Texas Biennial to feature 51 artists, Sightlines, May 8, 2021.

Schaffner, Ingrid, Column: A Studio Visit, Big Bend Sentinel, October 20, 2020. 

Perrault, Abbie, Marfa and Terlingua artists open exhibitions at the Texas Biennial, Big Bend Sentinel, September 1, 2020.

Calderón, Barbara, Art Gallery: 40 Emerging, Texas-based Artists to Know, December 1, 2020. 

Aperture, Parsons BFA Photography Senior Thesis Exhibition, May 14, 2019.

Rosen, Miss, Three artists speak on how to create portraits that make an impact, May 9, 2019.

Graves, Cassidy Dawn, Art After Stonewall, Political Portraits, and More Art This Week, Bedford + Bowery, April 23, 2019.

ArtNews, 9 Art Events in New York This Week: ‘Art After Stonewall,’ Lorna Simpson, Frank Stella, and More, ArtNews, April 22, 2019.

Q+A Interview with Xavier McFarlin, Digital America, Issue 13, University of Richmond's Department of Art and Art History, April 10, 2019. 

Leonhardt, Andrea, BRIC’s Festival of Ideas Returns to Explore Social Justice Through Art, BKReader, March 12, 2019.