CURTIS MITCHELL
Biography
Lives and works in New York, USA
Education
1983
MFA Sculpture, Yale University School of Art, CT, USA
1981
MA Sculpture, Goddard College, VT, USA
One-Person Exhibitions
2006
PS1/MOMA Project Room, New York, NY, USA
2003
Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Esso Gallery, New York , USA
2002
Esso Gallery, New York, USA
2001
Esso Gallery, New York, USA
1999
AC Projects, New York, USA
1998
KX Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
1996
One Great Jones Gallery, New York, USA
1992
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
Galerie Marc Jancou, Zurich
1990
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
1989
Lang and O'Hara Gallery, New York, USA
1987
White Columns, White Room, New York, USA
1986
Hallwalls Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
Group Exhibitions
2008
Summer Show, Martos Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2007
Modeling the Photographic: The End(s) of Photography, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, Ohio, USA
Music to My Eyes, Esso Gallery, New York, USA
2006
The Bong Show, Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, New York, USA
Collection Selection, Esso Gallery, New York, USA
Copilandia, Seville, Spain
Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA
Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, USA
2005
Atomica, Esso Gallery, New York, USA
2003
Trip, Paolo Tonin Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Imaging the Abstract, Feigen Contemporary, New York, USA
2002
More or Less, Painting, Atrium Gallery, Storrs, CT, USA
Kismet, The Work Space, New York, USA
Support/Surface"=, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, USA
Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD, USA
2001
Gather and Tell, Mexican Cultural Institute, New York, USA
More or Less, Painting, Art Gallery at Stamford, CT, USA
2000
Walking, Bucknell Art Gallery, Lewisburg, PA.;
Walking, Univ. Galleries, Illinois State U. , USA
Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD, USA
1998
Embedded Metaphor, Zilkha Gallery, Wellesleyan Univ., Middletown, CT, USA
Pop Surrealism, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA
Destroyer-Creator, John Weber Gallery, New York, USA
1997
Embedded Metaphor, Dalhousie Univ., Halifax, Nova Scotia., Canada
1996
Try a Little Tenderness, Apex Art, New York, USA
Painting In The Expanded Field, Bennington College, VT, USA
1995
Saturday Night Fever, Thomas Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Pittura Immedia: ..., Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Pittura Immedia: ..., Mucsarnok Palace of Art, Budapest, Hungary
Now Is The Time, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
1994
Jet Lag, Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt, Germany
1993
Influx, The University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
Stoned (High Low)",Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
1992
Hair, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygen, Wl, USA
7 Rooms/7 Shows, P.S. 1 Museum, New York, USA
Mapping:…, Germans van Eck, New York, USA
1991
Tony Feher, Paula Hayes, Curtis Mitchell, A. Rosen, New York, USA
Gulliver's Travels, Sophia Ungers Galerie, Koln, Germany
Cadences: ..., The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
1990
All Quiet on The Western Front?, S.P.P.A.A. Paris, France
Detritus: …, Tilton Gallery, New York, USA
Stendhal Syndrome: The Cure Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
Stained Sheets/Holy Shroud, Krygier Landau,S. Monica, CA, USA
Pop 90, Postmasters, New York, USA
Bibliography
2006
Franklin Sirmans, "Sluttish With Content", PS1 Newspaper (July).
2005
Ombretta Agro, "Atomica", Inside, Milan, Italy.
2003
Alice Winn, "New Installations, Mattress Factory", Pulp, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Kurt Shaw, "New Installations, Mattress Factory", Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA, USA
Barry Hannegan, "New Installations, Mattress Factory", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA, USA
Vince Aletti, "Imaging The Abstract", Village Voice, NY, USA
2002
Franklin Sirmans, "Curtis Mitchell", Time Out (April 11-18)
"Prescient Then and Now", The New Yorker (July 1)
Ken Johnson, "Kismet", The New York Times (September 6
2001
Faye Hirsch, "Curtis Mitchell", Art On Paper (March-April)
2000
Townsend, Chris. "Portfolio: Curtis Mitchell", Hot Shoe International (March)
Ken Johnson, "Curtis Mitchell/Fritz Welch", The NY Times (March 26)
Ken Johnson, "Goings On About Town", Short List, The New Yorker (March 15)
1998
William Zimmer, "Inviting or Not, What Do ...", The NY Times (Oct. 4)
William Zimmer, "Show of Work...", The New York Times (March 15)
Gunnar Gerlach, "Landschaft, Logik …", Szene Hamburg (June)
1997
Horodner/Sanders, "Warhol Is...", Dazed and Confused (No. 27, p. 48)
Stuart Horodner, "Frankenstein", New Observations (Spring)
C. Harvey, Washington Square, Cover & Table of Contents, (Spring)
1995
"Now Is The Time", Flash Art (October)
1994
D. Baer Bogenschutz, "Jetlag' …", Artis (August)
Martin Pesch, "Jet Lag", Journal Frankfurt, (May)
Bogenschutz, "Erfahrung der Eile", D. Frankfurter Rundschau (March)
1993
Roberta Smith, "Examining Culture...", The NY Time (November 28)
Catherine Liu, "Pop Body", Lusitania (Volume 1, Number 4)
W. Zimmer, "Yale Celebrates Its Artists", The New York Times (June 27)
1992
Holland Cotter, "Curtis Mitchell", The New York Times (May 29)
George Melrod, "Curtis Mitchell at Andrea Rosen", Art News (Nov)
Lois Nesbitt, "Curtis Mitchell at Andrea Rosen", Artforum (September)
Roberta Smith, "The Curio Shop", The New York Times (July 3)
Catherine Liu, "Diary of the Pop Body", Flash Art (October)
Kim Levin, "Art In Brief: Curtis Mitchell", Village Voice (June 9)
Kim Levin, "Art In Brief: Pop Body", Village Voice (June 9)
Kim Levin, "Art In Brief: Mssr. B's Curio Shop", Village Voice (July 14)
1991
Brooks Adams, "Curtis Mitchell", Art in America (March)
Ruth Bass, "Curtis Mitchell", Artnews (January)
Elizabeth Hess, "No Place Like Home", Artforum (October)
Peggy Cyphers, "Curtis Mitchell", Arts February
Liz Markus, "Curtis Mitchell", Sculpture (March/April)
Mira Schor, "You Can't Leave Home Without It", Artforum (October)
Barry Schwabsky, "Mitchell/Feher/Hayes", Arts Magazine (November)
Roberta Smith, "Turning The Corner ...", The New York Times (March 9)
Roberta Smith, "Three Artists Who Favor Chaos", The New York Times (Aug. 2)
Roberta Smith, "Group Exhibition",The New York Times (September 20)
Gilda Williams, "Curtis Mitchell's Public Installation", Flash Art (May)
"Perils of Public Art", Art in America (May)
"Homeless Sculpture Attacked", The Journal of Contemp. Art (April)
Writings :
1993
"Uses of Waste", Lusitania (Volume 1, Number 4)
"Working the Park", Meaning (May)
1990
"Stasis", Meaning (November)