NICOLE EISENMAN
Born in Verdun, France, 1965
Lives and works in New York, NY
Education
1987 BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Baden Baden Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
Dark Light, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, CA
A Valentine’s Day Show, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL
Faces: Painted Reliefs, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Now or Never, Secession, Vienna, Austria
Skulptur Projekte Münster, Münster, Germany
2016 Al-ugh-ories, New Museum, New York, NY [cat.]
Magnificent Delusion, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Masterpieces & Curiosities: Nicole Eisenman’s Seder, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
The Kiss, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany
2014 Dear Nemesis, Nicole Eisenman 1993-2013, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO, curated by Kelly Schindler; traveled to the
Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, PA; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
2013 Nicole Eisenman / MATRIX 248, University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2012 Woodcuts, Etchings, Lithographs, and Monotypes, Leo Koenig Inc., New York, NY
Tis but a scratch A scratch?! Your arms off! No, it isnt., Studio Voltaire, London
2011 New Paintings, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, CA
READYKEULOUS; The Hurtful Healer: The Correspondence, Invisible-Exports, New York, NY
2009 Nicole Eisenman, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY [cat.]
Nicole Eisenman, Leo Koenig Inc., New York, NY
2008 Coping, Barbara Weiss Gallery, Berlin
2007 A Show Born of Fear, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, CA
Nicole Eisenman, Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland [cat.]
Nicole Eisenman, Le Plateau, Frac Ile de France, Paris
2006 Progress: Real and Imagined, Leo Koenig Inc., New York, NY
2005 Barbara Weiss Gallery, Berlin
Chunga en el callejon del Cuajo, Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Mexico City (with Jessica Rodriguez)
2004 Van Horn, Düsseldorf
Elizaville, Leo Keonig Inc., New York, NY
2003 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY [cat.]
2002 Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2000 Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv
1999 Entwistle Gallery, London
1998 Behavior, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1996 Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam (with Jason Fox)
1995 Centraal Museum Utrecht, Holland
Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute
1994 Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Trial Balloon, New York, NY
1992 Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Group Exhibitions
2019 What Beauty Is, I Know Not, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
May You Live In Interesting Times, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
MASK In Present-Day Art, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
7 Painters, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY
A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women, Zernez, Switzerland
Forever Young, Brandhorst Museum, Munich, Germany
Show Me as I want to be Seen, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
2018 Noise! Frans Hals, Otherwise, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands
In Tribute to Jack Tilton: A Selection from 35 Years, Jack Tilton Gallery
Cast of Characters, LGBT Community Center, New York, NY
Close to the Edge, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
2017 Engender, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Trick Brain, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Aishti Foundation, Antelias, Lebanon
James HD Brown: Life and Work in Mexico, Pacific Standard LA/LA, CA [cat.]
Marching to the Beat, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
I Plan to Stay a Believer, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
Talking Pictures: Camera-Phone Conversations Between Artists, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Soil Erosion, curated by Shannon Ebner, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA
2016 Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Le Grand Balcon, L Biennale de Montréal, curated by Philippe Pirotte, Canada
These Strangers, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium
Intimisims, James Cohan, New York, NY
2015 Fetching Blemish, Invisible-Exports, New York, NY
A Painting Show, Sadie Coles Gallery, London, UK
All back in the Skull together, Maccarone, New York, NY
America Is Hard To See, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY [cat]
Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany [cat.]
The Great Mother, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
No Joke, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2014 The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY [cat.]
MANIFESTA 10, curated by Kaspar König, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Hidden and Reveald, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
New Dawn, curated by Leidy Churchman, Silberkuppe, Berlin, Germany
Every day in every way I’m freely opening my senses to the beauty in myself and opening up to all the beauty around me an in
all the people I will encounter, Martos Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Outside the Lines, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX
NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum, New York, NY
Catch as Catch Can, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Nightfall, MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary
2012 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
B-Out, curated by Scott Hug, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
2011 A Painting Show, Harris Lieberman, New York, NY
Prospect.2 New Orleans, curated by Dan Cameron, New Orleans, LA
The Air We Breathe, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA [cat.]
Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Leidy Celeste Nicole, Museum 52, New York, NY
2008 Painting, Smoking, Eating, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
2007 Horizon, curated by David Humphrey, EFA Gallery, New York, NY
2006 The Eighth Square: Gender, Life and Desire in Art Since 1960, curated by Frank Wagner, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
Through the Looking Glass, Galerie Bob Von Orsouw, Zürich, Switzerland
This is not a Love Song, Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Post Everything, The Rotunda Gallery, New York, NY
360 degrees art, curated by Stefan von Wiese Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Self-Preservation Society, Leo Koenig Inc., New York, NY
Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
Roger Björkholmen Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
A La Pared/On the Wall, Museum de Arte Carrillo Gil, San Angel, Mexico
Silent Stories, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria
Slices of Life, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY
2004 K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Central Station: The Harold Falckenberg Collection, La Maison Rouge, Foundation Antoine de Albert, Paris, France
Dreamland Artists Club, Creative Time, New York, NY
USA Today, Galleri S.E., Bergen, Norway
The Coney Island Project, Creative Time, New York, NY
100 Artists See God, curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston, The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
As Time Goes By, Gordian Weber Kunsthandel, Cologne, Germany
Roger Bjorkholmen Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2003 As Time Goes By, Leo Koenig Inc., New York, NY
DC: Lily van der Stokker, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
On the Wall: Wallpaper and Tableau, Sammlung Speck; K21, Kunstsammlung, Nordrhein- Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Sammlung Speck, Kunstmuseum Graz, Austria
Off the Wall, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
The Feminine Persuasion, Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN
Comic Release!, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Turn On, Drop Out, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA
The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum, Works on Paper, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
The Paper Sculpture Show, The Sculpture Center (In Collaboration with ICI), Queens, NY
There’s Always Tomorrow, Galeria Maribini, Bologna, Italy
Retrospectacle: 25 years of collecting Modern and Contemporary Art, Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO
2002 Family, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
El Bello Genero Convulsiones y Permanencias Actuales, Comunidad de Madrid, Consejeria de las Artes, Madrid, Spain
The Empire Strikes Back, curated by Jason Fox and Cannon Hudson, Avenue B Gallery, New York, NY
Super Natural Playground, Marella Fine Arts, Milan, Italy
2001 Fast Food For Thought: Cartoon in Art, ArtScan Gallery & Rudolph Projects, Houston, TX
Threads of Vision: Toward a New Feminine Poetics, Cleveland Center of Contemporary Art, OH [cat.]
Waterworks, curated by Kim Levin, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skarhamn, Sweden [cat.]
Driving Women, Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY
Self Made Men, curated by Alexi Worth, DC Moore Gallery, New York
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Pop & Post-Pop (On Paper), Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
2000 Uncomfortable Beauty, Jack Tilton/Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, NY
H2O, Works on Paper, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Blurring Lines in Contemporary Drawing, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
People, Andrea Rosen Gallery Booth, Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
Picturing the Modern Amazon, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY [cat.]
The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY
1/2: Going Forward Looking Back, Seattle Art Museum, WA
The Likeness of Being, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
Prophecies, Swiss Institute, New York, NY
Zona F, Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló, Spain
Deja Vu: Reworking the Past, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Here Kitty, Kitty, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
1999 The American Century: Art & Culture 1900 - 2000 Part II, 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Warehouse, Exit Art, New York, NY
I am a Virgin, The Waiting Room at the School of Art and Design, University of Wolverhampton, UK
54 x 54 x 54, Museum of Contemporary Art, London, UK
Two Doors-True Value, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
1998 Can’t We All Just Get Along, Deven Golden, New York, NY
Codex USA, Entwistle Gallery, London, UK
Deal and Reality, Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria
From The Corner of the Eye, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
some WOMEN/PRETTY girls, University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Animal Tales: Contemporary Bestiary and Animal Painting, Whitney Museum at Champion, Stamford, CT
The Wolfsonian Mural Project, Miami, FL (organized by The Drawing Center)
1997 HEART, MIND, BODY, SOUL: American Art in the 1990’s: Selections from the Permanent Collection,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
New Work: Drawings Today, San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
Drawn & Quartered, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY
Woven in Oaxaca, A/D Gallery, New York, NY
Women’s Work, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
Just What Do You Think You’re Doing Dave, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
Form and Function of Drawing Today, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany
Fracturing the Gaze, Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX
The Gaze, Momenta Art, New York, NY
Dissolution: Made in the U.S.A., Laurent Delaye Gallery, London, UK
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
The Road Show, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY
Vraiment: Féminisme et l’art, curated by Laura Cottingham, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France
Sex/Industry, curated by John Yau, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY
20 x 152, Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, NY
The Name of the Place, curated by Laurie Simmons, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY
1996 Identity Crisis: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art,
Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens, (traveled to: Museu d’Art
Contemporani, Barcelona; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; National Gallery, Athens, Greece)
a/drift, curated by Joshua Dector, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Be Specific, curated by Michael Duncan, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Gender, fucked, curated by Catherine Lord, Center for Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
The Comic Depiction of Sex in American Art: Nicole Eisenman, Erika Rothenberg, Jimmy Shaw, Benjamin Weissman,
Sue Williams, Galerie in Haus 19, Munich, Germany
Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party in Feminist Art History, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center,
University of California Los Angeles, CA
Defining the Nineties: Consensus-Making in New York, Miami and Los Angeles, curated by Bonnie Clearwater,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
Real Fake, Neuberger Museum, SUNY at Purchase, NY
Screen, curated by Joshua Decter, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
Playtime, Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, CT
1995 A Glimpse of the Norton Collection as Revealed by Kim Dingle, Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC
Pervert, The University of California at Irvine, CA
Picassoid, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Inside Out: Psychological Self Portraits, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Way Cool, Exit Art, New York, NY
Odschon Malerei (Painting), Gallery Mittelstrasse 18, Potsdam, Germany
Komix, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, NY
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Toys Art Us, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New York, NY
Seduction and Betrayal, curated by Shoshana Blank and Bonnie Clearwater, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
New Museum Benefit Show, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1994 Watt, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Kunstverein Munich, Germany; Kunsthaus Vienna, Austria
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
White Columns, New York, NY
The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
The Seventh Wave, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Sex, Adam Baumgold Fine Arts, New York, NY
Bad Girls, The Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Bad Girls, curated by Marcia Tanner, Wright Art Gallery, University of California Los Angeles, CA
Arrested Childhood, curated by Bonnie Clearwater, The Center for Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Wenn die Kinder sind im Dunkeln, curated by Birgit Jürgenssen, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
Bad Girls, The Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
1993 Bad Girls, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
bODD, Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
The Seventh Wave, curated by Stephen Foster, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, UK
Urban Analysis, curated by Maynard Munroe, Barbara Braathen Gallery, New York, NY
Eau de Cologne 83 - 93, Monica Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Coming to Power, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY
1920, Exit Art/The First World, New York, NY
Elizabeth Koury Gallery, New York, NY
1992 303 Gallery, New York, NY
Fever, Exit Art/The First World, New York, NY
Wall Drawings, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Part Fantasy, Trial Balloon, New York, NY
The Lesbian Museum: 10,000 Years of Penis Envy, Franklin Furnace, NY
Imagining Indians, curated by Fred Wilson, Longwood Arts Gallery, Bronx, NY
1990 Figuring Eros, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY
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Molesworth, Helen. “Best of 2012: Helen Molesworths Top 10.” ArtForum, December 2012.
Torres, Jesus Manuel Rojas. "Locust Projects Third Annual Bus Shelter Project.” Examiner.com, November 21, 2012.
Nicole Eisenman, Parkett 91, pp. 102-149, 2012.
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Public Collections
The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
CCS Bard, Hessel Museum of Art, Annadale-on-Hudson, NY
Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, France
Danjuma Collection, Surrey, UK
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Hall Collection, Southport, CT
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
The Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
MIT List Visual Arts Center Student Lending Collection, New York, NY
Musée d’art modern et contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva, Switzerland
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, New York, NY
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
Ellen and Michael Ringier Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
The Sammlung Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg, Germany
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, CA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich
Other Projects
2012 Bush Shelter Project: Nicole Eisenman Intentions, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
2006 Ridykeulous, curated by Nicole Eisenman and A.L. Steiner, Participant, New York, NY
2002 Scenery, White Oak Dance Project
2000 Jennifer Monson, set design for dance program at The Kitchen, New York
1998 The Choice, co-curated group exhibition at Exit Art, New York
1995 Summer of Bad Plays, writer and actor
Art magazine, cover project, March
1994 Centerfold project for Frieze Magazine, November/December
Film/TV/Radio
2012 Nicole Eisenman: Figure Drawing Atelier with Commentary by Margie Weinstein, Manager of Education Initiatives, 2012
Grants and Awards
2015 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
2013 The Carnegie Prize, 2013 Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, PA
2002 Cabinet Magazine paper sculpture project
Acadia Summer Arts Program, ME
1996 John Simon Guggenheim Grant
1995 The Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
The Lois Tiffany Grant
Penny McCall Foundation Grant
Teaching
Present Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2001-2002 Mount Royal College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2000-2001 School of Visual Arts, New York
Lectures
Bard College, NY
Columbia University, NY
Colgate University, NY
Harvard University, Architecture Department, MA
Hunter College, New York
Mount Royal College of Art, MD
Princeton University, NJ
Provincetown Workshop, MA
Rhode Island School of Design, RI
School of Visual Arts, NY
SUNY New Paltz, NY
SUNY Binghamton, NY
University of Tennessee, TN
University of Kentucky, KY
Vassar College, NY
Queens College, NY