LOREN MUNK American, b. 1951
The artist Loren Munk is a painter, draftsman, art writer and videographer. He is known within the New York artist's community primarily for his extensive work documenting the artist scene through his reviews, maps, diagrams and video reports.
After studies at Idaho State University, and spending two and a half years in Europe in the United States Army, Munk returned stateside to attend New York's Art Students' League on the GI Bill. Munk's work debuted in SoHo in 1981 with a double show at J. Fields Gallery and Gabrielle Bryers. Since then, he has developed an international career. In addition to exhibiting in Brazil, France, Germany and the United States, Munk has received national and international public and private commissions including a mural competition for the Mayor's Office of Paris. He is well represented in important collections throughout Europe, South and North America and the Middle East.
Most recently, Munk has been producing a major series of paintings which tackle the subject of art itself through an historical and diagrammatic lens. He has also, expanded upon his role in the artistic community, publishing numerous reviews and essays, curating and promoting several exhibitions, and offering his acknowledged expertise on the Williamsburg and Bushwick art scenes.
Munk has lectured and critiqued at New York's School of Visual Arts, The Studio School, The New York Academy of Art, The Sotheby's Institute of Art, and Lehman College.
Inventing the spontaneous online review, Munk documents the New York art world in YouTube videos, using the name James Kalm. The Kalm Report and Rough Cut Channel have a worldwide following with over four million views.
Shot from a first person perspective using a hand held camera, and basic editing techniques, Kalm has produced over nine hundred on-line videos in this series. Kalm arrives at an art show by bike—he calls himself "the guy on the bike"—and then walks through the show while providing commentary and interviews. A feature article on Munk's video project by Jed Lipinski appeared in The New York Times.
His most recent painting exhibition was held at the Lesley Heller Workspace on the Lower East Side and received overwhelming critical response including reviews by Roberta Smith in The New York Times. His work is represented on the West Coast by the Daniel Weinberg Gallery Los Angeles. His long running column "Brooklyn Dispatches" appears in the Brooklyn Rail on a semi regular basis and is the longest running, most in-depth and consistent coverage of the Brooklyn art scene available. Examples of Munk's work can be viewed at www.lorenmunk.com
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EDUCATION 1979 Art Students League, New York 1975 University of Maryland at Ramstein, Germany 1972 Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2011 Location, Location, Location at Leslie Heller Work Space, New York 2010 Becoming Modern in America curated by Matthew Delege, MINUS SPACE, Brooklyn, NY Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2009 Rupert Ravens Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ 2006 Dam & Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2006 Dam & Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2002 American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich Andre Zarre Gallery, New York Museum Moderner Kunst, Passau, Germany 2001 M.J. Wewerka Galerie, Berlin American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich 2000 American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich 1998 L'Antiquario, Sao Paulo, Brasil 1997 Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art Ltd., New York 1996 Caesaria Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida 1995 Amerika-Haus, Munich, Germany 1994 BMW, Munich Andre Zaire Gallery, New York 1992 Galerie Svetlana & Hubner, Munich, Germany Andre Zarre Gallery, New York 1991 Krief Galerie d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France Cedar Crest College, Allentown, Pennsylvania 1989,90 Galerie Svetlana, Munich, Germany Leslie Cecil Gallery, New York ARCA, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Marseille, France 1981 J. Field Gallery, New York 1981,82, Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, New York 83/84, 85,87
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2013 The Decline and Fall of the Art World, Part I: The One-Percenters, Freight+Volume, New York, NY 2011 ABC123, curated by Janet Goleas at Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY 6 Who Paint, curated by Fred Valentine at Big&Small/Casual, Long Island City, NY It's All Good: Apocalypse Now, curated by Richard Timperio, Side Show Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
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I Like The Art World and The Art World Likes Me, curated by Eric Doeringer at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY Paper 2011 at Janet Kurnatoski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY NEW year NEW work NEW faces, curated by Jason Andrew and Deborah Brown at Storefront Gallery Unfinished Pictures, curated by Kirstin Calsbrese at LACE, Los Angeles, CA It's All Good, curated by Richard Timperio at Side Show Gallery Brooklyn, NY 2010 Wall to Wall, Daniel Weinberg Gallery Los Angeles, CA The Social Graph, curated by Hrag Vartanian at The Outpost, Brooklyn, NY It's a Wonderful Life, curated by Richard Timperio at Side Show Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2009 Year Five, at Janet Kurnatoski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Party at Chris's House, curated by Phong Bui at Janet Kurnatoski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2008 Boson Exotic, Rupert Ravens Contemporary Art Gallery, Newark, NJ The Face, curated by Cathy Quinlin at the ‘temporary Museum of Painting, Brooklyn, NY Peace, Side Show Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Shape Shifters: New York Painters, curated by James Biederman, The A.D. Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke and Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2007 More Is More—Maximalist Tendencies in Recent American Painting, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, curated by Tatiana Flores Continuum, The ‘temporary Museum of Painting, Brooklyn, NY War is Over Again, Side Show Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Radius, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY Sanctuary City, Rupert Ravens Contemporary Art Gallery, Newark, NJ The Blogger Show, Agni Gallery, New York, NY The Face, The ‘temporary Museum of Painting, Brooklyn, NY 2006 SWAP, 06, Americana - Madrid, Arteveintuno, Madrid, Spain Scope/New York, Dam Stuhltrager Fountain/ New York, Front Room Nova/ Chicago, Dam Stuhltrager 2005 The Brooklyn Rail, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, NY Scope/Miami, Dam Stuhltrager 2004 30th Anniversary Exhibition 1974-2004, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY Merry Peace, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY The Color Imperative. Gallery: N3 Project Space, Brooklyn, NY Recent Works, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY 2003 Brooklyn on 57th Street, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY Drawing Conclusions: Work by Artist-Critics, NY Arts Gallery, New York, NY 2002 Benefit, Bellweather Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Merry Peace, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Sao Paulo Art Fair, Sao Paulo 2001 Private Collection, ABN-AMRO Bank, Monte Carlo, Monaco Basel Art Fair, American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich Spokes and Rims, curated by Tony Kirk, Connecticut Graphic Arts Center, Norwalk, CT City Rhythms, curated by Titia Hulst, Pelham Art Center, New York, NY
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2000 6X1= Paintings, with LaNoue, Wofford, Rice Pereira; Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY Helter Skelter Summer Swelter, Gallery @49, New York, NY Duchamp Traveling Exhibition, Kurturbahnhof, Bremen; Emmanuel Heller Gallery, Tel Aviv; The Artists' Museum, Lodz 1999 Familiar Strangers, Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY New New York Views: Recent Acquisitions, Museum of the City of New York Community Art Benefit, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY NY2K, Charas/el Bohio, curated by Rich Collichio, Tracy Zungola and Carlo McCormick, New York, NY The Arts for Transit Poster Program, Bank Street College Exhibition Space, New York, NY 1998 Sourpusses, Abraham Lubdski Gallery, New York, NY 1997 Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art at The Art Exchange Show, New York, NY 1996 Blue, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY 1993 Through Thick & Thin, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY 1992 Inaugural Exhibition, J. Claramunt Gallery, New York, NY Prix de Peinture de Prinidpal de Monaco, Monaco Gallery Ruf, Munich, Germany 1991 Objets d'Artistes, with DiRosa, Scharf, etc Galerie Krief, Paris, France Salon de Couvertes, Grand Palais, Paris, France 1990 Collectors (Albee, Dannheisser, Forbes, etc) Choice of Emerging Artists, Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY 1998 Chairman's Choice: A Miscellany of American Paintings, w/Hopper, Wyeth, etc., FORBES Magazine Galleries, New York, NY Diverse Expressionists, M-13 Gallery, New York, NY Works on paper, with Basquiat, Condo, etc., Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, New York, NY 1986 Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland FORUM, Zurich Art Fair, Zurich, Switzerland Selected Works From Our Gallery, Laurens A. Daane Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands The Embellishment of the Statue of Liberty, with Rauschenberg, Warhol, etc. at Barneys, New York, NY Formes et Coleurs, Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva, Switzerland Freedom of Painting, organized by Galerie Paradis, Paris, France 1985 La fin du Siecle c'est por domain, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France Little Paintings, 51X Gallery, New York, NY Picture Frame/Frame Picture, Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, New York, NY New York, New Art, with Chia, Lichtenstein, Longo, Schnabel and others, ARCA, Marseille,France Kunst aus der Neue Welt, Gallery Svetlana, Munich, Germany Prelude to 1986, Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, New York, NY 1984 DeRempich Gallery, New York, NY Collaboration Show, with Basquiat, Borofsky, Longo, Salle, Winters and others, Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, New York, NY 1983 51 -Xpressionism, 51 Gallery, New York, NY 1979 Idaho Biennial, Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, Idaho
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COMMISIONS Independence Savings Bank Mural, Independence Building, Brooklyn, NY; 1995 "Street Life" Murals: Commissioned by BMW, Munich specifically for the introduction of the 316i; 1994 Wall Mural: 4 rue de la Gate, Montparnasse; Jury Selected, Mayor's Office Paris, France; 1993 Execution Litfass Design: International Litfass Art Biennale, Munich, 1992, sponsored by BMW Poster: Metropolitan Transit Authority Arts for Transit Neighborhood Poster Project; Jury Selected; 1992
Selected Public and Corporate Collections Museum of the City of New York Statue of Liberty National Monument, Liberty Island, New York Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York Sony Music Entertainment Inc. New York The Port Authority of NY and NJ ARTLANTIS, Stuttgart Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, HN WRKS FM, New York Metropolitan Transit Authority, State of New York FORBES Magazine Collection, New York Chase Manhattan Bank NA, New York C&C Vineyards, Belleville/Saone, France
Selected Private Collections Vera List, New York George Waterman, New York Mrs. Yitzhak Rabin, Jerusalem Amaury Taittinger, Paris William Speerstra, Monte Carlo Pierre Huber, Geneva Dr. and Mrs. Donald Rubell, NYC Laurens Daane, Amsterdam Daniel Templon, Paris Tomas Wallin, Stockholm Mr. and Mrs. Wemer Amhold, Grasse *Additional collections throughout the United States, South America and Europe
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