KAY ROSEN
NEW WORK 2020-2021
September 9 – October 16, 2021
KAY ROSEN NEW WORK 2020-2021 September 9 – October 16, 2021
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Certain epithets—faggot, fish, the n-word, dyke, tranny—get wielded by people outside the group one way and by people inside the group another. Words get banished. It’s a fact about our time that some people are keenly sensible to these shifting usages, and some aren’t, and some are sensitive to few and not others. Whole communities and eras within them appear and vanish under these shifting arches. Kay Rosen is a visual artist adept at moving the furniture around, looking at words in the deepest fashion—in that they are all of them corpses, ultimately, of a moment that’s already passed. Brecht said it too: the word is at the end. It’s the thing’s dead body. It’s not designed to be more than that, though as the animals who invented language, we mean it to be more. I’ve written about Kay’s work a couple of times and I used some big language, as in she’s the most interesting or the best artist working in language. I mean she’s my favorite. That’s really all I know. It’s hard to write about an artist without waving a banner. And immediately I think you cover the artist. Cause what about Lawrence Weiner, Ed Ruscha. What about Barbara Kruger. And there I went, arching away. But to use my favorite epithet: I think she’s the poet of the art world in more than one way. I think there’s a zipper through all our experiences pulling everything together through a number of quick impressions—some are visible and some are not and when an artist in any genre narrates this zipper people say he’s the poet of the west, cinema’s only living poet, she’s the poet of an empty frozen land. I’ve got to tell you the poets all go grrr as everyone marches under that arch. It’s our epithet. And it isn’t. There’s a hub of many operations occurring in language, sometimes it’s really about stepping out of the machine, flying overhead. Sometimes it’s about lying down and playing possum. There’s no single way to catch the existence of words. Except that language is some kind of living myth we made up and somebody one at a time has to show us that. One of the things that I thought about seeing Kay’s work at MOCA and Otis now twenty years back was that our institutions are inadequate to what she’s up to. In that she’s investigating I think the materiality of language and so each venture of hers should come over you as if you were driving down the road. The world her work exists in is very open, even homeless in a way. She’s tearfully great just like these times we are living in. Yet, to quote Kay, how can something be both “sung and unsung” at once. And so she remains the poet of our exact moment. - Eileen Myles
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The foundation of Rosen’s work remains language: its ontological function, and the mutability of text and image. She considers language to be “found material,” with the potential to engender new readings through minimal intervention. Meticulously hand-painted, her works utilize a range of graphic strategies, color, materials, composition, typography, and scale to shift one’s interpretation of otherwise familiar words and phrases. Humor is integral to Rosen’s work, often arising from the alternatives to conventional reading that she offers the viewer.. In THE HINGE THING, an acrylic gouache painting on paper, the three words are rearranged in a vertical stack, aligning their shared letters; the conceptual meaning of HINGE thus becomes literal, holding the other two words together through their mutual linguistic components in a metaphorical space of common ground. In Leaning Tower (El Torre de Cuatro Pisos), italics applied to the four stacked Spanish words “piso” (floor) activate a gravitational force which causes the tower of four floors to lean; the text itself becomes a verbal surrogate for the thing it represents. As verbal shortcuts, all of the works allude to larger political, environmental, and social issues. Color also imparts its own distinct meanings on text, such the subtle blue tones of the painting on canvas UNSUNG. While the letters are arranged in order of the word “sung,” the lightened blue shade of “un” draws the fragment out from the shadows and into the foreground of our perception, asking us to contemplate the oft-“unsung” roles of frontline workers throughout the pandemic. Viewers interact with these textual compositions closer to how one would move through a landscape or built structure; they are both a physical and conceptual experience of language, in all its contradictions and connotations, to the world around us. The wall painting Queue Up draws on its pre-existing DNA to create a single verbal image suggesting a line of waiting people: queueueup. The space is closed up, the self-generating ue ue is continued, and the q and p are written in lower case to mirror each other and create an enclosure that depicts the beginning and end of the queue. The seeds of the new word are present in the old; queue up was a found phrase waiting to be turned into something else. Waiting in lines was a dominant narrative over the past year and a half of the pandemic, and it is possible that more is yet to come. For STAY AWAY, initially conceived as a color-pencil drawing, the two words are brought into conjunction through their shared final letters. These two conflicting states reveal their tension through a bifurcated arrangement of words and colors, reflecting the desire for both closeness and distance within the newly-formed sociomedical conditions of the pandemic. Concurrent with Kay Rosen: New Work 2020-2021 is an exhibition of the artist’s lists at Krakow Witkin Gallery in Boston from September 18 through October 23. Kay Rosen: Lists: 1989 – 2021 are a series of multiples made over the past thirty years in media ranging from prints to book covers, videos, bus tailgate posters, wall paintings, and drawing. They organize language and subject into serial systems which redefine history, geography, mythology, mystery, pop culture, and social issues.
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Born in Corpus Christi, TX, Rosen’s investigation into the visual possibilities of language has been her primary focus since 1968, when she traded in the academic study of languages for the study of language-based art. Rosen’s work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including in 19981999 a two-venue mid-career survey entitled Kay Rosen: Li[f]eli[k]e, curated by Connie Butler and Terry R. Myers at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and Otis College of Art Design. Other solo exhibitions have been presented at the Aldrich Contemporary Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Contemporary Art Museum Houston and Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria, in collaboration with Matt Keegan; Art Institute of Chicago; Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand; University Art Museum, University of California Santa Barbara; The Drawing Center, New York; MIT List Visual Art Center, Cambridge; and Kunstinstituut Melly (formerly Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art), Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Rosen was included in the Whitney Biennial in 2000 as well as in 1991 as part of Group Material’s “AIDS Timeline.” Her wall painting, SORRY, commissioned by the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. for the East Building’s main entrance will be on view through Fall 2021. Rosen’s work is included in the public collections of Art Institute of Chicago, IL; Israel Museum, Art Gallery of New South Wales; Collection Lambert, Avignon, France; Museum of Modern Art, NY; and Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. She was named a fellow for the 2017 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts, and is a recipient of Anonymous Was a Woman Grant (2009) and the National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Grant (1995, 1989, 1987).
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Stay Away, 2021 Latex on wall Installation dimensions variable
Yes, Yes, 2021 Acrylic gouache on paper 17 1/2 x 28 1/4 inches (44.5 x 71.8 cm)
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Unsung, 2020 Enamel paint on canvas 13 x 18 inches (33 x 45.7 cm) 17
Decor, 2021 Enamel paint on canvas 16 x 22 inches (40.6 x 55.9 cm) 18
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Two Left Feet, 2020 Enamel paint on canvas 34.5 x 24 inches (87.6 x 61 cm)
Edges, 2021 Enamel paint on canvas 19 x 20 inches (48.3 x 50.8 cm)
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Leaning Tower (El Torre de Cuatro Pisos), 2021 Acrylic gouache on paper 30 x 22 inches (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
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I’m Green, 2021 Acrylic gouache on paper 16 x 18 inches (40.6 x 45.7 cm)
The Second Flood, 2021 Acrylic gouache on paper 19 x 30 inches (48.3 x 76.2 cm)
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Yellow and Red Items, 2021 Acrylic gouache on paper 22 x 30 inches (55.9 x 76.2 cm)
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An Ex-Texan, 2021 Acrylic gouache on paper 30 x 22 inches (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
My Pet Pit Pat, 2021 Acrylic gouache on paper 22 x 30 inches (55.9 x 76.2 cm) 37
Queue Up, 2020-21 Latex on wall Installation dimensions variable
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Walking the Dog, 2020 Acrylic gouache on paper 14 1/2 x 22 1/8 inches (36.8 x 56.2 cm)
Vivid Divide, 2020 Acrylic gouache on paper 15 x 22 inches (38.1 x 55.9 cm)
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Linkage, 2021 Acrylic gouache on paper 20 1/2 x 24 inches (52.1 x 61 cm)
The Hinge Thing, 2020 Acrylic gouache on paper 21 1/2 x 22 1/4 inches (54.6 x 56.5 cm)
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KAY ROSEN
Born in Corpus Christi, TX Lives and works in Gary, IN, and New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
2021 Kay Rosen: New Work 2020-2021, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, September 9 – October 23, 2021 Kay Rosen: Lists, 1989-2021, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA, September 18 – October 23, 2021 2020 National Gallery of Art commission, Washington, DC, curated by Paige Rozanski Kay Rosen: 202020…, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX, July 25 – September 5, 2020 Kay Rosen: New Drawings, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX, February 21 – April 25, 2020 2019 Kay Rosen, RoofTop, Copenhagen, Denmark, December 20, 2019 - February 7, 2020 Kay Rosen: Gravity of Language (residency and exhibition), Osmos Station, Stamford, NY, July 2019, curated by Stephanie Cristello and Osmos Station One Wall, One Work: Kay Rosen, Krakow Witkin Gallery, New York, NY, February 16 – March 23, 2019 2018 Kay Rosen: Stirring Words, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY, February 22 – April 7, 2018 2017 Kay Rosen: Jumbo Mumbo, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX, September 23 – November 25, 2017 Kay Rosen: UH OH NO AH HA, Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany, May 3 – July 29, 2017 Kay Rosen: The Complete Letterpress Works, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA, April 29 – June 3, 2017 Kay Rosen: H is for House, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, March 5 – September 4, 2017, curated by Richard Klein 2016 Kay Rosen: Baroken, Philipp Pflug Contemporary, Frankfurt, Germany, April 9 – May 21, 2016 A Traveling Show (Eine Wanderausstellung), Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria, July 11 – August 7, 2016, curated by Krist Gruijthuijsen; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX, October 8, 2016 – January 15, 2017, curated by Dean Daderko. With Matt Keegan (T)here to (T)here, video collaboration with choreographer Liz Gerring, Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival, Barishnikov Arts Center, Jerome Robbins Theater, New York, NY, November 10 – 12, 2016 Hard As a Rock, video installation of Sisyphus, CP Project Space of School of the Visual Arts, New York, NY, curated by Lal Bahcecioglu, 2016 2015 Kay Rosen: This Means War…, Ludlow 38, New York, NY, February 22 – December 11, 2015; traveled to: Ingleby Gallery - Billboard Project, Edinburgh, Scotland; Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, 2016; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2016; RoofTop International, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2019-20. Billboard for Edinburgh: Kay Rosen, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 21 – July 24, 2015 2014 Kay Rosen, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, May 16 – June 28, 2014 Kay Rosen, Galerie Zilberman, Istanbul, Turkey, May 5 – July 26, 2014 Map of the World, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Entrance Court project, 2014 51
2013 Kay Rosen: CUTOUT, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 28 – November 3, 2013, curated by Jenifer Papararo 2012 Here Are the People and There Is the Steeple, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2012-present Kay Rosen: Construction Zone, Aspen Art Museum, June 12, 2012 – Jun 9, 2013 Kay Rosen: Wide and Deep, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, February 4 – March 10, 2012 2011 Mañana Man, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, September 2011-2013 Kay Rosen: On the Off Ramp, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, June 3 – August 28, 2011 2010 Kay Rosen: Black and White and Read All Over, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA, September 10 – October 16, 2010 2009 Kay Rosen: You and Your landscapes! Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany, 2009 2008 Kay Rosen: Alone and Together, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris, France, December 12, 2008 – January 24, 2009 No Noose Is Good Noose, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY, November 19, 2008 – January 10, 2009 Kay Rosen: Scareful! Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, NY, November 20, 2008 – January 3, 2009 Kay Rosen: Huen, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 30 – September 26, 2008 2007 Kay Rosen: Editions and Multiples, Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin, Germany, September 6 – December 15, 2007 2006 Kay Rosen: Wall Paintings and Drawings 2002-2006, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, NY, September 14 – October 21, 2006 2005 Kay Rosen, Gray Kapernekas Gallery, New York, NY, 2005 Kay Rosen: (No) Comment, Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany, November 12 – December 23, 2005 2004 Kay Rosen: Halfull, University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, 2004 Kay Rosen: Big Talk, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2004 Kay Rosen: New Word Order, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA, 2004 2003 Kay Rosen, The Suburban, Oak Park, IL, December 6, 2003 – January 24, 2004 Kay Rosen: Rooms, Galerie Friedrich, Basel, Switzerland, (with Matthew McCaslin), 2003 2002 Kay Rosen: Collages 1999-2002, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, September 21 – October 26, 2002 2001 Rooms, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY, May 5 – June 16, 2001 Kay Rosen: Up and Down, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, 2001 2000 Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY, March 11 – April 29, 2000 Ten in One Gallery, New York, NY, March 11 – April 29, 2000 1998 Kay Rosen: Lifeli[k]e. Museum of Contemporary Art and Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, November 15, 1998 – February 14, 1999, curated by Cornelia H. Butler and Terry R. Myers Kay Rosen: Girl Talk, Ten In One Gallery, Chicago, IL, October 16 – November 21, 1998 ABC (At Beaver College), Beaver College (now Arcadia University) Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, in collaboration with Billboard Project, curated by Stuart Horodner, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, February 16 – March 18, 1998 1997 Kay Rosen: Short Stories/Tall Tales, M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, April 18, – June 29, 1997 Galerie Michael Cosar, Dusseldorf, Germany, 1997 52
Wooster Gardens, New York, NY, 1997 1996 Short Stories, Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg, Germany, 1996 Art: Concept, Nice, France, 1996 Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece, 1996 1995 Galerie Erika + Otto Friedrich, Bern, Switzerland, 1995 Morris-Healy Gallery (Paul Morris Gallery), New York, NY, 1995 1994 Galeria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, 1994 Kay Rosen: Home On the Range, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, September 3 – November 6, 1994 Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, 1994 Kay Rosen: Back Home In Indiana, Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN, October 22, 1994 – January 8, 1995 1993 Kay Rosen, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK, November 27 – December 22, 1993 Kay Rosen: New Paintings, Feature Inc., New York, NY, October 13 – November 13, 1993 Jose Freire Gallery, New York, NY, 1993 1992 Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, November 1992 Kay Rosen, Feature Inc., New York, NY, 1992, January 8 – February 8, 1992 Laura Carpenter Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 1992 1991 Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 1991 Manum de tabula, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland, September 20 – November 10, 1991 Insam-Gleicher Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1991 1990 Feature Inc., New York, NY, 1990 Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK, 1990 Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1990 1989 Kay Rosen: New Paintings, Feature Inc., New York, NY, November 7 – December 2, 1989 1988 Kay Rosen: The Ed Paintings, Feature Inc., New York, NY, October 8-29, 1988 Kay Rosen, Feature Gallery, Chicago, IL, March 1-26, 1988 1987 Kay Rosen: paintings, Feature Gallery, Chicago, IL, February 13 – March 14, 1987 1984 New Museum (Broadway Window), New York, NY, September 16 – October 25, 1984 Socially Concerned: Gregory Green and Kay Rosen, Feature Gallery, Chicago, IL, July 6 – August 11, 1984 1983 Kay Rosen: Lines On Lines, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, NY, 1983; traveled to University Gallery of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1986 1981 Kay Rosen-Stairwalking: Notations/Diagrams, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, 1981 1980 Kay Rosen: Photographic Performances, Franklin Furnace, New York, 1980 1979 Kay Rosen: Photo-texts and Performances, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, 1979
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (2008 – PRESENT)
2021 Ideas para Monumentos en homenaje a las heroínas y los héroes desconocidos (Ideas for Monuments in honor of unknown heroines and heroes), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, virtual exhibition curated by Luis Camnitzer 2020 Robert Indiana: A Legacy of Love, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, October 15, 2020 – January 24, 2021 Energy In All Directions, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, October 10, 2020 – May 16, 2021, curated by Ian Berry 53
2020 This is America*, The University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY, October 6, 2020 – February 13, 2021 Wrecked Language, Broodthaers Society of America, New York, NY, October 4 – December 5, 2020 We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz, Jewish Museum, New York, NY, October 1, 2020 – January 24, 2021 Bluets, Chicago Manual Style, Chicago, IL, September 25 – 27, 2020 Four Flags, Chicago Manual Style, Chicago, IL, June 16 – September, 2020 Cause and Æffect: Art That Speaks Out, Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, IN, March 28 – August 2, 2020 Catalyst, Art and Social Change, Gracie Manson, New York, NY, February 15 – August 31, 2021, curated by Jessica Bell Brown Yesterday’s Tomorrow: Selections from the Rose Collection, 1933-2018, Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, February 7 – November 20, 2020 When We First Arrived, The Corner at Whitman-Walker, Washington, DC, January 25 – March 28, 2020 Overbooked (a project of Booked: Hong Kong Art Book Fair), Tai Kwun Centre for Heritage and Arts, Hong Kong, January 16 – 28, 2020 2019 Small Talk, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, October 25, 2019 – March 3, 2020, curated by Allison Glenn IN/SITU, EXPO Chicago, curated by Jacob Fabricius, features large-scale sculpture, video, film and site-specific works, September 2019 OVERRIDE | A Billboard Project, a citywide public art initiative, presented by EXPO CHICAGO and the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, September 17 – October 7, 2018 WORD PLAY : language as medium, Bonnier Gallery, Miami, FL, June 6 – July 13, 2019 With a Capital P: Selections by Six Painters, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL, May 11 – August 25, 2019 Go With The Flow/Swim Against The Tide, Camberwell Space, London, United Kingdom, March 7 – March 29, 2019 Kay Rosen, MOCA London Web Exhibitions, a series of website exhibitions during renovation, March 1 - March 31, 2019 (NO) FUN, Empirical Nonsense, New York, NY, February 1 – March 23, 2019 She Persists: A Century of Women Artsits in New York, Gracie Mansion Conservancy, New York, NY, January 17, 2019 – January 31, 2020, curated by Jessica Bell Brown 2018 Zombies: Pay Attention! Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, December 21, 2018 – May 12, 2019, curated by Heidi Zuckerman Language As Medium, Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, October 22 - December 7, 2018, curated by Marc Mitchell Out of the Retina, Into the Brain: The Art Library of Aaron and Barbara Levine, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL, November 17, 2018 – March 17, 2019 Recognize you when she sees you, Gives you the things she has for you, September Gallery, Hudson, NY, November 10, 2018 – February 3, 2019 Kay Rosen . kavanUGH, Empirical Nonsense Glass Door Projects, New York, NY, October 2018
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In Light Of…, Chicago Manual of Style, Chicago, IL, with Ivan Navarro, Robert Chase Heishman, and Ansi, September 28 – November 4, 2018 Everything has been done 2, Forde Geneva, Switzerland, September 1 – October 1, 2018 Out of Line, September Gallery, Hudson, NY, July 21 – September 2, 2018, curated by Kristen Dodge Front International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, July 14 – September 30, 2018, curated by Michelle Grabner Do I Have to Draw You a Picture? Heong Gallery, Downing College Cambridge, United Kingdom, June 16 – October 7, 2018, curated by Elisa Schaar This Brush for Hire: Norm Laich and Many Other Artists, ICA Los Angeles, CA, June 3 – September 2, 2018, curated by Meg Cranston one colour, PPC Philipp Pflug Contemporary, Frankfurt, Germany, March 10 – April 7, 2018 2017 Orphans of Painting, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, NY, September 14 – October 14, 2017, curated by Raúl Zamudio An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940 – 2017, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, August 18, 2017 – August 27, 2018 From Christo to Kiefer – The Lambert Collection, Avignon, Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster, Germany, June 2 – October 1, 2017 Syntax Season: Kay Rosen, print+text, Indianapolis, IN, January 28 – Feburary 19, 2017, curated by Elisabeth Smith and Michael Milano 2016 Strange Oscillations and Vibrations of Sympathy, University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal, IL, October 26 – December 18, 2016 A Rule By Nobody, video screening of Sisyphus, presented by Third Object, The Nightingale Cinema, Milwaukee, WI, October 16, 2016 About Concrete Poetry, MAMCO Geneve, Switzerland, October 12, 2016 – January 29, 2017 Works: Reflections on Failure, Radiator Arts, Long Island City, NY, September 16 – November 12, 2016, curated by Osman Can Yerebakan The I-71 Project, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, September 13 – November 6, 2016, co-curated by Anne Thompson and Steven Matijcio Days and Dailies, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA, April 29 – June 11, 2016 200 Years of Indiana Art: A Cultural Legacy, Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, IN, March 19 – October 2, 2016, curated by Mark Ruschman Tony Feher and Kay Rosen, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, March 17 – April 23, 2016 Chicago and Vicinity, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL, March 5 – April 23, 2016 2015 Equal Dimensions, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA, December 12, 2015 – January 30, 2016 AIDS: On Going Going On, projections on the buildings of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and former St. Vincent’s, organized by Visual AIDS, December 4, 2015 ASSISTED, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL, September 12, 2015 – January 16, 2016 25 Years of FUN, on occasion of Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition’s 25th Anniversary, Berlin, Germany, June 12 – 27, 2015 Over and Under, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY,June 4 – July 24, 2015 Artists’ Recipes, publication by Admir Jahic and Comenius Roethlisberger, Basel, Switzerland, June 2015
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2015 Softly Overripe, Ha Ha Gallery, Southhampton, UK, June 2015, curated by Lulu Nunn and HOAX Colourwheel, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, May 30, 2015 – May 29, 2016 RE(a)D, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY, May 10 – July 3, 2015, curated by Ryan Steadman Once Upon a Time and Now, The Center, New York, NY, February 3 – April 6, 2015 “Hi,” Arts for the 606, Billboard Project at Milwaukee and Leavitt, Chicago, IL, June 2015 – June 2016 2014 Take My Word for It, The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, September 6 – December 23, 2014 I was a double, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY, July 5, 2014 – January 4, 2015 LET’S GO LET’S GO: In Memoriam Hudson, 33 Orchard, New York, NY, June 25 – July 26, 2014 35 Years of Public Art, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, February 22 – May 4, 2014 The I-70 Sign Show, Highway I-70 near Columbia, MO, 2014, curated by Anne Thompson Ellsworth Kelly’s Spectrum II (1966-67), Israel Lund Studio, Brooklyn, NY, 2014, curated by Sam Korman 2013 Nocturnal, BCB Art, Hudson, NY, November 30 – December 29, 2013 Signs and Messages II, Kate MacGarry, London, UK, November 15 – December 21, 2013 Entropy, Galeri Zilberman, Istanbul, Turkey, November 1, 2013 – January 4, 2014 Auf Zeit Wandbilder-Bildwande/For the Time Being, Wall Paintings, Painted Walls, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, July 28 – October 20, 2013 Semicolon Hyphen Bracket, MKG127, Toronto, Canada, July 6 – August 17, 2013 CHICK LIT: Revised Summer Reading, Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York, NY, June 28 – August 9, 2013 The Cat Show, White Columns, New York, NY, June 14 – July 27, 2013 Pro-Choice, Fri Art, Fribourg, Switzerland, May 25 – August 18, 2013 ABCDEFGHI, Marabouparken Konsthall, Sundbyberg, Sweden, April 20 – July 28, 2013 After the Museum: The Home Front, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, March 12 – June 9, 2013 2012 Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art, Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO, October 12, 2012 – February 3, 2013, curated by Andrea Andersson and Nora Burnett Abrams Girl Talk: Women and Text, CAM Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, September 22, 2012 – January 14, 2013, curated by Elysia Borowy DON’T SMILE: On the Humour of Art, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, September 21, 2012 – January 20, 2013, curated by Christiane Meyer-Stoll Left, Right and Center: Contemporary Art and the Challenges of Democracy, Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Cleveland, OH, August 31, 2012 – January 6, 2013 A Thousand Words and Counting, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI, August 22, 2012 – January 2, 2013, curated by Jay Jensen Michelle Grabner: The Inova Survey, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, July 27 – September 23, 2012 Beasts of Revelation, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY, June 21 – August 3, 2012 ==, mfc-michele didier, Paris, France, May 12 – June 30, 2012 Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, May 6 – August 27, 2012, curated by Laura Hoptman Spelling the Image, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, NY, January 26 – March 3, 2012 56
Grey Full, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY, January 13 – February 11, 2012, curated by Geoffrey Young Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2012, curated by Antonio Sergio Bessa Spare Parts, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA, January 28 – March 10, 2012 2011 bodybraingame, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, September 16 – October 22, 2011, curated by Hudson The Emblem of My Work, Shandy Hall Gallery, Laurence Sterne Trust, Coxwold, York, UK, September 3 – October 31, 2011 In Other Words, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, Ireland, July 22 – October 30, 2011, curated by Matt Packer Nod Nod Wink Wink: Conceptual Art in New Mexico and Its Influences, Hardwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM, July 9 – September 5, 2011 Mixed Messages: A(I)DS, Art, and Words, La Mama La Galleria, New York, NY, June 2 – July 3, 2011, curated by John Chaich for Visual AIDS Gravity’s Rainbow, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 21 – July 23, 2011 Signs on the Road, Curatorial Research Lab @ Winkleman Gallery, New York, NY, March 25 – April 30, 2011, organized by Workroom De-Building, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, Christchurch, New Zealand, February 2 – 22, 2011, curated by Justin Paton Seeing Is a Kind of Thinking: A Jim Nutt Companion, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, January 29 – May 29, 2011, curated by Julie Rodrigues Widholm Playtime, (works from the Klosterfelde Family Foundation), LAC - Lieu d’Art Contemporain Narbonne, Sigean, France, curated by Ami Barak About Painting, ABC Art Berlin Contemporary, Berlin, Germany, September 7–11, 2011, curated by Rita Kersting Signs on the Road, Curatorial Research Lab at Edward Winkleman Gallery, New York, NY, March 25 – April 30, 2011, organized by Workroom G, curated by Gogue Projects, Cathouse FUNeral Camel Collective 2010 Third Thoughts, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain, July 24 – October 24, 2010, curated by Barry Schwabsky A to B, MKG127, Toronto, Canada, July 3 – July 31, 2010, curated by Micah Lexier TypO, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL, March 4 – April 10, 2010, curated by Barbara Wiesen and Jean Bevier Che Cosa Sono Le Nuvole? The Enea Righi Collection, Museion, Bolzano, Italy, curated by Eric Mezil and Letizia Ragaglia 2009 Picturing the Studio, Sullivan Galleries, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, December 11, 2009 – February 13, 2010, curated by Michelle Grabner and Annika Marie FAX, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, April 17 – July 23, 2009, curated by Joao Ribas Broken Thorn, Sweet Blackberry, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, February 28 – March 28, 2009, curated by Sima Familant Rich Text, Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, January 22 – February 21, 2009 Just What Are They Saying? Jonathon Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA, 2009, curated by Beth Rudin de Woody Learning Modern, Sullivan Galleries, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, 2009, curated by Mary Jane Jacob 57
2008 Prospect .1 New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, November 1, 2008 – January 18, 2009, curated by Dan Cameron Archeology of Longing, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France, September 19 – November 9, 2008, curated by Sofia Henandez Chong Cuy Political Correct, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland, September 18 – October 25, 2008 In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, June 8, 2008 – January 6, 2009 Always There Pt. 2, Max Hetzler Gallery, Berlin, Germany, March 4 – April 26, 2008, curated by Arturo Herrera Text/ural, OKOK Gallery, Seattle, WA, July – September 2008 Shit, Feature, Inc., New York, NY, September 10-27, 2008 Idiolects, Brown Gallery, London, UK, June 12 – July 26, 2008, curated by Lumi Tan
HONORS
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts, 2017 Artist Award for a Distinguished Body of Work, presented by the College Art Association (CAA), 2014 S.J. Weiler Fund Award, 2013 Anonymous Was a Woman Grant, 2009 National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Grant, 1995 Awards in the Visual Arts 10 Fellowship, 1990 National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Grant, 1989 National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Grant, 1987
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH Clayton Press and Gregory Linn Collection, NJ Collection Lambert, Avignon, France Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado Hadley Martin Fisher Collection, Miami Beach, FL Harald Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg, Germany Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN Israel Museum, Jerusalem Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY Norton Family Collection Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH Re Rebaudengo Collection, Turin, Italy San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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