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  • Selected Solo Exhibitions and Projects
  • We Are Coming, The Center Theatre, Dover-Foxcroft, ME 2024
  • We Are Coming, The Oriental, Denver, CO 2023
  • We Are Coming, Eagle Theater at Vidiots, Los Angeles, CA 2023
  • We Are Coming, The Cody Theatre, Cody, WY 2022
  • Spin (after Sol LeWitt), Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA 2022
  • Spin (after Sol LeWitt), Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas, NV 2021
  • Straight Lines in Four Directions for Social Distancing (after Sol LeWitt), Wright Museum, Beloit, WI; Gallery 51 at MCLA, North Adams, MA; Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA, Portland, ME; Georgia Art Space, Denver, CO; University of California-Davis 2020
  • Spin (after Sol LeWitt), Grand Central Art Center at Frieze Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA 2020
  • Spin (after Sol LeWitt), World Sign Spinning Championship, Las Vegas, NV 2020
  • 2019 Spin (after Sol LeWitt), Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA 2019
  • Spin (after Sol LeWitt), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN 2018
  • Westerly, University of Wyoming Art Gallery, Laramie, WY 2018
  • Yumi Janairo Roth, Sienna Patti Contemporary, Pulse Art Fair, NY, NY 2016
  • ArtSourced: Call Center, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY 2015
  • Modifications & Adaptations: Recent Work by Yumi Janairo Roth, University of Texas-San Marcos, TX 2013
  • Yumi Janairo Roth: All that Glitters, The Front, New Orleans, LA, 2012
  • Kaugummiautomatenpreise, Public Project, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany, 2011
  • F.O.B.: Yumi Janairo Roth, Cuchifritos Project Space and Gallery, New York, NY 2010
  • Commemorating the Anecdote, Pratt Fine Art Center, Seattle, WA 2009
  • In Transition, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO 2008
  • Yumi Janairo Roth, Apama Mackey Gallery, Houston, TX 2007
  • Prodded, Tugged, Pushed, Pulled, Ayala Museum, Makati-Metro Manila, Philippines 2007
  • Speak Clearly So We Can Understand, Sarah Bowen Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2006
  • Detoured, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX 2005
  • Small Acts of Public Service, Vargas Museum, Manila, Philippines 2005
  • Selected Group Exhibitions and Projects
  • Cowboy, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO, 2023-24
  • agriCULTURE: Art Inspired by the Land, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 2023
  • Walk With Us, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN, 2022-2023
  • Making Room: Works from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas, NV, 2022-2023
  • Citizenship: A Practice of Society, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO 2020
  • FilAm Artist Directory Launch, Flood Plain Gallery, St. Louis, MO 2019
  • Araw ng mga Patay, Avenue 50 Studio, Highland Park, CA 2019
  • Navigating New York, The Transit Museum, New York, NY 2019-2018
  • Duality of Presence, Ruben Center for the Visual Arts, El Paso, TX 2018
  • Hurry Up and Wait, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA 2017
  • (De)centered, WAS Gallery, Washington D.C. 2017
  • Duality of Presence, Super+ Centercourt Gallery, Munich, Germany 2017
  • Art Dialog - Meziprostory, Galerie Klatovy-Klnoevá, Czech Republic 2016
  • Creativity and Work, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID 2014
  • Mapnificent, AIGA Spaces, Philadelphia, PA & Bronx River Art Center, NY 2013
  • Value Added, Art Gallery at The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ 2013
  • Continental Drift, MCA-Denver & Aspen Art Museum, CO 2012
  • Perfect Citizen, Gaddis Geeslin Gallery, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX 2012
  • Site 92, Smack Mellon, New York, NY 2011
  • Reclamation, Center for Visual Art, Denver, CO 2011
  • Ways of Seeing, Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO 2011
  • Painting and Sculpture, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY 2010
  • Nowhere: Selections from the Files of the HDMA, Art Gallery, Arcadia Univ. Philadelphia, PA 2010
  • You Are Here, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY 2010
  • This is not a Photograph, Blue Star Contemporary/Unit B, San Antonio, TX 2010
  • Beauty Underfoot, Smack Mellon, New York, NY 2009
  • Tallers Oberts de Sarriá, Barcelona, Spain 2009
  • Untitled, Casa Orlandai, Barcelona, Spain 2009
  • All Over the Map, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI 2009
  • Open Studios, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY 2009
  • Infinite Possibilities, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY 2009
  • Ruminant, Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, ME 2008
  • Surprisingly Natural, Bronx River Arts Center, New York, NY 2008
  • Political Craft, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA 2008
  • Flower Power, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2008
  • ArtCamp, Galerie Petrohrad, Pilsen, Czech Republic 2007
  • Run For Your Lives, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX 2006
  • Prevailing Climate, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY 2006
  • Flashback, Fastforward Anderson Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM 2005
  • Confluence, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO 2006
  • Verdure, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO 2006
  • Surface Sublime, Institute for Visual Arts (INOVA), Milwaukee, WI 2006
  • Nothing to Fear, Art Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY 2005
  • RG ReSolutions presents: Thinking Small, The Map Room Portland, ME 2005
  • Art Shanty Project, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN 2005
  • Selected Publications
  • PBS NewsHour: Art and Agriculture Meet in Collaborative Colorado Exhibit
    Includes interview with Mark DeRespinis, Shirley Janairo Roth, and Yumi Janairo Roth
  • Discovering Filipino Rough Riders of the American West | In The Studio with Yumi Roth Emmanuel David
    Interview as part of MCA-Denver’s Cowboy exhibition
  • Marquee Project Honors Buffalo Bill's Forgotten Filipino Actors
  • Past, Present Come Together: Marquee project recognizes Rough Riders
  • A Denver Museum Exhibit Explores Cowboy Culture, the Archetypal and the Authentic
  • Bucking the Myth of the American Cowboy
  • Sign Spinning Meets Sol LeWitt at Santa Ana's Grand Central Art Center
    KCET's Artbound series
  • Rotations on Conceptual Practice
    Catalog essay from the exhibition Spin (after Sol LeWitt), Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
  • Of Consequence to the Signified
    Black Mountain Radio program featuring sign spinners Evan James, Rayen Jones, Laramie Rosenfeld in conjunction with Spin Spin (after Sol LeWitt) at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
  • Spin (after Sol LeWitt)
    The SPINdustry Podcast, a multipart podcast featuring LAXart Director, Hamza Walker, professional sign spinner, Justin Michael Charles Brown, and SPINdustry Podcast host, Joey Castanon.
  • Practicing Art, Practicing Citizenship, by Zoe Larkins
    Curator's essay from the exhibition Citizenship: A Practice of Society at the Museum of Contemporary Art-Denver
  • Minor Landmark/Opomíjená Pamětihodnost
    Gallery guide for Minor Landmark in Klenová, CZ
  • You Are Here: NYC: Mapping the Soul of the City, by Katherine Harmon, Princeton Architectural Press
    Includes the project Meta Mapa: Bronx
  • Thinking Outside the Lines, by Diane Daniel, Boston Globe
    An interview with Katherine Harmon about her book You Are Here: NYC: Mapping the Soul of the City includes Meta Mapa: Bronx
  • San Marcos Exhibit Takes New Look at American West, by Jeanne Claire Van Ryzin, Austin American Statesman
    Exhibition review of Modifications & Adaptations
  • From Here to There, by Kris Harzinski, Princeton Architectural Press
    Includes the project Meta Mapa: Bronx as part of the Hand Drawn Map Association (HDMA)
  • F.O.B.: Yumi Janairo Roth at Cuchifritos Project Space and Gallery, NY, NY
    Gallery guide include an interview between Yumi and Nadine Wasserman and an essay about the historical Essex Street Market by Suzanne Wasserman
  • The Map As Contemporary Art, by Katherine Harmon, Princeton Architectural Press
  • Finally, Art that’s Useful, by Wendy Cheng, Theme Magazine
    Interview between Yumi and Wendy Cheng
  • Gimme Shelter, by Nadine Wasserman
    Gallery guide for Ruminant at the ICA, Portland, ME
  • Style Depot, by David Varno
    Catalog for Speak Clearly So We Can Understand at Sarah Bowen Gallery in NYC
  • The Pages of Their Book Can’t See Their Cover, by Nicholas Frank
    Gallery guide for Surface Sublime at INOVA in Milwaukee, WI
  • Small Acts of Public Service, by Yumi Janairo Roth, Ctrl +PDF
    Essay discussing the process of creating the jeepney intervention in Manila, the Philippines
  • Decorating Tips for Subverting Authority, by Timothy Robert Rodgers
    Gallery guide for Detoured at the Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
  • Nothing to Fear, by Nadine Wasserman
    Gallery guide for Nothing to Fear at Art Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
  • Doteky/Contacts, by Martina Pachmanová
    Catalog from Dotecky/Contacts in the Czech Republic, includes Red Trim
  • Parts and Labor, by Nadine Wasserman
    Gallery guide for Parts and Labor at the Wisconsin Academy of Arts and Sciences in Madison, WI
  • Arts Not Fine, by Michelle Grabner
    Catalog produced for Kwality Art Show at the Wriston Art Center Galleries in Appleton, WI