Born August 23, 1966 in Indianapolis, Indiana
Lives and works in New York City

EDUCATION

1995 MFA, University of California, Los Angeles
1988 BFA, Boston University


ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2007

Everybody Knew That Canadians were the Best Hockey Players, Deitch Projects, New York
2003

ACME., Los Angeles
2000 Deitch Projects, New York
1999 ACME., Los Angeles
1997 Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York (Two Person exhibition with Judie Bamber)
1997

ACME., Santa Monica, CA


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 Out of Shape, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
2007 NeoIntegrity, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
  Celebrity, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
  Fung Wah, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston MA
2006 ArtBasel, Deitch Projects, Basel Switzerland
  Stiff, Gallery 40000, Chicago, Illinois
2005 Superstar, Kunsthalle, Wien
  Tete a Tete, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York
  Honeymoon with Romeo, Groeflin/Maag Galerie, Basel
  Image/Text, G.A.S.P., Boston
2004 The Charged Image, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
  Monument to Now, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
  She’s Come Undone, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren, New York, NY
  When I think of You I Touch Myself, New York Academy of Art, curated by David Humphrey
 

Singing My Song, ACME, Los Angeles
2003 Crosscurrents: Contemporary Art from the Neuberger Berman Collection, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington
  Reverie: Works from the Collection of Douglas Cramer, The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
2002 By The Hand of the Father, Luckman Fine Arts Center, Cal State LA, Los Angeles
  Cher Peintre, Centre Pompidou, Musee National D’Art Moderne, Paris; travelled
to Kunsthalle, Wien and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt.
  Mask or Mirror? A Play of Portraits, Worcester Museum of Art, Worcester, MA
  Post L.A. Cool, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose CA, curated by Michael Duncan
  Enough About Me, Momenta, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Deb Kass
  Supernatural Playground, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan
2001 Form Follows Fiction, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy
  Casino 2001, First Quadrennial of Contemporary Art, Stedelijk Museum Voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium
  Before They Became Who They Are, Kravets/Wehby, New York, NY
2000 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
  Recent Acquisitions, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
  Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina
1999 In Your Face, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
1998 Painting From Another Planet, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
  Transience and Sentimentality, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1996 Be Specific, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  Subject/ Object, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Cerritos, CA
1995 Realm of Morpheus: Dream Image in Art, Nexus Foundation for Today's Art, Philadelphia, PA
  Self-Portrayal, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Vital Signs, L.A. Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
  ACME Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  MFA Thesis Exhibition, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
1994 House of Styles, TRI Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Figuratively Speaking, Jan Abrams Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  The Hot Crop, Claremont Mckenna College Gallery, Claremont, CA
1990 Figures, Faces, and Body Parts, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY


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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2005 to Present Queens College, City University of New York, New York, NY
2000 to 2005 Yale University School of Art, New Haven CT, Assistant Professor
1996 to 2000 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA, Painting Instructor
1995 to 1996 Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa CA, Painting Instructor

AWARDS AND HONORS

2001 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant
1999 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
1995 Kay Nielsen Memorial Award for Drawing
1993 Kay Nielsen Memorial Award for Drawing
1989 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant
1988 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant


COLLECTIONS

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Yale University Art Gallery
The Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
The Oakland Museum of Art
 
© Kurt Kauper 2008