ELMAC (Miles MacGregor)
Born in Los Angeles, USA, 1980 Lives & works in Los Angeles

Solo Exhibitions
 
2016  Aerosol Exalted, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Phoenix, USA
2015  Objects at Rest, Galerie Wolfsen, Aalborg, Denmark
          Aerosol Exalted, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado, USA 
2013  Sangre Nueva, Galerie Wolfsen, Aalborg, Denmark
2010  The Humbleand Sublime, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York City, USA
2009  Retna & The Mac: Vagos y Reinas, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
          Faces of Life, Fifty24SF Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2007 Mac in Montreal, Galerie Le Kopshop, Montreal, Canada

Group Exhibitions

2020 Composure, Pellas Gallery, Boston, USA
2017 Barrio Logos, Residency, Inglewood, USA
2017 The Propeller Group, San José Museum of Art, San José, USA
2012 11th Havana Biennial, Cisneros​-Fontanals Foundation, Havana, Cuba
        7thAsia Pacific Triennial, QAGOMA, Brisbane, Australia (Collaboration with The 
        Propeller Group (Vietnam) & Shamsia Hassani (Afghanistan))
201​1 Public Provocations, Carhartt Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
         New Masters, Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles
2010 Vox Humana, Volta 6, Basel, Switzerland (Collaboration with RETNA)
         Seres Queridos, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MARCO), Monterrey, Mexico Primary 
         Flight III,
2009 Primary Projects/ArtBasel, Miami, USA
         Retna & El Mac, Mid City Arts, Los Angeles, USA
2008 Flight II, Primary Projects/ArtBasel, Miami, USA
         Writing alla Ribalta, Milan, Italy
         Streetlab, Amsterdam, Netherlands
         Low & Slow, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Phoenix, USA
         Manifest Hope, Andenken Gallery, Denver, USA
         Full Custom Living, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, USA
         Urban Nature, Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, USA
         Kofie, Mac, Retna: New Works, Red Letter 1, Tampa, USA
2007 Primary Flight, Primary Projects/ArtBasel, Miami, USA
         Letters First '07, Bread & Butter, Barcelona, Spain
         Burn, Grand Central Arts Center, Cal. State University Fullerton, USA Collabro, The 
         Showroom, New York City, USA
         Dreamgirls, Mina Dresden Gallery, San Francisco, USA
         Relative, Pravus Gallery, Phoenix, USA (with Catarina Mac) Represent, Represent!, URB
         Gallery, Culver City, US
2006 Letters First Tour, Taipei & Tokyo
         Monkey Killing Monkey, Cachi Gallery, San Francisco, USA Typewriters, Red             
         Letter1, Tampa, USA
         These Fools, Kettle Art Gallery, Dallas, USA
         Streets of Chaos, White Walls Gallery, San Francisco, USA  
2003 Characteristics, Subject Matter, Costa Mesa, USA Young Primitives, Groeninge        
         Museum, Brugge, Belgium Bomb Pop, C​Pop Gallery, Detroit, USA
         Guerillart, Bridge Center, El Paso, USA
2002 Overture, ICU Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1999 La Phoeniquera XIX, MARS Artspace, Phoenix, USA
1998 Nitty Gritty II, Tonatierra, Phoenix, USA

Notable Murals/Projects
 
2020 Axis Mundi, Akron, USA
         Desert Soul, Tucson, USA
         Lux In Tenebris, Denver, USA
2019 A Love Supreme (Wynwood Saints), Miami, USA
2018 Abuelito of Presidio, for the Mexican government, Presidio (US-Mexico border), USA
         Mural For My Father, for Stad Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
         Shared Roots (Unity Threatens Inequity), Los Angeles, USA
2017 Tower of Song (Leonard Cohen tribute mural), Montréal, Canada
         Sophie Holding The World Together, for the San Jose Museum of Art, San José, USA
2016 Native Son, Manitou Art Center, Colorado, USA
         Desert Rose, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Phoenix, USA
2015 Ars Et Scientia, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
         Enduring Spell, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), California, USA
         El Regalo Mágico, collaboration with CERO, New York City, USA
         Thread of Life, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
         Icarian Flight, collaboration with Augustine Kofie, Los Angeles, USA
2014 Las Flores del Campo, Bayamón, Puerto Rico
         Ánimo Sin Fronteras, El Paso, USA
         Juarense Y Poderosa, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
         To the Future, Toronto, Canada
2013 In the Heart of the Multitude, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
         Purity of Heart, Aalborg, Denmark
2012 11th Havana Biennial, Cisneros​-Fontanals Foundation, Havana, Cuba
         The Hour Has Arrived, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, USA
         Maria de la Reforma, Mexico City, Mexico
2011 Connie Rice Mural, Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles, USA
         Every Little Miracle, MacArthur Park Elementary School, Los Angeles, USA
         AvantGarde Urbano, Tudela de Navarra, Spain
         Clothed With the Sun, Bristol, UK
         Un Campechano en Londres, London, UK
         Spirit of Summer, Montreal, Canada
         Street Cred, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Los Angeles
2010 Kosoom by the Mekong, Sàn Art, Saigon, Vietnam Vietnam: The World Tour, Post​ 
         Museum, Singapore
         Un Regiomontano en Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
         A Mexican in Berlin (with Augustine Kofie) Berlin, Germany
         Manuel Lee Chang, Campeche, Mexico
         Chelsea Jewel, NYC, USA
         Blessed Are the Meek (with Retna), Skid Row, Los Angeles, USA
         Of Our Youth (with Retna) Culver City, USA
        La Reina de Thai Town (with Retna), Los Angeles, USA
        Justice/Manifest Equality (with Retna and Kofie), Los Angeles, USA
2009 The Conductor (with Retna), Margulies Collection, Miami, USA
         Ave Maria (with Retna), Salt Lake City, USA
         The Knight (with Retna), Los Angeles, USA
         Aedifica, Montreal, Canada
2008 Young Scribe (with Retna), Primary Flight/Art Basel, Miami, USA
         R16 Gyeonggi, Suwon, South Korea
         Express Your Skills, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2007 Just Writing My Name, Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico
         Expo Graffiti Internacional, Salamanca, Mexico
2006 Sexta Feria del Libro en el Zócalo, Mexico City, Mexico
2005 Festival Kosmopolite à Bagnolet, Paris, France
2003 Young Primitives, Groeninge Museum, Brugge, Belgium
2002 Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark

Collections

Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum (MCAM), Phoenix, USA
Northeastern University, Boston, USA
Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane, Australia University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, USA
Adobe campus, Salt Lake City, USA
Cirque du Soleil, Montreal, Canada
RVCA, Costa Mesa, USA

Articles/Publications
 
2016 Le Petit Voyeur (Denmark) #5 (feature)
2015 “Mural XXL”, C.Walde, Thames & Hudson (feature) 2014 Vogue (US) Mar. “Sport 
         Psychology” (feature)
         Los Angeles (US) Mar. “Gallery Heist” (feature)
2013 “The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti”, R.Schacter, Yale Press (cover)
         Interior Design (US) #7 ”Peak Performance” (cover) 2012 Juxtapoz (US) May (cover)
         “L.A. Adventures”, D. Madsen & E. Makunga, LA Electric Travel (cover)
         “Street Angels” (Japan) Special issue (feature)
         Los Angeles Times Magazine (US) Jan. “Right Makes Might”
2011 “Walls & Frames: Fine Art from the Streets”, Maximiliano Ruiz, Gestalten
         “The History of American Graffiti”, C.Neelon & R.Gastman, Harper Collins
         “Graffiti 365”, Jay Edlin, Abrams “Street Art”, Ket, Michael O’Mara Books, London    
         “Graffiti Español”, Mario Suarez, Lunwerg Books
         Art Press (France) Dec. (feature)
         Very Nearly Almost (UK) #17 (interview)
         Blisss (US) Jan. (cover & interview)
2010 Juxtapoz (US) Sep. & Oct. issues
2009 “Alianza: Mac & Retna”, Upper Playground/Gingko Press
         “Graffiti Planet 2”, Ket, Michael O’Mara Books, London Juxtapoz (US) Aug. (interview & 
         cover)
         Garage (US) #18 (feature)
         Groove (Italy) #44 (interview)
         Parq (Portugal) #9 “Afinal o mundo pode não estar perdido”
2008 Drip (Korea) #2 (feature)
         “Mural Art”, Kiriakos Iosifidis, Publikat (feature)
         Courrier Japon (Japan) #8 “The Making of Barack Obama”
         Courrier Int’l (France) Summer “Le Porte​Voix d’une Amerique Nouvelle” “Bella”,
         Revenant Press
2007 Refused Art Culture (US) #4 (cover & interview)
         Catch Me if You Can Magazine (US) #4 (cover & interview) LA Weekly (US) July “The  
          Rise of the Seventh Letter”(cover) LA Times (US) Jan.18 “streetwise”
2005 Graphotism (UK) #40 (cover & interview) Rayarte (Mexico) #16 (interview)
2004 “Graffiti World”, Nicholas Ganz, Abrams (feature) Clout Graffiti Magazine (US) #6 
          (interview) Airbrush Art Magazine (Italy) #52 (interview) Lapiz (Spain) #203
2003 De Morgen (Belgium) Aug.30 “Oude Primitieven Door Jonge Handen”
         Le Soir (Belgium) Aug.28 “Madones a l’Aerosol
2002 Samvirke Magazine (Denmark) (cover)