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
2008
Inside the Bottomless Pit, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Heavy Lighght, The Breeder Project, Athens, Greece
2006
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.) Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Infinite Truths of Flatterland, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
Diptych, Mindy Shapero and Jockum Nordström, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
2004
Take Your Eyes Out to Sea, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
You've Gone Too Far This Time, Faggionato Fine Art, London, May 6 - June 25, 2010
New Art for a New Century: Recent Acquisitions 2000-2009, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
2009
Construct and Desolve, works on paper by artists from Los Angeles, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany
Bitch is the new Black, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Emma Grey
Yayoi Kusama, Eva Rothschild, Bharti Kehr, and Mindy Shapero, Marianne Boesky, NY NY
2008
The Plural Dimensionality of Rapture, Arthouse, curated by Elizabeth Dunbar, Austin, TX
Looky See: A Summer Show, Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Currents: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC
2007
Sculptors' Drawings: Ideas, Studies, Sketches, Proposals, and More, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles
Like color in pictures, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO (cat.)
Exit Music (for a film), Grimm/Rosenfeld, New York, NY
2006
L.A. Trash and Treasure, Milliken gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC, including Franz West, Evan Holloway, Charles Long, Rachel Harrison, Bjorn Dahlem, Mark Handforth, and Iza Genzken.
2005
Nathalie Obadia Gallery, Paris, France
Untitled, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, cur by Kristin Chambers, Santa Barbara, CA
Rogue Wave, LA Louver, Venice, CA
Thing — New Sculpture From LA, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
There is no such thing as the real world, Galleri MGM, Oslo, Norway
2004
California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Contemporary Art, Newport Beach, CA,
curated by Elizabeth Armstrong and Irene Hofmann
Stay Inside, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009
Asper, Colleen. "Mindy Shapero," Beautiful Decay, Book 2: What a Mess!, December 15, 2009
Demand, Thomas,"Fututre Greats, Mindy Shapero by Thomas Demand" 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