Keith Mayerson (American, born )

Keith Mayerson (American, b. 1966) is a Contemporary painter, known for his work depicting historical figures, family snapshots, urban landscapes, and more. Frequently exhibiting his paintings in salon-style installations, Mayerson creates broader narratives out of the sum of his work, citing comic books as an inspiration and influence. Born in Cincinnati, OH, he attended Brown University and received his BA in 1988, and his MFA from the University of California Irvine in 1993.

Mayerson has been exhibiting his work since 1993, and today is in the permanent collection of many major institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC, among others. He has exhibited with Malborough Chelsea in New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York, Kiki Gallery in San Francisco, David Shelton Gallery in Houston, and Derek Eller Gallery in New York, as well as numerous others. He was recently included in the 2014 Whitney Biennale, installing a large body of work made over 20 years titled My American Dream, as well the new Whitney building’s inaugural exhibition, America Is Hard to See. Mayerson currently lives and works in New York.

Timeline

1966
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio
1984–1985
Brown University (Semiotics and Studio Art), BFA
1991–1993
University of California, Irvine, MFA
1995
Adjunct Professor, University of California, Irvine (Advanced Painting)
1998–1999
Adjunct Professor, New York University (BFA, MA)
1999
“Four Painters Program,” Museum School, Boston
1999–2000
Adjunct Professor, University of California, Irvine
2007
Curated NeoIntegrity, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Curated NeoIntegrity: Comics Edition, Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, New York, NY
2011
Yale MFA Painting Department Core Critic
2011
Curated 8 Americans, (Hilary Berseth, Joe Bradley, Jacob Kassay, Ann Craven, Francesca DiMattio, Wade Guyton, Keith Mayerson, Dana Schutz), September 2011, Alain Noirhomme Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Lives and works in New York, NY
2000–Now
Adjunct Professor, New York University (BFA, MA)
2000–Now
School of Visual Arts (full time faculty since 2000, Cartooning Coordinator since 2005)
2007–Now
Board of Trustees, Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art, NY
2008–Now
Adjunct Professor, Brooklyn College (MFA, MA, and Undergraduate)

Exhibitions

2015
America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2015
EAGLES II, Galeria Marlborough, Madrid, Spain
2015
My American Dream, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY (solo)
2015
Iconscapes, Freddy Gallery, Baltimore, MD (solo)
2014
My American Dream: Frontiersman, David Shelton Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)
2014
My American Dream (Prologue), Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2014
The Great Figure, Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Keith Mayerson and Peter Saul, Robert Blumenthal Gallery, New York, NY
2014
Don’t Look Now, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Jesse Greenberg and MacGrefor
2014
Inaugural Exhibition, Sarah Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Parallel Myths, David Shelton Gallery, Houston TX
2014
The One’s Optimistic,: New Britain Museum of Art, New Britain, CT, curated by Cary Smith
2014
My American Dream, Whitney Biennial 2014 (Stuart Comer Curated Corner), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2013
Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY
2013
David Shelton, Gallery at the Texas Contemporary, Houston TX
2013
Jew York, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY
2013
All F@*#ing Summer, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
2013
My American Dream, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2012
My American Dream, Solo Booth for Derek Eller Gallery, NADA NYC Art Fair, New York, NY (solo)
2012
The Picture of Dorian Gray, curated by Ilan Cohen with Quan Bao, Second Guest, New York, NY
2012
All I Want Is A Picture Of You, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Group Shoe, curated by Joe Bradley, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY
2012
It’s Always Summer On The Inside, curated by Dan McCarthy, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
2012
B-OUT, curated by Scott Hug, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
2012
The End, curated by Michael Buhler-Rose and John Connelly, Vogt Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Art, Life and Fashion, Shaheen Modern & Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH (solo)
2011
“Iconscapes: 1995-1999,” Knoedler Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2011
"Joni," Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, NY
2011
"Put Up or Shut Up," New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2011
8 Americans, (organized by Hilary Berseth, Joe Bradley, Jacob Kassay, Ann Craven, Francesca DiMattiop, Wade Guyton, Keith Mayerson, Dana Schutz), Alain Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium
2011
Keith Mayerson: Horror Hospital Unplugged, Dominic McGill: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2010
"Ink Plots: The Tradition of the Graphic Novel at SVA," Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2010
"The Pencil Show," Foxy Production, New York, NY
2010
"Keith Mayerson, Kent Henricksen," Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY
2010
"Wall to Wall," Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010
"The Boneyard," Kim Light/Lightbox, Los Angeles, CA
2010
“My Modern Life,” Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2010
“Good Leaders, Endangered Species,” Broadway Windows, 10th and Broadway (NYU), New York, NY (solo)
2009
"Souvenirs," The Bakery - Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
2009
"Both Sides Now: A Selection of Drawings 1992-2009," Paul Kasmin Gallery (project room), New York, NY (solo)
2009
"The Never-Ending Story: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Obsession," curated by Laura Hoptman, Royal/T, Culver City, CA
2009
"Out of Order," curated by Scott Hug, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
2009
"Naked," Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
2009
"The Tree," James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai, China
2009
"New Acquisitions," Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
2009
"Figuratively Seeing," Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2008
"Good Leaders, Endangered Species, Ships At Sea, Part II," Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2008
"Peanut Gallery," The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2008
"THINGS BEHIND THE SUN," PHIL, Los Angeles, CA
2008
"Summer Group Exhibition, " Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2008
"Friends and Family," Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
2008
"Kiki: The Proof Is In the Pudding," Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
2008
"The Guys We Would Fuck," curated by Nayland Blake, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY
2008
"History Keeps Me Awake at Night: A Geneaology of Wojnarowicz," PPOW Gallery, New York, NY
2008
"Artist as Publisher," The Center For Book Arts, New York
2008
"ambivalent figuration; people," Samson Projects, Boston, MA
2008
"a new high in getting low II", john connelly presents, New York, NY
2008
"Good Leaders, Endangered Species, Ships At Sea," Kim Light / Lightbox, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2007
"Joe Bradley, Ann Craven, Dana Frankfort, Keith Mayerson" Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY
2007
"Genesis I'm Sorry",Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Friends and Family, SHAHEEN Modern and Contemporary Art, Cleveland (solo)
2006
Kings & Queens, Derek Eller Gallery, New York (solo)
2006
Heroes, Gallery Alain Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
2006
“Likeness (Portraits from All Angles)”, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2006
“Summer Group Exhibition”, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2006
“How I Finally Accepted Fate”, curated by Jason Murison, EFA Gallery, New York, NY
2006
“This Name of This Show is Not GAY ART NOW”, curated by Jack Pierson, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
2006
“Salon”, Greene Naftali, New York, NY
2006
“Inaugural Group Exhibition”, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2005
“The Most Splendid Apocalypse”, curated by Jason Murison, PPOW Gallery, NY
2005
“This Hard, Gem-Like Flame”, curated by Joseph R. Wolin, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX
2005
“On Paper: Drawings from the 1960’s to the Present”, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005
Rebel Angels at the End of the World, QED Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2004
Hamlet 1999, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2004
“Under the Sun”, Greener Pastures Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario
2004
“Rimbaud”, curated by Max Henry, I-20, New York, NY
2004
“The Sublime is (Still) Now”, curated by Joseph R. Wolin, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY
2004
“Let the Bullshit Run a Marathon”, curated by, Nate Lowman, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY
2003
Hamlet 1999, Pt. 3, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2003
“K48,” Dietch Projects, Williamsburg, Brooklyn “Hothouse
2003
Contemporary Floras,” Gallery of Art & Science, New York, curated by Mary Jo Vath
2003
“You,” Royal Modern, New York, curated by Lisa Kirk
2003
“A New New York Scene--K48 Teenage Rebel: The Bedroom Show,” Gallerie du Jour at Agnes B., Paris
2003
FIAC art fair, Paris, curated by Scott Hug
2003
“Magazin (K48: Do Not Provoke Us),” Marres, Maastricht, Holland
2003
“Now Playing,” D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York “Drawings,” Derek Eller Gallery, New York
2003
Derek Eller Gallery, New York, “Hamlet 1999, Pt. 3” (solo)
2002
“Kool Kult,” k48, Scope Art Fair, New York
2002
“25th Anniversary Selections Exhibition,” The Drawing Center, New York
2002
“Landscape,” Derek Eller Gallery, New York
2000
The Fifth International, New York, “Illuminations” (solo)
1997
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, “Paintings and Drawings” (solo)
1995
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, “Monty’s Dream: The Sleeper in the Valley” (solo)
1994
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell!” (solo)
1993
Kiki Gallery, San Francisco, “Pinocchio the Big Fag” (solo)

Public Collections

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
English (US)

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