Scott Anderson
Statement:
Scott Anderson has exhibited widely at numerous institutions and galleries, including, the MCA, Chicago, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Neuberger Museum of Art, Parrish Museum of Art, Nerman MOCA, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, Galerie Richard, Paris, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, and Carl E. Smith Gallery, Los Angeles. He has received multiple awards including a Pollock-Krasner award, and the William and Dorothy Yeck Award. In 2015 Anderson was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Madison, ME. Anderson’s work has been reviewed in several publications including the New York Times, Artforum, Art News, Art Pulse Magazine, the Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. Scott Anderson is an associate professor at the University of New Mexico.
Résumé:
Education
2015 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
2003 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [ m.f.a. ]
1997 Kansas State University [ b.f.a. ]
Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
*denotes solo exhibition
2016 *Supper Club, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
*Supper Club, CES Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015 *solo booth with CES Gallery, LA, Pulse Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL
*Wiseguys, CES Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Kansas, with David Leigh, Phil Space, Santa Fe, NM
2013 Future Perfect Tense, with Orion Wertz, Biggin Gallery, Auburn University,
Auburn, AL
2009 *Join or Die, Stux Gallery, New York, NY (Catalog)
2008 *Rendezvous Point, Light and Sie Gallery, Dallas, TX (Catalog)
*Misiisto, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 *Guru, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
2005 *Re Krei, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
*Aneksi, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004 *Neo Pejzago, Galerie Jean-Luc and Takako Richard, Paris, France (Catalog)
- *12x12, New Artists New Work, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
*Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
*Miami University of Ohio, Oxford, OH.
- *Esperanto for Forage, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 Alcoves 16/17, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM,
Curator: Merry Scully
2015 Inside/Outside, Common Street Arts, Waterville, ME, Curator: Michelle Grabner
The Fantasy of Representation, Beers London, London,
United Kingdom, Curator: Andrew Selgado
Ducks: LA, Minotaur Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Ducks, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Curator: Ryan Travis
Christian
Reverb II, Bowling Green State University Galleries, Bowling Green, OH,
2013 The 10th Circle, VAST Projects, Las Vegas, NV, Curator: David Pagel (Catalog)
Reverb, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA (Catalog)
New Surrealism, Mirus Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Little Man Pee Pool Party, Antena, Chicago, IL, Curator: Paul Nudd
2011 Streams of Consciousness, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS, Curator: Christopher
Cook
Always Nowadays, SCA Contemporary, Albuquerque, NM, Curators: Larry Bob
Phillips, and Karl Hoffman
2010 Underground Pop, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, Curator: David
Pagel (Catalog)
Bunny Redux, Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, Curator: Aaron Baker
Cut, Shuffle, Draw, Columbus State University Galleries, Columbus, GA
Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Tethered to My World, Highland Park Art Center, Highland Park, IL,
Curator: Phyllis Bramson
2010+1 Young Painters: The Miami University’s 21rst Century Painting
Collection, Heistand Galleries, Miami University of Ohio, Oxford, OH
2009 Low Blow, Stux Gallery, New York, NY
Beatutiful/Decay A to Z, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Landscape Affected, Haggerty University Gallery, University of Dallas, TX
2008 Future Tense: Reshaping the Landsdape, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY,
Curators: Dede Young and Avis Larson
Wild Kingdom, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
Wintergarten, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Berlin, Germany
West, Wester, Westest, Fecalface Dot Gallery, San Francisco, CA,
Curator: Ryan Christian
Apocalypse Yesterday, Claremont Graduate University, Los Angeles, CA,
Curator: David Pagel
Cultivating Instability, Cliff Dwellers, Chicago, IL, Curator: Iain Muirhead
New Work From Chicago, Road Agent Gallery, Dallas, TX
2007 Me and My Katamari, Lisa Boyle Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 Mutiny!, Happy Lion Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Curator: David Hunt
Homecoming, Epstein Gallery, Leawood, KS/Johnson County Community
College, Overland Park, KS, Curators: Bruce Hartman and Kent Smith
Après moi, le deluge, exhibition with Angelina Gualdoni, Adam Civanovic,
Kroner, FA Projects, London, U.K.
We Build the Worlds Inside Our Heads, Freight & Volume Gallery, New York,
NY
2005 Strange Fictions, Tarble Art Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
Curator: Chris Kahler. (Brochure)
2004 Architecture Untethered, Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C. (Brochure)
Two-person exhibition with Aaron Baker, Community College of Southern
Nevada, Las Vegas, NV (Brochure)
The Babble of Towers, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA,
Curator: Orion Wertz. (Brochure)
Mental Space, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin.
Curator: JJ Murphy
2003 Post-Digital Painting, Cranbrook Art Museum, Cranbrook Academy,
Bloomfield Hills, MI. Curator: Joe Houston. (Catalog)
Painting!, University Art Galleries, Central Michigan University,
Mt. Pleasant, MI. Curator: Julia Morrisroe. (Catalog)
- Painting and Illustration, Luckman Gallery, California State University at
L.A., Los Angeles, CA. Curator: Adam Ross
Social Landscape, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY.
Nubo Wave Map Space Bubble, University Galleries, Illinois State University,
Normal, IL. Curator: Barry Blinderman. (Brochure)
Bibliography
Artner, Alan G., Chicago Tribune, March 21, 2008 (image)
Artner, Alan G., “Scott Anderson’s Odd Beauty,” Chicago Tribune
April 18, 2003 (image)
Artner, Alan G., “Gallery Season Guide,” Chicago Tribune, September 2001
Artner, Alan G., “Visions by four. The theme is apocalypse, the art, Inventive.”
Chicago Tribune, August 10, 2001, p.32
Azizian, Carol, “Cranbrook exhibit driven by technology,” Flint Journal,
January 3, 2003
Beautiful/Decay, Issue X, featured artist, (Cover image and interior images)
Beautiful/Decay, Issue Z, (image)
Beautiful/Decay, Book 6, “Future Perfect”, (image)
Biro, Matthew, Contemporary, issue #69, 2004, p.77
Blinderman, Barry, “Painting in the Digital Age,” essay for 4th Annual Miami
University Young Painters exhibition, January 2003
Blinderman, Barry, essay from “Nubo Wave Map Space Bubble,” brochure,
January 2002 (image)
Bon Magazine, “Young Masters,” Fall 2007, pp. 57, 60, 64, (images)
Brunetti, John, “Scott Anderson and Cyber-Landscape,” The C.A.C.A. Review,
October 2003, p. 3
Camper, Fred, “Imperfect Worlds,” Chicago Reader, April 11, 2003,
pp. 26 – 27 (image)
Champaign-Urbana Octopus, April 13-19, 2001 (cover image)
Chomin, Linda Ann, “Post-Digital exhibit captures painting ‘of the moment’,”
Observer & Eccentric, March 6, 2003
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January 5, 2003
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Gallery, New York, NY
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21, 2004
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2010
Ellegood, Anne, essay for “Architecture Untethered” exhibition, September 2004
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(image)
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pp. 31-35 (cover image)
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Grabner, Michelle, essay for “Inside/Outside” at Common Street Arts, Waterville, ME, July 2015
Haddad, Natalie, “Digital Simulation,” Real Detroit Weekly, March 12-18, 2003
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(images and cover image)
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pp. 11-13, (image)
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Johnson, Ken, “The Allure of the Homespun in the Maw of the Digital Age,”
The New York Times.com, September 2, 2010
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Hamilton, Ohio, January 24, 2003, (image)
Joyce, Julie, catalog essay, Light and Sie Gallery, Dallas, TX
Knight, Gregory and Silverman, Lanny, essay for exhibition at Chicago Cultural
Center, September 2003
Landes, Jennifer, “Pop Goes Underground,” The East Hampton Star, December 31,
2010
Moffett, Nancy, “30 and Below,” Chicago Sun-Times, March 29, 2003
Mouth to Mouth, “Word for Word,” collaborative interview with Aaron Baker, winter
2004, pp. 15-21 (image)
Murphy, J.J., essay accompanying “Mental Space” exhibition, January 2004
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Pagel, David, “Dramatic in any language,” Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2005 (image)
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Meaning of it All?” May 2005, pp. 64-65 (image)
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2002
Spector, Buzz, catalog essay from “Painting!,” Central Michigan University, Mt.
Pleasant, MI, October 2003 (cover image)
Spector, Buzz, essay from “Apocalypse Next Week” exhibition brochure,
July 2001 (image)
Champaign-Urbana Octopus, “Today in Eight Parts graces I-Space,”
March 16-22, 2001 (image)
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boots up wild new worlds,” Metro Times, January 29, 2003
Wertz, Orion, exhibition brochure essay from “The Babbel of Towers”, October 2004
The Wolf Magazine for New Poetry, artist in residence, issue no. 23, June 2010
Wolff, Rachel, “Pop Goes Mighty Mouse,” Art News, Summer 2010, p.33
Awards
2006 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2003 William and Dorothy Yeck Award
2001 Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship
Lectures and Residencies
2013 Columbus State University, Columbus, GA, February 21
2012 University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, February 23
2011 University of Arizona, Tucson AZ, September 7
Indiana University, Bloomington IN, January 21-22
2010 Atlantic Lecturer, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont CA,
February 15-19
2005 Art Center, Pasadena CA, April 4
2004 University of Notre Dame, South Bend IN, October 14-15
Community College of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas NV, October 21
2003 Illinois State University, Normal IL, August 24-September 20
Eastern Illinois University, Charleston IL, March 19
University of Wisconsin, Madison WI, February 3-28
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, December 13