BIOGRAPHY
Born in Louisville, KY
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
2003 MFA, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
1997 BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1996 New York Studio Program, Independent Studio, ACAID, New York, NY
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2012
Athens, Greece, The Breeder, Opens: March 29 2012
2011
New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Breaking Open the Head, September 10-October 22, 2011
2008
Los Angeles, Anna Helwing Gallery, Inside the Bottomless Pit
2007
Athens, Greece, The Breeder Project, Heavy Lighght
2006
Los Angeles, Anna Helwing Gallery, Inside the circle traps (in a zombie state walking around in tight circles from looking too deep into the blinded by the light; some get out and some don’t.)
New York, CRG Gallery, The Infinite Truths of Flatterland
Columbus, OH, Wexner Center for the Arts, Diptych, Mindy Shapero and Jockum Nordström
2004
Los Angeles, Anna Helwing Gallery, Take Your Eyes Out to Sea
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Santa Barbara, CA, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Flights From Wonder, February 26 – April 22, 2012
2011
Culver City, CA, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, July 23 – August 27, 2011
New York, Greater L.A., May 14 – June 18, on view at 483 Broadway, 2nd Fl.
2010
Newport Beach, CA, Orange County Museum of Art, New Art for a New Century: Recent Acquisitions 2000-2009
London, Faggionato Fine Art, You’ve Gone Too Far This Time
2009
Munich, Germany, Galerie Sabine Knust, Construct and Desolve, works on paper by artists from Los Angeles
Los Angeles, Honor Fraser Gallery, Bitch is the new Black, curated by Emma Grey
New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery Yayoi Kusama, Eva Rothschild, Bharti Kehr and Mindy Shapero
2008
Austin, Texas, Arthouse, The Plural Dimensionality of Rapture, curated by Elizabeth Dunbar
Los Angeles, Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Looky See: A Summer Show
Hirshhorn Museum, Currents: Recent Acquisitions, Washington DC
2007
Santa Monica, CA, Angles Gallery, Sculptors’ Drawings: Ideas, Studies, Sketches, Proposals, and More
Aspen, CO, Aspen Art Museum, Like color in pictures, (cat.)
New York, Grimm/Rosenfeld, Exit Music (for a film)
2006
Stockholm, SwedenMilliken gallery, L.A. Trash and Treasure
Washington DC, Hirshhorn Museum, The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas, including Franz West,
Evan Holloway, Charles Long, Rachel Harrison, Bjorn Dahlem, Mark Handforth, and Iza Genzken.
2005
Paris, France, Nathalie Obadia Gallery
Santa Barbara, CA, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Untitled, curated by Kristin Chambers
Venice, CA, LA Louver, Rogue Wave
Los Angeles, CA, The Hammer Museum, Thing — New Sculpture From LA
Oslo, Norway, Galleri MGM, There is no such thing as the real world
2004
Newport Beach, CA, Orange County Museum of Contemporary Art, California Biennial, curated by Elizabeth Armstrong and Irene Hofmann
Los Angeles, CA, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Stay Inside
2003
Los Angeles, CA, Anna Helwing Gallery
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009
Asper, Colleen. “Mindy Shapero,” Beautiful Decay, Book 2: What a Mess!, December 15, 2009
Demand, Thomas,”Fututre Greats, Mindy Shapero,” ArtReview, Issue 30, March 2009
2008
Albertini, Rosa, “Mindy Shapero,” Flash Art, No. 260, May-June 2008, pg. 163
Buckley, Annie, “Mindy Shapero,” Critic’s Picks, Art Forum, March 21, 2008
Myers, Holly, “Strange, playful energy,” Los Angeles Times, March 28, 2008
2007
Guy Nichols, Matthew, “Mindy Shapero at CRG”, Art in America, pp. 200, May 2007
Clark, E.K., The Infinite Truth of Flatterland, NY ARTS, January/February
Kuo, Michelle, “The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas: Recent Sculpture”, Artforum, February, 2007, pp. 289
2006
Saltz, Jerry, “Dot-Mistress” The Village Voice, November 16, 2006
Saltz, Jerry, "Dot-Mistress", Artnet, November 29, 2006
Shana Nys, Dambrot, “One to Watch: Mindy Shapero”, Artkrush, issue #46 | Art on the Beach, November 29, 2006
Gopnik, Blake, "Unambiguously Uncertain", Washington Post, Oct 29, 2006
Rochette, Anne, and Wade Saunders; “Place Matters: Los Angeles Sculpture Today”, Art in America, November 2006, pp. 168 - 191
Forgacs, Eva. “In a Whisper”, X-TRA, Volume 8 Number 4, Summer 2006 pp 38-40.
Myers, Terry. “Mindy Shapero”, ArtReview, April, 2006 pp 127
Dambrot, Shana Nys, Reviews, Modern Painters, April 2006, pp 113.
2005
Miles, Christopher. “Truth to materials; the mundane and the amazing”, Frieze magazine, Issue 95, November - December 2005. pp119
“Project: Mindy Shapero”, Yard Magazine, October 2005, pp. 22.
Wood, Eve. “Los Angeles”, Art Papers, September/October 2005.
Dambrot, Shana Nys. “THING the UCLA Hammer Museum”, Artweek, May 2005.
Miles, Christopher, “THING”, May 2005
Harvey, Doug. “Good Thing, Emerging L.A. Sculptors at the Hammer”, LA Weekly,
February 4-10, pp 32-33
Tumlir, Jan. “THING: New Sculpture from Los Angeles”, ArtForum, January 2005.
2004
Weissman, Benjamin. “Slaves to the Visual, Ten Los Angeles Artists with the Gift”,
The Believer, Dec/Jan Twentieth issue, pp 21-34
Kushner, Rachel. “Openings: Mindy Shapero,” Artforum, November 2004.
Knight, Christopher. “Biennial arrives, and so does museum,” Los Angeles Times, 13
October 2004: E1 & 7.
Chang, Richard. “The Art of the New,” The Orange County Register, 10 October 2004.
Tumlir, Jan. “Art Reviews,” Artforum, April 2004: 218.
Miles, Christopher. “Picks,” artforum.com, March 2004.
Miles, Christopher. “Project Girl,” Flaunt, issue 55 2004.
Ollman, Leah. “Showing off the ordinary,” LA Times, Friday March 5, 2004: E18-9.
PUBLICATIONS
2009
Vitamin 3D, Phaidon Press
2007
Like Color for Pictures, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
2006
The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC
2005
Rogue Wave, LA Louver, Venice, CA
THING, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2004
2004 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
AWARDS
2006
Will-Grohmann Prize, Berlin, Germany