Born 1973, Philadelphia, PA
EDUCATION
2000 Columbia University, NY, MFA
1995 School of Visual Arts, NY, BFA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Fall 2012
Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum, States of Glory, 2012
2011
London, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, The Intimates, February 24 – April 9, 2011
2009
San Francisco, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, the lesser light, September 15 – October 9, 2009
Denver, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, September 25, 2009 – January 10, 2010
2008
New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Closed Loop, November 14 – December 20, 2008
London, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, All At Once, June 26 – July 27, 2008
2007
Fort Worth, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Focus: Barnaby Furnas, April 15 – June 10, 2007
2006
New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery, September 16 – October 21, 2006
San Francisco, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, January 27 – March 10, 2006
2005
Gateshead, UK, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, (catalogue)
New York, Lever House, Apocalypse, September 26 – November 30, 2005
2004
London, Modern Art Inc., October 14 – November 21, 2004
2003
New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery, September 6 – October 4, 2003
2002
New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery, April 27 – May 24, 2002
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
Milan, Monica De Cardenas Galleria, Visions, September 29 – November 19, 2011
Brussels, VanhaerentsArtCollection, Sympathy for the devil, April 30, 2011 – November 30, 2013
Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Surveyor, curated by Heather Pesanti, February 18 – June 5, 2011
Boston, Stephen D. Paine Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Inside the Painter's Studio, January 25 - March 12, 2011
2010
New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Works on Paper, September 23 – October 23, 2010
Ibaraki, Japan, Kasama Nichido Museum, August 31 - November 14, 2010
New York, The National Arts Club, Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, November 2010. Travels to Pittsburgh, the Andy Warhol Museum, summer 2011
Tel Aviv, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Fresh Apples, July 1 – August 28, 2010
Beijing, The Ullens Center (UCCA), Roundtrip: Beijing-New York Now, May 30 – July 4, 2010
2009
New York, The Metropolitan Opera, Something About Mary, September 17, 2009 – January 31, 2010
New York, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, The Audio Show, July 14 – August 23, 2009
Beijing, White Space DOMUS COLLECTION NEW YORK | BEIJING. May 17 – July 31, 2009
New York, The FLAG Art Foundation, WALL ROCKETS: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, July 24 – October 25, 2009
2008
Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, The Old, Weird America, curated by Toby Kamps, May 10 – July 20, 2008; Travels to DeCordova, Lincoln, MA; Frye Art Museum, Seattle,
London, White Cube Hoxton and Shoreditch Town Hall, You Dig the Tunnel, I’ll Hide the Soil, curated by Harland Miller, April 4 – May 10, 2008
Champaign, Illinois, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, Blown Away, curated by Ginger Gregg Duggan and Judith Hoos Fox, January 25 – March 30, 2008
New York, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, Under Pain of Death, curated by Kunsthalle Wien
(Gerald Matt, Ilse Lafer) and Abraham Orden, January 22 – May 10, 2008
2007
Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien, True Romance. Allegories of Love from the Renaissance to the Present, May 10, 2007 – March 2, 2008
Athens, Deste Foundation, The Fractured Figure, September 6, 2007 – July 31, 2008
Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien and Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Dream and Trauma: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, June 25 – October 4, 2007
Shanghai, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, Art in America: Now - Contemporary portion of Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation, organized by the Guggenheim Museum, May 1 – June 30, 2007
Moscow, Traveling exhibition: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts; Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao
Germany, Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie, Between Two Deaths, May 12 – August 19, 2007
Cincinnati, Contemporary Arts Center, The Old, Weird America
Virginia Beach, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Counterparts: Contemporary Painters and their Influences, (catalogue), June 29 – September 23, 2007
London, Stuart Shave/Modern Art Inc., Effigies, September 7 – October 4, 2007
2006
New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery, Surrealism: Then and Now, October 11 – November 11, 2006
London, The Royal Academy of Arts, in collaboration with the Saatchi Gallery, USA Today, October 6 – November 4, 2006
New York, Marvelli Gallery, Nightmares of Summer, curated by George Robertson, June 10 – July 14, 2006
Munich, Sammlung Goetz, Imagination Becomes Reality, Part IV: Borrowed Images, June 26 – September 30, 2006; travels to Museum for Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe
New York, The Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery, Metropolitan Opera, Inaugural Exhibition, September 2006
2005
Colorado, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, PILLish: Harsh Realities and Gorgeous Destinations,
2004
New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Seeing Other People
New York, National Academy of Design, 179 Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art (catalogue), May 6 – June 20, 2004
New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, 2004 Whitney Biennial, March 11 – May 30, 2004
Long Island City, New York, Dorsky Gallery, Watercolor Worlds,
New York, School of Visual Arts, Visual Arts Gallery, Beginning Here: 101 Ways, September 7 – October 16, 2004
2003
Austria, Kunsthalle Wien, Go Johnny Go, October 24, 2003 – March 7, 2004
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, War (What Is It Good For?), January 18 – May 18, 2003
Los Angeles, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Funny Papers: Cartoons and Contemporary Drawing, February 15 – April 19, 2003
New York, Derek Eller Gallery, Transnational Monster League, curated by Banks Violette, January 4 – February 8, 2003
New York, Metro Pictures, Drawings, March 29 – April 26, 2003
2002
Bologna, Italy, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Officina Americana
Los Angeles, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition, The Fourth Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, October 5 – October 26, 2002
2001
New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery,
Brooklyn, Bellwether, All American
2000
New York, Exit Art, Collector’s Choice, New York, Artist’s Space, Project Room January 29 – April 29, 2000
New York, P.P.O.W. Gallery, “@”, curated by Jason Murison
1999
New York, Freidrich Petzel Gallery, “All Terrain,”
New York, Lombard Fried Gallery, “Urban Romantics,”
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2011
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2010
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2009
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2008
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2007
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2006
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2004
Kunitz, Daniel. “Institutional Exhibitionism,” The New York Sun, May 6, 2004.
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2003
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2002
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2001
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