Born Providence RI, 1965
1993 Skowhegan School of Art, Skowhegan ME
1992 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
1989 Studio 70, Ft. Thomas KY
1986-1987 S.E.A. (Sea Education Association), Woods Hole MA
1982-1984 Oberlin College, Oberlin OH
Lives and works in New York
Solo Exhibitions
2009
South London Gallery, London/UK
2007
Tate Liverpool, ‘Coral Cities’, Liverpool/UK (travelled to Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin/IE)
2006
Hauser & Wirth, ‘Salt Eaters’, London/UK
Hauser & Wirth, ‘DeLuxe’, Zurich/CH
2005
Freud Museum (in collaboration with Hauser & Wirth London), ‘Ellen Gallagher. Ichthyosaurus’, London/UK
MoCA Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Ellen Gallagher: Murmur and DeLuxe’, Miami FL
Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘DeLuxe’, New York NY
2004
Fruitmarket Gallery, ‘Orbus’, Edinburgh/UK
Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck/AT
Gagosian Gallery (Chelsea), ‘Ellen Gallagher – eXelento’, New York NY
Henry Art Gallery, ‘Preserve/Murmur’, Seattle WA
2003
Galerie Max Hetzler, ‘Murmur’, Berlin/DE
Saint Louis Art Museum, ‘POMP-BANG’, St. Louis MO
2002
The Drawing Center, ‘Ellen Gallagher. Preserve’, New York NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Watery Ecstatic’, Sydney/AU
2001
Gagosian Gallery (Chelsea), ‘Blubber’, New York NY
ICA, ‘Watery Ecstatic’, Boston MA
Des Moines Art Center, ‘Preserve’, Des Moines IA
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, ‘Preserve’, San Francisco CA
2000
Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London/UK
1999
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston MA
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin/DE
1998
Gagosian Gallery, New York NY
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham/UK
1996
Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London/UK
Mary Boone Gallery, New York NY
1994
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston MA
1992
Akin Gallery, New York NY
Group Exhibitions
2009
The British Museum, ‘Medals of Dishonour’, London/UK
2008
Moderna Museet, ‘Eclipse. Art in a Dark Age’, Stockholm/SE
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, ‘Carte Blanche III: „Gedichte der Fakten“ – Arbeiten aus der Sammlung Arend und Brigitte Oetker’, Leipzig/DE
2007
Tate Modern, ‘Passages from History’, London/UK
Thomas Dane Gallery, ‘Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative’, London/UK
Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Collections Display’, New York NY
Museum of Modern Art, ‘Comic Abstraction’, New York NY
2006
The Drawing Room, The ‘Secret Theory of Drawing’, London/UK [travelled to: The Model Arts Gallery & Niland Gallery, Sligo/IE]
Andrew Mummery Gallery, ‘Limits’, London/UK
Zacheta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, ‘Black Alphabet – ConTEXTS of Contemporary African-American Art’, Warsaw/PL
Walker Art Center, ‘Heart of Darkness’, Minneapolis MN
Unosunove Art Contemporanea, ‘Naturalia’, Rome/IT
ICA Institut of Contemporary Arts, ‘Alien Nation’, London/UK, [travelled to: Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester/UK, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Norwich/UK]
Art Basel 37, Basel/CH
Contemporary Art Museum, ‘Contemporary Masterworks: St. Louis Collects’, St. Louis MO
Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Skin is a Language’, New York NY
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, ‘Black Panther Rank and File’, San Francisco CA
Aspen Art Museum, ‘Having New Eyes’, Aspen/CO
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, ‘The Fluidity of Time. Selections from the MCA Collection’, Chicago IL
Marianne Boesky Gallery, ‘Selections from the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies. Columbia University’, New York NY
Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, ‘Infinite Painting. Contemporary Painting and Global Realism’, Codroipo (Udine)/IT
Marianne Boesky Gallery, ‘Selections. Leroy Neiman Center’, New York NY
MCA, ‘See into liquid’, Denver CO
2005
Gagosian Gallery, ‘Works on Paper’, Los Angeles CA
Vancouver Artgallery, ‘Classified Materials. Accumulations, Archives, Artists’, Vancouver/CA
Richard E. Peeler Art Center / DePauw University, ‘Figures of thinking. Convergences in Contemporary Cultures’, Greencastle IN
Galerie Max Hetzler, ‘Works on Paper’, Berlin/DE
Arizona State University Art Museum, ’90-Day Loans. From The Broad Art Foundation and the Ovitz Family Collection’, Tempe AZ
Andrea Rosen Gallery, ‘Looking at Words’, New York NY
2004
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, ‘Non Taccare la Donna Bianca’, Turin/IT
Haunch of Venison, ‘Animals’, London/UK
SITE Santa Fe’s Fifth International Biennial, ‘Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque’, (cur. Robert Storr), Santa Fe NM
MoMA, ‘Here is elswhere’, cur. Monta Hatoum, Queens, New York NY
Barbara Gross Galerie, ‘Silvia Bächli, Ellen Gallagher, Jana Sterbak’, Munich/DE
James Cohan Gallery, ‘The Came Show’, New York NY
Boise Art Museum, ‘Keys to the Koop. Humor and Satire in Contemporary Printmaking’, Boise ID
2003
MoMA, ‘Stranger in the Village’, New York NY
The Studio Museum in Harlem, ‘Black Belt’, New York NY
La Biennale die Venezia, cur. Francesco Bonami, Venice/IT
Borusan Culture and Art Center, ‘Copy it, steal it, share it’, Istambul/TR
2002
Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, ‘Cartoon Noir: Contemporary Investigations’, Austin TX
DeCordova Museum, ‘Painting in Boston. 1950-2000’, Lincoln MA
Van de Weghe Fine Art, ‘Accrochage II. Paintings’ New York NY
2001
Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, ‘From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg, Building the Collection’, Austin TX
Sammlung Goetz, ‘The Mystery of Painting’, Munich/DE
Barbican Centre, ‘The Americans’, London/UK
2000
American Academy of Arts and Letters, ‘American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture’, New York NY
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in collaboration with MOMA, ‘Greater New York: New Art in New York Now’, New York NY
The Kerlin Gallery, ‘KIN’, Dublin/IRL
The Contemporary, ‘Making Sense: Ellen Gallagher, Christian Marclay, Liliana Porter’, Baltimore MD
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, ‘New Acquisitions’, New York NY
Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University, ‘American Artists’, Cambridge MA
The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, ‘Visual Memoirs: Selected Paintings and Drawings’, Waltham MA
1999
Institute of Contemporary Art, ‘Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990-1999’, Boston MA
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, ‘(Corps) Social’, Paris/FR
Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, ‘Negotiating Small Truths’, Austin TX
James Cohan Gallery, New York NY
1998
Museo de la Ciudad de México, ‘Cinco continentes y una ciudad’, Mexico City/MX
MOMA, ‘Piecing Together the Puzzle. Recent Acquisitions’, New York NY
De Beyerd Center for Contemporary Art, ‘Postcards from Black America’, Breda/NL
1997
Mario Diacono Gallery, ‘The Body of Painting’, Boston MA
Basilico Fine Arts and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, ‘Project Painting’, New York NY
Irish Museum of Modern Art, ‘Projects’, Dublin/IE
Randolph Street Gallery, ‘T-Race’, Chicago IL
1996
National Gallery, Alexandros Soutzos Museum, ‘Art at the End of the 20th Century. Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art’, Athens/GR [travelled to: Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona/ES; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn/D; Castello di Rivoli, Turin/IT]
Institute of Contemporary Art, ‘Inside the Visible’, Boston MA [travelled to Whitechapel Art Gallery, London/UK]
1995
Forum for Contemporary Art, ‘Altered States’, St. Louis MO
Museum of Fine Arts, ‘Degrees of Abstraction’, Boston MA
Whitney Museum of American Art, ’1995 Biennial Exhibition’, New York NY
1994
Mario Diacono Gallery, ‘Airborne/Earthbound’, Boston MA
Institute of Contemporary Art, ‘In Context’, Boston MA
1993
Rose Art Museum/ Brandeis University, ‘African American Perspectives’, Waltham MA
Artists Place, ‘Artists Select’, New York NY
Museum of Fine Arts, ‘Traveling Scholars’ Exhibit’, Boston MA
1992
Akin Gallery, ‘Autopia’, Boston MA
Clark Gallery, ‘Faces’, Lincoln MA
Akin Gallery, ‘Salon’, Boston MA
Akin Gallery, ‘Symphony of Prosperity’, Boston MA
Boston Public Library, ‘Word and Image’, Boston MA
Awards and Grants
2000
American Academy Award in Art
1997
Joan Mitchell Fellowship
1996
MacDowell Colony NH
1995
Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship
1993
Traveling Scholars’ Award, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
Ann Gund Scholarship, Skowhegan School of Art, Skowhegan ME
