Ivan Witenstein View Work Biography Press




Education
MFA Yale University School of Art, Sculpture, New Haven, CT, 1999
BFA Corcoran School of Art, Washington, D.C., 1997

Solo Exhibitions
2008 Derek Eller Gallery, New York
2006 Infidelicious..., Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Uncle John’s Band, The Armory Show (lobby, Pier 90), presented by Public Art Fund and Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Here Comes the Son, Here Comes the Knight, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions
2008 "Summer Group Exhibition," Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2006 New York, Interrupted, curated by Dan Cameron, pmk gallery, Beijing, China
The Name of This Show is Not GAY ART NOW, curated by Jack Pierson, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
Inaugural Group Show, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Oracle of Truth, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium
Post-Everything, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The General's Jamboree/2nd Annual Watercolor Exhibition, Guild & Greyshkul, New York, NY
The Most Splendid Apocalypse, P.P.O.W., New York, NY
ev+a, curated by Dan Cameron, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick City, Ireland
Art Rock, Rockefeller Center, New York, NY
Life and Limb, curated by David Humphrey, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
2004 Fight or Flight, Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York, NY
2003 Pantone, curated by David Hunt, Massimo Audiello, New York, NY
Escape From New York, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
The Burnyt Orange Heresy, Space 101, Brooklyn, NY
Life/Like, Apartment 5BE, New York, NY
2001 Learned America, curated by Jason Murison, P.P.O.W., New York, NY
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, curated by Jason Forest, Atlanta Contemporary
Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Dear Dead Person, curated by Banks Violette, Momenta, Brooklyn, NY
2000 Meat Market, Momenta, Brooklyn, NY
Dedicated to Art, Hemicycle Gallery, Corcoran Museum, Washington, D.C.
Two Friends and So On, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Art and Architecture Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1997 Options 1997, WPA, Washington DC, 1997
Hemicycle Gallery, Corcoran Museum, Washington D.C.

Bibliography
2008 Cotter, Holland. "Listings: Ivan Witenstein," The New York Times, October 3, E27
2007 Duff, Stacey. “A New York minute”, Time Out Beijing, February (illustration)
2006 Cotter, Holland. “Ivan Witenstein: Infidelicious”, The New York Times, May 5, E35
2005 Sicha, Choire. “Art But Not Dangerous”, New York Observer, March 21, p8
Vogel, Carol. “Public Art at Armory Show”, The New York Times, Marck 11, E35
2004 Fricke, Kirsten. “Ivan Witenstein: Freudian Psychosexual Dynamics”, Beatiful Decay, Issue G, pp.28-32
Johnson, Ken. “Fight or Flight”, The New York Times, December 10
Smith, Roberta. “Pantone”, The New York Times, January 4, E43
2003 Bischoff, Dan. “”Escape from New York”, Star Ledger, Sept. 5
Hunt, David. “Ivan Witenstein”, Sculpture, July/August, p74
2002 Cotter, Holland. “Ivan Witenstein & Dan Fischer”, The New York Times, September 13
2001 Fox, Catherine. “A Dirty Shame”, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, September [illustration]
Cotter, Holland. “Dear Dead Person”, The New York Times, May
Wehr, Anne. “Crash Course”, Time Out New York, May
“Dear Dead Person”, The New Yorker, May
1997 O’Sullivan, Michael. “WPA’s Limited Options”, The Washington Post, July
Shaw-Eagle, Joanna. “Art”, The Washington Times, June
Dixon, Glenn. “Bastards of Young”, Washington City Paper, July

Awards
2004 Public Art in the Public Realm Recipient, Public Art Foundation
1999 Rebecca Taylor Porter Award, Yale University

Public Collections
The New School


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