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Josiahmcelhenybio2012.Pdf JOSIAH McELHENY Born 1966 in Boston, Massachusetts Lives and works in New York City Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions & Projects 2012 The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, June 22 – September 23 forthcoming 2011 Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge, Other: Josiah McElheny’s Island Universe, Harvard Arts Museum, Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, MA, October 15 The Bloomberg Commission: Josiah McElheny, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, September 7, 2011 – August 12, 2012 Tate Modern Live: Push and Pull, a two-day performance event, with Andrea Geyer, Tate Modern, London, UK, March 19 2010 Crystalline Modernity, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. November 12 2009 Proposals for a Chromatic Modernism, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, New York, September 12 - October 17 A Space for an Island Universe, Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, January 28 - March 20 2008 Island Universe, White Cube, London, United Kingdom. October 14 – November 15, (catalogue) The Light Club of Batavia, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. September Das Lichtklub von Batavia/The Light Club of Batavia, Institut im Glaspavillon, Berlin, Germany. July 5, 6, & 10 The Last Scattering Surface, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle and Rochester Art Center, Seattle, Washington. April 5 – August 17 2007 The 1st at Moderna: The Alpine Cathedral and The City-Crown, Moderna Museet, Stockholm. December 1 - February 17, 2008 Projects 84: Josiah McElheny, Museum of Modern Art, New York. February 12 – April 9 Cosmology, Design and Landscape– Part II, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. June. 2006 Cosmology, Design and Landscape – Part I, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. September 29 – October 28 Modernity 1929–1965, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, New York. May 6 – June 3 2005 Landscape Models for Total Reflective Abstraction, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma (brochure) 2004 Total Reflective Abstraction, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2003 Theories About Reflection, Brent Sikkema, New York, New York Antipodes: Josiah McElheny, White Cube, London, United Kingdom (catalogue) 2002 Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (catalogue) 2001 Works 1994–2000, Gallery of Art at Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas (brochure) The Metal Party, The Public Art Fund, New York and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco 2000 Christian Dior, Jorges Luis Borges, Adolf Loos, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Brent Sikkema, New York, New York 1999 The Story of Glass, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts (catalogue) An Historical Anecdote About Fashion, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (catalogue) 1997 Non-Decorative Beautiful Objects, AC Project Room, New York, New York 1996 Three Alter Egos, Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, Washington Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts 1995 Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, Washington Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom (with Adam Rolston) Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, New York (with Dan Peterman) Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria (with Dan Peterman) 1994 Authentic History, Robert Lehman Gallery, Brooklyn, New York 1993 originals, fakes, reproductions, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, Washington 1990 Jägarens Glasmuseet (The Hunter’s Glass Museum), Arnescruv, Sweden Selected Group Exhibitions 2011 if you lived here, you’d be home by now, curated by Josiah McElheny in conjunction with the Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977, Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, June 25 – December 18 Two Fold, The Suburban/The Poor Farm, Oak Park, IL, May 1 – July 5 2010 Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum Rotunda, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY February 19–May 16 JAMES HYDE, Redi-Mix, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, NY, March 3 – April 12 Face Your Demons, Milliken Gallery AB , Stockholm, Sweden, May 12 - June 12 2009 Allan Kaprow YARD, Hauser & Wirth, New York, New York, September 24-October 31, 2009 Universal Code, curated by Gregory Burke, The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario, June 12-August 30, 2009 Sense and Sentiment. Mistakes are closely followed by Effects, curated by Eva Maria Stadler and Sabeth Buchmann, Augarten Contemporary, Vienna, Austria. February 4 – March 24 (catalouge) Innovations in the Third Dimension: Sculpture of our time, curated by Nancy Hall-Duncan, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut (catalogue) 2008 Objects of Value, curated by Rene Morales, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida. November 21 – February 22, 2009. Multi-Part Art, Contemporary Works from the Collection, Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. July 11 – March 29, 2009 Mildred's Lane, curated by J. Morgan Puett and Mark Dion, Alexander Gray Gallery, New York, NY. June 18 – September 6. Spring-Wound, Orchard, New York, NY. April 25 – May 25 Beyond Measure: Conversations Across Art and Science, Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom. April 5 – June 1 Sensory Overload: Light, Motion, Sound and the Optical in Art Since 1945, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin. January 24 – October 2009 2007 Viewfinder, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Sparkle Then Fade, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington Cosmologies, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York. January 11 – February 15 Accumulations: More Than the Sum of Their Parts, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts. July 25 – July 13, 2008. Museo de reproducciones fotograficas, Rutgers University Gallery, Newark, New Jersey 2006 The Bong Show (or This is Not a Pipe), Leslie Tonkonow, New York, New York Transitional Objects: Contemporary Still Life, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York Dynasty, Gallery MC, New York, New York (catalogue) Super Vision, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts (catalogue) . December 10 – April 29, 2007 Shiny, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio. September 16 – December 31 2005 Part Object Part Sculpture, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (catalogue) Faith, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut (catalogue) Spectrum, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York Bottle: Contemporary Art and Vernacular Tradition, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut View Eight: A Few Domestic Objects Interrogate a Few Works of Art, Mary Boone, New York, New York Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (catalogue) 2004 The Cobweb, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Printemps de septembre á Toulouse: In Extremis, Les Abbatoirs, Toulouse, France (catalogue) Glass, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island Signs of Being, The Foundation To-Life, Inc., Mount Kisco, New York 2003 Books and Manuscripts, Volume Gallery, New York, New York Borges Exhibition, Volume Gallery, New York, New York Warped Space, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California (catalogue) Traces of Light, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (catalogue) Living with Duchamp, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York (brochure) Once Upon a Time: Fiction and Fantasy in Contemporary Art, Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York State Museum, Albany, New York Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2002 View Six: Surface to Surface, Mary Boone, New York, New York Keep in touch, Brent Sikkema, New York, New York Family, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut (catalogue) The Photogenic, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (brochure) Artists to Artists: A Decade of The Space Program, Ace Gallery, New York, New York 2001 Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990s, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California (Traveled to Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado; Hood Museum, Dartmouth University, Hanover, New Hampshire; and Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio) (catalogue) Musings: Contemporary Tradition, Gallery 312, Chicago, Illinois Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism, Fourth International Biennial, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico (catalogue) House Guests: Contemporary Artists in the Grange, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (catalogue) BodySpace, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland (brochure) Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Heart of Glass, Queens Museum of Art, New York, New York (brochure) Summer 2001, Brent Sikkema, New York, New York 2000 2000 Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York (catalogue) Exhibition Room: Francis Cape, Josiah McElheny, and Yinka Shonibare, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut From Here to There – Passageways at Solitude, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany 1999 Patentia, Nordic Institute of Contemporary Art, Stockholm, Sweden Building Histories, Apex Art, New York, New York 1998 At Home in the Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Usefool, Postmasters Gallery, New York, New York Personal Touch, Art in General, New York, New York Young Americans: Part II, The Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom (brochure) Inglenook, Feigen Contemporary, New York, New York (Traveled to Illinois State University Galleries, Normal, Illinois) Interlacings, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, Connecticut (catalogue)
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