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Biography
- 1958
Born in Paterson, New Jersey
- 1980
Studied at The Cooper Union, BFA
Lives and works in New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions
- 2021
Ellen Berkenblit / Somaya Critchlow, Grice Bench, Los Angeles, CA
- 2020
Sistergarden, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
- 2019
Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Projects, CA
- 2018
The Clock Unlocked, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Lines Roar, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium - 2017
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
- 2016
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, CA
- 2015
New Paintings, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
- 2012
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
- 2009
Re:Construction:, curated by Abby Messitte, Poster Project at 50 Trinity, New York, NY
- 2008
Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY - 2007
Suzanne Hilberry Gallery, Detroit, MI
- 2005
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
- 2003
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
- 2000
Charim Klocker Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
TBA Gallery, Chicago, IL - 1996
Boesky & Callery, New York, NY
- 1993
Galerie Hubert Klocker, Vienna, Austria
- 1992
TBA Gallery, Chicago, IL
White Columns, New York, NY [cat.] - 1986
Semaphore East, New York, NY
- 1985
Semaphore East, New York, NY
- 1984
Semaphore East, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
- 2020
Drawing 2020, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Transitional Positions, The Galerie St. Etienne, New York, NY
Just Connect, MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
All of Them Witches, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA - 2019
Dark Laughter curated by Barry Schwabsky, Pippy Houldsworth, London, UK
Small Painting, Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago, IL
Downtown Painting Presented by Alex Katz, Peter Freeman, New York, NY
Malmö Sessions, Carl Kostyál, Malmö, Sweden
True Blue Mirror: Ellen Berkenblit and Sarah Braman, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CAThe Other Self, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece
Samaritans, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, New York, NY
- 2018
WAHLVERWANDTSCHAFTEN / ELECTIVE AFFINITIES, Sammlung Friedrichshof, Austria
Set Adrift on Memory Bliss, organized by Tessa Perutz at Pablo’s Birthday, New York, NY
Line and Verse, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2017
Line and Verse, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden
A Space For Thought, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978–1983, Museum of Modern Art, New York
In Paper We Trust, The Dot Project, London, UK
Lyric on a Battlefield, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Hope and Hazard: A Comedy of Eros, curated by Eric Fischl Hall Art Collection, Reading, VT - 2016
MCA DNA: Riot Grrrls, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Implosion 20, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
GRIND, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA
Two Years of Looking, curated by Erik Hanson, New Art Projects, London, UK
IMAGINE, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
The Westreich/Wagner Collection, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Subliminal Shifts, Tracy Williams Ltd., New York, NY - 2015
12x12x12, Black Ball Projects, Brooklyn, NY
39 Years, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, MI
The Westreich/Wagner Collection, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
Other Planes of There, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL
BODY/IMAGE, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
yin yang, 99 cent plus / HANDJOB Gallery//Store, Brooklyn, NY
Eid Ma Clack Shaw, organized by Abby Messitte, LABspace, Great Barrington, MA
Ellen Berkenblit, Lee Maida, Tracy Miller, Derek Eller, New York, NY
SELF: Portraits of Artists in their Absence, curated by Filippo Fossati, National Academy
Museum & School, New York, NY - 2014
Ellen Berkenblit, Steve DiBenedetto, Philip Hanson, Barry Le Va, Albert Oehlen, Alexander
Ross, Rebecca Shore, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY
Personal Space, Essex Flowers, New York, NY - 2013
After Hours 2: Murals on the Bowery, presented by the Art Production Fund & The New
Museum, New York, NY
American Treasures: Other Voices, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Manifesto, FIAF Gallery, New York, NY - 2011
Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years of Womens' Lithographs from Tamarind, National Museum of Women
in the Arts, Washington, DC - 2010
Contemporary Works From the Collection, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
NeoIntegrity, The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, New York, NY
Townie, Foley Gallery, New York, NY - 2009
If the Dogs are Barking, Artist Space, New York, NY
Light Motive, Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France - 2008
Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
Friends and Family, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Ultra-Concentrated Joy, Ecstatic Drawings by Contemporary Artists, New York Academy of Art,
New York, NY
Love, Love, Love, Martos Gallery, New York, NY - 2007
Graphic Content, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
- 2006
Ellen Berkenblit and Chris Caccamice, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 2005
Paint on Metal, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Aliceday, Brussels, Belgium - 2004
Affect, Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, PA
East Village, New Museum, New York, NY
Toy Box, Casas Riegner Gallery, Miami, FL
Paint on Metal, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ - 2003
Serious Play/Metaphorical Gestures, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY
Ellen Berkenblit/Ivzia Capan, Black Dragon Society, Vienna, Austria
Michael Kohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA - 2002
Officina America, Galeria D’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Into the Woods, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Landscape, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY - 2001
Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters,
New York, NY
Wonderland, Bakalar and Huntington Galleries, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
I Love NY, Benefit show, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY - 2000
Drawing 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Madison Avenue: Where Fashion Meets Art, Calypso, New York, NY - 1999
Spellbound, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Drawings, Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY
Deutsche Bank, 15th Anniversary of the Artists Fellowship Program of the New York
Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY - 1997
Drawings & Paintings, Wooster Gardens, New York, NY
- 1996
Ellen Berkenblit, Kara Hammond, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY
Group Hanging, Griffin Linton Fine Arts, Costa Mesa, CA - 1995
Berkenblit, Nares, Prince, Wool, Galleria Bonomo, Rome, Italy
- 1994
Small Wonders, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
Waterworks, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY - 1993
Yours, Wooster Gardens, New York, NY
- 1992
Group Show, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY
Good Work, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
Update 1992, White Columns, New York, NY
Shape Shifters, Amy Lipton Gallery, New York, NY
The Anti-Masculine (Overlapping but not corresponding to the Feminine), Kim Light Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA - 1986
Inaugural Exhibition, Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 1985
Chiarobscura, curated by John Duff, Art City, New York, NY
Cross Currents, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Comic Relief, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
Semaphoria, Semaphore East, New York, NY
Works on paper, Semaphore East, New York, NY
Double Vision, B-Side Gallery, New York, NY and Frank Bernaducci Gallery, New York, NY - 1984
Pop Symbolism, Center Gallery, Burknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Neo York, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
East Village Artists, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Psychology, New York Public Library, Tompkins Square Branch, New York, NY
Romance and Catastrophe, Piezo Electric Gallery, New York, NY
Small Works, Semaphore East, New York, NY
Twilight Zone, East 7th Street Gallery, New York, NY
Limbo. P.S.1, Long Island City, New York, NY
Emergence, Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, NY
Underdog, East 7th Street Gallery, New York, NY
Terminal New York, Brooklyn Army Terminal, New York, NY
Wish You’d Been Here, ABC No Rio, New York, NY
The Wild West Show, Piezo Electric Gallery, New York, NY
The Ritz, The Ritz Hotel, Washington, DC
Press
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2020Editorial Magazine -
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2020Juxtapoz -
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2019JuxtapozPractical Magic -
September 22,
2018Hyperallergic -
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2018The Brooklyn Rail -
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2018ArtforumHuman Nature
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2018artnet -
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2018Hyperallergic -
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2017New York Review of Books -
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2017Artforum.com -
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2017Mousse -
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2017Hyperallergic -
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2017New Yorker -
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2012Frieze -
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2012Art in America -
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2012T Magazine -
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2010ArtilleryNY Studio Visit: Ellen Berkenblit -
October 1,
2003Frieze
Publications
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Ellen Berkenblit
Ellen Berkenblit
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Ellen Berkenblit at Anton Kern Gallery, January 17 - February 28, 2008 and at Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, May 21 - June 28, 2008
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Lines
Ellen Berkenblit
Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Clock Unlocked
September 12 - October 20, 2018, Anton Kern Gallery, NY
Essays by Linda Yablonsky and Miciah Hussey