Josiah McElheny

CV

Born 1966 in Boston, Massachusetts
Lives and works in New York City

Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

2008 White Cube, London
The Last Scattering Surface, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle

2007 Cosmology, Design and Landscape – Part Two, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
Projects 84: Josiah McElheny, Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Last Scattering Surface, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, Minnesota

2006 Modernity 1929–1965, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Cosmology, Design and Landscape – Part One, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago

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, New York (catalogue)
The Metal Party, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California

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, NY

1996 Three Alter Egos, Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

1995 Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Installation at the 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 Arnescruv, Sweden, permanent installation of the “Jägarens Glasmuseet” (The Hunter’s Glass Museum)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007 Sparkle then Fade, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington

2006 Cosmology, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York
Dynasty, Gallery MC, New York, New York (catalogue)
Super Vision, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Shiny, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio

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
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, RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
Signs of Being, The Foundation To-Life, Inc., Mount Kisco, New York

2003 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)

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)

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

1999 Patentia, Nordic Institute of Contemporary Art, Stockholm, Sweden

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)

1997 Paul Bloodgood, Paula Hayes, Josiah McElheny, Sandra Vallejos, AC Project Room, New York, New York
Living Room, Barbara Westerman Gallery, Newport, Rhode Island

1996 The Last Supper, Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, Washington
A Labor of Love, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York (catalogue)
What’s Love Got to Do With It?, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Drawings from the MAB Library, AC Project Room, New York, New York

1995 VER-RÜCKT, Kulturstiftung Schloss Agathenburg, Agathenburg, Germany (Traveled to Art Museum of Arolsen, Arolsen, Germany; Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany) (catalogue)
Holding the Past, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

1994 Are You Experienced?, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, New York
First Fundraising Exhibition, American Fine Arts Company, New York, New York
Wunderkammer, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California

Selected Awards and Fellowships

2005 Artist-in-Residence Award, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
2000 The 15th Rakow Commission, The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
1998 Bagley Wright Fund Award, Seattle, Washington
1997 The Space Program, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, New York, New York
1996 Artist Grant, Art Matters, Inc., New York, New York
1995 The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, New York, New York
1993 Betty Bowen Special Recognition Award, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
1989 Fellowship for study in Sweden, American-Scandinavian Foundation

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