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Ken Solomon

 

Born 1971. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Education

1993 BFA, The University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1991 The University of Syracuse in Florence, Italy

Selected One-Person Exhibitions

2010
Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York

2008
Post Party, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York

2005
Still Moving- Video and Drawings, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009
Lightcone, Nettie Horn Gallery, London
American Ream (with Marco Maggi), The Warehouse Gallery at Syracuse University, NY
Summer Shortcuts: a Drawing Forecast, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York
microwave seven, Curated by Josée Bienvenu, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA
WALL ROCKETS: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, Curated by Lisa Dennison,
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY

2008
Attention to Detail, FLAG Art Foundation, New York
Lightness and Roughness of the Line, Nara Roesler, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
1968-2008 The Culture of Collage, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York. Traveling to Penn State Univsersity, University Park, PA
WALL ROCKETS: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, Curated by Lisa Dennison,
FLAG Art Foundation, New York

2007
Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas

2006
Micro and Soft on Macintosh Apple (With Marco Maggi), Museum of Modern Art, New York
Table Top,
Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York
Money Changes Everything, Shroeder Romero Gallery, New York
In-Trance, Video Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
Opening of Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building, (with Marco Maggi), Museum of Modern Art, New York

2005
RISD Museum (with Marco Maggi), Providence, RI
FIAC, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, Paris, France
El Papel Del Papel, (with Marco Maggi), Centro Colombo Americano, Bogota, Columbia
Maco Mexico Arte Contemporaneo, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
Video Box (with Marco Maggi), Centro Cultural Reina Sofia, Montevideo, Uruguay

2004
Fifth Gwangju Biennial (with Marco Maggi), Gwangju, Korea
Microwave, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX
Troy Story, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Maco Mexico Arte Contemporaneo, Cristinerose|Josée Bienvenu Gallery,
Mexico City, Mexico
Newpapers, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York
Intense Focus, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Micro & Soft on Macintosh Apple, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York

2003
Scope Miami, Cristinerose | Josée Bienvenu Gallery, Miami, FL
microwave, four, Cristinerose | Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York

2002
The Will You Draw Me? Project, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
The Wig Project, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
Small Works Competition, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York

Bibliography

2008
Plagens, Peter, Critic's Pick, Art News, September

2006
Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building Opens, The Museum of Modern Art, November 28
Ken Johnson Art in Review: Money Changes Everything, The New York Times, July 14
Richard Johnson, Page Six, The New York Post, December 17

2005
Brainwaves, The Wig Project, Guardian Unlimited, December 1
Jainchill, Johanna, Directions; The Gallery of Wearable Art, The New York Times, November 27

2004
Chase Bowie, Arts Rodeo, Portland Mercury, May 27
Klaasmeyer, Kelly, OCDelight, Houston Press, October 14
Baker, Kenneth, Hosfelt Gallery Show Suggests We’re Blinded by Information, San Francisco Chronicle, July 10

2003
Yurass, Amadou, Ken Solomon, 11211, volume 3, no. 6
Scott, Andrea K, Microwave, Four, The New Yorker, October 13
Microwave, Four, Time Out New York, September 18-25

2002
Kanter, Larry Budgetcuts, MBA Jungle, November
Bahrampou, Tara, In Eyes of Beholders, This Artist May Be a Pile of Sand, The New York Times, January 20

2001
McLaughlin, Chantal, It’s a Small Wig After All: Many Faces Under One Lid, The New York Times, Sunday, February 4
Beaird, Joe, Toupee or Not Toupee, Time Out New York, February 8-15


Public and Corporate Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY