Ivan Witenstein View Work Biography Press




b. 1972

Education

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


Solo Exhibitions

2011
Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY (forthcoming)

2008
Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY

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

2010
"Size DOES Matter," The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY

2008
"political corect", Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland
"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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