Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2008 Guy Walks Into a Bar, Pierogi Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
J.Fiber: World War Me (Collaborative Show with Jane Fine), Pierogi, Brooklyn
- 2007 American Dilirium, Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
- 2006 No Natural Ingredients, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY (catalog)
- 2004 Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
- 2003 PPOW, New York, NY
- 2000 PPOW, New York, NY
- 1998 PPOW, New York, NY
- 1997 Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
- 1996 Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (catalog)
- 1992 Hudson Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2009 Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Curated by Lisa Dennison (catalog)
- 2008 Apocalyptic Summer, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
The Land of Earthly Delights, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA (catalog)
Art On Paper, Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, NC (catalog)
Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY. Curated by Lisa Dennison
Pierogi Et Al, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2007 Ornament, Bavin Lee Program, New York, NY
Mr. President, University Museum, State University of Albany SUNY, Albany, NY (catalog)
Material Pursuits, Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT. Curated by Evelyn Hankins (catalog)
Next Wave Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Dan Cameron
(Un)Natural Selection, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
- 2006 Twice Drawn Part 2, Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (catalog)
Don’t Know Much About History, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Summer Group Show, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
Inaugural Group Show, Pierogi, Leipzig, Germany
Twice Drawn Part 1, Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (catalog)
Subverting the Status Quo, AXIS Gallery, Sacramento, CA
- 2005 American Obsessive, Volcker and Freunde, Berlin, Germany (catalog)
Reconfigure, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
Animal Tales, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
Pie Fight, AR Contemporary Gallery, Milan, Italy
Thirty ways to Make a Painting, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinanati, OH
Decipher: Hand-painted Digital, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
- 2004 SITE Santa Fe’s Fifth International Biennial: Disparities and Deformations: Our
Grotesque, Santa Fe, NM. Curated by Robert Storr (catalog)
Open House, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY. Curated
by Charlotta Kotik (catalog)
The Drawn Page, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Vacation Nation, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
Impact: New Mural Projects, PPOW, New York, NY
Endless Love, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
- 2003 Cartoon, Riva Gallery, New York , NY
On and Off the Wall, Phillips, de Pury and Luxembourg, New York, NY
Williamsburg, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut.
Brooklyn on 57th Street, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
Armory Show (with PPOW), Pier 88, New York, NY
- 2002 New-Economy Painting, ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Armory Show (with PPOW), Pier 90, New York, NY
Touchy Feely, Eyewash @ Front Room, Brooklyn, NY
InterSEXion, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Small Works from the Fine Arts Work Center, Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA
- 2001 My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation, Des Moines
Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa; travels to the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, Tampa Museum of Art, Chicago cultural Center, Akron Museum of Art, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, and Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama (catalog)
Out of Hibernation, IM n IL, Brooklyn, NY
Skank, Plus Ultra, Brooklyn, NY
Smile, Hereart, New York, NY
Small Works, Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, Mass.
- 2000 Haulin’ Ass, Post Gallery, Los Angelas, CA
Art On Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina
at Greensboro (catalog)
Flat Files (Organized by Pierogi 2000), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,
San Francisco, CA
Drawing From Pierogi 2000, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
Yaddo Centennial Exhibition, Art in General, New York, NY; traveled to The Hyde
Collection, Glens Falls, NY
Superduper New York, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY
- 1999 Brooklyn: New Work, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
RE: Rauschenberg, Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalog)
Rage For Art, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY
Flat Files (Organized by Pierogi 2000), Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the
Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Valentine, Eyewash, Brooklyn, NY
Room with a View, Sixth @ Prince Fine Art, New York, NY
Installation (Gallery Three), PPOW, New York, NY
- 1998 Pop Surrealism, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (catalog)
Fashioned, White Box Gallery, New York; traveled to White Box Gallery,
Philadelphia, PA (catalog)
Hide And Seek, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA (catalog)
Summer Group Exhibition, PPOW, New York, NY
Including Clay, Jane Hartsook Gallery, New York, NY
Mediennacht, Alten Lok Fabric, Berlin, Germany
Flatfiles (with Pierogi 2000), Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
Drawings from Pierogi 2000, Vasser College, Poughkeepsie, NY
- 1997 Current Undercurrent, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Just What Do You Think You’re Doing, Dave?, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY
New York Drawers, Gasworks, London; traveled to Cornerhouse, Manchester
- 1996 Painting in an Expanding Field, Bennington College, Bennington, VT.
Curated by Saul Ostrow
Drawings, Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Cadmium Cathode, Sauce, Brooklyn, NY
Living Room, 558 Broadway, New York, NY
Central Industrial Supply Show, 446 Broadway, New York, NY.
Curated by Gene Pool
- 1995 Maux Faux, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
Wacko, The Work Space, New York, NY
Other Rooms, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
Works for a Fun House, E.S. Vandam, New York
Close Proximity, MMC Gallery, New York, NY
Spirit of New York (expanded exhibition), Spazio Cesare di Sesto, Pallazzo
Communale,Varese, Italy.
Crest Hardware Show II, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Gene Pool
- 1994 Faux, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
Page 5, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
Spirit of New York, Spazio Emilio de marchi, Milan, Italy. Curated by Florence Lynch
Crest Hardware Show, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Gene Pool
- 1993 Four Walls Benefit Exhibition, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY
James Esber, Mary Behrens, Hudson Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
- 1992 Morphologic, Art in General, New York, NY
Salon of the Mating Spiders, Herron Test Site Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
- 1991 FIAR International: Art Under 30, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan, Italy; travelled to
Galleria del Chiostro, Rome, L’Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, Accademia Italiana della Arti, London, National Academy of Design, New York and UCLA Wight Art Gallery, Los Angeles. Curated by Dan Cameron (catalog)
High Density Abstraction, Procter Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Benefit Exhibition, White Columns, New York, NY
Maps and Madness, Bronx Council on the Arts, Longwood Arts Gallery, Bronx, NY;
Curated by Fred Wilson (catalog)
Group Show, Hudson Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
- 1990 Dumb Animals, White Columns, New York, NY
Topologies, MMC Gallery, New York, NY
- 1989 Signs of Landscape, Soho Center for Visual Artists, New York, NY
No Relief—Drawing on the Walls, 124 Ridge Street Gallery, New York, NY
- 1988 Ten Painters, White Columns, New York, NY
Awards and Fellowships
- 2008 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
- 2005 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
- 2002 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
- 2001 MacDowell Colony, Artist Residency, Peterborough, NH
- 1998 Bucknell University, Artist Summer Residency, Cowan, PA
- Cite International des Arts, Artist Residency, Paris, France
- 1997 Yaddo, Artist Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY
- 1992 Macdowell Colony, Artist Residency, Peterborough, NH
- 1991-92 Fine Arts Work Center, Fellowship, Provincetown, MA
- 1991 FIAR International, Milan, Italy, Honorable Mention
- 1990 Yaddo, Artist Residency, Saratoga Springs, New York
- Art Matters Inc., Fellowship
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Lectures / Panels / Visiting Artist
- 2009 Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
- 2008 Queens College, Flushing, NY
Contemporary Art Classroom Project, Winston-Salem, NC
- 2007 Panel with Mark Veca and Bill Fick, Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, Center for Art and Design, College of Saint Rose, Albany NY
- 2006 Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
- 2004 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
- 2002 Brooklyn Now, MacDowell panel organized by Robert Storr, Judith Rothschild Foundation, NY, NY
- 2001 Brooklyn Museum of Art State University of New York, Albany
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
- 2000 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Bennington College, Bennington, VT
- 1998 Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
- 1997 Alfred University, Alfred, NY
- 1996 University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- 1995 University of Massachusetts, Boston