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Born 1975, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011

Freedom from Want, Stux Gallery, New York, USA

2010

Scars and Stripes, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Don’t Be Scared, You’re Supposed to Be, Irvine Contemporary, Washington DC, USA

2008

Star-Crossed, Stux Gallery, New York, USA

Where the Buffalo Roam, Mogadishni, Copenhagen, Denmark

2007

Love Songs for Demons, Mogadishni, Aarhus, Denmark

Hellhound Rodeo, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, USA

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2005

Fiend Club Lounge, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, USA

2004

Bubblin’ Crude, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY, USA

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011

You Are Free, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, WUK Werkstaetten und Kulturhaus, Vienna, Austria

Facemaker, Royal T, Los Angeles, CA, USA, curated by Kathy Grayson

Sick!, Misc. Project, New York, NY, USA

Bitches Brew, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Volta New York, represented by Galeria Mito, New York, NY, USA

Desires, Nightmares, Dreams II, Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Beirut, Lebanon

2010

Run and Tell That: New Work from New York, SU Art Galleries, Syracuse, NY, USA

Big Picture, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY, USA

Dawn Frasch, Aaron Johnson, Wes Lang, Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo, Norway

The Irrascible Assholes, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Bushwick Schlacht, Fortress to Solitude, Brooklyn, NY, USA

You Are Free, The Tape Club, Berlin, Germany

Inflection, The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, USA

The Antidote, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY, USA

The Rise and Fall of Excess Culture, Stux Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2009

Ridykeulouse Hits Bottom, Leo Koenig Projekte, New York, NY, USA

Desires, Nightmares, Dreams, The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Beirut, Lebanon

Low Blow: and Other Species of Confusion, Stux Gallery, New York, NY,USA

Octo Pusses, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Tales of Wonder and Woe, Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY, USA

2008

Grotesque Histories, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA

From Head to Toe, Stux Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY, USA

2007

Size Matters Part One: XS- Recent Small Scale Paintings, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY;(2008) Knoxville Museum of Contemporary Art, Knoxville TN, USA

Size Matters Part Two: XXL- Recent Large Scale Paintings, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, USA

Irrational Exuberance, Maddox Art, London, UK

2006

Summer Group Show, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Six Degrees of Separation, Stux Gallery, New York, NY,USA

2005

New Art, New York: Reflections on the Human Condition, Trierenberg Holding AG, Traun, Austria

Kiss Me Long and Hard, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY, USA

Go Figure! JET Art Works, Washington DC, USA

MFA Thesis Exhibition XXV, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York, USA

Group Show, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA

2004

On-Site - A Site-Specific Group Show, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY, USA

New American Talent- The 19th Exhibition, Art House Texas, Austin, TX, USA, curated by Jerry Saltz

Surface Tension, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA

A Sense of Place, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO, USA

2003

Tits and Art 3, GV-AS Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Dirty Old Toy Box, Fluxcore Art Space, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Love, Art, and War, Altman Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2002

Launch, Fluxcore Art Space, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Memetics, Meme Project, New York, NY, USA

 

EDUCATION

2005 Master of Fine Arts, Hunter College, New York, USA

1999 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, USA

1998 National Academy of Design, New York, USA

1997 Bachelor of Science, Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

 

AWARDS

2006 The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, The Space Program

2006 Chashama Studio Grant. 2004 William F. Graf Grant.

 

COLLECTIONS

Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, USA

 

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