Sweetwater

D'Ette Nogle

*1974, United States

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, United States

Biography

D’Ette Nogle’s wide-ranging practice, often realized in large-scale installations and long-form videos, examines the social, political, and economic forces that shape the conditions of the present day.

Nogle (*1974, United States) lives and works in Los Angeles. She has presented two solo exhibitions at Sweetwater, most recently in 2025. Other recent solo exhibitions include Kunstverein Braunschweig, Derosia, and Hannah Hoffman. Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at the Frans Hals Museum, Fluentum, Halle Für Kunst Lüneburg, Bonner Kunstverein, Hessel Museum, and the Hammer Museum. Nogle received an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2000.

Selected Texts

Exhibitions

Artworks

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*1974, United States

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, United States

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Dresses 3, 1996

Framed silver gelatin print

13 ⅞ × 10 ⅝ in

35.2 × 27 cm

Media © Sweetwater 2026
Left

D'Ette Nogle

Poster: Ye’s Ando, 2025

Poster, clips

27 × 18 in

69 × 43 cm

Edition of 10 plus 2 artist's proofs

Right

D'Ette Nogle

Poster: Pound’s Tempio Malatestiano, 2025

Poster, clips

27 × 18 in

69 × 43 cm

Edition of 10 plus 2 artist's proofs

D'Ette Nogle

D'Ette Nogle

Dresses 4, 1996

Framed silver gelatin print

13 ⅞ × 10 ⅝ in

35.2 × 27 cm

D'Ette Nogle

D'Ette Nogle

Dresses 6, 1996

Framed silver gelatin print

13 ⅞ × 10 ⅝ in

35.2 × 27 cm

D'Ette Nogle

D'Ette Nogle

Mallet, 2020

Mallet

2 × 10 ⅜ × 3 ⅛ in

5 × 26.5 × 8 cm

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D'Ette Nogle

Banner (The Girl - Hair in Wind), 2020

Vinyl banner

50 × 91 ⅜ in

127 × 232.2 cm

Edition of 2 plus 1 artist's proof

D'Ette Nogle

D'Ette Nogle

Articulated Mannequin as Chris Burden on Volkswagen, 1974, 2025

Polypropylene mannequin on stand

66 ⅛ × 63 × 48 ⅜ in

168 × 160 × 123 cm

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D'Ette Nogle

Schrank #3, 2020

Acrylic on canvas

19 ¾ × 22 ⅝ in

50 × 57.5 cm

D'Ette Nogle

D'Ette Nogle

Schrank #1, 2020

Acrylic on canvas

19 ¾ × 22 ⅝ in

50 × 57.5 cm

D'Ette Nogle

D'Ette Nogle

Black Rack, 2025

Clothing for sale, marked BY-01 to BY-37

Various sizes

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D'Ette Nogle

Dresses 7, 1996

Framed silver gelatin print

13 ⅞ × 10 ⅝ in

35.2 × 27 cm

D'Ette Nogle

D'Ette Nogle

Dresses 9, 1996

Framed silver gelatin print

13 ⅞ × 10 ⅝ in

35.2 × 27 cm

Media © Sweetwater 2026
Left

D'Ette Nogle

Poster: Ye’s Ando, 2025

Poster, clips

27 × 18 in

69 × 43 cm

Edition of 10 plus 2 artist's proofs

Right

D'Ette Nogle

Poster: Pound’s Tempio Malatestiano, 2025

Poster, clips

27 × 18 in

69 × 43 cm

Edition of 10 plus 2 artist's proofs

D'Ette Nogle

D'Ette Nogle

Banner (The Girl - Ride), 2020

Vinyl banner

59 ¾ × 109 in

151.8 × 276.9 cm

Edition of 2 plus 1 artist's proof

D'Ette Nogle

D'Ette Nogle

Dresses 5, 1996

Framed silver gelatin print

13 ⅞ × 10 ⅝ in

35.2 × 27 cm

D'Ette Nogle

D'Ette Nogle

Dresses 8, 1996

Framed silver gelatin print

13 ⅞ × 10 ⅝ in

35.2 × 27 cm

D'Ette Nogle

D'Ette Nogle

Dresses 2, 1996

Framed silver gelatin print

13 ⅞ × 10 ⅝ in

35.2 × 27 cm

D'Ette Nogle

D'Ette Nogle

Banner (The Girl - Naked Under Leather/Harley), 2020

Vinyl banner

85 ¾ × 153 in

217.8 × 388.6 cm

Edition of 2 plus 1 artist's proof

D'Ette Nogle

D'Ette Nogle

Dresses 1, 1996

Framed silver gelatin print

13 ⅞ × 10 ⅝ in

35.2 × 27 cm

D'Ette Nogle

D'Ette Nogle

Before Ye Video, 2025

Storefront video for Before Ye store, featuring photographs taken in front of 24844 Malibu Road in Malibu, CA on February 9, 2025 and images of California performance art from 1969 to 1979, digital video file, monitor, monitor stand

12 minutes and 41 seconds, looped

Edition of 2 plus 1 artist's proof

D'Ette Nogle

D'Ette Nogle

materialschrank, 2020

Single-channel video

55 ¾ × 26 ⅝ × 17 ⅞ in

141.5 × 67.5 × 45.5 cm

104 minutes, 7 seconds

Edition of 2 plus 1 artist's proof

D'Ette Nogle

D'Ette Nogle

Schrank #2, 2020

Acrylic on canvas

19 ¾ × 22 ⅝ in

50 × 57.5 cm

D'Ette Nogle

D'Ette Nogle

Banner (The Girl - Teary), 2020

Vinyl banner

57 ½ × 105 in

145.9 × 266.7 cm

Edition of 2 plus 1 artist's proof

D'Ette Nogle

D'Ette Nogle

Candy Bomber, 2020

Pot metal

33 ⅛ × 25 ¼ × 18 ¼ in

84 × 64 × 46.5 cm

Curriculum Vitae

Education

2000MFA, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
1997BA, Communications, Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States

Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

2026Let it R.I.P., Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
2025Before Ye, Sweetwater, Berlin, Germany
2024Dime Store D’Ette, Derosia, New York, NY, United States
MATERIALOUTPOST: IN-COUNTRY, Hannah Hoffman at American Legion Post 206, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2020˙|˙, Sweetwater, Berlin, Germany
2019D’Ette Nogle, 2019, Hannah Hoffman at Public Storage, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Bleeding Canvas, Bodega, New York, NY, United States
2016New Paintings, Reserve Ames, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2015Not a Police Black Site ;-), Egg, Chicago, IL, United States
Absolute, Relative, Cosmic (The Practice of Every-day Art), The Finley, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2014Michael Clifton & Michael Benevento and D'Ette Nogle Present: Regressing to Mean, Clifton Benevento, New York, NY, United States
Los Angeles Contemporary Archive and D'Ette Nogle Present: Regressing to Mean (Off-Site Testing), Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2012Michael Clifton & Michael Benevento and D'Ette Nogle Present: Information from Two Sources, Clifton Benevento, New York, NY, United States
2011Reality/Relax, Parker Jones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2009Suspended Projection, Room Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA, United States
2001How Deep Is Your Love?, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, LA, United States
After Wholes & A Sum of Parts, Guggenheim Gallery Project Room, Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States
1998Dear Joan, Plastica, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025Canon, Sweetwater, Berlin, Germany
2022Every lie has an audience, Marséll, Milan, Italy
The Art of Critique, Frans Hal Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands
2021Time Without End, Fluentum, Berlin , Germany
When There is no Laughing Matter, Laughter Matters, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany
2020An Artist Age Mess, Bodega, New York, NY, United States
2019Can You Feel It?, Last Tango, Zurich, Switzerland
Maskulinitäten., Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany and Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
A story forms, Bel Ami, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2018Not Quite Verbatim, Hessel Museum, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, United States
Gallery Share hosted by Hannah Hoffman, Kristina Kite, and Paul Soto, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2017Hurts to Laugh, curated by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2016A Change of Heart, curated by Chris Sharp, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2015EGG, Essex Street, New York, NY, United States
New Location, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2014Tragedy Plus Time, Public Fiction (off-site exhibition of the Hammer Museum's Made in L.A.), Los Angeles, CA, United States
And Yes, I Even Remember You., Aran Cravey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2013Shangrila 2013: Burrito Deluxe, curated by Steven Bankhead and Jesse Benson, Shangrila, Joshua Tree, CA, United States
2012IN/SITU at EXPO Chicago, curated by Michel Ned Holte, Chicago, IL, United States
Made In L.A. 2012, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, United States
She’s Not There, organized by Andrew Berardini and Dave Muller, Three Day Weekend at Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2011GREG WILKEN TORBJORN VEJVI LYNTON TAL BOT CAULEEN SMITH SEACA (SOUTHEAST ASIAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE) MARK ROEDER AN DREA ROBBINS AND MAX BECHER D’ETTE NOGLE DYLAN MARCUS BRIAN MANN TORY LOWITZ FRED LONIDIER AMY LAUGHLIN LISA LAPINSKI WILLIAM JONES DANIEL INGROFF KATIE HERZOG KEVIN HANLEY AARON GM ERIK FRYDENBORG RACHEL FOULLON TRAVIS FARMEN TOM ELLIS LUCY DODD MICHELE DI MENNA JESSE BENSON WILL BENEDICT MERWIN BELIN, Exhibition Design by Jesse Benson and Brian Mann, Las Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles, CA, United States
3348 Hours of Sunshine, Clifton Benevento, New York, NY, United States
Progression Minus Progress, Curated by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA, United States
2010Says I, Parker Jones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, United States
D’ark Garden, collaborative project with Mark Roeder organized by Brooks Hudson Thomas, Specific Merchandise, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2009Delusionairium 4, organized by Jesse Benson, Circus Gallery, Bonelli Contemporary, and David Salow Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2004Cool Intentions, curated by Alex Israel, Sandroni Rey, Venice, CA, United States
2002A Show That Will Show That a Show Is Not Only a Show, curated by Jens Hoffman, The Project, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2001Sonsbeek 2001, curated by Jan Hoet, Arnhem, Netherlands
Present Sonsbeek 9, Museum Voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, Netherlands
Snow, curated by Jacob Rhodes, Practice Space, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Forever Infinite, curated by Rebecca Carter, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2000Not Coming, Projections: Intermission Images VII, curated by Catherine Lord, Side Street Projects, Los Angeles, CA, United States
1998Caption, organized by Jessica Bronson, Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, CA, United States