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Josiah McElheny

(American, born 1966)

Josiah McElheny

Crystalline Prism Painting I, 2015

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Biography

Timeline

1966: Born in Boston, Massachusetts
1987: Awarded European Honors Program, Rhode Island School of Design, Rome, Italy; Study with Master Glassblower Ronald Wilkinson, London, England
1988: Recieved BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
1989 - 1991: Apprenticed with Master Glassblower Jan-Erik Ritzman and Sven-Ake Carlsson, Transjö, Sweden
1989: Studied at fellowship in Sweden, American-Scandinavian Foundation
1992 - 1997: Apprenticed with Master Glassblower Lino Tagliapietra; various locations: Seattle, Washington, New York, New York, Switzerland
1993: Received Betty Bowen Special Recognition Award, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
1995: Received award, 1995 Biennial Competition of The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York, New York
1996: Received Artist Grant, Art Matters, Inc., New York, New York
: Named The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts, Artist-in-Residence
1998: Awarded Bagley Wright Fund Award, Seattle, Washington
2000: Sat on The 15th Rakow Commission, The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
: Named University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Artist-in-Residence and Visiting Faculty
2001 - 2003: Was visiting critic, Yale University School of Art, Sculpture
2003: Awarded Lecture Series Featured Speaker on Donald Judd, Dia:Chelsea, New York, New York, Artists on Artists
2005: Lectured at Public Art Fund, Talks at The New School, New York
2006: Received MacArthur Fellow, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, New York, NY
2007: Received Lucelia Artist Award, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., nominee
: Lives and works in New York, New York

Exhibitions

2017: Josiah McElney Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
MAK - Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria (solo exhibition)
2016: Josiah McElney Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
The Campaign for Art: Gifts for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (solo exhibition)
2015: Josiah McElney Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Josiah McElheny: Two Walking Mirrors for the Carpenter Center, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (solo exhibition)
Josiah McElheny: Paintings, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Transcending Material, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
The Way We Live Now, Modernist Ideologies at Work, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Night Begins the Day: Rethinking Space, Time, and Beauty, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
2014: Josiah McElney Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Dusty Groove, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL (solo exhibition)
Print Text Language, Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Ithaca, NY
Post-Speculation, Act II, P! Gallery, New York, NY
A Machinery for Living, Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
Simple shapes, Centre Pompidou-Metz, FR
STAGE SET STAGE on Identity and Institutionalism, SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Montréal, CA
2013: Josiah McElney Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
Josiah McElheny: Two Clubs at The Arts Club of Chicago, In Collaboration with John Vinci, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Lumber Room, Portland, OR (solo exhibition)
Josiah McElheny: Towards a Light Club, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (solo exhibition)
Jason Simon, Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY
Come Together, Industrial City/Daedalus Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
Labour and Wait, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Junkies’ Promises, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
Slow Burn, Spoorzone 013, Tilburg, NL
2012: Josiah McElney Selected Exhibitions in 2012:
The Light Club of Vizcaya: A Women’s Picture, Vizcaya Museum, Miami, FL (solo exhibition)
Interactions of the Abstract Body, White Cube, London, UK (solo exhibition)
Josiah McElheny: Some Pictures of the Infinite, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (solo exhibition)
Fusion, [A New Century of Glass], Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK
2011: Josiah McElney Selected Exhibitions in 2011:
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge, Other: Josiah McElheny’s Island Universe, Harvard Arts Museum, Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, MA (solo exhibition)
The Past Was A Mirage I’d Left Far Behind, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (solo exhibition)
Tate Modern Live: Push and Pull, a two-day performance event, Tate Modern, London, UK (solo exhibition)
if you lived here, you’d be home by now,in conjunction with Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977, Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Two Fold, The Suburban/The Poor Farm, Oak Park, IL
2010: Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum Rotunda, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY February 19–May 16, 2010
: Island Universe, Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (solo)
: Proposals for a Chromatic Modernism, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, New York (solo)
: Sense and Sentiment. Mistakes are closely followed by Effects, curated by Eva Maria Stadler and Sabeth Buchmann, Augarten Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
: Universal Code, curated by Gregory Burke, The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario
2009: Allan Kaprow YARD, Hauser & Wirth, New York, New York
: Innovations in the third dimension: Sculpture of our time, curated by Nancy Hall-Duncan, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut
: Mildred's Lane, curated by J. Morgan Puett and Mark Dion, Alexander Gray Gallery, New York, NY
: Sensory Overload: Light, Motion, Sound and the Optical in Art Since 1945, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
: Beyond Measure: Conversations Across Art and Science, Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
: Spring Wound, Orchard, New York, New York
: Multi-Part Art, Contemporary Works from the Collection, Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
: The Last Scattering Surface, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (solo)
: Das Lichtklub von Batavia/The Light Club of Batavia, Institut im Glaspavillon, Berlin, Germany (solo)
: Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (solo)
2008: Island Universe, White Cube, London, United Kingdom (catalogue) (solo)
: Objects of Value, curated by Rene Morales, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
2007: The Alpine Cathedral and The City Crown, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (solo)
: Cosmology, Design and Landscape, Part Two, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (solo)
: Projects 84: Josiah McElheny, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York (solo)
2006: “Modernity 1929-1965”, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, New York (solo)
: Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (solo)
: “Dynasty”, Gallery MC, New York, New York
: “Super Vision”, Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
: Landscape Models for Total Reflective Abstraction, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma (solo)
2005: “Part Object Part Sculpture”, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Oct 30 – Feb 26, 2006
: “Spectrum”, Galerie Lelong, New York, December 9 – January 28, 2006
: “The Cobweb”, Centro Galego de Arte Conemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
: “Printemps de Septembre á Toulouse: In Extremis, Les Abbatoirs, Toulouse, France
2004: “Total Reflective Abstraction,” Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (solo)
2003: “Antipodes: Josiah McElheny,” White Cube, London, Great Britain (solo)
: “Theories About Reflection,” Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, New York (solo)
: “Warped Space”, CCA Watts Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California
: “Borges Exhibition”, Volume Gallery, New York, New York
: “Once Upon a Time: Fiction and Fantasy in Contemporary Art, Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York State Museum, Albany, New York
2002: “Family”, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
: “Keep in touch,” Brent Sikkema, New York, New York
: Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (solo)
: “Body Space,” The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
: “Musings: Contemporizing Tradition,” Gallery 312, Chicago, Illinois
2001: Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas (solo)
: “The Metal Party,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California (solo)
: “Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990’s”, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California (Traveled to Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado; Hood Museum, Dartmouth University, Hanover, New Hampshire; and Dayton Art Institute, Dayton Ohio)
2000: Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
: "Exhibition Room: Francis Cape, Josiah McElheny, and Yinka Shonibare," Real Art Ways, Hartford Connecticut
: “Christian Dior, Jorges Luis Borges, Adolf Loos,” Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (solo)
: Brent Sikkema, New York, New York (solo)
: “Patentia,” Nordic Institute of Contemporary Art, Stockholm, Sweden
1999: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts (solo)
: The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (solo)
1998: “At Home in the Museum,” The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
: “Personal Touch,” Art in General, New York, New York
1997: “Paul Bloodgood, Paula Hayes, Josiah McElheny, Sandra Vallejos,” AC Project Room, NYC
: “Non-Decorative Beautiful Objects,” AC Project Room, New York, New York (solo)
1996: “Three Alter Egos,” Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, Washington (solo)
: Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts (solo)
: Labor of Love,” The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
: “Drawings from the Mab Library,” AC Project Room, New York, New York
1995: “VER-RÜCKT,” Kulturstiftung Schloss Agathenburg, Agathenburg, Germany
: Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, Washington (solo)
: Installation with Ancient Roman Glass, Ancient Mediterranean and Egypt Gallery, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington (solo)
: First Fundraising Exhibition, American Fine Arts Company, New York
1994: “Authentic History,” Robert Lehman Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (solo)
: "Wunderkammer," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
1993: “originals, fakes, reproductions,” William Traver Gallery, Seattle, Washington (solo)
1990: Arnescruv, Sweden, permanent installation of the "Jägarens Glasmuseet" (The Hunter's Glass Museum) (solo)

Public Collections

: Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
: Deutsche Bank ArtWorks, Frankfurt, Germany
: Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI
: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
: Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
: Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
: Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
: Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago di Compostela, Spain
: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
: Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
: Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
: Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY
: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
: Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, MI
: Marieluise Hessel Foundation, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
: Tate Modern, London, UK
: Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
: Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

Literature

: Avgikos, Jan. "Josiah McElheny: The Art of Authentic Forgery,” GLASS 54 (Winter 1993), pp. 22-29.
: Smith, Roberta. “Multiple Realities Clash in a World of Shimmering Reflections,” The New York Times (April 11, 2003), p. E32.
: Schleifer, Kristen Brooke. “Josiah McElheny,” Artnews, (February 2001), p. 161.
: Saltz, Jerry. “Josiah McElheny, ‘Non-Decorative Beautiful Objects’,” Time Out, Issue110 (October 30 - November 6, 1997).
: Johnson, Ken. "Art in Review: Josiah McElheny." The New York Times (March 17, 2000), p. B35.
: Israel, Nico. “Josiah McElheny: AC Project Room,” ArtForum (March 1998), pp. 100 – 101.
: Hixson, Kathryn. “Glass, Apprenticeship and Josiah McElheny,” ,New Art Examiner (February 2001), p. 72.
: “Josiah McElheny’s Glasswork Dazzles at Donald Young Gallery,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer (January 31, 1997), What’s Happening, p. 15.
: McElheny, Josiah, “Invisible Hand,” Artforum. (Summer 2004), pg. 209.
: McElheny, Josiah. “Proposal for Total Reflective Abstraction,” Cabinet, Issue 14, (August 2004), pp. 98-100.
: Mcelheny, Josiah. “Useful Noguchi.” Artforum, November 2004, pp 176-179
: McElheny, Josiah, “A Short History of the Glass Mirror”, Cabinet, Issue 14, (August 2004), pp. 56-57
: McElheny, Josiah. Rothkopf, Scott and Josiah McElheny. “1000 Words.” Artforum, Nov. 2005 pp. 236-237
: McElheny, Josiah. “McElheny, Josiah. Interview with Arturo Herrera. Bomb 93 Fall 2005 pp 68-75
: Avgikos, Jan. "Josiah McElheny: The Art of Authentic Forgery,” GLASS 54 (Winter 1993), pp. 22-29.
: Glowen, Ron. “Josiah McElheny at Donald Young Gallery,” Artweek Vol. 28, No. 2 (February 1997), p. 28.
: Fredericksen, Eric. “The Glass Artist,” The Stranger Vol. 6, No. 14 (December 26, 1996 - January 1, 1997), p. 19.
: Brunetti, John. “Josiah McElheny,” New Art Examiner (February 2001), pp. 47-48.
: The New Yorker. (February 20 & 27, 1995), Talk of the Town, review, "Dan Peterman/Josiah McElheny," p. 44.
: “Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century”, New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2005. pp. 86-97 (Accompanied by a DVD of Art 21: Season 3, produced by PBS Home Video)

Josiah McElheny

(American, born 1966)

Josiah McElheny

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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