Josiah McElheny

Born 1966 in Boston, Massachusetts
Lives and works in New York City

SOLO and TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2013
Josiah McElheny: Towards a Light Club, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, January 26 – April 7

2012
Interactions of the Abstract Body, White Cube, London, United Kingdom, November 16 – January 12, 2013
Josiah McElheny: Some Picture of the Infinite, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, June 22 – October 14 (catalogue)
Some thoughts about the abstract body, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, May 18 – June 30

2011
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge, Other: Josiah McElheny's Island Universe, Harvard Arts
Museum, Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, MA, October 15
The Bloomberg Commission: Josiah McElheny, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, September 7, 2011 – August 12, 2012
Tate Modern Live: Push and Pull, a two-day performance event, with Andrea Geyer, Tate
Modern, London, UK, March 19

2010
Crystalline Modernity, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. November 12

2009
Proposals for a Chromatic Modernism, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, New York, September 12 - October 17
A Space for an Island Universe, Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, January 28 - March 20

2008
Island Universe, White Cube, London, United Kingdom (catalogue)
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Das Lichtklub von Batavia/The Light Club of Batavia, Institut im Glaspavillon, Berlin, Germany
The Last Scattering Surface, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

2007
The Alpine Cathedral and The City Crown, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Cosmology, Design and Landscape, Part Two, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Projects 84: Josiah McElheny, Museum of Modern Art, New York

2006
Modernity 1929–1965, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, New York
Cosmology, Design and Landscape – Part One, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2005
Landscape Models for Total Reflective Abstraction, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma (brochure)

2004
Total Reflective Abstraction, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2003
Theories About Reflection, Brent Sikkema, New York, New York
Antipodes: Josiah McElheny, White Cube, London, United Kingdom (catalogue)

2002
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (catalogue)

2001
Works 1994–2000, Gallery of Art at Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas (brochure)
The Metal Party, The Public Art Fund, New York, New York (catalogue)
The Metal Party, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California

2000
Christian Dior, Jorges Luis Borges, Adolf Loos, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Brent Sikkema, New York, New York

1999
The Story of Glass, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts (catalogue)
An Historical Anecdote About Fashion, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington(catalogue)

1997
Non-Decorative Beautiful Objects, AC Project Room, New York, NY

1996
Three Alter Egos, Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

1995
Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Installation at the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom (with Adam Rolston)Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, New York (with Dan Peterman)Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria (with Dan Peterman)

1994
Authentic History, Robert Lehman Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

1993
originals, fakes, reproductions, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, Washington

1990
Arnescruv, Sweden, permanent installation of the "Jägarens Glasmuseet" (The Hunter's Glass Museum)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013
Labour and Wait, curated by Julie Joyce, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, July 2 – September 29
Slow Burn, Spoorzone 013, Tilburg, The Netherlands, April 6 – June 23

2012
Fusion, [A New Century of Glass], Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK, June 14 – September 9

2011
if you lived here, you'd be home by now, curated by Josiah McElheny in conjunction with the Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977, Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, June 25 – December 18
Two Fold, The Suburban/The Poor Farm, Oak Park, IL, May 1 – July 5

2010
Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum Rotunda, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY February 19–May 16
JAMES HYDE, Redi-Mix, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, NY, March 3 – April 12
Face Your Demons, Milliken Gallery AB‎, Stockholm, Sweden, May 12 - June 12

2009
Universal Code, curated by Gregory Burke, The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario, June 12-August 30, 2009
Innovations in the third dimension: Sculpture of our time, curated by Nancy Hall-Duncan, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut (catalogue)
Sense and Sentiment. Mistakes are closely followed by Effects, curated by Eva Maria Stadler and Sabeth Buchmann, Augarten Contemporary, Vienna, Austria (catalogue)

2008
Objects of Value, curated by Rene Morales, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Multi-Part Art, Contemporary Works from the Collection, Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Mildred's Lane, curated by J. Morgan Puett and Mark Dion, Alexander Gray Gallery, New York
Spring Wound, Orchard, New York, New York
Beyond Measure: Conversations Across Art and Science, Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Sensory Overload: Light, Motion, Sound and the Optical in Art Since 1945, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

2007
Accumulations: More Than the Sum of Their Parts, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Cosmology, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York

2006
Dynasty, Gallery MC, New York, New York (catalogue)
Super Vision, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Shiny, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio

2005
Part Object Part Sculpture, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (catalogue)
Faith, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut (catalogue)
Spectrum, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Bottle: Contemporary Art and Vernacular Tradition, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
View Eight: A Few Domestic Objects Interrogate a Few Works of Art, Mary Boone, New York, New York
Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (catalogue)

2004
The Cobweb, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Printemps de septembre á Toulouse: In Extremis, Les Abbatoirs, Toulouse, France (catalogue)
Signs of Being, The Foundation To-Life, Inc., Mount Kisco, New York

2003
Borges Exhibition, Volume Gallery, New York, New York
Warped Space, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California (catalogue)
Traces of Light, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (catalogue)
Living with Duchamp, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York (brochure)
Once Upon a Time: Fiction and Fantasy in Contemporary Art, Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York State Museum, Albany, New York
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2002
View Six: Surface to Surface, Mary Boone, New York, New York
Keep in touch, Brent Sikkema, New York, New York
Family, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut (catalogue)
The Photogenic, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (brochure)

2001
Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990s, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California (Traveled to
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado; Hood Museum, Dartmouth University, Hanover, New Hampshire; and Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio) (catalogue)
Musings: Contemporary Tradition, Gallery 312, Chicago, Illinois
Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism, Fourth International Biennial,
SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico (catalogue)
House Guests: Contemporary Artists in the Grange, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (catalogue)
BodySpace, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland (brochure)
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Heart of Glass, Queens Museum of Art, New York, New York (brochure)

2000
2000 Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York (catalogue)
Exhibition Room: Francis Cape, Josiah McElheny, and Yinka Shonibare, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut

1999
Patentia, Nordic Institute of Contemporary Art, Stockholm, Sweden

1998
At Home in the Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Usefool, Postmasters Gallery, New York, New York
Personal Touch, Art in General, New York, New York
Young Americans: Part II, The Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom (brochure)
Inglenook, Feigen Contemporary, New York, New York (Traveled to Illinois State University Galleries, Normal, Illinois)
Interlacings, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, Connecticut (catalogue)

1997
Paul Bloodgood, Paula Hayes, Josiah McElheny, Sandra Vallejos, AC Project Room, New York, New York
Living Room, Barbara Westerman Gallery, Newport, Rhode Island

1996
The Last Supper, Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, Washington
A Labor of Love, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York (catalogue)
What's Love Got to Do With It?, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Drawings from the MAB Library, AC Project Room, New York, New York

1995
VER-RÜCKT, Kulturstiftung Schloss Agathenburg, Agathenburg, Germany (Traveled to Art Museum of
Arolsen, Arolsen, Germany; Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany) (catalogue)

1995
Holding the Past, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

1994
Are You Experienced?, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
First Fundraising Exhibition, American Fine Arts Company, New York, NY
Wunderkammer, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California

MONOGRAPHS

2010
McElheny, Josiah, Dave Hickey, David H. Weinberg, Louise Neri "Josiah McElheny: A Prism" New York: Rizzoli, 2010.
2008
Burnett, Craig, et al. Island Universe. London: Jay Jopling/White Cube, 2008.
McElheny, Josiah and Erin Shirreff, eds.
The Light Club of Batavia. Self published. Texts by Gregg Bordowitz, Andrea Geyer, Georg Hecht, Josiah McElheny, Ulrike Müller, Paul Scheerbart; translations by Brian Currid, Barbara Schroeder, Wilhem Werthern.


2006
Molesworth, Helen, ed. Notes for a Sculpture and a Film. Columbus: Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, 2006. Texts by Josiah McElheny, Helen Molesworth, and David Weinberg.

2002
Morrill, Apollonia, ed. Josiah McElheny: The Metal Party. New York: The Public Art Fund; San Francisco: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2002. Texts by Glen Helfand, Christine Mehring, Peter Nesbit, and Ingrid Schaffner.
Josiah McElheny. Santiago de Compostela, Spain: Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, 2002. Texts by Miguel Fernández-Cid, Miwon Kwon, Louise Neri, and Michael Tarantino.

1999
Josiah McElheny. Boston: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1999. Texts by Jennifer R. Gross, and Dave Hickey.
An Historical Anecdote About Fashion. Seattle: Henry Art Gallery, 1999. Texts by Richard Martin, Victoria Milne, Ingrid Schaffner, and Mark Wigley.