Born 1966 in Boston, Massachusetts
Lives and works in New York City
SOLO and TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2006
Modernity 1929–1965, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, New York
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
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, New York
First Fundraising Exhibition, American Fine Arts Company, New York, New York
Wunderkammer, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
MONOGRAPHS
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.
Lives and works in New York City
SOLO and TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2006
Modernity 1929–1965, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, New York
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
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, New York
First Fundraising Exhibition, American Fine Arts Company, New York, New York
Wunderkammer, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
MONOGRAPHS
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.
"An End To Modernity", 2005
"Modernity circa 1952, Mirrored and Reflected Infinitely", 2004
Detail of: Modernity circa 1952, Mirrored and Reflected Infinitely", 2004
Extended Landscape Model for Total Reflective Abstraction", 2004
Detail of: Landscape Model for Total Reflective Abstraction", 2004
"The Metal Party: Reconstructing a Party held in Dessau on February 9, 1929", 2001
"From an Historical Anecdote about Fashion", 2000
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