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SOLO SHOWS

2023 PLANT 486 Gallery, Second Story Brooklyn, NY
2018 RYAN/LEE Gallery, Flowerball - Highline window, NYC
2017 La Luz de Jesus Teachers from Memory, LA
2016 RYAN/LEE Gallery, (project space) BIG HOSPITAL, NYC
2013 RYAN/LEE Gallery, Greasy Sinker, NYC
2013 Seven Arts Gallery, Whiplash, Ridgefield, CT
2011 G Gallery, CRASH, Houston, TX
2010 Adam Baumgold Gallery, Ternkey Towers, NYC
2008 Adam Baumgold Gallery, Alphaville, NYC
2007 g-module, Heavy Water, Paris, France
2004 Adam Baumgold Gallery, One Story, NYC
2003 Jessica Murray Projects, Moron, Brooklyn, NY
2003 DiverseWorks, Lubricious, Houston, TX
2002 Adam Baumgold Gallery, Tenant, NYC
2001 Jessica Murray Projects, Kipple, Brooklyn, NY
1999 Howard House, Satellite Notation, Seattle, WA

GROUP SHOWS

2025 Melted City 5, Blanc Gallery, Manila, Philippines
2024 ARTIST BOOK MONTH II: THE WORLD IS A SCANDAL, BravinLee programs New York, NY
2024 Water, PLANT 486 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Variety Pack, PLANT 486 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2023 COLOR, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Aquachrome, MANIFEST Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
2022 Schuhe, Van der Grinten Galerie, Köln, Germany
2020 Works on Paper, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, NJ
2018 2K18 Endless Biennial, EFA Project Space, NYC
2018 Six Degrees of Separation: Prints from KU and Beyond, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
2018 Wrap Around at Lee Shapiro, New York, NY
2018 Art Now: Drawing, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
2018 HEAD, The LIC Arts Open Gallery Long Island City, NYC
2018 Suggestivism : Resonance, Spoke Art, New York, NY
2017 Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Pawtucket, RI
2017 Drinkin,' Smokin,' and West Coastin', Think Tank Gallery and Vans Present, Los Angeles
2017 Duality, Glimpses of the Other Side, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
2017 Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Wide Open 8, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Artworks Advisory, Paper Trail, New York, NY
2017 Kayrock Studio, Mackin Projects and SITE 57, New York, NY
2016-17 Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Games: from Marbles to Minecraft, Dowell, MD
2016 Creativebloch Gallery, ECLECTRICITY, Brooklyn, NY
2016 RedLine, Drawing Never Dies, Denver, CO
2016 Meltdown Comics, NOMO Fomo, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Barrett Art Center, Fun House: Art of the Surreal, Fantastic and Bizarre, Poughkeepsie, NY
2016 BWAC Gallery, COLOR, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Trestle Gallery, Small Works, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, 30 Yrs. of the Screaming Hand, Santa Cruz, CA
2016 Assymetrick Arts, Hole History, Rockland, ME
2016 Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Small Works, New York, NY
2016 Spoke Art, Suggestivism: Resonance, San Francisco, CA
2015 Love Gallery Denver, Lightning Blend, Denver, CO
2015 Flower Pepper Gallery, 40 x 400, Pasadena, CA
2014 Adam Baumgold Gallery, 1st 20 Years, New York, NY
2014 Think Tank Art Gallery, CHILLED AIR, Los Angeles, CA
2014 The Drawing Center, The Intuitionist, New York, NY
2014 Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Biological Canvas, Fort Wayne, IN
2013 Lu Magnus Gallery, Thanks, New York, NY
2013 Western Exhibitions, Bound and/or Stapled (or not), Chicago, IL
2013 Family Books, Beck Song Reader, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Adam Baumgold Gallery, Locations, New York, NY
2012 FFDG, Winter Group Show, San Francisco CA
2012 Adam Baumgold Gallery, FICTION/NON-FICTION, New York, NY
2012 Boston Athenaeum, Artists Books, Books by Artists, Boston, MA
2011 Field Projects, The Living Room, New York, NY
2011 Electric Works, McSweeney's McMullens, San Francisco, CA
2011 Giant Robot 2, Post It Show 7, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Pavel Zoubok Gallery, Sweets, New York, NY
2011 Mewo Kunsthalle, Das Alphabet von A bis Z, Memmingen, Germany
2011 New York Academy of Art, The Peterson Collection, New York, NY
2010 Hewitt Gallery of Art, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY
2010 Bauhaus University, Bauhaus Commuters, Weimar, Germany
2010 Susan Hensel Gallery, A READER'S ART, Minneapolis, M
2009 Adam Baumgold Gallery, Story Lines, New York, NY
2009 Porter Butts Gallery, U of Wisc., Madison, Summer Show, Madison, WI
2009 Giant Robot, BEASTS!, San Francisco, CA
2008 Caren Golden Fine Art, The Brand New Deal, New York, NY
2008 Printed Matter, Bring The Noise, WFMU, New York, NY
2008 New York Academy of Art, Ultra-Concentrated Joy, New York, NY
2008 Aldrich Museum, Aldrich Undercover, Ridgefield, CT
2008 Adam Baumgold Gallery, Roadworks, New York, NY
2008 DFN Gallery, Works on Paper, New York, NY
2008 D!verseWorks, Flicker Fusion, Houston, TX
2008 Adam Baumgold Gallery, ONLINE, New York, NY
2008 Adam Baumgold Gallery, Drawing on the Edge, New York, NY
2007 Chelsea Art Museum, THE FOOD SHOW, The Hungry Eye, New York, NY
2007 Dennis Morgan Gallery, I'd rather Be Drawing, Kansas City, M
2007 g-module Gallery, Drawing III (Selected), Paris, France
2006 Harmony Gallery, Survival of the Fittest, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Adam Baumgold Gallery, Fine Line, New York, NY
2006 Ark. Art Center, 10th National Drawing Invitational, Little Rock, AR
2005 Adam Baumgold Gallery, Words in Pictures, New York, NY
2005 The Aldrich Museum, Erotic Drawings, Ridgefield, CT (also Houston & Portalnd, OR.)
2005 Eyewash@Parker's Box, New American Story Art, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Univ. of Albany Art Museum, First Happiness, group show, Albany, NY
2004 Mixture Contemporary Art, Three person show, Houston, TX
2004 DFN Gallery, Summer Watercolor, New York, NY
2004 Museum of Arts & Design, NYC & Milwaukee Art Museum, Corporal Identity - Body Language, NYC/Milwaukee
2004 The New Museum, Altoids Collection 2003, NYC + U.S. tour
2003 Adam Baumgold Gallery, WordWorks, New York, NY
2003 Mixture Gallery, Sweet Tooth, Houston, TX
2003 P.S.1 & Kunst Werke Berlin, Animations: Arcade/Folly, NYC/Berlin, German
2003 Progressive Insurance, Curator's Choice, Cleveland, OH
2002 Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
2002 The Drawing Center, Selections Anniversary, New York, NY
2002 Jessica Murray Projects, Grotto, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Center for Book Arts, Rare Books of the Future, New York, NY
2002 Adam Baumgold Gallery, Double Vision, New York, NY
2001 Bucheon Gallery, Works on Paper, San Francisco, CA
2001 P.S.1, Animations, Long Island City, NY
2001 The Vacancy Gallery, Made in Transit, Bronx, NY
2001 The Bronx Museum, Artists in the Marketplace, Bronx, NY
2001 The Drawing Center, Winter Selections 2001, New York, NY
2001 Nicole Klagsbrun, Books by Artists, New York, NY
2000 P.S.1, Greater New York, Long Island City, NY
2000 RARE Gallery, Blurring the Line, New York, NY
2000 Long Island University, This is Bookland, Brooklyn, NY
2000 Brooklyn Museum of Art, Artists Books, Brooklyn, NY
2000 The New York Public Library, Sight/Insight, New York, NY
1999 Henry Art Museum, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Seattle, WA
1998 Alysia Druckler Gallery, Bound and Unbound Vol. II, Portland, OR

CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGNS

2017 - ALPHABET CITY
2016 - BIG SCHOOL
2015 - 82 Donuts
2015 - BIG HOSPITAL
2014 - BIG CANAL

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Hyperallergic, A View from the Easel, Aug. 29, 2024
Artnet, Dozens of Precious Artists’ Books Come Together in a Blowout Summer Show, June 14, 2024
Art F City, Good Bad Signs, June 22, 2017
CURBED, New York sign art that’s so bad it’s good gets proper Twitter tribute, June 22, 2017
The Washington Post, Pepe the Frog’s creator wants him to be a symbol of chillaxing again, Oct. 26, 2016
BoingBoing, Oct. 2016
LA Weekly, NOMO FOMO, Sept. 2016
Denver Post, Drawing Never Dies review, July 2016
Juxtapoz, Suggestivism: Resonance story, Sept. 2016
Vice Media, 48+ Artists Celebrate the Screaming Hand's Big 30, May 2016
Food+City Magazine, March 2016
medium.com, The Classroom is Dead, Jan. 2016
ArtNet, 8 of the Most Heated Art World Spats in Recent Memory, Summer 2015
HI FRUCTOSE Magazine 2015
Huffington Post, When Is Artist-on-Artist Theft Okay? 2015
Artnet, Jamian Juliano-Villani and Scott Teplin Duke it Out, 2015
Gestalten, Imagine Architecture, 2014  
Carrier Pigeon, Fall 2014
FORTWAYNE READER, April 7, 2014
The Journal Gazette, April 5, 2014
The Drawer Magazine, Vol. 6 - March 2014
The New York Times - July 21, 2013
Art in America - March 2013
Architectural Inventions - Laurence King Publishing - 2012
The Art of McSweeney's - Chronicle Books 2010
NPR Weekend Edition (click to listen) - June 12, 2010
Artforum Critic's Pick - May 2010
Salon.com Book Review feature - April 29, 2010
The New York Times Sunday Book Review - April 11, 2010
School Library Journal - March 22, 2010
Kuzov Magazine (КУЗОВ - Russian magazine) profile - March 2010
BangArt Magazine (Italy) profile - Feb-March 2010
McSweeneyʼs The Clock without a Face – May 2010
McSweeneyʼs 31 Cover – Summer 2009
McSweeneyʼs 27 (Cover and drawings inside) – Summer 2008
Le Nouvel Observateur (Paris magazine) - Feb. 2007
Art Review (London magazine), Feb. 2007
Art Actuel (Paris magazine), May 2006
ARTFORUM, March 2005
The New York Times, July 29, 2005
ARTnews magazine, Jan. 2005
The New Yorker, Sept. 20, 2004
The New York Sun, Sept. 20, 2004
The Houston Press, May 27, 2004
The Structure of the Visual Book by Keith Smith, 2003
The New York Times, "Art Guide," April 25 & May 2 2003
The New York Times, "Art in Review," July 12, 2002
The New York Times "Art in Review," Feb. 2, 2001
The New York Times "Art in Review," Feb. 9, 2001
Creative Review Magazine (London), March 2001
The New York Times "Art in Review," Feb. 25, 2000
P.S.1's "Greater New York" catalog 2000
Drawing Center's "Drawing Papers: Winter Selections 2001"
Art Directors Club of N.Y. "Young Guns 3" catalog 2001
Bronx Museum of the Arts "A.I.M" Spring catalog 2001
The New York Times Book Review 01-10-1999
The New York Times Op/Ed drawing: 03-19-2004, 06-27-2001, 02-18-2001, 02-01-1999, 12-09-1998, 10-14-1998

GRANTS AND AWARDS

The Trainor Arts Residency, Surrey, ME, 2020
NYFA Fellowship, 2017
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 2009-2018
Altoids Collection purchase award, 2003
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program, 2000 - 2018
Bronx Museum, A.I.M. program, 2000-2001
Nordstrom Grant, Seattle, WA 1997
University of Washington full year MFA scholarship, 1996

GUEST LECTURER

Bronx Museum of Art, Artist in the Marketplace program
University of Virginia
New Hampshire Institute of Art
University of Wisconsin, Madison
University of Washington, Seattle
Southern Methodist University, Dallas
University of Kansas
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
Kansas City Art Institute
Hallmark Corp., Kansas City
SVA, New York
Milwaukee Art Museum
P.S. 130, Brooklyn
P.S. 154, Brooklyn

TEACHING

University of Washington, Seattle: drawing, bookbinding, printmaking
Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle: bookbinding
SVA, New York City: watercolor
Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, New York City: bookbinding

2nd place in Fire Safety postser contest, Mequon, Wisconsin, 1980