LINDA GANJIAN - BIO
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
ART WORKS
LIVES AND WORKS IN NEW YORK, NY
Select Exhibitions:
2009 Artspace, New Haven, CT, “un(spoken),” collaboration w Jesse Lambert, curated by Jessica Buckley and Liza Statton, April Dean Projects and Crossing Arts, Queens, NY, “RoCoCo Pop,” group show, February
2008 Caren Golden Gallery, New York, “The Brand New Deal,” group show curated by Shane McAdams, Dec.Heskin Contemporary, Aqua Art Fair, Miami, Dec. National Academy Museum, NY, “The 183rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art,” May-Sept. “ARTWALKING:Bedford Avenue,” site specific window installation at Catbird, curated by eyewash, April-June 111 Front Street, Suite 230 Gallery, “Locus,” curated by FIT Art Market Masters Program candidates, April
2007 Alfred University, NY, “Tradition/Collision,” curated by Glenn Macura & Lise Lemeland, Sept.-Oct.Socrates Sculpture Park, LIC, NY, “EAF07: Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition,” curated by Alyson Baker, Sept. Mixed Greens, NY, “Road Trip,” curated by Heather Darcy & Courtney Strimple, July-Aug.Nathan Cummings Fndt./Rush Arts, NY, “Keep the Change,” curated by Meredith McNeal, June-Sept. Corridor Gallery/Rush Arts, Brooklyn, “Weave,” curated by Meredith McNeal, April-May
2006 Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, NY, “Queens International,” group exhibition of Queens artists, Oct.Aljira Center for the Arts, Newark, NJ, “Emerge 04,” group exhibition of program participants, JulyStorefront for Art and Architecture, NYC, 3-person show curated by Yasmeen Siddiqui, June eyewash @ Gallery Boreas, Brooklyn, NY, solo exhibition, March The Lab, San Francisco, CA, “National Psyche,” curated by Elliot Lessing, Feb.
2005 Triangle Arts Association, Brooklyn, “Flavor Intensive: 5 Sculptors,” selected by Andy Yoder, Oct. Schroeder-Romero Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, “Somewhere Outside It,” curated by Janet Phelps, June-July Annina Nosei Gallery, NYC, “Everland,” curated by David Gibson, June-July Parker's Box, Brooklyn, NY, “I AM 5!” presented food art at artist-driven art fair, May
U.S. Embassy of Armenia, “Garden of Eden” curated by Virginia Shore, Art in Embassies program, AprilShore Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Branch, NJ “Critic’s Select” chosen by Gae Savannah, Jan.-Feb.
2004 Morsel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, “Inaugural Ball,” curated by Jan Mollet and Beth Cooper, Sept.-Oct.Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, “Open House: Working in Brooklyn,” curated by Charlotta Kotik & Tumelo Mosaka, April-Aug.Stefan Stux Gallery, NY, “Irrational Exuberance” curated by David Hunt, Jan.-Feb.University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, “200 Drawings: Annie Herron and Barry Blinderman select from the Pierogi Flatfiles,” Aug. 17-Oct. 17
2003 Carlsblad Museum & Art Center, NM, “New Work New York to New Mexico: Annie Herron’s Selections from the Pierogi Flatfiles, Nov. 8- Dec. 31eyewash@Fishtank Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, “Four-Squared,” curated by Larry Walczak & Annie Herron, Jan. Viridian Artists, NY, “Multiple Memorials,” proposals for 9.11 memorials organized by Mary Miss & Elliot Maltby, Sept.
2002 Free Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, “Majority Rules, Part I and II,” democratically selected for group show through internet voting, coordinated by Tara McDowell and Letha Wilson, Oct.–Nov.323 West Gallery, NYC, “Once Over,” curated by Simone Montemurno & Alexandra Spaulding, Sept.Third Annual Giumri Biennale, Giumri, Armenia, collaboration with Jesse Lambert, August
2001 Stedelijk museum De Lakenhal Leiden, Holland, four-person show of contemporary Armenian Diasporan art curated by Krikor Momdjian, Nov.–March 2002Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, “Cities and Desire,” curated by Janet Riker and Meridith McNeal, MarchBaldwin Gallery, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, NY, “Nurture Art Reaches the Heights,” March–May
2000 Gallery 128, Rivington St., NYC, “Ten in a Hole,” group show curated by Flavia Souza, May
1999 Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, “Zone of Risibility,” curated by Carrie Cooperider, Feb.–March
1998 Hunter College Times Square Gallery, 450 W. 41st St., MFA Thesis show, Dec. – Jan. 1999 PS 122 Gallery, NYC, “Imaginary Friends,” 4-person show curated by Julie Peppito & Gideon Kendall, Nov.Armenian Center for Contemporary & Experimental Art, Yerevan, “Biannual of Int'l Armenian Art,” Nov.
1997 Art in General, NYC, “Between the Acts,” group show curated by Juana Valdez, Sept.–Oct.Second SOHO Annual NYC Student Art Exhibit, ground floor of Chelsea Arts Building, juried byFereshteh Daftari, Charlotta Kotik, and Martin Eisenberg, Sept.–Oct.
1996 Hanging Sculpture Garden at Newport Center Mall, Jersey City, NJ, hanging sculpture show curated by Robert Costa/ProArts, Sept.–Oct.
Education:
Hunter College, City University of New York, MFA, Dec. 1998—Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, BA in painting, May 1992
Select Publications/Catalogues:
Christopher Atamian, “Studio Visit” Armenian Reporter Arts & Culture section, artist profile, C4-C5, Oct. 11, 2008—Karen Rosenberg, “ART REVIEW: Where have all the paintings gone? To the National Academy”, The New York Times,review of The 183rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy, May 20, 2008—Angela Starita, “Socratic Dialogues,” Architects Newspaper, review of 2007 EAF exhibition at Socrates Sculpture Park, Vol. 16, p 28, with images, Oct. 3, 2007—Brendon Tapley, “Visual Artist: Linda Ganjian” profile in Open Studio, MacDowell Newsletter, Vol. 35, No.2, p 14, 2006 —Stephanie Cash, “Linda Ganjian at eyewash@Boreas” review, Art in America, Nov. 2006 —Benjamin Genocchio, “Tristate Talent Search Hits a High Note”, The New York Times, review of “Aljira Emerge” at Aljira Center for the Arts in Newark, NJ, (NJ section), Aug. 5, 2006—Laurie Manfra, “Exhibition Review: "Portable at Storefront for Art and Architecture”, ArchNewsNow.com, July 17, 2006 —John Goodrich, “Savoring Many Flavors of Sculpture,” The New York Sun, review of “Flavor Intensive” at Triangle Arts with image, Vol. 121, p 129, Oct. 20, 2005—Ken Johnson, “The Listings”, The New York Times, blurb on “Everland,” p B25, July 8, 2005 —Linda Yablonsky, "Outside the Box," Artforum.com diary/Scene & Heard, (re: Parker's Box art fair w image), May 10, 2005 —Ben Davis, "Think Small...Sculpt Large," Queens Courier, May (artist profile), 2005—Benjamin Genocchio, “When Critics Have Their Say First”, The New York Times, review of “Critic’s Select” at Shore Institute of Contemporary Art in Long Branch, NJ, with image, p 11, (NJ section), Feb. 20, 2005—Gregory Volk, “Big Brash Borough,” Art In America, review of “Open House,” with image, p 92, Sept. 2004 —“A Museum Grows in Brooklyn,” Gallery & Studio, Vol. 6, No. 5, review of “Open House,” with image, p 16, June-July-Aug. 2004—catalogue for Brooklyn Museum of Art, “Open House: Working in Brooklyn,” 2004 (essay by Charlotta Kotik andTumelo Mosaka, image) 2004—Holland Cotter, “Art in Review”, The New York Times, review of “Four-Squared,” Feb. 7, p B40, 2003 —catalogue for Stedelijk exhibition, Artissage Het Tentoonstellingsmagazine, nederlands/engelse editie, Armenia 03 11 2001 – 03 03 2002 (essay by Doris Wintgens, images)—catalogue for Rotunda Gallery “Zone of Risibility,” Jan–March 1999, (essay by Carrie Cooperider, image)
Awards:
Socrates Sculpture Park Dedalus Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship, 2007—MacDowell Colony, 2006—Pollack-Krasner Foundation, 2005—Hall Farm Center, VT, July 2005—Millay Colony, NY, Nov. 2004—Vermont Studio Center, (full fellowship) April 2003—Gunk Foundation, 2002, (for co-curating and producing “No Lives Girls” video project)—Artslink, 2001 (for 2-month residency at the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art)—Armenian Foundation for Film, Music and Art (AFFMA) 2001
Collections:
West collection, Pennsylvania —Tim Cone, Washington D.C. —Robert and Jereann Chaney collection, Texas —Donald and Harriet Rothfeld, New Jersey —Progressive Corporate collection, Ohio —U.S. Embassy of Armenia
Other:
MTA Arts for Transit finalist, 2006, 2007—talk, Jersey City Museum, April 2007—talk, Nightingale-Bamford high school, NYC, Nov. 2005—volunteer art residency coordinator for the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, 2002-2006 —panel participant for Peepshow 28 project, San Francisco Art Institute, Feburary 14, 2002—slide talk, and presentation of contemporary sculptors and video art, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art and the Giumri Cultural Center, July 2002
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