1955 Born in New York, NY
EDUCATION
1978 B.A., State University of New York at Binghamton
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Jonathan Seliger: Spoils, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2009 The Archeological Future, Studio La Citta, Bologna Art First, Bologna, Italy
2006 Now and Then, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Born to Shop, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
2004 Politeness Counts, Aldridge Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2003 Spree, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
Arthur Rogers Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2002 As Is, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Some Bags, Steven Vail Gallery, Des Moines, IA
2001 Floor Model, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Galleria Carla Panicali, Rome, Italy
1997 Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
1996 Bravin Post Lee, New York, NY
Anders Tornberg, Lund, Sweden c/o, Oslo, Norway
Studio la Citta, Verona, Italy
1995 Anders Tornberg, Stockholm, Sweden
Tom Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Bravin Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Craig Cornelius, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 State of Mind, Lucca Center of Contemporary Art, Italy
Thrice Upon a Time, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Sweden
2009 Nassau County Museum of Art, Rosalyn Harbor, NY
Small Works & Artists Books, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
2008 Bloodline: The Evolution of Form, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
Word and Letter in Contemporary Printmaking, The Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY, curated by Margot Clark-Junkins
Text Messages Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY
Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
2007 Ultrasonic International, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
French Kiss, curated by Rob Wynne, JGM Gallery, Paris, France
Bushels, Bundles, and Barrels, Superfund Investment Center, New York, NY
2006 The Food Show: The Hungry Eye, Chelsea Art Museum, NY
Plug, Sister Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Transitional Objects: Contemporary Still Life, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
East Meets Pop, Nathan A. Bernstein Gallery, New York, NY
Black Panther Rank and File, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2005 The Whole World is Rotten: Free Radicals and the Gold Coast Slave Castles of Paa Joe, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Young Visionaries, Nassau County Museum of Art
2004 Masters of Illusion: 150 Years of Trompe l’Oeil in America, Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
A Charge to Keep, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Cleanliness, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
About Painting, The Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Sarasota Springs, NY
Colored Pencil, K.S. Art, New York, NY
New Projects, Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY
Hot House, New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY
2003 The Recurrent, Haunting Ghose: Reflections of Marcel Duchamp in Modern and Contemporary Art, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York
Pop Thru Out, Arario Gallery, Korea
The Flag, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY
Ballpoint Inkling, K.S. Art, curated by Geoffrey Young, New York, NY
I Love Pussy, ACME, Los Angeles, CA
Publisher’s Spotlight: Dieu Donne, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Infrahtin: A Duchampian Legacy, The Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2002 Reality Check--Painting in the Exploded Field: Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, curated by Matthew Higgs, California College of Arts and Crafts, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
Presidential Suite, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
Untitled, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Made in USA, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
Beyond the Pale, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, NY
Family, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Toys II, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, NY
Made in the USA, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
What’s Hot and New in 2002: A Print and Photography Exhibition and Sale, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Jonathan Seliger: Some Bags, Will Mentor: Bionic Farm, Steven Vail Galleries, Des Moines, IA
2001 I Love NY benefit exhibition, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Multiple Personalities, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
New Artists Projects, Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY
Bogus Counterfeit Images and Contemporary Art, Castle Gallery, College of New
Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
Starry Night, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
International Biennale of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2000 Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy
The Perpetual Well: Contemporary Art From the Collection of the Jewish Museum, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Simultaneous, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
International Print Center, New York, NY
Recent Gifts from Eileen & Peter Norton, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Tamarind: 40 Years, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
The Perpetual Well: Contemporary Art From the Collection of the Jewish Museum, exhibition will travel to: Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville, FL, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia
Post Pop, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
Live From New York, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Showroom, Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
1999 Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Conversation, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Matter of Time, Dorsky Gallery, curated by Andrew Perchuk, New York, NY
Live from New York, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Farm Show, CSPS, Cedar Rapids, IA
Showroom, Art Center of the Capitol Region, curated by Ian Berry, Troy, NY
1998 Bravin Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY
Laissez-Faire, Printed Matter, New York, NY
Blooming, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY
The Everyday Sublime, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Benefit Show, White Columns, New York, NY
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Food, Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Benefit for Bang on a Can, GAGA, New York, NY
1997 A Private View, Kent Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Damon Brandt and Craig Cornelius
Word and Image/Word as Image, Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, curated by Trudy Hansen
Normatic, One Great Jones, New York, NY, curated by David Humphrey
Stepping Up, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, England
Onomatopoeia, Studio la Citta, Verona, Italy
The Packaged Vernacular, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1996 20” x 15”, Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, NY
Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Subversive Domesticity, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
Alice’s Looking Glass, Apex Art, New York, NY, curated by Mary Beyt
Benefit Show, White Columns, New York, NY
Selections from the Panza Collection, Trento Museum, Trento, Italy
1995 Oddi Bagnoli, Rome, Italy
Still Life-Portrait-Landscape, Bravin Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY
Other Choices Other Voices, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
Wheel of Fortune, Lombard Fried Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Serial, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
De-Pop, Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College, curated by Sandra Antelo-Suarez
Red Windows, Barney’s, New York, NY
Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA
New from New York, Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN, curated by Paul Morris
Site Seeing, Bardamu Gallery, New York, NY
Benefit Show, White Columns, New York, NY
For Appearance Sake, Horodner-Romley, New York, NY, curated by Saul Ostrow
Reveillon, Stux Gallery, New York, NY
1993 BOMB Benefit, Fawbush Gallery, New York, NY
Transient Decor: Room 311, Roger Smith Hotel, New York, NY, curated by Saul Ostrow
Media Message, Wooster Gardens, New York, NY, curated by Vik Muniz
1992 Writing on the Wall, 303 Gallery, New York, NY
Mssr. B’s Curio Shop, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, curated by Saul Ostrow
Benefit Show, White Columns, New York, NY
Group Show, Stux Gallery, New York, NY
Ecstasy Shop, Dooley Le Capellaine, New York, NY
Invitational ’92, Stux Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Ornament, John Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2008 Smith, Roberta, “Art In Review, Slump” The New York Times, June 20th
Senaldi, Marco “Marca di Bronzo” Impackt Magazine, January 2008
Smith, Roberta “Smooth and Safe at Pier 94” The New York Times, March 28
2005 Constantino, Lawrence, “Looking perfect for the perfect lie at Kresge”, City Pulse, Lansing, MI, February 2, 2005, pge9
“Kresge art show tantalizes with illusion”, mlive.com, January 18th, 2005
“Is Seeing Believing? Kresge Art Museum Presents Masters of Illusions Exhibition”,
WKAR.org, February 2005
Lavey, Kathleen, “Seeing is Believing”, Lansing State Journal, Tuesday January 11, 2005, pge. 1D-3D
2004 Tuz, Susan, “Symbolic bag displays artist’s view of plenty”, New-Times, Saturday
September 4, 2004, Danburry, CT
2003 Amy, Michael, “Jonathan Seliger, Jack Shainman Gallery,” Sculpture, January/February, Vol. 22, No. 1.
2002 Reality Check--Painting in the Exploded Field: Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, (catalogue), curated by Matthew Higgs, curator of art and design, California College of Arts and Crafts Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, p. 2, 20.
Klaasmeyer, Kelly, “Made in USA,” Houston Press, July 11.
“The truth about mums and dads,” Financial Times, June 8/9.
Smith, Roberta, “Alison Smith; Ellen Altfest,”, The New York Time, October 4, p. E33.
Gouveia, Georgette, “Elementary Exhibitions,” The Journal News, Sunday, February 10, p. 3E.
Storr, Robert, “New Prints 2002/Summer; By way of an introduction to various things,” Selections Committee International Print Center New York, p. 3.
Zimmer, William, “When the Subject of the Painting is the Manipulation of the Paint,” The New York Times, February 24, p. 8.
“Family,” catalogue from exhibition at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT.
“Neuberger Exhibit Examines the Use of Paint,” The Patent Trader.
Antiques and the Arts Weekly, May 3.
The Art Newspaper, No. 125, May.
2001 Berry, Ian. Floor Model, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, (catalog).
Hirsch, Faye, Art on Paper, Jan-Feb., p. 74.
2000 Baker, Kenneth, “Fears, Hopes - Address Unknown,” San Francisco Chronicle, Saturday, January 22, pgs. B1 & B10
Bonetti, David, “Driven to Dynamic Abstraction,” San Francisco Examiner, Friday, January 28, p. C15
1999 The New York Times, September 10
Cappuccio, Elio, “Tutti figli di Duchamp,” tema celeste arte contemporanea, December, p. 49-54.
Perchuk, Andrew, Matter of Time exhibition catalogue, Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY
“On View,” New York, September 6, p.73
1997 Zimmer, William, “Writing, Drawing & the Line Between Them,” The New York Times (New Jersey edition), December 28.
Reed, Michael, “The Packaged Vernacular,” Artnews, April, p.24.
Belli, Gabriela and Panza, Giuseppe, eds., The Panza di Biumo Collection: Some Artists of the 80’s and 90’s, Electa (catalog).
1996 Kimmelman, Michael, “Jonathan Seliger at Bravin Post Lee,” The New York Times, December 20, p. C28.
Levin, Kim, “Jonathan Seliger at Bravin Post Lee,” Voice Choices, The Village Voice, December 17.
Meneghelli, Luigi, “Tanto Per Un’Idea Dell’Arte Actuale,” L’Arena, Cultura & Societa, November 6, p. 35.
Fiz, Alberto, “Il Consigli del Conte,” Milano Finanza, Arte & Investimenti, September 7, pp.18-19.
Meneghelli, Luigi, “Tre Passi Oltre I Limiti della Cornice,” L’Arena, Cultura, April 25, p. 36.
Self, Dana, Subversive Domesticity, The Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS (catalog).
Newhall, Edith, “Talent,” New York Magazine, December 9, p. 104.
Ostrow, Saul, Mssr. B’s Curio Shop, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY (catalog).
Zetterström, Jelena, “Den originella vardagen,” Sydsvenska Dagbladet, February 10.
Nanne-Bråhammar, Marianne, “Tilldragande tidstypiskt,” Arbetet Nyheterna, January 29.
Wachtmeister, Marika, “Humor I Lund,” Kristianstadbladet, January 25.
Nilsson, Torgny, “När duken blir objekt,” NST, January 23.
Jönsson, “Håll ett öga på mjölkpaketen,” Kvällposten, January 18.
Agrell, Alexander, “Seliger Förvandlar Vardagens Ting Till Konst,” SYDSVENSKAN, January 14.
“Jag Skrev Tidigare Poesi,” SYDSVENSKAN, January 13.
1995 “Månadens Konst,” NÖjesguiden, December.
McConaughy, Clair, “Still Life-Portrait-Landscape,” Flash Art, June, p. 70.
Markus, Liz, “Jonathan Seliger,” The New Art Examiner, September, p. 47.
1994 Levin, Kim, “Jonathan Seliger,” The Village Voice, April 18.
Norman, Geraldine, “In Bed with my Art Installations,” The Independent, London, April 15, pp. 78-79.
1992 Smith, Roberta, “How It Is,” The New York Times, February 28 (review of exhibition curated by Jonathan Seliger at Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York)
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
The New York Public Library, New York, NY
Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
The Panza Collection, Lugano, Switzerland
Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden
The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC (Gift of Peter & Eileen Norton)
The Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH
Martin Z. Margulies, Miami, FL
Marc & Livia Straus, New York, NY
Jay & Dianne Dunkleman, Cincinnati, OH
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga, NY |
