Education 1985 BFA, Brown University (Semiotics and Studio Art) 1993 MFA, University of California, Irvine, CA Solo Exhibitions 2011 Keith Mayerson: Art, Life & Fashion, Shaheen Gallery, Cleveland, OH Keith Mayerson: Iconscapes, 1995-1999, Knoedler & Company (Project Room), New York, NY 2010 My Modern Life, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY Broadway Windows, NYU, New York, NY 2009 Souvenirs, The Bakery - Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Both Sides Now: A Selection of Drawings 1992-2009, Paul Kasmin Gallery (project room), New York, NY 2008 Good Leaders, Endangered Species, Ships At Sea, Part II, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY Good Leaders, Endangered Species, Ships At Sea, Kim Light / Lightbox, Los Angeles, CA 2007 Friends & Family, Shaheen Modern & Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH 2006 Kings & Queens, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY Heroes, Gallery Alain Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium 2005 Rebel Angels at the End of the World, QED Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2004 Hamlet 1999, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY 2003 Hamlet 1999, Pt. 3, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY 2000 Illuminations, The Fifth International, New York, NY 1997 Paintings and Drawings, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY 1995 Monty’s Dream: The Sleeper in the Valley, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA 1994 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell!, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA 1993 Pinocchio the Big Fag, Kiki Gallery, San Francisco, CA Group Exhibitions 2011 Keith Mayerson and Dominic McGill, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY 8 Americans, organized by Keith Mayerson, Maruani & Noirhomme Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Joni, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, NY Put Up or Shut Up, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY 2010 Ink Plots: The Tradition of the Graphic Novel at SVA, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY The Pencil Show, Foxy Production, New York, NY Keith Mayerson, Kent Henricksen, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY Wall to Wall, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA The Boneyard, Kim Light/Lightbox, Los Angeles, CA 2009 The Never-Ending Story: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Obsession, curated by Laura Hoptman, Royal/T, Culver City, CA Out of Order, curated by Scott Hug, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY Naked, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY The Tree, James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai, China New Acquisitions, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH Figuratively Seeing, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA 2008 Peanut Gallery, The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY THINGS BEHIND THE SUN, PHIL, Los Angeles, CA Summer Group Exhibition, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY Friends and Family, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY Kiki: The Proof Is In the Pudding, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA The Guys We Would Fuck, curated by Nayland Blake, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY History Keeps Me Awake at Night: A Geneaology of Wojnarowicz, PPOW Gallery, New York, NY Artist as Publisher, The Center For Book Arts, New York ambivalent figuration; people, Samson Projects, Boston, MA a new high in getting low II, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY 2007 Genesis I’mSorry, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY Joe Bradley, Ann Craven, Dana Frankfort, Keith Mayerson, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY 2006 Likeness (Portraits from All Angles), Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA Summer Group Exhibition, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY How I Finally Accepted Fate, curated by Jason Murison, EFA Gallery, New York, NY This Name of This Show is Not GAY ART NOW, curated by Jack Pierson, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY Salon, Greene Naftali, New York, NY Inaugural Group Exhibition, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY 2005 The Most Splendid Apocalypse, curated by Jason Murison, PPOW Gallery, New York, NY This Hard, Gem-Like Flame, curated by Joseph R. Wolin, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX On Paper: Drawings from the 1960’s to the Present, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2004 Under the Sun, Greener Pastures Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario Rimbaud,”curated by Max Henry, I-20, New York, NY The Sublime is (Still) Now, curated by Joseph R. Wolin, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY Let the Bullshit Run a Marathon, curated by Nate Lowman, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY 2003 K48, Dietch Projects Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY Hothouse; Contemporary Floras, curated by Mary Jo Vath, Gallery of Art & Science, New York, NY You, curated by Lisa Kirk, Royal Modern, New York, NY A New New York Scene--K48 Teenage Rebel: The Bedroom Show, Gallerie du Jour at Agnes B., Paris, France FIAC art fair, curated by Scott Hug, Paris, France Magazin (K48: Do Not Provoke Us), Marres, Maastricht, Holland Now Playing, D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York. NY Drawings, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY 2002 Kool Kult, k48, Scope Art Fair, New York 25th Anniversary Selections Exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York, NY Landscape, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY 2001 Refiguring Painting, Los Angeles County Musueum Group Exhibition, American Fine Art at P.H.A.G., New York, NY 2000 Recent Acquisitions, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA Fore and Aft, Acme., Los Angeles, CA 1999 The Stroke, curated by Ross Bleckner, Exit Art, New York, NY Young New York Painters, curated by Ross Bleckner, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO 1998 Inaugral Show, curated by Jennifer Bornstein and Chevis Clem, The Fifth International, New York, NY he swam down, away, curated by Tony Payne, Audiello Fine Art, Inc., New York, NY Painting: Now and Forever, Pat Hearn and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY Codex USA: Works on Paper by American Artists, Entwistle Gallery, London, UK I Love New York, Edinburgh International Art Festival, Edinburgh College, Edinburgh, Scotland Bathroom, curated by Wayne Koestenbaum, Thomas Healy Gallery, New York, NY View 3, curated by Klaus Kertess, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY Francis Alys, Keith Mayerson, Franklin Preston, Hiroshi Sugito, Audiello Fine Art Inc., New York, NY More, curated by Tony Payne, XL Gallery, New York, NY 1997 Paintings and Sculpture, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY Three Painters, curated by Jack Pierson, Musee d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, France 1996 The Name of the Place, curated by Laurie Simmons, Casey Caplin Gallery, New York, NY Young, Dumb, and Fun, curated by David Pagel, University of Las Vegas, Nevada The Incredible Power of Cheap Sentiment, curated by Bill Arning, White Columns, New York, NY Annual Summer Watercolor Exhibition, curated by Tom Woodruff, P.P.O.W., New York, NY 1995 Degenerative Art Show, The Lab, San Francisco, CA The Moderns, curated by Tony Payne, Feature Gallery, New York, NY Faggots, curated by Bill Arning, Rojes Foundation, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Stretch Out & Wait, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA 1994 Stonewall 25, curated by Bill Arning, White Columns, New York, NY Dave’s Not Here Show, Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, CA Red Rover, Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, CA Tiny Shoes, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA Selections Spring ‘94, The Drawing Center, New York, NY (brochure) Playfield, curated by Randy Summers, Rio Hondo College, Wittier, CA 1993 Sick Joke, Kiki Gallery, San Francisco, CA Steve Crique, Keith Mayerson, Tyler Stallings, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA Bibliography 2011 Price, Ada. "Pioneering Graphic Novel, 'Horror Hospital Unplugged,' Back in Print". Publishers Weekly.com. October 11. Wollen, Joseph. "Joni Mitchell". TimeOutNY. January 28. 2010 Smith, Roberta. "Keith Mayerson: My Modern Life". The New York Times. November 12. Russeth, Andrew. "Keith Mayerson: My Modern Life". Artinfo.com/Modern Painters. November 4. "The View Master". The New York Observor.com. October 26. Finch, Charlie. "Eleventh Avenue Ramble". Artnet.com Magazine. October 25. Saltz, Jerry. "Ask an Art Critic". Artnet.com and NY Magazine. "Vulture". October 18. Wollen, Joe. "Neo-Integrity: Comics Edition". Time Out New York. August 10. Le Hay, Benjamin-Emile. "Artists Nate Lowman and Keith Mayerson Take a Long, Hard Look at Humanity". Black Book Art Review. August 17. Phillips, Brad. "Keith Mayerson", (interview). Hunter and Cook 06. Summer. Saltz, Jerry. "Remembrances of Louise Bourgois's Salons". New York Magazine.com. June 3. "Neo-Integrity at MoCCA". Publisher's Weekly The Beat. March 31. 2009 Sokol, Brett. "36 Hours in Cleveland". The New York Times. September 20. "Bang for your Buck". Art + Auction, July-August. Heller, Fran, "Art Museum's New East Wing is a Celebration of Firsts". Cleveland Jewish News, Friday, July 3. Litt, Steven. "Cleveland Museum of Art Displays New Acquisitions in East Wing". The Plain Dealer. Time Out Amsterdam (image and listing). June. Cotter, Holland. "Peanut Gallery". The New York Times, Art Review. Jan 29. 2008 "Keith Mayerson". The New Yorker, Galleries - Chelsea. November 10. "History Keeps Me Awake At Night". The New Yorker, Galleries - Chelsea. August 4. Cotter, Holland. "History Keeps Me Awake At Night". The New York Times. July 25. Vogel, Traci. "Time in a Bottle". San Francisco Weekly. July 9-15: Vol. 27, No. 24. Greenfield, Beth. "Body of Influence". Time Out New York, Issue 667. Jul 10-16. Rosenberg, Karen. "A New High in Getting Low". The New York Times. Mar 7. 2007 “Joe Bradley / Ann Craven / Dana Frankfort / Keith Mayerson”. The New Yorker, Galleries - Chelsea. August 20. Cotter, Holland.. “When the Curator Is Also an Artist, Go Ahead, Expect Surprises”. The New York Times. August 9 2006 White, Roger. “Keith Mayerson Kings and Queens”. The Brooklyn Rail. Dec 5/Jan 7, Artseen p 44. Gelber, Eric. “James Reilly and Keith Mayerson”. artcritical.com. December. Wolin, Joseph R., “Keith Mayerson”. Time Out New York. Nov 23-29: p 99. Gelber, Eric. “Of Groups - and Individuals”. The New York Sun. Nov 16. 2005 Knight, Christopher. “Fresh, original voices in L.A.: A deceptive look at a mythic figures”. Los Angeles Times. October 28. Ammirati, Dominic. “Keith Mayerson,” Artforum. February: p 175. 2004 Smith, Roberta. “Keith Mayerson”. The New York Times. December 24. Speers Mears, Emily. “Keith Mayerson”. Artforum.com. December 13. Smith, Roberta. “Rimbaud”. The New York Times. July 30: p. E35. Levin, Kim. “Rimbaud”. The Village Voice. July 28. Johnson, Ken. “The Sublime is (Still) Now”. The New York Times. June 11. Walker, Kelley. “Top Ten”. Artforum. April. Cohen, Michael. “Keith Mayerson”. artUS. April - May. 2003 Cotter, Holland. “Keith Mayerson”. The New York Times. December 12. Mmirati, Domenick. “Critic’s Pick: You”. Arforum.com. October. 2002 Kannenberg Jr., Gene. “Read All (or Some) About It". X-Tra, Vol. 3, No. 3. Spring The Comics Journal, Issue No.242. April: pp 68-69. “Landscape”. Time Out New York, Reviews, February 21, Issue No. 334. 1998 Herbert, Martin. “Codex USA,” (Review). Time Out London. p 51. Rimanelli, David. “Painting Now and Forever”. The New Yorker, Listings. June-July. Duncan, Michael. “Keith Mayerson at Jay Gorney”. Art in America, Reviews, June: p 107. Johnson, Ken. “View Three”. The New York Times, Reviews. May 1: p E43. Drenner, Craig. “View Three“. NY Arts Magazine, May: p 29. Mayerson, Keith. “Guest Room With a View”. Paper, May: p 49 (illus.). James, Merlin. “New York: Recent Painting”. Burlington Magazine, London. February: pp 65-67. Still, Torri. “Filling the Canvas”. Brown Alumni Monthly. January/February: pp 38-43. 1997 Schwendener, Martha. “Keith Mayerson”. Time Out New York. Nov. 20-27: p 47. Mayerson, Keith. "Self Portrait". The New Yorker. Nov. 10: p 28 (illus.). Arning, Bill. “Keith Mayerson”. Bomb. November. ”Keith Mayerson”, (Interview). Dangerous Drawings. Juno Books, New York. Featured Artist, Honcho. November, pp 66-67. Carter, Holland. ““The Name of the Place”. The New York Times, Reviews. Febrary 24. Tom, Karen. “Horror Hospital Unplugged”. Cover, Volume 11, Number 5. p 59. Hainley, Bruce. “Horror Hospital Unplugged”. Index. May: p 79. Marston, Jayson. ““Horror Hospital Unplugged". Drummer, Vol 208. August: pp 49-50. “Horror Hospital Unplugged”. Library Journal. April 1. “Horror Hospital Unplugged”. Attitude, London. March: p 22. “Cult Fiction”. Gay Times, London. February: p 69. “Horror Hospital Unplugged". Bay Area Gaurdian, Literature Section. February. 1996 Knight, Christopher. ”Review”. Los Angeles Times. April 10: Section F, p 6. Pagel, David. “Keith Mayerson”. Art Issues. September/October: p 40. Cooper, Dennis, and Keith Mayerson. Horror Hospital Unplugged. Juno Books, NY. “PW’s Best Books”. Publisher’s Weekly. November 4: p 57. “Horror Hospital Unplugged”. Publisher’s Weekly. September 23: p 71. Rimanelli, David. "The Young and the Feckless: Keith Mayerson’s comic rock novel”. OUT. October: p 66. “A Brilliant Chick Parody”. OUT. August. 1995 Greene, David A. “Review”. ART & TEXT. January: p 71. FRAMEWORK, Vol 7, issue 3. pp 23-26 (illus.). Red Hot + Bothered: The Indie Rock Guide to Dating, Volumes 1 (pp. 11, 21) & Volume 2 (Back Cover) (illustrations). Magazine produced by the Red Hot Organization, included with album compilations. Michel, Deborah. “The Himbos are Coming! The Himbos are Coming!” BUZZ. April, p 59. 1994 Relyea, Lane. “Openings: Keith Mayerson”. Artforum. April: p 92. Helfland, Glen. “Sympathy For the Devil”. San Francisco Weekly, Vol. XII, no 6. April 6: p. 19. Duncan, Michael. “LA Rising”. Art in America. December: p 72. Myers, Terry R. “On View: Los Angeles”. New Art Examiner. December: p 36. Pagel, David. “Art Review: Convention Unites with Gay Fantasy”. Los Angeles Times. October 6: p F4. Mayerson, Keith. “Family Value Cartoons”. Faultline. May: pp 39-43. Saltz, Jerry. “L.A. Rising”. Art & Auction. April: p 88. Atkins, Robert. “Queer For You”. Village Voice. June 28. Bonnetti, David. “Gallery Watch: Give ‘em that ‘ol tired religion”. San Francisco Examiner. April 15: p D10. Cotter, Holland. “The Joys of Childhood Reexamined”. The New York Times. March 25: p C30. 1993 Bonnetti, David. “A Queer Way To Look At Pinocchio”. San Francisco Examiner. November, p. E10. Helfland, Glen. “Art”. San Francisco Weekly. November 17: p 15. Provenzano, Jim. “Pinocchio Queerified”. Bay Area Reporter, vol. XXIII. November 18: section II. 1990 Snook, Raven. “Cameos: K. Mayerson’s 'A Child Is Being Beaten'”. The Village Voice. August 7: p 100. Published Articles 2011 "NeoIntegrity: Comics Edition". (interview with Keith Mayerson, curator, conducted by Peter Halley). 2009 "The Artist's Artists: Keith Mayerson, Stevie Wonder, Gershin Prize for Popular Song (the White House, Washington, DC)". Artforum. December (best of the year capsule review). 2008 "Jane Freillicher: Recent Paintings". Tibor De Nagy Gallery, NY (catalogue essay). "Kathe Burkhart: The Liz Taylor Series: The First 25 Years, 1982-2007". Modern Painters, March (book review). "How Haute It Is". Interview. April: pp 130-33 (commissioned assignment). 2007 "Annie Lenox". Interview. October: p 155 (commissioned assignment). 2006 "Keith Mayerson on Randy Wray". BOMB, Number 95. Spring: pp 46-47. 2005 "Lisa Kirk and Keith Mayerson Wake the Sleepers". ArtUS. May-June: pp 16-18. 2002 Sehorn, Jason, and Keith Mayerson. "Why I Didn't Rush the End Zone". Interview. February: p 40 (commissioned assignment). 2000 "Icons & Iconography in Technocratic Culture: The Sleeping Painting". Xtra, Vol 3, Issue 3. Spring: pp 23-28. Artist’s Books 1996 Horror Hospital Unplugged, (with Dennis Cooper). JunoBooks/RESearch Publications, New York. 1993-94 A Patriarchy’s Nightmare. 1993 Pinocchio The Big Fag Trying Not to Be A Dick. Artist’s Videos 1999 Limp Biscuit 1996 -present A Portrait of Two Artists as Young Men 1995 The Best of Keanu 1994 Trees in the Forest 1993 Get the Knife 1992 Why Do You Keep Doing This to Yourself Plays/Screenplays 1999 A Child is Being Beaten 1995 Nowhere Fast 1993 Pinocchio the Big Fag 1991 Fags 1988-89 A Child is Being Beaten. BACA DOWNTOWN, New York, NY. directed by David Savran and Ron Clark, July-August 1989; THE BOX, Trinity Repertory Company, Providence, RI, March 1989, as a part of “Graduate Play Festival”, directed by David Savran and Ron Clark; Leeds Theater and Brown’s Production Workshop. Spring 1988. TYGER, (Set design only), Leeds Theater, Brown University, Fall 1987 Melonboy (also director and set designer) Production Workshop, Brown University, March, 1988. Curated Exhibitions 2010 NeoIntegrity: Comics Edition. Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art. New York, NY. 2007 NeoIntegrity. Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY. Panels 2010 "A Conversation with Gary Panter and Peter Saul, moderated by Keith Mayerson". Thursday, August 19. Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art, New York, NY. "Dash Shaw and Keith Mayerson in Conversation". Tuesday, May 25. Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art, New York, NY. Public Collections Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 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