Taraka Larson
b. Houston, Texas
Education — BFA School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Selected Solo Shows
2025 Welcome To Paradise Lost – SPRING/BREAK Art Fair– New York, NY
2017 I Like Texas and Texas Likes Me – Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX
2015 How to Live Forever – Cult Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA*
2015 Infinity Duet: World War V – Sorbus Gallery, Helsinki, Finland*
2014 The Empire Never Ended – The Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN*
2013 Whitney Biennial 2067 - part of the BLUESFORSMOKE show at The Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY*
2013 Guitar Center, Post-Apocalypse - Secret Project Robot Gallery, Brooklyn, NY*
(* denotes under the moniker Prince Rama)
Selected Group Shows
2025 Aural Vision 9 – Nha Minh – Brooklyn, NY
2025 “Spring”-- The Pool– Fort Worth, TX
2020 “Now More Than Ever” — Wassaic Project– Wassaic, NY
2017 Conspiracies Are Things – Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
2017 “Up All Night”-- Lump Gallery-- Raleigh, NC
2014 “For the Love of Reverb” part of The John Riepenhoff Experience – Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
2013 Pizza Time! – Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Fame Factory (in conjunction with Andy Warhol’s Silver Clouds) – Artisphere, Washington DC
2013- All That Glitters – The Gateway Center at Newark Penn Station, Newark, NJ
2013 Homes and Gardens – Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Family Business – Tamizdat, St. Petersburg, Russia
2010 Psychedelic Summer - Rare Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Solo Lecture/Performances
2025 Welcome to Paradise Lost – SPRING/BREAK Art Fair – New York, NY
2025 Printed Matter Spring Benefit– New York, NY
2018 Printed Matter – New York, NY
2017 XTREME NOW: Speed Art, Extreme Sports, and the Sublime – School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2016 XTREME NOW: Speed Art, Extreme Sports, and the Sublime – New York University, New York, NY
2016 XTREME NOW: Speed Art, Extreme Sports, and the Sublime – Printed Matter, New York, NY
2013 APOCALYPSE NOW: Pop Music and the End of the World – New York University, New York, NY
2013 APOCALYPSE NOW: Pop Music and the End of the World -Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia
2013 APOCALYPSE NOW: Pop Music and the End of the World -The Clocktower Gallery, New York, NY
2013 THE NOW AGE: Meditations on Art and the Architecture of Utopia -Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2012 THE NOW AGE: Meditations on Art and the Architecture of Utopia -The Clocktower Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Screenings
2024 Psychocastle + Deep Hollow - Upstate Films Presents at Starr Theater– Rhinebeck, NY
2021 Psychocastle – Wassaic Project— Wassaic, NY
2014 Never Forever - Green Gallery, Millwaukee, WI
2013 Never Forever - MoMA PS 1 VW Dome 2, Queens, NY
2013 Those Who Live For Love Will Live Forever (adapted from Never Forever) - Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
2013 Those Who Live For Love Will Live Forever (adapted from Never Forever) – The Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2011 Utopia = No Person - CPH:DOX Festival Copenhagen, Denmark
2008 Croatoan - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2008 Vasanti Vasanti - International Women's Film Festival, San Francisco, California
Commissions
2012 Those Who Live For Love Will Live Forever - LA Museum of Contemporary Art
Residencies
2018 – 2020 Wassaic Project -- Wassaic, NY
2017 Museum of Human Achievement – Austin, TX
2016 Wassaic Project – Wassaic, NY
2014 Colony of Light – Hudson Basilica, Hudson, NY
2012 Spell to Ward Off Darkness -Vormsi, Estonia
2011 Utopia = No Person, Utopia = No Place, Utopia = No Time – Issue Project Room Artist in Residence, Brooklyn New York
Publications
2016 Xtreme Now: Speed Art, Extreme Sports, and the Sublime – Perfect Wave Press + C & B Publishers (distributed by Printed Matter)
2014 Apocalypse Now: Pop Music and the End of the World – Perfect Wave Press (distributed by Printed Matter)
2012 The Now Age Manifesto: Meditations on Sound and the Architecture of Utopia – Swill Children Publishing (distributed by Printed Matter)
Selected Press
2025 - New York Times – “Spring Break May Be A Little Older, But It Still Parties On”
2025 - Hyperallergic – “The Next Big Thing Is At Spring Break Art Show”
2022 - Clash Magazine – “Taraka On The Nature Of Self Portraits”
2019 - White Hot Magazine – “Love Song to My Death: In conversation with artist Taraka Larson about processing the loss of collaborative identity and her solo journey through the Now”
2016- Interview Magazine — “Prince Rama’s State Of Being”
2015 - White Hot Magazine – “Traveling through ‘No-Time’: A conversation with Prince Rama on the collective spirit, photo cakes and ‘Instagrammable’ art”
2010 - New York Times — “Prince Rama: Summoning The Spiritual With Just Enough Cowbell”