Born 1972
EDUCATION
2005
MFA Art - Art Center College of Design
2000
MA Fine Art – Print Making, California State University Fullerton
1995
BA – California State University Fullerton
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2007
Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles, California (October 2007)
Solo Exhibition, Liste, the young Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
2006
TRUDI Los Angeles, California
2005
Hello Victims, MFA exhibition, Art Center College, Pasadena, California
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006
Deitch Paper Store, Art Basel Miami Beach
6+6+06, curated by Jan Tumlir, USC Graduate Fine Arts Studios, Los Angeles, California
2005
Post-Postcard, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Supersonic, Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles, California
2003
New Wight Biennial, UCLA Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, Califorrnia
PUBLICATIONS
Telivision Could Be Much Better: On the Work of Brian Bress, NY Arts Magzine, Nov/Dec, 2006
Untitled #1, 2006 (Mike Kelley, Silver Ball), 2nd Cannons Publications, August 2006
Bedwetter Magazine Issue 11, Bedwetter Pubs Dec 2005
Hello Victims: Ad Reinhardt, 2nd Cannons Publications, 2005
Good Boy, self-published, 2005
The Cindy Shermans I’d Like to Fuck, self-published, 2003
Black and White Reproductions of the Abstract Expressionists, self-published, 2003
Founder/Publisher - 2nd Cannons Publications, 2005 - Present
Founder and Publisher of artist’s book press with international distribution. Past/Upcoming projects include publications with: Bruce Hainley, Bruce LaBruce, Meg Cranston, Julie Lequin. See www.2ndcannons.com for more information
Founding Editor - Leisure: An Art Journal, 1st issue expected January 2007
PRESS
Johnson, Paddy, Art Fag City Likes Books, Art Fag City
http://artfagcity.blogspot.com Nov 16, 2006
Russell, Christopher. Kennon’s Cannons
Artillery, Issue 2 October 2006
Johnson, Paddy, Myspace Featured Friend or I Heart Darkness
Art Fag City http://artfagcity.blogspot.com May 30, 2006
Snellman, Natascha. I Heart Darkness: Interviews by Natascha Snellman
2nd Cannons Publications, June 2006
Russell, Christopher. Sucking Ass: SoCCAS and SoCal Art Schools
artUS, Issue 13 May-June 2006
Hoffberg, Judith. Review of Hello Victims: Ad Reinhardt
Umbrella Magazine, vol. 28, No. 2-3 October 2005
Taft, Catherine. Hello Victims, Supersonic: LADC website. June, 2005
Hoffeberg, Judith. Review of Black and White Reproductions of the Abstract
Expressionists. Umbrella Magazine, 2003
Lavitt, Lauren. Cira Circa, The 2003 Wight Biennial Catalog, 2003
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Ny
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN
B. 1970 Pasadena, California
Lives and works in New York
EDUCATION
2002
M.F.A., UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
1998
B.A., English Literature, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007
The MORL or NYC-Apartment, LA><ART, Los Angeles
Bread & Balloons, Harris Lieberman, New York
2006
XX , Daniel Hug, Los Angeles
2005
Michael Queenland: Photographs, Sculptures and Shaker Classics, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, traveling to Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
Scratch: Artists in Residence 2004-2005, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
2004
Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Nina in Position, curated by Jeffrey Uslip, Artists Space, New York
Act so that I can speak to you, Galerie Kamm, Berlin
2007
In Defense of Ardor, Bellwether Gallery, New York
2006
Cataract, Wallspace, New York
Trace, Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York
Civil Restitutions, Thomas Dane Gallery, London
2005
Frequency, Studio Museum in Harlem
Happenstance, Harris Lieberman, New York
Put It In Your Mouth/I’ll see you on the dark side of the prune, Rivington Arms, New York
Hyperfocal, Five from L.A, Galerie Nelson, Paris, France
Group Show, Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles
2004
Fade - A survey of African American Art 1990-2003, curated by Malik Gaines, Luckman Gallery, Cal State Los Angeles, CA
Group show, The Project, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Antisocial, Wallspace, New York, NY
2002
Stuff for use at Hand, The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA
MFA Thesis Exhibition, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2001
After the Diagram, curated by Lauri Firstenberg, Whitebox, New York
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007
Smith, Roberta. “Art in Review: Michael Queenland: Bread & Balloons”, The New York Times, 9 March 2007.
2006
Brockington, Horace. “Wavelength (#2).” NY Arts Magazine Vol. 11, No. 3/4, March/April 2006.
Johnson, Ken. “Art in Review: Trace.” The New York Times, August 18, 2006.
Keegan, Matt. “Top Ten.” Artforum February 2006, p. 98.
Pollack, Barbara. “Review: Happenstance.” Time Out New York, Issue 536: January 5-11, 2006.
Hainley, Bruce. “Review: Michael Queenland at Daniel Hug Gallery.” Artforum September 2006.
Sholis, Brian. “Critic’s Pick: Trace.” Artforum.com, September 2006.
Carter, Holland. “Visions from Nigeria and India and a Van Searching for Utopia.” The New York Times December 25, 2006.
2005
Cueff, Alain. Hyperfocal (catalog), Galerie Nelson, Paris, 2005.
Golden, Thelma. “Extremes: A Dialogue Between Michael Queenland and Thelma Golden.”Frequency, The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2005.
Kamps, Toby. “Michael Queenland.” Scratch: Artists in Residence 2004-05, Studio Museum in Harlem, 2005.
Keyes, Bob. “A Sweeping View of the Artist’s Role.” MaineToday.com 18 September 2005.
McQuaid, Cate. “Conceptual artist’s funny, mystical show recalls the Shakers.” Boston Globe 9 December 2005.
“Michael Queenland: Photographs, Sculpture and Shaker Classics.” Michael Queenland: Photographs, Sculpture and
Shaker Classics, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, 2005.
Paige, Ian. “The Shaker Conspiracy.” The Portland Pheonix 8 September 2005.
Cotter, Holland. “Fanciful to Figurative to Wryly Inscrutable.” The New York Times July 8, 2005.
---. “Review: Happenstance.” The New York Times December 30, 2005, B37.
---. “Scratch.” The New York Times July 29, 2005, E23.
Smith, Roberta. “Where Issues of Black Identity Met the Concerns of Every Artist.” The New York Times, November
18, 2005.
2004
Hainley, Bruce. “Notes on Renewed Appropriationisms: The Project.” Artforum May 2004.
Roberts, Bryony. “All’s Well on the Uptown Front.” The L Magazine.
AWARDS
2006
United States Artists Fellowship
2005
Peter Norton Family Foundation Exhibition Grant for Michael Queenland: Photographs, Sculptures and Shaker Classics,
Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA
Helena Rubenstein Foundation Fellowship award for The Studio Museum 2004-2005
2002
The Ed and Marie Shaw fellowship award, UCLA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Studio Museum in Harlem
