Frank Magnotta
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Education

2003 M.F.A., University of Illinois, IL

2003 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

1992 B.A., Hope College, MI

 

One-artist exhibitions

2009

Grand Optimist, Derek Eller Gallery, New York

2006

Frank Magnotta, Cohan and Leslie, New York

2004

Frank Magnotta, Cohan and Leslie, New York

2003

Frank Magnotta, Project Room, Cohan and Leslie, New York

2001

Frank Magnotta, White Room, White Columns, New York

Frank Magnotta, Standard Gallery, Chicago

 

Group exhibitions

2010

Beyond Words, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI

2009

Bad Graphic Design, HKJB, Brooklyn

Sports, Synchronicity, Los Angeles

2008

West, Wester, Westest , Fecal Face Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2007

American Soil, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS

Residents, Espace EDF Electra, Paris, FR

A House Is Not a Home, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY

A Drawing Show, Lisa Boyle Gallery, Chicago, IL

New New York Drawing, Richmond Center, Western Michigan University, MI

2006

Twice Drawn, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, NY

The Inside Game, Portland Art Center, Portland, OR

2005

Greater New York, P.S.1 Museum, New York, NY

2004

Possible Worlds, School of Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington

The Drawn Page, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT

2003

NextNext, Brooklyn Academy of Music (curated by Dan Cameron)

Life/Like, Oliver Kamm/5BE

Back in Black, Cohan Leslie and Browne, NY

2002

Scratch, Arena Gallery, New York, NY

The Future is Now Right, I-Space Gallery, Chicago, IL

Building Anxiety, Ten-in-One Gallery, New York, NY

Drawing Room, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, NY

2001

Serial Number, Gale Gates Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Line/Imagination, Lowe Gallery, New York, NY

2000

Red, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

Redo, Standard Gallery, Chicago, IL

Thin Line, I-Space Gallery, Chicago, IL

1999

Spaceship Earth, Art In General, New York, NY

Cross Currents, Macintosh Museum of Art, Glasgow, Scotland

ReMix, Momentum, Chicago, IL

1997

Coming Attractions, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL

Positions Available, I-Space Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

Selected Bibliography

Beautiful Decay, July 2009

Doingbird, Issue 14, 2009

Frank Magnotta, GlamCult, November 2008

The Book of Stamps, Cabinet Books, September 2008

Fugitive Tales, Mute Magazine, August 2008

A Drawing Show, TimeOut Chicago, August 16, 2007

Goings on About Town, The New Yorker, October 9, 2006

Drawing Power, Associated Press, January 25, 2006

Vitamin D, Phaidon, 2005

Uovo, Torino: The Bookmakers, 2005

Greater New York, 2005

Return to the Real?, Art in America, June-July 2005

Frank Magnotta, Tema Celeste, July 2004

Manual, March 2003

Hvedekorn, Number 2, 2002

In the Details, Chicago Reader, October 5. 2001

Serial Number, New York Times, February 16, 2001

Redo, Ten by Ten, September, 2000

Changes Aside, Soho is Still Very Much Soho, New York Times, February 12, 1999

Coming Attractions, New Art Examiner, October, 1997

 

Awards/Grants

2009

New York Foundation for the Arts Grant

2005

New York Foundation for the Arts Grant

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

2002

Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant

 

Residencies

2007

Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program

2005

LMCC @ Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris

2003

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

2002

Atlantic Center for the Arts