born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Lives and works in Los Angeles, US
EDUCATION
1991
MFA California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, US
1987
BFA University of California at San Diego, US
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Afterimages, Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Each of these Paintings Can Be Named After a Famous Painter, Gallery Platform Los Angeles, online
2020
Paintings are People Too, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2018
Festsaal, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Belief in Giants, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, US
Monique van Genderen, Ameringer, McEnery, Yohe , New York, US
2017
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2016
Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York, NY
2015
Monique Van Genderen, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, US
2014
Monique Van Genderen, Ameringer, McEnery, Yohe , New York, US
Monique van Genderen, Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo, NO
Monique van Genderen, Eight Modern Gallery, Santa Fe, US
2013
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, US
2012
D’Amelio Gallery, New York, US
Effearte, Milan, IT
2011
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, US
Monique van Genderen, Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn, DE
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, DE
2009
The Library: Start This Story Over, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, US
Personal Exhibition, The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, US
2008
EffeArte, Milan, IT
Dirty Water, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, DE
2007
New Works, The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, US
Voges and Partner, Frankfurt, DE
Ruzicska, with Kate Costello, Salzburg, AT
2006
The Sensory Foundations of Mental Life, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, US
Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brüssel, BE
Hammer Projects, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens, GR
2005
Within the same breath…, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, US
The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, US
Howard House, Seattle, US
Le Consortium, with Kirsten Everberg, Dijon, FR
2004
Locker Plant, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, US
The Happy Lion, Los Angeles CA
2003
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, US
2002
Sandroni Rey Gallery, Venice, US
2001
Venetia Kapernikas Gallery, New York, US
2000
Sandroni Rey Gallery, Venice, US
1999
Deep River Gallery, with Margo Victor, Los Angeles, US
1996
Standard of Living, Amanda M. Obering Gallery, Los Angeles, US
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
20 Years, Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2019
The light touch, Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
To Start A Painting, Kunstmuseum Rosa Luxembourg Platz, Berlin, Germany
2018
If I go there, I won‘t stay there, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA
U.S. Embassy, Paramaribo, SR
Being Here With You/Estando aquí contigo: 42 Artists from San Diego and Tijuana, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, USA
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, USA
Belief in Giants, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, USA
You Are Here, San Diego Central Library, San Diego, USA
2017
Rita and Herbert Batliner Collection, Albertina Museum, Vienna, AT
2016
Flashback and Guests, Stalke Galleri, Kirke Saaby, DK
2015
L´oiseau Présente - Be Abstract, Galerie am Markt, Schwäbisch Hall, DE
Group Exhibiion, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, BE
2014
Capture the Rapture, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2013
High Low, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, US
Anders Kjellesvik / Monique van Genderen / J. Ariadhitya Pramuhendra, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, DE
Garden Party, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
2013
Painting in Place, (Presented by LAND - Los Angeles Nomadic Divsion), Farmers and Merchants Bank, Los Angeles, US
2012
Burning Colours, Hopstreet, Brussels, BE
The Venice Beach Biennial, Venice, US
The Planter Show, forYourArt, Los Angeles, US
Paper does not blush, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, DE
2011
Los Angeles Museum of Ceramics, curated with Roger Herman, ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Dorothea, Ancient & Modern, London, UK
Works of Paper, ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2010
Branstrup Gallery, Oslo, NO
Ambigu – Contemporary Painting Between Abstraction and Narration, curated by Konrad Bitterli, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, CH
Höhenkoller, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, US
Abstractive Measures, Arena Gallery Santa Monica, US
2008
Living Flowers Ikebana and Contemporary Art, curated by Karen Higa, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, US
Punto Linea Superficie (Dot Line Surface), EffeArte, Milan, IT
2007
Back to Nature, Ruzicska, Salzburg, AT
Twentieth Century Fox Studios, (organized by The UCLA/Hammer Museum), Los Angeles, US
Fleeing the Scene, The Happy Lion Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Small but Beautiful, Gasser & Grunert, Inc., New York, US
Sparkle Then Fade, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, US
Modern Lovers, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, US
Group Show, Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens, GR
2006
Art Unlimited, curated by Samuel Keller, Art Basel 37, Basel, CH
III Edició del Certamen Internacional de Pintura de Castelló, Museu de Belles Arts de Castelló, Castelló de la Plana, ES
Masters & Johnson, Galeria Charro Negro, Guadalajara, MX
Off the Shelf: New Forms in Contemporary Artists’ Books, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, US
Los Angeles Art Now, Galleri SE, Bergen, SE
Rundumschlag, Ruzicska, Salzburg, AT
Hotel California, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, US
2005
Wall Paintings, curated by Francis Colpitt, University of San Antonio, US (cat)
Strictly Painting III. The Right Side of Painting, Voges and Partner Galerie, Frankfurt, DE
Sight Lines, Galerie Michael Janssen, Köln, DE
Closer to Home, The 48th Corcoran Biennial, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., US (cat)
2004
Full House, curated by David Pagel, Clairmont Graduate University Art Gallery, Clairmont, US
The sixth annual altoids curiously strong collection, The New Museum, New York, US
Consolidated Works, Seattle, US; Arthouse, Austin, US, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, US
So few opportunities, so many mistakes, curated by Josh Smith, Champion Fine Art, Brooklyn, US
Wake-up and apologize, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2003
Small Works, Margo Victor Presents, Hollywood, US
The greatest album covers that never were, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, US
The Art of Pain, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, US
Fragments, PSprojectspace, Amsterdam, NL
2002
Art of Paper (cat.), APER, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, US
Raid Projects, Los Angeles CA
Fake Paintings. Kbond, Los Angeles, US
2001
Lineformcolor, Howard House, Seattle,US
Big Plastic, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, US
Cross-Cuts: Seven Los Angeles Artists, Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College, Los Angeles, US
Snapshot: New Art from Los Angeles (cat.), Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, US
De Beaufort, Exposito, van Genderen, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, US
Painting beyond Painting, Christine Rose Gallery, New York, US
1997
Trimmings and Scraps, Gavlak Projects, Silverlake, US
Trans Inter Post: Hybrid Spaces, curated by Pamela Bailey, UC Irvine, Irvine, US
Loves Labor‘s Lost, curated by Sue Spaid, collaboration with John Souza
1993
Private and public pleasures (cat.), curated by Lauren Lesko, Los Angeles, US
School of Beauty (cat.), Los Angeles, US
AWARDS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIP
2019
Chiaro Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin Headlands, USA
2018
Federal Courthouse Building Art Commission for the GSA, Arts and Architecture Program, Harrisburg, PA
2017
West Hollywood 1% for the Arts Public Art Commission, West Hollywood, USA
2006
The Castellón County Council III International Painting Prize, Castellón, Spain (shortlisted)
2004
Chinati Foundation Artist in Residence, Marfa, TX
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020
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2018
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2017
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PUBLIC PROJECTS
2020
„Murals of La Jolla,“ La Jolla Community Foundation, La Jolla, CA
COLLECTIONS
AIG SunAmerica Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, Peoris, IL
Eileen Harrisand Peter Norton Family Foundation, SantaMonica, CA KB Home, Los Angeles, CA
IVAM, Institut Valencia dArt Modern, Valencia, Spain
Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LosAngeles, CA
Montblanc Cutting Edge Art Collection, Hamburg, Germany Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Rita and Herbert Batliner Collection, permanent loan to the Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.
