BIOGRAPHY
Born 1981, Boston
Lives and works in London
EDUCATION
2003-05 Post-Graduate Fine Art Participant, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL
2002 Cooper Union School of Art, New York, USA
1999-2003 BFA Painting/Printmaking, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Structures for Viewing, January 7 – February 11, 2012
2010
Amsterdam, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Collisions, September 24- October 23, 2010
2009
London, Ancient and Modern, Two-Dimensional Men, September 2009
New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery Project Space, A Lonely Crowd, September 2009
2008
Düsseldorf, Germany, Cosar HMT, Dirty Tricks of an Age of Moral Turpitude, November 7 – December 3, 2008
Amsterdam, Galerie Juliette Jongma, War of the Ghosts, April 12 – May, 24, 2008
2007
London, Ancient and Modern, Exquisite Corpse, April 12 – May 19, 2007
2006
Düsseldorf, Germany Cosar HMT, The Only Man in There *
Berlin, Preview Art Fair, with Cosar HMT, Genealogies Part II *
Amsterdam, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Genealogies Part I, March 11 – April 15, 2006
2005
Amsterdam, De Ateliers, What you can't see could kill you
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Art and Press, March 2012
Oslo, Kunsthall Oslo, "No Comment," a performance by Rachal Bradley and Jessica Wiesner plus an exhibition of works by Henry VIII's Wives, January 27, 2012
2011
Amsterdam, The Temporary Stedelijk Museum, Future Forward, November 24, 2011
London, Ancient & Modern, Theater of Pain, October 15, 2011
Castelló, Spain, Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló¸ 5x5 (nominated by Marlene Dumas)
London, Auto Italia, Ever-Changing Moods; Performance & Sculpture, June 18 – July 31, 2011
Maastricht, NL, Marres, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Madame Realism, March 12 – June 05, 2011
Düsseldorf, COSAR HMT, Specific Collisions Telephone Painting, March 11 – April 6, 2011
Witten, Germany, Markisches Museum Witten, Group Velocity, February 12 – March 27, 2011
2010
Bonn, Germany, Kunstmuseum Bonn¸ Dorothea von Stetten Kunstpris, December 8 2010-March 6, 2011
Düsseldorf, Philara - Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst, Melissa Gordon and Jen Ray November 5 – December 12, 2010
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Monumentalism: History and National Identity in Modern Art, curated by Jelle Bouwhaus, August 28, 2010 - January 9, 2011
New York, Scaramouche Gallery, Lush Life, curated by Franklin Evans and Omar Lopez-Chahoud, June 17-August 13, 2010
Houston, TX, CTRL Gallery, Precarity and the Butter Tower, curated by Jackie Gendel & Tom McGrath, May 8 – June 19, 2010
London, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, February 25 – May 9, 2010
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Paying a Visit to Mary: 2008 Hall Curatorial Fellowship Exhibition, January 31 – June, 2010
Knoxville, TN, University of Tennessee, Ewing & Downtown Galleries, 2010 Artist-In-Residency Biennial, January 12 – February 21, 2010
2009
Brussels, Taché-Levy Gallery, Pictural Abstraction: Alex Brown Melissa Gordon Jorge Pardo Jennifer West Curated by Ariel-Roger Paris, September 12 - October 31, 2009
New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery, YOUR GOLD TEETH II, June 17 – August 14, 2009
Amsterdam, Galerie Juliette Jongma, All Cretans Are Liars, Said the Cretan, April 25 -
June 6, 2009
London, STORE Gallery, Mental Puberty, 16 Apr – 30 May 2009, curated by Chris Evans
Chicago, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Variations on a Theme, May 2009
Arnhem, the Netherlands, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem (MMKA), Rebell, Art and Feminism 1969-2009, May 30 – August 26, 2009
Wuppertal, Germany, Von de Heydt-Museum, PRIVAT, March 8 – May 24, 2009
Essen, Germany, Kunsthaus Essen, True Lies, March 6 – April 5, 2009
New York, Virgil de Voldère Gallery, I love the BeNeLux, curated by Nina Bovasso, January 10 – February 14, 2009
2008
Prague, National Gallery, Prague Triennale
Venlo, the Netherlands, Museum Van Bommel Van Dam, Something and Something Else
Brussels, October, Wiels Contemporary Art Center, DUMA, Artist-in-Residency Exhibition
9 – 26, 2008
Montebaur, Germany, b05 Art and Design Center, Black Bile, Red Humour
Germany, Kunstverein Dorsten, Early Bird
2007
London, Timothy Taylor Gallery, Ballet Mécanique, November 30, 2007 – January 5, 2008
Arnhem, the Netherlands, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Dealing with Reality, November
11, 2007 – February 17, 2008
New York, Harris Lieberman Gallery, Painted Objects October 20 – November 17, 2007
Zürich, Mai 36, Showroom, with Matthew Benedict, Matt Mullican, Christoph Rütimann
Zürich, Shedhalle, Lost and Found, curated by Anna Voswinckel, May 12 – July 15,
2007
Düsseldorf, Germany, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Compilation III, April 21 – July 8, 2007 *
Düsseldorf, Germany, Museum Kunst Palast, The Collector’s Art, April 21 – July 22, 2007
2006
London, Ancient and Modern, Among the Ash Heaps and Millionaires
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum,
Hamburg, Germany, Art Agents Gallery, Pictorial Research, September 1 – October 28,
2006
Amsterdam, De Ateliers, Wild At Heart, Kunst RAI
New York, Kravets Wehby,
2005
Den Haag, the Netherlands, Museum voor Actuele Kunst, GEM, Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst 2005,
Seattle, Washington Howard House Gallery, Terra non Firma
Tallinn, Estonia Rottermann's Salt Storage Contemporary Art Museum, Voices
2004
New York, Kravets Wehby, Everything World, December 10, 2004 – January 22, 2005
Brooklyn, New York, RKL Gallery, Mars on Earth
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, De Ateliers, 86
*Artist publications
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010
“Artist Section”, Metropolis M, April-May, 2010, p. 48-53
Alessi, Andrea, “Collissions,” ArtSlant, September 14, 2012
2009
NADA Emerging Artist, L Magazine, New York
2008
Maria Barnas, "Vertekenen 2", NRC, Amsterdam, May 2, 2008, p 7
Wytske Visser, in: Kunstbeeld, April, 2008
"Rita McBride talks to Melissa Gordon", NY Arts Magazine, January-February 2008
Ossian Ward, "The Gothic Vault", in: Time Out London,, January 2-8, 2008, p 41
2007
Magdalena Holzhey , "Compilation III", Vernissage, Nr. 01/2007
Helga Meister, "Im imaginären Museum", K.West, Mai 2007
"Compilation III", LOOXX, Nr. 01/2007
Helga Meister, "Malerische Entdeckungsreise am Grabbeplatz", Westdeutsche Zeitung, 25 May, 2007
2006
Thomas Lawson, 'Happy Times', ARCO 2006 A Retrospective, p.120/121
Paola van der Velde, "Mata Hari op de Kunstrai", De Telegraaf, 2 May, 2006
Sandra Spijkerman, "Tussen pixel en pigment", Kunstbeeld, March, 2006, p. 14-18
Ossian Ward, "Melissa Gordon, Genealogies Part I", Modern Painters, April 2006, p. 119-20
Sandra Spijkerman, "Wild at Heart", Trouw
2005
Sandra Smallenburg, "Romantische bewondering voor de natuur", NRC
Rutger Pontzen, "Stijl domineert", De Volkskrant, 14 October, 2005
Edo Dijksterhuis, "Jonge schilders Koninklijk onderscheiden", Het Financieele Dagblad, 8 October, 2005
PUBLICATIONS
2011
5 x 5, Espai d´art contemporani de Castelló
2010
2010 Dorothea von Stetten Kunstpreis 2010, Kunstmuseum Bonn
Monumentalism(e), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Paying a Visit to Mary, Aldrich Museum
2010 Artist in Residence Biennial Exhibition, Ewing Gallery
The Library of Babel/In and Out of Place, Zabludowicz Collection
2009
Privat, Kunstsammlung in Wuppertal
2008
Black Bile, Red Humor, Salon Verlag
2007
Xander Karskens, Robert Meijer, Natasha Soobramanien, Nicely Dry, ABN AMRO, 978-90-802677-9-4
Stefanie Kreuzer, Compilation III, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 978-3-8321-9005-7
NO BIO, Melissa Gordon, with Ancient and Modern
2006
Dominic van den Boogerd, Marlene Dumas, Wild at Heart, De Ateliers, Art Amsterdam, 90-807318-3-8
Tom Morton, The Only Man In There, Cosar HMT (with Nadja Thiel)
Genealogies, Cosar HMT en Galerie Juliette Jongma (with Kaisa Lassinaro)
2005
Ann Demeester, Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst 2005, Stichting Koninklijk Paleis Amsterdam
AWARDS
2010
Nominee Dorothea von Stetten Art Award 2010
2008
Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Artist in Residence, Brussels, BE
2007
ABN AMRO Kunstprijs
2006
Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst / Royal Prize for Painting, Amsterdam, NL
2003
Florence Leif Award, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA