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
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