Mike Zahn

 

Résumé:

Born in 1963 in Cleveland

Lives in Brooklyn.

 

Selected Exhibitions

2022     A Precedes B: Four Artists.  David Richard Gallery, New York.  2020     Window. Tennis Elbow, The Journal Gallery, New York. 

2019     Sound 4F.  Sammlung Daimler, Haus Huth, Berlin. Curated by Gerwald Rockenschaub. 

             Painting On Top of Itself Part 4. Toowoomba Regional Gallery, Queensland.  Curated by Tarn McClean. 

2017     Adapter_Adapted &etc.  Greenspon, New York.   

             @mined_oud.  MADRE, Napoli.   

2016     Informed Painting. Pablo’s Birthday, New York. 

2015     The Crayon Miscellany.  OMI International Art Center, Ghent.  Curated by Julie Ryan. 

             Pretty Eyes Electric Bills.  The Lipani Gallery at Fordham University, New York. Curated by Amie Cunat. 

             Oysters with Lemon: An Exhibition in Three Parts.  Ventana244, New York. Curated by Andrew Huston and Michael Zahn. 

2013      American Art 1940 to Today.  Daimler AG, Stuttgart-Mohringen.

              P&Co. Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles.  

              Reading Room (with Sofia Leiby). Julius Caesar, Chicago. 

2012     Olivier Mossett: ++Leaving the Museum. Kunsthalle Zurich at Museum Barengasse, Zurich. 

             Moving the Still:  A GIF Festival. Made Studio, Miami; BAMart, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York. Curated by Johnny Misheff.             

             Downcast Eyes (Re-Blog My Ashes). Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Curated by Tag Team and Twohundredfiftysixcolors.        

             www.after-duccio.com. Ventana244, New York. 

2010     Pictures About Pictures: Discursive Painting From Albers to Zobernig.  Museum Moderner Kunst MUMOK, Vienna. 

             Greater New York (with Darren Bader). PS1/MoMA, New York. 

2009     The Living and The Dead. Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York. Curated by Darren Bader.  

             Linda Francis, Don Voisine, Joan Waltemath, Michael Zahn. Galerie Janet Kurnatowski, New York. 

             Hand in Hand. Non-Objectif Sud, La Baralliere, Tulette. 

             What’s Bin Did and What’s Bin Hid. 106 Green, New York. Curated by Ryan Steadman. 

2008     Michael Zahn as Michael Zahn. Eleven Rivington, New York.       

             Minus Space. PS1/MoMA, New York. Curated by Phong Bui. 

             Matthew Deleget and Michael Zahn. IE Contemporary Art, Queensland. 

             Rose Colored Glasses. Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York.  Curated by Jesse Willenbring. 

2007     Wu-Tang/Googolplex. Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York.               

             Stealing Time.  Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College, New York.  

             Late Liberties.  John Connelly Presents, New York. 

             Me, You, You (A Ventriloquy). Laurel Gitlen/Small A Project, Portland. Curated by Carter Mull.

2006     Grupe. Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York; The Mandrake, Los Angeles. 

             Rundumschlag. Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg. 

             Outside Europe. Galerie der Stadt, Sindelfingen; Stadtsgalerie, Kiel. 

             Minimalism and After IV.  Sammlung Daimler, Haus Huth, Berlin.  2005     Black Paintings etc. Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg. 

             Roundhouse. Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg. 

             Four Loops/Moving in Stereo: Video and Sound. ZKMax, Munich. Curated by Christian Goegger. 

2004     On The Edge. Museum Fur Neue Kunst, ZKM Karlsruhe. 

             Miscellaneous. Galerie Heimer und Partner, Berlin. 

             Greetings From New York. Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg. 

             Minimalism and After II. Sammlung Daimler, Haus Huth, Berlin.  2002     Available Surfaces. Galerie Heimer und Partner, Berlin. 

             Choose Your Partner (with Stephen Ellis). Galerie Nusser und Von Lintel, Munich. 

             Abstract Redux. Danese Gallery, New York. 

             Perfect Ten. Sandra Gering Gallery, New York. 

2001     Michael Zahn. CAIS Gallery, Seoul. 

2000     Chen Zhen and Michael Zahn. Galerie Art+Public, Geneva.

 

Selected Bibliography

‘Welcome to The Empty Gallery That Speaks Volumes”.  Seph Rodney, Hyperallergic,  September 2020. 

‘Post-Performance Painting’.  Marie de Brugerolle, Mousse Magazine 66, February 2019. 

‘This High, No Higher’.  Mark Stone, www.henrimag.com, May 2017. 

’The New Order of Mike Zahn’.  Mark Dagley, www.kulturebite.com, October 2017. 

‘Memory and the Real’.  Mark Stone, www.henrimag.com, March 2011.  ‘Linda Francis, Don Voisine, Joan Waltemath, Michael Zahn’.  David Cohen, www.artcritical.com, April 2009. 

‘Intelligent Design’.  John Goodrich, Arts and Letters, The New York Sun, January 9, 2008. 

‘Stealing Time’.  Holland Cotter, Art in Review, The New York Times, October 29, 2007. 

‘Late Liberties’.  Jonathan T.D. Neil, Art Review:Issue 15, October 2007.  ‘Late Liberties’.  Bridget Goodbody, Art in Review, The New York Times, August 3, 2007. 

‘Addressing Liberty Without Literality’.  Stephen Maine, Arts and Letters, The New York Sun, August 2, 2007.

 

Selected Publications

(Interlude).  Works and Archives from The Verhagen Collection.  ed. Jacques Verhagen et al.  Cookie Butcher, Antwerp, 2017. 

The Journal. ed. Michael Nevin and Katherine Bernhardt et al.

'Wow, I Know Somebody on My Flight', Entry 32. The Journal Books, Brooklyn, 2012. 

Champion Zero. ed. Drew Heitzler and Flora Wiegmann. Second Cannon, Los Angeles, 2008. 

Minimalism and After: Tendencies in European and American Art Since 1950.  ed. Renate Wiehager and Claudia Seidel, Hate Cantz, Ostfildern, 2007. 

Stealing Time. ed. Christa Blatchford et al. Exhibition catalog, Hunter College of the City University of New York, 2007.