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KEITH MAYERSON
EDUCATION
1984-88.5 Brown University (Semiotics and Studio Art), BFA
1991-93 University of California, Irvine, MFA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Art, Life and Fashion, SHAHEEN modern and contemporary art, Cleveland, OH
Keith Mayerson: Iconscapes, 1995-1999, Knoedler & Company (Project Room), New York, NY
2010 My Modern Life, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
Broadway Windows, New York University, New York, NY
2009 Souvenirs, The Bakery - Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Both Sides Now: A Selection of Drawings 1992-2009, Paul Kasmin Gallery (Project Room), New York, NY
2008 Good Leaders, Endangered Species, Ships At Sea, Part II, Derek Eller Gallery, NY
Good Leaders, Endangered Species, Ships At Sea, Kim Light / Lightbox, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Friends & Family, SHAHEEN modern and contemporary art, Cleveland, OH
2006 Kings & Queens, Derek Eller Gallery, New York
Heroes, Gallery Alain Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium
2005 Rebel Angels at the End of the World, QED Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Hamlet 1999, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Hamlet 1999, Pt. 3, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Illuminations, The Fifth International, New York, NY
1997 Paintings and Drawings, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY
1995 Monty's Dream: The Sleeper in the Valley, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
1994 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell!, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
1993 Pinocchio the Big Fag, Kiki Gallery, San Francisco, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Joni, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, NY
Put Up or Shut Up, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2010 Ink Plots: The Tradition of the Graphic Novel at SVA, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
The Pencil Show, Foxy Production, New York, NY
Keith Mayerson, Kent Henricksen, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY
Wall to Wall, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Boneyard, Kim Light/Lightbox, Los Angeles, CA
2009 The Never-Ending Story: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Obsession, Royal/T, Culver City, CA
Out of Order, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, nY
Naked, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
The Tree, James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai, China
New Acquisitions, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Figuratively Seeing, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2008 Peanut Gallery, The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY "THINGS BEHIND THE SUN," PHIL, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Group Exhibition, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
Friends and Family, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Kiki: The Proof Is In the Pudding, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
The Guys We Would Fuck, curated by Nayland Blake, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY
History Keeps Me Awake at Night: A Geneaology of Wojnarowicz, PPOW Gallery, New York, NY
Artist as Publisher, The Center For Book Arts, New York
ambivalent figuration; people, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
a new high in getting low II, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY
2007 Genesis I'm Sorry, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY
Joe Bradley, Ann Craven, Dana Frankfort, Keith Mayerson, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Likeness (Portraits from All Angles), Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Summer Group Exhibition, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
How I Finally Accepted Fate, curated by Jason Murison, EFA Gallery, New York, NY
This Name of This Show is Not GAY ART NOW, curated by Jack Pierson, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
Salon, Greene Naftali, New York, NY
Inaugural Group Exhibition, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2005 The Most Splendid Apocalypse, curated by Jason Murison, PPOW Gallery, NY
This Hard, Gem-Like Flame, curated by Joseph R. Wolin, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX
On Paper: Drawings from the 1960's to the Present, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Under the Sun, Greener Pastures Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario
Rimbaud, curated by Max Henry, I-20, New York, NY
The Sublime is (Still) Now, curated by Joseph R. Wolin, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY
Let the Bullshit Run a Marathon, curated by, Nate Lowman, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY
2003 K48, Dietch Projects, Williamsburg Brooklyn
Hothouse; Contemporary Floras, Gallery of Art & Science, New York, curated by Mary Jo Vath
You, Royal Modern, New York, curated by Lisa Kirk
A New New York Scene--K48 Teenage Rebel: The Bedroom Show, Gallerie du Jour at Agnes B., Paris
Magazin (K48: Do Not Provoke Us), Marres, Maastricht, Holland
Now Playing, D'Amelio Terras Gallery, New York
Drawings, Derek Eller Gallery, New York
2002 25th Anniversary Selections Exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York
Landscape, Derek Eller Gallery, New York
2001 Refiguring Painting, Los Angeles County Musueum
Group Exhibition, American Fine Art at P.H.A.G., New York
2000 Recent Acquisitions, Los Angeles County Museum
Fore and Aft, Acme, Los Angeles
1999 The Stroke, Exit Art, New York, curated by Ross Bleckner
Young New York Painters, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, curated by Ross Bleckner
1998 Inaugral Show, The Fifth International, New York, curated by Jennifer Bornstein and Chevis Clem
he swam down, away, Audiello Fine Art, Inc., New York, curated by Tony Payne
Painting: Now and Forever, Pat Hearn and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Codex USA: Works on Paper by American Artists, Entwistle Gallery, London
I Love New York, Edinburgh International Art Festival, Edinburgh College, Scotland
Bathroom, Thomas Healy Gallery, New York, curated by Wayne Koestenbaum
View 3, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, curated by Klaus Kertess
Francis Alys, Keith Mayerson, Franklin Preston, Hiroshi Sugito, Audiello Fine Art Inc., New York
More, XL Gallery, New York, curated by Tony Payne
1997 Paintings and Sculpture, Luhring Augustine, New York
Three Painters, Musee d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, curated by Jack Pierson
1996 The Name of the Place, Casey Caplin Gallery, New York, curated by Laurie Simmons
Young, Dumb, and Fun, University of Las Vegas, Nevada; curated by David Pagel
The Incredible Power of Cheap Sentiment, White Columns Gallery, New York, curated by Bill Arning
Annual Summer Watercolor Exhibition, P.P.O.W., New York, curated by Tom Woodruff
1995 Degenerative Art Show, The Lab, San Francisco
The Moderns, Feature Gallery, New York, curated by Tony Payne
Faggots, Rojes Foundation, University of Buenos Aires; curated by Bill Arning
Stretch Out & Wait, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
1994 Stonewall 25, White Columns, New York, ; curated by Bill Arning
Dave's Not Here Show, Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles
Red Rover, Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles
Tiny Shoes, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
Selections Spring '94, The Drawing Center, New York, NY (brochure)
Playfield, Rio Hondo College, Wittier, CA; Curated by Randy Summers
1993 Sick Joke, Kiki Gallery, San Francisco
Steve Crique, Keith Mayerson, Tyler Stallings, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
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
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010 Smith, Roberta, "Keith Mayerson: My Modern Life," The New York Times, November 12
Russeth, Andrew, "Keith Mayerson: My Modern Life," Artinfo.com/Modern Painters, November 4
"The View Master," The New York Observor.com, October 26
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Humanity," Black Book Art Review, August 17
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Saltz, Jerry, "Remembrances of Louise Bourgois's Salons," New York Magazine.com, June 3
"Neo-Integrity at MoCCA," Publisher's Weekly The Beat, March 31
2009 Sokol, Brett, "36 Hours in Cleveland," The New York Times, September 20
"Bang for your Buck," Art + Auction, July-August
Heller, Fran, "Art Museum's New East Wing is a Celebration of Firsts," Cleveland Jewish News, Friday, July 3
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2007 "Joe Bradley / Ann Craven / Dana Frankfort / Keith Mayerson", Galleries - Chelsea, The New Yorker, August 20
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2003 Cotter, Holland, "Keith Mayerson", The New York Times, December 12
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2002 Kannenberg Jr., Gene, "Read All (or Some) About It: X-Tra, Vol. 3 No. 3, Spring 2000 (review),
The Comics Journal, Issue #242, April. Pgs. 68-69
"Landscape," (review), Time Out New York, February 21, Issue no. 334
Sehorn, Jason, and Keith Mayerson, "Why I Didn't Rush the End Zone," (art project), Interview, February, pg. 40
2000 Mayerson, Keith, "Icons and Iconography in Technocratic Culture," Xtra, Los Angeles, Volume III, pp. 23-29
1998 Herbert, Martin, "Codex USA," (Review), Time Out, London, page 51 Rimanelli, David, "Painting Now and Forever," Listings,
New Yorker, June-July
Duncan, Michael, "Keith Mayerson at Jay Gorney," (Review) Art in America, June, p. 107
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Drenner, Craig, "View Three, " (Review), NY Arts Magazine, May, p. 29
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James, Merlin, "New York: Recent Painting," Burlington Magazine, London, February, pp. 65-67
Still, Torri, "Filling the Canvas," Brown Alumni Monthly, January/February, pp. 38-43
1997 Schwendener, Martha, "Keith Mayerson" (Review), Time Out, Nov. 20-27, p. 47
(Self Portrait), The New Yorker, Nov. 10, pg. 28
Arning, Bill, "Keith Mayerson," Bomb, November
"Keith Mayerson," (Interview), Dangerous Drawings, Juno Books, New York
Featured Artist, Honcho, Nov., pp.66-67
Carter, Holland, ""The Name of the Place" (Review), The New York Times, Febrary 24
Tom, Karen "Horror Hospital Unplugged," (Review), Cover, Volume 11, Number 5, pg. 59
Hainley, Bruce "Horror Hospital Unplugged" (Review), Index, May, pg. 79
Marston, Jayson, ""Horror Hospital Unplugged"" (Book Review), Drummer, August, vol. 208, pp. 49-50
"Horror Hospital Unplugged" (Review), Library Journal, April 1
"Horror Hospital Unplugged" (5-star Review), Attitude, London, March, pg. 22
"Cult Fiction" (H.H. Review), Gay Times, London, February, pg. 69
"Horror Hospital Unplugged" (Review), Bay Area Gaurdian, Literature Section, February
1996 Knight, Christopher,"Review," Los Angeles Times, April 10, Section F, Pg. 6
Pagel, David, "Keith Mayerson," Art Issues, September/October, Pg. 40
Cooper, Dennis, and Keith Mayerson, Horror Hospital Unplugged, Juno Books, NY
"PW's Best Books," Publisher's Weekly, November 4, Pg. 57
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Rimanelli, David, 'The Young and the Feckless: Keith Mayerson's comic rock novel," OUT, October, Pg. 66
"A Brilliant Chick Parody," OUT, August
1995 Greene, David A., "Review," ART & TEXT, January, page 71
Mayerson, Keith, (untitled drawings), FRAMEWORK, Volume 7, issue 3 pp. 23-26
Red Hot + Bothered: The Indie Rock Guide to Dating, Volumes 1 (pp. 11, 21) & Volume 2 (Back Cover/magazine produced by
the Red Hot Organization, included with album compilations)
Michel, Deborah, "The Himbos are Coming! The Himbos are Coming!", BUZZ, April, pg. 59
1994 Relyea, Lane, "Openings: Keith Mayerson," Artforum, April 1994, pg. 92
Helfland, Glen, "Sympathy For the Devil," San Francisco Weekly, April 6, Vol. XII, no. 6, pg. 19.
Duncan, Michael, "LA Rising," Art in America, December, page 72
Myers, Terry R., "On View: Los Angeles," New Art Examiner, December, page 36
Pagel, David, "Art Review: Convention Unites with Gay Fantasy," Los Angeles Times, October 6, Page F4
Mayerson, Keith, "Family Value Cartoons," Faultline, May, page 39-43
Saltz, Jerry, "L.A. Rising," Art & Auction, April, page 88
Atkins, Robert, "Queer For You," Village Voice, June 28, 1994
Bonnetti, David, "Gallery Watch: Give 'em that 'ol tired religion," San
Francisco Examiner, April 15, page D10
Cotter, Holland, "The Joys of Childhood Reexamined," The New York Times, Friday, March 25, page C30
1993 Bonnetti, David, "A Queer Way To Look At Pinocchio," San Francisco Examiner, Friday, November, Page E10
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Provenzano, Jim, "Pinocchio Queerified," Bay Area Reporter, vol. XXIII, November 18, 1993, section II.
1990 Snook, Raven, "Cameo's: K. Mayerson's "A Child Is Being Beaten," The Village Voice, August 7, pg. 100
